He's Mine!

Part one.

It was a nice, slightly warm but still chilly, early spring morning. Shadow was just over three months gone now and you could see a small bump forming already. The restaurant was almost complete and all positions filled. The last things to sort out were a name, opening date and finalising the menu. Shadow and Rouge just couldn't quite make up their minds on what to serve and they had changed the menu five time so far. Sonic had agreed to work on Thursdays only due to wanting to be home at weekends so he had proper family time where he, Shadow and the kids were all home.

As for the two new bedrooms, they were also complete and ready for occupants to live in them. Yes Sonic still believed Shadow was having twins and refused to think otherwise until Shadow had his first scan next week, apparently it was an instinctive feeling he was having. Shadow would have had the scan by now but he had to keep rearranging it due to things coming up and needing his attention urgently. This time he was determined to keep the appointment and prove Sonic wrong, at least he was praying he was just having the one child.

Right now all was quiet at the hedgehog residents as Shadow had spent the night aboard the Black Comet under is fathers requests so Sonic was at home alone with just Sapphire. Jamie also spent the night out round a friends house and was currently still there. Breakfast was long over and kitchen once again tidied away, looking as if no one was up or been using it so Shadow will be pleased he wont be coming back to a mess like the last time he spent the night away from home.

"Sonic are you home!" Shadow called out after chaos controlling back from the Black Comet and was accompanied by a new acquaintance, his father insisted he bring home and introduce him to his family, appearing in the hallway near the front door.

"Yep me and Sapphire are in the living room having a tea party. I am so glad you are back and…who is that?" Sonic called out as he was forced to partake in this so called imaginary tea party then raised an unimpressed brow as he watched this new person follow Shadow into the living room.

"Yeah did you know there are Black Arms out there that are in no way related to me? Well there are and this is Dark Flame. He is here with his father on a visit and dad wanted me to introduce him to you and the kids." Shadow said with a forced smile as he could see Sonic wasn't all that impressed with bringing strangers home without consulting him first.

"Uh-huh, yeah, hi." Sonic said as he stood up from kneeling in front of the coffee table and walked over to Dark Flame, forcing a happier expression as he checked this new guy out.

Dark Flame looked similar to Eclipse but was a little more muscular and slightly more taller, being a head taller than Shadow too. His coloration was more darker and he had burnt orange markings over his body that swirled and curled in places to resemble fancy looking flames. His eyes were a sunset orange with a bright golden yellow ring around his pupil. His tail was the same length as Eclipse but looked more dangerous and sharp with spikes sticking out near the end.

"Dark Flame this is Sonic my husband and my daughter Sapphire. My son Jamie isn't home right now and he wont be back until late afternoon." Shadow calmly introduced the new Black Arm to his family, well those who were home that is.

"A pleasure to meet you." Dark Flame said with little interest, his voice was deep and smooth sounding.

"Ooo I like how your voice sounds." Sapphire suddenly said as she stood up and looked at the new being her mother brought home.

"Yeah very smooth, like butter wouldn't melt." Sonic muttered under his breath quietly, not liking the way Dark Flame suddenly began to grin at the comment his daughter made.

"Listen Sonic I know this is very short notice but I don't suppose you would mind if Dark Flame stays for a few days while he and his father are visiting? Dad wants me to accompany him and show him around, you know get a feel of what this planet is like." Shadow asked with a pleading look at his husband as he really didn't want to go back to the Black Comet for the whole of their visit.

Being Black Dooms son had its downers at times especially when said alien overlord threatened a little mind torture if you didn't do as requested.

"Yeah you are right it is very short notice but I suppose it is fine by me so long as there is no trouble." Sonic said as he kept that forced happy tone but did give Shadow a look that said I want a private word with you.

"Thank you. Ok Dark Flame just wait right here and I will be back in a minute, me and Sonic just need to have a little discussion upon arrangements for you while you stay here." Shadow said with a small frown as he knew that look well then walked out of the living room with Sonic closely behind him.

The two walked into the kitchen and closed the door then went into the conservatory, closing that door up and leaving a gap.

