Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ A Creils Story ❯ one last time ( Chapter 17 )

Vanilla walked into her appartment, closing the door behind her. "Did everythiing go well?" asked Cream, who was sitting at the table.

"Not exactly how I planned it." answered Vanilla, joining her daughter.

"How did Tails take it?"

"Well......"

"You did tell him, right?"

"......Cream..... he already knew."

"He... knew?" Vanilla only nodded. "How?"

"When you Robert, Passion and I were discussing the wedding ordeal, Tails was at the door when I made the decision to frobid him from the wedding."

"So how close did you come to getting the shit beat out of you?"

"Cream, that's incredibly rude."

"True, but this is your problem... And now that you've forbidden him, you have to deal with it."

"So, why are you still up?"

"I can't sleep."

"Well go to bed dear, you have a busy week coing up."

"You're right, sleep well if you can."

Cream retired for the night to her room, she was right though. Cream knew that Vanilla now had to deal with Tails. Vanilla sat and enjoyed her mug of cocoa. Gold, that part of Tails is really something else. But I guess this is what I get for doing him so wrong. Hopefully I can clear all of this up tomorrow.

*

The next afternoon, Tails sat on the couch of his workshop, he was feeling much better and was enjoying a late "breakfast-lunch" as he called it. "You know Gold, I'm glad I feel better now, I owe you much despite the facts of not wanting to do with you now and then." he said.

"Of course, this way you can finally heal yourself." said Gold.

"Maybe, just maybe, I'll go swimming today."

"Practie your breast stroke I see?"

"Nah, dolphin kick. That form of swimming is much faster."

"Whatever works for you, Miles."

Then, if on cue, three raps hit the door. "Should I get that?" asked Gold.

"Nice joke, Gold. I got it." answered Tails. "Gotta get up anyway to wash me dishes."

"Good."

Tails gets up as Gold fades away. The orange fox walks towards the door and opens it, revealing his true test..... Cream runs up and gives him a hug, which is instantly returned, and the fox lets his gal pal inside. However, he stops Vanilla at the door. "Go away, leave my workshop pronto." he told her.

"So I see Gold has had his talk with you?" questioned Vanilla. "It's nice to see you active again."

"Just leave Mrs. Rabbit, simply turn around and walk away. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

"Well, now I'm beneath you? Have I lost my welcome here? Has your 'depression temper tantrum' made you decide that you don't want me around this place anymore? Please tell me..."

"Are you forbidding me to my closest friend's wedding because you're afraid of some pointless nightmare that you hope and pray not to happen?"

"Exactly."

"Then leave, there's no point in me speaking with you."

"Then let at least use your bathroom...."

"Down those steps and around this hill there's an outhouse, deficate there." and Tails closed the door in Vanilla's face, locking it behind him.

Cream saw the whole thing where she sat on the couch, "You're being rude, Tails." she said.

"And your mother's being cold hearted." Tails added in defense.

"That doesn't mean you should be."

"Cream, I'm a firm believer in the Golden Rule, don't give me that crap about being rude."

"Well at least you still care about her."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you haven't beat the shit out of her yet."

Damn, she's on the dollar, Miles.

Shut up, Gold. "I did that, you'd never forgive me."

"Then let her talk to you."

"It's not time for that."

Suddenly, the door swung open and Vanilla walked in. "Funny, once again, I'll have to disagree with you." she said.

"How did you..."

"I took up a locksmith apprenticeship in my youth, there's no lock that I can't pick, even one of yours."

"Just get the fuck out, all right?"

"Tails, that's my mom..." said Cream.

"It's okay Cream, let him be mad. I would like to speak with the Miles Prower I know and love, and since the next two days are free for me..... I can wait."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Too bad he can't come out and play today, try again next month."

"Tails, pardon me for a minute, but, what's with this sale on the table?" Cream asked.

Vanilla took a set, pulled out a bottle of water and had her drink. "The part of me that you know and love struggles, Mrs. Rabbit." Tails answered. "This scale here is the very reason why. As you can see Cream, the weights of this scale both have ten chips in them. You also notcie this final chip on the table.... Each chip reprsesnts a reason for the weights which are two paths that I must choose between.... and of course, which tear me apart.

{Pay attention to this next part peeps, you'll learn something here.}

"One path has ten reasons why I should take the road of Frozen Sorrow, the other path has ten reasons why I should take the road of Enraged Vengence. This final reason I have been debating on since I've been forbidden from your day, Cream... and I have already seen what lies at the end of both paths, though the roads are different, the outcome is the same; Someone is going to die."

That very outcome echoed into the depths of Vanilla's mind as chills began to fluctuate throughout her body. Oh god, no! she mentally cried.

Tails went on. "It's because of these paths and reasons, That I am not who I am. It is this decision, that guarantees that I will never be the same again. It is that final reason, that will determine which path will be taken.... and which life ends. Only I can make this choice, no one can help me. Do you understand why I want you gone right now, Mrs. Rabbit?"

