WELL! I had initially made this to be a oneshot, but decided that it needed a follow up chapter since the first was a little... sad...? I just don't like leaving Sadie, Connie, and Steven sad. Lars can eat a ween, but he's alright. That and I actually really like making the gems sad. Something about their rough and tumble, we're really powerful dudes and we've been around the block a bunch, attitudes makes them fun to break. Butidigress, Please enjoy and review! It means a lot to me!


"This day is mine…" Steven hesitated outside of the door. He didn't hear any more fighting from inside, but he'd been wrong before. "No!" He thought. "I will not let that stop me. This day is mine. This day is mine!" He shot his eyes open wide and burst through the door to the temple. "THIS DAY IS MINE!" He expected to see Amethyst and Pearl staring each other down, but instead he saw Garnet standing on a ladder, Amethyst holding it steady, and Pearl holding a box of tools. "Hello, Steven." Amethyst groaned, "Darnit Steven, we thought you were still with Greg! What are you doing back so soon!" Steven visibly cringed, thinking he wasn't wanted. Pearl smacked Amethyst upside the head and clarified, "What Amethyst means, Steven, is that we were trying to take advantage of this little hole in the roof to make something special for you. It was going to be a surprise!" Steven looked puzzled, but retracted his hand from the door. Garnet sighed, "It was going to be a skylight. Maybe even build into a second floor later if we had the time. Probably when you were asleep, but we wanted to get this done fast. For you. To make it up for how much we've been fighting and arguing ever since Peridot got away and Jasper and Lapis fused. We know it's been tense here but we-" Garnet stopped herself when Steven ran over and hugged Amethyst and Pearl, knocking Amethyst into the ladder and tipping Garnet over and behind the counter in the kitchen. "Ow." Came her deadpan response.

Steven was breaking into tears, but his wide smile revealed them to be tears of joy. He sniffed, but refused to talk, enjoying the silence for a bit. Pearl placed her hand affectionately on his head and ruffled his hair, mimicking the way Greg did it, and Amethyst began to rub Steven's back. "Thank you." He said. Garnet walked behind Pearl and Amethyst, smiling. She then clapped her hands together and said, "Alright, Steven, we're going to need you to go back out for now while we finish this up. It would be too dangerous having you in here. Okay?" Steven nodded, his face buried in Pearl's stomach. "Okay." came his muffled answer.

Steven pushed back out the door, rubbing his eyes. Today would be a good day. He all but promised it to himself. Steven reached into his pockets as he strode across the beach and realized he still had a little money in them. He also found a black ink pen and his phone. Looking up the boardwalk, he saw the Big Donut and got a wonderful idea. With a smile he walked into the Big Donut, ignoring That Lars was hunched over the coffee machine, cleaning it and grumbling minor curses to himself. He happily walked up to Sadie at the counter and paid for three donuts. "Hey Steven. How're you today?" Steven smiled and said, "I'm fine, but I'm more worried about other people today! Everyone needs a good day, so I'm going to spread my happiness to everyone who needs it!" All the while as he was talking he was writing something on the brown paper bag that held his donuts. Then he reached in and took out one, leaving the other two and the bag on the counter. "See ya Sadie!" He turned and walked for the door, waving at Lars. "See ya, Lars! Have an awesome day!" Lars looked over at Steven, but didn't take the time to reply, simply shrugging off the farewell.

Lars walked behind the counter again, having finished with the coffee machine. "What was that all abou- hey, what's up?" Sadie was looking at the bag and reading what was written on it

"Thank you, both of you, for being so awesome! I've been coming here long enough to find out what you two like, and I know that your boss doesn't let you guys take donuts when you want or buy them on the job so I bought you guys donuts instead! Enjoy!" - ~Steven~

Sadie looked up at Lars and Lars returned the look. They opened the bag and inside were two different donuts. Lars took one out and stared at it, "It's my favorite kind." He said, awestruck. Sadie took the other and replied in kind, "Mine too." They both looked at the door. "Steven is one strange kid." Lars said. He bit into the donut happily, "But he's alright, I guess." Sadie smiled up at Lars and began to enjoy her own donut.

Steven's smile was wider than it had been in a long time. "What else can I do?" He mused. then another excellent idea came to mind. He was going to see Connie later, but she was sick. What if HE went to go see CONNIE! "It's genius." He thought. "But I'll need entertainment!" With that Steven ran back to the temple and stopped at the door. He took a breath and opened the door slowly. The gems were still working on the roof so they hadn't noticed him yet. As stealthily as he could manage he snuck through the door and walked up the stairs to his room. He stuffed a number of board games into his cheeseburger backpack. He then strapped it onto his back and walked back out as quietly as possible. He grabbed the door handle and heard, "Be safe, Steven. Have fun." Steven tensed and chuckled, "Haha, thanks Garnet!"

