Hi there Tails lovers! Here's another sadistically sweet chappy here for your enjoyment. This one is nasty-and I mean NASTY! Don't barf though coz you'll get a little rest after this chap-not for too long though! Toodles!

Chapter11: Heaven Sent…

Outside, Sonic spotted the others immediately. They were sat together with two of Tails' friends.

"Is Tails gonna be o.k Princess Sally?" One asked.

"I'm sure he will be." Sally said.

"Will he be able to come out and play again tomorrow?" Questioned the other.

"Um...Well we'll have to see now won't we." She replied. She didn't want to tell them that Tails might not be able to play out ever again.

"Guys!" Sonic called out to them as he got nearer. They spun around to face him immediately.

"What happened! What's wrong!" Bookshire asked quickly.

"Chill doc-he's o.k-he wants to talk to ya'." Sonic told them. They got up but before they could go anywhere, Sonic spoke again.

"Waitup a sec guys...theres somethin' I've gotta tell ya'." He said and they sat back down again.

"It's Tails.." He started. "He doesn't know he's blind. He asked me to tell him how bad a state he was in...I just couldn't..." Sonic trailed off and sobbed again. Sally came over to him and embraced him.

"It's o.k Sonic. Bookshire can tell him. Can't you doctor?" She said as she hugged him.

"Yes..I suppose I'll have to." Bookshire replied and began walking towards the hut, followed by the others.

"You two wait here." Knuckles told the children who had scared looks on their faces.

"Yessir..." They both replied in unison.

Once inside, they gang walked up to Tails bedside and Sonic sat on the chair next to him.

"Tails...everyone's here..." He said to Tails gently.

"How are you feeling Tails?" Rotor asked. He knew it was a stupid question but at least he had broken the silence.

"Ur...o.k I guess..." Tails croaked and then smiled. How he could smile after what had happened to him was beyond any of those present's comprehension.

"Tails, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that you are at present, blind...the good news is that we may be able to find an antidote to the serum Robotnik gave you so it's probably not permanent." Bookshire said trying to sound optimistic for Tail's sake.

"Oh..." Was all Tails said.

"It's all good lil' bro. You'll be racing again with me in no time." Sonic said-trying to believe it himself but finding it impossible.

Tails coughed again. They seemed to be becoming more violent each time.

This worried everyone.

Tails heart monitor started to rise slightly and a pained expression crossed his face.

"Whatssup bro!" Sonic asked worriedly.

"I'm hurting quite a lot all of a sudden." Tails replied. Everyone looked to Bookshire.

"O.k Tails, I'll go get you some stronger painkillers, the others are just wearing off that's all-don't worry." He said and then walked off to his medical cabinet. Bunnie bent over and took Tails hand to comfort him. His face was frowning and his teeth were clenched together but they could tell that he was hurting a lot more than he was letting on.

"It's o.k. Suga-fox, Bookshire will be back in a sec honey." Bunnie told him.

A few moments later, the doctor came back with a syringe. Bunnie let go of Tails' hand and moved back so that she wasn't in the way.

"O.k Tails, this wont hurt much." Bookshire said as he gently steadied Tails arm. He made sure that he didn't move it because as it was broken in several places, it would hurt tremendously. He injected the morphine and stepped back.

"All done Tails. You should feel better in a few minutes." He told Tails who still had the blindfold on.

Several hours passed and Tails had been asleep most of that time. Everyone had stayed with him the whole time, too afraid to go anywhere in case something happened to Tails' condition. It was now nearing 11pm.

Bookshire removed the blindfold a while ago so that when Tails awoke, he could check to see the extent of the damage to his' eyes.

Bunnie, Antoine and Rotor were chatting in whispers amongst themselves so as not to wake up Tails. During the hours he had been in the hut, they had been given several shocks by Tails' heart and blood pressure monitors which occasionally went into overdrive. This sent Bookshire and various other nurses rushing over who injected him with various drugs and tried to stabilize his condition. However much they tried, each time it happened, his condition slowly deteriorated.

Sonic and knuckles were sat close together at the edge of the bed. They were both lost in thought. Sonic was frantically trying to think of a way to save his buddy but kept running into dead ends whilst Knuckles was distraught. He knew everything that was going to happen and he really wished he didn't. He put his head in his hands to try the others from seeing the tears of frustration flow.

"You o.k?" Sonic asked quietly.

"Not really." Came the reply. This worried Sonic even more.

"Sonic, I can't bear this any longer. I can't keep all this future crap in my head-I'm gonna go insane!" Knuckles blurted.

"Tell me Knuckles...like you said, if it's gonna happen anyway, it won't make a difference if we talk about it or not." Sonic said. Knuckles realised that Sonic was right.

