Garnet needed to get out of the house for a while. Her heart was in so much turmoil that she would have unfused if Ruby and Sapphire were in disagreement over the issue. However, it was Garnet herself who had messed up, so they were both equally to blame.
Pearl and Amethyst had stolen Rose's bubble out of the burning room, which she had made abundantly clear they were not to enter, and then popped it over one of their petty arguments! Those shards were incredibly dangerous, and they had the audacity to cover it up!? Those things could have seriously hurt Steven, or one of them, and as leader, she had every right to be angry with their insubordination. Deep down inside, however, she understood why they had tried to hide the truth from her.
"That was twelve years ago!" Garnet said to herself as she walked through the old battlefield. "Surely they know they know they can trust me again!?" Garnet just sighed and sat down, putting her face in her hands. Steven didn't remember what had happened because he'd been a baby at the time, but it killed her to picture the look of disillusionment and disappointment on his face if he knew what she'd done. She thought of Rose and how much faith she had placed in her when she made her second in command of the Crystal Gems. After Rose died, Garnet had taken on responsibility as the new leader, and then mere months later she betrayed all of the trust that Rose had in her.
None of the gems had ever talked about what happened that day, and Garnet knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was not the same gem she had been when she became leader. All the same, after today's events it was clear to her that her actions had left a deep scar in her teammates, perhaps even a wound in their relationship that could never be healed. Garnet pulled her legs up to her chin and began to cry silently into her knees. She wanted so badly to make amends with them, but Garnet couldn't even forgive herself. Why on earth should they, when they could not be sure of their leader's intentions? The words "You will be broken for this!" echoed through Garnet's mind in the sharp, cold voice of Blue Diamond, and then in her own bitter, angry growl.
Ch. 1 More coming soon.