Peridot rushes into the janitor's closet and closes it quietly. She hears Steven and Connie enter the building.
"Peridot!" Steven calls, "oh, Peridot?"
Peridot could hear their footsteps outside her hiding place. They walk right past her.
"She's not here," Connie tells Steven.
Steven sighs sadly, scuffing the hall floor with his pink converse. He abruptly brightens up, "I bet that eager bastard has already gone into town and she's waiting for us there!" Steven is delusional.
"Yeah!" Connie agrees, secretly noting to herself to schedule an appointment for Steven. They run out of the building.
Peridot waits anxiously for a few minutes to be sure that they've actually left. Once she's certain, she celebrates.
Hah, they're finally gone! Peridot thinks to herself. She reaches for the doorknob - it's not there.
It's dark in here, I just missed it. Peridot reassures herself. She feels around the door for the knob... Nothing.
"What the-?!" Peridot says aloud.
There's no doorknob - the closet is locked from the outside.
"Locked!? No!" She plops down on the dusty closet floor and sits cross-legged.
"Someone will find me eventually, right?"
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Can You Spare a Gem? ( STEVEN UNIVERSE FUTURE / SPINEL FANFIC )
FanfictionSteven is 16 and he is the emotional support for all the traumatised gems in New Homeworld, but it's really starting to wear him down. He thought after he stopped Spinel from destroying the Earth, things would settle down. He was very wrong. Spinel...
