"W-Wha... What a-am I d-doing...?"

He frowned deeply at her, looking his pink shield as he watched the broken gem before him sob so terribly. It felt like his heart broke in two as he kneeled there with guilt and sorrow for her. None of this was meant to happen, and yet here they were on top of the injector on their knees to each other. He dropped his shield as he kept his brown eyes on the hurt person, the one he grew to care for, sob all of her hate, pain, and sorrow out to him.

"I-I j-just... I just w-want be your friend..."

He flinched at the broken tone in her voice, so small and raw he felt like crying himself. What was he doing? All this time, he was so worried about his family and his wants and needs. He was worried about his happily ever after that he even ignored the gem right in front of him. Was he completely stupid!? HE wanted to puke at the very thought that he felt for a split second like her. The same being that hurt the gem before him. All she wanted, what she needed, was a friend to hold her and not forget her. All he did was cause pain and be a jerk to her this whole time. She wanted to be his friend, his best friend like she was to his mother, and he just let go of her hand and ignored her. Used her just for his very own needs, and it sickened him to his core.

He slowly raised his hand to her, holding it back slightly as she sobbed a bit more. What could he say to her? All of this was uncomfortable but also hard to overcome. She was trying to kill him, destroy his family and home. Any normal person would just leave her or end her life soley for protecting their own. It was the logical thing to do and maybe even the smart thing to do, but deep down it wasn't the right thing to do. All of the fighting, all of the hate and pain she had given him wasn't her fault. He couldn't abandon her, not when she needed him as a friend. Not when there is a way to save her like he did the others.

He placed a hand on her trembling shoulder, watching as she flinched but surely look up at him with a frightened but curious look. Their eyes locked dark pink to brown, and he spoke softly to her. "Spinel..." He slowly brought her closer, giving her an understanding look. "I... I want to be your-"

The ground rumbled and cut him off, flinging both Spinel and him apart as they fall to the pink crystal floor. It shook worse, bring the two further away as the pink glass started to glow. He gasped in shock and fear. The injector was going to explode. Where was she? Where was she!?

"Spinel!?"

He got up as best as he could, seeing her still kneeling and looking at him in confusion and fear. He ran to her, the light getting blinding bright. No, there wasn't enough time to get to her! He had to get to Spinel! He had to save her! The light was white now, the rumbling stopped, he made it to grab her arm. She looks at him in shock and realization, completely covered in fear.

"Steven!"

He clung to her. The injector exploded. The world went black.

Steven screamed, shooting up from his bed as the nightmare ended. No, it wasn't a nightmare. He felt it, he saw it all happened. The hybrid turned around in his room-

Wait... his room?

Steven felt his fear and shock fade off as it slowly grew into one of complete confusion. Something was very wrong at what he was seeing, but he knew that wiping his eyes would be pointless since it all looked and felt really real. Here he was, sitting on his old bed in his much older room. It wasn't even the room he had Bismuth rebuild. He was looking at his old bedroom in the living room on the second store of the room. His saw his old TV sitting just on the floor in front of his bed with his dresser a bit further behind it. The old gamecube he never really plays now was sitting on the ground attached to his TV, just like it would lay after he had played with it for hours on ends. The grey and worn out blue rug was on the floor along with a few of his toys and even MC Bear. The hybrid turned to the nightstand next to him, seeing his old cookie cat clock and box. The sleeves behind him had his old books and even more toys he use to play with. This room was exactly like how it was before it was destroyed by the Diamonds. This was his room before he turned sixteen.

Wait!? Steven looked down at himself, not even holding back his loud blood chilling scream as he saw his body not back to that of his twelve year old self. Fear, confusion, and shock completely filled his whole being that he didn't even notice the gems rushing out of the temple door with weapons in ready. He didn't even hear them scream his name back, didn't know they were there until Amethyst rushed up and touched his shoulder.

"Whoa Steven where's the fir-" Steven shrieked, pushing Amethyst right off the second store and away from him before she could even finish. She feel to the couch with an oof as Pearl and Garnet came over to her in worry. She shook her head and looked up at the hybrid in slight anger and confusion. "Hey! What the heck man?"

"Amethyst! No cussing," Pearl looked up at the boy with worry, seeing him look down on them with nothing but complete and utter horror in his brown eyes. "Steven, what's wrong?"

"Steven are you hurt?" Garnet was starting to come over to the hybrid, but Steven yelped and stood back as reach the stairs

"I-I'm fine!" He wasn't fine. Steven was so far away from fine it reached from Homeworld and back. "I huh... I have to use the restroom!" With that Steven pushed past Garnet and ran straight for the bathroom, leaving three confusing gems behind.

