This is my first Steven Universe story, and it takes a different approach from what most SU fanfics have. Hope you enjoy, and check out my other story, A boy named Matthew. Enjoy!

The woman stood outside her future workplace on a cool autumn morning. She stared at the huge brick building that she was being interviewed at for her dream job, Shooting Star Psychiatric Hospital. The woman took a deep breath, checked her watch, and walked through the French doors to the hospital.

She went to the front desk and spoke to the lady working there.

"Hello, I have an interview with Dr. Clark at 8am today." The woman began. "I wanted to be a few minutes early so I didn't get lost here."

"I see." Said the lady behind the desk. "Dr. Clark is down the right hall, third door on the right side."

"Thank you." The woman said, and she went on her way. She followed the desk lady's directions and knocked on the door. The window had words etched into it.

Dr. David Clark

Psychiatrist specializing in War veterans and Children.

The woman checked her watch once more. It read 7:59.

I'll just knock now and see if my interview's still on, She thought.

She knocked on the door 3 times and waited for a response.

"Come in." Replied a young man's voice.

She opened the door and closed it on her way in.

A man in a white lab coat with glasses sat on a swivel chair at a larger oak desk, leaning over some paperwork. Several bookshelves sat around the room in either a corner or against a wall. A large window sat on the far right of the medium sized office, letting in a lot of natural light from the sun and giving the woman a nice view of the parking lot and the rest of the hospital grounds, including its various other buildings on the property.

"Hello Dr. Clark." The woman said, feeling a bit nervous around him. "I have a job interview with you now?"

"Oh, of course!" Clark said enthusiastically. "Come in, come in! Pull up a chair and have a seat. I've been expecting you."

The woman pulled up a wooden chair that sat nearby and sat down in front of Clark's desk.

"So let's kick this off." Clark began. "Do you have you're resume?"

"I do." Answered the woman. She reached into her satchel and pulled out an olive colored folder with her information and handed it to Clark.

He thumbed through the contents inside for several minutes, and then set it down on his desk.

"So, you contacted me via Facebook with a custom username. Care to tell me what it was?"

"Yes. My username was StarFighter4Life." The woman stated.

"I'll call you Star for now. I have countless interviews a week, and I don't like learning real names until I hire someone." Clark explained.

"Understood."

"You have a very interesting resume, Star." He went on. "Never done anything illegal, always straight A's, and you're a vet."

"Yes, that's me." Star confirmed.

"Well, whether you get the job or not, I just want to say something. Thank you for your service. I know that the Second Gem War was a hard fight, and that many good people, including innocent people, were lost. When I had heard of the War when it began, I was a boy barely in his teens. My home was destroyed and I was almost killed, but I survived. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for my parents..."

Star felt for Clark. She'd fought in the war, true, but she had been only 13 at the time it had started and 17 when it had ended. She hasn't lost anyone she cared about in the war, but instead made new friends that she was still in contact with even after all these years. She was 27 now, a full grown adult, but she still struggled with the nightmares from the war. Seeing people get ripped to shreds by the Homeworld Gems' sharp blades and deadly laser guns, seeing gems, good and bad, suddenly being shattered even before they had poofed and retreated back to their gems. It was brutal, and it was worse for Star than most others because she was a child. She has to deal with those nightmare and flashbacks for the rest of her life, forever making her estranged with people around her.

Which is why Star was nervous now. Dr. Clark looked like a man she tried to save, but was too late. The man had had his skull smashed in by a hostile Jasper gem. Right in front of her.

"I am deeply sorry for your losses, Dr. Clark." Star apologized, turning her focus back to the interview and trying to get the image of the man she couldn't save out of her head. "The War was hard for everyone. But it was the only war worth fighting. Us humans have been waging war on each other for millennia, and for no reason other than to destroy ourselves. Humans fought in the First Gem War, but still didn't learn to become United. Then after that we still had wars, but nobody did anything until the Great War. That's when we decided to put down our guns and have peace in the world, but even still, we have to kill each other. 9/11, Benghazi, Sandy Hook, we still didn't learn. It took another world war, leaving millions dead and Earth left in shambles by an extraterrestrial enemy to finally see our errors. But knowing Man, we'll never learn and we'll just go back to fighting our brothers and sisters in the next few decades. No wonder Homeworld wanted us dead. We're parasites that are killing our planet. I just hope nothing like the Gem Wars ever happen again. If it weren't for Mankind unifying for the war and the rebel gems that lived on Earth, we may never had a chance. We still didn't have much of a chance. But we're stubborn. We won't die...but at the same time, that's our problem."

"Wow." Clark said when Star finished. "That was very...deep. I can tell you've been changed by this experience at a young age. You became an adult in your teenage years. I like someone like that. And you think a lot too. That's always good. Thank you for talking to me about this. You've reapply opened my eyes."

"Thank you, Dr. Clark. That means a lot coming from you."

"And I love your necklace." He added, pointing to her neck.

Star took her necklace in her palm and looked at it. It was a gift from a good friend of hers from way back when. It was a silver medalion with several different covered gemstones embedded in it in the shape of a circle. There was a Ruby, Sapphire, Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, Jasper, Lapis Lazuli, Peridot, and in the middle of the circle, was a large round piece of Rose Quartz. It represented The 9 Gems who led the Rebel Gems and Human Armies to victory against The Homeworld Armies and their leader, Yellow Diamond. In fact, the first battle for Earth took place in the city that Star lived in, Beach City, Delmarva. Star was the first human to fight alongside the Rebel Gem warriors against Yellow Diamond's forces. That was the first attack. No one knew the Homeworld Gems would stage such a worldwide invasion, so there wasn't a single country prepared for the War. Luckily one person, someone Star knew very well, informed the world of the threat, and led Earth's armies to victory.

If only anyone knew where he went after the war...

"This necklace was from a friend of mine who also fought in the war. He was a great leader, and an even better friend."

"Would you ever introduce me to this friend of yours?" Asked Clark.

"No." Star said sadly. "We haven't spoken since the war's end. I don't know where he is."

"That's a shame." Said Clark. "Well, you're in luck. This hospital actually houses many Gem War vets, and believe it or not, some of the patients are Gems who fought on Earth's side. You'll be meeting some of the people and gems you were allied with."

"Really!?" Star said in pure disbelief.

"Yes, ma'am. Since you're a vet yourself, and since I like you, I'll have you work solely with them. That way both you and the patients have something to relate to, and you'll have an easy time diagnosing them."

"So you're giving me the job!?" Star asked excitedly.

"I am. Welcome aboard, Doctor. But first I need to know you're real name since we'll be working together." Clark explained.

"Oh of course."

Star got up and held her hand out to her new boss, knowing an exciting and intriguing career awaited her.

"Call me Connie. Connie Maheswaren."

Hope you guys liked my first chapter. I don't have a schedule or anything, but I usually update my stories pretty quickly. I'm also working on A boy named Matthew, so it may take some time for me to add new chapters to this story. And I promise that future chapters will be a lot longer than this first one, so don't go anywhere. Ok Lazuli out!