Notes:

As of the time of publishing, it is January 20th, which marks the 1-year anniversary of the first act of Gem Ascension (or the first 2 chapters of Act I in the Re:Ascension re-release)! An entire year has passed since I first started this massive insane series, and I had no idea back then just how much investment I'd be putting into this project. Even more impressive is that I've consistently stuck with it for this long.

And within the first year, I've already put over half a million words into the Gem Ascension continuity. Utter madness.

Just wanted to bring that up. Since the first chapter was for a self-indulgent celebration of my birthday, it was only fitting for the final chapter to represent my self-indulgent celebration of Gem Ascension's "birthday", so to speak. Here is where the REAL crazy shit happens in this very explicit Stevidot smut. Not many dare to go down this road, but in honor of good buddy Ig and my own interest in this twist, I was determined to see it through to the end.

Honestly, I think my smut-writing skills are below-average at best, but you can be the judge of that if you so desire. Enjoy seeing how Steven and Peridot fuck something up this time! ... Figuratively AND literally.

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"See, Little Peri? The outside world isn't so bad. You really should give it more of a chance when I'm not around…"

Peridot, while heavily annoyed, did her best to not let it show. Of course, she was always bad at this… and even if she could manage a poker face to save her life, the ascended gem, even years later, often forgot about her fiancée's ability to read her unspoken feelings.

So, tragically, there was no point in her ever trying to hide anything from Steven; even with the best of intentions.

"The more you treat my giving genital like a separate entity, the more awkward this entire situation becomes," she flatly stated. "Have you ever seen me treat your anatomical equivalent like this, Steven?"

Steven offered the love of his life a reassuring smile, though he appeared to be under duress in doing so. All the while, his finger glided over the slick shaft of the rarely-appearing tentacle. The hybrid's attention had been almost exclusively on it since he was woken up.

"Well, no… but mine doesn't exactly have, y'know… personality like yours does!" he explained, though the moment he spoke that statement, he knew right away how absurd it sounded. "I mean, your little thing is really stubborn, Peridot. I think this is maybe my third time ever seeing it, and didn't you say earlier that it won't come out without me being around?"

"The majority of the tests I've conducted on my body have revolved around getting myself to evert in other ways," Peridot grumpily admitted. "And yes, despite my very intensive efforts in this field of research, this particular part of my anatomy only everts through your presence – preferably by means of direct contact, of course."

Steven flashed a more casual smile at the relatively small and thin prehensile extremity before giving it another stroke between his thumb and index finger towards the tip.

"Aw, so you only wanna come out to see me? That's so sweet," he cooed.

His words made the tentacle shiver with pleasure – a sensation that coursed through Peridot's body as she reflexively bit her own hand to suppress her moan.

"It's also highly illogical," she eventually grumbled at the young man. "I strongly feel this is not a quirk inherent with my kind. Can you imagine how feasible natural gem reproduction would be if every gem's tendril only everted under extremely specific circumstances like this?"

Steven's smile fell, but he continued to absent-mindedly stroke his fiancée's genital as he considered how unrealistic the trait was for gems as a whole. "I guess that's true… you kinda showed me years ago that already isn't the case with the quartzes…"

"Precisely," Peridot bitterly concurred. "Jasper barely needed to do anything for hers to start coming out... stars, her uniform was never even phased off. Yet repeated unclothed attempts to stimulate my corporeal form wouldn't bring out my genital unless you were with me."

"Given who else we know she's been with, we know it couldn't be an exclusive thing for chosen partners," Steven glumly added. "And as much as I hate to bring them up…"

Peridot let out a tired sigh. "Steven, don't even apologize: I feel it's necessary to acknowledge we've inadvertently caused Sphalerite to climax on her own… and through her memories, we know 5XF can evert not only independently of her partner, but with much greater ease. So, based on the evidence we have, we know this couldn't possibly be normal for all gems. Eversion should be roughly as simple as your equivalent in erection. And we've proved long ago that a partner's presence is not required for this phenomenon."

"And it's also not just some quirk for Peridots," Steven pointed out. "Geez… the only thing that really comes to mind is the fact that you emerged with Diamond parts, Dot. And you've ascended, on top of that… so maybe that's why your case is a little, uh… unique."

Steven did shamefully recall through Sphalerite's memories that the elder sister of Peridot also had a much longer and thicker tentacle, but the hybrid wisely decided to not point that out: he rightfully assumed if he remembered a detail like that, it was likely one that Peridot not only recalled as well, but was regularly haunted by.

However, that at least wasn't so much on Peridot being puny, but rather indicative of 5XF's official "defect" – her tentacle was actually larger than the standard Era 2 Peridot size.

"Mm… you're right," Peridot reluctantly agreed. "That must be it: this defiant tentacle of mine represents the kind of Diamond I identify as…"

"Willpower," Steven finished with a solemn nod. "I know it's hard for you to just take my word for it when I say we shouldn't worry too much, but it'd really suck for our night to end on a low note because there's just a lot we don't know about your special anatomy…"

"There's a very slim chance we'll ever know the full extent of the truth," Peridot darkly acknowledged, almost sounding like she was conceding defeat. However, a certain framed image caught the corner of her eye: the technician couldn't help but keep a held gaze at the picture of what her and Steven's future could one day be.

Steven took notice to his lover's distracted expression and followed her gaze; his smile consequently widened as he caught sight of what held her attention.

While he had never stopped stimulating Peridot's tentacle even for a second since it everted, Steven was certain to stroke it more vigorously as he took his eyes off of it for the time being. He knew right now it was more important to console the host body of the wet, squirming tendril and doubled his stimulative efforts to deter it from going back to its hiding place simply because he was no longer constantly giving it his undivided attention.

"It's fine if we never fully figure this out, Peridot," Steven warmly assured his beloved gem. "What matters is that we can share our experiences as best we can… and who knows? Maybe sex isn't the only thing your Little Peri can help me share. Future Us kinda implied that at the end of our dream, didn't they?"

Peridot's cheeks flushed deeply as she instantly knew what exactly Steven referred to. "O-oh, Steven, don't be ridiculous…"

"Well, we definitely know it's not impossible thanks to our dummy of a fusion," Steven acknowledged, sounding a little annoyed with that detail before he indulged in Peridot's flustered nature. "Who knows, right? Maybe the kids with navel gems should be calling you Papadot instead…"

"Oh my stars, you actually said that!" Peridot cried out in sheer embarrassment, shivering violently before she turned her focus squarely onto the cheeky hybrid reclined in her lap. "I should destroy you for insinuating such things!"

Steven grinned quite shamelessly in response. "I sure hope you mean you're gonna destroy me in the sack!"

"–I-idiot! I'm going to destroy you on this padded mattress!" Peridot specified; her literal-minded self a bit too riled up to realize Steven was indeed on the same page. "Not some cheap burlap construct!"

After taking a moment to check on his future spouse's counterpart to his cock, Steven was amused to see the tendril not only throbbing between his fingers, but visibly looking a slight bit thicker than it was moments ago.

"Well, I'm glad you're gonna make sure to destroy me in only the best of conditions," he replied in a smarmy tone as he tightened his grip on the tentacle. "I can tell you're wet enough down there to wanna take me right now…"

"Ohhh, do I ever," Peridot heaved with fury. "Because of course you could barely last a minute not looking at that discipline-lacking genital of mine! B-but…"

With great restraint, she took a deep breath and did her best to contain her own brand of primal rage.

"I-I know I'm not nearly as big as you, Steven… b-but being that this is our first time and we know very little about this accursed part of my body, I don't want to assume it's completely harmless," the ascended gem confessed. "That being said, I believe the wisest course of action is to lubricate your point of entry and what I will be entering you with."

While he curled his first into the precum-leaking tentacle, Steven's eyes met his fiancée's.

"If I was in your spot right now, I'd be making the exact same call," he wholeheartedly agreed. "Only problem is, you'll probably need a lot of spit for me back there…"

"And I want it to be yours," Peridot insisted. "You had the foresight to minimize my pain, so let me do the same for you. If we're going to need a surplus of saliva, perhaps I can… "

Realizing what she was about to suggest, both Steven and Peridot blushed simultaneously.

"Heh, wow… taking us back to our very first kiss," Steven chuckled, sounding nearly breathless by how visibly moved he felt about this. "Well, we proved your spit can adopt the healing factor so long as it's mixed in with mine. It'd be a sweet way for our relationship to come full circ–mmmffhh!"

While tempted to re-enact their delightfully awkward first kiss where they made the decision to go through with it together on the count of three, Peridot couldn't bear to wait that long. With Steven constantly stroking her shaft, its throbbing increased… as did its length and girth.

