pearl doesn't know it, but steven has seen her cry.
he's heard her fight with amethyst, all the time; it's almost perpetual by now. when he struggles to put some strawberry jam on his biscuit, when he sits on the floor and tries to enjoy another crying breakfast friends' episode, when they return from every other mission; they're fighting and screaming at each other over anything.
amethyst sits next to him as pearl lectures her once again, frustrated. he hides his face inside her shoulder and it hits her: he's fading away.
"pearl," she cries out, "shut the hell up!"
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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
