#twoie is a fae

[alternativetwoie]

"Twoie, what are you humming?" Asked Steven.

Twoie stopped reciting the unfamiliar tune, and looked at him. Then he winced.

"Uh, something I probably shouldn't have been. You know, due to future knowledge" Twoie stroked his chin as he thought. "Honestly, I can't think of a reason why I couldn't tell you some of that story? Especially sense it IS one of the things that I plan to change"

Steven felt excitement well up inside him, he did like it when Twoie talked about the future, though he rarely ever did.

Twoie saw his excitement and began talking.

"Okay, So six thousand or so years ago, there was a Gem by the name of... I actually probably shouldn't tell you. Anyway, She used to work with someone who would become really important to the Crystal Gems" Twoie took a deep breath, his eyes closing in a wince. Steven didn't think he liked this part.

"So, when the Gem that the Gem that made this song left to go work on Earth, she left the other Gem. The did not leave on exactly the best of terms, putting things very, VERY lightly. It might have actually been better if they attacked each other, it was so bad"

Steven felt slightly scared, and really wanted to skip forward in the story, this seemed kinda sad.

"Um, what does this have to do with the song you were humming?" He asked, in an effort to deflect.

Twoie chuckled darkly before answering.

"That! Well, eventually the Gem who wrote that found out what happened to her "friend", and came to get her revenge. The Gem that hurt her was gone, but they were a Crystal Gem. So she decided to take it out on us. She worked in entertainment, singing, juggling, that kinda thing. When she fought us, a fight we nearly lost totally, she sung"

Twoie paused, then smiled at Steven in an effort to relieve his nervousness.

"We did eventually get her to calm down, and no one was permanently hurt in the process. So, you know, happily ever after and all that, not that that kind of thing really happens"

Steven let go of a breath he didn't know he was holding, Twoie didn't seem to like that Story, but maybe they could stop it. Twoie said he was going to anyway. Steven only had one question.

"What's it called?" He asked.

Twoie raised an eyebrow in confusion, then stifled a laugh.

"Oh, you meant the song! Got confused there for a second. Uh, she called it "Other Friends"" Twoie calmed down after a bit. "You know, if we grab a couple of instruments we could do a rendition of it. If all goes well you'll never hear it otherwise, and I don't remember it being too spoilery"

Steven nodded excitedly, he liked music, and the song, the hummed version at least, seemed good.

So, they went of to gather some musical instruments.

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This is a bonus chapter, and doesn't really have a set place in the time line. I was just bored.

[alternativetwoie]

"Hey Steven?" Asked Amethyst "is there anymore engine oil? I need it for the sandwich"

"I think that's for cars..."

"Well is there any more of it?"

"Dad's probably got some outside. Oh! But uh... you've got to take this online quiz!"

Kiddo reached into his pocket to grab his phone, only to find it wasn't there.

"Huh, I just had it in my hand?"

Kiddo turned and looked at Twoie, who shrugged when he responded.

"You could have dropped it outside"

Just then, Garnet came through the door.

"Hey Garnet?" Twoie asked "Can you help Kiddo look for his phone outside"

As he said this, phased ever so slightly into the mindscape. Touching Garnets mind to speak to her telepathically.

'I need you and Kiddo out of the way so me and Amethyst can go look for the Slinker'

Twoie felt Garnet get the message.

"There's a corrupted Gem in the temple, I saw it sneak into Amethyst's room"

It sounded fake, but was enough of Segway. So Twoie nodded.

"Okay, me and Amethyst will take care of it"

Then Garnet and Kiddo were off.

Twoie looked at Amethyst.

"Shall we?"

[alternativetwoie]

"Hey there Kiddo"

"Hi"

Steven was pretty out of it. It was late, he was tired. Twoie seemed fine, and he got up before him today.

"Do you not need sleep or something?"

Steven meant that as a joke, Twoie shrugged.

