Notes:

Just barely made it... but in my timezone, it is still currently my birthday, so...! Yeah, I mentioned I'd try to squeeze out an Odds, Ends & Friends update by my birthday, but early this week I decided that instead of trying to figure out how to write Lapis and Amethyst interaction, I should write something for, well... me! And I decided to finally give some legitimate Stevidot smut. Like, fucked-up things still happen, but this time I'm actually giving what I'm advertising.

And because of my quirks, this ended up needing to be a two-shot. It takes place a couple of years after the main continuity (it's basically a sequel to Our Tomorrow, much like how Our Tomorrow was a sequel to It's a Birthday, Yes It Is), which I guess technically still means it's underage which is why I put it up in the warnings.

But honestly, even though I'm not that proud of this (well, first half's got good character growth stuff at least), it was basically nothing more than self-indulgence, anyway. Basically a gift by me for me, and I guess a gift to anyone who loves Stevidot by proxy. I'll get back to work on OE&F after I finish up the second part of this. Even I'm not certain where the hell I'm going with it. But enjoy it, if you want!

Another year had come and gone for a certain ascended gem since she emerged from the depths of Homeworld's Prime Kindergarten, formed from what little remained of the planet's gem-bearing resources after countless millennia of depletion.

For the third time in her life, Peridot had the privilege to experience a celebration of the anniversary of the day she came into existence: a day she could call her own, while every family member, friend, and acquaintance freely offered the gem everything she could ever ask for: praise, favors, gifts, freedom from her rigorous daily routine, praise…

One aspect of Peridot that remained a constant in her life, whether she was an overly-ambitious sociopath or a repentant hero of her kind, was her endless hunger for praise and recognition.

Considering how Peridot had changed as an individual in so many ways (and drastically so), it was impressive she could retain a few traits that would remain stubbornly consistent no matter what ended up changing her life forever.

Then again, perhaps that was perfectly fitting for a notoriously stubborn gem such as herself.

"I've forgotten how majestic the view is from here; honestly, it's quite unfair that we're unable to view the Moon like this from Earth. This is just… breathtaking."

"It'd be really cool, but I don't think that'd work out too well without Earth getting seriously messed up. Besides, our moon's nice to look at, but it's got nothing on Earth. It wouldn't really be the same."

Peridot smiled as she felt Steven's hands rest on her shoulders as her beloved hybrid joined her in observing Earth from their secret lunar hideaway.

Surprisingly, their special private place remained that way despite having been established years ago. Then again, Steven and Peridot had not retreated to their sacred sanctuary for quite some time. After a certain spectacular failure a couple of years prior, this haven became a constant reminder of an incident that still embarrassed the pair to this very day.

However, their reason for being here now was to finally overcome that blunder that haunted them ever since. Steven and Peridot were determined to make their sanctuary from the rest of the world and the stresses of real life a place that would finally live up to its name and serve its intended purpose.

"True enough; Earth's more versatile color palette easily makes it a superior object of observation over its lunar satellite. I've just forgotten how easily one can become engrossed with such a view…"

Steven couldn't help but chuckle at Peridot's statement. His eyes remained on the fantastic view of his home planet, but the knowing smile was brought about by the contradiction of his lover's words.

"Yeah, funny how you can say that when your eyes aren't on the Earth right now," he smugly teased as he gave her shoulders a light squeeze.

Peridot let out a light gasp and blushed in reaction to being caught, but Steven's affectionate gestures quickly calmed her down.

"The reflection's kinda faint, but I can tell you're looking at your hand again, Dot."

"F-for stars' sake…!" Peridot sputtered. "Did you have to call attention to that again?!"

Steven was compelled to hug the smaller gem in hopes of mellowing out that short temper of hers. "C'mon, it's just the two of us now; there's no shame in letting your guard down. Besides, no one can blame you. I said I was gonna find a way to make my present stand out above everyone else's this year, didn't I?"

Peridot's gaze never left her hand – specifically, her ring finger, which was now adorned with a band of rose gold.

"Th-third consecutive year in a row," she numbly acknowledged. "Each year, you'd claim you'd give me by far the most superior gift… and each year, I doubted you. And yet, by the end of the day… you'd prove me wrong. I was so certain after last year that we both hit a glass ceiling…"

Steven humbly shrugged. "I honestly don't think this quite tops last year, but that's part of why I was so determined to give you something that stands out. A gift that keeps giving, just like last year."

Peridot finally offered her love a side glance as she smirked. "I hope you aren't implying you felt obligated to raise the stakes so drastically simply because of how perfect last year's gift was."

"–Oh, no, never!" Steven hastily assured. "C'mon, Peridot. We both knew this moment was coming. It's been a few years and nothing's torn us apart. Our love's been tested more times than I can count, and every time we pulled through and became stronger for it. I'd say we've earned the right to take our relationship to the next level, and not just in the way we're about to…"

"I'm just… puzzled about how I'm reacting to this," Peridot murmured as she held up her hand to gaze at her new ring again. "It's just a simplistic band of ore; why does this fascinate me so much?"

"Because it's more than that, and you know it," Steven declared with pure confidence, kissing the technician on the cheek. "It's a symbol of what we accomplished – a sign that really great things are coming in the future. That ring means I'm more than just your boyfriend now: I'm your fiancée."

The f-word made Peridot's blush deepen considerably. If she had a heart, it would be fluttering like mad. Instead, an overwhelming warmth filled her core – it excited her.

"A-as am I, for you," she quietly added, desperate to contain her instinctive emotional outburst this time. "So, this is official. One day, we're really getting married… just like Ruby and Sapphire."

Steven nodded as the couple leaned their heads together. "It's not gonna be right away, of course… it could be years down the line, if our dream's anything to go by."

The engaged couple instinctively looked to a wall where a certain picture was hung. It greatly resembled a photograph, but the contents indicated this was simply a representation of Peridot and Steven's shared dream of an ideal distant future. One where the two were happily married with no less than six children of their own, Pumpkin was still alive and had children as well, and all of the Crystal Gems were present and proud to be included in the faux family photo.

"All that matters is that it will happen one day," Peridot proudly remarked. "Besides, I already told you years ago that I fully expect a grandiose wedding befitting of my glorious self. I want it bigger than Garnet's, and since the Diamonds are no more, it will be an objectively superior occasion since it won't be crashed by some totalitarian clods!"

"Believe me, I've already started up a savings account just for that day," Steven mentioned with a tired sigh of resignation. "Knowing you, I'm gonna need a bottomless checkbook to afford this. So realistically, it's gonna have to be at least a few years away."

"I can wait," Peridot confidently assured as she clung to Steven's arm. "No need to rush perfection, and we've got plenty going on in our lives despite all the progress we've made since launching Era 3 on Earth. Buuuut, luckily for us, all of that icky work does not apply to us today…"

Steven smirked at the last statement. "If our birthdays weren't so close together, I'd suggest making them national holidays for our Neo Homeworld residents. Nothing seems to ever really get done on those days, anyway…"

"Eh? But is there not a time in December where there are two national holidays exactly one week apart?" Peridot pointed out. "Why not just make our birthdays the gem equivalent of Christmas and New Year's Day?"

"You're just saying that because that's an excuse for you to get more presents," Steven slyly pointed out, prompting his newly-christened fiancée to blush. "And you know there's no need to be so greedy, Dot… you haven't even unwrapped all the presents you got already."

The gem's blush deepened again. Wide-eyed, she glanced at the love of her life before coming in close and gripping him tightly by the shirt with both hands.

"I-I just can't believe we're finally doing this," Peridot squeaked out in anticipation. "We're finally making up for our pitiful attempt years ago. A-and we've had so much practice since then, it's actually a little embarrassing in hindsight…"

"Dad said there's no shame in it," Steven calmly stated as he combed his fingers through the gem's light hair.

"Oh my stars, Steven!" This statement did not calm Peridot down in the least. "Just how much have you been telling your paternal unit?!"

Steven just realized how his words could be construed in a much less flattering way and was quick to save face.

"J-just the stuff I've been doing; I promise!" he assured. "And I'm not even that specific with him; Dad's TMI tolerance is a lot lower than you'd think."

Peridot let out an annoyed huff of relief. "Good. I'd rather he not be made aware of what I've been doing to myself. It's taken much more training than I'd care to admit getting a certain part of me to reliably function. I suppose we'll see soon enough if it's truly paid off."

