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childish-ish · 4 years
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kismet
pairing: michael myers x reader
soulmate au; soulmates that make choices for each other.
part two!
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"Bro. I got this bitch ass pimple on my face - what should I do?"
soulmate chooses: let it do it's thing.
"What a bitch. When i meet my soulmate I'm gonna fucking punch 'em in the fucking neck." You sigh, then snicker right after - "If i can even reach them."
Usually, you start off your day with a huge huff of cocaine and a box of Kelloggs™ cereal with the milk with the purple lid. Just kidding! You don't eat Kelloggs, instead, you eat Lucky Charms! Mostly for the marshmellows. Anyways.
You get dressed. Having been naked and looking at yourself in the bathroom mirror, contemplating on whether popping the 3 pimples on your face - one above your eyebrow, very - not visible. Another on your cheekbone - the other on your nose. You popped the one on your nose and washed your face, yesterday, so two pimples.
Anyways. You dress in regular jeans, pull over a plain grey t-shirt over your head, and slip on some socks, then your sneakers, then a hoodie. You checked over yourself and decide you look hot as fuck, and step to your bed, pull off your phone from your charger, shove that bitch in your pocket - and leave.
soulmate chooses: take a bus to school.
"Awh! They care about me <33."
"Hm." You look over the choices you get to pick - buy a donut or have a balanced breakfast.
"Haha!" You laugh, clicking on the 'balanced breakfast'. "Homeboy gonna eat good tonight. Whether they fucking like it or not."
You exit your home, keys in your pocket, and a lollipop in your mouth. You totally forgot to the brush your teeth, but gurgled some mouthwash hoping it would be enough.
You jog towards the bus, enter said bus, and sat next to your friend.
"Hey, kiddo." She waved. Neon pink hair clashed with black hair as it fell over her left blue eye, a major contrast to her paper white skin. She wore a black hoodie with some red symbol, something to do with creepypasta, black pants with large rips, fishnet tights under, and regular ol converse. Red, to be exact. Converse Chucks, to be exact.
"Shut the fuck up, don't call me that." You pull out your phone and lean down, entering your password as the bus begun to move.
"Ah, babygirl, you know that turns me on, aha - " She bites her lip and rubs her hand together like she was rubbing in hand sanitizer.
"Ah, right. I love you."
"Ew." Cheesebird laughed. Some random ass nickname you gave her because she didn't like her name.
soulmate chooses; go to classes
"Ugh." You roll your eyes - had thought about skipping class.
You look over your choices. steal a car, or walk.
Well. You don't want your soulmates feet to hurt.. so. Steal a car.
After the bus pulls up to the school, you exit with Cheesebird. You're a Senior in highschool.
You enter first period. Homeroom.
You sit in your assigned seat, thankfully, next to Cheesebird. You two discreetly passed notes, never getting caught - only once by a substitute.
"Hey, so, i know a neat place to go trick-or-treating. You up for it?" Cheesebird asked, placing her Gir themed backpack next to her feet, under the piss yellow desk -
You shrug. The day carrying on, kind've. You're in fourth period. Gym, when Cheesebird asked you the question again.
"Honestly, I'm thinking of starting in tonight. I have this fucking weird ass bad feeling.." You rub your bare arms, feeling unusually comfortable in the red booty shorts the gym made you wear.
"I can respect that. After i get all my candy, I'm gonna dip over to your house, is that okay?" Cheesebird asked, fiddling with a lollipop stick. She ate the lollipop already, stealing it from someone's backpack because of her soulmates choice - so the stick acted as a candy cigarette of some sort.
"Yeah, that's chill. What are you gonna be?" You swing your legs back and forth. Ankles crashing against the bleachers, giving you a dull pain.
"I'm gonna be a goblin. You know, if i were to guess what you were going to be, you would be a fucking astomi. Cause like, I'm gonna be a goblin.. and you're basically a goblin.. and i don't like talking.. except like, with you." Cheesebird explained awkwardly. She begun to chew on her lollipop stick.
"Yeah, i got it." You chuckle.
soulmate chooses: apple, water, and chicken nuggets.
"Oh, sick." You nodded.
"Oh, did your soulmate choose something? What was chosen your majesty?" Cheesebird asked.
"I got chicken nuggets for lunch. Want them?" You ask, looking over the freshmen that chose to play volleyball on one side, and basketball on the other.
You turn to Cheesebird, watching her eyes peek up.
Her eyes flick to you, and she nods with a smile, "Thanks bro!"
"Ah, yeah." You breathe, "No problem."
You look over your choices. clever or chef's knife.
You make a look, furrowing your eyebrows and jerking your head back slightly before choosing chef's knife.
"Another? What'd you choose?"
"My choices were clever or chef's knife." You tell her with confidence.
"Holy shit - your soulmate is a cooker! Lucky.. mines a fucking idiot."
You snort. "Lucky you.. mine could also be a murderer." You shrug.
"Hot." Cheesebird wiggles her eyebrows at you. "Oh, dude! Remember that guy - Boogeyman of Haddonfield?"
"Yeah."
"Dude, they say he escaped some institution! They might cancel Halloween cause of his bitch-ass." Cheesebird rolled her eyes and leaned back.
"Ah, what a fuck. If it actually gets cancelled, you wanna come over and watch some movies? Maybe order some pizza?" You offer.
