Author's Note: This was how Chapter four was originally planned. But, seeing as to how it wouldn't tie in with the use of both Cream and Tails in Chapter five, it was revised strongly. That also meant that Chapter five would never have existed. So, here's the original chapter. Enjoy. Don't cry.

I don't own any SEGA character either. Though with my new sprite sheet, it might just be considered by the person I showed it to, I own a forgotten character.

Meeting At The Sunset

Chapter Four: In Death, Love Is Strong Director's Cut

Cream had been crying for five days straight now. She was in such a mess. Her fur was becoming untidy, her eyes had near-black semi-circles under them. She didn't care for her appearance or well-being. Amy, Tikal and Rouge were very concerned about her. They had never seen her like this, even with Tikal being the newest addition to the group.

Sonic and Amy turned up at Cream's house on the first week since the accident at the lab. It was obvious Tails had told them, and were angry at him for treating the poor Rabbit in such a way. Knuckles and Tikal turned on Tails in spite of his actions. Rouge found out when Amy told her, and in turn told Shadow about the Kitsune.

Cream's House:

"Please open the door." Amy knocked at the door, hoping Cream would answer it. "Cream, it's just me and Sonic. Please let us in."

"Go away!" came a muffled voice through the door.

Sonic took command of the situation.

"Cream!" he shouted through the door. "Open up! We just want to know how you are!"

"HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL?" Cream screamed back, scaring Sonic and Amy.

"Cream, please let us in." Amy pleaded. "We're concerned about you."

Both the Hedgehogs stood at the door, hearing muffled scraping and dragging sounds. After about a minute, the door opened. What Sonic and Amy saw before them was sight they wouldn't forget easily. The cute and adorable Rabbit they knew had gone. Instead, there was a paled, red-eyed Rabbit, her clothes full of creases, with a few tears, large near-black semi-circles under her eyes, her left wrist had a few small cuts on it.

"Cream…" Amy started, breaking down into tears. Sonic took her into his arms.

"How could you do this to yourself?" Sonic asked the rabbit as Amy wept on his shoulder.

"Because, he hates me." She said, tears forming in her eyes. "He'll never know how I really feel about him."

"Cream…" Sonic sighed. "We're staying with you. You've got to let us help you."

"You're more than welcome to stay." Cream started. "Just you might want to look at the floor first."

Cream moved out of the doorway. The sight was terrible. Sonic stopped Amy from turning her head around to look herself. The floor had broken pieces of glass, various sharp items and torn clothing all over it, as well as turned over furniture and doors ripped of the hinges. There was also a small amounts of blood here and there.

Sonic held Amy's head in place, who was still not able to see the floor of the house. He eventually managed to pull his eyes away from the floor and look at Cream.

"Cream." Sonic started, still shocked at the sight. "We're not staying with you. You're staying at ours." With that, he had Amy and Cream at his apartment within two seconds of saying anything. He then disappeared, and within a minute, reappeared with the remaining items which weren't destroyed at the Rabbit's house and the Chaos Emerald which had hit her on the head. Cream glanced at it and broke into tears suddenly. Sonic and Amy looked at each other confused.

"Cream?" Amy said, who was back to normal now. "What's wrong?"

"It's the Chaos Emerald Tails threw at me back then!" She wailed.

Sonic walked across to Cream, and saw a small bruise on her head, just above the left eye.

"I can't believe he would do such a thing." Sonic muttered.

"Sonic?" Amy asked her love. "What're you going to do?"

"Confront him." Sonic replied darkly. "Make him see the wrong of his ways from last week."

At that, he took off at full speed to Tails' house.

Tails' House:

Tails had just finished repairing his lab. He went back through to the Kitchen and poured himself a glass of lemonade. As he began to drink it, he heard a knock at the door. He put the glass down, and went to see who it was. He opened the door to see his best friend standing on the doorstep with a look beyond anger on his face.

"Hey Sonic." Tails began. "What's wrong?"

"I'll tell you what's wrong." Sonic growled. He punched the Kitsune in the cheek, knocking him down. "You treating Cream the way you did!"

