CHAPTER 40

A few days later, it was an early and sunny morning at the Chaotix.

Rouge was in the weaponry room sitting on a desk reading a handbook about different types of guns. She took her eyes away from her book when she saw Nails holding a strange crossbow while she observed it. It had seemed that she didn't know a thing about what she was doing with it. "Nails, be careful with that! I'm still trying to re modify that for Tikal."

Nails carelessly leaned the end of the crossbow on her shoulder. "Oh relax, Rouge! If Tikal can handle this thing then so can I." Her heart raced when her finger had slipped and activated the trigger to the crossbow.

Rouge's eyes widened as she saw an arrow being shot from the crossbow. She ducked when she saw the point of the arrow being aimed towards her.

The arrow had missed her and shot into the wall behind her.

Rouge slowly turned to the black bat woman in annoyance. "Are you sure you're not trying to kill me?"

Nails sighed heavily and placed the crossbow down onto another table. "I'm sorry! Geez!"

She gritted her teeth as she grew more and more annoyed with her. "God, Nails! Can you just go be annoying somewhere else!" She looked back down at the book and tried to continue reading.

A sly look appeared on Nails' face, "Oh ho! Looks like someone's a little pissy cause she isn't getting any!"

Rouge took her eyes away from the book and slammed it shut. She then turned to Nails in frustration. "Oh shut up! I am not!"

She walked over to her and leaned against the desk Rouge was sitting on. "Don't get all upset, sis. It's only been about a week. It'll only be a matter of time. Shad's gonna crack any moment!"

Rouge crossed her arms and gave Nails a doubtful look. "Yeah right! Shadow's taking it better than I thought he would."

Nails arched an eyebrow and paused in disbelief. "…Excuse me?"

She made a nod, "You heard me. He's actually taking this very well. He's even been sleeping on the sofa in case something happened when we slept together."

Nails' mouth dropped. She couldn't believe it. After what Rouge had told her, she figured that Rouge would cave before Shadow would. "I don't believe it…"

"Oh believe it. At least he can keep it together. I feel like I'm going to burst into flames if he doesn't fuck me soon." She bit her lip in frustration. "God! I miss him! I miss how he goes down on me! I miss how he strokes me with his tongue!" She took her finger and caressed her neck with it down to the collar of her shirt.

Nails had made an uneasy look as she witnessed how Rouge was reacting. She was actually getting aroused as she thought of her having sex with Shadow.

"And oh fuck! How I miss his big, long, hard…"

"Okay!" Nails shouted in a panicked tone. "I think we've had enough reminiscing about how he fucks you!"

She tried to drag her mind out of her thoughts and turned to Nails who's face was cherry red. "Oh, Nails! I can't help it! I…I don't think I can do this!" She jumped off of the desk, "I'm going crazy!"

Her eyes widened when she saw her getting off of the desk. She feared that she was about to rush into Shadow's office to have sex with him. She couldn't let that happen. She had placed a bet on her after all. She jumped in front of her before she could walk off, "Whoa! Hey now, Rouge! Let's not do anything drastic. Shad's a guy remember? He'll crack any moment. So if shit does fall to pieces, he couldn't blame you. It would be his fault."

She angrily huffed and crossed her arms. "Well he'd better crack soon. I don't know how much longer I can hold out!"

When Nails saw Rouge leave the room, she sighed heavily. 'This is horrible! Rouge is a complete wreck! At this rate, she'll tackle that hedgehog to the floor and ride him like a bull.' She placed a finger to her chin while she began to think of how to get Shadow to make the first move on Rouge. Her eyes lit up as she thought of an idea. "Heh, looks like I have no choice but to make him cave first…"

Later on, Espio had walked into the break room of the Chaotix. When he stepped in, he caught sight of Nails sitting at a white round table drinking from a white mug and eating a salad. He walked pass her and walked towards the counter to get a cup of water. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be fucking your girlfriend?"

She made a sly look towards him and arched her eyebrow. "Shouldn't you be fucking your girlfriend?"

He turned to her with the cup of water in his hand, "I did this morning actually." He took a sip from his cup.

"Oh really? Looks like everyone's getting some."

He let out a small chuckle, "Except Shad and Rouge of course."

