Chapter 8.
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When Blaze woke up, she didn't know where she was, when she was then it all came back to her.
Blaze had irresponsibly run away after pissing off her fiancé (ex-fiancé) and her friends and had gotten lost in the woods after chasing after some kind of apparition or hallucination. Cheers.
Now, the heat of the day had been replaced by an evening chill and the trees around the clearing were casting long shadows. Soon, it would be getting dark.
Sighing heavily, Blaze got up from the forest floor and tried to stand on a pair of shaky legs. Blaze felt nauseous and thirsty and hungry, all at the same time, and she was experiencing cramps in her lower abdomen as if her period was about to start.
Finally. Blaze was already almost a week late and if she hadn't been so distracted by Sonic's and Amy's wedding and planning this trip, she would have taken a pregnancy test, just to be sure. Now Amy knew that this would have been unnecessary since this night or tomorrow morning the bleeding would start.
However, Blaze being pregnant would have been rather impossible since her fallopian tubes were blocked (due to endometriosis, though she hadn't told her fiancé - ex-fiancé) and Knuckles was most likely infertile due to an inflammation of the testes he had gotten as a child after he had been down with mumps. Therefore, Knuckles and Blaze didn't take precautions like hormonal or barrier contraception, only relying on natural contraception.
For a moment, Blaze tried to figure out from which direction she had come to decide into which direction she should go so that she would find back to her friends. It was then that Blaze felt something running down the inside of her thigh most likely blood, which really took her by surprise since the first day of her period had never resulted in such a strong bleeding.
When Blaze looked down at herself, she could see that the inside of her burgundy capris had developed a darker shade of red. Blaze touched it with a shaking hand and, yes, there was definitely blood on her finger tips.
Blaze sobbed as she was in the middle of the woods, dehydrated and starving, injured and had started bleeding. Furthermore, night was approaching and Blaze had nothing with her to keep her warm.
Blaze knew that she would have to find back to civilization, otherwise, she might die from exposure.
Trying to calm herself down, Amy tried to decide into which direction she should go. It was hopeless. There was no clue where the road and the hiking trails were, where their cabin was. Blaze could just blindly run into the woods and maybe be lucky, find one of the hiking trails, the road, or their cabin or she could still be lost.
Suddenly, Blaze remembered what Sonic had told her, that Shadow had advised that they should let their hearts guide them when the brothers had been lost in the woods.
Yet Shadow and Sonic had several reasons to find back to the cabin, Amy and their baby hoglets. Blaze had no one. Blaze was sure that neither Knuckles nor Shadow were keen on seeing her again. However, Blaze still liked them, they were her friends, no matter how they thought about her at the moment, she was already missing them, wanted to get back to them and then, at home, her family was waiting for her, her father and her siblings and her mother, her beautiful, fragile mother who was living in her own world but who still knew that she had 3 children and was always happy when they visited her.
Blaze had to find a way out of the woods, she had to get back to her loved ones and suddenly she seemed to know into which direction to go. It was as if Blaze's feet found the way on their own.
Of course, it could just be Blaze's imagination, maybe she wasn't approaching civilization but moving further away from it. How should Blaze know? Blaze was completely disorientated but this was her only chance and she would take it.
Giggling, because the very idea that Blaze's heart would guide her home was hilarious or maybe because she was going mad like her mother she just placed one foot in front of the other, carefully avoiding any vines or dried branches that could make her stumble and fall.
It was interesting though that Blaze didn't choose a straight path but rather zigzagged her way through the undergrowth. If Blaze had consciously tried to find her way back she would have chosen a straight path, so maybe the whole let-your-heart-guide-you wasn't that idiotic? Who knew...
Yet Blaze didn't consider that below the trees it would be darker than on the clearing. Involuntarily, Blaze thought about the ghostly apparition, the blonde hedgehog woman in the wedding dress who had guided her deep into the woods, into the heart of darkness. Who was she? And why did she want to lead Blaze astray?
Blaze could hear something in the thicket next to her and gasped, almost expecting to see the woman again, but it was just a small fox. Blaze just hoped that it wasn't rabid.
As if on cue, the animal lifted its head and sniffed the air, looking into her direction. "Maybe it can smell the blood." Blaze thought, feeling gross since there was more and more running down the insides of her thighs, her cramps getting worse.
Blaze just wanted to lie down and rest with a hottie pressed against her lower abdomen, maybe drinking a cup of lady mantle's tea against the cramps, nap for a while but she couldn't, she was still lost in the wood and needed to go home. So Blaze just continued going on, not thinking about her way, just letting her feet do their job.
Then, finally, Blaze thought she could see something between the trees. At first, it just looked like another clearing but then Blaze was sure that she could also see some lights. Blaze's heart started beating faster.
Their cabin was standing on a clearing and, of course, Blaze's friends would have turned on the lights.
Blaze threw caution to the wind, no longer really paying attention to the forest floor since her eyes were fixed on those lights and she started running towards them.
A few times, Blaze almost stumbled but could always catch her fall and then she broke through the tree line, finally reaching the clearing and the cabin. Their cabin. It was true! Blaze's heart had guided her home.
Washed over by relief, Blaze collapsed on the grass, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Blaze?" a familiar male voice asked.
Somebody had just called Blaze's name.
Blaze sat up, wiping away her tears with her right hand and looking around, trying to find out who the voice belonged to since it had sounded very familiar and then she spotted him, standing there on the patio, cradling a squirming bundle in his arms. Shadow and one of the baby hoglets.
