Disclaimer- do you honsetly think i'd want to own a character called Cream? I do own Siberia ,Talim, Aquariun and Seringhetti but non of the others in this chapter

TWO MONTHS LATER

By now the news of Rouge and Knuckles having a child together had finnely sunk in. Rouge frequently visited Siberia for advice and in the process they had become freinds, talking about their husbands and Sonic and Amy and general gossip. Everyone had noticed that that the two hegdehogs seemed to be getting a bit snug lately and Knuckles grinned at the thought of Sonic setteling down with the girl he had been running from for years. Tails had passed his A levels with flying colours and was now free to tinker away in his lab all day with his precios creations since he didn't have to go to school anymore. His girlfreind, the silver fox Talim, had taken Tails to meet her parents. Her mother was a silver fox just like her, with a little less height . However her father was jet black and sported blue eyes just like Tails. Tails felt a little embarrised that he was meeting her parents at such a young age, it seemed as if Talim wanted to take their relationship further, but he wasn't sure he wanted that. His girlfreind was 4 years older than him and seemed like she was to seetle down, but Tails had only just left school and didn't want to think about anything like that yet. Sonic wasn't even married yet and he was 7 years older than Tails. Why should he rush into things when his ' big brother'wasn't?
Siberia was five months pregnant now and everyone was very supportive to her, as she had never been through it before. One day a bemused Shadow had rung up Sonic, telling him how Siberia had suddenly been really moody, then just as quickly become almost ubsurdly happy. Amy had told him it was mood swings, something she was bound to have now she was expecting. Shadow kept that in mind, although a nagging thought strayed into his mind as he put the phone down, how did Amy kow so much about pregnancy? No-one had seen Espio for a while, as he had gone to visit Aquarians home, a buetiful forest with a river that was as clean as Espio had ever seen running through it. Although everyone was happy that Espio, liked all the rest of them, had found someone, Vector was getting stressed that their at the detective agency, since he did most of the work anyway while Charmy mucked about and Vector listened to his tunes.
" I mean, i'm happy for him ya' know, who wouldn't be? He's my pal. I just wish that Dragon broud lived closer, so I could get him to just come over and do some of the work" he said on the phone to Knuckles, who he had rung up in desperation trying to get someone to help him with the workloud.
" Why don't you just get Charmy and Seringetti to help?" He asked, attempting to flip a can of coke over with his foot that Rouge had left on the floor. He heard Vector grunt on the end of the phone and said
" I can't do that! Seringette is already helping loads as it is! Even Charmies pullin' his weight! If I ask for anymore help she'll make me sleep on the coach! And I wouldn't want that, right Knux?" He said, adding the last bit as if to hint something. Knuckles rolled his eyes at the perverted croc's suggestion and said
" Yeah well I can't do 'that' now anyway, not while Rouge is pregnant". He heard Vector laughing on the other end of the phone and say
" Yeah, but that won't stop me! Heh heh" he heard Vector paused, as If checking if anyone was listening and said quitly and uncertainly " Speaking o which , You absolutly sure it's yours?". Knuckles frowned and said
" What makes you ask that?". There was a pause as he heard the crocodile shift nervously on the end of the phone and said timedly
" No reason...it's just don't cha' think it's kinda'...weird? I mean like , a bat and you? Yaknow , last time I checked, you wern't a bat and crossbread exactly commen, or possible" he added under his breath. Knuckles frown deepened.
" Are you saying Rouge is lying?" He said coldy.
" No! No! No! No! She's a great chick, er I mean wife, but er, she can be a bit er?...unpredictable? Yaknow..." Said the crocodile uncomfertably, trailing off. Knuckles sighed and said darkly
" Vector? Could you do me a favor and stop feeding my fears?" He said, turning of the phone. He sighed again and went to look for Rouge. He still had a nagging feeling that Rouge was cheating on him, even after three months.
He shook his head. Trying to rid himself of all thoughts like that. He wondered off, looking for Rouge, who had a tendency off wander off lately.
Rouge was , infact, standing over the surface of the lake, inspecting her reflection. She frowned at the fact that her reflection above, her middle looked a lot bigger than normal and she was starting to look pregnant. She tore her eyes away and went to examine her reflection in her own mirror, too see if it was actually becoming ovios from a normal angle.
It didn't look as bad from the front and the lakes reflection probably made the propertion look wrong anyway. She smiled, she still had her figure, at least for now. She was about to walk off and do something random, when something caught her eye. She turned back and examined her relextion again. But it looked just as it had before. She shrugged and turned around, getting a little surprise as she did so. At the side, she noticed, her middle had begun to grow out a bit, just a tiny bit, so small infact that it wasn't noticable from the front, but from the side , her pregnancy was beginning to show and for the first time, Rouge realised that she wouldn't be keeping her figure for much longer.
" Hey Rouge, what's up?" Said Knuckles as he came into their room. She turned to him, still eyeing her reflection and said worredly
" Knuckles, do I look ok?" She asked, becoming parinoid at her own figure. Knuckles looked her up and down and said truthfully
" You look fine Rouge, stop worrying". She looked back into the mirror.
" But how much longer am I going to look fine? It's only a matter of time before I get fat and then i'll look horrible and-". Knuckles cut her rambling off by raising his huge hand to her mouth and said soothingly while smiling
" Don't worry about it Rouge, like I said before, I don't care what you look like, i'll always love you". Rouge managed to return a weak smile but still looked worried. Knuckles frowned and said " Something else is bothering you". She looked up, her eyes met his and she said
" I , I just don't know if I can cope with all of this" she said, shaking her head. " I 'm not aloud to drink , i'm not aloud sex, I can't stop myself from eating anything that comes into veiw and it's only going to get worse" she said, beginning to ramble again. Knuckles took her hand and strocked it gently.
" It'll be fine Rouge" he kissed her softly " Trust me". She smiled. Knowing Knuckles was there to support her meant a lot, espicailly since they were in succlusion on angel island.

