Chapter complete, sorry this took so long, thanks for all the reviews and everything though.
Aqua was passed out, Rose and Pearl were too shocked to say anything , and Lapis was furious, completely and utterly furious. She's never felt so heated before, she could almost feel her blood boiling, she felt like she could take on a whole army right now, but she didn't understand, why would Rose hurt Aqua, she thought they were friends.
Rose suddenly snapped out of her initial shock, realizing they might be in serious danger. "Lapis please, it's not what you th-" Lapis cut her off, "I don't want to hear your lies, there is no other explanation to why she would be here, unless you had something to do with her getting hurt, but... I know I can't hurt you, you're still my superior." Lapis dropped her sword, dispersing her wings and landing back in the floor.
"Its just.. I wanted to be strong for her, I just wanted to keep her safe, I guess I'll just have to put up with it, I'll take her home, patch her up, take some time off my busy schedule, and just be there for her till she's better. Then I'll go back to training, learning how to fight, get stronger, and then, next time she's in trouble I'll hope it's not one of my leaders that's hurt her, and I'll shatter them into tiny, miniscule, pieces."
She walked up to Aqua, tears in her eyes as she saw all the cuts and bruises that covered her body. "Wait, I can't bring her out like this, I can't handle anybody's questions right now, ugh especially Aqua Aura's, she'll tell the whole quadrant." It pained Lapis to be a good, obedient gem right now but it was her duty.
"General Pink Diamond, I apologize for desecrating your facilities and speaking out of turn, but I must ask if you have something I can hide Aquamarine in?" Rose looked startled by Lapis' sudden strained obedience, but nevertheless she retrieved a small, silver plated mirror from her drawer, it looked like a basic mirror, it had a strange, intricate design on the front and what looked like a dull onyx gem wedged in the back.
"This is a gem powered mirror, it shows whatever event it has witnessed, the gem in the back is inactive, meaning that it cannot have a physical form, its just a natural gem." She pulled out the onyx gem from the back, the once circular hole that held the onyx gem smoothed out to a plain silver back after a few seconds, Lapis didn't understand how this related to her friend, but she continued watching.
"Now you can put Aquamarine's gem into the mirror and it'll be kept safe." Lapis slowly came to a realization, her expression changing from a forced calmness to a look of horror, Rose wanted her to make Aqua retreat to her gem?
"I'm sorry, but you don't really expect me to purposely hurt my best friend, do you?" A look of sympathy spread across Rose's face for a split second, but it was soon replaced with a look of strictness. "Yes, I'm afraid I do, she's already in too much pain, besides that's an order."
Lapis nodded, knowing she still had to do what her superiors said, the consequences for not doing so were too severe. She looked down at her friend, she had a certain beauty to her, despite being badly beaten and unconscious, her hair framed her face perfectly, her lips poked out slightly, a trickle of blood was sliding out the corner of her plump bottom lip, she was perfect.
"I'm so sorry Aqua, I should have protected you, if I did you wouldn't be hurt, you shouldn't be here, suffering." A few tears escaped Lapis' eyes, falling onto Aqua's face, the unconscious gem stirred a little, threatening to awaken. "It'll be okay, I'm going to get you home and I'm never going to leave you." She grabbed a smaller sword, looming over her friend, Aqua blinked her eyes, her vision slowly coming into place as she noticed Lapis hovering over her with the weapon.
"Lapis, what are you d-" Lapis plunged the sword through her torso, right where the human heart would be, blood poured out, staining Pearl's sheets a deep blue. Lapis' eyes were flooded with her tears as she saw her friend gasping, clinging to whatever was near, trying to push the small sword out of her with feeble attempts.
Lapis wanted to look away, but she couldn't, she saw confusion in Aqua's eyes as she dug deeper with the weapon, trying desperately to get her to retreat. "I'm so sorry, forgive me." The whole room filled with a blue, powder-like dust and all that remained after the dust settled was an Aquamarine gem.
"Quickly, put her gem on the silver side of the mirror, it'll adjust to her gem." Lapis did as she was told, putting Aqua's gem along the back of the mirror which easily took the gem in, contorting around the gem, making no extra room for anything else, the gem stuck out slightly. "Probably for a grip when I pull her out." Lapis held the mirror lovingly in her arms, while she walked out the door, not wanting to look back at the traitorous gems.
