Incredible Chapter 1

A.K.A “Why ‘Clouds’ is set after Open Book instead of before it.

I like the theory that the illusions that Rose’s Room makes of people are better if someone is in the room (like, Greg had been in the room once before and that’s why his “Cloud Copy” was so lifelike compared to the rest of the town, thus, when Connie went into Rose’s Room with Steven in Open Book, the Room got a better idea of how to make Connie more lifelike.

And that’s where we are with this.

I’m so sorry.

Pairings: Steven/Connie (unrequited)

Angst, Tragedy, MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH

Chapter 1 Below the cut

Archive of Our Own link

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

He had been sitting on the bed, trying to hold back tears once again.

They had been the best of friends and he had hoped that one day they could be more. Fusing with her had made him feel like they could maybe be that way one day. Their first, impromptu sleepover had been the last time he had seen her.

Then he found out about the accident.

He hadn’t heard from Connie for a few days. When he finally had reached the home phone, Priyanka’s shaky voice answering, he learned what had happened.

Connie and Doug, on their way into Beach City, had hit a patch of ice. The car had spun out of control and into a semi-truck.

Doug was in a coma and Connie …

Steven curled up into a ball, tears streaming down his face. He had gone to the funeral, seeing Connie’s face one more time at the viewing. He couldn’t believe she was gone. He couldn’t even heal her. He hadn’t even said goodbye or told her …

He wanted to see her again so badly. To at least tell her how he had felt about her.

The bright glow of his gem drew his attention. He looked over at the Temple Door and saw his mother’s room open up.

He approached, cautiously. He had been leery of his mother’s room since the first time he had gone in. He couldn’t avoid the pull to enter, however.

As he entered, he looked around at the pink, fluffy clouds.

“Room? I … I want to see Connie …”

He watched the room form her in front of him, just as she had been when they first met on the beach. He watched as her hair whipped about in the fake wind in the room.

“C-Connie? I … I miss you so much … I don’t even know if you knew how I felt about you … I don’t know how much you learned when we were Stevonnie …”

And they were gone now … Stevonnie was gone. They would never exist again.

“I … I want to see your face …” he whispered. “I want to hear you … I miss you so much …”

The Cloud Connie turned around and Steven froze in terror. Her glasses were perched on her face, the reflection of the lenses masking her eyes.

The Room had still created her as a blank canvas. As something that it remembered from before, when it had malfunctioned the last time.

“He was incredible!” the Cloud Connie cheered.

“No …” Steven whispered.

“He was incredible!”

He backed up. He couldn’t believe this. The room still had this Connie in here. Not the one he remembered. The one who was starting to love him back. The one who he had healed once. The one who he fused with.

“He was incredible!”

Tears welled up in his eyes. This had been his one chance to see her again and it was becoming a nightmare.

“No!” Steven cried out. “This isn’t what I wanted!”

“He was incredible!”

He began to back out of the room, hearing her voice call after him, repeatedly. Even as the door closed, he could hear her.

“He was incredible!”

The voice faded away as he crumbled before the Temple Door, tears rolling down his face.