Amber awoke with Luca's arm across her chest. She smiled and closed her eyes, she had learned all about the sex even though Luca was basically inebriated. The tan gem moved her arm slightly and immediately her blond-haired lover woke himself up. He winced; Amber didn't realize she was touching his shoulder injury. Luca looked up at the tan gem and she stared into his chocolate eyes. Amber immediately removed her fingers from the area and apologized abashedly as he shook his head.
The two stared at each other in silence and realized today was a school day. They hopped out of bed and Luca put on a blue shirt.
"I can't believe we were in space yesterday," Luca said as he shoved on his pants.
"Me either," Amber said, "It was weird to be on Homeworld…"
"Yeah," Luca said, "The other Amber told me the air was less than sufficient, do you know why?"
"Well," Amber said, "The atmosphere needs more resources than it currently has. In some parts there is no gravity, I am so lucky you didn't stumble into those areas."
"Wow," Luca said as he combed his hair.
Amber figured she'd try something different as she dissipated her clothes. Luca put his arm in front of his eyes.
"What's wrong?" Amber asked, tilting her head.
"You are naked," Luca said, turning himself around so his back was to Amber.
Amber ran out of the room to hers and brought back Luca's mom's blue shirt. Luca still had his back to her as she continued to tease him.
"Ohhhh yeah, you have to be naked for the sex!" the tan gem giggled to herself as she slipped on the blue shirt that exposed the golden teardrop gem on her belly, "How do I look?"
Luca turned around for a second then turned back instantly, "You need pants!"
"Oops," Amber said as she ran back to her room.
When she had returned, she wore black capris that stretched down halfway past her calf. The gem twirled around, the blue shirt spinning with her.
"Human clothes are so comfy," Amber said, "I still can't believe that they aren't fused to your body."
"You look great in them," Luca said.
"What about without?" Amber said teasingly poking his nose.
"You look great too," Luca said, blushing as Amber frowned at him, "Was I supposed to say something else?"
"Nope," Amber said, walking out of the door, "Time for breakfast!"
"Alright," Luca said, following his lover to the kitchen.
Luca's left arm slightly bothered him but he pushed the thoughts away as he got out the eggs. Amber cracked them as Turquoise and the caretaker wandered out of their room.
"Good morning!" Amber smiled as the two nodded and sat at the table.
"You look much better, Luca," the uncle said after a bit of silence.
"Yeah?" Luca responded, "Guess who went to space?"
"You?" the uncle frowned, "But it wasn't for a good reason."
After the tension started to build up, Amber spoke, "Well, at least we got a new ship."
"Yay," Turquoise said, "Oh wait, did you take off the tracker?"
"Oh gosh," Amber said, "I'm so stupid!"
"No, you aren't, but after breakfast we will need to jumble the coordinates and destroy it," Turquoise smiled as Amber placed the omelet on her plate.
"Okay," Amber said, finishing her rounds around the table.
Soon enough, breakfast was over and Amber and Turquoise made their way to the ship. Amber opened the hatch and hopped in as Luca watched from a couple feet away. The tan gem beckoned to him as he followed her. Inside the ship, it was warm and yellow, similar to Yellow Diamond's gem.
Turquoise went to the back panel and started to pull it off. It instantly fell on top of her. No tracker was located where it was supposed to be until the three people had taken apart the whole ship. Luca saw it underneath the steering board and tried to touch it. Amber jumped in front of him and grabbed the tracker as it turned red, throwing it at Turquoise who punched it into the atmosphere.
"Phew," Turquoise said, "That could have been bloody."
"Yeah," Luca said, wiping his brow.
Amber and Turquoise walked out of the ship, "Oh crud school starts in like twenty minutes."
"Oh no!" Amber said to Turquoise as she and Luca put on their shoes and ran out the door.
"I am going to fix up the ship with the caretaker while you are gone, guys!" Turquoise called out.
"Thanks!" Amber said, "Let's fly it later, right Luca?"
"Yeah," Luca said.
The two marched off to school and quickly went to their first class. School was long and boring for the two, but they managed to get through it. Rita wasn't there, as she had gotten sick from the dance so Amber had hardly anyone to interact with when Luca wasn't with her.
Amber and Luca waited impatiently for the bell to ring and when it finally did, the two began their walk home. They held hands as cars rushed by and they passed pedestrians. When the two had gotten to the barn, Amber and Turquoise gave Luca the safety talk. He got into the ship followed by Amber and Turquoise and sat in the pilot's seat. The tan gem sat at a computer and set up the commands while the light blue gem sat at another computer to set up the ship's Intel.
"Now you are going to place your hands on the command board," Amber said from her seat, "And lift up the ship, like this."
"Okay," Luca said, lifting up the ship decently enough.
"Good, now it's in hover mode," Amber said, "I am going to change the gears right now. Just stay still."
Luca nodded, keeping his hands on the board. The ship hovered just above the house and was making a quiet whirring sound. Turquoise tapped several times at her computer and the ship started to lift up higher.
"Hey Amber?" Luca asked.
"Yeah?" Amber responded.
"How were you able to fly this ship without any help?" Luca asked.
"I am specifically a technician gem, I already know all of the commands to input into the main frame. Thousands of memories are imbedded into my head," Amber said, "You are human so you probably don't have those memories. Plus, I had to run around to all four of the computers fairly quickly so that I could take care of you."
"Oh," Luca said, "Thanks again, for saving me."
"Sure," Amber smiled, "Okay, now pull up."
Luca did so and the ship smoothly dashed into the sky. It kept on going until it reached space and it stopped abruptly. Amber made the ship display the outside world. Stars scattered the area around them, glowing and twinkling as Luca looked on in awe at the sights. The Earth almost seemed to glow with the light of the sun.