Despite still having reasonable doubt in her capabilities (as well as overall discomfort in taking up a role like this where she could easily hurt the love of her life if she wasn't careful), Peridot's level of arousal steadily rose. At long last, she understood how Steven felt in this position, and a large part of her never wanted to use her willpower to torment her lover's cock again.

As she took her time sloppily kissing Steven, sucking in his saliva to store in her cheeks while their tongues sensually danced together, Peridot considered perhaps subjecting herself to the same brand of torment as penance for her careless misuse of her powers. Though part of herself thought it would well be worth the pain for a reason Steven soon picked up on.

With the pair finally on equal footing with the same desires and goals, understanding what they each individually wanted to accomplish together on this night, Steven found himself in a familiar position: an incident that happened years ago, way back during the night minutes after the couple performed their first successful fusion.

For many reasons, that night and their accomplishment was much harsher to look back on in hindsight, but creating Sphalerite was not the only feat they unwittingly achieved on their very first date.

As the two made out and came to better understand each other, Steven and Peridot were able to glimpse into each other's minds. The latter had no aptitude for this particular skill unless she was fully attuned with her partner. Steven himself could only reliably read coherent thoughts and see into others' imaginations under the same conditions; this time, he could hear the technician clumsily trying to convince herself she needed to implement self-punishment in a specific way.

Though he still had air to spare, Steven broke away from the kiss slowly after gathering this. He saw that Peridot's cheeks were puffed out already, so there was no need to donate any more of his special saliva, anyway.

Obviously, Peridot couldn't let out anything more than a muffled gurgle as she tried to keep her mouth from leaking when she looked to Steven, clearly confused and curious why he decided to part ways so soon.

The young gem was still so prone to being self-conscious in these situations and assuming she had done something wrong, so her worry was immediately apparent. Steven smiled reassuringly at his fiancée and made sure their eyes were on nothing but each other in this moment.

"Peridot, I get it, okay? You feel bad about making me hold back… while I think it's worth trying out on yourself, I don't want the main reason for you doing it being to punish yourself. Especially not for your first time… you've got enough to worry about just pulling that off," he said in the most soothing tone he could muster; his free hand fiddled with the curls framing the side of his beloved gem's face.

"Mm–drrrghsssh–!" Of course, Peridot was compelled to respond, but came close to losing a good amount of spit when she realized what currently impeded her ability to speak.

Steven, of course, couldn't help but laugh good-naturedly at the sight. To him, Peridot was always at her cutest when she became flustered or had a ditzy moment where common sense all but left her for whatever reason.

"C'mon, Dot," he teased. "Chipmunks store food in their cheeks every winter, and they seem to pull off communicating just fine…"

The glare Peridot shot in Steven's direction didn't have an ounce of the menacing impact she meant for it to; if anything, her puffed-out cheeks combined with her usual short-tempered expressions just made it all the harder for Steven to stop laughing.

Ultimately, Peridot narrowed her eyes and remembered she had the power to easily deal with problems like this: she willed a glass jar into existence and quickly expelled the stored-up fluids in her mouth inside it.

She sat the container some distance aside while she continued giving Steven the stink-eye. "You enjoyed my misfortune far too much for my liking, Steven. That's all the more justification for me to embark on a hostile takeover of your virginity."

While it hadn't been that long since Steven hit his peak (and consequently did feel some discomfort from his very sensitive member), he was dead certain Peridot's words stiffened up every single part of his body in the best possible way.

"H-heh, I was gonna say, so long as it's for a reason like that, I'm more than okay with you holding yourself back from going off too soon," he pointed out. "I still don't think it's a bad idea by itself: we just need more practice so we'll know how to use a technique like that to its full potential."

Peridot found herself blushing at Steven's words. "Stars almighty, you really do want me to pound you into an organic pulp…"

"I-I just wanna know how it feels," Steven shyly explained. "And… and with the way you acted when I just did you there, Dot…"

The technician clenched her teeth as she thought back on her behavior when Steven made the abrupt decision to switch holes on a whim.

"W-well, some of that could be owed to catching me off guard since you know improvising is by no means something I'm accustomed to, but…" Peridot sighed; not even she bought into her own BS at this point. "Okay, fine. I admitted it was an even tighter fit in my anal cavity, and apparently you felt the same way. Yes, it was amazing. But it's highly unlikely I'll be able to give you an equivalent level of pleasure for your experience, given the notable difference in our phallic proportions…"

"You've been getting a little bigger since your Little Peri first came out," Steven made sure to point out as he gestured down to his partner's lap where he continued to tease the tentacle with his right hand. "If you hold yourself back, I'm definitely sure you'll get that thing big enough to split me in half eventually."

Peridot cringed at the literal thought. "Rest assured I'll do everything in my power to not bisect you, Steven. I just wanna… destroy you a little bit, that's all."

"Oh, that's all?" Steven snickered out before resuming his usual loving, comforting gestures. "Well, I'm looking forward to seeing just how you pull that off, Peridot. You've got what you need for coating me in the back, so…"

He offered his partner a final kiss before setting his eyes down the diminutive gem's lap. "I'd like to finish what I started before you woke up while you take care of that."

She had gone out of her way to not acknowledge it, but Peridot couldn't deny that it felt pretty damn amazing to have her temperamental tentacle wrapped in the confines of her lover's heated mouth.

"Yes, that would objectively be the best way to make efficient use of our respective time," she agreed, barely able to contain her normally unbridled excitement. "Ah, since your human proportions have grown a bit these past couple of years, perhaps it might be optimal to…"

"–Oh! I keep forgetting the gap between our body sizes is getting pretty big nowadays," Steven realized; clearly embarrassed to only now acknowledge that due to his continued growth, the pair no longer had much in the way of symmetry between their bodies. "Heh…"

Steven couldn't resist grinning like an idiot when he realized what Peridot was trying to suggest. "Wow. Didn't think we'd be busting out the ol' 69 position on the first go, but there's no better way for us to do our thing at the same time…"

"Technically, it's not that proper position since I won't be orally stimulating your phallus," the nitpicky technician was compelled to point out. "But, yes, I'll admit it's quite similar. Do you know how long I've been listening to Amethyst make jokes about that number before I was properly taught about this position?"

"Psssht, you're preaching to the choir, Peri," Steven assured. "Amethyst's been taunting me with those well before we met you. But Pearl was usually there to try and put a stop to it."

Peridot couldn't help but smirk. "Ah, yes. "Try" being the operative word. Does that not speak volumes how ineffectual Pearl has been as the family's self-designated moral guardian?"

"Eh, I give her points for effort, at least," Steven casually stated. "Poor Pearl – I know she's been dreading this day, so I bet the other gems took her out to a bar to get her plastered. And she's usually disgusted when it comes to eating or drinking. Last time she did that was drinking Dad's hot cocoa right before our last Homeworld mission, and I think that was more outta courtesy… or a "we're probably gonna die soon anyway, so whatever" kinda gesture…"

While the technician was intrigued (as she only now learned about this detail due to not being present on the ship during that moment in time), the surges of arousal coursing through her body quickly overwrote the sentiment.

"Steven, I'm fairly certain my lack of a skeletal structure makes this term a misnomer in my specific case, but talking about Pearl at length is a surefire way to kill my "boner" in record time," Peridot grumbled, barely able to maintain her patience. "We're doing a pathetic job metaphorically sticking it to that uptight clod if we continuously get sidetracked."

"Ahaha… fair enough," Steven conceded. To make up for that, he kept a tight grip on his partner's tentacle while he re-positioned his body.

In less than a minute, the couple was placed in a manner that would allow both to fulfill their current missions. Now, Steven really couldn't see anything other than the twitching member in his grasp and the freshly-dripping vaginal folds it sprouted between.

"Boy, you're a clingy one," Steven teased the prehensile member as it wrapped around his thumb in an almost-possessive manner. "Hey, it's okay: you've got my full attention again. You cold, buddy? Wanna keep warm in my mouth again?"

Peridot rolled her eyes at Steven's sweet-talking to her gem equivalent of a penis, but said eyes soon bulged out the second she felt Steven's warm, silky lips wrap around it once more. Once her partner resumed his fervent sucking of her member, the gem felt herself shivering with pleasure almost immediately.

While Steven hadn't been doing much other than stroking her off the entire time they talked (maybe with some squeezes here and there), so much constant stimulation over that period of time was certainly adding up. And much to her relief, Peridot could feel herself filling out down there.

If anyone could make her little noodle of a cock grow into a proper penetrating rod, of course it would be none other than Steven himself.

In many ways, it really seemed like Steven was more excited to be fucked than Peridot was to be the one fucking him. For the full gem, she was desperate to not disappoint in this field for Steven's sake alone. Her own insecurities about the oddities surrounding her tentacle and overcoming them were just side-bonuses by comparison.

It took Peridot a few moments to get past the euphoric shock of the blowjob before she could properly focus on her own task.

