Autumn

The later months of the year made knothole a beautiful sight to it's inhabitants, with the colorful leaf-covered forest floor to the thick, glistening white snow decorating the petit cottages in the last few months of winter.

Tails really admired nature's beauty, and so he sat in front of the ring lake, watching as some deer grazed in a patch of brown-green grass on the other side of the water.

The only disadvantage of fall was the brisk temperatures all day long, and while his small home was warmer, it wasn't much untill he set up the hearth for winter. While he had grown his winter coat of fur, which made his chest and limbs thick, fluffy and soft to the touch, he decided to wear a pair of knee-torn jeans and a thin sweater, while sonic only wore a vest to protect his exposed and furless chest. Sonic was in his hut, however, courting Sally and making fun of the failed attempts of a stuttering Antoine.

There was the sound of leaves crunching beneath shoes behind him, and Tails instinctively turned his head to see Fiona, wearing a thick green sweatshirt that covered her entire torso, and a pair of gray sweatpants. He also noted that she was carrying a big soft looking blanket over her shoulder.

The fox-girl wandered over and sat next to Tails, and gingerly put one half of the wide blanket around his back and over his shoulder, while she did the same with herself and sat closer to him for warmth.

"it's nice out here, isn't it tails?"
"You bet, but a bit cold..."
"Yeah...."

For what seemed to be an eternity the two foxes sat on the forest floor in perfect harmony, just watching the leaves as they fluttered downonto the ground, the different colors amazing them. Yellow, pale green, brown, orange, and reds fell down everywhere, looking like a rain of color in the normally green and brown woods.

About an hour after gaining his friend's company, Tails felt something soft slump on his shoulder and rest against his head, and he looked over to see that Fiona had fallen asleep on him, but was starting to look cold and shiver in her slumber.

He wrapped Fiona's side of the blanket around her limp form, and picked her up by putting one arm under her back and the other under her knees. Bridal style making it a bit awkward, but he didn't care, as it was the easiest way to carry her peaceful body, and he walked as he looked around at the still marvelous colors around him, before he came to rest her back on the ground when they reached his hut.

Tails knew that Fiona's home was most likely locked, so he decided to just bring her in his, and unlocked his door and brought her sleeping self in the house and put her down, unwrapping her and setting her under a couple of blankets on one side of his bed.

He smiled as he looked at her sleepy face, how cute it was and how her fur and hair matched the scene outside of his window with all the colorful trees, and layer down under the covers next to her as he felt sleep slowly calling him.

As he slowly succame to sleep, Tails felt his friend's two slender arms wrap around his body, as she dug her head in his thick chest fur, delighting in the warmth and during her current dreams she absentmindedly said aloud "thank you...," to which the make fox next to her smiled before he himself fell asleep, awaiting the next day, where he would hopefully wake up to her pretty face and deep, icy blue eyes looking back at his soft, sky blue ones.

And sleep, they did.