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Characters are back to being old geezers and whotnot lol. This chapter is mainly about Bean and Charmy though.

Chapter 6: Orphans

Two figures loomed over the gravestones of their child and an old aquaintance. Charmy and Bean stood silently, paying their respects before they even acknowledged each other.

"It's sickening how many people are orphans." Bean spat. "Well you can thank Silver for that." Charmy replied. "Damn Silver! I never liked him to begin with." Bean spat again. "You just don't like him because he took Blaze from you." Charmy retorted. "And put my children's lives, as well as your children's lives in danger. He deserved the death he got." "But did it truly solve anything?" Charmy asked. "What do you mean, 'Did it solve anything?' It solved everything for me!" Bean glared.

"Did it," Charmy answered. "I mean, did it bring Espio back to life? Did it bring your son, Granite, back to life? Did it bring Cream back to life? No, it only filled coffins full of bodies and ripped loved ones from our arms." "But I thought that you didn't like Espio anymore." Bean said.

"I don't," Charmy sneered. "Because he chose women above all else. I thought I could trust him, be his friend, but instead, he wanted to fuck, fuck, and fuck some more. Vector's constant temper tantrums scared me, and then I became a detective, we all three did, and I had to cope with the fact that the Chaotix must rejoin together. Boy did Vector and Espio change after all those years, but it didn't change a thing in my mind about them. Consumed with their own hatred and anger towards the Destructix and with each other, spilling it out on me-"

"Did they beat you?" Bean asked in concern, a tint of anger added to his voice. He didn't have eyes, but if he did, they would be gleaming with rage at the moment.

"When I got older," Charmy explained. "Even Sonic had hit me, but that was because he was angry at Espio for impregnating his sister and calling her a cunt and a whore, which she was, sleeping with Shadow, Antoine, Knuckles, you name it, she did it. Espio blamed me, though Sonic only hit me hoping that I'd perhaps forget all that I had saw, but I didn't. Vector had beat me in a fit of rage. I was only 8 then. Then Espio started. He pulled me in a room, screaming, "It's your fault! It's your fault! You fucking ingrate! I was so fucking stupid for joining a team with a kid on it! I should've thrown you to the Destructix a long time ago!" Then he nearly killed me. I was a bloody mess when you and Predator Hawk found me. You two nursed me to health, and Predator Hawk was hungry for blood soon after, but I wouldn't let him. Something inside me made me cared for them, even though they beat me. These scars are only a reminder of them, and a reminder of you and Predator Hawk."

Bean had a troubled, conflicted face, and replied, "I remember very well, and it pains me to see that you are still hurt by their cruelty. I didn't want you to grow you angry. And now that all these people died, and it only pains me more to see you hurt." "It hurts me more to remember it," Charmy said. "I mean, it shakes me to my core to remember it, but it still stings to see Espio dead. He died saving Lightning, his rival, and he died for justice. It takes me back to when we first formed, swearing that we'd fight for justice and beat the bad guys."

"Cute," Bean retorted. "That sounded just like how Bark, Fiona, Nic, and I swore to do, but-" "But," Charmy interrupted. "You can't save the day and be a villain at the same time." "I understand, but did my actions kill my son?" Bean asked, both curious and worried that his attitude in youth affected the way Silver reacted towards them all. Did he accidently cause Silver to kill a whole slew of people? "No," Charmy answered, placing his hand on Bean's shoulder. "Silver had lost his mind when he attacked those people. Several people's children had turned against them and joined Silver, not understanding that Silver was not in his correct frame of mind, but it still doesn't excuse their actions." "You'll never understand the pain of losing your child, Charmy." Bean stated, staring down at Granite's gravestone. "I already have." Charmy replied.

"Your sweet Belinda." Bean sneered. "My Used-To-Be-Sweet Belinda," Charmy choked, turning away. "I can't believe what she became. I-I know I did everything right. What happened?"

Bean hugged Charmy and replied, "Good seeds go bad, just like Granite. He jumped ship so many times that it caught up to him, and now he's dead." "But your son died a traitor to everybody, Espio sacrificed himself, for Lightning, and nobody else." Charmy cried, gripping tightly onto Bean, almost as if they were 17 and 6 again.

"Oh Charmy, the sacrifice of one is the resolution for many." Bean said, clutching Charmy for dear life, as if danger loomed around the corner. Charmy looked up at him, his brown eyes meeting Bean's covered eye sockets.
It was a long pause before Charmy let go of Bean, pulled a hankerchief out of his pocket, and blew his nose on it before placing it back into his pocket. Charmy looked at the grave of Espio before murmurring something inaudible.

Bean just stood there and stared a long time, the clap of thunder and flash of lightning illuminating the writing on the graves that the shadowy night had painted over, before looking at Charmy and asking, "Would you like for me to drive you home?" Charmy nodded at him and said, "That would be nice, for it's a long walk back to my house." Bean nodded towards him, wrapped his arm around Charmy, and said, "Then let us go, and we can talk there if you'd like." "I would like that very much Bean, and thank you." Charmy replied as they stepped through the cemetary gates and entered into Bean's car.

Bean started the car and smiled at Charmy before he whispered, "Thank you." And the car rolled off somberly as the twosome had one brief look at the cemetary before it dissappeared out of sight.

End of Chapter 6

Whoo, this chapter wasn't long at all, and I know that it was heavy with dialogue, the next one should be heavy with action. And thank you guys so much for the follows and the reviews. It makes me proud to write. Thank you.