Knuckles watched the small rodent sleep, he sighed.

'What in the hell happened back there?' He mental asked leaning back in the chair he was currently sitting in. 'Who was the creep that sonic had been chasing? And where did the master emerald vanish to?!'

The echidna was snapped out of his deep thinking, when he heard a small whimper. Knuckles looked over to see Sonic's eyes twitch, he watched as the boy sat up and he asked. "Where am I?"

"Your at my house!" Sonic jumped and flinched at the harshness in the red one's voice.

"K-Knuckles?"

"Why in the hell did you push me out of the way?! And why didn't you move out of the way when that creep threw that orb at you?! Your a stupid fucking rodent!" Sonic shrunk from the yelling, frighted by the tone. "Where is the master emerald?! Where in the hell did you hide it?!" Sonic looked at Knuckles with a confused look on his face.

"What are you talking about Knuckles?" Sonic looked at Knuckles, steam came out from his hidden ears and you could have swore his eyes turned a deep blood red.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT' YOU LITTLE RUNT!" Sonic eyes widened, he scooted away from Knuckles trying his best to get away from the echidna. But as Sonic scooted away the other came closer to the bed. "YOU BETTER TELL ME WHERE THE MASTER EMERALD IS BEFORE I PUT YOU IN A COMA FOR THE REST OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE!" The hedgehog's eyes began to tear up from the cruel words that spewed out of the red ones mouth.

"... Knuckles... Please stop.." Sonic whimpered quietly but the other didn't stop, he just kept going.

"YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A WORTHLESS WHORE!" And then it happened, the flood gates let loose. Slated tears cascaded from green eyes as the azure held back his tears.

"B-But... I'm... I'm not a..." Knuckles blinked at the reaction, this was new to him. The echidna watched as Sonic put his hands on his face and sobbed into them. Knuckles reached his hand toward the sobbing hero.

"Hey, are you oka-!?" The younger roughly smacked away the older's hand, his eyes glowing a dark green.

"I HATE YOU!" Sonic screamed as he jumped up and did a death sprint out of the bedroom, Knuckles quickly followed. Thankfully he caught the hedgehog before he could leave the house.

"Sonic calm down!" The smaller one just ignored and struggled under the guardian's grip.

"Let me go now!" Sonic scream as he attempted to pull his arm away from knuckles. the older just tightened his grip as he did so.

"Sonic will you ju-." Knuckles had stopped when he saw Sonic shaking really bad. "Sonic what's wrong?" The red protector asked.

"Let go Knuckles! Please your hurting me! Please let go!" The hero screamed as he fell to his knees.

"I'm not even holding your arm that tight!" The echidna yelled to the trembling hedgehog, tears began to come out of Sonic's eyes.

"AH! LET GO!" The teenager yelped in pain, Knuckles just rolled his eyes and let go of the boy arm.

"Don't be such a drama queen over the fact that-!" The echidna shut up as soon as he saw blood on his gloved hand, Knuckles looked down at Sonic's arm. Crimson blood came out of a crystal like bruise and it was a light green. The red one picked up Sonic bridal style and started to walk back to the room that they were previously in. The younger only covered his face because he didn't want to look at the echidna. The guardian placed the young hero on the bed gently. "Sonic, I'm sorry."

"PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!" Sonic screamed throwing his hands up, refusing to look at knuckles.

"Forgive me Sonic." The larger rodent said as he stroked ocean colored quills.

"KNUCKLES LEAVE!" Sonic yelled, the protector stopped petting Sonic's bristles, he just walked back to the chair he was previously sitting on and watched the smaller.

'I'm such a dick.' Knuckles thought to himself.