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It was about time I finished it.\nNext up: A Way Out!\n\nAlso, I would really appreciate it if you were to place a comment down below and tell me what you think about the current chapter! ^^", "description_bbcode_parsed": "And here's the next chapter! It was about time I finished it.
Next up: A Way Out!

Also, I would really appreciate it if you were to place a comment down below and tell me what you think about the current chapter! ^^", "writing": "[center][u][b]Jailed By Heart 2[/b][/u][/center]\n\n[u][b]Sonic's POV[/b][/u]\n\n[i]'Fine.'[/i]\nThat was all his message read. It was brief and obviously rushed, but it did say that he was just fine. I wanted to believe his word, Shadow didn't lie when he didn't need to, after all, but a sense of worry still nagged my heart.\nI managed to convince myself that I shouldn't be too concerned, that I shouldn't make any more rash actions. Who knows, maybe Shadow is even having fun at home for a change! I have nothing too worry about!\nRight?\nI sighed and placed my right hand against my forehead. Wait. All I needed to do was wait and see. Atleast, for a little while.\nMy head moved to look up when the sound of footsteps reached my ears. Blaze left her office and walked past mine with a yellow folder tucked safely under her arm as she made her way to our boss. She must've finished the report.\nGood, otherwise I needed to stay longer after my shift was done. And I would've prefered to go home as soon as my work was done here. I wasn't a fan of staying longer, unlike some of my co-workers.\n\"Hey, Sonic! Do you feel like doing something after work?\" Tails asked as he peeked with his head into my office.\n\"Tails! What do you have in mind?\" I asked, curious to know wht he meant with 'doing something after work'.\n\"Well, Rouge suggested that we get together after work along with Knuckles since we haven't really spend some quality time with eachother besides work. She says that has been nearly impossible since we are busy with work and you so busy with Shadow.\" The kitsune explained as he advanced further into the room and stood at the other side of my desk.\nI only thought a moment before I had my answer ready.\n\"Sure, Shadow is supposed to stay with his parents today and tonight, so I have some time on my hands.\" I answered.\n\"Nice!\" Tails exclaimed when he heard my agreement to the little get-together Rouge had arranged for the four of us. More people meant more fun, after all.\n\"Where do we meet?\" I asked.\n\"8pm tonight in that new club that opened up a couple of weeks ago. I can't really remember the name, but Rouge says she'll write it down for me. So I'll see you there?\" He asked and I nodded.\n\"Definitely!\" I stated before Tails left the room again, probably to tend to something important that he still needed to do.\nSo, that new club that opened up a couple of weeks ago. I think I've heard of it before. If only I could remember the name. Heh, I guess I'll need to ask Rouge about it later, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to go.\nMy thoughts were quickly drifting back to Shadow as I checked my phone, expecting a call for help. But my screen was blank except for the time, date and a picture of my current lover and me flashed brightly.\nWas it really okay to go on my own? Shadow would probably want to go too, right? Probably not. Shadow didn't like large crowds and that was also the main reason why he didn't go out and have fun like other teenagers his age. Too much noise. Way too crowded. Much too hot. In other words, Shadow really wouldn't like being there.\nI sighed. I felt like going out and having some fun with my friends for once. I'm sure that Shadow wouldn't mind. He would understand. He wouldn't want me to worry about him.\nMy phone suddenly vibrated. I another message.\n[i]'So you're coming to the club tonight? Maybe Shadow can come too. I wouldn't want him to think that I'm taking his hunk away from him. ;)'[/i]\nI chuckled lightly. As if Shadow would think that. He knows that I'm bisexual, but he also knows that I'm loyal to him. Well, I hope he does.\n[i]'Yeah, I'm coming.'[/i] I answered back to her, coming to my final desicion that I would take her up on her offer and have some fun for tonight.\n\nI have to be blunt. When I heard about this new club that everyone was talking about, I had expected it to be a little more... welcoming.\nThe building looked like any other club on the outside. But the inside...\nAs soon as we set one foot inside, an incrediblly uncomfortable heat and the smell of sigarets and alcohol overwhelmed me and Tails.\n\"Why did we take Rouge up on her offer again?\" The kitsune asked me as he stood next to me in front of the entrance.\n\"I have no idea.\" I answered, one of my ears twitching at the painfully loud music that was being played.\nThe club was filled with young mobians in their teens and early twenties. I recognized some of them as troublemakers and runaways we had to return home after a little argument with their parents when they didn't get what they wanted.