Aqua listened more than speaking, not really feeling up to answering the questions he was throwing her way. What did she care if he was at a disadvantage? She wanted a fair fight if it ever came to that and Blood had always been hard to read even with them being side by side through the ages. How did she know what had changed with him while she was gone? Would he use what he had learned while training them against the young gems? He said it himself that he would fight the ones that got in his way and any that chose to fight by her side would be doing just that. She would never ask them to fight by her side but if they wanted to she would not say no. This means that anything Blood learned could be dangerous if used against the young gems.

What did she have to lose? Everything...the young gems she had come to love in one form or another, Earth which she had been fighting for all along, and the humans that had something special that even she couldn't explain plus the ones she had come to care for. Bloodstone wouldn't see this and it would be pointless to explain. The hand on her shoulder shocked her, making her eyes snap instantly to Blood's and having the sight of that ever same smug look she remembered on so many occasions. She hadn't wanted to feel comfort from the hand on her shoulder and luckily for Aquamarine the smug looked helped to push that unwanted feeling away since she knew whatever he had to say next she would not like. Blood's hand left her skin, the comfort and the warmth of it still there as he backed up and ready to pull out his weapon. 

Her eyes widen though in surprise that it was not his weapon that he had summoned but her own even if the coloring was off. She didn't like this idea and now she was really against it but he did make some valid points. It made her confused on what would really be the best choice. She flinched a bit as he threw the weapon at one of the walls that was clear of everyone else and his words made her frown and she crossed her arms slightly. Aqua closed her eyes, Howlite's last look showing in her head as he spoke of survival and the thoughts of it being all her fault once more surfacing. [color=7bcdc8]"A vote. I will ask the young gems what they want because it is their fate and their trust that is on the line. If they agree than no matter of my worries I will agree to a temporary truce. If they do not wish for you to be here than I will decline for them. If the decision is very split than maybe we can come to an arrangement that you will only help train the ones that agree and leave the ones that don't in my care alone." [/color] she answered, keeping her eyes closed so that she could hold it together. She felt like she could fall apart at any moment and if she could just bottle the emotions now than it would save her the trouble of looking like a fool and fall apart in privacy.

[color=0054a6]"What...what's going on here?"[/color]

Aquamarine's eyes shot open as her attention moved on Johnny, tears starting to build in her eyes at the simple innocent question and her arms dropping limp at her sides. The emotions she had been trying all this time to hide, to hold back and be strong where lost in that moment. The scene of Howlite death playing in her head like a movie as she stared at the human, seeing but not seeing him. She felt the despair, the guilt, the anger, the sorrow, and she wished in that moment she had been alone because she want to scream. She wanted to scream, cry her soul out, and just throw something. Instead she settle on staring, not even feeling the tears that flowed down her cheeks freely and she wanted to crumble so she did. She slumped to the ground, falling to her knees before she sat completely on the ground and her hands going to her face though it wouldn't have hardly mattered since her hair blocked most of the view of her. Aqua's body shook, her voice in completely agony and hitching since she couldn't seem to breath in enough air so that she could get the words all the way out or even finish her sentence, [color=7bcdc8][b]"H-Howlite is d-dead! Johnny, s-she is gone a-and I...I..." [/b][/color]

[@Kronshi][@Pathfinder]