Suppressed Memories
Chapter 3
Sonic got ready for the day and went downstairs for breakfast, instead of letting his thoughts consume him he was gonna look for answers. He was the first one at the table that morning, eager to get the day started. "You seem more energetic than you did yesterday, finally sort your thoughts?" Tom asked as he flipped a fried egg in the pan on the stove.
Sonic looked over at Tom and scratched the back of his head, "not exactly, but I plan on trying to find out what's making me have those dreams." Tom looked at Sonic curiously, "dreams plural? You had another one?" Tom placed the egg he was frying on a plate and cracked another into the pan as Sonic started to speak, "yeah, I had another one last night, it was nice until the end when I started to wake up, the girl started to fall out of my vision and she disappeared while I tried calling her name, but I didn't get to say all of it so all I heard was am."
Tom scratched his chin, "hmm...her name could be Amanda, or Amelia...or maybe Amber. There's a lot of names that start with am. Maybe you could look up a list of names, one of them might jog your memory." "That would take forever! There's probably a hundred names like that," Sonic groaned, "besides, I think I'm gonna see if Tails can help, he's a genius after all."
Tom gave Sonic a fake hurt look, "so my help isn't useful just because I don't have a 300 IQ? Ouch, that hurts!" Sonic laughed it off and started fiddling with the tablecloth as he went into thought. Would Tails actually know a way to help? It seemed like his only option, Google probably wouldn't be much help and surely Tails would know some way to help.
Sonic was pulled out of his thoughts some time later as a plate with eggs, bacon, and toast was placed in front of him, to which he looked up to see everyone else at the table beginning to eat their breakfast. Sonic looked over to Tails and asked for his help after breakfast. "With what?" he asked, "this wouldn't be about that dream you had the other night, would it?"
Sonic nodded, " I had another one last night actually, and I can't stop thinking about them...and that girl...she just seems so familiar..." Tails looked to Sonic curiously, "hmmm...sounds interesting, I'll see what I can do to help."
Sonic nodded again and continued into eat his breakfast.
After breakfast, Sonic and Tails went upstairs to Sonic's room so they could discuss the situation. They sat on bean bags opposite to one another and got down to business. "So, what exactly are these dreams about? Are they good ones, bad ones?" Tails asked as he pulled out his tablet to type stuff down. Sonic shrugged, "they're kinda good...except the last one ended weird, the girl began running away and when she faded from my view, the whole world began to fade...I tried calling her name but I didn't get the whole word out."
"Hmm...could you describe her?" Tails said, "If she was a hedgehog like you said it'd be pretty easy to spot her out in a crowd, they're pretty sparse nowadays since the great Owl and Echidna war." Sonic held his chin in a thinking pose, "well...she was pink, and a little shorter than me...she had jade colored eyes and...I think she wore a red dress."
Tails hummed as he typed the information into his tablet, Sonic just fiddled with his gloves. He was thinking of whether he should tell Tails about the stuff in his old cave home that he found, would that help them in their quest to find out more? I mean if it is that girl living there they could just have a steak out and find her that way, but would that seem creepy?
"Hello? Earth to Sonic!" Tails yelled as he noticed Sonic spacing out, not listening to what he was saying. Sonic went wide eyed, "huh? Oh, sorry Tails, what was it?" Tails repeated himself, slightly annoyed, "I said is there anything else you have that might help?" Sonic thought for a moment, Tails was his best bud! Surely he can keep a secret.
"There is something..." he began, "but you can't tell anyone about it yet, this stays between us, got it?" Tails looked a little worried about what his older brother was about to tell him but knew he could trust Sonic just as much as Sonic could trust him. He held out his pinky, "I pinky promise, I won't say a word." They connected pinkies and sealed the deal.
Sonic took in a breath, "yesterday I went on a run through the forest where I used to live and I found my old cave home that I lived in before I met Tom and Maddie." Tails nodded, signaling him to continue. "And when I went inside to check the place out there was new stuff in it and it looked like someone was living there. I found clothes, a deck of weird looking cards, and a palette of blankets and pillows on the floor, and in one of the pillows I found this." He pulls something bout of his quills, it's another quill but this one is pink.
Tails looked in awe at the quill and went to touch it, upon contact the fox boy was shocked with low frequency electricity. "Yikes! How are you able to hold that without getting shocked?" Tails said as he rubbed his hurt hand. Sonic shrugged, "I'm not really sure, maybe it's a hedgehog thing?"
