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You are My Universe (MysteriousD/DaddysLittleSkank)

"Gems normally can't have kids. Steven's mother, Rose, shapeshifted to give herself a womb and when she gave birth, she well, she gave up her form so Steven could exist. Besides, the Gem are like my sisters, so it would be awkward anyway," Greg explained to the family while Steven just rubbed Rai's back to comfort her.
 
"That's a shame. The tall one over here," Tula said pointing to Garnet, "got some birthin' hips on her."

Rai face palmed, muttering under her breath, "I knew it."

"I am sorry for your lose." Tula said with a compassionate smile. "I know hard it was for my son to lose his wife and raise Rai and her siblings."
 
"My name is Garnet," Garnet said in her usual neutral tone to Tula. Steven just patted Rai on the shoulder to comfort and support her. "As for Peridot and Lapis, well, they're more like cousins or younger sisters," Greg explained. He and Steven have alot of patience with Lapis and Peridot and while they have adopted better, they could still be somewhat aggravating sometimes.

"How was your family life growing up?" Steven asked them all.
 
"I'm sorry, Garnet." Tula said.

"Busy," Chris Sr said in regards to Steven's question, "all four of us come from large families ourselves, so it's no surprise we had large families."
 
"Her name is Pearl and she is Amethyst," Garnet said as she introduced her other comrades to the family. "That must've been really cool! But I guess it was also really hard, especially since taking care of kids isn't easy nor is having them," Steven remarked on the family coming from large families of their own.

"Well, I mean families influence how we raise our own for the most part. I haven't seen much of my own family in years, the exception being a cousin who used to live here and visits every now and then," Greg explained to them. "How would you feel in them raising their kids in a different way?" he asked.
 
"Chris is raising his kids differently than how we raised him." Tula said. "We were much stricter with him and his siblings; they went to a school through our church, spoke fluent Greek, all my daughter's could cook full meals by their twelfth birthdays, we went to church several times a week, and we used corporal punishment. Those are all things Chris has not done with his children, yet he raised good kids, even if his daughter's can't cook."
 
"I never really used that sort of stuff on Steven, but he never really needed it. Then again, I guess it can be hard to tell what kids need to be their best. They all need love, care and attention, but the ways of showing it and the details are just as different as they for each child," Greg explained sagely. Steven nodded along with him.

"There's nothing wrong with not being able to cook. Sure, everyone may have to do know to make something, but not everyone can be a chef. Though I can't say much with school. I was homeschooled, but I did go to school for a couple days and I did all right," Steven mentioned.
 
"When you have ten plus kids it gets pretty hard to keep track of who's in time out and who lost their tv privileges." Chris Sr explained. "A smack on the bottom or putting soap or hot sauce in their mouths was what was best for us."

"And it's not like we hit them with belts or any of that." Tula added. "Hell my mom had a wooden paddle hanging up in our living room she used to spank us."

"To say I've never laid a hand on my children is a lie." Chris stated. "When Dennis was eight and Alice was seven, Dennis got mad at Alice and punched her in the stomach, so I slapped him across the face."
 
Greg and Steven looked at one another. Neither of them were sure of what to make of it. Greg never really got corporal punishment before though he didn't think much of his family since he left.

"Sheesh, sounds kinda nuts," Amethyst noted with a raised eyebrow. "Maybe ya'll are just too rowdy bck then," Amethyst said with her usual tone. "What did everyone do for a living? I imagine it must have been a bunch of sort of different stuff," Greg asked, wanting to change the subject.
 
Tula pointed to Chris, saying, "I'd come home to find that this one put baby alligators in our bathtubs because he wanted pets."

Rai laughed, "I swear Dad did so much as a kid. One time my dad wanted to prank one of his sisters so him and my uncle, Steven, climbed on the roof and my dad held my uncle by the ankles so my uncle could use the garden hose to spray my aunt through the bathroom window. In high school, he spent three years pretending to be my uncle during lunch so he could off campus. Another to-"

"We get it, Raiden Jasmine," Chris said sternly, "I did a lot of hilarious things when I was younger."
 
Steven, Greg and Amethysr couldn't help but laugh good-heartedly at the antics that Rai's father did back in his youth. "It's one of the important gongs in being a orent thoufh. Letting your kids know you're not perfect. No one is, and we're all just as capable of making mistakes and acting silly, back when we were their age and even now as adults," Greg told Chris.

"I believe Greg did ask about the nature of everyone's careers. I imagine it must have been difficult since a large family would mean transportation was a hurdle," Garnet said.
 
"Other than owning a bus it wasn't hard for transportation. I was and still am a teacher at the school my kids went to and it's kindergarten through twelfth grade, so I just packed all the kids up and brought them in with me." Tula explained. "The only problem was making sure everyone was on the bus because my kids always wanted to bring friends."

"I own my own jewelry store." Chris Sr said proudly.
 
"Wow, how did you get a bus? Wasnitnthrough the school or something?" Greg asked. During his time as a rockstar, he considered getting a bus when he was older though Marty said it was a bad idea, saying the gas costs would be too much for they were back then. Augh, Marty. He wasn't fond of thinking of his sleazy former manager.

"What kind of jewels?" Steven asked Chris Sr, curious about it. It was pretty interesting everyone's career choices. In the meanwhile, he also reassured Rai it would be okay.
 
"It wasn't a school bus, so it was actually pretty easy to get." Tula said.

"I buy most of my jewels from dealers but the town we live in has a lot of oysters in the its bay so we mostly sell pearl jewelry since that's what's most available." Chris Sr explained.
 
