CHAPTER 11

COMFORT

The next morning, Shadow walked through the doors of the Chaotix building and saw Amy embracing Sonic and Rouge looking to the floor with sadness. He acted like he was confused. "What's wrong?"

Sonic faced Shadow as he walked over to him. "Shadow, Knuckles is...dead."

He paused for a moment trying to take what he said in, "Wha-what?"

Tears started to form in Amy's eyes as Sonic gave Shadow the bad news.

Sonic continued, "The killer struck again last night. He broke into Knuckles' room and killed him by slicing his neck with a knife."

His mouth hung open, "That's awful."

He made a small nod, "Yeah. Vector, Espio, and Charmy are still checking out his room."

He looked down to the floor until he was embraced by Rouge. He looked down at her while she was hugging and crying on him.

"Shadow..." She said in a sad voice. Soon she felt him wrap his arms around her tightly, acting like he didn't want her to pull away from him.

"It's okay, Rouge. I'm here."

Later, Vector, Espio, and Charmy were in Knuckles' room still investigating his murder.

Espio was leaning against the wall looking around the room, "Everything's becoming more clear now."

Vector was studying the knife that Knuckles was killed with in his hands. "What do you mean, Espio?"

"Now our suspects are down to Sonic, Amy, Shadow...or one of us."

Charmy gasped, "Espio, how could you point fingers at your own teammates? Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you're the culprit!"

His eyes widened with shock, "What! I am not!"

"Yeah right, killer!"

"Enough you two!" Vector shouted, silencing them immediately. "We can't blame one another just yet. We need more proof."

Charmy sighed and sat on the floor, "This is so frustrating."

Vector crossed his arms, "I know, Charms but it can't be helped. Don't worry, guys we will find out who the killer is."

Later, Shadow was in Rouge's bedroom sitting on her bed holding her close. He loved the position they were in. He loved the feeling of her embracing and crying on his body for comfort. It made him feel necessary for once, but he hated to see her cry like this. She seemed in so much pain. He took her head from his chest and made her face him, "Rouge, please stop crying. I can't stand to see you like this."

She wiped some of her tears away with her finger and replied in a low voice. "I can't help it, Shadow. I miss him."

He frowned and wondered why she cared so much about him even after what he tried to do to her. He sighed, "Rouge..."

Her eyes looked into his, having her attention on him.

He stressfully looked away, "Forget it." This made him wonder what made Rouge so emotional over Knuckles. He thought she was just confused.

As he looked away from her, she saw the gauze around his head and she started to get curious about it again. "Shadow", she called in a soft tone. "Do you want to tell me what happened to your head now?"

He faced her again and lightly placed his hand on it. The injury still hurt and a lot making him wince a bit.

"Shadow", she said full of worry.

"I-I'm all right."

"Shadow...well if you're not going to tell me, could I at least treat it for you?"

He looked at her with confusion. He had already treated his injury, "Huh?"

"Judging by the way blood is coming through the gauze, you didn't treat it properly."

He did nothing but give her a cold look.

"Please Shadow, I don't want to see you in so much pain."

His eyes widened full of shock. He couldn't believe she cared that much about him. That made him feel a little happy. "Okay."

She made a small smile, glad that he accepted her help.

Later, several minutes went by and Rouge was almost finished treating his injury. She had taken the old bandage off so she saw his bloody wound. She stared at it for the longest time, studying it. 'It looks like he was hit in the head...with some kind of blunt object.'

Shadow noticed her not doing anything to his injury and figured she was looking at it instead. "Rouge?"

She immediately snapped out of it and grabbed a bottle full of some kind of clear liquid. "Oh, I'm gonna have to clean it up a bit with this rubbing alcohol okay? So it'll hurt a bit."

He figured if he could take that hit that Tails made, he could take a little stinging from the alcohol. "Okay."

She poured some of the alcohol on a small rag, "Okay here it goes." She gently placed the damp rag on his wound and heard Shadow's loud groaning instantly.

"Ah! Fucking hell!" He yelled in agony.

She continued to place it around his wound gently, "I know Shadow, sorry." She then took it away from his head and started to blow it lightly. "That should ease the pain a bit."

He still winced a bit, "Yeah a little."

She placed the bloody rag aside, reached for some new gauze, and started to wrap it around his head.

"Rouge?"

"Yeah?" She answered while she was still wrapping it around his head.

"Thank you."

After when she finished, she sat beside him and leaned towards his forehead with her lips pressing against it lightly. "You're welcome."

He deeply blushed as her lips met his forehead and had no idea what to do next. He was lost.