"I'm sincerely regretting not paying more attention to this part of your anatomy, Steven," Peridot quietly uttered to herself as she slid the jar of spit over and coated her index finger with the thick healing goop. "I seldom thought we'd truly do this… and knowing what usually comes out of this hole…"

The ascended gem cringed at the thought. "E-even now, I can't shake that off entirely. But…"

Peridot felt herself start to throb uncontrollably inside her lover's mouth; she quickly willed herself to cap off her own impending orgasm before it slipped her mind again. The persisting itch she felt before her tentacle everted evolved to a searing sensation that spread like wildfire over her entire crotch. The pit of her belly started to simmer with desire as well; her core felt so tightly twisted, it almost felt like it would collapse in on itself.

And just like that, Peridot's concerns for sticking her fingers in a notoriously filthy part of an organic's orifice melted away. She tried to keep in mind how Steven went about preparing her a little while ago; the tension building up in her lower abdomen from her partner's vigorous oral stimulation almost compelled the ascended gem to drive her finger in full-force.

However, she stopped herself at the last second. While Peridot didn't have the patience to insert her first saliva-coated digit at a snail's pace, she carefully listened for Steven's reaction the moment she finally pushed the tip of her finger through the ring of his anus.

Any reaction of Steven's would be readily apparent to Peridot, as her dick quickly felt the vibrations of the young man's moaning.

Steven made sure to communicate as well as he could through his muffled outcries; unlike him, Peridot could not passively read her lover's unspoken feelings. She needed clear cues to know for sure she was doing something right.

Peridot quickly gathered that the moans were ones of approval and a signal to continue her work.

It was harder than expected for her to slide her finger very far; Steven's inner walls were very quick to clench down hard on their intruder. She erroneously assumed that Steven's continued growth would equate to a larger passage, but she vastly overestimated the proportionate growth of an anus to the rest of his body.

It didn't help that Peridot's own fingers were quite short and stubby even post-ascension, so she could only push so far up her partner's rectum before her digit fully hilted itself within his ass.

Luckily, Peridot soon recalled that she was, in fact, an ascended gem. Being a peridot-diamond hybrid charged with willpower meant many of Peridot's limitations as an Era 2 gem no longer applied, so it didn't take her long to think of shapeshifting the length of her finger.

Indeed, her index finger grew as long as she needed it to be. With much greater ease, and empowered by the aroused, muffled whimpering of her fiancée, Peridot pushed through the tight, heated cavern with much greater ease.

After sheathing her lengthened index finger, Peridot was mesmerized by the sight of Steven's ass quivering with delight as it seemed to buck against her finger; a clear indicator that it was ready for more.

From the corner of her eye, Peridot also caught sight of Steven's half-hard member twitching with delight.

Peridot was admittedly impressed to see it readily aroused so soon after it blew its load. While she knew it was far from being ready for another round, the technician did quickly realize she only needed one hand to stretch out and lubricate Steven.

So, she was more than happy to reach over with her free hand and secure Steven's cock with a gentle, but firm grasp.

Of course, Peridot couldn't resist snickering when she heard Steven's gasp break through his muffled moaning. She knew he'd have no objections to a handjob while she probed his ass, so Peridot happily resumed work on her main objective: it was time to add her middle finger.

While she did that (and thoroughly enjoyed Steven's whimpering further stimulate her own member), Peridot performed some routine thrusts in-and-out. She recalled an interesting sensation after Steven inserted a second finger inside her ass earlier; while she couldn't see what exactly he did, it didn't take long for her to experiment and come across the scissoring technique.

Steven's much louder internal groaning was indicative of Peridot coming across the proper method. The quick-learning gem smirked, wasting no time shapeshifting her middle finger so she could properly stretch Steven's asshole as far as she could go.

Moments later, Peridot felt a massive jolt of arousal when Steven suddenly screamed right against her tentacle.

Peridot was puzzled by this reaction, but it seemed somewhat familiar…

Steven was compelled to interrupt his blowjob (letting one hand take his mouth's place; he was intent on not letting this tricky tentacle go a single second without some form of attention from him) and looked back to Peridot.

"O-oh shi–…" Of course, Steven was of (relatively) sound mind and wanted to avoid swearing any more than he had already when he was driven completely insane from his arousal. "I mean, fu–… fffrgh–Peridot!"

"... Yes…?" Peridot meekly replied.

"Whatever you just did, j-just… grah! Keep doing that, please!" he urged. "P-put more fingers in me; maybe that'll make it easier! Just don't stop doing that!"

Steven's anguished pleas fully resonated with Peridot: whatever he felt, it was very similar, if not identical to what Peridot herself felt when Steven fucked her ass at a certain angle.

"If you insist," Peridot happily obliged the young man as her ring finger (not the one bearing the actual engagement ring, of course) plunged into his anus. "I should have figured even something like this wouldn't make you sink to my level: my dear, sweet Steven would never threaten another on pain of death… not even under the influence of arousal!"

Her ring finger grew like the two before it, and the devious gem gleefully pumped all three into the ass of her beloved.

Needless to say, Peridot was hitting Steven's prostate every other beat, which never failed to draw a howl of pleasure from the young man.

Said howling was soon muffled again; while Steven was stunned with the continued assault on his prostate, Peridot instinctively wrapped her legs around his head and plunged her pulsing tendril straight back into Steven's mouth. Steven was surprised, but didn't mind that his lover was taking matters into her own hands.

It was a great challenge for Peridot to resist further giving in to her urges; so badly, she wanted to fuck Steven straight down his gullet just as he'd done to her. However, she couldn't let herself forget that Steven had certain limitations; giving the hybrid a receipt for his brutal treatment of her was highly dangerous and ill-advised.

While Peridot had the restraint to resist going that far, she was a bit ashamed to let a couple of thrusts slip through her resistances. Luckily for her, Steven seemed to anticipate this inevitability and withstand them.

After some consideration, Peridot inserted her pinky into Steven, but by this point, his inner walls were already well-coated in his saliva and she could only stretch a virgin asshole out so far before it became more trouble than it was worth to stress-test the hole. She continued to ram her elongated fingers against Steven's prostate relentlessly.

It was then that Peridot took notice to Steven's cock that was still being tended by her other hand; a few hits on the prostate quickly jolted the member up into a fully erect state. Much like her own shaft, Steven's throbbed with need. It was already in such a desperate state, and Peridot hadn't even started properly fucking the young man yet.

Left by itself, no doubt Steven's cock was going to spill long before Peridot finished her task. To the logical-minded technician, that seemed like such a waste…

Against her better judgment, Peridot once more utilized her willpower to keep Steven from ejaculating. The darkening color of the shaft told the ascended gem that it was finally time to give her lover what he really wanted.

Steven's mouth hung loose over Peridot's tentacle as he whined; his future wife's fingers slowly slid out of him entirely, leaving him unbearably barren.

"Oh, hush," Peridot shot back, rolling her eyes. "You're about to get exactly what you want, Steven. But you'll need to let me go."

After spending so much time nonstop with Peridot's tentacle, part of Steven really didn't want to relinquish his hold on it. He worked so hard to bring it out, the hybrid was genuinely afraid it would retreat back to its hiding place as a clitoris if he dared to let it go.

In the end, Steven decided to trust Peridot's judgment and, with great reluctance, let it go free.

Peridot rose to her feet on the mattress while Steven adjusted his position. He was already, for the most part, in the proper stance to take it from behind.

Meanwhile, Peridot's other hand left Steven's shaft by its lonesome, as she needed both sets of fingers for this new phase. Curiously she peered down at herself and rested her tentacle right over the hole it was destined to penetrate. The sensation made Steven shiver with delight, while Peridot felt shaken for… other reasons.

Her tentacle was now a much more respectable size thanks to Steven's constant attention. Still nowhere near the length and girth of the human hybrid's, but it had gained enough in both aspects to now appear closer to a proper "cock" rather than an overcooked noodle.

"Thank you, Steven," Peridot gratefully whispered out. "This should be more than enough for me to… ah, destroy you with."

Though even with its increased length and girth, the ascended gem knew her tentacle wasn't nearly long enough to reach Steven's prostate. She would have to hope Steven's tight ass could get her to grow more, or else she might have to risk exerting her willpower to make her own tentacle shapeshift.

Peridot only wanted to consider that as a last resort, of course.

"Rrrrnnngghh, Peri! Hurry up and put it in!" Steven groaned with need. "Stop it with the teasing! I wanna be fuuu–uuuaah~…"

His demands were interrupted by the sensation of something going inside him, though it certainly wasn't a tentacle.

"There was a bit of surplus saliva left in the jar," Peridot deviously mentioned as she used both thumbs to stretch out his sphincter. "And I'd just hate for it to go to waste…"

With her willpower, Peridot could easily manipulate the remaining saliva in the jar to float over and pour directly into his anal cavity.

