Tails' Anger Chapter 14
As Leo was being driven downtown, Tails was being hooked up to an IV and a loud and annoying beeping machine that somehow showed your heart beat. Tails was given the best the doctors could.
He was given food at a later time, and eagerly ate his yucky hospital food, which was mashed potatoes, and some meat, and vegetables along the sides. The doctors had asked if Tails would eat veggies (considering he's a fox, and foxes just eat meat), and Tails gave them the answer. The doctors soon left after and the four characters were alone to talk to each other... or not.
It was quiet for the longest time. Chris was on the floor playing with some funny looking dust bunnies. Chuck was taking a peaceful nap in a comfy, green arm chair, specially put in there for him. Tails was taking a very needed and very, very deserved rest, and Sonic was just watching him, breath, in and out, his chest rising softly and lowering underneath the pure white sheet. Sonic would just stare at him, just hoping they wouldn't have to do any kind of amputations on Tails, since the test results still haven't come in. Sonic swore, that doctors waited and waited to tell you the news just to add to the seat gripping suspense.
Downtown
The policeman were about ready to call his foster parents, but after all the screaming the kid did, and what name he was yelling, told them to call someone other than his foster parents.
He was yelling Sonic's name.
Leo was bathed in hot tears, and was breathing so heavily, he could barely stop shaking. He weakly looked up from were he was being held.
The police officer looked up from his papers on his desk, interested in why the kid had suddenly stopped screaming. "What, ya got somethin' to say?!"
Leo was so tired, he wanted to just lie down, but the cuffs and the restraints held him from doing so. He looked back down, and shakily spoke three words. "I." "Want." "Sonic." He slowed suddenly, paused. He looked so sad, it was pitiful. "...please." The policeman looked to each other for an answer, and couldn't think of anyone better to deal with the situation. They decided to call Sonic up to the station, and put them both in a heavily guarded and controlled environment, so they could talk, calmly.
At the Hospital
"Sonic?" A nurse suddenly opened the door to the room. "Yeah? Are Tails' results in yet?" Sonic asked, as he hoped down from the chair beside Tails's bed, and walked over to the blonde nurse, ocean eyes meeting emeralds. "I'm afraid not. But you have a phone call. It's from the police station. They want you to go down there to check in with Leo. He wants to speak with you." Sonic nodded his head, and was gone just like that. "Oops! Sorry!" Sonic yelped as he sped back, "Thanks for telling me, now I gotta run!" Sonic thanked her, and faster than the speed of sound, was outta there.
Downtown
Sonic had already made it there in about five minutes, and was impatiently waiting for the officer to greet him at the front desk. "Chop chop people, I have a very tight schedule, okay? I'm waiting for Tails' test results, I've gotta race Sam Speed in about 6 hours, I also have to make a speech to the president on how I beat Eggman the other day. Now what is it you people want from me now?"
The officer walked through the door when the cobalt hedgehog was finished, and sat down at the desk's front chair. He slowly took a sip from his coffee, his brown mustache catching the drops of liquid from his lips.
"There's a boy here that wants to see you. His name is leo, I believe you know him." The officer said casually, or at least calmly. Sonic gave a stern look, and then one of confusion.
"Well, what else can he do to me and my friends? He's already put Tails in the hospital! And now he wants to have a friendly chat with me? Somethings seriously wrong with this child. Did ya check him to see if he was on anything?" Sonic knew he was getting off topic, but the officer just replied with a couple I understands, and a no.
"The drug test will start after you two have had your talk. Now get in there before he gets even louder." The cop soon led him to the door where interrogations were usually held, and brought him into the room, and sat him down with Leo.
There was a strong tension in the room, and Sonic was very uncomfortable with this. It felt a bit like going Dark again, but not as strong the feeling of the negative energy, although it was sort of the same kind. The Chaos Emeralds is the power enriched by the heart. Blah blah blah.
But back to the story.
Leo had his head hung down in silence, guilt, and, shame. Sonic was shocked that the monster that had been terrorizing his friends yesterday had been reduced to this pathetic, sad little kid, compared to the horrifying monster that he was chasing down the day before.
Sonic could see the puddle of tears that laid in droplets on the thick metal table. Sonic could hear the same sobbing he had heard earlier from the closet, and when he was sneaking inside the house then saw Leo face-down on the wooden floor. Maybe there was more to Leo than there is told...