"What the hell Shadow?" Sonic seriously asked with a deep frown and crossing his arms while waiting for a damn good explanation from his husband.

"First of I want to tell you, you are the most wonderful husband and I love you very much. Is buttering you up working?" Shadow anxiously smiled as he spoke in a gently voice.

"No but please continue." Sonic dryly said with an unimpressed look at his husband.

"I know this is not what you want ok but it was either have him stay with us or I have to stay aboard the comet for the whole of their visit. He is no trouble I can assure you and just wants to know what it is like down here, he is curious." Shadow sighed as he could tell Sonic was really unhappy with all of this.

"And how long are they supposed to be staying?" Sonic asked as he forced himself to sound less pissed about all this.

"A week minus yesterday so six more days. I know alright but I promise Dark Flame isn't here to cause any trouble and he really is a nice guy once you get to know him. You just have to get passed the whole obsessive over protective behaviour first." Shadow said as he was getting a little more anxious when Sonic just raised a brow in question.

"His father told me he can get obsessive over those he considers his friend and gets a little carried away. He doesn't have any friends anymore due to this and he has some trust issues because of this too." Shadow explained with a sigh as he knew Sonic will start to get concerned now.

"Right and what happened to his used to be friends?" Sonic asked as he had a suspicion what.

"Like I said he can get too carried away and drive them away to the point they run off to a different part of the galaxy just to get away from him. I personally cannot see the problem for he seems alright to me, well he hasn't obsessed over me and we were introduced yesterday afternoon." Shadow explained with a grin as this was true, he couldn't see the issue or has he felt over crowded by Dark Flame.

"According to what you say that just means you are not his friend and I am all fine with that. Ok I will make the effort and be civil towards him but the first signs of him getting obsessive with anyone then I'm doing something about it babe." Sonic semi seriously said with a playful grin at Shadow.

"Thank you my love, I owe you one." Shadow sighed with some relief.

"He can stay in one of the new bedrooms but I will need to go out and get some kind of bed though. We can sort that out later." Sonic said with a small frown as he really didn't want anyone but his new born occupy the room.

"I swear I will make it all up to you." Shadow replied with a look of gratitude at his clearly still unimpressed husband.

"Yeah you will be babe, we should get back into the living room, I don't want to leave our daughter alone for too long with a complete stranger." Sonic seriously said then both made their way back into the living room.

"Ok everything is…right so daddy isn't good enough to play tea parties with now huh?" Sonic began with a forced cheerful tone then slowly sounded a little disappointed when he saw Sapphire has got Dark Flame kneeling down in front of the coffee table where he once was and forced to drink pretend tea out of a small tea cup.

"What do you expect daddy, you and mama were gone like forever and the tea was going cold, someone had to finish it." Sapphire casually said as she held her cup close to her lips then took a fake sip after talking.

"Yes and cold tea is apparently distasteful." Dark Flame added with some amusement in his voice then copied Sapphires movements with his cup, taking a fake sip out of it.

"Looks like they are becoming good friends huh babe." Sonic whispered over to his husband who was sniggering at the scene he was a witness too.

"Y-yeah quite." Shadow whispered back as he tried to compose himself.

"You know what Shads why don't you and Dark Flame go out and get the bed together. Show him the mall and talk about the different shops or something." Sonic whispered over to his husband as he slightly narrowed his eyes at the alien grinning at his daughter while sipping from the plastic cup.

"Not a bad idea then we can go see Rouge together afterwards. I need to have a brainstorming session with her upon what to call our restaurant." Shadow whispered back with a smile as he too continued to watch the tea party and not having a single problem with it like Sonic was.

"Great…ok tea party is over with." Sonic happily said with a smile at the two having that party.

"Aw but daddy we haven't finished our tea." Sapphire whined with a sad look at her father.

"Well Shadow is taking Dark Flame to the mall to get a bed then introducing him to auntie Rouge. How about we have real tea together while they are gone?" Sonic said with a bright tone and grinned when he witnessed his daughters eyes light up with his suggestion.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Sapphire called out with excitement as she quickly stood up then added before rushing off into the kitchen, "bye and get me something nice from the mall."