"Sssssshhh–oh, c-cold! S-so cold…"

"Felt pretty lukewarm to me," Peridot countered with a shrug. "You'll be grateful for this later; that much is assured."

Steven could barely think straight already; the sensation of so much viscous fluid seeping down his tender hole was impossible for him to describe. But… he definitely didn't hate it.

"I commend you for your efforts in lubricating my finicky injector," Peridot praised the young man as she started to guide her slick tip towards the tight ring of nerve endings that stood between it and the clammy depths of Steven's ass. "I promise I will make up for its lacking size with my dominating spirit!"

She leaned over to glance at Steven's face as best she could in this position, smirking at how utterly overwhelmed her future husband looked. "Are you prepared for your imminent destruction, Steven Universe?"

"Please, destroy me!" Steven wailed in response. "I-I wanna know how it feels! I've wanted to know for years! I-I know that's weird for someone like me, but–"

Steven was silenced with a gentle kiss.

"Steven, everything about us… as individuals, our relationship, our shared destiny in Era 3… all of that has been synonymous with "weird" since the beginning," Peridot gently assured him. "So stop with that self-shaming habit I've caught you doing far too often. If something as amazing as this is weird, then who on Earth wants to be ordinary? I certainly don't, and neither should you."

Peridot's warm and loving tone helped Steven relax. The elder of the pair was still astounded to this very day that the gem who spent most of her life as a merciless sociopath ruled by logic was now his affectionate, considerate, and consoling better half; the gem that would one day be his wife.

"So, you're… warming up to "Papadot", I take it?" he asked; now visibly relaxed and prepared to do whatever he could to make this experience one they could equally enjoy.

Peridot narrowed her eyes. "One step at a time, Steven. You've just re-ignited my rage."

"That's the plan!" Steven declared in a mischievous tone, winking at his beloved gem. "Pissing you off usually makes you put in the most effort, so…"

The technician was done with pleasantries now; while she acknowledged that Steven had a point, Peridot was now beyond the limits of her patience. She moved back to mount her partner, gripping his ass very tightly to express how overly-tried her patience truly was.

"Well, Steven, it's time to be destroyed for your insolence," she flatly stated. "Commencing anal fornication procedure!"

Both Steven and Peridot grunted as the latter slowly inserted her tentacle through the tantalizing hole.

With so much gratuitous lubrication on both ends, it was surprisingly easy for Peridot to slip in and bury herself to the hilt. Steven's wanton cries and moans were louder than ever regardless, as his body attempted to accommodate for this much thicker foreign addition. Thanks to Peridot's calming words of encouragement, Steven was relaxed enough to resist clenching too hard to impede his partner's progress.

Peridot momentarily collapsed on Steven's back, though her legs remained firm, keeping the gem's hips mashed against Steven's glutes.

She was overcome with the sensation of her extremely sensitive tentacle cushioned with the tight warmth of her lover's firm ass. Not long after she fully sheathed herself into Steven, she gasped upon feeling dribbles of excess saliva oozing out of the heavily occupied hole.

"O-oh… oh my stars… St-Steven, is… is this what you feel when you've i-inserted yourself into–?"

Steven readily nodded as he remained steadfast, but sweat poured down his face as he panted heavily, letting his body acclimate to this new experience.

"A-aah… I bet this really full feeling is…"

"Yes," Peridot hastily affirmed. "It's supposed to feel like that for you. Being complete… being…"

"One…"

Peridot's permanent blush deepened as she felt Steven take one of her hands and interlaced their fingers together.

"Your pleasure is my pleasure," Steven weakly assured his lover. "Just like my pain is your pain. We share it all… when I figured that out a long time ago, that's when I knew for sure I was gonna marry you one day."

In haste, Peridot wiped a stray tear from her eye, but her quivering smile told Steven she was weeping on the inside. "Y-you clod… I'm trying to destroy you, here! Don't start appealing to my better nature!"

"Just thought you'd like a little encouragement while we get used to being in each other," Steven lightly chuckled. "I meant what I said, though. Just keep in mind that no matter how the rest of this night plays out, or what happens tomorrow onward… one day, you won't just be Peridot anymore. You'll be Peridot Universe."

Just like that, Peridot hastily re-oriented her body to properly mount Steven like she had prior to slumping over.

"O-okay, that's enough out of you!" she sputtered; grateful that their positioning wouldn't allow Steven to see just how flustered she was right now. "You've delayed your inevitable destruction long enough! Now, feel my wrath in a manner that none before have!"

Peridot wasn't certain, but she certainly felt like she had been growing inside Steven since sheathing herself within him.

At the very least, she found it a bit trickier pulling out of Steven than it was to push in; then again, Peridot having to start slow only drew out the pleasure for Steven as he moaned wantonly.

"Nyrrrgh! You could still use some loosening up," she observed. "I'll have to apply some brute force."

While "brute force" should never be spoken of in the same breath as any Peridot (unless it's referencing one suffering brute force from a higher-caste gem) – these gems certainly were never made for that kind of power – it was a bit of a different story in the bedroom.

Steven's moaning went from sweet and sensual to downright guttural the moment Peridot fiercely slammed back into him, reburying her tentacle deep in his ass.

She didn't stop there: a steady, rhythmic cycle of thoughtless fucking followed Peridot's first "retaliation". Steven's escalated cries empowered her, and she quickly became addicted to the sensation coursing through her throbbing appendage.

Peridot saw no reason not to drive herself even harder into Steven; it wasn't long before she was putting most of her strength into her thrusts, striving to dig herself deeper into the young man she dearly loved. She thrived off his impassioned, ecstatic moans and frantic callings of her name.

And to think Peridot for so long had been uncomfortable taking up this role in her relationship with Steven. But thanks to her fiancée's persistence and drive to share as many experiences as they could, at last Peridot felt enlightened.

Steven, meanwhile, felt he had fallen into pure bliss. Despite his anguished cries, he was enjoying himself greatly – and through his powers, he felt all the better knowing Peridot was quickly becoming enamored with this new dynamic to their relationship. He was greatly overwhelmed, but in the best way possible: Steven knew there was a high chance Peridot would get carried away if she took to this form of lovemaking.

Many of Steven's independent "self-discovery" studies involved improving his stamina and endurance in the past; primarily for this very reason.

Of course, it helped greatly that the liberal use of Steven's saliva numbed down all pain to a bare minimum, so all that could be felt was the pressure and the pleasure that went with it.

"Ohshi– Peridot!" Steven gasped as his hands and knees gave out suddenly; his fiancée was no longer satisfied fucking him in a stationary position, so without warning, the diminutive gem jumped him from behind.

Her legs locked around his waist while her hands scrambled to wrap around his belly, but Steven's build proved to be too wide for her arms to fully lock together. She was barely able to keep her legs securely held tied for this very reason.

However tenuous her grip on Steven's body was, Peridot's ferocious fucking never faltered. She successfully managed to find a better angle to plunge deeper into his depths, but despite her efforts, both Peridot and Steven could tell she had not yet found the prostate.

But… come hell or high water, Peridot was determined to not let this night end without her tentacle finding the same bundle of nerves her fingers came across that drove Steven absolutely insane.

"I… have not yet begun m-my true destruction of your p-posterior, human!" Peridot hissed out. "This is the warm-up! I won't have my partner fall apart this soon, even if you are a limitation-prone organic!"

"J-just caught me by surprise," Steven choked out through his cries. "S-seriously, don't let up! The Peri I know is a fighter – you can do better than this and you know it!"

Peridot growled, but Steven's words proved to have an effect on her: the wet smacks of her hips meeting his ass grew louder and more frequent. She was glad to have thought of willing a hold on her own orgasm, as she most certainly would have spilled her essence within the young man by now.

At the end of the day, this engaged couple were basically still virgins – or rather, freshly ex-virgins. No matter how much Steven and Peridot studied and trained their bodies over the past two years, they could only go so far on their own.

Though Steven had mostly fallen flat on the mattress by this point, his knees were still partially up (just spread quite far out from their original positions); no matter how worn down the hybrid was, he direly needed room to buck his own hips in time with Peridot's. He was humping nothing but the covers, but it was purely reflexive. And if Peridot hadn't once again used her powers to suppress orgasms, there would be a sticky white mess where most of Steven's torso lied by now.

Of course, this time, Steven wasn't aware his beloved gem inflicted him with this for the second time in one night.

"How about now, Steven?!" Peridot barked out without losing a beat, throwing the full weight of her body against her partner every time she buried her squirming member into his innermost depths. "Is my rate of fornication to your liking?!"