As he slammed the door shut, his heart beating a mile a minute, Steven rushed to look at himself in the mirror in the bathroom. The hybrid only felt his lungs drop in oxygen as he took a long hard look at himself in the mirror. His face wasn't the same anymore, it was younger and sadly chubbier. He was way shorter than he was before, not looking back to be a child. He was in his old blue star PJ's and didn't even have a lick of chin hair that he use to get every morning at this point. What was happening to him? He summoned his shield, only for it to flicker out again like it did before. None of his powers were working anymore, but this time it didn't feel like they were forced down and suppressed. He honestly did feel a lot weaker and slower than before. He wasn't just powerless like he was when he was a kid, he was a kid. He someone got turned back to being a kid again.

It wasn't just him either. The gems were different to, it's why he screamed and looked at them in fear. They weren't in their new cooler outfits anymore. Amethyst was back to wearing that dark purple tank top with the shoulder strap on the right side pulled down, revealing the black under tank top underneath. The same ripped black leggings and white boots like back before. Pearl was back to looking like a ballerina again. With that clear skirt and blue top with the tiny yellow star. What happened to them being the jacket twins? Now she just looked like a pretty doll meant fora Diamond. Garnet looked shift and cold again with that same black and red bodysuit as before. Her shades back to being light tinted pink instead of the golden yellow star it was before. They were back to what they looked like four years ago.

He was back. Back to where everything started.

"No... no." Steven shook madly, stepping back from the mirror as he stared at his shocked and shattered face. His mind was spinning, his thoughts all jumbled together and only getting more tangled. He even sounded younger now. "W-what's going on? Was i-it all a dream? No... No it was really. I-I know it was..."

He did know what happened wasn't a dream. There was no way it was all a dream. Meeting Connie on the beach, saving Lapis from the mirror, saving the cluster and earth with Peridot, meeting Bismuth in Lion's mane, seeing Jasper get corrupted, helping the Diamonds make peace to the universe. It couldn't have all been a dream. He remembered everything that happened clearly just as any other memory. Even when he was fighting with Spinel, helping her, trying to save her. He remembered all of those more clearly. He remembered everything like it just happened. He remembered... remembered...

Steven remembered dying with Spinel in his arms as the injector exploded.

The hybrid felt his face run cold and pale as he looked down at his hands, then lifted the shirt to his see his gem. His breath slowly shaky, but evening out. "I... I died," He whispered slowly, trying to let that wrap around his head. "I died with Spinel. I... I should be dead, but I'm not."

The very thought of that some how eased his mind to relax a bit more as it now turned with questions. Steven frowned as he placed a hand on his heart, feeling it slowly go back down to the normal thubbing. He kept looking at his reflection with a deep look on his face, confusion obviously showing but also a sense of maturity not meant for his twelve year old face. All his thoughts back on what could have happened to him. As well as Spinel and the others.

"I died with Spinel on the injector, but I came back four years. What does this mean," He frowned and tipped his head. "Is this... my second chance?" He jumped, hearing a surprised knock on the door of his bathroom door.

"Hey Steven! Are you okay in there?"

Hearing Amethyst's voice, Steven sighed and rubbed his face. "Yeah. Yeah i'm okay Amethyst," Nope, he still isn't okay. "I'll be right out soon. Can you tell me what day is it."

"It's May 21 Steven." He then heard Amethyst chuckled. "Man are all kids in 2013 act like this?"

With that, he heard the purple gem leave from the door. Steven just looked at it with shocked eyes at the date itself. He really was four years in the past. He remembered the date too, where Cookie cat was discontinued and the gems were attacked by the Centi monsters. The hybrid looked down at his hands, letting his mind go back a bit on what to do. If he really was in the past, replaying his story again, was this his second chance? Was this his chance to change everything and make it for the better? It was almost like a weird dream come true, but what about everything that had happened? What about the Diamonds, Peridot, Lapis, and even Jasper? He doesn't have his powers, he doesn't have Lion or even his mother's sword. He was really back to being just a kid again.

Then what about Spinel? She was there when he died, she was in his arms as they both clung to each other. He knew, they knew they were going to die there together. Does this mean that she could remember or was it just him? Was this even real? Maybe she was just a dream? No she wasn't a dream, it was all too real, but then that means she must be back at the garden. She was back in her prison, waiting for his mother to come to her. Steven gasped, realizing that she was waiting thee for something to happen. Happily waiting for someone who was already gone.

"Damn it," Steven banged his head on the wall, growling. "I was trying to fix everything. I was trying to get her to change and now I have to do it all over again!"

He had to play this dumb game again, replay his life again from start one. As he kept looking at himself in the mirror, he felt his head slightly throb in pain. Something was missing in all of this, that he knew, but the throbbing hurt so much he couldn't think on what it could be.

"I'll remember that promise..."

That whisper, that voice. Steven frowned at it, feeling as though he was forgetting something really important now. What was going on? He didn't know, but he knew one thing for sure. He had a Big Donut to go to.

I hope you guys like the beginning of this story!If it wasn't obvious then I'll just say it. Steven had went back in time, ended up dying with Spinel on the injector. His memories of his life are still intact but he knows something is missing. What could it be? What about Spinel?

Well I hope you guys want me to make more of this story. I plan to write a lot today and get some chapters posted hopefully.

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