I DO NOT OWN ANY SONIC CHARACTER BECAUSE THEY ARE PROPERTY OF THEIR CREATORS. I ONLY OWN THE OCs.

Chapter 15: Of Jewels and Thieves

She looked at the beautiful ring on her hand and sighed. It was a beautiful ring that glittered and sparkled to her every delight, and shimmer and shined in the morning light. There was no abscence of diamonds because it was encrusted with the glittering jewels, all smiling at her. She sighed at it again, and took a walk downstairs to ready the breakfast.

Her fiancee slept in the other room of her mansion, for she was a classy woman, and she didn't believe that men belonged in the same bed as a woman until their wedding night, but that didn't deter some of the endings of their date nights though.

She tiptoed quietly, as not to rouse her husband, and any noise would put her years as a spy for the biggest names in the grand world to shame. Then she came to the gilded steps, encrusted with so may jewels, Bean in his youth would shudder with euphoria. Well, she does too, as they both share a common interest in shiny things-obsession- but that's not who's sleeping upstairs. Let's just say that he's got a very important job to do.

She flies down the stairs, making sure as not to clap her wings together when she flaps into the air, and like a ballerina, glides down the stairs gracefully, only to hear, "Rouge baby! I'm comin' to give ya a kiss!" Now he's awake, which isn't entirely a bad thing, she just wanted to give him some breakfast before they leave to go to their respective jobs.

She heard his joyous footsteps thunder to her room, call out her name, then come thundering down the stairs. He then glides towards her, tackling her, but twisting his body so that way she's on top of him, and not hurt. Before she can even react, he kisses her a few times and says, "Good morning."

She looks into his purple eyes and repeats the good morning with a kiss, before standing up and saying, "I'll go fix breakfast, Knuckie." "Okay, Rougey-Pougy." he states lovingly. They kiss again, and Rouge goes her merry way of making breakfast.

She finishes, serves it, and they eat it. "Your French toast is always delish!" Knuckles smiles in satisfaction. Rouge smiles at him, kisses him again, and they go get ready for the rest of the day.

She preens through her closet to find her red blouse, her sky blue skirt, her black high heels, her sunglasses, and then her hairtie. As she grazes her hand by the clothing, her hand brushes against her wedding dress- a dazzling white gown embellished with pearls and lacing, the bottom flowering out, and the top contouring modestly to her figure. She prayed that her daughter, if she ever had one, would not inherit her bust, as it's brought her aweful problems.

How would you feel if people just stared directly at your breasts as they talk to you and never once looked you in the eyes? All the men did that to her, minus the men in her family, and Lightning the Lynx, her mob partner. Lightning's eyes would occassionally dart down to her breasts, but he never stared.

When she was younger, the only man she wanted staring at her breasts was Nack, and that was because she loved him, but he was either too stupid to notice her, didn't feel the same way, or his hellion whore of a sister was always around, protecting him from her "slutty" hands, because hey, anybody who doesn't regularly lay as many males as possible because their boyfriend wanted to preserve himself for marriage was the sluttiest slut all sluts have ever heard of.

Okay, she wasn't as innocent as she displays herself out to be. She may have lost her virginity to Lightning after trying to spike Nack's lemonade doesn't quite ring her high on the heroism list, but at least she apologized to Lightning before the salad incident, where she spiked Nack's salad, only for him to declare that he hates salad, and along came Lightning, who then decides to eat it and became intoxicated under it's witchy glow, and gave up the ghost after having to literally drag him home because she underestimated the potency of what she was using, and he fell asleep on her. But somehow, that makes her a whore because she slept with one man on accident, trying to date another, and took the other man back to his respective home so that way he wasn't mugged in his sleep.

Nic wasn't Miss Perfect either. Let's see, she slept with all of Predator Hawk's teammates when he wouldn't sleep with her, slept with her neighbor, spiked Bark's drink so that way she could have his virginity and left him naked in a bed, ashamed, until Nack found out (Bean was too busy trying to piece Bark back together) and raised Hell about it, and then there was some rumor flying hot about how she made out with her own brother.

Rouge was still branded as a whore for her large chest, as if she could help that (It's hereditary) regardless of the fact she's only slept with one man, and one time in her life, she wanted to become a nun at the Goddess's Temple.
Slowly, her love for the unachievable Fang the Sniper waned, and built into love for Shadow, who then broke her heart when Espio squaled, "Rape!" It took her a long time to get over that, even though the judge had told her that Shadow was innocent of the hanus act, but still, it changed everything for her and she never saw him in the same light again.

