Just thought i'd mention that this story is an M. It's not rated for it's voilence or its language, so you can guess what it is rated for. The reason it is an M will start comming through now. enjoy!

That night , the echidna didn't sleep well. His dreams were filled with images of change, and were similar yet strange. He wondered, alone on angel island, the emerald before him once more. With an angry scowl, he struct it with his fist, so it shattered into thousands of peices, that danced together in the air before falling to the ground in a shattered mess. Pleased Knuckles began to stide away, but the emerald recontrusted it'self before his eyes, glimmering in delight it seemed to just to annoy him. He growled in frustration at it's unfairness, and was about to rush forward with a bellowed battle cry and repeat the act. But suddenly Rouge appeared infront of him, her wings shimmering with angelish light and she smiled with a golden hue.

" What are you doing here?" He demanded rudely, realising there was no reason for him to be shouting becuase the emerald was no longer in a state that needed guarding.

" What do you mean? Can't I visit?" She said, her tone smooth and not sharp. Knuckles frowned in confusion and replied in a slightly baffled voice

" Well, I guess you can. But , normally you just try to steal the emerald". Rouges face slowly dropped and her expresion saddened.

" I thought you liked me Knuckles" she said, her tone almost moarnful. Knuckles shifted around uncomfertably, as he wasn't really used to admiting his feelings to anyone.

" I do like you Rouge" he mumbled, shadowing his face as he lowered his eyes , trying to avoid the embarrissment of Rouge seeing him blush. But she didn't seem to notice.

" I thought I was the best freind you ever had" she said as if she hadn't heard his reply. Knuckles, becoming confused and desperate, yelled out in a straining voice

" You are my best freind! Please Rouge!". But Rouges eyes closed and a tears escaped them, crawling uncertanly down her cheek.

" I thought you loved me" she said in a quiet voice. Knuckles was shocked by this statement, but couldn't even control himself before he blurted out

" I love you Rouge!". Rouge gave a sniff and replied

" If that's the way you want it, knuckie". With a face that almost made Knuckles heart melt with guilt, even though he hadn't done anything wrong, Rouge took off. She flew awy from the island, with Knuckles desperatly shouting

" I do love you! I do love you Rouge! Come back! Please come back!" He desperatly shouted, but it was too late, she had gone. He collasped onto his kness, gently sobbing into the grassy island routes, the island that had trapped him, the island that had tacken his life...

The covers flew up as Knuckles bolted up right. He tried to steady his erretic breathing and noticed his was drenched in cold sweat, dripping down his dreadlocks and running onto the bed. Knuckles sighed at his minds fresh attempt to drive him crazy. He couldn't understand what the dream could have meant, he had never admited his feelings to Rouge, perhaps becuase he was scared she would laugh in his face, or reject him feircly. Perhaps that was what had create the nightmare.

The train of thought was soon driven out of his head when Rouge opened his door and walked in. Dressed only in sparse night clothes, ones that left most of her legs uncovered and a shirt which clearly showed the outline of her unsuported breats. Knuckles couldn't help but errupt into a huge blush and worse, to his alarm, he felt his pelvis area throbbing as his male organ started to become errect.

" Knuckles! Are you still asleep?" Asked Rouge, who seemed to be blistfully unaware the effect her night clothes were having on the male echidna. Knuckles didn't trust his voice at that point, so replied with a shacky nod. Rouge gave a little chuckle, which sent certain parts of her body into an unsteady wobble and walked out. Knuckles collapsed against the pillows as she left, his head drenched with sweat in an effort to control himself.

The hot shower helped Knuckles to calm himself, although the image of Rouge in her night garments still refused to leave his mind. Why does she have to torcher me so badly?' Screamed his mind in desperation. Apon leaving he found Rouge in the living room, fully clothed and thankfully suported. When she spotted him Rouge handed him a cup of coffee, which he rarely drank but accepted it anyway, for fear of looking foolish infront of her. After a few unremarkable seconds of sipping coffe, Rouge lowered the cup and said in a bright tone

" So , I guess we ought to find Sonic. What is it you wanted to talk to him for anyway?" She asked in curiosity and a little suspition.. Knuckles, suddenly feeling very hot again, cleared his throat and lowered his eyes to the ground as he spoke.