Sonic had been staring at Leo's head for the longest time, waiting for the time when he'd lift his head up to speak, but he couldn't, he was too ashamed to be talking to Sonic the Hedgehog about what he had done to his best friend, his buddy, his brother. It had been over 20 minutes of silence.
Sonic truly didn't want to hurt him any more than he had to himself. But after twenty more minutes, something needed to be said.
"...Leo?" Sonic said while looking at the ground. He folded his arms as he heaved a deep sigh. "Why exactly did you call me down here? Did you want to tell me something? Is there something going on with you? Drugs? School? Family-" "Shut up. I never want to hear that word. I've been so lonely, so, so lonely." He cried between painful sobs.
"Wait. I thought you had a foster mother and father? What about your real parents?" "SHUT UP! I HATE THEM, OKAY? THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH ME! All I've ever wanted was a real family, that would care about me, no matter what. But they gave me away... TO A FOSTER HOME! DOES THAT REALLY MEAN THEY CARE? NO! IT SHOULDN'T BECAUSE A GOOD MOM AND DADDY WOULDN'T GIVE YOU AWAY!" Leo slammed his head back onto the hard steel table, a sick clang echoing around the empty grey room.
Sonic's face was one of sadness. He hadn't been in this situation before; having a child, adult, or even an insane, homicidal teenager yell at him like this about their problems. At least not this way.
"Leo. I didn't think that this would be the reason you dragged me all the way down here, even though it wasn't that big of a deal."
There was an awkward silence.
"Sonic. Do you even have parents? Do you know what this feels like?" Leo replied darkly.
Sonic sighed. "Sometimes I wish I did know my parents. I don't even know if they're alive, or even on this planet. Even if, I don't think they'd remember me." Sonic laughed to himself, throwing one of his arms over his shoulder, relaxing.
Leo tensed. "But Sonic... do you know how it feels to be blocked off from the ones you love, it's like being trapped in a box, walls slowly starting to close in on you, and as it gets smaller, the suspense of 'how the fuck am I supposed to get out of here?' feeling, and the 'trapped' and 'all hope lost' ones? Have you ever even felt that way before? Huh?"
"Hey, first of all, there's no need for cursing," Sonic said as he waved his finger around. "and, second of all, I'm sorry. I don't recall those feelings. I wish I could help you."
Another long awkward moment of tranquillity, without the comfortable.
"Look. I feel, I can't even describe it. I don't even know why I did that to Tails. I'm so sorry..." Leo's eyes became watery, becoming more depressed with every tear.
"I feel horrible. If I hadn't felt horrible, I wouldn't have been crying and hiding in that mansion. I would have been fighting you, like I do to everyone else that I've felt had challenged me. I'm so sorry..."
Leo couldn't hold it back anymore. He burst out into tears, slamming his head into the cold, hard steel table that he was cuffed at. That's right. He's punishing himself because of his emotions. He feels he could live without them, for those are what makes him love his long-gone parents so much.
"Sonic please! Please help me find my parents! I need them! I haven't seen them since I was 8, and now I'm 14! Then they moved to England after my fourth foster parent had given up on me, which was also when I was eight. I've been with 27 different foster parents, and not one has the love that I want to feel from my real parents!" (AN: At this part, you should be listening to Kotoba ni Dekinai from Sonic X. It fits perfect) Leo screamed at the top of his lungs, bellowing in agony of the mind-boggling emotions. He was about to start violently slamming his head off of the silvery metallic table again, until Sonic quickly rushed over to him, and broke the the strong steel cuffs. Leo instantly stopped what he was doing to see what had just occurred.
"Sonic? What-" "Quiet. You don't deserve to go to jail. Come with me." Sonic replied.
"But, why? Why are you letting me go with you? Do I deserve to be let go after what I did?"
"I had reasons, not that they were good, but you don't have to go. I'm laying off the charges."
"Sonic-" "No. I understand now why you did what you did. You didn't want to go back home to Kate. You just want your parents again."
"I'm taking you to Tails, at the hospital. Don't worry, nothing bad will happen." Sonic explained, pulling Leo up from the chair. Leo began stretching his hand open, his fingers bending and unbending, the burning, fuzzy feeling finally dissolving. Leo was stunned with a thought that made him more nervous than before.
"But Sonic! What if they won't let us out? What if?" He cried.
"Then I'll bash their heads into their necks, let's go." Sonic then lifted Leo up into his arms, carrying him across the room, one arm under his back, and one supporting his legs.
