"You sure you don't want me to bail you out?" Peridot asked Amethyst.
The couple is walking down the street, Peridot once again wearing her glasses, with her green sweatpants and one of Amethyst's purple sweaters. The ex-prostitute is also wearing a purple sweater, but with black sweat pants instead of green. Both of their hands were in their pockets, except for one of Peridot's, which held a plastic bag full of fresh clothes and bathroom supplies. They would hold hands as they walked, but it wasn't such a good idea when it was still Winter in the middle of New York. To top of the cold weather, it also started to snow.
"You know what they say, Peri. Don't do the crime if you can't do the crime."
"Literally no one says that anymore." Peridot retorted, smirking at the old saying from the 60's.
"The point is, I gotta do the time." Amethyst stated, smiling. "I whored myself out for a few months, became popular, and finally got arrested. Shouldn't have done the crime."
"I honestly think it's a stupid law." Peridot scoffed. "I mean, it would be porn if you filmed it, and that's not illegal."
"Are you saying I have the right to keep fucking strangers?" Amethyst asked.
"Oh no, I'd still want you to stop since we got together." Peridot replied, shaking her head. "I just don't think you should have gotten in trouble for it. You did a lot for people."
"Yeah, I did.. Still." Amethyst pulled a hand from her pocket and wrapped her arm around Peridot's. She lay her head on the blonde's shoulder as they walked, sighing. "It feels kinda good being tied down."
"I'm glad you think so.." Peridot turned and kissed the top of Amethyst's head. They both laughed and decided to enjoy the rest of their walk to the police station in silence.
It wasn't too long before the station came into view, though. Though the couple felt as if time stood still for them as they walked, when they finally came to their destination, it felt like mere seconds passed by.
"I'll be sure to visit you.." Peridot whispered, unable to keep the sadness from her voice. They stopped walking when they reached the front of the police station, and Amethyst turned to her girlfriend, taking Peridot's hands in hers.
"Don't do this again." Amethyst commanded. "We already went through enough water works when I first came here."
"I-I know, but.." Peridot couldn't help herself. Despite smiling at the sight of Amethyst's beautiful, strong face, the blonde started to cry. "It's been a crazy fucking week.."
"Yeah, it was." Amethyst took Peridot's face in her hands, gently wiping the blonde's tears away with her thumbs. "I'll be out before you know it, babe."
Peridot nodded. She knew this would be different. Back then, Amethyst's memory of Peridot was still lost. The ex-prostitute considered the rich girl a stranger, then a new friend. That was all she was. But now Amethyst was going to enter her cell with her old memories, knowing that the girl she had fallen for was her best friend from the past.
"I love you." Peridot whispered. Amethyst chuckled and leaned in, giving her girlfriend a quick peck to her lips.
"Love you too, Dottie." She said after pulling away. Amethyst took the bag Peridot held, turned, and made her way up the stairs, through the doors of the police department.
Peridot could already feel the cold replacing the warmth that Amethyst left on her lips. With a sigh and a longing look at where the ex-prostitute once stood, Peridot began her walk back towards Amethyst's apartment.
"Mornin' G!" Amethyst greeted her police woman friend, Garnet, who sat at her desk on the left side of the room. Garnet looked up from the papers she was looking over and smiled at the ex-prostitute.
"It's actually passed noon. You're late, Amethyst."
"Aw shit, really?" Amethyst looked behind her up at the large analog clock that rested above the double doors of the police department. Sure enough, the minute hand rested on the big number five, and the hour hand rested somewhere between the twelve and the one. Amethyst turned back to Garnet, a sullen, almost scared look on her face. "You're not gonna keep me here longer, are you?"
"Not if you can give me a good enough reason why you're late." Garnet challenged, standing from her desk.
"I was, uh.." Amethyst hated thinking under pressure, especially in this situation. On one hand, she wanted to make up this cock and bull story about how she saved a little girl from being run over by a car. On the other hand, she knew Garnet was the exact opposite of gullible.
Looking down at the ground, Amethyst sighed. "Peridot and I took our time to get here. We wanted to milk what we had left, I guess."
Garnet just chuckled, having walked around her desk to lean on the front of it, crossing her arms. "You're a drama queen, you know that?"
"Yeah, I know she can visit me any time." Amethyst groaned out. She hated being teased, especially since she's usually the one doing the teasing. "It just sucks that it has to be while I'm behind bars."
"You'll be out before you know it." Garnet stated, unknowingly repeating the words Amethyst herself said to Peridot just a few minutes ago.
"I hate when somebody else is the voice of reason.." Amethyst complained. She then sighed, holding out her wrists for Garnet to cuff, her bag hung around her right arm. "Let's get started then."
"Nah, none of that." Garnet waved away Amethyst's gesture. "You've already been arrested. You're just returning to your cell from leave."
"Oh. That makes me feel so much better." Amethyst replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she put her hands on her hips.
"Come on." Garnet said with a laugh, walking from her desk to lead Amethyst back to the police department holding cell. The ex-prostitute sighed again and followed. She was not looking forward to her freezing, stone hard, springy, pest infes-
"Did you guys get a new bed?"
When Garnet and Amethyst entered the room where her cell was, the silver haired girl noticed that the bed she slept in before was gone. Instead, a memory foam mattress rested on new box springs, equally soft box springs. The whole thing rested on the floor of the cell, meaning that there was no "under the bed".
"Woman named Jasper dropped it off this morning" Garnet answered, smirking at the bemused expression on Amethyst's face. She stood beside the desk in this room, crossing her arms. "Said Yellow Diamond ordered it."
