"Onyx? Onyx…?" She heard.

It feels like it's been forever since she had last heard someone had spoken to her. It seems like she had been in darkness, A dark, endless room. It feels as if she had been wandering around it these past few hours. During her time in that void, she was just trying to find a way out. She couldn't find one until…

"Onyx!" That voice broke her out. The sleek black gem sharply gasped as she woke up. Tourmaline sighed in relief as Onyx woke up. The dark gem found herself lying on Tourmaline's magenta couch as she saw her sitting next to her. "Hey take it easy, You were freaking out and breathing heavily while we were back in Pink Diamond's court. Relax." The mint green gem soothed her. "How long was I out?" Onyx asked.

"Three days." Tourmaline simply answered. Onyx then remembered the events prior to now. 'Charoite…' She remembered how White Diamond mercilessly killed her in front of them. "You think we could've helped her?" She asked. "No…even if we tried, White Diamond would just easily beat us into the ground and smash us…" Tourmaline said as she crossed her arms. "I know there was nothing we could've done without getting killed but…I still had to do something about it, I still feel like I could've made a difference e-even if…" She couldn't finish her sentence.

Tourmaline sighed as she shrugged it off. "It's fine…we'll remember Charoite as a great friend…" Onyx plopped her head back on the couch. 'Jeez…I've never felt more awful in my life…' She thought.

"You getting any better…?" Tourmaline asked. Onyx sighed. "No to be honest but…have you been watching over me ever since we got back?"

It had been three days since it happened. Tourmaline had to be doing something other than watching her right? She could've been talking to some other members of the court, but then again they'd probably too indulged in their work to talk…She could've been begging White Diamond to work in her court again …Yeah she'd probably not want to hear anything Tourmaline would say at the moment.

"Yeah of course…" Tourmaline responded. 'No way, Tourmaline actually stayed here for three whole days just to watch over me?' "I mean it makes sense as to why I would, If you have to be with me at all times then it would make sense for me to stay with you." She added.

Tourmaline sighed. "I honestly feel as if I can't save any of my friends…I haven't had much the past but when I did, I would always act so hostile and ruse to them, While I should be grateful that I even had any to begin with…" Onyx listened as Tourmaline started to tear up. She looked back at her guard and wiped a stray tear away. "But it's fine now…I-It's all in the past…."

The guard sat up from her couch. "Is there anyone you remember…? Like anyone you had before me?" She asked. Tourmaline seemed to perk up at her question. "Wh-What do you mean by that?"

"Who was there before me?" Onyx asked. The mint green aristocrat sighed and looked down at her legs. "Platinum…" She answered. Onyx raised an eyebrow. "Who are they?" "He's…a gem that..." Tourmaline blushed as she paused. "…I fell in love with back when I first came to homeworld.." The mint green gem finished as she pressed her hand over her face.

'Wait, SHE LOVED SOMEONE? And here I just thought that she liked White Diamond..!'

Onyx felt jealous again. "S-So…how'd you two meet..?" She asked. The aristocrat chuckled. "I figured you'd ask that…" Onyx noticed that she didn't sound so irritated and hostile when she asked something, but rather calm. "There was a meeting one day and we were both dragged there, And that's when he stumbled in and met me…He was assigned to Blue Diamond, And I told him I was assigned to White Diamond. Later on, we had to share rooms with all these Pearls heheh…we just kind of sat there. The thing with him was that he stuttered a lot when he was around me, I kept asking if his gem was broken or something…"

"It's a long story really, We also related to each other a lot…the gems in our kindergartens were destroyed except for us and we were both taken in by the Diamonds." She sighed. "I was pretty hostile towards him though, I just didn't want him to know I liked him…"

"But one day I felt about telling him about how I really feel, And before I got the chance to do that was when The Rebellion came around. While we were fighting, He went off somewhere without me. He told me not to worry about him and that he'll be okay but…" Tourmaline could feel herself starting to snap. Not out of anger but out of regret. "I-I never saw him again after that…There wasn't a single trace of him or where he went. I nearly went off Homeworld just so I could find him, White and Blue Diamond caught me and told me that I'll just have to deal with not seeing him again…and never getting to tell him how I really felt about him…"

The black gem began to feel saddened by this. "Before…why didn't you want to tell him how you felt?" she asked. "Cos…there was no way he would like me back, After acting so hostile and mean towards him, I don't think he would've accepted my feelings…"

"But…" Onyx started as he rested her hand on Tourmaline's wrist. "He seemed like he cared about you a lot. Before he went missing, He told you not to worry and that he'll be fine, He didn't want you to feel scared."

"Yeah but…I don't know. I really don't since I never knew how he felt. My best guess was just that he wouldn't accept me." Onyx raised an eyebrow. "Why would you tell him how you felt if you thought he wouldn't feel the same way?"

"I just wanted to let him know how I felt, I couldn't just bottle it up for the rest of my life." She answered. "But it's fine…I still have a few things left that matter to me here…" "Huh? Like what?" "You, Pearl, and Charoite…" Tourmaline said as she looked to the left. Onyx was surprised that she was even mentioned. "Me?" The aristocrat scoffed. "Yes you. You're my guard. I know that you'll always be there for me."

