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#Post#: 27157--------------------------------------------------
The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Mallow the Rabbit
Date: January 14, 2016, 4:02 am
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Inside the privacy of his home, the rabbit was lying on floor of
his bathroom, pulled into a ball.
He thought he had been getting better, it had been so long since
the last time he was like this. But he had been careless. He was
usually more meticulous than this when it came to the triggers.
The loss of Sonic's good opinion had been the trickle of pebbles
that started the avalanche of emotions and memories. Mallow had
never handled any form of loss well; he had enough of it for
several lifetimes. This particular incident was so bad because
Sonic had been part of his past. The hero of Mobius effected him
in a big way all those years ago in Sandblast City.
The memories of his life in that city came out of the graveyard
his mind had buried them in. The sounds of his nightmares filled
his ears, and the darkness of that time filled his vision. The
voices of those he loved, screaming until one by one became
silent. A silence that only the dead could make and a only a
child in shock could mimic. He had to stay silent. Silence was
his salvation, his protection. Warren had told him not to make a
sound until he returned for him, so he wouldn't. He couldn't let
his big brother down.
Suddenly a voice broke his silence. A voice he didn't recognize.
No... He did know that voice. Someone he knew, calling his name.
"Mallow? Mallow, Can you hear me? Come back to me, son. You're
alright now. Nothing is going to hurt you."
Mallow was still a moment, and then tilted his head to the side
as the darkness faded from his vision and he was looking back at
the long face of his neighbor, Jethro Dray, a horse mobian. The
middle aged stallion was crouched in front of him, his eyes full
of concern for the smaller mobian, and his wife Martha was in
the doorway, holding a glass of water and a damp washcloth.
"Mallow, do you know who I am?" The horse asked and the rabbit
nodded his head slowly. "Good. Now, do you know where you are?"
Another nod. "Alright, do you want us to get the doctor for
you?" Mallow shook his head.
"N-no... No doctor. I... Later. I just- not... not now." He
responded, drained and overwhelmed by what happened.
The couple understood his wish and helped him regain his calmer
state of mind with the simple power of hospitality and kindness.
The Drays were a kind-natured sort, believing in leading simple
lives and paid by hard honest labor. They knew little of their
new neighbor but were very welcoming when the dancer moved in,
and continued to be neighborly towards Mallow in his time here.
So when they had noticed their neighbor returning home, looking
very troubled, they were already on their way over before they
heard the young buck screaming.
Mallow agreed to see the village doctor when most convenient. In
the back of his mind, he made plans to do just that, but also to
visit a certain blue hedgehog and apologize. He didn't know if a
burned bridge could be repaired, but a tiny bit of him still
clung to the hope that it could be.
#Post#: 27171--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Mallow the Rabbit
Date: January 15, 2016, 11:11 pm
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Sometime later, maybe the next day; Mallow stood in front of the
mirror. He was showered, dressed, and his eyeliner was
reapplied, and he was shaking. Begin the mirror monologuing.
"Come on, Mallow! You're a professional performer! You can do
this!" He told himself, and took a deep breath then looked at
his reflection.
"H-Hey, Sonic... look can I talk to you for a second?" He began
then shook his head. "No, no no! Bad! That was pathetic! Be
casual!"
"Hey, Sonic! You got a minute?" Mallow began again, more
cheerful then growled at himself. "NO! That's too casual! He's
going to punch your lights out if you don't take this
seriously!" the rabbit sighed and tried again with a different
approach.
"Hey there, Sonic. You're looking good. Listen do you want to go
get a coffee sometime, I'd really like to work out this problem
between us........" He stopped talking and his face became ashen
and he dropped to his knees in a perfect example of a Pose of
Supplication. "Idiot... I sound like I'm asking him out!...." He
let out a long dramatic sigh. "I'm in trouble."
Yes. Mallow was practicing how to apologize to Sonic.
#Post#: 27175--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Mallow the Rabbit
Date: January 16, 2016, 12:44 am
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Needless to say, the rabbit was depressed and had lost most of
his poise. Getting up off the floor he glared at his reflection
and slapped his cheeks a few times. Ow. Mallow shook his head.
"Enough drama! Time to get serious. I'll just have to go out
there an wing it! Yes! IMPROV!" He strutted out of the bathroom
in high spirits then looked at the full length mirror in his
bedroom, taking in his outfit. "Hmm.... no, this shirt will not
do at all." he whisked it off in a flourish and went to his
wardrobe. "If we want to get on his good side again, we need to
hit all his areas." he said to himself, as he pulled out a deep
royal blue shirt. It was no secret to the Sonic fan club of what
their hero's favorite color was. He slipped it on and rolled up
the sleeves to a 3/4 length, and adjusted the low dip of the
shirt on the front to show off his chest abs. He checked himself
in the mirror again, then started fingering the stiching at the
hem. His hands were shaking and his shoulders tensed up.
"Stop... stop stop s-s-stop... it's alright. You're going to be
okay." he repeated the mantra to himself. He was doing the right
thing... even if the worst case scenario happened, he was still
doing the right thing in apologizing to the blue hedgehog.
Mallow took another deep breath, even yawned a bit to help relax
himself, which helped... just a little.
"Alright. It's showtime." The white rabbit said as he headed out
his door, and strode over towards the direction of Sonic's hut.
#Post#: 27177--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Sonic
Date: January 16, 2016, 5:22 am
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Sonic now with the fight over was taking the time to put his
home back together. He lifted the broken television while the
princess,dragon and drama queen were still fresh in his memory.