"Ironically, no." Vanilla answered. "Unless of course, I am one of those lives that might end."

"But, you doubt it, right?"

"Exactly."

"Cream, excuse your mother and I, won't you?"

"Sure," Cream answered. "It's only fair that you two wish to speak in private."

Cream walked off and into Tails' room, closing the door behind herself. The fox addressed Vanilla. "Now, why don't you try again. Tell me the real reason why, that means why, in your nightmare, do you not want me at this wedding?" Tails questioned.

"I.... I...." Vanilla tried to answer the fox.

"No, I want the truth, I demand it, tell me why you have forbidden me from Cream's wedding?"

"It's.... well the reeason why I did it is...." Tears welling up in the doe's eyes.

"ANSWER ME, DAMMIT! WHY?!"

Vanilla broke down and started crying. "Because, because I can't bear to see you killed."

So, it all comes out now..... interesting. said Gold.

"I know you hat me for this, but I'm doing it for Cream. I know if you even set face at that wedding, Robert won't stop until you have finished breathing. The risk is too high, and If Cream sees you dead at her wedding she'll lose all sanity she has left." Vanilla continued. "You already know about how irregular her blood pressure is right now. The last thing even you would want is for her to kill herself because she lost you at her wedding." The grown woman wiped her tears away. "Tails, would you really want to have my daughter, your closest friend, look down on your casket and cry her soul out in a shower of tears? I don't know about you, but I couldn't live with myself if this happened.

"Promise me, Tails, promise me you won't go to this wedding. Promise me that you won't storm this wedding, so at the end of the month, I can still see your face.... just promise me that one thing, regardless of your self conflict, promise me.... for Cream....."

Tails closed his eyes and began to play out what Vanilla had just said. In the total time of thirty-five seconds, the fox had played out the scenario. "You have my word, I won't go to this wedding." Tails sadly vowed.

"I hope you can forgive me someday about this, Tails." Vanilla said. "That's all I ask..." Vanilla left the workshop.

Tails closed the door behind her. Why did you give your word on this, Miles? asked Gold.

Because I felt her pain. Tails answered.

Cream was heartbroken, wasn't she?

Yes. Even I don't wish her my fate....

Tails walked into his room, there he saw Cream sitting on the left side of the bed. He sat on the right side of the bed, so they were back to back. "You know something Tails," Cream began, "for the strangest reaasons, a lot of my memories of you revolve around in this room, but the most memories I have of you are on and in this bed."

"That is true, huh?" asked Tails.

"It's here on this bed that we could chat about everything that happened to us. It's here on this bed where we would watch tv, whether it be cartoons, shows, commercials, or pornos, all of it happened on this bed. It was in this bed where I slept with you for the very first time, when I crashed over here for the very first time."

"I remember that, you were so cold in the guest bedroom that you asked to sleep with me, and I let you."

"That's right, even if I was only eight. The many card games we would play, stories we would exchange and write, things we discussed, this bed has seen it all with us. This bed...... even housed..... the first time, earlier in the month. Sometimes when I'm alone in this room, I huddle in the covers and lay here, I even wrote in my diary while on and in this bed. But.... I can never forget the first time.... here, in this very bed."

"Yeah."

"Tails, despite what we're going through right now, do you still not regret our first time in this bed?"

"I can never regret, nor forget, our first time in this bed."

"I didn't think so."

Cream took off her dress, she was nude under it now. "Cream, what are you-"

Tails was cut off by the young doe's kiss. Soon, she was above him. "Tails," she began, "in eight days, I'm going to be married to Robert. In eight days, all the memories that I had in this bed are going to be gone forever, but before these memories die, never to be reborn again, I have one last thing to do here with this bed."

"Cream...." was all Tails could say.

"This last thing I want, is to relish your body, one final time."

"But Cream-"

"Tails. I don't care what you have to say, but I'm not taking no for an answer. So, for one final time, give me one final memory of us in this bed, before I have to forget them all. Think of it as my last wish of our friendship, Tails. Because I heard your promise, and after I leave this workshop today, I may never see you again."

"You're getting married though..."

"Tails, despite all that's happening, take this maiden one final time, while you can. If you didn't and still don't regret our first time, prove it to me on our last one...."

Tails took Cream in a kiss and the two fell to bed sideways.

*

On the train, Vanilla sat in her seat, saddened at what she had told Tails, but finally freed from her burden. Tails.....

Cream joined her and sat in her seat. "Hey mom." she said.

"So, did you two have sex?"

"Yes."

"Did both of you climax?"

"Yes."

"Did you get to say good-bye to him and he, you?"

"Yes...." Cream began to cry.

"Well, what happened."

"He cried, mom. Through the whole intercourse, he cried. Of all the time we did it, this was the first time he was in tears. It was so poetic."

"It's okay, honey."

"Oh mom.... Tails is the one I love, not Robert. Why can't I be with my one true love?"

"You'll be okay, don't worry."

Vanilla comforted Cream the whole train ride home to Station Square.....