The young human was speaking with their caretaker, pink diamond. It was rather some sort of discussion actually, as both were disagreeing with their ideas; the human desired to be able to go out of the sweet scented, flower filled room, while pink diamond wasn't okay with this idea. And nobody could blame her from doing so; after all, she was committing treason against the gem kind, by keeping a human under her care. "I've told you several times, i can't let you out. Please, stop trying to convince me." Pink diamond said, with a light tone of voice while sitting down on top of the room's massive, pale pink cushion, with both legs crossed and hands clasped together. Once more, the child attempted to change the diamond's mind, this time they looked a bit more determined than before. Pink was biting her lips while gazing at the flowers, mostly with the purpose of avoiding eye contact; the gem seemed insecure about it, simply shaking her head in response. And again, the fallen asked her to let them step outside the room and see more of where they live, their tone of voice was a bit more secure now. The immense gem huffed while closing her eyes to then move her hand slightly closer to the child, so they could step over her massive palm. The young fallen turned their head towards their caretaker with a surprised look, only to be answered by a patient but nervous expression; trying and trying finally sprouted into the wanted result, pink diamond was convinced of allowing such idea or request from them. After all, she would never want to keep someone trapped inside a room, being on the underground was enough sufferment.
Both human and gem were roaming through the castle. While moving through the place, the kid couldn't help it but feel excited or amazed; energized. They were just a mere kid, being on a building like this was exciting for them, and more when they could see the entire area without restrain, unlike the first time where everything was way too massive for the child. Pink had a small grin on face thanks to the kid's naiveté, something she personally found both adorable and funny. Sitting on top of her palm, the kid asked about the place, eagerly answered by pink with a more relaxed attitude now. "This place is known as the diamond palace, where the leaders of the underground live in, like me!" She said with a light tone of voice. "You might be wondering how this place was built. Well, of course it took a while to do it, but us gems found the way around; but that's another story that happened hundreds of years ago by now." Pink quickly added before finishing. Indeed, the palace was hard to build on the past as the gem's technology wasn't as advanced today is; create giant structures like these was no joke. While glaring at the beautiful portraits with flowers, the fallen managed to spot that picture from before, the one with three figures around their protector. With intrigue they pointed at it with one finger and asked who were these three; seems like the kid forgot about the yellow figure from some days ago. Pink turned her head towards the said direction and saw the image, this quickly gave her some discomfort, but without much difficulty she spoke with a more serious voice. "They're the other diamonds. You must have seen one some days ago, that was yellow diamond. The other two are blue and white diamond. They are also leaders of the underground, just like me…" Pink's voice was slowly fading as she explained, immediately concerning the child about what was happening, questioning why she seemed much more sad than before. The diamond stopped walking and glared at the child with melancholy, then she began talking with a less happy tone of voice. "I'm sorry, i just realized how much i know and got used of this place, and that's something i'm not proud about. If you want me to be honest, i miss the surface. I miss being able to see both sun and moon daily, hear the birds sing at the dawn, the crickets make those noises at night… I wish we weren't sealed down on the underground." The kid never saw this side of pink, lacking of experience when dealing with troubles like these the less they could do was place their hand on top of her palm and exchange a saddened expression with her in hopes to comfort her somehow. Minutes of silence later, pink expressed a slight grin on face while looking at the fallen. "At least the only good thing from all this is that i'm with the ones i appreciate. And that includes you, my dearest child." What was this feeling the gem had? It was warm and loving, is this how a mother felt for her kids? Surprisingly, yes, pink was starting to develop those emotions for the fallen.
