TW: Mentions of weed, Sabrina cuts herself to show Pearl about blood.
This was something rather new for Pearl she never thought anything like this would happen to her. She never understood how Rose fell in love with Greg but while talking to Sabrina she started to understand why. Greg didn't know anything about Homeworld he didn't know about the gem monarchy which meant that Greg was interested in her for who she was. Gems only dated other gems and that wasn't something she was against in fact Pearl was rather impressed with Ruby and Sapphire's relationship because they've been fused for so long. Having to different cultures was something humans did but this was a step up from that.
"Wow, this is where you live?" Sabrina asked.
"We build it," Pearl said.
"That's impressive," Sabrina said.
"Wait do you still have those albums you wanted me to hear?" Pearl asked.
"There in this backpack don't worry I haven't forgotten about it," Sabrina said.
"I should warn you things in here are rather chaotic sometimes," Pearl said.
"I lived with my strict mother, chaotic I can handle," Sabrina said.
Pearl opened the front door when she saw the Steven and Amethyst were playing Lonely Blade. Amethyst glanced towards the door when she dropped the controller.
"Yo P I didn't know you had the courage to actually bring her here," Amethyst said.
"Hi, my name's Steven. What's your name?" Steven asked.
"Sabrina Lalonde it nice to meet you, Steven," Sabrina said.
"Sabrina that's Amethyst," Pearl said.
"So, you're the two other people I saw at The Big Donut that day. Nice to put names with faces." Sabrina said.
"What's she doing here? You didn't tell her about everything did you?" Amethyst asked.
"Actually, I did. I thought it was a nice ice breaker." Pearl said.
"It's not every day you get to meet a person from another planet," Sabrina said walking over to the couch pulling out the albums she took with her.
"What are these?" Pearl asked.
"These, My Pearl are my favorite albums from all of the bands I assume you'd like," Sabrina said laying out the CDs on the table.
Laying on the table was Master of Puppet, Paranoid, Worlds Collide, Cult, Black Widow, City of Evil, The Sickness, Ten Thousand Fist, Immortalized, Pretty Odd, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, The Black Parade, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Fallen, The Open Door, Phantom of the Opera (2011) Wicked, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Grease, Catch Me If You Can, Rent, Fame, One-X, Life Starts Now, Three Days Grace, and all of the Game of Thrones soundtrack.
"What is all of this?" Pearl asked.
"This is my album collection I also brought over my video game soundtrack, Jet Set Radio, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts HD Remix, Legend of Zelda, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Assassin's Creed I can keep going," Sabrina said.
"Look at that P. You caught a nerd," Amethyst said.
"Amethyst, don't be rude. She didn't mean it." Pearl said.
"No, she's right I am a nerd. Everyone's a nerd of their own thing." Sabrina said.
"Which album do you want me to listen to first?" Pearl asked.
"I'm going to test your limits right now," Sabrina said pulling out a CD player and handed Pearl the headphones popping in The Sickness.
"Okay…..this is interesting…." Pearl said.
"Heh-heh just waits till you get to my favorite song," Sabrina said.
Pearl went through the songs, Voices, The Game, and Stupify, it wasn't until she started listening to Down With The Sickness that her face went pale listening to these lyrics.
"How could you listen to this kind of stuff its so….vulgar," Pearl asked.
"That's the beauty of metal music. They're not afraid of making music they want and since it's never really on the radio it doesn't get overplayed. You don't have to like my taste in music I figured you wouldn't like metal anyways I just wanted to see how you'd take it. Which is why I brought these." Sabrina said taking out The Sickness popping A Fever You Can Sweat Out.
Amethyst and Steven watched as the two of them listened to the music Sabrina brought with her. Amethyst couldn't remember the last time she ever saw Pearl smile like that.
"I'm happy for her," Amethyst said.
"Me too it's nice to see her get over mom," Steven said.
"Yeah." Amethyst agreed.
The next few weeks flew by rather quickly. Pearl would meet up with Sabrina to learn more about earth while Sabrina learned more about Homeworld. Pearl didn't know that even in this world that they were wars because she assumed since this place is inhabited by humans that they all got along. Sabrina gave Pearl a cliff notes version of American history.
"Humans fight too?" Pearl asked.
"Yeah there are all these countries that want to be top dogs I guess you could say their like The Diamonds in a way," Sabrina said.
"Sabrina?"
"Son of a….Madison, what are you doing here?" Sabrina asked.