\nI swear, kids these days were being spoiled way too much by their parents. And to think that there are children like Shadow who wish for atleast a little bit of affection from their parents only to get some more bruises instead for even thinking about getting some love.\nIt made me angry.\n\"Come on.\" I huffed to Tails as I walked further into the club and approached the loving couple's table. We told them 'hi' before taking a seat, but they were far to engrossed with eachother to even noticed our arrival.\n\"You know what? I'm going to get us something to drink, you try and take those two apart, deal?\" I suggested before walking away, denying Tails the chance to protest and convince me to try and get those two apart instead.\nIt was difficult making my way through the dancing crowd of teens and reach the bar, but I was glad when it finally came in view.\n\"Two cokes, please.\" I requested the bartender once I had gotten his attention. I received my order not a moment later.\nBut before I could make my way back to my friends, an amused snicker made me halt in my actions. As I looked over, I recognized some of Shadow's former classmates, including one of the main bullies of the school who had also targeted my young lover and ended up being one of the reasons why he quite in the first place.\nI would go over and give that brat a piece of my mind, but I knew that wouldn't help anyone, not anymore. It could probably only serve to get me in trouble and Shadow through alot of shame if these little bastards decided to tell authorities that I 'harassed' them.\nI decided that ignoring them was the safest path to take and made my way back to my friends, taking the two drinks along with me.\n\"About time you got back! These two are driving me crazy!\" Tails yelled as he watched me return with our drinks. He wouldn't be able to go on for much longer if I were to stay away for much longer.\nI couldn't keep a chuckle from escaping.\n\"I'm sorry, bud. I'll try to catch the bartender's attention through a crowd of drunk teens faster.\" I responded as I placed our drinks on the table and took a seat.\n\"It's fine, just don't leave me alone with these two anymore.\" Tails said as he took his glass and took a sip from it. I followed his example.\n\"Now that we're on the subject of lovers going crazy over eachother, how's Shadow?\" He proceeded to ask.\n\"Shadow? Shadow's fine.\" I lied. Well, it was a partial lie. The said hedgehog had told me through a text message that everything was fine, but with his parents near? I could never know for sure if he was telling the truth or not.\nI guess I'm going to find out next time I see him. And who knows when that will be. It could be in a couple of hours, tomorrow or a few days or even weeks from now.\nI sighed and leant back against my chair as I remembered the last time Shadow had been gone for so long. When I got him back, It took me a week before I got even a single word out of him. And he didn't even tell me anything about the time he stayed with his parents.\nThat was another thing that bothered me. Shadow had confessed to me once that life at his home wasn't always sunshine and rainbows, the bruises backing his claim up, but that was all he told me. Not once did he ever say one thing that they could've done to him.\n\"Sonic!\" Tails called my name. He had been talking about something and I had not been listening. Probably because my mind had been elsewhere.\n\"Ah, sorry, I wasn't listening. What were you talking about?\" I asked.\n\"Nothing important. I was trying to talk to you about something I read in the newspaper.\" My friend answered, slightly dissapointed at the fact that I wasn't listening.\n\"Really? What was it about?\" I asked, my curiosity having been sparked as I hadn't kept myself updated for a while now and it had me wondering what was going on in the world.\n\"It was a serious study about people with serious debts. It was shocking to read just how far they are willing to go just to repay it all.\" He said, an unusually serious expression present on his features that was unlike his usually happy one.\n\"Studies, debts and crazy people, we get it, Tails! Now lets talk about something fun instead of work for a change!\" Rouge suggested as she managed to take her attention off of her boyfriend for once.\n\"Something fun? What do you h\tave in mind?\" Knuckles asked. He had an idea about what Rouge could possible mean when she said 'fun', but he decided that it was a better idea to keep it to himself for now.\n\"Hmmm, I have a couple ideas, Knuxie.\" She said, giving him that smile that she saves just for him. Knuckles smirks in satisfaction as he crosses his arms in front of his chest.\n'Yeah, he's gonna get laid tonight.' I thought as I watched the two of them. And judging by Tails' expression, he was thinking something along those lines aswell.\n\"Anyway, how's you're love life, Tails? We practically know all about the naughty things Sonic does with our poor Shaddie, but what about you? Don't have a certain green girl in mind, do you?