1Author's note: sorry I didn't get to you guys sooner, I had no ideas until today in the shower...I guess that's where I get some of my best ideas unless I'm hangin' with my weirdo friends at school in the hallway before band begins. (I guess that's almost as weird as the shower . ; although...you wouldn't know how weird that is until you meet them...) Anyway, thanks to my reviewers! I like all my reviews so far! Oh...I don't Own Sonic or anyone except stacy who isn't in this chapter but yeah. If I did...Sonic and Shadow would so be a couple in the games an' stuff!

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Thanks again for reviewing! -Lady of the Squirrels rocks out to wicked while typing this wonderful possibly not so wonderful chapter

Chapter 6: The Night The Lights Went Out

Shadow sat eating ice cream watching Sonic and Knuckles race each other on their playstation. He didn't understand the concepts of the particular racing game so he just obliviously cheered on whoever was winning.

When Sonic won all their rounds Knuckles handed him ten dollars and sat on the love seat. "So, what now?"

"I dunno, what would you like to do?" Sonic sat beside Shadow and stole some of his ice cream with his finger before his hand was quickly batted away and his lover pouted at him.

"You could go play pool...or there's that DDR thing you hooked up in the basement." Shadow smiled like the cheerleader he was being. Sonic chuckled and looked at Knuckles who looked kinda uncomfortable about them being lovers still.

"C'mon Knuckles...let's go play DDR." Sonic grinned evilly and sped downstairs with Knuckles in pursuit and Shadow trailing behind them trying not to get his ice cream everywhere.

When Shadow reached downstairs Sonic and Knuckles stared at him and started laughing and Sonic walked over and quickly licked ice cream off his nose then ran back to the DDR mat and chose any easy song and began the dance as Knuckles moved obliviously around the mat.

By their third dance Knuckles had fallen on his butt at least 15 times and Sonic was still moving gracefully around the mat. Shadow's tail shook with excitement (no, not that excitement:p) and he cheered Sonic on. Then, without warning the lights and power shut off and Shadow froze.

"SONIKKU!" Shadow ran in circles squealing for his lover when he felt arms around him and squirmed.

"It's alright Shadow, I'm here," Sonic kissed Shadow's ear and hugged him close. "Hey Knuckles, you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine...I may have lost a little bit of my hearing due to the wailing wonder, but, other than that, I'm perfectly fine." Knuckles stood up and felt Sonic grab his wrist. "What the hell?"

"We're going upstairs, I don't want you to run into anything," Sonic informed him. He was carrying Shadow in one arm and drug Knuckles up the stairs with the other. When the got up there they saw lightening flashing through the skies. Knuckles felt Shadow shivering through Sonic's hand.

Sonic's bright smile shone through the darkness at him as he dropped Knuckles's wrist and sat Shadow on the couch. "Hey Knux, do you mind sitting here with Shadow while I get some candles?"

"No...not at all Sonic," He smiled sheepishly and sat on the couch next to Shadow. He resisted the urge to ask Shadow if he was gonna murder him. He looked extremely intimidating when the lightening flashed across his face.

Knuckles froze when he heard a small whimper and felt Shadow curl up against him. He didn't know what to do in this type of situation. He also didn't know if Shadow was going to rip his heart out or just curl up to him. His heart began to rush thinking these would be his last moments alive when Sonic lit a candle.

"Aww, Shadz, it's alright, Knuckles wouldn't let anything happen to you...hopefully." Sonic sat down and Shadow clung to his abdomen. He smiled and ran his fingers through Shadow's quills comfortingly and smiled at Knuckles. "Thanks Knux."

"No problem Sonic." He smiled and scorned himself for thinking Shadow would kill him. Of course, you couldn't blame him for thinking such things, Shadow was still Shadow in his eyes. The grumpy, sarcastic, kinda stuck up, silent, and hateful Shadow. He'd never seen this side of Shadow besides at Sonic's party.

"Sonikku..I think Knuckles likes me," whispered Shadow, "his heart was moving really fast when I curled up for safety."Sonic laughed and Knuckles almost choked on air.

" I thought you were gonna kill me!" Protested Knuckles. Sonic's chuckling died down a little more and Shadow looked like he was gonna bawl. Knuckles quickly regretted his words.

"But...but...SONIKKU!" Shadow bawled into Sonic's chest and Sonic gave his friend a smile telling him it was alright.

"It's alright Shadow, shhh, hush now, Knuckles didn't mean it." Sonic soothed his lover and Shadow curled more into him.

"At least I don't suck at DDR," mumbled Shadow as he moved onto Sonic's lap. He buried his face in Sonic's chest and closed his eyes while messing with Sonic's quills.

Knuckles' mouth began to twitch and Sonic shook his head at the two. He gave Knuckles a pleading look to just let it go and Knuckles politely complied. He mumbled under his breath as Shadow grinned and pressed himself closer to Sonic. They sat in silence and Shadow began to snore quietly and Sonic smiled and blushed slightly.

"I think it's Shadow's bedtime," said Knuckles chuckling. Sonic blushed more and quietly chuckled trying not to wake the poor ebony hedgehog.

"Yeah, I think so too, god knows how late it is." Sonic stood up with Shadow in his arms and quietly walked back to the bedroom. He laid Shadow in bed and tucked him in then walked to the hall closet. As he pulled out a pillow and an extra blanket thunder went off and rain fell heavily upon their roof.

Knuckles jumped where he was sitting and Shadow began to whimper helplessly. "Sonikku...where are you?"

"I'm giving Knuckles his sleeping things, I'll be there in a minute love."

