Who knew: chapter 9
Shadow's POV
I woke up in the morning when the sunlight hit my eyes. I yawned and stretched myself as i sat up in my bed. I looked at the nightstand that stood at my left and saw a platter with food that had been placed on top of it. I smiled and took the breakfast onto my lap. The maids always came early with breakfast. Everytime they would come to my room i would still be in a deep sleep. So they placed my breakfast next to me on my nightstand. The breakfast was what you would've expected in a royal palace. Large and delicious. I had downed it all in just a matter of minutes.
I placed the plate back on my nightstand and left it there because the maid would come back for it like she would everyday. I stretched again and laid back down for a few moments. I thought for a moment. It had been about eight or nine weeks since the procedure. I didn't know for sure if it had succeeded. Sure, my heat had stopped almost immediatly after, but i hadn't really noticed any changes in my body yet. So i didn't really know if this experiment had really worked or not. But i was going to find out today. When one was pregnant, she, or in my case he, would need to have her first doctor's appointment around eight or nine weeks. And my first appointment was today.
I think that about another half an hour had passed before i had decided to get up from the bed. With some fresh clothes in my arms i walked into the bathroom that was connected to the bedroom and locked the door behind me. I left the bathroom not to shortly after when i had gotten myself ready for a new day.
I left my bedroom and walked down the hallway as i had planned on visiting Rouge today. I seemed to be doing this everyday ever since i came to live here. I didn't have anyone to talk to here and even someone as me needed a friend to talk to once in a while. So with my trenchcoat in hand, i walked to the exit of the palace and left.
It had been almost two hours since i left from the palace to visit my friend Rouge. I had told her that my first appointment was today and that i would find out if i really was pregnant or not. She was a bit excited for this event and had asked me to bring her an update by the end of the day. I promised her that i would talk to her as soon as the appointment had ended. I walked in the castle through the gates and had planned on going to my room and relax myself, but little did i know that my plans would be canceled as soon as i made my way inside.
"Shadow the hedgehog!" I heard someone yell in rage as i was walking into the direction of my room. I jumped upon hearing the voice and turned around to face one angry female squirrel. "where in the hell were you?!" Sally yelled in rage and stomped over to me. "i was with Rouge, why?" I asked in confusion as i did not understand what the fuss was all about. "it doesn't matter! you're already an hour late for you appointment with the doctor!" She yelled and grabbed the collar of my trenchcoat as she practically dragged me down the hallway. The guards did nothing. They just stood there and let Sally do what she pleased. She was a royal, so they didn't dare to interfere with our bussiness.
"Sally, let go of me!" I yelled and managed to get her grip off of my trenchcoat as we walked. Since she couldn't dragg me along with my trenchcoat anymore, she instead took hold of my arm with a vice like grip and continued to drag him along the way. I sighed in annoyence and allowed her to do so as i didn't want to hurt the baby that i might be possibly pregnant.
Much to my relief we quickly arrived into the laboratory and Sally finally let go of me. I walked inside the room with a hand rubbing on my hand as i was certain that the harsh grip would leave quite some bruises on that spot. I looked at the female doctor that was waiting impatiently at the desk. She turned away from the papers on the desk and smiled when she saw that i had arrived.
"ah Shadow the hedgehog. it's so ncie to finally meet you." The feminine doctor said and shook my hand as i returned the greeting. "now, you just get comfortable on the examination bed while i get everything ready." The doctor said with a smile as she went into the next room to get some equipment installed that had arrived just a few days earlier. Sally didn't trust the fact that i needed to search help from a hospital to bring a possibly healthy baby into this world. So Elias had made sure to have the equipment needed in here in the castle. I didn't like it. I wanted to have help from a place in which i knew i there were proffesionals working there.
I got rid of my trenchcoat and hung it over a nearby chair. I walked to the examination bed and sat down on it. I waited for the doctor to return as i tried to ignore Sally's angry glares. But after a while i finally broke and looked at Sally with a sigh. "what's wrong?" I asked. "what do you think is wrong?! you went out without having my permission! you could've endangered the baby!" Sally yelled and stood up from the chair that she had been briefly sitting on. "excuse me?!" I asked. "without you're permission! i don't need you're permission to go ahead and visit my friends!" I yelled as i was getting a bit angry. "you might be carrying a child! aslong as he's still in that womb of yours, you will be kept under constant supervission! you don't have the right to go outside without my permission and endanger it!" Sally yelled. "once he's out of there, i don't care what will happen to you!" She yelled.
I was shocked to hear her say that. So that's all i was to her. Just some possible surrogate hermaphrodite mother she had decided to use and experimentate on. Just some body that would help a possible new hero into this world. "i'm not doing this." I said and left the room. "Shadow, come back here! Shadow!" Sally yelled after me, but i ignored her. "mr... or miss? Shadow! please! come back! we still need to confirm if you're pregnant or not!" The female doctor yelled in concern and surprise as she came back and found me leaving them. But i wasn't going to listen. I didn't want to part take in this kind of madness.