\" Rouge asked with one of her sly smiles as she watched my best friend suddenly blush out of embarrassment upon hearing the combination of words: 'certain green girl'.\n\"L-love life? What do you mean?\" He asked and chuckled nervously. He was trying to play dumb.\n\"Oh, come on, Tails! You're smart enough to know what I mean.\" Rouge stated as she continued to tease the poor kitsune.\n\"I assure you, there is nothing going on between me and Cosmo!\" Tails suddenly said, louder than he had wanted to. It made my lips curl up in a brief smile before I drank from my glass.\n\"Cosmo? That girl from the coffeeshop that Tails visits so often lately?\" Knuckles asked in surprise. It seems like he had yet to notice something going on between the two of them. I nodded to confirm his statement.\nSoon enough that smirk appeared on his muzzle again.\n\"Nice going, kid! When are you going to ask her out?\" He asked as he leant back on his chair.\n\"A-Ask her out?! No way! I can't ask her out!\" Tails protested.\nI decided to join in on the conversation instead of drinking from my glass and listening in amusement.\n\"Why not? The last time I was in that shop with you, she seemed to like you. Why not take a risk and go for it? The two of you might hit it off.\" I told him, trying to convince him to try his luck instead of teasing him. Tails smiled at me, seemingly appreciating it.\nRouge, however, faked a pout as she noticed that I wasn't joinging in on their harmless teasing, but she knew a way to turn this back on me.\n\"Oh, I see why you've suddenly turned your back on us! It's because of Shadow, isn't it?! You don't want us to tease you with the hedgie you caught, so you're siding with Tails, hmm!\" She stated with a victorious grin as she thought she had me. But she was wrong.\n\"Heh, such big talk for someone who was slobbering all over her lover in the middle of a public spot on a busy hour.\" I said.\nRouge sunk back in her cheek as she looked around her. She was so into teasing me and keeping herself busy with Knuckles that she had barely even noticed that we weren't alone. But that wasn't what bothered her. It was the fact that I was right. Here she was teasing me and Tails for having someone we liked while she and Knuckles could barely keep their hands off of eachother.\n\"You little bastard.\" She muttered, uncharacteristicly embarrassed as she knew that I had made a point.\nKnuckles knew aswell. He didn't make another attempt at teasing our friend.\nI chuckled in satisfaction and took another sip from my drink, knowing that I had won.\n\nThe rest of the evening passed by quickly. Before either of us knew it, it was already midnight. And knowing that all four of us had a job to do tomorrow, Tails and I decided to say our goodbyes to the lovely couple and go home.\nBut my return was anything but peaceful.\nMy mind and heart felt content.\nDespite their attempts at teasing me, the busy crowd and the smell of alcohol and sigarets, I had still enjoyed myself and the time I spend with my friends.\nBut that feeling dissapeared when I looked up to face my appartment after grabbing my keys. My heart had briefly fluttered in joy. A figure stood in front of the complex's front door, wearing a hood over his head. But even so, I still knew who it was. And that was what made me happy.\n\"Shadow, you're back. That was awefully-\" I halted in my actions of approaching and speaking when the hedgehog faced me.\nEven through the darkness of the night and the covering of his hood, I could see the dark bruise on his tan jaw and right eye.\n\"Sonic.\" Shadow said, his deep frown turning into a relieved smile upon recognising me. He looked tired. His crimson eyes were bloodshot as if he had been crying.\n\"Shadow...\" I returned his call, but much less enthousiastic.\n\"I just got here... I wasn't sure if I should enter. I actually thought you would be sleeping by now.\" He said, turning his body fully to face me. His left hand held his right arm. He was a lefty, something that I had noticed a long time ago.\nI walked closer until we were at armslength away from eachother and pulled his hood back to reveal the dark bruise in the light of the moon.\nOne of my ears twitched upon hearing him stiffle a sob. Because I drew attention to his minor injury, he became emotional again.\nI sighed and placed a hand on his cheek, covering the bruise on his jaw. The frown my muzzle became more prominent. I didn't need to guess twice to know who had done this to him.\nShadow closed his eyes and leant into my touch, enjoying the small bit of affection I gave him.\nI wanted to become angry, but I surpressed the feeling. It wouldn't do Shadow much good now.\n\"Can we go inside?\" He asked. He was trembling and tears were threatening to escape his closed eyes.\nI didn't say a word as I took my key again and pushed it into the lock, clicking the front door out of its lock. I held it open as I let Shadow enter the complex first. He wasted no time in walking in and running up the stairs, not in the mood to wait for the elevator to come. I closed the door behind me and quickly followed his example, the front door automaticly locking for outsiders.