AN: There are so many mysteries to this story...I wonder, have any of you noticed them yet? Haha, anyway. Next chapter! I'm writing this, once again, directly after I've posted the previous chapter, so it should be up ASAP. Apologies; It's exam season, so I'm trying to write a couple chapters now to satisfy you all for a while whilst I focus on my exams. Sorry! Trigger warning for suicide and pretty much everything else in the last chapter. Enjoy, friends! Also, this is just a filler chapter so it's hyper short. I wrote it at 3am. Gimme a break. Have a fun read!
~AP

"RUBY!" It was a scream of pure horror.
The round, red gem clattered onto the floor as her form disappeared. With it, the knife clattered next to it. Steven sprinted over, scooping the delicate Gem up carefully and glancing at the note. It was an arrow, pointing towards where the Gem fell, and the most painful words Steven had ever read.
"JUST STAMP ON ME NOW. GET IT OVER WITH."

Sapphire suddenly ran in, a look of distraught on her face as she rushed over. "RU-!" She stopped and looked at Steven, who was shaking and hyperventilating, and held out the gem to the other. "S-she a-asked u-us to s-smash her Gem." He barely got the words out. Sapphire took it in her hands and looked at the note, then to Steven, then to the knife on the floor. "I knew this would happen." Her voice was dull, numb. Hurt. Steven could tell; His voice had been similar before, and Alex's was often. "What?"
"I knew this would happen and I still walked away. How could I do that?" Sapphire tilted her head so it looked as if she was making eye contact with Steven. "How could I do that to her?"
"I-I tried. I tried t-to stop y-you."
"I-I know. I should've listened."

Sapphire didn't say anything else, just stumbled to her room and used her Gem, holding Ruby's up, to allow herself into their room. She stumbled in, almost dazed in how she was acting. The door sealed quicker than usual.

As soon as Steven was sure she was staying in there, he picked up the knife, staring at it in an almost longing state. "No. No. You did it earlier. That's just excessive. It could kill you. Put it down." He didn't realize he was thinking out loud as he put the knife back, and picked up Ruby's note. He looked at it, a tear dropping onto the page. It was so messily written; So desperate. He could've talked to her, helped her. He couldn't have known but he could've tried to help anyway...

It was all his fault Sapphire and Ruby unfused and started arguing. It was all his fault Sapphire walked out and Ruby got yelled at and then did this. This was all Steven's fault.

All his fault.
His.
Fault.

LATER

"Steven! Hello?" Connie knocked again, and then just let herself in. She heard the Gems warp away for a mission but wanted to keep Steven company. She couldn't be the only one who didn't trust him alone.

She sighed and let herself in. The girl was sure the Gems wouldn't mind; She was basically family at this point. It's not like she'd steal or break anything, she wasn't that type of person. It was fine to do that. Right? Yes, of course it was. She needed to stop worrying, she decided.

Nobody was there.

Connie ascended the stairs, but quickly came back down. Steven wasn't in his room. She searched more, and then eventually came to the bathroom. Her heart was practically beating out of her chest as she shoved open the door. Her chest was tight already, and she had an almost certain idea of what she was going to see, but she wouldn't believe it until she saw it.

As Connie saw what was there, all she could will her body to actually do was to open her mouth and let out a panicked scream.

It can't be. It couldn't be. Is it? It has to be. She couldn't just be imagining this.

She hoped to every God ever theorized to exist that she was imagining it.

AN: I said it's hyper short! Sorry! I'm gonna upload a longer, proper chapter tomorrow. BOOM! DRAMA! I hope this was enjoyable. I'm gonna get the AN for the next one out of the way then start it as soon as I wake up tomorrow, swear on my soul! I hope you enjoyed. Review if you liked, or want to tell me what you think!
~AP