Isabella Rose Universe

Three Gems and Two Babies

Steven watches as the snow falls heavily outside the beach house, "It's amazing. The snow just keeps falling and falling! I'm glad you're staying here with us, Dad." he walks away from the window and sits down next to his sister as the family was gathered in the living room.

"Yeah, me too buddy." Greg says, "It's way too cold to stay in the van during this blizzard. Besides, the heater in the van hasn't worked since I got that sweet mini disk player installed. Which I do not regret."

"I've never seen it snow so heavily before." Isabella says.

"That's not entirely true." Garnet told her.

"You mean back when-" Pearl starts to laugh, "That was about fourteen years ago. There was a snowstorm happening just like this around then."

"So, it snowed just like this when we were infants?" Isabella asks.

"That's right. You two were only a few months old and it was snowing so hard, I thought we were gonna become Snowman and Snowbabies." Greg explains as Pearl gets up to make some tea, "But Vidalia was out of town visiting family, so she let us crash at her place for a while. It was the first time you-"

"Dad!" Steven interrupts.

"I'm not that far away Steven."

"Don't forget our... arrangement."

"Good gravy." Greg grabs his guitar as Pearl comes back.

"I guess that's what you get when you raise us to love music." Isabella smiles.

"Luckily, I have a song for this story already." Greg starts to strum the guitar and sing about the struggles of being a single father raising two children at once.

Greg: I could never be, I could never be, I could never be ready for this. I could never be, I could never be, I could never be ready. Things start and things end, and isn't it lovely in theory but, I could never be, I could never be, I could never be ready.

...14 years ago...

Greg was sleeping on the couch when Isabella started to struggle in her swaddle, jolting him awake as Steven slowly woke up as well.

"Hey, sweetheart. You're doing a lot of dancing in there. You wanna get out of there and show me your moves?" Isabella's swaddle unravels as her onesie unbuttoned, "Hey now. You unbuttoned all your buttons I buttoned up." Greg blows a raspberry, causing her to laugh as Steven does so as well, "Let's get you buttoned back up." he lies her down and buttons her onesie back up, "Ookie pookie. There." Isabella unbuttons the onesie again, Steven laughing and following suit, "Do your gems need to breathe? Hmm..." he buttons up the top part of their onesies, leaving the gemstones exposed, "How about...this?"

The two coo as someone knocks at the door.

Greg gets up and opens the door, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl standing outside with gifts, "Oh! Um, heyyy ya'll."

"Hello." Garnet greeted.

"Yo Greg, check it out! We brought gifts for the little Roses!"

Garnet sets her hand over Amethyst's head, "Amethyst. We've gone over this. Isabella and Steven are..."

"...Human babies.