WARNING: Contains threat.

Chapter Seventeen

Fatal Impatience

When Rouge met Knuckles he was standing outside the park café, he had his arms crossed and was tapping his foot. Rouge ran up to meet him, "Knuckles" she called, Knuckles turned to face her "hey Rouge" he said.

Rouge bit her lip, how was he going to take this? She took a deep breath, they were in a public place so she knew he would have to control his temper if he got angry. Knuckles smiled "where have you been all this time, keeping distant?" he asked in flirtatious tone, Rouge felt a little uncomfortable.

"Well" she said, sitting at a table, "I have still been feeling fragile over Shadow's disappearance, but there's more to it than that" "What?" asked Knuckles "what do you mean?" Rouge felt her heart beating harder, she slowly unbuttoned her coat, "I'm not just grieved at Shadow's disappearance…" she whispered as she unbuttoned her coat more showing her swollen stomach "I'm pregnant by him…I'm having his baby"

Knuckles's jaw dropped, "What!" he cried "you mean…" Rouge nodded, she began to feel worried as people were staring to stare, Knuckles then saw people were staring at him and controlled himself. "I had sex with him when we were on Eggman's ship, just before the final battle against the Metarex"

"Why didn't you say anything before?" asked Knuckles, "I don't know" said Rouge, "I just felt scared….I told Vanilla about it as she has a child, young Cream, and she encouraged me to tell Sonic and the others about it" Knuckles looked at her swollen stomach.

"How far are you?" he asked, "about seven months and a half" said Rouge, she stroked her stomach and looked up at Knuckles. "Rouge" said Knuckles "why don't we have a proper talk about it? Like tonight at my house on Angel Island?" Rouge's eyes widened, "I wonder what he's asking?" she wondered "he seems to have taken it well"

"Come to my house Rouge" said Knuckles, "and we'll talk more" Rouge looked up at him; she began to have a funny feeling about him, why was he acting this way? There was something in his eyes. It made her feel wary. "I'll make us dinner and we'll talk"

Rouge thought for a moment "ok" she said "sure" Knuckles smiled, "cool" he said, "I'll get us some drinks" he then stood up and walked to the counter of the café, as he did, Rouge watched him get a cup of coffee for himself and a cup of tea for her. "I wonder what he's planning?" she thought.

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Later that evening Rouge flew to Angel Island, she was wearing her long black coat and kept her head hooded to keep out the cold. She then saw a light from a house next to the Master Emerald. The Master Emerald was still shattered from their battle with the Metarex in space; still the pieces glittered brightly in the moonlight.

She walked up to the door and tapped it, as she did, Knuckles came to the door and let her in. "Hey Rouge" he said leading her to the living room, Rouge smiled at the echidna as he lead her to a brown sofa and let her sit down. She looked at the way he was dressed, he was wearing the brown suit ha had worn on their dates. "This is kind of you Knuckles" she said. "Don't mention it" smiled Knuckles.

Rouge sat down on the sofa, she was tired again after flying from Mobotropolis all the way to Angel Island, Knuckles then walked into the kitchen and came back with tea and coffee. He then sat next to her. "So how is the child?" he asked, Rouge stroked her stomach and whispered "I think it's ok, I still haven't thought of names, but I feel comforted knowing I have a child in me, and they'll be what I have left of Shadow"

As she talked, she felt Knuckles's large paw on her knee, she looked up and saw him leaning quite close to her, "Knuckles?" she asked a little startled. Knuckles smirked; Rouge then began to feel a bit scared, "don't you think you've kept me waiting long enough?" he asked in a flirty tone.

"What?" asked Rouge "oh come on Rouge" said Knuckles, "all these dates we've been on, those wonderful nights we had together, isn't it about time you returned the favour?" Rouge got a little frightened, "what are you saying?" she asked trying to move away from him.

Knuckles squeezed her leg and began to move so he was almost on top of her, "I've been taking you on these dates, and you haven't properly thanked me" "What?" cried Rouge "I thought…." "Thought what?" said Knuckles, his voice began to get aggressive "what do you think I brought you here for? To talk?!?"

Rouge was shocked, "I should go..." she said trying to get off the sofa "no!" said Knuckles "sit still!" Rouge pushed him off and began to walk towards the door, but Knuckles jumped up. "God dammit!" he shouted, he grabbed Rouge and pushed her to the ground.

Rouge cried out in fear as Knuckled pulled her black dress up and began to pull down her knickers, "Knuckles!" she cried "No please!" "Lay still!" shouted Knuckles; he began to unzip his trousers, Rouge struggled more as Knuckles tried to hold her down. Rouge screamed again, then used her knee to hit Knuckles in the balls.

Knuckles cried out in agony and let go, Rouge then crawled out and flung open the door, she then clutched her stomach and ran as fast as she could towards the edge of Angel Island. She could hear Knuckles's voice shouting after her "ROUGE!" Rouge kept on running, she felt so frightened.

She then reached the edge of Angel Island and jumped off opening her wings to fly, she kept on flying and soared towards Mobotropolis, she then saw her apartment, she landed and opened the door, as soon as she got in, she locked the door and ran to her bed. She collapsed on it and began to cry.

She couldn't believe that Knuckles had tried to rape her, she thought he was being kind and comforting to her, but he had only been trying to get her into bed, she sobbed and sobbed, "Oh Shadow" she whispered "I wish you were here" she sobbed harder into her pillow until she fell asleep.

That horrible Knuckles! He could have hurt the baby!

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