"What was she like?" Domina asked.
It was a few hours after her break down and she had taken refuge in a unused storage closet on the ship. The whole of White Diamonds head ship always made Domina incredibly uncomfortable, and a majority of her time on homeworld was always spent living in the various small rooms scattered throughout the ship. She had shed the cape and was now leaning against Pearl with her arms around the gem. She felt utterly exhausted but her mind was still spinning.
"What was who like my Diamond?" Pearl asked, she was working on something that Domina wasn't paying attention to, filtering reports probably.
"Pink Diamond." Pearl stiffened slightly.
"It is later I suppose," She said evenly.
"It is," Domina released her hold on the gem and wrapped her arms around her legs "You don't have to talk about if you don't want, I'm nearly at that part in moms logs and that file should be done downloading in a another hour or so."
"No it's fine." Pearl smoothed her tunic and crossed her legs instead of sitting on them. "Pink Diamond was...new. At first she was a lot like you actually, constantly fascinated by the world she had emerged from and by the worlds that your mother took her to see." She looked at Domina hesitantly, then continued as she saw the rapt attention that the Diamond was listening to her with. "As she took control of the earth though she became more capricious, more interested in her own amusement than the management of her colony. She was fickle, and refused to cooperate with either the rebels or the rest of the authority in their attempts to restore order." Domina nodded with a frown.
"Do.. Do you miss her?"
"No." Pearl said flatly. Domina blinked.
"Alright then," she said. "So.. what really happened then? Yellow said that she was shattered by Rose Quartz but, the other pearl, she seemed very insistent that that's not what happened."
"You don't think she was lying?" Pearl asked with an amused expression.
"I mean, what reason would she have to? You two were really upset at each other."
"White and I have rarely ever seen eye to eye on anything." Pearl waved away the comment. "I do not know. Your mother..." She paused for a moment "Your mother restored order after the fact but, the method in which she did has..muddled the exact nature of what happened that day."
"What do you mean?" Domina asked, She knew a lot about what her mother had been capable of but there were still some of her powers that had not yet manifested even after all these years.
"I don't-" There was an alarm on Pearls screen she frowned and turned her attention to it, then almost immediately all color drained from her face. "Blue Diamond is here."
Domina didn't bother to change. She just headed for what had been her mother's personal room within the ship and instructed Pearl to have Blue Diamond meet her there.
Her mother's room was windowless, the walls instead covered with engravings of star charts. A proper diamond sized chair floated in the corner and an old computer terminal sat next to it with volumes of files and notes sitting on top of it. White Diamond stood in the middle of the room trying to hold it together when Blue Diamond entered alone. White had been prepared to kick up to the air to address the monarch face to face, despite her exhaustion.
Domina though was surprised to see Blue diamond enter at a size only the slightest bit taller than her own.
"I thought perhaps it was about time that we talked without Yellow's input." She said. Domina blinked and closed her mouth to prevent looking completely taken aback.
"I uh.. Well I suppose it must be, it's only been Four thousand years." Domina said, her posture had not changed. The Diamond's presence alone made the temperature in the room drop several degrees.
"Yes and I do apologize for that White, I... have not been as present in your life as I ought to have been perhaps. But I cannot change that now." Blue Diamond said. Domina nodded.
"I don't fault you for that. I know what it's like to lose someone." Domina said she could feel the grief radiating from Blue Diamond as she saw blue light leak from the other gems form. Domina wiped her face to prevent yet another round of tears and Blue Diamond reigned it in.
"Yes, well you also deserve to know what has spurred Yellows sudden insistence on dealing with the Earth." Blue Diamond said. "Several months ago Yellow and I sent a team consisting of two Topaz's and an Aquamarine in an effort to procure more humans for Pink's zoo." She paused briefly to check Domina's reaction then continued. "They returned with the Rose Quartz that at the time we believed was responsible for shattering Pink."
"You don't anymore?" Domina asked
"No. there were.. certain factors brought to our attention by the defending Zircon." Blue Diamond said. "Yellow was less than pleased with the reveal and in her...outburst Rose Quartz managed to escape."
'Steven was on Homeworld 'for a bit'' Domina thought. "You haven't seen any sign of...them?" she asked.
"No Yellow doesn't believe she's on planet anymore, you should know though that.. She was.. Different." Blue Diamond.
"How so?"
"Organic. I believe that what was brought before us was not 'Rose Quartz' so to speak but her hybrid offspring instead." Domina tried to look shocked, she really did, but all the reveal left was a sinking feeling inside of her that Steven needed to be warned.
"I... Thank you." Domina said. Blue Diamond nodded.
"I'm looking for answers of what happened to Pink. I know that your mother may have left some. So. if you come across any,"Blue diamond trailed off. Domina nodded the sinking feeling growing, she had spent much of her life wary of both diamonds, and now she felt validated, she would not envy anyone who got in Blue Diamond's way.
"I will let you know." White Diamond said.
"Excellent." blue Diamond said with a small smile. Domina took a few steps back as Blue Diamond was engulfed in light and reverted back to her normal height. "I hope you will keep in touch when you go back out into the colonies White. We really ought to get to know eachother better." Domina kicked into the air and nodded, folding her hands behind her back.
"I will do my best."
"Come along Pearl." Blue Diamond said as she exited the room. Pearl and Domina stared at the retreating pair then at each other once they were out of sight.
"That was... something." Domina said. Pearl nodded.
"I'm going to go make your bed up. You should rest my Diamond."
"I won't argue with you there" Domina said turning to look back at her mother's room, the planets staring at her like eyes, as if asking if she was really the Diamond that ruled them. Domina shook her head and shut the door, to make her way back to the storage room
