Steven slowly wakes up and finds himself in the middle of a lush grassy field, facing a group of flowers.
"Steven? Steven? Steven." Greg can be heard saying faintly
Steven then wakes up in reality, with tears pouring down his face. He touches his tears and is shocked to find himself crying. He looks up inside the back of Greg's van to see a TV, playing a movie of a UFO abducting a cow.
"You okay, bud? You fell asleep during the movie. I was gonna let you sleep. You looked so cute. But then you started crying, and that was less cute." Greg says
Steven sits up and wipes away the tears from his face.
"Haha, no, I'm fine. I don't know why I was crying. M-my dream wasn't really sad. " Steven yawns, and Greg checks his watch.
"Oh gee, look at the time, and my classy new watch. Let's get you home, bud."
Greg beings Steven back home, and they walk toward the stairs to the house.
"Eh, you didn't miss much. Turns out they were abducting cows 'cause they needed milk for their cereal planet." Greg jokes
Steven climbs up the stairs, abruptly stopping halfway up before turning around.
Dad, before you go, can I ask you something?
"Yeah, of course!" Greg smiles
"Did Mom ever talk to you about... Pink Diamond?"
"There were some things your mom didn't like to talk about. I never pressed her for details."
"Why not?" Steven asks
Greg approaches Steven and sits down next to him on the stairs. "Rose and I talked about tons of important stuff. Music, comic books, getting sand between your toes, y'know, feelings. We both made a lot of mistakes when we were young. I thought disco was coming back, she started a war, I think she felt like she needed to confess everything to me, but I told her, "The past is the past. All that matters to me is who you are now." And who she was was an incredible, loving being." Greg explains
Steven hugs Greg. "Night, Dad."
Greg hugs Steven back. "Night, Steven."
Steven gets dressed into his pyjamas, climbs into bed, and falls asleep, sighing.
Steven wakes up inside his dream again, in the middle of the lush field with flowers from earlier.
"I'm here again... huh? I guess I can look around. What is this place? What's... what is... woah..." Steven spots the dilapidated overgrown remains of a Palanquin on his left
Steven suddenly sits up in his bed.
"Huh?" Steven wipes his hand across his face, finding himself crying again, to his confusion.
Connie sweeps a bunch of papers off Steven's living room table, as Steven sits next to her and watches the papers scatter.
"Sorry, I'll clean that up later!"
Connie excitedly places the journal of Buddy Buddwick on the table. "When you told me about your dream, I thought it sounded familiar."
Connie flips through the pages of the journal, stopping on the entry for the Palanquin.
Steven gasps. "That's it! The... palan-quin."
"Actually, it's pronounced palankeen." Connie corrects
The sound of the Warp Pad activating is then heard.
"It's the Gems! They've gotta know about this thing!" Steven says excitedly
"Yo." Amethyst greets Steven and Connie
YOU ARE READING
STEVEN UNIVERSE - "The Off Colour"
Fantasyyou, the reader, are an off colour Male gem, a turquoise, to be exact. This story is kind of a ship story. Turquoise, being an outcast, has mysteriously ended up on earth with no recollection of how he got there.
