The Bet4
Rouge had a nice place.The place she stayed at looked like an abondened club of any sort.Well furnished with silver chairs,glass tables,anything that seemed of some value.The lights automatically came on when they walked through the front door.
"Umm...make yourself at home"she stretched.She pointed to a red door.
"Thats the spare bedroom,you may have it".
"Thanks"he shrugged and trudged to the door.Shadow opened it and stepped in,and groped for a light switch.Finally finding it he set his stuff on the queen sized bed.Black silk covered it,a television on an empty dresser across from it.A door led to the bathroom,and by looking through it,it also led to Rouge's room.The walls were blank except for a calender which needed to be changed,it was a month late.And thats when he spotted it,one lone picture on a night stand next to the bed.In the golden frame was two grown white bats,with three small ones.He could easily tell Rouge from being the eldest,but he didn't know she had two little brothers.He wondered why she had chosen to live here.Then again,she had mentioned her family had died,no murdered.He sighed before sitting on the comfortable bed,he had only gotten a few hours of sleep so far today,but at least it was the weekend.He stretched out his arms,making all his quills stand up on end.A light knock came from the door,but not his room,the front door.He saw Rouge cautiously walk up to it and gaze out the peephole.She opened the door slightly,and spoke quickly.
"What!"
"You seem uneasy"the voice of lizardboy.
"Danny,I'm tired!"she said coldly.
"Where is he?"Danny spoke.
"I don't know.Can I please just go to bed!"her ear's twitched uncomfortably.A growl could be heard from the other side.Shadow was watching from the doorway of his new room.Rouge didn't budge from the door,or look at him.One agent knew where she lived but no one else?What made him so god forsaken special?Shadow began to grow a bit jealous.
"Danny...go home.Everything is under control"she yawned.
"Don't let them find him here Rouge.Even I know he's here,Shadow doesn't deserve to die but you had better not let him put my nephew in danger".
"Espio can take care of himself.Just because your older than all of us doesn't mean your in charge".
"No,but as your partner I'm telling you to watch out,and don't get caught.I'll catch you later,you look tired"Danny smiled evilly as Rouge scowled at him.He was like a weird type of brother to her who was alot older,but at least he was on her side.
"That guy's your partner?"Shadow huffed from the doorway as Rouge closed it.
"Yes,and we're lucky that he thinks you don't deserve what ever the military would do to you".
"Meaning he knows what they have in store for me".
"And as soon as I find out I'll tell you,but for now go to bed"she locked the door with six different locks.Breathing in deeply she set off for her own room.But before she went in she paused.
"If you need anything help yourself,or if you need my assistance for anything don't hesitate to knock"she closed her own door behind her.Wrapping herself in her own red silk sheets she drifted off into sleep.But her nightmares were her memories.
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"Rouge Bat,you have been caught stealing a gem from the president of the United States,how do you plead?"
"I'm not fucking guilty! That gem has been in my family for generations,I was simply retrieving what that bastard stole from me!"a slightly younger Rouge shouted at the cop that was questioning her.The president walked in and sat down in the chair next to her.
"And against everyone in America,how many would believe you?I have a proporsition to make for you.You work for me to pay this off...or your family suffers horribly".
"Your going as low as threatning my family?Your nothing but a filthy slime bag!"she hissed at him.The president snapped bringing a television forward,a camera placed somewhere.On the screen was her parents and her two little brothers Blade and Aaron.
"Wait!"she yelled before he could signal any orders for they're death.
"If...if I work for you...you'll leave them be?"
"My dear lady,...you have my word on it".
Filthy lying scum!She had agreed and signed an unbreakable contract which needed to be renewed every few years,but only every twenty.Walking through her living room,furniture turned upside down,shattered glass on the floor.cracking with every step.Her mouth agape she picked up a small portirate of the five of them.
"Mom?Dad?Blade?Aaron?Any one?"she continued walking till she reached the kitchen.Few blood spatters every where,more broken glass and white bat hair.But no bodies,strange.But also a nice relieve the president had kept his word.Figuring they were hiding in their rooms incase more G.U.N people came back Rouge ran up the flight of stairs.Her room was slightly open,making her creep closer to it,before opening it completely.
