Author's Note: I'm sorry guys but I can't promise frequent posting. I'm really busy so please understand. Anyways, here's chapter two!

"What does that mean?" Steven said in complete bewilderment. A memory!? That would explain why it felt so real but whose memory would it be, because it certainly wasn't mine.

"Yeah, how could Steven remember a gem war?" Amethyst added.

"I don't know but I remember that battle. That happened right after we took over sector 3986. Rose didn't want to, but she was pushing her troops hard. That was probably one of the worst parts of the war." Pearl explained.

"Wait, so my nightmare was-"

"One of Rose's memories." Garnet said as she reentered the room.

"Woah woah, one thing at a time here." Amethyst said, the confusion in her voice was audible. "Why did you smash this table a rush out like that?"

Garnet's emotions were often difficult to determine but, even through her glasses, you could see the anguish on her face. She looked down trying to hide the emotion Amethyst's question brought to her.

"I'd rather not worry you with mere possibilities." Garnet replied.

"What if we want to be worried?" Pearl remarked.

"You won't be." Garnet said sternly as she clenched her fists. It was hard enough seeing glimpses of what might happen to Steven but talking about it was worse.

Geez, Garnet must've seen something bad with her future vision, Steven thought. I wonder what it could be? I've never had any of my mom's memories before but maybe it's just a side effect of having her gem. I have no clue what these nightmares mean but Garnet does. I just wish she would tell us.

"Okay…" Steven said. He had a plethora of questions to choose from so he chose carefully. "Do you know if, or when, these nightmare memory things'll stop?"

Garnet adjusted her glasses as she utilized her future vision. "No, it's a 25% chance they'll stop, go away, and never come back. A 75% chance you'll…" Garnet cut herself off.

"He'll what Garnet!?" Amethyst asked.

"Look, we know it's not unlike you to keep secrets for our own good but this is something more than that. It's Steven we're talking about!" Pearl added.

"Please Garnet." Steven added.

The pleading from the other gems continued but Garnet shut her eyes. The future she was seeing, the most likely future, was awful. She wanted it to stop but the more they talked about it the worse it got. She put her palms on her temples and gripped her head. She was showing much more emotion than she'd like to, but what she was seeing was…familiar. Like when Steven was born. When Rose died, or at least when they assumed she did. She wanted it to stop, she need it to stop. This rush of sad memories and horrible futures was torture.

"ENOUGH!" Garnet shouted. When she opened her eyes she saw the shocked faces of her teammates. She looked at Steven with a sad expression and turned towards the temple door.

"Wait, Garnet!" Steven yelled. Garnet didn't turned she just kept walking until she got to the temple door. Where she stopped abruptly. Steven hadn't seen Garnet so shaken up since she saw that gem cluster. He ran up to Garnet and hugged her. "If it's that bad then you don't have to think about it." Steven said. Not to imply that he didn't have a burning desire to know what his nightmares meant but he put the safety and comfort of his family above everything.

Garnet smiled, he was always so considerate but one way or another she was going to have to tell the others. Not now though. Right now she was going to listen to Steven. Garnet knelt down and hugged Steven, "Thank you, Steven." Garnet then stood and went into her room.

Steven turned around to see Pearl and Amethyst having trouble expressing all of the emotions they were feeling. Amethyst was leaning back staring at the ceiling with her mouth agape. Pearl had a deep expression of confusion as she stared at Steven, but she wasn't looking at Steven. Her eyes were unfocused as she thought. Garnet's reaction brought questions to everyone's' minds, but those questions had no answer…yet.

"So, what are you guys thinking?" Steven asked trying to get some answers to his profusion of questions.

"What?" Amethyst replied as she snapped out of her thoughts.

"I was just wondering what you think Garnet saw."

"Oh, I don't know but I can't remember the last time I saw her like that." Amethyst replied.

"I can." Pearl cut in.

"When?" Amethyst questioned.

Pearl only had to speak one word for Amethyst to know what memories she was thinking of, "Rose." Pearl said.

After Pearl said that the room's atmosphere became uncomfortable and silent. Everyone avoided eye contact. Steven didn't know what to say so he looked around the room and saw that it was 3:00 p.m. on the digital clock on the microwave. Connie should be out of tennis practice!

"Ok we can talk about this later but I'm gonna go see if Connie wants to hang out." Steven said as he ran up the stairs into his room to grab his phone. He ran outside and texted Connie. He waited for about five minutes before she answered.

S=Steven C=Connie

S- Hello

C- Hey, Steven!

S- Hi Connie! Wanna hang out?

C- Sure, where?

S- We can go to the lighthouse if you want.

C- Okay sounds good I'll be there in about fifteen minutes.

S- See you then

Steven was almost offered to bring snacks and drinks but he didn't want to go back into the house so he headed off to the lighthouse. He was walking through the sand towards the lighthouse when he realized he would have to tell Connie about his nightmare. He could never hide things from her she knew him too well. He wasn't sad that he had to tell her, in fact, he was a little happy. Maybe she could provide some answers to his dozens of questions. He arrived at the lighthouse ten minutes before Connie did. He sat there thinking of a good way to tell Connie about his memory dream. Connie arrived and as she hopped out of her parent's car she yelled goodbye. Connie approached Steven and he stood up.

"Hi." Steven said.

"Hello." Connie replied.

"How's your day been?"

"Super great! I found out they're coming out with another Dogcopter movie!" Connie's mention of Dogcopter brightened Steven's mood a little

"How has your day been?" Connie asked Steven

"Could be better." Steven's reply came out less enthusiastically than he'd hoped.

"What happened? Is it a magic story?"

"Sorta...I think."

"What's that mean?"

"I'll just tell you what happened."

"Okay."

"I had an awful nightmare last night about a gem war. Turns out it wasn't a nightmare it was one of my mom's memories."

"That's never happened before, has it?"

"No this is all new and Garnet is acting really weird about it."

"Do Amethyst and Pearl know about it?"

"Yeah Pearl even remembers the battle that I dreamt about."

"Wow."

"Yeah, and I think Garnet knows what the nightmare means but she won't tell anyone to protect us or something."

"Pearl told me that "knowing just what to keep secret from everyone you're trying to protect is the mark of a great leader."

"She told me that too but I don't think keeping secrets is right."

"Then you'll have to ask her."

"I guess, but I'll wait a little bit. She was super sad when she thought about." Steven said trying to consider Garnet's feelings. "I'll ask her tomorrow."

Author's Note: That was chapter two of Unintentional Return. Hope you enjoyed and please review. Again I must thank Lady Shadow92 for the tremendous help. Stay fabulous. Until the next chapter, bye!