For a moment, Shadow and Blaze just stared at each other then he strode over to her, crouching down and pulling her into a one-armed hug with his right hand since he was still holding the baby.
"Oh my god, is that really you? Or am I seeing things?" Shadow asked after he and Blaze had separated then he stood up and helped her to her feet.
Blaze smiled shyly. "Yes, it's really me!" she said.
Shadow hugged Blaze with his right hand again briefly then he guided her back to the patio, his right arm wrapped around her shoulders in a protective gesture and she couldn't help but to lean into him, to let his body heat warm her up.
"You are icy cold! And you must be thirsty and hungry! We'll just have to get you into a hot tub and prepare something to drink and to eat for you." Shadow said, removing his right arm from Blaze's shoulders to open the door that led from the patio into the kitchen.
When Shadow and Blaze went through the door, they came face to face with a surprised looking Sonic and Amy.
"Shadow!" Amy said gasping, involuntarily taking a step back while Sonic seemed to move in front of her as if he wanted to protect her.
This gesture hurt Shadow more than he was ready to admit.
Shadow cleared his throat. "Hey, Rose, look whom I have found outside on our property!" he said because honestly he didn't know what else to say, given the circumstances.
Amy's eyes widened. "Blaze!" she said, moving closer to the cat woman while rocking a whimpering Coral.
Blaze wrapped her arms around her middle and lowered her gaze. "Hi." she said, shyly.
Amy opened her mouth in order to say something but then Eclipse made a squealing noise and her attention was drawn to the baby.
"Oh, thank god, Eclipse's with you, Shadow. We were worried sick when we couldn't find him." Amy said. "Sonic, can you please take him?"
Sonic nodded and stretched out his arms in order to receive the baby boy from his older brother.
Yet Shadow hesitated.
Sonic frowned. "Shadow? Can you please give me my son? You've heard what Amy said." he asked.
Shadow snorted. "He isn't your son, Sonic, he is my son. Honestly, you already have Coral and you got Rose, Uncle adores you and mom pampers you... What else do you want to take away from me?" Shadow questioned as his tone was colder and the words harsher than he had initially planned.
"So much for apologizing and trying to repair their relationship!" Shadow thought.
"Shad-Shadow." Sonic said, looking at his older brother from big emerald green eyes.
Shadow knew the expression as Sonic has been using it since he was a baby. Shadow wouldn't fall for it anymore.
"It's true, isn't it, Sonic? You always get everything you want. And what about me?" Shadow asked.
On the one hand, Shadow didn't understand were this new anger came from, on the other, he felt that talking like this to his younger brother had been long overdue. For a moment, Shadow and Sonic just stared at each other while Eclipse was squirming in his arms and Coral whimpering in Amy's.
"Guys, can you please stop fighting? I'm not well..." Blaze asked whispering then she collapsed right into Sonic's arms.
"She's unconscious! We need to call a doctor! Look at all her injuries and... and the blood!" Sonic said nodding towards the insides of Blaze's pants and the floor on which several red drops were visible.
"We'll have to bring her into the living room. Sonic, can you carry her?" Amy asked.
Sonic chuckled humorlessly. "Sure, no problem, I'm just a little bit handicapped, with my bad arm and leg. I might need my brother's assistance for peeing, but carrying a fully-grown woman I can manage." he said sarcastically.
Amy rolled her eyes. "You could have simply said no, Sonic... All right, Shadow, give me the baby and you can carry Blaze then." she said.
Shadow simply nodded.
Of course, Blaze was in a bad condition, Shadow had known that yet acting upon his jealousy and quarreling with his younger brother had been more important to him than to help his friend, he was an asshole, through and through.
Carefully, Shadow placed Eclipse in Amy's right arm and was relieved that she didn't flinch when they touched then he took Blaze from Sonic.
"Why is she bleeding down there?" Sonic asked, looking from Shadow to Amy and back again.
"I don't know, it could have several causes." Amy said, unclearly.
Shadow knew why the bleeding alarmed his younger brother, it was the same reason why it made him feel queasy and Amy being unclear. It reminded Shadow and Sonic of Amy's miscarriage all those months ago.
"Do you think she is... that..." Sonic said but didn't seem to be able to finish the sentence.
"I don't know, Sonic." Shadow said frustrated then he brushed past his younger brother and Amy, towards the door leading into the living room.
Sonic and Amy followed Shadow.
After Shadow had placed Blaze on the couch, Amy sent him upstairs to get Knuckles while handing the babies over to Sonic who had sat down on the other couch. Shadow couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy when Sonic took Eclipse into his arms, yet there wasn't time for this now. Blaze needed help and Knuckles needed to know that his ex-fiancée was back but in a bad condition.
When Shadow entered the bedroom Knuckles and Blaze shared, he couldn't help but smile at the picture that greeted him. Knuckles lay curled up on one of the 2 queen-sized bed and Shadow's gut told him that it must be Blaze's, clutching a cushion to his chest.
"Knuckles?" Shadow asked whispering, silently approaching his younger cousin, carefully placing his right hand on his left shoulder.
Knuckles made some unintelligible noise, burying his face in the cushion.
"Knuckles!" Shadow said again louder this time, shaking his cousin's left shoulder.
Knuckles groaned and rolled onto his back. "What's up?" he asked.
Shadow sat down on the bed. "Blaze's back!" he said.
Knuckles's eyes widened and he sat up immediately. "Bla-Blaze? How is she?" he asked, wanting to know.
