Chapter Six
Sup peeps? DoubleEclipse thank you for following this. Sorry about the random POV switching. While it's annoying it's also neccessary. Anyways, like I said before, this is the cute filler chapter before the last one. Don't worry though, there will be a sequel for this. But I'll leave it to you guys to guess who's going terrible twos next time ;). Anyways, Shadow is left in Scourge and Rush's care for the day. Let's just hope things go well.
Shadow's POV
Mommy woke me up early the next morning. I don't wanna get up. I wanna sleep…she picked me up and told me I was gonna spend the day with Rush and Scourge. I yawned and snuggled against her. Bad things happened when Mommy left, but Rush would keep me safe. Big brother would take care of me.
Rush's POV
I groaned as I punched the alarm clock off the nightstand. Scourge was snoring next to me and I put a pillow over his face to muffle the sound. Kira was bringing Shadow over while she and Team Chaotix looked for the seventh Chaos Emerald. It was currently eight thirty in the morning. Waaay to early to be up. Ashura was already gone by the time I got up. I yawned as I shuffled into the kitchen to make some breakfast. After deciding it was too early for pancakes or even pizza, I made some toast and grabbed and orange soda before plopping down on the couch to watch some Saturday morning cartoons. Scourge finally came out of the room halfway during a TMNT marathon. He managed to get as far as the left side of the couch before falling face down on the floor, still half asleep.
"Babe…food…." He mumbled. I sighed and rolled my eyes.
"You aren't disabled." I said smartly, propping my feet up on his back.
"Please? I'm hungry…." he grabbed my left foot and began to massage it. I melted, he knew that was my weakness, and whined when he stopped. "Food please."
"You suck." I said as I got up to go fix some more toast. On my way to the kitchen the doorbell rang. I yanked it back and silently awww'd when I saw Kira holding Shadow while he was asleep.
"Hey Rush." She whispered so she didn't wake him. "He already had his morning bottle. Sorry I had to wake you so early."
"Ki-chan it's fine. Besides, Shadow isn't very affectionate. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me." I said softly. She smiled a little and handed him to me. He made this cute little purring noise and snuggled into my side. My heart melted into goo and I resisted the urge to squeal like a fangirl. She brought the rest of his stuff in and set up the portable playpen and highchair before heading off. I laid Shadow down in the playpen while I popped two more pieces of toast in the toaster. I unpacked the two jars of baby food Kira had packed and put the extra bottle in the fridge. When the toast popped up I smeared honey and butter on both slices and set the plate on the coffee table for Scourge.
"Thanks baby!" he shouted. Shadow whined in his sleep but didn't wake up.
"SHHH!" I hissed. "Keep it down or he'll wake up!" Scourge growled a little.
"Why'd she dump the brat on us anyways? Couldn't she have just left him with Rouge?"
"Rouge has to work today and do you just want me to rearrange your internal organs again now or later?" He gulped down his toast and shook his head. "Good then keep it quiet and don't bad mouth Shadow." Last time he had his internal organs "rearranged", he and Ashura were fighting and knocked over the table. While I was eating pizza. You just don't mess with my pizza. I decided to clean up some and get the living room as "Shadow proofed" as I could get it. I then flopped back down on the couch with a yawn. I was still so tired. Scourge had gone back to bed leaving me and Shadow in the living room. He was still asleep and I figured a little nap wouldn't kill me. It felt like I was only out for a few minutes before Shadow started wailing. I jumped up, ready to thrash anyone who wanted to hurt him and was knocked back by this God-awful smell. I leaned over the playpen and was hit with the worst smelling stink ever and the source of his crying. Scourge must've been still asleep since he hadn't gotten up to see what was wrong. I held my breath and carried Shadow over to the kitchen sink. I had his changing mat already spread out and laid him down on it. "SCOURGE!" I yelled. I heard a thud from the his room and he scrambled into the hall.
"What happened!?" he yelled sleepily.
"Get your lazy ass over here and change Shadow." I seethed.
"But I don't wanna-" I cut him off with a glare and faster than I could yell 'now' he grabbed Shadow and started changing him. When he was done he put Shadow in the playpen and laid down on the pull out bed on the couch, which I had conveniently pulled out. I waited until he was comfortable before flipping him shut in it.
