My Time With You

My Spiral

I woke up alone on the bed. I sat upright as I realized Steven was missing from beside me. Then I remembered what had happened yesterday and I began to cry. Where had the gems taken him? Would he be okay? Would I be okay?

I took a deep breath to compose myself, then got up. I knocked on the door to the temple, hoping one of the 6 gems I knew occupied it would open up. To my relief, Amber opened his door. I hugged him, and he gave me a long embrace. A tear escaped my eye, and before I knew it I was bawling again, letting myself go. After about a minute of this, I composed myself and stepped back.

"Is Steven in there?" I asked, not caring about the obvious concern in my voice. He nodded solemnly, and then spoke.

"But you can't see him. He is really hurt and Pearl is being the overprotective bird mom again and won't even let us see him." He sighed and gave me a loose hug, seeing the look on my face.

"Amber please. I have to see him. He's hurt and he's my husband and the father to my child and I promised him I would always be there for him and- and." I was rambling on so I shut my mouth and fought back the tears that were threatening to spill again. Amber gave me a pitying look.

"Connie I'm sorry but I can't let you see him. Pearl would shatter me. Hell, after me only being here for about 6 years she still doesn't trust me. Something about the gems entering an era she didn't like or whatever. Either way it hurts. Anyway, I'm sorry but no." I nodded solemnly and went to go sit down. But before I could, and before Amber could shut his door, I ran and pushed him inside. I bolted over him and into his room. I froze, overwhelmed by what I was seeing. Sure this from was old, but it was so different from all the rooms I had seen.

I looked around, completely awed. Amber's room looked like a plain old room. It had a bookshelf on one wall, a bed pressed up in one corner, a nightstand with an alarm clock on it, and other things you would imagine a normal room having. I turned to him, and he sighed.

"Yeah I know it looks like a normal room. There. Now you know my deepest secret. I want to be human. The rooms go off of either our deepest longing or our main trait. Mine just happened to go for deepest longing." I covered my mouth. I don't know why he seemed so ashamed about this.

"Amber, don't act so embarrassed. I'm glad you want to be human. I'm glad you relate to us, relate to me. I don't know the struggles you face as a gem, but I'm glad you care about humans." I smiled as he looked up at me. He opened the door and showed me a trapdoor in the floor. I looked up at him, a confused look on my face. He opened it up and gestured at it.

"There. That's the door to Pearl's room. She is keeping Steven in there. Please be careful Connie." I smiled at him and nodded, slipping myself into the door. I waved at him as I disappeared down the ladder. As I looked around, I recognized Pearl's room.

I quietly landed, and saw Steven lying on a bed that was probably borrowed from Amethyst's room. I quietly ran over to him, and joined him. I snuggled up next to him, and the tears began flowing as freely as the water towers filling the room. I sobbed quietly into Steven's shoulder. When he didn't put his arm around me like he usually would, I looked up and sniffled pathetically. When he didn't look at me or even flutter his closed eyelids, a sense of panic overtook me. I lightly shook him by his shoulders, and when he didn't respond to that, my med school skills took over.

As the usual sense of calm came over me, I put my fingers to his wrist. When I couldn't detect a pulse there, I felt his neck. I sighed in relief as I felt a slight pulsation. I took out the small pair of scissors I always had in my pocket and began to cut his shirt and bandages off. I pulled out a roll of bandage that I always had (hey what can I say having a doctor for a mother and being in med school had an effect on me) and quickly assessed his wounds.

I saw slight scabbing in the middle of the large claw marks across his stomach. I put a bit of alcohol on a cloth and pressed it gently to the wounds, cleaning them. I did the same to the wounds on his arm, and bandaged both of the wounds up. I quickly kissed him, and received a small flutter of his eyelids.

A smile spread across my face as I pulled back, giving him room to breathe. He opened his eyes slowly, then looked at me. He smiled, and tears began silently rolling down my face again. He tried to sit up, but he winced as he used his wounded arm. I gently pushed him back down so he was lying on his back, then pressed a finger to my lips.

"Be quiet. We're in Pearl's room. She doesn't know I'm in here." I whispered. He nodded in understanding, then wrapped his uninjured arm around my neck and pulled me in. I kissed him, and the tears came back as I realized just how close I had come to losing him.

I pulled away, then lied down next to him on the bed. I snuggled up close, and fell into a short, dream filled sleep. But the peace of the moment was short lived.

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