'Twisted Dragonfly' by Kenmochi Hidefumi

I got bored whilst looking through my MP3 Players, so I was stuck with that song lol

Btw, I edited chapter 20 because I accidentally put something in that I wasn't supposed to put in yet, so I highly suggest you quickly reread it and see what I changed lol

Chapter Twenty-One

At about Ten o'clock at night, Miles 'Tails' Prower had wandered into the garage and sat down in front of a glowing Vita-Chamber that had Sonic the Hedgehog residing in it. It had recently turned Twelve o'clock.

Tails sat on the cold concrete, illuminated by the dim green light that shadowed everything in the room. He wondered if Sonic could hear everything going on around him. If he would remember what happened to him. If he was aware that he was killed by Tails.

Not for the first time, anger welled up inside Tails. Why me? Why did he have to choose me? Tails scrunched his eyes up and clenched his fists. I didn't want to kill Sonic...

Behind him, Tails heard the door creak open. Christopher Thorndyke tiptoed in, still in his pajamas. He stopped. "Tails?" He whispered, as if he thought he was going to wake someone up.

"Chris, what are you doing up so late?" Tails asked, feeling slightly uncomfortable around Chris. They'd hardly said a word to each other since Sonic died.

"I could ask the same for you.." Chris walked over to where Tails was sitting. "Mind if I sit down?"

Tails shrugged, so Chris sat beside him.

After a moment of silence, Chris asked "Why are you still awake, Tails?"

"I couldn't sleep."

Chris pulled his legs up to his chest and rested his head on his knees, his arms wrapped around his legs. "Me too." His navy blue eyes were looking up at Sonic, who floated peacefully in the tube with wires on his arms, legs and head. "I sure miss him.." He said quietly, almost like he was talking to himself.

"So do I." Tails murmured. "I hope this works." As they sat in silence, short of the gurgling of the water in the Chamber, Tails realized that was the longest conversation he's had with Chris since the Thorndyke child found out how Sonic was killed.

"Sometimes I have nightmares about it." Tails stated simply, knowing Chris knew what he was talking about. "When I woke up after... after the fight, I couldn't remember exactly what happened. But later on, I was able to remember. After Shine tried to see the memories." He shuddered and looked down at his feet. "I remember... shooting him. Shooting Sonic." Beside him, Chris looked at Tails, intrigued and confused. "I remember Mortuus made sure I felt no remorse when I killed him. But it let me remember."

Chris stared at him for a moment before saying "It wasn't you who killed Sonic, it was Mortuus. It killed Sonic."

"But it used my hands! My body! My conscious!" Tails insisted. "I killed Sonic! I have the memories of it, and I was the one who physically attacked him!"

"Before you were trying to prove that you didn't kill him, and now you're saying you did? Which one is it? Did you, or didn't you?" Chris demanded, his dark blue eyes flashing with anger in the dim light.

Tails looked back up at the Vita-Chamber. "I never said I didn't kill him. That was Shadow. Shadow doesn't have my memories, so it's impossible for him to tell. But I can tell from my memories that it was all me who killed him. I raised the gun to his chest. I pulled the trigger."

"If you killed Sonic," Chris asked quietly, his voice shaky "Then how can you sit around like it's nothing?"

Tails bristled. "Look, Chris, I know you lost a friend that was dear to you, but you weren't the one who killed him. And you didn't lose a role-model and brother-like because you almost killed him," He thought about Shadow. "I lost the only family I've ever had, and it's either because I killed them or drove them away!"

Chris watched as Tails got to his feet. "Where are you going?"

Tails walked over to the garage door and opened it. "I'll tell you what," Tails growled, ignoring Chris' question. "When you kill your family and friends, give me a call. Then maybe we'll be able to understand each other, just a little bit better."

With that, Miles 'Tails' Prower walked out of the garage.

Katherine Appallo Karma sat at the Thorndyke's coffee table, in their living room, drinking a glass of milk she'd poured for herself. It was twelve thirty-seven, and she was supposed to be asleep, but Kat just couldn't get unconscious for some reason. She sipped from the tall glass, staring blankly at the carpet.

Suddenly, Tails burst in. He dropped to his hands and knees and sobbed on the carpet. He didn't seem to notice Kat until she was at his side.

"Tails, are you OK?" Kat asked, getting to her knees so she was eye-level with her friend. "What happened?"

It took Tails several moments to be able to answer. "No! I'm not OK! I killed Sonic! I forced Shadow out of my life! Out of everyone's life!" He sobbed.

Kat watched his tears fall onto the carpet, turning it from white to gray. "You make it sound like you're a horrible person." She said quietly.

"Because I am! I am a horrible person!" He wailed. Then he said more softly. "I could have stopped myself. Does it mean I didn't care about them? About Sonic and Shadow? That I didn't care at all about what happened to them? When you care about something enough, nothing gets in your way of helping it." He looked up at Kat.

Kat looked down at him with her lilac blue eyes. "You're not a horrible person, Tails. Mortuus is too powerful for you to control." Kat rested her hand on Tails' hand, which looked like it was trying to claw the carpet off the floor. "Of course you care about them, Tails, you have a big heart. You could care about anyone, even if you just met them." Tails looked away, pulling his hand away from her. She continued anyways. "You tried your best."

He clutched at the carpet. "My best...wasn't good enough." He uttered, staring down at the tear stains on the carpet.

"Be that as it may, but no one could do better." Kat reassured him.

"Don't patronize me." He snarled. "I know a handful of people who could have done better than me."

"Tails, you can't blame yourself for everything." Kat insisted. She liked Tails; She hated seeing him in pain like this. It tugged at her heart-strings. "There's a second chance for Sonic. We get the chance to bring him back."

"There is no 'second chance' for me. The past can't be changed." He looked up at Kat, his watery blue eyes full of remorse. "I can't undo what I've done."

Kat sighed. This was getting nowhere real fast."Look, Tails. If you want to blame yourself for every little thing that goes wrong in your life and all the people's around you, go ahead. That's fine. You know why? Because you won't have anyone around you. They would've all left because you are annoying the crap out of by whining on what happened in the past. There's a reason it's called the 'past', you know. Because it's something that's already happened. And so what if you can't undo it? We're in the present, now, and that's the only time that matters." She stopped only to take a breath. "Now, if you want to live your life as a hermit with bad memories and nothing but a jar of dirt for a companion, than go right ahead. Just remember that it's the present, not the past."

Tails looked at her, astonished. After a moment, he asked "Is that really how I seem to you guys? A crazy person with no friends?"

Kat put her palm on her face, rubbed her eyes, and sighed before saying "That's not my point, right now, Tails." She sat him on his knees, her hands on his shoulders. "What I'm saying is that you can't keep living in the past; What's done is done. Keep the optimism high. Don't become consumed by what happened. Worry about what's happening."

Tails blinked at her. Then he leaned over and hugged her, before getting to his feet. He gave her a weak smile, before walking towards the doorway.

"Good night, Katherine Appallo Karma." Tails said, before leaving her kneeling in the living room.