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in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you

ALWAYS COME BACK

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They may be a rambler, a gambler, always on the run, a wanted criminal, someone with a higher calling, or just not the type to spend time with you (which may be fine by you), yet somehow, they'll always find their way back to your door. And they'll, again and again, find themselves wanting you, for support, for healing, for feeling alive, for venting frustration and anger, for anything and everything at all.

You'll welcome them with open arms...and an open bed, because you want them, too.

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[lmk if you want iw spoilers. open to crossovers, au, and crackships.]

(( happy to play ship, smut, or gen ))

[Interested in playing out something around Knights of the Fallen Empire or Nathema. Voicetesting]

[ Cool with whatevs.

Available as-is in canon flavor or @

shorething for modern AU/canon mashups. ]

Edited 2018-05-08 04:02 (UTC)

[Down with whatever, Lapis is probably the one who'd be coming back, tho.]

Lapis Lazuli has been gone a long ass time.

Not that long, in the grand scheme of things -- not long for a gem, that's for sure -- but, boy, long enough that Jasper's out of that bubble and has eyes again and only a speckling of Malachite green up her left arm to show for her time as a corrupted monster. Long enough, perhaps more importantly, that she's capable of coexisting peacefully with the other gems on Earth -- although she isn't calling herself a Crystal Gem or anything. The question of allegiance is kind of a fraught one.

Right now she isn't contemplating that, though; right now she's thinking about Lapis. Lapis is also pretty fraught, as a subject, but she's almost reassuring to think about compared to trying to sift through how she feels about Pink Diamond, which even now is kind of existentially agonising. Lapis Lazuli, on the other hand...

Well, for one thing, she's gone. None of the Crystal Gems have heard from her for a very long time, and that makes everything that happened with Malachite safe. It doesn't matter if Jasper sometimes misses how that felt, and if sometimes she likes to sit up by the lighthouse and look out to sea and think about it like she's doing right now, because it's never going to happen again.

The thing about space is that it's vast. It's vast and desolate, and even for someone who can make round trips out of the Milky Way in a matter of weeks, it's empty. There's nothing and no one there. No Peridot to make Morps with, no Steven to hang out with, no Pumpkin to play with.

It turns out that the TV doesn't even work without electricity, so there truly, and absolutely is, nothing for Lapis except herself and her thoughts. Which range from slightly less than fine to completely self destructive depending on the hour. Or is it month? It's hard to tell with no set light cycle.

Eventually, Lapis Lazuli can't stand the isolation any more.

Eventually, she caves to her own loneliness, and heads back to the place she's so certain is doomed to destruction, and that it'll probably be a smoking pile of rubble if it's still in one piece at all.

It turns out it still is everything it ever was. Like nothing had happened. Like no time had passed since she left and came back. Lapis even puts the barn (gently) back to where it had been before she left. It's only when she's finally decided to swallow her own fears that she heads towards Beach City and the Temple where she knows Steven is, and hopes Peridot is.

Neither of them is who Lapis finds first. Who she finds fist is large and orange and on the lighthouse in a shape that looks suspiciously like a Jasper, so she banks to get closer, at a speed that might be a little too fast, and when Jasper's large shape is completely Jasper, Lapis quickly puts on the breaks, ending just out of grabbing reach, unless Jasper was Particularly Determined.

To say that Lapis is happy, is a little bit of an understatement.

"Weren't you supposed to be bubbled?"

Nice to meet you again, Jasper.