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...
Blanche, Blue, Sky, Amethyst, Lapis Jasper and Garnet all sat in the waiting room, occasionally one would get up and get coffee or go to the bathroom, all but Blanche. She sat. Her back rigid and her eyes unseeing. Garnet stood about four hours in and checked her phone while she stretched. 1 text message from Peridot.
Hello Fusion, I am in need of your assistance the moment you receive this message.
She signed and told Ame that she would be back and to come and find her if there was any news. She walked swiftly to the elevator and rode up to the PEDS wing. She passed Pearls room and sighed. She was more worried about her girlfriend than she wanted to admit. She walked into an almost identical room with a frown still plastered on her sunglasses covered face.
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"Geez, took you long enough." The Little blonde girl said, she was tiny, with light blonde hair and big wire framed glasses around her bright green eyes. "I was in the waiting room Peridot, what's the emergency?" Garnet asked, slightly irritated but also relived for the distraction. "Oh, no emergency I was just so bored and that's weirdo Opal was the only nurse around so I figured I'd just text you." She said, shifting in her bed a little, she had a large bandage over her forehead and both of her legs in full length casts. "Peridot! I was waiting on news about Pearl and you called me here to what? Hang out? I gotta go." Garnet huffed, and turned her back. "Wait!" Peridot called as Garnet walked out. She stopped and waited but didn't turn. "I didn't know that was today, I'm sorry..." she said softly, softer than she had before at least. Garnet just nodded and gave her a small smile of reassurance before walking back to the waiting room. "Where'd you go big G?" Ame asked. "My friend Peridot is here, she got in a car accident a couple days ago, she didn't know Pearls surgery was right now and she's annoying so she texted me to hang out." Amethyst nodded, "you've never talked about her before." "You never asked." She said simply, "she's just a kid who was a couple years younger than me in high school. She got picked on and I didn't like it, so I stopped it." "Awe big hero Garnet!" X Dr. Topaz stepped out from behind the swinging white doors silently, her face looking down at the clip board in her hands. "Hi, Mrs. white?" Blanche shot up immediately and met the doctors eyes. "Is she alright?" She asked, her voice cracking slightly after the seven hour silence. "Pearl is in the ICU, she made it though the surgery with flying colors, and we got it all. She will have to come back for the rest of her treatments but it looks really good." Dr topaz explained simply with just enough information. Blanche had never felt so relived in her life, like a giant weight was lifted off he chest and she could finally breathe again, Blue walked up behind her and pulled her into a tight hug. The older sibling melted into it immediately and began to cry. "I can take you to her room, but it would be best if we started with just you, she's still sedated." Dr topaz said, and led Blanche toward pearls current room. X Pearl moaned softly as she slowly woke from her induced sleep. She heard someone shift closer to her and let her eyes crack open to see who. Garnets face came into focus first. "G-gar-" she attempted to say. Her voice coming our course and raspy. She got a watery smile in return and sent a weary one back. Someone else moved to her right, closer to the window and she let her eyes shift for the first time. She saw her mother asleep in the reclining chair, her face bunches up in worry. Next she saw jasper sitting on the window sill and Lapis resting in her lap. Then her eyes fell on her aunt blue and cousin sky both asleep on the cot at the far end of the room. And finally she saw amethyst laying across her feet. Everyone was fast asleep but Garnet. Her girlfriend brought a cup of water to her lips with a straw and she drank quickly. "What time is it?" She whispered when she finished the water. "Nearly midnight. You woke up earlier and spoke to them all briefly. Do you remember?" Garnet asked a soft smile still plastered over her face. Pearl shook her head, then realized she did in fact remover hazily. "Yea you were pretty doped up." Garnet joked. "I can wake your mom if you'd like." Pearl shook her head again, she wanted her mother to sleep while she could. "Did they get it all?" She asked quietly searching garnets eyes for the truth. The tall girl smiled even wider. "With good margins and everything." Pearl beamed. She was finally cancer free. She could go home and be in her own room and her own bed. Then her smile fell. "Whats the matter?" Garnet asked having seen her face fall. "Well I won't her in the hospital much longer, I suppose that means we won't see each other anymore..." she admitted sadly. Garnet just laughed. "Pearl, my life is not confined to that of a hospital volunteer program. We are still dating, just not in a hospital, which in my opinion is even better." X The next morning pearl was, for the first time in a long time, the first one awake. She smiled as she looked around at all her friends and family. Garnet had climbed into the bed with her at pearls insistence last night and was now acting as the big spoon wrapped around pearl. She thought back to yesterday when she first woke up after surgery, it had been foggy last night but she could remember now, everyone was crying and smiling and her mother, her Mather had never looked more at peace since she had known her. She herself was at peace. She was cancer free and though she knew it wasn't a guarantee she felt it in her bones, she was better and she was thrilled.
