One Unlucky Gem...
A high placed Gem, fresh from one of the colonies, is stressed out of her brain.
Despite being VERY good at her assigned task, her new subordinates were… less than welcoming. She’s done her best to adapt to the new situation and conform to expectations but she MISSES her old team. No one here is willing to work WITH her. It hurts.
She wanders, unknowing, into the overgrown garden that was once Pink Diamonds.
A very life-like statue is set in the path but the place is solitary and soothing and just what she needs to destress.
She keeps coming back.
Before long she starts babbling to Miss Statue about her day, her week, her life, her stress all of it and how she hates it here.
It was supposed to be a reward for good service. A promotion.
Maybe it would have been if she didn’t feel so lost and lonely. If she had some damn SUPPORT from what was supposed to be her new team… they hadn’t let her bring ANY of her old subordinates and she MISSED them. She knew them and their quirks and how they worked.
She hadn’t WANTED to leave them behind.
She wasn’t given a choice and now she’s here and she HATES it.
She’s stressed and tired and NO ONE appreciates her work. No one. Get things right. Things run as usual and no one notices. Get things wrong and its all her fault… something her ‘team’ quite happily flings at her. They aren’t even particularly subtle about it. She isn’t one of them and they are DEAD certain they could do her job better.
This continues for years, centuries and it hasn’t gotten any better.
Stephen Universe happens.
Things are changing for the better… but not for her.
Her job is as unnoticed and her team as hateful as ever and she’s… she’s just done.
She can’t even bring herself to care anymore.
Even knowing it’s Pink Diamond’s garden she still goes back.
She’s going to say goodbye to the only place that actually listened and supported her.
After today, she just can’t bring herself to do this anymore.
She did not expect ‘Miss Statue’ to speak back… or move.
‘Miss Statue’ has a name. It’s Spinel. She was created to be a playmate for Pink Diamond… who left her behind. Abandoned her. Steven Universe's message to the universe has told her as much so there’s no point in staying here, is there.
She’s been listening to the gem for SO long now and she thinks of her as a friend, even if the Gem dozed off in the garden after spilling her shards more often than she didn’t.
The Gem invites her new? Friend to come with her.
If the others want her job so badly, they can have it.
She’s NOT happy here… never has been so, she’s leaving. She isn’t sure where she’s going to go but she’s… done. Just so, SO done with everything and everyone.
She wants to see her treasured subordinates (she’s STILL in touch with them even though she isn’t supposed to be and has to be circumspect with it) and then she’s just going to… wander. Wherever her resources and whims take her.
She’s so SICK of responsibility, of having no support, of being the one dumped on but never praised, of getting no acknowledgement and she’s so, SO tired.
Spinel is coming with. Maybe it’s time she saw what was out in the universe for herself too.
They stop by Earth so Spinel can settle her OWN loose ends but, after that, anyone coming after them can suck her contrails up to and including the other Diamonds.
Basically, the Gem version of ‘kiss my arse’.
(There is much wailing and panicked flailing when the Gem does NOT show up for work leaving only a timed messages stating that, if they think they can do her job better, have at. They will have plenty of time to display their skills since she’s not coming back.
Have fun with that.
They had not intended for her to take them seriously… they hadn’t!
The dip in quality is noticeable and, of course, it’s those who are there who are blamed.
She left knowing that they would NEVER be able to offer the same level of service that she does since it’s what she was made for but… she can’t bring herself to care.
They’d cobble something together or they’d bring in someone new to fill the sport and that would be that. Maybe her ‘team’ would learn something from this. Maybe they wouldn’t. Not her problem anymore though.)