"Let me go!" Amethyst huffed, trying to kick away from Jasper who held her back.
"Easy girl, easy." Jasper chuckled, patting her head like she was a dog.
Connie watched her and hesitantly knocked on the bathroom door. "Pearl, she's getting restless!"
"Uh, in a moment!" Pearl called back from inside.
Connie gave a sigh. "Pearl, Amethyst isn't going to just leave if you stay in there."
Pearl slowly opened the door and peeked out. "Why can't you talk to her?"
"Because, this is between you and Amethyst, whatever it is. If you two are going to live together, you have to at least tolerate one another."
Pearl gave a sigh and inched out of the safety of the bathroom.
Pearl gave a tiny cough. "So… I know we aren't on the best of terms, but I want you to know I'll make a effort to change if you do. You can't stay anywhere else, so perhaps we can start over?" She held out her hand and Jasper slowly let Amethyst down, she had calmed.
"Why would I ever want to stay here with you?" Amethyst hissed angrily.
Pearl blushed. "Er… you don't have much of a choice."
"I'm not going to stay with Pearl, Connie. She trapped me here, she let me be put in a mirror!" Amethyst snapped. Connie flinched and lead the two over to the barn.
"It's okay, er, prehaps if I… uh…" Connie seemed out of ideas.
"I'm not staying with her." Amethyst whispered icly, stomping past Connie.
"I'm so sorry, Pearl… I guess I thought that you two were a team, and that you'd sorta click again."
Pearl sighed with a small smile. "We never clicked, Connie. We always were forced to be near each other on Homeworld, she being Rose's guard and I her Pearl. After she couldn't get me to speak to her at first, she got upset, because I was the only one other than her misstress. We never talked, so when I finally spoke, it was suprising… and only when Rose wasn't around. And when she came back, I convinced her to sneak me on board to Earth."
"And then you two found us." Connie ended it softly.
"Yes. She must still being hanging on the past like always, it's not my fault she tried to rebel."
"Did you ever wonder why?" Connie asked with a eyebrow raised.
"Of course not. It wasn't my place to question things." Pearl said hotitly.
Connie then thought of something. "Prehaps if you write her a letter!"
Pearl thought about this and then gave a curt nod. "I suppose that would work…."
Connie gave her a pencil and paper, and Pearl started to work.
"Oh, Amethyst! I have something for you!" Pearl called to the gem, who sat on the warp pad dejectedly.
"I don't want anything from you." Amethyst growled.
"Let me try." Connie whispered. She took the letter and popped next to Amethyst.
"Oh, hey." Amethyst sighed, seeming bored. "What's up?"
"Well, Pearl wrote you this letter!" Connie said, giving Amethyst the paper. Amethyst didn't open it though. Connie looked a bit embarrassed. "S-Sorry, I just...
"I can't read this."
Connie glanced up and Amethyst pointed to the swirly neat handwriting Pearl had put down. The girl took it and read it out loud. "Amethyst, I am sorry for all the things you must've gone through on Homeworld, however, it is to be expected, so I don't understand why you're still acting like a child… about… it." Connie gave a nervous laugh and folded up the letter gently.
Amethyst looked at Pearl with a death glare.
"I don't understand! I wrote it with my feelings, and I at least thought it was somewhat good. Why won't she just accept that? She always accepted all the other things." Pearl sighed, stomping into the barn.
Connie followed, walking while thinking up a plan. She then gasped in a idea. "Lunch! You two could have a lovely lunch, together! Amethyst likes food, so I'm sure if you two talk over food, she'll be more accepting."
Pearl looked confused. "What's food?"
"Here we go again."
"Kid, where are we going?" Amethyst asked, Connie leading her in the grass near the Beach House.
"Just keep walking up this hill." Connie said, waving to Pearl who sat on a picnic blanket.
They reached it and Connie uncovered Amethyst's eyes. "Ta da!"
Amethyst immediately started to walk away. The human was persistent though and grabbed her arm.
"Amethyst! Please?" Amethyst glanced back to see Connie hugging her arm with diamonds in her sad eyes. "Pretty please?" She now hugged tighter. "PLEASE STAY!"
"Ugh! Fine." Amethyst growled, shaking the girl off. Connie grinned. Amethyst deep down couldn't stand to disappoint her, just like Jasper.
Amethyst thundered down on the opposite side of Pearl and saw a pizza box. Her eyes immediately changed from bored to stars. "Food?!"
The gem opened the box and messily started to gobble down a slice. Pearl winced slightly.
Connie watched them and Pearl looked at her for help. The girl gave a nod in the pizza's direction. The gem looked at it and gingerly picked up a slice. Amethyst stopped chewing and swallowed, as if wanting to see this. Pearl took a tiny bite and swallowed.
She gave a small smile to Amethyst who seemed to be wanting her to eat more.
Pearl took a bigger bite and turned away so the other couldn't see her face of revolt. She gave a gulp.
Amethyst wasn't impressed, and grabbed the box before walking over to Connie. "For the last time, I want to be alone!" The gem stomped off and then stopped and yelled after her. "With this food, and no one else!"
Connie winced and glanced at Pearl, who looked disappointed.
"I… tried! I really tried, its just… ghaa! I don't like that gross feeling of it going through me!" Pearl moaned. Connie walked up and patted her shoulder.
"Maybe… give her a gift? Something you like, that you'd think she'd enjoy!"
"... Hm… A memory pack! For a controller!" Pearl cried.
"Okay… Would you let her play a game?"
"Don't be ridiculous, Connie, of course not!" Pearl laughed.
"Then a memory pack is useless." Connie insisted, crossing her arms.
