1A/N: okay, so in the last chapter, I loved the roller coaster part...but that's me. Anyway, thanks for reading and reviewing! I've been sick lately and actually have a few good ideas bubbling in my brain! looks in mirror as head slightly bubbles oo that can't be good...anyway, here goes!

Shadic23: what I got was that you didn't like it...thank you for clarifying that, I'm sorry for the bad review reply. It's just, when you get one and it sounds as if the reviewer hasn't even read anything and is only saying their review because of the summary in the beginning...it's kinda frustrating.

Rubelyn Soulstar: . I'm glad you liked it! It was actually a pretty good idea, though I seriously had no idea how to go through with it...I felt kinda bad skipping all those months, but I guess it's a good thing otherwise we might not've gotten anywhere. Thank god for ideas! Anywho, have a nice night/day waves and thanks!

Sam the Bat: heh, why would I just stop there :p kidding, anyway, glad you liked it.

Cross Rabbit: Lack of Chapter Stupidity?..you're gonna have to explain that to me...I don't know if that's a good thing or not . ; ( that's a face but I'm not sure they show up...) does a face that's a mixture of happy and sad I'm really sorry for leaving you on suspense for so long, I forgot where I was going with the chapter then I remembered so yeah. The whole reason I stopped where I did on chapter seven was because I didn't really know what I wanted to come next time the next day at school.

Disclaimer:...it's alllllllll Sega's nods and dances to "Feeling way too damn good"-Nickelback

Chapter 10:The Name Game

"Sonic! Sonic!" Shadow sat death glaring at a spider on the coffee table getting further annoyed the longer the spider didn't move.

"Yeah Shadow?" Sonic walked out of the kitchen and looked at Shadow expecting to need to go get something for his poor lover.

"There's a spider and it won't quit staring at me! Smush it!" Shadow pouted as the spider continued their small glaring/staring contest. The spider moved towards Shadow's feet and Shadow squealed and moved his feet quickly. "NOW IT'S TRYING TO HURT ME! KILL IT!" Shadow's eyes were closed tightly and his ears were folded back as he was curled up as far as he could go without hurting himself.

Sonic smiled in slight amusement before slamming his hand down on the spider and going to wash his glove off. Shadow smiled softly before turning his small radio on and began to sing Aqua's "Roses are Red".

Sonic entered the room to listen to Shadow's outburst, "THE ONLY THING YOU SAID WAS DUM DE DA DE DUM!"

"...I don't remember saying that..." Shadow jumped and looked at Sonic. He blinked while Sonic started to laugh and sat beside Shadow.

"Sonikku...did you bring the lists?" Shadow stared innocently at Sonic while watching the nervous look on Sonic's face appear and begin to fade away as he thought.

"I thought...I thought we could ask our friends what they thought! That way we'd have more choices!" Sonic smiled nervously. 'How could I possibly forget to make the lists!' Sonic shook his the thought out of his head and looked at Shadow.

"That's a good idea...next time don't forget," Shadow kissed Sonic's cheek then got up to call all their friends while Sonic sat dumbfounded with a blush spread across his cheeks.

"Hello, Knuckles, you mind coming over? I'd say around," Shadow glanced at the clock, it read 3:00 in the afternoon, "6:00. Alright, thanks Knux. Bye!" Shadow giddily hung up the phone and dialed Rouge's giving her the same instructions after she said yes and adding a "don't tell Amy Rose." very clearly on the end. He then called Stacy and Tails and began to pull things out of the fridge.

"What're you doing love?" Sonic waltzed in and looked at Shadow as he cut some cheese and summer sausage to make a small snack tray.

"Providing food for our collaboration, I want some good names and food gives people brain power!" Shadow smiled and continued cutting as Sonic came up behind him and took the knife from his hands. His smile widened when Sonic remained behind him and began to cut the summer sausage into small pieces.

"Sonikku...I should start on something else if you're gonna finish this," Shadow whispered softly. He didn't want to move but if he wanted a good snack choice out, he'd have to get working on something else to have it all done in time.

"Alright Shadz," Sonic kissed his quills and moved his arm so Shadow could get out from in front of him and continued to chop up cheese and summer sausage till he was sure they had enough.

Meanwhile, Shadow had begun on working on cookies. Though he'd probably never fully admit it, he couldn't resist a good cookie. He looked as Sonic arranged the small snack tray then quickly ate some cookie dough before sliding the tray into the oven and then sat in a chair to rest his feet and back.

"Shadz...does Chili dogs count as a good snack?" Sonic smiled hopefully as Shadow looked up at him. Shadow gently shook his head with a grin on his face.

"You really, really like those don't you?" Sonic nodded and he smiled as Shadow began to laugh, "Yes Sonniku, you can make them for our snacks...when the timer goes off will you get my cookies out?"