Sabrina turned around to find her ex-girlfriend standing behind them, Pearl would sense that she wasn't too thrilled to see her. Madison has light blonde hair she was wearing booty short and a black tank top. She has two snake bite piercings. She was around the same height as Pearl.
"Kyle and I were in town it's nice to see you. It's nice to see you still have pink hair who this?" Madison asked.
"You and Kyle are still together after all these years. And to answer your question I don't have to tell you who I hang out with." Sabrina said.
"This is the ex you talked about?" Pearl asked.
"Oh so you've been talking about me have you? What did she tell you?" Madison asked.
"I don't have to answer that," Pearl said.
"Sabrina, what a surprise to run into you like this," Kyle said.
That was the ex-best friend Sabrina was talking about. Kyle had short brown hair. He was wearing a snapback with the word obey on it, he was wearing a Game of Thrones shirt that said "Winter Is Coming" while he was wearing skinny jeans with ripped knees.
"You still salty that I kicked your ass all those years ago," Sabrina said.
"Look I want to put the past behind us. We can be friend again." Madison said.
"You really expect me to be friends with both of you? Do you have any idea of how I felt!? You cheated on me on our anniversary with my best friend oh wait for sorry ex -best friend. You did what you thought would make you happy at the expense of my feelings. What are you really doing here because you didn't come all this way to catch up." Sabrina asked.
"Kyle and I are getting married we wanted to invite you," Madison said.
"Get out of my face," Sabrina said.
"Hey, don't be rude," Kyle said.
"Leave and don't ever find me again," Sabrina said.
"Hey don't be rude to my girl," Kyle said grabbing Sabrina's shoulder.
"Don't touch me," Sabrina said.
"Oh, what!? You going to fight me again." Kyle growled pushing Sabrina.
"Look, there's no reason why you two should be fighting. Why don't you just leave." Pearl said.
"First of all you aren't a part of this so get out of my face." Kyle hissed.
"It's alright Pearl and I was just leaving anyways. Hope you two are happy with each other I mean you two are made for each other. Cheaters can only get with cheaters." Sabrina said.
"Why you smug little bitch!" Kyle growled punching Sabrina in the face.
"Hey, you don't get to show up here and going assaulting my girlfriend! Get out of here." Pearl said.
"I'm fine. I hope that made you feel better." Sabrina said.
"You want another one," Kyle said walking towards Sabrina but stopped halfway there when he felt a blade to his neck.
"Touch her again and I will not hesitate to use this," Pearl said.
"Let's go, baby," Kyle said walking off with Madison under his arm. Pearl let out a sigh running over to Sabrina.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"I'm fine so I'm your girlfriend now?" Sabrina smirked.
"I-I didn't….I mean….it was in the heat of the moment….I didn't mean to I mean you want…."
"You're rambling P. It's alright I think it's cute I'd love to be your girlfriend," Sabrina said.
"How'd you become friends with a jerk like that?" Pearl asked.
"You want the real answer or the truth?" Sabrina asked.
"What's the difference?" Pearl asked.
"I was friends with Kyle because he was friends with a lot of my friends that the real answer. The truth on why I kept him around was for the weed. He'd always had the hook ups and every party he threw had bongs everywhere." Sabrina said.
"What's weed?" Pearl asked.
"Oh right, you don't know what that is. It's slang for marijuana it's been called a lot of things, weed, pot, grass, trees, gas….the list goes on it's a drug that gets you high. I haven't smoked in years and I think that's because I dropped Kyle as a friend." Sabrina said.
"Is it illegal?" Pearl asked.
"Kind of. It's legal to consume but it's not legal federally so weed vendors can't use banks to keep their money safe or move their money around. I've been trying to get it legalized here because my cousin needs it for medical use but there isn't a place to get it." Sabrina said.
"Interesting I've never known of these type of things existing. Gems don't need to worry about getting sick or other things." Pearl said.
"Well lucky you then. When we humans get sick and I mean really sick we have to take meds for it but it gets really expensive." Sabrina said.
"Oh no, that sounds terrible." Pearl frowned.
"It is….crap my nose is bleeding. Let's go back to your place is Steven home?" Sabrina asked.
"No, he's hanging out Connie," Pearl said.
Sabrina stopped her nose from bleeding when she got into the bathroom. Pearl stood in the doorway she never actually know what happened to humans when they get really hurt seeing that weird crimson thing coming out of them interested her.
"You're staring at me again," Sabrina said.
"N-No I'm not," Pearl said.
"P, it's okay. What's up?" Sabrina asked.
"Why was your face leaking?" Pearl asked.