" Actually. I didn't come here to see Sonic. I came to, well, to see you Rouge" he said shyly blushing slightly. Rouge looked a little tacken aback, her shadowed eyes a little wider than usual. Soon she recovered her composule however and smiled a suggestive smile.

" Im honored Knuckles head, thought I stole your jewel again? Or are have you just come to check up on little old me?" She joked. Knuckles fists clenched and he said stifly

" Please Rouge! I'm being serios here, you know how hard it is for me to admit my feelings to, to someone I really care about" he finished, his blush definatly intensifying. Rouge saw his red tinted cheeks and nervous eyes and decided he needed to be tacken seriosly. She changed her stance to one that was less suggestive and modified her expresion so it showed gratitude and pity. Knuckles was still glancing down and so didn't see that Rouge had closed the gap between them. But when her arms ended up on his shoulders, he saw just how close they had become , and began to sweat through nervousness and excitement.

" I didn't know you felt that way about me" she uttered softly, if Knuckles wasn't so close he wondered if he would have heard it. Even at her hands touch his heart thundered in his chest and sent tingels down his skin. His mind locked onto her face. Was he nervous? Hell yeah. But for all the nervousness his lust was tenfold. Their eyes were locked now, their chests getting closer with every second. Then , finnaly , Rouge reached forward and their lips brushed, slowly pushing against each other, feeling the others texture. The feeling sent electric like currents through Knuckles face. The kiss seemed to last for an eternity. But , to Knuckles disapointment, Rouge pulled away and looked into his nobel voilet eyes. They stared in silence for a while, Knuckles feeling rather blown away by the whole experince. Ok, so it was only a little kiss, and could have been interpretted as a plutonic gesture. But Knuckles was so juiced up on theromones that he didn't care. He had kissed Rouge! After all those years of waiting, what he wanted had finnaly happened, and boy did he feel happy. " So, you came to see me. What do you want to do?" Said Rouge, her tone back to casual as she sat down on her sofa. Knuckles almost automatically sat down next to her and took a deep intack of breath as Rouge shuffled closer to him.

" Rouge?" He asked as he gave her a questioning look. She shrugged and said

" It's cold, brrr". She rubbed her arms. Knuckles grinned and said

" Yeah right, you just wanted to sit nearer to me". Rouge smiled and replied

" So what if I did? I just can't resist your handsom muscles". Knuckles faced grew hotter by the second and he wasn't sure how to make a move. Luckely Rouge made it for him. The bat pushed Knuckles onto his back and threw herself onto him. Knuckles was more than surprised at this sudden advance but the overwhelming pleasure that he felt rise through him canceled out any negative feelings or thoughts. His breathing was excited and his heart rate doubling over and over. Once again Rouge joined their lips, but this time their gently touch tranformed into a battle with their faces. With very push Rouge made, Knuckles equaled and soon he forgot everything apart from the feeling of Rouges lips. His temperature soured through out the minetes that dragged by and, when Rouge leg dragged past his sensitive area, he felt his middle begin to throb once again.

Knuckles would have gladly continued all day and, dare he say it, all night? But a tiny beep of an alarm went off somewhere west of his head, and Rouge left him to tend to it.

" Just leave it" he demanded. But Rouge threw him a nausty look and turned it off, straightened her clothing and said

" I have something to take care off, do whatever you want until I get back" she said and flew out of the door before Knuckles could protest.

WITH ROUGE TEN MINETES LATER

She tapped the doorbell three times, waiting for the apparments inhabitant to respond. The door creaked open and a males face came into veiw.

" Hello Shadow. Ready for our date?"

AUTHORS NOTES

I'm really sorry this took so long, my exams are giving me hell, im susposed to be revising right now but hey, i love u lot more. Anyway i'm just going to mention the rating again. M , i have now decided that there will be a lemon in this, but with who? you'll have to wait and see...