Mother Knows Best

Chapter Ten

It has been nearly an entire week since Shadow last saw Kiera in Yukon River. She has never left his mind. Of course, they exchanged numbers, texted each other and talked on their phones but it wasn't the same. Shadow wanted to see her face, feel the electric and passionate sparks erupt as they touched. Their kisses were like magic: surreal and unbelievable. Shadow has never felt like this before with someone, or a woman for that matter. He wanted to see her again, he needed to see her again.

Shadow had only left his apartment when it was work related or for food – as he hardly has anything edible in his apartment. Rouge had tried and failed to get him to 'come out of his shell' as she put it but he was having none of it. He knew what she craved: his attention and love. He couldn't give her that, and he couldn't break his friend's heart. Shadow was laying on his sofa, staring at the ceiling. One arm was draped across his stomach and the other just rested under his head. His mind was on Kiera again.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

He groaned at the obnoxious knock at his door, he couldn't bring himself to move off of his sofa and open the door. He was glad he left the door unlocked after he went for his run. "It's open." He grunted.

The wooden door creaked open, and Shadow saw his best friend, Silver. He gave him a small welcoming smile. "Hey, Shadow." Silver greeted as he closed the door behind him.

"Hey, Silver. What's up?" Shadow pushed himself up so he was sitting on the sofa, ready to talk and listen to Silver.

Silver seated himself on the chair opposite the sofa Shadow was now sat upon. "So, I've heard something."

Shadow raised an eyebrow. "What have you heard exactly?"

"It's not pretty." Silver sighed.

Shadow dead panned. "Nothing is ever pretty in Mobius." Silver laughed a little but soon waved it off.

"There have been some gruesome killings." Shadow rolled his eyes.

"Isn't people murdering people for the police to handle, not us?" Silver fidgeted with his hands, getting slightly sweaty and nervous.

"Well, that's the thing. It's not 'people killing people'."

Shadow took in what Silver was saying, he wasn't quite sure how to put with given the information so suddenly. "What are you saying, Silver?"

He probed more serious, and Silver sighed. "Mobians killing mobians. So, it's basically up to us now." Shadow knew he had to do something to help, it was mobians for god's sake.

"When do we start?"

Sonic was at a chili dog stand in the middle of Station Square when he was tapped on the shoulder. He turned to find a dark purple female wolf. He raised an eyebrow. "May I help you?"

She gave him a small smile. "Do you know a Shadow the Hedgehog, by any chance?" The woman asked softly.

Sonic was confused, why would this woman be looking for Shadow? He thought to himself, and quickly finished his chili dog before answering her politely. "Yeah, I do. Are you looking for him or something?" Sonic tested.

"Yes, I am. Do you know where I could find him?" The woman asked gingerly, hoping that he would help her find him.

"Well, he is probably at his apartment. He has been cooped up there since he came back from his last mission late last week." The way the woman looked at elsewhere then back at him was suspicious, so Sonic thought she was the reason why Shadow has been acting so strangely than normal.

Sonic went to tell the woman the directions where Shadow lived but Blaze suddenly interrupted him. "Hey, Sonic. Ooh, who's your friend?" Blaze looked at the woman and gave her a friendly smile.

"Uh, well…"

"My name is Kiera." She returned the smile and shook Blaze's hand, who reciprocated the handshake.

"Well, my name is Blaze." Kiera remembered when Shadow and Rouge had mentioned Blaze at the dinner a week ago. I'm in the right place, that's for sure, she thought.

"I was asking where Shadow the Hedgehog was." Kiera said. Blaze smiled, and pointed down the street.

"Just go down that street, and at the end of it you'll see a block of apartments. Shadow's is 161, floor three. My boyfriend, Silver, is with him now."

"Thank you for your help, Blaze." Kiera pivoted herself toward the direction that Blaze had pointed but Sonic tugged on her arm a little.

"Yes?" Kiera asked him.

"I'll take you. I was going up to meet him and Silver up there, anyway." Sonic suggested. Kiera gave him a smile.

"That would be entirely helpful, thank you." He shrugged.

"It's no big deal." Sonic walked in step beside Kiera. Blaze joined them both. She was really intrigued by Kiera, and why she was looking for Shadow of all people.

"So, how did you meet Shadow, Kiera? If you don't mind me asking, of course." Blaze probed Kiera nicely.

"I met him just after I met Rouge, and that wasn't the friendliest of encounters, I must say." Kiera replied.

Sonic chuckled. "Did she give you the 'evil eye'?" Kiera laughed a little.

"Well, more like 'dagger filled death glare." Blaze giggled.

"And, you survived! You must be a fighter!" Blaze quipped.

Kiera clicked her tongue. "You could say that. Well, I did give her a taste of her own medicine."

Sonic bellowed a laugh. "Oh. My. God. The look on her face must have been priceless." Kiera smirked as they neared the end of the street.

