Peridot continues to watch her series, since it was night, that small place was her domain, apparently, she uses it exclusively to see Camp Pining Hearts and continue analyzing the series along with the best couples of the same, nothing abnormal. Until suddenly the green gem finds that Pearl was upstairs along with a blanket "Ahhh!" Peridot screams in fright before the thin gem silences her quickly.

"Shhh. They're sleeping," Pearl whispers seriously as she had Peridot's face almost crushed in her hands. Although not doing much damage to the green gem, she is quite dismayed since the head of the tallest gem turns with concern to see Steven and Spinel, who sleep in that little makeshift bed of hay.

"...What are you doing?" Peridot asks in dismay, whispering to Pearl, when she releases her face and goes to the duo to place the blanket over them with great care and perfection, covering both of them as if they were a burrito. To Peridot's confusion, Pearl looked silently for a few minutes, until she finally turned to answer.

"I always see Steven sleeping" Pearl explains in a whisper, a little embarrassed, mainly because the green gem did not understand why that action and that showed in her expression "When Steven was born, well, personally we did not know what to do like this Greg was in charge but one day I had to take care of him ... He was so small, humans are so fragile and I ... I was afraid he won't wake up "The white gem sentences with some regret.

Peridot was surprised that the hybrid was so important to Crystal Gems "Does this only matter to you about that ... Rose Cuazo?" Peridot inquires pragmatically, a slight smile formed on Pearl's face, something certainly terrifying, because the green gem imagined a reaction similar to Spinel's.

"At the beginning that was the reason ..." Pearl sentences with simplicity, but she does not take time to add with sweetness in her voice "But now ... Steven is something like a son, my dear and sweet child" The gem white suddenly changes her expression while facing Peridot "So if you try to betray us Peridot, I will do the same thing I did to the communicator at the moon base" Pearl exclaims smiling and calm, to which Peridot soon agrees "Good" Pearl congratulations With applause that makes no noise.

Pearl watches Steven for a few more moments and then she goes down to the drill to examine the machine, Peridot for his part tries to watch her series but she was unable to concentrate, Pearl had seen her intentions with the communicator of the moon base, if Peridot had a heart, probably her heart would beat at great speeds in fear.

On the other hand, the tallest gem remembered peacefully as it was a few years ago, when Rose had barely left.

[14 years in the past (... and a few days)]

It was snowy days, but Pearl did not feel too cold because she was a gem, some children played in the snow while the gem went to Vidalia's house, where Greg had to live during the winter to lack of a hot place to stay. At the beginning Pearl knocked on the door calmly, but she worried when no one answered, with insistence finally Greg had opened the door.

"...Pearl?" The human asks with half-open eyes, mainly because of the fatigue he had at that time, accompanied by dark circles, Greg wore a winter sweater under a large blanket. For its part, the gem at the beginning is surprised by the question, even in spite of its millennia she does not fully understand humans.

"Yes, I came to see ... Steven. Are you alright?" Pearl asks Greg, who invites her to spend as kindly as he could. There the gem watched as baby Steven was playing on the couch, jumping and crashing into the real estate "How long have you been like this?" The gem questions in dismay, but the father gives no answer, he was almost asleep, so the gem snapped her fingers in front of the human's face.

"What? Oh! ... How long have I been like this? Eh ... well, from approximately 7:20" Greg explains with great tiredness "I could only sleep three hours and twenty minutes before he woke up again" The human sentence, surprising Pearl.

"...You need help?" Pearl offers thoughtfully, but Greg quickly denies.

"No, it's not necessary, I wouldn't like to bother... you ..." Greg kindly exclaims before falling asleep, snoring hard, Pearl quickly moves her feet to prevent Greg from falling on her, but after making sure the human was very asleep, the gem lifts the human as if he will not be anything, Pearl is going to place Greg on the couch next to Steven. For a few moments Pearl and the sleeping Greg cling to each other, the gem does not know very well because she imitated the human's gesture.

