Scorpion Grasses

by Lion The Edgy And Cringy Goof

The story starts straight after the end of the episode Dewey Wins. Steven gets the Hanahaki Disease from missing Connie and thinking she hates him. Would Steven get better, get his love for Connie be gone forever or die in a very slow painful way? Lot's of spelling errors bc I write this in the middle of the nighgwhjwjwusnwkwiqnqnad xd

5. Changing for the worst - Chapter V

Weeks passed and Steven was getting worse and worse. Now he would half-lie half sit on the couch or wrapped up in blankets or with a wet towel on his head. At random times he would be very hot while at other times he would be very cold so Garnet will have to unfuse so Ruby would make Steven feel warm and Sapphire to cool him down and when they are fused they would spend their time looking through futures but never being successful to understand why Steven is so sick. Pearl and Peridot would do checkups on Steven but Peridot would mostly do it, being a professional at gem physiology, while Pearl prepared food for Steven and they were never enthusiastic about it after the incident. Steven was swallowing food but the same time there were flowers in his throat... Long story, short: he choked on it and it was pretty messy. Now there is a rule he has to follow: cough up as mucn flowers as possible before consumption of food no matter how much it hurts. Steven hated doing that but he never complained since he didn't want to die because a lump of chewed up food with flowers got stuck in his throat. Also Pearl would now only make soups and stews for Steven now, of course because of the incident.

Amethyst and Lapis would try to make Steven feel better by talking to him or doing tricks, Lapis was crowned the master at tricks with her water powers, and Amethyst would pretend she's Steven and would use Steven's phone to talk to Greg so he would be sure taht he's fine, none of the gems wanted to tell him so they decided to keep it a secret for now and made Amethyst in charge of pretending to be Steven because she new the msot about human culture. She wouldn't send anything to Connie since Connie herself wasn't answering to Steven's texts. She also had the idea that because of that Steven was so ill but Pearl and Garnet thought that that would be silly but they did try to talk to Steven about Connie which would make him cry and and cough up more flowers. Amethyst thought that that was pretty convincing but the gems thought crying would just make him cough more.

Steven was still not getting better. He was pale now with bags under his eyes from sleep deprivation and seemed to become thinner which was pretty expected since he would eat very little and could stand up and walk by himself no more than 100 metres. Through this whole timespan he was thinking of Connie.