Shadow sighed. "Not really in a good condition. She found back to our cabin all on her own but then she collapsed right into Sonic's arms and is unconscious." he said.
Knuckles all but jumped out of the bed. "I need to go and talk to her, Shadow, maybe it was all a misunderstanding, maybe she will come back to me." he said while running his hands through his dreadlocks to tame it, straightening his clothes.
Shadow shook his head. "Knuckles, don't take her by surprise like that. She has scratches all over her face, arms and legs, she is almost hypothermic and dehydrated and... and she is bleeding." he said.
Knuckles turned towards him. "Bleeding? Is she injured?" he asked, demanding to know.
Shadow cleared his throat. "Well, no, I don't think it's that kind of bleeding..." he said ominously.
Knuckles drew his eyebrows together. "What do you mean with 'not that kind of bleeding'?" he asked.
Shadow sighed, ruffling up his quills with his right hand. "Do you remember when Amy miscarried?" he asked.
Knuckles didn't reply to that, just stormed out of the room.
"Knuckles? Knuckles!" Shadow asked after his cousin following him, rushing to the stairs.
Of course, being more athletic, Shadow caught up with Knuckles, grabbing his left arm with his right hand before Knuckles could descend the stairs.
"Knuckles, wait, it doesn't mean that Blaze is having a miscarriage, I mean, it's pretty unlikely for her being pregnant, isn't it? You had orchitis when you were twelve, meaning you are sterile, aren't you? Maybe she just got her period?" Shadow asked, trying to reason but Knuckles shook his head.
"I'm not completely sterile, you know. I went to your urologist, Sonic advised me to do so before proposing to Blaze, just in case she wanted to have children and according to my semen analysis, I'm only partially sterile." Knuckles said.
That was new. Shadow didn't even know that Sonic and Knuckles had talked about such serious stuff. Too overwhelmed by this piece of information, Shadow let go of Knuckles who rushed down the stairs immediately.
As soon as Knuckles opened the door to the living room, he froze.
Blaze was lying on one of the couches beneath a thick blanket while Amy was kneeling next to her on the floor talking quietly to her and Sonic was sitting on the other couch holding his crying babies.
Actually, Sonic was the one who noticed Knuckles's presence.
"Knuckles!" Sonic said.
Immediately, Amy looked up and gestured for Knuckles to come over to the couch.
Knuckles swallowed hard and went to his ex-fiancé and his cousin's wife. Amy gave Knuckles a small smile and patted his right shoulder with her left hand before she went over to Sonic and took the babies from him.
"We leave you two alone for a moment, all right? The babies need to be changed and I think that Eclipse is hungry." Amy asked before turning towards the door leading from the living room into the corridor.
Sonic followed Amy.
As soon as Knuckles was alone with Blaze, he knelt down next to her, suddenly feeling shy.
"Hi." Blaze said.
Blaze looked up at Knuckles, worrying her already chapped lower lip, remaining quiet.
Tentatively, Knuckles extended his right hand and brushed back a stray fur from her forehead. Knuckles had always loved Blaze's lavender fur, so pretty and shiny and silky, unlike his own coarse, red dreadlocks.
As soon as Knuckles touched Blaze, she started crying.
"I'm so, so sorry, Knuckles." Blaze said, crying.
Knuckles could feel tears filling his own eyes. "Shh, it's okay, you were just angry and said things you didn't mean, I can understand, we will work through this." he said.
Blaze shook her head. "No, I meant every word I said. And that's why I'm so sorry, Knuckles. You deserve better than me, always have. I... I wasn't honest with you, used you to get over someone else. And that wasn't fair!" she asked, taking Knuckles's right hand into her left hand.
Knuckles could feel his heart break. The whole time Knuckles had believed that when Blaze was back they could just make up and everything would be all right again but her words suggested differently.
"It's okay." Knuckles said, hoping that Blaze was just confused and traumatized because of what she had gone through, refusing to let her go without a fight.
"It's not okay, Knuckles! You are such a good person, always kind and gentle. And I was so terrible to you... please forgive me!" she said, pressing the back of his right hand against her lips.
Knuckles hated to see Blaze this humble, it didn't suit her. The Blaze Knuckles knew had always been practical, sensible, and sassy.
"Of course, I forgive you, Blaze, I love you, always and forever, even though you don't want me anymore." Knuckles said, pressing a kiss to Blaze's forehead.
Blaze sobbed again. "Please, don't love me, don't be nice to me, I don't deserve it." she said, but Knuckles shook his head.
"Oh, you deserve it, believe me, you might not see it now but you are also a good and kind person, taking care of your siblings the way you did after your mother had been institutionalized, helping your father." Knuckles said to Blaze.
Blaze gave Knuckles a sad smile. "Yet your mother never liked me..." she said.
Knuckles sighed. It was true. As soon as Knuckles had revealed to his mother that he wanted to marry Blaze, she had told him that pretty girls like Blaze would never fall for plain looking boys like him, that one day Blaze would break his heart, that she was only taking advantage of him. Had she been right, after all? Knuckles refused to believe it, refused to believe that his relationship with Blaze was over.
"My mother doesn't like anyone." Knuckles said. That was also true. Knuckles's mother was constantly complaining about her neighbors, about their relatives, about his brothers. Knuckles was sure that his mother was also complaining about him behind his back, especially since he had moved out of her house in April and moved in together with Blaze.
