Wasn't sure if I wanted to do this in first person or third person but I ended up settling on first person, this is Lapis' flashback to life in Homeworld and it does include an OC that I'll describe more later on. But leave a review and enjoy.
Darkness... darkness... darkness... a faint voice, then, all of a sudden the faint voice turned into a harsh screech of "Lapis hurry up you're gonna be late!" Lapis woke up suddenly, her physical form still adjusting to the overwhelming, almost white light that filled her vision. She squinted, looking around at her surroundings, forgetting where she was for a split second.
The familiar baby blue walls and figure of her best friend for about 4,000 years was there reminding her where she was. Aquamarine stood in front of Lapis, shaking her head disapprovingly at the gem, her little silver streak on her blue side bangs swinging left to right. "You know that Yellow Diamond and Pink Diamond are coming to evaluate us today right, not that I exactly care."
Lapis rolled her eyes at Aqua's disrespectful remark towards her superiors. She mentally scolded herself, how could she forget something this important, a good review from the Diamond authority could put her in a job filled with special missions and space travel instead of taking care of Homeworld's sea animals and cleaning the ships. "Ughh I can't believe I forgot this how much time before they arrive?" The other gem was looking down at a transmission she received. "According to this you got about 10 minutes so you might wanna get ready and fast." Lapis rushed to clean her sleeping area, get dressed, and clean herself up a little bit before anybody arrived.
Lapis looked over at her friend noticing that she herself wasn't ready or even rushing to get ready. Her hair was messy except her bang that hid her strangely placed gem, her clothing wasn't near being in a good review position, and her sleeping quarters were far from neat. "Well it's nice to see you putting in an extra effort to impress our superiors." She looked at Lapis finishing up her cleaning and now going to open the shades to the one window they had, revealing the beautiful view of the thing they both loved, their planet's ocean. "I don't see why you put up such a fuss to impress them Lapis, they come down here once a month to judge us and for what, some stupid 'promotion' harassing that Earth planet's inhabitants?"
Lapis turned around glaring at Aquamarine. "Can't you ever just support what I'm trying to do instead of questioning everything Aqua? Our superiors haven't done us any wrong and all you talk about is how unfairly they treat us but you make no effort at all to even try to show them how strong you are, or how useful you are, if you did I doubt you'd be stuck here with me doing low end jobs." Lapis looked down, staring to tear up at just the thought of how much she felt she was holding her friend back. Aqua got up putting her small hands on Lapis' face, wiping away her tears. "I like being with you Lapis, that's the only place I ever want to be." Both of their gems started glowing as they hugged, the sudden outpour of emotion overwhelming both of the gems.
The moment was broken apart swiftly at the sound of harsh knocking on their door. The gems broke apart quickly, Lapis went to press a button that drained the water from the entrance before she opened the door welcoming Yellow Diamond and Pink Diamond into her quarters. Yellow Diamond spoke first, "Gem #1241 Lapis Lazuli of the ocean quadrant, facility 3?" "Y-yes that's me ma'am." Lapis' words came out slightly stuttered as she spoke, it seemed Yellow Diamond might have noticed this and marked something on her clipboard. "Gem #1242 Aquamarine of the ocean quadrant, also facility 3?" Aqua looked over and just raised her hand in agreement. Yellow Diamond made several marks after that.
"Why exactly do you two share a facility again, every other gem here has separate one's." Before either of them could speak however, Pink Diamond, or Rose Quartz, explained. "Remember, when these two formed, their gems were connected in a way that, as they matured, their gems glowed when either felt strong emotions so they knew when the other was in danger or scared, and they could feel each other's pain. We didn't want to break that connection apart in case they developed or discovered new connections."
Lapis and Aqua smiled at the fact that Rose Quartz actually remembered their unique connection. "Oh yes, that's right I remember now, well let's get back to inspection." Both of their superiors looked around the small quarters making notes on their clipboards now and then, Yellow Diamond showed obvious disapproval at Aquamarine's area, making a note then looking at her with disdain. After about an hour of poking around their stuff, Yellow Diamond cleared her throat as an announcement of them being finished. "We're done here, you will both be sent a transmission tomorrow to let you know of our reviews and of any possible occupational changes, good day to you both."
After they left Lapis was a nervous wreck, she couldn't wait till tomorrow, that's gonna be impossible, she has to know what the reviews stated now. Lapis' nervousness was causing both their gems to glow again, now Aqua knew she had to calm Lapis down. "Lapis just calm down alright, it's our one day off this week, you did great really, you were so polite, I mean you did way better than me for sure." Lapis started laughing at her, their gems dimming down slowly. "Yeah I suppose that's true, was it really necessary to be that rude to Yellow Diamond though?" "You know it, ugh she's just too much sometimes, Pink Diamond's way nicer than her." Lapis smiled, she didn't want to pick sides over her superiors, "Whatever, we should just rest now we got way too much to do tomorrow." Both gems parted off to sleep, each entering a similar visual simulation, or a dream, as they rested their physical forms.