Steven let out a breath and smiled, "Today is gonna be great!" He paused. "But how am I going to get there…?" Steven felt something push him from behind. He turned and saw Lion sitting patiently behind him and smiled again, "Lion! Perfect! You can take me to Connie!" He climbed up onto Lion's back and pointed in a random direction, "Onward to Connie's house!" He yelled. Lion roared in front of them, opening a pure white portal and ran through it. As they came out the sound of waves and seagulls traded in for the sound of a slight breeze and birds chirping. Steven looked up and saw Connie's house, along with the other houses beside it, in front of him. He gulped and dismounted Lion. "Alright Lion. You wait here and stay out of sight. Try not to cause too much trouble alright? I'll be back…" Steven looked at his phone and frowned. "Eventually." With that lion sat down at the side of Connie's door and Steven mustered the courage to knock.

A knock came at the door, but Connie ignored it as she was still bed ridden. Her throat felt awful and her head was spinning. She had never felt so bad before, but the thing that hurt the most was that she hadn't been able to hang out with Steven. She knew she wasn't pretending when she heard tears in his voice when she called. Connie sighed and took a sip of the hot tea that her mother brought up to her. She heard voices downstairs and a door close, but the voices remained. "Who's here?" She thought. "Oh no, did my mom call a doctor or something?" Connie groaned and then coughed, causing her to groan again. She heard a knock on her own door this time and expected her mother and a doctor to walk in. However, much to her surprise Steven walked in with her mother. She looked over and smiled as she saw Steven enter her room, "Steven! What are you-" She paused to cough. "doing here!?" Steven smiled and answered, "I figured that since you couldn't come to my house that I'd come here! I brought a bunch of board games and everything! This was we can hang out just like we'd planned to!" Steven turned to check something, and Connie glanced at the door with him. Her mother was no longer at the door, she probably went to get snacks for Steven or something.

Steven turned back around and sidled closer to Connie. He held his hand over his mouth and whispered, "Does it hurt anywhere specifically?" Connie was confused for a second, but complied. "My throat is sore and I feel really dizzy and hot, but whenever I get out of bed I start to feel really cold and even when I'm under the covers I shiver and cough!" Steven thought about the information for a second before coming to a conclusion. "I'm gonna try to heal you like I did your vision, okay?" Connie's eyes went wide at the idea, "Steven that's-""Shhh!" He looked over at the door again but saw no one. "Okay, I don't know how much time I have, but going off what you said, I'm gonna assume I'm going to want to heal your throat and maybe your forehead!" Steven then licked the palms of his hands and Connie shuddered as she remembered his source of healing. "This... may feel weird." He said as he looked his hands. He brought his palms to Connie's throat and head, but pulled back in a hurry as he heard feet climbing the stairs to her room. Connie pulled a cover back over her neck and Steven went about pulling his cheeseburger backpack off and tossing it to the floor.

Mrs. Maheswaran rounded the corner with a plate of sandwiches and two cups, one of apple juice and the other of piping hot tea. "I thought we could play Citchen Calamity or maybe Settlers of Candy Land first! Those games usually take my mind off anything when I play with the gems!" Steven flawlessly worked up a facade to cover up his previous intentions. Connie was stunned at how seamlessly he stitched together this turn of attention so quickly. "I hope you don't mind apple juice, Steven." Connie's mom said as she set the plate down on a nightstand. Steven nodded, happily taking the glass. "It's very kind of you to come see Connie since she couldn't come see you. If there's anything either of you need just call. I need to attend to something really quickly." With that she rushed out of the room. Connie sat up and was smiling widely, "Steven, that was awesome! You haven't had to do that before, have you?" Steven shrugged as he pulled out Citchen Calamty, "Not really. The gems tend not to pry on things that I'm doing unless I'm staying up too late or being too loud. I just really wanted to play some ga- hey. you're not coughing! Did it work!?" Stars sparkled in the young gem's eyes and Connie giggled. "Well I'm not dizzy, my fever went down, and it doesn't hurt my throat to talk anymore so what do you think?" She teased. Steven laughed and started to set up the boardgame on Connie's bed.