"Anyways," Sonic said as he examined the quill in his hand, "I was thinking maybe we could wait and track her down, not immediately but maybe just check the cave every once in a while to see if there's anything new." Tails nodded, "sounds good to me, are you gonna check it today?" Sonic shook his head and placed the pink quill back with his other quills and said, "I'm gonna try and nap today, maybe I can have some more dreams and get some more info on this girl."
Tails looked at Sonic with amusement, "are you sure that's how it works? It could just be random or something." Sonic scratched his head and chuckled nervously, "I'm not entirely sure but its worth a try at least."
Tails nodded in agreement, they didn't really know what was going on so its worth it to at least try. Both boys got up from their bean bags, "thanks for the help Tails, I know Knuckles probably wouldn't be much help with something like this. " Sonic chuckled and patted Tails on the back. "Yeah, I guess I'm the helpful one out of the three of us."
Tails made his way down the attic stairs towards the garage before waving Sonic goodbye. Sonic waved back and closed the attic door and turned around towards his bed. He ran up and flopped down onto it, tossing and turning to get comfortable. When he was in a comfortable enough position, he drifted off to sleep.
Sonic sat inside his childhood home, Longclaw was sitting in a chair, rocking back and forth as she listened to the rain drops hit the windows. His pink friend was supposed to come visit today but hadn't made it there yet, Longclaw told him she probably wouldn't be coming today due to the weather. He was bummed to say the least, not only was he stuck inside but his only friend couldn't even come over, this stinks!
He got up from the floor and went around the house, looking through all the windows, "when will the rain stop? I wanna go outside and play in the mud!" Longclaw sighed, knowing the peace and quiet wouldn't have lasted long anyways, " I think it's supposed to rain all day, so no mud puddles for you." Sonic plopped down with a pout and went silent, giving Longclaw the cold shoulder for not letting him play outside.
"You can be mad all you want Sonic," she said as she got up from her chair and went over to him, "but you'll thank me when you stay healthy and don't get a cold out in that cold rain," she patted his head and went into the kitchen to make some soup for lunch.
Sonic continued to pout until he heard a knock at the door, about to go answer it before Longclaw beat him to it. When she opened the door, she saw Sonic's friend drenched in the rain water and shaking like a leaf. "Oh goodness! What are you doing out in the rain Rosie? Come in, quick!" The girl hobbled inside, already looking sickly from the cold water she was covered in.
"Sonic, stay with her and make sure she doesn't collapse, I'm gonna go get some blankets and warm clothes." she instructed the boy as she went off to go get her things. Sonic rushed over to the girl and hugged her, trying his best to warm her with his own body heat. She weakly returned the hug, feeling very fatigued.
"Why wouldn't you have just stayed home Rosie? Don't you know its not safe to go out in the rain? You can get sick like that!" Sonic said as he guided her to the floor and they both sat, with Rosie leaning on Sonic. Rosie had an ashamed look on her face, "I know...but I didn't have anywhere to go..." Sonic was confused, "what do you mean? Don't you have someone to take care of you?"
He began to hear sniffling and saw that the girl was beginning to cry. Worried that he said something wrong and wanting to comfort her, he hugged her tighter as she cried. "Hey, it's okay, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." Sonic soothed. "Rosie looked up while sniffling and said, " it's not your fault *sniff* you don't know."
Sonic looked confused, "I don't know what?" The girl looked away from Sonic and quietly said, "I don't have a guardian...or a family." She began to cry again, this time silently, as Longclaw returned with some blankets. She had been listening in on the conversation and made sure to make the girl feel at home, they'd take care of her now.
She was wrapped up in blankets and snuggled up to Sonic as they both napped. As dream Sonic slept, the real Sonic began to awake.
Sonic slowly awoke from his nap, noting that his plan worked. He had some more info about the girl, her nickname was Rosie and at some point she began to live with them, but then what happened? She wasn't around when Sonic left Mobius so something happened that caused her to leave...or maybe something bad happened to her...
He shook his head, pushing away the negative thoughts. He looked over to the clock and saw the time was 1:30 p.m., about 3 hours after he fell asleep. He stretched his arms out and decided to go out to town, have some leisurely time, maybe bug Crazy Carl while he's at it. He snickered at the thought and sped off out of the house.
So, now Tails is in on it and we at least know her nickname. Sonic's on his way to bug Crazy Carl, will he know anything about another alien creature in the town? Maybe...just have to wait and see next time.
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