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Play dough or the Looney Tunes)
Thanks again to my reviewers, nothing's better than writing and actually getting a review. Please, if you do read this, leave a review. *Big Puppy Dog Eyes*
Also I can kinda feel a writer's block coming on so if anyone has any requests or suggestions let me know as well!! (Besides the fact of having Tails join in cause as stated before, he's coming! ^_^)
As The Years Go By........
Chapter Three: The Accident
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The morning was filled with the smell of a warm breakfast and the sound of cartoons blasting away on the television. On the screen a roadrunner raced off with a "Beep Beep!" leaving a grumbling and injured coyote behind.
"I can do that!" Sonic exclaimed happily as he began to run around imitating the roadrunner.
"Sonics silly." Amy laughed watching him run around the room.
"Beep Beep!" Sonic shouted playfully while pulling on Shadow's ears from behind the couch making him nearly choke on his oatmeal.
"Sonic!!" he shouted angrily tiny quills slightly bristling.
"Beep Beep!" the blue hedgehog simply replied complete with the teasing tongue movements this time before dashing off.
As Knuckles and Amy laughed, Shadow accepted the challenge and quickly followed assuming the role of the coyote. "I'll win this time Sonic!" he shouted as he ran out of the room.
Knuckles watched them and then sighed deeply wishing he could follow but they were too fast for him and he was already bored watching the television. He reached for his oatmeal to finish it only to find that it was already freezing cold and kind of stiff making his face wrinkle up.
"Still hungwy?" Amy asked not even bothering to look at her own bowl.
" Yeah...a little." he answered easing himself of the high couch and onto the floor.
"I can make you something!" The hedgehog exclaimed eyes dancing with excitement.
Knuckles merely raised an eyebrow at her. "You can't cook."
"Yes I can! Watch!" Walking over to the toy box, she proceeded to take out her play dough set.
Frowning, the red echidna stared at her suspiciously immediately doubting her words. "That's not food!"
"Yes it is!" Amy huffed as she began to knead the dough into various shapes. It didn't take long before she proudly offered him a square slab of clay. "Ta da!"
Eyeing it warily Knuckles took it into his hands. "What is it?"
"It's a sandwich silly! Go on try it, you'll like it!"
Against his better judgment, Knuckles sniffed the clay and deciding as he took a bite that it smelled at least interesting that probably didn't taste too bad...
Wrong wrong wrong!!! Boy was he ever wrong he thought as the bitter taste hit his taste buds.
Recoiling in disgust, he quickly spitted it out onto a napkin swiping furiously at his tongue and drinking large amounts of water from his cup.
"You didn't like it?" Amy asked innocently.
"No!!" he shouted frowning at her. "It's NOT food!"
"Hmf! Yes it is!" she insisted taking a bite of her own "food". Quickly spitting it out of her mouth as well she smiled sheepishly at him. "Heh heh, ......oops."
"Oops!" Knuckles mocked with a deeper frown wincing at the taste that refused to leave his mouth making him go off in search of Maya.
Maya meanwhile was watching something fairly interesting. Having wanted to get an early start on the chores, she had been in the basement doing the laundry when an all too familiar force of wind blew past her again making all the clothes sail high in the air and then fall like leaves.
She had no idea how long she had been standing there watching the black and blue blur zip around the room and was confused with the occasional "Beep Beep" sound.
Suddenly a shout of "Hey, don't push Shadow!" followed by laughter was heard before a black and black blur rolled out and hit the wall followed by a blue one.
Nearly standing on their heads with their backs pushed up against the wall and their feet in the air, the two hedgehogs stayed, dazed. "Hey, I won!" Shadow exclaimed suddenly noticing that he had hit the wall first and in his innocence, counted it as a victory.
Sonic didn't bother to reply as he watched the pretty birds fly around his head.
Shaking her head with a slight smile the kitsune went to check on them making sure they did not suffer any serious injuries. As she finished, another voice demanded her attention.
"Mama!!" the disembodied voice called out obviously searching for her.
The name made her smile brighter. She had never taught them to call her that but they had chosen to do so after hearing other children calling their "mothers" that.
