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22-Aug-05
Amy had sat long and hard thinking about it. She hadn’t even asked Sonic, as she was sure he would refuse. It wasn’t as if she liked going against his will or anything, it deeply ashamed her. But she was sure Sonic would never accept unless she took action and, although she was young, she was sure she was ready for it, she just hoped Sonic was too.
“ Hello, id like to cancel my monthly order for now ”she said to the receptionist of her local general health store. The hedgehog handed her a piece of paper which usually let her get her order. The receptionist took a quick glance at the sheet and looked up to Amy.
“ Are you absolutely sure about this? You are still with your boyfriend right?” She asked. Amy nodded and the receptionist continued. “ Did he agree to this?”. Amy considered this for a moment before replying
“ Yes he is fine with it”. The receptionist typed up something on her little computer and said looking up from the screen
“ Well all right then, tell me when you want to start taking them again”.
“ Thank you I will” said Amy, turning to go. When she was almost out of the door the receptionist called out
“ Oh and miss!”. Amy turned round “ Good luck!” The receptionist finished, giving Amy a smile. The hedgehog smiled too as she went out side. Now she was excited, knowing that what she wanted was now possible. She wondered how long it would take...
It was now becoming really obvious that Rouge was finding it hard to cope with the pregnancy. Since she had passed the eggshells she had began to have constant difficulties , ranging from false labor to sudden attacks of ill health and feeling incredibly weak. Above all that she was almost constantly in a bad mood , since half the time she was in pain and the ill . Knuckles tended to her as best he could , bringing her anything she wanted . But she was still miserable a lot and Knuckles hoped that she wouldn’t leave him because of it .
One morning , while Rouge was lying on the sofa , she got a phone call from sonic. However , since her mobile was on the other side of the room and she couldn’t be bothered to move , Knuckles answered it. He fumbled with the small phones buttons and almost dialed 999.
“ Hey!” Said Sonic, rather cheerfully , Knuckles noticed when he finally managed to get the phone working
“ Oh hey Sonic , what’s up?” He replied casually , although he was sure Sonic would have some kind of announcement to make.
“ Well, you’ll never guess” he said , teasing Knuckles. Knuckles rolled his eyes and said in a joke annoyed voice
“ What?”
“ Come on guess”
“ Errr , your going to enter the Olympics?”
“ Nope ”
“ How about the grand national?”
“ Isn’t that for horses?”
“ So?”
“ Well no , anyway guess again” . Knuckles sighed and said
“ Amy’s pregnant” expecting to get a surprised reaction on the end of the phone. However instead he got
“ Almost Knuckles , come on , think back , to when you were a mere 24 years of age , to Shadows wedding...” He said in a pretend hypnotizing voice. Knuckles thought about it . What happened at Shadows wedding? Rouge announced she was pregnant , yeah , but that couldn’t be it. Erm... They got drunk? What was the significance of that? Hang on wait , the boque , it landed with Amy , didn’t it?
“ Sonic , are you two getting married?” Said Knuckles , surprised , Rouges eyes widened and she got up, walking over to eavesdrop on the phone call .
“ Took you long enough to figure it out!” Replied sonic excitedly.
“ Oh wow! That's great! Hey , I thought you said you didn’t like Amy that much and you just went out with her just to shut her up?” Said Knuckles suspiciously. He could just imagine Sonic shrugging on the other end of the phone.
“ Well , I guess I was lying” replied Sonic , the cheekiness starting to come back into his voice. Knuckles laughed and said in his own teasing voice
“ Soooooo Sonic , when are you expecting your own kids?” . He heard a splutter on the end of the phone and suddenly Sonic’s voice exploded back
“ Kids? No way! At least , not now! I'm only 23 Knuckles! I don’t want to go through all of that!” Said Sonic. Knuckles heard Amy laughing as Sonic yelled. Her chuckles died down and said
“ Speaking of kids , how is Rouge doing? Last time I heard of you had to go to the hospital because of another false labor” he said , his voice suddenly turning serious. Knuckles sighed as he was reminded of his wife's condition and said gravely
“ Yeah , nothing has happened lately really , apart from a few pains and stuff” he glanced over to Rouge , who was listening . He smiled at her , to try and cheer her up . Rouge weakly returned the smile , as if it didn’t really mean anything. Knuckles sighed as Sonic said
“ Had she had to pass more eggshell yet? He asked , concerned and curios, but also slightly embarrassed. Knuckles nodded even though it was a phone call and said
“ Yeah , tons , its really getting to her”
“ I can imagine”
“ Yeah well , I have to go Sonic , Rouge is watching me as if she wants something”
“ OK sure Knuckles , see ya!” . Knuckles hung up. He wondered when the wedding would be and how Sonic would react when Amy approached the isle. Kind of creepy that the boque landed with Amy and she was getting married . He made a mental to memorize who it landed with this time and buy a wedding gift in advance.
