Rocking Out pt. 3
2XO (aka Rocky) was made by @drawbauchery
Shadow! I did a thing. Also, I don’t know why everyone keeps calling me a liar. I told you all everything is fine.
Rating: E
Wordcount: 2,267
You jolt up. You want to go. You want to leave. You feel a burning in your leg, and you need to get away from here.
“Hold her down!” You hear the voice from near your leg before a pair of arms force you down. You almost want to fight against them, but they feel so warm and nice.
“What happened to her?” You turn towards where you heard the soft voice and see a pretty pink face smiling down at you. You smile and start to relax as memories start clicking into place.
“This treatment has been reported to cause a bit of shock in patients.” You look down to see a Peridot standing over your gem with some kind of machine. She continues, “I wish we had a rose quartz to take care of this, but that's just not possible anymore.”
The room goes silent and you decide to take this time to take in your surroundings. It isn't like you need an explanation. Practically everybody's heard of the traitor Rose Quartz and her silly rebellion. You’ve also heard about how all the other Roses were imprisoned for possible instability.
You look around the room and start to recognize some things about it. The pink colored walls, the shiny doorway, the table you're laying on right now. You’ve only been in a room like this once, right when you popped out, but you know a ship room when you see one.
You shift on the table a bit, wanting to sit up, but the arms across your body tense and keep you down. You frown as you look over at the frowning face of 2XO. You sigh before your eyes trail her arms down to her hands.
With nothing else to do, you decide to follow your first thought and lift your hand to rest it on hers. Her arms tense at first, but she relaxes when you give her hand a soft squeeze. Quietly, you say, “I’m fine, 2. Could you help me sit up?” You give her a smile to try and convince her that you’re really alright.
She doesn’t return it. Instead, she looks to the Peridot who you think didn’t hear what you asked. “Is it alright if I let her sit up?”
The Peridot turns to her before looking at you. She looks back at 2XO before she gives a small nod. “So long as you keep her leg still, it should be okay now.” The Peridot goes back to working on your leg again, tuning you and 2 out from what you can tell.
2XO’s frown is instantly wiped off her face when she turns back to you. Her hand suddenly disappears from your grip, but quickly returns, holding your hand with her own strong grip. Her other arm slides around behind your shoulders and you can feel that heat in your face again. You don't have much time to think about it before you are carefully pulled up.
You quickly put an arm down to stabilize yourself, though you don't really need it. From the strong grip she keeps on you, it seems 2 has no intention of letting go of you soon. This thought makes your cheeks burn even more, so you try not to think of it anymore.
Instead, you look down at your gem. The large crack you had seen before had grown much smaller. Your eyes grew wide as you see it shrink a bit more under the machine the Peridot was fiddling with.
“Wow.” You smile and turn to 2XO. “Did you see that 2? At this rate, it’ll be like I never cracked in a few minutes!”
She gives you a small smile. “I don't know, you’ve been in here for a few hours.”
“She's right.” You both turn to look at the Peridot. After a moment of working, she spoke up again. “At this point, the procedure should only take a few more minutes.”
You smile even wider at the other amethyst. It was something to be happy about. After all, the sooner you were better, the less she has to worry about you.
Your attention is drawn back to the Peridot as she continues. “You should stay off of this leg for at least a few hours, though. There's a small chance that too much pressure too early will cause the crack to open up again.”
This takes the smile from your face. “But what am I supposed to do till then?” Not using your leg for a while will really cut into what you can do today.
“You probably should have thought of that before jumping off a cliff.” She turned a glare your way. “You should be more careful with your gem. It is the only one you have.”
You shrink back a bit and look down at your stomach. She was right, of course. But your friend was in trouble. What else were you supposed to do?
You feel a squeeze on your shoulder and look over at 2XO. She smiles at you and you can't help but smile back. It doesn't take long before the air looses a low buzzing that you didn't notice until it left.
You both look down to see the Peridot moving the machine off of your leg. “There you go.” She gives an oomph as she sets the machine aside. “As good as new.”
You sit up more to look at your gem. It looked better than new. Not only was the crack gone, but your gem looked like it was shining more.
“Um…” You look up at 2XO, but notice it wasn't you she was talking to. “So, is it alright if I take her somewhere?”
The Peridot looks from her to you and shrugs. “As long as she keeps off that leg it should be fine. Do whatever you want.”
With that, the Peridot left you and 2XO alone. You are about to turn to slide off the table, but 2XO stops you. You look up into her smiling face with a raised brow. “Uh, 2?”
Before you know what's happening, you’re scooped up into her arms again. You let out a squeal before you throw your arms around her neck again. With your arms somewhere safe, your body relaxes into her arms.
“You heard 5XD, you aren't allowed to use that leg. That means you just get to hang on while I carry you.” You look down as you feel your cheeks heating up again.
She carries you out of the ship like that. Every time you passed another gem they would stare as you went, causing your face to get even hotter. Apparently it wasn't a symptom of your previously fractured gem.
