Chapter six

Buxton's Remains

Meanwhile at Shadow and Rouge's apartment, Rouge was feeding Angel his bottled milk in front of the TV where a music station was playing Christmas Hits; Shadow was in the kitchen heating up some mince pies and mulled wine for them both.

As Rouge fed Angel, Angel then saw Santa on the TV and began to gurgle, "You know who that is don't you Angel?" Angel gurgled in reply and waved his hands, "he comes with presents for you at Christmas!" said Rouge. Angel gurgled more and giggled.

Shadow then walked over with a tray of mince pies and hot mulled wine, "Angel sure is a clever child" said Shadow smirking as he placed the tray on a coffee table in front of the sofa. "Thanks love" said Rouge as she positioned Angel in one of her arms and took a mince pie with the other hand.

"I believe we're all prepared for Christmas" smiled Shadow, "yeah" said Rouge "the presents are bought and wrapped, we've got all we need for Christmas Dinner, and the place looks great" she looked around at the decorations around the apartment and the shining Christmas Tree with the presents stacked under it.

Shadow was just about to agree when there was a knock at the door, Shadow groaned and got up to answer it, "who could that be?" he said, "we walked over to the door and opened it, as soon as he did he was greeted by the face of a blue hedgehog who yelled "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

As soon as he did, Shadow nearly fell over with fright "Whoa!" he cried "Sonic!" "Whoops" giggled Sonic a little embarrassed "sorry" "what you trying to do?" cried Shadow still in a little shock "kill me?" "No" said Amy who appeared from behind Sonic, she was also pushing a pram.

"We came to deliver some things to you and wish you a happy Christmas, two weeks till Christmas day!" Rouge stood up from the sofa and walked over "Hey Sonic, hey Amy" she smiled, Angel gurgled when he saw the two hedgehogs at the door, "Hey Angel!" said Amy cheerfully.

Rouge smiled "how are the twins Amy?" she asked looking at the pram as she ushered both hedgehog's in, "pretty cool" said Amy "perfect little angels" as Amy pushed the pram in Shadow and Rouge peered into them to see two small hedgehogs no more than a few weeks old, one was blue and looked a lot like Sonic and the other was a light purple.

"Awww" said Rouge "aren't they cute" Amy smiled proudly "yeah" she said "such cuties" Sonic grinned, and Shadow winked at him, "they give you any trouble?" he asked "well, kinda!" laughed Sonic "when they wake me up in the night it drives me nuts, not to mention when they need a nappy change" he wrinkled his nose at the thought.

Shadow chuckled "yet Amy's so patient" Shadow looked across to the Pink hedgehog who was shaking Angel's little hand making him giggle. "Oh I almost forgot we got things for you" said Sonic, he held up some plastic bags containing wrapped presents, "presents for you, Rouge and Angel" said Sonic proudly.

"Hey thanks" said Shadow taking the bag and placing it under the tree, he then walked to a cupboard and pulled out a bag containing some wrapped presents for Sonic, Amy and the twins. "Hey thanks" said Sonic "you're too kind" Shadow just shrugged.

"I wonder if Flash will turn out like you?" asked Shadow as he looked at the sleeping blue hedgehog curled up in the pram, "I hope so" said Sonic "damn" thought Shadow, a sweat drop appearing on the back of his head "another Sonic" "dear little Amethyst" cooed Rouge as she looked at the purple hedgehog in the pram, "you'll be as beautiful as your mother" Amy blushed at the comment.

As they were chatting the TV behind them which Rouge hadn't turned off turned to the news, as it did, a white smartly dressed polar bear appeared on the TV. "Good evening Mobotropolis it's 7.00pm, I'm John Snow, some waste disposal men in the Mobotropolis waste centre made a gruesome discovery when they came across a composed and torn up corpse amongst the piles of trash"

"Ewww!" said Amy "a corpse" Rouge felt her heart leap when she heard that, she turned to the TV, "the remains of the corpse to the morgue and test results on the bones and remians of skin are that of Buxton the Mongoose, who was serving a life sentence in the City's Women's Prison for Trafficking illegal immigrants into Mobotropolis to work in the sex trade, she was said to have escaped the prison over 3 months ago but police had never found any trace of her but now she has emerged, it is a mystery on how she may have ended up there, but detectives are looking into the case"

"Buxton!" cried Rouge "Shit!" cried Shadow "Buxton?" said Amy "was she the woman you were in the same prison with Rouge?" Rouge nodded, "yeah" she said "that nonce who bullied me and the other prisoners" "damn" said Sonic "well I can't say I'm sorry" said Shadow "she deserved it, evil cow" Rouge nodded in agreement, but she couldn't help worrying about what the murderesses were thinking about Buxton's remains being found.

Oh dear....Buxton's remains have been uncovered, but how will the Murderesses react?