Steven Universe Fic (Season 2)

part 2 Chapter four: Something

"Pearl just..stay there." Steven sat the tinted gem down on the couch while Amethyst wrestled a knife from Garnet's curious hands.
This was a nightmare.
It had to be, right?
Steven was going to wake up any moment. He had to.

"Steven-"

"What, Spinel?!" He snapped, causing Amethyst to look up at him, Spinel shrunk in on herself, unprepared for his anger, she did something wrong,
She didn't know what, so instead stayed quiet,  sitting down next to Pearl and grabbing her hand to make sure she wouldn't wander off.
Steven loudly sighed, and grumbled to himself in mild anguish.

"I'm going to get Bismuth." He grunted, making is way up the stairs toward the warp room.

Amethyst managed to grapple the kitchen knife from Garnet's hands and pushed the nonsensical fusion to sit next to Pearl. Spinel assisted by wrapping her arm around the two of them to prevent them from moving.

"This is bad." Amethyst glanced at Spinel who was still rather quiet. She caused this, if she hadn't been so stupid Pearl and Garnet wouldn't be like this, it was all her fault, she knew it, and Steven knew.
He was mad at her, all this was her fault, she ruined everything- again.

Amethyst took notice to her silence and the way she seemed to grow smaller at her darkening thoughts. She patted her back in effort to pull her from her thoughts.

"Hey, it's gonna be alright, Steven can fix this." She reassured her, hoping Spinel would find comfort in her words.

"What if he can't?" Spinel lightly touched her gemstone, he couldn't completely fix her, he didn't even know how to fix them. She let out a reluctant sigh, despite Amethyst's reassurance she could help but feel horrid.
She looked at the two gems she held captive, they had turned a light pink and looked around the room like dumb children. Whatever Antarcticite had done it was really bad.
If they couldn't fix this, her friends she had worked so hard to attain would be gone, and Steven would hate her for it. She made this happen. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Spinel sniffled quietly, hiding her tears as Steven returned with Bismuth.

"You say some water gem did this?" Bismuth asked, inspecting the two tainted gems. She turned to Steven.

"You sure you didn't do this?"

Steven was flabbergasted, and rather taken aback by her assumption, not to mention angry. Why would he do this?

"No! I don't even know how to do that! Or change them back! The last time-" Steven stopped himself, turning away from Spinel and whispering quietly to Bismuth. "The last time this happened that monster did it to White."

He didn't want the pink gem to hear him, he was still baffled that she didn't immediately recognize Antarcticite. It put them all in danger, she was lucky he protected her, she could have been shattered, again.
Steven couldn't take a loss like that, not again, not after this.

Bismuth nodded and stood up. Rubbing her chin in contempation.

"I've only seen this once, from Pink." She mentioned, Steven looked down at the floor, he didn't want to come to the conclusion he had already reached. The creature did this to them, and it was connected to him in some way.

"If mom could do it, then I can fix it, right?" Steven had to believe that he could fix this, he had to believe that he could bring them back. He had to do something.