Peridot log #8226
Mark, mid-day, second log of the day. Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and Steven have left the base to oversee an emergency at a "Hos-pital", this is a facility where, when humans are injured, they attend the place to recover. Note, it's interesting they take time to re-perfect themselves, such as when a gem can get their cracks filled with a molten version of the material they're made of. Apparently organic life can sustain and repair themselves over a period of time. Possible creation idea, find a way for gems to obtain said property or figure out details of the components needed to have said properties.
Peridot, out.
Steven looked down at the small pale figure in front of him, lying on the hospital bed was a gem. The childish gender neutral figure had almost bluish white skin, elbow length messy hair of a greyer hue, covered in a hospital gown their left arm had an exposed tilted square gem. Not only was this person a gem, but the surface of their gem was horribly scratched, like a scraped knee. He looked behind himself at the crystal gems, "Who is this?"
"I-i'm…" Pearl stuttered, "I don't know. Garnet?"
Garnet stepped forwards, "Hm, nope. Never met one of their kind before."
"Garnet, their gem." Steven looked up at the tallest gem them a worried glance to the purple one.
"It a serious injury, but their physical form seems to be unharmed otherwise."
Amethyst poked her, "Should we take 'em with us? This is gem business… sorta."
"Connie?" Steven turned to his friend.
"My mom says she's physically fine, just asleep. Apparently they were found washed up a little north of Beach City, near the cliffs." Connie said reading off the chart at the bottom of the hospital bed.
"The cliffs!?" Steven said worriedly.
"Hey I go there to find trash! Crazy stuff ends up in the tide pools there." Amethyst waves her hands around.
"Either way it's highly dangerous for a gem to be in a human hospital! We shouldn't leave them here." Pearly pointed out.
Garnet put her hand on Pearls shoulder, "We can't do anything for them back at the temple either, let's leave 'em for not and bring Peridot and Lazuli tomorrow."
"You sure? I mean, what if they wake up?" Steven looked up at Garnet.
"No, you would just be up all night if we brought them with us, an' little Stevens need their sleep. We can visit tomorrow." Garnet started walking out, the other gems following.
"I'll see you tomorrow then, Connie." Steven hugged his human friend.
"Yeah, I'll see you then." Connie looked back at the bed before turning off the lights, "We're still on for movie night at your place on Saturday right?"
"Hehe, yeah! Absolutely!" He said closing the door.
That night Steven laid in his bed staring at the ceiling, 'Garnet was right, if I'm not sleeping while their not here, I'd be staring at them all night if we brought them home… I wonder if they came here to get the thing we stole from White Diamond back. Maybe since they're alone they'd be willing to talk? And that scratch on their gem." Steven shuddered remembering what the slight cracks had done to Amethyst and Lapis. The hybrid thought for a while longer, until he passed out.
Floating, Steven was floating through space, it was pretty, to all sides were shining galaxies and constellations. He drifted through, enjoying the sights and quiet, like it was brand new and he'd never seen anything so wonderful before, it was bliss. Then from his right, an orange blob is approaching, not very fast but Steven suddenly felt alarmed. He panicked, thrashing around and reaching for something to grab or to propel himself away. The orange mass was much closer now, and from this distance you could almost make out a "u" shape along with bits of red and white. This, for a reason unknown to Steven, made him breathe faster and hit things around him. At this point he realized he was in a space pod, not unlike Peridot's, but also different, whiter and more triangular. The blob was getting very close, Steven looked to a blue and green striped lever, he pulled as hard as he could and… and...
"Steven."
'Hm...?'
"Steven, wake up."
"Mmmm…"
"Steven, Pearl said you're taking us to a 'Hos-pit-al', today."
He felt a soft poke and opened his eyes. On his bedside was Lapis Lazuli, he looked down and could see Peridot fiddling with some device on the couch.
"Good morning, Sunshine!" The boy said stretching out and hopping out of bed.
"It's 'Lapis'." Said gem rolled her eyes at the ongoing joke.
Steven climbed down and collected some things before going into the bathroom, "Where are the other gems today?"
"Pearl suggested they look for ship debris and clues by the Cliffs, just in case the specimen they've found yesterday had any weapons or accomplices." Peridot answered not looking up.
"Oh, then you're both with me today?" Steven asked through the door.
"Yep, just you, me, and her." Lapis replied with a slight pause between "and" and "her". Things had gotten much better after Peridot had attempted her apology to Lapis, and the blue gem could handle the company of the smaller green gem for medium amounts of time.
"Ok, I'm ready then!" Steven said walking out of the bathroom and over to the kitchen, he grabbed a granola bar from the cupboard and held open the door for the other two, "Ladies."
"Thanks, Steven." Lapis walked out.
"Peridot, you coming?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah whatever." Peridot held the rectangle and screwdriver and hurried out.