Emerald was no longer in the strange yellow house. She wasn't looking into a...... wait what do you call a friend's son who you have to kill? No she was back in Homeworld, with Rose, right before she left to go to Earth.

"Rose, do you really have to go?" She remembered saying to Rose. The scenery behind them was foggy because it was so long ago that it really happened.

Rose only nodded in reply. Ever since Emerald had taken up training for the next assassin Rose had been distant. Rose walked over to Emerald, her pink curls even more shiny than usual. In Homeworld they had a strict rule of never being able to know what you looked like. Rose had violated this rule and many others, hence why she was going away. Emerald had followed that rule and so she had never known (besides the fact that she was pretty sure she was a light shade of green) what she looked like.

In Homeworld each gem was given a ship, Emerald's was green like her. Rose's was pink. Well, it was a bunch of different shades of pink. To help you imagine it think of a baby picking up a tiny toy intergalactic ship, dipping it in dark pink paint. Then dip it in lighter pink, than even lighter, and lighter and so forth until it looks like a really gay hippy could wear it as a shirt.

Rose was about to step in the ship but the she turned around. Her face was sad, her brown eyes usually so happy seemed duller. She gave Emerald a look and Emerald knew all too well what it meant. When they were young gems they made an oath, if any of them would have to leave, they would meet again. In another world, or another life. Emerald knew that she would have to see Rose again, at least once. And if not she would never hurt anything that she loved.

Now she was staring into the one thing she would love more than anything else, her son. And she had to kill him! Oh, how she was mad at Homeworld right then. They must have known this was Rose's son! It would be easier to kill him now, convince herself that Rose never had a son and if he did...... wait. Son? That means Steven is as powerful as Rose. No wonder Jasper hadn't returned! She wasn't going against a human! She was going against well....whatever he was. Some type of weird hybrid? Well this changes everything. She thought miserably. Guess I'll just have to earn his trust even more now before. Even if she didn't say it aloud a hole formed in her heart. How could she do this to Rose's....child thingy? She shook her head as if to get rid of the thoughts she had to do this.

She must have looked really freaked out because Steven's face turned from sad to concerned looking.She didn't know what to say so instead she pretended not to hear him. She was really glad when the Crystal gems came back so she wouldn't have to pretend to be interested in something.

"Okay, if you're so smart answer this; we don't even know your name,how you knew Rose, and if we accept you into the Crystal Gems will we expecting more trouble from Homeworld?" Said Pearl with a little wrinkle on her pointy nose as she said Homeworld.

Emerald looked down at her hands to appear nervous and pinched each finger to make her voice shaky. "M-my name is Emerald. I-I don't think you'll get any trouble from Homeworld for a long time." They must've noticed she didn't add Rose in. Really she didn't want to talk about her, it-it made a weird kind of feeling in her almost like she was in a cave, with no bats to fly around, no crystal rivers, nothing.

Pearl nodded as if signalling for her to explain why she knew Rose. She didn't need to pinch her fingers to have her voice shaky " I just knew Rose okay!" Maybe I came off a little too protective, she thought.

Either way This seemed to do a lot. Amethyst looked no longer like a snotty idiot and more like a really really weak gem. The others looked even more weaker.they must have loved Rose a lot. Great another of Rose's loved one's. No stop thinking like that it doesn't matter who Rose loved! She hated when things like that popped up in Emerald's brain.

She was so mad at herself she almost didn't hear Pearl said "Just let her join." All the Crystal gems looked astonished. Out of all the gems Emerald would never have thought that Pearl would be the one to let her in.

Garnet and Amethyst shouted protests that all seemed half hearted. Steven just nodded and walked out of the room, the gem's gaze followed him till he was out of the room. This must be an unusual mood for Steven judging from all the gems looks.

Soon after, Garnet and Amethyst went to the huge door and stepped inside. The door released a great amount of mist so she couldn't see what the gems rooms looked like. Before she could stop herself from doing it she asked Pearl "Why do you suddenly trust me?" " I see it on your eyes,Emerald." Pearl said with slight smile. "You have this glint in them that remind me too much of Rose."

That one sentence was enough to make her want to hide in a hole and died. She pushed that feeling,along with many other unrecognized feelings, down to the bottom of what she hoped was a heart. Luckily Pearl went to her room before the scene could really become awkward. After Pearl left Emerald sat on the yellow couch trying to regain her confidence. She breathed in deeply and slowly became numb to any guilty(and other) feelings. A smirk spread across her face, with no one around she could finally do that.

She laid down on the comfortable couch letting her eyes close. She wasn't exactly sure what she was doing but it felt right. Then everything went black, the last thing that she remembered was another thing she knew from her screens. Sleep.