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Can Shadow get him to open up?", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Nightmares are now invading Sonic while he's awake. Can Shadow get him to open up?", "writing": "\"Here, drink this,\" Shadow said as he offered Sonic a black mug of steaming hot coffee. \n\nFollowing his meltdown in the field, Shadow teleported them to his own apartment via Chaos Control. Though he didn't get permission from Sonic to do so beforehand nor did he formally invite him, the blue hedgehog didn't argue or said anything since they arrived. He was stoic, lost in thought. In all honesty, deep down, Sonic was thankful not to be alone and felt especially comfortable with Shadow, whom had more knowledge of what had happened to him than anyone else. \n\nAs he sat on the edge of the sofa in the living room, he realized this was his first time at Shadow's place and wasn't surprised by how under furnished it was. It looked as though someone had recently moved in since it just had the bare necessities without any special décor. The contrast between their living arrangements were as different as night and day, and yet, the atmosphere made him smile slightly as he thought it fit the Edgelord's personality perfectly. \nWith the mug's warmth seeping through his gloves, the strong aroma of an expensive brew filled his nose. His apartment might be drab, but Shadow definitely cared about the quality of his favorite beverage. As the blue hedgehog sipped the fragrant liquid, he couldn't help but grimace from the bitter taste that was so pungent, his quills bristled.\n\n\"Ugh...how can you drink this stuff?\" he remarked with his tongue hanging out like a child, \"it's like licking a tire.\" \n\nShadow scoffed at the comment along with his reaction, \"And you've licked tires before?\"\n\nSonic grinned with a shrug, hanging his trademark whimsical humor on his nonexistent sleeve, \"A motobug got me in the face once, it was unavoidable.\"\n\nThe red and black hedgehog shook his head and tapped the bottom of the mug to insist his blue counterpart continue drinking. \"Stop whining and finish it. It'll help calm your nerves.\"\n\n\"I thought coffee is supposed to make you hyper, not calm,\" the hero quipped, \"...but then again, as often as you drink it---uh---nevermind.\" Shadow's annoyed scowl made Sonic quickly quit while he was ahead and turn his focus to the task at hand--drinking this yucky substance that his friend/rival was kind enough to prepare for him. \n\nWhile he inhaled the steam in long breaths, he found that he was surprisingly calmed by it. \"Maybe it's not so bad when you get used to it?\" he mumbled to himself. \nHe stopped as he thought about what he had just said---how many things he had gotten used to, things that he was forced to get used to.\nHis heart sank into the swirling black liquid that concealed the bottom of the cup, where he felt like he was being pulled into it. The ripples of darkness began to swallow him, the aroma of the fresh brew vanished into a cloud of smoke, stealing all light from his eyes, blanketing the apartment in a wave that swooshed like a tidal wave. He began hyperventilating, shaking uncontrollably, the dark liquid sloshing violently until he saw emerging in that darkness a glowing red eye, the eye of the jackal's mask piercing through into soul with the echoes of his laugh resonating in the distance. \n\n\"GGGAAAHHHHH!!!\" \n\nPieces of the mug shattered to the floor with the contents splattering in all directions, much to Shadow's surprise. One moment, Sonic was sitting strangely quiet and still, then the next, he was crushing the mug in his hands. His face was gripped with terror like it had seen a ghost while he sat frozen in a trembling state. The Ultimate Life Form quickly kneeled down in front of his blue counterpart, putting his hands on the side of his head and making him look up. \n\n\"SONIC! SONIC, CAN YOU HEAR ME!\" \n\nWithin a few seconds, the emerald green eyes returned to their normal size as Shadow's voice brought him out of his nightmarish stupor. He was shaken and rattled in combination with every word that could define the aftermath of sheer panic. \n\"Shadow....I....I'm sorry,\" he said as he looked down at the mess he inadvertently made, but the black hedgehog was more concerned with the blood stains on Sonic's gloves where the shattered ceramic must have cut him. \n\n\"Don't worry about it, come with me.\" \n\nHe led Sonic to the bathroom down the hall and proceeded to remove his coffee-soaked gloves for him while they both stood at the sink. Sure enough, the pads on both the palms of his hands were punctured and oozing red.