NB Ch. 10 - A Sad Reunion Leads to New Beginnings

“CLEAR!”

ZAP!

“No response… patient pronounced dead…”

Sonic stood there in front of the motionless D.T. as he started crying, seeing that Tails’ beloved brother has died in front of his eyes. He eventually started weeping in his bare’ cold hands as the heart monitor stayed monotonic and beeped a spine-chilling chime that caused him to cry even more.

“How am I going to tell Tails about this…”

--5 MINUTES EARLIER AT TAILS’ HOUSE--

As he was going to fall asleep, he saw a very bright light emitting from the doorway of the room, in which the weird thing is that it’s not disturbing Sticks at all while she’s already fast asleep. When the bright light had vanished, what Tails saw was a remarkable response from his facial expression that he may not be able to see this ever again, especially something he knows about. He got off from his bed gently as to not disturb Sticks and approached to the direction where the light came from. He stood there at awe and emotional happiness as to what was right in front of him that very instant.

“Hello Tails… nice to see you again!...”

“C-COSMO?!? Is that you?!?”, a weeping, flabbergasted Tails asked as she appeared in front of him.

“Yes Tails, it’s me. Just relax a bit. I know it’s too much to take in…” Cosmo whispered to him as Tails kept crying, but now softly because he was able to cope after experiencing this happy, gut-wrenching experience.

“*sniff* I know… especially with D.T. … injured in the hospital… It’s just too much to deal with…” Tails said.

“Oh… I’m not so sure about that Tails…” Cosmo spoke slowly.

“What do you mean by that?!?” Tails asked nervously.

“D.T. … is dead… I’m sorry Tails…” Cosmo said sympathetically.

At the instance Tails was about to bawl because of his beloved brother dead in the hospital, Cosmo reassures him that she can do extra things in her spiritual form that Tails totally forgot about.

“Relax Tails… remember that I am a spirit now. I can revive D.T. by a “miracle”, but the consequence is that our time together will be cut shorter… Understand?” Cosmo said.

“Please Cosmo… anything to get my brother back…” Tails said as he mildly bawled to D.T.’s temporary grave.

Cosmo nodded as she agreed to help Tails in any way possible. She wanted to help her beloved boyfriend in this complex situation of death… and death. She started on a chant to transport herself into the vast emptiness of limbo where D.T. currently is because of his “dead” state. Confidence on the success of the transfer to limbo, she desperately searched around to find D.T. and save him from imminent loss of his body on Earth. Once she found D.T., she didn’t just approach him to resurrect him, but to have a little conversation before doing so.

“Hello D.T.” Cosmo said as she approached him at a steady speed.

“Um… hi… who are you?” D.T. asked.

“Oh! How silly of me, I forgot to introduce myself… my name is Cosmo, the last person of my species: the Seedrians, and Tails’ girlfriend…” Cosmo said as she formed a rosy blush on her cheeks.

“Uh… well…” D.T. started.

“Well what?” Cosmo asked.

“Here’s the thing: How can you be Tails’ girlfriend if he’s dating that jungle badger, Sticks?”

Cosmo’s stomach flipped and heart sank as she heard D.T. asked the terrible question any girl would hear.

“Wha-What?!? Are you sure?!?” Cosmo asked in shock.

“*sigh* I honestly didn’t want to tell you as well, and I know how you feel, but I feel like you need to know ahead of time before anything worse happens with you and Tails… I’m sorry…” D.T. said.

Cosmo starts tearing up as she has to deal with this emotional turn of events that happened over the course of a whole year without seeing Tails.

“*sniff* *sigh*Nice meeting you D.T. …” Cosmo said in despair as she transferred D.T. and herself out of limbo and fused D.T.’s spirit back to his body.

--BACK AT THE HOSPITAL--

“Why D.T. … How am I going to tell Tails about this...“ Sonic weeped as he laid over D.T.

Just as Sonic was about to weep even more, the heart monitor by D.T.’s side started to pick up a heartbeat and beeped and beeped as it maintained a steady heart rhythm. Sonic was in total shock as to the result the monitor gave. Sonic was extremely overjoyed that D.T. was alive, that he had somehow… cheated death.

    “WHA--- HOW?!?” Sonic gasped in shock.

    “Where… where am I?” D.T. said.

    “What do you mean? You’re at the hospital, duh…” Sonic said as he rolled his eyes.

    “It feels good to be alive!” D.T. exclaimed.

    “Great… I don’t have tell Tails about this...”, Sonic thought to himself as he saw the heart monitor maintain a steady rhythm after the sudden revival D.T. had.

    “Hey Doc, can I bail D.T. out of the hospital right now?” Sonic asked.

    “Sorry Sonic, I recommend that he stays here for another night just in case something like this happens again. He can leave in the morning, I promise…”

    “Damn…. alright, I can spend a night here…”

--BACK AT TAILS AND SONIC’S HOUSE--

Cosmo was transporting herself back from limbo, crying as to what she discovered from D.T.’s testimonies on the chemistry between the fox and badger. She reappeared in the living room, which she gradually walked to Tails’ room door, holding back emotions and heart-lurching “pain”. She approached the door, and before she spoke out, she cleared her throat as if nothing had happened.

“Tails?”

Tails’ ear perked up. “Yes Cosmo?”