\nAs soon as I took a step inside my livingroom, Shadow had practically thrown himself at me as he wrapped his arms around me and hid himself in my chest. He was still trying to keep his sobs and tears from coming, even though, his heart was hurting immensly.\nI returned the embrace and stroked his quills. Shadow couldn't stop himself for much longer and began to cry.\n\"No questions, please.\" He requested, knowing that I was going to ask him about this sooner or later. Although, we both knew it would be useless.\n\"Okay. But it must hurt. Can I atleast get some ice? It might reduce the swelling.\" I said, but neither of us made a move to pull away for atleast a good couple of minutes before he nodded and pulled away from me, turning to face the room and drying his cheeks.\nI ignored the feeling to stay in the room and quickly entered the kitchen to grab an icepack and wrap it in a kitchen towel before returning to the livingroom.\nShadow took the pack with a soft 'thanks' before pressing it up against his jaw and walked over to the couch, deciding to make himself comfortable and take a seat. I followed his example onc emore and took a seat next to him, wrapping an arm around his shoulder and allowing him to lay his head on my shoulder.\n\"Shadow... you...\" I started, but I never finished my sentence. I don't even know what I was trying to say in the first place.\n\"I'm fine. Really. It just hurts for a while.\" He answered.\nI surpressed a sigh. I didn't like this and I wanted to say something about this, despites his request not to.\n\"Did she do this again?\" I asked.\nHis shoulders shook again with another silent sob.\n\"I don't understand. She seemed so happy to see me home. But as soon as dad came home...\" He couldn't finish his sentence anymore.\nMy hand lifted and came to rest on top of his head.\n\"Shadow... Just give me the word and I can-\n\"No!\"\nMy young lover suddenly sat up and glared up to me.\n\"I said no! I'm not going to make a complaint about a few family dissagreements!\" He stated, the icepack lying on his lap.\n\"Shadow, these aren't just a few arguements. This is child abuse and you know it. You don't deserve to go through this.\" I said. I guess, I was trying to convince him to go against the two people that brought him into this world.\n\"They're my parents, Sonic!\"\n\"Which makes it even worse when they hurt you!\" I contradicted him. Shadow just continued to glare at me.\n\"Okay, they are your parents. So why are you putting up with this?\" I asked.\n\"Isn't it obvious? They're my parents. It doesn't matter what they do to me or how much I dislike them, I still love them and I can't turn my back on them.\" He tried to explain, hoping that I would understand.\nI just sighed and let the matter rest.\nHis mother was a child abusing bitch and his father a neglectful, drunk bastard, but not once did he even think to tell anyone besides me about what happened behind closed doors. Shadow loved those two people alright.\nShadow looked down at the icepack on his lap.\n\"I'm going to put this back in the freezer. Do you mind if I go to sleep? I'm a little tired.\" He said.\n\"Go ahead, I'll follow you.\" I said and watched him get up and leave for the kitchen before I got up and made my way to the bathroom.\nI closed the door behind me once I walked inside and began undressing myself, hanging the clothes I removed up on a coat hanger on the wall, leaving only the pair of boxers I wore. I quickly brushes my teeth before leaving to find Shadow standing behind the door, awaiting his turn to freshen up a little.\nAs I left for the bedroom, I heard the bathroom door close as Shadow walked in, occupying it what would be quite a while to come.\nI sighed as I laid down on my bed and hoped that I was wrong. After such a difficult day, I didn't like it when Shadow spend so much time in the bathroom, preventing me from knowing what he could possibly be doing at this very moment all on his own. I hoped that I would be proven wrong and Shadow would join me here in my bed as soon as he got rid of his clothes.\nHe didn't.\nClose to half an hour had passed by the time I heard the bathroom door open and footsteps lead to my room.\nBy the sound of hesitating footsteps, I could conclude that Shadow was entering carefully, making sure if I slept or not. He couldn't see that I was still wide awake. Even though, I was facing him. I had my eye closed, so he couldn't see.\nHis footsteps told me that he walked around the bed to his side. The sudden dip in the matrass behind me let me know that he crawled up on the bed and laid down behind me, hesitantly placing a hand on my upper arm as he snuggled up against my back, easily avoiding my quills.\nEven through the fur on my back I could feel that his cheeks were wet as he hid his face in my fur. He was trembling slightly aswell. Had he been crying in the bathroom all this time? Guess, he still had some emotions he needed to relief. Temporarily, atleast.