She took her lips away and turned her head in a different direction embarrassed for what she had done.

"...Rouge..."

"I...I'm sorry, Shadow. I didn't know what came over me."

He did nothing but stare at her blankly with his face still red.

She got off of the bed, "I'm really sorry." Before she could leave out of his sight, she felt his hand on her wrist. She turned to him with confusion, "Shadow?"

"Don't leave, Rouge. I liked it."

She thought for sure he was going to do something pretty awful. "You...did?"

He made a nod, took his hand off her wrist, and held her hand.

She stared in his eyes with confusion. Wonder what he was planning to do next.

"Rouge, I have something to tell you."

"What is it?"

"I...I think I...love you."

A wide smile had appeared on her lips with happiness. "Do you mean that, Shadow?"

"Of course I do. You were the only one who understood me. The only one who cared about me. I loved you so much, I could barely stand it."

She felt tears coming to her eyes, "Oh Shadow, I had no idea."

"Rouge, I want to be with you forever."

She smiled, sat beside him on the bed, and hugged him tightly. "I love you too, Shadow." She looked up at him and leaned closer to him with her lips pressed against his.

When he felt her soft lips against hers, he felt like he had died and when to heaven. He kissed her back and started to lick her lips gently, begging for an entrance.

She allowed his tongue to enter and explore her mouth. She moaned when he found her tongue and started to play with it. As their tongues started to frolic with each other, she felt his hand on the zipper of her top.

He took his mouth from hers and stared at her with lust. "Rouge, I want to see you."

She made a nod meaning it was okay to remove her top. She closed her eyes as he removed it and soon felt his warm hands fondle her huge breasts.

"They're so soft", he whispered.

She gasped with pleasure when she felt his lips touch her nipples while his hands were traveling around her waist. She couldn't help but to open her eyes and watch him kiss her. She looked down at him and saw his tongue lick lightly on her nipples. She placed her hands on his head and continued to moan softly. "Oh, Shadow", she said in a low tone.

As he licked her, his hands were on the zipper of her pants. He slowly started to undo them. "I want you, Rouge", he said softly.

Rouge felt her pants slowly slide off of her waist and down to her ankles.

Shadow began kissing down her body and towards her stomach.

She made a smile as she felt his lips on her stomach and couldn't help but to giggle a bit.

He smiled slightly, took her body, and lied it down on the bed with his body on top of hers. He stared at her for a few seconds, kissed her lips, and started to work his way down to her neck. He kissed her neck gently while he pulled her underwear down with his hands.

She could feel her underwear sliding down to her ankles along with her pants. Soon she felt them slide off her body completely. She placed her hand on his neck while he was kissing hers and slid it over to his shoulder, slowly removing his coat from his shoulder.

He placed his mouth over her neck and started to nibble on it.

She groaned slightly as he bit her and continued to take off his coat. When she did, she threw it on the floor along with the rest of her clothes. She soon felt his rock hard erection against her abdomen and knew that he would want to make her his very soon. She softly moaned when she felt his tongue glide around her neck.

While he was licking her neck, he started to take off his shirt and pants. He threw them onto the floor and placed his hands on the inside of her thighs. He looked up at her, "Rouge, I want you."

She tried not to stare like she hadn't seen an erect cock before but she couldn't help it. His was so big and long, she wondered if that could even fit in her. She allowed her head to fall back onto the pillow and spread her legs apart from each other. Her eyes looked into his, "I want to be with you forever, Shadow."

He stared at her opening until he finally pushed himself inside of her while hearing slight groaning coming from her.

She wrapped her legs around his body and soon felt him thrusting inside of her. Her groans started to grow louder as he started thrusting harder and deeper.

"Oh, Shadow!" She shouted. "Yes! Yes!" She could feel his hard cock rub against her walls with great speed. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he went deeper inside her.

"Oh god, Rouge! You're so tight!", he shouted as he went faster.

The further he went, the louder her groaning got. "Oh, yes!"

He faced her with his whole body drenched in sweat. "I'm going to cum!"

"Do it, Shadow!" She soon felt his warm juices splash into her body. "Oh god yes!"

He watched as his juices overflowed in her entrance and dripped onto her bed sheets. He looked back at her with her head lying on her pillow and her chest heaving with exhaustion. He feel on her body with his head on her chest, smiling. "Rouge?" He called while he was breathing heavily.

"Yes?" She answered while she was still panting.

"I love you."

She placed her hand on his head and stroked through his fur while she smiled, "I love you too, Shadow."

A/N: Shad got some! XD Review pwease!