\nWhat followed next was genuine acts of kindness wrapped in a blanket of silence as Shadow began gently washing Sonic's injuries under cold water, and though they naturally stung, the blue blur said nothing. He had endured worse. \nAfter properly cleaning the wounds, Shadow dried them off and pulled out some antiseptic and gauze from the drawer to apply. Sonic watched quietly as his red and black counterpart displayed surprising tenderness in treating him so carefully. This brought back some less than pleasant memories of the earlier days when he was first freed from captivity. He knew firsthand the kindness the Ultimate Life Form was capable of, but had assumed things went back to normal between them just like it did with everyone and everything else. \nTime moved on, but somehow, Sonic didn't.\n\n\"There,\" Shadow said after finishing the dressing, \"the cuts aren't too deep, but this will help speed up the healing.\" \n\n\"Thanks\", Sonic said meekly as he turned to sit on the edge of the tub while gently rubbing his new bandages. After returning the supplies to their rightful places, Shadow began to study Sonic, which only made the blue hedgehog self-conscious. He was initially happy to be in the company of someone whom he didn't have to keep up appearances with, but his anxiety was playing into his paranoia and he began suspecting silent judgment was circling in the mind of the one whom he thought he could always count on. \n\n\"What?\" he finally questioned, his irritation made clear by his caretaker's silence. \n\n\"You look like shit,\" Shadow replied bluntly, his honesty stinging the hero's ego. \"When was the last time you slept?\"\n\nThe hero clenched his fists on his knees, incidentally making his new wounds ache; however, it was all he could do to keep himself together. There was no hiding anything from Shadow. He knew him to well. All of his idiosyncrasies, his personal preferences, his habits, the ultimate edgelord was privy to them all, including what he was like during the lowest point in his life. Not so say Sonic wasn't grateful for all the help he received in the past, especially in those dark days, but now he was trying to move on and frustratingly stumbling while doing so. The work he put into putting his life back together was unraveling and he was becoming more and more worried that he was going to wind up back in that state Shadow found him in that cell. He had to suppress those fears--deny they even existed, for if he acknowledged them, it felt like it'd only give them more power.\n\n\"I've just been busy lately, you know how it is--so much to do and so little time and all that,\" he excused while waving his hand in jest, \"its all made me a little anxious is all--nothing a good power nap won't fix.\" \n\nThe red and black hedgehog wasn't convinced. Sitting before him, sporting a ridiculous smile, was one whom he came to care rather deeply about in inexplicable ways. As guarded as he; himself was, he had learned to let his walls down to the blue hedgehog and thought they had mutual trust, but right now, Sonic was undeniably lying to his face for reasons he didn't understand, and not only did it insult him, it hurt. \n\n\"You were hallucinating again...seeing 'him' again,\" he stated rather coldly in order to force his counterpart to be honest. \n\nThere was no way Sonic could dismiss this, not after what he did earlier in that field. After attacking Shadow without provocation, he practically admitted Infinite was still haunting him. The fears he could swallow, the accusations he could deny, but in the end, there was no way to spin it, all he could do was sweep the rest under the rug. \n\n\"...I'm fine...\" he muttered, no longer making eye contact with Shadow. \n\nThat lie was a difficult one to sell as even he didn't believe it, but what happened between he and Infinite was something he was already having to deal with every minute of everyday. He wanted to put it behind him. To forget it ever happened. It was hard enough getting to this point and he couldn't have done it without Shadow. Considering this, he felt it wouldn't be right to drag him into his mess and burden him with his problems. The stillness in the room was stifling as everything began feeling awkward. Although he didn't know where he'd go next, Sonic felt it was time to bow out.\n\n\"Thanks for everything,\" the blue blur said as he got up and started towards the door, trying to appear as \"together\" as he could be. However, he never made it to the threshold before the clearly stronger hedgehog grabbed his arm, stopping him mid-stride. \nHe wasn't going to be able to just run away from this, and his insomnia paired with his insecurities were only adding fuel to the growing anger inside of him. The self-hatred that he had to direct to someone else less it rip him apart from the inside.