AT SHADOWS PLACE
“ Oh come on Shadow!”
“ No!”
“ It’s not that bigger deal!”
“ I don’t want to!”
“ It’ll be easy!”
“ But I don’t want to!”
“ You have to learn sometime!”
“ No I don’t!”. Siberia sighed. This argument had been going on for a while now. For the first two weeks Siberia had been happily looking after Draco, Shadow only really helping with few things as Siberia easily took care of them by herself and, despite her worries, she was becoming a very good mother.
However , Siberia had went one day to get some more milk for Draco and left Shadow alone with him for the first time. The little hedgehog baby had soon started complaining and his shrieks had every quickly turned to loud, annoying cries. Shadow had tried to calm the baby down, basically forcing a bottle in it’s mouth and rocking him in his cot. He had even tried reluctantly singing to it
“ Rock a by. Draco. Um. Please shut up, I really don’t like singing so please stop crying” he sang, off tune and of rhythm. He soon gave up on that as well, as it had little effect and even on his own he was embarrassed by it.
There had only been one thing left, his nappy, which Shadow had unwrapped and was alarmed to discover it was full. Instead of cleaning him he had rung Siberia up panicking and screaming for her to come home. When she did however, she had tried to persuade Shadow to do it himself, as this was bound to happen again in the future and he needed to know how to cope.
“ I can’t believe this Shadow! You can defeat massive killer robots, move an entire space colony and survive a fall from outer space and yet you can’t change your sons nappy?” Siberia shouted, becoming angry with Shadow for the first time in weeks. Shadow grimaced and moved over to the nappy. He looked inside with a discussed expression on his face and said
“ But Siberia, look what he’s done!”. Siberia walked over to look. She examined it and said with her face perfectly normal
“ So? It’s not that bad, I have had to clean him when he was worse then that!”. Shadow shook and said with his voice raising
“ But I don’t-”
“ SHADOW! DO IT NOW!” screamed Siberia, shocking them both with the volume of the noise and making the baby cry even more. Shadow sighed and moved over to the changing mat, looking absolutely terrified when he removed the nappy. He picked it up and held it as far away from himself as possible, before dropping it in the bin. “ Now clean him” said Siberia watching, surprised how well he was actually doing. Shadow wrinkled his nose in displeasure and did as he was told, putting on a fresh nappy as best he could. “ There, done, I told you , you could do it” Said Siberia, walking over and hugging Shadow from behind. Shadow however, didn’t look satisfied.
“ He’s still crying”. Shadow was right. Draco hadn’t let up his relentless noise and it didn’t seem to be getting any quieter either. Shadows eyes crossed the room, until they rested on a potted plant that he didn’t happen to like.
“ Hey Draco, watch this” he said, pulling out his emerald. Siberia watched in curiosity and picked up Draco, making sure he could see what was going on.
“ Wait Shadow! You’ll frighten him!” Yelled Siberia when she realized what Shadow might be planning. He ignored her. He thrust him arm into the air and shouted
“ Chaos spear!”. Suddenly a hundred, tiny flashed of light left his hand and zoomed their was over to the plant, digging in then slowly vibrating, until all together they exploded, incinerating the plant.
The loud bang made Draco stop crying, his eyes fixed on the now burnt plant. For a while he looked too shocked to move. But then, all of a sudden, he let out a tiny chuckle and spontaneously started laughing.
Shadow punched the air in triumph and walked over to Siberia, grinning.
“ You see, I told you I could do it”. Siberia sighed and said
“ There has got to be an easier way to calm him down than blowing up the house”
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