Chapter 1

My Offspring

She Said if Your Homeless Sure as Hell You'd Be Drunk

Normal POV

Beep, beep, beep, beep…

"Cursed clock."

Ebony eyelids fluttered open to reveal crimson orbs, heavy with sleep and fatigue. Rubbing up and down his face he read the flashing neon numbers, 'six-thirty.' Turning the alarm off with a swift blow of his hand, he threw his legs over the bed before taking a quick glance at his lover beside him. Knees tucked under her chin, hands tightly grasping the sheets towards her chest and pink undulating quills almost splashing over her face and secreting over the pillow. Leaning over, he gently placed a soft kiss on her forehead and watched her stir slightly.

"Hmm… Why does the morning have to come so soon?" She asked with a yawn, slowly stretching her arms over her head before placing them back down to rest on the crimson sheets. The ebony hedgehog smiled before placing another kiss on her forehead.

"Because," he whispered, "we have children."

The woman moaned slightly before also, getting out of bed. Scarlet eyes watched as she grabbed a white silk robe from off her vanity chair and draped it over her body, clinging to her curvilinear frame and slinking to the floor in waves. Grabbing a hair tie from her desk she quickly tied her waist length quill like hair into an untidy bun before approaching his side of the bed. She placed her hand on his thigh as he sat straight up on the bed and gave him an endearing kiss, running her free hand through his dishevelled quills.

"Your turn to wake up the girls." She sighed sweetly.

The male let out a low growl before stumbling out of bed and placing the bedside lamp on, immediately illuminating the room in a warm glow. He to adorned his masculine physique in a robe, although his black, it suited him nicely before he left the room following his wife into the dim hallway of their abode. Turning to the first ashen door on his left he opened the door widely and switched on the overhead light causing the figure in the bed to flinch incoherently.

"Ugh! Dad shut off the light! And close my door, your letting all the hot air out!" The figure screamed from underneath her comforter. The black hedgehog sighed and proceeded to the figures bed, swiftly ripping off the covers to reveal a red hedgehog with black stripped quills and an emerald gaze that could kill.

"Come on Avarice, time for school. If your feet aren't on the floor in three, I'll drag you out… One, two…"

Reluctantly Avarice hauled herself out of bed, her shoulder length red and black quills meshed together and her black pyjamas all wrinkled from the night passed. Pleased with his progress the older hedgehog left, but as soon as he was out of sight, Avarice jumped back into bed and sheltered her head with the covers. Safe from the morning.

'Why are girls so much harder to wake up?' Pondering this thought he proceeded further down the hall to the second door, this one decorated in all sorts of photographs and lavishly painted in cerise, creaking it open the hall lights spilled onto another figure deep within the confines of her blankets. Only her midnight head streaked with magenta protruding through the sheets. Nearing her bed, he lightly shook her, awakening her from her slumber.

"Faith, time to get up, let's go." A light snort escaped the young hedgehog's lips before her cherry eyes met her fathers in a daze like expression.

"Urgh. Daddy, why can't you let me sleep in? We live a chaos control away from the school."

"Yes, but knowing you and Avarice there will be at least an hours worth of brawling over who gets to use the shower first."

With this statement Faith's eyes widened and quickly ran out of her room to meet her sister head on.

"You had the shower first yesterday Avarice!"

"I know, first come first serve… CHAOS CONTROL!"

"HEY! CHAOS CONTROL!"

The elder laughed and followed his daughters, screaming down the hallway.

Amy's POV

Sliding open a goth postered door, I entered my son's room. Tiptoeing across the wood flooring I turned on his beside lamp. A skull, with a flickering bulb to represent a dieing flame. A pink hand came to meet his shut eyes squeezing his tear ducts and letting out an elongated sigh.

"Morning Jamie." I smiled calling him by his nickname which he loathed. Laughing as he grimaced.

"Mom please, not first thing in the morning huh?"

"I'm sorry," I replied, placing a quick kiss on his cheek before he hastily wiped it off, "Jamieson."

I watched him smile as he pulled off his covers revealing his colours. My only child who had the same colouring as me, I somewhat felt sorry for him as he was male, besides his black strips of course which gave him a masculine sort of appeal, not to mention he was becoming more like his father everyday. He was also the only one who had normal like hair, (A/N Imagine Sonia's hair.)flicking it out of his red eyes I rose from my place on his bed and proceeded out the door.

Following the hallway towards a faint night light was my youngest, besides the fact I was expecting, I gingerly rubbed my stomach and entered the open door. Leaning on the door post I stared at my baby boy, although he was four he would always be my baby. Bending into his cot I removed his tangled sheets that entwined with his body, almost becoming one.

