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Lapidot Angst Week Day 1 : Nightmare

The beach was shaded in the green from a legion of hand-ships. Their booms from breaking the atmosphere were still echoing in the distance. The gems on the beach, frozen in shock. The glowing, whirring balls of energy charged at the finger of the lead ships. The young human-hybrid spared a glance at his fellows; the tall and usually stoic Garnet, staring at the sky, her eyes wide in shock, Pearl, her spear drawn in reflex against the oncoming threat, the tip shaking in fear, Amethyst, fists pulled up to her chest defensivley, her head whipping back and forth between the static balls of energy aimed toward them.

His shield. Where is his shield?

The screen door to the beachhouse opened, somehow heard over the deafining buzz of energy above them.

No. Go back inside. Don’t come out here.

Peridot stood on the porch, defiantly staring at the armada of ships. She looked down at the gems and said, as the lasers shot from the cannons,

“I’m a Crystal Gem too.”

“NO! STOP!” Lapis shot up from her hammock.

Her chest heaved with breaths she didn’t need. The walls of the barn greeted her and the silence of the moon base assaulted her ears. Her head shook back and forth, reorienting herself.

A dream? Or… Oh no. Did Steven?

She lept out of the barn and took flight towards the top of the base. Landing on the top floor she ran to the windows facing towards Earth.

The half-shadowed planet didn’t show any signs of the ships from her dream, but stars forbid that Steven might have somehow contacted her through her sleep, and they had already entered the atmosphere…

She lept down onto the second floor and strode toward the orb in the middle of the room.

“Show me the beach.”

The walls flickered to life, showing the ocean splashing against the sand, soundlessly, over and over again. Turning, she was once again below the Crystal Gem’s temple, whole and staring serenely over the waves.

The pressure in Lapis’s chest lifted momentarily. Then her brow furrowed.

“Show me the Crystal Gems.”

The scene shifted to the inside of the house, Pearl whisking away at some mixture in a large bowl, to some wooded area where Garnet was sitting at the bank of a pond, watching a family of frogs jumping from pad to pad. Connie was sitting at a desk in a bland room with other young humans. Then the picture jumped to a dark canyon where Steven, Amethyst, and Peridot were planting sunflowers.

Flowers in a Kindergarten?

Lapis chuckled aloud.

I suppose if anyone can do it, it’d be those three.

She sat down and sighed, letting the walls return to their steely grey.

They’re all safe. Everything is okay.

Sporting a small smile, Lapis flitteted down to the first floor of the base, where the doors to the barn were still wide open. Her footsteps padding against the weathered wood. She stood in the middle of the barn, wondering what to do.

The hammock swayed gently in her corner, the couch and TV set were upstairs along with all five seasons of Camp Pining Hearts. She had tried and failed to get the TV to work.

Peridot could have done it.

Lapis shook her head and walked to her pile of meep morps. She had put all of them into their proper place and set them up correctly, even Peridot’s very first meep morp “Wow, Thanks”.

They are installation pieces after all.

She felt a pang in her chest. Backing away from the meep morps she ended up at the wide opening at its front. Looking over the interior of their home, her heart ached.

What is happening? What is out of place?

Confused, she let her wings carry her to the second floor once more, clutching at her heart all the while. Lighting on the edge of the rectangular hole where the stairs would ascend, Lapis looked down at the barn.

Funny, it almost looks like a meep morp from up here. Peridot would love…

There it was again, the throbbing pain in her chest. She moved away from the opening, towards the side of the room.

She sat along the cold wall, wrapping her arms around her legs. The pain faded away to a dull aching as Lapis looked up through misty eyes at the orb lightly glowing in the room’s center.

“Please,” she said in a pleading, tearful whisper, “show me what is missing.”

As the walls began to flicker once more, she continued,

“Show me Peridot.”

[ladylazuli97]

Ok, but how do Blue Diamond's powers work? Does she make others feel her sadness, or does she make the saddest thoughts of each gem torment them? Let's imagine that second option is correct.

[koreankitkat]

I like to sit by the window and watch the rain fall sometimes. Lapidot Angst Week Day 7 (July 22nd): Rain (Also, a thank you to the folks hosting Lapidot Angst Week)

[lapidot-angst-week]

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Thank you guys so much for 1.1K followers!

