(A/N): So…I think the only person who was really happy about the whole Rafael/Alana thing was Sparky. He was practically overjoyed. The rest of you were all like "Well…I guess, if it has to happen." Suck it up people! Rafael isn't a bad guy. And Spark brought up a point which made me think. Why do you guys like Renegade so much? Please answer in your reviews. I'm interested.
Alana was lying against Rafael as they laid on his couch. They were simply enjoying each other presences when Gabe and Anna appeared.
"You know you're going to have to face them sooner or later." Gabe said as Alana buried her face into Rafael's shirt.
"You guys. It's been three days and you haven't been out of this apartment. You do know you have classes tomorrow." Anna said as Alana groaned. Rafael rubbed her back as he glared at Gabe. Gabe rolled his eyes as he hovered down to the ground.
"They're going to hate me." Alana muttered through Rafael's chest.
"No, they'll hate me." Rafael said as Alana rolled her eyes.
"They won't hate you guys! Maybe they'll be a little stand offish, but they'll lighten up." Anna said as she stood next to Gabe. Alana sighed as she sat up.
"I guess. I can't stay here forever." She said looking down at her clothing. She had been wearing Rafael's clothing for the past few days and wanted to be back in her clothing.
"I like you in my clothes." Rafael said as he sat up and wrapped his arms around her waist. Alana smiled a bit as she looked back at Rafael. He kissed her on the side of the head as Anna and Gabe disappeared.
"C'mon. We have to go see them." Alana said as she got up. Rafael pouted, but Alana just continued walking over to his small laundry room and taking her clothes out of the dryer. Rafael groaned as Alana put on her jeans and gray t-shirt. Rafael pouted again as Alana rolled her eyes and picked up his flannel shirt. She put it over herself leaving it unbuttoned. Rafael smiled and got off the couch to kiss her.
"Now we can go." He said as Alana just laughed and put on her shoes. Rafael put his arm around her waist as she leaned against him. "Any particular location, sunshine?" Rafael asked.
"Just my room." She said as they fazed away. They appeared in Alana's room and Alana walked over to her door. She opened it slightly to peek out the door.
"We know you're home." Lauren said as Alana sighed. She opened her door and motioned for Rafael to stay. "We know he's here too." Lauren said as Alana sighed again.
"She's good." Rafael said.
"She's a mind-reader." Alana grumbled as they walked out to the living room. Lauren and Chrissy were sitting in the living room as they turned off the television and looked over to Rafael and Alana.
"Shouldn't you be living with your husband, Bolt?" Alana asked as Chrissy sat up.
"We're working on it." Chrissy said as Lauren rolled her eyes.
"Can we not avoid the elephant in the room?" Lauren asked as she stood up from the couch.
"Hey, I know I did a messed up thing, but calling me fat is not necessary." Rafael said as Chrissy snickered and Alana cracked a smile.
"Listen buddy-boy, I, much like yourself, am a stone-holder. So, don't think you can walk around here all high and mighty because you're just one out of a select group." Lauren said as she glared at Rafael.
"Ok…I really didn't expect to be treated as a god." He said as Lauren crossed her arms.
"What are you here for then?" Lauren asked as Chrissy sighed and shook her head.
"Practically the same reason as you. To figure out this stone business." Rafael said with a shrug of his shoulders. "You shouldn't ruffle your feathers about me. I think we have bigger things to worry about." Rafael said as practically the hold group fell through the door. "Hey, about time you guys dropped in." Rafael said with a smirk. Serenity stepped over all the bodies on the ground and into the apartment.
"You know what we're against?" Serenity asked as she raised her eyebrow.
"Not exactly. I know Mason and his ancestor are not the biggest threat we have." Rafael said as he paced the apartment.
"What is?" Derek asked looking at the gray fox. He took a deep breath as everybody looked at him expectantly. The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
"Don't know." He said as everybody groaned. "It's not my fault. Gabe hasn't told me anything about that." Rafael said putting up his hands defensively.
"They never tell us anything!" Flash exclaimed as Bolt rolled his eyes.
"You're not even a stone-holder." Bolt said as Flash shrugged his shoulders.
"So…they still don't say anything." Flash grumbled.
"Again, not our faults." Isaac said appearing along with the other ancestors.
"Well…can't your teacher tell us everything since we have all the stones?" Tyler asked.
"No, there are certain things that have to happen before we can tell you dudes stuff." Devin said as they all sighed.
"Like our special stone thing?" Black asked as Arianna nodded. Black groaned as he tilted his head back before tilting his head back forward.
"Can we at least know what happens to us?" Black asked as Isaac opened his mouth before closing it.
"We actually don't know if we can…" Cheka said as all their eye's widened.
"Tell us! If he hasn't said anything against you guys telling us then it must be ok!" Lauren exclaimed.
"Well…we haven't talked about it much." Nick said as Lauren sighed.
"Just tell us! Please!" Flash exclaimed as the ancestors looked over at Arianna.
"No. We should get Jeremy's full permission before we do anything." Arianna said as everybody sighed.