Pearl gave a huff. She then pulled out her tape recorder and sighed. "Log date… Ugh! Amethyst won't accept me! She is stubborn and rude, and utterly disgusting!" She then smiled and gently caressed the recorder. "At least I have you! You're the only thing that calms me… down."
"Well?" Pearl cried with a smile, holding out the tiny box that was wrapped in a curly purple ribbon. "At least… say something!"
Amethyst glanced at the gift, then at Pearl, then back at the gift, a bored expression on her face.
"So, the ribbon's purple, because I know you like purple! Also, I curled the ribbon, and I even made a tag, it has your name on it…" Pearl contuied to list off things as Amethyst untied the ribbon. Pearl looked at it with care as Amethyst took the recorder out.
"Connie gave this to me. You can talk into it and exsplain all your complex feelings about how much you miss home, and Rose-"
"Rose! It always has to be about Rose, doesn't it?!" Amethyst yelled, breaking the recorder in her fist. "Rose, Rose Rose! Why do you always have to talk about her?!"
Pearl blushed and bowed her head. She then gritted her teeth and snapped her head back up, tears in her eyes. "Because I used to-! … Amethyst, I don't care about Rose anymore, she used me, and she used you even more, and I'm sorry I never saw that. But I know it now, and I'm trying to make it up to you!"
"You want to know how you can make it up to me?" Amethyst snarled. "You can pay!"
The gem summoned her whip and smacked Pearl away. Connie gave a cry in horror and Pearl gave a yell in pain as she hit the ground.
Pearl held back tears, and struggled to get up.
Connie felt her anger boil up, and snapped her head to Amethyst. "Why did you do that?!"
Amethyst winched and looked slightly afraid. She tried to regain a calm face but failed.
"She was just trying to apologize!" Connie snarled. "She wrote you a letter, she had a picnic and put stuff she hates into her mouth, gave you her most valuable possession, all for you!" The girl cried, her voice cracking slightly at the last word.
Amethyst backed away as Connie stepped closer, her finger pointing into Amethyst chest in anger.
They suddenly heard a screech and turned to see Pearl running to them. Suddenly, a ginormous round ship emerged from behind the hill, Connie gasped in surprise. She recognized that ship!
Pearl ran to Connie and shoved her behind.
Suddenly, the ship let out a massive yellow beam that spotlighted the gems.
"Run, just run!" Connie yelled. They did so, and ran right to the barn, Connie panting for air.
"That's a Red Eye! I've seen one before!" Connie whispered.
"I know! That one was meant to find any gems, it was meant to find you all. This one is after me!" Pearl said in a hushed voice.
"YOU?!" Amethyst growled. "You brought them here?!"
"If you had been listening, you'd know I betrayed Rose! And Pink Diamond!"
Amethyst's eyes softened into suprise. "... What?"
Suddenly, the same beam of light came through the hole in the wall Pearl had made days before.
Connie gasped and Amethyst was quick to grab her and heave the girl over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Pearl was frozen in shock and couldn't move when Amethyst started to run.
Amethyst stopped and turned to her. "Pearl! Come on!"
Pearl was shaking now.
"Pearl!" Amethyst yelled. She threw out her whip and it wrapped around Pearl's waist. Before the gem even had a chance to look, Amethyst pulled her over.
Pearl landed next to them and looked at Amethyst with suprise. "You… saved me."
"Yeah, yeah, don't look into it." Amethyst growled. The ship followed them out and Pearl gulped.
Amethyst gently placed Connie down, her eyes shadowy. "Kid, get behind me, now."
Connie hid behind her and pulled Pearl to her.
"Get ready for a show." Amethyst hissed. The gem gave a howl and leapt into the air. Two whips snapped out of her gem and she wrapped them around the ship. She started to fall, and shapeshifted into her wrestling form. The gem then slammed on the ground, making it shake under her. Connie and Pearl fell over as she pulled the ship closer to the ground. The gem then pounded it to the ground with her mighty fists like it was a volleyball.
"Oh, wow." Pearl breathed, staring at the ship.
"CONNIE!" Peridot screeched, running over to the girl. She bent down and hugged her. "Thank goodness you're safe!"
Jasper and Lapis were close behind.
Lapis gasped in suprise, whispering the same words as Pearl had. "Oh, wow."
"Kid, you okay?" Jasper asked.
Peridot hugged the girl tighter. "I don't see any damage to your pyshical body, is your mental state alright as well?"
"I'm okay." Connie sighed in relief, glancing at Amethyst. "Amethyst saved us, that ship must've been out to find Pearl."
Pearl blushed and jumped a bit when she heard Amethyst say her name.
Pearl turned. "Um… yes, Amethyst?"
"Are you… you know… okay?" Amethyst mumbled, as if not wanting to ask, but Pearl could tell she meant it.
"O-Oh!" Pearl smiled, sniffling a bit. "Yes, I'm quite all right, thank you."
Amethyst blushed slightly when Pearl smiled at her. She looked not angry, but suprised.
Connie giggled, but that joy didn't last long.
The Temps and Amethyst heard a sound and turned to see a hatch of the ship opening, with steam gushing out. And then… a Homeworld gem, a Jasper, popped her head out.
Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't updated in a bit, I haven't felt very in the mood lately... I was thinking to myself, and wondering how and why you all like my writing, it is in the same format as Rebeca Sugar's after all. I don't know if I'm any good at writing... I found that now, I'm sorta afraid to write my own stories and that honestly saddens me. I was thinking I could maybe start writing a few chapters/stories where I can let my creative juices flow. I was thinking maybe one about Connie as a baby, and the Temps trying to babysit her for the first time, something like that. What do you all think? Also, sorry I vented a bit there, I'm fine guys, really. I just want to know what you all are thinking! Ok, well, bye!