"Morning Sonic!" Booms Amy, swinging the bedroom door open so it slams against the wallpaper, dinting it accidentally. Her emerald eyes scan the room, searching for her gallant blue hero.
"Sonic? Sooniic!?" She cheers, skipping around the bedroom, but not finding any trace of him. She steps over to the window and surveys the snowy environment and spots footprints in the snow. They lead from the patio doors to around the corner of the hotel, out of site.
She flicks the window open and leans out curiously, clinging on, trying not to slip out. Her eyes flicker from one footprint to the next and they suddenly end at a small wooden shed.
She tilts her head, slightly bewildered, but more anxious to see what is going on. She pulls the window back and closes it before exiting and skipping hurriedly down the stairs, throwing on a woollen jumper and sliding the patio doors open.
Rouge; who is sat at the bar, twiddling an olive perched on a stick in her Martini, watches Amy leave and pricks her ears up, her mind sparking with excitement.
'Why is she in such a hurry…hmm…may as well find out!' She smirks to herself, tipping the last few drops of alcohol between her glossy lips and walking away from the bar, towards the doors.
As Amy follows the footprints one by one, all sorts of weird and wonderful ideas float through her Sonic-obsessed mind.
'Maybe Sonic is sat all alone, thinking about me…or maybe he's planned a surprise for me…or he could even me just sleeping in there…oh Sonic, I'll be with you soon!' And with that she skips merrily over to the tiny shed.
Rouge pops her head out from behind a thick evergreen tree and spies on the unknowing pink hedgehog as she approaches the questionable cabin.
Amy, walks up to the door and stretches out a gloved hand to grab the door handle when bizarre sounds reach her ears…
"Uh…oh yeah…UH!" Groans a deep voice from within.
Within 3 seconds Amy can tell who the mysterious person is.
"Shadow! What are you doing in there!?" She knocks on the door furiously, stomping her feet as well.
The two hedgehogs inside, clumsily jump apart and Sonic throws a hand over his mouth and stares at Shadow, who is busy trying to think of something to say, desperately.
"Uh…I was…AMY GO AWAY!" He growls clenching his fists in fury.
"Ew!" She screws up her face in disgust and runs back to the lodge quickly, the shady hedgehog sighing with relief as the pitter-patter of her feet on the crunchy snow decreases.
The two mischievous hedgehogs exchange looks and slowly sit back on the couch, the atmosphere too awkward to suddenly start fornicating again…but the pleasure was too built up to sit and think about it. The contrast of the two problems was almost too difficult to bare between the two hedgehogs.
Meanwhile, outside, Rouge watches the aggravated pink hedgehog storm inside, angry at the fact that Sonic wasn't in there waiting to propose. She sniggers to herself and steps out from behind the trees and quietly walks over to the cabin, her footsteps as light as the snow itself, no sound being detected from her steps.
She leans against the door, pressing her ear against the moulded wood and picks up sounds of moist lips breaking and connecting, she grins evilly and faces the door, and she raises her hand, ready to knock.
Knock.
Sonic and Shadow jump apart as Rouge giggles quietly, hearing the clatter of old snow-boards tumble as Shadow jumped too far back.
"Oh Sonic…!" She cheers, placing her hands on her hips, "Did you find Shadow?"
The blue hero flicks his head to look at Shadow underneath a pile of snow-boards; he wipes his sweating brow and looks to the door, praying the door handle won't budge.
"Um…no…not yet." He stammers, staring intently at the wooden handle.
"Are you ok? I heard rather a lot of clattering, shall I come in?" She places her hand on the wooden door-knob and begins to turn it.
"NO- I mean no…I'm ok Rouge, really! No need to come in here…heh." He places his hands on his hips, trying to overcome the worry of being discovered, as he's pretty sure she heard them groaning.
"Oh…how odd? Because I'm absolutely sure that Amy was just talking to Shadow in here…strange…" She smiles to herself, knowing Sonic is desperate to run at the speed of sound, as far as he can away from here.
"Huh…how odd…nope no Shadow in here!"
Meanwhile, under the pile of snow-boards, Shadow shuffles his body and groans in pain and confusion.
"Who was that Sonic?" She asks, pretending to be an innocent bat.
"Oh just me! I have a sore leg…uh…" He looks at Shadow and mimes for him to be quiet, that Shadow mistakes for Sonic miming for him to 'pleasure' himself.
"WHAT!?" Yells Shadow, not remembering the visitor by the door.
Sonic clutches his head, shaken with fear of being discovered, Shadow throws a hand over his mouth, the words 'Oh shit!' becoming bold in his mind.
"Shadow!" She barges through the door and acts very surprised. "So he was here! And Amy found you groaning before…oh my goodness!"
"Rouge please! We're not gay!"
"G-gay? I wasn't even thinking that until you said it…I just thought you were both having fun playing scrabble…having a lot of fun. But now! This is too much…I have to go tell somebody!"
