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Short stories (Steven and Spinel)

Chapter 13: Heartbeat under my feet (3)

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Part 3

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Just read, I promise this time is better. Yeah :3

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Steven was walking over the injectors surface. He noticed absent-mindedly that the crystal at the top was in a heart-shaped form, something that went right over his head the other times. Then he realised three more things at the same time:

 

One, the crystal was fragile, so easy to break. But so big. Like Spinel's heart. And he wasn't talking about her gem, tho that one too.

Two, he could do this. Do it better. If not for himself or the gems, at least for Spinel who never had anyone by her side. To help her. To save her.

Three. He would do anything for her. For the same lonely gem that tried to kill him and his family, he would open his arms invitingly and give the love she so desperately needed, damn the consequences.

 

The hybrid took one step after the other feeling his heart racing. Spinel was giving her back to him. He understood why easily -he hurt her without noticing- and she wasn't going to show her heart to him again.

He wasn't giving up on her the same way she did with him tho.

"Spinel" that one word conveyed great meaning "please, we can stop this. Let me..."

"No" she denied. She wasn't a fool anymore. He wasn't going to fool her ever again. 

"Spinel" Steven tried again. He pleaded. His intense dark eyes over her form, never straying "Please, listen to me" he asked.

When no answer came, the young boy approached the pink gem slowly. Exhausted, he stared at her for a whole minute while the rest of the world was ending. This was the moment. He could feel it. This time he wouldn't fail.

With all the strength he had left the hybrid closed the short distance between them, he grapped her body in his not so strong arms and squeezed their bodies together. His eyes were closed, some tears escaping from him.

"Let me save you this time" he pleaded in a hoarse whisper "Don't leave me. Not again..." he cried.

Oh so confused, Spinel wrapped her stretchy arms around the boy, noticing something that wasn't there before. He was cold. Steven wasn't suppose to be cold, she would know having hold his hands multiple times. The warmth so characteristic from Steven was gone. He...

"Steven, what happened to you?" asked Spinel in a small panicky voice, not wanting to believe she was the reason. Was he dying? Because she knows that's what organic beings do when they are too week to keep going. It's like the shattering, except they never come back. She didn't want to lose him. Not like this. Never like this.

Steven separated from her, his hands in her shoulder pads, looking at her with sad dark eyes.

"Don't worry. It's not your fault. This..." he stopped talking, not knowing what else to tell her. He knew he couldn't tell her about what was really happening, unless he wanted for this to stop working. He shaked his head "this is nothing" 

Then, like she didn't weight nothing, the boy lifted her in his arms, compelling the heart-shaped gem to encircle her arms around his neck, fearing he was going to throw her off the injector. Logically, Spinel knew that it wouldn't harm her. For the stars, the boy is not even capable of doing something as cruel as that. And still... She thought in fear, what if...

"Don't worry" he said again, this time with more confidence "You can trust me"

There was something different on Steven, tho Spinel couldn't put a finger on what it was. Despite that, despite the weird feeling she was feeling, she trusted him. The game was over. 

"Ok" she replied softly.

End...?