A tall, yellow figure was walking through the halls of the palace while searching for pink, who was not in her room like always. It was none other than yellow diamond, who was already suspicious of her fellow's activities, to the point she needed to confront pink and say what was going on. "I swear pink can be too annoying to work with sometimes. I highly doubt she's doing anything weird, but is better to make sure than lament mistakes." Yellow whispered for herself during the search inside the massive building. Gladly, her stubborn search was successful, as she found pink standing near the big picture portraying the four matriarchs, but she did not notice the human at pink's grasp since she wasn't on a front view but rather a back one. Yellow assumed her stern and on-point attitude and was direct to speak with pink diamond. "Pink, i need to have a serious talk with you right now." Yellow diamond said with a serious tone of voice, instantly alarming the gem to turn around submitted in anxiety, however, she was clever enough to hide both of her hands behind her and managed to act it out. Pink asked at yellow with a nervous grin on face. "Yes, what is it yellow?" Yellow diamond stepped closer to then begin her speech towards her comrade. "I've noticed a series of strange attitudes on your behavior lately. You're conspicuously leaving the reunions way earlier than usual, as well you don't allow none of us to step inside your room. I'll ask one time, what's going on with this suspicious attitude, pink?" Pink seemed really afraid of what was going on, she gulped while thinking what she could say. Meanwhile, the human felt quite guilty of placing their loved one in a situation like this one; guilty and scared of what was going to happen if yellow found out the truth. During the confrontation between the two, in the other end of the hall blue diamond was walking through, like always on her before mentioned daily routine. Not after getting close enough, she caught sight of the scene, getting near the zone perplexed of what was going on. "What's going on here, what are you two doing?" Blue diamond spoke with curiosity as she clasped both of her hands together up her chest. Pink only got even more anxious as not only one but two diamonds were near her; she was fast enough to turn in a way none of the two gems could notice a really nervous, shaky human. The situation was getting really tight now.
"That's what i would like to know. I'm questioning pink about her suspicious behavior but she seems reluctant to answer. Pink, my patience is running out of time, just spit it out already." Yellow said with a more temperamental attitude, only to be followed by a defensive act of blue diamond. "Leave her alone yellow, i'm sure pink has her own reasons to do what she's doing. I doubt she's into anything bad." Yellow objects with a quick answer. "There is no reason hide stuff from us and she know it, blue!" Blue answers with a keen, protective attitude. "There is also no reason to interrogate one of us without enough evidence, yellow!" Both diamonds from each side were glaring at each other in anger. Pink didn't just feel terrified, she felt terrible now, all of this was her fault after all, as she was the main focus of the argument. Meanwhile, the human who was hearing all of the confrontation wanted to do something to stop it, this won't end with nice results if it keeps going down the way it is. With a lot of determination, the fallen managed to climb the diamond's back and reach her shoulder, in which they would speak with pink diamond with the idea of stepping out of the argument. Looking at the current situation, it was obvious pink wouldn't deny such idea right now. So, both encouraged and fearful of the decision pink ran away from the area, interrupting both of the diamonds' discussion and of course, deeply confusing them. However, yellow was furious enough to take the impulsive action of send fleets and fleets of both guards and ships to pursue pink. Blue, in the other hand, couldn't really do much rather than watch with frustration at what was happening.
Pink took several routes and paths outside the palace while fleeing, she had a place in mind of where to go now. However, the escape she was executing wasn't easy at all, as several confused soldiers from both ground and ships were behind her. These soldiers were confused at the fact one of their leaders was running away without an apparent reason that could be figured out with ease, however, they carried on with the orders given. The human child was sitting on top pink diamond's shoulder, watching the countless buildings scattered across all the underground, filled with lights and other minimal things to point out, a bit blurry due to the non-stop movement, though. This is it, pink diamond got to where she wanted to go, but something seemed off, the entrance wouldn't open, tightly shut and secured, like if someone made sure of doing that years ago. This was something unexpected from both the child and the diamond, before pink even had the chance to ask herself who did this she was already surrounded by ships and guards, she was noticeably feeling helpless and scared, there was no other way around now. The fallen felt bad for this, this was their idea in the end. When the gems caught sight of the human, their expression turned from surprise and amaze to serious and anger, remark of what most gems felt for a human, hate and fury. Thanks to what happened in the long gone past.
The two fugitives with nothing else to do had to turn themselves in, but out of a sudden they were separated and disposed of with different guards. What future does pink and the fallen await for them? A terrible ending in which one died or a peaceful one in which both lived together somehow? Is just a matter of time, for now, here on the present, pink diamond prays the human is not harmed, while the child feels more and more guilty for all of this.
Happiness doesn't last forever, that's a sad reality. But sometimes, trying to make it last doesn't harm, would it?