"She deserved it for destroying my lab!" Tails yelled up at the blue Hedgehog.

"No-one deserves to have "I hate you" shouted at them and then a Chaos Emerald hit them on the head!" Sonic roared, picking up the kitsune by the collar on his shirt.

"Good." Tails sneered. "I hope it hurt her."

Sonic lost control of himself. In one second, he had punched and kicked the two tailed Fox straight through into the Kitchen. What had his little friend become?

"YOU'RE LUCKY IT WASN'T PERMANENT!" Sonic roared at the top of his voice.

"WELL IT DAMN WELL SHOULD HAVE BEEN!" Tails shouted back, before getting served another punch to the face.

Sonic was beyond angry now. He picked up the Fox and threw him at the wall. The Fox fell to the floor in pain.

"NOW DO YOU SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SUFFER?" Sonic screamed. He turned his back on the Fox and began to walk out of the house.

As he got to the front door, Sonic felt something solid hit him in the back. He turned around to see Tails standing behind him.

"If you love Cream so much, why don't you go out her?" Tails sneered, launching a kick at the Hedgehog's stomach. Sonic fell onto his knees, winded.

He managed to block the majority of Tails' kicks, before standing up and tackling the Fox. The Fox laid there stunned. Sonic picked him up and threw him head first into the Kitchen cupboards. Sonic walked in and saw Tails looking at him, wide eyed and his head bleeding.

"Don't you understand?" Sonic asked the Fox. "It was an accident. Cream only wanted to tell you how she really felt about you. But you exploded on her. Now she won't stop crying, and it's all your fault. What kind of friend are you?" Sonic asked. "You should have seen and understood the reason behind her continuous visits."

Sonic made his way to the door, then turned to his once kind friend. "And if you think you can come to me, Amy, Knuckles, Cream or the others for forgiveness, you can forget it." He took off towards his own house, leaving a very weak, confused and upset Tails.

Sonic's house:

Sonic arrived at his place within a minute of leaving Tails' house. Knuckles, Tikal, Rouge and Shadow were there. As he opened the door, all eyes except Amy's and Cream's turned towards him. Amy was kneeling in front of a something small, crying. Rouge and Tikal also had tears coming from their eyes, whereas Knuckles and Shadow had very upset expressions. Sonic walked past the male Echidna and his dark counterpart. He proceeded to put a hand on his girlfriend's shoulder. She turned her head around and looked up at him, tears rapidly welling from her eyes.

"She's gone Sonic!" Amy squeaked, launching herself onto him. He put his arms around her, and looked down at what Amy was kneeling in front of. Cream was laid there, her head face down. There were small puddles of blood under both her arms, one of which had a knife lying next to it. It hit Sonic as to what she had done. She had cut her wrists deeper than that from what he and Amy saw back at her house.

"She said she needed the bathroom!" Amy cried into his shoulders. "I came to check to see if she was okay and I found her here! What are we going to tell Vanilla?"

Sonic patted him girlfriend's head slowly, tears coming from his eyes. He couldn't believe Cream would do such a thing to herself. He looked at Shadow, who stayed silent. He then looked at Knuckles, who turned around and walked outside. Tikal followed him.

"Damn you Tails." Rouge said, as Amy continued to weep.

Shadow walked across to the telephone and dialled 911. About five minutes later, an ambulance turned up to take Cream away. Sonic, Amy, Rouge and Shadow walked outside following the paramedics and saw Knuckles holding Tikal in his arms, who was crying.

Sonic went and sat under one of the windows, tears still coming from his eyes. The six watched as the ambulance sped off. Amy walked over to the blue hedgehog and sat next to him, leaning her head on his shoulder. Shadow brought out his green Chaos Emerald and disappeared in a flash of Chaos Control. Rouge then flew home.

The blue Hedgehog just stared at the ground before him, not taking any notice to anything around him, not even Amy. She wept into his shoulder. After five minutes, he kissed the pink Hedgehog lightly on her head and took her hand.

