"But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should, but you just can't"

Signs

When Sonic got back from his run, Tails was waiting in the living room.

"Hey bud!"

"Hi Sonic!" Tails replied. "Hey, can I ask you something? I need you to answer honestly."

Sonic thought over Tails question before replying. "As long as I get to ask you something first."

"Sure, what did you have in mind?"

"What did it feel like, to almost die I mean... Like, what went through your head?"

Tails paused for a moment, the question caught him off guard.

"Well... I guess I felt scared, I didn't want to die. My brain was yelling at me to do something, but there wasn't anything I could do. Then, I... I felt regretful, there was lots I still wanted to do, and at the time, it didn't look like I would get the chance. Strangely though, right before it went off. I felt, peaceful. I guess I had just accepted it."

Tails waited for a second, almost letting it sit for a second.

"It was strange, I didn't feel panicked or stressed, somehow, it just felt right. I mean I still didn't want to die obviously, but I guess I just subconsciously accepted it."

Tails let his answer hang in the air before asking his question.

"Sonic, you've been acting really strange lately. What's wrong?"

"I guess I've just been thinking about when you... Lost your voice. There must have been something I could have done."

"We've been over this, it's not your fault Sonic." Tails interrupted.

"I know but, I was supposed to protect you, I'm your brother, I just-"

Sonic finally broke down into tears, not even bothering to try at stop them at this point.

"I just want to hear your voice again!" He finally blurted out.

Tails was taken aback by Sonic's outburst.

"I j-just want to hear my brother again!"

Tails walked over and hugged Sonic, he couldn't say anything, even if he knew what to say Sonic was too preoccupied to look at what he was saying.

"I miss hearing your voice, bragging about the newest thing you built, laughing at my jokes, heck, even just that little things. I-I just want to be able to hear you again."

The two of them sat there, Tails comforting Sonic. Eventually, Sonic put himself back together.

Tails' eyes suddenly widened with an idea, he stood up and went to run downstairs. "Be back in one second!" He signed as he ran downstairs.

He returned moments later with a small yellow tablet looking device in hand. Sonic recognized it instantly as the Miles Electric, Tails' personal handheld computer.

"Promise me you won't tell anyone about this?" Tails questioned.

"I promise," Sonic responded.

Tails typed a password into the device, however, Sonic recognized that it wasn't the password Tails had told him to use when he wanted to access it. To Sonic's surprise, the device unlocked and instead of the main screen, pages of video files were present.

Tails selected the first video and instantly an image of himself filled the screen.

"Hey it works!" The video started as Tails stepped back to look at the camera.

"Ummm, I guess let's just get this out of the way. My name is Miles Prower, my friends call me Tails. I've decided to start these video logs of our adventures stopping Eggman and saving the world! Maybe we can look back at these one day and enjoy reliving them... I'm recording this on the Miles Electric, it a little handheld device I just made! It seems to be working just fine but we'll see. Anyways, that's all for now."

Tails started the second recording, taken a few weeks after the first.

"Alright, nothing super eventful happened for the little bit in-between this and the last entry. But me and Sonic just got back from our most recent adventure! There were these dark ancient spirts and they tried to destroy the planet! We also found out Sonic is a... Well, werehog I guess. It was so cool!"

Tails blushed a bit at the last line in the entry before beginning the next. This one was different, it wasn't taken in Tails' workshop like the rest. Rather it was taken next to a tree.

"Alright, so today is Sonic's birthday. Soooo, me and all the other guys are planning on setting up a surprise party for him right here. They should be arriving any time soon. I'll be back with how it went!"

"That was awesome!" The next entry began, "I mean, being frozen in time wasn't fun. But afterward, it almost felt like going on all the adventures I'd been on again! Plus, it was much shorter than our other adventures, we still got back in time for Sonic's party. He loved it!"

The entries continued, cataloging all the adventures and important events the duo had been on. Eventually, the entries ended with the most recent two, Tails was writing on a whiteboard during first of the entries. Several patches on his fur were still black, but it had begun to grow back in.

"So, Eggman is done. He offed himself trying to take me with him. Well I showed him a thing or two, it's going to take more than that to get rid of me! Anyways, I guess I can't talk anymore so these entries are going to be much quieter from now on. My vocal cords were damaged by the blast, but otherwise, I'm alright! I just, wonder how this is going to change things, not being able to talk is pretty hard."

Tails appeared on the screen one last time, this entry being from only about two months ago, his fur had grown back fully by this point and you couldn't even tell he had been injured in the first place. The whiteboard was absent, with sign language now being used to communicate.

"I hope you can read this, otherwise this will look pretty strange." Tails signed, "Sonic suggested that the two of us learn sign language a few months back. We've gotten pretty good at it, and now I can keep doing these entries! Writing on that board took too long anyways. Well, I think that's all I have to say for now."

The entries ended and the two of them just sat for a moment, before Sonic finally spoke.

"Thanks for sharing that with me Tails, that really helped."

"Hey, it's what I'm here for." Tails signed back, "Sonic, I want you to tell me its not your fault, you did everything you could. Cause you did, its because of you that I'm alive now to even tell you this."

"Alright Tails, you got me, I did everything I could."

Tails smiled before standing back up. "Alright, I'm going to run this downstairs," Tails shook the Miles Electric in the air next to him. "I'm just going to chill, you need anything?"

"Nah, I'm alright Tails."

Tails descended the stairs, when suddenly he had an idea, rushing over to his table he started drawing out schematics for a device.

He knew just what he needed to make...