A/N:Reviews, commentaries and critics welcome.

I thank the Beta reader Ivy Rain for helpping out in this story.

After they arrived to Beach City there was so much to do. First Steven, who was still soundly sleeping was carried in by Pearl. After she put him in his bed, she came down to the kitchen were Amethyst and Garnet waited.

"He is sleeping now. Oh,Garnet what are going to do?"Pearl asked frustrated and distraught; leaning on the island.

"I think that we need to prepare Greg's funeral." Garnet answered, putting a hand over Pearl's shoulder.

"But how? I mean yes we had a small ceremony for Rose, organized by Greg but; I don't know the specifics of that kind of…" began Pearl but then Amethyst spoke.

"Call Andy." she said looking down.

"What?" asked Pearl confused for a moment.

"Andy, Greg's brother? Call him. Tell him of everything that has happened. Tell me when you have everything ready." said Amethyst who began to walk to the temple door.

"Amethyst, we need to plan this together." Garnet called after her. He was standing in the middle of the house facing Amethyst as she got to the temple door.

"No, you don't need me. I wouldn't be of much help anyway. Just like I wasn't of too much help when Greg died." Amethyst said entering her room and closing the door.

"Well that was sure mature of her." Pearl said looking in disbelief at her now closed door.

"She is hurt. She will come around in time. She is not the only one who needs time to accept this." Garnet said looking at Pearl.

"Wellat least she gave us a good idea." Answered Pearl as she walked to the phone. After she picked it up she looked at Garnet and asked "Garnet could you help me with…?" She did not need to say anymore. Garnet went to her side and together they made the call.

It was a painful and awkward process trying to explain to Andy what exactly happened with his younger brother. After a couple of recollections of the facts and one or two near miss breakdowns by Pearl, they finally got Andy to understand that they needed his help to prepare Greg's wake. They also had to calm Andy when they told him that his brother body was in the van. After listening to Andy instructions about what was needed they began to prepare everything. Of course, this meant having to repeat the process and explain everything to everyone else whoknew Greg in Beach City. The Pizzas, the Mayor, Vidalia and family; every single one of them. Add to that there was the problem of telling Connie. Garnet decided to make the call herself. She would wait until tonight because she doubted that Pearl could deal with it right now after having to relive the memory every time someone asked what happened. Steven had already woken up, but he was on the couch. He just sat there, in silence. He sat staring silently at the coffin which was in a base at the front of the temple. Amethyst still hadn't come out.

A couple of hours later, Steven received Andy, who as soon as he saw his nephew, pulled him into a huge hug and told him that everything would be fine. He then walked to Garnet who showed him over to the coffin. As soon he saw his brother, he turned to Garnet and hugged her, sobbing. Garnet was so confused but she did what she felt good to do, she hugged him back. It was then that a few tears slipped out from under her glasses. At that moment it finally sank in for her. Greg, her friend and father of Steven was gone and she could do nothing about it. How did humans deal with this all the time? she thought.

After a while Garnet and Pearl sat down to properly plan the ceremony and the decorations. Pearl set off to get pictures of Greg while Garnet said she would get the flowers. After saying this she went to the portal and disappeared. Not long after that happened Amethyst finally came out of the room. She was carrying something with her, a red book or it looked like one. Then Steven understood, it was a photo album. She searched for a chair and then put the album there and sighed to herself. As soon as she saw Steven she tried to smile, but that soon became impossible when he hugged her. Steven finally spoke to her.

"It wasn't your fault." He said, trying to give a smile.

"I did nothing to help in anyway." she answered; unable to meet his eye.

"Oh,Amethyst." He said and invited her to help with the decoration.

The ceremony was a calm and quiet one. Steven received the condolences of every person that knew his father. The cool kids in particular understood, even taking him on ride to talk about it. The Pizza twins even said that they wouldn't know how to deal with the death of a family member. Garnet, for his part, traveled to get fresh flowers. Only the best! she thought will be appropriate.

Pearl found a photo where Greg looked at his happiest. It was a photo of him and Rose when Greg was still young. Although most of the other photos were of him and Steve, a few with the Crystal Gems had been found. She even got a still picture of the music video enlarged enough to put with the other photos. It was almost nightfall when Connie finally arrived. She immediately went to Steven's side to speak with him. Garnet was happy that Connie was able to make Steven smile a genuine smile; even if it was only for a couple of minutes. After all of the preparations were done they went and buried Greg in Beach City Cemetery. It all was so surreal to the Gems. It also awoke in them a dreadful question. Was Steven destined to die like Greg? Secretly Pearl had also been collecting every single book relating to heart diseases that she could find. She also scouring to find every book in proper dieting to live a longer and healthier life. She also considered trying to get Stevento go to monthly check ups with Connie's mother. Amethyst also utilized the afternoon that she was in his room to search for every piece of weight training equipment that she could. She had convinced herself that it was her duty to train Steven. She had to keep the disease away! Thatway she could do something instead of what she did not do before. Garnet for his part that night set her to meditate and see if she could detect or see if Steven was mortal in the human way; but she saw something completely different.

Standing in the middle of whathad previously been the fair was Steven. No one else was insight. He looked different. His stare was completely empty. There was no happiness, no sadness and he was carrying a bag. Garnet focused in this vision and then she saw it. Steven was talking with something that wasn't there.

"Please no more." He said to no one. Then something flung Steven against one of the buildings and the bag that he was carrying opened. What fell out was his Amethyst Gem. No! It was all of their Gems. The Gem started to levitate by itself and for a moment she thought that the Gem was going to regenerate, but instead she saw how a light scratch appeared on top of it.

"PLEASE NO! I WILL DO AS YOU SAY! Just don't shatter them." As Steven said this, —the scratch stopped. As she continued to watch she she saw that Steven grabbed his arm and fell in pain. Garnet ran to see what happened. As she got closer she saw why he was grabbing his arm. The Stevenin her vision pulled up the sleeve of his pink hoodie. The words "Ocean City" were carved in his flesh.

"I will go, but please not them!" he said as he collected the Gems and walked out of the fairgrounds. He kept walking, crying in his arm either from pain or to heal it. Garnet came out of his vision asking her what it meant.