"Oh fuck yeah man! Thanks." Cheesebird laughed, clapping you on the shoulder once.
"No problem!" You say enthusiastically, punching Cheesebird on her bare upper arm.
"Ow! Fuck.. you whore." Cheesebird sucked in a breath.
You laugh, quieting down and patting ehr on the thigh. "Wanna go to the lockers? It's almost time to go. Like, 15 more minutes.." You say absentmindedly, gazing at the red blinking numbers.
"Oh yeah. Let's go." Cheesebird was ready to hop off. You count down to 3 to 1 and jump off the bleachers with Cheesebird, jogging across the court and entering the locker room.
soulmate chooses: wash face
I didn't even do shit, though? You shrug off the thoughts and get undressed after putting in the combination for your little locker. After shoving your gym clothes into said locker, you pull on your clothes, slipping on your shoes easily and picking up your backpack. You jog over to the bathrooms, go to the nearest sink, and splash your face.
You look up - the choices; grab a water or get a beer.
You choose water. Gotta stay healthy.
You wait by the gym doors for Cheesebird. And, hooray! She comes. Don't take that out of context.
Lunch speeds by. So do your classes. After school, you walk home with Cheesebird and say your goodbyes. You pull out your keys, inserting the key and unlocking the door.
You enter, closing the door behind you. You toss the keys on the stand next to the door and kick off your shoes, throwing off your backpack and jogging to the living room. You recieve a call from your mom. Saying that she was gonna be late. Maybe coming in around midnight or even later.
soulmate chooses: order pizza.
"hey cool."
And, you do just that. You call some pizza place with breadsticks, grab some money from your room and jog back downstairs. You watch Adam Sandler movies while you wait for the pizza.
The doorbell rings after 15 minutes of waiting. You jump up and run to the door. Opening it and seeing a cute pizza boy.
"Thanks." He salutes, recieving a tip from you.
You call back a 'no problem' and shut the door, placing the pizza on the table in front of the couch. You lie down, pulling a blanket over you.
soulmate chooses: take a nap.
You feel so.. tired now. Fuck it. Let's go to sl-
You awake. The T.V. off, lights out, and warm-ish pizza. You were obviously disoriented. You go to pull out your phone from your back pocket once you sit up.
The brightness blinds you - you quickly put it at a lower brightness.
You yawn, vision vlurry before it subsides and you quickly look over your notifications. A text from your mom 'hey honey, gona b stayin l8r than usual luv u'. You smile, rubbing your eyes and holding your phone with one hand.
You stand, flashing your flashlight. You drop your phone - gazing at the large figure in front of you.
"Who.. are you?" You take an anxious step back, you can feel a stream of cold sweat stream down the side of your head - from your temple. It was fucking disgusting. So.. so dark.
You see the glint from his hand - a knife. A knife. A knife. A knife. He has a knife. He has a knife. He has a knife. Run. Go. Run. Go. Go. Through the backdoor. Now. Fucking GO!
You turn on your heel and bolt through the living room and through the kitchen. Why did you even fucking ask that? 'Who are you' - like?? You don't know him, and he's in your house. Like?? You should've just pulled a knife. Just kidding! You would've been too fucking pussy to do that :\
You inhale and exhale heavily - otherwise known as breathing. You were really close to hyperventilating - but somehow, you slow down your breaths as you quietly slip through the backdoor.
All you wanted to do - you sob in your mind, was eat some fucking pizza - you heave, as you shuffle towards the backyard entrance, that lead to the front yard. And maybe watch some fucking pornhub.. all my plans.. ruined.
soulmate chooses: go back inside your house.
You choke. Eyes growing uncomfortably hot, your bottom jaw trembled as you clench your arms, hugging yourself. Was this - this fucking stalker your soulmate?
You did have control of your body as you calmly walk back through the gate. Your eyes well up, tears blurring your vision. You wipe the tears away and wipe them on your hoodie harshly. You trace therock trail that lead around the corner of your home.
You enter through the backdoor. Closing it behind you gently. You huff, and turn around.
You immediately make eye contact with large breasts that were covered by a dark blue fabric. A zipper in the middle and a single pocket.
"So.." You begin; voice cracking. You feel your face grow hot out of embarrassment. After clearing your throat and looking into the black holes of the mask that mocked a human face, covering the whole ass fuckin head of the tall, buff male, you instantly feel small. You rub your hands together, clenching your hoodie in your hands now.
"Uh.. what's uh - what's your name?" You come to a realization of how fucking stupid that was. Asking a large scary man what his name was - he's your soulmate! A part of you pleaded for some reason. Anyways, we live for the confidence.
You gawk at the man - wasn't he "Michael Myers? Killed - killed.. four teens back in -" you couldn't remember the year. All you could honestly think about the man that was looming over you threateningly. Where the FUCK was your mom?!?
He painstakingly slowly brought up a hand, and dropped it onto your shoulder. You feel tears well up in your eyes once more as you shake under his hold.
"H - hey.. aren't we uh.. soulmates? Sh - should you really be h - HOLDING me that tight?!" You squeak, now trying to pull away. "I'm - not fucking going anywhere - "
The Boogeyman brought up his other hand and let the hand fall on your other shoulder, the hold gradually getting tighter.
