Sonic Adventures

SHADOW STORY

Episode Eight

Rouge In Bed

It was hours before Rouge awakened, battered and broken in a hospital bed. Tails had flown the Tornado over the Pentagon and had been able to take her to the local hospital.

Rouge wasn't used to the bright light of a hospital. She had never been injured to that extent. Doctors were not her friends. She didn't like the way they gassed you and put you to sleep. She liked to know what people were doing to her body.

She wanted to sleep; her eyes tried to close on her. The gas's effect was wearing off, but it wasn't completely gone either. The bed was extremely cozy. She had been stripped of her spy suit and dressed in a hospital standard white gown. She didn't have the files with her. Did she ever get them?

The discussion with Mighty in the Pentagon was slowly fading back into her memory. He had said something about a valley, where Eggman would be hiding. It was so fuzzy.

"How are you feeling?" a voice asked. Rouge sat straight up in bed. It was Tails; with him he had a large bouquet of pink roses and a get well soon card. He thrust them at her.

Rouge took the flowers and sniffed them. "Thanks Tails, this is so sweet."

"It's from everyone," Tails replied scratching his head, "We were worried. You got banged up pretty bad."

The gown that Rouge was in wasn't her size, and the top had fallen down when she sat up. She pulled it back up over her breasts and looked back at Tails. "Well you guys saved me. If you wouldn't have been there I probably would've been dead."

"Well I hope you like them!"

"I love them Tails, thank you so much!" Rouge reached out and hugged Tails. She felt awkward sitting there with her arms around him; she had hugged very few people in her life.

She let Tails go and he turned, and then stopped. "Rouge, do you think you could help me with something?"

Rouge, who had settled back into her bed, straightened up again (she remembered to lift up her gown this time). "What?" she replied.

"Well," Tails started to twitch a bit; he began scratching his head again, "I…kinda…I want a girlfriend." He blushed violently.

"How can I help you do that?" Rouge asked, puzzled.

"Well, I figured since you're a girl, you could, uh, give me a few tips." Rouge thought about this.

"Well Tails," she leaned towards him, "If I was a young girl your age, I wouldn't have to think twice. You came all the way to the hospital to give these flowers to me. That's sweet Tails, really it is. Girls like that kind of stuff."

Tails thought about that for a second, then turned and said "Thanks! I guess ill see you when you get out." He exited the room, almost getting knocked over by a tall doctor in a large white coat. The doctor was talking to a man in a black suit.

"Agent Kent!" Rouge whispered to herself. Suddenly she wished Tails hadn't had left.