CHAPTER 37

One week later, Shadow and Rouge had decided to visit the hospital to find out what they could do to increase their chances of having a baby together. The two of them were sitting together in a small room. They were both sitting across from a purple middle aged walrus that was sitting on a stool.

The walrus had on a white doctor's coat, a black collared shirt, khakis and black dress shoes. He was writing onto a clipboard that he had held in his hands. He looked away from the clipboard and focused on the couple sitting in front of him. "Good morning. My name is Dr. Maxwell Waters."

Rouge glanced over to Shadow and it had appeared that he didn't even want to be there. She knew that he wasn't very fond of ever going to doctors. It annoyed her that he wasn't acting very friendly at the start of their visit. She focused her attention back to the walrus with a friendly smile. "It's nice to meet you, Dr. Waters. I'm Rouge and this is my husband, Shadow."

All Shadow did was make a slight nod as any kind of response.

Even Maxwell had the assumption that Shadow was not thrilled to be there. "Nice to meet you. How long have you two been married?"

"It's been more than a few weeks now", Rouge still couldn't even get over that the two were now married. Just knowing that the two were now officially spending the rest of their lives together had excited her.

"Oh I see. You two are still newlyweds."

Rouge nodded happily.

"So", he had began. "What can I do for you both today?"

"We need some help actually."

"Yes?"

She started to explain the reason why the two had came to him. "Well you see…" Before she could continue, Shadow had spoken.

"We want a baby and we need some advice to increase our chances of having one."

"Oh I see. You're having problems getting pregnant?"

Rouge made a small and slow nod. "Yes can you help us?"

He made a slow nod, "Perhaps I can be of some help. However depending on your spouse, the chances of reproducing is never a hundred percent guaranteed."

"Just tell us what we can do to try to make this happen", Shadow had spoken in a bitter voice.

"Okay very well", he looked back at the clipboard he was holding. "Things that can decrease your chances of reproduction…too much stress perhaps?"

Rouge turned to Shadow who had a guilty look on his face.

Shadow did have to admit that he wasn't exactly light on stress. He knew he had many emotional problems and it seemed that every little thing would set him off. He directed his attention towards the walrus and slightly shrugged his shoulders. "I guess I am kind of heavy on the stress thing…"

Maxwell had continued to read off the list. "Too much alcohol intake?"

These suggestions were getting worse and worse on his end it seemed. Not only were his demon genes messing his chances up but even the habits he had were setting him back. "…I did used to be an alcoholic."

"Too much smoking?"

The hedgehog arched an eyebrow. "Smoking what?"

Rouge wanted to face palm herself. She knew that Shadow did heavily smoke cigarettes and he was also a huge pothead in the past. She knew one of the many old habits he kept falling back on was smoking weed. He only did it on rare occasions, but he never fully quit smoking.

Maxwell tried to ignore the fact that Shadow had mentioned smoking things that were other than cigarettes. He moved on to another method they could both try. "Too much sex?"

With silent and awkward looks, Shadow and Rouge turned to each other with nervous looks.

Judging by their nervous expressions he had figured the two were indeed having sex way too often. "…I take it you have intercourse frequently?"

Rouge slightly shrugged her shoulders. "Um, maybe?"

"…When was the last time you had sex?"

Shadow bit his lip before he actually answered. "Uh, last night? And into this morning?"

"…I see. Well strange as it may sound but sometimes having sex too often can decrease your chances of getting pregnant."

Shadow slowly turned to Rouge. "We don't do it that often…do we?"

She paused and nervously turned to him, "Shadow, last night…I lost count after the sixth time."

He arched an eyebrow. "That was last night? I thought that was this morning?"

"Well", Maxwell spoke. "I guess it doesn't take a genius to figure out that you two are very sexually active people. So in order to increase your chances of pregnancy…" He pointed his finger at Shadow. "You." He then pointed towards Rouge, "And you. No sex. Two weeks."

Shadow stood from his chair in shock. "What?"

Rouge was also stunned from his request. "No sex?"

"Two weeks!" Shadow exclaimed.

Maxwell made a small nod, "That's right. It's worth a shot. What do you have to lose?"

Rouge stood from her chair and held Shadow's hand. "Oh come on, Shad. It's only two weeks. We can do this."

The two nervously looked away from each other and both thought that trying to make a baby would be harder than they thought.

Later on late that evening, Charmy walked through the door when he had made it back home.

When Margaret saw the bee walk into the kitchen, she turned to him in excitement. "Oh, Charmy! You're back!"

He turned to her with an uncaring expression. Judging by her expression, it looked like she had some exciting news to tell him. "Um, yeah. What's up?"

"I have something to show you!"

Charmy saw her take out a white envelope. "What is it?" He then saw her hand the envelope to him.

"Open it!"

He took the envelope from her and began to open it. When he did, he took out a white piece of paper from it. He began to glance at what the paper had said "…The school…I got accepted into that school in Industrial City."

Margaret's smile widened. "Oh my God! Charmy this is great! You did it! You got into your dream school!"

The bee paused and bit his lip. He suddenly crumpled the paper in the palm of his hand.

Margaret watched in shock as he set the crumpled paper down onto the kitchen table.

"…I'm not going."

She stood there with a blank look on her face, "…Wha? What?"

He turned to her with a cold look, "You heard me. I'm not going."

"But Charmy, I don't understand. You had your heart set on this school."

He turned his back to her. "What's the point? I have no reason to go."

Margaret couldn't believe it. He didn't want to go to the school anymore and she had wondered what had suddenly changed his mind. She had extended her hand out to him in concern. "Charmy…"

He began to walk out of the kitchen and headed towards the stairs. "I'm going to bed."

Margaret's eyes glanced out the small window and noticed that the sun hadn't even set yet. "But it's not even…dark yet." After when she saw Charmy walk upstairs and heard the door to his room slam, she couldn't help but to go into a state of worry. She wanted to go talk to him. When she took a step forward, her foot had kicked something that was on the floor.

When she looked down, she saw a small white bottle laying on the floor. It wasn't hers so she figured that Charmy may had dropped it when he had came inside. She picked the bottle off of the floor and studied it. It turned out that the bottle was a half empty pill bottle. She glanced through the writing on it to see what kind of pills they were. Her eyes widened when she caught the word 'oxycodone.' She looked away from the bottle in horror. "Oh my God…"

In The Next Chapter…

Espio: You? No Sex? What a riot!

Shadow: Shut up! It's not that funny!

Espio: This won't last for a week!

Nails: Is that a bet?

Espio: You know what? Hell yeah!

Tikal: You're not happy for me?

Tonya: Tikal, I…

Margaret: Charmy, what are you doing with these pills?

Charmy: I can't believe this is happening…