Tails x Mina (And Sonaze) (A/N: grimlock! Old friend, how are you doing? You're pretty much my best 'customer')
Requested by grimlock1997
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The air is fresh and crisp in that way it only is in the darkest of winter. Cold against his cheeks, eyes stinging a bit, breath coming out as a cloud in front of him. A total silence, the quiet of the snow, has blanketed the world, momentarily broken by the crunch of four pairs of feet making their way towards an ice rink. They dump their bags on a bench covered in snow, and Sonic says smugly, "This is why I always come here this late – we have the whole rink to ourselves."
"Lovely," Blaze replies, and Tails isn't sure whether that was sarcasm or not. It's hard to read her, simply.
Sonic is the quickest to pull off his sneakers and tie his skates, and Blaze quickly follows. Tails and Mina take a bit longer, tying their scarves and adjusting their shoelaces. They both look up at the exact same moment when Blaze does a jump, spinning in the air before landing on one foot, wobbling slightly for a couple of seconds but then easily regaining her balance and skating away.
"Wow," Mina says. "That was-"
"-amazing?"
"Pretty much."
They put on their woollen hats – they're matching, gods – put a last hand at their skates, and wobble out on the ice. It's outside, but the ice is still smooth and well-maintained. But whomever had the idea to hang all this mistletoe from the lampposts – they're above the rink, criss-crossing it – Tails was not impressed by it…
"Okay," Mina says with determination. "Let's get to it. It can't be that difficult, obviously." -Though it could be that difficult, unfortunately.
When Blaze and Sonic played tag on skates in one end of the rink, Tails and Mina slipped about on the other side. Tails fell, and then Mina fell over one of his limbs – or vice versa. They didn't know how to halt. And when turning sharply for the first time, Tails managed to fall on his face and hit his nose…
"Ow ow ow," he hissed, holding his throbbing nose. Mina slid to a halt, stumbling and falling on her knees, muttering curses.
"Let me have a look," she says, crawling towards him. He reluctantly moves his hands – and Mina rips off one of her gloves, prodding at Tails' nose experimentally. It hurts. He must have winced, because she quickly withdraws her hand. "Hey, it's not bleeding," she tries optimistically.
He gives her a flat stare. She's about to reply though, so he says quickly, "It's fine."
-that's when he attempts to get up and spots the mistletoe. Oh, one of those blasted mistletoes hanging all over the rink… Mina raises an eyebrow at him, and he points wordlessly. And covers his nose again, because either it started bleeding or he's… just blushing furiously.
"Oh," Mina says, cheeks colouring. "Well-" and Tails grabs her hand and pulls her closer.
Sonic slows down only to grab Blaze's hand, the both of them skidding to a halt so that flakes spray up around their skates. "You're it!" Sonic says with a grin, and tenses before skating away with a burst of speed- or that was certainly what he planned, but then something caught his eye before he got away. He looks out across the rink, to where Tails and Mina are standing close and… kissing…?
They're kissing? Sonic's surprised, but at the same time he's not. He's happy for Tails (it's not good for him to stay coped up in his workshop all day, even though he's an adult now) and you know, the place was decorated with so much mistletoe, so it was bound to- …wait.
-On a sudden hunch, he glances up. Mistletoe…
Oh no, oh no-
And then a hand grabs his wrist and spins him around, Sonic and Blaze (because who else than Blaze could it have been?) spinning in a circle, once, before stopping. They're holding hands, and Sonic feels faint with – with something. He's blushing so stupidly, and when Blaze kisses him, it's- it's warm. Blaze kisses sweetly and hesitantly, and Sonic-
Stopped computing. Figuratively.
Mina breaks the kiss just when Tails is about to, and then they both just lean against the other, gasping for breath. Out of the corner of his eye, Tails sees Blaze lugging Sonic off of the ice. Strange… Tails doesn't comment on it. Breathe in, breathe out… he's holding Mina loosely, when she lays a hand on his cheek to turn his head gently.
"So, I guess," she begins, but stops to take a breath. "-Merry Christmas?"
She grins at him, with her perfect rock-star smile and her vivid green eyes, bangs hanging in her face. And it's just so nice, to get out of the workshop where all his employees blow things up all day long and waste wires – and go out and do things with Mina instead. That's – it has no reason to be as enjoyable as it is, yet he's standing here in his skates and saying, so ridiculously happily,
"Merry Christmas, Mina."
