Chapter 4

A Dream, A Talk, and… SHIT!

Sonic could feel his fists clench, he could see that shocked face, he could feel his anger rising, and he couldn't… no… he wouldn't stop himself. He could feel the twitching of the body under him as each blow connected. He could see the blood coating his fists as he punched with all his might. He could hear the screams of "STOP!" repeating over and over but he ignored them. He could see the bloody face of "HIM" looking through his puffy, swollen eyes, pleading him to stop. Sonic did not want to stop. The thought of, "How dare he do that!" "How dare he…"

Sonic shot out of bed, panting, covered in a cold sweat. Calming down he reminded himself that it was all in the past, which he couldn't undo no matter how much he wanted. He put his head back down on the pillow and fell into an uneasy, restless sleep.

"I thought it over and the answer is: No." Sonic said flatly. He was back in the janitor's closet with the 5 guys that made the deal with him. "Are you sure?" Tails asked, "It's not that bad."

"You guys are publicly whoring you're selves out." Sonic snapped, "No Thank you."

"Isn't that a little hypocritical?" Silver chimed in, "You like watching girls touch and kiss, Right?"

Sonic turned in Silver's direction, "Yes. I also like coffee but that doesn't mean that I am obliged to pick my own beans."

Scourge sighed "So you would rather clean the hallways?"

"Or kiss you? Yes."

"Well, Ouch."

"Think of it this way, Sonic girls will be pleasuring themselves thinking of you." Tails said

"About me fucking or being fucked by a guy." Sonic pointed out.

"Right about that." Tails admitted.

Shadow moved closer to Sonic whispering, "You get to make out with me more."

Sonic turned around disgusted. "THAT IS NOT AN INCENTIVE!!!"

Scourge sighed, grabbing Sonic's arm and leads him over to the other end of the closet, "Look we gotta talk."

"Look I don't care what you say I'm not doing this."

Once they were out of ear shot Shadow turned to Knuckles, "He liked it when I kissed him."

"Of course he did, but he would like mine better." Knuckles replied.

"What?!!" Shadow snapped, "Do you want to put your money were your mouth is?"

Scourge was whispering something to Sonic who gave him a look, some more whispering and then they walked over to the others.

"Okay, I'm in." Sonic said as he walked out, a defeated look on his face. Shadow got up and followed.

Silver moved over to Scourge, "What did you say to him?"

Scourge gave his trade mark smile, "I told him the… benefits of our little group."

"And he changed his mind?"

"Yep."

"Just like that?"

After a few seconds of thinking Silver realized just what he did.

"You blackmailed him!"

"Only a little."

"Dude," Silver said shaking his head, "You promised not to do that any more!"

Scourge crossed his arms plainly stating, "Look, you know as well as I do he is as good as fucked."

Scourge seeing the anger in Silver's eyes adds, "We don't have time to convince him slowly."

Silver ran his fingers through his spines in frustration. "Don't have time?!?! What, is a bomb ticking, about to go off?"

"Silver, your going to have to trust me."

Silver sighed, defeated, "…Fine, fine, but never do it again. Ever."

A long silence fell in the room… suddenly broken by Sonic's voice shouting, "Stop touching me, DAMMIT!!!"

"We should stop them bfore one of them gets hurt." Scourge says

"Who? Shadow or the new guy?" Silver responds

"Both."

Knuckles separated them, Scourge leads Shadow one way and Silver pushes Sonic the other way.

Scourge rubs his temples "Shit, Shadow do you have to make everything so diffcult." Shadow is quiet for a moment then answers, "Yes."

Silver managed to calm Sonic down enough to explain.

"Look, he likes to piss people off…"

"…And I want you to stop doing that."Scourge says thoroughly annoyed. "All your doing is…"

"..Making me angry!" Sonic says clenching and unclenching his fists, "What am I supposed to do ignore him?" Silver thought for a moment then says, "God, I wish it was that easy, but No, what you need to do is…"

"…Push back!" Scourge said raising his voice, completely clueless as to why Shadow wouldn't listen to reason. "And when he does I don't want any shit to happen to you or him that gets the whole group in trouble!"

Shadow smiled a smile that was as full of poison as a cobra's tooth brush, making the always level-headed Scourge feel uneasy. After a moment of uncertainty Shadow spoke.

"You think I'm just pushing him, Scourge?" Shadow leans against the wall and continues, "He's got a cute ass but it's not all about that."

"Then what?!!" Scourge said

"You can shield him all you like but you know as well as I know…"

"Get to the point!"

"If he can't handle me, the girls will screw him like a 5 dollar whore." Shadow said flatly, "Then we're all fucked."

Scourge couldn't deny the Shadow's words held some truth.

"Besides," Shadow said, "I made a bet."

Scourge had but hated to ask, "With whom and about what?

"I would love to push him… off a cliff for a start." Sonic said

"And I wish it was that easy." Silver agreed.

"But look, violence doesn't solve anything."

"Unless you have a better idea I'm doing the cliff thing."

"There is only one way to get under his skin, if he comes on you, come on him harder…"

"Flirt with him?"

"Yes!"

"In order to get him to stop flirting with me?"

"Yes."

Sonic gave Silver a look that said you have to be fucking kidding me.

"Look, Shadow loves a chase and if you take away the chase he might start to act like…"

Sonic cut him off, "…A human and not like a sex-starved dog in heat?"

"Exactly."

"…YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!" Scourge couldn't believe what Shadow just told him.

"I made a bet with Knuckles on who would sleep with the new guy first."