"we all know this isn't supposed to happen. this isn't normal!"
steven pretends to sleep. does he? it's just that even moving is exhausting. everything tires him to the bone.
garnet isn't talking. she's just trying to see, steven supposes, into what could happen. amethyst and pearl are arguing with peridot.
"i have a theory," peridot proposes. everyone hushes down their worries and listens. even steven. "maybe- he was put in trial, right? he would've been sentenced to corruption. perhaps his organic body would have reacted to it differently."
"corruption? are you serious, p?"
"i would not 'joke' about this!"
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cancer ; steven universe
Fanficsteven knows there's something terribly wrong with him. the gems know, too, but they're too busy pretending they don't. alternatively; the tragic faltering of the rose. read this in ao3! http://archiveofourown.org/works/11239731?view_full_work=true
