Disclaimer: Characters, settings, names from the cartoon television show 'Steven Universe' are creations and property of Rebecca sugar and Cartoon network. Any Non-steven universe characters, settings, names, Gems, Gem powers, beliefs, mythology are my own creation.
Author's Note: Just flipping read already :)
Story Tags: Steven Universe, Lapis Lazuli, OC's, Connie Maheswaran Pearl, Amethyst, Ruby, Sapphire, Bells, Whistles, Citrine, Peridot, Beach City, Gem Powers, Romance, Adventure, Comfort, Destiny.
Music Inspiration: "Serenata Huasteca" By: La Hija del Mariachi
Chapter 26: The Break Up
Friday
May 17, 2016, 7:30 [Evening]
Palmyra, Maheswaran Residence
"Steven...look at me." Connie told Steven sternly.
Steven kept his eyes closed. His legs and feet shook uncontrollably.
"Steven, you're shaking. Why?" she asked him, her tone in voice dramatically shifted from stern to concerned.
Steven's legs stopped shaking. He opened his eyes and looked at Connie's smiling face. She was smiling. She didn't look angry or hurt, just concerned for his well being.
"I'm shaking because...you're mad at me. I just know it." he said nervously.
"What? Me mad? Mad about what." she asked sounding a bit guilty.
"I never came to see you after your parents asked us never to see each other again. I should have at least tried to sneak my way over. But I can't fly and I can't drive. And I know you don't want to see Lapis. I know you don't like her."
"Well I. Look, before we get to all of that. I wanted to know if you were ok. It wasn't just the people of Beach City who saw that giant explosion at night. People in Palmyra, Limethrone, Grapefort, Star Smile and a lot of other coastal cities on the eastern seaboard saw it. I know that was involved you."
"That? I fought with another Commander who came down from space. His name is Commander Soren, fire based abilities. Tall, very strong and surprisingly nice. He's still earning the crystal gem's trust. Especially Pearl's. I actually broke some ribs and sustained damage to my gem. Lap...i mean, a blue gem took me to my mother's healing fountain and healed me. Because of my injuries and cracked gem, my healing abilities were kind of...eh."
"Huh. I see. Well I'm glad you're OK, you look different too. You've been working out cowboy?" she asked teasingly, pushing some of her dark brown hair behind her ear.
"A little bit here and there."
Connie smiled and raised her eyebrows, delighted. "Well, can I have a hug Steven. You're not forbidden from still doing that, are you?"
"No, I guess not." Steven blushed and approached Connie and opened his arms for her to walk into. Connie instead pulled Steven into her own arms and wrapped them around his head. Steven slowly caressed her back with his careful hands.
"You call that a hug Steven? Come on...hug me." she said a little breathy in his ear.
Steven shivered and shut his eyes tightly when he did what Connie wanted. He hugged her tightly, getting a little yelp from Connie and a giggle. Steven chuckled but immediately pulled away trying to act all nonchalant about their reunion. Connie stepped back and took a seat on her bed.
Steven walked over and took a seat on a chair in front of Connie's computer table. He sat down and grabbed at the sides of the seat.
"Steven, did you miss me at all?" was her first question to Steven.
"Did I miss you? Yeah. I missed playing games together with you. I missed listening to you reading to me from your favorite books. I missed being your friend most of all, Connie."
"My friend," Connie said a little disappointed, "I had no idea we were just friends before that day."
"Connie I came here to ask you-"
"What's Lapis up to Steven."
"Lapis? She's doing fine. She's back home, I didn't tell her I was coming to see you."
"Why?" Connie asked almost immediately after Steven answered her previous question.
"Why? Um, because...because." he stammered trepidastiously.
Steven inhaled a large amount of air and exhaled it out nervously, "Because I'm in love with Lapis!" Steven declared bravely, tears welling under his eyes.
Connie narrowed her eyes slightly and smiled at Steven. She grabbed the bed sheets under her hands, clawing at them irritatingly. Steven lowered his head and wiped the tears under his eyes away with his left forearm. He whimpered and breathed, sniffling.