"It was certainly satisfying; I must say that." Blaze giggled.

"Oh, you must." She went to the intercom at the front entrance of the apartment building and pressed 161 for Shadow's apartment.

"Hey, it's Blaze. Open up." She said in a polite tone. There was a dull tone, and then the unlocking of bolts clanked and the front door of the apartment building opened up.

The three of them entered the building. Sonic and Blaze travelled up the stairs to Shadow's apartment with Kiera following. Butterflies flutter around her stomach, she hadn't anticipated going this far into her journey. She had only made it up to the part in her mind where she arrived to Mobius, safe and sound. This is nerve wrecking, what if he doesn't want to see me? Ugh, I hate this feeling. It sucks. Kiera thought distastefully. Sonic reached the apartment first and knocked.

"It's open!" Kiera's heart stopped as soon as she heard his voice, she had missed him terribly.

Sonic opened and entered the apartment with Blaze behind him but that hid Kiera from anyone's sight. "Hey, Shad." Shadow looked up at Sonic with an annoyed look.

"What is it, Faker?" Sonic smirked.

"I may have found someone in Station Square that will be of interest for you." Shadow rolled his eyes.

"There is none in Station Square that will help me in anyway." Sonic cocked his eyebrow, his smirked increasing.

"Well, I beg to differ." He stepped aside.

Shadow's eyes widened at what he saw, he couldn't believe it to be true if someone had told him. Kiera was there, in Mobius and in his apartment. She looked absolutely stunning in his eyes – she always was to him – she was wearing a knee length black coat with black jeans and boots. She had a pure white scarf curled around her neck. She looked like an angel to him. Kiera stood there, fidgeting with her hands awkwardly.

"Hi." She spoke quietly and awkwardly as the silence overwhelmed her. She stood there, waiting for his reaction.

"Kiera." Shadow spoke her name as if it were a drug, and he was addicted. He stood up from the sofa he was sat on and moved swiftly toward her. He cupped her cold cheeks with his hands, the heat from his hands warming her up. Shadow promptly captured her lips with his own in a deep and consuming kiss.

Kiera placed her hands softly around his neck, her cold touch sending waves of shivers down his spine was intoxicating for him. He was getting lost in her. Kiera kissed him back with the same hungry passion from being cut off from each other for so long – even if it was only a short week. They both broke apart for oxygen.

Shadow smiled at her. "You're here." He whispered, and his thumbs caressed her cheeks as if to reassure himself that it wasn't a dream – and it definitely was not a dream.

"I'm here, Shadow."

Blaze and Sonic stood there with their jaw hitting the floor. Silver just smiled at the scene before him. "So, this is her, Shadow?" Silver stood up and moved over to the happy couple.

He nodded, glancing at Silver for a moment then at Kiera. "Yes, it's her." Kiera blushed, she hadn't known that Shadow talked about her to Silver, or anyone for that matter.

"Whoa. Whoa. Hold up." Sonic said, holding his hands up to emphasise his point. Shadow, Kiera and Silver looked at Sonic.

"So, she is the reason you have never left the apartment for a whole damn week?" He asked as if it were a rhetorical question. Shadow gave him a smirk.

"Well, yes." Kiera gave him a look, I am so talking to him about that, she thought.

"God. You are a sap, aren't you?" Sonic smirked, teasing him.

Shadow tensed, he hated when Sonic and/or anyone else called him that. He was still the same man that took down Mephiles. He leaned in, ready to punch Sonic in the face when Kiera redirected his attention to her as she turned to his face to herself. She gave him a look of 'if you hit him, you're not going to get anything from me'.

He gave into her as he wanted to kiss her again and again as soon as everyone else left. Sonic laughed and produced a vocal whipping sound. "Whipped." He quipped while doing so. Shadow snarled lowly at that.

"Later." Sonic smirked and nodded.

"Later."

Silver rolled his eyes. "I'll talk to you tomorrow, Shadow. It seems you two have some catching up to do." Silver smiled at the two.

"Yeah, they do." Sonic countered and laughed, leaving with Silver and Blaze quickly, and closing the door behind them.

Kiera gasped as she was suddenly pulled into Shadow by her waist. He whispered into her ear sensually, his hot breath caressing the shell of her ear and sending shivers down her spine. "You weren't going to deprive me of your intoxicating kisses now, were you?" She shuddered at the method he used to delicately seduce her. She softly hid her face into his black creased shirt. Kiera inhaled his musky scent from his shirt, it was so masculine and him. She loved it. She practically melted into him as he softly raked his fingers through her soft, long hair.

"I'll take that as a 'no' then, shall I?" He chuckled. Kiera laughed into his chest.

"You have got to be kidding me?" Shadow and Kiera whisked their heads to the door, to see Rouge with a more than angry look of her face.