"I just noticed something kinda funny," Steven remarked as he started to take off his shoes. "Last time we did this, we were like, super freaking impatient getting to this part."

"We have been acting rather casual," Peridot agreed, though her eyes soon went back to her hand. "Of course, I have a bit of a distraction this time…"

"I just wanna think this is a good sign," the hybrid said in a hopeful tone. "That we're actually ready to do this now. We've learned so much more about each other and about life since last time. This Era 3 stuff has been rough on all of us, but in the end, I think it's made us all better people."

Much as Peridot tried, she could not stop herself from staring at her engagement ring. "It's certainly made us more disciplined individuals. That should work to our advantage as far as our performance and endurance is concerned…"

"Well, there's only one way to find out," Steven warmly suggested as he closed the distance between himself and Peridot after removing his shoes. "Let's stop overthinking this and let our body language get our message across…"

Peridot found her lips locked with Steven's before she could even speak a single syllable in response. And all too quickly, the ascended gem lost her train of thought in favor of indulging in some much-needed passionate indulgence.

One part of expressing love that this couple had practically mastered at this point in their lives was kissing. It was really the most the couple could get away with doing in public, and even then they had a tendency to be a little too gratuitous with their PDA.

Of course, since this part of expressing their love was one they had done so often, it wasn't long before Steven felt the urge to take the next step forward. While Peridot was overwhelmed and distracted trying to overpower Steven's invasive tongue with her own, Steven's hands shifted to their favorite resting spots on his bride-to-be's body – the left greedily dug in to squeeze a sizable portion of her plus-sized buttocks while while the right cupped itself over her left breast.

While the sensation of her ass being grabbed always yielded a muffled squeak from Peridot, what never failed to draw out her extended moans bellowing straight down Steven's throat was any time that particular breast was stress-tested in the human hybrid's vice grip.

Long ago, Steven had determined Peridot's left breast was a point of vulnerability that was begging to be exploited any time the two had an opportunity to be a little more physical with their PDA.

He actually stumbled upon this discovery by groping her on accident while he attempted to console the gem suffering from her first time losing a loved one. It wasn't long before then that they had just officially started dating, on top of that.

A few days later, while it was never explicitly said out loud, Steven was certain he witnessed via a memory what happened to Peridot that made her left breast much more sensitive than her right: a brutal sexual assault courtesy of Jasper that occurred the day the quartz was assigned to be Peridot's escort.

Before Lapis was brought on board the ship as the duo's informant against her will (with her appearance inadvertently being the reason why Jasper only traumatized Peridot with some very inappropriate groping and petting opposed to full-on rape), Jasper had worn down the helpless low-caste gem's defenses and nearly brought her to her first orgasm.

While both breasts had been brutalized by the warrior's strong and massive hands, the right was given some reprieve when Jasper moved one hand to fondle her puny partner's nether regions instead. However, from the moment Jasper closed the distance between herself and the prone Peridot pinned to the wall to the moment Lapis' presence aborted what was meant to be the technician's initiation to her secondary purpose as a Pearl equivalent for pent-up higher-caste gems, one action remained constant: the continued assault on Peridot's left breast.

Steven could never bring himself to ask about that just to be sure… then again, he really didn't need to: with his powers evolving to the point where he could read the unspoken feelings of others, the young man soon gathered Peridot's uncontrollable whimpering that came about every time he messed with her left breast was indeed a remnant byproduct from the most traumatic day of her life.

Or, at least, the most traumatic day of her life during the time when Peridot's go-to method of dealing with her problems was to do everything in her power to forget she ever had them in the first place.

For quite some time, Steven wondered to himself why Peridot would not only allow him to touch her there at all, but actually encourage her beloved to take advantage of her weak spot with no limitations on how harshly Steven could manhandle it. While Steven doubted he was even capable of matching Jasper's crushing grip (let alone surpassing it), Peridot always seemed to welcome her left breast being ruthlessly exploited.

And when the hybrid thought back on what went down the last time they tried to consummate their love for one another in this very place, he recalled that even the act of suckling her left breast long enough triggered a climax for Peridot.

Steven had a theory for why and how Peridot could so easily let a critical weak point of her body be brutally taken advantage of despite the traumatic event that left her with such a lasting scar, but he could never bring himself to confront his girlfriend over it.

He felt bad enough ever making Peridot remember just how mind-scarringly awful her experience in first meeting Jasper was. While Peridot was quick to forgive the boy and both ultimately agreed it was for the best to recall and review that event rather than keep it buried and forgotten, Steven never could fully forgive himself for putting his cherished gem through so much torture of every conceivable variety.

While Steven was lost in thought over this, he completely forgot he was nearly out of air since he started passionately making out with his fiancée. Luckily for him, Peridot had practically memorized how long they could engage in this activity before it was required for them to break apart. The technician was quick to notice Steven seemed unusually surprised when their lips and tongues parted ways on schedule… though her organic companion seemed to soon catch on to why she suddenly moved her face away to give him breathing space as he started heaving in his precious oxygen and coughed a few times on reflex.

"It's obvious something's on your mind," she pointed out in a cheeky tone while Steven recovered. "You usually only forget your need to breathe if you're mentally preoccupied with something. Fortunately for you, I've long since determined the approximate length of time we can safely engage in our kissing routine before you reach the early stages of asphyxiation."

"H-heh… I'm lucky to have someone like you… caring and organized…" Steven breathlessly laughed out as he tried to concentrate on relieving the burning sensation in his lungs that he'd become rather accustomed to since hooking up with Peridot. She could effortlessly suck the air right out of him if he wasn't careful.

Still, even in his lightheaded daze, Steven was still a bit fixated on his curiosity regarding why the gem he chose to one day marry was so lenient with a spot on her body that most would eternally associate with a traumatic event that they'd rather die than relive in any way, shape, or form. His eyes were glued to the hand still squishing Peridot's left breast, though not quite as tightly as he had before their momentum was disrupted by his human needs.

After sparing a moment to follow her love's gaze, Peridot warmly smiled.

Steven's trance broke when both of Peridot's hands secured the one about to move away from that sensitive spot. The gleam of her engagement ring seemed to snap him out of it, though now he was understandably apprehensive when he caught Peridot's knowing glance in his direction.

"For now, I'd prefer you to keep your hand where it is," she lovingly encouraged. "It's… a bit tricky to explain something like this, Steven. But if I am to one day be your spouse, that's all the more justification to clear up any lingering doubts or misunderstandings we may still have."

Despite his lover's support, Steven continued to look glum and guilty as he tried to work out how to ask a question over a sensitive topic like this. Especially right now.

"I never directly explained to you why my pleasure spots are rather… asymmetrical on my bosom," Peridot shyly admitted. "But going by your expression, I feel that's unnecessary. You already know why that's the case… I showed the cause of it to you years ago."

"A-as long as it made you happy, I just went along with it," Steven uneasily murmured. "But no matter how many times I read how you feel every time I touch you there…"

He squeezed the gem's left beast, coaxing a euphoric moan from his diminutive partner.

"… I could never make sense of your reaction," the hybrid continued. "How the heck am I not making you relive–… I mean, why aren't you…?"

Steven had no idea how he wanted to phrase his question. He was desperate to find a way to word it in a way that wouldn't make it an obvious reference to the traumatic event, but it was much more difficult for the young man to concentrate when certain urges within his body started to burn for attention.

As if to punctuate her own point, Peridot pulled her partner closer and used his larger mass to sandwich her body between his and the wall behind her. Now their positioning perfectly resembled how Jasper had trapped her years ago.

And yet, Peridot continued to remain relaxed as her smile never faded.

"My most cherished, overly-saccharine Steven," she cooed out, purely enamored. "You do recall that in order to make new, positive memories for my renewed life on Earth, I made a habit of discarding as many memories from my previous life as I could. I was not strong enough to live with myself and my past sins back then… but more than anything, I dearly wished to embrace my renewed lease on life… an opportunity I never would have earned without my newly-acquired center of gravity."

While Steven was understandably concerned with how he and his partner were now positioned, the technician's words were comforting to hear. He leaned in to nuzzle her cheek while his hand lower down gently massaged her rump.

"Y'know… every time I think about those days, I can't help but be amazed with the kind of gem you are, Dot."

Peridot's face scrunched up as she blushed; flattered to hear this unexpected brand of praise. "I-I presume you mean that in a positive way…"

"You bet." Steven pecked her on the lips before continuing. "While it was important for you to eventually regain those nasty memories so you could face your demons head-on and become a better gem for it, I don't think most in your position would be able to banish so many parts of your old life from your mind."

