Flufftober2026 Day 1 Theme “This is so romantic.” - “You're so weird.”
Story By KrissieDeathy
Prompts and Event hosted on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/flufftober
Ship: Tails x Honey
Ages:
Tails 21
Honey 25
Story
Honey has regretted accepting Tails’ invite to Holoska. It has been a mutual business trip. She had come up here to design a winter line inspired by the area and culture. Finding a good fabric producer to secure materials for the sketched out designs. Tails was working on some techy thing at the local university there. He had extended the offer for the car to join him since she had been talking about wanting to come to Holoska to get inspiration for a fashion line.
What Honey did not expect was the living arrangements.
A 2 bedroom apartment connected to the college Tails was working at. A room for each of them. A shared bathroom, kitchen, and living room. It should have been like a co-ed college dorm.
It, however, felt more like an old married couple to Honey. They spoke about their plans for the day over a breakfast one of them made. Said stay safe and welcome home as one left or returned. They spoke about their day over dinner.
Honey was sure it was all her over active imagination. Just because she had a silly crush on the fox, her brain blew every little interaction out of proportion.
Tails brushing against her arm as he grabbed his coffee mug.
Brain, “OH! He likes us!”
Honey’s logical side several hours later, “No. He just wants his coffee.”
Tails brushing out her hair for her as they both stood in the bathroom brushing their teeth.
Brain, “He’s so sweet! He wouldn’t take care of anyone else like this.”
Honey’s logical side, “He has an automatic tooth brush. He finished brushing before eme and just went into brother mode. He probably brushes Sonic’s quills all the time.” She had even seen him brush out Amy’s and Sonia’s quills wheen bored and zoning out. Man was his zone out face hot. Like a cold stone man in a movie.
“Honey. No. Stop it.” She chastised herself.
She really needed to stop reading too much into things. Tails was just benign nice. He wasn’t interested in anyone or thing romantically. He was devoting his life to planes and techy stuff Honey would never understand how it works.
Tails cuddled with her on the couch while watching shows because that’s just what he does with his older siblings. She’s seen him cuddle with other friends too. Tails gossips with Sonia and Amy often. So of course, he would keep up with Honey’s fashion world gossip.
Honey lectured herself as she glared into her coffee cup.
“Did the coffee offend you?” Tails mused as he came into the kitchen.
Honey looked up at the two tailed fox in the doorway. His pajamas were a sky blue silk that Sonia had bought him. Sonia always bought Tails nice clothes that made him look more sexy than his usual fluffy cute guy look. She looked back at her cup to stop herself from checking him out any further. She took a sip of her coffee. “It’s cold. And a tad too sweet.”
Tails nodded as he made himself a cup of coffee. “Want me to make you a new cup?”
“Yes please.” Honey replied when she noticed his hand brush against hers to touch the handle. She felt her heart flutter at the touch.
The kitchen soon smelled of the mint coffee pod Tails had popped into the coffee maker.
“What are the plans for today?” tails asked as he washed her cup. He moved his cup out of the coffee maker and placed the ‘filter’ cup as he called it in the maker. He ran just water through it. Honey appreciated that he did that. It made the likelihood of the flavor of the last pod in the machine getting into the new cup a lot less likely. It was a small thing. Something so minute it really should have meant nothing. Yet to Honey, it made her swoon.
And she needed to not swoon.
“I have a meeting with a fabric company. I’m going to look at samples. See what their able to print on the fabric pattern wise. Estimated pricing. Etc.” Honey stated as she stared at the wood grain of the table.
“So you’ll be home around lunch.” Tails noted as he put the new fresh coffee in front of her.
Honey nodded as she grabbed the warm mug. She smelled the coffee and noticed he kept it on the counter until it was a drinkable temperature. It was nice. Probably a habit he had from Sonic drinking hot drinks too soon. He was the fastest thing alive and Tails was his brother and best friend. Many of these sweet habits of the fox that made Honey feel butterflies were just Tails’ habits of being a great sibling and friend.
“Thanks for the coffee.” Honey mumbled into the mug.
“Anytime.” Tails’ voice was bright and cheery as he made breakfast. “Are you super hungry? Or do you want something light?”
