A few days after Rouge and Knuckles had moved in with Shadow and Siberia, the two soon to be parents were currently occupying the living room. Knuckles was trying to play snooker while Rouge channel flicked.
" Dam!"swore Knuckles loudly, when he missed another shot. Rouge rolled her eyes and kept flicking the channels, until she came to one where it had a picture of her on the screen. Rouge didn't think anything of it, as one of them was almost constantly on the news for some reason, until she saw the headline. ' First cross breed ever?', which the newsreader confirmed by repeating it and beginning her article.
" Rumors have been heard that the once thought impossible has indeed happened. Although it has yet to be confirmed some sources say that a baby will very soon be born that is indeed of crossbreed nature. Strangly enough, the mother is belived to be the long time no seen famous Rouge the bat and uncomfirmed rumors say that the father is her recent husband, Knuckles the echidna. We tried to find out where the now infamous pair are staying, but so far they remain undetected. Scientics have denied such rumors, saying that genes simply do not work that way. Fans of Rouge and Knuckles have become incredably excited at this news, while most others are simply puzzled. More as we get it". Rouge stared at the tv screen in disbelief. Someone had ratted them out. They knew their was bound to be attention by the press if they ever found out, but they wanted to keep it a secret, at least until the child was born and had grown to a reasonable age. She threw the remote down in rage and and yelled out

" Knuckles!". The echidna came walking over.
" What?"
" Did you see what they just said?" She said, pointing an accusing finger at the tv. Knuckles thought for a moment and said
" Something about Sonic in the grand national?".
" Were you even wacthing?". Knuckles grinned and shock his head, his dreadlocks flying around as he did so.
" Some one told the press! Bastards!" She shouted, her voice raising. Knuckles face suddenly looked serious.
" Oh no" he said, his voice quite, unlike Rouges. The got up and began pacing the room, fuming that their secret wasn't going to be secret much longer.
" When I found out who did this. Oh , there's gonna be trouble!" She scowled, coming to a stop at a wall and punching it in rage.
" Rouge! You've got to calm down! Think of the baby!" Said Knuckles, getting worried about Rouges stress. She stoped pacing.
" Don't you start on me too! I'm not ill!" Rouge snapped. Knuckles face softened and he said while reaching up to her shoulders
" But you do have to calm down". He smiled and began rubbing her shoulders.
" Don't tell me what..." She began, but trailed off. Knuckles grinned as her face softened and her ears flatterned against her head. She rolled her shoulders, feeling the soft touch of Knuckles as he massaged her. " Lower, lower...yeah, like that" she mumbled, as Knuckles did as he was told and moved his huge hands lower, so as to rub between her shoulders blades. She leaned her head back to rest it on his shoulder, feeling utterly relaxed for the first time in months. When the bat turned back to face the echidna, she looked totally at peice. Opening her eyes and looking a little blown away, she said soflty " I didn't realise you has such a gentle touch Knuckles. Thanks". She went back to the sofa, laying down against it with her head against the arm. Streching , she finished with " I needed that". The echidna grinned and even blushed slightly. He took a seat on the arm not occupied with Rouges head and said
" Well, there is lot's you don't know about me Rouge. I'm full of surprises". Rouge rubbed her belly.
" I hope this thing is as gentle as you when it comes out" she said. Knuckles grinned and looked up across the room.
" Well, sometimes I can be gentle. But others I can be rough"he growled, cracking his Knuckles. Rouge raised an eyebrow and said
" Lucky me" half sarcasticly.

AT TAILS PLACE

Tails turned off the tv, Staring in disbelief. They had all sworn to secrecy about Rouge, as the two didn't want the media sniffing around, which could turn their life into a living hell. But someone had told them, the news program told it all, and Tails had a feeling who had did it.
" Me!" Said Talim in disbelief, in responce Tails gave a cold stare.
" I'm not saying it was definatly you, or that you did it deliberatly. I'm just asking, did you tell anyone who didn't already know?". Talim grew angry and snapped
" You don't trust me at all do you?". The orange fox looked uncomfertable and struggled to say
" Well... I do but-"
" But what? If you really care about me, you wouldn't act all suspicious at every little thing that happens! You care more about your little band of freedom fighters than you do me!" She yelled, looking upset as well as angry. Tails shoulders dropped and he said
" But I do care!". Talim looked down to the floor and said
" If you cared, you wouldn't hold back". Tails frooze and gulped. He had hoped it wouldn't come to this, but now it had. He really did care about Talim, when they wern't arguing she was so lovly, listening to him talk about his machines and his freinds. The only problem was she had more courgage then him, which made her a lot more adventurous. She also wasn't a virgin, like he was and that made him even more nervous. " Do you care Tails?" She asked, even softer this time, staring at him with wide eyes. Tails though for a moment before replying
" Yes Talim, I do, more than you can imagine". The silver foxes eyes widened and she asked with anticipation
" So, you won't hold back now?". Tails again stared at the floor. He looked up and smiled warmly
" No more, Talim, no more". The other fox grinned and tackled him to the floor.

