Author's Note: Before anyone starts reading...TRIGGER WARNING! I personally think the scene isn't very dark, but I don't want anyone to get upset or offended from the abusive scene between Shadow and Rouge. I just thought I'd give you guys a heads up. Anyway hope you guys enjoy!

CHAPTER 10

Later as the night progressed, it was getting earlier in the morning. The sky was getting lighter as it was a sure sign of daylight approaching. Rouge watched as papers, clothes, and other things fly across the dark bedroom of their home. She was sitting on the made up bed of the bedroom as she casually watched Shadow practically tear the entire room apart. With her legs crossed, she rose an eyebrow when she saw him rip out a drawer from the dresser and slam it down onto the floor angrily. An amused smirk formed on her lips, "Calm down already. There obviously isn't any clues here that will lead us in the direction of where Spike is." She watched as he turned to her and pointed his finger towards her angrily as he stepped over to her.

"I want my son", he growled in a low tone.

She sighed carelessly, "I don't know why you're acting surprised he isn't here. He wasn't at Nails' apartment and it was a stupid move to try to look here of all places." She glanced around the dark bedroom. "I'm surprised the Council or anyone doesn't have this place on lock down. But then again, I guess they figured we wouldn't show up at our own house." She turned to Shadow once again and crossed her arms, "My guess is he's at the Chaotix."

He slightly shook his head as he disagreed. "Just like everywhere else we searched, it's too obvious. Someone has him in their home. I know it."

She placed a finger to her chin as she thought of the two people who first came to mind. "How about Espio and Tonya?"

He again shook his head, "That would be too obvious. We have to place ourselves in their situation. They're not gonna leave Spike with someone who has constantly watched over him. It's someone we would least expect."

She placed her hands on her hips and sighed. "Well that really narrows our odds doesn't it? Considering we're close with everyone at the Chaotix."

He lowly scoffed under his breath and shifted his eyes away from her in annoyance.

"I don't get it. We're wasting time here." She stood from the bed and took her fist to punch it into the palm of her hand. "Let's just go to the Chaotix and beat the answers out of them."

He slowly turned back to her, "That's a trap waiting to happen, sweetie. Don't you think they're all expecting us to show up there so they can fucking blow our heads to Hell?"

She held her hands out in confusion and lowered them beside her waist in slight frustration. "Okay then. What should we do?"

"...Don't worry about that." His eyes had then slowly scanned Rouge's revealing bodysuit, "We'll figure it out."

She caught sight of him staring at her and figured he either had a plan dealing with her gunsuit or he just wanted to have sex with her all over again. She slightly licked her lips as she gave him a seductive look. "...You have some kind of plan or something, sweetie?"

With a smirk on his face, he turned away from her. "Don't I always?" Once he turned his back to her, he suddenly felt her cling to him from behind and slowly run her hands across his chest.

A small and seductive giggle escaped her, "Are you planning on giving Spike a sibling perhaps?"

He slightly scoffed under his breath when he thought she figured he planned for them to have another child together. "Don't be stupid." He spun around to turn to her again while she stroked her hands around his upper arms. "Before my powers were completely restored, it was difficult to even conceive him. But now that you and I are both full fledged demons, there's no chance in Hell we can spawn another child of our own. Spike is and always will be our only son. That's why it's important we find him." He reached his hand out towards her and began to caress the side of her face, "And when we do, we'll make him the demon he was born to become."

She saw him take his hand away from her face and slowly pace around the room. She placed her hands on her hips, "After he drinks your blood, he'll be one of the strongest demons in the realm." She made a small laugh as her eyes glanced him up and down, "Just like his father."

"Damn straight", his eyes then caught sight of a picture that was set on the small table that was on his side of the bed. He walked over and picked the picture up from the table and stared at it. It was a picture of him and the rest of The Chaotix team. Vector was shown in the picture so it was taken before Freya had joined the team. He glared at the picture and then angrily threw it towards the wall, smashing the frame of it when it hit the wall.

Rouge turned to him and saw him angrily looking at the broken picture frame on the floor.

"It's pathetic", he spoke in a bitter tone. "The life my other half chooses to live..."

Rouge didn't know what had suddenly gotten him so upset. Perhaps him seeing the picture had brought up bitter memories for him.

"I refuse to go back to pretending to be someone I'm not for weak mortals who don't value their pathetic lives", he growled under his breath while he clenched his fists. "I'll make sure they're dead. Every last one."

Rouge had then made a small yet amused chuckle as she walked over to him and leaned her body against his while his back was turned to her. "So serious. You know you're pretty cute when you're mad." She flinched when he had suddenly grabbed her by her wrist and slammed her body against the wall angrily. She had then found herself pinned against the wall with her eyes locking with his.

"Shut up", he growled angrily while he made sure he exposed his fangs to her.