(A/N: Really, what else would they call her? "Yo Maya get over here now!" imagine? lol)
"Mama!!" the voice cried again revealing Knuckles who upon seeing her, immediately tugged on her leg as if she wasn't already seeing him. Kneeling down to his level she took his hands in her own showing him that he had her full attention. "What is it?"
"Amy tried to posny ....poisn......poseion......agh.....make me sick!"
Maya stared at him in complete confusion now. "What do you mean hun?"
"I didn't do it!" Amy's voice traveled down to them.
"Yes you did! You tried to make me eat play dough!"
Her eyes widening, she had to restrain herself from shouting. "You guys almost ate what?!?"
"I didn't do it!" Amy insisted yet again.
"Play dough." Knuckles stated bluntly wrinkling his small face in disgust at the memory of the taste.
Maya sighed, slightly worried. "Did you swallow any of it? Was it a lot?"
Knuckles shook his head in response. "I can still taste it, am I....am I going to get sick?"
"No sweetie.....just go upstairs and drink your milk."
"Kay...." As Knuckles was about to turn to leave, Shadow ran up behind him quietly and as loud as he lungs allowed possible, yelled...."BOO!" making the poor echidna give a startled yell and jump into Maya's arms.
"Hahaha!! Scaredy cat scaredy cat!" The tiny black hedgehog taunted.
"Shadow....." an older voice warned complete with the "look".
"Heheheheh....." Shadow laughed nervously having gotten the message.
Sonic finally made his way over to them still slightly dazed as Knuckles was busy glaring at Shadow the best he could.
"All right guys since you are already here, why don't you help me clean up the...."
One look over her shoulder made her realize that she was alone the trio having done a quick disappearing act after hearing the word "clean."
Upstairs the boys quickly found out hwy Amy had not joined them downstairs as she would have done under any other circumstances since she tended to tag along a lot. The pink hedgehog was only inches away from the television making the funniest motions they had ever seen.
Amy continued to bounce in place waving her arms in various directions while doing so watching the television intently.
"Amy? whatcha doing?" Sonic asked watching her in total confusion.
"Exercising" she replied happily continuing to mimic the movements of the large blue bear dancing on the screen.
"Change it." The boys demanded in unison.
"No! I wuv Wuggles the bear and I was here first!"
"He dances funny."
"He's ugly."
"He's .......hey he's blue like me!" Sonic exclaimed suddenly having finally noticed.
Blinking in confusion Shadow and Knuckles looked at their blue companion with question marks in their eyes. "Yeah...so?"
"So....he's cool." Sonic smiled as Amy beamed. However after a few more minutes of watching useless dancing, Sonic's enthusiasm quickly disappeared and he grew bored watching the bear. "Okay....maybe not."
"Change it!" Knuckles and Shadow chorused once more.
"Yeah Amy...change it already." Sonic agreed reaching for the remote.
"No!" she shouted stubbornly holding onto the remote tightly.
Starting to feel even more frustrated, Sonic grabbed onto the other end of the remote pulling on it roughly. "It's our turn to watch sumthin!" he argued.
Now Shadow and Knuckles watched almost hopelessly and the situation in front of them was an accident just waiting to happen. The two hedgehogs were showing their stubborn qualities as best they could neither wanting to let go of the remote.
Then finally, Sonic gave a mighty tug using all the strength his small body had and was able to yank it out of Amy's hands, but at a price. The force he used, and her suddenly having to let go, made him stumble backwards a few steps and finally lose his balance as he fell backwards right onto Knuckles who had been standing near him.
It would have been okay if only the force of him falling against Knuckles hadn't caused Knuckles himself to fall backwards colliding against the side table where a lamp rested and bring both the table and lamp down with him. The table and lamp fell first and Knuckles landed heavily on top. The whole thing made a thunderous and ominous sound making Maya try to practically fly up the stairs in panic mode fearing the worst, that they were under attack.
Meanwhile the children were in shock as they stared at the mess. Sonic instantly felt horrible and started to ask Knuckles if he was okay since he was just sitting there not moving at all. Fearful the others began to inquire if he was all right as well but he ignored them all and slowly looked down at his right hand.