"You're in love with Lapis Lazuli then huh. When did these...feelings begin Steven."
"Connie I'm-"
"Tell me Steven." Connie said with that stern voice from earlier.
"I don't know when it started. But I would have to say it was when Lapis first joined us."
Connie chuckled at first, raising the back of her hand up to her mouth and started to laugh. Steven was unsure if Connie had lost it or thought it was all just too funny. Steven relaxed back in his chair and smiled, hopeful this would all go smoothly from this point on. He was wrong.
"I'm sorry Steven, I'm not laughing at what you said. It's just...it's just All Stupid."
"I'm sorry?" Steven queried.
"Their all made out of Hard Light Steven! Their not real people like you and me. Take away the hair, eyes, smile and...boobs, and you're just left with a gem stone. Trying to make a family with one of them means you're always going to be left a widow or widower."
"That's not true Connie. I mean, that's not always true. Commander Soren, the gem that I fought saved a mother gem from dying who gave birth to this super awesome baby named Whistles. The baby's daddy was a really tall black cat from Mars."
"You want to become a dad Steven? At fourteen."
"What!? No! Of course not. I really love Lapis-"
"There's goes that word again, oh brother. Steven, you don't know what you want."
"Excuse me." Steven replied, sounding defensive.
"Commander Smoky told me gems are naturally attractive to other species. They don't do it on purpose, that's just how they are. A flower does not know it's beautiful or not, unless someone comes over and admires it. Listen Steven-"
"No! I don't care if you're mad at me or you don't like Lapis. But when I feel like you're making me feel like a...like a kid."
"Steven wait a sec-"
"Listen Connie, out of the respect I have your parents...we are no longer boyfriend and girlfriend. You're always welcomed at the temple to train or hang out. I know you're strong, and you're only going to get stronger. My mother protected this world and i'm going to do the same, if we're still friends...i ask you to also do the same."
"I understand Steven. If it's not meant to be then it's not meant to be, right? I may no longer be your girlfriend. But at least let me do this one thing." she said sadly.
"What's that." Steven asked. He walked over to her bedroom door and turned around to face Connie.
Connie moved in very close to Steven, stopping only a few inches away from him. Steven blushed but tried to look like being so close to his ex was not affecting him. Connie cupped the sides of Steven's face and pressed her lips on his. Steven froze up as he felt Connie push her tongue past his trembling lips and inside of his mouth. Steven felt the hotness of her tongue and her eagerness for Steven to massage her tongue. With shaky hands, Steven pulled Connie in, wrapped his arms behind her back and gave in. both teens breathing became heavy as their kiss dragged on. Thinking about Lapis, Steven pulled away from Connie who was blushing and breathing just as hard as he was.
"One last parting kiss to remember me bye Steven."
"Why Connie, why did you do that."
"Me? Or you." Connie responded teasingly.
Steven turned and walked out the door. He walked down the stairs and called out to his father that he was leaving. Connie took a seat back down on her bed, crossed one leg over the other and pressed three fingers on her lips. She heard Greg apologizing to her parents for how Steven exited and promised he would never bother them again.
El Punto Restaurant
8:00 [Night]
When day turned into evening, and when evening turned into night. El Punto Restaurant, the place where Carlos and Pearl worked at, dimmed their lights and lit the candles on resting on the tables. Carlos and Pearl walked over to the back of the restaurant, near a wall close to a window that had a view of the starry night and bright moon that was out tonight.
Carlos pulled a chair back for Pearl to take a seat. He pushed the chair back in, taking a seat on his own chair. He removed his suit coat, folded it and rested it on the back rest of his chair. Carlos pulled himself closer into the table and placed his forearms down, he clasped his hands together and smiled at Pearl.
A waiter who works alongside Pearl and Carlos recognizes the two and walks over to them.
"Carlos and Perla, wow so my suspicions about you were true. I didn't want to believe it, but its true."
