(( for some reason, I needed a little inspiration for this chappy. Tried to inspire myself last night- didn't work. Loads of ideas…. Not enough spark for explicit detail. Why are you all looking at me like that? Ok, by "inspiring myself" I mean merely that I thought about it extensively late at night. NOT LIKE THAT, geezus. You're all sick. Sonic may, but I do NOT take it in the ass, especially by myself. Thank you.

Sonic: O.O;; ohhkaaay. We weren't thinking about that, but alrighty.

Anyway, I tried again for mental imagery by looking for any and all cute, fluffy sonuckles piccies. All I found were three adowably kyewt yaoi fanart things…. No raunchiness. Sure, sails hentai. No sonuckles. Poor, poor little Tails. He was supposed to be a girl.

Tails: -looks down- nope, I'm pretty sure imma guy.

S: awwwwh, look, they haven't dropped yet . -fondles-

T: OKAY! THIS IS JUST WRONG!

Knux: -whallops Sonic- you're cheating on me ALREADY?

S: -spits a tooth- don't look at me, she made me do it.

A: ….. actually, I hate sails. It's like pedophilia to me. You're just sick.

S:….. –raises a finger as if to make a point….. remains silent.-

Anyway, I found this PRECIOUS piccie of Knux and Sonniku, all hugglies and fluffiness, and Knuxie's saying "No touchie." all protective-like and it was just like KITTENS! I squeaked at it for a full five minutes. PRECIOUSNESS!

S: ok, look, I was joking. I'm not a pedophile. You're the only man for me…. –hugglies Knuxie-

K: -melts- awwhh, okie . -hugglies back-

Shadow: she's seriously gone off the deep end this time. I SWEAR TO GOD, I SEE YOU LOOKING AT THOSE SONADOW PICS, STOP GETTING IDEAS!

A: but…. But….. lookie….. hedgie luuuuuhv….. sho kawaii….

Sh: -sits and weeps-

K: -whallops Shady in the back of the head, sending him into a coma- Mine. He's mine, gawdamnit.

A: ok, before I force myself to start the chappy, I'm going to reiterate my little asky review thing. Please post a question to your favorite character in your next review. Our furry operators are standing by. Thank you.

And to the one who DID ask a question! I believe this one is for Robotnik.

Kamokat: Meh question is...
Eggman, why did you save sonic in today's episode of Sonic X?

Robotnik: ;; I'm on crystal meth. That and I secretly have a thing for blue…. I like blue…. He sho pretteh! –picks up Sonic and huggles, to everyone's shocked surprise.-

S: AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! BEASTIALITY! HUMANALITY EVEN!

K: -points a large gun at Eggy's head, snarling- miiiiiiiinnnnnnnneeee

S: -is dropped, sobs, crawling away- ah been violated….

A: alright, I'm done.

Charmy: I GETTA DO THA DISCLAIMAAAH! Aeyviness no ownie. Gamegirl2 wrote something and whatever. And there's yaoi. Yeah way! Like the opposite to no way! YAY! –does a little bee dance-

Sh: he has no idea. (captain obvious!)

Chapter 6- Stay

Sonic drew a sharp breath as he experienced this new sensation…. this…. intrusion…

He felt like he was being invaded…… but gladly….

Knuckles rested his forehead against his counterpart's, drawing a short breath of his own. He gripped the blue legs tightly, gradually sliding all the way in…..

They both exhaled, savoring this new, strange embrace…. They looked up into each other's eyes. They grinned deviously, Sonic biting his lip as Knux pulled back….

He placed a hand to the Gem and thrust forward suddenly, causing the one receiving to gasp, back arching. It should have hurt…. But the overwhelming buzz from the Emerald and Guardian drowned out the sharp sting…. Instead… all he felt was ecstasy…

"Ooohhh my fucking God…." He panted, hands splayed on the smooth surface behind him, his whole body quivering…

Knux chuckled softly. "You like that?"

All he could do was nod quickly, grinning wide with his eyes still shut. Knux took this as his cue to continue…

He shifted his feet further apart, supporting the hedgie with a hand under his thigh, leaning hard against the Emerald as he continued to thrust, slow but deliberate… The boy began to whimper with each heavy pounding, stifling a loud moan with a hand. Knuckles pulled away his hand, kissing him deeply as he sped up…. The movement of his hips becoming more fluid, his body writhing against his in an almost delphinic fashion…

Sonic buried his face in the other's chest, clinging at his fur as he sighed vocally… the next thrust was so violent, he wrapped his legs around Knux's waist, nails digging into his back…

The energy continued to build…. The intensity was almost unbearable…. That… tingling… both began to gasp for breath, the passion quickening. The glow from the Emerald brightened till the scene was completely saturated with the green-white light…

Sonic began to cry out rhythmically, arching back against the gem as he felt the climax near….