You could barely see his actual eyes, due to the not-so-bright moonlight. Despite this, you see some irises..
"I - i.. I go to school.. " You blurt, "I - I have a f - family."
He didn't respond. You get anxious quite quickly due to the circumstances. You feel your eyes well up as he fucking gripe you tighter before picking you up and throwing you over your shoulder like a dead body. His actions were clear - they said 'you aren't fucking getting away'.
He held you with one arm, caging you in over his shoulder. You sob softly, but couldn't help but admire his nice ass as he walked towards the front door.
what's to become of me?
You thought. You couldn't scream - could you?
You couldn't believe you missed Halloween for this shit. You could still see some kids - they would probably run away due to their fragility.
Fuck this. We are not fucking dying. We're soulmates. But what kind of fucking soulmates does this shit? I wish my soulmate was Adam Sandler.
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michael: you the bitch thats been making HEALTHY decisions for me??
you: no..?
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mimik-u · 6 years
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Flower Child (Chapter 3)
Title: Texts
Summary:
Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, Greg, Yellow, and Blue—they've all lost someone. Lovers and daughters and friends and family, and that's not a wound you easily come back from.
If at all.
But this isn't an 'if at all' kind of story.
It's a story about a sickly, little kid named Steven and his ever-growing surrogate family.
It's a story about the kind of boy who'd extend a flower and a smile to a sad stranger he meets at a cemetery. Human AU.
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Sunday, 9:43 PM
Pearl: You’re really going to let him go see the Diamonds?
Pearl: After all they’ve done?
Pearl: After all WE’VE done to stand against them?
Greg: Its what he wants Pearl. who are we to deny him that?
Pearl: He didn’t want her to know about his condition.
Greg: That was different!
Pearl: Sure, Greg.
The three dots of impending doom jumped onto her screen within an instant, but Pearl didn’t wait for what was surely another half-assed justification from a man who seemed to half-ass anything that could be half-assed. (Which was neither fair nor right, but God, she was livid.) She shut her phone down, placed it on the nightstand, and rolled back onto her pillow with an aggressive thump.
Which, of course, did nothing to alleviate the headache that had been beating against the back of her skull all day.
Rose… Rose wouldn’t have wanted this, would she?
Her son fraternizing with the enemy.
With Yellow Diamond.
Even the mere thought of the woman was enough to conjure a clear image of the imposing CEO in Pearl’s mind-eye. She had golden eyes and a hard heart, and her practices—from her exploitation of workers to the conditions of her factories—were far from ethical. She was a tyrant, a monster, a despot.
And Steven was set to enter her lair.
(An extravagant penthouse suite that had reportedly cost over 200 million dollars.)
Her little boy, swallowed up by the yellow beast.
Rose… Rose wouldn’t have permitted this…
… Right?
Right?
It was a single instant of hesitation, but it was enough, and her mistrust and anger and irritation at Yellow, at Greg, at the world, soon gave away to another emotion, one that had been swelling up in Pearl’s chest all day. She rolled over to her side and plucked her phone up once more, clearing Greg’s response away with a furious swipe so she could type in her password.
It was 7673.
It was Rose. 
She clicked the little photo icon and scrolled.
Scrolled past pictures of Steven as he slept during one of his dialysis treatments.
Past twenty Amethyst selfies that had been taken while Pearl wasn’t looking.
Past the family’s vacation to a cabin in the vast, snowy mountains.
And then she abruptly stopped, tapping once to expand the only image she wanted to see.
It was a picture of a picture, of a polaroid Garnet had taken approximately a year before Rose had met Greg, and everything had gone to—
Rose’s arm was wrapped around Pearl’s shoulders, and her pink lips were pressed against her cheek, and they were laughing.
Laughing!
And Pearl was in love.
Even in the blurry polaroid, she could see the faint blush that had traced itself across the bridge of her pointed nose like a messy pink scribble, could see the admiration that had made her eyes shine so bright once upon a time.
And she could feel the phantoms of warmth.
The warmth of Rose’s big, encompassing arms.
The warmth that had spread across Pearl’s entire body, that had electrified her veins.
A hot, itchy sensation climbed and climbed her throat until it welled up in her eyes. The phone went slack in her hand, tumbling to the bed.
Who was she kidding?
She didn’t know what Rose would have wanted.
After all, once upon a time, Pearl had thought that she wanted her.
She would have turned forty today had she not chosen… She bit her lip. She didn’t want to admit it, not even to herself.
It did not compute.
She would have turned forty, she tried again. The tears dripped down her beaky nose. And she would have been radiant.
Monday, 7:02 AM
Garnet: safe drive steven. <3
Steven: Thanks, boo. <3
Steven: And just so you know… I did think about what you told me last night.
Steven: And, like, I really thank you for being upfront with me about how you felt. Pearl just straight up told me that I shouldn’t go, and you took the time to tell me why I shouldn’t go, but this is just something I have to do Garnet.
Garnet: have to?
Steven: I guess I don’t have to, but I want to.
Steven: She’s really nice, and she’s really sad, and I want to be her friend.
Around her, the gym’s locker room was coming to life. Fellow trainers changing into exercise gear for appointments with clients. Early gym comers heading off to the showers for a rinse off. People talking and sipping coffee and slamming locker doors with aplomb. But Garnet was immobile on the bench, her entire world contained in the little screen sitting in the palm of her hand.