"Hey Sergio, your suspicions weren't completely on point. Pearl didn't know it back then, but I had the biggest high school crush on her that you can possibly imagine." Carlos answered.
"Hey Sergio, how's the restaurant been." Pearl inquired.
"She's been doing great. So, what can I get for you two this calm and beautiful night."
Carlos looked over to Pearl and asked her if there was something she would like from the menu.
"I don't need one of those menus Sergio. I got that list memorized. Carlos hun, I don't really need to eat. I've never really partaken in human activities."
"Really?" Carlos said playfully, "You don't partake in any human activities."
Pearl blushed hard and covered the side of her face facing Sergio with one hand. She whispered quietly and angrily at him "Your Embarrassing me!."
Pearl lowered her hand from the side of her face and looked up politely at Sergio and blinked at him.
"You guys, I really don't care what you two do in your own time. Come on i've got other patrons waiting on me."
Carlos and Pearl looked around the restaurant and saw only one other couple in the dining area. "ook. Traeme dos ordenes de Tostadas con carne molida, una sodita y traiga una ensalada para mi perla. Porfavor."
"Solo frutas y verduras, Sergio. Gracias." Pearl added in spanish.
"You guys could have ordered in English, but Spanish works just fine. ok Pearl your order should be out here soon. Carlos yours should be out in fifteen to twenty minutes."
As Sergio left the two, Pearl rested the side of her face. While her arm was propped up on the dining table, her other hand played with the utensils on the table. She just stared at and watched Carlos with eyes filled with amazement, wonder and endearment.
"Pearl you're making me feel akward, you like staring at me so much."
"Before I stared at a lot of humans. You know what my stance is with the majority of them, but you."
"But my presence barely registered with you, even before I came out as half gem."
"Well before I knew what you were. I was liking you a little bit more each day. But I knew, I just knew there was something different about you. The way you spoke, how you spoke, you're empathy for gems. Why didn't you come out sooner and I mean before meeting me."
"Well, as my time as Quetzalcoatl ruling the Aztec empire. The people I ruled over already knew I wasn't completely human. But as time went on and I made friends and romanced a few human women during different time periods. I realized I couldn't let them know that I had Decelerated aging, and would outlive them by several Lifetimes. I did not want to break their hearts, so I did the only thing I could do. I always 'disappear.'"
"Romanced other women. You know I'm not really a 'woman' in human terms, right darling?"
"I'm very aware of that Pearl. But you're a woman to me. You've got the body of a woman. You're beautiful just like a woman, you even sound like a woman. You're a gem first and foremost. but you're also my woman; my pearl."
"You know just what to say, don't you Carlos. Hey Carlos."
"Yes Pearl."
"About your gem, when did you discover your abilities."
"If you're asking at what age I learned about my gem and the latent power within me, I would say it was when I turned fourteen years old. Of course, at fourteen, I was technically already 25 years old. When I slept in my palace as Quetzalcoatl, I would sometimes levitate off my bed. The Aztec priests would find me like this and help me back down. I learned, from an Artifact my mother left for me that I had inherited all of her gem, magical and elemental based abilities. In time I learned how to levitate, fly and manipulate the element of air and all of it's forms. But with more of my powers surfacing, the truth of it hit me one night.
As The Black Heart was teaching me to refine the primary and secondary stages of my gem aura training, my gem started glow brightly for some odd reason and tried to take over my body. It was like I had no control over my body. I told my arms and legs to stop moving, but I had lost all control over them. I want you to know something, The black heart was created by the other half of my mother's yin and yang energy. So to help me, it absorbed some of the excess magical energy my gem gave off during training. Even in death she was with me, helping me every step of the way."
"How did you know that the black heart was the other half of your mother Carlos." Pearl asked him.
"Because my mother recorded messages for me that the black heart played for me. It was all in her voice. My mother had such a lovely and soothing voice. She said she called her other half the 'black heart' because she was not the friendliest or merciful of Gems. My mother was a Soldier gem. A warrior. I know Garnet, Amethyst and Steven went down to Xibalba, and bubbled my artifact. I'm going to need it back pearl."
