Spinel's eyes squinted as the light of the sun fell on her face, pulling her from her slumber. She opened them, confused to see that she had been removed from the pink room and now lay in Steven's bed, with the boy firmly holding half of her in his grasp.

It was nice, the way he latched himself onto her in his sleep, though he was also the guilty party to bring her to his room, and thus she knew that he desired her companionship in some semblance.
She fought with herself, to say that she was worthy.
She had said she would love herself.
If Steven enjoyed her company so much to hold her in his arms while he slept, then clearly she was worthy of that cherishment.
Despite what she had convinced herself in the past.
Spinel shivered slightly feeling the cold wet drool of Steven's spit dripping onto her gem. As much as it held his healing properties, she was still rather disgusted by it.
The gem squirmed, though it didn't do much to move her from his grasp, especially as it tightened around her still aching limbs.

"Steven!" She whispered, stretching her arm enough to try and budge him. The boy didn't move, and he simply squeezed tighter, nuzzling his face into the gem on her chest. She flinched, unprepared for the touch.

"Steven, wake up!" She tried again, trying to kick his legs off of her, it wasn't useful either as he seemed to have entangled himself in them overnight, the two of them were knotted together by sheer force of Spinel's accidental elasticity. She plopped her head back on the pillow, letting out a small huff.

She knew he adored her comforts, but this was a level of which she wasn't prepared for, and it didn't look like he would get up any time soon.

Steven opened one eye, she had successfully jostled him awake, but he was intent on staying where he was and holding onto her as long as he could.
Blue Pearl would call him any moment and he would have to go stop White Diamond, and there was no way he could comfortably bring Spinel along with him for something like that.
So these moments, as few as he had with her were meaningful, though he knew it would be short lived.

He rolled over, freeing her for escape and moaned in sleepy dissagreement.

"Steven?" Spinel pulled on of his eyelids up, watching his eye roll in his head until he peer up at her, prompting her to jump away with a start. He sat up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes before giving her a soft smile.

"Sorry- you were comfortable." He mumbled, untangling his legs from hers. Spinel nodded and slid out from under the blanket, standing on the other side of the bed, watching him as he groggily sat, still contemplating whether or not he should actually leave the bed yet.

"You want breakfast?" She asked as the boy yawned, he sleepily nodded, prompting her to move around the bed to the doorway, waiting patiently for him to get up. Steven finally slid out of bed, following her down to the kitchen.

Amethyst sat on the couch, chuckling to herself about the musings of their blooming relationship, though she made a point to not mention it.

"You got a call from Blue this morning." Pearl stated as she entered from her room, shuffling and stacking the playing cards Bismuth and them left on the counter. Steven made an uncomfortable groan at the news, he was hoping it would take her longer to request their assistance once more.

"I'll talk to her after breakfast." He muttered, pouring himself a bowl of cereal. Being around Blue diamond for the past three days was already draining enough as it was, if fate would allow her to wait just a little while longer to call him, he wouldn't have been so disgruntled to appease her.

But she had valuable information. And he couldn't pass up any opportunity to learn if any changes with White. She was acting as his lifeline to her.

Steven held back another yawn as he entered his miniature diamond base in the greenhouse, opening up the communication hub to contact Blue.

The screen was static for a moment, before connecting, and Blue Pearl stood in the center of it, saluting to him like always.

"My Diamond would like to speak to you." She said softly, turning the screen to face Blue. The giant diamond bent down, just enough so that her face took up the screen enough to make her look at least average sized.

"Steven, White has stopped her attack." She said with a meager smile, though the worry in her voice betrayed any sense of comfort she had. White never changed her mind.
It was incredibly unlike her to suddenly decide that her culling of the gems was unneeded.
Steven was far too happy to hear the news to care though.

"Great! Then your gems are safe, and things can go back to normal!" He grinned at the thought, though Blue didn't share in his enthusiasm.

"Steven I don't think this is good." She replied in earnest. Steven's smile faded into a reluctant and even irritated frown.

"Why not? If she's stopped attacking gems, then nothing needs to be done." He grumbled, Blue's sigh made him look up though. The diamond clearly wasn't comfortable with the notion of White Diamond upending all her work on a whim, though she knew Steven wouldn't want to hear that the situation unnerved her.

"I will talk with Yellow, and we will contact you if we notice anything...odd." she finally concluded, letting Steven has his temporary relief.

He grinned at the thought, White Diamond coming around entirely on her own. He didn't have to talk to her or risk his or his friends lives to try and ring her in at all, for once it worked itself out.

He nearly thought he was dreaming.