"Only about once a week? It's longer than that really, but I try and fall asleep before I get too tired"

"Your kidding"

"No Kiddo, I'm not. I won't lie to you"

Twoie's voice turned deadly serious, this was something important to him.

"Why do you sound so serious about that?"

Twoie looked down.

"Mom, she lied a lot, it hurt people"

They began walking back instead of just standing around.

"Yeah, Pearl said that that was a trait of a great leader?"

Steven thought Twoie would disagree with Pearl, they never seemed to get along, but to his surprise he didn't. Well, not entirely.

"Hiding the truth is, but there are more ways to do that than lying. Simply refusing to give information or not giving the full story are good examples of this. Lying is not required, and is harmful. So I don't use it"

They had reached the front door, and Steven noticed something.

"Isn't not giving the full story the same as lying?"

Twoie shook his head.

"No, it's trickery. When you don't give the full story your only changing how the Story is presented, when you lie you change the story itself. Lying pretends the problem doesn't exist, refusing to give information and not giving all the information gives you time to solve it"

They were at Steven's bed, and Twoie tucked him in.

"Good night!"

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[alternativetwoie]

Twoie was seemingly asleep. He wasn't, instead he gazed psychically at a certain group of individuals.

The first was Peridot, that was just to make sure she wasn't doing anything unexpected. She wasn't, just planning her next move.

The second was Malachite. She was still at the bottom of the ocean. She was actually at Super Watermelon Island already, but she hasn't noticed the tribe yet. Nor had they noticed her.

The third, and final one, was Spinel. Twoie HATED leaving in the Garden during this. He was getting her out before he left, but the time wasn't yet right.

He didn't risk looking at the Diamonds. Even with his ability to hide his Diamond Aura, Blue and White, especially White, were exceptionally sensitive to things going on in the mind scape. He didn't want to be noticed, and unlike Yellow, they didn't have anything better to do that would distract them. He might have risked Yellow, but she might have noticed him as well.

Returning to his body, he pretended to wake up. If any of them confronted him about it he'd tell them what he was doing, but he doubted they will.

Kiddo walked in holding his phone, and asking about a Crying Breakfast Friends quiz. Twoie remembered this day, and he was going to change the out come.

All he needed to do was tell the truth, carefully.

[alternativetwoie]

Twoie remembered today, that surprised him, at least until he thought about it a little. Today was the day Jamie fell in love with Garnet, and they wrote the response letter. It was also important because it was the first time that he'd seen Garnet be actually angry, it was kinda scary.

Judging by the sun, Kiddo, Connie, and Garnet should be...

And there they were, walking up the beach. Something felt off about it to Twoie, he couldn't quite tell what it was. He pushed into superspeed to give himself time to think about it.

Racking his brain, nothing major was coming up. He couldn't use to many of his other Gem powers in superspeed so he needed to make the most of it. Something was off, and he didn't know what it was.

He nearly laughed when he worked it out and ended the superspeed. Someone likely mentioned him him in the conversation, and that caused them to be off by just a bit. Plus, Kiddo was generally excited to be around him. This changed how he walked from when Twoie was doing the same thing, having just come off his most harrowing adventure just over a week ago.

Sure enough, when Kiddo burst through the door he started talking to him.

"Hey Twoie! Garnet just got invited on to a date!"

Twoie didn't have long to think about this. There were a lot of variables at play here. He needed to respond.

"I actually need Garnet's help at the Kindergarten"

Kiddo and Connie's faces fell, but Connie's went inquisitive. Just like he expected her to.

"Well, you could take the pen and paper and write it on the way"

Twoie smiled, and took the writing materials, plus a clipboard from the closet. And stepped onto the warp pad with Garnet. He quickly warped to the Beta Kindergarten.

Hopefully Garnet would be willing to be polite to Jamie as she put him down. He did actually need her help writing that letter, it was supposed to be HER response after all, and that couldn't happen if she didn't let him.

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