Please Do This…For Me?

Well I was moving at the speed of sound.

Head-spinning, couldn't find my way around, and

Didn't know that I was going down.

Yeah, yeah.

Where I've been, well it's all a blur.

What I was looking for, I'm not sure.

Too late and didn't see it coming.

Yeah, yeah.

"Please…for me?"

"No!"

"Arrgh, Sonic!"

The two hedgehogs faced off in a glare of bitter rivalry that echoed days long past. Feelings of lesser resentment and the thirst for challenge burst in eyes of ruby red and emerald green. It didn't matter that all two hundred pounds of a wooden table was between them. Were it not for love from one and weakness from the other, they would've been at each other's throats.

Shadow crossed his arms over his chest, scowling. "I won't look at you, until you take it."

"Fine, then. See how long you can last." Sonic sounded utterly confident as Shadow turned to profile, closing his eyes. There was a moment of pause, during which Shadow drummed his fingers on his elbow. Then, he turned to face Sonic again in a flash of black, only to find a confident, knowing smirk on the younger hedgie's face.

"Sonic," Shadow was gentle—or, trying very hard to be, through his anger—now, his eyes soft and loving. Sonic was enchanted for a moment, but a part of him was still guarded. "You…you need this, Sonic. It isn't just me who insists you take this. Tails says it will help…you've told me how much you hurt." Sonic frowned and looked away. "This will take care of that."

"I don't need any stupid medicine," Sonic muttered. "Never did, never will."

"Sonic, you once called nine-one-one for yourself." Shadow pointed out, making Sonic grimace. "Surely they gave you painkillers."

"I was passed out," Sonic corrected bitterly. "I dunno what they did to me."

"Regardless."

Sonic was stubborn, and it was obvious he was going to remain stubborn. Shadow hmphed and bit his lower lip. This was going to be tough. He had to outsmart a trickster—a king of loopholes. Ah ha! A loophole! Shadow grinned hugely.

"Don't think of it as medicine, though." He suggested, smirk still in full force. "It isn't, really. It's actually a vitamin."

Sonic stared with cold malice at the twin white pills lying side by side next to a cup of filmy tap water. Then, he chanced a glance up at his victorious boyfriend. Victorious, because Sonic resigned. He sighed in defeat and placed one pill on his tongue, raising the glass to his lips.

Sonic swallowed the calcium supplement. Now he selected the second pill. This one was actually a mild painkiller, but Shadow hoped Sonic wouldn't notice. The blue hedgehog swallowed it down, took a breath, and gulped down the remaining water in the glass. He set it down with a thud and sat at the table, shivering a little. His green eyes locked with Shadow's ruby ones. There was some contempt…but it was mostly thanks in those eyes. Shadow smiled.

"There now," he soothed as Sonic rose to hug him slowly, "that wasn't so bad, was it?"

Sonic embraced his double, resting his head in Shadow's inky black shoulder, staring into space and thinking about things. He was smart. He knew Shadow had given him a mild painkiller, and it was already helping him. He found it so odd that his pride was more important than his own physical wellbeing. He smiled to himself, wondering how Shadow had ever undermined his pride in the first place.

Since when did pleasing Shadow—pleasing his boyfriend—ever come before his pride? His, well…Sonic-ness! Besides his years with Knuckles. Sonic shivered in fear. Even just thinking the name almost made him pee himself with fright. Luckily, he was in control of his bladder, now.

"No," he mused, "not hard at all. About as easy as one, two, gulp."

"One, two, gulp?" Shadow quoted, giggling as he pulled his boyfriend away to look at him. Sonic nodded, flushing as Shadow kissed his forehead. "My love, that's rather silly. What do you mean by that?"

"One, two…" Sonic made a motion like he was moving a glass to his lips, "gulp!" He grinned, amused that Shadow still seemed to have a vague understanding. It took a minute for ebony to fully comprehend.

"Oh!" Shadow laughed, which, inevitably, made Sonic laugh, too. "I gotchya. You're too funny, m'love."

Sonic stroked Shadow's pure white chest. "And you, my love, are too slow. If you can't even catch my drift, then…"

"Ha ha," Shadow rolled his eyes, but he couldn't help smiling a little. Even Sonic's playful insults were welcome in a house filled with sleep, silence, and sickness. "What am I gonna do with you?"

"Watch a movie with me, maybe?" Sonic gingerly took Shadow's hand and led him to the living room. "Since you're insisting that my moving stays minimum, I took the liberty of subscribing to Metflix." He held up a red envelope, obviously containing a DVD. "Shall we watch Doppelganger? It's a movie about a bunch of kick-ass blue aliens…"

Shadow smirked. "Oh, you mean like you?"

Sonic pushed him. "Yeah! No. C'mon." And he pulled him to the DVD player, set up the video, and quickly pressed play.

Needless to say, the two cuddled at home that night, with Shadow wondering how long it would take Sonic to figure out the second pill was a painkiller, and with Sonic wondering how long it would take Shadow to realize that he knew.

If I had my way

I'd never get over you

Today's the day

I pray that we make it through

Make it through the fall

Make it through it all.

LYRIX

Crashed by Daughtry

Fall to Pieces by Avril Lavigne