Chapter 1

Miles woke with a start almost panicking in a cold sweat until he noticed Kara sleeping peacefully with her arms still tight around him. It had all felt so real, what he'd just experienced in that dream was without a doubt the very mental representation of his deepest fears. He'd had the dream almost every night for the past two weeks, he wasn't surprised to find he'd been crying in his sleep as he wiped away a few tears. He'd gotten pretty good at slipping out of bed without the golden furred angel at his side waking up, sliding a soft pillow into her arms to replace himself as he realized that leaving her alone in the bed simply caused her to wake up anyway. He'd replaced his old hammock with a normal bed some days ago, he had to admit though it was a lot more comfortable than that old fishing net they used to sleep in. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and checked the clock sitting on the night stand by his side of the bed...9:30, he had planned on going to see Julie-su about the nightmare he kept having, the kind hearted echidna had a gift for deciphering the meaning behind dreams. He kissed Kara on the forehead before getting some clean clothes and walking into the bathroom to take a warm shower.

As the steam filled the room and the kitsune scrubbed himself free of the various smells he'd come to expect from his time with Kara, it wasn't that he didn't mind the smell of her in his fur but, he found that it often distracted him. He looked back on everything they'd gone through since they'd gotten together...It had been several months since Nox had tried to kill him, it still hit him kind of hard to find that he had a brother only to have to kill him, but, he'd do anything to protect Kara. He looked his hands over, there was a time they did nothing but create, now it seemed they only had a capacity to destroy. He played with the platinum band around his left ring finger a bit, he and Kara had been married several weeks after Sonic and Sally...he remembered back to when the only girl he payed any attention to was Cream but, they were kids. Somewhere in the back of his mind he wondered how the bunny was doing, she and Vanilla had moved to a place somewhere far north, something about a private school or something, he was sort of left out on most of the details. After he was nice and comfortable with his cleanliness the lone fox dried himself off and got dressed; he put on a pair of tan cargo jeans and a dark gray sleeveless hoodie...now that he looked himself over in the mirror he realized that at some point in his teenage years that was all he started to wear anymore, he couldn't explaing why he just liked sleeveless shirts, hoodies in particular. Compared to his old self he looked a lot more rough than usual; there was a long scar on his cheek that crossed the corner of his eye and trailed off to the ear that had been partially removed. "I'm always gonna miss that ear." He said to himself before walking out of the bathroom. . He found that Kara was as usual still asleep and headed downstairs, there were some things he wanted to get done before he left for Angel Island to see Julie-su, who he'd called yesterday to inform her and Knuckles that he'd be coming. Tails really liked Julie-su, she was in most ways Knuckles's perfect counterpart; where he was usually hotheaded and rash, she was quite calm and caring...they were a perfect match if the young fox had ever saw one...

Miles almost always woke up before Kara, he put together some things putting on his sleeveless trench which he'd recently had to tailor because of the damages it had suffered several months ago. After the experiences he carried his sword at all times, strapped to his side in a manner that made it hang just behind him, it was impractical and all as he was more used to using guns...but Espio's training was beginning to show through as he often displayed quite an amount of skill with the blade...but like all his toys Miles had recently added his own personal tweaks to the old fashioned weapon which now housed two blades situated side by side about an inch away from each other, that way a single slash from it would be exceedingly difficult to stitch up.

He was surprised when Kara didn't come down when he'd cooked breakfast that usually did wake her up, he really wanted to talk to her before he left, as far away as Angel Island was it was possible he'd be gone all day...he was just happy he'd recently fixed his gear as he'd held the act off for some time. After a short time he looked to his watch...it was going on 10:30 and he really didn't want to be late...

(000)

Kara woke up as she could have sworn she heard the front door, she didn't bother getting dressed, a bathrobe seemed good enough at the time. She made it downstairs only to find that Mile's gear was missing, apparently he decided to leave early for Julie-su's place and didn't want to wake her up, Espio had been less than easy on her with the training. She smiled as she saw how the table was set up. A single plate of food was left under a large metal lid, next to which sat a small note held down by a large red rose...

Miss you already...Miles.