They played endlessly, pushing through game after game, for hours. At some point they even got Mrs. Maheswaran to join in on a game of Settlers of Candy Land. At another Connie's mom let them watch Under the Knife since Connie was 'sick' and asked nicely. That, and Steven was very hard to say no to when he put on his puppy dog eyes. Soon, however, night fell and the moon was high. It was time for Steven to leave. With a reluctant smile that turned into a knowing grin and a wink Steven left Connie's room, tossing over his shoulder, "I hope you feel better soon Connie!" The girl giggled and shook her head. "Very subtle, Steven." She thought. At th door, Connie's father stopped him and offered a ride home. Steven instead smiled and said, "That's okay. I got here myself and I can get home fine! thank you, though!" He turned and walked onto the driveway of the Maheswaran's and started to call out, "LION!" But before he could even finish the word he felt a familiar bump from behind. He turned and rubbed the pink lion's nose playfully, laughing all the while as Mr. and Mrs. Maheswaran stared on, dumbstruck. With a final wave, Steven and lion walked through another white portal, appearing just in front of the temple. Connie looked out of her window just in time to watch them disappear. She started to lay back down, but stopped at the sound of crinkling paper. She reached behind her and pulled out a piece of paper, a card from Settlers of Candy Land that read, "Strawberry Jam" Connie smiled and placed the card on the headboard of her bed. "Oh, Steven."

With a smile, Steven walked with Lion up the wooden stairs. "Today was a good day, Lion. I got to help a lot of people today. Everyone needs someone on their side every now and then, y'know?" He opened the door to find the house completely empty and the roof about the same as it was before the hole was made. No skylight like the Gems talked about. He was a little sad, but that wasn't going to get him down. "They probably set up a different surprise since I found this one out so easily." Steven sai to Lion more as a reassurance to himself. He yawned and scratched his stomach, taking precious care to avoid the large rose quartz gem on his belly. With a final pat on Lion's nice Steven scaled the stairs to his room and began his goodnights, "Good night dad. Good night Connie." A yawn. "Good night Lion. Good night G-" He paused and looked back to where the hole had been earlier that morning. He heard a click and the part of the roof began to open up, revealing a glass pane that beautifully let the moonlight shine into the house. Steven smiled and continued, "Good night Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl. See you all..." He yawned again and closed his eyes, drifting off into sleep. "...in the morning..."

Garnet looked at Amethyst and Pearl and nodded her approval. Amethyst was sitting on the warp pad now and Pearl was standing just to her side, holding a small device with two buttons on it. "Do you think we did good? For him?" Pearl questioned quietly. Amethyst hummed softly to herself, as if contemplating the answer. Garnet looked over her shoulder and up to Steven's room, "It's a start." She walked back to the temple door and paused. "All this time we've been trying to train Steven and it turns out he's been training us as well. We never would have been able to feel like this for any other person. I want both of you to think about that. About how far we've come." Amethyst sighed and smiled wistfully, "He's a special kid. He needs extra care, and honestly that's way more than we can provide sometimes. Some days it's just too much to even see him, but we get through the pain. Sometimes the pain is worth seeing him smile, though. I think that's what keeps us going, you know?" She looked up at her companions and felt her face flush from their expressions. Pearl began to tear up and turned her face. Garnet on the other hand let her mouth hand slightly slack. "What!? I'm not a complete goofball! I know when to take things seriously, guys!" Garnet adjusted her glasses. "Sorry, I just..." She paused and turned to the door again, "wasn't expecting that from you. I'll see you in the morning. I have something I need to do." Amethyst saluted in an over the top manner, "Will do, G-Squad!" With that the temple door shut and Amethyst flumped onto the couch. It didn't take long however for her to become annoyed by Pearl's sniffling. "Pearl." She mused. the lithe gem stiffened and rubbed her eyes. "...Yes?" Amethyst hissed a little at what she was going to offer, but went through with it anyway. "Do you... want to watch Steven? Maybe just for a bit?" A smile grew on Pearl's face, despite her knowing it bothered Steven to wake up with her watching him. "I'd like that."

They climbed the stairs, softly, and sat down at the edge of his bed. The moonlight glinted through the windows and the skylight at just the perfect angle to shine over Steven and refract off of the gem barely sticking out of his shirt. Pearl got up and pulled the wrinkled blanket over the young gem and sighed, "So tired. He must have had a pretty busy day." Amethyst shrugged, "Pretty rough, too." Pearl sat down, her legs crossed, and absentmindedly rested her head on Amethyst's felt her face flush again, but ignored it and coughed softly. "He truly is special. There's no one quite like him." She sighed softly, small tears welling in her eyes again. Amethyst nudged her head and said, "Hey if you're gonna cry on me then get a new pillow for the night."


For the record, while I may ship Amethyst and Pearl this was not meant to be a shippy ending. Just a simple thing I thought would be really cute and/or heartwarming. And I liked it so there it is. btw Garnet's totally in her feelsies eating ice cream in the burning room right now tbh. - Beem0b0t ;D