Instruments to Your Heart

One Week after Incident

Stellar's POV:

"Pearl!" I yelled, getting no response. "Pearl!" still no response, "PEARL!"

"Stellar! Are you ok?! What's wrong?" Pearl asked frantically, as he ran up the stairs, surveying the area left and right before setting his eyes on me. "I came here as quick as I could, what's wrong?" he asked, kneeling down in front of me at the edge of my bed.

"Oh, I was just wondering whether you wanted to watch Dogcopter 2 with me! It's a shame if I have to watch it alone, don't ya think!" I said excitedly, looking up expectantly up to Pearl.

Pearl sighed before rubbing his temples, "Stellar, please don't yell like that next time. I thought we were under attack," he said, closing his eyes as he sighed once more.

"I'm sorry, I thought we could hang out together. We haven't really had a day where it's just been us two, so I went and borrowed this movie from Sadie." I said, smiling sheepishly as I fiddled with my fingers, looking towards the ground. "It's ok if you're busy, I understand if you want to leave."

Pearl looked down at me momentarily before getting up on his feet and walking over to the DVD case that was discarded on the floor. My eyes followed him as he picked it up and opened up the case.

"Ummm, Pearl… What are you doing?" I asked nervously, now turning my body to face him as he took the DVD out of its case.

"Preparing the movie. You should go get some popcorn ready, I'll set up the seating arrangements." Pearl said nonchalantly, pressing the open button on the TV to put the DVD in.

Before the movie could start, Pearl paused it before looking at me.

"Well, aren't you going to get popcorn?" Pearl asked with a smile, turning to my bed before proceeding to take the sheets off and putting it on the floor.

My eyes lit up, before my mouth turned into a big grin. I quickly nodded my head several times before turning quickly to prepare the popcorn, "I'm on it!" I screamed as I ran down the stairs.

"Be careful, don't hurt yourself! We have all day, no need to rush!" Pearl screamed from the top of the stairs, still preparing the seating arrangements as he took my pillows and aligned it on the front of my bed, in front of the TV.

Hearing that, I quickly rushed to get the popcorn packets out of the top cabinets. Completely disregarding Pearl's warning, only wanting to decrease the time we weren't together. Crawling up on the counter to get to the top cabinet, I hastily opened up the cabinet door and almost hit my head with the corner in the process. I looked into the open space until I finally found the desired object and grabbed it, squirming down the counter, then setting my feet on the ground. Using my unoccupied hand, I stood on my tippy-toes and hit the corner of the cabinet door to close it. Afterwards, I ran to the microwave, stumbling once or twice, and took off the plastic wrap; opening the microwave, I placed the bag in the middle and hit the 'popcorn' option, then closing the microwave and pressed start.

"Come on popcorn, pop as fast as you can!" I said, watching the bag spin round and round as it increasingly got bigger over time.

"Stellar, I'm done!" Pearl screamed from the top of the stairs.

"One moment, the popcorn only has 2 more minutes left!" I screamed back, fully focusing on the bag as the popping sounds began to fill my ears.

"Ok, be careful when you take the bag out, you could burn yourself!" Pearl screamed.

"Mmmkay!" I screamed back.

After an agonizing 3 minutes, the beautiful sound of the microwave dinged, signaling the finished product of the popcorn.

"Finally!" I whispered under my breath in a happy tone, quickly opening the microwave to grab the popcorn bag by the midsection. "Ahhh! Hot, hot, hot!" I screamed, throwing and catching the bag 3 times before dropping it on the floor and rubbing my hands together to get rid of the burning sensation.

"Stellar? Are you ok?" Pearl asked frantically, quickly coming down the stairs, running to me on his last step.

"I'm ok, I just burned my hands a little." I said, little tears stinging my eyes due to the pain.

"Geez, what did I tell you, I told you to be careful!" Pearl scolded me, before picking me and setting me next to the sink, on the counter.