He moved up to directly kiss Peridot's diamond-adorned gemstone that bared her namesake, prompting his fiancée to let out a high-pitched (but relatively quiet) squeal of delight.

"And you pulled it off for a long time… you can claim you weren't strong enough to live with who you used to be while you were becoming the amazing gem you were always meant to be, but I really think you don't give yourself enough credit," Steven proudly told her. "You wanted to better yourself so badly, Peridot… not just for me, but for yourself and everyone around you. And you were so determined to be the awesome gem Homeworld would've never let you become, you did everything you could to make it happen."

"Y-you… you don't think I just cut corners to achieve that state of being back then?" Peridot meekly inquired.

Steven shook his head without hesitation. "It would've taken you a lot longer to change if you were constantly weighed down by your past, Peri. But you seemed to know that already, and you were too driven to let your old life hold you back… not just on making a new Peridot, but making new memories."

"Memories worth retaining," Peridot tearfully agreed. "Once you helped me form my first few truly positive experiences, I wanted more. I loved to think back on them, but there never seemed to be enough… I wanted my life to be filled with fond memories I could forever cherish. The more I accrued, the further I progressed in becoming the gem I was meant to be."

Steven smiled as he found himself lost in his lover's yellow-shaded gaze. "So, when you reached a point where you finally had to face your past, you had the strength to overcome it. You had us to help pull you through it, but don't forget, Peridot… you had your own support in knowing you really could be a better gem no matter who you used to be on Homeworld. You proved you could, because you were already your great and lovable self. So, no. You weren't cutting corners at all, Dot…"

His tongue flicked her gemstone, making Peridot shiver with pleasure.

"… You were just that determined to better yourself. And you did it in your own way. That's what makes you so amazing: for months, you tried to kill me… but now, you couldn't live without me. And there's no one else I want to spend the rest of my life with more than you."

Peridot let out a few weak laughs through her tears. "Ease up, you silly clod! At this rate, your wedding vows will just be nothing more than a list of things I've long since memorized!"

She managed to calm herself a tad as she raised her hand to cup underneath Steven's chin. "Besides, I'm supposed to be the one reassuring you right now…"

Thankfully, Steven seemed to finally realize on his own the answer he sought from Peridot in the first place thanks to getting derailed like this.

"Well… I think I get it now," he hopefully admitted. "You're choosing to associate this feeling…"

Steven firmly squeezed Peridot's left breast, which drew out a startlingly loud, ecstatic cry from the gem.

"… with me, instead of how you got this sensitive in the first place."

Peridot excitedly nodded to confirm this. "H-heh, a-as a bonus, all those feelings I had back then – the ones I was so ashamed to have for the longest time – I can just project them onto you now! Consequently, my inner shame has vanished!"

Steven was a little startled to hear this; Peridot's conflicting feelings brought on from her instinctive submissive instincts awoken by Jasper were now being applied to him. He was uncertain how to feel about this…

"So you're saying… you'd actually want me to–?"

"It's perfectly fitting since you were perceived to be a quartz for so long," Peridot slyly pointed out. "And I've made it no secret that I very much find the concept of you being aggressively dominant towards me a very potent method of arousal."

Now Steven was beginning to feel a little more comfortable with his future wife's expectations.

"I think I can help fulfill your fantasies, then," Steven teased. "It's your birthday, after all… but I hope you haven't forgotten that I'm counting on you to give me a new experience tonight, too."

"Of course; I would never forget your belated birthday gift," Peridot assured with a scoff. "But there's a certain threshold of arousal I must surpass in order to… ahem, evert. So you'll need to warm me up first, regardless."

Steven nodded as he adjusted his hands to keep steady hold on his fiancée's ass before lifting her up – Peridot instinctively clung to his neck for support.

"I think we can have that arranged," Steven casually assured as he carried his loving partner towards the nearby king-sized circular bed. He smirked as he felt a certain wetness soak into the midsection of his shirt. "Geez, all I've done is kiss you, grab your butt, and squeeze your boob, Peri. We haven't even taken our clothes off yet and you're gushing already down there."

"Did you forget that through mere direct oral stimulation to that same mammary, you brought me to a very intense climax the last time we were here?" Peridot slyly reminded the young man.

"I'm remembering that pretty much any time you came, it was like a geyser," Steven smugly shot back. "Not that didn't enjoy that, of course – I just remembered I'm either gonna need to hold my breath or back away when that starts."

Peridot sighed happily as she soon found herself laid over the mattress near the edge of the bed. Seconds later, she was straddled by her partner.

"Well, let's not dwell on the foreplay for too long," she calmly advised. "My burning desire is not limited to finally engage in proper coitus with you, Steven… I-I must prove that I am no longer the gem whose bodily functions seize up at the slightest sensation of being penetrated! This time, I vow not to lock the majority of your phallus out!"

"I promise I'll last longer than a few seconds, too," Steven good-naturedly assured as he started to tug at his lover's pine-colored top. "C'mon, just phase off your clothes this time, Peri."

Last time Peridot tried to strip-tease, her top was a nightmare to take off and she ended up screaming at the offending garment with sheer rage. Steven had no intention of letting her expend precious energy on nonsense like that again.

"Pppffhht, if you say so," Peridot conceded, rolling her eyes but retaining her smile. With a moment of concentration and the wave of her hand, the gem's wardrobe was phased away, leaving her small, but voluptuous green body for Steven's enjoyment (as well as her relief).

Very easily, Steven became entranced with the sight. This was his first time seeing his beloved gem nude in a very long time; he'd forgotten how pert and firm the technician's breasts truly were. Unfortunately, he could not fully appreciate the curves further below thanks to the positioning, but the pair had already agreed that a single session in the missionary position was simply not adequate for what they set out to do together on this night. Soon enough, he'd get a better look at her backside.

Peridot was not at all ashamed to spread her legs to show off to the hybrid just how aroused she was: it had been so long since Steven had last seen it, but he could have sworn the gem's oozing slit was larger and puffier than he remembered it being.

"I'd say you should have to phase your clothes off as well, but I keep forgetting your human limitations often hinder your ability to replicate the full range of a gem's abilities," Peridot noted. "Then again, I suppose that's inconsequential when you happen to be engaged to the only ascended gem in the universe."

Before Steven could reply, Peridot snapped her fingers. Just like that, his clothes vanished in an instant. He couldn't help but sigh out with relief as one hand immediately went to tend to his partial erection.

"You're a lifesaver, Dot," he whispered out with appreciation. "I was starting to ache down there…"

In the past couple of years, Steven had grown a bit since his first major growth spurt during the final Homeworld mission. It was anyone's guess why he was finally growing at a more consistent rate like a human, though it was generally agreed that Steven's duties as a major influential figure in Earth's Era 3 in tandem with his deepening bond with Peridot were the catalysts behind this phenomenon.

Peridot herself had a bit of an unprecedented growth spurt years ago, though that was entirely based on her ascension, which had brought out the full extent of her power potential. She subconsciously willed her body to take on a slightly more mature appearance, but that really just boiled down to growing a few inches (enough to outgrow Amethyst, but no one else) and her body proportions adjusted to give Peridot the appearance of a growing young lady rather than a scrawny child.

But unlike Steven, she experienced no further changes to her appearance since then. While part of her did want to continue growing along with Steven, it would be far too annoying for the technician to constantly keep up a shapeshifted form through perpetually exerting willpower. Despite Peridot's ascension allowing her to bypass so many of her limitations inherent with being an Era 2 gem, she really didn't take advantage of this as often as most would believe. Many times, it still slipped her mind that she no longer had certain setbacks.

Besides that, Steven insisted many times that he liked Peridot's tininess. Part of the reason she willed herself to grow in the first place was due to being continuously insecure due to others constantly perceiving her as a child. Not only by the residents of Beach City, but her fellow gems as well.

While Steven didn't at all mind that Peridot willed her appearance to change, he made a point to assure his girlfriend that he loved her just the way she was – that he would have fallen in love with her even in her "scrawny brat" form.

The matter of Steven's gradual growth coursed both through his and Peridot's minds at the moment, because Peridot was dead certain the hybrid's cock was close to its previous size at full-mast the last time she got a gander at it. But now it was roughly only half its maximum hardness.