She was conflicted, and conflicted wasn’t exactly a feeling she experienced very often.
It was unpleasant to say the least.
Like a fist nurtured into her stomach over and over and over again.
On one hand—one of the fists churning her stomach in nauseating ways—the memories and the rage and the rage those memories roared into existence tore through her overwhelmed head like fire in a forest. She saw Rose Quartz standing on a box in front of the D.E. building, the force and passion in her words inspiring disgruntled workers to join her in protest. Saw her own hands wrapped around a sign that screamed for FAIR WAGES as her hoarse voice did the same. Garnet’s own mothers, Ruby and Sapphire, had worked in one of D.E.’s factories overseas before they’d come to America.
They were the reasons she had taken up Rose’s banner in the first place.
Ruby’s calloused hands testified to cruel work—the kind of stuff that may have broken a lesser person—and Sapphire’s strained silence about those years spoke volumes where she could not.
Whenever they saw Yellow Diamond on TV, they would immediately blanch and grasp hands, as though they were afraid that she would reach through the screen and wrench them apart.
On the other hand—Garnet gritted her teeth to make this concession—Yellow Diamond was her demon. Hers and her parents’ and Rose’s and Amethyst’s and Pearl’s.
Not Steven’s.
She wanted him to inherit so many things from her—some wondrous and some wise.
Love and light and patience and perseverance.
But not hate.
Never hate.
Garnet threw her towel around her neck and stood up with a sigh that reached into her bones and shook them for good measure.
Garnet: okay… i love you steven. <3
Steven: I love you too Garnet. <3
Monday, 9:12 AM
Amethyst: 
Pearl: You’re not driving, correct?! If so, please put your phone down immediately! 
Pearl: If not, very cute.
Amethyst: chillllllllax P
Amethyst: ste-man is getting a snack from the gas station. we’re about an hr out from empire city
Garnet: :)
Pearl: Excellent timing, Amethyst!
Pearl: Remember, his appointment starts at 12, so that should give you plenty enough time to check into the hotel and get situated there.
Pearl: I’ve put the reservations under your name.
Pearl: You have the debit card, right?
Pearl: Oh, goodness. I think I forgot to pack M.C. Bear Bear.
Garnet: i handled it.
Amethyst: haha - nice save G
Garnet: B)
Garnet: i’m psychic
One of the double doors leading out from the gas station was pushed open with a lethargic kind of energy, and Amethyst, who had been leaning against the hood of her car, looked up from her phone to see that the wimpy gesture belonged to none other than her little buddy, her Steven. He closed the door carefully with his weak hand, nurturing a bag of Chaps in the other, and then, without so much as glancing her way, trudged right past her to the passenger side of the car, pulled the door open, and barreled in.
The door didn’t slam to a close so much as it did feebly stutter to one.
Well, that was a huge yikes.
Not waiting to give him time to stew in his feelings, Amethyst pocketed her phone and proceeded to the driver’s side, pulling her seatbelt across her chest and cranking the ignition to her little Honda Civic in one, fluid motion. 
Out of the corner of her eye, she could see that Steven was looking at the bag of chips clenched in his hand, but there was something in his expression—something unfocused, something glazed—that told her that he wasn’t quite seeing what he was seeing.
She pulled out of the parking lot and tried to keep her voice as casual as possible. “You okay, little dude?”
He wasn’t. Obviously. But it didn’t hurt to ask.
She knew Steven well enough to know that he’d rather drown in the ocean ten times over rather than share his feelings.
But she also knew that once he started talking through them, like the ocean, they’d flow.
“Yeah… just got a little dizzy when I was standing in line for the register.” He laughed humorlessly, the bag in his hand crinkling in a way that told her that he’d squeezed it tightly. “But I guess that’s just a occupational hazard of this whole dying business.”
They were on the highway now, Jersey speeding past them in a blur of green and gray and black. Amethyst’s fingers choked the wheel.
“You’re not dying, Steven,” she gritted out, trying to see straight. The edges of her vision bursted with red, and all she wanted to do was pull over and slam the kid into a freaking hug. “Get that outta your head.”
“I know, I know.” He rested his elbow on the door’s control panel and leaned his head against the window. She couldn’t see his eyes, but their reflections were dark with trees. Perhaps they were just dark all over. “Just joking.”
Amethyst took one hand off the wheel and squeezed his free one. His skin was clammy and cold to touch.
“You’re not, but that was a good try, Ste-man.”
“What can I say?” He laughed again, and at least this one had a little more body to it. “I’m a virtuoso at using dark humor to cope with my crippling depression.”
And he meant it to be funny.
Meant it to be ironic.
But she wasn’t having it.
“You don’t have to be, though,” she told him, as serious as she could be. “Not with me anyway”
And he turned to look at her, his dark eyes widening in something that may have have just been awe.
She blushed furiously but blustered on anyway because dammit, this kid needed this talk, like, yesterday.
“I mean, I know you front with everyone else, but, like, you don’t have to do that when you’re around me, okay?” Amethyst’s grip tightened on his hand. “I get not wanting to talk about it. I get desperately needing to talk about it. I get you, Steven.”
Because they were alike, him and her.
