Hi there people! Slight AU cause like AUs. Remember It's a translation so if you find mistakes just let me know and I'm going to fix them. Here my favorite SU pairing. I wrote 80% of this BEFORE of THAT episode but I was very lazy to translate it, some people need to work, you know?
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Greg was 21 when he discovered the universe wasn't so a lonely place all in all. He never traveled to the space but he didn't need it, beings from other worlds came to him; girls born from precious stones no more no less.
Rose, his wife; was robust, tall and she had a voluminous hair into curls like huge petals. Amethyst was a young gem with a childlike form; Garnet was inexpressive and talked little; there was too a certain white gem that was always with Rose, Pearl had short hair and clear eyes, she was delicate and no one centimeter taller or shorter than him.
For a time he was really happy, he never imagined how It was going to end. A decade later Pearl put his newborn baby into his arms, his wife had dead cause she loved her son enough.
For the gems who were almost inmortal beings, It was not easy to cope and Greg was sure they blamed him in way or another, cause if he hadn't appeared Rose would be with them still.
One year past before he noticed, his head was too busy trying to process all what had ocurred but then he noticed.
She didn't stop talking to him, Pearl didn't say cruel words at the first opportunity, she didn't try to kill him, no, and still, he knew everything had changed. Rose's death had finished their friendship. She began to talk to him in a cold calm, her quiet face seemed to do not acknowledge his existence, It was like she was talking herself out loud.
He should have undertood, this shouldn't bother him, but each time their eyes met he only could see that void in them, he had been erased from her mind; for him there wasn't hate or anger, not anymore, by now all that had disappeared, had been blown out, It was like she wasn't able to feel nothing for him, nothing.
The worst part was the naturality with she was doing it, he had become a stranger to her; another face in the street, another voice confused in the noisy traffic.
He had that feeling of have lost something forever, of have done something that couldn't be fixed in anyway. Greg knew It wasn't his failure, that Rose decided when the baby was on his way, Pearl knew it too but for Pearl he was a miriad of emotions, collapsed one against another and somehow in the process all of them were burnt down.
With Steven It completely different; she smiled, carried him like somebody proctecting a tresure and sometimes he could hear her singing, soft and sweet until he fell asleep. Pearl wanted Steven even before he was born, before everybody knew what was going to happen, It didn't matter he were a human...after of course of a while of incredulity and horror. A gem "creating" a human being was more than a little strange.
Before of be born Steven had a name and a family, It was true still and Greg couldn't be more grateful for that, but It really affected him to be treated in this way.
He wanted to say it to her, but that could mean to discuss a painful memory. Sometimes people simply can not do so, nobody wants to remember those things; so you keep silent and wait buring everything, maybe the next time it escapes you'll be prepared.
They were in his office, in the car wash, she had to say just few things to him and then get home. He didn't hear the half of what she said. Greg had waited, but had passed three years already and she never...no once...Greg looked down gritting his teeth in a mix of anger and frustration. Pearl didn't distinguish it or she decided just to ignore the matter, she had finished with what she had to say so she turned and began to leave. He couldn't endure it anymore.
"PEARL, I'M STILL RIGHT HERE!" Her eyes were open wide, his sight followed his own hand, he had grabbed her arm, maybe too much tight, maybe brusquely. He let her go like the contact was burning him. "I...I'm sorry"
The door opened suddenly, Amethyst got in, a bored look in her eyes "How long It's going to ta-?" She saw strangely between both, they were frozen "...what? Is something happening?"
Greg didn't know if Pearl understood It wasn't his intention, If she heard the desperation in his tone or if she simply didn't want to involve Amethyst but she shook her head slighly "It's nothing," she made a break getting close to the other gem "we can go already if you want"
"It was about time!" exclamed Amethyst rising her arms in a exageration "The ice cream is going to be all melted"
"That ice cream is for Steven, Amethyst" answered Pearl while she went through the door.
Greg was driving under the rain, It was evening, the end of a bad day. It had been raining all the week, a week without sun or the clarity of the sky but overall without custumers! nobody wash his car with a weather like this so a slow week and ...he was starving. Normally these things weren't enough to drown his eternal optimism, all in all he was on his way to pick up his son but today...the destiny was trying hard. The van stopped suddenly in the middle of the street and he closed his eyes containing himself
Now he had to get off in the rain in order to find what was wrong. He opened the door and It was like step into a waterfall, he got soaked right away. He accepted the inevitable with a murmured complaint and resignation. Why was it that sometimes life seemed to spit him in the face?
After a quick check he didn't find flat tires and the tank wasn't empty so he got under the van murmuring about that "dammit leak" he had been busy to repair before.
Suddenly he saw a pair of boots appear close to the van "Get out of there Greg" said the tired voice of Pearl. He was paralized, there was emotion in her tone and It was wonderful to listen it again.
"I...need to find the leak" explained Greg.
"You can't fix a car under the rain!" she protested and he almost could see her rolling her eyes "Besides, surely the spark plugs got wet" she murmured turning to look in another direction.
He got out, the rain was less strong now, slow but continious drops were falling down. Pearl was standing there with gray clouds as a background, she was wearing a raincoat and held an umbrella in one hand half leaning it against her shoulder. In the other hand she held a supermarket bag.