“Just some toast and jam will do.” Honey answered as she stared into her cup.
Tails slid a plate of toast with the perfect amount of raspberry jam on top.
“Thanks.” The cat took a bite before looking up at the two tailed fox sat across from her. His plate had toast and scrambled eggs. “What are your plans for today?”
“Just some calculation stuff.” ails responded. “So I’ll be home.”
Honey nodded. She felt butterflies in her stomach when he said home. It felt cozy. Comforting. Romantic.
Honey paused when she stood up after finishing her meal. There was moisture where there shouldn’t be. She looked down and let out a cry.
Her period had started.
And she bleed on the seat.
“What’s the matter?” Tails stood up to check her for injuries.
Honey covered her face. Of all days and placed to start her period. Did Tails even know about periods?
“Oh.” Tails nodded as he noticed the blood. “I’ll clean the chair. Why don’t you get changed?” He patted her shoulder. “Do you want me to go get you pads or tampons?”
Honey paused. “You know about periods?”
Tails tilted his head. “I’m 21.”
“You’re a guy!”
Tails rolled his eyes. “If you ever date a man who doesn’t know about periods, break up with him. He’s a child in a trench coat.”
Honey laughed at that.
As she was cleaning blood out of her clothes, she heard Tails leave the apartment. He turned a few minutes later.
“I return with pads.” Tails announced outside the bathroom door beforing slicing a pad under the door. “I’m not sure what you normally use, so I got you the ones Sonia normally has me get.”
“Thanks,” Honey picked up the pad. She noticed it was one of the thin ones with wings. She would need a few of these throughout the day if they weren’t the thin ones that could hold a decent amount of blood.
Honey got ready swiftly and noticed Tails had stuffed a few pads into her purse before stirring something in a plastic bin in the kitchen.
She arched a brow at him.
“You won’t like the answer.” Tails warned.
“Chemsitry now?” Honey questioned.
“Yep. It’s a part of science.” Tails responded with a smile.
“Fix anything you break please.” Honey pleaded as she checked the time. She was about to run late. She rushed out the door with her bag and work notebook.
“Got it!” Tails called after her as he heard the door click close. Tails sighed as he changed to a pair of rubber gloves. Experience had taught the fox how to get blood out of clothes and most fabric. Experience also told him that girls did NOT like it when their ‘little bro’ would clean period blood out of anything they owned. He would have everything blood free and dry long before the cat made it home by lunchtime anyway.
Honey the Cat was confused when she walked into the apartment. It smelled cleaned and calming. And like there was a candle or two lit in each room. All with matching scents so nothing clashed.
For a moment, Honey questioned if she walked into the wrong apartment. But her key worked in the door? Did the apartments having matching keys?
“Welcome home!” Tails popped his head out of the kitchen.
“You lit candles?” Honey questioned as her gaze went over the room.
“It helps make the mood more relaxing.” Tails shrugged. “At least that’s what Amy told me. I gues romantic atmospheres held calm and relax her and Sonia.”
“You’re so weird.” Honey plopped onto the couch and pulled the throw blanket around her shoulders. It smelled nice and was so warm. “Is this fresh from the dryer?”
9/8/2026 Krissie: It took 5 pages to get to the quotes theme in here.
“Luckily I timed it perfectly.” Tails finished plating a tray of tiny bowls. He came into the living room and placed the tray on the table before the cat. “Wa~la! A charcuterie plate of snacks!”
Honey laughed at the fox’s flourish as he presented the tray. She took note of the dark chocolate, cheese cubes, pickles, and other snacks in their own little bowls on the longer food tray. “You separated and organized theme into sweet, salty, sour, and savory sections.”
“I wanted you to be able to pick what you wanted without having to pick around what you don’t want.” Tails plopped down next to her. “I have seen Aleena cry over pretzels touching her cheese its. It’s… awkward.”
“I can’t believe you witnessed the queen of a country do such a thing.” Honey mused as she picked up a pretzel M&M and pop it into her mouth. “Do they like spicy tuna?
The fashion designer was pretty sure Sonia had stated she didn’t like spicy tuna. Usually before she asked who wanted it, if it wound up on her plate. She wasn’t sure about Amy though.
