Pearl lead Pink to the extraction room. The Diamond didn't pay much attention where they were headed as she was still talking about the failure she had with the test.

Pearl briefly send a note to the gems in pink court that the fitting will be postponed after their radiant diamond extraction. She kept it short, as she didn't want to fail to pay attention to Pink. She wasn't doing so well... Pearl was worrying for her diamond, how is she to help her? Pearl used small touches to make sure they kept on track, and only ones the door to the extraction chamber opened did her diamond blinked. Finally realizing where Pearl has to lead her.

"This is not my courtroom..." Pinks voice dropped to a flat tone.

"The court meeting was moved for after the extraction, my diamond," Pearl explained, eyeing the back of her diamond. She felt lost, was she not to do this? This time alone was what PInk needed, or had Pearl misread her diamond?

Her diamond stepped in the room. Pearl let a breath out. Maybe she did right. Pearl only hesitated a moment before stepping after her the door sliding behind them. There was a moment of silence that crashed as Pinks' voice started to climb in volume and accusation.

"You mean you moved it!" Anger. Pink couldn't stand in place as her steps started to take her around the edge of the pool, fast and angry.

"My..." Pearl only got a word out before she watched as Pink turned around to finally face her.

"Don't My diamond me! I am not your diamond! You are not my Pearl! " Pearl flinched for the first time. That hurt... It shouldn't have hurt. Was it the truth? Diamonds are never wrong... But White said Pink was wrong with her answers... Pink Diamond didn't stop, the diamond grunted and took one frustrated breath before she continued shouting even louder. "You think it too, admit it! I am incapable to do anything right! "

Pearl was frozen in place. Pink hands waved punctuating every word she was saying. "Your poor little thing! Have to be stuck with a walking mistake like myself! So you be the perfect little Pearl and moved the court fitting! " Her diamond was screaming on top of her lungs, letting her arms wave to express the tumour of her emotions. Harsh, wide and desperate movements. The pink eyes looked so red with tears held back from falling.

"What do you think I will end up messing up next!" Pink scream never reached the highest point as it was interrupted by a crash. Broken pieces spreading everywhere... A crescent shard piece slid up to Pearls foot.

The statue by the edge of the pool was now broken, Pearl never saw when her diamond touched it, Pearl was assuming the statue get caught in her movements. Her Diamond fell completely silent, becoming perfectly still, staring at the statue broken pieces. If they were at the courtroom, it could have been a gem...

It clicked.

The answer why her Diamond knew how a hurt gem sounded like. Knew how they sounded when she healed them. Pearl slowly bend picking up the crescent piece. The light pink piece shined in her white hand. Pearl moved closer to Pink, picking up the smaller broken statue pieces as she was approaching her. Pearl slowly knee down in front of the biggest heap of broken pieces. Her knees were not happy about having to come in contact with the hard floor. She could push through the pain. Picking one piece of the statue after another she placed them in her arms, preparing to put it in her gem.

"I didn't mean to... I..." Pink snapped out her stillness and silence, kneeling herself. Fingers hovering in doubt. Pearl didn't want to see them like that.

"Create your bubbles, my..." Not your diamond... "your radiance." Pearl was about to pick another piece when a bubble formed around it.

"Good idea, those have sharp edges, wouldn't ... to hurt you." A second bubble appeared trapping all the pieces in her arms.

"It's your good idea," Pearl spoke not looking up from the bubbled pieces. "I meant the bubbles for extraction, your radiance."

Radiance didn't fit.

"Oh..." Pink stopped once more.

"It IS a better idea than mine, your clarity," Pearl spoke and moved the smaller bubble up to her gem. She stored it in her gem, it felt ... sore. The surface Pearl provided. Pearl could feel the Surface pearl holding the bubble made by ...Pink. Fascination. It was the first time she had something made with Pink own hands in her gem. The Surface pearl started re-organizing everything to give the bubbles a special place in her gem. It didn't bother the main pearl. Pearl smiled at Pink diamond and stored every bubble dutifully in her gem.

It didn't matter that using her gem felt sore.

A sensation of dizziness overcoming her, and instead of standing up Pearl stayed on her knees even after she stored the last bubble with the broken pieces in her gem. She didn't want to scare her di... Pink Diamond.

"Your brilliance, may I ask... what were the questions you got... " Pearl tilted her head, not wanting to say the word 'wrong'.

Incorrect, mistaken, in error, erroneous, inaccurate, not accurate, inexact, not exact, imprecise, invalid, untrue, false, fallacious, wide of the mark, off-target, misleading, illogical, unsound, unfounded, without foundation, faulty, flawed; off beam, bogus, phoney, out, way out, full of holes, dicey, iffy; dodgy; abroad.

Not a single one of the words worked. Pearl changed the sound of the question.

"...got asked by White diamond?"