She didn't say anything but walked to the passenger door and opened it putting the bag inside then she got in the van closing the umbrella. Greg awoke realizing he should do the same. He opened the driver's door, there was a towel waiting for him on the seat. After he saw it a couple of seconds he got in trying to dry at least his hair. She wasn't paying attention, she looked at the clear drops crashing against the glass.
They sat there for a long while, the silence only disturbed by the sound of the water beating the roof and the hard pavement in the street.
Pearl always found this environment calming, she let go a sigh "couldn't you just leave the things the way they were, could you?" she spoke quietly but there was a slight tint of irritation in her voice. "I gave you up..." her tone changed at that moment, her face lost Its serenity "...If I couldn't..." she was struggling with the words, her eyes narrowed, she frowned "If I couldn't order it...if so many things were confusing to me" Pearl who always knew what to say, that spoken complicated and made rhyme phrases for fun couldn't express herself. "I just wanted to leave it behide, if I couldn't deal with it then I had to desist, I just had to abandon it" She inhaled deeply "Why do you insist with it?" she asked honestly "I didn't want to have anything to do with you"
He didn't answer for long seconds, why did he insist? why was he trying to get It back?. That was a good question actually "I miss you" he said simply and she felt something shattering inside of her.
She almost began to laugh but inmediantly the sound was drowned and a pair of tears fell slowly from the edges of her eyes.
"Sometimes I really hate you" she said averting her eyes "you are always speaking, looking at me like you're asking for forgiveness"
He could understand better the situation then, the last two years did had an effect after all, just like when somebody comes out of shock she was slowly losing her impassivity, he just had let everything get out in a hurry.
"I never wanted everything to end this way. There wasn't anything that I could have done"
"Then, why do you apologize?"
She looked at him again "Emotion is not rational Greg, It just...is there"
His hand looked for hers, she took his weakly just letting him to hold it. He was not a stranger, he was not just a human being more, neither another life she saw pass with disinterestedness; against her very will he was important to her.
After a minute he blinked, her hand was warm; gems had never had body heat, of course they could have it if they wanted but Pearl never bother in that kind of things, those business were unnecessarily human, even more, she felt a certain disgust for the characteristic the others copied.
She smiled a little noticing his surprise "Steven always shivered, each time I carried him"
"Seriously?! Did you do this for him?!" She could have wrapped him in sheets, time after time, annoying work but Pearl would do a lot in order to avoid some things proper to "organic life"; she didn't have to do such a strong, more permanet change. "You really love him"
She lifted an eyebrow "Why are you so surprised?"
Greg looked to side, "well, sometimes I wonder..." he didn't know If he should tell this to her, It seemed pretty ridiculous now. "I thought maybe you would be at least a little...angry at him"
She looked at him confused, then she frowned and opened her mouth to speak but she didn't, she tried again "It was never about to choose one or the other. I could understand if she didn't wanted to separate herself from him, she wouldn't want to see him die." she looked down "If I tell you something...could you not tell the others?"
It seemed serious, he nodded without looking away
"Rose needed a gem, but It didn't have to be hers" her voice was low but he could hear it very clear "I told her she could use mine, Rose refused to do so."
Greg's eyes grew wide, she half expected him to ask why?, he could have had both, he could have had his famility together.
"You tried to give him yours!" he almost shouted, then his eyes got softer "I'm sorry for asking Pearl, sometimes I think the stupidest things"
She fixed her gaze on him, contemplating his intentions, looking for a trace of falseness there but she didn't find it, she looked away trying to ignore that lump in her throat
"Oh, the rain is stopping, the van will start in a while"
"uh? yes, It's night already, Steven is going to be worried cause I didn't pick him up on time" he said gladly "and maybe I'll get something to eat on my way back, Gosh I'm really hungry"
She smiled slightly and then moved looking for her groceries. It wasn't until she let go his hand in order to reach the bag that he realized how while they were talking she had interlaced fingers
She took out a paper bag, there was a sandwich wrapped in aluminum foil and a paper cup. She extended her hands to give them to him. The food was still warm and because of the smell that was a cappuccino.
"Garnet said there was a chance I could stumble on you" He rised his eyebrows, from the very beginning she had come here to make amends with him "Thanks Pearl" he said with a little too much sentimentality to be grateful for a sandwich
Steven was 15 now and he hadn't changed since he was 8, his son probably was stopped in the time forever just like the girl dancing with him, they met 25 years ago but she was still this pretty thing smiling softly at him. They were the same, he was not. He really wish he were like them, he would like to be that silly boy who was passing through Beach City.
"He used to be beautiful" that was what he heard Pearl saying once to a 3 years old Steven.
"You're distracted" she said "What is It?" she spoked low.
"Nothing" he answered.
A spin and he was smiling too, He loved this sensation; a body just a little smaller than his own, fragile hands and a gentle touch he could recognize with closed eyes.
Pearl lost a little the rhythm, she did this sometimes, when If he were a gem they would fuse.
"You never did this too much with humans, did you? Dancing just for fun"
"human? Oh, yes, I keep forgetting" she said sweetly as a whispered joke. How many times had she called him like that in a malicious tone? Then her voice got amused "No, I never did this with anybody else" A soft fast kiss that made his train of thought jump the rails.
Pearl let him go chuckling "Are you not a human?" he said "I keep forgetting."
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