He hauled it onto the counter seeing if it could be repaired. He
noticed in the scuffle a picture had been knocked off his
mantle. He zipped over flipping the frame over noticing the
glass was cracked. He snapped open the back destroying the frame
as the glass was already shattered. He looked at the picture and
suddenly had a longing for his past. The picture was a photo
from the prior year of himself Tails,Sapphire Karahl and her
little brother. Looking back over at the busted television left
his smile faded. "You'd be able to fix this thing even if it was
a pile of ashes and gears. He wanders over to his fridge and
slaps a magnet against the picture to keep it in place. Pulling
over a seat he sat staring at the picture a sense of longing in
his eyes. "All the speed in the world and I wasn't fast enough.
So this is what loosing feels like." He thought to himself
thinking of all the people Robotnik had taken from him. When his
eyes wandered over to Sapphire his great green eyes grew glassy.
He blinked trying to bottle up his emotions as he remembered the
sacrifice Sapphire made to bring the unstoppable SWATnik down.
He sniffed trying to hold himself together. He then reached into
a drawer and pulled out a case containing the seven chaos
emeralds. He stares into the glittering gems of limitless power
only remembering how they caused Sapphire to dissipate before
his eyes. No longer able to bring himself to look at them he
tossed the case at the door scattering the colored emeralds. The
case crashed opened at Mallow's feet as he reached the door.
#Post#: 27189--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Mallow the Rabbit
Date: January 16, 2016, 3:43 pm
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Mallow was already shaking again by the time he made it to
Sonic's house. He took several deep breaths to came his nerves
before he had an anxiety attack. He could perform for a crowd of
hundreds and not break a sweat... and yet here he was, trying to
do something genuine for an audience of one. Maybe that was what
disturbed him the most. He was acting on his true feelings, not
hiding behind his 'stage face' in order to slide by.
The rabbit shook his head and raised his hand to knock when a
case was suddenly flying through the door towards him, he
stumbled back a bit and looked down at the pretty gemstones
scattered at his feet. 'Oh... these are lovely.' Having never
seen the Chaos Emeralds before, despite hearing about them, he
had no idea what he was actually looking at. He glanced up
towards the open door and down at the case, then stooped down.
Picking up each gem, he admired the shine and dazzling color
before placing it back in the container. Standing with the case,
he knocked on the frame of the door and called out. "S-Sonic?
... Are..." he bit his lip as his voice started shaking. 'Dang
it! Keep it together!' "May I uh... um...." he looked down at
the case in his hands. "... You dropped something..." he
finished lamely, then shook his head. "NO! Wait! That's uh-
that's not why I'm here. What I meant to say- frick! Um. I
wanted... I wanted to say that..." He let out a harsh breath. "I
really suck at this..." he muttered to himself, then took a deep
breath to try again.
"..... I'm sorry for what I said... I was wrong and my words
really hurt you. You were right, what happened between you
and.... her, was none of my business and I was wrong to
interfere... I..." He winced as emotions bubbled up inside.
"I... really don't want you to hate me. You... you made such an
impact on my life, I'm who I am because of you... and I never
got to tell you how grateful I am because of what you did." He
said, placing the case down in front of the door. "So... thank
you, Sonic."
He was still a little shaky, but he felt a little better. Just a
bit, though. He didn't need an standing ovation for this, so the
rabbit turned to go. It would probably be better if Sonic didn't
look at him anyways...
#Post#: 27195--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Sonic
Date: January 16, 2016, 5:57 pm
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Sonic was was ready to explode being filled with emotions of
turmoil mixed with the face of somebody he didn't want to see
right now. He stomped over ready to tear the rabbit a new hole
until he heard him apologize. At this point Sonic did something
he'd become an expert by this point. He buried all his troubles
and took on a carefree macho air in his approach. Sonic wanted
to take time to deal with his own emotions but part of being a
hero is never letting people see you bleed. This was a lesson he
learned the hard way with Robotnik. Placing his hands in his
pockets he stopped a good foot away from Mallow. "Look thanks
for apologizing. I know it must be hard especially with somebody
you look up to." He placed a hand behind his head while looking
away as if he didn't want to say the next part. "Dude look I
know you aren't meant to talk to girls like that but Sal her and
I got history and she knows how to push my buttons." He saw
Mallow was going to leave and raised an eyebrow. "Leaving so
soon huh? Listen if I fractured some type of ideal idol you had
of me remember this. Real heroes are never as polished as the
legends about them. Were mobien just like the rest of you we
snap go off the deep end and everything. Listen you wanna do me
a favor? Take those gems with you. I can't stand to look at them
any more."
#Post#: 27197--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Rabbit Hole
DIR By: Mallow the Rabbit
Date: January 16, 2016, 7:04 pm
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Mallow stopped in his steps when he heard Sonic. A part of him
felt like crying out of happiness that Sonic accepted the
apology; but he remembered that he was a professional performer.
He too had to hold it together. Turning around, he looked into
the hedgehog emerald green eyes and then down at the case.
Shaking his head, he replied. "You didn't really... fractured
my ideal of you. If anything you've made yourself more of a
relatable person by being who you are. But there is no doubt in
my mind that you're a real hero, Sonic. I don't know everything
that's happened in your life, as you don't know what's happened
in mine; but I know a bit about what you've lost... And if
anything, I can relate with that..." He picked up the case of
gems. ".... I'll just.. hang on to these for you... My house is
at the end of the village." He turned in that direction. "If you
ever want these back, you'll know where to find them." It was an
unspoken invitation if Sonic ever wanted to drop by and vent;
Mallow certainly had the ears to listen. And with that, the
rabbit headed back to his home, not at all aware of how precious
a package he was carrying, and possibly had been entrusted with.
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