(000)

Miles was happy to find that his gear seemed to move with a vastly improved speed due to some modifications he had made to it's internal mechanics. As he headed through the plains valley west of the city he noticed that he could see a blue figure moving at an incredible speed in the distance, apparently Sonic had just gotten back from his morning run, he usually did a lap or two around the continent before rushing back to Sally's side...he'd been a bit extra attentive now that she was several months pregnant...damn near passed out when he was told that she was having twins. Good thing they didn't say triplets or the poor blue hero would have possibly died on the spot. It was thinking about the entire moment that Tails began to wonder to himself, eventually with the way they were going about things Kara would end up the same way...he had a hard time picturing himself as any kind of parent, hell he didn't know where to begin with raising a kit, his parents were both dead before he turned three, Sonic and Sally were the only thing he had that seemed to resemble parents in the least. He could only imagine what Sally would say to him if she heard the way he was thinking at the moment.

"Huh...doubting myself like this she'd probably hit me." He laughed to himself brushing his bang out of his face.

Tails found that he was moving pretty fast and needed to get these thoughts out of his head, to do so he pushed his gear as hard as he could until he reached a small hill launching himself into the air giving him enough time to pull off a double back flip before landing at a speeding start. The rush of Adrenalin was just what he needed, he could only think about getting the rush again. The entire time he sped through the valley preforming one stunt after another forcing whatever he was thinking out of his head. He really did like the time he'd spent on the board racing against Jet and his group, he enjoyed moving as some point to a level near equal to that of his favorite hedgehog, and after he'd spent some time with the team's calmest member Wave, who turned out to be the only person the fox knew that could understand even the slightest amount of his technologicaly advanced speech, though at his field of expertise...Astrological Physics, the poor swallow found herself nearly unarmed. Tails had at some point learned that the Rouges weren't technically bad people. Jet and Sonic he figured didn't get along for the same reason as Knuckles and Storm, they were just too much alike; they were both cocky, impatient, and a little arrogant...where as Storm and Knuckles shared the same hotheaded attitude, but on a plus side Storm was also just as gullible as the red furred guardian. The only thing Miles could find that he didn't care for about Wave was the fact that she felt her input needed to be put in on everything, he liked the fact that she tried to teach him some things about extreme gears but, some of what she told him was some of the only scientific talk he ever had trouble understanding.

Soon enough the island was visible in the distance as a small spec of land hovering above a small jungle land where Knuckles and Julie-su's tribe was known to live. It wasn't much longer before he stopped at the edge of the jungle, and collapsed his board. The modification that allowed this was the one accomplish this feat was the one thing that Wave found to be impressive, she often wondered why she'd never thought of such a thing herself. He strapped the folded board to his back and checked his watch. It had been hours it was nearly 1 o'clock, it was funny, as much fun as he was having he hadn't realize how much time had passed. He flew until his feet were safe on the floating island, and being their place was within sight he decided to walk the rest of the way. As he approached Knuckles and Julie-su's small log cabin he noticed a familiar figure standing in the doorway. Tails knew it wasn't Knuckles, even though at a distance Julie-su could easily be mistaken for her boyfriend until one noticed that her fur was rather a dark pink instead of red, her bangs had always been colored a lighter lavender color; and even though she was a much nicer person that Knuckles was most of the time, at other times she acted more like a guy than he did. She was just as good a fighter as he was too. She was at the moment dressed in a dark red tank top and a pair of blue jeans, it was a normal look for her, she wore small metal braces on only a select few of her dreadlocks, a small chain held a red stone around her neck...

"Miles..." She said hugging the young fox, "...I haven't seen you in months."

Tails let out a squeak of pain, "Su...Su my back!!"

Julie-su pulled away, "Sorry..." She said as Tails caught his breath, "...I've had my whole life to get used to being a super strong echidna and I still can't control my own strength."

"That's okay..." Tails replied rubbing his back, "...I just wish there was a way I could be as strong as you or Knux without screwing with my DNA."

Julie-su smiled as she led Tails inside, "You know that made me throw out one of my favorite shirts."

"Look Su...you know I'd never have openly used that on you..."

"I'm well aware of that..." Julie-su said sitting down, "...now lets hear about this dream, I take it by your urgency that it has something to do with Kara..."

Julie-su paid close attention to Miles as he explained the dream, only stopping him to ask a short question or two until she'd received all she needed to know...

