tfw the blue hedgehog begins to cough up purple flowers

Mid ending 👁👁

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Now onto the story :)

Present time (mid ending)

About a week had passed since Sonic had arrived at Angel Island, and things were going rather smoothly. Well, if you consider 'smoothly' to be Sonic's condition getting worse and worse everyday, then yeah, it was all going pretty smoothly.

Though Sonic seemed unphased at his decline in health, Knuckles was anything but that. The echidna was worried sick about his friend, worried that his friend might very well die any second now based on how much he's coughed up, and how often he's doing it.

Knuckles was scared he was going to have to accept his friends death, and worse yet, help the others accept it as well.

The sound of violent coughing tore Knuckles out of his thoughts, although it was a sound he had gotten used to over the past week, it still sent shivers down his spine to think that his friend was making those noises.

Knuckles stood up from where he was sitting in front of the Master Emerald, and turned towards the tent he had set up for Sonic. He knew Sonic wouldn't want him going in there, as the blue hedgehog had said that, "its worse when people are near me." and knuckles respected that, but still...he couldn't help but feel as though Sonic needed him right now.

Knuckles made his way down the steps and made his way towards Sonic's tent, internally preparing himself to comfort the hedgehog.

He lifted open the tent slightly to find a sight he had expected to see. Sonic was on the ground coughing whilst surrounded by flowers, which were a good mix of purple and red. Knuckles frowned and walked inside, Sonic noticed him almost immediately.

"What the-?" Sonic began through coughs, "Knux? Didn't I tell you to not bother me?" he finished, turning his head away from the echidna.

"I'm worried about you, Sonic." the echidna responded.

This led to said hedgehog hacking up even more flowers, these ones larger than the others. Knuckles frowned, he just wished there was something he could do to help Sonic, but it seems anything he tried to do only made sonic feel worse.

Knuckles turned his attention back to the blue hedgehog at hand only to find he was crying. Knuckles immediately bent down to put his hand on Sonic's back, holding him close.

"What's wrong, Sonic?" Knuckles asked softly.

"I-" Sonic began, trying to wipe his tears away, "I can't do it anymore Knux..."

"What do you mean?"

"I cant just keep coughing day after day, I need to be out in the world, saving people, not cooped up on angel island...I just want this stupid disease to go away."

"Are you saying you want to get the surgery?" Knuckles questioned, hope in his voice.

"Well, I don't have much of a choice do I?" Sonic paused,"So yeah, I guess I will get it."

"Really?" Knuckles asked in disbelief, to which Sonic simply nodded, "That's great Sonic." Knuckles smiled. "I've gotta go tell the others, and we'll get you an appointment as soon as possible..."

"Yeah..." Sonic replied solemnly, staring down at the dirt littered with blood covered flowers.

"You don't seem excited about it." Knuckles stated.

"Well yeah..."Sonic replied, "I mean, my crush is the 1st person I've ever really been in love with, and, I'm...I'm scared to lose that feeling." another tear rolled down Sonic's cheek.