Noah Scott was the spitting image of his father Shadow, in every likeness, except of course his temperament and his soft jade eyes. I stroked his quills and cuddled him towards my bosom protectively. His eyes opening to me in a charming stare, before quickly shutting them and sticking his thumb in his mouth abruptly, an increasingly bad habit. Removing his thumb from his mouth I tucked a stray quill away from his eyes which looked at me in sadness as I removed his habit. Kissing him lightly I placed him on the floor, never letting go of his gentle hand.

"Come on Noah, time to help mommy get ready for the day." Giving his hand a caring squeeze I lead him out of his bedroom to see Shadow leant against the wall, watching Avarice pound mercilessly on the bathroom door.

"Not fair Faith! You cheated; you know you're not allowed to use chaos conversion!"

"Says who?" Scoffed a muffled voice from beyond the bathroom door.

"Says me! Just because you older doesn't mean you have to always get your own way Faith!"

"Does it sound like I care Avarice?"

The sound of the shower completed Faith's statement as I strode up to my third born and laid a hand upon her shoulder.

"You can use our shower Avarice, but be quick, your father and I need a shower as well."

My heart swelled seeing my daughter's beaming expression as she gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and disappeared down the hallway and into our room. I heard a soft guffaw resonating from Shadow, approaching him I placed an arm over his shoulder and kissed him lightly.

"You see, men would be lost without women."

"You know what… I guess you're right." He returned the kiss and got down to Noah's eye level, "how you doin sport?"

Noah took in a deep breath and stumbled adorably over his words.

"I go fweep and then sun time! Now go get stuff to eats daddy?" He slurred, holding his hands up in the air in triumph one outstretched towards his father's hand, which he gracefully took and pulled him up to his chest in an embrace. Two pairs of handsome eyes looked at me pleading the same question.

"Yes, let's go gets eats!"

One by one my children sat down at our large oak table for breakfast. All neatly washed, as the smell of three different aftershaves and perfumes clung to the air. Breathing in I sighed as Shadow, yet again was telling our daughters off for dressing immodestly.

"Like you would know anything about fashion anyway daddy, you hardly wear clothes all together." Avarice huffed.

"Besides, you don't want the world renowned ultimate lifeform family to be dressed in drab and unfashionable clothing? What representation would that give Westopolis?" Faith chimed.

"Personally, I think you look like a bunch of whores." Smirked Jamieson as he shovelled a countless amount of waffles in his mouth.

"Enough." I stated turning towards my bickering children, "if Faith and Avarice want to give the impression that there slack, mindless hoes then let them."

Shadow raised his eyebrow at me prior to watching both of his girls clamber from their seats and rush back into their bedrooms to change.

"Ha ha way to go mom!" Cheered Jamieson.

His expression changed as I turned to face him, a stern loo in my eyes.

"And you, might be able to dress a little less… Black?" I remarked pointing to his garb. He held up his hand and swallowed the remaining of his waffles.

"I am what I am mother dear."

Are family breakfast was interrupted by a sudden knock on our door. Shadow rising to receive our visitor was stopped by our eldest sons hand upon his head as he stood over him.

"Its Ok dad. It's just Quinn coming to give me a ride."

Grabbing his backpack, graffitied in god knows what; he came to my seat placing a small kiss on my cheek before leaving us and greeting the cool fall air.

"One down," Shadow sighed, "two to go."

Shadow's POV

The grandfather clock in our living room chimed eight, and with the girls still not having remerged from there bedrooms, they were bound to be late on their first day. Glancing once again at the clock I took one last sip of my coffee and neatly folded the Westopolis Times. Getting up from my large armchair I proceeded to my daughter's rooms, but ran into them, dressed to my satisfaction more… appropriately. Avarice sported a pair of tight black skinny jeans, black and white converse and a white t-shirt, neatly covered with a black blazer. Faith on the other hand, still in my opinion could have been more covered. She wore a black, grey and pink tartan miniskirt, black peep toe shoes and a black turtle neck. Both girls hair we're sweeped up into neat ponytails their three bangs coming down to cover their eyes.

"Right girls, you have thirty seconds to make it to homeroom."

"Hold on!"

I looked to see Amy emerge from the kitchen with two brown lunch sacks, one in each hand.

"Ok, that's a tuna fish salad sandwich with water and carrots for Faith, and a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich with milk and an apple for Avarice. Now remember Faith, Avarice has soccer after school and you have to pick Noah up from day care got it?"

After giving each girl there separate lunches and a nod of acknowledgement from both of them, they disappeared in the light of chaos control.

"Finally, I have you all to myself." I purred into Amy's right ear making her squeal.

"Why Shadow, you dog you!" She playfully swatted at me, as I brought my lips to meet hers. Marriage, in my mind, was bliss.