"Almost there, Steven! Just a little bit more" Connie said holding out a Cookie Cat as her corrupted friend slowly followed wincing every few steps. Amethyst and Pearl followed behind trying to help him make it to the ice cream. "Good job Steven!" the human praised pulling off a piece of the Cookie Cat holding it out to him as he collapsed to the ground accepting his reward. A painful smiling making it's way to his face, Connie pulled out her phone checking the time "I better get home, I'll see you three tomorrow" she said heading to the entrance closing it with the large piece of metal sitting next to the door. Once she was gone Pearl used her beak to push Steven to his side and lift his shirt up far enough to see his gem. It was slightly chipped off and had claw marks on it. Unfortunately, Connie found him with his gem-like that and he was biting onto anything that helped relieve the pain. Which is how she found out that his teeth injected a dangerous venom into anything he bit.

  Pearl cradled him with her wings rubbing her head against his as Amethyst tilted hers in confusion. She went to get a closer look but Pearl moved the corrupted hybrid away from her. Growling in frustration, the gem went up to her only to get the same result. It eventually turned to them chasing each other around with Steven having none of it and somehow managed to slip out of Pearls wings while she was trying to escape the other gem. He made his way to his mom's room letting himself drop onto a pink cloud. He purred in satisfaction as the pain started to dull, he soon drifted off to sleep wrapping himself around the cloud drooling a bit. After losing Amethyst in trash from her room she looked down at her wings to see Steven missing. Searching the area she went to check the rooms doing a little chirp every time she entered a new area. It wasn't until she made it to Rose's room where she found him laying on his back softly kicking in the air with one of his back claws in his sleep.

  She went over and sat down next to the cloud watching him sleep as his tail slightly flicked in the air from time to time. After about two hours or so of watching him sleep he woke up to Pearl standing over him. Rolling onto his stomach he growled for her to get out standing on the cloud as she ran out, huffing he laid back down using his claws to cover his eyes. Once again letting out a low growl as both Amethyst and Pearl ran back out of the room.

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The Next Morning
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  It was only a few hours before their human caretaker, Connie, got off of school. So Steven was bored and had nothing to do so he decided to play around with Amethyst. The corrupted hybrid sneakingly made his way past Pearl and Garnets rooms before making it to Amethyst's room. She was eating random trash that was spread out in her room until she saw the corrupted cinnamon roll running up to him. He smiled as the two started chasing each other around making the room more of a mess than it was to start with. After about five hours of playing around, including the breaks in between, Steven sat in front of the entrance/exit doorway. Amethyst looked at him in confusion before sitting next to him staring at the metal. She nudged him a bit but he wouldn't budge, she then got up walking to the doorway slowly pushing the metal away leaving it open for them to leave. Amethyst turned to him smiling as Steven jumped to his feet excitedly running to the door only for Pearl to bite the back of his shirt.

  She put him down away from the door as Steven and Amethyst frowned. The purple gem nudged her as she sighed letting out a small noise which brought back Steven's smile as he ran into his old room/ Living room / Kitchen.