To Love A Clod | Peridot X Reader

Steven ran up to the barn, having planned to spend some time with you, Peridot and Lapis today.

He trudged his way up to the barn. "Y/n! Peridot! Lapis!" He called out. "I'm here!"

Before Steven could process, he was picked up in huge hands. "There's my favourite human!" F/n exclaimed loudly.

Steven's eyes widened as he understood what had happened and stars formed in them. "Oh! F/n, you stayed fused?"

"Only till tonight." F/n winked.

Steven raised an eyebrow but shrugged off the statement. "You don't mind if I spend the day here, do you?" Steven asked bashfully, intimidated by F/n's size slightly.

"Of course not! And who wouldn't want to come back and spend more time with me, huh?" F/n laughed proudly as they walked into the barn with Steven still in their upper arms.

The day went by with Steven asking F/n tons of questions back and forth, as he had the right to ask they supposed.

"Ooh! Ooh! And can you hear their voices separately." He asked excitedly.

"Sometimes. Most of the time our thoughts are joined as one, but one of them may take over at times, or they can converse in my head if they need to." F/n explained.

"Can they hear each other's thoughts? Y/n and Peridot I mean." He continued his assault of questions.

"They can but..." F/n started but paused to lean in close to Steven's ear. "I might be hiding the fact that they love each other from them." F/n backed away and winked to Steven.

"Why?"

"Y/n wanted to tell Peridot themselves, so I'll bend the rules a little for that." F/n said.

"Ah I see I see, your secret is safe with me, sir!" Steven said in a comically deep voice and saluted at you.

"Good work, agent!" F/n joked back.

The two burst out laughing together, catching the attention of Lapis.

"You two having fun down here?" She asked as she floated down to sit between the fusion and the human.

"Please, it's always fun when I'm here." F/n proclaimed, holding a hand to their chest, which was puffed up.

"Whatever you say." Lapis said sarcastically and giggled to herself a little.

"I was just asking F/n a bunch of questions about the fusion thing!" Steven told.

"Well we know F/n loves to talk about themselves." Lapis snorted.

"Hey! Only because everyone loves to listen!" F/n retorted before joining in laughing.

"Your Peridot is showing." Steven joked.

"You little—!" F/n grumbled before playfully pushing Steven's arm.

The three spent the rest of the day much like this, laughing and joking, having fun together. F/n had a great presence, Steven always brought joy wherever he went, and Lapis seemed to be opening up quite easily nowadays which was nice.

"I should probably get going by now, Pearl's probably finished making dinner." Steven said.

"Aww, well come back soon, yeah?" Lapis asked.

"For sure!" Steven reassured.

"Now come here you!" F/n said as they pulled Steven and Lapis into their huge arms for a bear hug.

"C-can't breath!" Steven managed to spit out, almost being crushed by F/n's embrace.

"Ah, oh sorry!" F/n laughed loudly as they let the two go.