Chapter Sixteen: Spies

Within three days, Sonic could stand up fairly well, although he still had to lean on something sometimes and had many bandages wrapped around his chest. He stumbled downstairs to see Tails making some breakfast.

"Ah, Sonic. Feeling better?"

"I feel like I've been gored by a bull..."

"Mm." Despite Sonic clearly not being well, Tails asked him his question anyway, "When are you gonna be getting out of here?"

"What? I can hardly stand!" Sonic undignifyingly grabbed a chair and fell on to it.

"It's too crowded here." The fox said as he flipped the pancake he was cooking, "You've been in my bed, Marine has had to share with Blaze, I've had the couch-"

"And I've been demoted to the floor with a blanket!" Silver piped up from the other end of the kitchen table.

The duo ignored him, Sonic stood up and scrambled to the kitchen to make himself breakfast, distinctly noticing the unnerved look on Tails' face as he turned around. Over these passed days, Tails had grown increasingly distant from Marine and at the same he was growing closer to Cream. Sonic's worries increased as from the corner of his eye, he saw the fox stand and make his was out of the house without saying a word. Silver caught his eye and merely shrugged. Luckily, a distraction from these unnerving thoughts arrived in the form of Blaze, who had just entered the room and gave him a loving peck.

"Ah! Ah! Gentle Blaze!" Sonic recoiled as she put her arm around him, the cat jumped back.

"Oh that didn't hurt!" she mocked and punched him on the arm, making the poor hedgehog squeak before she stole both of his slices of toast.

"That hurt Blaze!" He whined after grabbing one slice of toast back from her.

"Soft arse." She laughed and kissed him.

"Oh get a room." Silver muttered as he strolled in, snatching Sonic's last piece of toast and shoving it into his mouth before Sonic could protest, "Thanks, buddy."

The grey hedgehog strolled out as quickly as he had strolled in.

In a pretty happy mood for no particular reason, Silver left the house with no particular destination in mind, this was not meant to be however, as he was ambushed by a small australian girl. "Marine!?" the hedgehog yelped as the raccoon jumped out from behind a tree. "Silver!" She grabbed him and pulled him behind the nearest bush. "I need your help."

"Ok, what with?"

"I need to follow Tails."

"Ok... why are we whispering?"

"I don't know."

"Why did you need to bring me behind this bush?"

"Oi dunno ya bladdy moron!" Marine stood up and yelled, then slapped her hands over her mouth and retreated back to the bush.

Silver considered the situation for a moment, but the big-eyed look that Marine was giving him didn't make it easy to resist. He sighed, "Fine. What's the plan?"

"Well oi need you to find 'im, just fly up really high."

Silver hesitated, but stood up, "Ok, I'll be back in a few minutes."

For the next four or five minutes, Marine fiddled around with a leaf from the bush, muttering things along the lines of "What's taking 'im so long?" after the first thirty seconds.

The then felt herself be scooped up from the ground, and looked to her left to see Silver, who was psycho-kinetically holding her up. "Found him." he said, "Are you sure about this?" Marine nodded.

After a few seconds of flying Marine spotter Tails on the path below, he was walking rather quickly for a morning stroll, and in the direction that Marine recognised Cream's house to be in. Silver watched her worriedly as her eyes remained fixed on the fox. "Have you slept?"

"Huh?" she muttered, not taking her eyes off of Tails.

"Have you slept?"

"Not much."

"Hm." Silver decided not to take the subject further, and returned to watching Tails. By now he had arrived at Cream's house. An older rabbit answered the door, perhaps Cream's mother, Cream came soon after and motioned for Tails to come inside. He seemed to decline the offer so Cream came out with him, with Marine's glare growing ever more hate-filled.

"Can't we get any closer!?" she snapped.

Silver said nothing but complied. As Tails and Cream found a public bench, Silver lowered Marine onto a tree branch above them, she could faintly make out what they were saying.

"You don't have to do anything you don't want to." Cream's sweet voice almost sickened Marine.

"I dunno, Marine probably thinks we're together anyway." This was Tails, he was looking down until Cream took his hand. Marine clenched her fists.

Cream kissed him on the cheek, blushing, there faces were but an inch away from each other, and their lips connected, making Marine's stomach twist, but after a split second Tails backed away, "I can't." he said. "I'm sorry.".

Cream sighed, "Is it her?" Tails nodded very slightly and apologised again before standing up.

"I'll still be there for you... if you change your mind." Cream said quietly.

"It's ok." Tails smiled. "Don't be." the fox's tails began to spin and he took off into the air. Marine heard a quiet yelp from Silver, who then dived into the tree with her.

"'e didn't kiss her!" Marine grinned and hugged Silver who was rather taken back by this and slowly put his arms around her, patting her on the back awkwardly.

"C'mon, we need to get back before Tails does." Silver stated, flying the two back to Tails' house.

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"Where d'ya think Silver went?" Blaze asked Sonic, the couple were sat on the couch, watching tv and talking, Blaze was resting her head on Sonic's shoulder with her arms around him, Sonic shrugged at the question, replying with: "Where do you think Tails went?" Blaze shrugged back.

"Not really much to do is there?"

"Nope." Blaze agreed.

"With nobody home."

The feline nodded.

"Alone." The hedgehog put extra emphasis on this word. Blaze cocked her eyebrow at him, and mouthed: 'Here?' Sonic nodded, grinning.

"We might get caught!" she giggled slightly, despite herself.

"That's what makes it so fun..." Sonic kissed her and undid the top button on her silk pyjamas.

The two then jumped out of their skins as the door opened. Marine ran upstairs smiling and giggling quietly, not noticing the two, but Silver came to a complete stop as he walked past. After looking down to see Sonic on top of Blaze, both pink face as Blaze fumbled with her top button, Silver cleared his throat and walked back outside.

"You might not want to go in there." Silver said casually as he passed Tails on the doorstep, Tails merely gave the hedgehog a funny look and proceeded inside.

Tails walked in to see Blaze, looking red in the face and Sonic rubbing his sides, remembering his injuries, he thought nothing of it and just continued into the kitchen, sitting down and slouching in the chair. It wasn't long before he heard rushed footsteps coming downstairs.

"Tails!" Marine ran in the room and wrapped her arms around him, making him fall backwards.

"M-marine? Why are you...?" Tails was a little lost for words as Marine helped him up.

"Oi heard what you were sayin' to that rabbit girl! Tails, I love you!" She kissed the fox.

After Tails' initial shock had worn off, he pushed Marine away, "You were spying on me!?"

"Well oi-"

"You did, didn't you!" Tails sighed loudly and stormed out, muttering obscenities, with Marine following him.

"Where're you going!?" she shouted as he began to fly away.

"I might just go and see an old friend!" he yelled back.

Defeated and sobbing slightly, Marine watched Tails fly out of sight, returning inside.

Right, a few things to say, I'm going to start updating again and more often, and sorry to all of you who were reading my stories when I stopped, it's thanks to Bureizu za Vampire that I've decided to start writing again so you have her to thank for that, anyway, the important thing is, I'm back. Also, my prolonged absence has let my poll, "TailsXMarine or TailsXCream" get more votes on it, so one couple has significantly more votes than the other (significantly more being four more votes XD), but I won't tell you which couple is ahead. Thanks for reading.

Also, comments are always greatly appreciated.

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