"Why Cream?" he thought to himself. "If you just allowed us help you…" He stopped the thought and broke down into tears.

Knuckles held his girlfriend in his arms, stroking her quills as she cried into his shoulders. He was also crying at loss of a friend.

After three hours since the ambulance left, Knuckles took Tikal home. Sonic and Amy managed to stand up and go back into their house. The first thing they did was clear up the dead Rabbit's blood. They refused to sleep that night.

Knuckles and Tikal arrived at their house. Tikal sat down on the couch and wept hard. Knuckles stared out of the window. He couldn't believe Cream did such a thing. He cursed Tails repeatedly. Both him and Tikal refused to sleep as well.

Rouge found a photo of Tails and Cream on it. She stared at it, with tears falling from her eyes to it. She then proceeded to cut the picture in half and ripped up Tails' side into pieces. She then walked across to her couch and stared at the half of the picture with Cream on it. She then broke down into tears, cursing Tails.

Tails' house (At the time Shadow used Chaos Control):

Shadow appeared in his apartment in a flash of light. He sat down on his bed, with no tears in is face. He couldn't think as to why Cream would kill herself. He then remembered what Rouge had said to him about Tails. He Chaos Controlled out of the apartment and appeared in front of Tails' house. He knocked on the door.

A grunt was heard on the other side of the door before it was opened. The two-tailed Fox looked up at the dark hedgehog.

"Hi Shadow." Tails said.

"Do you know why I'm here?" Shadow asked darkly.

Tails looked at him. "If it's about Cream, then I-"

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT SHE HAS JUST DONE?" Shadow exploded in the Kitsune's face. Tails looked at him with a scared expression. "She has just killed herself, because you were too blind to see how she felt about you, and you cared to much about your crappy machines and work."

Tails' face went angry. He launched a fist at the dark Hedgehog, who quickly dodged it. "No one ever says that to me. And Cream is never the type to commit suicide." The Fox replied.

Shadow stared at the Kitsune before pulling out the Chaos Emerald. He held it in his hand before it started glowing brightly. He rose his Emerald-free hand and used a blast of Chaos Spear.

Tails was thrown into the lounge by the blast. He sat up stunned, and saw Shadow standing above him. The Hedgehog's eyes had nothing but hatred in them.

"If you're going to anything, you'll not come near me or the others." Shadow said darkly. "That way we don't have to waste our time or energy on you."

With that, he Chaos Controlled out the house back to his own. Tails sat there, tears in his eyes. He finally saw what he had done wrong, and what it had cost him. He then remembered how he treated Cream the week before. But he refused to believe she was dead.

Day of Cream's Funeral:

Unfortunately for the Sonic gang, it was raining on the day of Cream's funeral. Amy was the worst, because she was the first one to see Cream dead. Vanilla was heart-broken at the fact she had lost her only daughter. No-one wanted to be there, but they knew that they had to pay their respects to their dead friend.

The minutes seemed to be years for the group, because none of them expected one of their members to die of suicide. They were still bitter about what Tails had done, and blamed him for everything.

After the funeral had finished, the group left the cemetery. Tails waited until everyone was out of sight before going to see if Shadow was telling the truth. He had watched the whole thing. After waiting for half an hour, he eventually got his chance and entered the cemetery. He eventually found what he was looking for. The grave stone read:

Cream Rabbit

Aged 15

Young and full of life, she was a good friend, and will remain in our hearts forever.

Tears began to stream down his face. He couldn't believe she killed herself because of him. He fell to his knees, slamming his fists against the ground. Someone who cared about him so much, loved him, and wanted to be with him, was gone, and he didn't know how she felt, because he was so distracted with his works.

Getting up a minute later, he paid his respects and ran from the cemetery to his house. He couldn't stop thinking about Cream, and her being dead. As soon as he got home, a new feeling came into his mind, a feeling he had never felt before. Love. Tails tried to dismiss it, but couldn't. She loved him, and was dead. He started giving into his new feeling, but knew that only one way would make it work out. And he didn't want to die either.

