A/N:Hmm… Well, Ifinally got all 180-something emblems on SA2B… for my… sniff... obsolete gamecube T.T. Anyways, am I the only one who thinks Rouge's second outfit looks like a KINKY-SEX outfit?! I was surprised she didn't have an apple in her mouth, and they didn't give Knux a whip and handcuffs!... Erm… Anyone under like… 11or something… just ignore this entire thing. And three reviews AGAIN?! T.T!
--LA
On the twelfth say of Christmas my true love gave to me… HinaFelixLeah, GraceGabby… Malam… and that forgotten mouse, Pella, in a Pear tree! And so, they're mine .!
"And so you see," Gabriele continued with a tone of insufferable drama, "We now find ourselves stuck here with no money, no home…"
It was painfully obvious that she was desperately prompting an invitation to stay. Tails found himself cornered. He glanced helplessly at Knuckles, but the echidna was avoiding the others' eyes and had his arms crossed sulkily.
"I…" the poor fox said, "We have an extra room. I guess you could stay here until your house is ready,"
The squirrel beamed and pulled him into a hug, "Oh, Tails! That would be wonderful!"
"I'm gonna go." Knuckles said suddenly. He had had his fill of the squirrel's mooching. Tails looked distressed at being abandoned. But before the fox could protest, the red echidna promptly got to his feet and quickly shot out the door.
"Bye." Tails said weakly.
Gabrielle watched him go silently, before piping back up with an unusual tone in her voice, "Where do you think he is going?" she asked, craning her neck to watch him leave. Tails shrugged.
"Probably to Rouge's apartment." He had a sudden idea. It was brutally obvious that the squirrel was attracted to the echidna, "It's a few blocks east of here. I'm sure he'd give you a tour around the area if you asked. I mean, you're new here and all, and-"
She sprung to her feet. "Oh, that is a wonderful idea, Tails! You do not think he would mind, do you?"
"Oh, no." He assured her, albeit feeling slightly guilty, "But you'd better leave right away… he's a pretty fast walker, I'll watch the kids."
"Oh, I will!" She said happily, "But you're sure you don't mind watching Felix and Leah?"
"No at all."
She planted a kiss on his cheek and flounced out. Tails gave a relieved sigh. However cross Knuckles would be with him in the near future, he planned on enjoying a few hours of quiet preparing. He hoped that the children were independent enough to play by themselves while he set up their room.
Gabrielle marched through the house, bade the children a quick goodbye, and hastened down the pavement to catch up with her tour guide.
"Knuckles!" she called, stepping as quickly as her vertical heels would enable her to. "Oh, Knuckles!" She thought that she saw his heel zap around a corner ahead of her. "Knuckles!" She quickened her pace still, now at a jog. She turned the corner and saw the familiar figure walking briskly. She tried her best to catch up, but her shoes were terribly inhibiting.
Before she knew what was happening, she found herself falling onto the sidewalk with a huge shriek. The heel on one of her shoes – her only pair of shoes – had broken. She wailed again.
"Knuckles, help, please help!" she cried, clutching her ankle which was experiencing little to no pain at the moment from her fall, "I think I have sprained my ankle!"
It was quite strange to watch what the echidna did next. First, he glanced over his shoulder and slowed his pace. After a moment, he sped back up. Another moment later, however, he froze. The pattern of slowing and speeding up continued until he turned resignedly and slouched over to the fallen squirrel.
"Are you alright?" he asked hollowly.
"I do not think so…" Gabrielle said, putting a hand dramatically on her forehead, "I am not sure if I will be able to walk!"
Knuckles glanced around, looking exasperated. When no one came to relieve him of his chivalrous duties, he knelt down and lifted her off of the sidewalk.
"Thank you so much!" she said breathlessly, wrapping her arms around his neck. Knuckles looked around. He decided that it would be a heartless thing to do to bring her back to Tails' home; the fox obviously had his hands full. Knuckles sighed.
"C'mon," he said unenthusiastically, "I'll take you to my girlfriend'splace." He made sure to put a lot of emphases into the second-last word. This was not true, strictly speaking. Rouge loathed the terms "girlfriend" and "boyfriend". She had made it quite clear that those titles made her feel like a love struck ten-year-old. However, Knuckles was in no mood to explain this to Gabrielle, so girlfriend would have to do. Unfortunately, the squirrel seemed um
He lurched into the elevator and to Rouge's room on the second floor, fiddling to open it with the key that he now carried everywhere with him. There were, as it turned out, not many hiding places in an apartment building hallway, besides under a welcome mat.
"It is very nice in here." The squirrel said, looking around the room. Knuckles only grunted in response as he dug into the freezer looking for some ice to stop Gabrielle's ankle from swelling.
"That was very brave of you." She called to him, craning her neck to see into the kitchen. Knuckles rolled his eyes as he withdrew a package of frozen peas. There had been no bravery involved in him carrying her three blocks. In fact, he would have just plopped her down on a park bench and left were it not for her sympathetic situation. Knuckles sulked back into the room, bouncing the icy package of frozen food from hand to hand.
He placed it on her ankle. Suddenly, as he stepped away, he tripped and fell, landing flat on top of her.
He struggled to get up as, from behind them, he heard a door open.
The battle was an epic one. Each warrior equally skilled and determined to beat the other. Despite their short stature, their glares were wide and intimidating.
"I'm bored!" whined Felix, glancing back and forth between the two girls, locked in silent combat. "I want a turn!"
