Garnet took the 14th tape out of the box.

"It looks like this is one of the last ones, kids." Garnet said.

"Aw what? But mom and dad are old. They didn't just.. stop recording, did they?" Stephanie asked.

Garnet shrugged.

"They probably just found no more use to do it anymore." Garnet said

Garnet put the tape into the TV.

Tape #14

"Hey, guys! Me and Connie are on a picnic."

Steven turned the camera around from his face and showed Connie who was sitting in an awkward position because of the giant lump on her stomach. She waved toward the camera.

"The baby should be coming soon since the due date is around now." Steven said as he turned the camera toward his face again.

"S-Steven." Connie stuttered.

"What is it, Connie?"

"Never mind.."

"So anyways, you guys aren't gonna believe what Amethyst did the other day! So me, Connie, and her went to a restaurant and when the waiter asked Amethyst what she wanted, she said 'Wait, the menus aren't food?'" Steven said, bending over laughing at his own story. "And then-" he was cut off by Connie wheezing in pain. "Connie, are you okay?"

"Y-yeah.. I'm fine."

Steven kept on looking at her. She suddenly wheezed in pain again and fell onto her side.

"Connie!"

End of tape 14

"W-wait what was happening to mom!?" Stephanie was quick to ask.

Garnet looked toward Stephanie.

"You."

Stephanie calmed down a little.

Garnet took the 14th tape out of the TV and grabbed the 15th out of the box.

"This is the last one." Garnet said.

Garnet inserted it into the TV and looked back at Johnny and Stephanie.

"Ready?" Garnet asked.

Stephanie and Johnny both nodded.

Garnet pressed play.

Tape #15

Steven was sitting next to Connie on a hospital bed, Connie having a baby in her arms.

"Hey, guys, it's your lucky day, 2 recordings in 1 day." Steven said. "Anyways, I made a mistake asking to go on a picnic so close to her due date."

Steven nervously chuckled.

"It's okay, Steven, to be fair, I was actually enjoying the picnic. Well, I was until.. y'know." Connie said.

Steven looked at the baby in Connie's arms.

"Can I hold her?" Steven asked.

"Sure. She's both of our's after all." Connie responded.

Connie handed Steven the baby, Steven handing Connie the camera in trade.

"She's so soft." Steven said, cradling the baby in his arms.

"I know, right?" Connie said with a giggle.

"Do you think she has any powers like me?" Steven asked.

Connie thought for a second.

"Well, you discovered your first power when you were 13, So we will most likely have to wait awhile to answer that." Connie answered.

Steven let out a slight sigh.

"Do you think she will be interested in or want to be apart of gem stuff? I don't wanna force her into that kinda stuff without her permission.." Steven asked.

"Only time will tell, Steven."

Steven and Connie sat there for a moment, being completely silent and only looking at their new addition to their family.

"Connie."

"Yeah?"

"What are we gonna name her?"

Connie thought for a second.

"Remember? We agreed to naming her Stephanie 6 months ago." Connie said, grinning.

Steven smiled.

"Stephanie it is." Steven said.

The recording stopped.

End of tape 15

"Dad said he discovered that he had powers at age 13... I'm 14..." Stephanie sighed.

"Well you have the power of being adorable." Garnet said, smirking.

"I guess.." Stephanie responded.

"And you also have the power to accidentally punch someone in the face in gym class at school and make them your best friend." Johnny said, laughing.

"Yeah.. Sorry about that once again." Stephanie said, nervously smiling and rubbing the back of her neck.

"You don't need to apologize, it was a year and a half ago after all." Johnny said with a chuckle.

Suddenly Garnet pulled a disc out of the box.

"Here's something we haven't watched yet." Garnet said. "And this disc has a label on it, although, I wouldn't wanna spoil the surprise of what's on it. There is a problem, though. This TV doesn't play discs."

"I have a solution to that!" Johnny said running downstairs to where his backpack was sitting on the table.

He pulled a laptop out of the backpack and ran back upstairs.

"My laptop plays DVDs!" Johnny said with excitement.

Garnet handed Johnny the Disc and Johnny pressed a button of the side of the laptop, making a tray fold out of the side of it. Johnny placed the disc inside the tray and then pushed it back into the laptop. Johnny opened the laptop and went into the files, finding one named "Wedding." Stephanie smiled widely at the sight of the title.

"Here goes nothing." Johnny said, clicking twice on the mp4 file to open it.

Wedding Disc

Steven and Connie were on a beach, in front of a bunch of people who were sitting in chairs. Steven was wearing a tuxedo and Connie was wearing a big white dress. There was also a man between them that was reading something out loud from a book. You couldn't hear much of what the man was saying, though, since the person that was holding the camera was shaking it a lot and tapping their finger on the microphone of the camera constantly. Suddenly, Steven and Connie leaned forward and kissed, followed up by everyone cheering. The camera turned around and showed the person who was holding it.

