"Oh, my goodness! Tails! Are you alright?" Though still in pain, Tails tried to utter a reply. "Y..yes! I'm fine, Ms. Rabbit. Just..fi...oof!"
Before he could finish his sentence, she had her arms around him. She held his head tenderly against her chest, holding him dangerously close to her...

"Ahh..Ms. Rabbit! Can't...breathe! Need..AIR!"
"I'm so glad you're okay! For a while, I honestly thought you wouldn't make it. Oh, Tails!"
"Mmmmf! Mmmf!"
"Hm? What's that? You can't...what?"

The shapely, statuesque rabbit released Tails from her motherly grip. He let out a gasp of air and fell back on the bed, his face blushing red.
"I'm sorry, Tails. I was just so happy that you were awake, that I got carried away, and..."

Tails waved weakly with his hand. "It's okay, it's okay! You were just expressing yourself, and that's okay." Comforted by his words, Vanilla
wiped away some stray tears from her eyes and smiled. Then Tails asked, "Hey, are you the one who saved me, Ms. Rabbit?"

"Me? Oh, no! The credit for saving you should go to my little Cream. She saw your confrontation with Doctor Eggman while she was at the market
shopping for carrots."

"But how did she-"
"..It was on the news. It seems the he was trailing after you with a camera crew. Not sure why. Maybe Cream knows."

Down the hall, a door opened. Vanilla turned her head and smiled. "Ah, that must be her now! Cream, in here! Tails wants to see you!"
A shriek of what sounded like uncontained excitement filled Tails with terror. Then footsteps..getting closer...and closer...until Cream burst through
the doorway. Her eyes were stained with tears. Probably from crying for an extensive amount of time, Tails thought. And on seeing him sitting up in
bed, she started to cry, once again. "Tails! Tails! Tails!"

"Hey, Cream. So, I have you to thank for saving my...UFAAH!"
Tails couldn't say another word with Cream's arms cutting off his air supply.
Simply put, she was strangling him to death.

"Tails! Tails! Ohh..Tails!"
"C..Creeam! Ca...can't...can't BREATHE! Really...can't BREATHE!"
Thinking that was enough, Vanilla moved in and pulled Cream off of him. Tails lay back again, this time his face red from lack of oxygen.
Cream looked at Tails, her eyes welling up with tears. "Sorry, Tails! I was so happy to see that you were okay, that I...I...oh, Tails!"

"It's fine, it's fine! Agh!" Tails felt the pain from his tail bother him again. It was a deep-seated pain.
"Don't worry about a thing, Tails," said Vanilla. "We'll take good care of you until your tail heals. Now, would you mind letting me take a look?"
"No, not at all," Tails said in reply. "Please, proceed."

Vanilla lifted the blanket off of Tails and examined his bandaged tail. She then asked Tails to turn over on his stomach. She softly rubs Tails' back in a steady
up and down motion. Tails lets out a small howl of pain when she hits a certain spot on his back. "Ahh..urrgh! Oh, man..! That's..not good!"

"I see. Seems the good doctor didn't just hit your tail. Cream, would you please go get the jar of ointment in the kitchen?"
Cream nodded, and she was off. In only minutes, she returned with a jar containing something white. Lotion, perhaps? Vanilla received the jar from
Cream and slid off the top. She stuck two fingers in the jar and started rubbing the stuff on Tails' back. He let out a sigh as she applied it over the
afflicted area. Once she was done, she patted his back down and said, "How does that feel?"

Tails turned to Vanilla and smiled. "Feels good. Thank you! I think I'm ready to get going." But as Tails made a motion to get out of bed, she grabbed
his arm. She waved a finger at him (y'know, the way Sonic does) and said, "Nu-uh! You're still hurt and need to heal! You're not going anywhere for some
time!" Tails looked at Cream, hoping to get a different answer. But her eyes were already filling up with tears again. "Sorry, Tails. But I don't want you to get hurt
again, either! Please, listen to mama! Please, stay!" Tails could care less about his health. He just wanted to get back to his lab, rebuild the Tornado 3, then hunt
down Eggman and take his revenge. But he couldn't say no to Cream! It would break her heart. What's worse was that he could see tears filling up in Vanilla's eyes, as well.

He didn't have a choice here. He got back in bed and pulled the cover back over his body. Then he gave the two lovely ladies a smile and said,
"Yeah, guess you're right. I better just rest up and heal, for the time being."
Vanilla and Cream both smiled. "Good! Then you'll be our very special guest!" said Vanilla. Cream could barely contain herself. "Hurray! Tails is our guest! Yaaay!"
"Wonderful! Well, Tails you must be hungry. Come along, Cream. Let's go make Tails a tasty treat!"

Then Vanilla left the room, heading down the hallway to the kitchen. Cream went after her, with a bounce in her step. Seems like that really made her happy.
Tails was glad. But then he heard another pair of footsteps come down the hall. He was shocked to see who was standing in the doorway.

"Hey, Tails! Long time, no see! Still working on those planes?"