"Yellow, I love you, but this isn't working."
Blue Diamond stood amongst the aftermath and wreckage of a few hours ago. A few steps away from her right foot was the glass bottle of perfume Yellow Diamond had crushed in her hand. The entire room smelled of it. But that was just where it started. All around the room were objects they had both broken while hollering insults they could no longer remember. While it was all going down, it didn't even seem like they had trashed about nine tenths of the items in that huge chamber. Certain places in the walls were cracked and punched through and generally ruined.
And the fact that it all felt so natural as it was occurring was probably the most terrifying part.
They had combined into a horrendous storm of anger and violence and hadn't realized the destruction they had made together.
Blue Diamond pursed her lips and looked at the bruises that marked up Yellow Diamond's normally flawless body.
But in all fairness, she was wearing quite a few herself.
"You're right." The gem sitting on the bed spoke with a hoarse voice that was exhausted from screaming. Those golden eyes still glowed from battle. And with a hand made up of pointed, aggressive finger tips, she wiped away a tear from her cheek. "Will you please come sit with me? I won't hurt you any more than I already have."
Blue Diamond waded through the sea of broken treasures that took up the entire floor and sat next to Yellow Diamond. And she placed her lovely azure hand over her lover's pale golden one.
All ten of their combined fingers were pointed like spears.
Finally, with opposite colored eyes, they looked right at one another.
"I fucked up didn't I, Blue?"
"It wasn't just you. We both fucked up." Carefully, one of those sharp fingers caught the tear falling from Yellow Diamond's right eye. "I can hardly remember what happened in here, I was so angry. Can you?"
"Honestly, no. I can barely recall what we were fighting about in the first place."
"It's scary, isn't it?"
"It's terrifying."
Silence. Both Diamonds looked down at their feet, which sat amongst the devastation littering the entire room. It was really like looking at the ruin a day or so after an earthquake.
In that moment it was so, so quiet. There was hardly anything to fill the outstretching, needle point tranquility. The two women hardly even breathed.
But Yellow Diamond sucked in some air to speak. It made a sharp and difficult sound. Then: "We both have too many responsibilities to get this emotional. And look at how I've hurt you. This isn't the way we're meant to work together." Their fingers intertwined. "Blue, I—" A tiny gasp. "I don't know that either one of us could change. Nor do I think we should. By nature, we're competitive, even in loving one another; even in tearing each other apart." Yellow Diamond furrowed her brows and looked at nothing in particular. The absence rolled in again between them, but before it could remain for too long, their stares were meeting up again. "You're alright, aren't you?"
"Yeah, I'm alright. Are you?"
"Yes. I'll be okay."
Pause. Their wild glowing irises had rolled off into different directions—into separate corners filled with separate chunks of furniture and broken pieces of windows and glass.
"Yellow, I think it would be best if we don't see one another for a while. We should both probably just focus on doing our jobs and getting our heads together. I mean, it's not like I never want to talk to you again. I just…"
"I know." Yellow Diamond closed and opened her eyes, expelling a chest full of troubled air. "Did you really mean it when you said you loved me?"
"Yes. I did. And you love me too, right?"
"Yes. I do."
It was then that Yellow Diamond covered her face with her hand, and her mouth and eyebrows crunched into unsettling shapes. Her whole being tried to stop the emotions from welling up and overflowing, but like so many things, it was stupid and useless.
So Blue Diamond held her tight in an embrace. But the bruises on either of their bodies hurt upon contact.
"Blue, I'm sorry—I'm ashamed of what I've done to you." Then the weeping truly began. Blue Diamond could not reply, because she too was choked up and crippled by the pesky feelings that had not only flooded her eyes, but had also trashed her lover's things.
The pair soaked one another's shoulders and wrapped themselves together.
Because it would be the last time for a long while. Maybe even a couple thousand years.
Finally, when the sore spots grew to be too tender form the pressure of their forms pressing together, the two Diamonds split apart. With gentle hands, they collected the tears from one another's eyes and brought their tired lips together for only a few seconds.
"I think I'm going to head back soon. I'll miss you, Yellow."
"I'll miss you too, and I'm sorry."
"I am too."
Then they both sat there, looking at each other for yet another example of bone shattering seconds. There was still so much to say and so many words caught amongst the taste buds of either of their tongues. But enough had already been shared. So much so that both of them had ended up wearing one another's insults like tattoos. And even though the marks would fade, there was still some degree of permanence and some memory of the pain.
Blue leaned over and kissed Yellow on the cheek. "I'll see you around." And with that, she stood up and left.
"See you around."