Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Babbysitter Affair ❯ Procrastination ( Chapter 16 )

The Babysitter Affair: Chapter 16

 

 

 

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Walking down the street for an hour and a half, Knuckles nor Amy spoke any words to the other.

Knuckles risked a glance over at her.

It didn't take a genius to see how upset she was.

Her boyfriend wasn't sure of how he felt about her.

He shifted his gaze to the sky. Again he was reminded of Rouge since she was putting him through a similar situation.

'Rouge...' he thought, then looked back towards Amy to find her not there.

Alarmed, he looked behind him and saw that she had stopped walking after a while.

Her hair shielded parts of her face as she hung her head. Her hands returned to fists and her body shook.

'How could he' she thought, her mind playing back to the steamy scene between her and Sonic in the bathroom. To think she almost gave herself to someone who didn't actually love her.

“Amy...” Knuckles' concerned voice brought her out of her angry trance.

The moment her eyes met with his, she ran to his chest and gripped at his arm.

The pang of tears threatened to leak out of her eyes and she quickly moved herself out of his warmth and embrace.

Not because of how secure she felt in his company but how much faster she would have actually shed tears.

Not that Sonic wasn't good enough for her tears, that wasn't it at all. On a frivolous note, she didn't want to mess up her mascara. She still had an interview that was a few hours away to be wary of.

 

Knuckles quietly watched his distraught friend, then placed a mitt on her shoulder.

“...Hey, Amy...you have every right to...”

“No... no I don't” she disagreed, not meeting his eyes.

“What?”

She fidgeted in uncertainty. “I mean, maybe this is all my fault, Knuckles.” she confessed, lifting her hurtful viridian opals to him.

He winced from the beauty they held paired with the look of anguish.

 

Seeing that, made him feel the same.

 

But he made the effort to understand what she meant.

 

“...What do you mean, Amy?”

Her eyes nearly squinted as she continued to battle with her forceful tears.

“Maybe...” she began almost breathlessly while she struggled to keep her voice, “...maybe I'm expecting too much from Sonic.... You know?”

Knuckles shook his head. “No, I don't know. I think you're letting him slip by scott-free Amy.”

“Just hear me out for a second, Knuckles...” she continued calmly. “I was the one who forced him into making a move years ago. I was the one who still hung around him, hoping that one day he would just open upto me and tell me how he felt. I mean, I would have been fine with a yes just as much as a no! I just wanted him to give me an answer! An answer so I'd know where we stood!”

“Yes, I understand that.”

“But... just now I was thinking, maybe he does need more time... More time...to get his feelings straight.” 'Although it was his fault for leading me on.' she quietly added in her mind. 'But I didn't have to keep after him either. So part of this is my fault too...'

 

Knuckles rolled his eyes and turned away from her. “I don't believe you.”

“What?”

“Listen to yourself, Amy! You're giving this fool more chances that he needs! You wanted an answer and he gave you one. Maybe it was the wrong one.”

She closed her eyes in dejected acceptance. “That's fine...”

“No, Amy, it isn't fine! Nothing is fine if you're going to lie to yourself about this!”

“I'm not lying...” she replied, opening her eyes. “I've known for years how I felt about Sonic but he just discovered his feelings for me a few days ago. ...I can't go expecting him to fulfill every need and want I have just because he chose to finally be with me... All of this is very new to him...”

 

Knuckles reluctantly listened, and unfortunately, could see her point of view on this.

“Isn't this new to you too?”

“Hmm?”

“Yeah, you've been obsessing over that idiot for years but just recently, you two became a couple.”

“So?”

“So you've never been in a relationship before... have you...?”

Amy adverted her eyes, indirectly giving Knuckles his answer. “As I thought. You may know better than he does what you want out of the relationship, but this IS still new to you too, Amy.”

“... I see your point. But does that mean we just slow down or....?”

“That's upto you.”

“...Yeah....” she agreed, her heavy eyes lost somewhere between her thick lashes and contracting eye-lids.

“I guess you're right.”

He snorted and crossed his arms. “I know I'm right. I consider this practice for my boys for when they get older.”

Amy tossed him a surprised look. “So, what, am I just a stepping stone, then?”

Knuckles smirked. “You said that, not me”

A bright spark glistened in her eyes as she gasped and started playfully pounding him on the chest.

“You bastard!!!”

“Hahaha, now that's my Amy.”

She wrinkled her nose, and pushed him away. “I'm nothing more to you but a stepping stone, remember?”

“You must really like that opinion of yourself, Amy.”

Laughing now, Amy wiped away the stray tears that slipped out and started running down the street.

Enthralled and glad she was back to her old self, Knuckles eagerly followed suit and made chase after her.

 

--

 

Back at his house, Sonic had pushed the incidents of the morning behind him and just decided to wait until Knuckles or Amy got back later.

