Starring Roles In Their Own Tragedies

You'll Reach Up, And You'll Rise Again

Ahh, the Finale as finally come upon us. I think this is the longest chapter I've written for this story. The song for this chapter's title is "You Will Be Found" from the musical Dear Evan Hanson.

This was a wild ride, and I am so thankful for Onlynoll on Tumblr for coming up with the idea and sutimetravelau for letting me use it. You guys are the best! I hope this ending is satisfying or, at least, satisfying enough.

Amethyst scowled as she picked up a music box that was buried in one of her piles of junk. It looked fairly new, and the spinning figure inside was of a sleeping cat. She looked it over before placing it in a newly forming pile behind her. Pearl watched as the purple gem spotted something in another pile and rushed over to pick it up. "What are you doing again? I've been watching you move through your junk piles for hours."

Amethyst dropped a radio into the pile. "I'm looking through all of my stuff for an apology gift. I told you already that I feel like shit for what we did." Pearl glared at her. "Language, Amethyst." The gem scoffed as she turned to another pile. The pale gem sighed, "I understand what you mean, though. We did make a pretty rash assumption."

Pearl felt a tin can smack her in the head. "Rash assumption? We went overboard!" Amethyst snarled as she ran her hands through her hair. "I don't know if it's gotten through you're pretty little head yet, but we attacked Steven! Twoie is Steven from the future, right? So we went out there, with a half-baked theory, and cracked our family member for no legitimate reason."

She stomped past Pearl. The taller gem trailed along. "You're right." Amethyst paused and looked back. Pearl was standing with her hands crossed over her chest. "We did overreact to the situation and hurt Twoie because of it. And poor Steven, he had to watch us do that! I just don't know what to do, Amethyst! If Twoie decides he wants nothing to do with us after this, we'd deserve it." She started pacing back and forth, with her hands gripping the end of her ribbon.

"But can you imagine what that would do to Steven as well? He's always been so emotionally hurt when we fought with each other, but now that it looks like it's Twoie or us? He might feel like we don't care about him because Twoie is him. I'm scared, Amethyst..."

Pearl covered her mouth with one hand. "I'm scared that they'll hate us." Amethyst put a hand on her arm. "That's why we have to make things right, P. I'm gonna head to Garnet's room. I wanna see if she checked on him already." The other gem nodded, and Amethyst led the way to the puddle she knew would take them to the boiling room. "I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier." Amethyst waited for her to continue. "I was walking around my room after this awful fiasco, and you were right. I found several waterfalls leading to your room that were pretty close to the places where I store my items. I'm sorry I assumed you took it, and I'm sorry that I didn't believe you."

Amethyst smirked and lightly punched her arm. "Finally, P! Took you long enough." Pearl rolled her eyes fondly and followed Amethyst as she jumped into a puddle. They landed in Garnet's room, off to the side of the lava pit. "Yo, Garnet! Did you check on Steven yet?" Garnet was sitting in the middle of the room, with her feet dipped in the lava. She turned her head as she nodded.

"He was under the house with Twoie for awhile. I predict that Twoie's making them dinner right now. Once they're done, we can go out and apologize to Twoie for fighting him." Pearl raised a brow and pursed her lip. "You actually went outside and checked on him, right?"

Garnet adjusted her shades. "Steven doesn't want to see us right now, so I checked on him with my future vision." "Seriously, Garnet?" Amethyst huffed as she turned to head towards the exit. "I swear you rely too much on your future vision." Pearl hummed in agreement and followed the other gem out of the temple. They were greeted with a dark, quiet living room. Amethyst figured Steven and Twoie were probably still outside, so she didn't look around the room as she strode out the front door. She hopped down to the bottom of the stairs.