"I'm sorry Pearl, I just wanted to hurry up and watch the movie with you." I said, spreading my hands to lay upwards on either of my thigh.

"I understand you want to hang out Stellar, but you need to be careful. Look what happened, I told you we had all day didn't I?" Pearl said, swiftly moving to grab a towel and running it under cold water.

After turning off the tap, Pearl stood in front of me and spreaded out the towel. Slowly, he began to descend the towel onto my hands, fully covering it before taking his hands off of the towel. I winced at the first contact, and clenched my teeth as the towel began to cover my hands. The pain was bearable, but it still stung, and Pearl noticed that. Tears stung my eyes as I bit the bottom of my lip to contain a pained cry, Pearl just stared at me worriedly, sad because he couldn't do anything to help. Looking up, I met Pearl's eyes before I felt a pang of guilt hit me, it was my fault he looked worried.

"Pearl, don't worry, it didn't hurt that bad!" I said, voice slightly quivering as I smiled up to him. A tear escaping my eye before I quickly moved my hand to wipe it off. But it never met its destination.

Pearl grabbed my wrist just before it met my face and gently pulled it up to meet his mouth, before softly kissing inner side of my hand. Afterwards, he just rested it on his lips and took his unoccupied hand to cup my face, using his thumb to wipe away my tear. His thumb lingering on my face, staring into my eyes before he broke the silence.

"Stellar, I'm sorry." Pearl said, as he pulled away from my hand a little to speak.

"Pearl, this wasn't your fault, it was all mines!" I said, eyebrows furrowing at the thought of him thinking he was guilty for her carelessness. "I should be the one saying sorry!"

"I'm not just talking about this, I'm talking about me being busy." Pearl said, sighing as he took his hand off my face and gently placed my hand back under the towel. Turning his head, he stare at the floor before continuing. "Stellar, have I been ignoring you?"

"What….Pearl, what are you talking about? Why would you say something like that?" I asked, eyes widening in disbelief, wanting so badly to cup his face and make him face me.

"Isn't that why you want to hang out, because you feel ignored?" Pearl said in a mellow tone, still staring at the floor with a glum face.

"No! It's because…. I miss you…" I said hesitatingly.

"I thought so…" Pearl said depressingly, about to make his way to leave, before I realized what I said and quickly stopped him.

"Wait! That's not what I meant!" I screamed, squirming off the counter and running to Pearl, dropping the towel in the process.

Pearl turned to me before raising an eyebrow, "Wh-what do you mean?" he asked in confusion.

"I meant you're busy, and I understand. I said that already. But honestly, I know it's important to save the world and things like that, but I always see you at the end of the day." I said as if I was stating the most obvious thing in the world.

"But I don't talk to you, don't you feel sad?" Pearl asked.

"I mean yeah, of course I do. But seeing you tired makes me sadder, I don't want to stress you out anymore then you already feel. Seeing you well and alive is more than enough for me!" I said, beaming up to Pearl as I met his eyes.

Pearl's eyes teared up before they started to fall one by one, his face frozen in astonishment as he stared at me.

"Ahhh! Why are you crying! Did I say something wrong! I'm sorry, don't cry!" I screamed, waving my hands in front of his face frantically, trying to say something to make him feel better.

Pearl began to laugh through his tears, and started to bend over as the laughter got louder.

"Oh gosh! I broke him!" I screamed out, quickly making my way to Pearl, grabbing hold of his biceps, and shook him as best as I could. "Snap out of it Pearl!"

I squeaked in surprise as Pearl suddenly picked me up, and spun me around the room. Pulling me close to his chest as he cradled me, tucking me under his chin as he tilted his head to the side to lay on top of my head.

"Pearl?" I asked in confusion, Pearl's laugh dying down as we were enveloped in a comfortable silence.

"Stellar, I love you." Pearl said in a warm voice, full of affection as he nuzzled his face a little against my head.

"I love you too? Are you ok?" I asked, worry lacing my words.