It appeared to have gained some girth as well. Years ago, the thickness of the shaft was its most outstanding feature and likely the reason why Peridot so quickly succumbed to an orgasm despite only the head of his cock ever penetrating her.

To see an even fatter dick looming over her caused Peridot to reflexively gulp; she was unable to hide her nervousness.

"You okay, Dot? Didn't you say you prepared yourself for something bigger than you expected?" Steven playfully asked the gem as his hands started to wander across her bare form.

"O-of course!" Peridot immediately assured, though she remained tense. "I-I mean… yes, I anticipated that I would have to accommodate for a larger size than before. It's merely that… w-well, seeing it up-close since last time…"

Steven nodded in understanding as one hand moved up to caress her cheek. "It's okay; I'm freaking out a little bit, too. We both have something to prove here tonight."

"I-I seem to recall you had a peculiar behavior whilst you orally stimulated my nether regions," Peridot cautiously pointed out. "Y-you were… almost feral in nature, but you were also fully confident. So, if it would help settle your nerves, Steven…"

Surprisingly, Steven had nearly forgotten about that small detail. Indeed, while he ate his girlfriend out at this time two years ago, there was an element to Peridot's natural fluids that acted as a gem equivalent of pheromones. While he became far less talkative, Steven more than made up for it with his performance and instinctive skill set. He was frenzied under the influence of just the fumes of an already-passed orgasm – once Steven actually ingested fresh fluid the next time Peridot came, that was when he started feeling hellbent on burying his dick within his beloved gem.

While he managed to not completely fall victim to the influence, the urge to go too far too quickly did win out in the end.

All the while, Peridot had no idea her secretions were capable of influencing any partner like that; let alone a human hybrid.

"Actually… that's a perfect idea. Thanks, Peri! You're the brains between us for a reason, heh!"

Steven kissed his lover's cheek one final time before the kisses trailed further down the gem's prone form on the bed.

Now that both parties were indisputably ready to engage in the full extent of sexual intercourse, Steven desperately needed an element that would eliminate his tendency to overthink and over-complicate even the simplest of matters.

To this day, he still wondered how many couples had an embarrassing first outing due to both partners coming prematurely. Steven certainly didn't know of any others… though he continued to try and find a silver lining in their mutual crowning moment of failure; perhaps it really was a sign that he and Peridot were meant to be.

Whether that factored into it or not was a bit irrelevant now, of course. The moment Steven slid that ring over Peridot's finger, he knew for sure they were destined for each other. And hopefully, if their mutual dream of their distant future was any indication, they wouldn't always suck as sexual partners.

Peridot's whimpering over the sensation of Steven's warm, wet lips brushing against her body grew a bit louder once Steven went below her stomach.

"St-Steven… I-I juu-uust… just wanna s-say… even if w-we–nyrrgh–… c-completely screw up th-this time as well, f-for any reason…" She took a deep breath before continuing, as Steven was mere inches away from her clitoris. "I… I still love you. And I know it will be an honor to one day be your spouse, j-just as I currently consider it an honor to be your fiancée."

She was surprised to feel a slightly different kind of wetness land on her corporeal form just then: her words moved Steven to the point where a rogue tear rolled down his cheek, ultimately dropping over the gem's lower abdomen.

"... That was beautiful, Peri," a choked-up Steven responded. "I love you too… a-and you're gonna see right now just how much I mean that."

Though she tried to hold it down, Peridot couldn't resist squealing out once she felt Steven's warm, velvety mouth caress the most sensitive part of her body. Her hands immediately scrambled to her lover's mop of curls and buried her fingers beneath his dark locks.

She forced herself to keep in mind that Steven did need to breathe, so she couldn't simply smash his face against her crotch. At the very least, she vowed to hold back on that urge until Steven charged forward on his own. Last time, he was very thorough with his job in that regard.

While Peridot whined and panted as her legs tried to resist the urge to flail about, Steven was quickly returning to form. While he kept his full attention on servicing his partner, diligently sliding his tongue up and down her folds. He did seem at least vaguely aware of Peridot's struggling, however, as his arms moved up to pin down the gem's thighs under their weight.

Instinctively, Peridot's hips started to buck, but her range of movement was greatly impeded. Now that the gem had more time to figure out and work on the genital she made zero use of during the couple's last stay in their lunar hideout, she felt a particular itch in her groin area that was unlike anything she experienced before in this situation.

The sensation came in conjunction with the much more familiar coiling heat forming a tight knot in the pit of her stomach, radiating all the way down to the very sensitive pressure points Steven was repeatedly hitting in rapid succession.

Part of the technician was still shook with disbelief that she was finally going to make use of an aspect of her body she largely ignored. She was going to use it on Steven, no less.

But only because Steven himself insisted: because he wanted himself and Peridot to share as many experiences together as they could. Even now, there was a great emphasis on equality in this relationship; until Steven learned that all gems (even Era 2s) could form functioning genitalia that served the equivalent of both female and male purposes, he simply assumed this to be one aspect of their lives where that wouldn't apply. And while certain events in the past made Peridot attempt to deny this part of herself, in time, she grew to accept it.

Just like everything else about herself or her life that she initially detested.

However, even now Peridot had difficulty controlling her "giving" genital, as she would call it. It almost never everted from the clitoris (its default, dormant state) during masturbation. Steven's direct influence, be it through his participation or his mere presence, was the only way it could be coaxed out. And even then, it took a great deal of direct stimulation to bring out in full.

Consequently, Peridot's opportunities to "practice" anything with her tricky tentacle were very hard to come by. From this day onward, however, that would be a thing of the past.

After all, one of the biggest presents Peridot (and Steven, by extension) received as a birthday gift this year was a new living quarters in the Crystal Temple – one akin to the rooms owned by the OG Crystal Gems… and it was a room specifically meant for Peridot and Steven to share.

Just as a married couple would. Evidently, a few select Crystal Gems were aware ahead of time when exactly Steven planned to propose to Peridot and worked overtime to provide a fitting gift for the occasion.

It was a greatly appreciated gesture, but Steven and Peridot knew they wouldn't be able to abuse their privileges in their new room until they cleared this hurdle. And the only appropriate place to take care of that was where they stumbled over said hurdle in the first place.

Suddenly, Peridot hissed through her clenched teeth. Her partner was pulling all the stops at this point: stimulating her clit by sandwiching it between his thumbs, his tongue rapidly sliding in and out between her folds, sucking up her secretions (consequently feeling even hornier as a result), humming to let the vibration of his voice add another layer of torturous pleasure… and even utilizing a bit of his limited shapeshifting capabilities to lengthen his tongue. Consequently, Steven could push his tongue far deeper into Peridot than his dick ever went.

She let out a strangled grunt when she felt the tip of said tongue brush against a strange vulnerability – a particular spot that was not only far more sensitive than any other part of the gem's body, but seemed to automatically invoke a certain itching sensation, which between Steven's thick and meaty fingers, left her clit utterly throbbing.

Peridot felt like this sort of stimulation should do nothing short of annoy the hell out of her… and yet, she shamefully wanted more of this.

"Ffffffffor stars' sake, Steven! Wh-whatever spot you're touching in there, do not dare stop!" she growled in a passionate frenzy. "I m-mean that, Steven! You cease your ministrations, and I will end you, human!"

Steven felt very proud of himself for getting his betrothed gem so worked up already. That would make their respective main events all the more enjoyable.

With that in mind, Steven made sure to not only double his efforts jabbing his tongue in-and-out of his lover's innermost depths, but also remember a certain very effective step from their first attempt at making love. While he kept one hand in place to keep the gem's clit occupied, the other moved lower down.

His arms stopped pinning down Peridot's legs, but before she could instinctively use her liberated limbs to wrap around her partner's head and trap his face against her snatch, Steven was quick to hold one up from the opposite end of her knee and bend it towards the direction of her upper body.

Despite her delirious haze brought on by Steven repeatedly driving her close to the edge of an orgasm, Peridot could faintly feel an air of familiarity in what he was doing to her.

"O-oh, stars…. th-that's right," she happily cried. "Elevation of the body! F-for whatever reason, it increases pleasure! Certainly from the pull of gravity c-combined with–gyaaaaaaah!"

Her vision went all-white just then: with the lower half of her body once again hanging above her upper half, supported by the inherent sturdiness of Steven's frame while the man himself never ceased his relentless assault on orally stimulating two critically sensitive points in her moist depths, Peridot couldn't even cry out Steven's name before her entire form stiffened.

