CHAPTER 2

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When Shadow and Rouge returned from the nightclub they went home to get some sleep.

Shadow was sleeping with Rouge in her bed. Ever since they became boyfriend and girlfriend he had been sleeping with her than by himself on the couch. He usually slept great, but now he was tossing and turning every five seconds. He was dreaming about when he was still at the GUN facility.

Everything was pitch black, until a second later the darkness had disappeared and a human girl with big round glasses with blue eyes greeted with a smile. "Hello, Shadow."

Shadow woke up in cold sweat holding his head from a painful headache.

Rouge had awakened when he did. She put her hands on his shoulders looking at him with a worried look, "Shadow, what's wrong? Did you have a bad dream?"

Shadow shook his head, "No, it wasn't a nightmare, it was a strange dream."

"Wanna talk about it?"

Shadow looked away from her, "No."

Rouge made him face her, "You don't have to talk if you don't want to, but let me know if you ever want to discuss it."

Shadow nodded, "All right."

Rouge licked him on his cheek and then kissed him passionately on his lips.

Shadow did the same. He forced her down on the bed and kissed down her chest making his way up to her neck. She moaned with great pressure. He was endlessly kissing on her neck. Then he had gotten carried away and bite her.

Rouge yelled, pushed Shadow away from her and held her bleeding neck. "What the fuck are you trying to do!"

"I-I'm sorry, I don't know what happened. It was an accident."

"...You still can't control your powers can you?"

Shadow was silent for a moment, "I guess I can't."

Rouge crossed her arms, "This isn't the first time this happened in case you've forgotten." She remembered the last time he had done that and that was not too long ago. She was uncomfortable with him kissing her on her neck ever since and now she probably wouldn't allow him to do it anymore.

He apologized again, "I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me."

Rouge got out of the bed, "I'm sleeping on the couch, see you in the morning." She angrily walked out of the bedroom.

Shadow fell back on his pillow and tried to go asleep again, trying to get rid of his stress. He hoped that Rouge would forgive him by morning.

When morning did came Shadow slowly came downstairs tiredly. He saw Rouge in the kitchen cooking eggs. He slowly walked to her and tapped her shoulder.

Rouge quickly spun around, "Shadow, good morning." She had a happy gesture, so Shadow assumed she was a little better from last night. She had bandaged the bite mark on her neck from last night.

"Good morning." Shadow had said dully.

Rouge turned off the stove and faced Shadow, "Shadow, we need to talk."

"Are you angry with me?"

Rouge didn't know what to say so she just said anything that came to her mind, "Yes-well no, I mean. Just listen, it's okay for you to love me, but I'm extremely uncomfortable about you going near my neck. I'm afraid you'll bite me like you did the other time before."

"I understand and I swear I will never go near your delectable neck again."

Rouge crossed her arms looking at Shadow in a funny way, "Promise?"

"Yeah."

Rouge kissed Shadow and Shadow had done the same. "Sit down and I'll give you some breakfast."

"I'd like that."

That night at the military Appex was in the training room practicing his shooting. He had just made a direct hit at the targets hit. While he put his gun away he heard foot steps behind him, he looked and saw a human girl wearing all blue on her uniform matching her blue eyes with round glasses.

"Good evening, Appex."

"You too, Savya." He said as he put his gun back in his holster.

"General Bat wanted to see you in room 44, he needed to talk to you about something important I'm sure."

"I'm on it." Appex ran his way down the hallway to the room.

Once he got there General Bat was waiting for him to arrive through the door.

Appex came into the room panting a little, "Sir, you wanted to see me?"

"Yes, I do." He crossed his arms like he was upset.

Appex came into the room, "What is it general?"

"Do you know what I heard on the news this morning?"

"What?"

"A man from a nightclub was killed the other day."

Appex thought what was the point, "And?"

"The way he died wasn't just because the killer jabbed his eye socket in his head, it was also because of blood loss."

Appex's eyes widened, 'No, it couldn't be him...'

"They had found bite marks in the guy's neck! The last time I checked there was no such thing as vampires. You did get rid of 301 didn't you?"

"...Ye-yes, sir..."

"What did you do with the body?"

Appex was thinking, but very slowly trying to think of something to say.

Since he was thinking slow, General Bat assumed he was lying. He took his fist and punched him in the face.

Appex fell to the floor holding his cheek looking up at General Bat.

"You're lying to me, Appex. I thought I could trust you, but you disobeyed me and let the creature go. Why?"

Appex stood up from the floor facing General Bat, "You don't understand, he has feelings, other experiments didn't have feelings...not like him. I couldn't kill him, he was deeply in love with your daughter."

Then it just came to General Bat's mind, "Rouge! He's still with her isn't he?"

"I'm sorry I lied to you, but I..."

"I don't want to hear your damn excuses! Your ass is so fired! Now if you would excuse me, I have to save my daughter." General Bat left the room.

Appex held his hurt cheek while in thought, 'Should I warn Rouge that her father is coming to kill 301? I guess I don't have a choice.' Appex ran off towards Rouge's house to warn her.

Back at Rouge's house Shadow was sleeping in Rouge's bed. Rouge wasn't with him, she was downstairs. He didn't know what she was doing at the time. He moving around a lot from having another dream.

"Are you awake?" The human girl had said in front of the black hedgehog.

Shadow got up slowly and made eye contact with her all he did was look deep into her blue eyes.

"Are you all right?"

Shadow looked around him seeing he was in a room with not much space and with unbreakable invisible glass blocking the entrance.

The girl lured her wrist at Shadow's mouth, "Since you had vampire bat DNA shot in you, I figured that you liked blood."

Shadow just stared at her wrist for a while.

"Go on, don't be afraid."

Shadow lured his fangs at her wrist and began to bite her, he was now taking his first taste of blood.

As he was enjoying his first taste the girl smiled, "The military calls you Experiment 301, but I'll call you by your real name...Shadow..."

Shadow woke up once again shocked by his weird dream. He held his head still confused, "Damn it, what does it all mean? If there's one thing that I've gotten straight from my dreams it's my name, but who the hell was that girl and why was she giving me her blood?"

"Father, no!" That sounded like Rouge's voice. Shadow quickly ran downstairs to see if she was okay.