Yellow Diamond, unlike her sister, was equally concerned with giving her "Son" a stable environment to grow up in as well a safe one. So instead of purchasing a grand house in the mountains, she purchased most of a recently developed suburb in the middle of the US. Harvest Acres is your standard suburb neighborhood, complete with a minimart, park, and a even a blockbuster, but all of it is owned by Diamond Industries. It is home to four dozen rubies, several dozen Pearls (Who mostly run the shops) a Jasper, 2 Topazes and a Peridot. Again, this is to keep ONE 12 year old safe.
The story of how Russell came to be in Yellow Diamonds care is a sad one. His father was a US senator and an Ally of Homeworld He helped to convince the US government to give Homeworld a chance and was a close friend of the Diamonds. Sadly two years after his son was born he and his wife were killed in a car bombing. Yellow Diamond applied for Custody of Russell when no relatives were found and was eventually awarded it.
Now on this particular morning Russell woke up feeling oddly cheerful. It must have been a Saturday; he had gotten away with sleeping in a whole fifteen minutes! "Russell!" Peridot's voice rang out from the hall, "Breakfast. You already have to cut the time in half, and trust me you're going to want to be on schedule today."
That's weird; normally Peridot wouldn't let him sleep in at all. Yellow Diamond had him on a fairly strict schedule. Russell began to fall back asleep before… "Russell, Get up." Jasper shouted from down the hall "Your mother is coming over!"
Russell was out like a shot. His mother was coming. To Earth. Today. He didn't want to disappoint her by being off schedule. Within minutes he was back on schedule, fed, and ready for the rest of the day. "So, when is she coming?"
Peridot, looking dazed, blinked "I…I've never…You shouldn't have been able to…How could an organic being move so fast?!"
"Have you ever seen the Flash?" A topaz sitting at the counter replied "He was slow in comparison."
"Molly, the Flash TV series is NOT a documentary." Russell said as he turned on the TV. "I've told you this. Twice." Of course that could have been the Topaz he nicknamed Holly. Russell was yet to find a reliable way to tell them apart reliably and they both answered to either name. He invites you to try. Anyway two hours of Russell anxiously entertaining himself passed before his mother finally arrived.
"Hello Mother, it is nice to see you." Russell said in a polite, almost rehearsed manner (It was rehearsed. Yellow Diamond's visits were the highlights of Russell's month and he wanted to make sure that they were perfect."
"Hello Russell." Yellow Diamond replied as she and her son walked down the street, which is what they usually started out doing. "How's school going?"
"I have straight "A"s in everything but Algebra."
"Algebra?"
"On the Eighth day, the devil said "Put the alphabet in math." Russell grinned "Whitney taught me that one."
"I'll get you a tutor, how's your Self-defense training going?" Yellow Diamond stopped to let Russell catch up. She kept forgetting how much shorter his stride was then hers.
"Pretty great! Jasper even says she may let me use a real sword" Russell caught up to his mother and from this point they kept an even pace.
If this is starting to feel like a Progress report, well, this is how every single one of Yellow Diamond's visits to Harvest Acres go. She shows up, talks with Russell to make sure he's being treated well and then leaves to get back to work. The rest is pretty repetitive so we'll leave here.
