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Death and grief can be a difficult thing to deal with, especially in the case of a loved one to whom you were particularly close. I felt that grief earlier with the death of my biological father. We were very close and I miss him very much. The pain of losing a lover is not the same as losing a father, but I'm sure that both hurt just as much. If you have recently lost a loved one, know that it's okay to be sad. It's okay to cry.
Love's Resistance
Chapter 5
Dingo watched over Sonia as she finally cried herself into a deep sleep. He wondered if she had slept at all, the past few days to be able to fall asleep in the presence of one she saw as her enemy. Again, Sleet's words to follow orders rang in his head. He knew he should take her to Robotnik. If Robotnik ever learned of this, he would certainly be roboticized. The horrible sound of the gunshot rang in his head. Or worse. Nevertheless, he couldn't do it. There was no one there to see, no one had to know.
Gently, the large dog moved Sonia into a more comfortable place on the bed, her head on the large pillows, and covered her. "Sleep well Sonia," he said before slipping out of the bedroom, flipping off the light and shutting the door.
Just in time too, as he saw a ship of Swat-Bots landing. He wondered what took them so long. Normally, the Swat-Bots were always watching him and Sleet, making sure they didn't do anything to betray Robotnik, or at least anything overt.
Quickly, he returned the living room to the state of disarray it had been in before, and even added to the mess to make it look as if he had been searching for whatever Robotnik thought might be there. Like he'd give it to him if he found anything.
"Dingo!" Sleet shouted as he entered. "Did you find anything..."
Dingo scratched his head, looking appropriately dumb. "No Sleet, nothing. Um, what was I looking for again?"
Sleet rolled his eyes. "Calling you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. For information on the Resistance, you glob of playdough!"
Dingo nodded in remembrance. "Ah yeah, no nothing. Nothing whatsoever."
"And no sign of hedgehogs?" Sleet asked.
Dingo couldn't help a darting look towards the bedroom as he shook his head. "Nope. No hedgehogs today. Maybe they'll come by tomorrow."
Sleet frowned. "Are you sure?"
"Uh...yeah...no hedgehogs and certainly no sign of Sonia," Dingo insisted.
"Bartleby!"

Meanwhile, Sonic and Manic had finished digging at the spot the Oracle had pointed out to them.
"Where is Sonia? She should have been back by now," Manic asked.
The Oracle sighed. "I expect she might have needed a little more time than she let on young Prince Manic. Going to his home could not have been easy for her."
"Yeah but she knew that it was dangerous too," Sonic said. "She wouldn't just stay there knowing she could be caught. She's smarter than that. We should go check on her. It's been too long."
The Oracle nodded in agreement. "Perhaps you should," he put the same transportation spell on the medallions around their necks. "I will send you as I did her. When you find her, if she's in trouble just touch her and touch your medallions and you will return. If she is fine then just come back here and she will come back when she is ready."

"Bartleby!"
The blood-curdling scream echoed from the master bedroom. Sleet glared at Dingo for trying to lie to him and pulled his weapon. "I thought you said you didn't see any hedgehogs?"
"I didn't Sleet, I swear, she must have been here and I just didn't see her," Dingo pressed, reluctantly drawing his own gun.
Despite his protests, Sleet could figure out what had happened. Dingo wasn't good at lying, he was better at being dumb. "You Swat-Bots cover the back gate. She'll try to escape that way." The orders effectively removed the spying bots as another agonizing scream rang out.
Once they were safely alone, they ran for the bedroom. "Damn you Dingo! Are you trying to get us busted! Do you want to be roboticized!"
"But Sleet, she was crying and I couldn't...she was asleep when you got here," Dingo explained. "She didn't even try to run or fight me. I couldn't...not like that..."
Never let it be said that Dingo didn't have some semblance of honor. He consistently refused to harm those who wouldn't fight back or flee. Sleet was grateful that he had given up on his principles long ago. Principles just did not keep one alive in this city. It was a jaded attitude, he knew, but it was the one that had kept them going this long. He had tried to get Dingo to understand that. To understand that sometime casualties were necessary if they were to be free one day. To get rid of Robotnik, well, he thought any number of casualties were worth it to see that.
