Spinel doesn't quite know what she's doing. She doesn't know how she got to this moment. All she knows is that she's standing atop of the green grass with the smell of flowers around her.

And Pink Diamond was there.

She couldn't hear her words, she couldn't hear anything over the throbbing and ringing in her head. This wasn't right. She wasn't supposed to be here was she? But she was her diamond!

She says to wait in the garden. She says she'll be back soon. Why was this familiar? Why did this feel so wrong? But she listened anyway. She stood there, her eyes darting around. She couldn't move. She tried to stretch her arms or her legs, move a pinky, even her tongue. Nothing!

She wasn't supposed to be here. Where was...where was who? Someone should be here! She needed someone!

The floor around her started to crack, and thorny vines start stretching out and up towards her legs. She couldn't even wince as they take hold. Raking the sharp thorns through her legs. Digging deeper into them as it moves.

It hurts, it hurts so much. Please make it stop. She wanted someone to make it stop. Where was he? Where, what's a he? Who was he? She needs pink, but not Pink. Why does she want something pink?

More vines start growing. The garden started closing in on her, compacting itself with its own greenery until it's near suffocating. The flowers smelled putrid, like rotting poison. The thorns kept slicing into her. The vines were constricting her body. How long has she been here for? She doesn't know, it hurts to even think.

She wanted someone. Someone important. She wanted someone important to help. But who? Who was it?

Then it clicked into her mind.

"Steven!"

She yells out, her arms and legs doing their best to rip out of their bindings. What can only be described as blood dripping out of her appendages, only to be constricted once again.

"Steven! Please!"

She forces her body to keep moving. Catching sight of the warp pad. There. She needs to get there. That's where she'll find Steven.

She just manages to escape the vines. Tired and battered, she quickly limps to the platform. The gem on her chest cracked and dull, barely flashing with life. She's almost there. She can make it. She can just barely touch it with her finger.

Wood blocks her way, branches shooting up and forming a barrier in front of the warp. Trapping her hand.

"What? No!" Spinel was in hysterics, tugging her arm back in an attempt to break free, only to hurt herself further. Then the feeling of vines wrapping around her leg distracts her. Pulling her back.

She desperately claws at the ground, tears falling freely down her eyes. "STEVEN!" Her final cry as the ground beneath her opens up and swallows her, dragging her into its murky depths.

She was woken up by the sensation of her body being raggedly rocked back and forth. In simple terms. She was being shaken. Her eyes shot open and quickly dart around with gasping breaths.

"Are you okay?" There he was. Steven Universe, his hands around Spinel's shoulders. Staring at her with those bright eyes of his, filled with worry. Oh stars what was this feeling bubbling up. What was going on with her? Why did she have to obsess over him like she did with Pink?!

She couldn't handle it, her face morphed and scrunched up. Tears welling in her eyes before she quickly wrapped her arms around the boy's frame. Shoving her head into his chest as she silently bawled. "I thought- I thought that- the garden...and you were…" Her own voice failed her, as she chokes on her words. Her hair falling down her back as she felt Steven's own hands on her back. Holding her. Comforting her.

"It's okay." He tells her. "It's okay, I'm here."

Spinel chokes back another son. Why was he here? Why did he want to be here? She tried to kill him twice, she left him for the diamonds, she woke him up, and now he has to comfort her of all things, just why did this boy seem to care so much about her!

Why does she like to think that he cared about her? Even if she knew it wasn't true. Not in the way she may wish it would be. But for now. For now she'll accept this. She'll be happy to live in her own little lie and just stay with Steven. In thinking he's hugging her because he-

"What happened?" Steven asks, his soft voice breaking her out of her thoughts. "Did you have a nightmare?"

She didn't know what that was, but it sounded like something bad. And what she just went through was really bad. Spinel nods into his chest. Her eyes shut tight as she releases shaky breaths. Taking some comfort in Steven as he simply holds her tighter.

He was so warm, she liked the warm. She likes his warm. Nothing else. She wanted nothing else.

"Please don't let go." She begged, in soft crying whispers. "Please, please, please don't let go…" Her fingers dig into his clothes. Absolutely terrified. If he let her go now, she doesn't think she'll ever claw her way back up.

Steven thankfully doesn't. He sits back down on the bed and pulls Spinel onto his lap. Running his hand up and down her back and mumbling sweet words into her ear like a parent would their child. Rocking her back and forth just like how he was whenever he had nightmares back when he still lived with Greg all those years ago as a small child. Good to see that even his earliest fond memories gave him some use in that moment.

"I'm not going anywhere." He promised.

And Spinel for once, believed him.

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And with that, the three shot I had planned for this story has come to an end!

Next I update, it'll be to a story following these events. Hopefully.

DarkShadowNin: Thanks for thinking so! Though I never personally had a problem with reviewing on mobile.

mooopower: Not quite what you expected was it? Happy Spinel will come soon, but it'll be a while aways while she heals.

Wolfspirit2996: So do I, though unfortunately I had to have made it a bad first experience for our little pink gem.