Though he came off as threatening to her, she still found his reaction towards her pretty amusing. "My, my you're just a ball of fire tonight aren't you?" She slightly groaned as his grip around her wrist tightened.

His growled into her ear still full of uprising anger, "When I tell you to shut your mouth, you shut your fucking mouth. Got that?"

She let out a small gasp and groaned as his grip around her wrist continued to tighten. "You're hurting me", she spoke in a low tone almost in a scared voice.

He then took his hand away from her wrist and roughly grabbed her around her lower waist. He continued to speak into her ear while his body pressed against hers, "Don't give me that shit. You love it when I hurt you."

It seemed just by hearing the sounds of his voice had suddenly calmed her. She let out another small gasp as he roughly grabbed her by her butt. "Yes", she spoke in an aroused tone. "I can't get enough."

"I know you can't." At this point he knew the mind control along with her uprising arousal had taken her over. She was literally his slave and he loved every aspect of that fact. He took his hand and stroked his fingers through her hair until he roughly grabbed it and held her head back to expose her neck. He wrapped his hand around her neck and spoke softly towards her. "Fucking slut", he spoke with a smirk. "But you're my fucking slut." He took his hand away from her neck and forcefully pushed her down to the floor where she was at Shadow's waist. "Who the fuck do you serve?"

With him still grabbing her hair, she looked up towards him while she replied, "I serve you, baby."

"Damn right", he spoke before he pushed her head towards his waist. "Now suck my fucking dick, slut", he firmly ordered. Soon after he felt his jeans being undone and then felt his rock hard member being placed into her mouth. He felt her tongue licking around his entire shaft while having it inside of her mouth. He slightly bit his lip as he felt her moist tongue licking against him. When he began to forcefully move her head back and forth, small moans escaped him as he felt the friction from her mouth stroke against him. "That's it", he slightly panted. "Deep throat it."

As she went faster and faster, she suddenly could taste his juices splashing inside of her mouth. She slowly took her mouth from his dripping wet member with some of his juices running from her mouth and down her chin. She was then grabbed by her hair once again and was forced to stand on her feet.

He took his hand away from her hair and gripped around her chin to make her look him in the eyes. "Swallow it", he demanded.

She did as he wanted and gulped down the juices that had filled her mouth. Afterwards she watched him leaned in to roughly kiss and bite her lips. The kiss was rough enough to make her bottom lip bleed.

He took his lips from hers and pressed his forehead against hers while he heavily panted, "I knew you'd listen." He gave her a small peck on the forehead before he lowly spoke to her, "Good girl."

Later on it was officially the morning that next day. The sun lit up the morning sky along with the busy streets of Tech City. Freya decided to meet up with Risa at the coffee shop to sit down and drink coffee and to also catch up on what was going on within their lives.

Risa sat across the table from Freya while she were both sitting at a booth together. Her eyebrow rose in concern as she observed her sitting across her. She noticed that she was slouched down in her seat and her eyes were bloodshot and very tired it seemed. She figured she had a long night and she didn't get much sleep. It almost looked like she would go to sleep at any moment. "Uh, Freya?" She called in a low tone. "You okay? You don't look so good."

Freya's tired eyes looked away from the mug of coffee sitting in front of her and looked up over at Risa. "Huh? Oh I'm fine, Risa", she replied with a yawn. "I'm just a little tired."

"I can see that. Work's been pretty rough huh?"

She let out another small and tired yawn before she spoke again. "Tell me about it. I've been watching over Spike too. He was super fussy last night and it wasn't easy putting him to sleep."

"Really? Why is that? I thought Nails and Tikal were babysitting him?" She couldn't help but to have the feeling that something was wrong. Why was Freya babysitting Spike? Even she knew that Tikal and Nails were Shadow and Rouge's personal babysitters.

She paused and thought if she should tell her what was going on within The Chaotix and The Council. Last time she did recall that Risa was in fact on the fence when it came to Shadow ever since her neighbors were murdered by Scourge and Fiona. When it came to the subject of demons, it only upset her. But she didn't want to hide anything from her. She was her best friend and wanted to confide in her. Her eyes glanced around the busy coffee shop. The shop was packed full of people so she wanted to keep their conversation as private as she could between them. She paused before she spoke to her in a low tone. "Actually..."

Risa saw the concerned look on her face and listened closely to what she was about to say.

She lightly gripped her hands around the hot mug of coffee and directed her eyes down towards it. "Things have been bad. Really bad."

"...What? What's going on, Freya?" She asked in a concerned tone.

She slightly shook her head as she didn't want to exactly say what she was thinking. "The worst has happened..."

"...What?"

"The boss..." She took her eyes away from the mug of coffee in front of her and looked back towards Risa. "His demon powers are restored."

After hearing that, she paused for a moment and then leaned her back against the seat she sat in trying to take in what Freya had just said.