ONE MONTH LATER

By now Rouge had more or less lost her shape as her middle had been growing out. At three months pregnant, it was slightly obvios to anyone who looked carefully enough that Rouge was expecting, but at four months, it was becoming clear that she was pregnant. Rouge was once again stood infront of the mirror, inpecting her reflection in the mirror. Knuckles was watching quietly from the bed, that was , until Rouge asked him
" Knuckles? Do I look fat?" She said suddenly. Knuckles looked up half asleep and said
" No". Rouge sighed and turned to face him. She had an angry expression on her face. Knuckles raised an eyebrow and backed away a little. Rouge had been a bit sencitive lately.
" Tell the truth" she said threateningly. Knuckles frowned and said
" You don't look fat" . Rouge opened her mouth and was about to say something when Knuckles cut her off and said " But you do look pregnant". Rouge looked down miserbly. She was wearing a suit similar to the one she used to wear when she was about 17. Knuckles got up if the bed, walking over to her and wrapping his arm around her waist. He looked down at what she was wearing and said in a slightly concerned voice
" You should start wearing looser clothes". She sighed and agreed reluctantly, leaving Knuckles to do whatever he felt like.
Knuckles was right. Rouge had read that she should start wearing losser clothes at this stage, even Siberia had told her so. It was just the fact that Rouge wanted to cling on to being slim as long as she could and wearing losser clothes had reminded her of the fact that she wasn't slim anymore.
She pulled of the outfit and shoved on a loss shirt instead. She had to admit, it did feel better than what she was wearing before, which was very uncomfertable against her stoumuch. When she was done Rouge put her hands to her middle. Feeling it, it was surprisingly stiff. She tried to feel the actual shape of the child, but their wasn''t really anything their, yet. She smiled slightly, thinking how general fat wouldn't be as firm as her belly was right now. It still seemed strange too her that she was even having a child, even with Knuckles. But she had begun accept it and was even getting used to the extra weight around her middle. She yawned and lay down on the bed, feeling too tired to do anything else. That was another thing, she felt tired a lot lately. Not sleepy, just tired. So she often just layed around, letting Knuckles do what he wanted.