"When did the nightmares begin?"

Tails thought to himself, "Two, maybe three weeks ago...dose it mean anything?"

Julie-su lost herself in thought for a moment, "It's...hard to say Miles, reading into dreams is like looking into the future, you can't be sure it's going to happen until it dose...but I don't like it. Precognition isn't something you should screw around with, and you're already technopathic. I did read that study by Dr. Ferral that you gave me...Para..."

"The truth about Para-psychic Phenomena and the true secrets of the mind..." Tails helped.

"Right that..." Julie-su said, "...the book did say that for some reason one psychic ability usually goes with another, you could be what the book called a Precog..."

"Su...I gotta know, if something is gonna happen to Kara I gotta know what it is so I can stop it."

Julie-su sighed and put her hand on top of Miles's, "Miles...listen to yourself. If this is the future you aren't going to stop it...not unless you can make time stand still. A few magic users that I've met have been able to do so but, only for a few brief moments. I'm not claiming that the future is set, this could just be one of those dreams that sticks in your mind...but, if The Cycle says it's her time it's going to take her like it or not..."

"If this is all true what am I gonna do? I'm not sure I could wake up in the morning if she isn't there anymore."

His pink furred friend sighed and smiled, "Miles...I'm happy that you've found someone that important to you, but, you can't go through your life looking at the future or you'll miss what it is you already have."

"I guess I know what you mean..." Miles said looking at his feet, "...but is there anything I could do?"

"I don't know...but, several of our friends have died before and that didn't stop them from coming back did it? I found that the only thing you can really do in these situations is to have faith."

The confused vulpine went silent as he sorted through what she'd told him, the place remained silent for quite some time in which Julie-su managed to bring them both a cup of tea that the echidna were famous for...

"Say Julie..." This let her know he was deep in though, the young fox only called her Julie when he was very serious, "...Kara, she's been doing a lot of talking...You know, about family..."

"You mean about yours?"

"No...I mean about starting one."

Julie-su turned a bit red, she was surprised he'd come to her with this, "Um...that's a...um touchy subject."

Tails looked into his tea cup, "You're right...forget it."

"No no...I'm honored that you came to me with such a serious matter..." She said, "...but let me guess you aren't so sure about the matter?"

"Perceptive as aways Su..." The golden furred fox replied.

"Well this isn't a new development..." Su informed him, "...I think it's pretty much every girl's dream to settle down and start a family especially with the one she loves. Even tomboys like Sally or myself, at one point or another that's all we can think about."

Tails thought again for a moment, "Yeah but, what if we go through with it and I find out that I'm no good at being a father?"

"Miles...if you're half as good a parent as you are a person, then you've got nothing to worry about..." Julie-su reassured him, "You'll make a great father...as well as I am sure that Kara will turn out to be a fierce and protective mother." She said, "Just promise me that you won't make the same mistake my father did, he completely ignored my entire life."

After some time of talking on the subject Su and Tails headed out the door where the pink furred echidna hugged him goodbye, "You'd better come visit us more often...I know that knucklehead of mine doesn't like to say it out in the open but, he confides in my all the time and he misses you all. You know he doesn't get away from the island very often...and he isn't the only one I miss you all too."

"I'll make sure to tell everyone that...and tell Chipmunk-face to watch out when he's on his gear."

Julie-su laughed, she'd forgotten all about that nickname, "I'll do that...bye Miles...and keep your chin up okay? Everything always turns out in the end you'll see."

"Thanks Su..." Tails said looking to the setting sun which painted the horizon orange, "...I'll remember that, but, right now I think I just want to get home to Kara..." He said unfolding his gear and dropping it to the grassy ground, "...BYE SU!!" He yelled out as he sped off.

Tails was gone from sight before Knuckles suddenly rushed up to Julie-su's side planting a fast kiss on her cheek, "Was that Tails?"

"Yeah It was..." Su replied turning and kissing the crimson guardian on the lips.

Knuckles looked towards the direction Tails had left in, "The dream?"

"It doesn't look good I'm afraid...it could be him Knuckles..."

The red one sighed as he draped a powerful arm over Su's shoulders, "I had my suspicions...but I hope you're wrong."

