Steven was trying to sleep, but the women laughing in the kitchen interrupt him. He is used to sleep and he hates when his powers don't allow him to sleep properly. This was one of those nights, when his ears captured every single sound around him. The laughs outside were not the only thing bothering him, the smell of blood was driving him crazy.
Steven stands up and goes towards the place where the harder smell is coming from, the yard. He walks towards the back door and opens it. He sniffs around and goes towards the flowers, just to find a backpack, full of blood bags, hidden between the roses.
"Why did Pearl put these bags here?" Steven asks himself. "Maybe she was hunting and forgot it here..." He grabs the backpack. "I should probably put them in the fridge."
While he is walking back to the house, he looks inside the backpack again. "Maybe I should drink my night blood now… Pearl would tell me to do it anyway." He smiles. "She will be proud of me." He grabs a blood bag. "Look! She even have plastic bottles here!" He puts the blood inside the bottles and starts to drink it. "This tastes good!" He drinks more. "Really good! I need to ask Pearl about this new animal!" He smiles and continues drinking.
"So, she really did it?" Peridot laughs.
"You have no idea how that was!" Pearl blushes. "I really need to hide from Amethyst during the full moon… It's embarrassing. I mean…" Pearl stops and starts to sniff around. "Peridot?"
"Yes?" Peridot stops laughing and looks at the other vampire.
"How many blood bags did you bring inside the kitchen?"
"Just this one that I was drinking… Why?"
"You're lying to me."
"No, I'm not!" Peridot crosses her arms. "Go to the place where the smell is coming from. Don't blame me!"
"It's coming from the house and there's no one drinking anything here. Just you and me! I don't drink human blood!"
"I have no idea what's going on!" Peridot shouts and walks towards the hallway.
"Peridot!" Pearl stands up and goes after her. "You don't need to hide anything from me. If you are with more bags, let's talk about it." She stops when she finds Peridot, frozen next to the door.
"Do you wanna talk?" Pearl asks, again.
"You won't need to talk to me about my addiction to blood. We have a bigger problem to talk about." Peridot talks, slowly.
Pearl stops and listens to a sound coming from the outside.
"Who is on the yard?" Pearl asks, standing next to Peridot, who is looking at the person from the door's window.
"I don't know… But, who ever it is… This person is really enjoying my blood bags!" Peridot says, angry. "This vampire is small. We can handle a vampire of that size." Peridot takes a deep breath. "This situation is weird. I mean, any vampire smart enough to go near to another vampire's house wouldn't just stand there like that. Maybe it's an ambush…" Peridot says, worried.
"Peridot, you're over thinking the situation. Let me take a look at this vampire and then we go and see what someone of our kind wants with us." Pearl says, making Peridot go away of the window, however, when she takes a look at the vampire, she can't believe in her eyes.
"Steven…" Pearl covers her mouth with her hand.
"Wait, is that the hybrid?!" Peridot asks, but the other one doesn't answer.
Pearl opens the door and runs towards Steven, taking the bottle of blood from his hands.
"Pearl!" He shouts. "I was drinking! Aren't you the one who always says that I need to drink?!"
"Not human blood!" She yells at him.
"Human blood? It can't be. We don't have human blood. I didn't steal this. Pearl, you probably forgot it outside and don't remember about it." He crosses his arms. "I would never drink human blood…"
"You just did." Peridot says, while walking towards them.
"Peridot! He didn't know!" Pearl shouts.
"You just yelled at him about it!" Peridot shouts back.
"But he didn't believe me!" Pearl shouts at her again.
"What you were going to do? Lie to him?!" Peridot yells.
"No… I…" Pearl looks at the bottle that she is holding.
"You can't lie about this! He can't believe that this is a common animal blood. If he thinks like that, he will want more! And then we will lose him!" Peridot shouts.
"You… are… right…" She lets the bottle fall of her hand.
Peridot walks towards Steven and kneels in front of him.
"Who are you?" He says between couples of tears.
"My name is Peridot. I am going to live here from now on. I'm a vampire."
"I… I'm Steven…" He tries to say.
"Hey…" Peridot places her hand on his shoulder. "I know it's scary for you, but this is human blood, Steven."
"But… how did those end up on the back yard?" He asks, confused.
"I brought them with me…" Peridot looks at her hand.
"We do have a fridge…"
"I thought that Pearl would kill me, if she found out about it, so, I hided the blood. However, she did find out and, gladly, I'm still alive." Peridot smiles.
"I'm not gonna ask you the reason why you drink this. I can try to understand, but it's awful anyway. I mean, it's human…" He starts to cry again.
"Hey, you can't do anything about it. It already happened. You're not gonna become a killer that can't see a human. I promise, Steven, you will be fine." She tries to calm him down.
"How can you be sure?"
Peridot looks at his eyes. "You seem to be a good boy. That is why I'm so sure about it."
He looks at Peridot and, suddenly, hugs the vampire. Peridot gets surprised to see the boy calming down, while hugging her. She looks at him and hugs him back.
"It's so scary and horrible… and wrong... I am half human and I live with humans… I want to keep living with Amethyst, Ruby, Sapphire, Lapis, Malachite, Garnet and Pearl…" He says, slowly.
"I know it is scary… But, you will get better. If you don't want to drink human blood ever again, you don't need to do it. You can drink animal blood. You will be fine, if you do that." Peridot smiles.
They stay there for a while, while Steven is still shocked.
"I bet you are tired. Why don't you go to your bed?" Peridot asks.
"I guess I'm gonna go back to sleep. I need to calm myself down anyway." Steven removes the tears from his face.
"Okay. I'll check up on you later." Peridot touches his shoulder.
"Okay." Steven looks at her and tries to smile. "Thank you, Peridot..."
Steven walks towards the door and goes inside, while the other two vampires stay in silence.
"Thanks." Pearl says, after a long time.
Peridot takes a deep breath and sits down on the grass. "You don't need to thank me for anything. It was my fault. the human blood was mine. The only thing I could do was talk with him…"
"Thank you, anyway. You stopped me, when I was going to lie again…"
"It reminds me that we need to keep an eye on him, just to be sure. He is a kid, so we better be careful." Peridot pretends that she didn't listen to Pearl.
"Yes… By the way, I saw that you didn't encourage him to keep drinking the human blood. I wonder why you did such a thing. You're always talking about how good it is and how I should drink it…"
"It is good, but once you start to drink it, it's hard to stop… He is a kid and he was so scared… I wouldn't make him suffer even more." Peridot stands up and takes the backpack with the human blood. "I am going to put this somewhere else."
"Inside your room?"
"No, my roommate made some rules and there is one called 'No blood inside the room'… She can't even think that I have this human blood or that Steven found it." Peridot smiles and looks at the windows of the house. "She would kill me."
"We have a fridge inside the basement… Steven is not allowed there, so, it's a good place." Pearl takes the bottle, which is in front of her feet, giving it to Peridot.
"Thanks, Pearl." Peridot takes the bottle.
"Do you remember where it is?"
"Yeah." Peridot walks towards the house. "And Pearl…" She stops walking.
"Yes?"
"Thanks for calling me back home." Peridot smiles and opens the door. "I guess… I needed to be around friends again…" She goes inside, letting Pearl alone.
"I know, Peridot." Pearl says, looking at the stars and smiling.
A.n.: Well, I know this is short, I am sorry.
Well, sorry for any kind of grammar or spelling mistakes.
I hope you like this chapter :)
See you in the next chapter!