"Why won't he stop crying?!"

"I don't know, what do you want me to do?!" Pearl shouted back at Amethyst, on the verge of tears. She held a small baby in her arms.

"Stop," Garnet commanded, sounding mostly stoic, but her voice breaking slightly. "Give the boy to his father."

Greg Universe looked as though he were in shock when saw that Rose had disappeared. Shaking, he didn't accept the child as it was thrust toward him. Pearl kept a firm hold on Steven when his father refused to notice the baby in all his stress.

"Rose..." Greg whimpered, his voice cracking. "Rose! Where's my wife?! Where's my Rose?!"

He collapsed onto his knees, sobbing, with his face in the side of the bed where Rose Quartz had been laying. Garnet watched, her face completely void of all emotion. The sky outside the window was dark.

"Get up," she commanded Greg. Amethyst looked over and noticed for the first time that Garnet's glasses were dark enough to obscure her view of Garnet's eyes.

"I'm not getting up! Where's my wife? Where is she?" Greg demanded, his face red, and his eyes streaming tears when he looked up at Garnet.

"She's gone, and you have a child. It's a boy." Garnet's voice held almost a warm calmness, but was stoic none the less. The same way she would later talk to Steven.

"I can't have him! Not without Rose!" Greg shouted, clutching the sides of his heads. He tears were pouring out of his eyes, and he was acting in a hysterical form of shock.

Baby Steven let out a loud wail for the first time since he was born a few minutes earlier.

"Greg!" Pearl shouted, still panicking, "You're scaring the baby!"

"I don't care about the baby! I want Rose!"

"Greg! Keep it together! She's gone; you have a child!" Amethyst yelled, waving her arms. "She's gone and she's not coming back! So just take the child and go home!"

Everyone in the room paused, turning and staring at Amethyst. Greg opened his eyes widely enough to stare at Amethyst.

"Amethyst," Garnet said finally. "Get out. Let us handle this. Get to your room in the temple...And calm down."

Amethyst was seething, her eyes wide open, as she shook her head in anger, but refused to cry out in any anguish.

"I'm going back to the temple," she mumbled through gritted teeth, and slammed the door hard enough that it fell off of its hinges when she left.

Garnet turned to Pearl. She had just managed to calm down Steven, and was quietly humming to the boy in her arms.

"May I hold him?" Garnet asked calmly, refusing to look down at Greg sobbing into the bed where Rose had been laying. Out of sight, out of mind.

"Um, sure," Pearl said nervously, maintaining a tight grip on the child as she tentatively held him out. "Just be careful Garnet. If you drop him, you could kill him."

Garnet didn't show how much what Pearl had said just scared her. She was not used to anything being this delicate. And as the child was passed into her arms, it began to cry hysterically.

"What do I...? Garnet murmured uncertainly, and passed the child back to Pearl. He calmed down immediately in Pearl's arms.

"It's okay, Garnet," Pearl said, calming down slightly. "I don't know what it is about human children, really. I think he just misses his mother..."

Garnet remained silent.

Greg took in an audibly deep breath, and stood up, his knees trembling.

"Pearl," Greg asked uncertainly, shaking as he spoke. "May I hold the baby?" He'd spoken for a moment as though he could not believe it was his son that he was talking about.

Pearl nodded slowly, becoming less nervous as she adjusted to the fact that Rose was gone.

"Here," she told Greg. "Be gentle...good..."

Greg held out his arms, and watched as the child was gently deposited in his trembling hands. His breathing became more calm, and he pulled the child closer to his face. Steven remained calm.

"My son..." Greg said, tears streaming out of his eyes again as he sat down, clutching Steven and crying from his loss.

Garnet looked down at the bed the Rose had been laying in one last time, and still said nothing. She looked perfectly emotionless.