"He's not gonna make it Sonic... I'm sorry..." Knuckles said another silent tear ran from his eye. Sonic saw it and knew that he had to try to be strong. In a way, Knuckles has to go through all of this twice. He thought to himself. I'm just going to have to stay calm.

"I guessed that he wouldn't..." Sonic told Knuckles.

Across the other side of the room, Sally was having quiet words with the doctor.

"We are going to have to let him go I'm afraid..." Bookshire whispered to Sally.

"No way-I can't let you kill my baby!" Sally replied still whispering but loud enough for most of the others to hear.

"Princess, with all due respect, I'm sorry but we have no other option-we cant give him anymore drugs or they'll do more harm than good and-" Sally cut him off.

"But there has to be something you can do!" She said desperately.

"Look at him Sally-he's in constant pain. The morphine isn't working anymore. The longer we keep him alive, the longer he has to suffer." Bookshire grimaced. "Sally, I'm sorry but it's the best thing for him now."

Sally turned and walked back to the small bedside where the others were gathered. She hung her head low-she couldn't bear to even look at the tiny, broken body in front of her.

"What's gonna happen' Sal?" Bunnie asked anxiously as Sally came and sat with them. Sonic and Knuckles already knew the answer.

"I'm afraid it's bad news guys. Bookshire says that there's too much damage done. He has massive internal bleeding and the drugs aren't working anymore. He's just in pain." Sally trailed off and as if to prove her point, Tail's body suddenly arched and shook violently as he began another of the many coughing fits he had had since the accident nearly 3 days ago.

"Oh no! Not again!" Sonic shouted in terror as he ran up to Tail's head end and pushed him down flat on his back to stop him from moving and gripped his hand firmly to reassure his friend that he was there. He wasn't sure if he could hear him, but Sonic spoke anyway.

"Its o.k. Tails, we're all here with ya'." Sonic said as the others stared on. Tails body continued coughing really badly as a stream of blood ran from the side of his mouth causing Bunnie to gag and grab Sally who was in total shock.

"This is the worst one he's had yet." Sonic said shocked at the sight.

"Oh Mobius! Do something Dr!" Rotor called to the Dr who was already running over to put an oxygen mask over the now choking Tails. Shortly, Tail's breathing began to slow and his coughs became less frequent.

"Ezz de little whon o.k now Mister Bookshirez?" Antoine asked the Dr quietly.

"He's far from o.k. Antoine but his coughing should improve for now if that's what you mean." Dr. Bookshire replied as he turned to go back to his computer.

"Anyway, as I was saying." Sally continued from earlier. "As you can see, Tails is suffering and... Well..." Sally turned to Sonic now with tears in her eyes. She tried to bring herself to tell him the most heart-breaking news she would probably ever have to tell anyone.
"Sonic...you know that you are Tail's next of kin don't you?"

"Yeah...so?" Sonic replied. Knuckles knew what was going to be said so he just kept his eyes shut tight.

"Well, the Dr says that there is nothing else he can do and that Tails isn't going to get better... Continuing fighting his injuries isn't going to do any good so maybe it would be better for him if Dr Quack stops trying to save him. But..." Sally took a deep breath for the worst bit. "I'm sorry Sonic but you are the only person who can authorize that."

She finished and everyone turned to Sonic to see his reaction. Sonic just continued to watch Tails who was now very quiet. He was stroking Tail's forehead with one hand whilst holding Tails left hand with his other. There was a look of tranquillity across Sonics face as he gazed lovingly at Tail's face. He seemed not to have heard what Sally said as he didn't react at all, he just kept stroking Tail's head and smiling down at him whispering soothing words into his ear.

"Sugah hog?" Bunnie stated quietly.

"I can't kill my brother." Sonic turned to them quickly with an angry look on his face. "Do you really think I could do that!"

Sonic broke off as he noticed that everyone was looking past him at Tails. He turned to see the fox flutter his eyes open briefly then close them again.

"Tails?.." Sonic asked. "Can ya' hear me buddy?" Sonic smiled and so did everyone else as they saw Tail's fingers twitch in response-he didn't open his eyes again or talk but they knew that he was listening.

"Everyone's still here Tails." Bunnie spoke first.

"You're gonna be o.k. 'lil' guy." Rotor said. Everyone knew that he was lying but thought it was best that way.

"Do you still hear us Tails?" Sally asked. Tails twitched the fingers on his hand that Sonic was holding again in recognition.

Sonic still didn't speak but instead stroked the Kit's forehead again. They watched Tails' face as he struggled with his body to open his eyes. As soon as they were open halfway, Sonic noticed that they appeared totally red inside from all his internal bleeding and silently pointed at them which made the others notice too. Antoine nearly ran from the room. The eyes seemed very eerie to him and they began to scare him. Sally and Bunnie noticed his expression.

"Antoine, I know it's not pretty but you have just got to bear it for Tails. It's not his fault his eyes are like that." Sally instructed. Antoine felt guilty.

