Two months had went by since Rose's passing, and all of the gems were pretty torn over it... But none as bad as Pearl. She had been in her room the entire time, and when she came out to do missions, she was deathly silent. She had nothing left to say, nothing to think. It was really hard for her to not have a leader to answer to. Today, however, she wanted to do something to maybe rid her of all her stress. It wasn't until she saw the half-gem infant nearby that she knew what she wanted to do.

She warped to a desolate gem forest and summoned her spear as soon as the green foliage caught her eyes. She began to slice at everything around her in a fit of rage as tears started to bubble up in her eyes. He took Rose away from her. Her leader, her lover, her everything... gone forever. Tears streamed down her face and stung her eyes as she made short work of nearby trees, not caring what she was doing. She suddenly heard the warp pad close by activate, and she heard Amethyst call out for her.

"Pearl! We need your help back at the temple!" Amethyst called out before noticing the wreckage. She gasped and began walking, looking around at all of the utterly destroyed flowers and trees and shrubs. "Pearl! Where are you?" She called out again, hearing a muffled cry not too far from where she was. She ran towards it, almost instantly finding a curled up Pearl on the ground, holding herself. She started to walk to her.

"Get away from me..." she sobbed, curling up tighter.

"P... Come on. It'll be okay." Amethyst assured, still walking closer to the distraught gem until she was close enough to place a hand on her back. Pearl flinched as if she were expecting to be punched.

"Pearl..." The smaller gem continued, gently rubbing the other's back "Come on... You have to stop- Woah!" She exclaimed as Pearl lurched up to hug her tightly. "She's gone!" Pearl cried "She was everything I knew, everything I was about... And now she's gone.." Amethyst felt the slender gem's tears stain her shirt as she cried into her shoulder. She wrapped her arms around Pearl's small frame, a second later bringing a hand to the back of her head, gently rocking her in hopes that she would calm down.

"Shh.. it's alright, Pearl." She said, running her fingers through the other's short hair. "I'll stay here with you for as long as you need me to, okay? Just please stop crying." She felt the head below her hand raise up and saw the owner stare at her with such a look of despair, trying to manage a weak smile.

"Oh, Amethyst... " she choked before planting a soft kiss on her plump lips. "Thank you..." She said, hugging the surprised gem. She held Amethyst close, soon forgetting her worries and anguish. It seemed as though the purple gem was the next best thing to her leader, because she soon found herself smiling again.

After a few more short, tender kisses and a couple moments of awkward silence, Pearl had calmed down and sat up, wiping her eyes of any left over tears. "So..." She started "what is it you needed me for?"

"Oh!" Amethyst recalled. "The baby won't stop crying. Me and Garnet tried everything!" she claimed.

Pearl sighed and got up, dusting herself off. "Let's go, then." she said, walking to the warp pad. Amethyst followed, traveling with her back to the temple. When they had returned, Garnet was holding the crying infant, softly bouncing it in her arms in an attempt to soothe it. She noticed the others and turned to them, and suddenly, things were quiet. They all looked at the baby to see it staring at Pearl.

Garnet walked towards her. When they were mere inches from each other, the baby cooed and giggled, making them all sigh in relief. Pearl looked down at it and saw it had Rose's gem, right where hers was. She gently rubbed it, only to have tiny fingers grab her own, earning a gasp from her.

The small half-human smiled at her and made grabbing motions at her, clearly wanting her to pick it up, which she did, instinctively cradling it in her arms. She hummed as she rocked it back and forth. It then ran its little fingers over her cheek, cupping it in its hand.

"...earl..." It said, trying to speak.

The others gathered around the slender gem in awe. "What?" They all inquired collectively.

"...Pearl" it said, more coherent than last time.

The other gems looked at her in disbelief. "He hasn't said anything since he got here... Not even to Greg." Garnet claimed. "Your name is his first word!" Amethyst added excitedly.

A tear of joy ran down her cheek, only to be caught by the tiny being's hand. It looked directly into her eyes and smiled at her. "...My Pearl..." it stated, rubbing her cheek. Her eyes widened as she took in what it just said.

"I..." She started, before turning her head away. She sighed, hugging the infant to her chest.

"My baby Rose..."