That's better.

But why is she alive- well, awake- in the first place?

And where is she?

It settles down into a rather nondescript white room.

It is reminiscent of her room in... maternal hospital. She's alone.

Huh.

She notices she's... pregnant. Sort of. Well, at least she looks this way? She can just shapeshift out of it??
It's silent and still.

"Hel-lo? Is anyone here?"

The door opens. There's a man behind it.

Who is this human- wait. Wait. Is this-

"Hi, mom", he stammers.

He runs into a hug.

This... takes a while.

"Steven-..."

This takes a while longer still. But, eventually-

"Steven, where are we?"

"My gem. Well, our gem."

"Oh.

Well. I really thought I would be gone, but..."

"Turns out, gems keep logs. Extensive logs, with all past experiences. I mean, they must have, I've seen those Pearls inside Pearl and, uh. Yeah.

We had to decrypt you, mom."

"Ahaha! Oh, Steven, I am so, so glad to... meet you..."

"Yeah, mom, it is a bit silly.

Somehow, though... nevermind."

"Oh? What is it, my dear?"

"The logs... show you stopping existing for a decade, then relaunching for a bit over two minutes, then stopping again until today."

His voice is lightly strained.

"I don't... really know how."

He has a guess, though.

"That's weird."

(It's obvious to her.)

(The monochrome scene. Her terrible sisters, watching her; her friends, powerless.)

(She did not want to be there. She didn't know why she was. She lied until she wasn't.)

"But, Steven, why are we talking about technicalities? I have so, so much to ask of you! How is Pearl? What about Greg?"

As she says this, the circumstances and seeming implications of her previous awakening dawn on her.

"H-how is the Earth?"

However dubious was her path there, her concern for all living things is always an inspiration.

"Earth's fine, mom - better than ever, really, as Earth does. Dad's getting old, but I'm healing him up. Pearl is happy, but she still misses you pretty badly- they all do."

"Oh..."

It must've been many years. And they know, now, they actually know. And despite that, they all still-

Tears collect in her eyes.

Long hug 2: the return of long hug.

"Oh, Steven... you would not believe what am I feeling right now..."

It's such a wild mix of emotions that Rose herself would not be able to quickly untangle.

"You will just have to tell me everything, you know that, Steven?"

"I figured, mom. Though... there's an option to watch it instead. We're already in the archives of our internal states; we can revisit the projections of those memories."

"Ah. You know, I would never have thought of that! Or of restoring me, for that matter."

"Studying Earth computer science really gives you some interesting perspectives. Peridot totally beat herself up for not thinking about it earlier." 

"But of course, Earth is at it again!
I can't help but wonder if your gem can handle two of us going and interacting with more copies of you, though."