𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 ➵ steven universe

vi. i just want to help

Kiwi_Lynx
dang, sorry i took so long. i kept rewriting and stressing over if this is any good. hopefully it's enough doe.

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It's a Friday night, at 12 am, and Connie can't sleep.

She can't stop thinking about what happened with her and Steven. Even if it was only like a week, it feels like months. She didn't have the courage to pick up the phone and break the silence between them.

"So that's what this is about-"

"Steven, just listen. You don't know how much you need this... and how much you would benefit from it. But I can see. It would just be once a week."

It felt so strange, she'd never had a fight with him. Sure, they had that one falling-out, but it wasn't anything like this. There wasn't really arguing involved last time. Just the painful feeling of... not seeing each other. Connie regrets that, but this time she's too nervous to talk after what happened.

"Just ... I don't need help! Stop saying that I do..."

"But... I can't just sit here and watch you suffer in silence. It breaks my heart. Just please, why won't you let me do this for you, Steven..."

She kept replaying the scene over in her mind, trying to call herself out on all the mistakes she made. But also where things went wrong.

Maybe she used the wrong tone. She didn't want to force him into getting a therapist... but did it seem that way? Maybe he was right...

It was hard though. How do you tell someone to get help if they won't accept it? And how do you do so without sounding forceful?

She tries to blink away the tears that sting her eyes from the guilt. Her phone was lying on her desk, untouched. She regrets everything she said in that argument. Sure, Steven needs some serious help... but she didn't mean to make him upset with her. Or escalate things into a fight. She just wants things to be back to the way they were; she just wants him back.

She really messed up.

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It's 12 am at the beach house. All the Gems are in their rooms up to the usual, but Steven is just lying awake.

Connie is on his mind, not that that's anything new...

At first, he was offended and angry, but reflecting on the entire thing he feels that maybe he was the one in the wrong.

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"A therapist is a person who treats psychological problems, and they usually prove to be quite helpful to help the patient with any issues they are having."

Of course, he knew what a therapist was. But he never really thought about it, or more importantly, if he needed one.

It was just that he just couldn't believe that Connie brought it up. Like he had problems... like there was something wrong with him... but thinking about it properly, maybe... she wasn't too wrong, right...?