A/N: No fan-characters were used in this one. Just type in their names in google for pictures.

Happy Birthday! (Silvaze)

Requested by Johnathen

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"Well, Silver…," Melody began with an almost ominous voice. The fourteen-year-old mongoose was a massive trouble-maker, and sometimes Silver almost thought that her survival must have been a mistake. The mongoose in question, however, just smirked, and said, "So what do you want for your birthday?"

…Their hideout became notably much quieter, as everyone stilled their movement and turned their attention to him. Silver suddenly felt three things: 1) embarrassed because he had forgot that his birthday was tomorrow, 2) slightly disappointed because apparently no one had known what to get him (not that there were a lot of options) and 3) flustered because uh-oh, Blaze was looking at him-!

"…I don't know." –Silver suddenly felt like slapping himself, had his arm not been in bandages. He then tried with, "A better future?"

-Someone in the crowd then said, "Who doesn't want that?"

"…Well at least I'm going to bake you a cake," Lara Su then concluded. The echidna girl tried to act as a leader for their little group, but Silver and Blaze were hardly ever at their hideout anyway… Iblis didn't rest, so why should they?

"How old will you be then?" A quiet little fox-boy said, sitting next to Silver at the table. In the hideout their dinners usually went like this – everyone crammed around a big table. Nearly all of them were young orphans…

"15," Silver answered, and the boy nodded.

"Good, then I know what to write on the cake," Lara Su declared. "Happy 15-years of surviving! That'll be perfect." –no one mentioned the sarcasm.

Silver just nodded a little. Finally people started chattering again, slowly, and soon no one was looking at him anymore. Except for Blaze. Silver could feel her eyes on him, like she was looking into his soul, but when he looked up…

…then she averted her eyes.


Later…

Silver let an annoyed groan slip out into the night.

Goddamn arm. Fucking biters.

He had been attacked earlier today, while out with Blaze. She had – of course – saved him from some of those annoying Iblis biters, and everything would have went 100% perfect. Would have. Unfortunately some Iblis worms were hiding just behind that other rock, and yeah…

He turned on his side. The cot he lay on was put next to a crack in the wall, and it appeared to be storming outside, since fresh air was sneaking inside mercifully – his arm felt like it was burning.

He sighed. His eyelids felt heavy, but it wasn't enough. His arm felt too much already…

Blaze was sleeping on a cot next to his. He tried not to wake her up, but his arm kept him up and bored still.

…And Blaze lay far too close to him. How was he ever supposed to sleep like this?

Did she… get me anything?

It was his birthday tomorrow. How could he have forgot?

Outside it blew, and wisps of cool air swatted at his cheek. It was so dark, and he could barely see Blaze's silhouette in front of him… The sound of someone breathing… A yawn slipping out into the darkness…

Tomorrow


"Silver," someone urged. His arm felt warm, and it was dark…

"…Wath-is it?" He mumbled.

"It's your birthday!" The voice announced.

"…Can't yu just… fight it 'lone…?" Silver turned around, trying to escape the sudden light poking at his closed eyelids.

"Fight it? I said that it's your birthday!"

Oh

He cracked his eyes open, and blinked against the light. He heard more voices now, murmurs and whispering. Someone moved around a little. And someone – a certain lavender someone – had lit a torch so that it wasn't dark anymore.

"Oh," he said. He blinked, and brought a hand up to his eyes to rub them a little. His other arm felt far too hot for his liking, and he wasn't too keen on finding out how it would feel like if he moved it around…

When he then looked again, Blaze was the first one he saw. She sat on her knees on her cot, and she was, as always, watching him with those amber eyes. Behind her stood Melody and Lara Su, and what remained of their group. They had make-shift presents and party hats, and were showing off rarely used smiles.

Silver only wished Blaze would smile too.

The presents were mostly useful things, or things made so that he would remember their faces if the gift-givers were to pass away. He even got some aloe-vera for his arm, and Lara Su had, just as she said, baked a cake for him.

It was… nice.


Later…

"How's your arm?"

