Well, I must warn of some OOC-ness in this chapter. Hopefully I didn't do too badly...

Anyway, read and review please! Hope you enjoy!

Or Afraid Of What I Might Say?

Coming in through the window was probably not the most intelligent thing to do.

He had been watching the hedgehog for a while, observing him. He knew not of Sonic's character really, but he knew it couldn't be normal for a mortal being to sit still for so long and look so heavy in thought. Those emerald eyes were darkened, yet at times seemed to be so alive, and Shadow found his blood mate absolutely irresistible.

So, eventually he couldn't stop himself from opening the window and hopping into the room.

The reaction was immediate. The blue hedgehog bristled and leaped from his chair, hands fisted in front of him and his feet braced in preparation for a battle. "Y-you!"

The vampire prince eyed his prey with some interest before sweeping his eyes around the room. He pretended to find interest in the quant apartment, though he had already looked it over the night he had been here watching over the other hedgehog. Shadow had noted then that it looked clean, but in the aspect that no one was really here much. Which added to his suspicions that the blue hedgehog had been uncharacteristically, even more so for a regal mortal, still and lost in thought.

Shadow deemed the time he spent roaming his eyes around the place had been long enough, and brought his ruby eyes back to the blue hedgehog in front of him, and he reached his hand back behind him without looking to shut the window. "Hello, Sonic."

Sonic scowled in reply. "Don't you know how to knock? And who gave you permission to come in here anyway?"

The vampire prince gave Sonic a look. "You, of course."

The other hedgehog blinked in some surprise, before scowling some more. Shadow actually found it kind of cute the his blood mate was trying to be so intimidating. He smiled softly and began to chuckle, taking a step towards the other.

"H-Hey!" Sonic's green eyes darted towards the ebony hedgehog's foot, before coming back and burning with defiance. "Stay where you are!"

That was some surprise. Shadow was not used to reading about a blood mate who told it's vampire to stay away; in fact it was rather the opposite. Shadow searched the other's hedgehog's gaze with curiosity, before deciding to take another step, testing the blue hedgehog.

"Come any closer and I won't hold back!"

"I'm sure you have questions. I have simply come to answer them."

"Yeah right! Then pin me to the wall against my will again right?" Sonic snarled. "Just get the heck outta here before I'm forced to do something drastic!"

Surprise evolved into full out shock. A blood-mate normally could not resist the temptation of being bit again, and yet here was his, snarling at him for biting him before. It couldn't be possible that he was wrong, for no vampire could ever mistake such strong feelings that flowed through them with the taste of their blood-mate's blood, or the longing they felt after.

Shadow, curious, took another step towards Sonic, testing him further. This time the blue hedgehog shivered, and something in his emerald glare weakened before flaring to life once again. It was confirmed then, that clearly the feelings Shadow felt buzzing wildly like angry bees, making his whole body tingle restlessly, was affecting Sonic as well.

That meant Sonic was resisting it. Shadow found this unfathomably interesting.

Why though? Shadow thought back to their previous encounter, and the only thing that came to mind was the panic he had felt when he had first pinned his blood mate to the wall. He closed his eyes and chuckled softly, before opening them again and softening the features on his face as much as a vampire could. "I'm sorry if I scared you. It was not my intention."

Shadow noted that his look and words brought some heat under the peach fur of the blue hedgehog's muzzle. The rush of blood had the instinctual reaction of Shadow's fangs pulsing and his pupils constricting. Sonic, who might possibly have given in, noticed this too, and immediately he flattened his ears and bared his teeth threateningly. "You practically assaulted me! Now get out of my house or I'll make you!"

Two things stood out to the black hedgehog at this point. The first being that Sonic had yet to do anything drastic though he continued to threaten him if he came closer. The second being that Sonic now looked a lot less confident of himself.

The vampire prince resumed walking, this time with no intention of stopping. He watched the blue hedgehog's face contort from defiant anger, to some anger laced with fear, and he finally relented his stand and began backing away from everyone of Shadows advances. Until the blue hedgehog hit a wall and had no where else to go.

"Stay away from me you leech!"

The vampire prince simply smirked, revealing a pointy fang. "You amuse me hedgehog. I find you're silly tendencies rather… adorable."

The shock at Shadow's words had Sonic fluffing out like some kind of mortified bird. His face grew red with embarrassment, that was quickly hidden by a murderous outrage as an attempt to save his dignity.

