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Sonourge: Opposites Attract
Chapter 9

Sonic separated the kiss with Scourge, completely unaware that Tails had seen what they were doing. Nor did he particularly care at the moment. All he cared about at that moment was his wonderful relationship with Scourge and that nothing can separate the two of them.
Sonic and Scourge headed over to the bathrooms where everyone was beginning to exit, and they all congregated into a circle.
Sonic said, "Well, today was really fun, guys. Glad to see some of you make it to meet Scourge and get your feet a little wet in the ocean. We should probably start heading on home, though. After that game, we're all clearly tired."
Everyone nodded. Sonia and Manic said their good-byes and they went together back home. Sonic, Scourge, Tails, Knuckles, and Rouge went their own way towards Sonic's home.
Most of the trip was held in silence, other than a bit of chattering between Knuckles and Rouge. The other three were too tired to understand what they were talking about, so they just decided to stay out of it. That is, until the two of them finally stopped talking and Knuckles started slowing down until he was right next to Scourge.
Scourge saw this and didn't know whether or not Knuckles was about to say to someone. "Is something wrong, Knuckles," Scourge asked.
"Not exactly, Scourge." Knuckles gently grabbed at Scourge's arm and they both went to a halt. Sonic went a few feet forward, then stopped and turned around to see that Knuckles had stopped Scourge.
"Is there something wrong, you two?"
"I just need to talk to Scourge for a little bit, Sonic. You guys go on ahead, we'll catch up later."
Sonic didn't know what Knuckles could possibly have to say to Scourge, but he simply shrugged and hoped that Knuckles won't beat him up.
As the three of them walked away, Scourge and Knuckles turned to face each other again. "So what's up Knuckles? This must be pretty important if you're stopping us like this."
"It's not all that important, but you should probably know this anyways." Scourge nodded and waited for Knuckles to continue. "I was talking to Tails while we were out in the water, and he told me about the little chat you had with him this morning."
"What about it," Scourge asked.
"Tails never really liked you, Scourge. In fact, he down-right hated you. He views Sonic as an idol, and some of the cruel things that you have done to him have equally hurt Tails." Scourge was sweating on the inside, but asked Knuckles to continue. "I don't what you said, but you must've clearly picked out some magical words. Anything else, and he would have spat you out like a piece of expired meat."
"I never thought that Tails was so cruel."
"That's the point I'm trying to get at, Scourge. He isn't. Tails is just about the nicest, least judgmental person I have ever met. He may hold some hatred for Eggman, but he has definitely shown some fire when it comes to you."
"I understand. But what does that have to do with us?"
"I got off-track from what I was going to say. The point is, you actually got him to be okay with you, just by you saying some deep speech to him in the span of a minute. If you could do all of that without bribing him, then you can't be that bad of a person."
"So you're okay with me?"
"Yes, but I'm just okay with you. Some of the things that you did before are unforgivable, and although I don't show it, Sonic is a friend of mine too. We're a team and no one hurts my team without going through me first." Knuckles paused. "But I'm giving you a second chance. It would be smart if you didn't blow this one."
Scourge smiled. It was the first legitimate smile that Knuckles has ever seen from Scourge. "Trust me, Knuckles. I won't. Sonic and I… we're more than friends now. I won't explain to you what that means, but I'll let you hold onto that fact."
Knuckles nodded in confusion and the two of them went in the same direction that Sonic had just went moments ago.
'We're more than friends now?' Knuckles thought. 'Why does he say that as if it's important?'