The snow-wolf sighed in exasperation he opened the door to do what Dingo had failed to do.
Sonia wasn't really awake, just trapped in the throes of a nightmare. "Bartleby! No, no, don't! Bartleby!"
Sleet glared again at Dingo. "And what if Robotnik had found out that you just left her here, defenseless. She's ripe for the picking. But if you can't do it, I will..." he set his gun to catch-mode.
"No Sleet!" Dingo stepped between them. "Don't!"
"Move you dipswitch! I know you like her but better her than us. If we don't bring her in, and Robotnik finds out how easy it would have been to catch her. At least if she had fought or run, you could get away with pretending to fuck up the catch again. But no! If we leave her and he learns how easy we could have had her. He'll roboticize us both and hire other bounty hunters. Bounty hunters who will have no problem doing whatever he asks for a paycheck. How will you protect her then?" Sleet countered. "Come on, Dingo, use that brain you never show anyone else. We have no choice!"
Dingo looked ready to fight his friend if he had to but he couldn't deny that Sleet made sense. "But she..."
Before he could finish, a magical light heralded the appearance of Sonic and Manic beside the bed their sister lay in. "Sleet and Dingo, I thought something was wrong!" Sonic said.
Dingo let out an imperceptible sigh of relief at the appearance of the two hedgehog brothers, giving a small grin they couldn't see at his partner. A small nod acknowledged the change in plans.
"Hedgehogs!" Sleet fired at the boys.
They jumped to dodged the gun fire. "So you thought you were gonna get our sister while her guard was down huh?" Sonic asked sarcastically. "Have you no shame at all! Spin and win time." He entered into his famous whirlwind speed, creating a small tornado to throw the pair out of there.
When they were gone, the boys noticed the state their sister was in. "She must have fallen asleep." They were about to wake her but as they each sat beside her, the nightmare seemed to fade with nothing more than tears down her cheeks left behind.
Manic sat and frowned before getting up. "Hey look bro, a letter." He handed the paper to Sonic.
"It's from Bartleby to Sonia...she must have found this..." Sonic grit his teeth as he read the letter. "It says that he left her everything in his will. He even says you can sell those trinkets you kept trying to steal before." A tear rolled from his eye uncontrollably. "This letter explains so much."
Manic took the letter and read it. "Yeah, I guess if we had been raised by servants instead of loving parents, we might have been as self-centered as he was. I always envied the rich for all the money they have, and never having to worry about food. I never thought that maybe in many ways they were just as poor as the people in the slums."
Sonic nodded. "We might have even been raised that same way if we'd grown up in the palace. Princes and princesses are supposed to act differently from normal people. Mom would have needed to use a nanny at least since she would need to look after the people. Instead, we got to grow up with people who loved us at least for a while. I had Ma and Pa and after them Uncle Chuck. Sonia had Lady Wyndimere."
"I had Feral," Manic agreed. "Growing up in the sewers wasn't fun and I was a thief but Feral still loved me like I was his kid. He told me so all the time. I guess, in a way, Robotnik did us a favor. Doesn't mean I'm gonna let him off after what he did, but really we were better off the way we did grow up."
Sonic nodded. "We shouldn't have expected Sonia to give up that life or him. At least not him."
"Sonic," Manic whispered. "Is this our fault? She said that he was killed just for being associated with her, with us."
Sonic shook his head adamantly. "No, Manic. I won't deny that we could have done more to save him. We could have pushed back that mission for a day to rescue him. If she hadn't felt like she had to do it alone, if we had worked together. But other than that, Robotnik pulled that trigger. He arrested Bartleby. He put him on that trial. He knew Sonia would want to save him. He knew. It was all him. He'll pay for it too. I'm done playing games. If he so much as sneezes, his ass is mine."
"Hey get in line bro, she's my sister too," Manic stated.
Sonia moaned as she stirred from her sleep. Sonic shushed Manic with a gesture as she opened her eyes. "Huh? Where am I? Bartleby's bed? How..." her memory ran through the evening and she nodded as she remembered. "Oh...yeah..."
"Sonia," Manic got her attention before she could start crying again. "Are you alright?"
She looked up at her green-furred kin. "Manic? Sonic? When did you guys get here?"