ONE MONTH LATER

Draco was now Three months old and seemed to be very good most of the time. Shadow had only had to blow up a street lamp and traffic cone to keep him quiet, becuase Siberia had banned him from using chaos spear in the house. Sonic and Amy had missed out the honey moon, which seemed strange to everybody, espiecially since Amy had been the one to back out of it. They had thought that spending some time completly alone with Sonic would have been like heaven on earth for her, but lately she seemed to be on edge all of the time.
As for Rouge, the due date for her baby had finnaly come. She awoke late in the morning and couldn't help but feel how normal the day felt. Her and Knuckles had decided only to buy girls clothes. If it was a boy, they wouldn't really need to dress it, as Draco was never dressed, all he had on were gloves and little tiny shoes.
Rouge rolled over, looking at the calender as she had been for the last couple of weeks. There was July the 7th, a big red circle around it to indicate it's immportance. Rouge half smiled. She was excited, but nervous at the same time.
Yawning and wondering out of the bedroom, Rouge found Knuckles once again by the pool table, staring absenbindedly out of the window and rolled the white ball around with his hand. When he heared Rouge walked in he snapped back into attention, almost flying over and scooping her off the floor into his arms.
" Woah! Knuckles! Take it easy!" Said Rouge, although she was laughing too. The echidna grinned and whirled around, still with Rouge in his arms
" Sorry Rouge, i'm just so excited!" He said, putting her down and doing sommersolts.
" You may be excited, but I have to go through a lot of pain ya know" she said, flopping down on the sofa. " Besides" she began , streching back and relaxing " It may not be born yet". Knuckles nodded. He resumed playing around with the snooker table for a while but then stopped, simply resting his elbows against it and staring out of the window, with a dreamy expression on his face. He couldn't believe that he could have a child soon, it seemed to good to be true to him. He had always thought he would have been a loner all of his life. But now , here he was, about to begin a family.
" Rouge" said Knuckles, breaking the silence.
" Mm" the bat replied. He got up from his place of leaning on the snooker table and said
" I have an idea, for how to name it". Rouge became more interested, they hadn't thought of a name yet, now seemed like the appriopriate point to discuss one.
" Yeah" she said, urging him to continue.
" Well, you always said that if it was a girl, you would have had lot's of named for it. Now that I think about it, there are a lot of boys names I like. So-"
" So if it's a girl I'll name it and if it's a boy your gonna name it" she said, smiling and finishing of his sentance. Knuckles brain took a few moments to catch up.
" Yeah!" He replied, feeling pleased with himself. Rouge looked down to her swollen belly and said
" Ok then, you better hurry up little miss, cause we have to prove daddy that he's wrong". The echidna grinned.
" As if! He's a little boy and just like me!"he said triumphantly. He started punching the air. " And he's gonna fight with me too! Just like..." He threw an upper cut into the air " That!". Rouge folded her arms
" SHE can fight with you, but SHE also has to be able to fight like me too! And SHE has to like jewels!"
" As if!"scoffed Knuckles, although he was really joking around. Rouge opened her mouth and was about to reply when she stopped. Screwing up her face for a moment she said instead
" Owch!". Knuckles became slightly concerned.
" Rouge?" He questioned, worried about his wife and child. For a while the bat said nothing and Knuckles waitied anciously. " Are you ok?" He asked, uncertain. Rouge sighed and finnaly replied
" Yeah, yeah i'm fine" she shook her head " That was some powerful kick". The echidna grinned and said
" Of course! I'm his father! Would you expect anyless?" He gloated. Rouge smiled and said

" Oh shut up". He did just that and the room feel into silence. They waited for a while, not finding anything to talk about. Until , finnally, Rouge broke the silence and said
" Knuckles?"
" Yes Rouge?"

" I'm hungry"

AUTHORS NOTES

Ok I appologise for the lack of action in this chapter. I looked at how much I wrote and decided that I would split this chapter into two. By the way I have a new fic, it's called ' The ultimate life form virus'.