Shortly following was the explosion of fluids from her cunt. Despite Steven's tongue plugging her entrance, plenty of ejaculate managed to spurt out from the seams and not only drench Steven's face in the process, but his hair… as well as the sheets and mattress of their bed.

Since gems didn't age, it stood to reason that Peridot's quirk of having the most extreme and excessive methods of climaxing didn't mellow out with it. She was still every bit as prone to leaving over-saturated spots of her essence now as she was a a couple of years prior.

Steven didn't expect the floodgates to break so soon, so he had no choice but to hold his breath: the first few seconds were always the most intense with this gem, and he didn't have nearly enough time to pull his tongue out to back away. Still, he didn't regret it: he always loved to hear Peridot's impassioned cries of pleasure and her blissed-out state after all was said and done.

As far as this round was concerned, that is. Now that Steven had inhaled and ingested a great deal of the natural aphrodisiac from his lover's fluids, he quickly felt that he was also teetering on the edge of blowing his load. They were far from being done tonight. However, Steven's compassion would always win out over his hormones. Tempting as it was for him to pin Peridot down entirely and completely sheath himself within her depths immediately, there was one more quick precautionary step he wanted to take.

Despite Peridot's receptivity to his gratuitous offering of oral sex, Steven was not surprised that wasn't enough to bring the gem's tentacle out of hiding. But he wasn't deterred: he was fairly confident it wouldn't be able to resist his skill for too much longer.

"Mmh… Steven, I… I have no idea what you came into contact with down there, but I'm fairly certain that was the first time," Peridot weakly panted out. "… We'll make sure it isn't the last, right?"

Steven nodded to her reassuringly. "You still hanging in there?"

He smiled and rolled his eyes when he heard Peridot snicker in response. "Dumb question, I know. But I don't feel right not asking, Peri…"

"That's just part of your charm as a sentimental stupid idiot," Peridot assured; her tone indicative of her quick recovery back to her usual snarky self. "It's especially endearing when you ask me questions like that while you yourself are clearly suffering from holding back on your own instinctive desires."

She smirked and gestured towards Steven's crotch, where a fully-erect penis stuck out like a sore thumb. Already, its color was flushing to deeper shades to indicate that the hybrid once again was putting off his own needs for the sake of others.

"Ahahaa…." Steven's already-present blush only deepened. "W-well, you said yourself that it's best to start on you first, Dot. I didn't expect it to come out this soon anyway, but you're sure Little Peri's gonna be here tonight?"

"I can't believe you're already naming it," Peridot mocked in jest as she looked down at her swollen clit. "I'll force that insubordinate piece of anatomy out one way or another, but I think you were somehow stimulating it moments ago, Steven."

She too blushed as her hand gently rested over her stubborn genitalia.

"I felt some kind of… sensation right here once your tongue reached a certain spot in my core," she confirmed, though sounded lost in thought. "A raw, burning kind that I actually enjoyed… I felt compelled to scratch it, which strikes me as odd."

"Ah, so it was like an itch," Steven understood. "Well, it sounds like we're making good progress. I'm feeling pretty sure I'll be able to make it wanna come out and play once we finish what we started two years ago…"

Peridot's eyes darted over to Steven's throbbing dick again. While the technician agreed, she remained concerned for her husband-to-be. "I, ah… I hate that I'm even offering this again since we know how easily it can worsen your pain, but would you feel better if I used my willpower to, er…"

"Oh, keep me from blowing my load?" Steven casually finished; not the least bit bothered by the suggestion. "I get why you're apprehensive, Peridot, but we're learning from our past mistakes this time, okay? We're both on the same page now, so there's no chance we're gonna waste time debating whether or not we're gonna do this. I'm not sure when or if I'll be able to get myself up like this again after I lose it… for that reason alone, you should go ahead and do your thing. We want our first time to really be a first time, remember?"

"R-right," the gem tentatively agreed. "Stars, I wouldn't be able to live down ruining this for you again, Steven. Just… please, for my sake, do not disregard your needs. We need to work together to redeem ourselves for our mutual shortcomings."

For a brief moment, Peridot closed her eyes and focused on exerting her willpower over her lover's cock. Just like their previous attempt, Steven was rendered unable to cum until his partner allowed for it. Of course, he would still feel the agony of being so pent-up, and soon enough, his shaft would become utterly engorged the longer it was backloaded.

"Good job," Steven gently commended as he leaned over to smooch his partner in recognition of her devotion. "Because just to be on the safe side, I'd like you to, uh… lubricate me a bit before we do this."

"Orally?" Peridot inquired; Steven silently nodded in response. "I see… that's why you wanted me to control your ejaculatory urges now. You're well aware I might accidentally send your load down the wrong hole, ah?"

She shot Steven a knowing smirk.

"Y-yeah," he bashfully confirmed, scratching his head reflexively. "I figured you had your fill of that twelve days ago, but you've, uh… really acquired a taste for that, haven't you?"

"I'd be lying if I said I'd hate to ingest another load of your creamy discharge," the gem teased. "But I know that's not what we're here to do tonight. Besides, we've finally carried out our brutal sentence for breaching our chastity contract two years ago and we have a new room of our own to use however we please. We've got plenty of future opportunities waiting right around the corner!"

It honestly made Steven feel much better to be reminded of that. The Crystal Gems watched the pair like a cast of hawks for two long years after their trust was betrayed – neither Steven nor Peridot could describe well enough just how liberated they felt now that they were deemed mature enough to make these kinds of decisions together.

"I told you things would eventually start looking up for us," Steven cheerfully reminded Peridot before letting out a light hiss when, without thinking about it, he started to stroke himself. "Uhm… s-so with that said, you mind helping me out here?"

Peridot wasted no time scrambling over to Steven's lap; her widened eyes glued to the mighty phallus mere inches across from her.

"It, aha, keeps slipping my mind that this part of you has grown since our first proper introduction," she chuckled, trying (in vain) to hide her nervousness. "B-but I pulled this off a mere twelve days ago… so please, don't mind me."

"I'll be careful," Steven promised in a more serious tone as he rested a hand over his fiancée's shoulder. "I know it's a lot to take down…"

To that, Peridot sputtered out a laugh while her hands wrapped around her partner's shaft. "Steven, I appreciate your comforting gestures, but the fact remains that I am a gem: there is absolutely no risk of you asphyxiating me with this behemoth of yours. Don't hold back for any reason, okay? I understand the visual might be a little startling for you, but I'll decide when or if you're going beyond my comfort zone."

Peridot briefly moved one hand up to caress her beloved human's cheek before softly planting a kiss over his lips. "And I won't hold it against you, because I know you'd rather shatter yourself than hurt me… even on accident."

Comforted by such heartwarming assurances, Steven was compelled to lean in and kiss Peridot directly over her hybrid peridot-diamond gemstone.

"Just don't take too long, 'kay? You're doing this to make it easier for us to fit together," he softly reminded his diminutive ascended gem. "Not to suck me dry. I trust you, Dot."

Seconds later, the fragile gentility of the betrothed couple's exchange shifted into raw, unbridled passion once again. Steven threw his head back, unable to hold down guttural roars as Peridot went to work sliding the hybrid's road down her throat.

While she didn't have a gag reflex, obviously, it was still tricky for the technician to deep-throat a penis of an impressive length considering the age of the owner while boasting an even more extraordinary girth.

Girth seemed to be Steven's natural gift, as that was the case for his dick two years prior as well. And unfortunately, a shaft's thickness would prove to be infinitely more problematic than its length when it came to deep-throating.

While he didn't feel right doing so, Steven's hands steadily remained planted on top of the back of Peridot's head, steadily forcing the gem to take in as much of him as she could manage.

Unsurprisingly, one reason Steven enjoyed Peridot's diminutive size and had no desire to see her grow more than she had already pertained to her role in their sex life. Throughout Steven's many "experiments" he conducted in secret by himself, the hybrid found he really enjoyed the pressure and tightness inherent with smaller holes and little moving space. He was enthralled with the challenge of making himself fit in spaces that normally would never be able to accommodate for his size.

While Steven barely had a figurative taste of it in the past, he could tell immediately intercourse with Peridot was going to be that kind of experience. She was so tight, even the tip of his cock caused her body to seize up and impede any further progress. Over time, Steven came to see that as a challenge.

As he let out another deep grunt when he felt Peridot finally push his length past her throat's resistances, Steven unexpectedly croaked out a few higher-pitched euphoric cries… as seconds later, he felt Peridot's drool-oozing lips reach the base of his shaft.

