Author's Note: Hey folks just want to say that this weekend I will be going to Chicago for my sister's play, so here is an early Mother's day fic. It is your choice if you want to read it now or wait until Mother's day if you want.
Anyway this is from another favorite old movie of my childhood, The Chipmunk adventure…yeah you can already guess the song. Oh I almost forgot this is set in a new au for the Relativity/Gem Kids au called Techno daughter au where kid Peridot is rasied by Gruntie Mabel.
My Mother.
After another day of mystery and fighting monsters gem or not, our favorite band of mystery kids started heading for home, Stanly and Stanford already started a race home leaving their adopted Gem Cousin Peridot walking with her fellow Gems as she worked on writing something.
"Hey Peri what are you doing?" Amethyst asked looking over Peridot's shoulder.
"If you must know, Amethyst," Peridot began, "I am busy working on one of my mom's favorite Mother's Day cards." Periodt then showed them a piece of paper with half written words and a drawing of her and Mabel.
"Mother's day?" Amethyst said in confusion as Garnet and Pearl joined her.
"Oh right you don't know what Mother's day is do you?" said Peridot.
"Oh of course we know what Mother's day is," Pearl said taking what Peridot said as an insult, "Its…well its." Pearl paused trying to remember what the day was all about.
"It is suppose to be a celebration of mothers," Garnet said.
"Yes that was just what I was going to say," Pearl smiled while Amethyst rolled her eyes.
"Well I would not blame you some of you for not knowing or in fact maybe not celebrate it," Peridot said, "After all you three never knew what having a mother is like."
Of course when Peridot said that, she did not mean it as an insult (Typical Peridot), but when she said that all three of the Gems felt a sharp pierce in their hearts, all three of them instantly remembering some times when they see how children both boys and girls seem to have lots of good and fun times with their own mothers.
Now that is not saying that they don't love having Steven around with them, but he filled in a more…farther role for them as some would tell them.
"Well if you excuse me I have to finish this card," Peridot said walking to the shack, "Now what would make a cute rhyme for pie?"
Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl then started a slow quite walk back to the temple, once they have arrived they noticed that Steven has not return home yet meaning that he was on another mission.
Meaning now the girls return to their daily routines, Garnet reading her young romance books, Pearl looking at her toy sword collection and dusting them, and Amethyst hitting her punching bad with a picture of Old man Gideon.
"Oh who cares about that stupid Mother's day thing," Amethyst said as she punched the bag. "We never celebrated it before, so why should we care?"
Garnet looked at her through her bangs as she turned the page of her book, "Amethyst be careful not to break this one."
"Who cares if we don't have a mom? We never needed one anyway," Amethyst said with a kick nearly making a hole in it. "I bet it would have been nice though," she grumbled silently.
Garnet sighed softly as if she heard her. Amethyst then turned her attention to the TV as she flipped through the channels.
Pearl tried to ignore this and went back to her toy swords soon she noticed a picture on her table. Then a thought came to her mind as she grabbed the picture and ran to her friends. "Guys I think we do know what it is like to have a mom!"
All at once Garnet closed her book and Amethyst turned the TV off and both ran up to Pearl.
"Whats you taken about, P?" Amethyst said.
Pearl now feeling a little embarrassed about her sudden outburst kept the picture close to her chest, "Um un second thought forget what I just said and lets go back to our daily activities okay?"
"Hey what's that?" Amethyst said as she used her stretching powers to extend her neck like a snake trying to get a good look of the picture.
"Nothing there is nothing to see," Pearl said trying to keep Amethyst away.
"Come on let me see!"
"Amethyst no!"
"Let me see!"
"No!"
Then Garnet grabbed ahold of the picture, making both Pearl and Amethyst stop their classic fights.
Amethyst walked to Garnet's left to look at the picture while Pearl stood on Garnet's right blushing with embarrassment.
The picture is of last year's summer vacation at that animal themed park with the three of them in front and Steven with one armed wrapped around Connie while all of them smiled.
"Connie?" Amethyst asked while raising an eyebrow at Pearl, "Our principle? Really?"
"Well why not?" Pearl said, "After all even before she and Steven started dating she always took care of us."
"Well duh she is the principle it's her job," Amethyst said, "Besides I don't know if she is mom material."
"You're just still upset for being called into her office when you flipped over all the teacher's cars," Garnet said.
"It was the last day of summer and it was funny! Get of my back," said Amethyst.
Garnet then gave Pearl back the photo, "Pearl is right though. Ms. Maheswaran did help us out in the past."
Pearl nodded as she smiled, "See, like the time when my favorite dress got dirty at school once ands she volunteered to clean it for me."
"She also helped me helped me finding a home for those lost kittens," Garnet said with a smile.
Amethyst looked at the picture again and a faint blush appeared, "Well she was the only one to stay with me in detention until Steven came."
Amethyst laughed a little, "She always tells such funny stories to tell."
"No matter what she always asks us how we are," Pearl said thinking back on more happy moments with Connie.
Garnet looked at the picture again and said, "Lets make a card."
Soon all three of them started making their own special cards for Connie, Garnet made hers with red and blue paints, Amethyst made hers by cutting out cool pictures and drawing Connie looking like an amazing warrior woman and Pearl made hers with a cute drawing of Connie hugging all three of them.
Pearl smiled at her hard work and sighed happily as she wrote down Mom on it. Mom she thought to herself…that was one word she secretly wanted to say.
Pearl: It's hard to remember.
Summer or winter, when she hasn't been there for me.
Pearl finished her picture with happy mother's day on it.
Pearl: A friend and companion, I can always depend on.
My mother, that's who I mean.
Amethyst finally finished hers as she looked back at the picture now sitting on the table.
Amethyst: I've taken for granted, the seeds that she planted.
She's always behind everything.
Garnet held her card close to her, feeling proud of herself for it.
Garnet: A teacher, a seeker, a both arms outreacher.
My mother, that's who I mean.
Pearl walked between them and used her pearl to create a holographic image showing Connie hugging all three of them and comforting them on one of their hardest days.
Pearl: Wish I could slow down, the hands of time and keep things the way they are.
Connie wiped all the tears from their faces then all three of them hugged her tightly while she rubbed their backs gently.
Pearl: If she said so I would give her the world, if I could.
I would.
Then the image vanished leaving the three of them each with their cards out.
Pearl: My love and my laughter from here ever after, is all that she says that she needs.
All three of them looked at the picture one more time each of them recalling that moment.
Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl: A friend and companion, I can always depend on.
My mother, that's who I mean.
My mother, that's who I mean.
All three of them then held their hands together as they placed their cards on the table looking over it happily.
Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl: That's who I mean.
An hour later all three of them gave their cards to Connie. She looked at them with tears of joy and hugged all them tightly.
She may not have been their real mother, but all three of them agree that she is the best fit for that role.
The End.
Author's Note, well I hope everyone will have a happy mother's day and I hope I did this song justice.