Starring Roles In Their Own Tragedies

Tunnel Vision

Woo, this was hard to write. I'm not the best at fight scenes so I hope it's okay. I know the "Gems Fight Twoie" idea has been done a couple of times and I wanted to do a different take on the way I normally see it revealed. I want to give a shoutout to Onlynoll and Sutimetravelau on Tumblr for the idea! I hope you like it!

I'm always up for constructive criticism so let me know if anything reads weird! I had the hardest time writing Pearl's dialogue. I also love hearing back from you in general if you want to comment here or on my

Also, the title is from the song "Listening to the Weather" by Bic Runga. I love this song!

Twoie knew it was going to be a bad day the moment he woke up. The young man had struggled to fall asleep, and it felt like he'd only slept a couple of hours. He sighed as he covered his face with his pillow. Ever since he ended up in his past, he'd gotten used to sleeping on the couch. Don't even get him started on Rose's room. Twoie had had enough bad experiences in there that he'd rather suffer from the occasional backache than make it his room. He only slept there when he was staying up much longer than Steven so he wouldn't disturb him.

Speaking of Steven, Twoie could hear his younger self's voice from close by. What time was it? He uncovered his head from the pillow and blearily looked towards the source of the noise. 'Great... Looks like Pearl and Amethyst are fighting again...' Steven had his hands up as he tried to calm their argument, but it was clear it wasn't working.

"-ault. I keep telling you I'm not taking your stupid junk! Maybe you should pay more attention to the stuff you leave out around your waterfalls. It's been your waterfalls for years now!" Pearl looked incensed as she hugged some object close to her. It looked like some kind of a pink and blue stick.

"Oh, I doubt that! You took my stuff for decades, and I am definitely not careless enough to leave this out." Amethyst growled but stopped when Garnet put a hand on her shoulder. "Pearl, I know that means a lot to you, but you need to take their words into account. Both Steven and Amethyst are saying that items from your room fall into her room. I believe that this may be all one big misunderstanding."

Pearl looked betrayed. "W-well, maybe some past events were accidents but not this! There's no way I'd ever leave this out in my room. I keep it in my gem!" Amethyst scowled as she walked over to the fridge. "I don't know what to tell you, P. It wasn't me, and we all know you're not gonna admit it was you." Steven stared at him with hope in his eyes. 'Augh, do I really have to be the one to fix this?'

He sighed as he slowly sat up on the couch. "What's going on now?" Pearl still seemed salty even though she smiled at him in greeting. "Twoie! Good morning! Or should I say good almost afternoon now?" Was it really that late? "I'm sorry if we woke you. You remember how Amethyst used to take things from my rooms for her junk piles, right? I was only telling her that she needed to stop." Amethyst rolled her eyes.

"Alright, Pearl. I'm sure it was an accident. I remember a couple of times where your items fell into Amethyst's room via the waterfalls, and that's probably what happened this time too. It's not anyone's fault, and I think we should just drop it." Pearl sniffed and turned on her heel away from him. "Right. My precious gift from Rose Quartz just happened to fall into Amethyst's room. You don't need to pretend. I doubt you would understand how much this means to me."

Twoie saw red. How dare she? How dare she? Steven looked shocked as Pearl headed towards the temple. "You're right." She turned around in surprise. "I don't understand." His fists clenched in rage. "I don't understand because Pi- Rose was the worst!" The stick clattered to the ground. Every eye was on him.