Tails Present and Past

by Ace 'Triple' Edgar

Tails wakes up one morning, at Creme's house. He finds her in his arms, and remembers the past night. Soon though, when she wakes up, he finds that he is actually in his own past, where he literally finds himself and must find a way back to his own time.

Tails

Present and Past

Prologue

Tails opened his eyes. He looked down, and realized he was holding Cream in his arms.

Wow… He thought, gently letting her go and moving to the other side of the bed. They had actually slept together. He thought it might have all been just a dream. He lay there, looking at her.

Cream opened her eyes, and stared at the fox on her bed.

"Tails?" she asked, blinking a few times.

"Yes?" asked Tails.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"What do you mean?" asked Tails, confused.

"What are you doing here?" she repeated.

"Don't you remember?" he asked.

Cream shook her head, confused herself.

"Remember… you know, we dated?" Asked Tails.

"We've never dated," said Cream.

"Of course we did. Remember, for the past year?" said Tails, now becoming worried along with his confusion.

Cream shook her head again, now looking worried as well.

"Tails, I think you had a dream," she said.

"No. It couldn't be a dream, not all of it," said Tails.

"Tails, we've never dated," she said.

"Stop it! It's not funny!" exclaimed Tails.

The door opened, and Sonic walked in.

"Hey Cream! Have you seen Ta…" said Sonic, pausing halfway through the vowel.

He looked from Cream to the fox sitting up in the bed.

"Well, Tails, bit early for that isn't it?" he asked, laughing.

"Stop it!" shouted Tails, pulling down his ears and tugging on his fur.

"What's wrong with him?" asked Sonic to Cream, as Tails proceeded to yank on his ears.

"I'm not sure, but he seems to think we've been dating for a year," she said, looking worriedly at the two tailed fox.

"Why would he think that?" asked Sonic, also looking at him.

"I don't know," she said.

There were footsteps running to the door, and Tails appeared in the doorway.

"Hey Sonic! Is there something going on?" he asked.

The Tails in the doorway looked from Sonic, to Cream, to the fox on the bed, and back again, repeating several times.

"Who… are you?" he asked the Tails on the bed.

Tails stopped yanking on his ears and looked at his other self. They stared at each other, unblinking. In one motion, the Tails on the bed collapsed, fainting.