Akai and Amethyst were pleasantly watching tv still, arguing with the other which cartoon character they thought was better.

It slightly got on Sonic's nerves, but other than that, having the two boys around was a different kind of experience. He sort of felt a smidgen of authority when they asked him permission for things.

But the downside was that now they both called him Mister Idiot.

At this point in time, Sonic really was feeling like quite the fool, indeed.

 

Sitting on the couch with them, he yawned.

'I wonder where Shadow is' he thought and pushed himself up from the soft cushions of the couch. A small fit of laughter arose from the two echidnas from what they saw on the screen while Sonic headed into the kitchen.

Snatching his phone off its charger, he moved the chair Amethyst has propped against the dishwasher and placed it in the kitchen doorway. This way, he could get a clear glimpse of the twins.

 

He sat down with his legs on either side and looked over his phone.

Quickly, he punched in Shadow's number and held the phone to his ear.

 

--

 

The vibrant melody of “Throw It All Away” sounded on a grassy ledge and eventually fell off into more of the soft flora a short distance below.

The dark hedgehog it belonged to was nowhere near it.

And even if he could hear it ringing, the loud and lyrical moans of Rouge received his complete attention.

Deliciously, she called his name while she hugged the bark of a palm tree near the small body of water in the lagoon for dear life.

Shadow had his hands planted firmly on either sides of the water's bank and was rapidly delving into her.

 

--

 

“I thought so...” Sonic sighed. As he expected, there was no answer.

He glanced up at the boys for a moment, then dialed the number again.

 

--

 

Shadow and Rouge found themselves rolling around in the grass now, experimenting with multiple positions.

Shadow's cell went off again, but he sharply ignored it as he hugged Rouge close from behind and held one of her legs up.

A slur of gibberish flowed from her full lips and her hands harshly grasped a patch of grass and ripped it out of the ground. “Yes Shadow! More! More!”

Shadow grunted in reply and gave her exactly what she wanted.

She felt his pace increase and before she could cry out, his body's position moved and she had begun pressing backwards into him.

Towering above her while she lay on all fours now, Shadow gave her bottom a well promoted slap as he plunged into her from behind.

“Do you want me to go faster?” he asked darkly, slapping her rump again and she moaned deeply. “Yes! Please, Shadow go faster! Make me come!”

He grunted a reply in words she didn't catch and clutched her hips. But instead of obliging to her pleads, he went slow. Painfully slow.

Rouge growled from feeling each inch of him gradually fill her walls, and then just as slowly recede.

While she loved every second of his length in her, he was teasing her doing this and she knew he was fully aware of it!

“Sh-Shadow....” she breathed, her body shivering with need.

“Yes...?” he asked breathlessly, leaning down and nibbling at her ear. “What do you want, Rouge...”

“Take me, Shadow...”

“How...?” he growled lightly in her ear.

Rouge was being driven crazy.

He was overwhelming her with so much ample pleasure she could hardly keep up with it all.

After many attempts at voicing her wants, she finally found her voice and answered him raspily. “Hard...”

“...Hard...? Like this...?” Shadow mused and rammed into her with one sudden thrust.

She cried out and gripped the grass harder. “Yes, Shadow!”

Smirking, Shadow did it again, relishing in the bounce her bottom gave against his body.

“Tell me how hard you want this...” he whispered in her ear, sending sparks of electrical shivers up her spine.

“Make me scream, Shadow. I want you to make me scream your name!”

He chuckled mischievously. That was an easy task for him, he realized within the past few hours.

 

With a quick movement of his hips, he made her moan. There was something in her voice that urged him on. Hungrily, he gripped her waist again and drove strongly into her again and again until teasing her no longer had a place in his love-making.

It wasn't long before his powerful thrusts had her screaming his name to the heavens and beyond.

 

--

 

Almost close to the restaurant, Amy suddenly stopped in her tracks and looked up.

Catching upto her, Knuckles pushed her lightly as if to tag her. “Got you!” he stated, then nudged her in the shoulder when she didn't respond.

“What's wrong?”

She slowly shook her head a few times before turning to him. “Did you just hear something?”

He remained silent and listened, looking around suspiciously.

“Nope.” he shrugged.

 

--

 

Sonic sighed in near defeat. It was obvious he was not getting through to Shadow on his cell.

'Just what could he be doing?!' Sonic wondered feverishly.

Then the thought crossed his mind of who Shadow was doing as opposed to what.

But Sonic roughly shook the image from his head. 'It couldn't be!' he cried inwardly.

Aimlessly, his eyes trailed from his cell to the two boys on the couch.

And there his eyes narrowed.

Swiftly, he got up from the chair and walked into the Living Room.

“Hey, boys...”

The two glanced up at their elder briefly. “Yeah Mister Idiot?” Amethyst asked cutely.

