I am so sorry! I should have posted this sooner. I've been dealing with some family stuff lately and it's completely taken over my life. Please don't hate me.

Garnet looked at Sophia's eye, while Amythest and Pearl tried to keep Steven, Connie, and Greg busy. She stared silently like she was trying to decide what to say. She finally shared her findings.

"I can remove it," she said," but that would involve shattering it."

"But if you shatter the gem," Sophia said," then she'll die. There has to be another way!"

"I'm sorry," Garnet replied" there is no other way."

"Sure there is! You just don't want to find it! You don't want to out any energy into saving a fusion experiment! You just want to shatter the gem and forget that she ever existed! Just like what you do with all those corrupted gems! You poor them, you bubble them, then you forget all about them!"

Her eye was bright red. When it finally went back to normal Sophia saw looks of horror on everone's face.

She ran outside and Sat down in front of the ocean. Steven wasn't far behind her.

"I'm sorry," she said," the ruby took over. When she does that I have no control over what I say or do."

"The gems really are trying to help," he said.

"I know," Sophia answered," I used to love this."

"What?"

"I used to love hearing the waves roll in and out, feeling the sand, watching the families play together, but whenever I even go near water, the ruby screams out in protest."

"Do you hate her? The ruby?"

"I don't hate her. She didn't plan to be poofed. She didn't plan to be trapped inside me when she tried to regenerate. I hate the quartz gems who forced me onto their ship. I hate the diamond who ordered them to experiment on me. I even hate the pearl who stood by and did nothing, when they were hurting me. But I don't hate the ruby."

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"I'm sorry we don't have anywhere better for you to sleep, but the couch should be fine,"Steven said.

"It's cool," Sophia said," It's better than what I had on Home World."

"I guess they don't really cater to human needs there," he said.

"You should have seen their faces when I wanted food,"She chuckled humorlessly," they eventually started feeding me through a tube," She shuddered," I would kill for a pizza."

"Well then I guess we'll have to get you a pizza," Steven said," good night Sophia."

She closed her eyes, and she was asleep. She was suddenly some where new. It was all red. Sophia got the feeling that she wasn't supposed to be there. She felt for the ruby, but to her surprise, She had both eyes. Then she was knocked off her feet.

She had only a second to look up and see the ruby.

"You!"she screamed," What are you doing here? How did you get here?

Sophia tried to get up, but th ruby was too stong. She noticed her struggling.

"There's no point to fighting," she said," I was made to fight off any threat to my diamond, and I know for a fact that I would have no problem destroying a puny little human like you," she summoned one of her gauntlets," now, tell me how you got in here, or I'll crush you."

"I don't know how I got here," She said,"all I know is I was falling asleep, and then I was here."

"Like I'm gonna believe that," she barked back.

Her gauntlet came down to Sophia's head.

"Wait, Ruby!" Sophia screamed," We've been through so much together. I felt your anger, you felt my fears, I burned with rage, while you shed my tears. I would never shatter you. I guess a part of me always believed you felt the same way about me."

The ruby looked down at here, and for a moment looked remorseful. She pulled her gauntlet away from Sophia's face. She started to relax when the gauntlet was placed back in the air, and once again thrown into Sophia's face.

"I guess you thought wrong," the ruby said.

Sophia woke up on the couch screaming, with a monster headache.