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Peridot was proud to admit that she had gotten used to the Earth and its various cycles of weather. Everything from sun to even snow she had seen and she had tackled with some information from Steven and the others.
So when it started raining she thought little of it. Especially because she was very busy laying in a pile of her own self pity in Steven’s bathroom where she could not see it.
But the claps of thunder were tell tale signs and Peridot groaned, rolling over to hide her face in the blanket that was placed lazily beneath her in the bathtub she had taken residence in.
She used her powers to make her music a little bit louder but the claps of thunder still rumbled loudly overhead. She groaned again at the distraction.
Before she could even take in a breath to let out another groan the door to the bathroom was softly tapped on before swinging opened. Peridot lifted her head to watch as Steven entered the bathroom, a bashful smile on his face.
Peridot was ready to be made to leave, the pair had fallen into a routine in which Peridot understood his apologetic smile was a request for her exit of the bathroom.
But as she stepped out of the tub and began walking towards the door he grabbed onto one of her hands, pulling her back towards him lightly.
Peridot turned and went back to him.
“What?” She asked, indignantly.
“Do you want to play in the rain with me and Amethyst?”
Peridot looked into his face, “No,”
With that she turned back around to head back into the bathtub.
“It might cheer you up,” Steven insisted, and Peridot paused in her steps.
She let him lead her outside to where Amethyst was already waiting. Splashing in the puddles that formed across the sand.
Steven ran down the stairs, Peridot’s hand held tightly in his own. When they reached the bottom Steven ran over to be with Amethyst, laughing as she grabbed his hands and begun spinning the pair in a circle through one of the puddles. Peridot sat down on the bottom step and looked up at the sky, the dark clouds looked over head, making the world around them dark.
She let the raindrops fall down her face, making her hair droop and her visor to be blurry to look through. She thought back to the first encounter she had had with rain. How Steven had taught her that it wasn’t something to be frightened of.
She looked back down from the sky and held out one of her hands, letting the water pool in it until it overflowed.
Watching the water brought back less happy memories.
Lapis loved the rain. She liked the loud crash of thunder and the excess amount of water she had access to. She said the storms kept her grounded, brought her back to reality when she wasn’t fully in the moment.
Peridot didn’t understand it but she found herself loving the storms too. Because Lapis was happy when it was raining. The two would stand out in the rain and let it ruin their hair and get their feet muddy. Pumpkin would run around them, barking happily and jumping in the muddy puddles.
Peridot loved those moments and found herself wishing for the rain whenever she saw dark clouds in the sky overhead. Lapis thought this was silly, and would often mess up Peridot’s hair when she watched her gaze at the sky hoping for the rain.
Sometimes Lapis would smile, and pull her outside.
“You don’t have to wait,” she would say, gathering water from their makeshift lake to start their own storms.
Peridot was never sure if Lapis knew that it wasn’t the rain itself that made thunderstorms so pleasing to her.
She found herself biting back tears as she thought back to the happy times with Lapis, letting the water fall from her hand to the ground.
Steven must have caught this, because he came rushing over to Peridot, concern shown deeply on his face.
“Are you okay?” He asked, voice a whisper.
Peridot swallowed, and slowly shook her head.
“Are you thinking about her again?”
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Lapis’s heart ached as she sat next to the hologram of Peridot on the same step. Watching her like this, upset to the point of tears because of her was so hard.
Steven eventually managed to pull Peridot from her spot to dance in the rain. Lapis watched with a halfhearted smile. It was always nice to watch in those few moments where Peridot was smiling.
She looked down on herself, watched as the holographic rain fell through her and on to the ground below her. Peridot laughed in front of her, and Lapis’s heart skipped a beat.
She watched Peridot dance for a long while, heart aching behind her chest. She tried to convince herself to go home for what felt like the hundredth time that day. She missed this. Missed being with Peridot. Seeing her laugh. If she went back she could fix things.
But would Peridot forgive her?
Lapis watched the small gem as she spun in a circle, her smile wide as Amethyst picked her up from behind to spin her. Peridot squealed and kicked her legs in laughter.
Lapis shook her head. She couldn’t go back. She couldn’t deal with the war. If she knew what was best for her she would have been long gone by now, in some remote area untouched by the diamonds. The very devise she was using to watch Peridot was a testament to how she wasn’t yet properly safe.
She frowned, a bubble of pain catching up to her as she took one last glance towards Peridot. Before she could change her mind she walked over to the orb, making the image before her disappear.
She flew over to the barn, the memories of Peridot fresh in her mind, and tried to fly as far away from Earth as she could for what felt like the hundredth time since she’d left.
She never made it very far.
She sat back down again, the cold tile of the floor holding her to reality as she turned the orb back on.
Peridot was on one of her famous monologues again, a flustered Pearl trying her best to clean the small gem off. Lapis smiled loosely, the bubble of pain increasing despite herself.