Now for an actual authors note unlike the beginning of last chapter! This episode is mainly gonna be from the perspective of Lars, although not in first person, it's going to follow him mostly. I also like to think of Lars as the type to constantly have to reassure himself and have a bad sense of self-esteem ever since this episode, since he tried so hard to be better than he was, it made me think maybe he didn't see himself as much more than another common face and that's why he wanted to be with the 'cool kids' or maybe I'm just overthinking, but it's a fun thought to think about once you consider it.

The main problem with this chapter was trying to really get Lars's character on point, I can't really pin down what Lars's character actually thinks or how he reacts, other than trying to fit in or be cool, so it was really hard to portray his character, I hope I did well though.

Aside from that, this chapter won't totally be from Lars's perspective I'll have some Steven thoughts farther down, but very few as I want to have a chapter just on what Lars notices about Steven's change.

THIS WAS POSTED EARLY BECAUSE OF THE NOTICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CHAPTER.

Lars leaned against the back wall, pushing his foot against the wall and hovering in the air for a second with only one foot holding him up, before gravity took its hold back and pushed him back, he sneered, scoffing at the idiocy of some of the people walking by, talking and laughing on the streets totally oblivious to the others around them just looking for peace and quiet.

No matter how stupid people thought Lars really was, he was a lot smarter than people gave him credit for, or at least he thought he was. He just...had some sort of common sense handicap. Yeah. He saw Steven running up to the cool kids, seeing a sudden shocked look for a moment as he ran into them, Lars rose a brow, wondering why the boy seemed so upset, Steven was never upset...Right? He had never seen the boy upset in his life to be honest, sure there was the occasional cry over something small, but that was just his personality, he had never seen him truly distressed before.

He thought about asking, but decided against it, but c'mon the cool kids were right there! How could he? They'd think so little of him. Wouldn't they? He shook the doubt from his mind, he really hated that voice, the conscious that always tried to convince him of another option, gave him doubts, strayed him from his path, he always tried to shove it away into the corner or his mind, just try and shove it all behind the present and try not to let it break through and effect him in any way, he could make his own decisions, not needing any right or wrong, it was just whatever effected him then was what mattered in his eyes.

Lars snapped back into reality, remembering Steven, he sneered, the boy had that goofy grin on again.

"Hey Lars you should come along!" Steven shouted, Lars paid attention now to the conversation.

"Come along where?" He asked, curiosity in his voice. Steven paused.

"Just where ever! They invited us!" Steven called, gesturing to Jenny, Sour cream, and Buck Dewey.

"Steven don't act lame in front of these guys!" Lars harshly whispered as he got into the pizza smelling car. They drove for about an hour, stopping at various places to comment about and/or visit the place. They neared a big hill with a marsh with a mysterious fog and moss covering it, Lars caught Stevens eyes widen and he shuffled nervously in his seat, fidgeting around.

"Steven you okay?" He heard Jenny ask, Steven gave a brisk nod, pressing his lips together and trying not to make any noise for some reason, he shuffled more in his seat as they neared the hill, pressing his eyes together as he heard Jenny say, "Hey we should check out the lake here! It's be awesome to swim in!" She called as she rounded the cliff.

They all got into their trousers and in Jenny's case an extra under shirt, and they jumped in, Lars attempted to follow after them, noticing how heavy the fog was, he thought his shoe had gotten caught on a rock or something because of the additional weight suddenly added to him, he looked down seeing Stevens shocked and tear streaked face as he yelled,

"Don't~!" Lars rose an eyebrow at this.

"Ey' get off me man!" He shouted, but looked up too see the teens had gotten stuck underwater and spotted the moss, he yelped, taken aback and fell onto the damp ground, Steven stepped up out of the marsh just in time to dodge a piece of moss about to climb up his leg, since when was Steven so agile or predictive? "W-what is this?!" Lars cried, Steven had fallen down next to him whilst escaping the moss.

"It's some magic moss my mom planted!" Lars noticed how pained the boy sounded, cutting off Lars's next statement, he had never seen the boy so upset, it made him feel guilty. He hated feeling like that, he tried replacing it with anger and trying to crush down any other emotion that tried to bubble up. He heard the boy spouting something at him about the top of the hill and the moss and he toned it out replacing it with the harshest words he could think of, refusing to feel guilty, "This is all your fault! Now I'll never be friends with these guys all because of your- WEIRD MOM! " There, he'd said it, waiting for the boy to sniffle and tear up like he always did, but he opened his eye to see a sight of pure anger and shock cross his face, a look he had never seen on anyone before.

At this moment he knew he'd screwed up badly.

"What do you know about my mom...I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO KNOW MY MOM!" Steven cried, going on, but Lars tuned it out. He recognized something in the boys voice, it was a sense of familiarity? Not in the sense that Lars had heard Steven say something like this before but more...That Steven had gone through this kind of thing before? The anger seemed to be directed at not only him but something else, Lars normally didn't catch stuff like this, but it was just so off putting...It was hard not to notice it. It was obviously a look Lars had never seen before...So it's not like Steven had been treated like this by anyone else in town, nor had Lars said anything this hurtful before so what was with the tone in his voice. Steven was definitely different, but the last sentence he'd said really off put Lars.

Steven took in a deep breath, pondering whether or not to say his next sentence, but he needed to teach Lars a lesson, to show him that Steven wasn't the idiot Lars took him for. He needed to show Lars that he knew what was really going on.

"You only care about yourself. You don't even realize the other problems people are facing around you!" Steven burst, this was of course directed at the whole time travel incident, but he meant every word of it, Lars really did push people back, no matter how other people reacted Steven was sure Lars would somehow brush it off and try to make it up to them with a quick apology, but he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of others so he did it quickly and quietly. And it proved that Lars didn't mean it in the slightest. Of course Steven had been easily fooled by it back then, but after a while he caught on to Lars's charade, even if he faked not noticing it, but that all ended today, he wouldn't let Lars get away with it this time, it was too deep, and Steven meant it too much, it pained him to think that he'd missed this opportunity last time.

"Like what problem would you have?" Lars asked with a sneer, Steven caught the suspicious tone in his voice, and hopeful gleam in his eye that he hoped Steven would enlighten him on the situation. Steven froze what could he say next?

I know I should make this longer...But I really want to end this on a cliffhanger...Sorry but it's just too good an opportunity! I wanted to add the same emotional depth the episode had to begin with, but add the whole time travel ,dimension hopping kinda situation to the mix, along with some insight of how Lars's character will be played through, throughout this story, give me some ideas on how to portray Lars's character well, because I'm clueless on how to play his character right, he doesn't get enough screen time to really have a definite reaction to everything and there's no way to really predict what he's thinking.

EDIT: Alright, so this is REALLY important for a future chapter, I won't give out too much information because of spoilers, but which would you guys prefer backstory over a character? Or little memories and scenes hinting to their backstory, so basically a few short memories telling you most of their backstory, or the whole thing written in a couple of chapters. This is also why it's underlined!