"I apologizez my Prinzez." He said.

Every one of them jumped as a hoarse, forced, pain filled voice started to mumble something and they all crowded closer, eager to here what Tails would try to say.

"H...hi..." Tails managed to struggle out.

"Hi Tails." Knuckles replied knowing that none of the others would answer.

After a few moments silence, Tails began to worry they had left him.

"yo...you...s...s...still...ther..?"

"Yes we're still here lil' guy." Sonic said choking up. He never thought that he would ever have to see his brother and best friend in the entire universe have to go through this much.

"My...my head hurts." Tails mumbled as a small tear of blood ran freely from his eye, staining his cheek.

"Don't cry Miles, we are all here." She said and Tails realised she must be seriously upset if she called him 'Miles'.

" Don't...don't worry...I...he...heard ev...ryth...in you...talked...about. I ..k.no...w...w...whats...go...going...to happen..to...me."

Oh God I'm sorry Tails. We didn't know you were listening..." Sally worriedly said. He must really be out of it on those drugs to take the news that he was going to die so well she thought to herself. Her thoughts were broken sharply when a noise from the bed Tails was laid on made her jump.

"So...nic...something's...burning...me...It..h...urts...Soni..." Tails suddenly gasped out through clenched teeth as Sonic held his hand tighter and stroked his forehead. He was determined not to cry in front of Tails but he was so frustrated that he had to watch his friend in pain and not even be able to hug him-the smallest movement of his body could cause a huge haemorrhage. Tails let out a moan of pain which brought a tear to everyone's eyes. Sally and Bunnie were crying freely into each other's arms and Rotor and Antoine stared at the piteous face of the young fox as tears slipped slowly down their faces. Knuckles was just sitting...waiting for the inevitable.

"Soni..c..." Tails winced again. Sonic felt Tail's forehead burning up beneath his hand and got a little more worried. As more crimson tears ran down his face, Tails arched his back in agony as his heart monitor beeped faster.

"Jus...stay..with me...guys...o...k...?"

"Sure Tails-were never gonna leave you..." Sonic replied. He felt just a little relieved that he wouldn't have to tell Bookshire to give up trying on his bro but then felt guilty for that.

"Thank...you...guy...s...So...nic...I...love...you..."

"I love you too Tails..." Sonic couldn't think of anything else to say and there was a moment of silence. It was the most tranquil and peaceful silence any of them would ever hear-the only noise was that of the heart monitor that was beeping out Tail's heartbeat as a thin green line went across the screen. The line rose into a spike at each of the beats. Suddenly, Tails let out another gasp and the monitor displayed that his heartbeat was rising quickly.

Everyone snapped out of their silence at stared at Tails who was now shaking violently with an agonizing expression on his face. He gasped again and began coughing up loads of blood which poured down his chin and onto his chest. Antoine actually began to believe that he was in some sort of zombie movie.

"AHHHHHH!" Tails screamed no longer to hold his pain inside.

"TAILS!" Sonic screamed "OH MY GOD!-SOMEONE GET THE DOCTOR BACK QUICKLY!" he yelled and Antoine ran off to find someone. By now, Tail's heart monitor was beeping erratically-seemingly out of control. Tails was starting to throw a fit and he was choking on the blood in his throat.

"He can't breathe!" Rotor yelled at everyone. He and Sonic pinned the shaking Tails down to stop him convulsing. Sonic tried his hardest to get the blood out of his mouth so he could breathe but it wasn't working. Sonic was panicking and kept screaming at Tails to calm down. Rotor was still trying to get him to breathe and Sally and Bunnie were screaming in terror. The Dr ran in with Antoine in front of him and they both stopped in shock at the sight before them. The Dr noticed the insane beeping of the heart monitor and then looked back at Tails who was still screaming at the top of his voice. Words could not describe the expression on his face. It was contorted in agony and fear and his eyes were tightly shut as if to block out the pain. He looked like he was possessed.

"I cant do anything-this is it." The Dr stated rather bluntly. "Best you can do is stay with him-he still knows you're there."

Sonic grabbed the tiny kitsune whose body then went limp and had stopped fitting as he was completely exhausted and pulled Tails onto his knee. He cradled him like a baby talking to him insanely, listening to the strained gasps of air that was barely keeping Tails alive.

"TAILS! I LOVE YOU-DONT GO-WE ALL NEED YOU HERE-YOU'VE GOT TO STAY ALIVE LITTLE BRO-DON'T GIVE UP ON ME NOW-YA HEAR ME TAILS? YOU CAN'T GO-I WONT LET YOU DIE-O.K!" He begged and he began rocking the now silent Tails back and forth as the monitor slowed dramatically and finally stopped; a constant bbbbeeeeeeeeeeepppppppp now filled the room signifying the death of Miles 'Tails' Prower.