"Hm, what am I going to do today?" Amy Rose asked herself. "Oh! I know! I'll bake a cake for Sonic!"
Amy heard a knock on the door. "Who is it now!?!"
"Um… Cream the Rabbit?"
"Oh… Cream!" Amy smiled. "How are you doing right now?"
"I'm a little sad, I guess…"
"Oh, because of your mom…"
"Well, yeah. But not just my mom… You see… I think I did something that will make Tails hate me to the bitter end…" Cream cried.
"Tails? Hate you? Tails doesn't hate anyone! Except Eggman, of course!" Amy laughed. "You would have to do something terrible to have Tails hate you! It probably something small! Tails is just so overprotective over his little inventions!"
"It… Didn't have anything to do with his inventions…"
"Oh…" Amy gasped. "Nothing to do with Eggman? Or his inventions? Oh! What did you do? Ooh! Did he yell? Scream? Rid his hair out?"
"Actually, I don't know what happened… I just think he is going to hate me." Cream replied.
"Oh." Amy sighed disappointedly. "What happened then?"
"I don't want to say…"
"What? Cream! Please…"
"No thank you."
"Cream…"
"Amy, I don't think…"
Cream was then cut off by a harsh, loud knock on the door.
Cream continued. "Amy, I don't think Tai…" Cream was yet again interrupted by a loud knock on the door.
"Okay! Okay! I'm coming! I'm coming!" Amy told the knocker angrily.
She opened the door, and smiled evilly at Cream. "Tails!" Amy cried, grinning at Tails's unbelievably irritated expression. "How are you doing?"
"Amy, I really need to talk to Cream. I heard I could find her here." Tails breathed.
"Right here!" Amy cried, dragging Cream from behind a couch. "Talk all day long!"
"Thank you." Tails thanked quickly.
They both walked upstairs.
"Tails, I'm so sorr…"
"Cream, it's not your fault." Tails interrupted quickly. "But we have to leave!"
"Leave?" Cream asked. "Hold on! Where? When? How? WHY?"
"Where? Someplace far, far away from this place. When? Now. How? We will fly there. Why? For your safety." Tails explained quickly.
"Tails, what is going on?" Cream asked.
"We will go to as far as our wings will take us…"
"You give me millions of questions, and yet I get no answers…."
"… When we are tired we will land…"
"… 'I want to protect you! I want to protect you!' Protect me from what, Tails?"
"… I have the money in my bag, I can buy an apartment…"
"… What is up with you and Sonic? I always thought you had a good relationship…"
"… I will work as a mechanic. I will get a job…"
"Tails!"
"I will live with you, and support you, and care for you, and…"
"You can get seriously hurt! I just want to protect you!" Cream cried.
The room then was filled with silence. Tails looked up, and whispered, "I'm listening."
"Tails, I have suspected you of murdering my mom and burning down my house. I don't want to… I don't like to… But I do. Listen to yourself, Tails! All this talk about flying to a city, us being together… All of your words are a fantasy, Tails. Who will hire an eight year old? How much money will that job give you? Is it enough to support us?"
"Cream…"
"No, Tails. Where are you? What has gotten into you? Why are you so secretive to me? What happened to the cautious Tails who I loved so much?"
"Cream…"
"Are you guilty?"
Tails looked at her with tears coming down his face. "No… Well… Maybe…"
"TAILS!"
"Well… I'm… I'm not… I'm not really involved. Just indirectly."
"Indirectly?"
"Well, yes. I'm not guilty, but I'm not innocent…"
"Tails! Please tell me what happen! You have to trust me."
"Cream. You are… You are right. No more lies. No more doubts. But I'm still afraid you will get hurt, physically."
"What, is some assassin going to get me?"
Tails paused, and gazed at her.
"An assassin?" Cream cried. Tails nodded, not speaking. "Who is it?" Tails looked at the floor with an upset expression.
"Cream… It's… S… S… Sonic…"
"What?! Tails, you don't make any sense! Why would Sonic kill my mom?" Cream asked with tears in her eyes.
"After fighting Eggman 7 years later, he was world famous. He got tons of money, but that didn't last long. Nothing evil or bad has happened since than, but Sonic just played it cool. Told me to not stressed over it, and relax. He said as long as he was there, he would support me and take care of me. Soon we ran out of money…
"But Sonic never made it seem like money was a problem." Cream answered.
"That's just Sonic's way to handle things. He pretends there's nothing wrong, and he just acts like life is just one big party. But later on, we didn't have enough money to buy things. That's why I haven't been inventing many things. Not enough money to buy the new tools and materials to make stuff. So now all I can do is care for all my old inventions…"
"But food…"
"Is hard to buy now." Tails continued sadly. "Sonic was afraid of that too. He was afraid I would have to be sent to the orphanage. We been through so much together, and he just couldn't… So he had to get a job. When Sonic got the assassin job, he thought all the people he was going to kill were villains and criminals who deserved it. But soon, he found out that some of the people weren't all evil. That is why he was always so depressing. He doesn't like being used for evil…"
"And why didn't he get a new job?" Cream asked.
"Its not like he liked his job, in fact, he hated it!" Tails answered. "He tried uncountable times to get into another job, but he couldn't. No one would hire a past assassin. No one."
"And you knew this?" Cream asked.
"Not until Sonic was asked to kill Vanilla. He asked me how to make a fire in a house, and I told him, but I asked him why. He didn't want to lie to me, so he told me the truth about the assassination. He told me if I told anyone, he would kill that person. If I told you, he would be after you…"
"So that's why you wouldn't talk to me about it."
"That's right."
"So he's after me?!"
"I called the police, Cream, don't worry."
"But… Tails, he's your best friend!"
"I know, but he'll be happier in jail then killing people to survive."
"I guess you're right…"
"Now for where you're going to live. Remember that offer Charmy had about joining the Chaotix… I couldn't accept it, but I'm sure the Chaotix will be more then happy to have someone who can decently cook with them…"
So Cream visited the Chaotix. Vector, who had a good 'friendship' with Vanilla felt like it was his duty to take care of her. Charmy was glad he had someone his age around to be with. And Espio was glad to have someone who cooked. As for Tails, Cream never forgot all he did for her, and she promised to herself that one day she would repay him someday.
The End