\n\n\"Let. Go.\" He said in a monotone way, as deep as his voice could reach. \n\n\"No.\" \nA pure, simple answer. Just, \"No\". Sonic hated that in so many ways, especially because that's how \"he\" always responded to him whenever the blue hedgehog was at his limit. His anger instantly doubled as he shouted while pulling away, \"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!\"\n\n\"TO STOP PRETENDING!\" Shadow replied at a volume equal to the blue hedgehog's. \"YOU'VE BEEN ACTING LIKE NOTHING HAD HAPPENED FOR MONTHS--NOT DEALING WITH IT HAS CLEARLY ONLY MADE IT WORSE!\" \n\nSonic scoffed at the Ultimate Life Form's accusations, the hypocrisy too evident to not point out, \"Says the guy who internalizes everything. Why should I take advice from the biggest faker here?\"\n\n*BAM* \nBefore he could blink an eye, Sonic was slammed into the wall with Shadow grabbing his defensive arms and pinning them above his head. Their noses where inches from each other. Sonic could smell the coffee on his rival's breath while he; himself, struggled to no avail against the one whom refused to release him. \n\"DAMN IT, SHADOW!!! LET ME GO!!!\"\n\n\"You're going to hear this whether you like it or not,\" the red and black hedgehog began, his crimson eyes unwavering as they bored into the stubborn hero, \"You're not me. You can't live the way I do. The more you try....\" \n\nShadow's voice began fading from Sonic's ears as his heart began beating faster. The tightness on his wrists, the throbbing from his palms, the tension in the air all took him back to that place. It was like being sucked into the vacuum of space, that incredible pull that made it difficult to breathe. His knees began shaking and felt weak; against his conscious control, his body processed what was happening under a different light and instinctively parted them. Since his rescue, he had not partaken in any type of sexual release; the jackal was his first, and being raped by him on a regular basis left a deep scar on his psyche that made any type of arousal a terrifying thought. Still, he couldn't stop what months of being \"educated\" had done to his body. It now yearned to be violated, to be punished and claimed regardless of what his mind was thinking. \n\nShadow wasn't blind to any of this. While trying to make Sonic understand the consequences of his actions, he could feel him going limp in his hands, sense the heat coming from him, and detect the pheromones he was incidentally secreting. \n\nThe red and black hedgehog was at first taken off-guard by this behavior. Infinite had broken him, he was well-aware of that, but now he was reacting the way that bastard trained him to do. The months of suppressing urges forced upon him were now emerging, and in the sight of labored breathing flowing across that blue face, Shadow was conflicted on what to do next. \nWould it be taking advantage of his vulnerable rival to indulge in intimacy? To explore the fantasies he; himself dreamed of? Or should he just continue being the nurturing friend, quell his own urges, and encourage the hero to do the same?\n\nWhich was the best move for Sonic's sake? \n\nHis choice became a reaction of his own when he saw tears streaming down the peach-colored cheeks. Tears that were so full of fear, sorrow, and emptiness that his heart couldn't contain them any longer. \nShadow removed his grip from Sonic's wrists, gently cupped the blue hedgehog's face, and embraced his lips with the quivering ones of his partner. \n\nThis was their first kiss, and naturally, Sonic didn't know how to react. He trembled as he awaited for something to hurt him, for him to be reminded how powerless he was and be punished for it....but such an act never came to pass. His shock was swept away by Shadow's tongue, whose kiss was so gentle and comforting, he felt tentatively safe. As he slowly wrapped his arms over the black hedgehog's shoulders, their kiss evolved from one of uncertainty to one of passion. Their chests pressed against one another, with heartbeats resounding as one. The more exuberance grew between them, the more they desired one another. \n\nWorries, fear, and haunting thoughts all disappeared in this moment as their bodies entwined. Shadow proceeded to lift up his blue hedgehog and carry him into the bedroom to feed the flame the spark ignited.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": ""Here, drink this," Shadow said as he offered Sonic a black mug of steaming hot coffee.