Moving in together had been a big step for Knuckles, more so than proposing. Since Blaze wanted to have the 2 bedroom apartment so that 'Sticks' could stay overnight whenever she wanted to, Knuckles had dared to dream about them having kids together, it might not be easy, but not impossible because Shadow's and Sonic's urologist had told him that he was not completely sterile.
Shadow's comment about Blaze's bleeding came back to his mind, so he gathered his courage.
"Blaze, are you pregnant?" Knuckles asked.
To Knuckles's surprise, the pretty, young cat woman started crying again. "I don't know." she said, averting her gaze.
Yet Knuckles was convinced that he knew. Yes, Blaze was.
"We need to get you to a hospital." Knuckles said.
And if on cue, Shadow entered the living room, looking completely misplaced.
"Rose asked me to drive Blaze and you to the hospital, Knuckles... Are you ready?" Shadow asked.
Knuckles didn't even bother to answer, he just got up from the floor and tried to lift Blaze from the couch, yet failing, not because she was too heavy but because he was too weak.
Instantly, Shadow was at Knuckles's side, helping him.
Blaze was very fragile, clinging to them so that she wouldn't collapse again.
"Do you think you can walk?" Shadow asked Blaze.
Blaze nodded. "Yeah, if you two help me?" she asked.
It sounded rather like a question than a statement and Knuckles knew why Blaze was suddenly so insecure. It was because of Shadow. Blaze still wasn't over Shadow. Knuckles felt a pang of jealousy then he grabbed the blanket from the couch with both hands and wrapped it around Blaze's shoulders.
"I assume that you will drive, Shadow, since we will most likely take Amy's car, won't we?" Knuckles asked.
Shadow nodded. "Yeah, of course." he said then he grabbed the bottle of water sitting on the coffee table with his right hand and handed it over to Knuckles. "Here, make sure that she takes small sips every couple of minutes because she is dehydrated and keep her warm during the drive because she is hypothermic, all right?"
Knuckles smiled at his friend. "All right!" he said.
Shadow briefly nodded at Knuckles then they helped Blaze walking towards the cabin door.
Sonic was sitting on the bed, his back propped up against several pillows, holding a happily gurgling Coral in his arms, while Amy was sitting in the rocking chair, nursing Eclipse and humming a lullaby.
Sonic felt completely useless with his left wrist and left leg, especially since he hadn't even been able to change Coral's and Eclipse's diapers a couple of minutes ago.
"Great, Sonic." Sonic thought.
Then Eclipse finished drinking and Amy rearranged the baby boy hoglet's position to burp him like she had done with Coral in the living room before they had run into Shadow and Blaze.
Thinking about his older brother made Sonic's heart clench. Yes, Shadow had screwed up, frightened Amy and made her cry, but he wouldn't really have hurt her, right? Sonic refused to believe anything else. Sonic was glad that he had interrupted the situation at this stage though.
Shadow was very sorry about his behavior. He had only told them so a couple of minutes ago, yet Amy had ignored his apology, ordering him to accompany Blaze and Knuckles to the hospital.
"Do you think you will ever forgive Shadow?" Sonic asked.
Amy stopped humming the lullaby and looked at Sonic. "I don't know Sonic. It's just... it's too early. He really disappointed me, behaved in a way I would have never thought possible." she said.
Sonic nodded. That made sense. However, Sonic worried that maybe now their relationship was beyond repair. Thinking about that made Sonic very sad, so sad that a tear was rolling down his right cheek, falling onto Coral's forehead. The baby girl hoglet frowned when the teardrop met her fur and Sonic couldn't help but smile. Sonic's daughter was the cutest baby he had ever seen. Well, maybe except Eclipse. Thinking about Eclipse made Sonic instantly sad again since he was Shadow's son. Shadow had made that clear enough and there was definitely a rift between Shadow and Amy, the 2 people Sonic loved more than anyone else except for his babies and maybe his mother.
Another tear was rolling down Sonic's cheek and he wiped it away before it could fall onto Coral again.
"Hey, don't cry, Sonic." Amy said whispering next to Sonic, letting her right hand run through his quills, sitting down on the bed without Coral.
Amy extended her arms, gesturing for Shadow to give her Coral and he complied then Amy stood up and walked over to the cribs, placing Coral into one of them before joining Sonic on the bed again.
Without speaking a word, Amy took Sonic's face between her hands, caressing his tan muzzle and looking into his eyes for a moment then leaning towards him, sealing his lips with hers. It was their first real kiss in 2 days.
Sonic could feel his manhood stir with desire for his wife. Their kiss deepened and Amy straddled Sonic, yet minding his healing left leg.
"Make love to me." Amy said panting after she and Sonic finally separated.
"Of course." Sonic said, letting his hands wander beneath Amy's oversized t-shirt, caressing her back, feeling clumsy in the process due to his plaster cast.
"I'm afraid you must help me undress you, I'm a little bit handicapped." Sonic said.
Amy smiled at Sonic before kissing his nose then she leaned back a bit and slowly, sensually took off her t-shirt, revealing her creamy skin inch by inch as well as her black nursing bra. Sonic had been really surprised that fancy nursing bras existed when Amy had ordered some while still being pregnant).
"You are so beautiful, Ames." Sonic said whispering before capturing her lips in another kiss, stroking her thighs.
Again, it was Amy who broke the kiss. "And you are overdressed, my love." Amy said, letting her hands wander to the hem of Sonic's plain, black t-shirt, helping him to get rid of it, letting her hands roam freely over his exposed, tanned skin, her fingers through his tan chest fur.
