Pearl unfroze as she unfused from Alexandrite and landed into the ocean. Aquamarine fixed on to Steven, who had just confessed to being Rose Quartz; the gem who shattered Pink Diamond.

If only he knew the truth.

"Steven." she said so quietly as she covered her mouth. To anyone else, it would sound just like a statement. But it wasn't. Pearl wanted to scream both his name and the truth about his mother, but Rose's final order as Pink Diamond bound her to be silent as everyone else shouted for Steven to come back. She hoped he would listen to any of their pleas while all she could do watch in silence and cry.

But he didn't. The door to the ship began to close and Steven turned his head to say "I love you all."

The door fully shut and the ship disappeared as Pearl heard Connie shout Steven's name. But he was gone.

No one could believe it. Not even Garnet. She removed her visor to show tears streaming from her red and blue eye while she tried to work out why her future vision didn't see this happening at all. She looked around to see chaos every direction from her. Steven had been taken into space to be brought before the diamonds. Connie kept shouting for Steven which then became muffled crying. Amethyst and Pearl were silent as they kept looking at they sky while the humans began rambling and asking questions of their own. Except for Onion.

"LARS?!"

"Oh Steven, where art thou gone amidst the clouds above us?!"

"Where's Lars?!"

"Can't Garnet, my former love not jump to the sky's top as she swam to the ocean's bottom?!"

"He must still be on the ship! Where did it go?! LARS!"

Garnet wiped the tears from her eyes and placed her visor back on. If they were to get Steven back, they needed order around them. She thought to herself "It's not impossible. We rescued Greg. We rescued these humans. We will rescue Steven."

"Amethyst. Pearl. We need to help the humans get out of the water and back to their homes We'll then go back to the temple and work out our next step."

Pearl stayed where she was with her hands over her mouth, almost as if she didn't hear Garnet or anything else. Amethyst meanwhile turned to face Garnet with tears coming down her angered face.

"Are you serious Garnet?! Steven was just taken into space and we have no way of getting to him! How can you be so calm after what just happened?!"

Garnet knew how it sounded, but as the leader of the Crystal Gems, she had to take command for the sake of the team.

"We will get him back Amethyst. But we need to work out what to do and we can't do that here." Garnet said trying to keep her vision clear and keep out the thought that they might never get Steven back.

But Amethyst wadded over to her and shouted OH really?! I actually think we could talk about it right here! There's no way to follow them into space! We don't have the Roaming Eye anymore and the Homeworld warp was destroyed ages ago."

Garnet remembered smashing that very warp pad herself to prevent Peridot from returning. Now it seemed like a waste of energy. Peridot was now on their side and...

"Peridot."

"What?" Amethyst said confused as she wiped her cheeks.

Garnet grabbed Amethyst by the shoulders "Peridot might be able to help us build a ship from the junk at the barn."

"Yeah... it's possible." Amethyst said with a small hopeful smile on her face. "And with Pearl, they should be able to build a ship."

"Exactly." Garnet said.

"Whaddaya say P? Think you and the Peridactal can build a spaceship?"

They looked around to find Pearl wasn't anywhere in the water.

Connie then swam over and asked them "Guys, Pearl just went to shore and ran away. Where's she going?"

Garnet found once again, she didn't have the answer.

It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault.It's my fault...

Those 3 words played over in Pearl's head as if stuck on a loop. Perhaps because it was the truth. If only she could've told them all what really happened 6000 years ago. Perhaps Steven wouldn't have given himself up to Homeworld.

As Garnet and Amethyst talked, Pearl swam away. She couldn't handle the guilt around everyone. Once out of the water, she ran to the nearest warp pad and warped to the Strawberry Battlefield. Once there, she took a few steps off the warp pad and sank to her knees and then into a foetal position to cry out loud. This secret she had been forced to keep had bothered her the moment it was placed on her. But it wasn't until Rose became pregnant and Steven was born had she wanted to say it. Now, she would never be able to tell them. Rose was gone. Just like Steven.

Hours passed, no one came looking for her. She got up from the ground, not bothering to dry her face. She knew she would cry again.

"Of course, Garnet and Amethyst don't know about this place, just like they don't know that I..." she covered her mouth just as she was about to say she helped Pink Diamond to fake her own shattering so she could live on Earth as Rose Quartz.

She walked until she made it to a road with her arms clutched around her waist. She didn't want to go back to the temple. How could she? Tears began to reflow from her eyes.

She walked to cross when in the corner of her eye was a light. She looked to be met with a bright head light and someone shouting "WATCH OUT!" and the sound of tires screeching, desperate to stop. Luckily, Pearl jumped back in the nick of time and landed on her stomach.

"What was I thinking? Not looking both ways to cross the road?!" Pearl said to herself as she panicked again. But then a hand touched her shoulder.

"Hey, are you okay?" came a voice behind her. To Pearl, the voice and the feel of the person's hand were... familiar.

She turned to see black combat boots, dark grey pants with a hole in the right knee, a white shirt with what looked like an incomplete drawing of a mouse and then the person taking off a helmet to reveal their fully dyed pink hair.

Pearl couldn't believe it. It was the mystery girl she met at Amethyst's Krol show.

The girl looked at her with equal surprise on her face as she said one word.

"You."

Sorry to end this on a cliffhanger. i'll try to add a second chapter before New Year. Anyways, Happy Christmas to all who read this fanfic.