"Heh-heh it wasn't leaking. Humans have this thing called blood I don't know what color it is when it's flowing through you but when you get a cut it looks red. However, underwater it's green. Let me show you." Sabrina said pulling out her pocket knife. She cut the palm of her hand as the blood rushed out.
"Why'd you do that?" Pearl asked getting a cloth to wrap around Sabrina's hand.
"You will never under how humans are if you don't see what happens to us when we get cut. I'm sure you knew a little bit of it after all Steven is still part human." Sabrina said.
"Actually, I've never seen Steven bleed. But we've got all these things in case he does." Pearl said.
"I know I'm going to regret this but it's all worth it to show you," Sabrina said finding the hydrogen peroxide.
"Pour this over my hand." She said.
"Okay," Pearl said doing as she was told. She poured the hydrogen peroxide on Sabrina's bleeding hand. Sabrina hissed at the pain.
"I'm sorry."
"No, it's alright Pearl you don't have to apologize. This is what's supposed to happen it's cleaning it out." Sabrina said.
"Could you….die? I mean can a human run out of blood?" Pearl asked.
"Yes. Yes, we can that's called bleeding out. When you lose too much blood your heart doesn't have enough to keep the blood flowing. We also have blood types there are four of them and you can't get any blood you need to get the same blood that is your blood type. Their blood types A, B, AB, and O." Sabrina said.
"Fascinating," Pearl said.
"So what happens to a gem?" Sabrina asked.
"Well if we get hurt really badly we release our physical form. Every gem regenerates and we look differently every time it happens. We call this getting "poofed". Our gems can get cracked but as long as long as our gem isn't shattered we can come back." Pearl said.
"Regenerate….look different….Are you sure you're not a Time Lord?" Sabrina asked.
"Excuse me?"
"Nothing it was a Doctor Who reference. Is there anything other things I should know about you?" Sabrina asked.
"Well, we gems don't need to eat, drink or sleep. So don't expect me to eat anything when we got out." Pearl said.
"But you do have a room, right? What do you do in there if you don't sleep?" Sabrina asked.
"I can show you if you'd like," Pearl said.
"Lead the way, my beauty," Sabrina said.
Pearl took hold of Sabrina's hand leading her towards her room. Seeing Pearl's collection of swords interested Sabrina, she didn't see as weird because she has a collection of things herself there are things she doesn't let people know about her either.
"This isn't too much is it?" Pearl asked nervously.
"No, it's perfectly fine. You ever think about having a bed in here to just lay on? Sometimes, I like just laying in my bed scrolling through Instagram and Tumblr." Sabrina said.
"What's Instagram and Tumblr?" Pearl asked.
"Instagram is a photo sharing app and Tumblr is a blogging website," Sabrina said.
"Never cross my mind to have one since I don't sleep," Pearl said.
"You showed me your room why don't I show you mine. You're okay with riding my motorcycle?" Sabrina asked.
"I-I don't know about that…."
"Don't worry I'm a safe driver," Sabrina said.
"Alright, lead the way," Pearl said.
Riding on Sabrina's motorcycle make Pearl blush because how close they were together. Unlocking the front door they were greeted by a very large dog.
"Hey there Snowflake you missed me? Pearl is this is my husky Snowflake I adopted her when I got out of college." Sabrina said.
"She's really cute," Pearl said.
"Snowflake thanks you. I also have a German Shepherd but she's still asleep." Sabrina said.
"You like dogs I can see that. This is a really big place for just you." Pearl said.
"Actually it's not just….me," Sabrina said.
"Sabrina! I was wondering when you'd be home!" A voice said from behind them.
"Claire! What are you doing here you're supposed to be at school." Sabrina said.
"I found a way to leave. Who's she?" Claire said.
"Claire this is Pearl," Sabrina said.
"It's nice to meet you, Claire," Pearl said.
"How'd you even get into the house?" Sabrina asked.
"Dog door," Claire said.
"Go to your room I'll talk to you in a bit," Sabrina said.
"Am I in trouble?" Claire asked.
"No, just go to your room," Sabrina said.
"She's a nice little girl. Who is she?" Pearl asked.
"Claire's my daughter I adopted. She was a homeless kid that was always hanging around here. No one seemed to care that she was there guess they assume she was a runaway. I let her stay here for a while and we bonded so I adopted her." Sabrina said.
"How old is she?" Pearl asked.
"She's seven and she already knows how to duck out of school," Sabrina said.
"Guess we have a lot more in common than we thought," Pearl said.
"You don't know that half of it," Sabrina said.