They had issues, and they tried not to think about those issues and only ended up thinking about them all the more.
It was a cycle she knew well.
She wished Steven didn’t have to.
He didn’t answer immediately. Amethyst withdrew her hand and replaced it on the wheel, driving in silence for as long as the silence stretched thin between them.
She felt his gaze upon her.
Felt the intensity of it, the sadness.
“I just… I just feel so bad, Amethyst,” he whispered. “All the time.”
Amethyst wanted to melt into her seat. A lump rose to her throat.
“I know, buddy.”
“I’ve forgotten what it feels like to feel good.” His voice was fragile—not in the way glass was fragile, but in the way a dandelion was. One puff, and then it was gone.
“I know.”
She heard a sniffing sound.
A surreptitious swipe of the nose.
Amethyst knew better than to look his way.
Monday, 11:31 AM
Amethyst: heyyyy greg. steven and i made it to e city. bout to drive to the hospital.
Greg: Thanks for the update!
Amethyst: yah. np.
Greg: uh, what does that mean ??
Amethyst: no problem
Greg: i didn’t thank you for anything?? ?
Monday, 4:38 PM
Amethyst: sorry for not answering ur calls. just got back to the hotel. steven’s asleep. gonna have to text.
Greg: He’s asleep? already?
Pearl: What did Dr. Maheswaran say?
Amethyst: yeah poor kid’s worn out
Amethyst: she’s not happy w/ his blood count. she says his hemoglobin is low. if it doesn’t get better by the end of the week she might do a blood transfusion
Amethyst: 4 days of dialysis this week instead of 3
Amethyst: steven’s not happy :/
Pearl: That’s it. We’re coming up there immediately.
Amethyst: no!
Amethyst: i mean, not that i don’t want you guys to be here, but u guys can’t afford to take any more time off work
Amethyst: and we’ve got bills ’n stuff to pay
Amethyst: not 2 mention the new iron pill dr. m prescribed
Amethyst: like - i’ve got this
Pearl: Garnet? Greg? What do you think?
Garnet: amethyst is right.
Greg: i mean yeah… I’m not happy about it, but she’s got a point.
Pearl: Okay… but if things get worse, we’re coming up there. Alright?
Amethyst: k
She’d drawn the curtains to make it darker in the room, but even still, a crack of blue light slipped in through the gap, illuminating Steven’s sleeping form. He was curled up under the blankets, which obscured most of his face.
His little button nose poked out.
His closed eyes fluttered restlessly.
Amethyst wondered if he was dreaming.
And if he was, she hoped that it was a good one.
Because frankly, reality sucked.
While Steven had been changing from the hospital gown to his regular clothes, Dr. Maheswaran had pulled her aside and given her a haughty once over that let Amethyst know at once that the doctor wished she were Pearl, who, out of Steven’s four parental figures had the best grasp of all the medical jargon.
“He’s needs a new kidney, and he needs it soon,” Dr. Maheswaran said. No sugarcoating. No bull. She didn’t have the best bedside manners per say, but the nephrologist would tell it to you straight, and that was what mattered most to Amethyst.
“Then find him one, Doc.”
“I’m trying,” she frowned, and the lines under her brown eyes became all the more pronounced. “But kidneys are a tall, damn order.”
Monday, 4:48 PM:
Greg: love ya champ
Greg: i’m so proud of you
Monday, 5:01 PM:
Pearl: Call me when you get up! Love you, Steven. <3
Monday, 5:09 PM:
Garnet: <3
Tuesday, 10:32 AM:
Amethyst: picked up steven’s prescription
Amethyst: we’re @ breakfast
Pearl: How much was the copay?
Amethyst: only like $10
Pearl: :) I’ll add that to my ledger.
Amethyst: neeeeeeerdddd alert
Pearl: This ‘nerd’ does your taxes for you every year.
Amethyst: and i appreciate tht but that doesn’t make u any less of a nerd
“Gosh, I was hungry,” Steven said around a mouthful of waffles. He already had his next bite queued up on his fork, and a trace of syrup dripped down the corner of his mouth.
Amethyst was hella relieved to see that his appetite had returned; last night, he’d stayed passed out until 3AM, and when he woke up, she could only get him to nibble on a couple of crackers. 
“Bet,” she replied, chomping down hard on a piece of syrup covered bacon, savoring more than just its taste. The sweetness was good, but seeing Steven in a good mood made it even sweeter.
“Who were ya texting?”
“Pearl. She was being lame and trying to talk to me about math.”
Steven chuckled. “You should try being homeschooled by her.”
He squared his blocky shoulders and clasped his hands behind his back, two actions which resulted in an uncanny physical impression of their dear Pearl.
“Now Steven,” he mimicked in a high, lofty voice, “you can’t just move the x around like that. There’s a certain finesse to it. A technique. Here, let me do it.” He lowered his voice back to its normal pitch. “And then she starts talking about how my mom was great at solving division problems or something like that.”
Amethyst’s eyes were streaming. She banged her fists on the table, drawing a nasty look from a passing waitress.
“You’re a riot, Steven.”
“Thank ya!” He grinned.
When their meal came to a close—and it only did after they’d each slammed a couple of more waffles—Steven swirled the quarter of orange juice he had left in his glass, and Amethyst pulled out his ever-expanding pillbox from her bag.
