Fusion
Author: Emerald Padparadscha
Fusing wasn't a dance to them. It wasn't a written series of steps, or even something that they could explain. There was something deeper, something they couldn't explain, but could only understand through acceptance.
Ruby brushed Sapphire's bangs back, resting her forehead against her love's as they embraced each other. Her left hand held Sapphire's right, the warm glow fo the touching gemstones radiating through entwined fingers. They'd been together forever, practically. It was difficult not to initate a fusion even through an embrance as simple as this. Sometimes, though, they liked to come out of fusion, if only for a few short moments. They found themselves getting lost for days at a time in all that was Garnet. Years would pass with barely an acknowledgement that they really were Ruby and Sapphire at all. In fact, Garnet would pleasantly go about her day, the names not once entering her active thoughts until someone else brought them up. It was sheer bliss, their perceptions blurring to the point of becoming indistinguishable...
Yet being able to touch each other like this almost felt like a guilty pleasure.
Their gazes met. The next moment, they were looking at an empty space, and didn't feel empty at all.