Lightning was just an accidental screw, thanks to her failed attempts to spike Nack, as that was really the only way she was ever going to get him, if he, and Nic, were both unaware of their surroundings, which she absoloutely hated, and she eventually stopped when she had a big pregnancy scare, and Lightning was starting to freak out over waking up in bed with her and not remembering a damn thing that happened the night before. Other than that, he was just a good friend, and a loyal mob partner. Then there was his friend-Predator Hawk.

She never like Predator Hawk, as the man was obsessed with her. He seemed like such a cutie pie at first, but then he turned psycho and kept asking her on dates and everything. He was really creepy, and Flying just looked sour to see her, probably because their house was decorated with flowers to the hilt, and "Marry Me Rouge" sashes were overtaking the place. Simian, as with every male, couldn't stop stop staring at her breasts long enough to look at her face, and left the house immediately, looking as if he was going to explode from the ecstasy she calls a curse if he didn't. And he usually let the house with a, "I gotta get out of here before I turn into a freak!" Real classy he was. Broke many doors and ripped the muffler off of his truck from a speedbump once because of her.

One time, Predator forced a kiss on her, and well, she kicked his jibblets in, and not even that deterred him. In fact, it turned him on and made him hound her even more! Eventually, Fiona found out (as that was the only time she was able to visit Lightning freely in his own home, if you don't count Predator bugging them to the point that they have to leave), and called Nic, and sure enough as hell, there was a nasty scuffle, and a lot of screaming, crying, breakups, and the new revelation on how Predator was so prude and that his teammates were better screws than him, and a whole list of things a long as Big's body and twice a voluminous that went down/was revealed/taken to an over-the-top dramatic level. Then there was Knuckles.

At first, she didn't like him but only the idea of riling him up, plus, she was a tease and a flirt in her younger days, so she was hoping that Knuckles would fall for her and hand her over that pretty little shiny he loves to guard, but instead, they both fell, and fell hard.

She loved him with every strand of her being, as did he, and they saw each other for countless days and countless nights. Spent countless evenings watching the sun set, and countless mornings watching the sun rise. Countless vacations together, and countless times that they've watched the Master Emerald together. Countless times they've saw each other through a new light.

But there was one problem more she had to deal with- The Whore. Sonia Speedway the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog's triplet sister, who, by the way is married and looking for a way out, has targetted her husband again.
Now she and Knuckles had a very intimate affair when they were younger, and they broke up when Sonia decided that exclusitivity was for the birds, so she brought in Antoine, her other boyfriend, who had no idea that Sonia was cheating on him, to join in on the fun, thinking that Knuckles would be okay with a threesome.

Now notice, Sonia doesn't look to be the type to just throw her body to anyone, but looks are decieving. Sonic's not very proud of it either, and it's especially slandering to the Freedom Fighters's name when people think of her and go, "Isn't she a Freedom Fighter? What a shame."

Rouge may be an only child, but she knows that brothers can be a protective of their sisters, and she didn't think that Sonic liked the man parade marching boldly to his sister's bedroom. So, in order to ward off any unwanted visitors, he gave every man -family, friend, and foe- a restraining order against them to never see his sister again, but it still happened.

Either way, Sonia had ruined many lives. Antoine, who didn't speak a lick of English at all, was taken advantage of when Knuckles left Sonia, only to be replaced by Espio, who, once again, deceptive looks, liked the idea of sharing Antoine with her, and proceeded to demean Antoine that way, and he set up a video to capture it all on tape for Sonia, and when Antoine saw it, he was horrified. He broke up with her on the spot, and then things got worse for him. She showed everyone the video, embarassing Antoine so bad, he left back for France for a long time.

Even Sally was paranoid to have her around! She has 3 men on her team and a 10 year old boy, who really didn't need to walk in on Sonia doing the bedroom romp with Rotor (who's just looking for an easy piece), Antoine (who's already been victimized once), and Sonic (who'll kill any man that looks at her in a sexual manner), and warning many of the Sonic villains, ruining the Freedom Fighter's good name.

Rouge hated the idea of leaving Knuckles alone with Sonia. She is always popping up and bumping into them wherever they go, and usually, Knuckles is alone when she does this. Rouge was afraid that Sonia was going to win Knuckles back, and then she'd break his heart, or worse, be killed by Espio, who really doesn't give a rat's ass about whatever happens to her. Plus, she may have big boobs on her side, but that doesn't stand a chance against kinky sex, and Rouge wanted to keep that kink reserved for that Special One.