"I think that can be arranged Carlos."
"Thank you Pearl. If you're wondering why I left my mother's artifact behind, it was because It provides life and protection for the area I was conceived and born in. but it sometimes takes form and tries to look for me if I take too long and don't check up on it from time to time. I would take it with me, but it would start to affect to the area if I don't keep it in check."
Sergio came over with Pearl's order and then came out with Carlos's order a few minutes later. Carlos and Pearl took the time sharing stories of their lives. They laughed, gasped and listened to one another. Sometime they were shocked, and other times they shed a little tear here and there.
As the night dragged on and their plates became empty, Carlos pulled Pearl out of her seat to dance with her to some Mexican songs that started to play in the restaurant. Carlos took Pearl over to the small dance floor off to the side inside the restaurant. There was no one on it, so they had the dance floor all to themselves.
"I thought you said you didn't know how to dance Carlos." Pearl told him.
"I lied, i'm sorry."
"Oh no, don't worry about it. But if we dance, and when the music finishes-"
"Don't worry about it Pearl." he said reassuringly.
The sweet sound of violins, trumpets and the strumming of guitars playing came through the two small speakers on the wall. Carlos wrapped his left arm around Pearl's back, and grabbed her left hand with his right. He stepped in places of two's to the left and lead the dance. The song in particular that was playing was a very famous serenade throughout Mexico and the southwest of the United States.
"I sing at the foot of your window, to let you know that I love you. But you don't love me at all, yet I'm dying here for you.
They say that I'm very misguided, that I should wake up from this dream. but they're absolutely wrong because I have to make you mine.
What can I do if I truly love you? I've already fallen hard for you and I cannot forget you. They say that in order to receive you, I'm going to need a fortune, that I have to bring down the stars and the moon from the sky.
I can't bring down the moon Or the stars either. and even if I don't have a fortune, you will love me little by little. What can I do if I truly love you? I've already fallen hard for you and I cannot forget you.
I know there are many women out there, and plenty around to love me, but none of them really matter, I only think about you, my pearl.
My heart has chosen you, and I don't wish to see it cry. The poor guy has suffered for far too long, now you have to love him. what can I do if I truly love you? I've already fallen hard for you and I cannot forget you."
Pearl blushed and giggled as Carlos spun her around and pulled her back in. even though the song was being sung in Spanish by a woman, Carlos whispered and sun along in Englsh. As the song was coming to an end, Carlos spun pearl around one more time. He caught her in his left arm, bent her slightly and leaned down to kiss her.
Pearl let a tear run down the side of her face as both her gemstone and Carlos's shined briliantly. Pearl's body began to turn into bright shimmering light, Carlos's eyes and gem shined just as brightly. But before their fusion could begin, "Cancel," Carlos said as he pulled away from kissing pearl.
Carlos held Pearl in place and just looked at her, directly into her amazed and tear filled eyes. "Why did you stop...Carlos." she asked sadly and disappointingly.
Carlos gestured with his eyes, signaling to Pearl to look over to their side. She did, and saw the whole restaurant staff and the other two patrons watching them. They clapped and they whistled.
Crystal Temple, Beach City
10:20 [Night]
Arriving back to the temple from the long drive from Palmyra, Greg carried his sleeping son up to the right side gates. The door was locked with a chain and the gates were far too high for him to scale. So, he did the only thing he could.
"Yooo! Someone Still Awake Over There! I'm her to Drop off Steeven!"
Greg spotted the silhouette of someone flying out from the side and coming over. "Oh, Lapis!" he said, relieved.
"Mr Universe, Is that you?" Lapis asked curiously, she slowly came into view.
"Hey Lapis, sorry to disturb you. I just came back from the Maheswarans with my son. He fell asleep on the way and i'm just here dropping him off."
"You two were at the Maheswarans? Like, Connie Maheswaran?"
"I...uhh. Look Lapis I know it's-"
"Who's the human, Lapis Lazuli." asked a third voice Greg was not familiar with.