For Steven, even he didn't believe Peridot would pick up on this so quickly. "Mmmhrrmph! Y-you're destroying my ass r-real good! I-I just… a little deeper–"

"Say no more," Peridot grumbled as she got straight to adjusting and analyzing her angle, figuring out how to best achieve what they both sought after. "Y-you're coherent; that means I'm not destroying you efficiently. And you know I do nothing by half-measures!"

"D-do whatever you need to do," Steven pleaded, utterly desperate. "I-I need to feel you hit that spot again. So good…"

Peridot grimaced as the blush across her face deepened once more. "O-oh, please! If I hit "that spot" ever again, it's only because I felt like it because I'm a professional, unlike you!"

She adjusted her angle slightly after pulling out, only to slam herself back into Steven full-force. He cried out, but Steven's ability to clearly wail out every syllable of Peridot's name was indicative that she hadn't reached the prostate yet.

"I'm not destroying your anal cavity out of mercy, human!" Peridot shakily claimed as she tried to resist repeatedly jamming her tentacle in-and-out out Steven so she could quickly try a new angle… but she wasn't quite disciplined enough to stop herself from doing just that anyway. "This is to assert dominance! I-I could so easily use my will to force you into submission; it's just more satisfying to break you this way!"

While all of Steven's senses were being relentlessly assaulted in some way, he managed to let out a smirk and a bit of a laugh between his fits of moaning.

"H-heh, I feel like that's the Little Peri talking," he snickered. "But they're probably not so little right now…"

"I… would say not," Peridot muttered as she paused her assault for a moment to see she had indeed grown and swollen considerably. With every passing second, Peridot had to exert a little more effort in pulling herself out of Steven.

Her little tentacle now bore a much greater resemblance to her fiancée's penis. However, that also meant Peridot was overdue let herself orgasm: that was just common sense when she'd basically grown about five times her natural size.

"Oh my stars… I-I'd say this is unprecedented, but there's only so much publicly known about natural gem reproduction," Peridot remarked in awe. "B-but logically, this shouldn't be the norm for a type of gem optimized to be inseminated…"

"Can you set aside that stupid curiosity aside for just a few minutes?!" a very pent-up Steven barked out, startling the technician. "I'm freakin' dying over here, Peridot!"

"–Oops." Peridot blushed for reasons beyond arousal for once. "Hehe… how could I forget I was in the midst of commencing your destruction?"

When she resumed her position, the ascended gem held back on her urge to immediately plunge back into Steven's needy ass; the young man himself raising his hips to present himself to communicate just how urgently he needed this.

Tempting as it was, Peridot knew she needed to apply some critical thinking after failing to reach Steven's prostate despite several attempts at different angles. It was hard enough for her to break her focus on her newly-awoken instinctive need to breed to adjust the positioning, and one look at Steven's swollen cock told the gem that her fiancée was in dire need of release; no less than she herself needed it, certainly.

She needed to think out of the box; figure out how to simulate what was originally achieved with shapeshifted fingers.

"Peridot, am I gonna have to float my ass right into your face for you to get your head back into the game?!" the increasingly demanding Steven snarled. "What's the hold-up?!"

"–Oh, that's it!" Peridot's eyes lit up as a revelation hit her. "We're on the Moon right now; I had to install a gravity field matching Earth's in our hideaway when I created it years ago, but perhaps this specific objective can be best achieved with none at all!"

Steven shot a cautiously skeptical look to his partner. "Really? We're gonna do something like this in Zero-G?"

"Our options greatly multiply when we're not tethered by the laws of gravity," Peridot slyly pointed out. "So long as we stay together, any position is at our disposal."

Without wasting another moment, the ascended gem passively asserted her willpower over the lunar hideaway's AI, deactivating the localized gravitation while suppressing what little pull the Moon itself naturally had in order to cause Steven to start floating in midair.

While being a gem meant Peridot's body would never naturally float so long as she was on any celestial body, that had no bearing over an ascended variant who regularly willed herself to float and fly even on Earth whenever she pleased.

Now that both were airborne, Peridot could easily switch to a position she vastly preferred over what she had before: by turning herself around and keeping Steven beneath her, the gem's tentacle easily slipped right back into the hybrid's freshly-stretched and slickened orifice.

"Hhhaaahhh," Steven breathed out and whimpered simultaneously. "M'kay, Peri… I'm trusting you on this…"

"If I'm going to destroy you, I'd prefer to see your agony as it happens," Peridot teased, revealing herself to have flipped Steven over. She clung to the young man's lower abdomen, not-so-accidentally mashing her body against his own throbbing dick. "Mmm, I can also take your phallus as a hostage like this."

Steven blushed heavily from the arousing sight of a devious Peridot shamelessly squishing much of her small body around his member, including keeping its top half cushioned between her breasts. "H-holy crap, you're evil…"

"Well, that's hardly news," the smarmy technician quipped, hugging Steven's cock firmly against her form while pushing her hips down to perform an experimental thrust,finally allowing Peridot to see the vulnerability and euphoria her literal input yielded from her beloved written all over his face.

"Mmmm-more of that, please!" Steven squeaked out as he subconsciously dry-humped the gem in possession of his rod. "C-C'mon, Peri! Give it your all!"

This prompted the smirking gem below to oblige him; with all her might, she started another round fervently fucking her fiancée, at the same time clinging to the most sensitive part of his body as hard as she could.

Soon enough, Steven was unable to contain his urges to moan out parts of Peridot's name and partial expletives as his lover not only matched her previous pace, but exceeded it. And somehow, although her tentacle was in a constant state of burning agony for quite some time, a particular searing heat tore through it the harder she plunged herself as deep into Steven as she could go.

It was a sign to Peridot that she needed to finish this up soon for her own sake, lest her own pent-up pressure become overwhelming enough to poof her. However, she wouldn't let herself get off until she could hit the spot Steven wanted so badly.

If his cries were anything to go by, Peridot was making progress of some kind, but she had no way of knowing just how close she was or which precise direction she needed to adjust her position to line up with what Steven so desired. Zero-G simply gave the couple more options to figure this out; it didn't exactly narrow said choices down.

So unwilling to break her furious pace, Peridot only fully broke out of Steven for less than a second before adjusting herself a few degrees to the right, then dug her dick straight back down into the young man without missing a beat.

Steven's cries gradually became louder and more incoherent; the harder Peridot fucked him, the more it pushed his upper body down. Eventually, he found himself floating in a downward-diagonal angle.

And suddenly, he could see nothing but white.

"AAAAH!"

"Steven?!" Peridot was roughly startled into stopping her assault, immediately concerned for the sudden escalation in her future husband's tone. "Steven, that didn't sound normal! Are you–"

"Keep. GOING."

The tone radically shifted again; now it was dark and almost menacing. However, it was full of confidence and assertiveness. Peridot knew that could only mean one thing.

"F-Fine!" she spat, trying to save face. "I'm holding you responsible if this turns out to be more than you're making yourself out to be able to handle! You aren't the only one who's about to shatter from internal pressure, y'know!"

Finally, Steven found his pleasure transcending the level in which it previously hit a plateau: his eyes leaked, he freely whined and cried incomprehensible nonsense, and the rest of his body went on autopilot as his own shaft piston up and down between Peridot's breasts without any consideration for the gem in question.

Thrust after thrust brought forth exploding stars in Steven's vision; the glittery remnants remained sparkling in his eyes as fresh drool began to seep from his mouth. His cries were soon made doubly impossible to make out as he started to gargle out his cries.

Peridot was glad Steven's body didn't completely give out on him after she found the right spot to drill her dick down against. She too pushed her limits, but both knew this moment of mutual bliss wouldn't last beyond a couple of minutes due to the wear and tear on their inexperienced bodies.

However, Steven and Peridot knew coming into this that their session, while making up for their epic failure two years prior, was still a learning experience. As expected, missteps were had, but thankfully nothing anywhere near the level of what they had suffered before.

Especially now that Peridot and Steven had their own shared bedroom just waiting for them back on Earth to use as they pleased, it was just a matter of time before the ascended gem memorized the precise angle to best fuck Steven, just as Steven would come to know by heart just where to elicit the highest levels of arousal out of Peridot.

All they needed was just a little more practice.

Steven's cries reached an unnaturally high pitch just as his gemstone started to glow. Peridot's own hybrid gemstone glowed seconds later as she felt her lover's body seize up, actively clenching against her tentacle to hold it in place. With one final heave and a sharp crack of her dampened hips smashing against Steven's saliva-coated ass, Peridot bottomed out inside her fiancée.

No longer able to maintain her own will-induced orgasm delayer, Peridot collapsed against her lover's cock as her own erupted with a furious outpouring of fluid: many years of repressing herself and this particular organ especially, only allowed to come out of hiding so few times and even less often had any opportunity to expel any of its own ejaculate, meant Steven got to experience what many years of repressed desires did to him when he and Peridot first succumbed to their desires long ago.