Following his meltdown in the field, Shadow teleported them to his own apartment via Chaos Control. Though he didn't get permission from Sonic to do so beforehand nor did he formally invite him, the blue hedgehog didn't argue or said anything since they arrived. He was stoic, lost in thought. In all honesty, deep down, Sonic was thankful not to be alone and felt especially comfortable with Shadow, whom had more knowledge of what had happened to him than anyone else.

As he sat on the edge of the sofa in the living room, he realized this was his first time at Shadow's place and wasn't surprised by how under furnished it was. It looked as though someone had recently moved in since it just had the bare necessities without any special décor. The contrast between their living arrangements were as different as night and day, and yet, the atmosphere made him smile slightly as he thought it fit the Edgelord's personality perfectly.
With the mug's warmth seeping through his gloves, the strong aroma of an expensive brew filled his nose. His apartment might be drab, but Shadow definitely cared about the quality of his favorite beverage. As the blue hedgehog sipped the fragrant liquid, he couldn't help but grimace from the bitter taste that was so pungent, his quills bristled.

"Ugh...how can you drink this stuff?" he remarked with his tongue hanging out like a child, "it's like licking a tire."

Shadow scoffed at the comment along with his reaction, "And you've licked tires before?"

Sonic grinned with a shrug, hanging his trademark whimsical humor on his nonexistent sleeve, "A motobug got me in the face once, it was unavoidable."

The red and black hedgehog shook his head and tapped the bottom of the mug to insist his blue counterpart continue drinking. "Stop whining and finish it. It'll help calm your nerves."

"I thought coffee is supposed to make you hyper, not calm," the hero quipped, "...but then again, as often as you drink it---uh---nevermind." Shadow's annoyed scowl made Sonic quickly quit while he was ahead and turn his focus to the task at hand--drinking this yucky substance that his friend/rival was kind enough to prepare for him.

While he inhaled the steam in long breaths, he found that he was surprisingly calmed by it. "Maybe it's not so bad when you get used to it?" he mumbled to himself.
He stopped as he thought about what he had just said---how many things he had gotten used to, things that he was forced to get used to.
His heart sank into the swirling black liquid that concealed the bottom of the cup, where he felt like he was being pulled into it. The ripples of darkness began to swallow him, the aroma of the fresh brew vanished into a cloud of smoke, stealing all light from his eyes, blanketing the apartment in a wave that swooshed like a tidal wave. He began hyperventilating, shaking uncontrollably, the dark liquid sloshing violently until he saw emerging in that darkness a glowing red eye, the eye of the jackal's mask piercing through into soul with the echoes of his laugh resonating in the distance.

"GGGAAAHHHHH!!!"

Pieces of the mug shattered to the floor with the contents splattering in all directions, much to Shadow's surprise. One moment, Sonic was sitting strangely quiet and still, then the next, he was crushing the mug in his hands. His face was gripped with terror like it had seen a ghost while he sat frozen in a trembling state. The Ultimate Life Form quickly kneeled down in front of his blue counterpart, putting his hands on the side of his head and making him look up.

"SONIC! SONIC, CAN YOU HEAR ME!"

Within a few seconds, the emerald green eyes returned to their normal size as Shadow's voice brought him out of his nightmarish stupor. He was shaken and rattled in combination with every word that could define the aftermath of sheer panic.
"Shadow....I....I'm sorry," he said as he looked down at the mess he inadvertently made, but the black hedgehog was more concerned with the blood stains on Sonic's gloves where the shattered ceramic must have cut him.

