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Tangle, dressed in mostly dark-coloured gear, common for rebellion soldiers, alongside a red bandana and beret, threw her hands next to her as she walked over to Whisper, who had just entered their house,
Covered in her own blood.
Whisper moved her mask over her face as Tangle approached, attempting to use her cloak to cover her wounds-
Tangle didn't fall for it.
"Whisper- Oh my god- Are you okay?" Tangle spoke as she rushed over to her, grabbing her by the shoulder and turning Whisper towards her.
As Whisper was span round, she grunted, her cloak having been blown away from her wounds by the wind, exposing multiple worn, crimson red bandages with heavy amounts of blood leaking from them akin to a river, the bandages all over her chest. It looked like her intestines, guts, and anything in that general area was about to fall off like sludge slipping down a roof. On her arm, there was scratches, dirt, mud and dried blood- That wasn't hers. Her hands were mostly saved by her gloves, but her gloves were also torn, exposing multiple small cuts- likely from close calls, as if someone had tried to slice her hand- and her claws were almost entirely worn down, in horrible condition as it looked like they were on the verge of falling off, the skin nearby them peeling itself off slightly, the palm of her hand also covered in blisters.
"WHISPER!- You- you told me you'd never do this again! You PROMISED ME!" Tangle screamed as tears immediately ran down her face, her expression turning distraught and heartbroken.
From underneath Whisper's mask, she was sweating nervously and trying to hold back tears of her own. She felt immense guilt. Yes, she had promised Tangle it wouldn't happen again- She said that every time she came home, near death, bloodied, and having just gone on a solo suicide mission thanks to her grim past.
"Tangle, I am so sorry- I- My past it...a lot of people I cared about got hurt- and I didn't want that happening to you so- I HAD TO DO THIS!"
Is what Whisper wanted to say- or atleast try to attempt and explain her past and why she's doing all this.
But she knew she couldn't, choking on her own words as she tried to speak, saying,
"Tangle-" Quietly, reaching her arm out towards her before lowering it and going completely silent again.
"DON'T! JUST DON'T! WHISPER, WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME!??! I LOVE YOU! I still love you! I- I just want you to be safe! I just wanna be able to love you without seeing you get hurt EVERY! SINGLE! NIGHT!" Tangle screamed at the top of her lungs, pushing Whisper away as she grabbed at her own face, clutching it as hard as she could to the point her hands almost draw blood, crying as loud as she physically could as her throat went sore.
"I love you so much. I care about you so much. I...I just want you to do the same for me...please, Whisper. I'm begging you. I can't go on like this." Tangle says as she collapses into Whisper's arms, walking back over to her, speaking quietly as her tears are muffled by Whisper's cloak as she leans against her.
Whisper was terrified- guilt-ridden- and almost crying herself, welling up with sadness.
But she couldn't cry. She wouldn't let herself.
She just hugged Tangle as tight as she could as Tangle cried into her arms, before Tangle looked up at her and placed a hand on her scar ridden, bruise-covered face, moving her mask out the way.
Removing the mask only revealed more wounds, including a black eye, tears streaming down from it as Whisper tries to stay stoic.
Tangle almost faints from it all, completely overwhelmed- This happens every night. She just wants it to stop. Tangle has to watch her girlfriend come home every night almost dead, and she breaks down completely every time. She just wants to be able to live.
"What happened, Whisper?" Tangle said as she stared off into Whisper's closed, injured eyes, trying to stop crying as her tears began to dry up.
Whisper could only look at one thing.
Tangle's tail.
Or the part that was still there, anyway. Nearly half of it was lost on an escape mission- Whisper still remembers it like yesterday. So does Tangle.
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Whisper, Tangle, and multiple other rebellion soldiers ran throughout a hallway in a large factory owned by the Eggman Empire.
If this mission went well, it would be massive strike at their dictatorship, and could heavily cripple them.
The group was reached the end of the hallway as alarms blared, filling the air with horrible, loud noises. They reach a steel door, made of two plates that were quickly sliding shut.
"UP AHEAD! RUN!" Yelled Tangle as she pointed towards the doors, using her tail to throw Whisper and some others ahead of her and through the door, before she caught up behind them-
The door shut behind the group as Tangle stood with them.
Tangle went to press on, confused for a brief moment as the rest of them looked at her in horror.
Then, she felt a sharp pain behind her, turning to the door.
Her tail didn't entirely go through. Agony began to sink in as the door slowly cut through it, tears streaming down Tangle's face as she screamed and collapsed to the ground, grasping her stomach tightly and hyperventilating.
"HELP! HELP! HELP! OH GOD, WHISPER- PLEASE- GET ME OUT! IT HURTS! IT HURTS!" Tangle cried, screaming until it sounded like her lungs were going to burst as Whisper opened her eyes wider than she ever had before.
It was rare to see Whisper open her eyes.
Rarer to hear a whisper scream, though. The rebellion soldiers, panicking and almost running off, were likely some of the only regular soldiers to see Whisper scream as Tangle cried out in agony, begging for help- begging for death, even.
It was agonizing for the both of them to see Tangle's tail slowly crushed and sliced in half as she begged for mercy and an end to it all.
Whisper dashed at her, grabbing her as hard as she could and screaming,
"TANGLE! T-TANGLE PLEASE, STAY WITH ME! I D-DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU! I C-CAN'T LOSE YOU!" As she burst into tears, breaking down as she began to stutter, Tangle throwing up a mixture of food and her own blood as she tried to scream, her throat hoarse and hurt from her yelling, puke covering Whisper's cloak as Tangle lost her ability to speak, in constant agony as she spat out puke and blood.
Whisper almost clawed at Tangle, the way she was grabbing her. She was holding onto her life she was holding onto the last speck of her life- Which, in a way, she was.
Tangle was the only thing that kept her going. An anchor holding her down. Stopping her from inflicting the same fate as her old teammates upon herself.
Tangle was her light in the dark, and now she had to watch that light flicker, unsure whether it would ever shine as bright again- or whether it would even shine at all, anymore.
Eventually, Tangle collapsed in Whisper's arms, fainting as they watched the doors finally close in horror, Whisper picking up Tangle's unconscious body as tears ran down her face, growling as she desperately tried to bandage Tangle's gruesome wound, a trail of blood left from where Tangle's tail flew towards them, being stuck in the door having stretched it. Whisper bit into her own cloak, tearing off a piece of it with her own sharp, slightly cracked teeth, tying up Tangle's wound with it and applying as much pressure as she could onto it.
Tears in her eyes, Whisper brought Tangle back to the rebellion base.
And nothing was ever the same again.
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Tangle turned down towards her tail aswell, glaring at it with a sad expression.
"Whisper...I...we can't change that. It...I just want to forget it all. I want to live with you- happily! I don't- I don't wanna see either of us get hurt anymore. Please, Whisper. Please let me know tonight's promise will be real. Just this one time.- I'm begging you. For your girlfriend. Can we just go on happy adventures- for once in our lives." Tangle said, barely breathing as she cried into Tangle's shoulder.
"I..." Whisper began to speak, choking up as she finished her sentence.
"I promise." She knew she couldn't keep the promise.
Deep down, she knew,
It'd happen again.
She'd come back the next night.
And the next.
Until one day she'd return in a bodybag.
It was only a matter of time.