"Human rituals are weird." Peridot said, then turning the camera back around.

Everyone had gotten up from their sitting position, most of them walking over to a table with food scattered on it.

Steven and Connie were talking to each other, both of them having drinks in their hands.

"I should probably run over and give Steven his camera back." Peridot said, then taking off running toward Steven and Connie.

Once Peridot reached the couple, she held the camera out toward Steven.

"I used your camera to record a little bit. You can have it back now." Peridot said.

Steven looked to Peridot, then to Connie, then back to Peridot.

"You can keep it." Steven said.

Peridot looked at the camera.

"I can.. keep it?" Peridot asked, going wide eyed.

"Well, yeah, I guess. We haven't used it for a year now. I don't really need it anymore." Steven said.

A wide smile spread across Peridot's face.

"There's probably so many parts inside of this camera that I can use for meep morps!" Peridot said.

Suddenly Peridot threw the camera to the ground and the recording ended with the sound of a smash.

End of Wedding Disc

"It says here that this video was put on this disc 13 years ago." Johnny said.

"Hey, that means I was alive when they had their wedding, where was I?" Stephanie asked.

"I was holding you the whole time." Garnet remarked.

Stephanie smirked.

"Mom and dad told me I was a chubby baby. Was I heavy?" Stephanie asked.

"Nothing is heavy to me." Garnet said, blankly staring at Stephanie in the eyes.

Stephanie let out a nervous chuckle.

"So, Johnny, need a refill on juice yet?" Stephanie asked.

"Oh! I completely forgot about my juice!" Johnny said, then grabbing his cup off of the nightstand and taking a sip out of it.

Johnny suddenly went wide eyed.

"Stephanie, is this normal juice?"

"Yeah, just normal grape juice."

"Well.. It's making my head and mouth feel funny." Johnny said, then taking his glasses off and rubbing his eyes.

Johnny didn't put his glasses back on, though.

"W-why can I.. see?" Johnny asked, rubbing his eyes again.

"What do you mean?" Stephanie asked.

"I can see without my glasses on!"

A wide smile crept upon Garnet's face suddenly.

"W-wait.. does that mean-"

"You have healing spit, Stephanie. Just like your father." Garnet said, cutting off Stephanie.

"But.. I don't get it. How did my spit touch Johnny?"

"Remember? you took a sip from his cup earlier."


Stephanie was about to go to bed. She was just waiting for her mom or dad to come and kiss her goodnight.

Connie walked into her room, giving Stephanie an embarrassed look.

"You saw the tapes, didn't you?" Connie asked.

Stephanie had been raised not to lie.

"Yeah.."

"You left the disc out on our bed." Connie said, nervously chuckling.

"Whoops."

"It's okay. Did Pearl tell you not to watch tape 12?"

Stephanie nodded.

"Good." Connie said.

"What is tape 12 about, anyway? I saw it was named 'Steven's mental breakdown'"

"I broke my phone while in college and couldn't get in contact with your father for a week until I got a new one. He thought I was ignoring him and he freaked out, thinking I wanted to break up or something." Connie said, chuckling. "I don't get why he would ever think I would do that."

Both Stephanie and Connie stayed silent.

"So.. did you like the videos?" Connie muttered.

"They were cute." Stephanie said.

Connie blushed.

"Well, I'll see you in the morning." Connie said, then kissing Stephanie on the forehead and walking out of the room.


6 months later


Tape #16

"Hey, guys! It's Stephanie here. I also have Johnny here with me, too."

Stephanie pointed the camera toward Johnny. He didn't have braces or glasses on.

"So yesterday was my 15th birthday. Johnny also.. asked me out yesterday.. I said yes, of course." Stephanie blushed. "So I guess that makes us boyfriend and girlfriend?" Stephanie asked.

Johnny nodded in agreement.

"I'm hoping to record a lot, well, more than my mom and dad did at least. I'll keep you updated on my life! Bye gu-"

"Wait! before you go, you should show them what you learned the other month." Johnny said, cutting off Stephanie.

"Oh yeah! Check this out, guys!"

Stephanie closed her eyes and breathed in heavily. Suddenly a pink sword appeared in front of her, a rose quartz symbol on the handle of it.

"I can make a sword appear using my mind! Isn't that epic!?" Stephanie said, grabbing the sword and swinging it in front of her. "Mom still has to teach me how to use it properly, though."

Stephanie and Johnny both giggled.

"We will see you guys later. I have sword fighting lessons in about 15 minutes." Stephanie said.

End of tape 16


The End

of this story that is

not the series

YOU GET MY DRIFT!

I like Stephanie's character too much to put her in only one story