"i'm not feeling okay, lars."
"dude, come on! we gotta— steven?"
it should have been obvious, steven realizes now, but at the time, he'd just thought it was normal. you know, typical gravitational deviations, the sickness of space travel and all the stress from the death sentence finally hitting his body.
he sat down inside one of the kindergarten's holes, catching his breath. he felt dizzy, sick, even as lars picked him up and continued running through the ruins.
something was wrong with him, but he didn't know what.
and then, the robonoids attacked, and then lars was— he was—
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cancer ; steven universe
Fanfictionsteven 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