Sonic and Amy took their time, undressing and exploring each other, until they were finally completely naked. Yet, when Sonic grabbed Amy's hips to help her settle down on his arousal, she stopped him.
"Wait! We should put a towel underneath." Amy said and got up from the bed, walking over to the wardrobe, opening one of the drawers and taking out a dark blue towel with both hands.
Sonic frowned. "Why? We've never put anything underneath before. If it gets messy, we can just change the sheets afterwards." he asked.
Amy blushed and lowered her gaze. "I bled last night. It freaked Shadow out. So, I want to spare you the same shock if it happens again." she said without looking at him.
Now Sonic was really confused. "You mean you got your period?" he asked, wanting to know.
Amy just shook her head, still avoiding his gaze. "No, Shadow and I... we had sex. Rather rough sex. And I bled afterwards." she saidd.
Sonic could feel his stomach twist. Did Amy just told Sonic that his older brother had made her bleed? Like those bastard Mephiles? Sonic had told his older brother to be gentle with Amy as she was still healing from giving birth.
"Did he hurt you?" Sonic asked bluntly, not being able to hide the anger in his voice.
Finally, Amy looked up at Sonic. "He didn't do it on purpose, Sonic. It just got a little bit out of hand. And... and I wanted it like that. I even hurt him too, scratching his back badly." she said.
Sonic swallowed hard, closing his eyes as he appreciated Amy's honesty, yet her confession hurt him. To hear that Sonic's brother and his wife had treated each other like that in bed. Of course, Sonic knew that Shadow and Amy liked it rough but that rough? Well, that was new.
Suddenly, Sonic felt a warm and soft left hand on his right cheek and opened his eyes again.
"Are you angry with me?" Amy asked Sonic.
Sonic gave Amy a sad smile. "No, just a little bit disappointed that you 2 hurt each other like that." he said, placing his right hand on her left bruised hip, recognizing the imprint of his older brother's hand on her creamy skin, pulling her closer then he took the towel from her. "You know that I will be gentle with you. Do you really think we will need this?" wanting to know.
Amy shrugged her shoulders. "It would certainly be handy." she said.
Sonic nodded then he rose to his knees and placed the towel on the bed sheet before he sat down again, leaning back against the pillows, extending his arms towards Amy.
Amy smiled fondly at Sonic while he pulled her onto his lap.
As soon as Sonic entered Amy, Sonic couldn't help but utter a feral groan, it felt too good to be inside of her again and it was difficult for him to restrain himself, to not start frantically thrusting into her.
So Sonic simply closed his eyes, bit his lower lip and wrapped his arms tightly around Amy's waist until she was ready to start moving.
Apparently Amy needed a moment to adjust to Sonic, to his length and Sonic could imagine why surely she was still sore from the night before because he could feel her body tense, pressing her nails into his shoulders and then she started to gyrate her hips.
Sonic immediately opened his eyes and captured Amy's lips in a sloppy kiss, his grip tightening around her.
"Oh, Amy, Amy, I love you so much." Sonic said gasping in between kisses, each one more desperate than the one before.
"Love you too." Amy said her hands roaming freely over Sonic's back and spines, through his quills as if she needed to touch every part of him, to make sure that he was there and that he was hers.
Despite the urgency Sonic and Amy felt, their coupling remained slow and tender, her hips moving in a steady rhythm and he was following her lead, trying his best to not hurt her like Shadow did. Thinking about his older brother made Sonic angry. What the hell was wrong with Shadow? To treat Amy, Sonic's one true love, his wife like that? Sonic swore that he would never again allow Shadow to touch Amy, to come near her or the babies. Yes, Shadow screwed up big.
Then Amy sped up her movements and thinking became difficult for Sonic.
"I'm close, love." Sonic said whispering, burying his face on the left side of Amy's neck inhaling her wonderful scent, like vanilla and jasmine.
"Then just let go." Amy said breathed into Sonic's right ear.
Sonic didn't need to be told twice. "Amy!" he said spilling his cum deep inside of Amy, while she was holding him tight, pressing soft kisses to his temple, to his quills.
Sonic and Amy held each other close for some time afterwards before Amy got up from his lap.
"You alright?" Sonic asked, frowning.
Amy gave him a small smile and nodded. "Yeah, perfect." she said to Sonic before. "I'll just go into the bathroom to clean up a bit."
Sonic frowned. "You are not bleeding are you?" he asked wanting to know and involuntarily looked down on his manhood, to check for any traces of blood but it was only covered with their intermingled juices.
Amy sighed. "No, Sonic, I'm not bleeding. I shouldn't have told you about it, knowing you, you will ask me this every time after we've had sex! Something to look forward to." she said acidly then left the bedroom through the connecting door to the bathroom.
Sonic growled in frustration. Of course, Amy had to get pissed, yet Sonic only meant well, wanted to make sure that she was alright after their lovemaking. Suddenly, Sonic noticed something odd. Amy had said 'after we've had sex', a term she usually used for her couplings with Shadow.
"Why didn't Amy say 'after we've made love'?" Sonic thought wondered.
Maybe Amy was still angry with Shadow and by proxy with Sonic.
"This is all totally fucked up!" Sonic said whispering then covered himself with the blanket and tried to get comfortable. The medication and Sonic's recent activities were taking their toll on his body and he felt very sleepy. Sonic should probably clean up as well, yet Amy hadn't seemed to be keen on having him with her in the bathroom and since he could hear the shower running, it would take a while before she would come out of the bathroom. Furthermore, due to Sonic's injuries he wasn't able to clean up all by himself and would have to ask her for her assistance; he'd rather do that when she was in a better mood. Sonic's iphone rang and startled him from his light slumber. Fortunately, it was still resting on Sonic's nightstand.