Onyx felt somewhat special from what she said. No one had ever really said that they were grateful to have her around. She was never really noticed anyways. But then she remembered… "Wait, You mentioned Charoite…" "Well yeah…" Tourmaline replied as she walked across the room and picked up a box. Onyx noticed parts of Charoite's body inside the box and some of the purple substance she had coughed out during her fight with White Diamond. "Yesterday I snook out and went back to the Pink Court and got Charoite's…parts. White Diamond didn't bother to do anything with her which I'm glad about. So I took her parts back here…"

"Are you gonna rebuild her? Onyx asked. "Yeah." "So you know how to rebuild stuff?" She asked again. Tourmaline sighed. "Well no actually, But I can try though…"

"Oh, okay then…You need any help with it?" "Nah I'm pretty sure I can do it. Thanks for the offer though." She replied as she got some tools out. Onyx started to feel skeptical for some reason. She didn't know why but she started feeling like there's something wrong with White Diamond. 'Does she really care about Tourmaline? How come she didn't respect her wishes of finding Platinum? Why is she always keeping her cooped up here on Homeworld?' She wanted to know what White Diamond would say about her when she's not around.

She noticed Tourmaline rearranging Charoite's mangled wires and gluing the shattered pieces of her head back together. Onyx got up. "I'll just sneak out for a bit…I'll go check if there's anything else from Charoite…" She said. "Are you sure?" Tourmaline asked, slightly worried. "Yeah."

"Okay then. Be careful out there. I think some Pearls might be on the lookout." She warned. "Don't worry, I'll be fine." Onyx reassured her as she carefully left. She looked around and saw no Pearls around. She crept onto a warp pad and luckily was back in the Pink Court. Onyx walked around and felt something at the bottom of her foot. She looked down and saw it was a piece of Charoite's visor. She then saw the other half and picked it up. "Well…I guess that's it. I'll go back to the room now."

The black gem walked back to the warp and was back in the White Court. As she was walking back to the room, She heard laughter coming from White Diamond's room. She carefully leaned against the door and peaked into the small opening from the door and saw Blue and White Diamond sitting across from one another on their thrones.

"So what did you do with those two?" Blue Diamond asked. "They won't be doing anything else in this court until I order them to." White Diamond replied. "Are you going to let them out?"

"I really wouldn't but they are of good use so eventually I will let them know they can work again." Onyx started to feel anxious. She was worried about being spotted but she wanted to hear more. "Tourmaline is growing weaker though, Ugh Damn…I shouldn't be letting her around other gems, They are what's triggering her emotions." Onyx started to get more intrigued.

White Diamond scoffed. "That's why I locked up that stupid Platinum and thrashed into Earth, You don't mind that do you?" She asked Blue Diamond. "No of course not, He was a sad excuse for a member anyways, He could've been broken for all I care." She replied. "I shouldn't have let Charoite anywhere near Tourmaline, Her problems in your court caused her to delay her work. Her interactions with other gems cause her to grow weak which is why I had to put an end to her. The only reason I keep Onyx around is because I can't watch over Tourmaline all the time." White Diamond sighed.

Onyx's eyes widened as she thought. 'Platinum was forced onto earth…He didn't disappear! How could she do that?!' She thought as she grew infuriated. 'White Diamond took him away from her just so she could focus on her work! That bitch!' She didn't even think about what White Diamond said about her. The guard calmed down and soon grew sad rather than angry. She started walking away from the door and started heading to she and Tourmaline's room. 'How am I going to approach her about this? I don't think she can handle the fact that White Diamond took away her two best friends…'

She then heard a scream come from her room. Onyx immediately grew terrified at the thought that something happened to Tourmaline. She ran and stormed into the room.

"What's wrong?!" Onyx asked as she yelled. She then saw Tourmaline hold her head as she was on her knees. She also noticed that Charoite's body was completely assembled back but probably wasn't working.

"COME ON! I ASSEMBLED YOU BACK, WHY AREN'T YOU WORKING?!"

"TOURMALINE CALM DOWN!"

"I CAN'T HAVE YOU TAKEN AWAY! YOU'RE THE ONLY FRIEND I'VE HAD IN THOUSANDS OF YEARS! YOU CAN'T BE GONE YOU CAN'T!" Tourmaline shrieked as what appeared to be the two ties that held her twintails together were clutched onto her hand. Onyx grabbed a hold of Tourmaline and hugged her from behind. "TOURMALINE STOP!"

"WHY WERE YOU SMILING BEFORE YOU DIED?! WERE YOU HAPPY TO LEAVE?! I HATE YOU! I HATE ONYX! I HATE PLATINUM! I HATE WHITE DIAMOND! AND I HATE MYSELF!" She screamed as she smashed the two glass ties onto the floor, causing her hands to start bleeding. Tourmaline collapsed and whimpered in pain.

Onyx held Tourmaline's body. Is this how she really feels? Why did she feel this way? "Tourmaline…" Onyx whimpered.

"I'm sorry…I don't hate you…" She apologized as she wept into her bleeding hands. Onyx had now started crying. Why did she have to see someone she loved suffer like this? She sighed and wiped her tears away. She then went up to Tourmaline and picked her limp hands up and looked at the blood and glass that had pierced into her hands. Tourmaline managed to pick herself up and wiped her tears away with her sleeve.

Onyx looked at her hands with care and did something she wouldn't think she'd ever do. She sucked the blood off of her gem's hands. As Onyx sucked up the blood, she felt the crushed glass. She carefully scraped them up and threw them to the side.

As Onyx sucked off the blood, Tourmaline began to notice something about Onyx. She didn't care about how weird this looked, She didn't care that she has to suck her blood just to clean it off. Onyx had put her pride somewhere to the side just so she can help her. She now felt that Onyx is now the only gem who truly cares about her.