"Wow, that's neat. Dad and I usually travel in the van that he lived in back when he was a rock star," Steven exclaimed to them with a smile. "What about yourselves?" Greg asked the other pair of grandparents at the table. He was seeing that everything was going well so far though he also knew that some opinions may be not as respected or such.

Amethyst just dove into the food, her and Garnet content on listening for now.
 
"I stay home." Haris said.

"I'm an attorney." Giorgios said.

Rai shot Steven and Greg a look that said to drop it. "Grandmother, would you like to me to run your bath?"

"Yes, and bring the bottle of wine I brought and a wine glass." Haris stood up and left to the upstairs.

Rai stood up and took her grandparents' plates to the sink before she grabbed a bottle of wine from the ridge, a cork screw, and a wine glass.

Giorgio's stood up, and said, "Make that two, Raiden," before he left to go upstairs. Raiden grabbed a second glasses and followed Giorgio's.

Once the three were gone, Tula rolled her eyes, "I see they're as friendly as ever."

"Mother," Chris sighed, "Dennis wanted them here and they are your grandchildren's other grandparents."

Tula gave him a dirty look, asking, "And you let them stay here?"

"Mother, we have guest and I do not want to discuss this. You can bitch about them all you want once Raiden is out of this house but I will not allow you to bad mouth them infront of their grandchildren." Chris said.
 
Greg and Steven looked a bit worried when Rai shot them a look to tell them to be quiet. The two along with the Gems watched the randparents interact as they went up.

"Wait, I don't understand. What is the problem?" Greg asked, taking the opportunity to try and see whats the matter while Rai is upstairs with her other grandparents. Steven stayed quiet, biding his time to see what would be said.
 
"Let's just say they've never been fond of me," Chris explained with a sigh, "and that only got worse after Molly passed."

"That's the understatement of the year." Tula scoffed. "They were constantly telling Molly she could do better and they always tried setting her up with new men. When she died, her parents started trying to get custody of the kids. They started accusing Chris of anything and everything they could: child abuse, neglect, alcoholism, dealing drugs, being a gang leader, anything you can think of they accused Chris of."
 
Greg raised his eyebrow before he and Steven faced Tula to hear what she said in regards to that. Both of them grimaced in regards to the large levels of disdain witnhin the family and even Amethyst and Garnet looked a little disturbed by it.

"Then why hve them stay here? They sound like total jerks," Amethyst commented in her blunt method. Steven wasn't sure what to say. "Why do they hate you so much?" Steven couldn't help but ask Chris.
 
"They are, but they're Molly's parents." Chris sighed. "I know she wouldn't be happy with how they're acting but I know she'd want the kids to have a relationship with them. They always told Molly she could have done better than me and when she died, they blamed me. But my guess for them acting this way is that they don't approve of Steven."

"They didn't even talk to him." Pearl said

"They don't have to. Steven isn't Greek, that's enough for them." Chris said turning to Tula. "Mom of Rai's not done in three minutes can you go up and check on her? Haris is probably up there trying to talk Rai into dating some Greek boy."
 
Greg just sighed as he rubbed his face, becoming more than a bit uncomfortable at everything that was being said. He did become also a bit upset at the rudeness though he wasn't sure what to do for here. He did know that there was something that needed to be done. Amethyst and Garnet looked at one another, also with unhappy expressions on their faces.

"Maybe I should try and go to talke to them," Steven suggested. Even with the rather unpolite treatment, he still wanted to try and make a good impression with all of this.
 
Rai walked back in the room, and went behind Steven, hugging him. "You don't have to, Dennis is the only one of us that actually has a relationship with them. He's the only one that actually remembers them before our mom died, the rest of us only remember them how they are now. I really don't give a damn what they think." She kissed his cheek before she sat back down. "If you're lucky you'll never see them again, and don't let them get you down, they don't like Sadie either... or Lars."

"Well, we like you." Tula said trying to lighten the mood. "You seem like a nice boy and I'm happy Rai has someone she cares about."
 
Steven smiled and relaxed when he felt Rai hug him before he got up to hug her back. "Thanks Rai," he told her before he pulled the seat for her to sit. "It's kinda messed up though. I know wanting what's best for your kids, but ultimately, they get to decide that, not the parents. They have to live their own lives, not the lives that parents say they have to live," Greg commented on.

"Yeah, I guess it's kinda the same as what we did, but nowhere near as crazy," Amethyst said, using the Gem Civil War as a metaphor to the conflict.
 
"So you haven't told us about yourselves past your names." Chris Sr said with a smile.

"Does anyone want dessert?" Tula asked getting up and pulling a cake from the fridge.

"No thanks, Yaya." Rai said followed by Pearl and Lapis turning it down to.
 
"Well, I had kinda normal life when I was a kid. We came from a pretty normal family though only my grandparents could remember our Italian hertiage. Of course, I wasn't like the rest of my family. When I was old enough, I had enough of community college. It didn't make me happy or fulfilled so I went to follow my dream to become a rock star. Then my new dream was to settle down with Rose. I had Steven and the Gems became my new family," Greg explained with a smile.

Garnet couldn't help but smile at the somewhat touching thing Greg said. "We love you too, Greg," Amethyst said with a smirk.

"I grew up with the Gems and Dad. I knew they did stuff to protect Beach City and stuff, but as I grew up, I knew what they did and I got more involved. The universe is a big place and I learned more," Steven added as well.
 
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