Pearl gently held the pink gem in her hands. She hoped she'd never had to again. This was her gem, his gem.
"Would she had taken this long to regenerate?" Greg asked looking worried.
"No," Pearl shook her head.
"We think the reason, no one has come back yet is because Steven is still in there," Lapis explained.
"We never taught him how to regenerate, I think he's just stuck," Sapphire explained.
Pearl looked at the gem, she was hoping for that, she really was, but, "How are we supposed to teach him now?"
"Remember how Steven seems to enter others minds when he's asleep?" Sapphire asked.
"Yeah," Amethyst answered.
"It's a long shot, but, we're hoping it can go both ways."
"That if we fall asleep, we'll enter his gem?" Pearl asked.
"Awesome," Amethyst snatched the gem out of Pearl's hands, went to the couch and laid down and started to snore.
"Amethyst, you're obviously…" Pearl stopped talking when the gem began to glow, and Amethyst went silent, genuinely asleep.
"Is it working?" Peridot asked.
"If it is, I'm going in," Pearl walked over and placed her hand on the diamond, "Someone needs to teach Steven proper regeneration."
Then everyone walked forward, including Greg, and placed their hands on the gem.
Everyone was engulfed in a pink light.
"Steven," Amethyst shouted. She was standing in a huge, pink, cloud filled area. It reminded her of Rose's room, "Steven where are you?"
Amethyst needed to find Steven. If his problem was regeneration, then it would be easy. She'll explain it to him, then he'll come out of the gem.
But what if she found Rose instead? Amethyst had no idea what she would say to her. The gem that took her in, who hated the kindergarten, was the one who created it… created her. Amethyst decided to try to just let it go. The fact that Rose was a Diamond. The fact she lied to her about many things. Because she wasn't going to unload more drama on Steven.
Because if Rose did a good thing. One really good thing. It was Steven.
Amethyst liked a lot of human things; eating, sleeping, watching T.V. she liked shapeshifting, being silly, but she loved Steven.
In the distance, Amethyst saw something.
"Is that the door to the temple?"