After the Rogues started hanging out again with Sonic's crew again, Wave finally falls for the fox.

She was flustered. She really was. Why else would something as simple as putting her working gloves on would be so difficult all of the sudden? She was trying to be done with it as fast as possible but she due to the haste, she kept misplacing her fingers and one or more ended in the wrong position. Then, she started to notice her glove was turning red. She was so flustered that she had not notice, she was bleeding, from a cut on her skin at the side of her wrist.

"Everything is fair in love." She repeated to herself. Before, she was wearing long, princess style gloves, that were slightly padded on the hands, so her hands feel softer. She was having a good time, despite not being a fan of heels, or fancy dresses. Cream had really gone out of her way to make sure she did. Plus, there were worse dancing partners than the big fox she found herself stuck with. Then, some crazy lunatic girl came, using sharp nails, managed to cut and rip the gloves off. This revealed the callous and damaged pair of hands. Wave normally would be able to handle insults and give back ten fold, but not about this. Instead, she was ready to throw hands but a certain fox stopped her before she did something stupid. He dragged her away and told her that he was going to be back. He needed something. She felt like he was ready to abandon her. Why wouldn't he? He had just seen some of her worst.

She was going to wear her normal gloves and just leave. Probably just jump from this balcony and change her heels into extreme gear form and fly away. If only she could actually wear these damn gloves correctly!

"Found you!" Wave now wished she could disappear. Seriously, why was he back? It would have been easier to just leave her alone. She turned around and noticed the tuxedo wearing fox, carrying a med kit on one of his hands. Oh, he had actually noticed she was hurt? Before her? "Seriously, took me a good minute to find you." He complained, moving closer to her. Close enough, he asked "Give me your hands." She, instead, hid her hands behind her back. "Seriously?! You are bleeding! Let me treat it!" He was angrier than she had expected.

"Hey Tails!" That was the crazy woman from before, singing his name. That was awakening something rather vicious on the Swallow, something she might have acted upon, were it not for the fact of the that the fox balled his own fists, intensively. Heck, the metal handle on the med kit was completely crushed under the force of his large hand. That almost made her forget about the situation. The woman came running, and ready to throw herself at the fox back. Tails was expecting this and, in the blink of an eye, grabbed Wave and side stepped, avoiding her. The woman fell from the balcony, something that scared the crap out of the Swallow, now staring at the fox in disbelief.

"There is a pool down there." As if on cue, they heard a splash sound. Then, Tails moved back to the building a bit. "Hey, someone just... jumped out the balcony." That was enough for some of the butlers and waiters to move and deal with the situation.

"OK then." Wave commented. Then she noticed Tails offering his hand to her, silently asking for her hand again. "What, you are going to throw me out the balcony if I don't?" This time, she placed her hands on her hips.

"... Maybe, but you would then just fly away with your Extreme Gear or something." He commented. Wave chuckled, he could really read her at times.

So, the Swallow offered her hands, and the fox started working. After a couple of minutes, as well of the feeling of burn from the disinfectant, and he had patched up her nicely with some bandages. "Good hands." She thought. Despite how big they were, they could still do delicate jobs like this one with ease and confidence.

Tails kept holding her hand, as if checking to make sure it was a good job, before he went and placed the hand on his face, the palm of the hand sliding softly to his cheek, letting go of a sigh. When Wave registered this, she took away her hands quickly, slipping from his grasp. He seemed slightly upset about it.

"What the hell?!" She said.

"Sorry, I couldn't resist. Your hands are beautiful." Tails said as if it was the most natural thing, but Wave was convinced he was messing with her.

"You are lying."

"I wouldn't. Not about..."

"Yes, you are. I don't want pretty comfort words just because it hurts." Wave interrupted him.

Tails remained silent for a minute, thinking what could he tell her. Instead, he removed his own gloves and offered his hands. Wave, looked at them for a second. She wasn't sure what compelled her, but she decided to put her own naked hands on top of his. They remained like that for a second.

He held them, firm enough to make sure she would not slip again, yet somehow gently. "These hands are callous and hard." This deflated the Swallow a bit. "That's shows me just how much of a hard working woman you are." She wasn't quite expecting that. "You see those girls with their pristine little hands and I really think, 'Have they ever done chores regularly for themselves'? Cleaning, laundry, sewing, with those crazy nails?" They both chuckled at the idea. "Helps that I know the incredible machines these hands can make." He then move the hand closer to his face and kissed one of them. This made her again slip out of his grasp.

"Dude!" Wave screamed and that seemed to also make the fox panic.

"S-sorry. I don't know what came over... Um..." They both were red on their faces. But both felt a little better about themselves now: Wave a little bit more comfortable and Tails as if he had gotten something off his chest. Then, the next music peace started, a very slow tune. Both wearing their gloves again, Tails wanted to ask her for this peace, but after what just happened he just couldn't bring himself to do so. Most of his courage was spent on that hand kiss.

Wave walked toward him and wrapped her arms around his waist. "Hey, I have no idea how to dance this." She admitted, while resting her head against his chest.

Tails then slowly returned the favor, surrounding her waist with his arms, doing his best to not touch an inappropriate area, responded. "Just follow my lead then." The dancing started, all the while Wave was well aware that she was screwed. All this last interaction were hitting her much more intensely than they should. Unless, she was falling hard for this fox man.