Gem High

15 (but more like 14 part 2)

Peri's POV:
"I can't believe I just did that" I said, breathless and my heart beating. I could literally feel the sweat on my forehead. When I told Rose about what I was meant to be doing a few weeks ago, she was fine but insisted I keep quiet about her happenings to Yellow Diamond.... And I did! But then Yellow Pearl slipped that note under my door, I was so worried and flustered, I wanted my friends to get along with each other and I knew if I didn't confront Yellow than it would be worse. But when I tried to carry out my good intentions the Crystal Gems thought I was betraying them for Yellow, but instead I betrayed Yellow for them! When I realised Yellow was so.... Cold, I got so emotional and I just could stop myself from... Ugh, what have I done.
"Hey Peri, it's OK, you're with us now" reassures Amethyst sweetly, if a little unhelpfully, as she sees I am lying on the floor groaning at what has just occurred.
"Yes, you're a Crystal Gem!" Exclaims Rose happily, which I reply to with another groan.
"Yellow will want her dead, no one has ever insulted her like that to her face, I mean, all Bismuth did to get on her hit list was reveal Yellow cheated on that metalwork homework. And all Yellow had to do was repeat the homework" says Sapphire as she sits on her bed (we're currently in Rose's room).
"Sapphire! That is not helping... Although it is true" ponders Pearl. At these remarks I decide I should probably go into a dark closet and lock myself in with the first 4 seasons of Camp Pining Hearts, then wait to die.
"As fun as listening to predictions of my impending doom is, I think I'm going to go hide under my bed" I smile sarcastically as I struggle up with my crutches, almost slipping on Rose's scattered A grade First Aid homework in the process, and leave the room, despite slight protest from the others.
"I can't camp out here forever, camping out in my dorm makes more sense! Plus all my stuff is in there." I call as I shut the door.
The next day, 10pm:
I've been trying to avoid the Diamonds all day, even waiting until after hours to leave the dinner hall so wouldn't have to worry about them on my way back. Both Lapis and Amethyst offered to walk me back to the dorm, but I refused their insistence because 1: I know against all of the Diamond lackies they wouldn't stand a chance, 2: if the Diamonds really wanted me dead, they probably wouldn't care if anyone (especially a fellow Crystal Gem) got caught in the crossfire and 3: haven't I caused them enough trouble for me to put them in further danger? Despite my insisted bravery however, I truly was terrified and heavily regretting telling Lapis and Amethyst to leave without me. My stupidity truly would be my downfall.
Rustle
I turned quickly around, squinting through the black of the December night and slipped as I did so.
"Ow..." I muttered, realising that it had been snowing the entire time I was walking, I had been so wrapped up in my paranoia I hadn't even noticed the snow flakes sweeping down in the cold winter air. Down on the floor, I reached a shivering hand out to grab the crutch I dropped in the fall, just for my fingers not to reach it. Strange, I could have sworn that's where it fell. Relying on the other crutch, I hoisted myself up with a stumble and almost lost my balance again. I glanced around the deserted pathway and saw no sign of-
"Shut up" mutters Jasper into my ear, her hand clasped around my mouth, her arm pinning my arms to my sides. In fleeting panic I struggled and screamed in Jasper's hold, but to no avail.
"What did I just say?" Asks Jasper threateningly, my vision was going blurry (my glasses had fallen off) but I could see there was another person on that line path. I reached out best I could, silently screaming for her help, but I could see enough to realise she was grinning at my fear.
"Come on" murmurs Jasper, dragging me towards the block of dorms, and leaving my second crutch behind as she did so.
"Why are we doing this again" asks Jasper to the other person gruffly.
"Don't question my Diamond, she wants her dead, so we're killing her" says the other person in a familiar tone.
"Won't it be obvious who did it though?" Questions Jasper, ignorant to my fresh wave of panic, apart from clasping me tighter, as if she's had practise at this. That realisation shook my and I writhed even more in my captor's grip.
"The Diamonds took this weekend to go home, so they could have an alabi." Reassures the second party, blatantly ignoring my muffled pleas. At this point we hit fresh light from the building lights. I just wanted to get out.
"So we're dropping her from the roof!" Exclaims Jasper. I writhe once more.
"I want to make sure she knows, even as she dies, that this is her fault, and that point is easier to make on the roof then if we stabbed her" says the mystery person, who I don't bother to identify because I am about to die. I'm going to die. Every cell in my body is shaking with terror and I'm helpless.
"What are you talking about?" Asks Jasper also confused as we acsend the deserted maintenance stairwell, using only the blinking yellow lights to guide us. Or them. I'm still be dragged, just as well, I couldn't walk up these stairs even if I wanted to die in this state. And I don't want to die. Jasper's hand over my mouth is blocking out air and I'm hyperventilating, as if it will help. I'm struggling to stay conscious and figure out my chances here, how many storeys are there? Is it concrete I'll be falling on? I try desperately to be logical but my emotions are shackling my thoughts and all I can do is..... Nothing.
Snow hits us as we shove open the door to the roof, I was shivering in my snow soaked jeans even when we were inside but now it's uncontrollable, I can't tell what's happening and their voices sound like buzzing in my head. All I can think is help.
"You scream: we push you off. You try to fall back onto the roof: we push you off. You stand on that very wide and well balanced wall that separates the good and the dead: we don't push you. Simple." Explains this might as well be a stranger into the night. She knows I'll fall. She knows I can't balance on the best of days even with crutches, nevermind in a blustering blizzard whilst my fears try and succeed to wrench tears from my closed, scrunched up eyes.
And then Jasper puts me on the wall. It truly is wide, anyone could balance on it, but the entire setting is swirling around me, gravity threatens, I don't know if I'm screaming before or after I've fell, I don't know if I fell or was pushed, I don't know when I started slipping through the thin air, all I know is that I see the concrete getting closer as the wind splits a path for me and then-
Black.