“Mind seeing me in your living room?” Cosmo asked.

“Uh, sure… coming.” Tails said.

Once Tails started to creep out of the room, trying to not to wake up Sticks on the way, he met up with Cosmo at the end of the corridor to the couches in the living room. “Hey Cosmo what did you need to talk about?”, he asked with a quizzical look on his face.

    “Tails…  we need to talk” Cosmo said with a hint of both anger and sadness in her voice.

    “About what? Is something bothering you?” Tails asked innocently, confused as to what point Cosmo was trying to make.

    Before she even spoke or lifted a finger to be exact, Cosmo started to whimper and slowly starts crying, to the fact that she can’t keep the truth straight in front of her. She constantly kept crying very quietly as that is in her nature, but she doesn’t want to be loud to expose herself or to wake someone else up.

    “Cosmo, what’s wrong? Are you sure everything’s okay?” Tails asked softly.

    “No! It is not okay! Why all of a sudden--”

    “All of a sudden, what?”

    “--You and Sticks are dating?” Cosmo asked coldly and desperately as she kept weeping due to the fact Tails is dating Sticks now.

    Tails was perplexed and ashamed and embarrassed at the fact that Cosmo knows about him and Sticks’ relationship. Now because of that, he is kinda angry at D.T. for telling Cosmo about their “status”. Now the problem is how will Tails be able to confront Cosmo about that sudden turn of events that happened right in front of her?

    “*sigh* Cosmo… here’s the problem, and I hope you’ll understand… I hate to say this, and I hope that it doesn’t offend you, but… you’re dead…” Tails started.

    “But what does that have to do with our relationship together?”, a weeping Cosmo asked.

    Tails did not want to talk further, but he had no other choice…

    “*gulp* Ever since I shot you while on the Blue Typhoon… that left me heartbroken… You left me crying on the cockpit, even though it was your task to help us all to continue our lives here… I felt like I couldn't go on… but then I met Sticks… she helped me heal… she helped me the past year watching me and taking care of me since she noticed I was depressed. During the last few days, we confessed our feelings for each other, which made me very happy.” Tails paused after saying this thinking about how much this must hurt Cosmo “I understand if you're angry, or if you hate me.” he sighed.

    Cosmo stayed motionless as she is slowly taking in the reality of the situation she was in. It was impossible for her to believe the new reality she had become part of. Her struggling being by herself was troubling at the start, but seeing her now ex-boyfriend with Sticks is a totally, but even worse, story. Eventually, everything came together. Her answers flashed in an epiphany as she calmly sat back down after the whole “little event” with her and Tails.

    “Oh my….. I didn’t even think about that, Tails…. I’m sorry that you had to suffer through all of that….” Cosmo said as a tear ran down her cheek.

    Tails on the other hand walked up to Cosmo to soothe her in her quiet emotional distress. He wiped off the tear from her cheek and rubbed her back to soothe her pain as she sat there about to cry even more.

    “Cosmo…. take it easy. It’s not the end of the world… ironically… but what I mean is that you don’t have to be upset about this…. You have to try to move on…. You’re a spirit now, and with me still being in love for you is kinda weird in front of everyone…. they may even think that I’m just crazy that I’m dating a spirit and such…”

    “*sniff* You do have a point… I’m sorry Tails…”

    “Don’t be, I’m the one who has to take the blame for what happened last year…”

    “Please don’t bring it up again…. I don’t want the pain to start all over again. Besides…. I actually am a bit jealous, but happy that you found someone else after a year since my ‘departure’...”

    “*smiles* Thanks Cosmo…” Tails stated as he approached her for a hug (and which I do not know how the hell he can do that….).

    “Well.... my time is almost up here… Sadly… this is the last time I’ll see you….” Cosmo said quietly as she started to shed another tear because her departure is near.

    Tails wipes another tear from her face (which I still don’t know how the hell he does it!) and soothers her again for the last time. “Just remember me, Cosmo. That is sad that I can’t see you anymore… but we had our times in the past… I hope you’ll remember me…”

    “I’ll never forget you, Tails. Thank you….” Cosmo said as she started to vanish slowly into the abyss of the night.

    Tails is alone now. It became a very quiet midnight, grasshoppers chirping outside and the shore hitting the tide in the soft background of the night. Tails just couldn’t stand the silence for the moment, as he was completely hurt because he ended up breaking Cosmo’s heart, but at the same time, she told him not to worry about it…

    He stood up, feeling a bit tense, feeling a bit scared for Cosmo, but at the same time, just anxious about what happened during the week as a whole. Tails slowly approaches to his bed in the room, where Sticks is still asleep, but was oddly quiet. He gets back in bed, and was about to sleep, until the sight of his beloved kept him awake for a minute.

    “....Tails….”, a sleepy Sticks mentioned.

    “Yes Sticks?” Tails whispered.

    “....What were… *yawn* … you doing out there?”

    “Just thinking….” Tails said.

    “....About what…?” Sticks asked in a calm tone.

    Tails smiled.

    “New beginnings…”

    Sticks gave a smile in return, and gave him a passionate kiss in return for his response to her question.

    Sticks gives Tails a quick hug and stays clingy for a bit.

    “I love you, Tails….”

    “I love you, Sticks….”

    As they lay back in bed, they kept a glance to each other until both of them fell for a peaceful sleep.