Knuckles strained, grunting as he held back… just a little more…. If only he could make this… whatever it was… last a bit longer….

The power of it, though….. it was far too much than he could handle any longer…..

He cried out as he released in a short series of brutal thrusts. Sonic practically screamed, trying to muffle his voice into his lover's chest as he, too, released….

But what happened next was both disturbing and extremely unexpected. Suddenly, with a strange, loud metallic creak, the object they were braced against tipped back, falling heavily on one of it's facets with a ear-shattering boom.

They just lay there against the fallen Gem, panting, eyes wide.

Then Knux began to giggle uncontrollably.

"Wow. That had some power behind it, didn't it?"

"You were pretty rough…. Come to think of it…. Ow…"

He just continued to grin at the blue form beneath him, resting his arms above his spiky head.

"You got a little something right there…" he wiped away some of the "accident" that had splattered on the hedgie's face.

He blushed at this, smirking and looking down to the crescented chest.

"Yeah…. That was a little intense… I guess it kinda just…"

"…spurted."

"neh."

He chuckled, leaning in to lick some of it off his cheek. The younger blushed more deeply at this.

They could have lain there all day… but the sun was beginning to set behind a screen of clouds, and the cool was beginning to close in. Finally, Knux pulled out, pulling the other to his feet as he stood. He wrapped his strong arms around that slender waist, kissing him once more.

"I gotta get this thing back up… Why don't you go get your bag and we'll go home and take a shower?"

"We need one… I think we made a mess…"

"heh heh… mainly you."

"Hey, my entire lower half is drenched. It's you."

"You over exaggerate everything." He stepped away, swatting Sonic's ass. "Go get your bag."

He scrunched his nose at him looking over his shoulder as he walked (a little stiffly) away. "You don't tell me what to do…."

-o-

Sonic stepped through the open door, looking wide-eyed at the large hole in the wall. He'd learned not to ask about these things… especially since the conflict was passed now.

Knuckles came in behind him, tossing the bag and nudging Sonic suggestively from behind, wrapping his arms around his chest.

"Ready for round two?"

He smirked. "Shower?"

"Yup."

"nnhh…" he turned around, still in his arms, touching noses. "As much as I want to… well… I think we better give it a rest… till tomorrow…"

"You're sore, aren't you?"

"Oh, fuck you. How could I not be?" he shoved him playfully, walking to the bathroom.

"Hey, I can be gentle!" he protested, following.

"Uh huh."

"I can!"

"Not once since I've been here can I describe any of your actions as gentle."

"Lies."

Sonic turned the knob in the shower, cocking an eyebrow over his shoulder at him.

"We don't have to go all the way, you know."

Knux cocked an eyebrow back. "I see."

Gloves and shoes were removed…. and the two stepped into the glass shower…

Much grinding and stroking ensued.

(AN- stop whining. All the detailed explicitness tired my poor vocabulary out. Look how many adjectives and pronouns I reused! Leave me alone!)

--

Sonic snuggled against his newfound lover, taking in the clean scent of his fur, one leg laid across his. Knuckles sighed happily, pulling him closer as his arm supported the blue head. He closed his eyes, feeling so much more at ease than he'd felt in years.

"I like this."

"hnnn… me too." Sonic's words were a little slurred with drowsiness.

"Maybe Tails won't come back for a month..?"

"Yeah…. Or I can tell him I'm moving out."

"That works too."

They laid there in happy silence for a few moments, comfortable and warm beneath the black sheets in the dark.

"So… you meant what you said, huh?"

Knuckles' eyebrows rose. "You heard me after all?"

"Answer me."

"Yeah, I meant it."

"So…" he shifted onto his elbow, looking at him. "You meant, 'I'm sorry, I can't.'"

"I didn't say that."

"That's the last thing you said."

"No it wasn't."

"It was."

"Seriously?"

"You were there, helloo…"

"Well, excuse me, mister photographic memory…" he scooted against the headboard, propping up his head. "I THOUGHT I said… I love you."