MEANWHILE AT SONIC AND AMY'S PLACE

Sonic hadn't realised what he was missing until he had tried it. Knuckles was right, it was brilliant, although he had to admit slightly strange as well. He thought about the fact he had just lost his virginity to Amy. Amy! Of all people! Infact he found it so funny, he spontaniosly burst out laughing.
This woke Amy up, who had been nesselded into his cream coloured chest. She yawned and kissed him on the lips, before drawing back and saying
" What's so funny?". Sonic tried to hide his smirk and said in a stupid, almost-still-laughing voice
" Nothing". Amy frowned and said , getting a little angry
" What are hiding Sonic?". Sonic rested his head on his arms and said while smiling unwillingly
" Oh, it's nothing really. I was just thinking, that was my first time". Amy blushed and said in a small voice
" It was my first time too"she chuckled at the end of her sentance, thinking how she would have thought Sonic would have had someone else before hand. " You mean no one offered before?" She asked, a little curios and thrilled at the same time that she had been his first. Sonic shrugged and said
" Well you didn't exactly 'offer' me". Amy blushed. " Besides, all the people who did offer where screaming fan girls and I didn't really want to go with them" . Amy sighed and said
" Well, my old boyfreind asked, but I was only 14 at the time, I told him it was illegal and that I wasn't ready". Sonic nodded slowly, looking up at the ceiling. They stayed there for a while, in silence. Suddenly , Sonic's eyes widened in panic as if he just thought of something extremly immportant and he jerked up, knocking Amy of his chest. He looked at her and shouted anciosly
" AMY I FORGOT..." He trailed off. Amy however, didn't look worried. She looked into Sonic's eyes and said gently
" Don't worry Sonic, i've been on the pill for months". Sonic relaxed and sighed. It wasn't as if they had planned this, it just...happened. If they had Sonic would have been prepared, but thankfully it looked like Amy had thought ahead.
" Hang on, if this was your first time, why were you on the pill?" Asked Sonic curiosly. Amy blushed and said shyly
" Well I went on it a while after you started dating me, just in case, ya know" she said trailing off a little embarrissed. Sonic grinned and said
" Hey , don't be embarrissed Amy, it's thanks to your thinking ahead that we avoided an ugly situation!". Amy nodded, although inside she felt a little put out, Sonic described kids between them as an ugly situation. Would he ever be ready to have them? " Hey Amy" said Sonic , breaking the silence again. " That pills still working right?" He asked reseiving a nod from Amy. He smiled and said " Good", rolling on top of her once again.

ANGEL ISLAND

Knuckles licked his lips. Although he had sourght of given himself a self ban from chocolate, he couldn't resist just having one. Throwing the wrapper away, he went of to find Rouge. He strolled into their room, finding she was still asleep on their bed. Going to wake her up, he noticed small noices coming from her. When he got closer, he realised that they were infact sobs. Immidatly concern he moved by the side of the bed, trying to see Rouges face, which was burried in the pillow.
" Rouge, what's wrong?" He asked, shacking her shoulder slightly. She sniffed and looked up to him, staring for a moment with tear filled eyes, then suddenly breaking down again and crying into his chest.
" Knuckles, I . I think it's dead!" She sobbed almost inadably into his coller bone. Knuckles eyes widened and said worredly
" Who'd dead? Sonic? Shadow? Siberia?" Rouge cryed some more then maneged to say between gulps of tears
" NO! The baby!". Knuckles was really panicing now.
" WHAT!"
" I was thinking, can't feel it anymore and you jumped on ages ago and and... I think you killed it!" She stammered, still pressed into Knuckles. Knuckles sighed. Rouge was just rambeling things, unlikely too be true. He tried to tell Rouge this but she inisted it was dead. In the end they had to go off the island and visit the docters, to get them to check over the baby.
" Don't worry Rouge, your baby is fine". Rouge sniffed and said
" How can you tell?"
" I can hear it's heart beat"
" What?" She said ancious and excited. The docter let her listen and she felt tears come to her eyes again. Her little child was fine. She put a hand to her middle once they had gotten home. 5 months left and their child would be born. It didn't seem like that long and Rouge surprised herself when she realised the fact that, she was almost halfway through her pregnancy. It seemed to have gone alarmingly quick. It seemed only last week that Rouge had gone to the docters and gotten the scan, the scan that showed she was expecting her first child.

At Tails workshop

The fox had really blown it this time. He and his girlfreind Talim had been kissing, which was not unusaul for them. However , Talim had started dropping hints that she had wanted to go further, something that made Tails uncomfertable and nervous at the same time. But the thing was , after Talim had made the advance, Tails had almost gone through with it, only just stopping himself and Talim in time. It had taken a lot of will power but Tails knew that he wasn't ready for it. Not yet.
But that wasn't the problem. Talim had stormed off when he had stopped, saying she had something to take care of. Tails sighed. He hoped he hadn't got rid of her for good. All this had made him question relationships with partners older than you. It was true that Talim was of the age where she should start setteling down and perhaps having children. But Tails was not nearly ready for that! People said that it didn't matter about the age difference if it's love. But Tails wasn't sure if this was love. He did care about Talim and wanted her back but , at the same time he wasn't always comfertable around her. She was a little too mature for him and wanted more adult things, while he would sometimes revert back to his old childish ways.
It was a difficult situation, one that Tails didn't see solving itself anytime soon.

AUTHORS NOTES

Just thought i'd let you know what was happening with Tails and his girlfreind. Not so good right now. And I included Sonamy! Is everyone happy now! sheesh.