SILVER THE HEDGEHOG

By

Omicron the IceQueen

Silver shivered.

It was the first time in his life that he had to do so. He didn't like it, not one bit.

The albino shivered again and his crest flattened back against his head, his ears air-planed to the sides. Despite his large main, that was hiding half his face at the moment, he was freezing. Arms wrapped around his middle and his legs pulled up.

Silver had, at first, tried to burrow instinctively but the ground proved colder the deeper he went. There wasn't any leaves around either to try and hide in, not that that would have occurred to him. Firstly leaves were too fallible for his tastes and secondly he'd never seen them himself until
today, thus lacked the knowledge to know they could in fact help insolate him.

Having a fire was completely out of the question, more so after the hedgehog's panic attack at dinner.

Silver flicked one ear before flattening it again, he did feel bad now about that. He had scared Amy more with his reaction then anything. Sadly it wouldn't have been the first time that day.

The hedgehog Anthro shivered again, curling up even more and debating if he should fan out his quills would help any. Probably not come to think of it, he always did that when trying to cool down.

To think, he had enjoyed the coolness of the past before!

It really had been nice honestly. Silver wasn't just used to the hundred plus degree heat of his time, constantly day and night, but the albino was acclimated to it as well. Again, despite his main, Silver's once ash-stained fur was relatively thin, even more so in comparison to those Anthros of this
time.

Movement near by had golden eyes snapping open and Silver's body tensed, but he relaxed slowly as he remember where Amy was and the movement came from there.

Silver smelled that flowery scent he had come to link with the slightly smaller hedgehog. It was still a new scent, that from flowers. Amy had almost hurt herself laughing at one point in the day watching as Silver kept getting distracted by new smells while he was talking. Like an invisible hand had reached out, grabbed his muzzle and pulled his crested head one direction to another.

The albino hedgehog closed his eyes, only to snap them open a second time. Baffled, he started to look down, opening his mouth to ask what Amy was doing when she pushed her head up under his chin.

It was like a switch flipped in Silver's head and his mind blanked, almost going numb. It wasn't a bad feeling, in fact the numbness bled away into a happy, blissful sensation.

Golden eyes half lidded, Silver stared into nothingness for a long time before he finally recognized the feeling of arms around him. Hugs were still a quite alien concept to him, having grown up with less physical contact then those in this time. Even with her friend, Blaze, they didn't touch unless to help or save each other, or when fighting Iblis'spawned minions.

This…this was different then the few hugs he'd gotten from Amy though. It wasn't confusing or awkward.

It felt right.

Amy took a deep breath and let it out in a sigh of relief once Silver stopped shivering, thus stopped the constant rattle of his quills. As she did so the pick colored hedgehog had a good chance to really get to know the male's scent. Even after the five baths she'd made and helped him take, Silver still had a smoky-ashy sent, thought not as overpowering as it had been.

The female Anthro had her face in the large gray tinted main, the top of her head up under Silver's chin and her arms wrapped around and under the quills on his back. It was really a sneaky thing for her to do, but she had a feeling (that proved right) that even though Silver had never had this explained to him or experienced it before, he'd still react like Sonic or
Shadow had.

It was instinctual, and almightily what bonded mates did. The feeling of having a female or younger hedgie would trigger a peaceful feeling as well as a protective instinct in the male.

Amy was also sharing body heat, and after seeing what how Silver reacted to hugs he may not have excepted if she'd offered first. Amy felt a swell of pity for Silver as she felt with her

ungloved fingers how thin the albino's fur was and snuggled closer.

Silver had only the vague sense of what was going on. His eyes slowly closed as his body relaxing as well. It took him a while to figure out he has wrapped his own arms around Amy as well as shifting so that he was curled partly around her.

But it just felt so right!

A while later Amy looked up to find silver fast asleep. She smiled and hid her face back into his main, shameless enjoying the feeling since it was so big (and poofy!). The thing Amy couldn't know was that this night was the first time that Silver had an uninterrupted and long sleep since he was a little hedgie.