"I- think it's happening," Rose panted, laying on the makeshift cot in the back of Greg's van. The other Crystal Gems looked at her through tears, while Greg held her hands, comforting her.

"It's going to be ok, it's going to be ok, it's going to be ok," he murmured.

"Garnet, are you sure you can't predict what's going to happen?" Pearl asked through tears.

"No," Garnet said, as a single tear dripped down her cheek. "I don't know what's going to happen. This has never happened before. Ever."

Amethyst began to say something, shaking, when Rose gave a tiny yelp, just enough to be noticed. Greg and Pearl both rushed to her, but Garnet got there first.

"Are you okay, Rose?" she asked stoically.

"Of course she's okay," Pearl sniffled, "she has to be okay."

Amethyst groaned and looked away. "I think it's happening…" she murmured.

"No…" Pearl gasped, "it's too soon…"

Rose suddenly screamed, a pure, raw scream of emotion and guilt. Feelings of anger, sadness, and resent flooded out of her. She gasped, muttering apologies. Words like diamond, child, pink, lion, Greg, Nora, Steven, and sorry gushed out of her.

"Take care of them, Greg," she gasped, "watch over them...and watch over our child. They will be…"

With a blinding light similar to when a god would have shown their true form, Rose disappeared. The Gems shielded their eyes, and Amethyst shoved Greg to the ground. The Gems stood, shaken but unharmed. Greg rose to his feet and winced in pain. He was badly burned from the light. His face, arms, and legs were a tomato red. He gasped in surprise, and then in true pain. "Where's my child?" Greg screamed. "Where are they?"

Garnet scooped up a little bundle in a pink blanket. "This is your son, Greg," she said. "What did you want to name him?"

"Steven," Greg said with no hesitation. "That's what Rose would have wanted...wants, I mean, what?"

Garnet held out Steven to Greg, and Greg reached out to take him. Just as Greg grabbed hold of the most precious child he had ever seen, a blur of green jumped out of the nearby bushes and snatched the child out of his hands. The Gems and Greg heard a faint giggle as the green thing and their child disappeared into the night. Greg immediately started running, thinking he could catch up. Amethyst shifted into a lion and began racing along the streets, yowling Steven's name. Garnet and Pearl looked at each other in shock. Though they searched all night well into the morning, they couldn't find the strange green thing, which must have been a gem, or their beloved son. He was gone. Forever.