Pink took a deep breath, standing up and turning away from Pearl and towards the pool. Pearl watched as her d...Pink diamond started creating a lot of bubbles. All of the water surface was covered in the Pink bubbles in a short bit and Pearl had to focus not to simply jump in. Especially not when the water thanks to the bubbles took the pink tint. Her body was so tired and she was pushing herself so much... She needed this... but Pink needed her support now. She could wait some more. She is a capable Pearl.

Just to push a bit more, she didn't yet hit the limit of her gem.

Pink sat on the edge of the pool her legs sliding between the bubbles without popping a single one.

"I don't see a point in answering that..." finally she spoke, Pearl bit her lip. Taking a deep breath herself. The smell filled her mind. It was so Pink, so purely Pink. So perfectly her...

"...Please." Pearl breathed the word out, shifting closer in her knees till she could touch Pink diamonds back. The diamond stiffened for a moment before relaxing, not moving away from her Pearls touch. Not-her-Pearl touch.

"The first question was 'List all the components that the injectors have'," Pink spoke and Pearl leaned closer leaning her gem against the back of her diamond, no, her thoughts slipped, Pink diamond. Pink felt so cool, and it felt so nice against her gem.

Pearl hummed, surface Pearl pulling forth the schematics she stole from the archive. She knew the answer to that question. They could check to make sure, that White was not...

"What was your answer, my... your luminescence."

Pink listed the components, it was the wrong answer... Pearl's hands shifted wrapping themselves in a hug around Pink. Her di- Pink diamond placed her hand on top of Pearls.

"I don't wa-"

"Just-" Pearl interrupted Pink, a crime. Yet, Pearl couldn't bring herself to care. She was committing a crime by hugging her diamond without asking. Committing a crime by touching her diamond without being ordered to. Committing a crime by being in the extraction chamber without being pulled in by her diamond. Pink diamond, not her diamond...Committing a crime by thinking her diamond, when she was told not to look at Pink diamond as her diamond.

She was collecting gem shattering sentences nearly like Renegade wanted to collect weapons. And that without the things Renegade did. Committing a crime by interrupting appeared minuscule in comprehensions. She asked hurriedly on. "You mentioned that one question was answered correctly. What question did you get right, my.. your...my diamond?"

She was too tired to try to keep following that... If her diamond wanted it then she shall say 'I order you...' She could feel Pink hands shiver on top of her own. They stilled, and then Pink removed them. Pearl missed the touch but waited on an answer.

"It was about what Yellows first gem line was, and in which kindergarten she made them."

Pearl recognized that information. It was from the archive data she was given. "You read it on the pillow, I gave you the screen with that information, my diamond."

"Yeah, you did..."

Maybe... Pearl suspicion shifted.

"What was... Did you remember what was written on the screen white diamond has sent you relating to that question? "

"No," Pink answered shortly and Pearl stopped hugging her diamond. Which made Pink look over her shoulder at her, sadness was slipping away, as curiosity was coming forth.

"Why?" Pearl asked already forcing her legs to carry her as she stood up. Forcing herself not to show weakness, she felt in her light.

Not yet at her limit. Just a bit further. Just a bit longer.

"I didn't read that screen she gave me pass the title, I thought I already know it, so I reread the other screens some more."

"Where are the screens given to you from White Diamond?" The urgency was slipping in Pearl's voice. It was a tone she never before used. The idea she had, the formless blob not given words, hoping it was just a puff of smoke. A heresy not worth to be even thinking about just took a clear biting shape. Surface pearl held back the words…

Still...

White diamond could have...

The proof is what she needed to deliver to her diamond...

The proof will help her.

"In the balcony room... White said she would send her Pearl to fetch them back though..." Pink said blinking repeatedly.

"Be right back my diamond." Pearl was sure she made the sloppiest diamond salute in the history of gem kind at that moment as she ran out the extraction chamber, even before PInk could have sent her off. Add another two crimes to the list.

Added.

And added.

Surface Pearl sounded playful about it. Pearl was close to the balcony room. She could maybe get a look at the screens if she hurries. Maybe... White pearl was always floating, she could have already collected them if she went exactly after they left the headship. But the crystal clear memory replayed in Pearl's head.

Pearl blinked in response, White Pearl didn't move. She wouldn't have blinked either...

Did I imagine that?

It nearly looked like her smile was just a bit wider too...

The pain was throbbing in her gem and light body, Pearl pushed. She couldn't stop. Not yet. She had to see it with her eyes. She needed the proof now. The pink door couldn't have slid open fast enough to Pearl, she was already pushing into the room the moment her body could slide in. She was seeing them. The door was closing as Pearl was picking up the white screens. She throws the one she didn't need to the side. She needed just two. She picked the next one, she picked then another.

A glance was all that was needed for the information to be photographically saved in her gem.

White diamond pearl chime filled the room.

Renegade took over.