Peridot's mouth was a great example of Steven's preference for small, tight spaces to stuff his dick in. While he was compelled to avert his eyes from the partially comical, but mostly disturbing sight of Peridot's own throat swelling out (and even part of her stomach once he got this deep), Steven's instinctive urges screamed that he basically had a living cocksleeve at his mercy and that he must treat her as such.

Though he usually resisted the sadistic cries of his primal urges, Steven found himself succumbing this time. His hands grabbed the gem's hips and hoisted her legs up with ease.

Peridot's attention was largely taken up by the sheer stress of taking a long, thick cock down her gullet, but she did take notice to her oddly elevated position as her legs dangled helplessly in the air. Seconds ago, she had been sitting firmly on the mattress… and upon feeling familiar large hands roughly squeeze her hips, the technician realized Steven succumbed to his impulses.

However, this… did not terrify her, oddly enough.

Like she previously mentioned, her past woes about her shameful desire to submit to and be mistreated by Jasper were now transferred to Steven just like the matter of her overly-sensitive left breast. And with Steven being, well… Steven, Peridot had no reason to damn herself over her unusual fantasies of this gentle, all-loving boy taking a ruthless alpha quartz approach with her. She simply accepted they were unlikely to ever happen.

But as she could do nothing more than let out severely muffled moans and whimpers while streams of drool poured gratuitously from her overstuffed lips, Peridot was quite compliant allowing her future husband to get whatever this was out of his system. The technician chose to see this as perhaps she closest she would get to being brutally manhandled by Steven.

So, Steven lucked out in this particular instance of going along with his brutal instincts. It wouldn't stop him from feeling horrible about this after it was all over, of course…

Until then, Steven relished in the sensation of holding his beloved gem nearly upside-down, sliding her entire body up and down his shaft in tandem with his harsh-bucking hips thrusting in-and-out, brutally fucking her throat.

With Steven's sac repeatedly slapping Peridot's chin every time he hilted himself within her oral cavity, the technician herself was in a position no ordinary human had any hope of surviving.

She also remembered she specifically made it so that Steven was literally unable to cum, so it quickly became apparent that her partner lost sight of their goal. No matter how much Steven put his cocksleeve through this sadistic stress test, this wouldn't end with him emptying out within her.

Not like this, anyway.

Still, Peridot herself had a hard time telling herself to stop indulging in this rough treatment. She simply put her faith in Steven that he would eventually snap out of it. Until then, she let herself live out a long-held fantasy of hers.

Indeed, once Steven felt the instinctive urge to spill into Peridot and found that he couldn't, only then did he pause and realize what he was doing.

He was more than lubricated enough at this point: Peridot's endless thick streams of drool not only coated Steven's length from top to bottom, but left his swollen balls an equally slimy mess. A puddle of the residual saliva had already formed below them.

"O-oh… sh–sheeeez… ggh… ggah…"

A flushed, overworked Peridot remained silent as she listened closely to Steven taking in what he had done… and how he behaved. She knew he would end up blaming himself.

Which, in turn, made Peridot blame herself for simply not stopping this sooner. But she tried to offer Steven some form of consolation by continuing to gently suck against the shaft stuffed down her throat.

"Gosh-dammit!" Steven cried out before he carefully lifted Peridot up and off his throbbing rod, which was now uniformly coated in a very thick layer of saliva. "P-Peridot, I'm so sorry, I… GAH! What the heck is wrong with me?! Why was I acting like such an ass?!"

While it did amuse Peridot how selective Steven was about censoring his swears and when to just let loose (which he very rarely did), she was quick to firmly grab Steven by the shoulders to command his attention. Gobs of drool still hung from her mouth, but in this moment, she really didn't care how silly or fatigued she appeared. She knew it was her duty as Steven's partner to keep him from falling, just as he never failed to save her from the same trap over the years.

"I know your irrational human urges got the better of you, Steven," Peridot sternly asserted; her heterochromatic eyes bore into his own. "But this is no time to beat yourself up over it! Did you already forget what I told you before we started this?! I'll decide when you're going too far with me – and I was perfectly fine with your actions regardless of their brutal nature!"

"P-Peri, you couldn't even talk," Steven cried. "How would you even be able to communicate with me?!"

Peridot sighed and rolled her eyes. "Wow, it's been a while since you've been this thick of a clod, Steven. I understand I had a rather… complex role, but if I was really that upset with what you were doing, I easily could have used my razor-sharp teeth to threaten you with castration if you didn't cease and desist. Alternatively, I can just teleport out of that position… you stupid idiot."

Steven didn't expect to be shut down so quickly; he couldn't argue any of Peridot's points.

"S-sorry… I guess I'm just mad at myself, then," Steven muttered in shame. "I get urges like that now and then, but I've always resisted them… until now."

"Makes sense," Peridot casually remarked. "We're about to engage in proper coitus, our respective resistances aren't what they used to be. However, perhaps be less resistant to said urges in the future: they match up well with my guilty pleasures that I projected on to you, after all."

While Steven was still far from comfortable at the thought of embracing Jasper's approach, this did ease his concerns.

"I… I'll keep that in mind," Steven nervously assured before he winced.

A burning, stinging pain in his crotch demanded his immediate attention.

"Until then… perhaps we should do what we came here to do," Peridot softly suggested as she smiled.

Following that statement, the technician fell back-first against the mattress in the center of the bed. At the sight of her legs spreading wide open, Steven quickly stumbled across the bed until he found himself mounting the gem he vowed to marry.

"Promise you're not gonna lock me out again?" Steven quietly teased before giving Peridot a light kiss.

Peridot couldn't help but blush fiercely at the good-natured rib.

"I've undergone several endurance tests since that night in my free time," she stiffly admitted. "Some of which… I am not proud of resorting to. But despite your increased size, I'm confident my body will accept you, Steven. You are the only one I would ever permit to join with me this way. I've waited this long to experience being joined as one… without fusion being part of the equation."

And neither Peridot nor Steven cared to even acknowledge Sphalerite's existence beyond that statement.

"And I would wait longer if needed," Peridot added. "But it is no longer required. There's nothing more I want now than to finally experience this form of love with you, Steven."

Steven nodded along as he started to line himself up further below. "After everything we've been through together… we're gonna make it work this time. No matter what it takes."

Peridot smiled knowingly at the love of her life. "Indeed… we're gonna make it."

Her calm confidence was soon disrupted by a familiar thickness pushing through her very modest hole. Instinctively, she clung to Steven for dear life while trying her hardest not to hyperventilate.

However, she simply couldn't help it. Steven held her close as he slowly pushed himself through. Peridot's panic only made it harder for him to progress, so he did everything in his power to calm the poor gem's nerves.

After their bodies were tangled together, Steven's hands traveled. One lightly stroked his lover's clit while the other massaged her left beast.

And eventually, Steven's head dove down to lightly suck on said breast. With Peridot's attention and arousal split in multiple ways and being gently handled in nature helped the ease the technician's tension that plagued her body.

Finally, with some patience and a solid strategy, Steven found himself fully hilted within Peridot for the first time in his life.

At last, they were joined as one. And both agreed the feeling brought on by such a union was far better than either imagined it in the many, many, many times they fucked each other in their dreams.

"H-heh… wow. So… so this is how it feels."

Steven was utterly dumbstruck by this accomplishment. He hadn't even started moving yet.

"I'm... I-I apologize, Steven," Peridot muttered as she took a moment to wipe her many tears. "I'm just relieved my stubborn body did not once again lock you out before you even had the chance…"

"You just needed some loving care to relax," Steven gently informed the gem before kissing her. "You're doing great, Dot."

Peridot was immensely relieved to hear that. But while she wanted so badly to find a way to describe the long-awaited feeling of the two being connected together like this…

"I-I'm ready when you are, Steven. My body has acclimated to your phallus' proportions… now, I dearly wish to fornicate with you."

Steven smiled serenely at this request. "I'm trusting you to know when's the right time to stop holding me back, okay? I might get a little carried away…"

Peridot snagged Steven by the shoulders and dragged him down to her level, smirking all the while.

"Oh, I dare you to give it your all," she smugly challenged. "Peridots are durable and much tougher than they look."

Very few words were said once Steven started thrusting in and out of his beloved Peridot; he quickly fell into a quick and steady rhythm that Peridot kept up with easily.

