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The Aquamarine paced back and forth in a room containing six gems. Only one was up and about. The other five had been poofed moments earlier. He had very little time before they could reform, but they wouldn’t be the same.
His friends had been rejuvenated, and he knew what that meant. He needed to have a plan. What would they be like, and what could he do to keep them from leaving or turning against him?
He reviewed the information he had about their origins, but there had been an understanding among them that they were never to pry into each other’s pasts.
Lucky for him that when you spend so many years together, sometimes things slip out without realizing it.
He had some hints, but only three that he could use. All he had was the knowledge that Martyn was once close with an Emerald, Impulse had an intense dislike of home worlds cookie cutter gem structures, and jimmy had been sent to reeducation at most twice. No gem had ever returned from a third reeducation visit.
It wasn’t much, but Grian was certain he could at least keep Martyn with him. He turned towards the red gem, Ruby. His default was to protect even if he had not been assigned an escort mission. He would be compelled to attach himself to someone. Grian just had to make sure that it was him.
He felt reassured, but as his gaze drifted from yellow to blue to green, he steadily became more disheartened when it came to everyone else. He was at a loss.
Grian froze when his eyes landed on pink. He was taken back in time to that lifeless planet during the mission to retrieve an artifact that a group of short lived rebels had hidden in hopes they would be welcomed back if they could just bury away their mistake and forget they ever happened.
Nothing stays buried forever and he never forgot that mission.
Blue Diamond sent him herself. Two Topazes accompanied him, supplied by his oh-so-perfect diamond and of course, his spinel a “generous” gift from Pink Diamond as a reward for saving her pearl from a unfortunate accident that he had sworn never to talk about.
The mission was going well, no thanks to his Spinel who was driving him up a wall. He was barely able to keep his cool.
He never understood him, and it irritated grian to no end. If his hair could change color, then it would be gray, all thanks to him.
Then things went horribly wrong. There was a bright red light and he remembered a crash and a crack, and another crack and… another crack.
The Topaz guards where shards, and his Spinel was cracked.
He didn’t know what he felt about the loss of his once constant companion, but before it fully sunk in, he was brought back to reality by a pink light.
But he still left him there. Sometimes Grian tells himself he did it to save his Spinel from being harvested, but he never believes it.
He doesn’t have answers, only questions and guesses. One thing is certain: his past isn’t staying buried.
There was a bright light, and the aquamarine was once again brought back to reality.