I told myself I wasn't going to post this until I got the next chapter of Prelude and the request for steven talking with the other rose quartzes. but...I have poor impulse control and honestly this is pretty much just a repost from the tumblr. It takes place shortly after the scene in Rosea Margarita in which Pink and Yellow Pearl go searching for Domina after she runs away on homeworld. I mostly wanted to write it to show that Domina and Yellow Diamond get along, something we know they do now. any way, I still think it's a fun little fic. as a reminder the blog is open for in character asks for the week of July 9th.
enjoy! see you next time!
Yellow and White Diamond didn't see eye to eye on many matters and even after the incident at the nursery when differences in their ideologies finally came to a head, Domina still often spoke out against the older diamonds views on lower gems.
This was infuriating on Yellow Diamonds part, anything she said, could turn into a debate that always ended with one of them stomping off in frustration. A question was all it could take to spark an argument and of course Domina was full of them.
"What's a light kite?" Domina asked, she had been tasked with looking through the records of the empires previous battles. Immediately the 3 hour explanation lept into Yellow's mouth, but she stopped herself.
'Summarize Yellow' White had told her many many times 'I don't care that much.'
"They're a short ranged scout ship, you should have been able to pick that up from context."
"Well yes obviously but..oh nevermind." Domina said with a frustrated huff, burying herself back in the terminal. Yellow Diamond hesitated and nearly let the matter drop then and there but she braced herself and decided to continue the conversation.
"What do you want to know?" She asked. Domina looked up at her, glanced back at her terminal and then back at Yellow Diamond who was doing her best to remain patient with the young diamond. Blue had been much better at this. White Had been better at this. The other two often joked that Yellow emerged impatient. Her attempts in mentoring both Pink and Blue had been disastrous to say the least. But now, she was the only one left to teach Domina.
"Well, how do they handle? How fast can they go?" The girl asked. Yellow brought up the schematics to send to her, then stopped herself.
"Follow me, I'll just show you." Yellow Diamond said standing. Domina quickly rose up to follow her, Pearl got the door and Yellow Diamond led Domina across the building to her personal hanger.
There were actually a few models of Light Kites there, Yellow approached the newer of them, and gestured for the door to the ship to open. Yellow could see the excitement pouring off of Domina and smirked slightly as she watched the young diamond dash inside. Both pearls waited by the door back into the main building.
"We'll be back, stay here." Yellow Diamond said, she let her gem glow and shrunk to maybe a third of her size.
"Yes my diamond!" her Pearl said. Domina's merely bowed.
Inside the ship Domina was inspecting the flight control panel with fascination. Yellow smiled slightly and tapped out the command to open the hanger.
"Do you know how to pilot a ship?" Yellow Diamond asked. Domina startled and turned to look at her then froze and stared at her. "What?" Yellow asked with a frown.
"You.. but.. nevermind. We're having a moment." she leaned to the other end of the flight panel and started up the ship. "I've piloted the drop ship darts before back home"
"Well this the same basic principle, just lighter. Who taught you?"
"The nephrite's.. they rigged up one of the simulators they use to train the rubies when I was 6, I used to play with it all the time" Yellow Diamond didn't respond. Nephrite's rarely flew light kites, but if you were going to learn from anyone they would be the gem to teach you. "Why?" Domina asked defensively.
"Just curious," Yellow lowered herself into the captain's chair. "Go ahead, take it out." She pulled up the auxiliary control panel just in case. Domina's face went serious, an expression that reminded Yellow so much of White. Domina read off pre flight checks with the business like manner of a Peridot giving a report. Yellow felt the shift as the thrusters revved and then idled towards the hangar door. They cleared homeworlds atmosphere a few moments later. Once they were in open space Domina turned back and gave Yellow a wide mischievous grin that reminded her of the other end of the authority's previous symbol.
Yellow raised an eyebrow and opened her mouth to ask a question.
Right before Domina jumped to hyperspeed.
