Chapter 14: "You mean "him" don't you?"

"You what?!" Sonic's jaw hit the floor, "You're kidding!" Sonic's reply was not making Axel feel better.

"Nope," Axel wasn't sure whether to be happy or worried, "I'm gonna be a dad."

"Well, d'you think you're ready?"

Sonic's words lingered in Axel's mind for a moment, "Well, I guess we have nine months to get ready."

"After you left I asked Tails how long the machine was gonna take to fix." Sonic said, "He said he could only guess that it'd take about 6 weeks."

Axel sighed, "Well, it's not that long I guess."

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It had been about two weeks since Axel found out he couldn't see Blaze for weeks, Sonic and Amy were doing well together, and Axel had spent the majority of his time helping Tails in his workshop, which is where he is now, the room was messy, littered with countless random spanners, screwdrivers and other equipment which Axel could not identify.

"Thanks a lot," Tails said as Axel handed him a blowtorch, and he returned to his post underneath the machine, Axel of course was almost bored to tears, but was helping because the machine might be fixed sooner if he did. Tails voice came again from under the machine: "With your help, Axel, this should be finished within two weeks."

"Great!" Axel stood up straight for the first time that day, and then checked his new watch. 6:00pm, time to phone Blaze, he thought. "Err Tails? I'm gonna get going?"

"Ok, see you tommorow," Tails said, still under the machine.

As Axel got out of the house he got his phone out straight away, punched in the numbers and held it to his ear. "Axel!" Blaze's happy voice made his day.

"Heya Blaze, how are you?"

"I'm good," Axel smiled, Blaze then took him by suprise, "I was thinking about our baby. Can you think of any names we could call her?"

"No," Axel paused for a moment, "You mean "him" don't you?"

"Yeah, sure" Blaze replied sarcastically.

"Oh!" Axel shouted as he remembered what Tails had said, "Tails said the machine might be done in two weeks."

The two continued making light conversation for a few minutes, before saying thier goodbyes for the day and Axel made his way home, all the way thinking what to call his unborn child.

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Meanwhile, Sonic was doing what he did best; running. He had found an open desert, with plenty of space so he could reach top speed. It'd been so long since he had felt the breeze in his face, along with the adrenaline of everything whizzing past at 300 mph. He was running for what seemed like ages untill he reached a high rock, and ran to the peak of it, stopping to admire the breathtaking view. He sighed, his mind straying to the beautiful pink hedgehog that was his girlfriend, he had spent almost every waking minute with her, and suddenly felt guilty that he hadn't been spending much time with Tails. He made a mental note to go to the cinema with him or something.

It was already starting to get dark. Wow, how long was I running? He thought.

The peak he was on seemed pretty stable, and there was no one around for miles, so, he decided to sleep there for the night.