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"I'm sorry." Knuckles held up Sonic's back pack, which was burnt and pretty much trashed. Sally fought to hold back tears,
"No, Sonic," She whispered, a small trickle of tears running down her cheek. Bunnie bit her lip as she to tried to stop herself from crying. Everyone else present in the room looked solemn, silence took the room, as no one knew what to say. All of a sudden Knuckles slammed his fist against the wall, leaving two deep marks as he left the room. This caused Sally to slip out of her solemn trance and break down in the tears she had been trying to hold back. Bunnie put her arm round her friend and gently hugged her,
"Oh, Sally-girl. Ah know how ya feel, ah-ah..." She trailed off still not knowing what to say.
"Why did it have to be him? There was so much I..." another wave of tears broke off the end of her sentence as her words became un-audible.
Sally finally managed to cry herself to sleep, but kept waking up as she thought about Sonic. She woke up again and looked at the clock, 3:00 AM. She got up, still teary eyed, and headed out the room to get a glass of milk. As she walked along the corridor she went past the infirmary, where Tails was. She walked in and sat beside Tails' bed. The young kitsune slowly opened his eyes,
"Aunt Sally?" He asked seeing the pained expression on her face. She looked down at him and another tear ran down her cheek
"Aunt Sally, what's wrong? Where's Sonic?" He asked his eyes becoming wider. Sally sighed heavily,
"Sonic's, Sonic well he's..." She trailed off, seeing that Tails understood.
"No, no. Sonic can't be gone, please no. Not Sonic, I need him." Tails cried his voice trembling. Tails clenched his fists together as more and more tears streamed down his face, soaking the white fur. He looked up at Sally,
"Why him?" Was all he could get out before falling unconscious again. Sally rested his head on the pillow and got up to head to the door, a shadowy figure was standing there.
"Didn't take it too well, huh?" He asked, clearly trying to stop himself from crying.
"No." Sally looked up at the red echidna and sighed. "Why Knuckles, why?" He hugged her and stroked her hair softly,
"Sally, I, I don't know what to say to make things right, there's nothing I can say, I...I'm so, so sorry." He said with pure sincerity in his now soft voice.
"Thank you Knuckles, thank you." They walked slowly along the corridor back to the dorm. Once they got there, Knuckles looked at Sally,
"Try and get some sleep, we'll have a busy day tomorrow." He said, his voice cracking again as he tried not to cry.
"Ok, goodnight Knu-Knuckles." She gulped down tears and they both quickly walked to their beds and fell asleep as fast as they could, for that was the only time they could find peace away from the harsh truth that awaited them in the morning, Sonic was gone.
