Silver opened the big doors to the exercise room to see it vacant, he walked in gradually, but kept his eyes and ears open just in case anything might pop out at him, he walked over to where a treadmill was and sat down.
He looked around the room, and made sure not to make a sound
"Where is he?" Silver asked himself as he got up and started walking, continuing his search for his canine companion
He walked over to the rack with basketballs in it when he heard a voice
"Silver over here" the voice said quietly but loud enough for him to here, Silver jogged over to where they put the clean towels every night then looked in "Well took you long enough"
"Well who threw in the towel?" Silver said grinning, as he tried to make a joke but didn't really succeed
"Whatever" Robbie said while jumping out of the bin "Now tell me what we are going to do" Robbie said while staring at Silver
"Well I was thinking of climbing out of the window" Robbie faked a laugh
"Are you crazy? Do you see how high it is?" Robbie almost yelled while he stuck his hands in the air towards the giant windows
"Well when I was planning it out in my head I made it seem shorter" Silver grinned a little then looked down
"Well what are we going to do?" Robbie asked staring at Silver
"How about use a rope?" Silver and Robbie shot over to the side to see Christopher standing there with a rope and hook in his hand
"Christopher!" Silver yelled
"Christopher….." Robbie said exasperated
"Hey guys I figured you two would probably not have the spy sense for this mission, so I decided to come along"
"Wait how did you know about this?"
"Uh heh yea me and some of the guys were going around to different rooms listening to peoples conversations, and I happened to pick your room right at the time you were talking about your escape to leave, and where you would meet at, so I changed my mind about it" Chris smirked then handed the rope to Silver
"Well thanks, I guess" Silver said "Well anyway let's get going while we have the chance" Silver said as he started tying the rope to the end of the hook quickly
"No I'm not going anywhere with him!" Robbie said while he stretched out his arm and pointed towards the golden dog
"Ugh Robbie" Silver groaned then handed the rope to Chris and walked over towards his irritated friend
"No" Robbie said crossing his arms
"Please Robbie for me?"
"I don't feel like it"
"Stop being a bitch" Christopher yelled in the background
Robbie growled causing Silver to sweat a little
"Please Rob" Silver went close to his floppy ear and whispered "Beside do you want me alone with him? To get me into nothing but trouble?" Silver asked then pulled his head back to wait for a response, Robbie sighed
"Fine I'll go, but that doesn't mean I have to get along with that, that thing!" Robbie said pointing to 'the thing'
"Fine by me" Christopher said while throwing the rope up to the window, and watching it fly through the air
The hook landed on the windowsill and Christopher pulled a little to try to get it to hook onto the ledge, he pulled a little again and it fell off, Chris sighed then drew it in to try again
"Hey I knew there were rope and a hook in here somewhere!" Silver said smirking as he showed off his cleverness to….himself
"Huh?" Robbie asked not knowing what he was talking about
"Oh nothing" Silver said looking over at him then laughing nervously
The rope and hook fell off for the third time and Chris sighed in frustration
"Here one of you guys do it!" The frustrated retriever said while holding out the rope and looking away in disgust.
"Fine I'll do it!" Robbie said while walking over and swiping the rope out of his hands "Now watch a master" Robbie said while throwing it up there and unfortunately missing the ledge and falling to the floor with a 'clink'
"Oh yea you're the master all right" Christopher said while laughing, Silver was trying to hold back a laugh for his friend
"Shut up Chris everyone makes mistakes!" Silver yelled defending Robbie
"Thank you!" Robbie yelled while drawing in the hook again, while trying to block out Chris' snickering and afterwards snorting
The hook went up on the ledge and Robbie carefully pulled hoping that the hook would….hook onto the ledge
"Silver are you finished yet?" a voice echoed through the gym, all three boys gasped and looked back while the hook fell to the ground again "What was that?"
"Oh shoot its Sonic! I mean Master Sonic!" Silver whispered while panicking
"Oh no! What do we do?" Robbie asked while walking over quickly then picking up the hook
"Um…you guys go hide somewhere I'll distract Sonic I mean…ARG…Master Sonic"
Sonic walked into the gym and looked around when Silver sped over in front of him
"Hello Master I mean Sonic" Silver said with his hands behind his back and looking up at the master
"It's taking you a really long time to find your jacket" Sonic said looking down at him with a cocked eyebrow
"Eh? Oh yea! Heh um I can't find it" Silver said innocently
"Well why don't you find it tomorrow?"
"NO! I mean someone might steal it"
"Well, Silver you can't stay in here all night, you'll get in trouble" Silver looked down at his shoes "Come on I'll walk you to your room"
"But…." Silver got a little bit of tears in his eyes, he was so close to escaping and maybe having a chance to find Shadow and now it's ruined, yea it's not like he can't come back in here some other nights, but what other made up explanations does he have?