"Better than ever, my little gem. And also, something was wrong with what you said. You would never cause me stress, you may be a handful at times, but that just makes you winsome. Your my little stress reliever if anything, my little ball of sunshine." Pearl said softly, embracing me a little tighter.

"Winsome?" I asked in confusion, tilting my head upwards to look at Pearl's face.

"Endearing, cute, loveable, all words that describes you." Pearl said, pulling his face off my head, staring down at me as he smiled.

I blushed before turning my head away, "Not even…" I said, pouting as I heard a light chuckle, and felt small vibrations coming from Pearl.

"You're too cute." Pearl said, laughing as he made his way towards the stairs. Forgetting the popcorn entirely on the floor, but neither of us cared enough to pick it up.

"I'm not!" I shouted, staring at Pearl with a full pout, pulling my hands up to my chest. Realization hit me as I began to clench and unclench my hands, momentarily forgetting the conversation that we just had. "Look Pearl, my hands don't hurt anymore!" I said while smiling, putting my hand in front of his face as I clenched and unclenched my hands to prove my point.

Pearl just stared at me before giggling once again, "You really are too cute!" he said, bursting out In laughter as he spun around the room with me in his arms, towards the stairs.

"Pearl!" I screamed, linking my arms together around his neck as he spun around.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You're so easy to tease." Pearl said, stopping mid spin as he finally reached the front of the stairs, then kissed my forehead as an apology.

Giggling, I kissed his cheek and snuggled into his hold as he brought me up the stairs, "Fine, I forgive you." I said softly, moving my hands to clench his shirt softly.

As we finally got up the stairs, Pearl carefully set me down on my feet, before sitting down in the nest of blankets and pillows that he arranged, opening his arms for me to climb in. Quickly I made my way towards him, and crawled into his lap, pulling his arms around me after he pulled a blanket over the both of us. Pearl took the remote that was at the edge of the bed and pressed play to the movie.

"Pearl, I love you." I said, trying to get lean back as far as I could into his embrace, nuzzling my head into his hard torso.

"I love you too, my precious gem." Pearl said softly, kissing the top of my head, as he tightened his hold ever so slightly around me.

Fully focusing on the movie, time passed and my eyes started to droop with drowsiness. Turning my body to the side to get in a more comfortable position, I leaned my head against Pearl's chest, opening and closing my eyes a few times before I let sleep claim me. Pearl just stared at me with an affectionate gaze, running his hand through my hair with one hand, and his other hand around my waist. Getting into a comfortable position, Pearl scooted forward a little bit too lean against the bed in a slight angular position where his head was not just straight.

"I guess I'm going to be stuck like this for a while." Pearl said to himself softly, chuckling quietly as he began to feel the drowsiness hit him as well. "Goodnight, my princess." Pearl whispered out, sleep overtaking his body as he slumped against the bed, holding me protectively against his chest.

No One's POV:

"Hey everyone! Guess whose back!" Amethyst yelled as he came through the door with his hands behind his head.

Garnet quickly shushed him, Amethyst looking up to him in confusion.

"What?" Amethyst asked quietly.

Garnet began to walk towards the stairs and began to climb up, Amethyst following closely behind to see the ordeal. After Garnet stopped at the top of the stairs, Amethyst looked around his body and saw 2 figures snuggled up together with a movie playing on the TV. If he recalled correctly, it was named 'Dogcopter'. Garnet walked over to the pair and crouched down, picking them up simultaneously in bridal style, before gently placing them on the bed. He then went back and picked up the discarded blanket and pillow, placing the pillow under their head and covering them with the blanket. With no words exchanged, Garnet looked at Amethyst and he just nodded his head in acknowledgement as they both made their way downstairs quietly.

"Stellar…" Pearl softly mumbled in his sleep, turning his body so his arm was resting underneath Stellar head but was still encasing her, his other arm around her waist. "I'll protect you… from... him…"

Hey Guys! ~

So I procrastinated on my HW to give you guys a new chapter! (Probably not the greatest choice =-=)

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