#i return from my visit at my parents' to deliver you farm fresh pearlrose angst

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Thinking about how Rose first found out she had healing tears.

Because the only way she could have found out is if a gem she cared about was cracked in front of her, right?

So imagine Rose after a fight, holding an injured, glitching Pearl, wondering if all of her pearls are doomed to meet a horrible fate because of her, and oh stars, this time is even worse, Pearl is actually about to die in Rose's arms, and there's nothing, nothing she can do to fix it.

Pearl meanwhile trying to reassure her, even as she slowly loses control over her own mind and body.

Rose crying, desperately wishing she'd done something, anything differently, so she wouldn't be here with another dying pearl.

And then a miracle happens.

Suddenly, Pearl has control over her body again, and when she reaches up, she finds that her gem is whole and undamaged, like it was never cracked in the first place.

Pearl immediately shrugs off the shock of almost dying in favour of praising Rose. Of course Rose would be able to heal her, she's perfect and wonderful and nothing bad could ever happen to Pearl as long as she's by her side!

Rose on the other hand is absolutely shaken.

First of all by a lightyear, she almost lost Pearl forever just now.

But also, she apparently has healing powers?

Rose has spent the last two thousand years defining herself by what she did to her first pearl, wanting to change while also being convinced that she's an inherently violent, horrible person, who will only ever hurt people.

But now, here on Earth, she's looking at the living (living!) proof that she can change and has done so already, so completely that Pearl, her Pearl, thinks that the power to heal, not hurt people is perfectly natural for Rose to have.

On that day, Rose promises herself that this pearl will only ever know her as the loving, nurturing person she believes Rose to be.

Rose turns her back on Pink Diamond and never looks back.

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