(_ _ _) cleared a good amount of space in her living room by pushing all the furniture against the walls. It created a big enough space for her to be able to watch the orange gem at all times. She was on pins and needles the whole time she waited for the person to emerge from it. She needed to keep busy but nothing seemed to hold her attention. She didn't want to work on any sculptures at the moment because she knew she'd just waste the clay. Really, she was too distracted to create right now so any clay she took out would have to be scrapped. No listening to music either. She wouldn't be able to pay attention to any of the songs. (_ _ _) even thought about making herself something to eat but decided against it. No way would she be able to hold anything down right now because of how anxious and tense things were. So she just settled on turning the tv on for some background noise while she paced up and down the hall. She passed by the doorway to the living room every few seconds so she easily kept an eye on the gem. Just waiting...
But she didn't have to wait long. Soon her living room was engulfed with the bright warm light from before. The young woman froze in the doorway and clutched her stun gun, mentally bracing herself for what was about to go down. Things went like they'd gone before. The light from the gem shaped itself into a human figure. But (_ _ _) flinched when the light almost looked like it...warped as it finished forming itself. But the glitch was gone and in its place stood the toned body of the person from before. (_ _ _) tensed up when their feet touched the floor. But she almost jumped out of her skin when the bigger body stumbled and collapsed onto their hands and knees on the floor. After the figure groaned, (_ _ _) timidly shuffled forward but yelped and practically threw herself back against the door frame when the being's head whipped up to look at her. She (she? she.) looked like she was trying to glare at her. But the look was diluted by the look of pain that took over her features. None the less, (_ _ _) gripped the stun gun to try and give herself some courage.
She gulped and held the device up in warning. "S-..stay back! You try anything like you did earlier and...I swear I'll zap you!"
The muscular woman currently crumpled on (_ _ _)'s living room floor tried to harden her glare but soon the harsh look faded and she groaned in what sounded like terrible agony. She shakily reached up to her crystalline nose before choking out a cry of shock. There at the top was a hairline fracture in her gem. The fracture looked like it webbed out onto her face in the form of a scar. The crack itself was so small that it was almost unnoticeable. Without the scar there to draw attention to it then it would probably remain invisible to anyone who wasn't actively looking for it.
But before (_ _ _) could look further she was startled by the woman's angered cry. And she started inching her way back to hide behind the door frame when the mystery being roared louder in anguish before slamming her fist against the floor. (_ _ _) found herself gulping when the wooden floorboards groaned loudly from the impact of the her fist. Then when she slowly raised her head to level her with a glare the human paused. Confusion flooded her system when she swore saw tears prickling the tall being's eyes. And when she clenched her eyes closed, (_ _ _) was sure they were tears. The small drops fell, hitting the wooden boards beneath her. The white haired being choked on a sob, much to (_ _ _)'s shock before hissing in a chillingly low timbre.
"Do you have any idea what you've done?"
The human weakly shook her head 'no'. The crumpled woman's tone alone was terrifying enough but coupled with the burning look in her golden eyes and (_ _ _) was effectively quaking where she stood. Now she wasn't a fool. She knew that the crack on the woman's nose-gem-thing was her and her car's fault. But it had been an accident. She didn't want to hurt the woman but she'd been so scared that she'd just reacted on instinct. She just wanted to maybe scare her off. But apparently that age old instinct had damaged another person's face. Painfully too. Guilt enveloped (_ _ _) and she slowly lowered the stun gun before drawing in a shaky breath to try and speak.
"I-...I'm sorry I hurt your nose-..uh..gem. I didn't want you hurt. Honestly! I just wanted to get away. You scared me."
The last bit was spoken in a whisper, but she was sure she heard you anyways. Because she shook her head, as if in denial, and muttered to herself.
"I can't return like this. Yellow Diamond will have no use for me anymore. The mission was already fucked beyond salvation but at least I wasn't to blame. Now I'll be shattered and used in synthetic fusion experiments like all the other failures! A busted jasper is worthless to the Diamond Authority."
All at once the anger that had kept her going vanished and the giant woman could no longer hold herself up. She fell to the ground on her side in a boneless pile of limbs. She didn't move an inch for a long time so (_ _ _) cautiously stepped closer, still quite nervous about everything. And hearing about the woman being 'shattered' and used in experiments wasn't helping to ease her worry. Just what kind of place did this giant woman come from where an injury would warrant something like that?
"Are... Are you okaAAAAHHH-"
Faster than she could respond, the formerly crumpled woman struck out her arm and yanked (_ _ _) down to her level. And as this happened, (_ _ _) accidentally dropped her stun gun in favor of trying to keep her head from smacking against the ground. She tried to scramble up but all at once she froze when she saw that her and the woman were quite literally eye to eye. And her heart started really pounding when she finally noticed that the woman's large hand was centimeters from her neck. The human gulped, never breaking eye contact with the other woman. She was terrified that looking away would somehow break the silence and cause her end. So she laid there, motionless, just waiting for the other she to drop.
And finally, the woman spoke.
"I could kill you right now, human. It would be beyond easy. All I'd have to do is apply a little extra force to your neck."
As if to demonstrate, she lightly pressed her large hand down against her fragile neck. Not enough to actually hurt (_ _ _), but her message was all too clear.
I could kill you if I wanted to.
(_ _ _) felt tears well up in her eyes, which she let fall down across her cheek and nose to the floor below. She didn't know what to do. She knew she had a very low chance of slipping from the woman's grasp. And fighting her off seemed even less likely to work. So she did the only thing she could do. She begged.
"Please don't kill me. I'm sorry I hurt you. M-maybe we can get your gem fixed?"
The yellow eyed woman just gazed listlessly at the petrified human before huffing and removing her hand. She rolled onto her back and stared at the ceiling. Then as an afterthought she grunted,
"Save your pathetic sniveling, human. I'm not going to hurt you. Even though you've single handedly condemned me to a fractured life, shunned from my fellow gems, and left me a failure to my Leaders. Unlike other gems I could name, I don't enjoy the thrill of the kill. Especially killing something as weak as a human."
Neither of the two moved for a long time after the woman's impromptu speech. Though once (_ _ _) was sure the giant woman wasn't simply lying to mess with her head, she scurried away from the woman's side. Though the whole time her brain was screaming that she was going to be crushed the second she moved, but thankfully nothing happened. Instead of flipping her shit like a smaller part of her brain wanted her to, she instead scooted herself back until her back was pressed flush against the wall. She took a deep breath and watched the pale haired woman currently laying motionless on her living room floor in contemplative silence.
(_ _ _) just sat there for who knows how long, just staring holes into the other woman's form. Finally her stunned brain kicked itself into gear and she wondered to herself,
'What the hell am I going to do now?'