History Recap / StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss

As the Flashback ends, Connie is appalled that Pearl would say such a thing. Steven admits that she didn't really say that, but that's how it felt to him. But now that he's told the story again, Steven is upset again: he confesses that he's afraid that if he doesn't get a grip on his powers and how to using them, the Gems will leave him behind. He begins to sniffle and cry.

* CallBack: In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E16StevenTheSwordFighter Steven the Swordfighter]]", Garnet mentions that Amethyst is accident-prone. This time, that comes back to haunt her in a much more serious way.

She lands facedown on an extruded rock with an audible CRACK! Steven races down to see if she's okay. Amethyst plays it off as if her unnaturally swollen and googly eye is a neat new acquisition, but Pearl snatches down Amethyst's shirt to the latter's embarrassment and determines that her gem is cracked. Pearl worries that there should be a fence.

Connie leans in to comfort him, but stops at a sudden pain in her head. She thinks something is wrong with her glasses and takes them off; when she does, her vision goes from blurry to clear. Connie can suddenly see without her glasses! The children stare at each other for a moment, incomprehensible, then Connie realizes she was drinking out of Steven's juice box (there are sparkles dancing on the end of the straw). As Connie wonders what she'll tell her parents and her optometrist, Steven shouts in triumph:

He hugs Connie happily and thanks her for helping him discover his new Gem power, then runs off excitedly with Lion to tell the Gems. Connie contemplates her glasses, then simply pokes out the lenses and puts the empty frames back on her face.

->'''Pearl:''' Oh, Steven. You'll never have any ''real'' magic powers, and we don't want anything more to do with you.

The thorns continue to threaten Amethyst and Steven, leaving Steven to scramble around with Amethyst and her flopping appendages. Finally, he becomes upset at being useless, and that his uselessness will cost Amethyst her life. This is enough to make him cry. His tears fall onto Amethyst's gem, but -- nothing happens.

As Steven despairs, the fountain suddenly begins to flow. The healing waters restore Amethyst to her normal self, and change the brambles to blooming roses. Garnet and Pearl return, and Steven eagerly tells thim his tears restored the fountain and saved Amethyst. Pearl tells Steven that she and Garnet unplugged a clog and ''that'' caused the fountain to resume flowing.

When Amethyst cracks her gemstone, Steven and the Crystal Gems go on a mission to heal her.

* CallBack: In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E16StevenTheSwordFighter Steven the Swordfighter]], Garnet mentions that Amethyst is the most propense of the Gems of geting injured enough to turn back into her gem to regenerate. This time, the injury got much more serious.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At one point Steven gets a headache from wearing Connie's prescription glasses. Then later as they're about to kiss Connie gets a headache before it's revealed Steven has has healed her sight.

* HealingHands: The Crystal Gems think Steven inherited his mother's healing tears. [[SubvertedTrope He doesn't]], but he later finds out [[DoubleSubversion he has healing spit]].

* UnreliableNarrator: When Steven learns he doesn't have healing powers, Pearl happily tells him that he will never have Gem powers. When Connie questions Steven, he says that's not what really happened, but it's what he felt like Pearl said.
** It's worse than that, as he actually tells the story as Pearl having also said that "they want nothing more to do with him", which gives some really sad implications about Steven's self-esteem considering how clearly it's been shown that they love him up to this point.

** It's worse than that, as he actually tells the story as Pearl having also said that "they want nothing more o do with him", which gives some really sad implications about Steven's self-esteem considering how clearly it's been shown that they love him up to this point.

** It's a little crueler than that, as he actually tells the story as Pearl having also said that "they want nothing more o do with him", which gives some really sad implications about Steven's self-esteem considering how clearly it's been shown that they love him up to this point.

* PercussiveTherapy: Amethyst is talking gibberish due to the damage to her gem and Pearl is having her third panic attack of the day. Garnet shushes them, grits her teeth, and proceed to smash a giant rock. Visibly more relaxed, she says: "I needed that". As an added benefit, the rock tore open a path through the brambles and into Rose's sanctum (proving that sometimes ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer ).

* FeelNoPain: Amethyst takes a twelve-story fall, and her initial reaction is amusement that the impact gave her [[FishEyes a single, bloated, lazy eyeball.]]

* TheGlassesGottaGo: Subverted. After her vision is restored Connie removes the lenses off her glasses and puts them back on.

* HypocriticalHumor

* FeelNoPain: Amethyst takes a twelve-story fall, and her initial reaction is amusment that the impact gave her [[FishEyes a single, bloated, lazy eyeball.]]

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The original time of the episode is Connie asking why the cliff they're having a picnic on has a fence around it. Steven's story begins with Amethyst goofing off at the edge of an unfenced cliff. [[ForegoneConclusion Three guesses on what happens next.]]

* FindTheCure: The premise at its very core.

* HealingHands
* IndirectKiss: The title.

* TheGlassesGottaGo: After her vision is restored Connie removes the lenses off her glasses.
* TheHedgeOfThorns

* CallBack: In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E16StevenTheSwordFighter Steven the Swordfighter]], Pearl mentions that Amethyst is the most propense of the Gems of geting injured enough to turn back into her gem to regenerate. This time, the injury got much more serious.