"You can let go of her anytime you like, she's not going anywhere anytime soon," Jimmy Demayo, a man with long black hair and a brown trench-coat said to the two gems who were sitting on the white couch in his living room. Pearl frowned at the man and Navy cuddled against the chest of the gem.
"Greg said that you could help us, Lapis thought that you could help us when she found out who you were. Why didn't you help us?" Pearl asked the man, who stared at her with a blank expression on his face.
"If Lapis was so sure that I could help, then why the hell didn't she come here?" Jimmy asked the gem. Pearl immediately covered the ears of the red gem she was holding in her arms.
"I would appreciate it if you didn't swear in front of her," Pearl said to the man, who smiled at the gem and started walking towards her.
"Fuck you, you're the last fucking alien who should be lecturing me on anything. You wanted to win this stupid war with your fucking planet so badly that you were willing to sacrifice Greg to do so. You were willing to sacrifice my twin brother for your stupid war," Jimmy growled at the gem once he was standing less than 2 feet in front of her.
"You have no idea how much I've lost fighting in this war that I never wanted to fight in. You have no idea how many times I've saved your pathetic asses from death. To have you idiots betray me by trying to use my own chemical weapon against me-"
"-Rose never would have wanted you to use that weapon!" Pearl yelled at the man, standing up to stare into his eyes and dropping Navy in the process. Navy yelped as she fell to the ground, and she was ignored by both Jimmy and Pearl.
"Rose would have pulled the trigger if she could. She knew damn well the dangers of the weapon, and she was aware of every risk of using it. The reason why she choose to give birth to my nephew is simply because she didn't want to be around when some idiot decided to use it," Jimmy said to the gem, who continued to stare into his eyes.
"Are you calling me and Greg idiots?" Pearl asked the man. Jimmy turned away from the gem and started walking towards the door leading outside.
"I'm surprised that you figured that out on your own. The least you could have done was wait to use it on your home planet instead of on my family,"
"You survived. I thought that maybe they would have been able to survive. Maybe Greg could have been a carrier, maybe Steven could have used the weapon if he had been stronger," Pearl said to the man, as she picked up Navy from the ground and held her in her arms again.
"I'm not Greg, and I'm sure as hell not Steven. I don't know why it didn't turn me into one of those feral beasts, and I don't know why it didn't kill me. But, I'm not going to let you or your little blue friend experiment on me to find a cure. I'd like to die on my own terms, doing what I think is right," Jimmy opened up his trenchcoat and pulled out a katana with a small submachine gun attached to the handle.
"You're going to contain the virus before it spreads, by killing all of the infected in the area," Pearl said to the man, who nodded his head as he pushed open the door of his home with his foot.
"That's my plan, what was yours?" Jimmy asked Pearl, who sighed and covered Navy's ears with her hands.
"Lapis is travelling to Homeworld right now with a strain of the virus in her water wings. Greg infected the water when he drowned, and Lapis is going to take the virus to Homeworld. We're finally going to win the war," Pearl said to the man, who scoffed.
"It's kind of a hollow victory isn't it? You know, because all of your friends are dead?" Jimmy asked Pearl, who turned her gaze away from the man.
"Yeah, that's what I thought. You know, Earth isn't perfect, I know that better than anyone. I was trapped in a cage in one of those terrible countries ruled by a dictator who would make your diamonds look like saints. He didn't just kill his enemies, he made them suffer in ways that would make gems like you vomit just from hearing stories about what he's done to his prisoners. He would make you beg to be shattered if he ever had five minutes alone with you. God knows that he made me pray for death a few times," Jimmy looked down at his katana and studied his reflection in the blade.
"But, I would never dream of destroying the world because parts of it are ruled by such evil men, and I wouldn't want to use the weapon on even the cruelest dictator. I guess, that's the difference between you and me," Jimmy turned his blade so that Pearl's face reflected in the katana rather than his own.
"I actually value all life, you just pretend to,"
Before Pearl had a chance to respond to the man, Jimmy had run out of the door with his katana in his hands. Pearl could hear the growls of the infected humans outside of the door, and she could hear Jimmy's grunts and the screams of the creatures he was presumably slaughtering.