"Yeah?" Sonic asked grumpily.
"Oh, someone's in a good mood." the very familiar voice on the other end joked. It was Shadow.
"What's up?" Sonic asked wanting to know, ignoring his older brother's comment.
"I just wanted to let you guys know that we've arrived at the hospital. Blaze's still bleeding and almost unconscious yet they told us to wait because there had been a stardust brawl which ended up in a knife fight and the doctors are currently treating the squabblers." Shadow said.
"Okay, but why are you exactly calling right now if you don't know anything new about Blaze's condition?" Sonic asked slightly irritated because his older brother had disturbed his napping.
"Oh, I know something new... The nurse at the reception made Blaze pee on a stick and guess what? It was positive! Apparently, Knuckles has knocked her up, can you believe that? I mean, come on, he's had orchitis!" Shadow asked in a shrill voice.
Sonic's stomach clenched. Blaze was pregnant and bleeding, meaning that she was losing her child, a child whose conception was a miracle in itself.
"That's awful, I mean not the pregnancy but that she is losing her baby." Sonic said.
"Oh, no, you got this wrong. Yes, she is bleeding but the nurse who examined her afterwards told us that the baby's fine. Blaze just needs some rest and maybe some medication but that would be the doctor's decision, so we will have to wait." Shadow said.
Sonic felt relieved. Blaze's baby was fine. That was good news. Yet the bleeding still worried him.
"Do you think she will make it?" Sonic asked his older brother.
Shadow snorted. "Of course she will! Do you think they would let us sit here and wait if her life was in danger?" he asked.
Sonic rolled his eyes though Shadow couldn't see it. "Of course not! But you have to admit that she was bleeding heavily before you guys left for the hospital." he said.
Shadow sighed. "I know. And not only at the cabin... I fear the backseat of Rose's car is pretty ruined." he said.
Now Sonic had an idea. "Why don't you try to clean it? I mean, you are not needed there at the hospital, are you? Knuckles's with her, so you could drive Amy's car to the petrol station and try to remove the blood." he asked.
For some reason that seemed to enrage Shadow. "I'm not leaving her alone, do you hear me? She is my friend! I've already done enough to hurt her..." he said.
Sonic didn't know what his older brother was talking about. Yes, Blaze was their friend, yet Sonic never got the impression that Shadow and Blaze were especially close, the only time they had seemed to get on really well had been at Blaze's eighteenth birthday.
"You slept with her, didn't you!" Sonic asked, suddenly accused his older brother.
"No, Sonic, I didn't, I swear! Anyway, I'll have to go now, to calm Knuckles down a bit, he is panicking the whole time and you know that he usually gets ill after being upset and we can't afford another sick or impaired member of our gang. Bye!" Shadow said then ended the call, not even waiting for Sonic to say his goodbyes.
With another frustrated growl, Sonic put his phone back on the nightstand.
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Evening.
When Silver and Scourge came back to the cabin at dusk, the house was dark and quiet.
"Hello? Is anybody here?" Scourge asked, after switching on the lights in the living room.
"Shadow? Sonic? Knuckles?" Silver asked after closing the door behind Scourge with his right hand.
Scourge and Silver didn't receive an answer.
Scourge turned towards his boyfriend. "Where is everybody?" he asked, wanting to know and his cyan blue eyes were wide with fear.
Silver shrugged. "Maybe they are sitting on the patio, having a barbecue?" he asked.
Scourge scowled. "Really? With Blaze missing and Sonic being sick?" he asked.
Silver shrugged again. "Maybe Blaze has returned and they are celebrating? I mean, Sonic might be sick but not that sick." he asked.
Scourge shook his head. "No, Silver. I don't think so. I don't know why but I somehow have the feeling that something is wrong... What if the babies got ill? Or something terrible happened to Blaze? Or Sonic's condition got worse again?" he questioned.
Silver sighed and ran his right hand through his unruly white quills. "You are really an optimist, aren't you? Don't you think they would have tried to inform us about those things? Yet neither your nor my mobile rang the whole time." he asked.
Scourge growled in frustration, imitating Silver's gesture. "You are really not used to hiking in the woods, are you? There's no reception! So even if they had tried to inform us, they wouldn't have been able to." he asked.
Silver immediately took his iphone out with his left hand and checked for any missed calls or text messages. Nothing.
"Well, I know for sure that there is reception here in the cabin. However, there are still no messages or missed calls." Silver said, showing his boyfriend the display of his mobile.
"Alright, Silver, you win! Maybe nothing terrible has happened." Scourge finally said making a dramatic gesture with his arms that reminded Silver of Jules, Scourge's father; Silver hated it.
"So, what do we do now? Search the cabin for the others?" Silver asked, frowning.
Scourge nodded. "Yes, that's a good idea! Let's start with the kitchen!" he asked.
To Scourge and Silver's surprise they didn't find the others in the kitchen but obviously their abandoned dinner preparations.
"Now this is creepy." Scourge said when he and Silver saw the baking tins with pizza dough and tomato sauce, the pots and plates with all the ingredients that were needed to make a terrific pizza.
"Yeah, it's like in a horror movie, you know, people just disappearing while doing their normal stuff..." Silver said and instinctively grabbed his boyfriend's left hand with his right hand.