"Don't worry about it, come with me."

He led Sonic to the bathroom down the hall and proceeded to remove his coffee-soaked gloves for him while they both stood at the sink. Sure enough, the pads on both the palms of his hands were punctured and oozing red.
What followed next was genuine acts of kindness wrapped in a blanket of silence as Shadow began gently washing Sonic's injuries under cold water, and though they naturally stung, the blue blur said nothing. He had endured worse.
After properly cleaning the wounds, Shadow dried them off and pulled out some antiseptic and gauze from the drawer to apply. Sonic watched quietly as his red and black counterpart displayed surprising tenderness in treating him so carefully. This brought back some less than pleasant memories of the earlier days when he was first freed from captivity. He knew firsthand the kindness the Ultimate Life Form was capable of, but had assumed things went back to normal between them just like it did with everyone and everything else.
Time moved on, but somehow, Sonic didn't.

"There," Shadow said after finishing the dressing, "the cuts aren't too deep, but this will help speed up the healing."

"Thanks", Sonic said meekly as he turned to sit on the edge of the tub while gently rubbing his new bandages. After returning the supplies to their rightful places, Shadow began to study Sonic, which only made the blue hedgehog self-conscious. He was initially happy to be in the company of someone whom he didn't have to keep up appearances with, but his anxiety was playing into his paranoia and he began suspecting silent judgment was circling in the mind of the one whom he thought he could always count on.

"What?" he finally questioned, his irritation made clear by his caretaker's silence.

"You look like shit," Shadow replied bluntly, his honesty stinging the hero's ego. "When was the last time you slept?"

The hero clenched his fists on his knees, incidentally making his new wounds ache; however, it was all he could do to keep himself together. There was no hiding anything from Shadow. He knew him to well. All of his idiosyncrasies, his personal preferences, his habits, the ultimate edgelord was privy to them all, including what he was like during the lowest point in his life. Not so say Sonic wasn't grateful for all the help he received in the past, especially in those dark days, but now he was trying to move on and frustratingly stumbling while doing so. The work he put into putting his life back together was unraveling and he was becoming more and more worried that he was going to wind up back in that state Shadow found him in that cell. He had to suppress those fears--deny they even existed, for if he acknowledged them, it felt like it'd only give them more power.

"I've just been busy lately, you know how it is--so much to do and so little time and all that," he excused while waving his hand in jest, "its all made me a little anxious is all--nothing a good power nap won't fix."

The red and black hedgehog wasn't convinced. Sitting before him, sporting a ridiculous smile, was one whom he came to care rather deeply about in inexplicable ways. As guarded as he; himself was, he had learned to let his walls down to the blue hedgehog and thought they had mutual trust, but right now, Sonic was undeniably lying to his face for reasons he didn't understand, and not only did it insult him, it hurt.

"You were hallucinating again...seeing 'him' again," he stated rather coldly in order to force his counterpart to be honest.

There was no way Sonic could dismiss this, not after what he did earlier in that field. After attacking Shadow without provocation, he practically admitted Infinite was still haunting him. The fears he could swallow, the accusations he could deny, but in the end, there was no way to spin it, all he could do was sweep the rest under the rug.

"...I'm fine..." he muttered, no longer making eye contact with Shadow.

That lie was a difficult one to sell as even he didn't believe it, but what happened between he and Infinite was something he was already having to deal with every minute of everyday. He wanted to put it behind him. To forget it ever happened. It was hard enough getting to this point and he couldn't have done it without Shadow. Considering this, he felt it wouldn't be right to drag him into his mess and burden him with his problems. The stillness in the room was stifling as everything began feeling awkward. Although he didn't know where he'd go next, Sonic felt it was time to bow out.

