Pearl White liked to think of herself as talented, not that she was cocky, she wasn't, honest, but she was proud. Prima Ballerina of her dance academy, senior in high school, straight As, and an amazing girlfriend to boot, what more could she ask fo...
They'd decided to have Pearl stay in the hospital where they could monitor her, even after she recovered from the virus. They moved up her radiation dates to January third. Not sure if they would make her stay in the hospital while they did the treatments, Pearl prepared for the worst. She had her mother, who had been acting strange, bring in her laptop and flash drives. She still left awful, but not sick like she was. Not to mention the rest of her hair had been falling out and she knew she would need to shave it off soon.
So she had called for Garnet to come and take the rest off today. She was dreading it.
"You beckoned for me?" She said with her sultry accent, making Pearl blush.
"I would like you to shave the rest of my hair for me.. if you wouldn't mind" she asked sheepishly.
"No, 'hello Garnet I haven't seen you since before Christmas. Oh by the way I almost died'?" She said teasingly.
Pearls mouth fell open, "Well to be honest, I was not going to tell you that..."
"Pearl my mom works here, I do to, how could I not have found out?" She pressed.
Pearl just shrugged
"Are you feeling better now?" Pearl nodded.
"And so you want a haircut?" Pearl nodded again.
"Am I making you uncomfortable?" Pearl shook her head.
"Than why aren't you speaking?"
"I-you- well- you make me nervous." She said honestly.
Garnet laughed and shook her head but didn't ask anymore questions except, "nervous bad? Or nervous good?"
Pearl looked up at the volunteer, and smirked, "nervous good..."
Garnet smiled and helped Pearl to a chair in the center of the room. She picked up the electric razor, proceeding to shave the rest of Pearl head carefully.
"I'm so afraid I'll be ugly when it's gone..." she whisper after a few minutes of silence.
"You could ever be ugly" she said back, and Pearls face turned a whole new shade of pink.
"You know I was a dancer?" She asked Garnet, not daring to pick up the mirror in her hand until she was finished.
"I did know that." she said simply.
"Well, I loved it. I was good at it to, got all the leads, me and my cousin, Sky, we would fight for them, but it never got in between us... she must get them all now..." she said, her voice full of sadness and loss.
"Just because you can't dance now doesn't mean you'll never dance again."
Pearl just sighed, she didn't believe she would ever dance again, not with the way she was feeling and she knew she would continue to feel this way for a long time, she really had no hope.
"Done"
Pearl looked up at garnet and back to the mirror in her hand.
"I'm afraid." She said, her voice quiet and childlike.
"You look beautiful Pearl." Garnet said calmly and without hesitation as she listen the hand mirror for Pearl to see.
Pearl starred at her reflection for a long time, waiting for something in her mind to snap or some kind of dramatic reaction, but none came.
Blanche walked into the room five minutes later. She looked at Pearl with sad eyes and nodded hello to Garnet.
"I brought your laptop darling, and I didn't know which flash drive you wanted to I brought all three."
Pearls head snapped to her mother, "uh, thank you..." she touched her now bare head, "it was.. falling out more so..."
"It looks lovely sweetheart," she said kindly, placing the laptop and flash drives on the side table. "Do you need anything else?"
"Um, do you think you could run down to the gift shop and see if they have any scarves?" She asked, breathing a little heavier as the weight of what she'd done settled in.
"Sure love, any color preferences?" She asked, looking into Pearls eyes to gauge her state of mind.
"uh, no, whatever you think mom." Blanche nodded and walked out of the room again leaving Pearl and Garnet alone again.
"Do you want some help back to bed?" Garnet asked breaking the blanket of silence.
"Please" Pearl said with a soft nod. She stood up before Garnet even got to her side.
Garnet led Pearl to her bed and helped her sit up with the pillows all around her.
Pearl scooted over and patted the bed for Garnet to sit with her.
"Want to watch some videos with me? Or do you other dying people to spend time with?" She asked sarcastically.
"I don't hang out with dying people, only fighters." She said seriously. "So if you're a dying person I guess I'm just going to have to leave...."
Pearl laughed, "Well I guess it's a good thing I don't plan on dying anytime soon." She smiled and Garnet made herself comfortable on the small bed. Pressed right up against Pearl as she pulled her laptop into her lap and picked up a red flash drive.
When Pearl opened her laptop the background was a picture of said girl, in a tutu with three other girls all in dance attire. One she recognized as Pearls cousin sky, the other was built with dark skin with white patches and long, bleach blonde hair. The last was leaning on the large girl with medium dark brown hair and a longer flowing tutu in deep blue.
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"That's Sky, Jasper and Lapis. They dance with me." Pearl explained and then she went about opening the file.
"This is my performance of Giselle last year."
They watched Pearl dance the for the next two hours, nostalgia setting in quickly for Pearl, while for Garnet it was like looking at the most amazing thing she'd ever seen. She didn't understand how someone could move their body in such ways. Sure Garnet was fit, she was training to become a fireman so she needed to be, but the movements were astonishing.
"You're amazing..." she said softly, looking to Pearl when the performance ended.
"I was..." she looked down at herself, "not anymore... that part of my life is over, I'll never be able to do all those things again. Maybe I can teach..." she mumbled.
"Go out with me?" Garnet said suddenly.
"What?" Pearl asked, shocked at the sudden turn of conversation.
"On a date, go out with me?" She asked again, and Pearls mouth hung open.
