Title: Warning Bells
Older Steven x Connie
Author's Notes: The following will be a series of short stories/one-shots/drabbles loosely connected and by no means on an update schedule. The characters in question are older; ranging between teens to early adult hood based on what ideas are running through my head. Not overly smutty but there will be suggestive romantic themes/material - nothing overly graphic, I think.
The sun was just beginning to rise over the horizon when Dr. Priyanka Maheswaren pulled into the driveway. She'd been at the hospital for a solid sixteen hours straight and she was ready for bed. Operating on autopilot she stepped out of the car and circled around to the back seat where her purse was when a flash of bright pink light exploded from the other side of the car. A large creature emerged in silhouette seconds later sending the good Doctor's heart racing.
She dropped to her knees using the car as cover and peeked to see what said thing was. As her vision adjusted Dr. Maheswaren could make out that the creature itself was pink with a long twitching tail, four legs and flowing wild mane. Steven's... lion? As if sensing her, it turned around and met her stare. A shiver ran down her back. Just because her daughter lived a life involving Gems, Magic and anything else that fell under out-of-the-ordinary didn't mean that she'd grown accustomed to it.
The lion broke eye contact first; looking towards the house then let out a relatively quiet growl serving to unnerve her further. She was in the process of composing herself when she heard a window from above fling open. Her head spun in time to see a disheveled Steven Universe begin to climb out leg first from what was unmistakably her daughter's bedroom.
Dr. Maheswaren was frozen in utter shock looking back and forth between Steven and Connie who now leaned out the window watching him make his way down the front of the house until a misstep brought the Universe boy hurdling to the hard ground.
"Steven!" Connie cried in a hushed tone. "Are you alright?"
He got up on shaky legs. "I'm good."
Her daughter breathed a sigh of relief. Steven patted himself down, shot her a thumbs up and proceeded to hoist himself up on the magical creature. At this point Priyanka should have jumped to her feet and given the young man a piece of her mind before having an apparently much needed talk with her teenage daughter. But before the Doctor could so much as blink the boy was galloping down the street. The beast roared again setting off a car alarm just as it and the boy disappeared in yet another blinding explosion of light.
Priyanka remained by the car and attempted to process everything she had just witnessed. She had known the kids were dating. They'd been inseparable from the moment they'd met and even though she wasn't always the most attentive parent she had seen all those years ago where their little friendship was going. Her mom-sense setting off warning bells whenever the boy hugged her daughter or held her hand. That was why, when Connie had hit puberty they'd sat down and had "The Talk".
She then contacted Greg Universe to do the same with Steven and she was pretty sure that when her husband had next seen the boy that they'd had their own little chat. He'd been a lot more timid with Connie after that, at least he always was around the house. She was a fool to think they'd do little more than kiss as they got older but still... for them to be-
Priyanka shook herself and took a deep breath. It was time to put her mom face on. She pushed herself away from the car and stood with narrowed eyes meeting Connie's.