I really hope you guys are enjoying this.
After many hours after the ship has left Earth the others have secluded themselves to their quarters, making it the ideal time for Diamond to move.
Diamond walked down the long corridors of the brig, eventually he came to a cell smaller, secluded, and more secure than the others, in it lay a small blue girl. He pressed the controls, opening the door. "Lapis," he said quietly, "Lapis I thought I would never see you again." He got down to one knee next to her. Lapis turned over and looked at him.
"Is-is it really you?" Lapis whispered.
"It's me." He replied with tears beginning to form. "I'm here."
"Oh Diamond, you look so different!" She cried as she sat up and hugged him tightly.
"I had to regenerate, all that matters is that we are together again. I am so sorry for what I had to do, but if they figured us out we'd never make it out alive." He stroked her hair to the side, kissing her on the forehead, then cradling her head under his chin. He ran one finger around the outer edges of her gem, feeling her soft back.
"It's ok, I know what would have happened." She said through tears. They sat together for a few minutes holding one another in each others braces.
"Your gem! Your ok!?"
"It got healed by a boy named Steven."
"I see. As long as you are better."
"I am, so nothing will stop us from being able to go when we get home."
"I think I hear someone coming, but I will be back for you." He said as he rose to his feet. "I love you Lapis."
"I love you too." She said sitting up against the wall. Diamond then closed her cell, the forcefield reappearing. He looked back at her, putting his palm against the forcefield, holding it there despite the pain it caused. Diamond then quickly returned to his room. "Why?" she thought to herself. "Why must I be in here. Why must you leave me again." She knew he would be back, yet after finally seeing him again after over five thousand years, they were split once more.
Meanwhile back in Diamond's quarters.
"It's been so long, and I have to leave her in a place like that. Why? Why must it be this way?" He thought to himself. His door opened and Peridot walked in and stood, looking out his window. "There is no way she saw us... right?" He thought nervously.
"You did very well out there." She said, not moving her gaze. "How long were you there, on Earth?"
"I'm not sure, eventually I lost track of the years, somewhere around fifty-five hundred years." He said looking at her.
"Jasper said you were of Homeworld, why were you there?" She asked.
"I was a captain of a ship that was to strike the southeast of what they call Canada. As we waited we were to close to the atmosphere and hit by a massive barrage of light cannon fire that hit our engines. We crashed in the northeast of what they call America. I was the only one who survived."
"Did you not rally to the Kindergarten when you crashed?"
"All of my tech was broken. I was taken as a prisoner by someone named Rose Quartz." He replied. "Probably best not to include that my imprisonment lead to me joining her Army willingly..." He thought.
"Then you should know the area well."
"No, she kept me locked in one place until the war was over."
"I want you to come back with me when I return." She said, finally turning to look at him. "We must repair the warps so we can move more gems in. At first I thought Jasper being hired muscle was enough, but now I see that I need to look more strategically."
"I will think about it, I haven't seen Homeworld in a very long time, I will need to speak with the General of the Armies." He said, trying to dodge the question. "I hope they will allow me to return, I doubt they would ever commission me a new ship."
"I see." She said. "I will leave you to it then." Peridot turned and left. Diamond laid back and exhaled deeply.
"Now what?" He said aloud. He tried to sleep off the trip. "I may not have to sleep, but at least I can enjoy it."