A rather large shard of porcelain from the broken lamp had forced its way into his palm when he landed heavily on it making a deep cut that just now slowly started to bleed. It wasn't until he saw the blood that he snapped out of his shock and his body registered the pain. Without warning he screamed in pain and began to cry hysterically startling them all and making Maya who was already near the top of the stairs, jump over the remaining two.
Shock could not explain the look on her face when she finally reached the living room and surveyed the scene. Quickly spotting the hysterical echidna she ran to him picking him up quickly hoping to calm him not noticing his hand right away.
Knuckles continued to cry loudly unable to calm down, especially when Maya did see the rather large shard for his rather small hand impaled in it. He squirmed frantically as she took it out as gently as possible. Once the worst deed was done she wrapped his hand tightly and rubbed his back, desperately trying to calm him at least to the point where he wasn't screaming and told the others to follow her as they headed out the door. The cut was both wide and deep and she had no doubt that the hand would need stitches so they were on their way to the mansion to see the doctor.
In the mansion they immediately headed to the east wing, the designated "hospital" area. Being so young and not really having many other patients, Knuckles was seen almost immediately. Maya had the children explain what had happened to a doctor they all knew very well since he had done all their check ups, a young male kitsune with gray fur, emerald colored eyes and silky black hair, Doctor Thomas was his name. Throughout the whole story he listened attentively and smiled at them reassuringly. When they were done, he turned to Knuckles who had calmed down to the point where he wasn't screaming anymore but still started to cry anew every time his hand throbbed.
"Well now little one, guess we'd better fix you up, eh?"
Silence returned as a response as the small echidna hid his face in Maya's arms. "Aw, c'mon now. Don't tell me you've lost your voice or are suddenly scared of ol' doc Thomas are ya? I heard you do some pretty good screaming in the waiting room."
Knuckles smiled sheepishly at that and began to rub the tears from his eyes when he accidentally moved his bad hand; making him whimper and new tears spring to his eyes.
The doctor motioned to a nearby nurse who got the message and gently picked Knuckles up carrying him into another room as he waved "bye" with his good hand. "Don't worry guys we'll make him better in no time." Doctor Thomas assured the rest of the family as he too disappeared into the other room.
In the waiting room Shadow, Sonic and Amy quickly took paper and crayons from the office's toy box and began to make get well cards for their "brother". Maya watched them, helping them when she could as she also skimmed through a very very old magazine. Everything was so silent and peaceful that it was no surprise that she jumped when a loud voice called her name.
"Maya! There you are! I was calling you earlier!"
"Simone, please, must you be so loud?"
"Of course, if I wasn't, then I wouldn't be me!" The female rabbit replied happily making the other laugh wholeheartedly.
"What are you doing here you crazy girl?"
"Hm? Oh I was just bringing in my two young ones for their check up." She stated calmly pointing to the other side of the room where a small dog and bunny sat. "What about you?"
Maya's eyes and voice softened as the wondered over to the closed examination door. "We had a little accident..and now Knuckles needs stitches in his hand."
"Aww. I'm sorry to hear that. Will he be all right?"
"I'm sure, it was nothing too major, just a little scary that's all."
"Well that's good at least."
Simone and Maya continued their conversation the children worked hard at their cards. Suddenly Shadow stopped, feeling that funny little feeling that had taught him how to leave the diaper behind. Knowing what it meant he quietly made his way over to Maya and tugged on her sleeve gently.
".Gotta go potty." he whispered having been taught that he should be discreet about such a thing.
But perhaps he was being too discreet as Maya and Simone continued to talk, his mother not having felt his tug or heard his call.
"So, what were you calling me for anyway? Just to chat?" Maya asked casually.
"No, in fact I was hoping that we could all do something together, just for some fun for once."
"Oh really? What did you have in mind?"
Shadow sighed at their boring conversation and tugged harder raising his voice just a tad. "Potty!" he implored once more waiting for the proper response.
"Well, I was thinking of taking everyone for a dip in the pool, but I know you wouldn't want to now with Knuckles being hurt and all."
"Well it would be nice .but he definitely wouldn't be able to get in and wet his fresh stitches, I wouldn't want him to feel left out."
"I understand, but why don't we see how it goes? Maybe Knuckles won't feel like getting in anyway."