She had then made a devious look, "Oh I wouldn't say that…"

His eyes widened in panic from her words. She knew something. Did Shadow and Rouge finally break down and have sex? "…What do you mean?"

"Oh nothing", she replied with an evil smile on her face.

Espio walked over to her in panic. "No! You know something! Did Rouge finally cave?"

"No, but Shad will."

He shook his head. "Shad? No way! He's definitely not gonna fuck this up." He had then heard Nails laughing. Right then he knew that Nails had done something to try to make Espio lose the bet. "Oh my God…"

Nails' eyes widened when she saw Espio confronting her with an angry look.

"You! What the hell did you do?"

She giggled softly, "Oh nothing really. I just gave Shadow a little…stimulating present…"

"Nails! What did you do? Tell me what you did!"

She made a smirk as she began to tell him.

Meanwhile, Shadow was in the conference room leaning against a table looking at a stack of papers he had held in his hands. While he looked at the papers, he reached over to a glass full of milk. He picked the glass off of the table and started to drink from the glass until Espio had flung the doors open in panic.

"Don't drink the milk!"

After hearing Espio's panicked voice shout out to him, he quickly spit the milk out from his mouth. While Espio ran over to him, he tried wiping away some of the milk from his mouth. "Espio? What the hell is going on?"

Espio saw the glass of milk Shadow held in his hand. "Did Nails give you that?"

He made a small an unsure nod. "Yeah?" He was then startled when Espio smacked the glass out of his hand.

"Don't drink that! Don't drink anything she gives you!"

"What? Why not?"

"She crushed up some kind of pills and put it in your drink to get you super horny!"

"Wha-what? Why would she do that?"

He bit his lip as he tried to avoid the real reason why she had done it. He nervously looked away from him. "Erm…I don't know. Cause she's a…bitch?"

Shadow could tell that he had known something. He crossed his arms and glared at the nervous chameleon. "You know something…"

"What? No way!"

"Tell me."

"Oh come on, Shad…"

"Tell me or I'll tell Tonya that embarrassing thing you did at the Christmas party last year."

"What? You're bluffing!"

"Try me."

He knew once Shadow had said he would do something, he usually would follow through and do it. He decided to go on and tell him the real reason why he was acting the way he was. "Okay! Okay!" He sighed heavily and braced himself because he knew once he had told him, he wouldn't be too happy about it. "Nails and I made a bet on which one of you guys would bang each other first." He flinched when he heard Shadow shout out to him in anger.

"Espio!"

"I'm sorry!"

"I can't believe what I'm hearing! You actually placed a bet on me and Rouge?"

"Oh come on, Shad! I was totally on your side! Nails thought you couldn't go through with it."

He turned away from him in anger. "Well, I'm just thrilled to know that everyone thinks our sex life is one big joke!"

"Hey! Don't get all mad! If it makes you feel any better, I honestly didn't think you two would make it this far." He made an uneasy look when he saw him turn back to him in anger, "You just only have a few more days…"

He grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, "Between me running low on patience and being sexually frustrated, you might not even make it to a few more days!"

The chameleon couldn't force himself to look away from his angered face. He tried to think of a way to calm him down and quick. "Whoa, Shad! Your stress, dude! You gotta watch your stress!"

He pulled him closer to him, "If you think I'm a dick on a regular, you haven't seen my temper when I'm not getting laid!"

The two were interrupted when Appex had suddenly came into the room.

"Yo, Shad!"

Shadow turned to the porcupine who was standing at the doorway. "Appex?"

Espio saw Shadow releasing him from his grip and took a step away from him. He knew regularly Shadow wouldn't get so fired up over something like this, but since he was under so much stress, it appeared that every single thing would set him off. He placed a hand to his chest and glanced over to the porcupine. "I love you, man."

In annoyance he glanced over to Espio and turned back at Appex. "What's up?"

"I don't mean to interrupt, but Margaret's here and she wants to talk to you."

Shadow gave Appex a shocked expression. Why was Margaret at the Chaotix and what did she want to talk about with him? "…What?"

In The Next Chapter…

Margaret: Something's wrong with Charmy…

Shadow: Yeah? No shit.

Margaret: Talk to him, Shadow. He listens to you…

Charmy: I don't have to do anything you tell me.

Shadow: Do you realize how much shit you're in right now? We're talking about prison!

Charmy: You're a real hypocrite, Shadow…