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                        Ever get that feeling of déjà vu?

👊 █┊A temple on a beach. Strange location to put one if you’d ask her, but it didn’t matter what she thinks, right? It was here and whoever lived in it, liked it so…who cares?

The dreadlocked gem shook her head to get out of her thoughts as she stared at the temple. How had she gotten on this beach? How did she even get to ‘Beach City’ or whatever it was called? Not even she could answer that. Being in her thoughts so much made her wander to unknown places.

But the thing is…this place seems oddly familiar. Like she’s been here in the past. Sure, the colors might have been brighter then, but it was still the same place that popped up in her memories. But why? Was it trying to tell her something?

        Pearl had taken to nights away-- considering she’d promised to stop watching Steven while he slept throughout the late hours on Earth. Slender fingers curl around her hands in an anxious gesture as she made sure everything within the temple was in order and then without a sound she left. Well, she got to the porch and that’s when she spotted a familiar figure-- one Pearl wished she could greet with fondness but only held a small amount of resentment for. 

       While Bismuth had been an asset in the war, she had also threatened Pearl’s existence on multiple occasions and if old habits died hard she’d be faced with the same old routine. But time had changed Pearl, time had hardened the Pearl from her soft, unsure roots to a soldier homeworld had called ‘The Renegade’. While not built for battle she fought with the best of the warrior gems, she outperformed them in the end using speed, and brains over brute strength. 

                                 “--Bismuth?”

     Her voice is hard almost militaristic and for many gems it would command the respect that Rose Quartz’s right hand would. Her blue eyes watched the massive gem in front of her, all the while Pearl stepped down the front porch with all the elegance that a Pearl’s body could afford and tilted her head curiously. She’s unsure of what to make of the old ally’s presence-- she’d thought the only crystal gems to make it out alive were herself, Rose and Garnet-- never in ten thousand years would she have thought Bismuth still alive.

    “--Amethyst.”

              She’s about to fall into old habits-- betrating the younger gem for reckless behavior. It’something she catches herself on trying to approach it from another angle, the analytical nature of Pearl however challenged her attempts at a more empathetic route to discussing the nature of their situation. Taking a moment, she instead approaches Amethyst and the delicate gem artifact that she’d found. On a recent venture to the strawberry fields they’d come across an old holo-projector that was only lacking one thing: an energy source. 

i am not beautiful, i am scarred. my mind is dusty archives with  paper thoughts that my wildfire heart has a tendency to burn.

i will burn you. i will not provide you warmth.

because i am selfish & frigid & i will steal your offered comfort.

ii. do not fall in love with me. for i am a killer.

finger pointed in a permanent pistol, i will whisper compassion with the heavy barrel of my gun.

iii. do not fall in love with me because i am cruel.

i am jealous & messy & savage & i will show you what a true monster is. i will posses you utterly.

i will suffocate you.

iv. do not fall in love with me. for i am a sadist and i will feed you my chaos affection & you  will choke.

v. do not fall in love with me. for i am a liar.

i will hurt you & crush you & scream my strength into the air between us.

i will make you feel wonderful & worthless.

vi. do not fall in love with me. for i am weak.

& i will inhale you more than the stolen oxygen in my butterfly lungs. i will rely on you with my life & i will lock my heart away inside your ribcage  because I do not trust myself with it.

        the SHIP’S CONTROL PAD was made to attune to the GEMS unique energy signatures; though you may have a POINT dear, perhaps we SHOULD move it, not for efficiency but in case we are STILL being tracked by homeworld. 

     “Perhaps here-- if stealth is your mission.”