"Kids are so easy to please at times." Sonic chuckled with amusement.

"Yes well if you make a mess with the sugar then don't just wipe it down onto the floor, scoop it up into your hand and dispose of it into the bin. The last time I ended up treading in sugar and getting sticky feet." Shadow said with a firm tone at his husband while crossing his arms and frowning.

"Yeah ok love, have fun at the mall and yeah like Saffy said get us something nice." Sonic grinned then placed a kiss on Shadows cheek, prolonging it for a couple of extra seconds as he caught Dark Flame looking at Shadow with, in his eyes, interest.

"Sure." Shadow whispered with a slightly dazed expression from that soft, and a little longer than normal, kiss on his cheek.

Half an hour later at the mall…

"So let me see if I understand this correctly. People come here to buy things for their home or to wear and they enjoy doing this right so why are there young ones crying and refusing to go into these shop things?" Dark Flame asked as he glanced at a small human boy trying to pull out of his mothers hand, shouting and crying as his mother walked into a clothes shop.

"Ok let me rephrase that, adults and teenagers enjoy coming here to buy things, little kids get bored far too quickly and do start to tantrum because of it." Shadow re-explained with a smile as he walked closely along side Dark Flame.

"Ok I think I fully understand now, do your children do this tantrum thing when you take them here?" Dark Flame asked as he turned his head and looked at Shadow, a warm smile was on his face as he spoke.

"Well sometimes Jamie would whine how bored he is when I drag him to the mall but to be fair he is getting older and doesn't want to go to the mall with his mother all the time. Sapphire, well Sapphire is at that age where she loves coming here but she did use to create merry hell when with Sonic. For some reason she would only behave for me but now she doesn't mind who takes her, so long as she is getting something out of it that is." Shadow answered with a smile, glancing at Dark Flame as he spoke back.

"Seems like Sapphire is more Black Arms if she is well behaved with you, she more than likely can sense how you feel and knows better than to anger you by doing the tantrum thing." Dark Flame smirked and spoke with a slight flirtatious tone that Shadow didn't pick up on.

"Either that or this Sonic wasn't all that good with his daughter when out alone with her." Dark Flame thought with a small amount of hate for Sonic.

"I have always thought that, me and Saffy are pretty damn close but that doesn't mean she isn't close with her father as well." Shadow grinned then turned his head to look in front of him.

"You deserve someone better Shadow, someone who can step up and be more controlling when it is needed." Dark Flame thought with a small frown as he too look ahead of him, he having had taken a great liking towards Shadow since they were introduced yesterday.

Five minutes later…

"Right then now we have found the right store we just need to get you a bed to sleep on and try to get a delivery for later. Hopefully it isn't too late to do that." Shadow cheerfully said as they entered the furniture store and walked towards where the beds were displayed.

"And will this bed be soft enough to sleep on? I only ask because some civilisations have far different sleeping arrangements than others." Dark Flame questioned as he glanced at Shadow with a half lidded expression while smiling.

"Of course and the beds on display can be tested out before you buy." Shadow replied as he looked around for the right department.

"Found it, come on lets get bed testing." Shadow suddenly announced in an excited tone, grabbing Dark Flames hand and dragged him over to where the beds were.

Yep his hormones were giving him good vibes at the moment.

"He is so…wonderful." Dark Flame thought with a warm smile as he was dragged along in a semi fast pace.

Back with Sonic…

"Daddy we have a bin you know, mama will be upset if he walks on sugar grains again." Sapphire said with a seriously unhappy tone and crossing her arms as she watched her father just brush the small grains of sugar onto the floor.

"Saffy I plan to give the kitchen a nice good sweep up so it is fine. You and your mother are so alike, it's almost as if you are the same person but in two different body's." Sonic rolled his eyes as he was basically being told of by his daughter.

