Chapter Eight
Shadow used Chaos Control to warp them back to their hotel, as they appeared in the reception of the hotel, the receptionist, a light brown and sandy coloured doe was shocked to see the bloody black hedgehog holding his wife, who was covered with bruises and cuts and her breasts soaked in blood from where Razor had scratched her skin.
"Ambulance!" he yelled, the doe instantly picked up the phone and called for the ambulance to take them to the island hospital, while they waited, she called several of the staff from the surgery to bring blankets and icepacks. Rouge, who was moaning in agony and close to unconsciousness, was put on a chaise lounge with a couple of nurses trying to comfort her and the Lioness Doctor tried to clean her cuts.
When the ambulance arrived they were taken straight to the hospital and Rouge was wheeled into the operating theatre whilst Shadow was being treated in another room for his injuries. As he was being treated he couldn't get the image of Razor killing Eggman out of his head.
Soon his cuts and slashes were cleaned and dressed, but Shadow was still worried about his wife, "you're injures aren't serious" said the doctor, a male hippopotamus. "You'll mend ok" Shadow nodded in thanks. "I have to see my wife" he rasped. The doctor was about to answer when another Doctor, a female white goose from Rouge's ward entered the room.
"Mr Hedgehog" said the goose, Shadow looked up worried "Rouge has suffered very severe trauma, apparently from when the wolf raped her, as you were telling us in the ambulance, she's suffered mild injures, but there's more…" Shadow held his breath, "Rouge has lost her baby" said the goose sadly.
Shadow felt like he'd been shot in the stomach, and slapped in the face, the pain was overwhelming at what he'd heard, it was worse than his injuries that he'd received from Razor. He tried to hold his emotions in, but it was so difficult, he felt like collapsing on the ground and start crying.
"She is ok though isn't she?" he said in a choked voice, "she is fine" said the goose with a sympathetic smile. Shadow nodded, "can…can I see her?" he asked. The Goose nodded and beckoned him to follow her. He followed her to the ward opposite where he could see through the window his wife sleeping peacefully in the bed.
The Goose opened the door and let him go in, Shadow sat next to his wife's bed and stroked her hand which was warm, He looked at her serene face, the machine next to her was beeping, monitoring her heart and a drip was attached to her other hand. It broke Shadow's heart seeing her like this.
Yet through the heartbreak at the sight of his wife and the loss of their unborn child made him so angry he wanted to destroy everything in the room, the feeling was overwhelming. He could hear his rapidly beating heart in his ears, his stomach was hurting with sorrow and fury, and his throat hurt like he'd swallowed a huge pill.
From that moment on, he hated Razor for everything he'd done, he wanted to kill that Wolf, he wanted to torture him, worse than how he'd hurt Rouge, he wanted to make him pay for everything the evil wolf had put him and Rouge through, ruining their honeymoon and killing their unborn child.
Suddenly, as he was lost in his heartbroken and angry thoughts, he heard a moan come from the bed, he looked down at Rouge whose eyes were opening, her black nose twitched as she tried to sniff the smells around her. Her left hand then moved up to her stomach.
"Rouge!" Shadow cried, Rouge's eyes shot open and she saw her husband sitting next to the bed, his head in a bandage and more on his arms, chest and back. "Shadow?" she said in a loud whisper, "Where am I?" Shadow leaned forward to caress her hair, "hospital" he said "I brought us here"
Rouge then sat up, "what happened?" she touched her stomach, "the baby!" she cried "is he ok?" Shadow felt tears well in his eyes, and he shook his head, "NO!" cried Rouge, she placed both hands on her stomach as if trying to claw at it and burst into uncontrollable sobs.
"No! No please!" she sobbed, Shadow wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head trying to comfort her, but nothing to stop her from sobbing, "no!" she whispered, sobbing into his fluffy chest "my baby!" she continued to cry and sob. Shadow held her close letting her cry, his own tears fell on her head every couple of seconds.
Rouge grasped her fingers on Shadow's chest fur and cried more, she was so devastated, Shadow stroked her hair and kissed her head trying to comfort her, but his own thoughts were plagued with anger and hurt. He was in a heartbroken state at the fact that his unborn baby was dead, Rouge was devastated and Razor was still walking around.
"Razor" he thought in his head as his heartbreak and sorrow turned to fury, complete and total fury, he could feel his anger for the death of Maria return and how he had vowed revenge for her murder. Now he was vowing revenge against Razor for what he had done. "I promise you Razor the Wolf!" snarled Shadow "we shall meet again, and I will be ready, I will kill you!"
Two days later, Rouge made a full recovery, but she was so traumatised she wanted to go home, so they packed their things, checked out of the hotel and took the next flight home back to Mobotropolis.
Throughout the flight, Rouge curled up in her seat huddled in Shadow's embrace, he would wipe her tears and hold her close, all the while he would stare out the window and think dark things about Razor, and how he was going to make him suffer as hell the next time they met.
The stewardess's tried to make everything comfortable for them, they had heard about the trauma Rouge had suffered and kept providing them with food and drinks, but Rouge could hardly touch her food as she was so upset. "I'm sorry Shadow" she whispered looking up from crying against his chest fur.
"You shouldn't be saying sorry Rouge" growled Shadow, his eyes were blazing with fury, "it's that fucking wolf who should be sorry" He bared his sharp teeth and his red eyes blazed more, Rouge got worried again seeing the dark and vengeful hedgehog return in him.
Rouge got a little frightened, but Shadow noticed and held her close again, Shadow stroked that back of her head and continued to look out of the window, thinking about Razor and what he had done.
When they arrived back in Mobotropolis, they drove straight back to their house in a taxi, as soon as they got in; Shadow took their bags upstairs and left them by the large wardrobe hoping to unpack them later.
Rouge lay on the bed and lay her head on the pillow, she was trembling and shaking, still crying softly, Shadow climbed onto the bed and wrapped his arms around Rouge. Rouge wasn't as frightened as she was in familiar surroundings, but she was still upset.
Rouge snuggled closer to Shadow and nuzzled his chest fur, she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him, and Shadow kissed the top of her head "I'm here for you" he whispered in her ear. They stayed like that for a long time, until Rouge began to feel sleepy, and Shadow too felt drowsy. Soon they feel asleep in each others arms.