"Fine…" Bolt grumbled as they all looked at them apologetically before fading away. Everybody groaned, rolled their eyes, or stayed silent before looking over to Rafael.
"So…when are you moving in?" Bolt asked as he looked at Rafael. Rafael looked over at him confused.
"What? I have my own place." Rafael said as Garrett chuckled. Garrett walked over and placed his arm around Rafael's shoulders.
"No, no, no you see, when someone becomes apart of this group they have to move in here." Garrett said as Rafael raised his eyebrow.
"Yep." Bijou and Black said.
"I moved in last week." Stephan said as Rafael sighed.
"Ok…? So, do I get my own place?" Rafael asked as Stephan laughed.
"Oh no…you move in with someone. I'm living with Shawn and Shade." Stephan said as the two nodded behind him.
"By the way, I find ironic that you guys are living with him after hating him for the past few months." Bolt said as they all shrugged their shoulders.
"Do I at least choose who I get to live with?" Rafael asked as they all shrugged their shoulders.
"It's a fifty-fifty thing. We have to work out the roommate situation and see who is even willing to move and live with you." Conner said as Rafael frowned a bit.
"Do any of you honestly want to live with me besides Alana?" Rafael asked bluntly as Goldeye stepped forward.
"You and Alana can live with me and Emma." Goldeye said as Rafael looked at him a little shocked.
"Really?" Alana said speaking for the first time in a while.
"Yes! I would love to live with you!" Emma said as she hugged Alana.
"It would only make sense for the two outsiders to live together." Rafael said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"WHOA! I'm out two roommates! Who will live with me?" Lauren said as Hydro smirked.
"I think I can." Hydro said as he wrapped his arms around Lauren.
"Really!?" She asked excitedly.
"Yeah, really. You don't mind, right guys?" Hydro asked looking back at Roddy and Andrew who shook their heads.
"I can finally move off the couch." Sean grumbled as Andrew laughed.
"So it's settled! Rafael and Alana are going to live with Goldeye and Emma. Hydro is going to live with Lauren and Sean gets his own room!" Julian exclaimed. "Moving should be easy for you. You can teleport." Julian said to Rafael.
"Sure…do I have to do it now? It's like nine." Rafael said as they all waved him off.
"Do it whenever. Actually you probably have to do it tomorrow." Serenity said as she thought over the landlord and how he was getting fed up with their group taking all the apartments.
"Ok. So, we'll just go back to my place." Rafael said grabbing Alana around the waist.
"No way! I haven't seen her in three days!" Lauren said as she pulled Alana away from Rafael.
"B-B-But-"Rafael said before Chrissy cut him off.
"No buts, we have to get details on things." Chrissy said as Emma slid next to them. Rafael sighed as Goldeye walked over to him.
"I'm probably going to get kicked out as well. Mind if I stay at your place?" Goldeye asked.
"No problem roomy." Rafael said with a smirk as Goldeye rolled his eyes.
"Can we go to bed now?" Brice asked tiredly as everybody looked at him confused. "I have a six am workout tomorrow." Brice said as they all started to leave the apartment. Rafael and Goldeye fazed away after Rafael said goodbye to Alana.
"Ok missy, you tell us everything." Lauren said as they all sat down in Emma's apartment.
"What do you want to know?" Alana asked nervously.
"What happened between you and Renegade?" Chrissy asked softly as Alana sighed and looked down at her fiddling fingers.
"He and Rafael were fighting when I saw them. Rafael was really getting hurt and so was Renegade and I didn't want them to even fight to begin with. I had to tell him then and there. So I told him and he ran away before I could explain to him." Alana said as Emma rubbed her back comfortingly.
"There's something else, isn't there?" Lauren asked quietly as Alana looked up at her.
"Yeah…" Alana said as tears brimmed her eyes. Lauren gasped as the tears fell from Alana's eyes. Lauren hugged her friend as the other two looked at each other confused. "I'm pregnant." Alana sobbed as they both gasped before hugging her friend.
"This is a nice place." Goldeye commented as he looked around Rafael's apartment. "Sorry that you have to move." Goldeye said as Rafael shrugged his shoulders.
"Well…I get to see Alana more. So…it's not too bad." Rafael said as they both sat on his couch. "So, what's with you?" Rafael asked as Goldeye raised his eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Goldeye asked.
"You know more than the others. You know about this whole stone ordeal." Rafael said as Goldeye's eyes turned into slits.
"How did you know?" Goldeye asked in suspicion.
"Easy. You were not shock by any of the news and you seem to know a little more than everybody else. You knew about the whole Peace and Disorder thing and even Alana didn't know that much about it." Rafael said as he leaned back on the couch. "So, what do you know?" Rafael asked.
"I can't tell you." Goldeye said as Rafael sighed.
"Fine…you don't have a stone, but I see that weird symbol on your hand. What are you?" Rafael asked his voice taking on the tone of suspicion now.
"I'm the protector." Goldeye said simply.
"Protector of what?" Rafael asked raising his eyebrow.
"Something important." Goldeye said silently as he looked at his hand and traced his symbol.