"Well I know mama will be annoyed, I can feel it when he is in which makes me annoyed too." Sapphire said as she frowned up at her father with slightly narrowed eyes, looking a lot like Shadow would.

"So that is why you have always expressed the same emotions as he does in the moment. I don't know why I didn't see it before and sussed it out earlier, wait does that mean you have some kind of link to the hive mind?" Sonic said as he kicked himself for his stupidly slow realisations then slowly began to grin as he asked his daughter that question.

"You mean the hive mind mama shares with grandpa Doom and Eclipse? I don't know, I have never tried to talk that way to them." Sapphire answered with a tilt of her head and was now growing very curious to see if she could.

"Yeah I hope I can, it will definitely come in handy when needing to talk to mama without anyone but him hearing me." Sapphire thought as she began to grin up at her father.

"Go on then give it a try, see if you can call out to your uncle Eclipse through the mind." Sonic said with excitement.

"Ok daddy." Sapphire sweetly said with an innocent smile then closed her eyes.

Sonic watched with over excitement as he witnessed his daughters expression turn from happy to deep concentration. Everything was still and silent as if time had taken a small vacation to wind down and chill.

"What, what is it?" Eclipse's panicked voice filled the kitchen after appearing with high concern.

"Yay I did it daddy!" Sapphire brightly said as she opened her eyes and looking up at her father with joy.

"Huh?" Eclipse said with a tilt of his head as he looked at father and daughter, looking clueless now.

"Awesome Saffy…hey Eclipse you all better watch out for my little Saffy can get inside of your heads." Sonic laughed as he picked up his daughter and gave her the biggest cuddle while he spoke to Eclipse.

"So there is no big emergency and you are all fine?" Eclipse asked with a small frown as now he was going to get into trouble for leaving while having visitors up there.

"I'm outta here before father realises I've left the comet." Eclipse grumbled then teleported back home.

"Ok, ok now do your grandpa Doom." Sonic said with a grin as he put his daughter back on her feet.

"Or I can do mama and see what he is going to get us from the mall." Sapphire said with a slight devious grin up at her father.

"Say can you get into your brothers head?" Sonic asked curiously with hope in his eyes as this would be, to him, an awesome little trick and possibly hand for him too.

"Ew why would I wanna get in his head for?" Sapphire said with a disgusted expression.

"Duh to mess with his mind, to blackmail him, to secretly talk to him…the list goes on sweetheart." Sonic winked down at his daughter and gave her a few ideas just to get her to try.

"That does sound like fun…ok, ok I'll do it." Sapphire said as she took a moment to think about it then agreed in trying to get into her brothers head.

"JAMIE!" Sapphire thought as she really concentrated on her brother and talking to him very loudly through the mind.

With Jamie…

Jamie was at this very moment playing on a video game against his friend, and winning the race mind you, when he suddenly cried out in surprise. He dropped the controller and looked around frantically as he could have sworn he heard his sister shout at him a second ago.

"Dude what's up with you?" Jamie's friend asked with a raised brow at him after pausing the game.

"I-I swore I just heard…never mind lets just play." Jamie said with some disbelief then shook it off and picked up his controller to continue playing.

"Jamie I am behind you!" Sapphire's voice filled Jamie's head.

"Ah chaos!" Jamie cried out again then quickly turned around only to see his sister was not there.

"Hey Jay, you sure you are alright, you seem very jumpy?" Jamie's friend asked with concern in his eyes.

"I seriously don't know man, I think I am going insane. I keep hearing my sister talking to me." Jamie sighed with a slow shake of his head.

"BOO!" Sapphire screamed in her brothers head.

"Ahh damn it all!" Jamie shouted as he got to his feat.

"Wait a minute here, is she…she is, she is talking to me mentally." Jamie thought as he calmed down but now was getting very angry with his sister.

"Jamie love Gracie, Jamie loves Gracie." Sapphire sang inside of her brothers head making him growl out loud.

"SHUT UP SAPPHIRE AND GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Jamie shouted out in frustration, now knowing for sure his sister was talking to him telepathically.

