There you have, a second chapter

Chapter 2

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The nex morning Garnet was standing in front of the door of Steven's room, waiting.

"Bye Dad!" exclamed Steven in an unusually tired voice.

The door opened and Pearl got in with a heavy-eyed Steven still wearing his banana pajamas

"Good morning Garnet" greeted Steven "Garnet" said Pearl surprised "Is something wrong?"

"No" answered in a deadpan voice that one Steven called a Garnet voice

"Oh" Pearl smiled turning to look at Steven "Come on Steven, I'll prepare your breakfast"

"Pancakes!" exclamed Steven fallowing her to the kitchen, Garnet observed them carefully.

Steven sat down in a chair saying this and that to Pearl while she was cooking, Garnet didn't hear nothing at all, she was in a deep concentration, following her moves

Pearl felt her stare, Garnet's eyes on her, she looked up at her from the mix she was beating. "What?" she asked without raising her voice, It was more pure curiosity.

"Nothing" Garned answered, after a second Pearl went ahead with her work.

"...So..." began Garnet trying to be casual "what did you do last night?"

"Dad and I watched a marathon of movies" said the boy who didn't realized the question wasn't for him.

"He stayed up late with Greg and fell down asleep in his van" answered Pearl slightly annoyed, remembering something she said in a calmed tone "I left you a note" she pointed out with a finger to the fridge.

Garnet and Amethyst indeed had read it "I went to pick up Steven - Pearl" But that wasn't what Garnet wanted to know. What she really wanted to know was why so many branches, divided ways in their possible destinies had appeared out of the nothing. You never know when a tiny change can create such as number of variants in the future and that tiny occurence happened. The consequences could be strange, dangerous and unsuspected but Garnet was specially interested in some infimum.

"and...How is Greg?"

"As usual" she said shrugging, she put a finder under her chin and frowned slightly "Maybe a little frustrated cause he hasn't got to compose for his album, he can't find a sound good enough"

"Uhmhumm" Garnet briefly considered if she should tell Pearl, Garnet calculated the possibilities

Probability -30%

"Pearl" the gem looked at her "I've seen a new future for you, one that...is with Greg"

"What?"

Garnet made good use of her closeness to grab her shoulders "Like Ruby and Sapphire, he is what you have been looking for" Pearl could feel her eyes growing wide, she gaped and her mouth moved trying to utter words "That won't happen! It's a trayectory, this, this is not decided! I won't let it happen"

A bowl of cookies fell down shattering on the ground, a frozen, shokced Steven held a half-bitten cookie in his hand. When had he moved so far away?

Probability- 55%

"Pearl" she looked at Garnet "The future has changed, Greg could be what makes you complete"

"Eh?" Pearl said lifting an eyebrow

"Like He and Rose" all the color abandoned her face, she was pale but now she was a ghost, she shook her head "That can't be!" she was beginning to cry now "It has to be a mistake!" she got out of the room running.

The sound of a glass breaking made Garnet turn to see in another direction, milk was spilled on the wooden ground, Steven was paralyzed, human kids can't suffer heart attacks, right? RIGHT?!

Probability-5%

"Pearl"

"Uhm?" murmured the white gem without put much attention"

"A variant has appeared, It's possible that you..." she stretched a hand, her palm opened "and Greg" she streched the other one "Are mean to be together"

Pearl turned to look at her slowly, then she blinked and smiled a little "Of course It's possible, everything has some opportunity, that's a grade of probability to occur, at some point in the time, but something like that has an extremely short chance, Doesn't it?"

The silent was her only answer and a confirmation, enough to make Pearl's smile wide, "I'm right!" she exclamed glad, "besides I'm sure this is not the first time that the probability has appeared, right?"

The part of Garnet that was Ruby had his jaws in the floor, the part what was Sapphire answered "Just one single time before"

"I knew it!" she put her hands together in kind of an aplause "It doesn't have any importance, It's never going to happen"

"Why not?"

Pearl changed her expression, her smile was disolved in a more quiet one, almost meditative "Cause I don't want this to happen"

A long silent followed her reply, Garnet didn't know how answer to that, but a certain sadness reached her.

One of her eyes glaced to Steven who frowned as if his brain couldn't process what he heard, slowly the peanut butter in his hand slid until shattering on the ground.

Garnet decided that was enough of future vision, she didn't need to see more and the next time when someone's destiny had changed she would tell them in private

"Pearl" the gem looked up to her "last night many new scenaries appeared out of nothing, your future has been rewritten, What did you do last night?"

Pearl froze "I didn't do anything, I just waited for Steven to wake up" her eyes narrowed in her thinking, trying to remember something out of place in her memory, nothing. "Is it very bad?" Pearl pronounced cautiously

"No, Pearl, It was very good, a result extraordinarily rare"

"It's a pity then," her voice sounded like that "It won't happen" she turned her back to Garnet and went ahead with her cooking, her cheerful mood came back just like nothing had happened, like those times when we let the right place and moment pass, nobody can know, what could have brought you joy.

"Yeah" said Garnet softly "It could have been great "

Garnet was sitting at the table with a plate of pancakes, Steven didn't like to eat alone he didn't care if they just observed but Garnet liked her pancakes usually, however just now she was eating them like a machine.

"Why can't she accept a nice fate?" asked Ruby.

"But this is her decision all in all" answered Sapphire.

"But that's not what you really think about it"

"No, It's not. You saw it too, this could make her very happy"

"You're depressed"

"yes, a little"

"Hey, It still could occur"

"Never by Itself, It's almost impossible"

"We knew that already, sometimes...destiny needs a push, you told me so"

"More like a kick" she laughed "that's what YOU said"

"What's the difference? So before we would ask for permission and now we won't " Ruby smiled to Its own wit. "It is in her best interest, for her own good"

"yes," Sapphire agreed slowly "She will be grateful after"

Garnet smiled wide, she was going to use every dirty trick, astute trap and tenebrous manipulation in her book in order to help a friend, Had a better or more just cause? oh, right, helping two friends.

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