"I suppose, but what if-"
Maya never got to finish her sentence as Shadow had, had enough. His stomach was now hurting and he was starting to hop up and down trying to ignore it, when he couldn't, he yelled at the top of his lungs. "Gotta go potty!!" He yelled so loudly that the entire room heard causing others to snicker and Maya to feel embarrassed.
Simone could hardly control her laughter as she reached her hand out to the little black hedgehog in the middle of his pee pee dance. "Come with Auntie Simone, Shadow, I'll take you to the potty."
Shadow quickly complied not even bothered one bit that he had embarrassed himself. Within another fifteen minutes since Shadow's return from the restroom, a nurse finally emerged with a small red echidna sleeping in her arms, a white gauze wrapped tightly around his right hand.
"He should be alright, he's just sleeping off the anesthesia right now. He will probably asleep for a couple of hours. When he awakes just give him some aspirin to help with the pain." The nurse informed her as Maya eagerly took him into her arms.
Thanking the nurse and doctor, she walked out with her group only to once again find Simone. She was waiting outside patiently for them with her own two little ones. "Aww, is he alright?" the rabbit inquired as she looked at the bundle in her friend's arms.
"He will be just fine, thank goodness."
"That's great! .What about what I told you earlier? Do you feel up to it?"
Maya looked from the bundle in her arms to the saddened faces of her other three children. They had all felt horrible and were taking a while to cheer up. "You know, they are taking this pretty hard, they all feel guilty so I think some good old fashioned fun will do them some good. Besides it will only be for a little while and I think Knuckles will end up sleeping through the whole thing." Maya whispered to the other.
Simone nodded and turned to all the children cheerfully. "Yay! We're off to the pool!"
"Yay!" the children chorused even though the three young hedgehogs did not have a clue of what she was talking about.
Maya shook her head in amusement and began to follow them all to the pool area. Her eyes softened as they traveled down to Knuckles's face and she hoped that the rest of the day would be peaceful and fun, with no more traumas for the children. If only her wish would have come true for what happened later that day was even more scary and traumatizing.
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A/N: Please review! Remember reviews = encouragement = new chapters! So if you want more, review! ..Thankies! ^_^
Thanks again to my reviewers, nothing's better than writing and actually getting a review. Please, if you do read this, leave a review. *Big Puppy Dog Eyes*
Also I can kinda feel a writer's block coming on so if anyone has any requests or suggestions let me know as well!! (Besides the fact of having Tails join in cause as stated before, he's coming! ^_^)
As The Years Go By........
Chapter Three: The Accident
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The morning was filled with the smell of a warm breakfast and the sound of cartoons blasting away on the television. On the screen a roadrunner raced off with a "Beep Beep!" leaving a grumbling and injured coyote behind.
"I can do that!" Sonic exclaimed happily as he began to run around imitating the roadrunner.
"Sonics silly." Amy laughed watching him run around the room.
"Beep Beep!" Sonic shouted playfully while pulling on Shadow's ears from behind the couch making him nearly choke on his oatmeal.
"Sonic!!" he shouted angrily tiny quills slightly bristling.
"Beep Beep!" the blue hedgehog simply replied complete with the teasing tongue movements this time before dashing off.
As Knuckles and Amy laughed, Shadow accepted the challenge and quickly followed assuming the role of the coyote. "I'll win this time Sonic!" he shouted as he ran out of the room.
Knuckles watched them and then sighed deeply wishing he could follow but they were too fast for him and he was already bored watching the television. He reached for his oatmeal to finish it only to find that it was already freezing cold and kind of stiff making his face wrinkle up.
"Still hungwy?" Amy asked not even bothering to look at her own bowl.
" Yeah...a little." he answered easing himself of the high couch and onto the floor.
"I can make you something!" The hedgehog exclaimed eyes dancing with excitement.
Knuckles merely raised an eyebrow at her. "You can't cook."
"Yes I can! Watch!" Walking over to the toy box, she proceeded to take out her play dough set.
Frowning, the red echidna stared at her suspiciously immediately doubting her words. "That's not food!"
"Yes it is!" Amy huffed as she began to knead the dough into various shapes. It didn't take long before she proudly offered him a square slab of clay. "Ta da!"
