Warning: depictions of torture, and a lot of blood, oh and a little cussing. And thanks for all the dope reviews by the way, this one's way longer.
Lapis arrived at Rose's home, momentarily gazing in awe at the gargantuam mansion. "Enough distractions, need to find Pink Diamond." She banged on the door, for once, not caring about the trouble she would be in for disturbing a superior. She banged harder and harder, steadily starting to lose her patience, then, she could hear locks clicking, the door finally started opening.
"May I help you?" A pearl with a very bored expression opened the door, looking at Lapis with distaste. "Yes, I need to speak to Pink Diamond this instant, it's an emergency." The pearl sighed, rolling her eyes at the taller gem. "You know, a human told me before that, patience and diligence, like faith, remove mount-" Lapis cut her off, "I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT HUMANS RIGHT NOW, I NEED TO SPEAK TO PINK DIAMOND, NOT HER SERVANT."
The pearl looked slightly hurt by Lapis' comment, but that wasn't of her concern right now, Aqua could be in trouble and this pearl was keeping her from finding out where she could be. The pearl suddenly smirked, "Well, this servant says that Pink Diamond isn't here, so have a good day." She started closing the door, Lapis was afraid she lost her only chance of finding Aqua. "No wait please!" Tears started streaming down her face, burning wet trails on her skin.
A large hand took a hold of the door, swinging it open, "Is there something you need?" Rose Quartz beamed down at Lapis, who was sitting on the ground in defeat, however when she saw who it was she immediately stood up, dismissing her previous carefree behavior and dusted herself off, bowing to Rose. "Yes, I apologize for my intrusion on your property without proper invitation general Pink Diamond, but I'm afraid I'm searching for a friend of mine, I believe this was her last known location."
"Please, it's Rose, and don't apologize, not to me at least, I believe it was my Pearl you were not very kind to." Lapis looked behind Rose at the very smug looking pearl and sighed, "I'm sorry Pearl, I didn't mean to be so unkind towards you." Pearl just smiled, still looking smug, and nodded, "Apology accepted."
"Now, who is this friend you speak of, I tend to have many visitors over." Lapis immediately went back to her frenzied, worried behavior. "Her name's Aquamarine, she's about my height, her hair is a light blue kind of color with this white bow in the middle, her gem is located on the right side of her face under bangs, sh-" Rose cut her off, "Whoa, slow down, you had me at Aquamarine. So, you're saying she never arrived at her facility?"
"Exactly, I woke up and she was nowhere to be found, she's never disappeared like this, I'm just really worried." Rose looked about as worried as Aqua, then she whispered something to Pearl, Lapis couldn't make out anything she said, Rose then turned towards Lapis. "A friend of mine might be able to help, would you mind coming with me?" Lapis was already running towards Rose's warp pad. "I suppose that's a yes."
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"Aaaaahhhh! Damnit, son of a-, why are you doing this to me?!" Aqua was helpless, her arms clung to her sides, trapped in steel cuffs, more and more of her hot, salty blood dripped into her mouth, choking her, she was in the most pain she ever experienced in her life.
"So what do you say, ready to talk?" Aqua looked up, her form was twitching and her vision was blurry, the brute must've cracked her gem. She saw her blood dripping down off Jasper's crash helmet, vomit started rising to her throat, but she swallowed it. "Please, I don't know what you're talking about, just let me go."
Jasper let out a haunting laugh, "Now why would I do that, you haven't answered any of my questions, plus I thought we'd share some quality time together. Now, what was a weak little brat like you doing out so late?" Aqua tried to look at the gem through bloody, tear filled eyes, "I-I wasn't d-d-doing anything bad, I j-just didn't know I w-w-wasn't supposed to be out."
Jasper smiled wider, "Wrong answer , but luckily for you I'm not going to break this beautiful gem, yet, I want to put you in as much pain as possible before I shatter you to pieces." Jasper pulled out a small dagger and placed it on Aqua's arm, without warning she cut all the way from the bottom of her palm to her elbow. "Aaaaahhhh fuck, what's wrong with you, I'm telling you the truth bastard!"
Jasper licked the knife, cleaning the blood off. "Hmm that may be, but the problem is that I don't believe you. By the way if you think that you can retreat into your gem you can't, you haven't been in enough physical damage, yeah I do my research."
More tears streamed down her face, but she stopped trying to hide it, there's no point in that. "Somebody please help me."