Peridot could barely even register the outside world as she flooded her partner's cavity with reproductive fluids. While she knew it couldn't literally be the case (as Steven literally wouldn't be able to stay alive), but the technician swore it felt like molten lava was being expunged from her constantly-spurting tentacle.

Her form beyond her member quickly relied on Steven's body for support; she felt entirely limp save for a very stiff rod; it would be a while before she went flaccid.

Steven felt something was amiss, but right now all he really cared about was the sensation of being filled by his lover's juices. This was something he wanted to experience since he first filled up his fiancée.

If he was being honest with himself, this was probably one of the biggest reasons why Steven was so insistent on sharing this experience with Peridot in the first place.

A few silent minutes passed as the floating couple embraced each other as best they could while waiting for the orgasm to subside.

Peridot didn't even want to think about how much of her essence she just shot straight into Steven; this moment was years in the making, and all she wanted to do was enjoy her well-earned accomplishment.

"Mm, that was really something else, Dot," Steven weakly murmured after the lengthy period of silence. "But… there's something I gotta ask…"

"No, it's highly improbable for my genital to stay that size, Steven," the annoyed Peridot muttered back. She knew that had to have been on his mind, at least. "And that's likely for the best: do you not realize I would be sporting an embarrassingly massive bulge between my legs if it remained the full extent of its maximum length and girth?"

Steven sighed in exasperation. "That's… not what I'm asking. Aren't you wondering why you aren't covered with my stuff right now?"

"Huh…?" Peridot blinked and finally took notice to the quivering, engorged member she clung to. "… Oh. How… peculiar…"

Then Peridot remembered it shouldn't be; while she ended the willpower-induced delay on her orgasm, she certainly wasn't thinking of giving Steven the same courtesy in the heat of the moment.

"Peridot…" Steven's knowing tone said it all: he likely just read through her feelings and figured out what she only now recalled.

"C-crap, I totally forgot to tell you I did that to you again, right?" Peridot was speaking rhetorically, of course, but was overcome with nervousness when she realized how rightfully pissed Steven was to learn about it at a time like this. "S-sorry! Steven, I promise I was gonna tell you! I was just–"

"Are you done in me yet?" Steven brutally cut her off; his narrowed eyes and furrowed brows made it clear he was more than a little peeved about this.

Peridot blushed at the reminder that she'd been filling Steven with who knows how much cum, but she quickly checked on that.

Sure enough, their bodies were barely connected at this point, as Peridot's tentacle shrunk almost to its original noodle-like size, though it remained just a tad thicker and puffier (likely from all the stress).

"Ahahaha… yep! I can tell by the shrinkage of my genital that I've literally got nothing left to give," Peridot pointed out, trying (and failing) not to sound as terrified as she felt. "I'll just go ahead and, uh…"

Luckily, it took barely any effort at all for Peridot to pull out what little remained of her in Steven. However, her tentacle was sensitive to maddening levels for obvious reasons, which made the technician choke out a whimper when she felt her tip get yanked from the sphincter.

However, Steven himself didn't even flinch at this: his eyes bore straight down into Peridot's.

"I, ah… I should probably go ahead and let you, er–"

Steven quickly cut her off by grabbing hold of both her arms. "You're gonna turn the gravity back on first, actually. I'll let you know when you should be doing anything else, got that?"

"R-right; of course…" Peridot was not about to be her usual insolent self when Steven looked that perpetually pissed off.

It was a pitifully easy task for the ascended gem to restore gravity back to its default settings, and she even had the foresight to make the change gradual so that she and Steven would land back on the bed nice and softly.

After landing and a few adjustments, the very bloated Steven seemed too focused on his current objective to acknowledge the expected side-effect of Peridot unloading so much of her seed within him (with very little pouring out even now): picking up his soulmate by the hips and planting her body right atop his shaft.

"I think the least you can do is take this for me," Steven dully ordered. "Unless you've got a problem with that."

The hybrid's tone made it evident to Peridot that he wasn't really going to take "no" for an answer, of course.

"Not at all!" Peridot very loudly assured; the ascended gem's forced grin made it all the more apparent that she at least regretted her actions enough to have a mild fear of what Steven's idea of a just punish entailed. "I'll just, uh…"

She grunted, attempting to force her body to slip down the entire shaft with ease, but no more than a couple of inches were buried inside.

Steven sighed, rolling his eyes before he applied a firmer grasp on his lover's hips to pull her down the rest way in a single fluid motion.

Peridot loudly gasped; it hadn't been that long ago since her silky nether lips had been parted to accommodate this mighty cock… but that was all the more reason why the technician couldn't resist her impassioned cries, as this was a lot of stimuli to be subjected to after the most explosive (albeit only) orgasm of her life.

Sat atop Steven's lap like this made the resulting bulge in her belly painfully apparent. Her inner walls were quick to constrict against this invader, but that was precisely what the hybrid wanted.

"I'm obviously not gonna be able to keep this down for long," Steven calmly told his partner; a tinge of contempt still lingered in his tone. "I wanna say this'll make up for not taking enough risks with you when we did it this way earlier, but… let's be real: I'll be lucky to last a minute."

"Qu-quality over quantity, then," a shaken Peridot assured. "F-for what it's worth, my phallic sensitivity combined with this is putting me quickly on the edge of another climax, so…"

"Just… don't move," Steven told her; the remains of his patience rapidly disintegrating. "You're exhausted, and this isn't gonna be anything fancy. Just consider it a receipt."

Peridot offered Steven a final pleading glance. "Y-you still love me, right? I didn't just annul our engagement with my faulty decision-making, did I?"

Steven smirked at the heavily bloated gem in his lap. "Peri, as much as you've tried to outright kill me in the past, you should know better to even ask something like that. Now be a good gem and dispel your little curse. This won't take long."

Overwhelmed with her fiancée's positive showing of emotion in light of the well-earned anger and annoyance he showed her since her blunder was revealed, Peridot happily willed away Steven's body's inability to orgasm as she embraced the young man. She felt relieved, or as much one could be when a very swollen and thick cock was on the verge of splitting her in two.

Of course, Steven reciprocated the embrace, but it doubled as a means of keeping a firm grip on the gem's body as he rapidly moved her up and down his tormented cock to give it that final push to send both parties off the edge.

It didn't even last a minute, but their combined guttural groans and cries spurred from their primal instinctive needs made Steven put his all into fucking the one gem he chose to marry. It was a hot, heavy, and intensive round of ceaseless fucking with zero boundaries or reservations from either party.

Part of Peridot wanted more of this, of course, but she could feel the mounting pressure rapidly pushing her vulnerable corporeal form towards the line: one that, which crossed, would cause her to poof.

But she couldn't deny there was something enthralling about being pushed so close to such an extreme. The love of her life was already so skilled despite his obvious lack of experience; what made up for that was the simple fact that the two knew each other so well. Steven's profound levels of love for her allowed the couple to pull through so many obstacles and remain firmly resolved to live out the rest of their lives together.

He knew exactly where to stop pushing his limits: that much was proved when Peridot gasped out in warning of a sudden oncoming orgasm. Just as that was triggered, Steven fully sheathed himself into his future spouse.

Fully trapped in Peridot's vice gripping canal, Steven tightly embraced his lover and howled out her name.

For the second time tonight, the young engaged couple came in unison.

Naturally, Peridot's vaginal secretions found a way to gush out from the seams of her plugged-up entrance, leaving both with soaked lower abdomens while the pent-up abundance of hybrid cum filled Peridot's core.

Combined with how much Steven unloaded in her anal cavity earlier, Peridot was coming out of this with a belly at least three times as inflated compared to how Steven's furious orgasm rendered her two years ago.

At least this time, Steven himself was sharing in that experience as well. Peridot's rapidly-expanding gut squished against Steven's own puffy belly, rubbing her soft, squishy form against the pink gemstone protruding from the center of her lover.

"Heh… even though we did it so much better this time around… we kinda ended this the same way we did last time, didn't we?" Steven noted when he finally had enough time to breathe and think semi-coherently.

Peridot blinked a few times before realizing Steven was absolutely right. "Oh, stars… you've got a point. The only difference is that my body could fully accept your insertion this time. How bizarre…"

"Yeah…" Steven's smile faded as he shot a freshly annoyed glance to Peridot. "So, let that be a lesson, Dot: if you're gonna do that, let me know."

"S-sorry," Peridot whined out; obviously still sensitive as their bodies were still joined together. "I had every intention of letting you know. I just… I saw how highly aroused you became when I had barely started dominating your anal orifice, Steven. So soon after your last orgasm, on top of that… I just, er… I felt like it would be a waste to just let it spill out. I thought you'd prefer to prolong your arousal, so you could have that when I finally figured out the best angle to engage our next round of coitus."

