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[tigermillionaire]

Who: Steven and Pinkie!
What: Steven jumps into the ocean.
When: Backdated to like...the 8th? I have failed.
Where: The water surrounding Virgo HQ.
Warnings: Nothing immediately comes to mind.

He tries to hold on for as long as he can, but in the end the fear is too much for her to stand. He wishes his dad would come back - he wishes he could tell him, or explain some of this before he goes. But he can't risk letting this happen, for both of their sakes.

Not if what that person told him was true.

He hides out in the Defying Atmosphere, shooting off texts to Pinkie, until he hears someone approaching. He sneaks out to the balcony, then, waiting to see what he can hear. He catches sight of a group of three guards rifling through the interior of the penthouse, obviously looking for something.

He swallows, his head swimming with dread and terror. They're going to take him back. They're going to wreck him again. He can't take it.

He practiced the bubble earlier - doing it feels so natural now. Trying to forget his fear of heights, he makes a dash for the ledge, just as a guard hears him moving and starts to pursue. He leaps.

The light of his gems envelopes him in a protective pink bubble. Then, all he can hear is the sound of air whizzing by, and eventually, the shocking slap of the water as the bubble strikes it. He sinks beneath the waves, the impact not having harmed him at all.

He tries to text Pinkie before he gets too deep for the text to go through. He's stolen Greg's phone.

i jumped im in the water and sinking
im ok

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[tigermillionaire]

He holds on tight, and soon he feels the bump of the preserver hitting the boat. He scrambles to get over the edge without flipping the whole thing over, and vary quickly finds himself entangling with her arms as he wildly reaches for support.

He flops into the boat, wet and startled. He's succeeded in his plan, at least for now. He takes in shaking, gasping breaths for a few moments, before managing.

"We gotta go, okay? They...I don't know if they'll follow us..."

[sailorlaughter]

"Okie-dokie!" Pinkie was already fumbling with the oars, thinking along the same lines. She wishes she'd gotten a motorboat, but she was also afraid to make noise like that as she approached. It would be so much worse now. She curls her quivering fingers around them until it feels almost natural and starts paddling as quickly as she can in the opposite direction.

"What - " She isn't used to this much arm exercise, and she's a little out of breath. "Are you hurt?" He looks WAY better than he did, but that doesn't mean he isn't.

[tigermillionaire]

He wraps his arms around himself, trying to catch his breath. He has to think about that - it all happened so fast. One moment he was hiding, the next he was taking the plunge.

"...N-No. I jumped before they could grab me. I...I heard them come in and I just...I ran to the balcony and jumped."

[sailorlaughter]

"Good." That's all she can really say to that. Pinkie would obviously rather it never came to him having to jump off a balcony into the ocean, but that's their lives right now.

She'd like to check him over herself, but she's a little busy with the rowing. Instead, she nods to her bag sitting in the bottom of the boat. "I brought you some clean clothes, you should put them on. I dunno if we can really get you back in the penthouse without anybody seeing, but maybe if we go quick?" If she'd had time she might have been able to plan something. They did, after all, break into Lesedi's office; that's a lot harder than their own penthouse. But as it is, she's just going to wing it and hope for the best.