"Don't worry, we'll be home in a flash." Aqua's gem simply glowed in response.
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Lapis arrived home with little to no problems, well except for Aqua Aura's persistent badgering on where Aqua was and about how lovely Lapis' mirror was, but Lapis ignored her, she was not her priority right now. "Home sweet home, you ready to get out?" Another bright glow from the gem was enough of an answer for Lapis.
She gripped onto her gem and pulled as hard as she could, straining as she felt the gem start to slide little by little out of its prison. Crack... the mirror broke as the gem finally popped out, Aqua's gem hovered while she chose what form she wanted. Her silhouette changed two or three times before she finally decided on a look and she fell to the floor, slightly shaken up.
Lapis took her new appearance in, her hair style basically remained the same, except her bang was cut slightly shorter, showing a hint of her gem poking out, she wore a short blue skirt that reached just above the knee, a plain white belt separating the skirt and a simple blue tank top with a white diamond right in the middle that Aqua now sported, and lastly white flats took the place of her former bulky boots. The look was simple but still nice, it was perfect.
Lapis ran to her, embracing her in the tightest hug she could muster. "Hey, slow down there Lapis, or else you'll pop me again." She had a humor behind her words, but Lapis still looked down in guilt. "I'm sorry Aqua, I just didn't want to you know, leave you looking like that." Aqua brought Lapis in for another hug, "Aww Lapis, you care about me? That's sweet, leave the worrying to me though okay?"
"I'll always worry about you Aquamarine, I love you." Lapis accidently let the last part slip out, she didn't want Aqua to know that, not yet. To Lapis' surprise though, Aqua smiled from ear to ear. "You don't know how long I been waiting for you to say that, I love you too Lapis." Both of their gems glowed, as the gems gave each other one last hug, a tear slipping down Lapis' face.
"Just don't leave me, not anymore okay? I can't believe that Pink Diamond would hurt you like that, they're traitors." Aqua pulled apart from Lapis, giving her a confused look. "Lapis, Rose didn't hurt me ,she saved me. If it wasn't for her well..." Lapis was now the one who had a confused look.
"What, well then who did hurt you?" Aqua looked sadly into her eyes, hurt filling her eyes, she looked away from Lapis' concerned eyes. "It doesn't matter, just know it wasn't them. It was the enemy."
Lapis grabbed Aqua's cheek gently, she pulled her face, making Aqua look at her, "I thought we agreed to tell each other everything? We'll just add it to the vault right?" Aqua nodded slowly, knowing that she'll probably regret this decision. "In a very short time there will be a war, gem rebels that are fighting for Earth will battle with the Homeworld gems fighting for, well themselves." Lapis nodded her head in understanding, she was confused, but she understood.
"Well, I'm one of those gems Lapis, that's why I've been at Rose's place so much, Pearl's been helping me sword train and Rose has been going over battle tactics, I'm fighting for Earth and everything in it, I'm fighting against you guys." Lapis was speechless, never had she thought that this was what Aqua was doing, for a while she just thought Rose and her were romantically involved.
"That doesn't make any sense, that would mean that you're a traitor?" Aqua looked away as she nodded, confirming the horrible truth to Lapis. "Why Aqua? Why wouldn't you tell me this? What are we supposed to do?"
"Earth didn't do anything to us Lapis, they don't deserve this. Why don't we just go, we can run away, far away, where nobody can find us and we can just be with each other." Lapis stepped away from her friend, walking over to Aqua's side of their quarters, she grabbed a bracelet she gave to her thousands of years ago and pocketed it, she then took off a bracelet Aqua gave to her the same amount of time ago and put it in Aqua's hands.
"Just something to remember me by while we're apart." Lapis pushed her bangs apart and kissed Aqua's gem, then she turned and say on her bed, not saying anything else. Aqua understood that this was her cue to leave her friend, she took one last look at Lapis before she walked out.
She stood outside the door for a moment, debating whether she should stay or not, she ultimately decided it's best to leave. She looked at the door of her former house, tearing up she placed a hand on the metal door. "Wait for me Lapis..."