"You see.." Amethyst started, smiling widely at her new bed. "This makes me wish I was still a whore so I could thank her properly."
"Careful with what you say." Garnet warned. "I really will extend your sentence."
"Alright, alright." Amethyst was excited for her new bed, of course, but she always hated it when someone did something for her for nothing in return. "I gotta repay her somehow, though.."
"You make her daughter happy." Garnet commented with a shrug. She walked to the door of the cell, pulling her keys from the belt of her uniform and unlocked it, holding it open for Amethyst. "I think that's plenty."
"Yeah, but I wanna do something for her." " Amethyst protested, making her way into her cell.
"I'm gonna need to see what's in the bag." Garnet said suddenly, after Amethyst had already set her bag on her bed. The silver haired girl turned to face the police woman, hands on her hips.
"Really? It's just some clothes and bathroom stuff. Not like there's anyone in here I can shank with a toothbrush."
Garnet crossed her arms. "I know, but I want to keep my job."
"Oh my god.." Amethyst turned back to the bed and snatched up the bag, turning once again to hand it to Garnet. "Here. Take all the time you want."
"Don't worry, I will." Garnet replied with a smirk. She could tell that Amethyst was getting irritated.. But she didn't know why. "Dr. Maheswaran is coming to visit you again today."
"Did no one give her the memo that my memory's back?" Amethyst asked, taking a seat on the bed.
"She knows. She still wants to talk to you, though. I'll let her in when she gets here." Garnet made her way outside of the cell room with Amethyst's bag in hand. The ex-prostitute sighed and laid down in the bed, resting on her hands behind her head. This was gonna be longer than she thought.
Peridot is walking back to Amethyst's apartment. She had already reached the more decrepit part of town, so she knew she was getting close. It was surprising at how quickly you could get somewhere in New York when you walked, especially since traffic was starting to pick back up in midtown. The Christmas and New Years buzz was over.
The blonde rounded the corner to the street where Amethyst's apartment was. Her eyes widened. The previously empty street was now filled with the homeless, lined up at Pearl's little shack to get their lunch.
"Oh Peridot!" Pearl called to the blonde girl, struggling to be quick at filling a bowl with soup while trying to not splatter herself with the red liquid. "Can you spare a hand?"
Peridot nodded and rushed to join Pearl's side. Pearl didn't bother handing an apron to the blonde girl. "We're really swamped, so just grab a ladle and get started."
"Where are Rose and Greg? Vidalia?" Peridot asked, reaching under the front counter of the shack to grab one of the hanging ladles. She started to serve soup from the giant pot that stood in the middle of the counter, grabbing bowls from the counter behind them.
"Rose and her family went to the park." Pearl stated flatly, obviously a little annoyed that they left to have fun knowing there was work to do. She just served a dark haired woman with a dirty looking blanket wrapped around her shoulders, and was already moving to serve the man behind the woman. "Vidalia is taking care of Sour Cream. She called and said she'd try to find a sitter, though."
"Sorry to hear that you were left with all of this." Since Peridot's arrival, the line split itself in two. There was one giant row in front of Pearl, and one giant row in front of Peridot. She served a bald man in rags. "I'm glad I can help though."
"So am I, believe me." Pearl chuckled as she hurried to get to the next people in line.
The pair continued to feed the homeless for a quarter of an hour before the lines began to thin. The sweater Peridot wore was strewn with red stains while Pearl was somehow left spotless. The blonde chalked her mess up to the lack of experience. She was going to have to apologize to Amethyst later.
"We're running low on bowls." Pearl stated after the silence. Peridot looked behind them, and sure enough, there were only two or three paper bowls left to feed at least fifteen people. "Amethyst says she keeps a few stacks in her pantry in case we need them. Could you get some for me?"
"Yeah, you sure you got this, though?" Peridot asked, already having left her ladle in the soup pot, edging her way passed Pearl.
"I can't serve soup without bowls, Peridot." That was the only answer Peridot needed to pick up her pace.
The blonde jogged her way to Amethyst's apartment. For once, she was glad for the strict diet that Yellow Diamond put her on. The food was delicious, of course, but it got boring eating the same thing every day, even if it was healthy.
Peridot fished the apartment keys from her pocket a few feet before the door and struggled to unlock it. When she finally did, though, she practically burst into the apartment and ran to the kitchen, searching through the pantry for the stacks of bowls Pearl mentioned. She was quick to find them, as the pantry was all but empty otherwise. She'd have to fill it before Amethyst gets out of jail. Peridot made her way back outside, bowls in hand.
As soon as she exited the apartment, her heart jumped to her throat.
Standing in the street, facing each other, was one of the homeless men, holding a sharp rock to the throat of a woman, and Pearl with her gun pointed at the man.
Author's Note:
Well this took a twist. ouo
First of all, I wanna take a moment to express my gratitude to each and every one of my readers. This story has been my most popular work, even getting put above "When Love Has Come to Fruition".
I'm not trying to brag. I just think that I'm very lucky to have so many people enjoy my work that I originally intended to be a short smut fic. I never imagined that I could make such an in depth story that so many people love.
So thank you. I love all of you, and I hope I can keep entertaining you to some extent.
Be on the lookout for a new story called "Pearl's Rejuvenation". For those who wanted more from "Destruction of Property", this is going to be it's prequel. I have no idea how it's going to go, so please try not to be disappointed if it turns out to be shit. xD
As always, so long for now.