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"Pearl? help me please!" Pearl panicked as she heard the helpless cry of Steven.
"Steven where? Where are you? Where am I?" Pearl questioned as she heard Steven's call for help. She had no clue where she was. She seemed to be on an island.
"Pearl just help me, please!" Steven's calls grew more frantic.
"Where are you? Are you lost? PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE! Pearl finally realized where she was and ran to see the corrupted gem holding Steven.
"Help me!"
"Don't worry Steven i'm coming to help you!"
No matter how fast she went Pearl couldn't get to Steven fast enough. Then she saw Steven mindlessly walking away from the monster until ...
"STEVEN!"
Pearl woke up breathing heavily with tears in her eyes. It was just a dream but at the same time it wasn't. Pearl still saw the motionless gem still sitting where she placed it last night. Pearl glanced at the time.
"8:57. Your show is about to come on. Do you want me to watch it with you?"
She asked the silent pink gem.
"Okay, I will watch the show with you even though it's hard to understand sometimes."
Pearl cooked some pancakes just to smell them. She then sat where they sat the day before. Pearl was denying that Steven wasn't with her begging her to watch the show with him.
"Oh Steven, why do you like this show so much it's so it's so, well."
"Why are you not eating your breakfast? Are you even hungry? Oh well, if you don't want to eat I guess I cant force you."
Pearl just stared at the tv screen not thinking about anything. She didn't think about Steven, Rose, Garnet or Amethyst. The pain was too much for the skinny gem, so she denied than anything had happened to Steven.
Suddenly, Amethyst came out from her room wiping away a few tears.
"How's Steven, Pearl?"
"He's just fine, he wanted me to watch his show with him, so."
"So he's out of his gem!"
Amethyst said in excitement.
"I don't know what your talking about."
Amethyst didn't have a good feeling about this. She could smell freshly cooked pancakes and figured out what Pearl was doing. She did this after Rose died. She first tore herself apart crying then she denied that Rose was even gone, if Garnet didn't snap her out of it who knows what would have happened but, Garnet wasn't here right now and she could see that Garnet couldn't be the physically and mentally bigger gem right now. So she guessed she would have to be the 'bigger' gem around here for a little bit or at least get Pearl out of this mess she put herself in.
"Pearl?"
"Yes."
"Steven isn't here."
Amethyst said tying to be comforting.
"Well, of course he is here, see."
Pearl said gesturing at the rosy pink gem.
"You know what I mean, Pearl."
"No ,I don't know what you mean."
Amethyst climbed up to Steven's bed.
"Pearl this is HIS gem, it's NOT Steven!"
"Well, of course it's Steven!"
Pearl began to get agitated with Amethyst saying all this. Amethyst was just tying to help Pearl to cope with their, hopefully, temporarily loss of Steven.
"he was poofed yesterday and it hurts me just as much as you," tears rolled down her we have to stay strong it's what Steven would have wanted!He will be back Pearl! He CANT be gone forever!" Steven will..."
Amethyst stopped as she heard foot steps coming up the stairs. It must be Connie or Greg. How was she going to explain this to them? Pearl was still in shock and Garnet was probably still in her room. The door opened and Connie stepped in unaware what was going she walked in she saw Pearl slumped over crying as hard as she could and tear stains on Amethyst's face and no Steven. She could only assume the worst.
"Amethyst, Pearl? What's going on? Where is Steven? Is he okay?"
Connie started to cry worried what they say. Amethyst gently grabbed Steven's gem and carefully held it in her arms as she went to Connie. Connie could not see what Amethyst was holding until she got up close and realized, that was Steven.
"No, Steven! It cant be true it cant be!"
Connie screamed as tears over flooded her eyes.
"I'm afraid it is true."
"Will he come back out?!"
"Yes, no, maybe. I don't know. Steven is half human."
Connie realized what she meant.
"C..can I hold h... him?"
Connie asked trying to keep her composure but he couldn't help but weep as she held the gem that once belonged to her friend, her only friend, her best friend. She couldn't help but feel all the love she had for Steven. She kissed the gem and Amethyst stood right beside each other crying and comforting each other from everything that had happened. Amethyst slowly told the tragic story of what happened, to Connie who sobbed half way though the story, feeling all the sorrow and fear of Steven not able to right beside her.
"I love you."
Connie whispered to Steven's gem wishing he could hear her.
Darkness. That's all he could see for a minute. Am I dead? Steven thought to himself. I cant breathe! I cant... wait I don't need to breathe .Where am I? Wait am I in my gem regenerating? I think that's what happened to me? Oh yeah, I got poofed. I must be in my gem.
Steven's vision adjusted to his suroundings and he started to see more than black he could see pink. Pink walls, Pink Floors everything, pink.
I might be going on vacation today so it might be Sunday or Monday before I can get another chapter in. Well you now know Steven is alive but can he get out of his gem? There is a twist coming up soon so I hope you will enjoy it.
