"Well, I have to say - Tails, you had us thinking..." conceded Squirtle, "but wow – a real Mew! I was always a skeptic of that whole legend...and they aren't bad looking in real life either."

Tails smiled to himself as he observed Rosie eavesdropping beside the group, invisible. She giggled.

"I sensed that I was being watched so I had to disappear – I told you it wasn't safe! I'm always right."

Tails was unsure whether she was at all concerned that she might have been seen. She certainly didn't seem it; her gleeful expression as she wafted about the group in the breeze was purely one of careless relaxation.

"Come on Rosie, I should probably take you somewhere safer."

As they made their way back to the willow tree, Tails watched Rosie as she floated about. She was shorter than he was, with a body less than half a metre tall, but she had a long, slender tail that flowed far above her petite stature. Her fur was the strangest hue and very fine - white by any casual glance, but on closer inspection, just a faint pink that seemed almost luminescent. And then there were her shimmering blue eyes that seemed to consume anybody who caught their gaze...

"Whatcha thinking about, Tailsy-Tails?" an upside-down Rosie interrupted, suddenly in the fox's face, "Not me again is it?"

She laughed and grinned playfully, biting her lip as she twirled around above him.

"You wish," Tails laughed back.

"Don't start, fox, Mews are psychic - I can read your thoughts!" came Rosie's dismissive answer, as she grinned ever widely. Tails' heart froze. Mortified, and feeling himself starting to blush, he struggled to think of something to say to this revelation.

"You're so full of crap!" he teased, defensively.

"Wanna bet? You couldn't stop thinking about how pretty I am,"

Tails sighed, hoping to find a bottomless pit that he could disappear into. "I suppose not..."

"That's too bad," Rosie chuckled, "I am full of crap. I can't read your thoughts at all."

"Oh-" Tails exclaimed, feeling even more embarrassed than before, "you're so dead!"

He twisted his tails and flew racing after Rosie, who, sensing imminent retaliation, had fled laughing. Together they shot into the air, until Pallet Town's houses and shops were like miniatures in a museum exhibition. He stayed behind her, ghosting her every move and staying out of eyeshot. High above the lush meadows below, she paused in the cool breeze, looking for Tails as he approached her silently from behind before smacking her lightly around the head.

"There, that's what you get."

"Hehe, I suppose," she agreed, biting her lip again, "thanks for the compliment though."

"What?"

"Even if I can't read minds, I'm pretty sure I knew what you were thinking anyway. You were blushing." Rosie beamed at Tails.

At this point, Tails was ready to implode under the mass of his own embarrassment. "So what?" he asked, defensively.

The cat giggled again. "So, I'm always right." Rosie glanced at Tails, who sheepishly averted eye-contact and was again blushing furiously. "It's okay though, I think you're pretty cute too." She added.

"I suppose you are always right then," joked Tails, trying to hide his satisfaction.

There was a semi-awkward silence; having confessed a mutual attraction, the pair suddenly became aware that they were alone in a totally secluded area. A few moments passed before Tails hastily thought of something to say.

"So Rosie, you said something before about a colony? Do you live with other Mews?"

"Oh... yes. I lived in a group of about, I dunno, thirty other Mews. As far as I know it's just us left. Most of us were hunted basically to extinction years ago for our delightfully soft fur." she explained cheerfully. "Anyway, I'm the youngest in the group and when the elder Mew died recently there was all this pressure on me to find a mate and keep the colony going... I'm sure you can figure the rest out."

"You ran away. Same here."

"No kidding!" Rosie paused, her smile fading. "Do you ever get... homesick?"

Tails considered it. "I suppose so, now that I think about it. Do you?"

Rosie's expression saddened. "Like you wouldn't believe. I would be back there now if I wasn't totally lost... I left in a rage and I wasn't thinking and I Teleported and it's gone to shit and now I'm not sure if I'll ever see any of them again."

Tails couldn't help but notice her eyes beginning to well up.

"Not just that, but it's strict law in the colony that we never reveal ourselves to anyone other than another Mew... you're the first person I've talked to in weeks! It's been so awful. I've never felt so lonely ever."

She sniffed recognising the situation Tails proffered his arms for a mid-air hug. Rosie gratefully accepted the gesture and returned a tearful smile.

"Thanks. I should be embarrassed... you barely even know me... but I'm craving company that much – this is so comforting."

"You're telling me! Your fur is divine!"Tails responded, as lightheartedly as he could.

She managed a laugh, wiping her eyes and smiling at him. "Well... as far as I'm concerned... you're welcome to it any time you want."

There you go, faithful readers. I normally put this notice at the top but I didn't want to spoil the story for you (lol). Anyway, I had officially given up on writing this; the last update was over a year ago and the story itself is woefully twisted from a lack of plot direction combined with my generally inadequate writing ability in earlier years. Plus I'm at university now and I just don't have time to fix it up, as much as I would like to. Short of co-writing it with someone else I just don't see how I could manage it!

Anyway, I was trawling my old documents the other day and found this fragment of the next chapter in progress. I finished it off, with a pretty unsatisfying (possibly temporary) wrap-up line, just to satisfy you guys. But I'll be honest, I don't think I'll have the energy to start a new chapter. Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed reading my chapters as much as I enjoyed writing them. For now, the redo is finished. If I ever have time to write again it will be a Redo of the Redo anyway!