“They don’t. But you do. And this is for you.” Tails stated as he held up the remote. “So what trash TV do you want to watch?”
Honey felt her face grow hot. She fixed her golden eyes on the tray. They were all her favorites. But surely she shared some favs with Tails’ sister figures. Her brain felt like it was over heating. It began swirling with romance and butterflies. She slumped to the side. Tails’ arm was sturdier than she imagines. Tails adjusted her to be more comfortable like he expected to become a pillow. Honey gave the name of a reality tv show.
After two episodes of random snacking as Honey laid propped up against Tails’ chest. Honey began to squirm. Her cramps were out to to get her.
Tails noticed and put down his can of soda. He carefully maneuvered his hand over the blanket and carefully began massaging Honey’s abdomen. It helped relieve her cramps. Honey purred as she melted into his side. Tails was glad he wasn’t swatted at. He had vague memories of swatting at his brother who attempted to massage his stomach when he had a stomachache.
“You’re good at this.” Honey stated as she began to drift into a sleepy tone. Tails guessed she was finally relaxed enough to take a nap.
“I’m just good with my hands.” Tails shrugged. As soon as it came out of his mouth, he regretted it. It had connotations he didn’t mean to imply. “That came out wrong.”
Honey merely responded with a cough as she drifted to sleep. “You do a lot of things that can ben taken wrong.”
“Really?” Tails mused at her sleepy mumbles. “Can you tell me some examples?” He figured he’d fix some bad habits, be mortified, or have a good laugh when the fashion designer wasn’t within ear shot. Maybe all 3.
Honey rolled on his lap to stare up at the fox. “You’re too nice.” She poked him in the side with one finger.
Tails arched a brow. That was a new one to him.
The cat continued. “Not in a creepy nice guy way. But in a is he flirting or is he just a good person kind of way.”
Tails nodded as he thought about it. He mostly was being nice like he had witnessed his siblings and friends being to him and others. Though he had flirted with Honey before. He had discovered her crush him when he fixed her pc at one point and found the folder that amounted to a crush shrine to him on it. He found her blushing reactions to his flirting amusing. Though it did annoy him a bit that she wasn’t noticing it. Had she been talking herself into NOT noticing his flirting? Tails placed a hand over his mouth to hide the grin forming.
“Sometimes it feels like we’re a married couple.” Honey muttered as she poked him lazily.
Tails choked back a chortle. He took a moment to gather his breath. “Do you dislike it?” He probed.
“I like it too much.” She closed her eyes. She would be out like a light soon. “But it’s unfair because we don’t kiss. Your biggest romantic interest is science. No matter how I dress, talk, or hint that I’m interested, you wouldn’t notice it because it’s not some new sparkly science tool.” Honey whined without opening her eyes.
Tails nodded as he bit his lip to keep from laughing. The conversations he could have with the fashion designer as she spoke in her sleep were proving to be a treat.
Tails had noticed people’s crushes on him before. He thought several had a screw loose. After all, out of all of his friends, why him? When he found out about Honey’s crush on him a few years back, he had begun teasing and messing with her just to watch her reactions. And possibly to encourage her to crush on someone else. Though Sonic and Cream had noticed his behavior and told him to knock it off before Honey found out what he was doing. Tails, however, found himself having a crush on her too. He liked her reaction to everything he did and said to her. Once he was sure she fully asleep, he freed himself from being her pillow. “Perhaps I’ll be more straight foward next time.” He mused as he tucked the blanket around her more.
Authors’ Notes:
Hi! I’m amazed this is a little over 6 pages typed up. I do have the document set to 1.15 spacing. I find it easier to read that way instead of just single spacing. It’s also 7 pages front and back in a sky blue notebook that my hubby got me for easter a few years back. I’m formatting this like my other Ebooks, so you’ll be able to get this as a PDF or Epub file from my KoFi for free so you can read it offline. I’ll also be posting it to my blog and Ao3.
Now onto a question that I find more pressing, is there a ship name for Tails X Honey? I didn’t see one on Tumblr and under the Tails X Honey tag and the Honey x Tails tag there are only 2 posts! One of which is from me. Ya’ll we need a ship name. Taney? Honails? Tainey? I’m liking Honails the most right now. I might just go with that.