She didn't want to lose him, but how can she compare to Sonia. Sonia's just so beautiful, and she's just so ugly. Sonia was just that lovable, she, on the other hand had to work hard to be loved. When she was younger, she was teased heavily because she was a fat kid who wore glasses and had boy-style hair with real bad acne at 7. She can already hear the children taunting her in her head going, "Tubby! Tubby! She'll die alone with her macaroni!" Her chest and butt are natural, but not her curves! They're liposuction curves! Sonia's are au naturel, but not hers!

Rouge was crying by now as she looked at herself in the mirror. She was not as confident as she made herself out to be, and felt inferior to all the other girls. Wave was beautiful, Sally was beautiful, Blaze, Bunnie, everybody else but her! How could she ever compare to Wave's lucious locks, Sally's toned legs, Blaze's curves, Bunnie's dazzling eyes, Fiona's meek little nose, and Nic, who was so natural, so pretty, the only flaw on her body was that gigantic fang that hung out of her mouth like her brother's, and she had a flat stomach! Even the boys were prettier than her!

She had to stop this, now! She walked into her bathroom, after gathering a washcloth and her makeup, and washed the tears off of her face. She grabbed a piece of toilet paper, blew her nose on it, and threw it away, before applying her makeup, using the bathroom, and crawling out of the bathroom window to avoid Knuckles, and flew quickly to her CIA job, as she had quit G.U.N. when they betrayed her, with their eleven reasons why:

1. When the first humans came, Earth was overpopulated, so they found Mobius, an animal sanctuary where no human has ever set foot, that was 2 galaxies away, that was the mirror copy of Earth in all aspects, that was to be used to save Earth. And when they got here, they didn't use it for saving Earth, they used it for experimenting-taking innocent animals and turning them into what the Mobian's are now- mutated humanoids. They kept fucking around with nature until they attracted aliens, and then caused the elements to produce elementals, who were not very tangible beings outside their elemental realm at the time, who then mated with the Mobian animal people, and now they're everywhere.

2. She had the powers of speed, heightened endurance, and her little secret, clairsentience, or the power to be able to percieve an object's history through a simple touch, and they were trying to eradicate the 5,000 people with powers on Mobius.

3. They think she knows something about an alien race known as the Babylonians, who are walking around everywhere (as are people from other dimensions and time travelers, but you didn't hear it from her).

4. She's in the mob, probably one of the only legitamate reasons why they kicked her out.

5. She knows about 27 Ancient Languages of the world.

6. Nic the Bitch said that she was a double agent for Eggman.

7. They believe that because she's a bat she's a dumb animal that's going to kill and eat them one day. She's a fruit bat. They should be more worried about foxpeople, snakepeople, and catpeople, because now they can hunt around freely for everyone else because they're no longer bound to a certain ecosystem. And did they not know that she's just as worried about being eaten by a rogue Mobian more than them?

8. Shadow the Hedgehog's release

9. She's nocturnal, if that's even a plausible reason at all.

10. Because the animal people can speak in human, as well as animal tongue, as if it's her fault that humans made this mess happen.

11. Because she knows too much. Too much about what exactly? Remember, she's just a dumb animal who's trying to eat humans, so why would they tell her anything?

But what about Knuckles? What if that bitch comes up to their mansion naked and he's unable to resist? What if she rapes him? She can't leave him alone! Now with Sonia hot after his ass! She quickly turns around and races back to her house, only to find Knuckles and Sonia locked into a deep kiss. She stood there gasping, before she covered her eyes and floated down towards the ground to cry the tears of her aching heart. But wait, there was something else going on. An arguement. What was it about? Rouge sniffled, blew her nose, then tuned in her ears towards the action that she was dreading to hear but must know.

"If I have to do the damn Michael Jackson Lean to escape you I'm not interested." Knuckles argued, looking at Sonia with harsh contempt. "Aw, but Knuckie, remember when you and I had such fun?" Sonia asked, sultry at every turn in her mouth. "You're the reason Rouge is so upset and paranoid. Why would I want to be associated with you?" Knuckles growled. "Because if it wasn't for me, you'd still be jacking off to a damn magazine!" Sonia shouted.

"If it wasn't for you, Sonic would still be my friend, Espio and I might be able to properly hang out without being eyed like we're a couple of murderers standing over a body, Rouge wouldn't be so worried about me being alone with you, Shadow, Antoine, Espio, and all of the girls with boyfriends might be able to enjoy normal lives without having them ruined everytime you show your face, and I-I would feel more free." Knuckles spat. "Feel more free to what? Fuck your fake tittied whore?" Sonia asked, angry that this arguement was not flying her way. "Free to deck you in the face." Knuckles shot back.