Leo gasped in shock at the sudden actions that Sonic had preformed, mouth gaping open for a few seconds.
Finally, Leo said something, still a little tense that he was in the arms of a hero. "Do you have to carry me? Or is this just for laughs?" He asked, tear drops stuck to the corners of his eyes, drying slowly, although one was still travelling down the side of his cheek.
"This is just for fun! Wait til I run, it gets better!" Sonic replied happily, pushing Leo up, for he was gradually slipping down.
Sonic swung the door to the room open, Sonic appearing in the back room with Leo in his arms.
"Hey, hedgehog, what do you think your doin' taking him outta there?! He's dangerous!"
"Not anymore! I'm laying off the charges. He can't go to jail. I'll even write an angry letter to the President saying much much trouble you guys gave us. Even though he did beat the crap outta my bud, he doesn't deserve what you guys wanna give him."
"Huh? You can't do that! Huh?- He's gone!" Before the cop could even begin to say 'huh?', he was gone. Papers began flying around the room, the albino sheets fluttering and crackling as they landed on the floor.
"So? Is this fun or what!" Sonic said smiling widely, watching the boy's face grow wide with either excitement or anxiousness. He couldn't tell. But the expression said either he liked it, or he wanted to go faster. Either way, Sonic went faster.
"Please! Faster!" Leo's face was entangled with his medium length hair, blowing everywhere across his face. Leo had to close his eyes from the amount of wind that was drying his eyes.
"You got it!" And Sonic went faster, and they were finally at the hospital.
"Aw..." "Hey, it's okay. I'll give ya a ride sometime later, bud." Sonic replied joyfully, happy that he's got one problem solved, but one more to resolve.
"Let's get inside. I need to see if Tails' results are in." "But Sonic. I'm a bit afraid. What if they hurt me?"
"Hey! Don't worry about that! My friends aren't like that. Besides, the only one that'll be doing that is Knuckles!"
"No! Not Knuckles!" "I'm just kidding! He wouldn't hurt a kid. And besides, I'm here, and I don't support violence."
"Then what about what you said back there, about bashing their heads into their necks?" "Hey, I just kidding! I wouldn't do anything like that!" "Sorry." "Hey, it's okay. No offense taken at all."
They soon walked into the front hall, and everyone began getting out of their seats and staring.
"Why are they doing that?" Leo whispered hoarsely in Sonic's blue ear, holding Sonic close.
"Don't worry. We'll run." Sonic then grabbed Leo's hand, pulled him forward onto his back, and told him to hold on tight, because he's gonna go faster than before.
"Let's go, Sonic!" Leo yelled as he wrapped his arms around Sonic's neck and shoulder.
They had made it there in about 12.9 seconds, while dodging nurses and doctors with the ill and injured, although Sonic never got seen and never hit anyone.
When Sonic and Leo made it to the room, Leo carefully hopped off of Sonic's back, back onto the solid ground. They walked around a gurney that was next to the door, that was probably used by Tails earlier. Leo hesitated at first, but gradually opened the door to Tails' room.
The door to his room opened, but just a crack, and then all the way. This made everyone look up from where they were waiting and gasp.
"Leo?! What are you doing here!" Sonic then walked up next to Leo, putting his hand on his back. "Go see Tails, bud." "Bud? Sonic, what are you talking about? He just beat Tails up. And now your treating him like a friend? Have you been hypnotized!" Chris practically yelled.
"Chris. It's not what you think. I understand what Leo's been going through now. He's my friend now. I believe he can be yours too."
"Chris, you were my only friend... and I betrayed you. I hurt your friend, and I'm sorry." Leo hung his neck, face darkened with regret.
"Hey, guy. It's okay. I'm sure Tails will be alright." Sonic attempted to comfort him, and pulled him into a hug.
"Sonic? How can you care about someone who's hurt us so much? How could you?" "Hey, it's not like I'm joining Eggman, 'cause that's what kind of scene your making. Look. This kid's been through a lot. And I'm going to help him, however I can."
"Hm. Explain Sonic. What has the child gone through that's so severe?" Chuck asked as he placed his fingers on his chin, puzzled, yet with a very serious look plastered on his face.
Sonic told him the story as he sat and Leo sat down on the chairs next to Tails.
"It's sort of a long story, but to make it short, let's say he has parents that he thinks doesn't love him."