Eyeing it warily Knuckles took it into his hands. "What is it?"
"It's a sandwich silly! Go on try it, you'll like it!"
Against his better judgment, Knuckles sniffed the clay and deciding as he took a bite that it smelled at least interesting that probably didn't taste too bad...
Wrong wrong wrong!!! Boy was he ever wrong he thought as the bitter taste hit his taste buds.
Recoiling in disgust, he quickly spitted it out onto a napkin swiping furiously at his tongue and drinking large amounts of water from his cup.
"You didn't like it?" Amy asked innocently.
"No!!" he shouted frowning at her. "It's NOT food!"
"Hmf! Yes it is!" she insisted taking a bite of her own "food". Quickly spitting it out of her mouth as well she smiled sheepishly at him. "Heh heh, ......oops."
"Oops!" Knuckles mocked with a deeper frown wincing at the taste that refused to leave his mouth making him go off in search of Maya.
Maya meanwhile was watching something fairly interesting. Having wanted to get an early start on the chores, she had been in the basement doing the laundry when an all too familiar force of wind blew past her again making all the clothes sail high in the air and then fall like leaves.
She had no idea how long she had been standing there watching the black and blue blur zip around the room and was confused with the occasional "Beep Beep" sound.
Suddenly a shout of "Hey, don't push Shadow!" followed by laughter was heard before a black and black blur rolled out and hit the wall followed by a blue one.
Nearly standing on their heads with their backs pushed up against the wall and their feet in the air, the two hedgehogs stayed, dazed. "Hey, I won!" Shadow exclaimed suddenly noticing that he had hit the wall first and in his innocence, counted it as a victory.
Sonic didn't bother to reply as he watched the pretty birds fly around his head.
Shaking her head with a slight smile the kitsune went to check on them making sure they did not suffer any serious injuries. As she finished, another voice demanded her attention.
"Mama!!" the disembodied voice called out obviously searching for her.
The name made her smile brighter. She had never taught them to call her that but they had chosen to do so after hearing other children calling their "mothers" that.
(A/N: Really, what else would they call her? "Yo Maya get over here now!" imagine? lol)
"Mama!!" the voice cried again revealing Knuckles who upon seeing her, immediately tugged on her leg as if she wasn't already seeing him. Kneeling down to his level she took his hands in her own showing him that he had her full attention. "What is it?"
"Amy tried to posny ....poisn......poseion......agh.....make me sick!"
Maya stared at him in complete confusion now. "What do you mean hun?"
"I didn't do it!" Amy's voice traveled down to them.
"Yes you did! You tried to make me eat play dough!"
Her eyes widening, she had to restrain herself from shouting. "You guys almost ate what?!?"
"I didn't do it!" Amy insisted yet again.
"Play dough." Knuckles stated bluntly wrinkling his small face in disgust at the memory of the taste.
Maya sighed, slightly worried. "Did you swallow any of it? Was it a lot?"
Knuckles shook his head in response. "I can still taste it, am I....am I going to get sick?"
"No sweetie.....just go upstairs and drink your milk."
"Kay...." As Knuckles was about to turn to leave, Shadow ran up behind him quietly and as loud as he lungs allowed possible, yelled...."BOO!" making the poor echidna give a startled yell and jump into Maya's arms.
"Hahaha!! Scaredy cat scaredy cat!" The tiny black hedgehog taunted.
"Shadow....." an older voice warned complete with the "look".
"Heheheheh....." Shadow laughed nervously having gotten the message.
Sonic finally made his way over to them still slightly dazed as Knuckles was busy glaring at Shadow the best he could.
"All right guys since you are already here, why don't you help me clean up the...."
One look over her shoulder made her realize that she was alone the trio having done a quick disappearing act after hearing the word "clean."
Upstairs the boys quickly found out hwy Amy had not joined them downstairs as she would have done under any other circumstances since she tended to tag along a lot. The pink hedgehog was only inches away from the television making the funniest motions they had ever seen.
Amy continued to bounce in place waving her arms in various directions while doing so watching the television intently.
"Amy? whatcha doing?" Sonic asked watching her in total confusion.
