Not alone anymore: chapter 1
Shadow's POV
I was sitting on my bed next to my husband, sonic. He was laying on it tiredly and slept most of the time. He was awake at the moment, but he looked like he was about to fall asleep again. I was sitting with my back against the wall and his head on my stomach. I was stroking his quills. He looked up to me and smiled. We have been married for a long time now. Sonic was so old now. Very unlike me, though. I hadn't changed at all, not even after all these years. I still looked as i did when we first met. Because of that fact even tails had out grown me. Almost everyone of our friends had grown bigger then me even though we had the same height when we had just met.
The first time it was very noticable was after me and sonic had gotten married. We had moved because our house had caught fire. We had decided to visit our friends after not seeing them for a long time. We visited tails first. That's when i noticed just how small i was when i was standing close to him. It made me realise something. It made my realise that everyone was growing older while i stayed the same. I had felt really bad when realising that. And i had been feeling bad for alot of days afterwards. Sonic tried to cheer me up, but nothing worked when you knew that your lover was going to grow old and eventually pass away. And unlike other happily married couples, i didn't have a chance to follow sonic if he were to pass away. But sonic had eventually cheered me up a bit by saying that we should cherish the time we still had left with eachother and make the best of it. I had hesitantly agreed to it.
Sonic had been having health problems these last months because of his old age. I was becoming worried. Sonic was getting weaker and weaker with each passing day. I did my best to help him. Because i was still the same sonic was allowed to stay at home with me. I wouldn't want it any other way. Sonic said it himself. He would rather pass away next to me in our home then passing away in some retirement home where i probably couldn't be there with him when his time came. I had a feeling it wouldn't be any longer now. We both felt it. Me and sonic were soulmates. We had been bound as mates by chaos controll. It didn't exactly happen to us. It happened in the beginning of our existence. (i will probably write a story about this.) Sonic and i could feel eachother's emotions. That way we always knew if the other was sad or happy. We could also feel it if the other was in danger or not. Sonic knew that it was time because he was getting to weak and i knew it was time because i felt his chaos energy dimming.
"you know i love you right?" Sonic asked and looked up to me smilling. "of course i do." I answered softly. "that's good." Sonic said and looked back in front of him. "shadow, i...i think it's..." He started, but he never finished his sentence. "i know. i'm feeling it to." I said and stroked his quills. "sonic, before you do. i want you to know some things." I started. "what are those things?" Sonic asked. "i want you to know that i really cherish our time together. and i'm so gratefull that you accepted me for the way i am and loved me for all these years." I said and laid down a bit to hold sonic's head against my chest. "shadow, honey, it was nothing. you did the same for me." He said and smiled tiredly at me. "but you made sure that i wouldn't be sad about my past anymore. You helped me when i was having a hard time after having nightmares about the ARK. so, thank you. Thank you for everything." I said and smiled sadly at him. Sonic didn't say anything and smiled tiredly at me.
Some time passed. We had been silent. That's how we got through our days. Just silently being there next to eachother. I was trying to keep sonic alive with my chaos energy. It worked a bit because sonic had already surpassed the age of how old only a few poeple got to become. But i was failing when sonic's health was becoming worse. And his chaos energy wasn't helping him anymore either. it was failling as much as mine was unfortunatly. Some times i felt sonic's chaos energy going so low that i thought he was going to die. But then it would quickly recover much to my relief. Only this time it wasn't going to.
All of a sudden i felt sonic's chaos energy dropping. "s-sonic?" I asked and looked down towards him. I didn't recieve an answer. "s-sonic, this isn't funny! wake up!" I said and paniced. Sonic wasn't answering at all. "oh no, not now." I whispered as i noticed that sonic had stopped breathing aswell. I got up from the bed accidently dropping him roughly onto his pillow and ran downstairs. I grabbed a phone and called the ambulance.
I ran back upstairs and softly dragged sonic from the bed and on the ground. I started to do CPR on him in hopes of bringing him back and have him longer with me.