"So do I...not for our sakes but for his." Julie-su replied, "His state of mind is bad enough as it is...something like loosing Kara could have dire effects on him."

"That's not the worst part..." Knuckles said turning toward the ruins of Echidnopolis, "...the emeralds didn't react to me today. It's starting and I think Miles may be right at the center of it without even being aware of it."

"You mean the 'Chaos Trigger'? I thought it was only a legend." Julie-su said with a hint of fear in her voice.

"I really wish we were that lucky..." The red guardian replied, "...come with me there's something you need to see."

(000)

Tails made his way home, it was raining before he got there. His fur smelled as horrible as wet fu often did. He noticed that it war still pretty late. The sun had set hours ago and he doubted Kara was still awake, fortunately he had once again underestimated the vixen's resolve. He found her sitting at the kitchen table clearly deep in thought. She didn't even seem to notice when Miles took a seat across from her...he studied her delicate features as he sat, there were slight bruises here and there, telltale signs of her training with Espio, and she seemed to be lost on some sort of subject with herself...

Tails couldn't wait for her to wake from her thoughts, "Something wrong?" He asked startling Kara out of her thoughts.

"Oh...Miles you scared me..."

"Sorry...but still what's wrong?" He asked again...

"I-it's nothing..." She replied looking at the table.

"Kara..." Tails softly called getting her to look into his eyes, "...you're a horrible liar, but...If it's really not that important..." He said standing and walking over to her.

Kara giggled as Tails lifted her into his arms bridal style, "What are you doing?"

Tails simply looked into her eyes and smiled, "Oh...Then no...it wasn't very important at all."

(!!LEMON ALERT!!)

(I figured I should write one of these at some point in some story or other, but, bare in mind this is the first time I've ever written one, so be nice...)

She kissed him several times before he made it to the door of their bedroom...If these are our last days I'm gonna make 'em count for everything their worth...He silently thought to himself as he shut the door behind them. They became locked into a deep, passionate embrace as Tails walked toward the bed. All of her worldly problems seemed to melt away in his arms, nothing ever seemed to matter to her when they were together. Their embrace carried on for a long while before they broke away from one another; Kara smiled as she lay down pulling Miles down with her. She was pleasantly surprised as Miles began robbing her of her clothes, she was usually the one to initiate these moments, but, this time her golden furred lover seemed to be in absolute control of what they were doing. Miles examined Kara as she lay there wearing only her bare fur...How did I ever get this lucky?...He asked himself as he pulled her into anther heated kiss. They had been together for some time and Miles was well aware of what he should do...

A deep sigh of passion leaped from Kara's lips as Miles's tongue began to trail it's way over her breasts, paying extra attention to her erect nipples, Kara had always liked the attention he paid to her breasts. A shiver crawled up her spine as he moved lower and lower, until her inner thighs were given the same attention her breasts had received. In these situations Miles only seemed to care about Kara's enjoyment, fully fulfilling her desires before his own. After he felt she was properly warmed up Miles pushed the head of his member past her walls forcing a giggling moan of pleasure from the vixen, he began kissing her neck as he slowly pushed his way inside her, then after a brief pause pulling out then pushing himself back in increasing his tempo, which was met by Kara's moans which grew louder and louder until her cries of passion were their loudest, her passionate cries only served to push Tails on further. As his tempo pushed on beads of sweat formed on both of their fur, there were tears in Kara's eyes, it still hurt but, the pleasure far outweighed anything else. As Miles pushed on Kara let out a low shriek as she pulled her lover against her as her walls tightened around him seemingly trying to force his seed out of him. As Kara recovered she rolled Miles onto his back , allowing him to slide back into her as she sat across his waist. She sat up a bit sliding up his shaft then allowing herself to drop back into her original position, as her tempo began to pick up she took Miles hands and cupped them onto her breasts which he began to lightly massage causing her moans to grow once again as she continued building her rhythm until after an unknown lot of time she shrieked a bit louder than last time, this time issuing Miles to release his seed into her as she fell against his chest. They were both breathing heavily as Miles wrapped her in his arms and pulled the blankets over them relishing the love he had for the vixen that lay on top of him. His last thoughts as he drifted to sleep were as always of her.