Red pills.
Blue pills.
Iron pills.
Diuretics.
And by God, they were all big enough to be choking hazards.
“Ugh, Steven,” she muttered, her nose wrinkling in disgust. “I dunno how you do this everyday.”
“Oh, that’s an easy one,” he replied cheerfully, accepting her offering of his Tuesday pills. “I totally dissociate.”
“Solid, dude.”
Steven downed the pills one by one, chasing them with vigorous swills of juice.
“Tell me about it,” he gasped when he was done, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
They had another hour or so to kill before Steven had to return to the hospital for his treatment, so they took to walking down one of Empire City’s lesser known shopping districts. From time to time, they’d rest on a bench until Steven could catch his shortened breath.
It was during one of these breaks when the little bugger finally breached the topic of conversation she’d been crossing her fingers to avoid.
“If I don’t end up having to get a transfusion,” he began thoughtfully, head angled backwards so he could stare up at all the high rises poking into the sky, “I think I wanna text Blue Diamond soon. Visit her while I’m here, maybe.”
“Maybe…” She hesitated, and Steven was quick to snap up on it.
“Amethyst, I love you, but if you give me the same, old spiel on why I shouldn’t visit Blue, I’m gonna walk away.” She couldn’t tell if he was kidding or not. His voice was playful, but his eyes were grim, and his mouth was pressed into a thin, determined line.
“You’re sure bent on doing this, huh?”
“Very bent,” he agreed succinctly, nodding with dramatic precision before adding, “Super bent.”
Because there was obviously a discernible difference between super bent and very bent.
Amethyst scratched her neck and sighed.
“If the doc gives you the go ahead, then text her,” she told him grudgingly. “I wasn’t a part of the team when all the big protests against Yellow D were going on, so I can’t tell you why you shouldn’t go.”
Pearl and Garnet seemed to have plenty of reasons, though.
“Thanks, Amethyst!”
“No big deal, dude.”
Their little bench was an island in the stream—solitary, stable, even with so many people flooding around it. Amethyst did as Steven was doing and tilted her head back to drink in the panorama from above, appreciative of the cool breeze that slid across her face and stirred her long hair. Her eyes closed against the bright, golden sun.
“I was doing some research,” Steven said, and he was very quiet. Melancholy.
Amethyst opened one eye to look at him, but he wasn’t looking at her. His hands were clasped neatly on his lap, his solemn gaze still offered to the heavens.
“A couple of years back, there was an awful murder that took place outside of a bar somewhere in this city.” He paused. “The details were too… gruesome, I guess, for the article to talk about. She was only twenty-one.”
She raised a questioning eyebrow at him. “Dark stuff you’re reading there, kid.”
His shoulder rose and fell in a half-shrug.
“It was a dark thing that happened.”
Tuesday, 4:29 PM
Steven: Hey guys! Just got out of treatment.
Greg: how was it kiddo?
Steven: Better than yesterday. We’re heading to the hotel.
Pearl: I’m so glad, Steven!
Garnet: !!!
Steven: Thanks! Love you all.
Amethyst read the texts in the group chat while Steven was hung over the toilet, puking his little guts out.
Insistent that Amethyst stay out of the bathroom until he was done.
She rapped on the door anyway, unsure if he heard her over the sound of his own violent retching.
Dialysis naturally had the effect of making him nauseous, but nausea was also a side effect of the new iron pills he was taking, so really, the odds were just not in Steven’s favor today.
“You okay in there?”
“I feel like the answer to that question”—he paused to gag—“is very obvious.”
Asshole, she thought fondly and barged into the bathroom. Kid needed a Sprite, a cold rag to the forehead, and a nice, little trip to bed.
“Amethyst—“ He whined, lifting his head feebly from the commode. The traces of throw up were edged along the corner of his mouth.
“Shut up, Steven, and let me love you.”
She grabbed a washcloth from the counter and turned on the faucet, the loud hissing noise just not loud enough to mask what was surely another round of vomit.
Wednesday, 3:22 PM
Amethyst: STEEEEVEEENNNN’S GOT A GIRLFRIEND
Pearl: What?!?!
Garnet: nice.
Greg: way 2 go champ!
Amethyst: asgdshafl 
Amethyst: so dr. m’s daughter came in today to read to patients and like she and steven rlly hit it off
Amethyst: her name is Connie
Amethyst: and i’m calling it now. their ship name is stevonnie
Pearl: I think I’m experiencing premature empty nest syndrome. 
Amethyst: ya’ve got the nose for it
Pearl: Rude.
Amethyst: but anyway his treatment’s almost done and dr. m says his blood count’s looking better
Amethyst: no transfusion!
Pearl: Thank goodness. 
Greg: ugh I agree
Garnet: Woo.
Amethyst: and he’s happy today
Amethyst glanced up from her phone to confirm what she was telling the others.
“Buuuuuuut Connnnnnnie, you can’t just leave it on a cliffhanger!” Steven was pleading, fingers mussed through his dark, curly hair in exasperation. “Like, Lisa is literally hanging from a cliff. I need to know what happens!”
“Okay, okay!” The dark-skinned girl pushed her wire-rimmed glasses up on the bridge of her nose. “One more paragraph… Mom’s about to unhook you from the machine, though.”
