I re-did it, after realizing how HORRIBLE it was...didnt change much, but i think it's worth reading anyways...
i rewrote the lemon too, i think you'll like it^^
so please read it~!
„Aa...aargh..."
he groaned. He was close to death. He knew it. But still…
"You still don't seem to have enough, huh? I'll make that change fast…"
Pain. So loud, so bright. Like electricity, jolting through his body. Pain.
"AAAAAAARRRGH….! ..aaaa…"
…will he come and rescue him?
S-Sonic…hurry…
Xxx
The pink furred hedgehog girl sat on her windowsill, watching the thunderstorm rage outside. Raindrops hit the glass like bullets and for a few seconds, the jet black sky lit up brightly, lighting burst through the wind ripped clouds.
"I just hope everyone is alright…especially Knuckles…Does he even have a place to hide in on his Island…?"
She slipped down from the windowsill and closed the curtains.
"Must be like hell up there…which makes me wonder…"
The hedgehog girl paused in her movements and sank in thoughts.
"I haven't seen him in ages…neither has Rouge. Where is that guy?"
xxx
"Damn you Tails and your stupid weather forecast machine! Like hell 'Nice and Sunny', you son of a-!"
A loud cursing echoed through the forest as a blue blur dashed along, escaping the storm. Suddenly, he crashed into something. Or rather someone. Covered in a black robe, the persons face completely hid in the shadow of the wide hood. Sonic fell on the ground.
Rubbing his backside, he glanced up to the person. Somehow the stranger seemed familiar…
"Oooowww", he groaned.
"Who the heck are you?", the hedgehog asked the person. No answer. Sonic noticed blood on his body. He screamed.
xxx
Sonic calmed down after realizing it was not his own. The rained mixed with the red liquid and made it vanish fast, but Sonics glance fell upon a damp spot on the strangers robe, about the height of their stomach, where the rain didn't reach that much. In the flash of a lighting he caught sight of something crimson red. He knew there was no time to waste now. He grabbed the persons arm.
"Come with me." The person didn't protest. This silence was somehow worsening the darkness around them. Sonic started running.
Banging furiously on the door, sonic stood at Amy's house. Please open up, Amy. Hurry!
Amy was still looking out of the window when she heard someone knocking on the door.
Who could that be, in that storm?
"I'm coming!" she shouted down the stairs and changed fast into her clothes. She ran down and opened the door. The rain hit her face. The lightening showed her the two persons standing, totally wet from the rain, in front of her. She was about to scream when she heard sonic say: "Its just me Amy, now let us in, fast!"
She stepped aside.
"But Sonic…what happened? Who's tha- Oh my god, is that blood?"
"No need to worry, it's not mine…But we've gotta take care of HIM fast!"
Sonic pushed the person gently down on Amy's couch. Amy came with the first aid kit.
She pulled up the sleeve of the strangers robe. His arm was all damp from the blood it was hard to tell which colour his fur had. When she touched his arm he didn't make any noise; even though she knew he was in pain. She could feel his body stiffen everytime she touched the wound. His arm was muscular, but his fur was surprisingly soft. For some reason, Amy blushed. She looked down and started treating his wounds.
"Don't ya think it would be better to take that robe off?", Sonic asked. The person didn't answer, just turned their head slightly.
"M-May I?", Amy asked shyly; then slowly put her hands on the hood and….took it off.
Sonic and Amy were silent, they just stared at the persons face, their mouth wide open, unable to say a word.
Then finally, sonic forced himself to say something. "K-Knuckles…?"
xxx
Knuckles looked away, his face emotionless. Except of his eyes. An embittered, hurt look laid in them. He had a scar on his right eye, a fresh cut on his cheek. He didn't move.
When he felt like he couldn't take this silence any more, he turned his head and looked straight into Amy's and Sonic's faces. Sonic looked that shocked, Knuckles thought he'd be about to faint. Knuckles didn't care. Amy had tears in her eyes. "Knux…what-?…how-?…why?"
