Rose, tired from the night's events, opened the door to her room. The door creaked open quickly, and she was about to invite Pearl inside. Then she remembered. Pearl had her own quarters here, and it was strange to rest without Pearl's blue gaze watching her. She sighed, and entered the room. A spread of cushions lay on the floor, all in a soft blue tone. Rose sat down on them and pushed a few away so she could lay on the floor. She didn't know why, but the floor always felt nice to sleep on, and the pillows around her added support.
She rolled over on her side, pulling a cover over her. She tried to sleep, but didn't feel any bit restful. Even when she tried to close her eyes and clear her mind, but she couldn't. Was she forgetting something?
The large window in her chamber threw bright dawn sunlight, and Rose squinted her eyes shut tighter, too lazy to close the shutters. She went at this for a few moments, but something kept nagging the back of her head.
What hadn't she done? She rolled over uncomforted on the pillows. She'd spent the morning planning the attack, had barely had any time to look through White Diamond's old records, and then spent all night searching for the Sapphire. Now it was morning, and here she was apparently unable to sleep. She then remembered and swore. The report! She got up, near immediatly and brushed her ringlets behind her shoulders. She picked up her feet as she left the room. She kicked a few pillows out of the way as she ran out of the room.
How could she have been so stupid? The door slammed behind her as she found the spiral staircase to the second floor. She was greeted by a large room with a table in the middle of it. Despite the dust, she stopped for a moment to stare.
She couldn't see a trace of Gem technology. Humans, for being 'lower' creatures, had such great architecture. She shook the ideas out of her mind. Gems still were objectively better. Stronger. Faster. She stopped at the door to the conference room. Smarter?
A diamond-esque cube with four sides to it lay in the center, but near to the front. She grabbed the cube hurriedly and twisted it. One side, two, three sides. The blue, pink, and yellow sides glowed. Three projections opened up. The diamond-screens were just floating shapes in their respective colours.
The yellow screen lit up first, and revealed the profile of Yellow Diamond's face. She was looking down at someone, nodding. "I really don't care how much the materials are worth. But the complexes have got to be fixed."
The blue screen flashed white, and then a familiar blue-haired face showed. She didn't look the least bit happy. "Spare me the explanation, Pink Diamond." She cast a deadpan look towards Rose.
"It's just a daily report, Blue," Rose said calmly. "It's nothing urgent." Rose clasped her hands in front of her to indicate no ill will, even if she did find herself a bit peeved at Blue's greeting.
There were footsteps from Yellow's line, and a door slammed shut. "I apologize for the Flourite there."
Rose gave a grin to Yellow. "It's alright. They're still a bit buggy."
Yellow turned her camera a bit upwards so that her face was more visible. "But Blue does have a point. You didn't report yesterday."
"There's a reason for that," Rose said, raising her hand to justify herself. "I had some problems with my crew."
Blue blinked. "Such as?"
"Our Sapphire was kidnapped in the night."
Blue's face loosened, but Yellow's tightened. "What?" she asked. "Weren't there any guards?"
Rose glanced down at her hands. "The Sapphire was the one on Guard." She saw Blue's smirk and her lips tightened. "Earth doesn't have much resources, Gem-wise. We thought she'd be fine."
Yellow Diamond silenced Blue. "I understand now, Pink. But the important question is if she's back in safe hands."
Rose nodded. "Yes, we retrieved her from her kidnappers."
Blue stood up tall, pulling her hood down to reveal short blue hair. "And the kidnappers? Who were they? Have you dealt with them?"
Rose nodded. "A Ruby and another unidentified Gem." Rose tried not to mention that both the Ruby and the other Gem were still alive and regenerating inside the estate.
Blue stopped saying what she was going to say. "A Ruby? Those were all shattered thousands of years ago. And an unidentified Gem? Do you think…?"
Rose turned to Yellow's screen. "What do you think, Yellow?"
Her face had fallen into a stare at nowhere. "I think she might have designed her own Gem bodyguard. Stars know why, though…"
Rose blinked, thinking of a reason. "Maybe being alone for three thousand years made her design her own Gem."
Blue laughed. "Ha! Really, Pink. You've had stupid ideas before, but I don't think a Ruby would be capable of something like that."
"It's worth an interrogation. Even Yellow thinks the idea's valid."
"Wait, you left them alive?" Blue asked, shocked.
"True." Yellow ignored Blue Diamond, but the hair on the back of her head stuck out higher than usual. "But after you interrogate them, you have to shatter them."
Rose agreed wordlessly. "Well, my report is done. Has anything new happened on Homeworld?"
Lazuli was the first to talk. "Since you left, the Quartz police force has been acting up. Fifteen Gems have been shattered but the offenders have been deported."
"It's funny that you're amazed I'm not shattering gems, and here you are. Deporting Gems rather than killing them, Lazuli," Rose said Drily. "Where to? You know you can't send them to a full Gem colony, and some rock in the middle of the galaxy won't exactly make them too happy."
Lapis stopped for a moment, staring Rose down. "Well, if the twenty-odd Quartzes want to see you so bad, I sent them to Earth."
Rose stood up, slamming her hands on the table. "What?" she asked. "Did you even think what they're going to do to this planet?" Her mouth curled downwards. "It's a gem colony!"
Blue laughed. "Earth isn't a full Gem colony though, is it? We didn't build nearly 95% of our plans. And so, it isn't full."
"Ladies!" Yellow Diamond cut in, but Rose ignored her.
"Send those Gems back, or —"
Rose was cut off as Lapis' screen flashed blue and disappeared from view. She stared at Yellow. "Can't you do anything about it, if Blue won't?"
Yellow shook her head. "I only work in infrastructure. Now that you're in government and she's taken over Defense as well as the military, she's gotten full control over the force." With that, she shook her head sadly and logged off of the conversation herself.