"Let's check Amy's bedroom!" Scourge said squeezing Silver's right hand before dragging him off again.
Silver considered correcting Scourge, saying that it was Sonic's and Shadow's bedroom as well, but remained silent.
"Amy?" Scourge said calling out his younger twin sister's name while bursting into the room, switching the lights on.
"Oh my gosh! Do you want to give me a heart attack?" a disheveled looking figure asked, sitting up in bed, rubbing his eyes; it was Sonic.
"Where is Amy?" Scourge asked, demanding to know.
Sonic took a deep breath, then he ran his right hand through his cobalt blue quills.
"In the bathroom, I would guess. At least that's where she has been before I fell asleep." Sonic said, wrapping the blanket around his waist with both hands and trying to get up.
"Where are you going?" Scourge asked.
Sonic rolled his eyes at him. "I have to make sure that the babies are okay, you made so much noise." he said.
Silver had to suppress a chuckle. While Scourge and Shadow seemed to get along well enough, Sonic and Scourge were always bickering.
As it turned out, Sonic's choice to use a blanket in order to cover himself had been a mistake since the fabric was more renitent than he had obviously thought because it slipped from his hips as soon as he was leaning over one of the cribs.
Scourge immediately averted his gaze and shrieked. "Why on earth are you completely naked?" he asked
Silver couldn't contain his laughter anymore. To Silver, it seemed as if they were in a bad comedy, especially when Sonic turned bright red and tried to pick up the blanket from the floor and wrap his lower body in it.
"What do you think, Scourge? Why would anyone be naked in bed?" Sonic asked.
Now Scourge also turned red. "Oh, please, don't tell me you have just slept with my sister! That's... uagh!" he said and literally fled the room.
Silver thought he had never before laughed this hard in all his life.
"Ha ha, very funny, Silver!" Sonic said embarrassed after fastening the blanket around his hips and looking first into one crib then the other then he sighed with relief. "Thank god, the babies are still asleep! So can you please stop making such a noise?"
Silver nodded while wiping away the tears from his eyes with his right hand. However, Silver needed a few moments to recover from his laughing fit.
"I'm sorry, Sonic, the whole situation was just so surreal! Scourge's indignation and facial expression and your futile attempt to cover your nakedness with the blanket!" Silver said, snorting with laughter again.
"Okay, that's enough! Get out! I won't let you wake up the babies." Sonic said seriously, grabbing Silver's right shoulder with his right hand and shoving him out of the room.
Silver didn't mind, though. Actually, Silver was happy when Sonic slammed the door shut behind him which must have woken one of the babies since he could hear an infant's cries over his own laughter, followed by Sonic cursing.
As soon as Silver had calmed down a bit, he heard someone talking on the first floor. Guessing that maybe the rest of their gang was there, Silver went upstairs and noticed that the voices were coming from Knuckles's and Blaze's room.
When Silver entered the room, a surprise awaited him. It wasn't Knuckles and Blaze, as Silver had assumed but Scourge and Amy. Scourge was sitting on one of the queen-sized beds while Amy was standing in front of the wardrobe, a duffel bag in her hands, wearing olive green yoga pants and a brown tank top.
"What's going on? Where are the others?" Scourge asked his boyfriend's younger twin sister and his cousin's wife.
Both Scourge and Amy turned towards Silver.
"I'm packing some things for Blaze. She has to stay at the hospital for a couple of days and needs fresh clothes as well as her toiletry case." Amy said.
Amy's quills, still half-wet from the shower, was falling down her back and over her shoulders.
"So Blaze's back? And she has to go the hospital? Where is she?" Silver asked wanting to know, looking from Amy to Scourge.
Scourge sighed. "Amy has just started explaining everything to me. All I know is that Blaze arrived back at the cabin while we were gone, bleeding heavily, so Knuckles and Shadow have accompanied her to the hospital." he said.
Silver frowned."I understand that Knuckles went with her, but why Shadow? Isn't he needed here? To take care of his brother and his babies?" he asked.
Amy shrugged. "Knuckles doesn't have a car at the moment. So I asked Shadow to drive them to the hospital in my car. That's why he went with them. Then, when I came out of the shower, he sent me a text message, saying that Sonic wouldn't answer his phone, yet he wanted to inform us that he would be coming back to the cabin to grab a few things for Blaze since she has to stay at the hospital for a few days." Amy said.
Silver took a deep breath. Everything was still very mysterious to him. "And why does she have to stay at the hospital? What happened to her?" he wanted to know.
Amy shrugged again. "Shadow didn't say. Anyway, he will be here in about 30 minutes. You can ask him for yourself then, when he fetches Blaze's stuff." she said.
Silver was confused. Why wouldn't Amy ask Shadow?
Somehow Silver felt that something big had happened while he and Scourge had been enjoying their hike in the woods.
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Julayla Memorial Hospital.
Knuckles watched a sleeping Blaze, lying in her hospital bed, wearing a hospital gown, being hooked to an IV. Although Blaze's lavender fur looked pretty lank and her face rather pale after everything she had gone through, she was still the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
Holding Blaze's right hand in his left hand, Knuckles wondered what the future had in store for them.
Blaze was pregnant!
Knuckles still couldn't believe it.
The doctors had been really puzzled that the baby was strong and healthy, still clinging to its mother's womb, although Blaze's endometrium had started to shed. Luckily, they had been able to stop the bleeding. If everything went well, Knuckles would be a father in about 7 months since Blaze was 8 weeks pregnant.
