You all know the drill, here's more Gem Legion
(prompt: Imagine in the Gem Legion AU, Peri doesn't like it when people touch his chin, because that was something Yellow Agate would do often.)
It was her way of saying "Listen to me, and no one else"- her fingers curled around his chin, forcing him to look upwards, into her eyes and not wavering from her gaze. Just another method of control, like the skimpy Pearl outfits he was made to wear, like the whip she almost always had hanging on her waist.
She'd have him in that position while she reprimanded him, reminded him he'd always be nothing but a Peridot, and nothing Yellow Diamond could say would change that.
No wonder he didn't like anyone else repeating the gesture.
Not even Clark.
(prompt: Kell sometimes finding Peri sad and snuggling up to him whenever Clark is gone on a mission.)
Kell would sometimes catch Peri, there on the couch, trying to fill up empty space. The smaller Gem would be turned away from everyone, not even looking at the TV that was playing listlessly in the background. Like he was drowning out the world, leaving him with his own brokenness.
It was at those times that Kell knew he could help.
After all, when one who's at their lowest point sees someone in the same position, what does one do but help that person upwards?
"Hey, Peri." He'd say, draping a blanket over him. Then, he'd pull the bundle of blanket and Gem onto his lap, and start stroking his hair. "When you wanna talk, I'm here."
Peri'd make a soft sobbing sound, and only snuggle closer to him then.
(prompt: Gem Legion + "You're here!")
"You're here." Yellow Diamond said, Blue Diamond entering into the room that was once her sister's. Her Pearl followed her, head bowed as he went to stand beside Yellow Pearl.
"He said with surprise in his voice for some reason." Blue replied, barely smirking as she spoke. "Am I not allowed to grieve her?"
Yellow put a hand on her shoulder, making her look at him. "Such grieving is pointless, Blue." He said. "She has been dead for thousands of years. I would think a Diamond as strong as you should have moved on by now, if not long ago."
(prompt: Gem Legion + "How is it that you're so stupid and so hot at the same time?")
"How is it that you're so stupid and so hot at the same time?" Aquamarine asked, looking with disdain at Clark, who was looking back at him blankly, after he'd ignored the blue Gem's flirtation attempts. "Eh, probably just a Ruby thing. But even the soldiers back on Homeworld knew how to understand a higher-class Gem."
"You need to shut your mouth." Peri demanded, Kara and Kell flanking him on either side, weapons out. "Nobody dares talk about our friend like that."
"I do not predict an ideal future for you, Aquamarine." Kell said.
"Get off our land!" Kara yelled.
(prompt: Gem Legion + ETHEREAL: extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world.)
Lena Luthor wanted a way out.
At first, she was proud to belong to her family- Lionel and Lillian adopted her, chose her. She felt wanted, with her older brother encouraging her every step of the way, telling her how smart she was. Smarter than him, perhaps.
But she got older, and saw her mother's true colors, how she seemed uncomfortable having her around. Saw how the arrival of the Gems angered Lex, how he believed they were only a danger to the city instead of a help. Saw how her father said he loved his children, but only sought to have them under his strict control.
All she wanted was freedom, to go anywhere, find anyone else. But with the type of family she had, who else would want her around?
Then she met Kara.
The girl at the concert, the girl who'd spilled soda on herself and was so nervous afterward she had to rely on her friend to get Lena's number. The girl who liked her without context, but had little context supporting her either. The girl with lilac-colored hair and a purple flower scarf, who punched hard and flew like she was lighter than air itself.
Kara, Lena's best and first friend.
The woman who'd opened the door to Lena's escape.
(prompt: Yellow Agate first using the threat of fusion against Peri, back when he was still on Homeworld working for Yellow Diamond.)
Peridot 5 draws it out, Yellow Agate dragging him away so nobody else would see what she'd do to him. She's impatient, literally pulling him down the hall by his hair. The floors are smooth and featureless, but he still winces every time he hits the floor, as he hears the heavy steps of her boots.
