For a couple of minutes Peridot remained silent. Then she spoke in a provocative voice. "Do YOU have someone whom you care about?"
Lapis was speechless for a moment because the other gem had intuitively hit her weak spot.
"Well, I still have Steven!" Lapis knew that she sounded pathetic. "And I had someone, some time ago…" she guardedly added.
"Whom?" Peridot asked.
Lapis clenched her fist. "That's none of your business!" she yelled. "Don't you have more important things to do than wasting your time by talking to your "weak little prisoner"?"
This was the first time Lapis saw Peridot smiling. "Yes I have." She responded. "But Yellow Diamond gave me the order to check on you every day so…you better get used to me."
Lapis growled. "Never. I am not going to say a single word anymore." She sat down and leaned against the wall without looking at her captor who remained standing in front of the yellow force field.
"Fine" Peridot turned away from her.
"I hate you!" The blue gem yelled.
Peridot turned around again. "As if I care."
Then the green gem walked away leaving an annoyed but also confused Lapis behind.
A few hours later Lapis was lying on the floor of her cell. Peridot hadn't showed up again what made her wonder what the other gem was doing.
Probably flying the ship or doing some other computer stuff Lapis wouldn't understand anyway.
"Why do I even care what she's doing?" Lapis asked herself. "She is my enemy. She is the one who captured me, who put me into this cell and who keeps annoying me with her weird questions and her dubious intentions."
Lapis left out a small sight.
"And with her cold yet somehow beautiful green eyes…"
It took the blue gem a second to realize what she'd just thought. Lapis lifted herself abruptly off the ground and she kept staring unbelievingly at the opposite wall.
Had she really just thought that her captor had beautiful eyes?
The ocean gem dropped herself to the ground again. This prison was really affecting her mind.
"No Jasper, don't touch that!" Peridot yelled to the bigger gem who came to the cockpit some minutes ago and was already disturbing her.
She was definitely the kind of gem who needed to be alone to get some work done.
"Hey, calm down Peridot." The escort responded. "I am not touching anything."
"Remember, you are under my command while you are here. Even if you may be higher ranked on Homeworld, this is my mission."
"Yeah yeah" Jasper grumbled. She was obviously annoyed that she had to follow the commands of her fellow gem but she probably was too afraid that Peridot may report her if she doesn't.
"I am leaving anyway" Jasper said. "These computers everywhere are making me nervous…"
Peridot only mumbled some "Hmmm".
When Jasper was finally gone the green gem left out a sigh. Finally alone. She needed to get to work now. Too much time has been wasted by talking to her escort and thinking about her pathetic yet somehow beautiful prisoner.
Wait. Why was she thinking about that Lapis Lazuli? And since when was that prisoner being beautiful?