Silver looked up. Blaze was walking in front of him, but now she had stopped. Silver halted too, and took a quick look at their surroundings. Dark mountains which looked like they had been sprinkled with lava were perched on the horizon in front of them, and large rocks lay strewn everywhere. The ground was tilting slightly sideways, and he could hear thunder in the distance.

A wind was picking up. Silver glanced down at his arm – they had changed the bandages back at the hideout. "I dunno. It's alright, I guess…" He looked at Blaze. "Where exactly are we heading anyway?"

-Not that he wouldn't put his trust into her blindly – he was just curious.

"…We're going back to the ruins of Soleanna," Blaze said, and looked away.

"…Oh," Silver said before he could stop himself. Oh, they were going back to the possibly worst place of them all. The lava swamp and the collapsing ruins that had killed almost half of their group, or the old lab at the bottom of the valley filled with lava… no, those places weren't nearly as dangerous.

The city of Soleanna was a massive place, filled with old buildings collapsing over each other. The ground was just a sea of lava, and whirlwinds which threw around old vehicles like toys filled the place. Some of the buildings had been completely flooded with lava, and the deadly substance flowed out through the broken windows like waterfalls. And the place was crowded with Iblis biters and worms…

…And if that wasn't enough already, but the whole Iblis problem had started in that exact city. The city practically belonged to Iblis by now, if not the rest of the world did.

…So, oh

Blaze continued walking. Silver quickly followed her, keeping an eye on the surroundings. There wasn't any paths to follow, so Blaze soon began to jump from boulder to boulder nimbly. When that happened, Silver used his psychokinesis to begin flying.

The wind had gotten stronger, and it howled down between the rocks and cliffs. They were getting pretty high up, and the wind would turn around and push against them from different directions. The mountains were drawing closer…

"Woa-aaahh!" Blaze let out a surprised shout, and Silver spun around in the air. She was falling.

The wind had caught her, and she was falling, and Silver was diving to catch her. And if fifteen years of living in this world had taught him anything, then it was how to save someone…

…Her wrist, her hand grabbing for his.

…Air rushing past, and then,

"Oof!"

"…Got you."

Blaze put her arms around to his torso so that she wouldn't fall by mistake, and Silver immediately began looking at anything that wasn't Blaze. He quickly flew towards one of the bigger rocks, cyan sparks trailing after them in the air.

When he reached the rock, he then tried to gently put her down on it.

…Blaze simply leapt over to the rock, elegantly soaring through the air before landing safely on the rock. A very dramatic gust of wind then ruffled her ponytail, and made her cape flicker in the wind.

-Silver had to look away again, cheeks red. Chaos, sometimes he really hated the fact that he was so pale…

"Thanks."

He looked up again.

Blaze was… smiling? At him? She was standing just at the edge of the cliff, smiling with the wind in her hair… She was beautiful… Silver sometimes though that she looked like a goddess of flames. Or war, maybe.

"…No problem." –Silver managed a response.

Blaze shook her head a little, tail waving behind her absently. "It's your birthday," she then stated. She looked up again. "…I… didn't know what to get you. But-" She held up a hand to silence Silver, who had opened his mouth to say that she didn't need to.

She smiled. "But, then I thought…" She trailed off, motioning for Silver. The white hedgehog raised an eyebrow, but didn't question as he then flew over to her, landing smoothly next to her. She turned to him, and – of course, it really was inevitable, wasn't it? – their eyes met. Two pairs of golden eyes…

"Maybe…" She almost whispered, stepping closer. They were standing very, very close now… And Silver couldn't move. She had trapped him with his eyes – and quite frankly he wanted to see where this was going.

A hand was put on his arm, and he shifted closer, leaning into it – whatever this contact was. His heart pounded almost painfully in his chest – he could hear his pulse in his ears. The smell of scented candles, of fireplaces, of… lavender?

She looked so intently at him. Like she tried to speak only by using her eyes…

He could feel her breathing on his mouth. His eyes slid shut, he tilted his head…

…Her lips were soft. And it was a kiss.