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for those muses who just love to pick fights!
❝ what did you just say to me? ❞
❝ what did you just call me? ❞
❝ are you trying to start a fight? ❞
❝ did you... did you just unfriend me? ❞
❝ i don’t have time for this. ❞
❝ you’re the reason i drink at night. ❞
❝ why do you always have to be mister perfect? ❞
❝ you never listen to me! ❞
❝ grow up. ❞
❝ get out. ❞
❝ what are you gonna do about it? ❞
❝ say that again. i dare you. ❞
❝ [name] doesn’t act like this. ❞
❝ why don’t you get a real job? ❞
❝ you’ve always gotten everything you wanted. ❞
❝ this might not be important to you, but it’s important to me. ❞
❝ are you really giving me the silent treatment right now? ❞
❝ you have no business talking to anybody like that. ❞
❝ i respect your opinion. it’s wrong, but i respect it. ❞
❝ why do you always do this?! ❞
❝ you aren’t the center of the universe. ❞
❝ i mean, you kinda deserved that one. ❞
❝ do i have to do everything around here? ❞
❝ i never said you were stupid. not out loud. ❞
❝ told you so! ❞
❝ i’m not trying to start a fight! ❞
❝ not everybody has it all. ❞
❝ you are literally infuriating to be around. ❞
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“Hey guys! Look at this stick I found!”
Sonic turned, and laughed. “Tangle, that’s not a stick, that’s a whole tree branch.”
Tangle waved the birch branch in the air with her tail, its remaining leaves falling to the ground. “If there were any badniks around, this would be a great weapon.” She thrust the branch forward as if she were fencing.
Whisper opened her eyes slightly to glance in Tangle’s direction, but what really caught her attention was Tails.
The kit’s orange fur was bristled, his small frame ready to run. Tails’ ears were flattened against his head, and his blue irises had taken over most of his eyes, as his pupils were shrunken in fear.
Whisper had seen Tails when he was afraid before, like when he watched Sonic get badly hurt by Surge. But nothing like this.
Never like this.
“Tails.”
The fox did not move. Not even an ear flicked.
He stayed focused on the stick.
Whisper raised her voice.
“Tails.”
Tails turned his left ear toward her, but no other movements were made.
And then he turned and ran into the forest.
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“Tails! Tails! Wo bist du?”
The blue hedgehog was met with silence, and he groaned. He didn’t know where his little brother had run off to, but it had to be because of something traumatic.
He knew some of the things his village had done to him, but not all of them. But he knew they were all bad.
Sonic had been told that kids called him a freak and a curse. People beat him up, tried to drown him, burned his flesh, ripped his fur, starved him…
Heck, the poor kid still had a bullet in his chest because somebody shot at him.
It all made Sonic angry.
The hedgehog sighed. “Tails! Little buddy? You can come out now! Kleiner Kumpel! Hallo?”
He heard whimpering and crying from a bush. Sonic split it so he could see inside.
The kit had tears streaming down his face, and he was asking in big, heaving breaths. They were so… irregular. When Tails saw Sonic towering over him, he froze. And he stopped breathing. Sonic hated when the kid did that, but it was a habit.
“Hey little buddy,” Sonic said softly.
Tails just pulled his knees close to his chest. “Hallo,” he whispered.
Sonic carefully sat down next to him. “Geht es dir gut?” Tails closed his eyes and whimpered. “Ich weiß es nicht.”
And Sonic hugged him.
And Tails began to sob.
They sat there like that for a couple minutes until Tangle and Whisper came crashing through the brush.
“Hey… what’s wrong?” Tangle inquired.
Tails cleared his throat. “W-when…” The kid hesitated.
Sonic gave him a soft smile. “Take all the time you need bud.”
“When I l-lives on West S-s-side Island…” The kit sickens in a big breath. “They liked to beat me with sticks. W-well… not really sticks. Um…”
“Branches?” Whisper asked.
Tails whimpered, and nodded. “They would beat me with them. Hard. A-and they would d-do it u-until I bled. Or…” Tails began to cry harder as he tried to finish his sentence. “T-they w-w-would k-keep going…”
Sonic growled. Tails had never seen his big brother so angry, but that was to be expected of Sonic.
“I found a scar this morning… and Tangle had t-that branch…”
Tails flopped down into Sonic’s lap.
The trio surrounded him, and hugged him.
And they stayed like that for a while.
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