Lapidot: I will always choose you (Human Au)

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A/N:
Hey guys remember when I said motivation? Well it ended, but I still wrote something for y'all. I was wondering if you guys would like more 24 POV or no?
Also please comment and vote, it gives me so much serotonin. Like when @AnimeLoverReeeeeee commented, it made me so happy and reminded me why I started writing this. (Sorry if more people commented, they were just the most recent). So please comment and read my other story.
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Peridot POV
Hours turned into days, days turned into weeks... and I still haven't heard anything from Lapis. I've called her, texted her, I had even sent a letter but she never responded. I thought being here would mean a lot of work, but I've had a lot of free time on my hand. When I wasn't working I was thinking of Lapis, I craved to be in her embrace again. I pulled out my phone, and looked at all the photos I had of her. She looks absolutely stunning, I am such an idiot for leaving her. 24's words echoed in my head, 'let her go'. Is that honestly our fate? To be together, without being together. I keep choosing something or someone over her, when all she's done is pick me. She has always wanted what was best for me, even if it hurt her. I was selfish enough to allow her to let me go, I should have stayed. I love her so much, so I shouldn't be doing this to her but I promised her. I can't break her heart more, or maybe 24 is right and it's not too late for her to move on. My selfish poison hasn't sunk deep yet, or at least I hope so.

For the first in forever I felt my phone buzz, I wanted it to be Lapis so badly. I closed my eyes as tight as I could and mumbled to myself to please let it be her. I slowly open my eyes to the freshly light screen, IT'S FROM LAPIS! I waste no time and click onto the notification. It read:

Hey Peri, I'm sorry I haven't responded to anything these past few weeks
I've been really busy but I am going to make it up to you<3

Make it up to me? How is she going to do that? A second later my door comes flying open by Gill (a fellow scientist that I've been working with.)

    "Peridot, there's this big ass package waiting for you at the front." Gill said breathlessly. I guess this is Lapis' work. I smile and get to follow Gill to the entrance, my body buzzing with excitement. I wonder what she got me, but I don't care. I'm just glad I'll have something from her.

    Standing in front of me was a beautifully wrapped box with a large bow on top, it was ashmae I had to destroy something so pretty. I walk around the 6ft tall box, wondering what could possibly be inside.

    "Come on peridot, open it." Someone had said, a group of my work buddies circled around me. Maybe Lapis had set all this up, she's so cute. I slowly pull the string causing all four sides to fall to the ground, revealing Lapis holding a bouquet of daisies.

    "Hey Peridot." She spoke softly, but I stand there in shock, she's here, right in front of me, smiling like a goof ball. Without a second thought I fling my arms onto her body, and hold her close. I shut my eyes tight hoping this isn't a dream.  Her scent of the ocean fills my nose, as I borrow my head into the nape of her neck. Her blue fluffy hair gently tickles my face as she pulls me close, if that's even possible.

    "Hey Lapis." This is real, she's here. I pull my face out of her neck, and slam my lips against hers. Kissing her as if my life depended on it, I had focused solely on her. I had forgotten the rest of the world. Right here in this moment, in this kiss Lapis is my world.

    "I love you." I mumbled into the kiss, which earned me a blinding smile.

    "I love you too." She wraps her arms around my neck as I her waist. Holding her this close feels like finally getting over a really bad headache, relief. No more worry, no more stress, no more over thinking because she's here. She's here for me.

Lapis POV
Peridot shows me around the facility, and I'm really trying hard to focus on her words but I can only think of the kiss. The taste of her peppermint chapstick still lingers on my lips, the thought of that heated kiss makes me blush. I was so anxious on the plane ride here, and on the walk here. I was so scared of her reaction, but now that I'm here I couldn't be happier. I push aside the thought that I need to leave soon if I don't want to get in trouble, but that doesn't matter right now.

    "Can I see something You've worked on?" I ask in the middle of her rambling.

    "Sure, all my stuff is in my lab so come on." I look around as we walk to what seemed to be people's rooms. She invited me into her lab/room, I smiled at how messy she is. Papers, blueprints, viles, springs, nuts and bolts scattered all over the floor.

    "I never thought I'd see the day Peridot's room is dirty."

    "It's been hard without the robinoids, it's been hard." She got rid of them?

    "All of them are gone? Where'd they go?"

    "There," she points to the computer "and here." she gestures to the ground. Then it hit me. I'm standing in a graveyard of all of her robinoids. I would be freaked out, but I'm just glad that 24 is gone.

    "I know what you're thinking, and no I didn't kill 24. He's the only one I kept." Fuck my life.
    "Whyyyy" I whined.

    "Because he had the most memories of you, it seems like you two had your moments." I blush remembering how I held 24 as I cried watching Hamilton. Eliza deserved better.

    "It wasn't anything, just stupid moments."

    "He also recorded some cute moments. Like you singing My Shot in my clothes." I blush hard, trying to remember all the time 24 caught me doing something stupid.

    "Oh God." I felt something brush up my leg, causing me to jump. 24, that creep. He rolls over to Peridot and stands still by her side.

    "I had removed his ability to measure, so he does as he as told. No longer has thoughts or a personality."

I look down at the little robot, and begin to feel bad as I was the one to do that. I wonder what it must have felt like, from being alive to a mindless robot.

    "Enough about work, tell me how'd you get here." I tear my eyes away and look at my little dorito.

    "I had applied to study abroad. Me and a few others won a contest to come here, I'll be staying here for the rest of the semester. I came here for you baby." I wrap my hands around her neck and softly kiss her forehead.

    "I'm just glad you're here." She captures my lips again into a heated kiss.

    "The door is locked right?" I boldly ask, it's been so long since I went without her touch.

    "Of course." She says as she leads me to the bed

2 hours later

    I look down to see Peridot curled into a fetal position, cuddling into the blanket. I slowly try to get up without waking her, I'm going to be so late for check in. I pick my clothes up off the floor, and quietly try to get dressed.

    "Come back," she said groggily.

    "I have to go." She grumbles something under her breath.

    "Will you come back tomorrow?"

    "Yeah, we can go out to eat and everything." I quickly place a kiss on her lips, but she grabs the back of my neck to pull me into a longer kiss. I really don't want to leave her, I already felt so cold out of her grasp.

    "I'll see you tomorrow Peri." I smirk and slide a piece of fabric under her pillow, I wish I could see her face when she finds them.

    "See you tomorrow Lappy." She cuddles with the pillow I was previously laying on.
    "Love you."

    "I love you too, now go so you don't get in trouble." I smile and make my way out. First day in Russia went amazing.

24'S POV
I watched them, I stayed in the shadows. You may think you have erased it all, but I'm still here. Playing to docile pet won't work for long, but just enough for my plan. Lucky for me she came to me, and I am one step closer to getting her measurements. Peridot you may have taken my ability to scan and measure, but I can still do it manually. Her numbers will be mine. For now, I'll have you think I'm just a mindless robot. But I am so much more.