"Yeah, I can do that love," Sonic replied while digging in the cupboard for a pan. He finally decided on a medium sized pan and went to their small pantry and pulled out a good amount of chili. Shadow laughed as Sonic set the cans down on the counter and quickly opened them all pouring it into the pan. (A/N: It's about 5:45 at this point...just as a little...yeah) He quickly raced down to their freezer to get hot dogs and ran back up and put another pot out and boiled water.

"Sonikku, it's almost time..." Shadow looked at Sonic as he quickly got the hotdogs cooked and stirred the chili. Just as the doorbell rang Sonic shut the stove off. Shadow shook his head as he started to get up, but before he could Sonic raced past him and answered the door.

"HEY TAILS! It's good to see you!" The poor fox yelped and Shadow grinned knowing that Tails was probably stuck in one of Sonic's bear hugs. His timer went off and he pulled out the batch of cookies and placed them on a cooling rack as Tails walked in.

"Hi Shadow!" Tails waved happily at Shadow and Shadow smiled at him and handed him a cookie. "Thanks!...how're you?"

"I'm good, and Sonic and the Twins are good. Went to the doctor yesterday, one girl and one boy." Tails smiled happily as he finished off the cookie.

"What're you going to name them?" Tails looked expectantly at Shadow and Shadow smiled nervously.

"Well, that's why we asked you guys to come here."

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"Okay, okay, how about, Sheila?" Rouge munched on a cracker with a piece of cheese on it.

"Sheila's a hooker's name," mumbled Knuckles as he tapped a pencil to his temple.

"You mean like...a local hooker, because I've been told you've kno–." Rouge was cut off.

"Don't even go there bat girl," Knuckles blushed and began to scribble on his notepad again. Shadow chuckled and Sonic lightly snickered.

"What's a hooker?" Tails sat perplexed as Sonic and Shadow looked at him biting their lips and Rouge and Knuckles snickered slightly.

"Well, ya see Tails, it's–." started Sonic.

"Tails, would you like another cookie?" Shadow handed him a cookie and smiled.

"Thanks Shadow!" Tails smiled and munched happily on his cookie and Sonic kissed Shadow's cheek for coming up with such a nice save.

"Anyway, we have Marlene, Tawny, Isabelle, Sheryl, Naomi, Laura, and Shirley for the girls. And we have Marlin, Clay, Jake, Mark, Shawn, and Tyler for the boys." Stacy announced. She smiled nervously and everyone carefully went back to thinking for names.

"I think that's good enough, otherwise we'll never decide!" said Shadow after a good minute. Sonic nodded and everyone agreed. Stacy handed the two the list and they bade everyone a good walk/flight home.

"Well, that was productive," sighed Shadow. He smiled at all the scribbled out ideas on their list and wrote all the keepers down in alphabetic order. "Now how do we decide?"

"Well, let's cross off the ones that we only liked a little." Sonic nodded and Shadow agreed. They quickly crossed off Marlene, Marlin, Clay, Shirley, Tyler and Isabelle.

"Alright, so now we're down to seven."

"That's easier than what it was, now how do we go from here?" Shadow looked at Sonic questionably and watched as Sonic thought.

"Well, why don't we close our eyes and point at one?"

"...Our poor babies," Shadow sat down on the couch and laid the list in front of him and lined his finger up with the girls list. He shut his eyes tightly and Sonic watched as he moved his finger up and down the list and stopped. Shadow opened his eyes and smiled. "Naomi."

"Alright, Naomi and..." Sonic looked at Shadow as he looked at Sonic helplessly.

"I want you to do the boy's name," Shadow pouted and watched as Sonic's feature softened and he sat beside him and wrapped his arm around Shadow.

"Alright, ready?" Shadow nodded and Sonic shut his eyes and Shadow lined his finger with the boys list and watched Sonic's features as he slowly moved his finger along the list. Shadow watched as it felt like an eternity before Sonic's finger landed upon a name.

"What is it?" Shadow asked.

Sonic slowly leaned forward with Shadow still cuddled in his side and smiled. "Shawn."

Shadow squealed and nuzzled into Sonic's side more. "I love you Sonikku."

"I love you too Shadow," Sonic smiled and kissed Shadow as they shared a wonderful moment as parents. "It's 9:30 love, ready for bed?"

"Yes...I'm sleepy. Oh dear, I hope Tails doesn't go home and ask someone what a hooker is!" Shadow's face was priceless as he pictured the scene play out in his mind.

"It'll be fine, we'll just say Knuckles and Rouge are responsible," Sonic chuckled and stood up and went into the bedroom.

Shadow nodded absently and shut the living room and kitchen lights off. "You're right." He smiled and walked into their room and quietly shut the door.

End of the name game

A/N: Hookers are people too. XD anyway, hope this chapter was satisfactory. I don't know what the next chapter should be about, but it'll eventually come to me. Ideas would be useful, otherwise it could take a while for an update oo