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"Oh, hey Jasper, yeah I am," Steven says as he turns to look at Jasper.

Garnet pulls away from Steven and straightens herself. Within seconds, she's back to her normal stoic self.

Jasper furrows her brows a little bit more at Garnet's actions but decides not to say anything about it. Instead, she turns her attention back on Steven. "So, I heard you wanted to have a .. um .. was it a pizza party for your .. um .. birth day?"

Steven simply nods his head. "Yeah, I just figured after the week we had that we could just spend that day relaxing with each other," Steven responds.

Jasper nods her head though she is confused about what pizza exactly is. "The pizza is that thing with the red paste, the round things and the white strips on some round white flat thing, right?"

Steven lets out a short chuckle. "Yeah, well, that was pepperoni pizza. When we go, I can show you all the different types of pizzas. I'm glad you remember."

Jasper pauses in her thoughts. Should I ask about the real reason he wants just us gems or ..? Jasper shakes her head and turns toward Garnet. Her stomach still feels heavy every time she looks at the fusion.

Garnet looks up at Jasper, her brows furrowing behind her shades. Why is she looking at me?

"Garnet, do you think I can talk to you. Well, actually, I have this new work out regime that I would like to test. Think you'll be up for it?" Jasper questions after a while.

Garnet's brows furrow even more, but she nods her head. She stand, but before she leaves, she places a kiss on Steven's forehead. "If you still need to talk or need anything in general, I shouldn't be far," Garnet tells him before she follows Jasper into the temple doors.

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Once the temple doors close behind her, Garnet stops walking. "Jasper, what's really going on?"

Jasper stops walking and turns to face Garnet. "Did he say why?"

Garnet furrows her brows before nodding her head. "The last mission really scared him. The things he saw," she pauses, "he just want to make sure that we're all okay."

Jasper nods her head and the next question comes out before she can stop it. "Are you okay?"

Garnet is taken aback by Jasper's question. Truth be told, she wasn't. The Amulet Stone played on their biggest fears or what it thought was their biggest fears. "I'm fine."

Jasper doesn't take her eyes off of Garnet. She knows she's lying, but should she say something. Jasper was taken aback by the hallucination of watching Garnet die and not being the one to save her or destroy her. "I saw you die," Jasper says quietly.

Garnet was once again taken aback by Jasper's words. Beside's Steven's and her own, she had no idea what hallucination the others saw. It all happened so quickly.

They weren't looking for the Amulet Stone, it found them. She and Jasper were the first two to attack and she supposes that's when they both got hit. It all felt so surreal. When she came back, her team were each sprawled out. She quickly freed Jasper from her vision as Steven got hit by the Amulet Stone's tail. She froze in her movements as Steven's hallucination hit her. Next thing she knows, she's looking at Jasper who is screaming at her to get herself together.

"I couldn't do nothing to stop it. I remember getting hit by it's tail and impaled. I remember watching as it's tail bashes through your defenses before crushing your gems. I remember screaming out in anger as the realization hit that you got defeated by someone other than myself," Jasper stops and turns away. "You said the it played on our biggest fears or what it saw as our biggest fears. I guess it guessed right because you being defeated by someone other than me is one of my biggest fears." Jasper laughs afterwards and runs her hands through her hair.

"Jasper," Garnet lets out.

Jasper shakes her head. "It really messed me up, you know. I can't describe it, but after that incident, I can't stop thinking about you. Wondering if your okay. Every mission we go on, I'm worried that you'll get hurt. It's crazy because I know what you're capable of. What's even crazier is that no matter how much I try to tell myself that it was just mind play, my mind always go back to that vision."

Garnet doesn't say anything right away, but she understands how Jasper is feeling. No matter how many times she tells herself and tells the others that it was just mind play, the hallucinations stay with her. Repeatedly she watches as each other gems are shattered one by one by the Amulet Stone. She watches in fear as the Amulet Stone stabs Steven and not knowing if he'll poof or something else. The realization that she failed to keep her team safe hits her, right as the Amulet Stone breaks through her defenses and shatters her gems.

"You're not the only one," Garnet says in a resigned voice. "No matter how much I tell the other that it was just mind play, I know it wasn't. One of my biggest fears that it locked on was my fear of failing to keep my team safe. I watched as each of you were shattered. I watched as Steven was stabbed before being crushed myself. Twice. "

Jasper turns back toward Garnet and knows that she's telling the truth. "Thank you, for saving me," Jasper says after a moment. "If it wasn't for you, we all would've been stuck in those hallucinations."

Garnet nods her head. "Thank you for saving me."