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Title: I don't need the world to see, I've been the best I can be

Summary: Greg and Barb become an item, forcing Sadie and Steven to find middle ground between their hectic lives.

(ALT) Chapter Title: Johnny don't leave me, you said you'd love me forever

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Starboy: so I've been pretty absent lately

LookingForward: We noticed
LookingForward: Also I have a random missed call from you?
LookingForward: But when I texted u abt it u never answered
LookingForward: You sounded rlly bad in the voicemail

Starboy: I'd really not talk about it
Starboy: I'm doing better now
Starboy: Comparably

Connie: oh u sent her a message but no me?

Starboy: Connie you know that's different
Starboy: I was panicking and I knew dad was at her house
Starboy: It wasn't that big of a deal

Connie: YOU WERE MISSING
Connie: FOR THREE FUCKING DAYS

Cap'n: I leave Earth for epic space adventures and Steven goes AWOL!?

Starboy: I went CAMPING thank you very much
Starboy: It was an intense journey of self-discovery.
Starboy: During which I realized I'm kind of meh
Starboy: Like I've walked the same walk for so long and all its gotten me is a dad bod and self-esteem issues

Connie: it's a cute dad bod

Starboy: Appreciated but not the point
Starboy: I wanna do better by myself
Starboy: I wanna feel better about doing better by myself
Starboy: Which is my long-winded way of asking if smashing your head into a control panel at light speed will crack it

TheBitsTheBits: I'm sorry whomst

Starboy: It's a very serious question with a straightforward answer

Yalldve: its both of those but its also batshit insane steven

Starboy: Ok look
Starboy: It's recently come to my attention that I should probably be dead
Starboy: So I'm trying to parcel out what kind of wounds did what to my bones

glowstix: what happened to ur bones bro

Starboy: That's literally what I'm trying to find out sour cream

Cap'n: I'm not boneologist or anything
Cap'n: Nor am I schooled in the ways of physics
Cap'n: But I feel like it's safe to assume that would make a head pop like a balloon, yes

Starboy: Ok sick
Starboy: What about a drop

Yalldve: how big we talkin
Yalldve: like off a table or off a plane

Starboy: I don't have exact measurements but plane is a good bet

Yalldve: u dead son

Starboy: Ok but what would that break

Cap'n: I mean what did you fall on

Starboy: Connie?

Connie: Yes.
Connie: You fell on your Yes.

Cap'n: I'm no doctor but I'm going to assume all the things

Yalldve: smh not a doctor not a physics person not a boneologist
Yalldve: get yo ass back to school lars

Cap'n: I have a very specific set of skills okay

Starboy: Holy shit
Starboy: I never noticed before today but humans are absolute weaksauce
Starboy: You couldn't pay someone to main a human

Cap'n: you could pay many people to maim a human

Starboy: main lars
Starboy: I was making a overwatch joke

Cap'n: jfc that's even worse

Connie: Steven how could you shame me like this
Connie: In front of all our peers

Starboy: IT'S A FUN GAME

Connie: IT'S AN OUTDATED MEME
Connie: THE GEMS PROBABLY SAW THIS MEME IN THE 1800S

Starboy: DON'T BE SO BROKEN UP ABOUT IT

Connie: STEVEN I WILL SMASH YOUR SKULL MYSELF

Starboy: GO AHEAD UR NOT EVEN THE FIRST CUTE GIRL TO DO IT

Author's Note: So I'm losing my mind over the finale that is officially happening, so here's this. (And, yes, the call was the night of Fragments, and no, I am not brushing off the horrible things that happened that night- it's just not smth Steven or Sadie would bring up in a public discord- Sadie only brought it up here bc Steven went MIA right after)

I promise there's a reason I haven't updated! I wanna see how the show ends so I can properly incorporate it into the story. The basic plot hasn't changed but a lot of the little details might just.

See you on the other side, ya'll!

-Mandaree1