She sat Risa's reaction and wished she never even said anything about it to her, but she felt like she to let her know. "...And Miss Rouge. She's been turned too."

"...What?" She took her back away from the seat she sat in and leaned her body against the table to get closer to Freya. "Shadow? And Rouge? Demons?"

She made a small and saddened nod as she reassured her.

She slowly took the front of her body away from the table and shook her head slightly. "I knew it. I knew this would happen."

Her eyes watched as Risa set her clenched fist onto the surface of the table. Clearly she was upset about the news. "...Risa?"

"Has he hurt you?" She asked with a low tone full of anger.

She quickly shook her head, "N-No he hasn't touched me. I only saw it all happen." Her body slightly jumped when she heard Risa slam her fist down onto the table just enough to rattle the mugs of coffee set on it.

"I knew he couldn't be trusted", she spoke in a low and bitter tone.

Just as she feared. Risa was starting to hate Shadow more and more. She knew that she was uncomfortable with the fact that he was a demon but now he was out and about killing people and God only knew what else. "No he was never always like this. This isn't his fault. He's still the same Shadow in the inside and I know it."

She let out a heavy sigh. She knew Freya had a soft spot for Shadow and it worried her she wasn't looking at anything outside from the fact that he was now a merciless monster. "Freya..."

"Look I know what's been going through your mind but if you just put those thoughts behind you..."

"I won't", she spoke in an angry yet louder tone. "As of right now, Shadow is the enemy and you're just being okay with this?" She slightly shook her head as Spike came into her mind. "And what about Spike?"

"What about him?"

"Aren't you worried that he and Rouge will find out you're the one who has their child? You're a target, Freya. A fucking target. I know they're looking for him and when they find Spike..."

She quickly spoke over her to calm her down, "N-No. I have Spike to make sure he stays safe until we all figure out a way to save the boss and Miss Rouge. Besides, Spike is only a baby. Why would they have the need to go after him?"

Risa bitterly rose an eyebrow, "I don't know, Freya. Maybe they wanna find him and turn him into a bloodthirsty demon too so they can all be a happy little family. Have you ever thought about that?"

She let out a heavy sigh as she began to wonder if that ever would be a plan for Shadow and Rouge to do. "That won't happen. I won't let it if that's the case." Even if that was their goal, she was determined to keep Spike out of the situation as much as possible.

She knew Freya was a strong fighter and all but she still couldn't help but to worry for her. She let out a heavy sigh, "Freya..."

She was done talking to her. She wanted to tell her what was going on and she did. She just didn't handle taking the news as well as she had hoped. At this point, she couldn't say anymore to her to reassure that everything will be fine. She stood from the table and began to gather her things that she had set to the side of her. "Just trust me on this okay? Look we'll talk more about this later. I got a lot to take care of. We'll keep in touch. So don't worry so much. I got this..."

Outside of the coffee shop, Rouge had her back leaned against the glass window of the shop and held her hand behind her back to hide the two fingers that were pressed gently against the glass of the window. A small and devious smile formed on her lips while she heard Freya's voice within the built in microphone in the inside of the collar of her black bodysuit. When she heard the conversation ending, she took her fingers and back away from the glass of the window. She stood away from the window and used her wings to fly off into the sky.

Later, Nicole anxiously paced around Sally's office with her arms crossed. She sighed heavily, "I can't believe this is happening..."

Sally sat at her desk and watched as Nicole slowly paced around the office. After the meeting with the rest of The Council back in Tech City, she arrived back and informed everyone in on the situation. Everyone's reaction was full of shock and worry which was what she had expected out of her team. "Well it is and that fact remains."

She stopped her pacing and turned to Sally as she saw her sitting at her desk with the side of her head resting on her hand. "I hope this witch Espio speaks of will be able to help. It would be a shame if we had to eliminate them." Nicole saw the silent yet worried look on Sally's face. She along with everyone else knew that Sally had called a truce with Shadow but now that Shadow was at this state, she wasn't sure if Sally considered him a trusted ally anymore. She and Sally directed their attention towards the door of the office. The door slowly cracked open and they both saw Sonic peek his head into the office.

"Uh, sorry to interrupt but, Sal? Can we talk?"

When Nicole saw Sally make a nod towards him, she figured that he wanted to talk to her privately. She turned away from Sally and decided to leave the office leaving the two alone to talk.

When Sonic saw Nicole leaving the office and closing the door behind her, he turned to Sally and gave her a look of concern.

Sally saw the nervous looks on his face and figured that whatever he wanted to talk about was from the incident from last night. "What's wrong, hun?"

While seeming quite uneasy, he placed his hand in the pocket of his blue skinny jeans as he stepped closer towards the front of her desk. "I just wanted to be clear about what was going on with Shadow and Rouge. I know you briefed everything over with everyone but I wanted to be sure." He used his thumb to point back towards the door. "The guys are pretty freaked and they're talking about killing them."