"Where do you want to go, Luca?" Amber said.
"How about Neptune," Luca replied after thinking on the decision for a minute.
"Okay," Amber said, "Lift to the right."
The ship zoomed to Neptune's side within an hour. Luca stared at the planet, eyeing its blue beauty, the gaseous giant seeming happy that it was getting some visitors.
"Wow, this is amazing," Luca said, "I can't believe that we are right next to Neptune!"
"This ship can go all the way to Homeworld and back in six hours," Turquoise chirped, "It's one of the fastest moving ships they have."
"Yeah, I have only flown one of these twice," Amber said, reminiscing, "Yesterday and when I arrived here."
"Hey Amber?" Turquoise said, sullen faced.
"What's up?" Amber asked getting out of her chair to walk over to Turquoise, "Oh…"
"What's wrong?" Luca asked.
"We have a really bad leak," Amber said slowly, "I can go fix it but I am going to need a supporter."
"I can he-" Luca began to say.
"No," Amber said, "You will be deprived of oxygen for too long."
Turquoise formed a gem space suit similar to hers and gave it to Luca. Amber did the same for herself and formed a helmet. She shoved it on Luca's head and smacked open the hatch. Turquoise and Amber quickly went outside and crawled on the ship with the spare gas tank they had found dangling on the hull.
They fixed the leak and hurriedly crawled along the ship back to Luca. His body lay on the ceiling. Tears rushed down Amber's cheeks as the two rushed in and closed the hatch. Amber caught Luca's limp body in her arms and sunk to the floor. She touched his chest; it was so cold that ice had started to form. Her thoughts drifted all the way from sadness to desperately desiring to save his life. Amber felt a weird feeling in her arms as she touched his heart area. Luca jolted awake suddenly after several small strikes of electricity left Amber's fingers.
"Whoa," Luca said, "What was that?"
Amber looked at her fingers as electricity crackled across them. She tried to stop the strikes by waving her hands around but nothing was working.
The tan gem tried to get away from her lover to prevent any more electricity from travelling to his body but she failed. Luca wrapped his tired arms around her as she tried to push him away. The strikes subsided as their lips met and she calmed herself down.
"I have electricity as a power?" Amber said, when they broke apart, "But Ambers and Peridots don't have powers like these."
"Maybe you are special," Luca said, "What even happened to me?"
"I was being irrational when I shoved the helmet on you without a means of oxygen," Amber said, looking away, "We didn't even shut the hatch, you floated upwards and probably hit your precious head on the ceiling."
"That's okay, you wanted to fix the leak before anything happens," Luca smiled, stroking his lover's cheeks, "Besides, you fixed me up anyways."
Amber sighed heavily and without looking at Luca she spoke, "Turquoise can you let him rest on the bench seat? I can take us home."
"Yeah," Turquoise said, lifting Luca up and into her arms.
Soon enough, Luca had fallen asleep and within the hour, they could see Earth. Amber took the ship down until they reached the barn, lightly hovering above the ground. The ship floated to the soft grass below and Luca's cold body was gently carried inside to his bed.
He was unable to go to work today but Amber still went alone. She took care of his portion of work until nine o' clock and headed home. Luca had just woken up by the time she got back. Amber made a small and simple dinner of chicken noodle soup at his request. Turquoise and the caretaker were both already asleep in their room so the two had some alone time.
Luca started to lift the silver spoon to eat his warm meal, "Hey, Amber? It wasn't your fault."
"I am so sorry," Amber said, "It really is all my fault, I keep on almost killing you. Maybe one day, you will die for real…"
"It's not your fault, all humans will die eventually," Luca said, placing his hand on Amber's collarbone, "Stop blaming yourself."
Amber choked on her tears, "Luca, are you sure you want me? I am always causing trouble for you…"
"I am sure," Luca smiled, bringing his lips to Amber's.
"I love you," Amber said between breaths.
"I love you too," Luca said, "Let's stay together forever."
"Yes," Amber said.
After Luca was done eating his soup, Amber put the bowl away and lay next to him. She fell asleep next to his steadily warming up body.
In the morning, Amber awoke to Luca moving out of the bed. He got dressed in formal wear for some reason, but Amber thought nothing of it as she stretched. The tan gem rolled out of bed and sat at the desk to do last minute homework. She heard a bump and tilted her head at her lover as he looked underneath the bed. He brought out a black box and looked at it as if to make sure it wasn't damaged in any way.
"Amber, do you think you could form a dress version of your usual outfit?" Luca asked while grinning widely.
"Sure," Amber said.
She formed a long sleeveless two-piece dress that exposed her golden belly gem. Pale yellow gloves stretched from her fingers to her elbows. Luca pulled out a small golden necklace with a diamond in the center from the black box.
"What's that?" Amber asked, wondering what her lover was doing.
"It's a gift for you, I have been saving up," Luca said, "Come here."
"Okay," Amber smiled as Luca gently put the necklace around her neck.
"You make the necklace look beautiful," Luca smiled as Amber blushed blue.
"Thank you for this, Luca," Amber said, holding Luca's hands.
"Anything for you, my princess," Luca said.
The two danced around for a bit in their outfits. Amber knew now that gem-like fusion couldn't be attempted between a gem and a human but she had a small desire to try human fusion. She was madly in love with her human and wanted to get closer and closer to him.
When they had finished their dance, the two made breakfast and sat on the couch together. The caretaker and Turquoise were still sleeping so Luca and Amber ate without them.
"Do you want to have the sex with me, Luca?" Amber asked.
"I think we should wait a bit longer until you have had Health Class," Luca said.
His lover smiled, "Okay, we can wait."
