Peridot hasn't always had the best of luck. Or the best life, for that matter. Living in a crumbling apartment with the threat of it collapsing on top of you while you sleep isn't really a pleasant way to live but its the only life Peridot has ever...
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Peridot blinked, her sore eyes straining against the artificial lights lining the ceiling of the room. She rubbed at them with the palms of her hands and tried to clear her clouded mind as she took in her surroundings. She was in a room, that was obvious. It was medium sized with peeling yellow paint on the walls and an ugly cream carpet covered in miscellaneous stains. It looked like a bedroom or some kind of hospital room with barely anything in it sans for the tiny bed she was in, which was tucked into the far corner, and several random metal chairs scattered around. One of the chairs was occupied by who Peridot could only describe as the biggest woman she had ever seen in her entire life. Her thick thighs filled the seat, her muscles bulged under the tight red tank top she was wearing. Her skin was a dark apricot with several long pale stripes covering part of her face and arms. Her hair was bleached a very pale blonde and her eyes were a striking amber colour that looked very inhuman.
And it dawned on Peridot that she probably wasn't that. Human. The other woman smiled and two long fangs protruded from her thick lips. Her cat-like gaze was on the smaller, scanning her fragile body from head to toe. She looked almost hungry in the way she was staring at her. Peridot gulped.
"So" the large woman sat up straight in her tiny chair. Her voice was gruff and a little impatient. "What did you do to piss Yellow off so much?"
"Huh? Excuse me?"
"What did you do? Why are you here?" She growled low in her throat. It wasn't a noise Peridot thought any human was capable of making.
"I don't know" she replied quietly.
"What do you mean you don't know? You had to have done something bad to get into this shithole!"
"I didn't do anything!" Peridot shot back, her mind reeling. What did she do? Apparently Yellow Diamond had had her eyes on her for quite some time, according to Lapis. But could she really trust Lapis? It was technically her fault she was in this mess in the first place.
The other woman sighed loudly "whatever" she spat and relaxed her tense shoulders, running a large hand through her thick mane of hair. "Just. Get up, we have work to do".
Peridot slowly slid the thin blanket off her body. She was wearing her usual black tank top and jeans and was thankful that nothing had changed. Getting out the bed was difficult, her legs were weak and trembled under her weight. Her left leg began to throb as she limped over the the waiting woman, who grunted impatiently and dragged her out of the door and into a long, narrow hallway. It was a lot darker. The walls and floor were made of stone and several rows of small hanging lights were placed haphazardly on the ceiling but did little to light the path as the pair walked deeper into the hallway. Everything was quiet, the only noise were the faint tapping of Jaspers boots on the stone and the shuffle of Peridot's socked feet. She wasn't sure where her shoes were but was too afraid to ask at this point.
Jasper grunted again and her glowing amber eyes snapped onto the small girl. Her mouth was in a thin, neutral line. "So what happened to your leg?" Her great head nodded down towards her limping state and Peridot stiffened.
