Steven sits in the hospital lobby, A police officer filling out an unlawful quirk usage report.
"And what is your quirk called."
"Diamond"
"Look the upper brass wants me to let you off easy because you put a pro hero back on the street but this report will go into your file and if you do this again you'll be charged with this incident as well as the next one. Do you understand?" He warns and Steven nods.
"Good, Don't let it happen again." he walks over to his partner and steven stands his phone vibrating in his pocket, he pulls it out, answering it and putting it to his ear.
"You just can't resist can you Universe" Nedzu says in his ear
"If there's someone who needs help I can't say no."
"Then that one of the first things i'll mention to your therapist, No more healing Outside of controlled situations Universe. Or you won't be able to help anyone from a cell." Nedzu warns hanging up Stevens' palm glowing pink under his phone case.
"Steven, I'll never be able to thank you enough." Iida says approaching him and bowing.
"Iida, it's fine, I'm always glad to help people."
"Spoken like a true hero, My mother and brother would like to speak with you"
"Of course." steven follows Iida back into the room.
"Steven right?" tensei asks sitting at the edge of his bed.
"Yep Steven universe."
"You've done our family a great service Universe." IIdas mother says.
"I'm just glad I was able to help."
"You did more than help, You gave my son his legs back." She says sincerely.
"That healing quirk of yours is Something special isnt it." Tensei adds in.
"Steven can do a lot more than heal, His quirk is equal parts Powerful and noticeable." Tenya adds.
"That's amazing universe. there must be something you need, you must let us pay you back somehow." tensei asks again.
"I'm fine mr iida."
"After what you've done you can call me Tensei."
"Ok Tensei, I have everything I could possibly need provided for me. Its part of the deal i made with the hero association to avoid going to prison for illegal quirk use." Iida, his mother and his brother all share a look at this.
"Oh I think I heard about that from Miriko, Are you the boy who destroyed a street and then threw her at a villain fast enough to bury him in the ground?"
"Yep that was me."
"You destroyed a street?" Tenya asks and steven rubs the back of his head.
"Well, I was falling and I hit the ground hard." steven admits.
"Happens to the best of us ran through so many walls growing up."
"Tensei That is highly inappropriate to share!" iida says trying to stop his brother.
"I broke so many things with my shield growing up, and I trapped me and Connie in a bubble at the bottom of the ocean for a few hours." steven adds. And they share a laugh.
Steven wakes up to an alarm on his phone and gets dressed in his regular day to day outfit black star shirt jeans, pink faux leather jacket identical to the copy in his hero gear kit and a pair of pink flip flops. He leaves his apartment heading for the train station, he gets on the train and takes it a few stations away getting off and walking towards the music shop he had found on the internet that sold both new and good quality used musical instruments.
He pushes the door open with a ring .
"Welcome"
"Hello.'
"Anything you need help with." He asks.
"Im honestly going to take a look at everything."
"Ah unsure of what you want to play?"
"No, I play a few different instruments. I just don't know what will stand out."
"That's cool, what do you play kid?" The man asks, sounding more awake.
"Bass and acoustic guitar, Keytar, Ukulele, the drums,and the piano."
"Good for you kid, You any good?"
"I hope so?" steven says with a over to the wall of used guitars looking them over as the bell rings again.
"Hey kyoka, It's nice to see ya." The man at the desk greets and steven looks over to see his classmate.
"Jiro?" he asks and she looks over to him.
"Steven?" she asks, walking over to him.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well, I was thinking of buying a new instrument. I lost all of mine when i…. Moved here."
'That's awful, What do you play?"
"Bass and acoustic guitar, Keytar, Ukulele, the drums,and the piano." he repeats and she smiles widely.
"We need to play together steven."
"Of course, i'd love that."
"Great, here let me put my number in your phone." she holds out her hand and he hands her his unlocked phone letting her put in her number. She texts herself and hands it back.
"There we are, you have some weird app universe. I've never heard of half of them." he takes the outheld phone dropping it into his pocket.
"I bet i've never heard of half of the apps on your phone too." he deflects looking back at the guitars seeing one that stands out pulling a black guitar with a bright pink star on the back of it.
"Yea, this is the one." he mutters, picking it off of the rack and strumming it.
"It fits your whole vibe." Jiro tells him.
"I thought so too." he says with a smile looking at the price, his smile dropping only slightly.
"Are you going to get it?"
"I am." he says walking up to the front jiro following after.
"So what brings you here today jiro?"
"I live nearby and like to look at the instruments, do you have any plans today?" she asks
"None other than this, Why?"
"I live up the street, you're going to come over today and play with me ok?"
"Ok" steven tells her and they walk up to the register steven paying for his new guitar and jiro almost dragging him up the street towards her house.
"If my dads home, let me do the talking."
"Sure.. why."
"Dont worry about it." she unlocks the door with her key and leads him inside towards the studio her parents had built into the apartment. Grabbing a bass from a stand in the room.
"What should we play?" he asks her.
"You're the guest you pick."
"Well i've written a few songs over the years i suppose i can teach you one of those?"
"That's the spirit." she compliments.
"Well, here we are in the future has the best collaboration aspect, all of the gems added in their own parts."
"The gems?"
"My family. Here I'll talk you through the song and you can jump in when you want?"
"Show me what you've got."
(Authors note: I've been putting off writing the therapy scene because I'm nervous about accidentally being ignorant. I'm sorry for any delay in the next chapter)
