Steven woke up in the middle of the night feeling much better. His chest still felt a little heavy but he guessed that that was from the left over flowers which he would cough up eventually. Looking around he realized he was in the Maheswaran residents but did't know why. He sleeped on this couch ones before. When the storm was too strong for him and his dad to get back to Beach City the Maheswarans let them stay. Hearing footsteps from behind him he turned around to see Connie. She was wearing her blue sleeping gown which's color reminded him of the not so pleasant memory of the flowers. She sat down her back against the couch.
She looked up at him, "are you feeling better now?" Steven could hear that she genuinely worried.
"Yeah..." He replied in a raspy voice, "I think I still have some flowers in my lungs, my throat is sore from coughing and also some minor stuff but over all I'm fine because I just need to give it time and maybe after a month or so I'll be as good as new."
"Good," she replied smiling and then turning around.
"Why am I here?" Steven asked this time.
"You lost too much blood so we needed to give you a blood transfusion, my mum did that, and then insisted on you staying with us for some time to observe you because it may have some not-so-pleasant side effects... Greg and the gems know that you are here so don't worry about them."
"Oh," Steven simply sighed wandering what blood transfusion was but not wanting to ask.
"Wait, Steven! What about Rose's fountain and your healing powers! It will heal you right away!" Connie exclaimed.
"Won't work," Steven simply answered.
"Why not?" Connie questioned.
"We tried both while I was..." Steven went silent for a second, "sick."
"Oh..." Connie answered disappointedly.
There was silence for some time until Steven decided to break it.
"So, uh... I have this question on my mind right now..." Steven rasped shakily again and before continuing he took a deep breath which didn't hurt as much as it did before,
"You love me too, right?"
"Of course I do, Steven."
You might be wondering why the fountain didn't work...
it doesn't heal broken hearts
You deserved this fluff for staying for so long
But there's more to come...
There's an alternative version for this chapter
the original ending
which is quite epic if I say so myself *evil laughing* but don't worry this is the canon chapter and not the one I will post tomorrow because I realized I didn't want to go full genocide on your brain cells by leaving that chapter as the ending but I will still post it because I spend too much time on it
Then there will be a sequel where Steven slowly heals from what happened which I will post the first chapter of atleast 2 days after the original 8th chapter because I need to plan it out first.