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“Good bye Steven!” Steven heard a gave of goodbyes before finally driving on his own somewhere else somewhere different, somewhere he could be a human.
He stopped in a parking spot from a motel where he planned to sleep at where there was lots of cars but it looked kind of empty and creepy. Steven stretched as much as he could in the confined space of his dondai ‘I should call Connie before I go to sleep’ he took his phone and started dialing up Connie’s number and letting it ring for a little “Hello Steven!” He sighted in relief finally hearing another voice that was not from the music he listened to while driving “Hey Connie!” He said “How are you feeling?” She asked “I’m feeling great!” Connie waited for a second “Steven? Do you mean it?” Steven thought for a second too “Yeah just a little lonely I might make a watermelon Steven to make me company” Connie giggled “That’s not a bad idea, but if you feel lonely you can always talk to the me, the gems, or your dad” Steven giggled at Connie’s worried behavior “Yes Connie I know but I just wanted to hear your voice before going to sleep” Connie made some movement closer to the phone and changed to a more comfortable tone “Have a good night sleep my biscuit” Steven blushed slightly at Connie’s soft tone “I will now that I heard you my strawberry” They both missed each other like crazy but Connie always had lion and Steven always had phone to call with “Well good night, love you” Steven said feeling the blush grow without a reason “Night Steven, love you too” Connie made a kissing sound and hung up.
Steven stretched again and picked up his already full medium sized suitcase and got out his car walking towards the hotel and heading to the front office “Hello what can I help you with” the woman had a flower dress with a belt and a short haired ponytail with brown hair and looked about middle aged with a snooty tone “Oh! I would like to get a room for the night” Steven said with his signature smile “That’ll be 70 dollars and I need a form of id” Steven flinched slightly remembering that he didn’t actually had an id “Or just your cellphone number” he sighted in relief, it looked as if this lady had noticed Stevens flinch and wanted to help “y-yeah here’s the money” he took his wallet out which looked like it was about to blow up but was holding on to dear life and took out 100$ handing them to the lady “ and my phone number is ##########” The lady who’s name tag said ‘Jennypher’ looked at the money for a second “Oh yeah!” She took the money and gave Steven the change “Your room number is 31” Steven’s nodded and took the key she had handed him “Thanks!” He said before walking towards the elevator humming happily and tiredly.
Steven had finally arrived to his room so he jumped in top of the bed and slowly floated down into the comfortable bed and groaned “Maybe that watermelon wasn’t such a bad idea” he was feeling lonely so he had decided a watermelon Steven could help but he hadn’t made one since he was a kid and they took his 14 year old form ‘what I’d they look like me?’ He shuddered at the thought of a creepy tall watermelon ‘eh worth a shot’ Steven finally decided “Watermelon Steven it is” they sell watermelon slices on grocery stores and he had money so why not? All these thoughts where making him sleepy so he slept with his clothes on which he didn’t really cared a lot but he still had it in mind ‘Heh I wonder how Lars is treating Mc bear bear’ he giggled to himself giving mental good nights to the gems and his dad, and Connie before finally slowly drifted into a heavy sleep. He worked up, looked over to his body ‘Hm clothes’ he stretched and then got up I from the bed remembering the watermelon Steven thing before heading towards his suitcase and grabbing a fresh change of clothes and swapping them for his old ones “AGHH” he yawned/groaned then started to fix his hair which was not that hard because it didn’t actually changed it always looked like a rose from behind and he kinda liked it even though it reminded him of ‘rose Quartz’ Steven tried to learn with the constant reminders of his mother pink Dimond/rose Quartz.
Steven shuddered but ignored it, finally being ready to leave the motel, he sighted and sucked a lot of air in and then left it there for a couple of seconds ‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8’ then exhale slowly putting on a smile and exiting out the door, heading towards the elevator door, going down to the main lobby waving a goodbye to ‘Jennypher’ before he left.
Steven put all his stuff in a car looking over to a little jar over the passenger seat “hello buddy” Steven said petting the jar filled with moss and making sure the sun was not hitting the jar but still putting a thick blanket over it just in case. Steven had decided to take a bit from home which was some of his mom’s moss which he ‘named’ sunshine ironically but it actually seem it had some type of personality because it always seem to wriggle around more when Steven was around and even tried to touch Steven trough the glass wall that was the jar.
