Chapter Five

Signs

A few days later Rouge sat at her kitchen table drinking coffee, it was almost nine and she was still wearing her purple robe, as she drank her coffee, she was deep in thought, she was staring at a calendar, and was a little worried.

"It's been a week now" she thought, "I should have had it by now" she crossed her legs and read the calendar again trying to count back. "If I had it a month ago, it should have come a week ago" she looked up, a shadow was crawling over her, it enveloped her mind and began to sink in, "no…" she whispered to herself "I can't be" she then realised "my period is late" her mind began to wonder back to almost over a month ago.

Flashback

Rouge sat on her bed and stared out of the window in her bedroom on Eggman's ship, she was worried about what was happening in the galaxy, she was so scared the would never win the battle, and they would all die. As she sat there worrying, she heard a voice. "Rouge" she turned and looked across to Shadow who stared at her with his red eyes, two red rubies that glittered in the low light of the room. Rouge crossed her legs as she looked up at him.

"Shadow" she whimpered "I'm so scared….so scared we'll never win the battle" "we will Rouge! I know it" said Shadow "we cannot let those metarex take over, even if we do not survive we will not let them destroy the galaxy!" He clenched his fst, "I swear on my life…those monsters will not destroy the galaxy! And if they do…!"

Rouge bit her lips and her stomach lurched, "No!" she whispered "we can't…we can't let that happen! We can't let them take over!" "I won't allow it!" said Shadow "I won't allow those evil Metarex take over…and kill us all!" Rouge thought about all the planets that weren't saved, then she thought about their planet, what if they were defeated, and killed? It was all too horrible to bear.

As all these images flooded her head, Rouge began crying, as she cried, her tears dripped on her hand and her eyeliner began to run with it. As she cried, she suddenly felt a hand under her chin. "Hey..." said a gentle voice, she looked up to see Shadow looking at her, his eyes, that were usually filled with anger, hate and revenge now looked so gentle and comforting.

Rouge could hardly believe that this tough and fairly dangerous hedgehog was comforting her, "did he ever comfort Maria like this?" she thought "when he was sad?" she then felt the hedgehog reach up and cup her face, she then saw him lean closer. The next thing she knew, Shadow lips were touching hers, Rouge felt her heart leap, but she didn't try to pull away, she enjoyed Shadow's lips on her's.

Shadow licked her lips, then moved his tongue in her mouth trying to find hers, Rouge moaned and moved her hands up around his shoulders. As she embraced him, Shadow deepened the kiss and began to move his fingers through her hair. Rouge moaned more, then sighed softly as Shadow pushed her down onto the bed, holding her close to him………

End Flashback

It then dawned on her "if I did it with Shadow….then I must be…no!" she said to herself loudly "I got to check it out, to see if it is true!" she drank her coffee, placed it in the sink then walked upstairs to get dressed.

After she had gotten herself dressed Rouge began to walk down into the city to go to the pharmacist, she had decided to get a pregnancy test, "I just need to be sure…" she saw the pharmacy and walked in, as she did, she saw some Mobians looking at different products.

Rouge then saw a woman looking at a make up range, then woman picked up a lipstick and held it up next to her skin, Rouge smiled weakly, maybe she was thinking of buying make up for a special night out, or to look beautiful for her loved one. She walked ahead to the counter where a young brown goose was standing.

"Hi" said Rouge in a small voice, the goose looked up and smiled at her, "I need a pregnancy test" the goose nodded with a smile and walked over to the back of the counter and bought a pack of six, Rouge then paid for them and walked out of the pharmacy. She bit her lip as she thought about whether she could be pregnant.

As soon as Rouge got home she walked up to her bathroom, she studied the tests and read the instructions, they seemed simple enough as they had an effective telling in words saying whether she been pregnant or not.

Rouge had taken a plastic cup from her kitchen so she could take a urine sample then dip the sticks in, she took a urine sample then took the sticks out of the boxes, her heart was beating hard in her chest, she didn't know what to do if she was pregnant. One by one she dipped the sticks in the urine then she paced the bathroom for two minutes, the whole thing was excruciating, her heart beat so hard she could feel it vibrate through her whole body.

Finally Rouge went to look at the sticks, she bit her lip and read through them, she then felt her mouth go dry as she saw the results, all six said pregnant, "oh shit" she whispered, she dropped the sticks and began to pace the bathroom. Her head was spinning and her stomach was churning, it was all too much, "who can I turn to…?" she thought in a worry "who? And how am I going to deal with this alone?"

So...Rouge has discovered she's pregnant! Oh my Goodness!

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