Another few hours passed and Jay awoke to Violet and Lilac getting out of bed. He felt a little bit groggy but yawned and turned to Lilac.
"Sorry, did we wake you?" Lilac asked Jay, running her hand across his face.
"Yeah, but that's alright, how long has it been?" Jay asked, rubbing his eyes and sitting up in his bed.
"It has been twelve hours," Violet said, putting her hair up and smiling at Jay.
"Wow," Jay said, "Oh! You guys have little capes, that's cute."
Violet blushed, "Thanks, they come with our restoration."
Lilac whispered something to Violet and the gem looked deviously at Jay, "What's going on you guys?"
"Jay," Violet said, "You got hit in the stomach by the rock… Can I see how bad it is?"
"Sure, I guess," Jay said, thinking that gems were relatively harmless.
She touched his long sleeves and then took off his whole shirt, "Whoops."
The gem saw the bruising on his side and felt it lightly, careful not to press down too hard. He winced anyway as she removed the bits and pieces of rocks from his ribcage. Lilac dripped something odd on the wound and it started to heal quickly. Violet pressed her cheek to Jay's chest and giggled. Jay was patient as he had had experience from a hyper younger brother and waited until Violet was done. He put his shirt on and looked back to the two gems who were exchanging information.
"So, everyone left, we only have food for twelve people for seven months. Oh, that's a lot," Jay said, smiling, "We have plenty of time to live I guess."
"Yep," Lilac said happily.
As the days turned into months, Jay grew closer to Lilac and Violet. They repaired his suit so that he could go outside again.
He wandered around unexplored areas of the Moon with the two gems and returned the lost corrupted gems back to where they belonged. Jay lost track of time. He no longer counted the days. He had grown a beard and his hair had gotten a lot longer. Lilac knew it was almost time for her to disappear but continued to hold on for Violet and Jay. The gem on her right hand ached daily, so much that she had to ask Jay for some space tape. It always wasted away with the power of her gem so it wasn't very useful. He knew that there was something wrong but didn't ask. Eventually Lilac was talking to herself whenever it was too quiet. She couldn't control her thoughts anymore. Lilac filled Violet's blank slate with hundreds of thousands of memories at once and the gem was staggering.
It hurt Jay to see his friend declining in mental health, but dispersing her memories helped her regain sanity. Jay found it hard to believe that there were no reconnaissance missions to help find him but remembered his asshole teammates. They probably said that he died and that they were attacked by gems. It was only a matter of time before all gems were expelled from Earth.
"Jay?" Violet asked the man in thought, "Are you okay?"
Jay looked at Violet and reached to touch her head. She was still a bit nervous but accepted his touch.
"I'm okay," Jay said, "I just don't think the food will last much longer. It's probably been about a year and a half since my old teammates left us here. The food is almost gone and Lilac isn't doing so well either."
"I know…" Violet said, leaning into Jay.
The two sat next to each other for a while. Jay was developing deeper feelings for Violet with each passing day but he vowed to never tell her as relationships between gems and humans were iffy. Besides he had someone at home who loved him already. They watched the stars together all the time, naming each of the heavenly bodies. By now, Jay had memorized them all. The dark brown-haired human looked to Lilac. He knew that she didn't have much time left so he got out some more space tape. He gave the rest of it to Lilac for her gem, but she turned him down, packing it away.
Before they knew it, another year had passed. Jay was somehow spreading out his food to last for a while. On the last day of food, he ate half a potato and a glass of warm orange juice. Lilac watched him eat, frowning at what was going to happen. It took her a while to speak up, but eventually she made an effort.
"You are going to uh… starve?" Lilac asked, looking to Violet.
"Yes," Violet said, "That is the word."
"Probably," Jay said, "I can see my ribs so I probably have about four or five days to spend time with you guys."
Suddenly, Lilac turned violent and brought her hand down on Jay so hard that it knocked him out cold on the floor. Lilac turned to the shocked Violet and stabbed her in the stomach, knocking her onto her knees.
"He will wake up in a few days, don't worry. Here are all of the feelings you need to get more memories and experience new things. Learn how to love with the pain of rejection," Lilac said coldly pressing her fingers into Violet's forehead, "This is called tough love."
Violet groaned, "Lilac it hurts, please remove the feeling of pain! What are you doing? What's going on?"
"Sh," Lilac said, hugging Violet and ripping into her until she poofed, her gem clattering to the ground.
Lilac picked up the gem and put it on the table. She got Jay into his space outfit and put Violet's gem in a gigantic lavender bubble. Using a large portion of her strength, Lilac teleported into the thin atmosphere of the Moon and chucked the bubble out into space in the direction Earth would be in a few days. She fell backwards and didn't mind hitting the surface of the Moon that hard. Lilac dusted herself off and regretted that she didn't snuggle with Jay more. She wrapped her whole arm with the space tape for some odd reason. She couldn't remember anymore. The gem crawled into the cold bed and lay there until she fell asleep. It would only be a matter of time before the corrupted gems got out. She didn't have much time left. She wished that she had gotten more time with Violet and Jay but it was too late now.