Unfortunately, both had evidentially perfected the art of not blinking. The staring contest of all staring contests was in full heat.
"Wait, Felix!" giggled Leah, not taking her unblinking eyes off of her opponent. The two girls continued to gape at each other. More time passed, and the lone boy grew more and more irritated.
Hina began to squint, her eyes burning. Just as she was about to give in and shut her eyes, she heard the door slam, causing both her and her adversary to jump and blink.
"I win!" announced Leah, hopping to her feet and beaming.
"No!" argued Hina. She was quite certain that she had won by a split-second. "I won!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
The two girls continued to squabble until a smooth adult voice interrupted them.
"Hey?" Rouge said, peeking into the room and looking amused. "What's all that head-butting about, ladies?"
"She said she won the staring contest, but she didn't!" reported Hina, crossing her arms. The bat chuckled.
"Well, I think we should ask your charming gentleman friend."
Felix silently looked back and forth between the two competitors. "It was a tie."
"There you have it!" Rouge announced, holding both girls wrists in the air, "A couple of champions. Congrats!"
The girls laughed and grinned at each other. Rouge raised an eyebrow, glancing around at them.
"What, no hello?" she asked Hina. Hina blinked as if she had only just realized who had announced her shared victory.
"Rouge!" She tugged her hand away and threw her arms around the bat.
"That's more like it!" laughed Rouge. "Now," she said, gesturing towards Felix and Leah once Hina release her, "do I get an introduction?"
"This is Leah," she said, "and this is Felix. They're my friends. Where have you been, Rouge?"
The bat chuckled. "I went on a little vacation." She took a seat on the couch, throwing her feet up on the coffee table. "So," She said casually, "where's Tails?"
"He's in the guest room." Hina answered, plopping down on the floor beside her two friends.
"Thanks, toots." Rouge said, getting to her feet again and marching off to the guest room. She had a neat little plan in her head involving the order in which she planned of saying her hellos. First came Tails, and everyone who happened to be at his house. Next would come Sonic and Amy. And finally Knuckles. She was saving the best for last… and it may have had something to do with the fact that she was planning on having a very long, and rather physical hello session with him. She was intent, and admittedly rather nervous, to see how the echidna would take her news.
"Tails?" she said, walking into the previously empty guest room which was now carpeted with three sets of sleeping bags and pillows.
"Oh!" The fox said, looking up at her with a weary smile, "Hello, Rouge."
The bat crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow in amusement, "I leave for three weeks, and that's the hello I get?"
"Sorry," Chuckled Tails, scratching his head, "It's just that I'm been really busy. We had some unexpected guests."
"Those toddlers?" she asked, "Tails, when did you start a day-care center?"
Tails chuckled, but his mouth was covered, as he was presently inflating a mattress.
"I'm sure motherhood is great," She continued slyly, though she felt a giddy squirm in naval, "but isn't one kid enough?"
Tails fastened the stopper and laughed again. "It's not a day-care. Felix and Leah belong to our neighbor-to-be, Gabrielle."
"What, did she dump them with you and run off with her boyfriend?"
Tails' face reddened around the edges, "Not quite. She ran after Knuckles when he left."
"Oh, Knuckles was here?" she asked, feeling a tinge of jealous interest towards who this Gabrielle was. "I want to go see him. Do you know where he went?"
"Yeah," Tails nodded, "I think he was going to your house. That's where he's been sleeping."
"Thanks, Tails." Rouge said, turning to leave, "And good luck with your baby-sitting."
"Thanks." He called feebly after her as she left. The bat furrowed her brow and said a quick goodbye to the children before swooping into the spring air, deciding to scrap her hello schedule. Sonic and Amy could wait. As she flew forward, her common sense caught up with her. She trusted Knuckles; whoever this Gabrielle was, she was going on a wild goose chase. And Tails had never even explained Gabrielle's motivation for following after Knuckles. Perhaps he had forgotten something, and she simply was being courteous enough to return it.
The bat fluttered down to the base of her apartment building. She traced the familiar path up to her room and, almost unconsciously, reached beneath the little welcome rug of the key. She huffed in impatient irritation; Knuckles must have been going with his instincts and hiding the key elsewhere. Despite that initial annoyance, she smiled affectionately. She had missed her lovable, stubborn Knuckles more than she had realized.
She twisted the doorknob, happy to find it open. Her happiness shattered, however, to make room for livid fury when her eyes fell upon the couch.
A/N:Gasp! I know, right? The Young and the Restless wants their plot back. I've actually never seen that show :\. It's a soap opera, isn't it :P? Anyways, you guys want to know what ticks me off?! Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. I mean WHAT THE HECK?! Hmm who's going to win in a running race… a supersonic hedgehog, who we all know is the fastest thing alive, or a fat, Italian plumber who did one too many 'shrooms?! Yeesh. My friend has a wii, and we were playing it at her house. So, of course, since I'm dedicated to my SEGA characters, I was them the whole time. I wish I was good at video games so that I could have won, but I'm shit at them. It's a hard fact. So the only time I won was playing freakin' ping pong with Tails. Go Tails. So yeah. I was having a temper tantrum because no one else wanted to be any of the SEGA guys. So I was like… what the heck, they're the sex!
So ANYWAYS, I'm finished my rant. But come onn! The only one in Mario who could kick ass would be Yoshi! And maybe Luigi. I like the pink Luigi on Super smash bros XD. Okay. I'm going to stop talking now before I do myself some emotional damage.
Please review :D! look! Bold words! You should listen to them. Thanks for reading ;).
--LA