"Knuckles baby, don't be that way," she bargained. "You know what I can give you if you leave her for me." "What can I get from you, a headache?" Knuckles snarked. "No, all the kinky sex you want, a real woman for a wife, and all the riches you could ever dream of achieving, I'm a princess you know." Sonia told, looking Knuckles in the eye. "But what about Espio," Knuckles asked, concerned for Espio, and getting ready to map out a bombshell that would rock her world. "And I thought Queen Aleena had you dethroned as princess, after she had taken back her throne from the Acorns, for your actions?"

"She did," Sonia whispered silently, her eyes widening, her face aging. "There's noone else to take the throne but my brother Sonic. Manic is dead, I am all that is left, but that still doesn't mean that I can't have you." Sonia tried to kiss him again, but Knuckles pushed her harder this time, saying, "Don't touch me! You can't have me! I'm Rouge's! She's my princess, not you! I don't care if you're the princess of the world, you've done too much to be repairable! Get out of my life!" He screamed the last part so loud, she cringed.

"No," Sonia barked. "Just to piss you off! I'll be here every night tapping at your window!" "Not if your legs are too broke to spread apart!" Knuckles threatens. And he grabs the vulptuous beauty, picks her up by the sides, and hurls her towards the other side of the street. He didn't want to hurt her, he just wanted her to get the message.

Sonia got up, clutching her lower ribs, as she stood up from the bottom of the neighbor's steps, which sucked when she landed, and turned into a bitch when she toppled down them. She looked at Knuckles across the street, only to see that slut race into his open arms. She couldn't believe that Rouge had won his heart! The indignation!

Sonia wouldn't dare let an emotion show, though it was hard not too. She was very heartbroken and alone as Espio was the last person on Mobius she would want to marry. Ninjas are cool, but he aspires to be something he's not. Don't get her, or the author wrong, Japanese people are pretty darn awesome, but keep Japan in Japan, and keep America in America.

Hell, their house looks like it was dropped from Japan by a Kansas tornado because Espio couldn't live out his dream to become Japanese (How could he? You are the race of where you were born at, as it's not like they could change it, and he should be proud to be himself, not someone else, but it's not like he cares, he's only out for himself).

He wanted to live in Japan, and they were going to be moving in a few months, so she was in a bind trying to win Knuckles back so that way she could stay in America and live out her dreams to be a psychologist, marry Knuckles, a mailman with a lucrative pay, live in a nice home with Espio's triplets, and then bring in a child by Knuckles into the world, but Knuckles wanted her.

She couldn't even say her name without an icy chill running down her back like cold water. Oh Knuckles, will you ever love me again, she thought. Maybe I came on too strong? Maybe I should have been better? Knuckles, come back to me, Espio means nothing to me! Don't you realize that I'll be gone forever in a few months, and I don't even speak Japanese!

But no matter how hard she pleaded in her mind, one question would ache in her heart forever: What had happen between the two of them?

Rouge watched as the emotionless hedgehog cut her losses and walk away, blinking hard. Rouge cheered inside, knowing that she was triumphant in winning, no he, was triumphant in winning her love. She gave Knuckles a kiss bursting with passion and smiled.

Chapter Epilogue

The wedding went off with only a few hits. Of course Reeji, Rouge's screw-up cousin, had to appear, wearing her own bridesmaid outfit, regardless of the fact Ol' Cousin Rouge spent a fortune on her feathered outfit (as that was the theme of her wedding- Feathers and Hearts and Feathers), and replaced it with an ugly dress that was, drumroll please, Sonic the Hedgehog's face.

Predator Hawk showed up, as did Lightning, but the blue one didn't stay long. The only thing he did was wish her a Happy Birthday, steal a slab of the cake, stole half of the decorations and buffet, drank most of the champagne, and walked out of there bawling his eyes out. But why did he say Happy Birthday? Because this was her birthday! She would be turning 24 today, and this was her mother's birthday also, as well as the very romantic Valentine's Day!

The wedding ring was dazzled in emeralds. A big green one sat on top, in the shape of a heart, with Knuckles & Rouge 4Ever etched into the sides of it, in green, her favorite color.

Lightning was talking to Knuckles like they had grew up together, eating his cake, and patting Knuckles on the back, something Lightning would never do because it was a major taboo in Japan to touch another person, but he's also stayed in America for awhile, and while his speech has slowly improved to the point of understandability, he has picked up few American customs, even helping with the Fourth of July displays whilst waving a Japanese and American flag.

She walked over to the two men and talked to them, and from then on out, she had a blast and enjoyed the wedding night, honeymoon to Japan, sponsored by Lightning, and the rest of their lives, and Knuckles and Rouge lived till death do them part, literally.

End of Chapter 15