A.n.: Hey! Hi! So, there is a song in this chapter and I have a suggestion... When it comes, you could listen to it while reading. It's called 'My Love' by Sia.

Enjoy!


After a long night of sleep, Peridot and Lapis decide to go to the barn and finally start planning for their daughter's birthday party while she stayed with Jasper, who said that would take the kid for a trip to the beta kindergarten. Jasper wanted to show Emerald her origins and they agreed with it.

"Just promise me-" Peridot just opens the door of the barn when her wife places a hand on her arm.

"Okay, Peri, I promise you that I won't be doing risky things." Lapis kisses Peridot's cheek.

"I'm talking seriously here, Lapis. You can't put yourself into stressful situations anymore. Yesterday was enough for the rest of your pregnancy." Peridot crosses her arms.

"Love, please, let's work." Lapis smiles.

"Okay." Peridot gets inside the barn and starts to bring the boxes from upstairs to downstairs.

"Sure I can't help you with those?" Lapis asks from a chair after a couple of minutes.

Peridot just stops and gives a raised eyebrow to her wife.

"I know." Lapis giggles while rolling her eyes. "Don't do risky things." She places a hand on her belly. "Someone else is counting on me." She smiles. "Right?"

The technician smiles at the ocean gem. "It is good to see you happy." She places the last box on the floor and then walks towards Lapis. "With your eyes glowing like that." She sits next to Lapis's chair and holds her hand.

"After the pain I felt yesterday, I am happy that everything is fine."

"You did vomit a couple of times this morning."

"That is called morning sickness and it is normal to happen during pregnancy." Lapis kisses her wife's cheek. "You know that."

"I do." Peridot takes a box that is next to her.

"So, what is in that box?" Lapis ask curious.

"Well, here we have…" Peridot opens the box with a smile. "Pictures and gifts from the places we had been." She takes a deep breath. "Are you ready?" Peridot looks at Lapis.

"For what?"

"To remember."

Lapis sighs. "I know what you mean. You are talking about the fact that we were friends and not every time things were okay between us. If I am ready to remember that? Let's find out."

"Do you remember what I told you?" Peridot takes Lapis's hand. "If you ever feel afraid of something…" She touches Lapis's chin with the other hand, making Lapis look at her. "We will find a way through it together." Peridot smiles, making her wife smiles again.

"Sometimes, I don't know what I would do without you by my side." She squeezes Peridot's fingers affectionately.

Peridot smiles and looks at the box again. "Those are just happy moments."

"But I do remember what happened after some of those pictures were taken."

"You just need to let it go, Lapis. It is in the past. Everything is different now. We are married, getting along well and with a family that is getting bigger. Back at that time, did you ever think you would even date me?" Peridot laughs.

"No." Lapis giggles.

"See. Things change. Memories are good, but not to make you feel bad." Peridot says still holding Lapis's hand.

"You always say that."

"You are right." The green gem gets a picture from inside the box, It is one of them in front of the Eiffel Tower. Peridot is with ice-cream on her hair and Lapis is laughing at her, while taking the picture of them like a selfie. "Look." Peridot gives the picture to Lapis. "It is us, in Paris."

"I remember this place. It was your first time trying ice-cream." Lapis giggles.

"Yes and you laughed at me, but I couldn't be truly mad at you because of that. You were my best friend and my barn mate, however, I almost threw the ice-cream on you." She smiles.

"I don't know what I would do if you did that." Lapis looks at the picture again.

"You would probably make me sleep inside of the lake." Peridot gets another picture and starts to laugh.

"What is that?" Lapis asks. Her curiosity showing up again.

"It is you, running away from the fireflies." Peridot laughs even harder.

"Wait! Let me see it!" Lapis gets the picture from Peridot's hand. "Why do we even have this?"

"I just found it funny and decided to keep it."

They stop to admire other pictures, but Lapis keeps the first two with her.

"It is wonderful." Lapis stops and places her hand on her belly that was starting to show.

"Are you okay, Lapis?" Peridot asks when she sees tears on Lapis's eyes.

"Yeah..." She wipes out the tears from her cheeks. "Just hormones."

"Are you sure?" Peridot touches Lapis's shoulder.

The ocean gem takes a deep breath and Peridot hugs her.

"What's wrong my dear?"

"Peri, I-I'm scared. What is gonna happen to us? To our kids?" She asks between sobs.

"What do you mean?"

"They are gonna kill us, aren't they?"

"I don't think they're gonna kill us, but we will be punished." Peridot looks at her lover's eyes.

"I want to show it for the three of them." Lapis places her head on Peridot's shoulder. "I don't want them to die that young."

