"It does, actually," Dean piped up from where he was sitting at the kitchen island. "Look, Bayley. We want to apologize for being so secretive around you. It hasn't really been fair to you, and we've been feeling a bit bad about it."
"It's just that we wanted to make sure that what we're about to do is really going to work," Sasha added in.
"What do you mean what you're about to do? What? What is it?" Bayley asked, her anxiety building with each question she asked and everything the older Gems told her.
"What Dean and Sasha are saying," Roman cut in to help keep Bayley from becoming an overly curious ball of questions "is that Dean's found a way to help Sasha fix her Gem."
Hearing the brunette Gem say this, Bayley couldn't help but feel quite surprised. So, none of the other Gems blamed her when they saw her smile and ask "Whoa! Seriously?!"
So, after being told that Dean found a way to help fix/heal Sasha and her Gem, what's to come next for Bayley and the Gems? Read on to find out down below, my loves. =)
Roman could only snicker at Bayley's outburst while Seth went on to explain. "Yeah. Seriously. And, now that you're here, we can finally show it to you."
"O-O-OK!" Bayley chirped, feeling excited over getting to finally learn just what this way of healing Sasha was going to be. Setting her backpack on one of the chairs in the living room, the ponytailed brunette walked over to join the other Gems, who had all stood from their seats and began to walk from the front area of the house to the back hallway that Bayley remembered taking the day Dean got her the ocarina to take to school. Walking past that door, the group of five continued their walk as they took a left turn at the end of the hall and walked a bit further before stopping outside of the door that was at the end of that hallway. Standing outside of this door, Bayley was surprised to see that the door looked fairly normal, save for how the doorknob looked and the strange panel that lied in the center of the door; a quick glance up also showed a color wheel coming out from the wall with an arrow nailed in the wall of it that was pointing at one of the wedges in the wheel.
Looking at this door, Bayley said "Wow. I didn't know we had a door that looked like this in the house."
"That's because it's a secret door," Dean began to explain. "It's a door that we sometimes use for official Gem business."
"Would fixing Sasha's Gem count as official Gem business?" Bayley asked. Seeing Dean nod, Bayley said "Wow. That's pretty cool. So, just how does this door work? Do you guys just open it to some room that Sasha's going to go into?"
"Umm... Well, yes and no to that, Bayley," Dean said. Seeing the confused look on the ponytailed brunette's face, the sandy blonde Gem let out a bit of a laugh before continuing with his explanation. "You see the panel on the door and the color wheel beside it? Each one of these colors corresponds to each of our Gems. So, whenever one of us wants to open this door, all we have to do is use the power of our Gem to open it. Wanna see how it works?"
"Yeah, I do!" Bayley excitedly chirped, an excited smile on her face.
Letting out another laugh, Dean said "OK, runt" as he ruffled Bayley's hair before stepping toward the door. Closing his eyes, Dean pulled down the collar of his grey tank top to expose his white Gem.
Watching as all of this happened, Bayley wasn't quite sure what to make of what Dean was doing until what she saw next gave her a good idea of what the sandy blonde was doing, along with giving her quite a nice surprise: A light beamed outward from Dean's Gem to the white circle in the panel on the door that seemed to help turn the color wheel on the wall to the white section. Once the white section had lined up with the arrow, a white light shone all around the door frame. Opening his eyes, Dean then reached out and opened the door, revealing on the other side a fairly lush and green landscape.
Blinking in surprise over what Dean did with the door and the fact that she was looking into what she could only guess was a forest of some sort, Bayley could only say "Whoa, Dean. That was so cool!"
Dean only grinned while the other three shared a laugh at Bayley's surprise. They had a feeling that Bayley would be surprised to see something like this, so actually getting to see and hear her surprise was a pretty funny treat for them. "Glad you think so. Now comes more cool stuff. Come on."
"Wait. You mean you guys want me to come along with you?" Bayley asked, feeling surprised to hear this. Since this seemed to be what Dean called "official Gem business", Bayley didn't thnk she'd get to go along with the others; so hearing Dean say that she could come along was quite a surprise.
"Of course," Dean answered. "Bayley, look. I know it seems like we keep a lot of stuff from you. But, it's only because we want to make sure you'll be able to handle learning about your Gem heritage. We're sorry if it seems like we keep a lot of stuff secret from you, but we want you to know now that we'll tell stuff we want you to know about in time."
"I understand, Dean," Bayley nodded after getting this explanation from the sandy blonde. "While I really do wish I knew more about Gem stuff, I get why it is that you guys don't rush to tell me so much all at once. Plus, I know Mom would like that you guys are doing things this way."
"I'm sure she would, too," Dean smiled at Bayley's mention of Natalya. He could still remember that part of the blonde and pink-streaked Gem's final wishes were for Bayley to learn more about just what the Gems are and what they were capable of doing, so the fact that Bayley sounded okay with how they were going about letting her know more Gem stuff had Dean feeling that their way was working just fine. Clearing his throat around his momentary swell of pride, Dean gestured forward as he asked "Well, now. Shall we go?"
Looking back to Seth, Roman, and Sasha to see that they all had fairly eager looks on their faces, Bayley nodded as she said on behalf of the others "Yeah, Dean. Let's go on this quest to help heal Sasha!"
Laughing at Bayley's eager excitement, Dean turned to look at what lied ahead for the group of Gems. "Here goes! To helping heal Sasha. Let's go!"
Looks like Operation Heal Sasha/Fix Sasha's Gem is a go, with the nice and adorable addition of Bayley to the group. =D With the Gem group now rounded out, it looks like they can now go forward with their quest led by Dean to help heal Sasha and fix her Gem. Should be quite the interesting journey ahead, especially considering where they're going to be travelling...which appears to be a forest of some sort (crazy power, the door has...which is a pretty big reference to an anime movie I love). So, what lies ahead in their quest? That shall come in the next chapter. Until then, don't forget to R&R please. =)
(On the note of the next chapter, I actually have it all ready to post. I'm just gonna let this chapter hang around a bit before posting the chapter after it. ;9 )