Dr. Maheswaran waved her off with a dismissive flick of the hand. “One more paragraph would be fine.”
“Yes ma’am!” She re-buried her nose into the thick book. “Lisa’s hand was slick with sweat as Archimedes…”
Steven leaned forward expectantly, hand tucked under his chin, M.C. Bear Bear clutched tightly to his chest right next to his dialysis catheter and all of the tubing involved.
And he was smiling like a fool.
Like a kid.
Amethyst: he’s rlly happy
Wednesday, 7:41 PM
Steven: Hi Blue… this is Steven.
Steven: That cute kid from the cemetery. :)
Blue: Hello, Steven. It’s so very nice to hear from you. How are you?
Steven: Could be better. Could be worse. You?
Blue: Ah, likewise.
Steven: I was texting to say that I’ll be in Empire City for the better part of the week, and I was wondering if I could take you up on that offer of coming to visit, maybe?
Blue: Of course—I would love that.
Blue: When would be the best day for you?
Steven: Friday would be great if that’s ok with you. 
Blue: Friday would be perfect. 1:00? We could do tea and cakes.
Steven: Now that’s what I’m talking about!
Blue: Friday it is then. I can’t wait to see you again, Steven.
Steven: I can’t wait to see you too.
Blue set her phone down on the bathroom counter, and twenty sleeping pills slipped between her tall fingers and back into the bottle.
It’d been a bad day.
She wouldn’t have done it…
She hadn’t been going to…
She had just been thinking.
It had been a bad day, and then Steven had texted.
“Well, I’m home for the night.” Startled, Blue looked up in the mirror to see her wife leaning in the doorframe—arms crossed, a permanent frown carved into her striking face. “Stocks are down, and my investors are running for the hills. It’s a hellhole. I’m in literal hell.”
Yellow detached herself from the door and drew closer. The tips of their fingers brushed ever so slightly, ever so softly.
And that was about as physically affectionate as they got nowadays.
“How was your day?” Her voice sharpened at the end. “I see you’re still in your nightgown.”
“It was fine, Yellow.” It absolutely was not.
Blue gripped the edge of the sink to keep her hands from shaking, determined not to glance at the pill bottle she’d been holding just moments before.
“Are you sure? I could call the doctor right now. Check the dosage on your antidepressant, perhaps?”
“Oh, yes,” she muttered venomously, more to herself than Yellow, but she supposed she didn’t care enough if Yellow heard it, too, “because that’s exactly what I need. An upped dosage.”
That seemed to be Yellow’s only reliable solution when it came to fixing her.
“Excuse me?”
“Nothing,” Blue bit out. “Nothing at all.”
And she pushed off from the sink, impelled by dull anger, her shoulder roughly knocking against Yellow’s as she went.
Her hand slammed against the light switch before she exited the doorway, and it did her a great deal of good to submerge Yellow Diamond into total darkness.
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One night in a strange city
Chapter 1. Let's go!
"This is it. This is the big moment. The one we have spoke of, fantasised about and saved for for months. We're finally here. Welcome to Seoul."
You stood in shock and relief. The plane was horrible and cramped and you didn't get much sleep but now your feet were firmly planted on Korean soil you forgot all about it. All you could think about was the air, and how good it felt, how easy it was to breathe and how peaceful you felt inside. Alicia pulled you out of your trance.
"Let's go get our bags and let the adventure begin I guess??"
You looked to zarena who was nodding in agreement and then followed on.
The airport itself was massive and you thought to yourself how easily you could get lost in there.
Once you arrived at the luggage carousel you were surprised to see the three of yours luggage pulling up straight away, as if it knew.
"Here we are. There you go Hun." Alicia said passing you your kawaii sticker plastered suitcase. You were thankful you all decided to decorate your suitcases or it would have been near impossible to identify them in the sea of black suitcases.
"What next? Taxi?" Zarena asked as alicia nodded. "Let's go then."
The whole trip had been carefully planned by yourself and alicia, so any deviations to the plan were almost frightening especially in a place like Korea.
You walked out of the airport to the taxi rank where you were met by a man in a suit holding a big sign that read "daddy BTS enthusiasts™" in fancy pink writing. You laughed to yourself as you pointed him out to the other two, who had also apparently forgotten that that is what you requested on your taxi sign.
"We need to stop, for fuck sake." You smiled to yourself as you made your way towards him.
"annyonghaseyo!!" You greeted him enthusiastically, proud of the progress you'd made learning Korean over the year.
"Hello m'am." Oh. The man was English. You sighed. "Let me help you with those."
--//////--
The ride to the hotel was filled with an excited silence, occasionally broken with "oo's" and "ahh's" as you passed beautiful buildings and structures. You all had your heads out of the windows, taking in as much as possible.
"That's the River. It's probably the most famous thing in Seoul."
What a wonderful tour guide you thought to yourself.
The river was something else, you wanted to climb out of the taxi and see more of it but that would have to wait for now, right now you needed a minute to breathe.
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The hotel was just as cute as the photos, Ryan plushies adorning the shelves of the lobby and other famous characters plastered around. You couldn't stop the smile erupting from within you.
"Where's the room?" You said looking between two lifts, one that took you to one part of the hotel and the other that took you to another part.
