AN: Don't own Steven Universe. But I own my pants and that's all that matters right?

Chapter 2 memories

Ruby sat on the floor of their room looking at sapphire, who had ended up falling asleep in her lap. Contrary to popular belief, Sapphy was the one who enjoyed the act of sleep, not ruby. Occasionally Ruby would sleep, but for now she wanted to think, and Sapphy had found comfort on Ruby's hand running through her hair, so ruby had also decided to stay awake and do all she could to calm her down.

Ruby stared off into space as her mind wondered to days f the past, before Steven, before Greg, hell before beach city was even a thought. Her mind wondered back to the days of the war.

Ruby sighed as Rose spoke of different tactics, she and Sapphire had needed to unfuse earlier to help with gem collecting on the battlefield, and sapphire had been poofed. Said gem sat in Ruby's lap while she regenerated.

"Ruby?" Rose asked, judging by her amused look, and Pearls unamused look, it was not the first time she had called to her.

"Y-yes?" Ruby asked looking at the pink haired woman who gave her a knowing sympathetic look.

"I was asking if you and Sapphire would like to join Onyx and Amber with the coastal troupes? I'm sure they could use Garnet more than we could at the moment and Sapphire knows most about Blue Diamond after all." She asked, Ruby smiled at how easily Rose accepted that it would be Garnet who would be fighting and not the two of them individually.

"Uhm, yeah we could help them out, cant be too hard right?" She said with a shrug.

"Wonderful! As soon as Sapphire comes back get prepared and warp to our coastal base to meet up with Amber. For now go ahead and rest, I think you both need it." She said and Waved Ruby off with a kind smile. Ruby nodded and stood to retreat into the temple that had been set up recently. It was not a permanent settlement, one simply set up to regroup and plan, rose had already said that she planned to take it down after the war. Ruby sat on the ground and sighed as she looked at Sapphires gem. "Hurry up Saph." She whispered, almost as if on cue the blue gem began to glow and lifted into the air, Ruby smiled in relief as the image of her partner formed then came to resemble her. She smiled at Ruby as she floated down to the ground and accepted the hug that Ruby had sprung on her.

"I'm so happy you are back" She said tersely, she hated the idea of being away from her and the same could be said for Sapphire.

"All that matters is we weren't hurt beyond repair." She said in a calm voice as she looked at Ruby. "What did I miss?" She added to which ruby smiled. She told her of the upcoming mission that rose had assigned. Sapphire agreed and later that night they warped to their new location.

"Ruby?" Sapphire asked groggily. Ruby smiled down at her, being ripped from her thoughts by her name being called.

"Hey my laughy Sapphy" She whispered moving some of the messy hair from her face, Sapphire leaned into her hand and looked up at her.

"I forgot we had any picture of her?" she whispered. Ruby nodded sadly and rubbed the back of her neck.

"Well after what happened, rose took down any reminders of her so we wouldn't get upset every time we left our room." Ruby said plainly. Sapphire nodded and sighed looking past Ruby to the sea of bubbled gems.

"It would make sense, I just figured that Rose had simply destroyed any reminder, not thrown it all into boxes to bury in the temple to never be found again." She said and moved to sit on Ruby's lap. "The only thing that she didn't bury with her memory, is her, she is still somewhere up there, with the other bubbled gems." Sapphire said with a small sigh and shook her head. "Its been so long, I'm not even sure where anymore" She confessed.

"Well what's the point of finding her, there is no getting her back" Ruby said honestly, knowing it was cruel, but it was better than trying to convince herself that there was any way to save her. Sapphire nodded and sighed. She leaned back against Ruby and in a flash of light Garnet was left sitting alone on her floor, hugging her knees and staring ahead in a rare show of vulnerability.

Her mind flew to the first time she had met emerald and she smiled bitterly at the nostalgia that came with the memory

Garnet had been fighting along the beach, Amber and Onyx at her side, dozens of other Crystal Gems fighting Homeworld gems, everything was so chaotic, but that was, of course, a normal day for Garnet after all. She charged at a Jasper and poofed her with little to no difficulty. Her goal today was to get to the base of their adversaries and take out any warp pads and communication links before poofing any remaining enemies. Rose thought that the enemy base would serve as a good safe house or even home base for them. Garnet could understand, it sat in a mountain the door facing the ocean, any outside attacks would be protected against, and any invading fleets could easily be fought off. Hell even if she didn't see any point in taking the mountain over, she would still follow orders, she was after all a soldier in this war. She glanced at Onyx who nodded at her to go ahead and take out any of the enemy's inside. She ran ahead, occasionally taking out any gem that got in her way, trusting one of the smaller gems to clean up the fallen. She arrived to the door to the base to see a small gem with a long curtain of dark hair protecting her. She was huddled by the door and would shiver or shake occasionally.

"I-I surrender" She said fear eminent in her voice. She looked up at Garnet and shrank back, Garnet must have looked truly frightful considering this gems reaction.

"You would betray your own homeworld? "She asked sternly, the girl adopted an almost amused look and shook her head.

"I'm an emerald, I'm used for nothing more than entertainment, or cannon fodder for homeworld. I get that you will probably poof me, if not crush me, and I don't care. I wont stop you, I'll even help you into the base if you like" She said a malicious look crossing her features before she found a more neutral expression. Garnet watched as she opened the door and looked at garnet expectantly. she didn't know what to do, on one hand she had surrendered, and rose needed more fighters, on the other hand this emerald obviously had some loyalty issues. She bit her lip and acted on impulse, she grabbed the gems arm to lead her into the base that seemed to be much bigger thanks to magic and gem tech.

"W-what are you doing?!" Emerald demanded trying to pull her arm free.

"You know this base, yes?" Garnet asked lowly, tightening her grip on the girls arm and dragging her along.

"Yes" She whispered following garnet's example at being quiet.

"Good. Show me where to get to the warp pad" She ordered. Emerald looked at her and began quietly leading her into the maze of a base.

AN: Hey I will be uploading this as much as I can, I don't have a computer but My friend does and I'm at her house every other day so I should be able to upload frequently. There will be more than Garnet, Just thought that I would give everyone some insight on who Emerald is. If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know I am always happy to hear them. Anyway there might be another chapter tonight might not, regardless enjoy the rest of your reading, stay awesome, stay safe.
~Fangy