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Lapis and Rose arrived at this huge ice castle located in the middle of the ice quadrant, dozens of gems were skating around while Lapis was having trouble standing still on the frozen water. "Well, ice definitely isn't my element. Rose chuckled at the ocean gem, "Don't you have wings, Lapis?" Lapis mentally smacked herself, of course she forgot all about her wings.
Lapis summoned her water wings, flying just above the cold, uneasy ice. "I'm sorry, but exactly who here is going to help us Rose Quartz?" Rose said nothing, instead going ahead, proceeding to the icy castle door. She knocked very lightly, the thudding was barely audible. "Sapphire doesn't like too many loud noises, but trust me she might already know we're here." Sure enough, the blue gem Lapis recognized from field practice appeared at the door seconds later, a very distressed look on her face, she pulled both the gems in.
"Rose, I know why you're here, and yes it is as we feared." Rose looked worried, Lapis however, was extremely confused. "What is it that she feared?" Sapphire then noticed Lapis flying above the ice, she grabbed Rose and led her away. "Please, excuse us." Lapis nodded, watching the two walk away, when they were out of sight, she soon heard hushed voices.
"You shouldn't have brang her." Lapis listened in, but acted as though she was trying to focus on her bare feet, in case the gems looked towards her. "They took her, she's in interrogation right now, she's very injured." Lapis perked up a little, but otherwise remained silent, continuing to listen in. "Who's building, I can try to help her."
"Yellow Diamond's she's been there for awhile, her gem's cracked." She heard Rose gasp loudly. "Are you sure?! Well in that case we need to get to her right now, I'll tell Lapis to go home, that I'll take care of it."
"Be careful Rose, I'm seeing a lot of different futures on this." The two gems returned shortly, Sapphire offering a sympathetic smile. "I'm sorry about your friend, but I've told Rose all I know." She then curtsied and left the two gems. "Lapis listen, I know where Aquamarine is, I'm the only person who can help her right now, if I get to her in time, she'll be fine."
"And if not?" Lapis stared at Rose, waiting for an answer. "I don't know, I'm sorry but I must leave now, go home and wait, that's an order." Lapis glared at her but eventually turned and left, she had to follow orders after all, no matter the situation. " Please Aqua be okay."
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"P-please..." Aqua spit up blood with traces of vomit out her mouth, she couldn't even see anymore, Jasper decided to cut her good eye with the small dagger, splattering the salty blood on the floor. Aqua was in unbearable pain, but she couldn't regenerate, she wasn't injured enough, and Jasper knew it.
"I'm getting really impatient, all you have to do to end this is tell me what you were doing." Aqua sobbed no longer ashamed of it, she couldn't tell on Rose, she just couldn't. "I-I-I already t-t-told you!" Jasper grabbed her throat, squeezing it, causing more blood to exit her mouth. "You know, I hate to see such a pretty gem broken, but we have no room for traitorous trash in Homeworld."
Jasper pulled her head back, ready to demolish her gem, but a voice stopped her. "STOP, let her go!" Jasper immediately let go of her throat, "Ma'am, what's the problem?" Footsteps were heard, followed by Yellow Diamond's voice. "Rose Quartz has informed me that this, miscreant, was in her company last night finishing up work on her garden. She's free to go."
Yellow Diamond sounded genuinely disappointed, Aqua however was probably the happiest gem in the galaxy right now. "Thank you Rose." She soon felt her hands being uncuffed, then her feet. "Don't think this changes anything, disrespectful brats like you always get shattered." Jasper's voice made her blood run cold, she didn't understand how gems can be so cruel to fellow gems.
"Now leave, you already desecrated my cellar with your disgusting bodily fluids." Aqua dragged herself through the room, feeling around for her way out. A warm hand grabbed hers, and she was brought into a comforting hug. "I'm so sorry I let this happen to you, I can fix this, you'll be okay, I promise."
Aqua let out a weak chuckle, "It's fine Rose, I been through worse, remember I'm with Pearl at least 4 hours a day." Rose laughed way too loudly, "I suppose you're right, by the way you have a very caring friend." Her demeanor quickly changed, "Oh man, what am I going to tell Lapis?" Rose noticed her change in emotion, "Don't worry now, she's resting. Everything will be okay I promise."
"I guess I'll just have to trust Rose, I can't let her see me like this anyways. Oh Lapis, forgive me."