"About twenty minutes ago," Sonic said. "Just in time too. Sleet and Dingo found you."
"Dingo?" she remembered Dingo sitting by her. She was confused by his actions. He hadn't threatened her or anything she had expected. Why not? She wasn't in the state of mind to defend herself. He could have taken her to Robotnik before her brothers even knew anything was wrong. She resolved not to tell her brothers as her brain caught up with her. "I must have fell asleep after I read...Bartleby..."
Sonic held her. "We saw. Now, the Oracle is probably worried. Did you find something for him?"
Sonia shook her head and forced herself out of bed and over to the closet. She found his favorite military jacket, the same outfit he had worn when he took her to the ball.
"He...wore this that night of the ball. He was going to wear it when we...after the war was over we were going to," she stammered. She caressed the soft fabric. "He looked so handsome in this...
Two hands lay on her shoulders. "We're sorry sis. But we have to get back. Sleet and Dingo could come back."
Sonia took a deep breath and nodded, holding the outfit close to her. "Let's go."

When they reappeared in the cave, Sonia took the painstaking task of dressing Bartleby, crying as she did.
She kissed his cold lips. "I love you Bartleby, always."
With him prepared, the Oracle conjured him into a fine wooden coffin. Her brothers bore the box to the grave they had dug. Lacking a priest, the Oracle spoke the funeral rites before magically lowering the casket into the grave. Sonic and Manic held their sister. He looked at the siblings. He'd sent word to Aleena, had expected her to come and comfort her daughter but perhaps it just wasn't safe yet. Or maybe she hadn't received his missive yet. Finally the hole was filled. The last touch was a headstone of marble with the usual markings and an inscription. "Bartleby Montclair, a True Noble."
When the others left, Sonia found she couldn't walk away yet. Her mind wandered over her favorite memories as she sang. "If I had only known it was the last walk in the rain, I'd keep you out for hours in the storm. I would hold your hand like a life line to my heart. Underneath the thunder we'd be warm. If I had only known it was our last walk in the rain." She remembered walking with him, seeking out illicit music clubs despite the laws. He had been there when she met her brothers for the first time. Foolishly, she allowed them to monopolize much of her time, leaving him all but forgotten. "If I had only known I'd never hear your voice again, I'd memorize each thing you ever said. And on those lonely nights I could think of them once more. Keep your words alive inside my head. If I had only known I'd never hear your voice again." She remembered how he would always plead for her to leave the Underground. He was always so scared for her safety. She wished could rewind back to that last night together and change her answer to yes. Maybe if she had... "You were the treasure in my hand. You were the one who always stood beside me. So unaware I foolishly believed that you would always be there. But then there came a day when I turned my head and you slipped away." She had taken him for granted, always assumed he would be there at the end of the war, ready to finally walk the aisle with her. Ready to make her Mrs. Bartleby Montclair. She had loved the sound of that. "If I had only known it was my last night by your side, I'd pray a miracle would stop the dawn. And when you'd smile at me, I would look into your eyes and make sure you know my love for you goes on and on. If I had only known. If I had only known. The love I would've shown if I had only known." She traced his name as she ended her song. "Goodbye Bartleby..."

AN: Yes, I had Sonia sing at the end of the chapter. For those unfamiliar with Sonic Underground, one of their biggest traits is that each episode has a song that the main characters sing. It usually encompasses the main theme of the episode and can sometimes be a bit preachy but I still want to try and keep a little canon. They sing. The song is "If I had only known" by Reba McEntire. Please don't report song lyrics. I'm too lazy to make up my own songs and it was actually sung by a character instead of inserted into the background.
Dingo is slightly less cynical than Sleet, that was why he was unable to understand Sleet's logic behind taking Sonia. Sleet has been through the wringer a little more than Dingo though. Dingo is Sleet's only real friend and it shows in his attitude. You'll see Sleet will usually come to Dingo's rescue, protecting him like one might a brother. Sleet's pessimism and jaded outlook on life will play a big part in this.
Also, don't worry this is not the last we'll see of Bartleby beyond Sonia's grief or what anyone has to say about him. He actually still has a role to play. Let's see if you can guess what that is.
Should I have Queen Aleena show up? I'm not sure.
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