Chapter Seven: The Love Brigade part 2

There had been an awkward silence between Pearl and Peridot as they searched Garnet's room for Sapphire, ever since the Crystal Gem had made it clear that she did not want to work with the Home-World Gem, but under these circumstances the two former enemies had a common goal.

"Have you found Sapphire yet?" Pearl asked

"Not yet, this is a big room and she's a small Gem" Peridot answered as she checked her readings from her scans for the fifteenth time now

Of that the Gem colored Gem wasn't lying, it was quit difficult to actually pin-point the smaller Gems exact location in a place like this and the magical interference being emitted from the temple wasn't helping either. Their search had brought them to the very edge of the ever expansive room, with a ledge now before Home-World Gem was also trying to inwardly fight off the words that Pearl had said about her, making her unable to focus on the task at hand. She felt ashamed of herself for letting feelings get in the way of her objectives, back on Home-World she would never be like this and stayed on point no matter what, but ever since she befriended Steven and gotten somewhat closer to Pearl, she had become someone she wasn't and in a way that both frightened and excited her.

Suddenly her scanners finally detected Sapphire within the area, making both Pearl and Peridot jump in surprise.

"Found her!" she said happily "she's right below our current location"

The two Gems looked down at the ledge before them. Their was no way either of them could climb down to find their friend and jumping down and hoping that their psychical bodies would stay together was simply out of the question.

"How are we supposed to get down there?" Pearl questioned

"I think I might have a solution" the Gem scientist replied

Without another word spoken, Peridot wrapped her arm around Pearl before holding her other arm up into the air. Her finger suddenly began to expand in size and start to rotate in a rapid motion to point where they were able to lift the two Gems off of the ground and began to hover safely down to the ground level. Peridot tried her best not to blush as the traveled downward, looking away from her crush's face as she did.

Soon enough, they landed on the ground below, allowing the Home-World Gem's fingers to return to normal; however Peridot had forgotten to release her grip on her crush.

"Um, Peridot; can you let go of me please?" Pearl asked

"Huh?—oh! Right, sorry!" the green Gem replied in a panic before releasing her hold on her

Just then the two Gems then heard the sound of weeping close to where they were. They followed the sorrowful sounds until the at last came upon Sapphire, who was huddled up against a wall that was covered in ice and frost.

"Sapphire…" was Pearl could say as she looked at her friend

"Please leave" Sapphire asked in a somber tone as she continued to weep

"What happened to you and Ruby?" Peridot questioned

"I don't want to talk about it" the azure colored Gem informed them both

Before Pearl could say or do anything to comfort her friend, Peridot had walked up to the smaller Gem and began to wipe away her tears with her fingers.

"Please, tell us…" she began in a soft tone "We want to help you"

Both Pearl and Sapphire were clearly stunned by their former enemy's gesture of kindness.

"Ruby and I were fighting…" the blue Gem began

"About?" Peridot insisted

"You" Sapphire replied, taking Peridot aback "I saw something in the future that involved a choice you were going to make and Ruby believed your were going to make the wrong one while I believed you were going to make the right one"

Peridot didn't know how to respond to that, she could barley believe that she was the cause of Garnet's split, let alone be told that she was going to do something in the near future that may end up causing a lot of harm, however none of that seemed to matter at the moment.

"I don't know what choice I'm going to make that'll be either good or bad, but we'll deal with it when the times comes" Peridot answered "But my choices shouldn't be the cause of both yours and Ruby's split. You two make up such a strong and caring person that these other Gems, Steven—and even I look up to"

She then helped Sapphire off of the ground.

"So what do you say we find Ruby and clear this up" she finished with a genuine smile

"Thank you Peridot" Sapphire said warmly

With that, the blue Gem began to rise upward out of the giant room in order to find her lover, leaving Pearl and Peridot alone.

"I—I'm amazed that you could be like that" Pearl said, still shocked by what she witness

"I guess I'm not the monster you think I am" Peridot answered I bit sharper then she wanted to

"I'm sorry for saying that" the pale Gem answered sincerely "It's just that after everything that happened it was truly hard to trust you?"

"Do you trust me now?" Peridot asked

"I think I'm stating to" Pearl replied with a warm smile

"Well, it's a start" the green Gem thought to herself as she tried to keep herself from blushing again


A/N: a quick not: I had to take down chapter two out of fear of having the whole story being taken down since it had lyrics that weren't mine in it; I'm sorry about that