"Jay?" His friend question and was looking a little taken back from the sudden shouts of Jamie.

"I swear my sister better stay out of my head now or I'm after revenge…you hear that Saffy, I'll go into your room and shave the fur of all your stuffed cats." Jamie said with frustration then finally got back to his game.

With Sonic and Sapphire…

"Daddy that would be a yes and I can very faintly hear him reply too." Sapphire said deviously as she was going to have a lot of fun with her brother now, so much fun…after assuring her stuffed cats were safe.

"Oh man I think I might have started a sibling war." Sonic thought as he nervously laughed while rubbing the back of his neck.

With Shadow and Dark Flame…

"Hey this one feels comfortable, come try it out!" Shadow called over as he laid on his back with his arms folded behind his head on one of the display beds.

"Sure." Dark Flame replied as he walked over then crawled onto the bed from the end then laid on it like Shadow was.

"So what do you think?" Shadow asked with a soft smile as he turned his head slightly to look at his shopping partner.

Dark Flame turned his head so he could look back at Shadow and gave the hedgehog a warm smile back.

"It is quiet comfortable but so had all the others been before this one. How exactly do I choose when they are all nice?" Dark Flame asked softly as he drooped his eye lids to half way as he and Shadow locked eyes.

"Huh, good point. Ok try different positions like on your sides and belly. Here I will show you." Shadow said with a grin as to him it looked at if the alien was unsure what he meant.

Shadow turned to his left side so now he was facing his fellow Black Arms. Dark Flame grinned as he did the same and was now facing Shadow on his side.

"So?" Shadow questioned with his grin still in place.

"It's definitely a contenting position, comfortable and I could lay like this forever." Dark Flame half whispered with a loving smile at Shadow.

"That is a good sign the bed is good, I personally enjoy laying on a bed like this." Shadow smiled as he failed to once again notice Dark Flames interested-in-you expressions and body language.

Shadow slowly moved onto his belly then moved his right leg towards him so the knee bent. He laid his right hand flat near his head, right by his left eye, and the other arm was under his head as he rested on it facing Dark Flame. Dark Flame began to really enjoy seeing Shadow in this position but kept that hidden for now.

"That does look like a good position to be in, in bed." Dark Flame said with a smile as he took in the sight.

"Yeah it's very relaxing." Shadow whispered as his eye lids suddenly grew heavy, him yarning after talking back to the unrelated to him Black Arms he laid next to.

"It seems you find this bed very comfortable Shadow." Dark Flame whispered and he inched a little closer to Shadow and watched the hedgehog start to close his eyes.

"Hmmm." Shadow hummed as he was starting to drift off to sleep, his eyes fully closed now.

"Do not worry yourself my Shadow, I will protect you while you are sleeping."Dark Flame whispered as he got that little bit closer and reached out to stroke Shadow on the cheek a few times.

A few minutes later, as Dark Flame kept his eyes solely on Shadows sleeping form, a store assistant approached the two and stood next to the bed right near where Shadow was fast asleep.

"Can I help you both with anything?" The assistant, a dark grey wolf wearing the stores overalls, asked with a smile as he looked at the Black Arms alien.

"Go away." Dark Flame growled in an aggressive manner and looking ready to kill the poor guy.

"I-I'll take that…" The wolf nervously said as he took a step back but never finished his sentence as he bolted from the dangerous snarl coming from Dark Flame.

"I will protect my Shadow from everyone." Dark Flame thought as he calmed down and went back to watching Shadow sleep with soft warm features.

Ten minutes later Shadow yarned and slowly opened his eyes. He gave a look of confusion as alls he could see was Dark Flame laying very close to him.

"Er…" Shadow said as he slowly remembered where he was and what he was supposed to be doing and sleeping was not on that list.

"Right yeah bed shopping, so like the bed then yes?" Shadow said as he slowly moved to sit up then got in a crossed legged position facing Dark Flame.

Dark Flame followed Shadows movements and was now in the same position but rather close in front of Shadow.