“Welp it’s time to be on the run again” Steven giggled and he heard the moss making noises “Heh are you exited?” The moss made more noise “Let’s see what our destination is” Steven took out his phone and looked at the map “Looks like it’s Oregon, the closest town issss. Gravity falls” Steven gasped “Maybe we can get a new friend in there!” There had to be a store that sold watermelon right? The moss made more noses “Time to re start our trip” Steven started the car and positioned his phone so that it would be charging and showing a map at the same time but not using his phone while driving because his dad told him that’s kinda dangerous.
Steven drove and drove, telling jokes to Sunshine and encouraging it till he started to see deep forest everywhere he looked at and gave a little look at his phone “This is gravity falls” Steven said, rolling down the window and smelling the pine tree in the air “Ah” he sighted loving the smell “You ok in there, sunshine?” The moss wiggled around and Steven heard it inside the blanket and the jar “Looks like you are” Steven giggled turning to see the road again and proceeded to keep driving till he saw something “HHHAG” said the moss as some type of warning to the sound they’d both heard “What is that?!” Steven said before a huge hand right in front of the hand “WUT THE HEK” he yelled. The hand getting closer but he rapidly took sunshine on his arms and hugging it tightly making a bubble around them before hearing a screech and everything going black.
Steven heard the sound of crushing leaves.
Steven heard the sound of voices
sounded like two males “Ya think ta’ kids gonna be okay Sixer?”
Steven tensed up and groaned having a huge headache but then realized there was a hand around his neck and another one around his legs thinking about what was happening around him.
Steven opened his eyes and saw a men with glasses holding him “sleeping beauty is awake I see” said someone else.
steven turned his head to see an elder men staring sat him with a slight smile before Steven’s mind started to freak out and trying to giggle out the men’s grip but the grip only became stronger leaving a sharp pain stop him, exhaling hair in pain grabbing his sides with opposite hands ‘why hasn’t my healing acted yet!’ He started to think ‘are they gonna hurt me? Where am I? Who are they? Wait. “Where.. where is sunshine?” The men stopped and looked at him with a questioning look “Who’s sunshine?” Said the men carrying him.
Steven thought for a couple of seconds.
he had decided not to tell anyone about his gem. would this say something about him? He looked over his stomach and his shirt was down covering his gem ‘thank the stars’ he sighted “It’s my friend, it’s in a jar he’s kind of a different ‘species’” he took light breaks feeling his healing take place on his body causing more pain “Oh I put that jar in my bag” said he guy carrying me “Oh.. thank you so much” I managed a weak smile “try not to move too much“ Steven listened to him and stopped moving as much as he could with the satisfaction of knowing that maybe just maybe sunshine was safe and sound but he probably had to swap the jar.
the men had been speaking between them but Steven was not paying attention to what they said but did heard something about ‘anomaly’ and ‘Steve’ but he didn’t had the strength to actually say anything.
the men stopped and Steven opened his eyes and saw the beautiful sight giving a light gasp “ya like what ye see kid?” Said the man who was not carrying him and Steven lightly nodded “it’s beautiful” he said quietly and the other men laughed “you just wait” he said and Steven did looking at a little blurry structure that came to view showing as a beautiful shack that had a sign that said Mystery Shack but the S had fallen off the sign giving it a cool effect “Wow” Steven said finally melting and relaxing in the men’s arms “don’t get too comfortable we are almost there” the men carrying Steven said and he blushed slightly at the comment “sorry” Steven mentally slapped himself for apologizing “it’s fine like I said we are almost there, but can I ask you something?” Said the men with the hat and Steven nodded “why do you call that jar your friend?” He said curiously and I examined my words carefully but before answering I was cut off “C’mon Sixer you don’t even know the kid’s name he’s probably terrified right now” the other men said with an eye roll “Oh my apologies, My name is Ford Pines and he is Stan my twin brother” Stevens brain connected the puzzle pieces “Is that why you guys look alike so much?” They nodded before we entered the shack and it was one of the most amazing places he’s experienced ‘I mean he’s been to space but that’s besides the point’ Stars appeared in Stevens eyes without him noticing but they where noticed by both Ford and Stan “we didn’t heard what your name was young men” Ford said and Steven snapped out his impressed state and looked at Ford who was still carrying him but had stopped “Oh! I’m sorry, my name is Steven, Steven universe” Ford meanwhile was thinking of a thousand things before he decided “Would you like to stay?” Steven looked at him wide eyed “ummm”.