Garnet shakes her head and backs up.
"Where did I go wrong?" Jasper questions.
Jasper's question catches Garnet off guard and she freezes immediately. Is that what Jasper thinks, that she did something wrong?
Garnet stays quiet and Jasper slowly folds her arms, but a sadness can be seen in her eyes.
"You just left. Now 5,000 plus years later, you tell me that you left because Ruby and Sapphire's lives were threatened, yet you didn't..." Jasper trails off and Garnet can feel her "heart" break.
Taking a step towards Jasper, Garnet gently cups Jasper's face. "Jasp, I am so sorry."
"Why didn't you take me with you?" For that moment, Garnet can see how broken Jasper really is. She hides behind her anger and size hoping that it'll mask how she really feels. Yet, right now, as Garnet holds Jasper's face in her hands, Garnet can now understand why Jasper was drawn to herself and Sapphire.
"I don't know," Garnet lets out and gently drops Jasper's face. "You thrived on Homeworld. Planet Earth, under Rose's leadership, you would've struggled. Upon seeing myself, Rose denounced her name as Pink Diamond and announced that Homeworld ranks held no weight. Homeworld rules held no weight. Who was I to take you away from the only thing you've known, the only place you thrived in?"
"I would've followed, for you, I would've followed."
Garnet shakes her head. "I wouldn't have allowed it." Garnet turns away from Jasper. "I had to Jasper. If they managed to destroy Sapphire and Ruby, you would've lost your mind. There were no safe options, every choice, every vision showed you letting your anger wild and crushing thousands of Homeworld gems before the Diamonds finally managed to destroy you." Garnet was so wrapped up in remembering the horrible vision(s) that she didn't even sense Jasper coming up behind her and holding her.
Nothing is said for a while; Garnet stiffly leans back in Jasper's embrace and Jasper rethinks what Pink Diamond said to her a long time ago.
"So, she wasn't wrong then?" Jasper finally let's out.
Garnet doesn't question who but shifts her body so she's now facing Jasper.
"Rose, when she told me my anger would destroy me?" Jasper finishes.
"She wouldn't have been wrong. There's very few things Rose is ever wrong about. She saved them, she saved me. Hell, she saved us. She didn't know the exact reason for why Ruby and Sapphire were being sent to her; she wasn't at that meeting, but she took them anyways. She knew what Homeworld would do if she were to deny them."
"Garnet?" Rose questions as she walks into her tent and spots Garnet. "Is there something wrong?"
Garnet doesn't say anything immediately and stares at Rose for a minute longer as she goes over the questions she has for Rose.
"Why did you allow me to stay fused?" Garnet finally lets out in her stoic tone.
Rose smiles at the fusion. "Because I saw their love for each other, who was I to deny them their right, their need, their want to express it without no reservations?"
Garnet nods her head slightly at Rose's statement. "Is that why you saved them?"
Rose is caught off guard by Garnet's question. Why does Garnet wish to know all of these questions?
Garnet waits for Rose to answer her question, as do Ruby and Sapphire. Garnet can feel their, well, mostly Ruby's anxiety and skeptism.
Rose smiles again at Garnet. "I was unofficially unaware of why the Diamonds decided to get rid of Ruby and Sapphire. I mean, after all they were the best team and Sapphire's visions were something Homeworld treasured. Sure, I understood that at some point in time, Homeworld's view of fusion changed, it was probably due to one of the fusions getting out of control and going on a rampage, killing and injuring hundreds of gems."
Garnet remembers hearing something about that. Though she can't remember exactly which two gems nor fusion that was behind it, she did hear that when the fusion was finally captured and forced to unfuse, its two components were shattered.
"I was informed after the meeting about you and about your components situation and what a waste it would be to lose the best team Homeworld had, had I denied to accept them? So, when it was stated that your components were to be destroyed if they were to ever fuse without the pretense of danger, my representative managed to get my fellow Diamonds to release them two to my guidance and I accepted. No gems should be destroyed. All lives are precious."
"Jasp, I am so sorry I left you. I am so sorry-," before Garnet can finish, Jasper crushes her lips against Garnet.
Tightening her hold on Garnet's waist, Jasper pulls her closer before breaking the kiss. "I love you."
Garnet smiles at Jasper and a tear slips down her cheek, to which Jasper reaches up and wipes away. "I love you too."
Before anything else can be said, a knock is sounded at Garnet's door.