"Jasper, I've spent millennia dealing with the consequences of the
corrupting light. What else could I have done to make the Diamonds leave
Earth alone?"
"And I spent my life thinking I was fighting for you, that I was yours, when you'd abandoned me before I was even out of the ground." Before the injectors had even come down, because clearly they were just bodies to cover up what was really going on.
"Your promises and excuses are just as hollow now as they were coming from Rose."
She backs away again. How can she act like this was anything but her own fault? Sharing the Barge with Rose alone was bad enough.
"Of course I cared!" she insists, to Jasper's turned back. "I mourned
every shattering, every loss. But I was fighting for the life of a whole
planet."
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Date: 2019-11-23 09:32 am (UTC)She shakes her head.
"That's not true. You could have joined the Crystal Gems, too. I could have protected you."
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Date: 2019-11-23 09:47 am (UTC)Look how many gems were saved from that.
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Date: 2019-11-23 09:53 am (UTC)She's tearing up now, of course.
"Jasper, I've spent millennia dealing with the consequences of the corrupting light. What else could I have done to make the Diamonds leave Earth alone?"
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Date: 2019-11-23 10:07 am (UTC)"Your promises and excuses are just as hollow now as they were coming from Rose."
She backs away again. How can she act like this was anything but her own fault? Sharing the Barge with Rose alone was bad enough.
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Date: 2019-11-23 07:25 pm (UTC)"I'm not making excuses. I'm asking you, Jasper - would anything else have made the Diamonds leave Earth?"
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Date: 2019-11-23 07:37 pm (UTC)She doesn't care. She doesn't care about the Earth, or the other Diamonds, or anything but her, and Pink, and her world crashing down around her.
She shakes her head. "But of course you don't care. I knew that much about Rose." She turns away now. She can't keep listening to this.
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Date: 2019-11-23 07:48 pm (UTC)"Of course I cared!" she insists, to Jasper's turned back. "I mourned every shattering, every loss. But I was fighting for the life of a whole planet."
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Date: 2019-11-23 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-23 08:02 pm (UTC)"Jasper..."
But she's walking away. Rose takes her normal form, and all she can do is watch her go.