She wasn't very surprised. Her team was never fond of Shadow and she mostly had that to blame on herself due to the fact that she had previously hated Shadow deeply and would constantly speak ill of him to her entire team. "...I'm aware. To be honest, none of the other teams in general were ever fond of Shadow. Now that this has happened, this is giving them all the more reason to hate him."

"Well I guess that explains a lot..." He slowly shifted his eyes away from her while there was a moment of awkward silence between them. A few seconds had passed until he had decided to speak what was really on his mind. "Hey, Sal? I know a lot has happened between now and last night but...what exactly happened when Shadow broke into the bedroom last night?"

Her heart raced as he brought up what happened last night. She saw this coming. She knew his suspicions from last night wouldn't go away until he had some kind of answer. Her eyes slightly shifted away from him in guilt. "...He came into the bedroom and simply threatened to kill me if I or the rest of The Council were to interfere with him or The Dark Alliance."

That wasn't the exact answer he was looking for. He turned back to her with a look of determination in his eyes. "But why? Why would he come all the way to Future City to simply talk shit like that to you? You out of all people?"

She didn't know for sure but she had a feeling she knew what it was. With Darkness being apart of Shadow, perhaps he was aware of Shadow's personal feelings towards her and used that to his advantage to emotionally torture her. However she was determined not to tell Sonic about it. She paused and slightly bit her lip, "...I don't know..."

He saw her constantly adverting her eyes from his and the uneasy expression on her face. He could tell that she wasn't being straightforward with him. "Something happened didn't it?" He stepped closer to her, "I know it did. As I recall, the bed was made when I left and when I came back, it was a complete wreck."

She feared that he was beginning to assume the worst had happened. "Sonic..."

"Sally, did he..."

She started to fidget with her hands as her heart continued to race inside of her chest. She really didn't want him to finish his sentence. She didn't want to hear him the foul thing he would say. "N-No! He didn't touch me..."

He didn't believe her. He slightly shook his head in confusion, "What? Sally..." He let out a heavy sigh of frustration while he rubbed the side of his head. "You're...you're not telling me the full story here."

He was concerned and it wasn't wrong of him to feel that way but she didn't want to speak of it. "Sonic, please..."

His patience was growing thin. "Why, Sally? Why won't you tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

He was done. He was done with her nothing being blunt and honest about the situation and felt like he could no longer talk reasonably with her. In both anger and frustration, he slammed his fist down onto the surface of the desk hard enough to rattle the multiple cup holders that were full of pens and pencils. "Tell me that bastard raped you!"

Her face and actions froze when she heard him shout those words to her. Her eyes were locked with his angry ones in a moment of silence. She didn't know what to do. He assumed Shadow had raped her. She didn't know if he was better off thinking that or just telling him the simple truth. Either way, he still would be enraged. "Sonic..."

His fist clenched tighter as he continued to set it down on the desk, "I know what happened", he spoke in a low and upset tone. "The way the room and that bed looked..." He slightly shook his head, "He fucking raped you, Sally."

She placed her hand over her mouth as she saw the upset look on his face. He was absolutely heartbroken and she couldn't stand to see him this way. She didn't want to tell him the actual truth. Not after witnessing his reaction to his own assumptions. She slightly shook her head, "Sonic, I..." Her words cut off as her eyes sadly adverted his.

He let out a small and heavy sigh as he took his fist away from the table and reached hsi hand out towards her. "It's okay, Sal. You're scared. I get it." Before he could touch the side of her face, he saw her slightly flinch. His heart shattered as he witnessed her reaction. She was shocked, damaged, and hurt. And it was all Shadow's fault. "I'll take care of this, Sal. I promise."

She watched as he took his hand away from her and began to step towards the door of the office. "Sonic..."

He placed his hand on the doorknob and turned his head to her slightly, "I'll make him pay", he declared in angry tone. "I'll make that son of a bitch pay for what he did to you."

Before she could say anything more to him, she watched him open the door and slam it shut behind him. She rested her back against the desk chair she sat in and stared at the door while she was deep in thought. Shadow was a rapist in Sonic's eyes and her stomach turned as she could only imagine what would happen the next time the two confronted each other.

Author's Note: Looks like Sonic is determined to take on Shadow! But how long will Sally stay quiet about the truth before Sonic and Shadow end up killing each other? More drama in the next chapter coming at ya on Friday! See you guys on the flipside!

In The Next Chapter...

Freya: Nails, you're back!

Nails: I'm going to save Shadow and my sister. Count on it!

Rouge: What? Are you all just expecting to die?

Appex: Where's Shadow?

Ker: What? What is this!?

Joyce:...Shadow?

Shadow: Hello, Joyce...