“Yeah what is it, Idiot?”

Sonic's left eye started to twitch and his mouth curled in stark annoyance.

“It's...Sonic...”

Akai blinked. “Mister Sonic Idiot?” Then the child waved the conversation away. “Shh! I'm twyin' ta watch da cartoons!”

Sonic sighed. He was defeated for the 4th time that day. But still, he pressed on.

“Akai...was it?”

The one in question looked Sonic's way. “What”

“Do you know your mother's number, by any chance?”

Akai blinked at the inquiry. “Huh? Oh... Hey, Amafist...” he nudged his milder brother.

“Whaaaaat I'm twyin' to waaaatch!”

“What's mommy's numbuh?”

“Uhhhhhhhhhm” the small echidna tilted his head back in thought as he tried to remember. “1...1 8 hundwed.... x x x lady?”

Sonic almost jumped out of his quills.

“Wh-what did you say?? That's not her number!” he blinked. “I-is it..?” he added, but more towards himself.

Amethyst nodded. “Yah huh! I heard daddy call that numbuh before and call the person he talked to mommy!”

Akai nodded. “Oh yeah, I remembuh that. He kept sayin 'Oh yeah mommy' a lot. So it had to be her.”

Amethyst nodded. “Yeah.”

The two agreed, then went back to watching the cartoons.

Sonic found himself shaking his head in disbelief while stifling a sad laugh.

These two couldn't remember their house number or their mother's cell phone number...but they remembered a sex hot-line their dad called?

“Knuckles, you....” he murmured, not even knowing what to call the guy.

Letting a chuckle pass, Sonic looked up at the twins and tried again.

--

 

Gentle winds passed over their bodies as Shadow and Rouge both caught their breaths.

Panting, Rouge's chest heaved rapidly against Shadow's as she lay nuzzled in his chest fur.

Her legs were gingerly entwined with his.

After literally more hours of their intense love-making, the two of them finally found it fit to rest.

Gently, Shadow leaned forward and nudged her nose with his.

“Rouge...” he uttered breathlessly and brushed his lips across hers.

Smiling, the bat returned his affection happily with a soft kiss of her own.

Then that kiss turned into a battle for dominance as their tongues quarreled with the other for control.

 

Just then, Rouge cell phone rang.

She hesitated as the thought of answering it crossed her mind.

Thinking it was her nosy husband, Shadow growled lightly as he nibbled on her bottom lip.

“Ignore it...”

“Mmm...” she answered back and ran a hand over the side of his face and brought him deeper into her kiss.

But when it rang again, her body automatically pulled away from him and she reached up to grab it. She was more concerned with her boys than her husband at the moment. Yet, if he was planning on dropping by in the area, she had to know.

Shadow frowned and made a sound of disapproval when she separated herself from their embrace.

Clumsily, she snatched up the device and checked the number.

“Huh?” she inquired with a puzzled expression. Before she could even recite the numbers, Shadow took the phone from her and read them himself.

Rouge watched him with bewildered eyes as a knowing smirk formed across his face. “Who...”

“It's Sonic.” he answered pragmatically.

Rouge winced at the name and rose to her knees.

Wide aquamarine gems sparkled to their lover in silent question.

Shadow nodded in understanding and accepted the call.

Rouge bit her lip, not knowing what to expect. She knew she and Shadow were taking a huge risk letting Sonic know that they were together. But she felt as if though they could trust the former hero.

Shadow took note of her anticipation and reached out to hold her hand.

 

“What is it.” he spoke blatantly into the receiver.

Rouge giggled a bit.

A squawk of surprise was heard on the other end of the line. Shadow thought it would be much more entertaining if he put the call on speakerphone, so he did.

In the background, Rouge's ears instantly picked up on the sound of her sons.

“Mister Idiot what's wrong??”

She smiled at the sound of little Akai's voice, overlooking the name he called Sonic.

Shadow certainly didn't.

But if Akai was there, then she knew Amethyst had to be as well.

Then her features dropped and she gripped Shadow's hand in fear.

He immediately understood. If the boys were there, Knuckles had to be too.

 

“Sonic...”

“Wait a minute!” Sonic's voice cried, now shrill. “I called Rouge and YOU answer the phone?!”

Shadow paused. “Yes. What do you want?”

“Didn't you get my text message, man?!!”

Shadow nodded although Sonic couldn't see him. “I did.”

“I told you not to be around if Knuckles found out!”

“So I take it he isn't there.”

“I told you-- huh? No, he stepped out with Amy.”

“Amy?” Rouge repeated lowly. Something about hearing the girls name ruffled something in her. She didn't like it one bit.

“What about A--” she started to say, but Shadow shook his head to stop her.

With a sigh, she pouted and let Shadow do the talking.

“Where did he go with Amy?”