"Interesting…" Rafael said as Goldeye looked over at him. "I'm not going to pester you about it. If you would have wanted me to know, you would have told me already." Rafael said as Goldeye nodded. "So…you play Super Smash Bros?" Rafael asked as Goldeye smirked.
"I rather spare you from humiliation." Goldeye said as Rafael smirked.
"I'll like to see you try." Rafael said tossing him a controller.
"Be careful with that box! That has all my pictures." Alana said as Donovan rolled his eyes.
"I can carry a box, relax." Donovan said as he stumbled over the welcome mat. "I'll just put them by the door." Donovan said as Alana rolled her eyes.
"Hmm…our place. Has a nice ring to it don't ya think?" Rafael asked as he wrapped his arms around Alana from behind.
"Technically it's our place." Goldeye said carrying a box through the door as Rafael rolled his eyes.
"Still…it's great." Alana said turning in Rafael's arms and kissing him.
"Am I the only one who thinks its weird seeing Alana with someone besides Renegade?" Julian asked as he looked over at the new couple.
"I know what you mean. It's so…weird." Conner said as he leaned against the wall next to him.
"It's because you guys are Renegade's best friends and you feel uncomfortable to see his girlfriend of four years with someone else besides him. Don't worry you shall get use to it." A sea-foam green hedgehog (tpcb000) said passing by checking through a pile of mail. Both males looked at her confused before looking at each other.
"Who was that?" Conner asked as Julian shrugged his shoulders. "Ok…? I just hope Renegade is alright." Conner said as Julian nodded. Out somewhere in Maine. Lauren and Shade were walking down the hall as they both carried some of her boxes. Lauren coughed a bit before she started to go on a coughing fit. She dropped the box on the floor as she held her stomach and continued to cough.
"Lauren! Lauren! Are you alright?" Shade asked as he dropped his box and walked over to his friend. Lauren cleared her throat and stood up straight.
"I'm fine. Just a little tickle in my throat." Lauren said rubbing her neck.
"That was no tickle. You should have that checked out." Shade said in a concern tone.
"I'm fine. It's probably all the pollen and dust in the air." Lauren said picking up the box from the floor and walking down the hall. Shade looked at her before shrugging his shoulders and following her with his box. Renegade was sitting on the beach clutching his jacket tightly to him. He watched the waves crash onto the shore and the lighthouse shine through the gloom of the sky.
"You knew this would happen." A voice said beside him as Renegade sighed and looked up at a transparent hedgehog. The hedgehog was navy and had fiery red eyes.
"I know, but I didn't expect it to hurt so much." He said as the hedgehog floated down into a sitting position.
"I told you not to get too close to the girl." The hedgehog said as Renegade rolled his eyes.
"Dad…I was with her for four years. It was kind of hard not to." Renegade said to his father. "You told me he would show up before anything would happen." Renegade said emotionlessly.
"Things got side-tracked." His dad said as Renegade sighed. "Son, all I can tell you is that if you really love her, you'd be able to let her go so she can be happy." He said as Renegade looked over at him.
"I…I just can't handle seeing them yet." Renegade said as his father nodded his head and disappeared. Renegade fell back and laid in the sand as he looked up at the cloudy sky.
"So…planning to come back anytime soon?" Bolt said staring down at Renegade. Renegade shot up and whipped his head around to see the hedgehog.
"How did you know I would be here?" Renegade asked as Bolt plopped down on the sand.
"I ran away too. This was one of the first places I went. Great for thinking." Bolt said looking out to the ocean. "I would only expect you to come here." Bolt said looking back over at Renegade.
"How is she?" Renegade asked not making eye contact with Bolt.
"She feels really guilty about what happened." Bolt said as Renegade showed no emotion. "She really wishes you would have listened to her reasoning." Bolt said.
"I already know." Renegade said as Bolt looked at him confused.
"How?" Bolt asked as Renegade stood up.
"I knew since I met her." He said walking away from Bolt. Bolt looked at him shocked as he continued to walk away. Back in New York everybody had finished moving and was now relaxing in different areas.
"So…they didn't hate you that much." Alana said as she played with Rafael's bangs as he laid his head in her lap. They were currently in their new apartment sitting on the couch.
"Let's just wait and see what happens." Rafael said as he closed his eyes. Alana sighed as he pushed his bangs back and looked at his face.
"Rafael…I have to tell you something." Alana said as Rafael's eyes opened and stared at Alana's. He sat up and took her hands in his.
"What is it?" Rafael asked. Alana took a deep breath as she looked down.
"I-I'm pregnant." She said as Rafael's eyes widened.
"Oh my God! Are you sure?!" Rafael exclaimed as he stood up from the couch. She nodded her head and tears started to come down her cheeks. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell." Rafael said holding her hands and kneeling in front of her.
"It's not that." She said her voice thick from the tears.
"Sunshine…what is it?" Rafael asked holding her face between his hands.
"I don't know if you or Renegade is the father." Alana said as Rafael froze.
(A/N): Hello, my name is tpcb000 and I have WBS. Writer's Block Syndrome. Seriously. It took me forever to figure out what to do in this chapter and I don't even know what to do for the next chapter. Jeez…anyways answer that Renegade question. I'm quite curious.