"Exercising" she replied happily continuing to mimic the movements of the large blue bear dancing on the screen.
"Change it." The boys demanded in unison.
"No! I wuv Wuggles the bear and I was here first!"
"He dances funny."
"He's ugly."
"He's .......hey he's blue like me!" Sonic exclaimed suddenly having finally noticed.
Blinking in confusion Shadow and Knuckles looked at their blue companion with question marks in their eyes. "Yeah...so?"
"So....he's cool." Sonic smiled as Amy beamed. However after a few more minutes of watching useless dancing, Sonic's enthusiasm quickly disappeared and he grew bored watching the bear. "Okay....maybe not."
"Change it!" Knuckles and Shadow chorused once more.
"Yeah Amy...change it already." Sonic agreed reaching for the remote.
"No!" she shouted stubbornly holding onto the remote tightly.
Starting to feel even more frustrated, Sonic grabbed onto the other end of the remote pulling on it roughly. "It's our turn to watch sumthin!" he argued.
Now Shadow and Knuckles watched almost hopelessly and the situation in front of them was an accident just waiting to happen. The two hedgehogs were showing their stubborn qualities as best they could neither wanting to let go of the remote.
Then finally, Sonic gave a mighty tug using all the strength his small body had and was able to yank it out of Amy's hands, but at a price. The force he used, and her suddenly having to let go, made him stumble backwards a few steps and finally lose his balance as he fell backwards right onto Knuckles who had been standing near him.
It would have been okay if only the force of him falling against Knuckles hadn't caused Knuckles himself to fall backwards colliding against the side table where a lamp rested and bring both the table and lamp down with him. The table and lamp fell first and Knuckles landed heavily on top. The whole thing made a thunderous and ominous sound making Maya try to practically fly up the stairs in panic mode fearing the worst, that they were under attack.
Meanwhile the children were in shock as they stared at the mess. Sonic instantly felt horrible and started to ask Knuckles if he was okay since he was just sitting there not moving at all. Fearful the others began to inquire if he was all right as well but he ignored them all and slowly looked down at his right hand.
A rather large shard of porcelain from the broken lamp had forced its way into his palm when he landed heavily on it making a deep cut that just now slowly started to bleed. It wasn't until he saw the blood that he snapped out of his shock and his body registered the pain. Without warning he screamed in pain and began to cry hysterically startling them all and making Maya who was already near the top of the stairs, jump over the remaining two.
Shock could not explain the look on her face when she finally reached the living room and surveyed the scene. Quickly spotting the hysterical echidna she ran to him picking him up quickly hoping to calm him not noticing his hand right away.
Knuckles continued to cry loudly unable to calm down, especially when Maya did see the rather large shard for his rather small hand impaled in it. He squirmed frantically as she took it out as gently as possible. Once the worst deed was done she wrapped his hand tightly and rubbed his back, desperately trying to calm him at least to the point where he wasn't screaming and told the others to follow her as they headed out the door. The cut was both wide and deep and she had no doubt that the hand would need stitches so they were on their way to the mansion to see the doctor.
In the mansion they immediately headed to the east wing, the designated "hospital" area. Being so young and not really having many other patients, Knuckles was seen almost immediately. Maya had the children explain what had happened to a doctor they all knew very well since he had done all their check ups, a young male kitsune with gray fur, emerald colored eyes and silky black hair, Doctor Thomas was his name. Throughout the whole story he listened attentively and smiled at them reassuringly. When they were done, he turned to Knuckles who had calmed down to the point where he wasn't screaming anymore but still started to cry anew every time his hand throbbed.
"Well now little one, guess we'd better fix you up, eh?"
Silence returned as a response as the small echidna hid his face in Maya's arms. "Aw, c'mon now. Don't tell me you've lost your voice or are suddenly scared of ol' doc Thomas are ya? I heard you do some pretty good screaming in the waiting room."
Knuckles smiled sheepishly at that and began to rub the tears from his eyes when he accidentally moved his bad hand; making him whimper and new tears spring to his eyes.
The doctor motioned to a nearby nurse who got the message and gently picked Knuckles up carrying him into another room as he waved "bye" with his good hand. "Don't worry guys we'll make him better in no time." Doctor Thomas assured the rest of the family as he too disappeared into the other room.