Steven couldn't stay mad at her; especially when he saw how apparent it was that Peridot was being truthful with him.

It never ceased to fascinate him how a notoriously self-centered gem like Peridot could be equally invested in going out of her way to prioritize the needs of others. Though obviously, Steven's needs far exceeded anyone else's in the technician's mind.

But… it made sense. Steven's happiness truly did become her own. To ensure his satisfaction was equally a selfless endeavor as it was self-serving.

"Well, you were right about that," Steven conceded; his tone soothing as he caressed Peridot's back. "I'd rather pump you up full of jizz than make a mess on the bed. One spot appreciates my stuff a lot more than the other."

Peridot practically melted in Steven's embrace; she was embarrassed to have let a few tears slip past her defenses and roll down her cheeks, but it was a testament to how much Steven's approval and support meant to her. Especially when she did something wrong.

"Iloveyousomuch!" she squealed, choking out a few more cries before finally resting properly against Steven. "I mean, out of so many other prospects, you chose me to be your lifelong partner in–in everything. I just… I-I just…"

Peridot sniffled as she finished pouring her heart out to Steven. "… wow, thanks."

"When I learned the difference between having a childhood crush and really falling in love with someone… Peri, you alone stood out. Once that distinction was made… no one else was ever a contender."

Steven meant every word he said. While Peridot was certainly not his first crush and technically not even his first love beyond the platonic barrier, there was nothing wrong with that. Steven knew how obscenely rare and unrealistic it was for a first love to make it this far.

The primary causes for a first love falling through often stemmed from one or both parties not fully comprehending what it meant to be in love – or as Steven himself just said, the inability to distinguish a crush or attraction from true love.

And all of these causes were in effect when the hybrid learned the hard way that the one he first set eyes on ultimately lost her luster as a love interest. Though painful at first, it was ultimately for the best, as she remained a steadfast close friend to this very day in spite of their less-than-stellar falling out in the romantic sense.

During the hardest part of that initial falling out, however, Steven recalled that close to the same time, Peridot was rendered vulnerable for very similar reasons. She too was callously tossed aside by someone she deeply cared for; a deeply damaged soul that Peridot was determined to rehabilitate just as Steven did for her. And she followed Steven's example to letter, only for that to blow up in her face.

Even while the pair wallowed in misery over their relationships independent of each other's, they quickly found solace in sharing the painful experiences together.

While Steven was Peridot's first and only true love, the nature of the life she lived and the massive emotional whiplash she endured since her assignment to Earth made her a very unique case.

When Peridot had nothing left to her name, no means of returning to Homeworld, and eventually no Diamond to dedicate her entire life to, she was forcibly reduced to being little more than a lost, confused, and tortured soul.

Had Steven not been there to pick up the pieces and help Peridot build her true identity, the technician was certain she would not have survived for long on Earth.

Unlike Lapis, Peridot's compulsion to serve Steven went beyond a guilt complex and feeling indebted: without Steven, life seldom ever made sense to the young gem, no matter how quickly she adapted to life on Earth.

She simply didn't feel complete without Steven in her life.

Of course, Peridot didn't understand just how deep her affection for the hybrid truly was until she woke up on an Earth without Steven in it. And soon after learning where he was, Peridot was not only determined to bring him (and the rest of the Crystal Gems) back home, but ensure he never left this world without her ever again.

As Peridot gradually learned more about Steven himself and his many struggles in life – most notably his issues with his mother and how nearly every gem but her tended to treat the two like they were one and the same… and in the present day, still having Rose's shadow linger over him since he accepted his role as Pink Diamond 2.0 – she desired more than anything to support him every step of the way.

And to her credit, Peridot's proclivity to directly ask Steven what he wanted, needed, and felt while being absurdly adamant that Steven was Steven whenever someone slipped up and referred to him as Rose Quartz or Pink Diamond was what helped the young man see this little gem's potential.

More specifically, Peridot's ardent support that she readily offered without asking for anything in return… that was when Steven started to see the technician as something far deeper than a good friend.

And while he was smitten when Peridot finally admitted her feelings during their first Homeworld rescue mission, Steven was uncertain just how deeply committed his heart was to her at the time. While he didn't show it at the time, Steven was still emotionally vulnerable due to having broken away from Connie; it made him hesitant to risk getting hurt again by rushing through another potential relationship. Then he was forced to abandon Peridot on that accursed planet (with her fate uncertain at the time); after he got over his grieving stage to watch Peridot further pour her heart out in a video message she would only allow him to see if she was presently dead (or presumed in this case)…

Only then did Steven fully realize he was madly in love with this gem. And regardless of what White Diamond had done to her while the Crystal Gems prepared for their final mission, Steven was fully committed to not only save her life once more, but assure the now-ascended gem that she indeed was the one for him.

Steven never looked back ever since.

"The only reason I was ever a viable option was because of what you did for me," Peridot sweetly reminded her fiancée. "Everything I am today, Steven… either you helped make me that way, or my primary directive has more often than not involved helping you in any way I could. Not because I felt obligated… but rather, I knew you needed it. So often you dedicate your life to helping others, but you do so at the expense of your own health… physically, mentally, and emotionally."

"I'd argue we all have damages in all three categories," Steven jovially countered. "But I get what you're saying… you've been a gem I can rely on when I'm not taking care of myself. And I really appreciate that, Peri… it's proof you're gonna be a really good wife and mom one day."

Peridot squeaked and blushed madly at the thought of her idealized future self who was the quintessential embodiment of both roles.

While still locked in the embrace, Peridot raised her hips to finally free herself from Steven's flaccid cock. By breaking their connection, a brief spurt of cum mixed with lubricative juices of both saliva and the technician's natural fluids splashed down on their laps, making the couple simultaneously gasp from the sensation… followed shortly by some lighthearted laughter.

Despite that generous outpouring, the rest of Steven's jizz remained in Peridot's bulging belly, leaking out as slowly as it did when she first experienced this two years ago.

"Guess we're spending the night here again," Steven conceded with a chuckle; he obviously was not bothered in the least by this. "We're both gonna get looks if we come back now…"

Peridot nodded in agreement as she rested back on Steven's lap, though she smiled as a small moan escaped her lips; despite being every bit as sensitive as Steven in every sense of the word, she couldn't help but be entranced with another brand new experience.

While the ascended gem's tentacle was back to its puny state, it was still very prehensile: now that Steven's worn-down member was freed, Peridot's tendril was quick to wrap itself around its larger counterpart in a coil-like fashion.

"Eeeunnhh… wha–what is this…?" Steven groaned out with amusement.

"Nyrrhhn… if I had to guess…" Peridot squinted and whimpered momentarily before focusing on the interesting union between their laps. "This is my… my temperamental genital's way of showing it has fully accepted you as my mate. Perhaps this… is a gem's way of bonding with said mate, to solidify our bond, and its way of communicating that it will be more compliant from now on."

Steven smiled knowingly at his wife-to-be. "I know you just made that up on the spot, but most of that sounds plausible, I guess."

The sight of two dicks entangled together regardless of the hosts' heightened sensitivity was quite the visual, however.

"I could stare at this all day…" he murmured.

"Oh? More so than my lovely visage?" Peridot sharply countered, smirking herself. "I mean, come on. Which one of us are you actually marrying, Steven?"

Though he knew it was all in jest, Steven quickly refocused his gaze on the nude gem lovingly resting over his lap.

"This gem right here," he asserted, grabbing Peridot by the shoulders before he pulled her in close. "S'not even a contest. I want you: nothing more, nothing less."

"Good answer," Peridot slyly commended as she was pulled in for a deep, passionate kiss. It had been a while since they locked lips together.

A pertinent thought came to the technician's mind just then.

"So, we've overwritten our sanctuary's shameful legacy with an objectively better performance," she acknowledged. "But now that we have a room of our own on Earth… does that mean our lunar getaway is obsolete…?"

Steven pondered that for a moment… but it didn't take him long to come up with an answer.

"Nah; I think we'll still need this place one day in the future," he stated. "Even though we've got our own room at home now, and we can do whatever we want in it… people could still barge in. Or at least blow up our phones with texts until we give in. It's our room, but everyone knows where that is."

"Very astute," Peridot commended. "It truly doesn't embody the "getting away from it all" sentiment we've often had since launching Era 3 on Earth…"

"So let's keep it," Steven proposed. "I mean, you worked so hard making a special little place for us on the Moon, and the fact that we've been able to keep it hidden from everyone else all this time is pretty amazing when you consider how much we both suck at keeping things from people. Miraculous, even."

It didn't take much to sway Peridot's opinion on the matter as she snuggled against Steven's chest while their bloated bellies bumped against each other. "Very well. I am rather proud of how our lunar sanctuary turned out, so I'd hate to just scrap it."