Once you got out to the kindergarten it got a lot easier. There is plenty of open space, unlike the walled in ship. There is also plenty of Amethysts doing all sorts of things, so there isn't as much attention on an Amethyst being carried by another.
Once 2 gets you away from the crowd, she takes up a comfortable pace. It takes you a while of being carried before you get a bit antsy. You decide you need some distraction. “So, where are we going?”
Her grin grows, though she keeps her eyes on the path. “It's a place I found that I wanted to show you. It's a secret, though, so it's just between you and me.”
That was probably all you were going to get from her. Settling back, you try to think of what kind of secret place she's taking you to. You can't think of many secret places, but it helps pass the time anyways.
After a while of being carried, 2XO cries out, “There it is!”
You look ahead to where you're going. What you see takes your breath away. It was more beautiful than you could have imagined.
Ahead of you was a tree, but it wasn't like the trees you see in the kindergarten. Where those trees were black and small, this one was big and brown. It also had all of these green things all over the top of it.
As you grew closer, you notice that there's green all around it. There was green stuff sprouting out of the ground around it. Your eyes grow large as some wind blows through and all of the green waves.
2XO giggles as she carries you closer to the tree and sets you down against it. It's so unlike the trees you know that you're surprised it feels so rough. It's even surprising how soft the ground is.
You almost forget that 2XO is with you until she sits next to you. “Pretty, isn't it? I found it while I was wandering the other day.”
You throw your arms out around you, careful not to hit her. “This is amazing. It's so different and beautiful. I can't even explain it.”
She giggles and pulls you back against the tree. “You need to settle down a little. You don't want to get up and fracture again.”
You can't help yourself as you keep trying to look around. Every time you try to get around and move, though, 2XO always pulls you back down. You finally stop when she lays her head against your shoulder. Your face heats up as your body goes stiff.
“I brought you here to relax.” She moves around, you believe to get more comfortable. “And to say thank you.”
“Thank you?” You stare down at your feet next to hers. “But I haven’t done anything to be thanked for.”
You can’t see her face, but you can feel her smile through her cheek against your shoulder. “It’s thanks to you that I’ve met so many more nice Amethysts. Each time we met a group, you’d be so excited to point out the next we should meet.”
You look agape at the top of her head. “But it was you who introduced me to them all. If you weren’t there, I’m sure they wouldn’t have noticed me.”
She shakes her head a little. “It’s because you were there that I could even go up to them. You helped me, 7.” She shifts a bit more and you feel her hand sliding down to hold onto yours. “And that’s not the only thing you helped me with.”
You tilt your head a bit, but you keep silent to let her continue. “Whenever you saw that an animal had run away before I could finish my rock for it, you would shapeshift into it until I finished. It didn’t matter how long it would take, you would try to do it.”
You give a careful shrug, trying not to jostle her head. “I was just seeing how long I could hold some forms.”
She pinches your arm a bit. “Maybe, but you still took the forms I needed and stood still for me. Face it, you helped.”
Another careful motion of your shoulders. “I just wanted you to be able to finish your pretty pictures.”
Finally, she takes her head off of your shoulder and turns toward you. You notice that her eyes have become wet, but she hasn’t started crying. But why would she cry?
“You’re the first one who took an interest in my rocks. You even started making some yourself.” Her hand goes behind her back. When it comes back, it’s holding-
Your hands instantly jump to your suit. You search around, but you can’t feel the lump of rock that you had specially cut for the gem sitting near you. Which is obvious, because it’s in her hand.
You had carved three parts into the rock in question. The first was what was facing up, an obvious note of ‘For 2XO’ cut into it.
The second side was a lot harder to do. Resting on its face was a portrait of the gem in question that you had to do from memory. You didn’t want to ruin the surprise after all.
On the third side was just a rough cutting. You didn’t have enough space for detail, so you just carved a large Amethyst into it. The only difference from a normal Amethyst that could be seen was two small holes you carved into it. One at the knee, the other at the navel.
You look down at your knees, that heat coming back to your face again. “I tried my best on this one, but I still have-”
“You made such a pretty rock, just for me.” You shut your mouth and look at her. She likes it? But why is she crying, then?
Your hand goes behind your head, scratching at an imaginary itch there. “I just wanted to give you something as pretty as you.”
Before you can say anything more, she’s hugging you again. Your arms find their proper place around her as she holds you close to her. It’s hard for you to imagine anything better than this moment.
After a minute, she pulls away from you a bit. You give her a smile and she returns it with a bit of red in her cheeks. You are about to ask if she feels better now, but you stop when she moves.
2XOs mouth engulfs yours in a kiss.
You both pull away in shock after a couple of seconds. It didn’t last very long, but it was instantly the best thing that happened to you. You look at her and find she’s saying something, but you aren’t listening.
You close the gap between you two with another kiss.