The baby takes drool by mouth making small bubbles, while approaching his father with the intention of playing with him, but suddenly he notices Pearl's hands that hold him preventing him from bothering Greg. To whom the white gem lets sleep after making sure to take Greg's slit out of his mouth and some loose strands "Hello" Pearl greets when she sees the baby's face, a little awkward but quickly distracted when Steven grabs her nose with interest, Pearl sits on the couch while she lets Steven play "Rose, there is ... there is so much I want to tell you" Pearl mentions, but not talking to the baby, but to the gem embedded in his belly button.

At the beginning, Pearl talks about how Amethyst and Garnet were, to later talk about how they were going against corrupt gems, finally a much more delicate topic came up "I ... I feel alone" Pearl ends up lowering her head, she always waited that one day Rose would return to the world of the living, but that day never came or would come. There is simply Steven, who begins to cinch Pearl's hair.

For a few moments Pearl feels strange, on the one hand she has fun with the baby's fingers through her hair, but the feeling of loneliness remains there, the gem remained still and silent until she finally felt Steven's hands go away. " You shouldn't do that with the hair of other people Steven "Greg complains a little better in his condition, recomposed would be a word even if it had been just one more hour of sleep. Greg's awakening suddenly alarms Pearl that due to the games of infants she feels somewhat embarrassed "Sorry for falling asleep, did Steven cause you trouble?" Greg asks worried.

"No. Not at all" Pearl clarifies with a small smile. The white gem stays a little longer in that house helping to take care of Steven while Greg was preparing his bottle, meanwhile Pearl kept Steven's hands occupied, since the baby played with her fingers, almost comparing the size of both, by that time Steven was much smaller than Amethyst, Ruby or Sapphire.

At the beginning everything was going well, but Steven has always been very energetic and in his wanderings he suddenly escaped from the hands of Pearl, falling to the ground. The baby naturally begins to cry while a bump formed on her head, Pearl was disturbed while she couldn't calm him down and she needs Greg's help.

The father quickly went to help the white gem, holding the baby's head against his shoulder while calming him. Pearl on the other hand made sure to take care of the bottle, giving it to Greg while he was still calming Steven, who gradually stops crying.

In the end the two adults were sitting on the couch again, with Greg and Steven falling asleep, both fall on Pearl's shoulder, who let the humans sleep, she takes care of them.

[Present. Again]

"I think you just wasted your time. You literally started to show all that with your gem. What was the point of showing that story?" Peridot complains before having the tip of Pearl's spear almost in her gem, since the servant gem had risen at high speed to where the green gem was.

"I just emphasize how important Steven is to me," Pearl sentences simply, as she squeezes Peridot's little nose, to which the green gem is annoyed as a small child would. The servant gem for its part goes back down to the barn, with nothing particular to do but attend the building, on the one hand Pearl wonders if now Steven would have to live in the barn while rebuilding the temple or he would have to go with Greg .

******

When it is morning, Spinel and Steven continue to sleep like logs in their haystack, while Peridot had finally come down to help Pearl with the touch-ups of the drill, after refining the details, they had to transport the machine to the Kindergarten Beta to position this and start drilling towards The Cluster.

Meanwhile, while Pearl and Peridot work in the drill, the purple gem wastes time watching TV, unfortunately for Peridot, Amethyst had removed Camp Pining Hearts and she put Little Butler. Everything was relatively quiet, Pearl came out a few moments but to her surprise she found Greg coming in his van.

"Hi!" The man greets as if nothing, to the consternation of the white gem.

"Greg? What are you doing here?" Pearl exclaims certainly surprised, although trying not to be offensive, Greg for his part only scratches his head a little.

"Well, the car wash is slow and I had nothing to do. So I decided to see how Steven was doing. Everything okay?" Greg kindly exclaims, to which Pearl nods calmly.

"Well, now he's sleeping ... But you can wait" Pearl responds, at first she is strictly serious, but she sees Greg and kindly adds that he can wait, to which the adult went into his van. At the beginning the servant gem thinks that was enough, but she didn't count on Greg's nature.

"Hey, I brought some food and drinks. Don't you want some?" The human offers, Pearl was about to refuse but Amethyst sent her on the way, throwing both to the floor.

"I do!" The purple gem accepts and she raises her hand with her face still glued to the floor, Pearl, Greg and Amethyst would end up eating a little while they let Steven sleep.