"Next time don't fall asleep on me."
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The rest of the day went by smoothly. Scourge, although unwillingly, fed Shadow his lunch and the three of us lounged on the floor with some old photo albums. I was showing Shadow the pictures of my parents before they had died. Scourge silently sat by and watched.
"This is my mom." I said to Shadow, pointing at the decades old photo. He babbled cutely and patted the picture. "Yeah, she was so nice. I can still hear her singing a lullaby to me." I said a bit sadly. She and my dad died when I was two. No older than Shadow was now. Ashura's family and mine were close so his parents ended up taking me in afterwards. Shadow nuzzled into my side and purred a little. I rolled onto my back and sat him on my chest. "Kira reminds me of her."
"Y'know babe...you're really good with kids..." I smiled a bit.
"I used to babysit Cream for Vanilla when she was a baby. It's like second nature." I picked up some more pictures. These one was of my dad. He was the roughest, toughest guy on Mobius but when you got to know him he was the biggest teddy bear ever. He taught me to fight as soon as I could walk. It was how we bonded. I picked up a few more. These were of me and Kira when we were younger. I showed them to Shadow and he made happy baby noises in response. He seemed to like the pictures of her. Scourge picked up another one and I grinned widely. That was my first beat down. Knuckles had been picking on Kira again and I beat him to a bloody pulp. I decided not to show that one to Shadow. Despite me being only nine at the time, I took Knuckles and Sonic, who are both three years older than myself, out in a few punches. It was my first real fight and I won it beautifully. Or at least that's what Kira always said. Shadow really was lucky that she took such good care of him.
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Later that evening, Shadow was quietly playing with his toys while Scourge and I watched T.V.. I glanced over at him and he reached his arms out to be picked up. I sat him in my lap and made funny faces at him. Scourge just shook his head and mumbled under his breath, the cuteness and allure of taking care of Shadow had worn off. I sighed, he was just not enjoying this. He could be a good dad if he wanted to. That thought brought a smile to my face as I played with Shadow. I turned to my sulking boyfriend.
"Scourge, I wanna have kids." He looked at me with an 'Are you crazy?' look.
"Rush, we have a screaming poop machine to watch! We can't have sex now!" One track minded son of a...I uppercutted him and put Shadow down.
"So just because we can't have sex now means that we can't ever have kids?!" I yelled, getting to my feet and crossing my arms.
"W-well...yeah..." He said, cowering a little. I turned my head.
"Y'know If Ashura was dating me he'd want kids..." I said harshly. He growled and stood up, something he usually never did when were fighting and made me look him in the eye.
"Stop bringing up that Faker!" He yelled. "He's not any better than me and you know it!"
"Well at least that 'Faker' shows me that he cares about me!" He shut up then. The angry look on his face turned to one of sadness and abandonment.
"Rush...don't...don't say things like that..."
"Why not? It's the truth anyway..." I mumbled, avoiding his gaze.
"No it's not the truth." I looked up to see him trying his hardest not to cry. "Rush, I do love you. I just..." he sighed. "I get jealous of you and...Ashura, because I'm afraid you'll leave me for him." My anger melted away, now being replaced by guilt.
"Scourge..." I kissed him, deeply, pulling on his quills and smiling when he kissed me back. "I love you babe. Ashura is more like a brother to me than anything. So you don't have to worry about losing me to him. I love you no matter how much of an ass you can be." He pecked my lips again and I went to pick Shadow up. Except Shadow was gone. "Scourge we lost the baby!" We searched the apartment from top to bottom but to no avail. One of the windows had been broken though. That didn't even register to me. Shadow was gone and Kira was gonna kill me...
(Third Person POV; Green Hill Zone.)
Kira sighed as she and the members of Team Chaotix gave up their search on the seventh emerald. Suddenly, Kira's phone rang.
"Rush? What's wrong?"
"Umm...Shadow's...gone..."
Sorry, more cliffhangers. Yeah, Rush is technically an orphan and Ashura does have a secret crush on him that Rush is oblivious to. Anyways, Rush seems to give a lot of beat downs. Mostly to Knuckles, Sonic, Scourge, and Silver. Its how he really is. Anyways, keep sending in requests and stuff. Especially for the Sequel which I'll sneak a peak out when this is over. ;) ~Kira.