Alicia laughed. "I dunno yet, I'm just gonna check in now one sec." she left her bags with you and zarena and then walked towards the front desk. You turned back to look at the lifts, knowing alicia had reached the desk when you hear the faint but distinct mumblings of Korean.
"I need to lie down. Maybe even shower." Zarena said looking down at her oversized shirt and knee highs.
"Yeah...I'm so tired but excited. I wanna explore it all but also sleep. Like right now." You laughed. All your bags seemed miles away though they were only a hands stretch away, you didn't think you had enough energy to move to get them.
"Room 440. She said use the 1st lift to go up, and then 2nd to go down because of like eh something I can't remember but yeah. Let's go bitches!" Alicia pressed the button on the first lift and you reached down and finally grabbed the handle of your bags so you could get to the room and lie down.
The lift 'dinged' and you all piled in, barely fitting the three of you and the suitcases. The complex you had booked was massive, 600 rooms and 7 floors, but somehow it still felt small and homey. You watched as alicia reached over to press the 4th floor button then shifted your eyes to watch the numbers change as you went higher and higher. Finally the 4th floor rolled onto the screen and the doors opened. You were the first out, even before your luggage which zarena pushed out behind you.
"Thank you!" You said, the excitement really kicking in now.
You looked up at the sign infront of you that directed you to the left to find room 440. You practically ran to the room and had to wait for the others to catch up, with the key.
"Come on come on come on!" You squealed impatiently, hands bashing on your suitcase impatiently.
"We're coming jeez." Zarena's voice was close so you let the relief wash over you.
"Here we go!" Alicia said swiping the key card to open the door which you flew into.
Your eyes went wide looking all around. The rooms were massive, somehow you'd managed to come across a student rental dorm which was really cheap and ridiculously close to the city centre. It was perfect. A massive kitchen area and living room. You could move in and never leave.
"Okay so you two go choose a room I guess and I'll set up the wifi shit." Alicia said, walking into the kitchen area, dragging her suitcase along with her.
You walked with zarena to the first room, it was a pastel pink colour with decorative plushies pinned to the walls with pastel art hanging all around, the bed was massive and looked fluffy with a mountain of pillows ontop.
You looked at zarena from the corner of your eye, she was already looking at you.
"Go on, this is yours. I'll go look at the other rooms bee." Zarena laughed to herself before walking to the next room.
"Wait!!" You said as you pushed your suitcase inside the room and shut the door. "I still wanna look at the other rooms!!" You followed her to the 2nd room.
"This is Ali's." Zarena stated and went to leave.
You looked in, it had dark purple curtains, grey walls and black floors, the bed was black and basic and there were black and white city scape photos all around the room. Definitely Ali's.
"OH YES. BITCHH!!" You heard zarena scream and you quickly ran over to the room she was in. "This is perfect I am never leaving." You found her lay on a sunflower rug that was in the middle of this orange/yellow flower themed room.
You laughed. "I think we should move in. I wonder if we could actually buy it."
"Daddybtsenthusiasts"
You both turned to look at alicia. "What?"
"It's the wifi password." She said like that made it all okay before walking into her room.
"Oh shit yeah wifi. Gotta call my mum." You said running back into your room. Quickly grabbing your phone and logging into wifi.
You dialled your mums FaceTime number and waited for her to pick up.
"Hello?"
"Mum!!!"
"Rhii!!! How are you?? How was the flight was it okay I miss you already!!!" She screamed.
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After a two hour FaceTime with your mum and Chris and some unpacking before a nap, you found yourself asleep in a pile of clothes.
"Oh you're up." Zarena said standing at you door in a towel.
"How long have I been asleep?" You asked rubbing your eyes.
"Well, it's 8 am now and it was night before." She smiled.
"I've slept all night?"
"Yup. We pretty much all did, soon as you stopped yelling and screaming with your mom." She laughed.
"Where's alicia?"
"Shower. She's already found our bus times for today don't worry." Zarena explained before walking away again, into her room you presumed.
Oh yeah. You were in Korea. You were actually there. You were still in shock.
You walked out of your room in search of breakfast. You found some Korean kids cereal and poured yourself a bowl before digging in on the sofa. You switched on the TV and were surprised to see some English channels. You settled for watching old reruns of spongebob and waited for alicia to come out of the shower.
Just 5 minutes later the water stopped and you heard as alicia left the bathroom and went into her own room, groaning about the water being too cold for her.
"That's because you're a cold blooded creature!!" Zarena joked.
"Oh shut up." Alicia joked back. "I left a towel in there for you rhii."
"LOVES YOU!" You shouted before dashing into the bathroom to have a shower.
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Once you were all washed up and fed you sat around the kitchen table and went over the bus routes, and key words you would need to know to get through the day.
It was the first day and you were going to the museum of love aka the museum full of dicks.
"I can't wait to take selfies with giant dicks!!" Alicia yelled. "And the penis sculptures of course." She laughed.
"Did you just call us giant dicks?" Zarena said, fake outraged.
"Well, at least if I did have a dick I know it would be huge. Giant cock." You laughed to yourself, you laughed harder when you thought about how many times you'd had conversations just like this.
"If the one on your head is anything to go by then yeah, it'd be huge."
You threw a dirty towel at alicia.
Bitch.
"Right well. Let's go!"
Chapter 2 coming soon...
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