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The past weeks having Gem around the house is nice, she's been great company, it's only that Pearls found she can get a bit weird. Randomly mentioning things about him that he’s never told her! Like the fact she used to have a dog named Tilly.
It happened well in a strange way, they’d been eating dinner and Pearl had brought up the fact he’d been thinking about getting a dog when Gem looked up from her food.
“You’ve had one before, right? Tilly?”
At the moment she didn’t question it at first, after all she’d been having a great time not taking in the fact she hadn’t mentioned Tilly, let alone have any pictures of Tilly due to how young she was when she had her.
“Yes! She was the cutest thing! I wish you could meet her!” Pearl exclaimed with a smile as he
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Pearl hadn’t noticed it until Gem sat next to her on the couch. Her ears were…unnaturally pointed, and her eyes weren’t the forest green she first saw her with…
They were a bright piercing red, and then Pearl realized there were more of those… Horrifying eyes like a spider… And all of them were staring at him… How did he not realize before-
Pearl was about to say something when Gem looked away to grab her water, and when she looked back-They were gone. Her emerald green eyes were back. No longer that red that sent chills down her spine…
Was she seeing things? Surely. Gem is a completely normal human! Nothing weird about her! Right…? She’s just tired and needs some sleep… She’s been spending too much time working on art commissions and hasn’t slept well…that's got to be it.
Pearl sighs, yawning and standing up with a stretch, “I’m gonna head to bed early Gem”
Gem smiles and nods, “Alright, Pearl! Sleep well!”
Pearl leaves the living room, walking over to his room, the sight of those eyes haunting him lingering on in his mind as he lays down, curling up in the blankets trying to shake that sight. That bone chilling moment. Where those eyes pierced through his own.
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Pearl had failed miserably at both falling asleep, and shaking that sight out of her head. She sat up with a groan. She didn’t want to just toss and turn all night, she’s been trying to sleep since 8pm, it’s 11pm now, and laying there any longer likely won’t do any good.
Pearl was walking through the hall to the living room when she heard a thud from the bathroom, followed by a small, quiet shriek.
Pearl quickly rushes to the door, knocking on it after she found that the door was locked, “Gem? Are you okay?” Pearl asks, her voice clearly carrying her worry.
Gem's voice carries through the door, shaken and quiet, “Uhm… I think…? I fell and- and I can’t reach my crutches-...uh… Is it normal for-”
“Gem, tell me the other thing later, can you unlock the door so I can help you up first?”
“But-”
Pearl cuts Gem off again, voice still dripping with worry and anxiety “Gem, please just unlock the door, I need to make sure you're okay first.”
And with that he hears a click of the door opening it and-
“HOLY SHIT!”