Sonic leaps forward in front of the startled white bat, who is acting amazingly well to convince the two lovers.
"No Rouge! Please don't say anything to anyone! Please…we'll do anything!" He begs, Shadow nodding, not wanting their relationship to go any further than Knuckles and Rouge.
She raises her eyebrow and lips curve slightly upwards, in a wicked manor.
"Anything?" She asks, rather curiously.
Sonic looks at Shadow and they both nod slowly, wanting their secret to remain a secret.
She giggles rather cruelly, ideas floating in her mind, and she sets her sights on one rather evil torture for them.
"Well then, you two are going to have keep your furry hands to yourselves, because if you don't want me to tell, then you have both got to act like there's nothing to tell…" She smiles, nods at them and walks out, swinging her hips and grinning like a wicked stepmother.
Sonic looks at Shadow and they both sigh, dropping down onto the rotten couch in the back of the shed. The blue hero leans over onto his companion's shoulder as his black arm slides over Sonic's shoulder and strokes his blue pelt lovingly.
"What now Shadow?" Sonic asks rather sorrowfully, rubbing his cheek against Shadow's platinum tuft of chest hair.
"I don't know Sonic…I don't know…"

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"What was he doing in there?" Amy storms into the living room and plops down on the arm chair and crosses her arms angrily, tapping her foot against the wooden floor-boards impatiently.
"And where is my Soniku!!"
Knuckles walks past and stops, hearing Amy's grumblings.
"Sonic? What? He's not in his bedroom?"
She shakes her head, glaring up at Knuckles.
"Oh…and who is 'he'?"
"Huh? Oh Shadow…he was in the shed outside groaning or something…he was probably getting up to no good with himself…ew!"
Knuckles scratches his cheek and looks down thinking.
"Odd…" He walks into the kitchen, trying to dismiss images of Shadow with Sonic in the shed as that is a more likely explanation for the strange moaning.
Rouge walks inside proudly, her head held high and her arms placed on her hips as she strides back over the bar, winking at Knuckles as she swiftly glides past him.
He rolls his eyes and joins Vector at a breakfast table to enjoy some bacon balms, smothered with layers and layers of ketchup.
Rouge slowly glides over and sits down gracefully besides Knuckles. She smirks innocently and flicks some bread crumbs from the table-top.
"Oh Knuckles…?"
He stares at his sandwich, praying the next few words out of Rouge's mouth will be something along the lines of 'I'm never going to be near you again.'
"What?" He says through clenched teeth, the images of his two male friends going at it in a wooden shed did not help his anger.
"I was just wondering…are Sonic and Shadow in a secret club together?"
"Huh?" He turns his head to face her, his expression smothered in bewilderment, much like Vector's balms with Ketchup.
"I mean…I saw them in the shed together and I was wondering if they are in a secret club together…and you're all alone, unwanted," She bats her eyelids, hinting that she knows something.
Knuckles stares intently into her eyes, realising exactly what she is trying to put across.
"YOU KNOW!?" He blurts out, so loudly and suddenly Vector bites too hard on his bacon sandwich and fires ketchup at a poor waiter walking past, who shouts something in another language and storms off, leaving Vector red in the face and Rouge and Knuckles giving him seriously odd looks.
The bat and echidna turn back to each other and she acknowledges his question with an affirmative wink.
"YOU DO KNOW!!! How? Did they tell you?"
"Know what?" Asks Vector sheepishly, regretting drowning his sandwich in ketchup.
"About Shadow and Sonic…" Rouge smirks, watching Knuckles' expression slowly form into slight anger.
"Don't go telling him!" He clenches his knuckled fists.
"Woops, too late…" She bats her eyelids at the angered echidna playfully.
"Tell me what?" Asks Vector, too slow to keep up with the brawling.
"About Shadow and Sonic," Rouge says, a little more tempered at his slow wit.
"Well what about them?" The green croc scratches his head in confusion.
"Oh here we go…" Moans Knuckles, dropping his head in his hands.
"About they're playful acts together in the shed…" Smirks Rouge, viewing Knuckles' anger get worse, as he tries to flush away the disturbing images of his two friends.
"What were they doing in the shed…playing what?"
Rouge rolls her eyes, aggravated by the dim-witted crocodile, but pleasured at Knuckles' discomfort.
"Playing…with each other."
"What? Like play fighting?"
"NO! NOT LIKE PLAY FIGHTING YOU STUPID IMBECILE!" Shouts Rouge, fed up with his ridiculous brain.
"Oh so they were…" He nods, thinking he knows what she knows.
"Yes…there we go you idiotic reptile…" She sighs with relief and looks at Knuckles, who gets up and walks away, leaving the Rouge and Vector sitting alone in silence. The croc licks some ketchup off his chin and his eyes meet with Rouge's and, out of his stupidity, he inquires a most foolish question.
"So…what were they doing?"