[invicta-curcurbita]

Lapidot angst week day 4, free day! I came up with this last night at 11:00 and didn't sleep until I finished it. That's how much I love my OTP 😳💕

[the-original-starfruit-blog]

"I shouldn't have left."

[incendiarymoth]

Day Two of Lapidot Angst Week! Corruption

[fleurdelynx]

Lapidot Angst Week Day 2

Day 2: Corruption Back into SU. Back into Lapidot. Apparently this week is a Lapidot week? Anyway. Here we go. I might try and go and do day 1 as well.  Anyway. I hope this is okay. Yeah. Okay. Bye ;; Commission InfoOther Sites Posted using PostyBirb

[senterri]

Something I’ve been working on lately ❤

[evevoli]

Lapidot Week Day 7: Rain

“I stand alone in the storm

Suddenly, sweet words take hold

‘Hurry’, they say, ‘for you haven’t much time’

Open your eyes to the love around you

You may feel you’re alone, but I’m here still with you,

You can do what you dream, just remember to

Listen to the rain”

[sejwinters]

angstweek day1:Guilt

[ladylazuli97]

For @lapidot-angst-week. Day 1: Guilt

[hecking-tired]

Lapidot Angst Week - Day 2: Corruption

drip.

drip.

drip.

The water droplets fell on Peridot's gem as she lay on the blankets in the bathtub. The rhythmic timing of the drops did little to comfort the green gem, not after Lapis left. She scrolled through an "article" on the "internet" but didn't read a single word, her mind was elsewhere. Recently, she had found it hard to focus on anything.

Outside, she heard a faint song and Steven yelling for her. Before she could do anything a bright light blinded her, then everything was dark.

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Lapis saw the diamond ships rushing towards earth before they stopped, and a bright light shone on the blue planet. She flew as fast as she could to beach city, not caring about the diamonds anymore. She slipped past the ships, and hurried to the temple.

It seemed like forever before she landed on the wooden porch. Steven and the other gems were inside, but there was no Peridot. Lapis slowly opened the door, only to have Steven run up to her and hug her, crying. "Steven, what happened? I saw the ships, and a light, are you ok? Is Peridot ok?" Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst shared a mournful look. Steven spoke up, "I wasnt able to get Peridot in time, everyone else got behind my shield but she was still in the bathroom when it hit, she's bubbled in the temple.." Bubbled? They only bubbled corrupted gems- oh no. No no no no. Lapis began to panic.

"Can... Can I see her?" Lapis wouldn't believe it until she saw Peridot. It had to be some cruel, elaborate prank as revenge for her leaving. But that didn't sound like Steven, or Peridot... Steven led her through the temple door into a room full of bubbled gems. He got a pink bubble with the small green gem safely inside and handed it to her. "There she is... I'm sorry I couldn't save her, I really tried... I'm trying to find a way to help corrupted gems but the best I can do is temporarily reverse it half way, maybe if I can talk to the diamonds they can help..." The diamonds. They did this, why would they help?

If I had been here, if I had never left, maybe I could have done something!

But Lapis wasn't there. She didn't come back sooner. She held the bubble close, her tears beginning to fall. "Steven, it isnt your fault.. You tried to save her, but the diamonds didnt give any extra time." The diamonds. Lapis was done being afraid. She was angry. No matter how long it took, Lapis would get the diamonds to reverse what they had done or die trying.

Lapis went back to the room in the temple often, staying there with Peridot's bubble for hours at a time. She would talk about her efforts in tracking down gems who could lead her to the diamonds or knew about corruption and how to reverse it. She hadn't had any luck, but she kept trying. She talked about how Steven was doing, and about new meep morp ideas to try when Peridot returned. Lapis didn't know if she could hear her through the bubble, but she hoped she could. It was a small comfort to think she wasnt just wasting her breath talking into the empty air.

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I hope you enjoyed today's prompt for @lapidot-angst-week! This is meant to be a oneshot, but let me know if you want me to continue it!

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The three extra days given for late submissions are now closed. Thank you all for an amazing angst week!

[asr91s]

Poor little Gremlin on @lapidot-angst-week day 2: Corruption

[invicta-curcurbita]

First day of Lapidot angst week complete! The prompt was guilt. Looks kinda bad, but whatever 😆