The couple's eyes remained locked together for the entire session. They were purely absorbed in watching their loved one experience their first true time together. While Steven tried to keep his methods tame (especially after the embarrassment he suffered from succumbing to his baser instincts just before this round), Peridot – whether she meant to or not – continuously pushed Steven to perform to the best of his ability.

"I-if you really want me to return the favor to you after this, Steven, w-we can't keep playing it safe simply because this is our first time," Peridot moaned out from under him. "We're not even remotely close to pushing our limits…"

"S-speak for yourself!" Steven huffed out in the midst of his thrusting. "I've been ready to blow since before all this, Peri!"

"And yet, you are being mindful of me and going out of your way to not be too forceful with our fornicating," Peridot lightly gasped out. "St-Steven, I know there's a savage brute somewhere buried deep inside you…"

"And he's had his time!" Steven adamantly decided, punctuating it with a thrust with much more power behind it. "He treated you like a toy, Peridot! That's not how I see you…"

Peridot rolled her eyes before reaching up to embrace her partner, never once breaking their momentum – mild as it was.

"Psssht, I know that, Steven," she stated with utmost confidence. "I also know you don't wanna remember your first time engaging in proper coitus with me as a… ah, as you humans would put it, a vanilla experience. I want you to make me scream, Steven… I want you to drive me insane every time we come together in bed from now on!"

Steven knew Peridot was being perfectly reasonable, but he was still shell-shocked by what he degenerated into earlier.

"Besides… I'm holding all the proverbial cards here, Steven. Only I have the power to allow you to expel your pent-up ejaculatory fluids. You must do more than this if you wish to experience what I'm currently feeling; otherwise, my stubborn little giving genital won't want to come out. Also… have you forgotten it's my birthday, Steven?"

Even though Peridot was on the bottom right now, in all honesty, she was the one in total control at this point.

"Oh… oh boy…"

While the pair never ceased their intercourse, Steven was visibly stunned to realize the position he was in. Peridot had adjusted to their mild pace well enough to take it in stride, as she continuously smirked at her mate.

"It's okay, Steven," Peridot promised in hopes of comforting the young man. "We're okay. You just need to stop worrying about me and take some risks. You taught me to accept even the darkest, most vile parts of my identity… and while I'm forever grateful for that lesson, times like this make me believe you do not practice what you preach… so, you need to let me help you."

Steven didn't expect to have the tables turned on him like this. And since he was plagued with a throbbing, overly-engorged cock that couldn't relieve itself of its surplus that he was constantly thrusting into a very tight hole with very little "breathing room" within his partner, Steven honestly wasn't sure how much longer he could retain his sanity.

"P-Peri, what if I totally lose control and ruin this forever…?"

"I won't let you."

Steven's eyes welled up with tears as he looked to his fiancée with utter desperation. Despite the technician also being overwhelmed with repeatedly being penetrated (no matter how mildly at present), she never before looked more certain of herself.

"Steven, don't forget that I am the gem you've chosen to one day marry. To one day… have a family with. To have that family… well, we'll certainly be doing this no less than six times between now and then. And while my expertise is more attuned with gem creation via kindergartens, I just have this distinct feeling telling me that you and I certainly will never conceive if this is the best you can do."

Peridot smirked as her statement drew a glare out of Steven.

Suddenly, Steven's grip on his wife-to-be grew much stronger. There was much more power behind his thrusts, eliciting surprised cries of joy from the certified kindergartner.

"You think this is my best?" Steven darkly asked her. "You think I can't make those kids come into this world?! Hey: keep running your mouth, Peri! What else do you think I can't do?!"

Peridot was certain this anger was largely stemming from Steven's inability to ejaculate, so she wasn't too worried about his shift in attitude. After all, Steven was finally upping his game.

"Well, I'm fairly certain you're too kindhearted to make me scream and beg for release," she mercilessly teased. "Have you noticed I haven't been nearly as wet with my own fluids since we started fornicating? Your tongue is far superior to your own phallic injector, Steven! How on Earth can you even live with yourself, my love?"

It was then that Steven recalled he had reached a certain point within Peridot's core with his tongue that absolutely drove her mad. On top of that, it stimulated her clitoris in a very unique way. His goal, beyond pleasing his lover, was to bring out a certain stubborn tentacle…

"Well, if it's any consolation, you just gave me a great idea," Steven smugly shot back as he pulled out of Peridot entirely, only to quickly (and roughly) change her position.

The ascended gem soon found herself on her hands and knees moments before Steven came up from behind and effortlessly slipped himself inside her innermost depths once more. It wasn't long before Steven's impatience wrought from his own aching erection compelled him to yank up one of Peridot's legs and pull her down to her side.

When Peridot felt Steven adjust himself once more and re-enter her, she found herself loudly gasping and wailing as the hybrid penetrated her far deeper within her depths from this angle. The itching sensation to her clit returned with a vengeance as Steven was no longer the gentle lovemaker he was before.

"O-oh stars, Steven!" Peridot panted with surprise. "There you are! This is–! Ggyaaah!"

She felt herself becoming excessively wet again; whatever Steven was doing, it was working.

"You just needed a little more of this, huh?!" Steven bitterly shot back as he pounded her relentlessly. "A little more of me acting like some quartz treating you like a sex doll?!"

"N-not necessarily, b-but it certainly helps! Nyaaaaah~!" Peridot too was losing her composure in the face of this fresh new assault. "I-If you just go… a-a little bit deeper–"

"I'll hit the sweet spot," Steven finished for her with a smirk. "Yeah, good idea. But you've been pretty mouthy to me lately, Dot! Wouldn't you agree?!"

He punctuated his statement with a particularly harsh thrust and a sharp smack to the gem's clit, causing her to squeal in pain mixed with pleasure.

"I-I'd argue that I needed to be to snap you out of it!" Peridot wailed. "B-but, yes! I often do run my mouth! What's your point?!"

Steven flashed a particularly and highly unusual evil grin.

"Naughty gems don't deserve their reward right away," he taunted the gem he was boldly fucking into the mattress. "Gotta make an example outta you, Peri. No hard feelings, right?!"

"U-um–! Y-you do realize I'm still in control of your ability to ejaculate, correct?!" Peridot pointedly reminded him through her moaning.

Steven smirked while he gave the technician a particularly rough thrust before very, very slowly pulling out. "You love holding that over me, don't you? What you haven't realized is that all you're doing by taunting me with that is driving me crazy, which means I'm just inspired to do some real crazy shit with you!"

In that moment, Peridot began to legitimately worry she was taking this too far. Steven only ever used that kind of language when he was under the influence of some evil force or possessed by a certain malevolent fusion.

"And you know what? You lubed me up so well, I don't think it'll be necessary to prep your ass!"

Peridot's eyes shot wide open. "Y-you don't mean… no…"

"Hey, you're gonna give me anal later," the smarmy Steven reminded her. "We're not true equals unless I explore your ass too, Peri!"

While Peridot wasn't against experiencing anal sex, that was certainly not on their to-do list today.

"St-Steven, we didn't plan for that," she meekly pointed out. "We didn't want to put too much on our plate for our first time, remember…?"

"We also didn't plan for you being a nitpicky motormouth," Steven countered. "But that's what improvising's for. Even first times don't go the way you'll expect them to… y'know, like our first-first time?"

Peridot shuddered at the thought, but she still wasn't sold on this change of their plans. "Steven, please… I know I encouraged you to embrace your crazy side, but not at the expense of your common sense!"

"Don't knock it till you try it," Steven scolded his partner before he dipped two fingers into his mouth, coating them in his healing spit. "With an ass as nice as yours, you're lucky I've resisted this as long as I have."

Naturally, Peridot blushed at the compliment. She had figured out very early on that Steven had a bit of a fixation on her posterior; Amethyst confirmed it soon after. And ever since then, Peridot made a point to make her rump ever-so-slightly plumper every time she reformed after being poofed.

It was odd, actually, that now of all times was when Steven decided to come forward to Peridot personally about his fascination with her ass.

But then, all thoughts pertaining to this curious detail flew straight out the window when Peridot choked out a gasp as she felt the lukewarm wet digits of her boyfriend insert themselves into her anus.

Peridot quietly sobbed out her lover's name, but Steven was quick to lean over and comfort her as he quickly went knuckle-deep into the gem's tight anal cavern.

"Shh, I promise you're gonna love this," Steven quietly assured in his more recognizable sweet and considerate tone. "And I think this is what we really need to do to wake up a certain part of you…"

"H-how can you be so sure?" Peridot asked in a hushed whisper, still deeply blushing.

