Hoo boy. I know I haven't been updating at all, but my sister graduated this year and so we've had relatives coming around. I may not update regularly, but I will always finish a story I start. I thank all of you who were patient for this, and I will try to get back into writing more regularly.

I do not own any of the characters, they are owned by Archie and Sega


Night had fallen hours ago, signaling the retreat of the citizens of New Mobotropolis into their homes and to bed. The stars shone down upon the moon, whilst the moon shone it's reflection of the sunlight down onto the earth. The light it shed allowed a young adolescent fox to see what was around as he crept around the side of a building.

Tails pressed himself flat against the wall when he neared the edge of the house across from his destination. He stooped down to grab a handful of small stones, keeping his eyes and ears open for any signs of life. This was something he needed to do, but it needed to be kept as quiet as possible.

Glancing up and down the street, he quickly ran to a house across the way. Making one last check that no one was around and sizing up the height of the second floor window he hurled the pebbles he had picked right at it. Waiting a few seconds he then let out a soft call,

"Mina!"


After her visit to Freedom HQ and Tails outburst Mina had spent the rest of the day up in her room. Ash had tried to get her to come out and talk to him most of the afternoon but she had told him that what she needed was some time alone. She could tell he had sat by her bedroom door, but after sometime he had left.

Tail's accusations had been running around in her mind all day. Had he been right? Was all the trouble that Nicole had recently been forced through all due to her song? Were Tail's feelings shared by the rest of the Freedom Fighters, and if so was she hated by all of them? These questions had plagued her all day. She had tried to go to sleep and deal with them the next day, but rest seemed to be playing hide and seek with her that night.

Sitting up in bed she glanced out her window and saw that the moon had already reached it's peak. Groaning she placed her head back down on her pillow and just stared up at her ceiling.

Several moments later a loud noise came from her window. Looking up and expecting to see a storm raging she was surprised to see a perfectly clear sky.

"Now what on earth..."

"Mina!"

Jumping at the sound of her name being called from outside she slowly fiddled with the lock of her window and pushed it open.

Looking down to the street she saw Tails standing there looking up at her. He seemed to be rather fidgety, constantly clasping and unclasping his hands together. She didn't know why, but a small bit of hope seemed to appear after seeing this but she kept it down, not wanting it to be crushed.

"Mina"

Looking down at the small fox, Mina gave him a puzzled look.

"May I come up?"

Mina thought this over for a second. At this point she had two choices. One would be to allow him to come up and hear what he had to say, good or bad. The other would be to say no, close her window and continue on with her forced solitude but then she would be unable to know what he had to say.

However Mina, like most people, had a healthy sense of curiosity which seemed to choose for her.

"Alright."

Letting out a breath he didn't even know he was holding, Tails flew up to Mina's window and floated there.


Now they were face to face, and Tail's nervousness seemed to increase tenfold. There was a small stutter in the spinning of his tails making him drop a little but he caught himself and got the rhythm back. Was this what she had felt when she came to Freedom HQ? He felt even more like a heel for what he had said. As he looked at her though he could see a well trod out tear trail in the fur of her cheek. While this did make him feel even worse, he was also emboldened to do what he knew to be the right thing. Taking a deep breath, he looked right at her and began.

"Mina, I need to apologize for what I said today. It was uncalled for and untrue. You came to apologize and I should have been more accepting of that apology."

The hope that Mina had kept quiet seemed to grow with every word Tails had said. She started to sniff a little but a smile had begun to grace her face once more. Tails hadn't noticed however, his eyes having left hers and dropped to stare at the ground."

"I am truly, truly sorry for what I said, and I can only hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

Reaching out with one hand, Mina grabbed Tails and pulled him into a deep hug. Her arms were wrapped around his body and she put her chin on his shoulder.

"Of course I forgive you Tails. I...You...We have both said things we now regret. But can you ever forgive me for what I did?"

Pushing himself out of the hug but keeping his hands on her shoulders, Tails looked at Mina straight in the eyes and replied,

"Yes. You didn't mean for any of this to happen and I shouldn't have blamed you for it in the first place."

They both smiled at each other for sometime afterwords. Mina had never noticed how blue his eyes really were. She felt that she could forever stare into them, continually falling farther and farther in their color. She didn't even notice when she started to lean in closer to him.

She failed to notice that he was just a little to far away from the window and suddenly began to lean to far out.

"Mina! Watch out!"

Suddenly snapping out of her daze, she noticed that she was to far out then she should be. Trying to right herself she found that it was too late.

"Woah!"

Dropping down fast, Tails placed his hand on her shoulders and pushed, successfully getting her back up. He pushed a little to hard though and she fell backwards onto the floor.

Putting her hand on her chest, Mina took a few seconds to catch her breath.

"You okay Mina?"

Looking back up at him, but trying to avoid looking at his eyes, she saw that he had sat down on her window sill.

"Yes, I'm fine. Thanks."

Smiling, Tails chuckled a little.

"It's nothing. Couldn't have you falling out of your window, now could I?"

She let out a little giggle at this and smiled back at him. As she stood up and dusted herself off a little Tails noticed she was in her pajamas and coughing a bit, began to distract himself form her by glancing around the room.

Really, there wasn't much stuff around. It was simple, neat, and everything seemed to be exactly placed. Even the clock on the wall.

Tails did a double take when he saw the clock.

"Oh man, I need to get back home, my parents will kill me if they find out I was out this late."

Feeling a little down that he had to leave, put on a small smile.

"Okay. Thanks for coming Tails. It was very good of you."

"Hey, what kind of person would I be if I didn't try and face my mistakes?"

This comment seemed to put a little flame in Mina's heart, letting her voice a question that had plauged her for sometime.

"Hey, Tails? Do you think that... Well... I was wondering if I could, you know, help fix the trouble with Nicole?"

A large grin spread across Tails face, and though he wanted to run over and hug Mina, he controlled himself.

"Of course Mina. I'm sure that Nicole would be thankful as well."

With that, Tails waved goodbye and jumped out of her window, flying off towards his house.


Phew. I spent more time on this chapter than any of my other stories. I had the biggest case of writers block ever. Anyway, Please read and review. Specifically the Review part, I would really enjoy some constructive criticism. NO FLAMING!