We all need a friend (StevenxSpinel)<Discontinued, remake in process>

His Spinel?/A Bed Time Story

Hi there, I'm here with like my lomgest chapter yet but I think that has mostly to do with (spoiler alert? I don't think it matters though, it's not plot heavy) Steven's bedtime story which I decided against completing it, but more on that later.

Anyway, let's get into today's chapter then!

-=Three Hours Later=-
-=Steven/Pearl=-

The teen shot up in his bed as he looked around, noticing Pearl who was seemingly waiting for him. The next thing he noticed was that he was holding onto Spinel's gem, it seemingly being left in his hands while he was unconscious.

Pearl was hesitant at first but was quick wrapped her arms around him after shaking off the unwanted feeling of...fear? "Are you feeling better? I was close to calling Dr. Maheswaran again." She said with a sigh, careful on how tightly she held him, unsure if he was hurt or not.

"No- I...I'll be alright." He said, looking down at Spinel's gem. The memories of what happened came flooding back. He did this...she trusted him to make sure nothing bad happened...and he did this to her. Did he really only exist to bring pain and suffering to those unfortunate enough to become associated with him?

"Steven...I know you must be upset about what happened to Spinel," Pearl began as she let him go, thinking to herself, "that much was obvious..." before going back to trying to help him feel better. "and I know what you're thinking, but it's not your fault." She reassured him, knowing that the first thing he would do is feel like this was his doing, as he did with most things that he was even mildly associated with.

"But it is...I'm the one who convinced her to do this, I'm the one who told it to fix anything 'wrong' with her, I'm the one who let it reset her, and I'm the one who almost killed all three of us because I couldn't control my temper. Why? Why is it when bad things happen, it's always because of me? I don't want to hurt anyone and I don't want anyone to get hurt...but somehow, when someone is associated with me or my mother they either get hurt, hurt me, or both!" He ranted, holding her gem closely, closing his eyes tightly.

"Steven, that's not true at all. Me, Garnet and Amethyst have been apart of your life for over fifteen years now and all you've done is help us and keep us safe,"  Pearl argued, hating that he was associating himself with the pain of others.

"In just the last two years, I caused a war and rebellion on homeworld, I got Spinel reset, I drove Jasper to choose corruption over help, I abandoned all of you here while I went to homeworld, I threw Eyeball into space, I've put Beach City in danger quite a few times, I destroyed Fun Land, I've messed up our missions to nearly the point of failure time and time again, putting you all in danger, I've gotten a bunch of my friends nearly kidnapped, and I put my friends in danger a bunch of other times as well...I'm just all around bad to be around, I wouldn't be surprised if Spinel wanted nothing to do with me...if she were even here anymore." He said, now on the verge of tears at the realization that he might never see his best friend ever again, that he might never find the answer to how he felt and if he did, he wouldn't be able to share it with her.

"Steven, you're not bad at all! You've done so much more good than anything! You went to homeworld and freed all the gems from the hold of the Diamonds, you changed the Diamonds into good guys, you are the sole reason that all the gems in little homeworld are now uncorrupted, you saved the half of the townspeople when Aquamarine and Topaz came, you saved your dad from that zoo, you stoped the cluster without having to shatter it, you saved us from Jasper and Peridot, you brought back the world's ocean, you saved Lapis from her mirror and you've redeemed Gem after Gem." She argued. "And don't think for a second that Spinel would be upset with you, because you saved her too."