In The Future (Steven Universe)

○Don't Hate Me●

"Pink Diamond... really did all that?" Spinel asked in shock. She knew Pink Diamond wasn't the nicest gem in the universe... but shattering other gems???

Pink Pearl sighed, wiping her tears away. "That's what happened to my eye. I managed to escape and I decided to go back to Homeworld. White Diamond saw me defective and decided to fix me. Of course 'fixing' meant centuries of not being able to control myself."

"I just- can't believe Pink Diamond did all that with these," Spinel looked at the giant machines. She noticed how nothing in the room was pink. Everything was yellow and blue. Was it because that's how she saw Yellow and Blue, monsters, or because if it were pink, she would know it belongs to her and she's doing all this evil stuff? Everything that's hers is pink, but she really didn't want to accept being the owner of these terrible machines.

Spinel shook her head, and she was in the woods again. Spinel looked down at her stuffed animal, thinking about Pink Pearl now. For years she kept her promise for Pink Pearl and than one day she completly forgot about it. It was just stuck in the back of her mind, knowing an awful secret her Diamond once held.

Spinel kept holding onto the stuffed toy, loving how soft it was. Everytime she thinks about the time she got the toy, she winds up rememebering when Pink Pearl told her Pink Diamond's terrible secret... and than she never winds up thinking about Steven handing her the toy. Just small part of it.

"Spinel!" Steven said warping to her palace. Spinel was waiting right there for him, still freaked out about the whole thing with Pink Pearl.

"Steven! You're back!" Spinel said, all of her fear going away as soon as he was in her sight. Steven was obiously holding something behind his back with a cheesy smile on his face. "What is it? What do you have?" Spinel asked, stretching her neck to see behind him.

"Wait! Not yet!" Steven giggled. "It needs to be a suprise."

"Ooooo I love suprises!" Spinel covered her eyes with a wide smile on her face. "What is it? Is big or small?"

"One second..." Steven said, bringing it out in front of him. "Okay! Open!"

Spinel quickly removed her hand from in front of her eyes to see what Steven had. "AHHHH! It's a little giraffe!" Spinel said, taking it from his hands and wrapping her long arms around it.

Steven giggled. "I know how much you love them. And I couldn't exactly bring a real giraffe to Homeworld... I tried... so I just decided to give you this stuffed one! It's like a 'congrations' kind of gift."

"Ohhhh thankyouthankyouthankyou!" Spinel then wrapped her arms around Steven. "Iloveitsoooomuch! It's so cute and soft!" Spinel said, rubbing the fur on the stuffed giraffe.

"I knew you'd like it," Steven laughed again.

Spinel felt tears in her eyes remebering that wonderful moment. But now she was trapped in the woods... alone. Spinel knew she needed to find Steven, it was like she couldn't live without him."

Spinel continued to walk, still making sure the toy was in her hand every now and than, it was like her own child.

After a few days of walking around, she decided to take a break. She found a large rock. Taking a deep breath, Spinel sat on the rock, letting her limbs go loose and spill on the ground around her.

"Hey... who are you?"

Spinel jumped ten feet in the air, landing on a tree above her while holding her toy close to her. A slightly bigger gem stood below the tree.

"Listen, I'm not going to hurt you or anything. I just haven't seen you around," the gem said. "I'm Bloodstone, and you are...?"

Spinel took a deep breath. "Spinel..."