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“Are you all right?”

The twins hadn’t been sure of what to say to the quartz in question. Nevertheless, they had approached her. Earth certainly had shown them how different things could be. The twins never would have thought that they’d be on a beach with an admittedly rugged looking quartz, or that they’d be asking her how she was feeling.

As far as either twin could guess, the news about Pink Diamond had made its way to Jasper. Well... the news about Rose being Pink Diamond the whole time, if one was to be specific. The twins sat down in the sand, and each looked Jasper’s way. They couldn’t quite tell what she was thinking.

“JASPER!” Steven shrieked as he saw the quartz soldier growling and biting at the air where a buzzing bee was being a nuisance. “DON’T EAT BEES!”

Well, this was certainly... uncomfortable.

Ever since Rose had reformed, she had been figuring out how to approach the opposing quartz. Steven had told her everything, tearing away the safety she had. Somehow it was easier to allow Jasper to hate her than to have her know she was Pink Diamond. Perhaps it was guilt and remorse for having just abandoned the other when she had. Or, for how she treated her during their time together. Either way, it wasn't easy to work up the courage to speak to her one on one. Albeit, it had to be done.

               “EVERYONE’S COMPETING FOR A LOVE THEY WON’T RECEIVE.”

         oh boy --- that was... a big gem. 

    jenny was only really familiar with steven’s aunts dimly, they weren’t best friends by any means, and she’d seen the blue and the green gems around -- the car wash incident was still vividly embeded in her mind, but this was someone new. she knew steven’s ‘magic’ friends had those gemstones on their bodies, so.. judging from the gem on the strangers nose, (how did she smell?) she came to a.. logical conclusion.

   This just wasn’t FAIR.

   Well, it wasn’t fair in Lapis’ mind.  She understood why she needed to be sent on this mission -- it was underwater, her powers were the only ones that would be able to open this door, she ... probably wouldn’t fight with anyone.  Probably.  What she didn’t understand was why they’d all decided it would be best to send her WITH JASPER.  All of the others had no trouble getting that there was too much history, too much bad blood, too much crap between the two of them for them to work together like the others did.

   She was partly scared that something would go wrong and Jasper would hurt her.  But she was also scared that something would go wrong and she would hurt Jasper.  Didn’t any of the others THINK about this before pairing them up ?  Why didn’t any of them want to even come along just in case ?

   Whatever was going on inside the others’ minds, neither Lapis’ nor Jasper’s complaining was going to change it.  (  She’d already tried talking to Steven.  All he said was that it MIGHT be good for both of them to spend a little one-on-one time together.  Even so, it was clear that he had his own reservations, so why would he let them do this alone ?  )

   Her steps were slow as she stepped up onto the warp pad beside Jasper.  As if she thought if she dragged it out long enough, Steven or Pearl or even Garnet would suddenly have a change of heart and take that time to stop them from leaving.

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The twins don’t really trust Jasper that much, and for good reason. However, the rightmost rutile is at least a little more willing to make an attempt at extending a peace branch, so to speak. The leftmost rutile is less certain of that much, but trusts her sister and follows her lead.

If they ever did get to be friends, Jasper probably would be protective of the twins. The twins don’t really know that much about fighting despite being a bit bolder than the other off colored Gems, and they tend to get themselves in trouble more often than not. It still surprises them more often than not when Jasper protects them.

Self confidence is still a bit of an issue for the twins. They think that because Jasper was ‘the perfect quartz,’ she’d have better self confidence than them. So they come to her for advice. This just leads to a long conversation between them and discovering that maybe Jasper isn’t quite as self confident as they first thought.

“Welcome back, Jasper.”