"Okay." Sonic smiled because he could hear Shadow's smile through his voice. He quietly closed the closet door and walked back to the living room. Knuckles was frozen on the couch and Sonic kinda chuckled.

"Ya okay there?" Sonic asked tossing the pillow at Knuckles. He laid the bedding at the foot of the couch for Knuckles and Knuckles fell out of his stupor and grinned nervously. Sonic slightly chuckled. "Hey, I'm blowing the candle out soon, so hurry up and get yourself situated...wouldn't want the house to catch fire."

"Yeah," Knuckles situated himself with the blankets and pillow and Sonic softly blew the candle out. Knuckles let a small whimper leave his lips as he saw Sonic's shadowy figure disappear down the hall and into his own room. He hoped Sonic would pass it off as Shadow's soft whimpers. With that last thought, he laid his head down and closed his eyes.

Sonic could've sworn he heard Knuckles whimper but wasn't quite sure so he didn't say anything as he walked down the hall. He walked into his room and softly closed the door and crawled into bed. Shadow instantly curled up to him and he smiled. This was the life, he had his wonderful lover beside him, he had twins coming by some great force unknown to him, and his friends still accepted him when they found out.

He closed his eyes and pulled Shadow closer as a huge roll of thunder sounded through the house. He knew his lover didn't like thunder storms, they made him nervous and jumpy and he often stayed really close to Sonic when they were going on. On the ones that lasted a few days Sonic would often hate leaving the house because when he'd come home Shadow would be curled up on the couch with a flashlight under a small blanket from the hall closet.

Shadow shivered and Sonic opened one of his eyes to see Shadow's crimson ones staring at him. "Something wrong?"

"No," Shadow grinned and hugged Sonic tighter. "You called me love...and it was really cute!"

Sonic rolled his eyes, his boyfriend was squealing probably near midnight and he was tired. Shadow curled into the sapphire fur that he loved so much and Sonic smiled again. Then they heard someone run straight into their door.

Shadow clung tighter to Sonic and Sonic slightly jumped. "Knuckles? You okay there buddy?"

"Y-yes! C-can I," Knuckles stood outside their bedroom door rubbing his head that had just slammed into their door and swallowed his pride, "sleep in there?"

"Awww, Knuckles! That's so cute!" Shadow squealed again and Sonic chuckled.

"If you really want and need to Knuckles, I just figured you'd be more comfortable on the couch," said Sonic. He kissed Shadow's nose and whispered, "behave."

"Yes mother," Shadow teased. He curled back up to Sonic and they scooted over as Knuckles fumbled to find their doorknob. When another loud roar of thunder sounded Knuckles jumped and turned the knob. He quickly shut the door and zoomed over to the bed and laid on the edge.

"Knux...you can move further in, it is after all, a huge bed. Me and Shadow will stay on this side." Sonic pulled Knuckles over some more and pulled Shadow close against him so he wouldn't roll off the bed sometime during the night.

"Yeah...okay," Knuckles mumbled. He pulled the blanket up over his shoulders and closed his eyes when he heard giggling coming from Shadow. "What's going on over there?"

"Nothing," said Sonic tiredly, "he's just rambling about how this is gonna help us get used to doing this for our kids."

Shadow's giggle sounded across the room again and Knuckles mumbled a few profanities against the pillow. Then he felt a soft fur against his arm. His eyes shot open and Shadow was staring at him. "Don't make fun of me." Crimson eyes threatened to release tears any moment and Knuckles was not in the mood for another episode.

"Shadow...just go to sleep," mumbled Sonic softly. Shadow slowly nodded and curled up between Sonic and Knuckles and Sonic sighed. "Silly hedgehog, I doubt that's making Knuckles very comfortable."

"Why not? You've said yourself I'm a very good pillow and–." Shadow blinked as a hand was placed over his lips.

"Shadow...here," Sonic pulled Shadow back up against him and removed his hand. Shadow grinned because he could hear the blush spread across Sonic's face.

"Okay Sonikku...good night Knuxie."

Knuckles mumbled while Shadow giggled again. Sonic softly chuckled and mumbled something using the word goofy causing Shadow to giggle again. Soon they all sat in silence and Shadow's soft snores broke the silence. Both echidna and hedgehog sighed in relief. "I'm sorry he's so giddy...I haven't given him sugar so I think it's just the pregnancy."

"That's okay...tho it's kinda weird to see him like this," said Knuckles softly. He turned to face away from the two hedgehogs.

"I'm sorry he kept you up," said Sonic softly. His head was nuzzled into Shadow's quills making his voice pleasantly soothing.

"That's alright Sonic." Knuckles closed his eyes contentedly and both Sonic and Knuckles fell asleep listening to Shadow's soft snores.

When the boys all woke Knuckles had his arm slung across Shadow and Shadow and Sonic were still curled up in the same position as the night before. Knuckles slightly flipped out when he woke up which woke the two hedgehogs up and Shadow fell into a giggle fit then slipped out of bed to go make breakfast with Sonic in tow. Knuckles sat dumbfounded for a few moments then slipped out of the room and sat at the table in the dining room with a small smile on his face. He surprisingly felt more comfortable around Sonic and Shadow then he had the day before, and it felt nice.

End of...the power outage.

A.N.: oo this could be good, this could be bad...it was kinda odd to type...it was mostly the sugar in my system talking . I love Mt. Dew and ideas. Anyway, I hope this is an okay chapter, my friend is gonna read through it to tell me, so if it isn't, I want you yo know I had help before I posted it. Until next update (probably won't be that long! D)