"Thanks for everything," the blue blur said as he got up and started towards the door, trying to appear as "together" as he could be. However, he never made it to the threshold before the clearly stronger hedgehog grabbed his arm, stopping him mid-stride.
He wasn't going to be able to just run away from this, and his insomnia paired with his insecurities were only adding fuel to the growing anger inside of him. The self-hatred that he had to direct to someone else less it rip him apart from the inside.

"Let. Go." He said in a monotone way, as deep as his voice could reach.

"No."
A pure, simple answer. Just, "No". Sonic hated that in so many ways, especially because that's how "he" always responded to him whenever the blue hedgehog was at his limit. His anger instantly doubled as he shouted while pulling away, "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!"

"TO STOP PRETENDING!" Shadow replied at a volume equal to the blue hedgehog's. "YOU'VE BEEN ACTING LIKE NOTHING HAD HAPPENED FOR MONTHS--NOT DEALING WITH IT HAS CLEARLY ONLY MADE IT WORSE!"

Sonic scoffed at the Ultimate Life Form's accusations, the hypocrisy too evident to not point out, "Says the guy who internalizes everything. Why should I take advice from the biggest faker here?"

*BAM*
Before he could blink an eye, Sonic was slammed into the wall with Shadow grabbing his defensive arms and pinning them above his head. Their noses where inches from each other. Sonic could smell the coffee on his rival's breath while he; himself, struggled to no avail against the one whom refused to release him.
"DAMN IT, SHADOW!!! LET ME GO!!!"

"You're going to hear this whether you like it or not," the red and black hedgehog began, his crimson eyes unwavering as they bored into the stubborn hero, "You're not me. You can't live the way I do. The more you try...."

Shadow's voice began fading from Sonic's ears as his heart began beating faster. The tightness on his wrists, the throbbing from his palms, the tension in the air all took him back to that place. It was like being sucked into the vacuum of space, that incredible pull that made it difficult to breathe. His knees began shaking and felt weak; against his conscious control, his body processed what was happening under a different light and instinctively parted them. Since his rescue, he had not partaken in any type of sexual release; the jackal was his first, and being raped by him on a regular basis left a deep scar on his psyche that made any type of arousal a terrifying thought. Still, he couldn't stop what months of being "educated" had done to his body. It now yearned to be violated, to be punished and claimed regardless of what his mind was thinking.

Shadow wasn't blind to any of this. While trying to make Sonic understand the consequences of his actions, he could feel him going limp in his hands, sense the heat coming from him, and detect the pheromones he was incidentally secreting.

The red and black hedgehog was at first taken off-guard by this behavior. Infinite had broken him, he was well-aware of that, but now he was reacting the way that bastard trained him to do. The months of suppressing urges forced upon him were now emerging, and in the sight of labored breathing flowing across that blue face, Shadow was conflicted on what to do next.
Would it be taking advantage of his vulnerable rival to indulge in intimacy? To explore the fantasies he; himself dreamed of? Or should he just continue being the nurturing friend, quell his own urges, and encourage the hero to do the same?

Which was the best move for Sonic's sake?

His choice became a reaction of his own when he saw tears streaming down the peach-colored cheeks. Tears that were so full of fear, sorrow, and emptiness that his heart couldn't contain them any longer.
Shadow removed his grip from Sonic's wrists, gently cupped the blue hedgehog's face, and embraced his lips with the quivering ones of his partner.

This was their first kiss, and naturally, Sonic didn't know how to react. He trembled as he awaited for something to hurt him, for him to be reminded how powerless he was and be punished for it....but such an act never came to pass. His shock was swept away by Shadow's tongue, whose kiss was so gentle and comforting, he felt tentatively safe. As he slowly wrapped his arms over the black hedgehog's shoulders, their kiss evolved from one of uncertainty to one of passion. Their chests pressed against one another, with heartbeats resounding as one. The more exuberance grew between them, the more they desired one another.

Worries, fear, and haunting thoughts all disappeared in this moment as their bodies entwined. Shadow proceeded to lift up his blue hedgehog and carry him into the bedroom to feed the flame the spark ignited.










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