"You said you hated me."

"Really? I thought I told you that I love you."

He straddled his waist, wrapping his arms around the elder's neck, touching foreheads.

"You love me?"

Knux smiled genuinely, gliding ungloved hands down the quills on his back.

"Yes. I do."

"And you mean that?" he ground into him softly in teasing. "You don't just want me for my perfect and incredibly sexy body?"

"Well, the latter helps…" he reached up and nipped his neck. "But you better not start something you can't finish…"

"neh." He crawled off, resuming his position at his side.

Knux lay there in expectant silence for a moment. "Don't you have something to say back?"

"What?"

"Like…. Oh, nevermind." He kissed his forehead and scooted back down to the pillow, snuggling close.

--

It was a wonderful dream…. The warmth… the light…. Those crystal emerald eyes …. The silhouette of his tussled quills against the brightness… that intensity…. just him. Just the proximity….the privilege that he had taken, but felt unworthy of it. It was a wonderful, perfect dream… he knew he was dreaming, after all….

He woke abruptly to the sharp rap on his front door, the high-pitched voice of the child, falling alien on his ears as he rubbed sleep from his face.

"Fuck."

It was all just a dream, wasn't it? How could it have ever happened in reality? His heart sank, he rolled onto his side, sighing heavily. Then….

He saw those eyes.

There he was.

It was all real.

"SOOOOOOOOONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC! Where are you! The door's locked…"

"Fuck indeed." Sonic concurred, the disappointment evident in his large eyes. He rose reluctantly from the warm bed, trudging out of the room. Knuckles pulled a pillow over his face, muffling the single quiet sob that forced its way from his throat.

-

"Well, that's everything…" Sonic stated, tossing his duffel into the backseat of the aircraft. He bore a stoic expression… but it was obvious to Knuckles that he was trying his best not to show his sorrow.

"Did you have a good workout?" Tails asked, not too interested to begin with.

Sonic received a playful nudge, which fortunately went unnoticed by the fox. "Y- yeah. Pretty good workout."

"He'll be sore for weeks." Knux cracked a fanged grin. Sonic glared at him, stepping discreetly on his foot.

He bit his lip to keep from giggling.

"So, you guys got along?"

"Don't we always?" Knux wrapped an arm around his neck, nuggying him like an older brother. Sonic swore and scrambled from his grasp, giving him another angry glare, mouthing "STOP IT."

"Yeah, I thought so… well, don't worry. Two of the chaos emeralds I was using for aircraft magically disappeared when Rouge stopped by to borrow your Dreamweaver 8 disc, so we probably won't be back for awhile."

Sonic slumped visibly, but tried to maintain inconspicuous. "Dreamweaver, you say? Damn. Hope she brings it back…"

Tails blinked in disbelief.

"You're taking this well…"

Knuckles folded his arms, sneering. "Fuckin' Rouge… as usual…"

Tails smiled, fluttering up to give him a pat on the back. "Don't worry. You know she only does it to make you go after them."

"Hnff. I got my own Emerald. I don't care." He stepped away from the kid, already thinking of various ways to tear wings off a bat.

They stood around in that funny silence before a guest leaves, with nothing left to say but goodbye. This was in Tails' perspective, anyway. The other two locked eyes sorrowfully, sighing softly.

"Well, I guess we'll seeya later." Tails climbed into the cockpit, awaiting Sonic.

He saw the tears welling in the vivid green eyes. He sniffled, nodding silently and climbing into shotgun.

Out of sight from Tails, Knuckles reached up and squeezed Sonic's hand, lip quivering. He squeezed back, then let go to close the door.

He watched the craft till it disappeared in a cloud bank…. Stood there long after the engine was no longer audible. He refused to cry.

'This is not Goodbye.'

((OH! So much more to come. I'm so revved. I can't WAIT to continue this. unfortunately… I have three websites to build and footage of a fashion show to edit. Sigh. Work before play.

Anyway, ask your questions, keep loving me and peace to all. Make fuck, not kill.))

S: oh, fluffy sadness. Me hates. With a passion.

T: waitaminute… there's something wrong here…. Where were the insults? The retarded rivalry? Hmmmmm….. HEY! Look! A pretzel!

K: kids. I hate kids. Sonic, we're not having kids.

S: ….. . ;; I have no uterus, so don't worry about it.