He replayed all the events that led to this day in his mind over and over. He then just threw himself onto the floor in tears, whacking the floor as hard as he could.

"Cream." He breathed to himself. "I'm so sorry."

He thought through the events once again, then came to a decision. He wasn't happy with it, but he knew that it'll get him Cream back. He started writing on some paper on his kitchen table. After that, he took out a knife from the drawer. He looked at it for several minutes. It was just becoming sunset outside. After moving the knife in front of his heart, he whispered one last word.

"Cream."

Tails didn't think twice of his actions. The knife was thrust deep into his torso, blood beginning to ooze from the wound he had created. His legs collapsed under his weight as he began to lose consciousness. Looking up at his ceiling, he made on last thought of Cream before passing away.

A week later:

Sonic passed by Tails' house on the way to Mystic Ruins. Noticing it, he decided to go and visit the Fox. Just when he got to the door, he remembered what the Kitsune had done to the group. He ignored this and knocked on the door. He waited for five minutes, but no answer came. Waiting five more minutes, he broke the door with a Sonic Wind attack and entered the house.

It was very quiet, even for Tails. Sonic looked around, before coming to the Kitchen. He gasped at the site. Tails sat there, his hands on his chest, blood stained into his clothes. Sonic started fearing the worst. When he moved the Foxes hands, he nearly threw up at the sight of the knife. All that could be seen was half off the handle.

He called an ambulance to the house immediately, despite knowing Tails was dead. When the paramedics took the young fox away, Sonic turned his attention to the piece of paper that was lying on the table. It read:

For whoever finds my dead body, I want you to know that nothing has been right for a while, and all of it my fault.

Sonic, if you've found this, I'm sorry about being arrogant and cocky to you. It was wrong. I take it all back.

Shadow, if you've found this, I'm sorry I made you angry.

Knuckles, Amy, Rouge or Tikal, if you've found this, I'm sorry for causing one of your friends to die. I hope you forgive me.

I hope that one day we will meet again.

Your friend,

Miles Prower.

Sonic stared at the note. Tears started leaking from his eyes. He knew deep down Tails didn't mean those things to Cream, but knew Tails was beyond anger when the lab was destroyed. He returned to his house in a flash. When Amy saw his grief-torn face, she couldn't help but ask him what was wrong. He didn't answer, and instead gave her the note he found. After she read it, he told her how he found Tails. Tears then came from her eyes. Sonic placed his arms around her as she broke down. He couldn't help but do the same.

Within a day, the note was shown to the rest of the group. They reacted the same way Amy did. It was going to be a long time before any of them were happy again.

In another place:

Tails opened his eyes. Was he dreaming? He then remembered that he drove a knife into his heart. Ignoring that thought, he looked around. The Sky was a deep blue. He then looked at what he was standing on. Clouds. Nothing but clouds for countless miles. He knew where he was. Before properly acknowledging his location, he heard a voice behind him.

"Tails?" The voice squeaked. "What are you doing here?"

He turned round to face the source of the voice. It was none other than Cream, who didn't look the slightest bit exhausted or upset, but happy.

"Cream!" He shouted happily, hugging the rabbit tightly.

When he finally let her go, he noticed more about her. She was wearing white robes, and glowing silver. He then looked at himself, and saw that he was the same.

"Tails?" Cream asked, distracting him. "Why are you here?"

"I came," He started, feeling embarrassed. He finally managed to finish it. "I came, because I knew how much you meant to me."

Cream stared at him. He hadn't just said what she thought he said. Before she could respond, he took her hand and held it in his.

"I realised how much you loved me, and how I always treated you wrong." Tails said. "I'm not that stupid anymore. I love you too Cream." He finished.

Cream stared at him, platinum coloured tears starting to fall down her face. She felt weak with happiness. Tails wiped her tears away and hugged her. She then moved her head in front of his and pressed her lips lightly against his.

She had died because someone she loved broke her apart. He had died because he realised his feelings for her and his guilt. Both met at the place where love is eternal, and can never be broken.

End.