In the waiting room Shadow, Sonic and Amy quickly took paper and crayons from the office's toy box and began to make get well cards for their "brother". Maya watched them, helping them when she could as she also skimmed through a very very old magazine. Everything was so silent and peaceful that it was no surprise that she jumped when a loud voice called her name.
"Maya! There you are! I was calling you earlier!"
"Simone, please, must you be so loud?"
"Of course, if I wasn't, then I wouldn't be me!" The female rabbit replied happily making the other laugh wholeheartedly.
"What are you doing here you crazy girl?"
"Hm? Oh I was just bringing in my two young ones for their check up." She stated calmly pointing to the other side of the room where a small dog and bunny sat. "What about you?"
Maya's eyes and voice softened as the wondered over to the closed examination door. "We had a little accident..and now Knuckles needs stitches in his hand."
"Aww. I'm sorry to hear that. Will he be all right?"
"I'm sure, it was nothing too major, just a little scary that's all."
"Well that's good at least."
Simone and Maya continued their conversation the children worked hard at their cards. Suddenly Shadow stopped, feeling that funny little feeling that had taught him how to leave the diaper behind. Knowing what it meant he quietly made his way over to Maya and tugged on her sleeve gently.
".Gotta go potty." he whispered having been taught that he should be discreet about such a thing.
But perhaps he was being too discreet as Maya and Simone continued to talk, his mother not having felt his tug or heard his call.
"So, what were you calling me for anyway? Just to chat?" Maya asked casually.
"No, in fact I was hoping that we could all do something together, just for some fun for once."
"Oh really? What did you have in mind?"
Shadow sighed at their boring conversation and tugged harder raising his voice just a tad. "Potty!" he implored once more waiting for the proper response.
"Well, I was thinking of taking everyone for a dip in the pool, but I know you wouldn't want to now with Knuckles being hurt and all."
"Well it would be nice .but he definitely wouldn't be able to get in and wet his fresh stitches, I wouldn't want him to feel left out."
"I understand, but why don't we see how it goes? Maybe Knuckles won't feel like getting in anyway."
"I suppose, but what if-"
Maya never got to finish her sentence as Shadow had, had enough. His stomach was now hurting and he was starting to hop up and down trying to ignore it, when he couldn't, he yelled at the top of his lungs. "Gotta go potty!!" He yelled so loudly that the entire room heard causing others to snicker and Maya to feel embarrassed.
Simone could hardly control her laughter as she reached her hand out to the little black hedgehog in the middle of his pee pee dance. "Come with Auntie Simone, Shadow, I'll take you to the potty."
Shadow quickly complied not even bothered one bit that he had embarrassed himself. Within another fifteen minutes since Shadow's return from the restroom, a nurse finally emerged with a small red echidna sleeping in her arms, a white gauze wrapped tightly around his right hand.
"He should be alright, he's just sleeping off the anesthesia right now. He will probably asleep for a couple of hours. When he awakes just give him some aspirin to help with the pain." The nurse informed her as Maya eagerly took him into her arms.
Thanking the nurse and doctor, she walked out with her group only to once again find Simone. She was waiting outside patiently for them with her own two little ones. "Aww, is he alright?" the rabbit inquired as she looked at the bundle in her friend's arms.
"He will be just fine, thank goodness."
"That's great! .What about what I told you earlier? Do you feel up to it?"
Maya looked from the bundle in her arms to the saddened faces of her other three children. They had all felt horrible and were taking a while to cheer up. "You know, they are taking this pretty hard, they all feel guilty so I think some good old fashioned fun will do them some good. Besides it will only be for a little while and I think Knuckles will end up sleeping through the whole thing." Maya whispered to the other.
Simone nodded and turned to all the children cheerfully. "Yay! We're off to the pool!"
"Yay!" the children chorused even though the three young hedgehogs did not have a clue of what she was talking about.
Maya shook her head in amusement and began to follow them all to the pool area. Her eyes softened as they traveled down to Knuckles's face and she hoped that the rest of the day would be peaceful and fun, with no more traumas for the children. If only her wish would have come true for what happened later that day was even more scary and traumatizing.
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