Much to her shock, she found herself to be trembling with uncertainty and fear, but once again, Steven embraced his wife-to-be with his free arm and kissed her cheek.

It was a bit tricky to be so gentle and supportive while his other hand was busy scissoring through a tight canal in hopes of loosening it up a bit. Steven continued to utter reassuring sentiments peppered with modest kisses as the technician, despite her reservations, felt compelled to go along with this very hasty change to their plans.

Not just any plans, either. Steven and Peridot had been anticipating and discussing this night off-and-on for two years. This was supposed to be a major milestone of their lives.

Though, in all fairness, they had already achieved one of their two major goals: Peridot could finally rest knowing her tiny body could handle a big boy like Steven.

"I promise this is gonna be worth it," Steven calmly promised the gem, kissing her again while he added a third digit to her hole. "You're doing good, Peri… you're almost ready…"

"I-I thought you weren't going to prep me," Peridot nervously pointed out before letting out a soft moan as Steven's fingers pumped deeper into her

Steven simply smiled and gave a straightforward answer. "Eh, I'm not that heartless. That was mostly just to scare you. Tends to happen when I'm kinda losing my mind because somebody won't let me cum already… "

Peridot was beginning to seriously consider never using her willpower to hold back an orgasm ever again after this. This was the second time now that caused Steven to have something of a breakdown, making him act in ways he normally never would.

"S-sorry, Steven… "

"Even the best of us make mistakes," Steven pardoned as he gave Peridot one last kiss before moving behind her. "But this'll more than make up for it…"

Peridot quietly allowed Steven to adjust her position, though the look on her face screamed, "Why did I agree to this? What was I thinking?".

Those feelings further intensified as Steven removed his fingers, only to replace them with his much longer and thicker cock. To his credit, Steven was very slow, careful, and steady inserting himself, but Peridot was beyond overwhelmed with the crushing pressure of this procedure.

"St-Steven…" she barely managed to cry. "Steven, I can't–Steven, I'm gonna poof–!"

However, Steven was not about to let that happen under his watch. He embraced his betrothed gem gently but firmly as he pushed himself the rest of the way inside her virgin anus.

"Y-you're not gonna poof," Steven promised as he combed his fingers through Peridot's hair. "I'm all the way inside now. Just relax and let your body adjust. I'm not gonna move till you're ready."

"I-it's even tighter than my front port!" Peridot cried out as she nearly bit Steven's hand on accident. "Steven, it burns… i-it–"

Though it burned, her ass was lubricated with Steven's spit. Whatever pain she felt was very short-lived.

"See? Better already," Steven knowingly pointed out with a smirk. "I'm gonna make this up to you, Peri. I know I'm not that good or original with how I make love just yet… but here is where we're gonna fix our problems."

Oddly enough, Steven seemed to be back to being perfectly reasonable. He just had a crazy-ass way of going about it.

"Because you love my posterior that much, right?" Peridot tiredly asked with a resigned smile on her face. "Honestly, Steven…"

"It's not my fault you've got such a hypnotic butt," Steven grumbled to himself before smiling back at Peridot. "Trust me; I think we're on the right track here. Are you feeling anything unusual about yourself… y'know, besides the obvious?"

While it embarrassed Peridot to so candidly talk about such things (even to Steven), she did think on certain other sensations coursing through her body.

"Th-there's a burning in my groin area, but it feels like that's been a constant issue since we started this," the technician admitted. "You seem so sure we need to do this in order to bring… that about, but you haven't offered any real evidence to substantiate your claim."

"That's because I prefer just going by my intuition," Steven proclaimed with a wink. "Peri, can you please release your hold on me now?"

"I suppose I have tortured you long enough," Peridot admitted as she willed away the hold on Steven's ability to cum. "Do what you must… or follow your heart; whatever's more applicable to this case."

Steven leaned over to kiss the back of Peridot's neck, eliciting a slight giggle out of her before he resumed his position mounting the gem from behind.

"Don't act like this is just for me, Peri! My spit will make sure you don't feel any more pain than you already have," Steven assured. "This is for both of us. Neither of us are gonna have a shred of virginity left after tonight!"

"I suppose that's a positive way to look at this," Peridot dreamily agreed. "Steven, I trust you know what you're doing–"

Peridot was abruptly cut off with a simultaneous cry and gasp; Steven finally started moving in and out of her ass, and given the state of his dick and no longer having Peridot's power to hold it back any longer, it completely slipped the technician's mind that Steven was going to have to work fast before he ended up completely spent.

It took so much discipline and concentration to keep himself from blowing immediately, Steven had to rely on his human instinct to perform as best he could.

While Peridot struggled to stay on her hands and knees, she had to admit that she at least wasn't feeling any kind of pain; only pleasure. With Steven's frantic and heavy thrusts, it was difficult for the gem to match his rhythm when the boy barely had much of a coherent one to begin with.

"I-I'm gonna last as long as I can for you, Dot!" Steven grunted in sheer desperation. "I wanna give you a first time worth remembering! I-I gotta make an impression, so Little Peri will know I'm worthy to play with!"

"Steven…" Peridot moaned out, both in ecstasy as well as exasperation. "Y-you didn't need to go out of your way…"

"No! You were right, Peridot," Steven adamantly told her, being every bit as bold in fucking her simultaneously. "It's not enough to just be mellow, safe, and gentle! That's not who we are… it never was! The two of us always give everything in life nothing less then 100% of our effort every single day! It shouldn't be any different in the bedroom – especially not the bedroom!"

While it seemed like Steven was talking out of his ass, Peridot couldn't help but feel moved by the hybrid's sentiments. In the end, they most definitely did come straight from the heart. No matter how needlessly melodramatic or hyperbolic he came off, Steven was a young man who wore his heart on his sleeve.

Combined with the swift, fluid style he made love to his fiancée, said engaged gem started to pant rapidly; not only was Steven swiftly bringing her body to its second orgasm of the night, it felt like her crotch was set ablaze. Due to how she was positioned, she couldn't see why she burned so badly down there just yet… but it wasn't long before Steven seemed to feel a similar inferno raging in his own crotch.

"I-I love you so much, Steven!" Peridot cried out as tears poured down her cheek. "Even when you say and do incredibly stupid things… I–IloveyouIloveyou! NGYYAAAH!"

"IloveyoutooDo–AAAAAUHH!"

In the end, the newly-engaged couple came together at precisely the same time.

Peridot woke up sometime later in a daze. The ascended gem shook her head, as she was contending with double-vision when she first regained her consciousness. It didn't help that she felt bloated as hell, either.

However, the technician quickly remembered what last happened before she blacked out: she and Steven both came simultaneously.

Still weary, with everything ahead of her looking so blurry, the gem blindly rubbed her hand over her abdomen to confirm that every last drop of Steven's cum ended up inside her.

"Mmh… Steven…? What happened? How come we both lost consciousness…?"

Peridot's vision was finally clearing up, and when she didn't get an answer straight away from Steven, just a matter of looking down told her why: he was resting in her lap, face-down.

However, a tingling sensation that coursed through the gem's body just then indicated that Steven was not asleep despite appearing to be.

When Peridot reached over to pull Steven up by the curls of his hair, she was shocked to find her lover's mouth was vigorously sucking on… well, what used to be her clitoris.

Steven turned out to be correct after all: after a brief, but impassioned session of anal sex, Peridot's very shy tentacle was finally coaxed out of its hiding place.

It was nowhere near the length or girth of Steven's flaccid member, but it was quite the prehensile reproductive organ.

And now that it had showed itself, Steven had no intention of letting it go.

"I guess we both went a little too far giving it "our all", so we conked out. We haven't been out for long, though. Your Little Peri here actually woke me up… I think it likes me."

Peridot had no idea what to make of the sight of her slick, gray tentacle that seemed to affectionately curl itself against Steven's cheek after he ceased his blowjob.

"C'mon, Dot. Don't be shy. Let's get to know it better! We're gonna need the rest so you can finish me off with this little guy!"

The more Peridot saw her tentacle show Steven such blatant affection as if it had a mind of its own, she wondered if it wasn't too late to try and endear her fiancée to, say… perhaps a dildo, instead.

But the more she watched Steven laugh along and make nice with her reproductive organ, Peridot grew concerned with how that made her feel.

Jealous… and suspicious.

[ TO BE CONCLUDED... ]