Somehow Knuckles liked the thought that their baby had been conceived the same day Shadow's and Sonic's twins had been born, though he knew it could have also happened the day before or after or even any other day during that week since he and Blaze had sex on a daily basis, usually 2 or 3 times a day since they had moved in together. Of course, during Blaze's fertile time of the month they would resume to other, non-penetrative methods to give each other pleasure, like oral sex or mutual masturbation because she didn't like to use hormonal, chemical or barrier contraception and when she had her period, Blaze would always make sure to keep him happy with blow jobs and hand jobs.
If Knuckles was honest, Blaze's sexual appetite had frightened him at the beginning of their relationship then he had started to feel flattered that she seemed to desire him that much, being rather vocal in bed, claiming to 'love the feeling' of his 'cock in her pussy', 'needing' him 'to fill' her 'with his 'cum'.
At first Knuckles had found it intimidating to hear Blaze say such lewd things when they were making love, later he had to admit that it actually turned him on somehow.
Furthermore, Knuckles and Blaze had been each other's first, meaning that they had figured out everything together, what they liked, tried out different things but it didn't matter anymore, did it. Blaze had called off her and Knuckles's engagement, had admitted to not being in love with him, to have used him in order to get over her unrequited love for Shadow but it didn't change the fact that she was carrying his child.
Knuckles and Blaze would still have to be friends in order to raise this child together since Knuckles would not want to miss seeing his little son or daughter growing up and there was still the flat they had rented together. He couldn't afford it on his own, depending on her share of paying the rent. Maybe Knuckles and Blaze could be flatmates, at least as long as their child was still young enough to sleep in his or her mother's bedroom? There were 2 bedrooms after all.
Blaze stirred, sighing in her sleep, drawing her eyebrows together.
"Shhh, it's okay, you are safe." Knuckles said whispering, brushing back the fur from Blaze's face with his right hand.
Maybe this was the last time Knuckles would be able to do this watching Blaze sleep, touching her lovingly.
Blaze didn't calm down, though, breathing heavily now, throwing her head from side to side on the pillow, clutching Knuckles's left hand with her right one and the blanket with her left one. Blaze was either having a nightmare or in pain.
Instinctively, Knuckles lifted the blanket with his right hand, wanting to make sure that Blaze hadn't started bleeding again which was not the case then he called for the nurse.
Shortly after, a tired looking, middled-aged grey hawk women with a plumb figure entered the room, frowning when she noticed Knuckles.
"What are you still doing here? Visiting hours are long over." the grey hawk woman asked.
Knuckles cleared his throat. "Oh, well, I know, I'm sorry, but the doctor who treated my fiancé... ex-fiancé... said it was okay to sit with her until my cousin comes back with her personal stuff." he said, turning red as his fur.
To Knuckles's surprise, the grey hawk nurse smiled indulgently. "I see. And I take it that you called for me. Why?" she asked.
Knuckles stepped aside so that the grey hawk nurse could take a look at Blaze who was still tossing and turning.
"I don't know what's wrong with her." Knuckles said.
The grey hawk nurse frowned then she checked Blaze's tubes, checked the infusion bag, took Blaze's pulse.
"Do you think she is in pain?" Knuckles asked, wanting to know.
The grey hawk nurse shook her head. "I don't think so. Yet I'll get a doctor so that he can do another ultrasound, just to be safe." she said then leaving the room.
Knuckles sat down in the chair next to Blaze's bed, burying his face in his hands.
Just a couple of minutes ago, Knuckles had been making plans about their future, about their baby's future and now the baby's life could be in danger or Blaze's. Why else was the nurse getting a doctor? Something was wrong and she didn't want to tell Knuckles.
Suddenly, a right hand grabbed his forearm and Knuckles startled, looking up.
It was Blaze.
Blaze looked at Knuckles with a frightened expression. "Knuckles, make her go away, please!" she said, whispering.
Knuckles looked around the room, thinking that maybe the nurse had come back, scaring Blaze in her fragile state but they were alone in the room.
"Blaze, darling, no one is here except for us!" Knuckles said emphatically, placing his left hand on Blaze's right shoulder, hoping to calm her down.
However, Blaze shook her head. "No, Knuckles, she is here, the blonde hedgehog lady in white. I've already seen her in the woods, she wanted me to get lost but I fought against her and now she is angry... She wants my baby!" said sobbing, clutching Knuckles's left arm.
Knuckles sat down on Blaze's bed, embracing her tightly with both hands.
Blaze's gown was soaked with sweat and she was shivering.
"Blaze, you are in the hospital, you are safe! And so is our baby." Knuckles said, trying to reason but Blaze was frantic.
"No, I'm not safe! She wants my baby because she lost hers, that was the reason why she lured me into the woods, why I started bleeding... But you can't have her, do you hear me? You can't have my baby!" Blaze said, shouting.
Knuckles felt something wet running down his cheeks and noticed that he had started crying. Blaze's condition was frightening Knuckles. Was Blaze losing her mind?
Of course, Knuckles knew about the mental condition of Blaze's mother, her being institutionalized due to paranoid schizophrenia. Was Blaze suffering from it as well or was she really seeing someone?
Knuckles remembered his cousins' especially Shadow's strange behavior and his suspicions with regard to the cabin, remembered Amy and the babies' odd behavior.
Shadow thought that something was wrong with the cabin. Maybe Shadow was right.
As soon as possible Knuckles would do some research; he was a journalist, after all.
End of Chapter 8.
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