"Wait…" Peridot shakes her head. "Three?" She raises an eyebrow.

"Yes. Emerald and the babies." Lapis looks at her wife.

"Lapis, I don't want to disappoint you, but there is only one baby in there. I saw it with my screen. I just saw one." The green gem says, confused.

"I know, but I can feel them. That is what I'm trying to say, we're expecting twins." Lapis looks at her belly. "I'm telling you."

"It is not possible. I'm sure." Peridot looks at Lapis with a serious look. "It's just your imagination."

The blue gem starts to get angry with the technician. "My imagination?" She crosses her arms and reach eye to eye with Peridot. "I'm not imagining it. If you didn't notice I'm almost poofing everyday and I feel that a lot of energy is going to somewhere else instead of just one baby."

"How could you even know that?"

"It's not the first time that I'm carrying a baby. I know what these energy feelings are." Lapis stands up. "And if you don't believe in your own wife..." Lapis takes a deep breath. "Look. I'll come back and talk with you once you stop acting like a jerk." She starts to walks towards the door.

"What did I do? Where are you going?" Peridot freaks out.

The blue gem holds the door for a second and then starts to run.

"Lapis!" Peridot runs after the ocean gem.

"Leave me alone." Lapis yells while running away from Peridot.

"Don't run away! You shouldn't be running!"

"Don't tell me what I can or can't do!" Lapis continues running.

"What is happening to you? Why are you running away?"

"Because I know!"

"What do you know?" Peridot asks worried.

Lapis stops and then looks at her wife. The technician isn't surprised to see tears on the blue gem's eyes.

"Stop acting like something is not wrong. I know that you don't want them."

"Stop with this nonsense. Of course I do."

"So, tell me then why are you acting like this? Why do you think I'm lying?"

"Because I don't want to believe it." Peridot looks at her fingers.

"Why?"

"Because if there is two they won't survive!" Peridot looks away from Lapis,falls on her knees.

"W-what?"

"Oh Lapis..." Peridot walks towards her wife and kneels next to her. "I didn't want you to know about this... When you fell from the sky the shell of the gemling's egg scratched."

"I know that." Lapis looks at her hands. "It was my fault."

Peridot pretends that she didn't listen that last sentence. "You know that, but you don't know that this is the reason why you are feeling so bad lately. The gemling is trying to fix the eggshell, but if you don't do any kind of dangerous thing it will be easier for the shell to fix, however, if there are two gemlings, it's impossible for both of them fix their respective shells at the same time..." Peridot takes a deep breath. "But the first time that I checked there was only one baby... unless the second one was behind of the other... I can check it again if-"

"No." Lapis interrupts Peridot. "I don't want to be certain about it... not anymore."

"Oh dear." The green gem hugs the blue one.

"All I wanted was to make things right. I only wanted this to be good news... Emerald's birthday is tomorrow and we didn't even start to plan it." Lapis places her head on Peri's shoulder with tears coming down her face

"We'll make it work, like we always do. Together."

"Are you sure we can do it?"

"Yes."

That was the last word spoken between them for a few minutes. Peridot starts to play with her wife's hair, trying to calm her down, while Lapis started to cry again. The only sound around them is Lapis sobbing.

"Laz-"

Lapis interrupts Peridot when she hugs her really strong.

"Could you sing for me?" Lapis closes her eyes.

"Of course." Peridot clears her throat and then takes a deep breath. "My love, leave yourself behind. Beat inside me. Leave you blind. My love you have found peace. You were so searching for release. You gave it all into the call. You took a chance and you took a fall for us."

The blue gem looks at Peridot's visor and, calmly, she takes them off to look at Peridot's eyes. The technician looks at the blue eyes that she loves.

"You came thoughtfully. Loved faithfully. You taught me honor. You did it for me. Tonight you will sleep. You will wait for me my love." Peridot wipes out the tears from Lapis's cheeks with her fingers, while Lapis looks at the sky and places her hands on her belly.

"Now I am strong. You gave me all... you gave all you had and now I am whole. My love, leave yourself behind. Beat inside me. Leave you blind." Peridot kisses Lapis's cheek.

"My love, look what you can do. I am mending I'll be with you. You took my hand." Peridot sings and Lapis tries to find comfort in her wife's voice.

"Added a plan. You gave me your heart and I asked you to dance with me. You loved honestly. Did what you could release." Peridot places her hand on Lapis's stomach.

"Now I am strong. You gave me all. You gave all you had and now I am whole. My love..." Peridot places her gem on Lapis's forehead. "I love you, Laz. I'll always love you and we will find a way to save our children."

"I love you too, Peri." The blue gem kisses the green one.