"I do very much like the bed Shadow and I can also tell you like it too." Dark Flame said with an amused smirk.

"Y-yeah I guess I do." Shadow laughed lightly as he honestly did not mean to fall asleep but the bed was just perfectly cosy and he was in his favourite position too.

With Sonic and Sapphire…

Roughly half an hour later…

"Sonic!" Black Doom shouted as he appeared in the hallway of his son's home, looking very annoyed.

"Yeah hey Doom, wasn't expecting you to visit!" Sonic called out from the living room, he and Sapphire sniggered after he finished calling out then quickly stopped before Black Doom entered the living room.

Black Doom vanished then appeared in the living room and floated next to the sofa while glaring down at the blue hedgehog his son married.

"I know it is you Sonic, I do not know how but I know it is you messing about within the hive mind link. Stop giving unnecessary orders to my offspring and making them do reckless things. I have an important visitor and do not need this idiotic behaviour." Black Doom seriously said as he kept his three eyes on Sonic.

"Hey don't know what you are talking about Doom. How could I possibly do any of that when I am so far away from ever getting connected to the hive mind it would take a miracle for it to happen. What you are claiming is impossible for me but hey if it makes you feel better blaming me then it's cool." Sonic grinned with amusement as he basically lied through his quills.

He had been getting Sapphire to use the hive mind and give out those silly orders to make the lesser minded Black Arms to do some very stupid things. One example of that was to make a very tall pyramid made of Black Arms soldiers. And yes that did happen and yes it did fall down after a few seconds of it being complete.

"I know you are involved so just stop it." Doom firmly said with narrowed eyes then vanished.

Sonic and Sapphire turned heads and locked eyes then burst out laughing.

"Oh man and he actually came down here too." Sonic laughed as he spoke, finding all this very entertaining.

"I know right and he didn't even think that it was me all this time giving out those orders." Sapphire said with joy, also finding this prank entertaining.

"This is so going to be our little secret ok." Sonic winked with a grin at his daughter.

"Ok but Jamie figured it out, night have to give him hush, hush money to keep his mouth shut." Sapphire said with a way too innocent smile back.

"Hush, hush money? What are you now a mob boss?" Sonic raised a brow but did keep his grin on his muzzle.

"I could be, I have the skills and you for my daddy." Sapphire said as she aimed to butter up her father a little, the innocence still there.

"Aw thanks sweetheart." Sonic said with a warm tone, his grin softening to a gentle smile.

"Daddy can we do more things together please?" Sapphire asked with the sad begging look and forced tears to appear so her eyes looking big and glossy.

"Sure thing, what do you wanna do? You can pick anything you want and we will do it together ok." Sonic said as he fell right into the trap that was set for him.

"Can we…go to the mall and spy on mama?" Sapphire asked sweetly.

"Spy on your mother at the mall? Does this have something to do with wanting to know what he will pick up for you?" Sonic raised a brow then sussed out his daughters little plan.

"She is scary good, so much like Shadow and so sly...Shadow would be proud." Sonic thought as he watched his daughter just smile innocently up at him.

"You did say we can do anything together and mama always says you must never break a promise you made." Sapphire matter-of-fact said and was starting to look a little smug as she knew she had won.

"He does doesn't he…huh fine we will spy on your mother at the mall but if he finds out then the blame is all on you." Sonic sighed out in defeat but knew damn well he will be the one that gets it if this plan backfires, which he was very sure it will.

"Yay, I'll go get my shoes on then we can go." Sapphire excitedly said then ran to do just that.

"Please sweet mighty chaos, please can my babies, that are yet to be born, not be so much like their mother. I really don't think I can have more gang up on me and make me do crazy things that will bite me in the quills." Sonic thought as he slowly dragged himself out of the living room.

TO BE CONTINUED….

(Sorry for stopping it there but it has been so long since I made an update to this, so I'm very, very sorry about that. Anyway the next part hasn't been typed up yet so please be a little more patient with me. I will try and get it done as fast as I can and thanks again for the idea of this one-shot, mystery guest I thank you! Until the next update…)