The gems all decided to call it a day as Steven needed sleep and recharge for tomorrow.
"Pearl. Can you stay here and rearrange the barn to make it easier to dismantle the items for the drill tomorrow?" Garnet asks
"I can do that!" Peridot shouts
"You can't be trusted to be alone." Garnet says
"Then I will stay with her" Turquoise says putting his hand on Peridots head as all the gems look at him "we can follow your orders better and more effectively if there are two of us here"
"Turquoise, are you sure? Don't you want to go back to the bathroom?" Steven asks Turquoise
"I'm sure, Steven. The bathroom may be comfortable it doesn't feel like home to me, I'm afraid, " Turquoise says, kneeling down to pat Steven's shoulder
"Garnet?" Pearl asks
Garnet stands for a moment, seemingly looking into the distance for a moment. Turquoise stands up and waves his hand I front of her face
"Does this happen often?" Turquoise asks
"You'll be fine," Garnet replies. "We'll return tomorrow,"
"Well, alright...?" Pearl replies, still unsure
Steven says goodbye to Turquoise and Peridot before he and the other gems warp back to the temple
Turquoise turns to look at Peridot now
"Shall we get started?" He asked her
"That would be adequate," she replies
Peridot pulls up a strange looking device to her mouth. "log date 7-11-1. The turquoise and I have been assigned to the barn for cataloguing resources. The male gem is surprisingly less intimidating than I was led to believe, although they remain no less useful to our mission against the Cluster. " Peridot clicks a button
"What is that device, Peridot?" Turquoise asks as he leans down, looking at it
"Steven calls it a tape recorder. Since the crystal gems minus you have destroyed my limb enhancers, I have been forced to use this primitive earth device to log my observations. "
"I see..." Turquoise thinks to earlier when he asked Steven to find a way to make Peridot more comfortable with working together. The tape recorder is the result. Turquoise didn't stop Peridot's logs he was quick to understand that it was a coping mechanism with her new surroundings and situation. Then he would admit he had learned several new ways to say 'clod' that night.
It was the next day, and the gems had returned to the barn.
"Log date 7-11-2. It's the third rotation of the Earth since commencements of a..." Inhales deeply "...collaborative approach to stopping The Cluster." Peridot frustrates into her recorder
"I've finished drawing out the blueprints for the drill head. Peridot, if you could come take a look at this." Pearl says Peridot stops recording on her recorder.
"Remind me again why I should listen to you? Oh, right." Peridot rewinds her tape recorder.
Peridot then plays the previous recording. "...The Pearl here has exhibited an aptitude for engineering that I begrudgingly respect, though that doesn't explain the spontaneous singing, crying, singing while crying."
Amethyst snickers.
"Why did you give her that?" Pearl asks Steven
"Actually, it was my idea," Turquoise answers
"Well, we did destroy all her stuff. Turquoise thought it might make her feel a little better if we gave her somethingto recordher thoughts, ao i found that recorder, " Steven says with a smile looking at Turquoise
YOU ARE READING
STEVEN UNIVERSE - "the off colour" MALE GEM
Fantasyyou, the reader, are an off colour Male gem, a turquoise, to be exact. This story is kind of a ship story. Turquoise, being an outcast, has mysteriously ended up on earth with no recollection of how he got there.