"I said back off!" Sonic snarled and suddenly found his courage. He launched into a spin dash that slammed into Shadow and sent him flying back into the far wall. A picture frame slipped off the wall at the impact, but was lucky to survive the fall, while the wall wasn't. It fractured under Shadow's back quills, bristled with alarm from the assault.

Shadow felt the impact in his gut, but it was quickly healing, minimal damage being done. His ruby eyes were blazing in anger, and long nine inch claws ripped through the gloves on his hand while he bared his own teeth. His pupils were constricted into slits, like those of a cats, and when he found the gaze of the blue hedgehog, anger rippled through them.

It left Sonic speechless. Flashes of last night cut through the back of his mind, remembering the panic and the helpless feelings he had felt, that were undeniably going to reoccur here and now. He whirled around to try and escape what he knew was the inevitable, racing towards the door, and reaching out with his gloved hand for the golden door handle.

If he made it, he could race out of the alley. He could then loose the vampire in the streets. Or at least try to. Anything was better than being cooped up in a small place with him.

He pissed off a royal vampire though, and once that crime was committed, there was no escaping the punishment. Shadow hissed like a feral cat before leaping off the wall. His hand wrapped around the blue hedgehog's wrist tightly and pulled it back, using the other's hedgehog's own momentum to force him into the wall beside the door. Shadow pulled Sonic's arm behind his back, using his other hand to push Sonic's head into the same wall. He ignored the quills digging into his palm, knowing that the pain would soon disappear and that his skin was already healing.

"Oof!" Sonic grunted as his chin collided with the wall, so hard that his jaw knocked together and made him see stars. He tried to reach back to try and free himself with his free hand, but the vampire covered his back quickly and shoved him even harder into the wall as punishment. Sonic had no choice but to simply hold on to the wall and wait for the vampire to let him go.

"Get off!"

"Calm down…"

Sonic didn't expect the vampire's voice to whisper across his ear. His whole body shivered, and he felt his face betray him by heating up once again. "Get off or else…!"

Obviously his threats were met on deaf ears. Sonic collapsed his ears to his head at the sound of the vampire's chuckle behind him. He hated how the rush of warm air tingled the blue triangle of his ear and continuously made his body shudder.

"Sonic," The vampire prince suddenly removed his hold on the other hedgehog's head and allowed the gloved hand to slip towards the other's waist. "I can hear you're heart racing." Regretfully Sonic suddenly became very aware of the other's hard chest pressed up so close against his back, and his strong hand gripping his waist and holding him close.

Sonic couldn't even think of anything to say now. His face had betrayed him, and now it seemed his heart was too. He hated being trapped like this, and he hated that he had allowed the vampire to do this twice, and he especially hated how his stomach was on fire just from the vampire's whisper next to his ear.

The vampire shifted behind him, and he could feel the other's fangs trailing against his shoulder. Sonic clenched his eyes shut both in fear and defeat, frustrated with his weakness when he couldn't stop the whimper from escaping his throat.

The vampire noticed that the hedgehog wasn't calm. His own emotions were igniting his limbs with a boiling lava from having the hedgehog so close and with his amazingly soft and well sculpted back against him. They were strong urges and feelings, one's that a vampire was not only used to thanks to blood lust, but found completely normal and easy to act on; the same strong emotions that normally put a mortal under a spell, for lack of a better description.

Though, perhaps for a mortal, Shadow could see how maybe such strong feelings could be frightening. His gaze softened in this new understanding of his blood mate underneath him.

The vampire released the other hedgehog's arm and reluctantly put some space between them. Immediately the tension around the blue hedgehog eased, and emerald eyes turned back towards him in surprise. Shadow continued to smile softly as he reached for his blood mate's wrist, gingerly this time, and twirled the blue hedgehog around so he could face him.

"I'm not going to hurt you," the vampire promised softly, bringing a gloved hand up to a warm cheek. His gaze got lost in shocked emerald orbs, and he moved his hand to the hedgehog's chin to tilt the other's head up to him.

"Just relax…" The vampire whispered as he leaned in close. He noticed his blood mates eyes become half-lidded, listened as the blood flowed even faster through Sonic's body and warmed up his cheeks with a rosy red glow. Shadow couldn't help but smirk when he was met with no resistance and leaned in the rest of the way to press his lips to his blood mates.

The reaction was nothing short of explosive.