Rouge's eyes were wide. She stared at the door, not necessarily in fear, but uncertainty. She had never seen this side of Shadow before, and honestly it scared her more than anything. And Shadow's uncanny ability to appear and disappear on his own free will at any given moment didn't help her at all.
She decided to stay at work and do her day as normally as she could manage. She sat at her computer and started to type. They were reports about her last mission that she needed to turn in by the next day. Why the hell didn't I do that last week? she thought. She continued with that until one which was her lunch time. She stepped out from her office and started to head down the lounge. Jackie was still in there typing, but she wasn't alone. Shadow was next to her, arm around her and his eyes intently focused on what she was typing.
Rouge felt weird when she saw his arm around her. She turned from them and went into the mini fridge to get her salad she had put in there that morning. She sat at the other side of the table and didn't look up at them. She poured on her ranch and took a bite.
"You spelled that wrong." Shadow pointed to the screen. Rouge continued to eat, not paying attention to Jackie and the stalker hedgehog. She stood and headed to the fridge again to retrieve a bottle of water. A hand grabbed the one she was going for. She looked up and Shadow stood there, opened the water and took a sip, then just walked away. Rouge growled to herself and grabbed the last one. She headed back and took another bite.
"Can you excuse me Shadow? I need to use the Little Girls' Room." Jackie stood and left the room. The only sounds heard were Rouge's chewing and Shadow unscrewing and re-screwing the cap to his water in a bored fashion. Rouge glanced up the same time Shadow did. She dropped her eyes. Shadow continued to stare. Rouge started to feel the afternoon tiredness hit her.
"How's your salad?" Shadow asked, curiously.
"It's good." Rouge muttered.
"Can I have a bite?"
Rouge dropped her fork. "Where's your lunch?"
Shadow shrugged. "Don't have one."
"Oh. I guess." Rouge was going to scoot it across the table to him but he appeared next to her. He grabbed the fork and bent his head down to take the bite. His head was only a few inches from Rouge.
"That is really good. Did you make it yourself?" He smiled, still bent over the table, fork in hand.
"Yeah I did." Rouge backed away from him slightly.
He smirked. "You know, you haven't even touched your water. I think you should take a sip. You look rather parched and that salad has alot of crackers in it."
Rouge gave him a weird look but grabbed the water and opened it for the first time and took a sip. It tasted extremely good for water and Rouge took another sip, then another. Shadow just watched her.
After a minute or two the whole thing was gone. Rouge couldn't believe she had drunken that much so fast.
Shadow chuckled, still next to her. "Was it that good?"
"Yeah." She said, embarrassed that he had watched her do that. She went to get another bite of salad but then suddenly felt like a nap. She could hide in her office and do it. She had a meeting in half an hour. A twenty minute nap wouldn't hurt.
She yawned. "I'm going to head back to my office and sleep."
"Ok, I'll clean this up for you." He grabbed her dishes and smiled at her in a gentlemanly way before turning on his heel and heading to the sink. She smiled back, feeling groggy and went back to her office. She closed the door behind her and went to her desk. She suddenly felt light headed and fell over. She looked up at the light then it all went black.