"What do you care…?", Knuckles said quietly. Amy started crying. "But K-Knux…of course we care!"
"Man, Knux whatever happened to you, its not Amy's fault, so stop make her cry!", Sonic said angrily.
"Sure, you're right.", Knuckles returned calmly. "It's not her fault."
Sonic was surprised, the echidna he knew would never stay so calm. He had some bad feeling.
"Knuckles, you-"
Knuckles interrupted him:" It was not her fault, right. It was yours."
He didn't speak any louder, nor spoke with anger. The sound in his voice, which made sonic so scared was just hate. Pure, cold hate.
"M-My…?"
"Yeah, yours. And I think that you exactly know what I mean." Knuckles had stood up and started walking slowly in Sonic's direction. He stayed calm, he didn't move fast but Sonic was afraid of him. The look in Knuckles eyes told Sonic, that the echidna wouldn't falter to kill him; right here, right now.
Sonic started to fall back, step after step.
Knuckles continued speaking, regardless of Amy's fearful voice, like Sonic and him were the only persons in the universe. He wanted Sonic to feel at least a bit of the fear, of the pain he had to go through.
"I know you heard from Eggman, that I was in danger. Even HE cared more about me than you did. Why didn't you come…? Was I just 'none of your business'?"
"That's not it, Knuckles! I swear! You don't understand-"
"I don't understand…? You're the one who doesn't understand. You don't understand how it feels to be that near to death, and to wait for someone to rescue you, but the only person who knows where you are, just doesn't care…"
"I thought you will get along on your own…"
The look in knuckles eyes became empty. "Yeah, I get along on my own. No need to worry."
"Now, I knew it! Everything is okay now. See Amy? And I bet his wounds look worse than they are, right Knux?", sonic said relieved, trying to calm Amy down.
Knuckles nodded, still with that empty look in his eyes.
Amy seemed to recover.
"Well if it is that way, you have to apologize to Sonic! You made him so afraid. And it was not nice to tell such bad lies about Sonic; he would never ignore a call for help…" Amy started babbling, glad that everything was okay.
"And you should thank him for bringing you here, otherwise you would still be out there in that thunderstorm…"
Knuckles stopped listening. He turned forward the door and started leaving, with that empty glance, he looked like dead.
"Knuckles where are you going-"
He shut the door behind him and leaped out into the storm.
xxx
He ran through the rain, he was like in a daze. He felt nothing except of the pain; the pain in his body, the pain in his soul.
He was just slightly surprised when he was thrown backwards.
He looked into a hedgehogs face.
"Not again…" he murmured, thinking it was a hallucination;
a bad nightmare, which let him run into sonic again and again, to cause him pain.
He jumped off and, with a from pain and fury distorted face, he pounced the hedgehog, he hated so deeply.
He punched every single inch of the hedgehog he could reach, kicked his stomach, hit his face, even bit his shoulder.
He heard a voice, then saw a green flash light and he was thrown against a tree. He hit the ground hard but he didn't care, just kept attacking the hedgehog. No matter how much he was hit back he just didn't stop.
With a loud outcry he bounced back from a tree and with all his power he hit the hedgehog to the ground. He nailed him down and started punching him again.
"I HATE YOU SONIC!" he cried and his tears hit Shadows face.
xxx
Knuckles saw through his veil of tears straight into the hedgehogs eyes and that ugly green which caused him so much pain to look into, turned into a beautiful ruby.
And finally he realized.
He cried in pain and collapsed over Shadow's warm, smooth body. He stayed laying on him, his head on shadows soft, furry chest; listening to his heartbeat. He cried out all his pain; buried his hands deep into Shadow's fur.
Shadow didn't know what to do, but he didn't want to throw knuckles off. He felt knuckles pain that intensive, it tore his heart into pieces; he just wanted to make sonic pay for every single of the echidnas tears. He felt the echidnas fingers clawed in his fur, knuckles hot tears running down his chest and following an impulse, he embraced knuckles, he held him tight, wanted to reduce his pain.