"Come on…wait are you crying?" Silver wiped his eyes with his arm, it wasn't a lot of tears but he was really disappointed, Sonic sighed "Silver…" he put his hand on his neck
"Please Sonic" Silver asked pulling on Sonics pants slightly, Sonic sighed again
"Fine" Silver beamed that is until "But I'm staying in here with you" Silver's smile turned from a beam into a 'uh oh' frown
"But I don't need help looking for my jacket Master Sonic" Silver said forgetting to just say Sonic again
"Well then would you tell me why Robbie and Chris are trying to escape over there" at that moment all three animals turned there heads at the exact same time then gulped
"I-I don't know" Silver lied again "I didn't even see them in here"
"But aren't those your friends?" Silver looked back at both of them
"Well yea, actually one of them is anyways"
"HEY!" Chris yelled in the background
"Ok what's going on Silver?" Sonic asked with his hands on his hips and looking down sternly at the guilty hedgehog, Silver sighed
"Ok I'll tell you, the truth" Silver started walking and sat on a work out mat with Sonic and the two canines following
--- Three years ago (When Silver met Robbie)
Silver was lying in the infirmary bed looking out of the window watching snowflakes dance in the sky and throw themselves against the window making them dissolve into water.
Silver was awfully lonely, there were some other kids in there too but most where asleep and others where just mean, Silver couldn't blame them though, he would be mad to if he had to sit in here every day doing nothing
Silver turned over on his side quickly once he heard the door open, it was that time again, the time he hated when they had to make the kids take the disgusting medicine, he knew they were just trying to help but it was just so bitter tasting and it burned his mouth
A feminine gazelle walked over to Silver wearing a white nurse's hat with a red cross in the middle and a short white dress.
"Hey there buddy it's time for your medicine" Silver scrunched up his body a little ignoring her "Come on sweetheart I know it's nasty but you have to take it, it's for your own good" Silver sighed then rolled over and opened his mouth "Good boy" She said
Silver didn't really get why the whole house was full of men but the nurses were women, she put the needle into his mouth then squirted some of the liquid in there.
Silver's left eye started twitching and his fur started sticking up because of the sickening taste, Silver whimpered and looked up miserably at the nurse
"I'm sorry baby, but just think you're getting better every second" She said as she taped his nose lightly then walked off
Silver sighed then turned around again, he wanted to get better as fast as possible
-
Silver was asleep having no dreams except for the eyes he kept thinking about, he had no clue of what they meant was it a sign? He had no clue
The door interrupted his sleep, he knew it wouldn't help but he turned over again towards the window anyway
"Children" a tigress said "these children will be helping to take care of you all so treat them with as much respect as you give us" She then walked out as all of the boys walked to different beds
Silver shut his eyes tightly, hopefully they would think he's asleep and leave him alone, but that's not what he got
"Hey, hey you are you asleep?" Asked a lion cub poking at his side roughly, Silver growled slightly, he was not in the mood to be poked "hey are you asleep or what?" Silver growled and tightened the grip on his pillow
A certain Great Dane looked up there and saw the lion poking at him
'Poor kid' he thought talking about the child being tortured under the covers 'better go up there and help' he walked up there towards the lion cub and poked his back
"Hey you want to switch patients?" He asked while pointing behind him with his thumb
"Oh yea, this ones boring anyway" he ran past him while the dog rolled his dark brown eyes, he walked over next to the bed and sat down on a chair then pulled out a magazine from under a medicine cart
Silver heard a different voice and footsteps walking away from the bed, the two signs Silver hoped to hear soon
He turned over a little and lifted up the covers just a bit to see through, he saw a Great Dane sitting on a chair and reading a magazine, apparently he didn't know what was going on in there by the look of his face
"T-Thanks" Silver said softly under the covers startling the canine
"Oh hello" he said while looking over and smiling "Oh and no problem it's just what I do"
"Help people from annoying kids?" Silver saw him try to seize a laugh
"Yep that's exactly what I do I'm apart of the H.P.F.A.K club" that time they both tried to hold in laughs, Silver went under the covers and held his nose while there was little noises coming out of his mouth, and the dog was pinching his mouth and nose.
After that was over they both stopped and started gasping for air since they had to hold there breathe in to prevent the laugh from escaping, Robbie sighed
"What's you're name?" he asked Silver curiously, Silver's ears folded back against his head
"I can't remember" Silver said while sitting up
"Oh……well I'm Robbie, Robbie the Great Dane" Robbie closed his eyes and pointed to himself with a grin planted on his face, Silver giggled then sighed again, he wished he could remember his name
Robbie's cheerful face quickly dissolved into pity for the young hedgehog
"Um well we could always make up a name!" Robbie said trying to cheer up the hedgehog and it did in fact Silver's ears perked up and a grin spread on his face
"Ok!" Silver said excitedly
"Alright hmm" Robbie tapped his chin while he was in thought "What is your personality like?" Silver thought about it for a moment
"I'm not sure, I don't like being in here" Robbie's smile turned straight, that wasn't that good of a description
"Well…… oh, what are your favorite things to do?" Robbie said as his smile grew right back
"Um…I don't know that either"
"How do you not know?"
"Well I can't remember me doing anything fun" Robbie turned in the chair, so he was facing Silver and let his arms rest on his legs while he was slanted over, Silver laid back and looked up at the fan above him
"Well what's your favorite color?" Robbie asked looking back over at Silver
"I don't know…"
"Well what about Silver?" Silver's ears perked up and his eyes quickly shot over to the dog
"Where'd you get that name?"
"Well your fur coat is Silver so…"
"No it's g- wait it is Silver right?"
"It's kind of in between" Silver smiled big and his eyes shined, he just got a new name
"Silver"