He can hear her heart beat. He never could, before.
"I mean, from the moment I met you, Rose, I felt you-- got me, somehow. Maybe not everything? Definitely not everything. But I felt you... understood, somehow, what I was about. What being Mr Universe was about. And... I think by the end, we both knew it, somehow. That we just-- understood each other. That even though we never told each other about some parts of our pasts--mostly because I wasn't ready when you wanted to talk about it and I knew if you confessed I'd end up doing the same--I knew it anyway. Because somehow, even though you were a Gem and I was a human, in a way we were from-- the same place. Emotionally. Only-- I wasn't tired yet. The way you were."
He nestles in close. "When I found out about you being Pink, I'd already met Blue. She, ah, kidnapped me to that zoo they gave you. Because we'd talked about missing you--we didn't know we were both talking about you--and she didn't want me to die when the cluster came out. She didn't know Steven had fixed it. So-- I knew what she was like. And then I met them again, when they crashed Ruby and Sapphire's wedding, and I thought--
"Well. We really did come from the same place. The same... kind of people. The same kind of family. Just yours were the Diamonds and mine were the Demayos. And you became Rose for all the same reasons I became Mr Universe."
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"I mean, from the moment I met you, Rose, I felt you-- got me, somehow. Maybe not everything? Definitely not everything. But I felt you... understood, somehow, what I was about. What being Mr Universe was about. And... I think by the end, we both knew it, somehow. That we just-- understood each other. That even though we never told each other about some parts of our pasts--mostly because I wasn't ready when you wanted to talk about it and I knew if you confessed I'd end up doing the same--I knew it anyway. Because somehow, even though you were a Gem and I was a human, in a way we were from-- the same place. Emotionally. Only-- I wasn't tired yet. The way you were."
He nestles in close. "When I found out about you being Pink, I'd already met Blue. She, ah, kidnapped me to that zoo they gave you. Because we'd talked about missing you--we didn't know we were both talking about you--and she didn't want me to die when the cluster came out. She didn't know Steven had fixed it. So-- I knew what she was like. And then I met them again, when they crashed Ruby and Sapphire's wedding, and I thought--
"Well. We really did come from the same place. The same... kind of people. The same kind of family. Just yours were the Diamonds and mine were the Demayos. And you became Rose for all the same reasons I became Mr Universe."