Scourge finally caught up with the others, and Knuckles came up shortly after. They continued walking for a few more minutes.
"So, Scourge," Sonic started. "What did Knuckles have to say to you?"
"Well, earlier today while you were making breakfast, I decided to have a little chat with Tails. I wanted to redeem myself, and it actually kind of worked. So Knuckles confronted me, and told me that it was good that I was able to become friends with Tails even though Tails hated me so much."
Sonic smiled. "Well, that was easy. It's great that you already made up with everybody, because Knuckles will probably talk to Rouge about you as well. But that doesn't sound like regular Knuckles, though. Is that all he said?"
"He also said that he would beat me to a pulp if I attempt anything fishy."
"That sounds more like Knuckles to me."
Scourge chuckled. "Yeah."
A couple of minutes later, the five of them finally made it back to Sonic's home, and Knuckles and Rouge headed inside together. The other three followed them inside.
Sonic and Scourge went up into Sonic's room, because now, they were in this home as a couple, and everything was going to be a little bit different than before. But, they weren't realizing that Tails was following close behind them, and entered the room with them.
When they turned to see Tails with them, they were confused as to why he followed them. "Tails, what's up, buddy," Sonic asked.
"I think you two have some explaining to do?"
"What kind of explaining Tails," Scourge asked. "You make it sound like we did something wrong."
"Well… you didn't do anything wrong… But you didn't exactly do anything right either!"
Sonic and Scourge scratched their heads in confusion.
"I saw you guys kissing at the beach. It clearly wasn't an accident, either, because you just held like that for so long."
The two hedgehogs then broke up from their confusion and then got a little nervous of the situation. Scourge was beginning to regret his 'Just let everyone figure out the relationship on their own' plan, because it just made everything awkward. But he also thought that just telling everyone about the relationship was just as awkward, so he just let it happen.
Before Sonic could formulate a response, Scourge beat him to it. "Tails, have you ever been in love?"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Tails… have you ever been in love? It's a normal question, isn't it? I'm not trying to trick you here."
Tails sighed, because he didn't even like being moderately mocked by Scourge, but he decided to answer him anyways. "Yes, Scourge. Sonic knows that I have fallen in love with a plant named Cosmo. We got in a very short relationship, and then she died to save our lives." Tails thought he was going to break into tears at the very thought of it, but he kept everything under control for himself.
"Alright… now think about me and Sonic. If we love each other just as much as you loved Cosmo, then what makes you think that you could do anything to change it?"
"Yes, but it's different in your case."
Scourge got a little frustrated and tried his best to keep his cool in front of Tails, his new 'friend'. "How is it different, Tails?"
"Because both you and Sonic are gu…"
"Guys," Scourge interrupted. He got up from the bed that he was sitting on with Sonic and stood face-to-face with Tails. "Gender should not have to matter, Tails! The fact that Sonic does not wear a silly dress should not affect the way I feel about him. Just because you fall in love with girls that are either out of your league or just DIE, doesn't mean I can't fall in love with Sonic."
Scourge turned to Sonic. His muzzle was turning a slightly red from all of the rage. Sonic then brought up his hand, and then pointed at Tails. "Scourge, you may want to turn around."
Scourge turned around again to face Tails, and saw that everything had changed. Tails was no longer enraged, and was actually quite sullen. Scourge didn't know what to say until a tear began to form at the bottom of Tail's left eye. Scourge has seen this look before. It's the look someone gives whenever they lose a love one, and he was the one who caused it.
Scourge then absent-mindedly wrapped his arms around Tail's back, and brought him in for a hug. "I'm sorry, Tails. That was really stupid of me. I guess some things don't change."
Between tears, Tails said, "It's not all your fault, I guess. I'm the one who confronted you and trapped you in a corner." Tails paused and sniffed a little bit. "I guess I've forgotten what love was like with Cosmo gone. It's been so long since then, and I've been so lonely."
Sonic finally snapped into reality and got up from the bed that he was sitting on. He joined Tails and Scourge in the hug and said, "Tails, why didn't you ever say anything? We live together, and I would've always been there for you if you ever got lonely."
"I was afraid that you would get sick of me eventually. I've watched those romance television shows where the heart-broken guys are absolute wrecks."
Sonic then gave Tails a confused look. "So you're the one who watches those ridiculous romance movies? I thought that was Knuckles and Rouge!"
"You're dating a guy, so I regret nothing." Scourge broke the hug and briefly chuckled to himself. Sonic then chuckled with him, and Tails joined in as well.
Scourge then said between laughs, "Tails, you're alright, you know that? You're really cool."
"Thanks, Scourge. You're pretty cool too."
They then joined each in another group hug. As they did that Knuckles walked by the bedroom, but then took a few paces back to witness the hug. "Uh… did I miss something?"
Tails broke the hug and turned to face Knuckles at the doorway. "Yeah, you did miss something. Scourge was just telling me about his relations--…" Tails was cut off with Scourge lightly elbowing him in the arm. Tails rubbed his arm and laughed softly to himself. "As I was saying, Scourge was just telling me about the wonders of 'Give a Hug' day."
Knuckles was skeptical. "Give a Hug… day?"
"Yeah. You want one?"
"Uh… no. I'm going to stay out of this holiday just this once. I'm more of an advocate for 'Punch Someone in the Jaw' day."
"When is that coming up," Scourge joked.
"Really soon."
Knuckles then exited the room while swaying his dangerous and powerful hands around. As he did, the three of them laughed to themselves.
"Note to self," Scourge started. "Do not allow Knuckles to make up his own holiday. You might just lose your jaw."
Sonic and Tails cracked up at that one. As he was laughing, Tails headed over to the bedroom door and waited for everyone to calm down. Once they did, Tails said, "So Scourge…"
"Yeah… Tails are we cool now? Now that Sonic is my boyfriend, I can trust that I won't do anything stupid to him ever. I definitely won't want to hurt him anymore."
Tails nodded. "That's what I wanted to hear. Oh, and Scourge."
"Hm?"
"If you ever see me down, or see me burying myself in my inventions, talk to me." Tails paused. "I could use a little help getting over… Cosmo."
Scourge walked over to Tails and placed a palm on his shoulder. "You got it, Tails. I'll always be there for you, and so will Sonic."
Sonic nodded, and all three of them celebrated 'Give a Hug' day one last time.
I've held back a few tears when writing the end. I sure hope that you guys feel the same way. I'm anticipating about 11-12 chapters and an epilogue for this one.
The next chapter is going to be the lovely awkward chapter that I feature in all of my stories. The 'widespread coming-out' chapter. :)

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Chapter 10: [link]
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Oh my stars, this is so sweet!