Day 2, have some Sonadow hurt/comfort!
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Embrace
It was one of those nights again.
He dreamt of running through those cold hallways, his dear sister's hand tightly clutched in his own. He dreamt of sirens, of screams and gunfire, of soldiers' boots thumping down the hall. The wailing of the sirens keeping in time with the emergency lights, red light washing over them both.
Maria embraced him the instant the doors to the escape pod launch bay closed. "Please forgive me, Shadow…" she whispered before pushing him into the circular platform. Glass surrounded him and he screamed as she initiated the launch sequence.
"Maria, LET ME OUT!" he yelled, pounding on the pod's tempered glass as the soldiers broke through the doors.
"Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog."
Gunfire. Blood. So much blood.
Maria's smile as the light went out of her blue eyes.
Then he was falling. And it was cold. So cold.
He didn't like the cold. He hated it.
He wanted to feel warm again.
Warm like Maria's hug.
The last hug she ever gave him.
But she was gone. She's never going to hug him again because she's dead. Shadow wrapped his arms around himself as he cried, trying desperately to feel warm. But there was no warmth to be felt. So, he just cried and screamed as the escape pod hurtled through the icy darkness of space.
"Shhh… It's okay… It's okay… You were just dreaming…"
He woke up to feel someone embracing him and he wept with relief as he snuggled into a peach chest. His arms wrapped around blue quills and he clung to his savior, his loud sobs getting quieter as peach arms lovingly stroked his striped quills.
"I'm here. I'm here, Shadow…" Sonic whispered into his boyfriend's ear as they lay in bed together. He could feel Shadow's claws digging into his skin but he didn't care. Instead, he sat up and carefully maneuvered the black hedgehog's body into his lap, not once letting his arms loosen their grip.
Shadow whimpered, his head tucked underneath the blue hedgehog's chin as he sobbed. He hugged Sonic so tightly, almost as if he wanted to fuse his own body with the latter's. And Sonic let him even when he felt a rib or perhaps a bit of his spinal column pop. He would hug Shadow until the latter's demons were chased away by his love and would gladly embrace him for longer after that.
Slowly, but surely, Shadow's sobs quieted and his breathing evened out. Bringing his muzzle out of a soaking wet peach-furred chest, Shadow looked into his love's emerald eyes.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Sonic asked him, pressing a tender kiss to his forehead.
"She… She hugged me before pushing me in… I-I never hugged her back…" Sniffling, Shadow rested his head on Sonic's shoulder. "I wish I had…" he sighed.
"It's okay. You were in shock and so much was going on. Don't feel bad because you didn't get to hug her back. Maria wouldn't want you to feel bad," Sonic said, fingers gently working through the tense muscles of his lover's back.
"Okay…" Shadow shut his eyes and squeezed Sonic a little. "Can we stay like this for a while longer?" he asked.
"As long as you need, Shads," Sonic said, and Shadow didn't need to see to know that he was smiling with all the love and warmth in the world.
"Thank you," he sighed and melted into peach arms that held him tight, letting the warmth of Sonic's embrace chase away the chills of his nightmares.
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