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"This is amazing!" Margo smiled as we walked around Little Homeworld. "Everything here is almost complete, everyone so happy to free on Earth." We sat down on the Warp Pad.

"So, being in space for so long must've been something." She looked at me and shrugged. 

"Yeah, I missed you. But, we don't have to be apart anymore. We're finally done." I hugged her once those words left my mouth. 

I never thought I would say it. 

Our happily ever after is finally here. 

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As I stood at the top of the stairs, I remembered that moment with Margo.

The sun delicately beaming on her face, complimenting her smile perfectly. 

The wind moving her hair gently. 

The words that left my mouth. 

Our happily ever after. 

It's a lie.

In front of us stood Red, Jade, and Taaffeite, alongside their pearls coalesced in magma rock. 

It was horrifying to imagine how long they've been embedded. It was horrifying to see their expressions contorted in fear. It was horrifying to realize the person who did this was my mother. 

I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, to think she wasn't a horrible diamond, that she was the exception. 

Looking at them made me realize that she was the example. 

I walked closer to the pearls and started to tear up. 

"I...I'm so sorry..." I touched one of the pearls' cheek and it started to glow. I let go and her cheek continued to glow as the rock dematerialized around her body. She fell to the ground, groaning in exhaustion. 

I turned around. "Go on." Garnet smiled. I turned back to the pearl and helped her up. 

"T-Thank you..." She smiled. She looked down at my gem and screamed, backing away from me. "No! Don't shatter me, please!" Her voice cracked as she hid behind the other pearls in fear. 

What did she do to them?

"It's okay... I'm not Black Diamond. I'm her daughter, I promise I won't hurt you." 

She stopped gripping the other pearls and came from behind them. "I'm sorry." I shook my head. "I should be the one saying that." She smiled slightly. 

She told us her name, Red Pearl, and explained what happened on Homeworld.

"I remember my diamond being upset that day, 'Black Diamond was acting out again.', she said. When we walked out to Taaffeite's arena, Jade and Taaffeite were having a normal conversation with Black, like nothing was wrong. My diamond started to argue with the other diamonds about how they were spoiling Black. 'A diamond has to work for her colonies, they can't be tossed around carelessly!'. I noticed that Black was getting angrier as they continued to argue, and she finally snapped at them. She yelled at them in a booming manner, causing them to stop. 'I'm done with all of you, you're spoon-feeding me everything when you never even cared about me in the first place!' She coated the diamonds in her magma, then we were next. I believe after that was when her uprising began."

We all stood there in astonishment, me especially. "Sounds familiar." Steven said, causing me to snort. "But worse." I replied, looking over at the other pearls. I uncovered the Jade and Taaffeite Pearls, they were happy to still be alive. I was happy to watch them reunite, but I was still concerned about what my mother did. 

But, I noticed another odd thing. 

"Where's Black Pearl?" The Pearls looked at each other, then Red spoke.

 "She went missing before your uprising."

Hm, ominous. 

I decided not to think about it too much as I walked over to the diamonds. Blue, Yellow, and White had been observing them for some time. White especially, since Taaffeite towered over her. 

I looked up at them.

'...you never even cared about me in the first place!'

A part of me felt like that wasn't true. 

"Steven, I need your shield." He summoned and handed it over without question. It turned black in my hands as I threw it at the diamonds, cutting the rock covering them and dematerialized. 

They fell and were exhausted, just like the pearls. 

I walked closer to them and opened my mouth to speak, but they lifted their heads in unison.

Jade smiled at me lovingly. 

"Black, you seem upset. Is something wrong dear?"