(Hello everyone! Just thought I stop by and dump a fanfiction for Lapidot Week May 2017, the first chapter, Barn Mates. Now, I don't really know what barn mates, yet alone roommates, do. So I'm just going to whip up some random plot and hope this works out. Enjoy you Lapidot fams!)
Chapter 1: Barn Mates
I do not own Steven Universe.
Lapis sighed as she turned the TV off, she had been watching the same episode for over an hour, trying to keep herself occupied during the late afternoon while Peridot was out on another mission with Steven and the gang. Pumpkin, Peridot and Lapis' living pumpkin, barked as he approached Lapis.
With a small smile, Lapis held out her arms as an invitation for Pumpkin to jump onto her lap. Pumpkin happily did so, barking happily with his tail wagging as he jumped onto his blue mother's lap. Lapis chuckled and hugged Pumpkin with one hand and stroked his head with the other.
"Having a good day Pumpkin?" Lapis asked, titling her head to look at Pumpkin's face, the living vegetable barked happily and snuggled against Lapis. Lying back with a small smile, Lapis focused on nothing but stroking Pumpkin's head.
A few minutes passed when Lapis heard footsteps that disturbing the silence, the rustling grass and constant grumbling identified that whoever was approaching Peridot. Pumpkin opened his eyes and barked happily when he heard the grumbling and the sound of grass being flattened under someone's feet. Lapis spread her arms slightly as Pumpkin jumped of her lap and ran down to greet the approaching gem.
"Not now Pumpkin." Lapis heard Peridot say, she peeked over the second floor to look at the green gem.
A small whimper came from Pumpkin as he left Peridot alone, running back to the second floor. Peridot sighed and took of her visors, the right side had a crack on it, reaching from the bottom to the top middle with some parts chipped off. "Stupid gem..." Peridot mumbled, she set her visors aside and started rummaging through things in the barn, looking for something to fix her visors, she kept her face close to her hands, squinting as she searched.
Silently, Lapis summoned her water wings and flew down. She hovered behind Peridot, peeking over her shoulder to see what she was rummaging through. After two seconds or so, Lapis hovered closer to Peridot, "Hey." she greeted.
Peridot screamed and turned with a hand stretched out for a backhand slap, Lapis leaned back in time to avois the self-defensive attack, laughing when she saw the green gem's bewildered face. "L-Lapis?!" Peridot exclaimed, she turned from surprised and scared to annoyed when Lapis continued laughing.
"Lapis! Stop laughing!" Peridot yelled, her hands curled into fists by her side and her posture straight with an angry look on her face, "It's not funny!" she added. Lapis' laughter died down into a chuckling fit, "You should have seen the look on your face!" she said, her chuckles almost turning into another laugh.
Peridot crossed her arms and huffed, when Lapis saw that the shorter gem wasn't in the mood for jokes, she did her best to snuff out her laughter and wiped away a tear. "Another corrupted?" Lapis asked, finally setting foot on the ground and keeping in her wings. Peridot sighed as she turned around and started to rummage through more things, "Yeah." she answered, "Presistent as any corrupted-s are."
Lapis took a look at the visors, picking them up then observing them, "Wow. That strong huh?" she asked. Peridot's visors, for all Lapis knows, were made of really strong glass. Peridot was extremely short-sighted, without her visors, she could literally walk into a tree without knowing it was there. Peridot grunted in response, "What are these made of anyway?" Lapis asked, turning the visors over.
"They're made of marginal glass, which is made of palladium with small fractions of metalloids like phosphorus, silicon, and germanium. Along with 3.5 percent of silver fused into it." Peridot explained, Lapis carefully placed it back onto the table, "I'm just going to pretend to understand what you've just said." she commented, making her way towards Peridot. "I'm only lucky that she didn't hit me on my gem, took a hit to the face and missed out on most of the fight." Perdiot said as she pointed to her right eye, the 'she' referring to the corrupted gem.
"You need help with whatever you're finding?" Lapis asked, sitting down Japanese style. Peridot pulled out a short metal pipe, she observed it for awhile before putting it back, "If you want to." she said. With a sigh and a shrung, Lapis turned and startes rummaging through another box, "So... what are we looking for?" Lapis asked, holding up a snowglobe and looking at it with curiosity.
"Something like my visors, but only in the shape of a square." Peridot said as Lapis suddenly became fascinated in the snowglobe, turning it upside down then shaking it. Nearby, Pumpkin barked as he ran around chasing his own tail.
It took a long time for Peridot and Lapis to come across what they were looking for, turns out that it was stowed away in a box of old stuff Peridot used to use when she was still on Homeworld's side. By then, it was evening. Peridot then took a blowtorch that was lying around in the barn and started to work on fixing her visors.
"Okay. Why on Earth do we have do we have that in the barn?" Lapis asked, sitting next to Peridot outside of the barn. Peridot placed her visors in front of her and started up the blowtorch, holding the pane of glass abive the crack on the visors with the blowtorch's fire melting the corner slowly. "Dunno." Peridot answered, squinting, "Am I holding this right?" she asked.
Lapis used a finger and pushed Peridot's arms a little over to the right, "Now you are." Lapis said, leaning back on her hands. Peridot mumbled a thank you as she tried her best to stare at the slowly melting glass.
Time passed quickly as Peridot tried her best to fix her visors, when the final piece was fixed, Peridot exhaled in exhaustion and satisfaction. She turned to her left and didn't need her visors to know that Lapis was asleep, the evening had turned into night, repairing the visors had taken up a lot of time.
Peridot yawned, she too, was tired. A little sleep couldn't harm anyone right? Besides, Steven and Connie said that it was a nice feeling to be sleeping. Lying on her back, Peridot watched the stars twinkle above, casting blurry lighrs all over the black canvas. Yawning again, Peridot started to doze off, the last thing she heard was Lapis turning next to her before quickly falling asleep.
Headcanon: Peridot is super blind without her visors.
(Okay! I did it! I hope I did good, this is my first Lapidot fanfiction after all. Stay tuned for more fanfiction chapters in this month's Lapidot Week!)