“With her to her job interview...” Sonic stated with a distant tone in his voice.

Shadow picked up on this immediately

“...You slept with her didn't you....”

“Wh-what?! NO!! No way!! I would never--!” Sonic trailed off.

Rouge shook her head. “Wrong thing to say...” she muttered for Shadow's ears to hear.

“So what has been going on with you and Amy, then?” Shadow asked placidly.

“Huh? Oh, you don't know, yet do you? Amy and I are...w-well...We're kind of a couple now...”

Sonic confessed nervously.

Slightly wide-eyed, Shadow glanced to Rouge who returned his gaze with a small shrug. “Even I knew that.”

Shadow raised a high brow, then narrowed his eyes and grinned.

“I think it's going to rain, Sonic...” he joked. Sonic and Amy getting together was like one of the last things Shadow ever thought would happen. Although, it certainly was about time.

But Sonic took the metaphor to mean that he was telling a lie, such as 'the sky is falling'.

“No, Shadow, I'm serious! In fact...she keeps...throwing herself at me...I'm not so sure what to do.”

“...It's going to hail...”

“And actually...we almost... but..I couldn't go through with it...”

Shadow winced and smirked evilly. “Damn, I should have bet money on that.”

Rouge laughed.

There was a pause on the other end as if Sonic thought he heard her voice. But if he had, his next statements suggested otherwise.

“But enough about me. Where are you, Shadow?”

“....Not there, obviously.”

Sonic sighed and was almost drowned out completely by the rising sound of laughter from the twins at their tv show.

Hearing them, Rouge chuckled a bit, then rested her head against Shadow's shoulder.

“Seriously, Shadow... I don't know what you and Rouge are upto if she's there now, but, don't let Knuckles find out.”

 

Shadow snorted.

 

“I know that not really much of anything I say will change your mind but....stay out of trouble, allright? The safest sex is no sex.”

“Hmph. You would know that firsthand.”

“...Aw shut up, man! A lot of things went on here you just wouldn't understand unless I told you. Speaking of which, when are you coming back?”

 

Shadow dared a yearning glance towards Rouge. He didn't want to leave her.

“When I'm ready.”

 

“...I thought you might say that. But listen, when you see Rouge again, tell her Knuckles really wants to patch things up with her.”

A low growl offensively rumbled in Shadow's throat at that echidna's name.

“Sorry, Shadow, but it's the truth. He loves her.”

A small jolt rippled through Rouge's body at that and she hiccuped.

Again, silence was on the other end of the line.

“...I know you can hear me Rouge.” Sonic calmly spoke towards her.

She gasped.

This was bad. If Sonic went and told Knuckles, Shadow and Rouge would have a lot more than just a problem on their hands.

Rouge fidgeted nervously while gathering her thoughts.

Suddenly, she felt very uncomfortable and stood up.

Shadow watched her with slightly disappointed eyes as she began to snatch up the strewn articles of her clothing.

 

“Way to go, hedgehog...” Shadow grumbled.

Sonic sighed. “We need to talk, man. Big time.”

Shadow obliged. “Fine.”

“Allright. See you later, Shadow.”

“Hmph.”

 

Rouge's phone made a light sound, indicating the call was closed.

 

Tossing the phone to the soft grass, Shadow quickly stood up.

Rouge was too occupied with gathering her clothes and speaking nonsense to herself, she almost didn't acknowledge Shadow's presence.

“Rouge...” he voiced lightly.

When she gave him no verbal reply, he walked up behind her and grabbed her by the arm.

Once she felt his touch on her, she froze.

“Rouge...” he called again, but still was met with silence.

Shadow's features hardened a bit. He knew she was afraid of being caught by her husband and he couldn't blame her for that.

But what he could blame her for was the way she went about it.

She knew very well that the two of them were getting into the night before.

She wanted him. And he wanted her.

She was at fault for living a lie and deciding to veer away from it for one night, while he was at fault for giving into her emotions.

But what was done, was done.

Compassionately, Shadow placed his other hand on her shoulder and spun her around to face him.

She immediately fell into the comfort of his chest.

They couldn't keep doing this.

Slowly, she pulled away from him just enough to gaze up into his inviting eyes.

And just as it had been last night, love looked right back at her.

 

Her eyes began to waver from the weight of her next thought.

She had to tell him goodbye. They had to stop. Not just for their own sakes, but for her sons' sakes as well.

Shakily, she grasped at the fur on his chest and parted her quivering lips to speak.

“We can't keep doing this, Shadow” she had prepared to say, but the words “I love you, Shadow” tumbled out in their place.

The moment those delicate and powerful words left her lips, Shadow dipped his head to catch them and delivered them sweetly back to her in a deep and meaningful kiss.

Any pieces of clothing she held dropped weightlessly into the swaying grass with a cotton whisper.

 

-Mel