'NO!'she backed away so quickly she felt the pictures slam down to the floor behind her.Aaron...cold lifeless,and even whiter than usual.The younger of the twins,only by two minutes.He was sprawled across her bed,blood leaking from his sides.His small bat wings broken clearly off,leaving two stubble bones in its place.Her parents room was also slightly open.Rouge's teeth chattered as she reached for the knob to open it even more.Even more blood spatterd against the wall.Her mother's table of perfumes had been smashed to pieces and thrown everywhere.The mirror smashed from a familiar boot print,her mother's favorite.And behind this table was her mother,just as cold and just as lifeless.Not only were her wings missing,but she was bleeding at the mouth.Rouge moved her slightly and saw that the fiends had taken her mother's teeth.Bat fangs were very valuable to tribes north of here but could never get their hands on a pair.They would pay handsomely for a pair though.There was dried blood under her mother's nails,she had fought back.Her father had been thrown into a wall several times.Wings completely ripped off,teeth gone,bones broken.He had also fought back.She heard a whimper come from her little brothers room.Making a quick dash she threw open the door.
"Blade!"she got to her knees and looked under the bed.Sure enough he was there,cowering in fear,but leapt out onto his sister's legs.
"Rouge!It was horrible sissy!They killed everyone...they tried to get me!But I didn't let them!They said they wouldn't hurt us if you took a job of some sort"he cried.
"I took that job so this wouldn't happen!That double crosser!Its alright now,I'm here,we'll get out of here and find somewhere safe"she picked him up and rocked him a bit.
"I'm afraid we can't do that"he whispered.
"Why not?"
"Because there's an operative of G.U.N still in the house somewhere".
"Well he shouldn't be able to do anything,I took the damn job,he can't shoot me"she said icely.She heard the barrel of a gun click,then ran outside before leaping off the ground and flying as fast as she could out of there.
They didn't get to far before being dragged back into the president's office.
"You said my family would be safe you bastard!Safe doen't mean kill them yourselves!"
"Sorry my dear newest agent,but you cannot have a family anymore.Those are the rules".Another click and her little brother dropped dead.
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"BLADE!"Rouge sat bolt upright and breathed heavily.She then dropped her head into her palms and cried,needing someone to hold her.She had to join the force since she was 12 years young.Now she was 17,and sick of it since day one.She had till she was thirty two to renew her contract,which she planned on turning it down,no matter what the price was.A light knock came from her door,but she didn't say anything.Better to make Shadow think she had talked in her sleep then tell him what was really the matter.But he didn't wait for a 'come in' to just walk in.There was no hiding her teared stained face,for they were still freshly falling from her eyes,no matter how hard she tried to stop.He sat down next to her on her bed.
"Are you alright?"knowing damn well she wasn't but at least he asked.She tried to nod but couldn't move.All her muscles tightend and her wings twitched uneasily.Before she could say anything to make him get out he brought he to an embrace,just what the doctor had ordered.She wrapped her arms around him and cried silently,not flinching once as he stroked her back and wings to try and comfort her.
'I wonder what she's crying about...she's only slept for an hour and two minutes'Shadow had been reading until she had screamed,thinking she was under attack by someone named Blade.He wondered just who exactly this 'Blade' character was and why he brought her so much pain.Shifting slightly he checked on her hand,it was fine now and had stopped bleeding.He wasn't sure just how long he had been soothing her back,but the next thing he knew was she had fallen asleep on his chest,causing the black hedgehog's muzzle to turn slightly red.Moving ever so carefully he layed her back down on her bed,covered her with the covers and quietly walked out.But before he closed the door,he noticed two more pictures on her night stand.Her parents standing side by side,smiling at eachother,and then the other was her two little brothers.He wondered if one of the twins might actually be Blade.
Yawning Shadow headed back to his own room.His own stuff in places,making it look much more homey for him.He hadn't took the picture of her and her family down but put his own next to it.Leaning back against his soft pillows he drifted into his own sleep,to bad he couldn't take that dream machine bed back from home,it would have been useful for the both of them right now.
A/N:Rouge has a horrible past no?I figure in the game Shadow has one,so now she matches him.Twisted souls belong with eachother.What did you think?