The couple fully entangled their bodies together while their limp members remained coiled together.

"Heh… it's so weird, but I like feeling this full," Steven shyly admitted. "I know you really like it, too: that's why you kept it all inside you two years ago instead of willing it out."

"Good to know I'm not alone in enjoying something so… strange," Peridot gently replied. "Then again, I suppose it is part of you inside me, even after our genitals disengage… I think that's what inspires this euphoric feeling…"

"Good attitude to have," Steven praised the gem, bending down to kiss her gemstone just to elicit a brief squeal from her. "Whenever the day comes that we start having kids, you'll be like this and then some on a daily basis for a long, long time."

That brought back haunting memories of the time Pink Diamond's spirit basically tormented Peridot with these hard facts of life just to get a rise out of her. That was the only time she ever had anything to do with Steven's mother… Peridot could only say based on her personal experience that the former Diamond of Life was just plain bizarre.

"I-I'm perfectly willing to endure any trial," Peridot assured, though her tone was shaky. "When that time comes… you know me, Steven. I won't let you down."

"Heh, if we went home right now, everyone would think we're pregnant already!" Steven chuckled. "Good thing your willpower is right up there with abstinence when it comes to birth control, right?"

All the good times came crashing to a halt.

Peridot never recalled exerting her will to make Steven or herself impotent or infertile.

As much as the couple failed to properly perform two years ago, they were very certain to take precautionary measures to prevent any accidents.

Now, they had been so absorbed in making up for their poor performance that neither of them had a thought to spare about… safety measures. Both parties simply assumed it had already been done.

"... Peridot, is there a reason you clammed up?"

"Wh-what are you even speaking of, you stupid idiot?!" Peridot defensively sputtered. "I've never eaten a clam in my life!"

Steven facepalmed at this; had he really never gone over this phrase with Peridot before?

"Expression," he tersely explained. "Another way of saying you're being really quiet all of a sudden."

"O-oh." Peridot blushed and forced a smile as she laughed out in spite of herself. "Well, how about that! You still have more bizarre Earth phrases to teach me!"

Steven didn't buy into this even for a second. "Yep, and you're deflecting. Be honest with me, Peridot: did you forget?"

"F-forget what?!" Peridot wailed, though her expression made her guilt painfully obvious. "Where is this even coming from?!"

"You tell me, Dot," Steven quipped. "We've been on the same mental wavelength for a while now, but all I'm hearing is you screaming over and over again… and I quote: "Oh my stars, I forgot to do that! I'm such a clod!"."

Tears gushed from Peridot's eyes as she clung desperately to the young man's chest. By extension, her tentacle squeezed tighter against Steven's dick.

"Steven, I'm so sorry! I-it completely slipped my mind!" she sobbed out her confession. "I-I was just so mentally preoccupied with making sure I didn't screw us over like last time, I-I just assumed I had done it already, but honestly… I can't recall actually asserting our bodily fluids to be impotent, or my body to be infertile!"

"Or my body," Steven added. "Geez, Peri. That's… that's a serious oversight."

"I didn't mean to forget!" Peridot bawled against his chest. "Y-you have to believe me! I-is it too late?! Can't I salvage this?!"

Steven sighed and tightly embraced his fiancée. "You could try, I guess, but after this much downtime… if it could happen to either of us right now, it probably already has."

"C-can you sense any other life in either of us right now?" a tense and terrified Peridot inquired.

Steven shook his head. "It's too early. But give it a day or so, and I'll find out soon enough. At least this time a certain someone won't be blocking my abilities…"

Peridot cringed at the reference to their rogue fusion and her many terrible deeds that landed them in a very familiar position. "Oh, stars… I screwed this up badly. Th-this is unacceptable of me! How could I–?!"

Her words were abruptly cut off by Steven's kiss.

"Peridot, I'm not gonna pretend this isn't a big mistake; it totally is," Steven calmly asserted. "But… what's done is done. Maybe we'll both get lucky and dodge a bullet here; maybe we won't. And if we don't… we'll deal with it as it comes."

"B-but Earth is still in a turbulent phase right now!" Peridot protested. "I-I told you last year I didn't want to raise my offspring in such a dangerous world!"

Steven sighed and patted his lover's disheveled blonde hair. "Then we should have been more careful. But there's no use in worrying about what we should've done… Peri, I want you to know this: even if the worst-case scenario happens, that won't change a thing between us."

Peridot shook her head at she buried her face in the crook of Steven's neck. "It should, Steven. I could have completely messed up our lives. As Crystal Gems, as guides in Neo Homeworld, and as intergalactic diplomats! All of that will be compromised if we have to bear and raise offspring this soon! W-we still have so much to do–"

"And it'll get done," Steven promised. "We're not alone in this, you know. We've got plenty of friends who can help us out here. It'll be problematic, sure, but it's not like it'll be any less hectic raising kids even if we didn't do this until way later."

However, none of this was really sinking in for Peridot, who continued to blame herself for her critical lack of foresight.

"I-I was irresponsible, Steven!" She argued as she rose up both hands and pointed to a certain finger of hers. "How can I be worthy of one day being your spouse when I very likely doomed the both of us to early parenthood?! N-neither of us are ready to be paternal or maternal units, Steven!"

"Most parents aren't ready to be parents, Peri," Steven sharply told her, firmly grabbing her hand that beared the engagement ring. "That's not a reason to say you're unworthy of this ring! In fact, you've got no right to even say you're not worthy of it! I'm the one who gave you this ring in the first place, Peridot!"

The panicking gem suddenly went quiet.

"I felt what you thought needed to be done, Dot," Steven muttered, seething. "Unless you get poofed, I don't wanna see you even thinking about taking it off! Don't you dare ever think you're not good enough to marry me! After everything we survived through together, I don't buy for a second that you really think that little of yourself just because you made a mistake!"

Peridot flinched, but despite her urges, she could not suppress her urge to offer a rebuttal. "This is a mistake of catastrophic proportions, Steven…"

"It's far from the biggest mistake you've ever made in your life," Steven asserted. "And I still didn't think twice about choosing you even after you nearly wiped all of us out on Homeworld."

While it pained the technician to be reminded of the time she nearly screwed everyone over (friend and foe alike) during the most crucial part of the final confrontation with White Diamond, she couldn't deny that Steven had a point.

This was a big mistake that could make everyone's lives infinitely harder and put a major dent in Era 3's progress. However… it wasn't the end of the world. It could still be managed.

"We gotta prepare for the worst and hope for the best right now," Steven told her. "Look at it this way, Dot: we'll get a lot more time off to be together if it happens to either of us. This is gonna be a complicated ordeal, but… this wouldn't be our first time dealing with something like this. We're gonna manage. We always do."

It was impossible not to think of the parallels that occurred a couple of years ago that involved a very similar situation. But it pained Peridot to let her mind linger on how that grandiose mess of a situation panned out. The end results were bittersweet… and the consequences of the outcome weighed heavily in her back of her mind.

".… I believe you, Steven," she quietly replied. "I'm just… worried now, how many ways this can all go horribly wrong for all of us. I can't stop thinking about what we sacrificed to resolve–"

Steven kissed his lover again; this time on the cheek. "Did you forget it's your birthday, Peridot? We're not gonna end it like this. Let's just focus on the positives for now, okay? We're still here, still healthy… uh, even if we don't exactly look it…"

"I suppose you're right," Peridot conceded. "While I regret not taking proper precautionary measures, I'd never regret what we did tonight. We've… redeemed ourselves as lovers. And we both enjoyed new experiences we initially didn't believe were possible."

"Exactly," Steven concurred, rubbing his nose against his fiancée's. "Our, uh, little buddies seem to wanna be tied together for who knows how long, but while we've still got some energy to burn, let's just… y'know, enjoy being together while we still can."

Peridot smirked as she felt a large warm pair of hands slide down to cup her ass.

"Please. You say that like we're not going to engage in coitus the moment we set foot in our new bedroom."

"True, but…"

Steven looked back down at the majestic view of the Earth behind him.

"Who knows when we'll have a view like this again when we make love?"

"Hmm… a valid enough point, I suppose."

Steven smirked back at the technician. "You say, as you stare at your ring again."

"–Ooooh! You smart-mouthed little clod! That does it; I'm revoking your speaking privileges here and now!"

Steven didn't mind this "punishment" at all; at this point, he was more than happy to use his mouth in other ways. When his lips locked once again with Peridot's, that itself felt like a form of returning "home".

For now, the newly engaged couple were perfectly content to spend the remaining hours of Peridot's birthday indulging in each other, sharing their pleasure, their passion, and their earnest love for one another.

All the while, the penis and tentacle remained locked in their union… intertwined as Steven and Peridot's destinies.