"Hm. Very interesting." Chuck replied.
"Mm. Please. Don't. Hurt. My Tornado." Tails was speaking in his sleep, and the gang started laughing hysterically.
Orange eye lids, tired and heavy, were slowly, fluttering open. "Hm. Wha?-" Tails' eyes shot open in fright as he saw Leo sitting next to him.
"Hi Tails." Leo responded.
"N-no. You're here to hurt me. I'M DREAMING!" "No Tails! I'm not going to hurt you ever again, never. I have no words to express how sorry I am." Just then, Leo leaned in and wrapped his arms around Tails' shoulders, smothering him with the hug.
"Can't... breathe! Help!" "I'm sorry. I just feel horrible about what I did." "I'm such a softy for hugs. I'd forgive anyone with a hug. But maybe not you. Because you had no reason to do what you did to me!"
Leo heaved a sigh. "I wouldn't expect you to forgive me that easily. Seriously, why would anyone. The only one I feel understands me is Sonic at the moment."
"Wait," Tails started, a bit confused. "You're friends, with Sonic? Oh boy, now I know I'm dreaming."
"No, seriously. I feel bad about what I did to you. I might even go into depression if you don't forgive me, but please, just hear me out."
"Well I'm listening." Tails folded his arms impatiently.
Leo sighed again. "I was stressed, but that's no excuse. I've been depressed, angry, and confused on why my parents didn't want me. And after they sent me away, I had to find a way to deal with my anger, so, I, guess I found torturing people was my only way for relief. But what I did to you, I don't think I've ever hurt anyone that bad before. I mean, I've pushed people over and stuff, but I've never really injured someone to the extent of putting them in the hospital. I'm so, so sorry. I hope you'll be okay." Leo, then, with a sorrowful frown, threw his head down onto the bed, and started sobbing again.
"Leo, I- I never thought that this would be the reason." "That's what everyone's been saying, and I kinda believe them."
"I believe you. How can we help you?"
"The better question is," He stopped to wipe the tears from his eyes. "how are we going to help you?"
"I feel fine, nothings broken, nothing hurts, well, maybe except my pride, but that'll return in a little while. I don't think I've ever been this hurt before."
Suddenly the doctor walked into the room with the results. Everyone one stared at the doctor, waiting for the results to be announced.
"Tails has several wounds on his face that will heal eventually, the same with all the others. He's got no bones that are broken, but he was a few fractured ribs." Everyone hissed at this. They then placed their eyes on Tails, who was looking down at his chest, as if the puffs of fur there were more interesting than what the doctor was saying.
"Of course, after a few weeks, Tails will make a full recovery and will be back on his feet. But we'd prefer him to stay in bed and refrain from doing any physical activities until we are certain he is healed. We'd also like you to bring him into the hospital at least 1-3 times a week, to make sure the healing is progressing. You'll be taken home in an ambulance. He'll need to be on a stretcher for the ride, though. We're guessing the ice that had frozen on top of him had crushed him. We don't think he's exactly ready to walk either, also, make sure he stays in bed, unless an emergency.
"Wait, isn't that the kid that has injured Tails? What's he doing here, Sonic?" "Well, I kinda brought him here. Please don't tell the police where he is. He doesn't deserve to go to prison." "Well, fine. As long as we don't get sued for this." And with that, the doctor walked out the door.
"You hear that Tails? You're gonna be alright!" Chris cheered, jumping up and down.
"I'm so glad." Tails replied tiredly. He then crashed into his pillow (which means he fell asleep).
The gang started to laugh again, and suddenly a stretcher was pulled into Tails' room. "Would you like to take him home at the moment, or wait a little longer?" Asked a blonde haired nurse, who's hands were wrapped around the stretchers handles.
"Sure, I guess we can leave now."
"Wait! What about Leo? If he doesn't want to go back to his foster home, then where does he go after this?" Sonic asked, puzzled.
"He can come back to the mansion, Sonic. We may need to find out more about these parents of his." Chuck said as he closed his eye lids and folded his arms as if he were in deep thought.
"You hear that Leo? You're gonna be coming with us for now." Sonic said casually with a thumbs up.
"Mm-hm!" Leo replied happily.
That sniffs was beautiful. It's not over yet though. I was planning on having this be the last chapter, but, I need to get rid of my writers block -o
Oh yeah! Longest chapta' eva! WHOOT!