She throws him into a small room, the panel in the wall closing behind her.
"I want to know what you think I'm going to do to you." She demanded. "Because I want to do something much worse."
"What is worse than what you've already done?" he asks, trembling, afraid to do anything other than look her right in the eyes.
She's thinking for a moment, before turning to him with a wicked smile. She doesn't hold her weapon, but that only makes Peridot 5 even more afraid.
"I can think of one thing."
(prompt: Gem Legion AU + "Stop trying to cheer me up!")
"Stop trying to cheer me up."
"Kell, please, we just-"
"No. I know how you operate. You distract me from the inevitability, reality; that is my future visions. I can't escape them, whether you like it or not. This is the way things are. I cannot change, just because you give me hugs and sing at me and try to make me forget the horrible things I see every day."
"What about hope?"
"What?"
"I know you, Kell. You had- have- so much hope, that you could change things, that's why you're so strong now. And that hope is still alive in you, Kell. Peri and I know that, and we love you for it."
(prompt: Howlite trying to teach Peri to dance, and the two of them accidentally fusing. With Clark being there to witness this.)
"Wanna learn to dance?" Howlite asked suddenly, offering her hand to Peri.
Peri looked at it, nervously. "Um…"
"Relax, Peri-dork. We don't have to fuse." She answered. She looked over at Clark, smirking. "You don't need to worry either, I'm not stealing him for long."
"I wasn't worrying!"
"Sure, you big red clod. But come on, Peri. Let's just… try. Please."
Peri still hesitated, but took her hand anyway. "I do not see the harm in just dancing."
They moved in time with one another, Howlite leading in a simple, stiff waltz. ("How I danced on Homeworld", she explained)
The dance got faster and faster, as Peri became more comfortable with her, forgetting that fusion was ever used as a threat to him and solely focusing on his friend. And as he looked into her eyes, and she smiled at him, both saw a green glow.
Then two silhouettes became one, and Clark saw what looked like a shimmering, sheer green curtain, before a Gem dissolved it, revealing themselves.
It was a surprisingly stable-looking fusion- only two arms, four eyes. They had long, green hair, and a large bowtie around their neck, with what looked like suspenders over a green shirt with pink cuffed sleeves holding up a pair of dark green shorts. They wore white knee-high boots, and their facial expression was calm and nonchalant- as if they were expecting themselves to be this way.
They crouched down, looking at Clark uncertainly. "What do you think?" they asked.
Clark didn't want to lie, but he so wished it had been himself Peri was dancing with.
"You guys look great." He said, trying not to look at them directly. "I'm glad you're such good friends."
"Me too." They said, smiling.
(prompt: Snowball fight between the Barn Squad.)
"Thought this would be an easy win for you, Kell!" Clark calls out, as he prepares to throw another snowball, but it only turns to water in his hands. He's got a ring of bright green grass under his feet, and Kell is smirking.
"Clark does have the obvious disadvantage here." Peri says, next to him.
Across from Peri, Kara smiles, making a snowball of her own. "Yeah, but you also have the best self-defense. So who's really winning here?"
"Kara has a point." Contributes Kell, snowflakes dotting his hair. "And besides, I can only see situations where we lose."
(prompt: Kara as an itty bitty Tanzanite trying to find Ruby and Sapphire's vessels to reunite with them, but she just ends up lost and alone on Earth.)
"Come on, come on… where are you guys?" Tanzanite muttered to herself, looking for the coordinates of the other Ruby vessels. She knew hers had been the first to escape, but… was she really that far ahead?
The only coordinates she saw, and couldn't change, had been programmed in by the Rose Quartz who'd seen her off. Facet L4R4, Cut 39- the secret rebel who'd made sure she and the other two survived.
Tanzanite owed that Gem her life, but she didn't care about where she wanted her to go right now.
She just wanted to see her brothers again.