From the shadow, Greg saw two glowing eyes just a few feet behind Lapis. They came closer until Greg saw a very tall, black armor plated, pancho wearing gem which did not share the same feminine features of the gems he knew.
"He's Steven's father, and don't come near me Soren." Lapis warned the commander.
Soren kept his distance and watched Lapis grab Steven off of Greg's back and fly him back over to the temple. When Lapis was clearly far enough from him, Commander Soren approached Greg and extended his hand to shake.
"I am commander Soren, current gaurdian of your planet."
Greg took Commander Soren's hand and shook it while a look of awe came over his face. "The name is Greg, Greg Universe."
"Aw. You must be the human man who mated with her excellency, Rose Quartz. It's quite a shock that your genetic material had a hand in making the shield of humanity. I expected a more fairly built more attractive human."
"Uuh, thank yo?. Wait a second, me unattractive? I had hair on my head once. And I didn't always have this...belly. Boy Lapis...she doesn't seem to like you very much."
"I'm not surprised or hurt. I did spar a little bit with your child when I crashed down on this planet."
"Yeah, women. You can't live with them, can't live without...did you just say, Spar with my son."
Montoya Residence
12:30 [Midnight]
"Yeess! Oh My Goddess... Yes Carlos! Yes, Yes, oh Baby! Ooh Baby! Ungh, Ungh." Pearl panted loudly.
"Whose are you Pearl! Ungh!...Whose are you!" Carlos grunted.
"Yours Baby! Yoouurr's Aaagh!" Pearl bellowed.
Pearl grabbed her breasts and pressed them together while Carlos thrusted inside of her terrifyingly fast. Carlos kept himself propped up on his knees, with Pearl's legs were spread apart for him. His strong hands grabbed her ass and kept it raised as he thrusted in and out of her, smacking his eager flesh desperately against Pearl's sweating alabaster body.
"Oh Pearl! Oh Pearl! Aaaghh!" Carlos shouted as his climax approached dangerously close.
"Oh Carlos! I'm a dirty pearl! I've been such a filthy Pearl!"
"Damnit!...Pearl!...Ungh! Ungh!" Carlos gripped Pearl's soft butt cheeks tightly, while his hips jerked uncontrollably.
Pearl ran her hands up her chest, brushing her fingers agaisnt her blue nipples, up to her neck and face.
Pearl raised her waist up by planting her feet on the bed and pushing up. She arched her back, enjoying the still strange but hot sensation of Carlos's hot seed filling her human female reproductive system construct. When Carlos was done, he lowered Pearl back down on his bed and rolled off to the side. Pearl's gemstone projected a screen and showed both her and Carlos the journey his seed was taking to reach the magical egg cell.
Carlos brushed his eyes in disbelief at what he was looking at. Pearl grabbed Carlos's hand and squeezed it. "Watch" Pearl told him. Even though it was kind of weird, Carlos rested his head back on his pillowed and watched his seed uniting with pearl's magically created ovum. The question "Human Sperm cell received. Prepare magically induced fertilization?" came up on the prjected screen.
Pearl turned her head over to Carlos and smiled at him, Carlos knew she was asking that question. He kissed her and pulled her to trail kisses up and down her neckline. Pearl giggled from his tender kisses. She rolled back onto her back and gave her reply,
"Not today."
Every last one of Carlos's sperm cells were instantly destroyed, as with Pearl's magical ovum.
"When this is all over Carlos, I look forward to Motherhood. just not today." Pearl whispered.
Carlos turned off the light on his nightstand and pulled Pearl close to him.
(!) "Wow, while one relationship ends, another is strengthened. Sorry for the late update peeps. I was busy writing an original horror story for my brother to read and critique. I won't be writing anymore horror stories, long or short for now. So I'll more time to focus on this story. I do plan on finishing it with a bang. I've also been busy with life In general. Thank you to all the new peeps who favorited and are following this story, it means a lot to me. Alright, onto the next chapter. Also, the lyrics of the song I used in this chapter is the same as the one for the musical inspiration."