\nKnowing that it wouldn't be fair to him to let him think I was sleeping in his moment of need, I turned lie down on my other side and wrapped an arm around him, holding him close.\nShadow looked up to me. He thought I had been sleeping, so he hadn't expected me to pull him into a hug so suddenly. Not that he complained, of course. Instead he snuggled up to my chest and closed his eyes, falling asleep only a moment after telling me 'good night'.\nI watched his sides and shoulder softly rise and fall with each breath until I was certain that he was asleep before dozing off myself.\n\n\"Wake up!\"\nThe sudden call startled me awake from my slumber. My eyes snapped open, expecting to see someone in danger by the how desperate the voice sounded.\nInstead, I found my young lover sitting on my lower belly, grinning at me as he knew I was expecting something entirely else to wake up to.\n\"Did I scare you?\" He asked, his grin not moving an inch.\n\"Pff, don't be ridiculous! Such a handsome cop like me? I'm fearless!\" I stated as I sat up, pulling Shadow closer to me and preventing him from falling backwards as he moved to sit up on my lap.\n\"The handsome part I can agree with.\" Shadow answered before pressing his lips against mine in a good morning kiss.\nI wasted no time in returning it. Shadow wrapped his arms around my neck as he pressed our bodies together. He shivered lightly and pulled away with a gasp before looking into my eyes with a slightly embarrassed glance. I smirked lightly as I knew why.\n\"Can't make it any more obvious, huh? You're such a pervert sometimes.\" Shadow stated as he felt something rub against his lower lips through my boxers.\n\"Says the hedgehog who doesn't wear any underwear.\" I chuckled, refering to the fact that he wore nothing on his lower body. In fact, he wore nothing at all.\n\"But seriously now, though, I dreamt about you.\" I said.\n\"Dreamt about me? Well, judging by your boner rubbing against my vagina, I think I can guess what kind of dream it was.\" Shadow said as he moved his hips a little. It felt weird to him to have my erection pressing against his most intimate area. But he couldn't say that he didn't like it. Well, not with me.\n\"You know, I'm not in heat.\" He reminded me as he felt himself becoming excited aswell. I smirked lightly in anticipation to take my lover once more. But a thought made my smirk fade away as I was reminded about what had happened to my said lover the evening before.\n\"Are you sure you want to do this?\" I asked. I could understand that he wouldn't want to do this after his rough evening yesterday and I didn't want to force him into this.\nShadow's head tilted a little as he watched me in confusion for a second or two until the meaning of my question dawned on him. He smiled as he leant up to kiss me briefly.\n\"Sonic, of course, I'm sure! I want this just as much as you do.\" He said and kissed me even more passionatly then before. I returned the kiss, requesting entrance as my tongue ran over his lower lip. Shadow granted it, parting his lips as his tongue began playing with my own.\nA soft moan left him as we made out. The passion didn't stop with just kissing.\nShadow's hands stroked through the fur on my chest and toned muscles that came along naturally with years of intense experience in the field. My own hands stroked the fur on his waist, back and thighs. His frame was much different than mine. His was much more feminine, which was only natural with his gender.\nBut his figure wasn't as soft as some other c-boys or girls I've dated. He wasn't muscled either. He just had what required to jump and climb over tall fences and run for a while, or in short, what it took to escape from the authorities.\nNot that he ever needed to escape again. Especially not right now.\nI could feel my boxers getting moist on the spot where our crotches met. Shadow definitely felt just as excited as I was. I don't know if it was because of the kissing or my erection practically burrying itself in his crotch, but something was definitely getting him turned on.\n\"Sonic...\" Shadow called my name under his breath as he got a bit daring and rubbed his wet gender against the fabric that kept my erection from entering him. It was to tell me that he couldn't wait any longer and needed me to take him now. I wasn't going to ignore him.\nWith one swift move I switched the positions we were in. Instead, Shadow was lying on his back with his head on the pillow as he looked up to me. I had his hips suspended in the air as I held tightly onto him while I was bend over to kiss the side of his throat.\nWhen I let my body lay down onto his, I began teasing him by pressing my still covered member against his entrance, making him automaticly spread his legs even wider at the sensation.\n\"Sonic, please, stop teasing me like this and take me already!\" He begged me as he tried to pull my boxers of himself. Not wanting to make him wait for much longer, I got rid of the clothing article myself and aligned my stiff member with his small, wet opening.\nShadow gasped and I held my breath as I thrusted inside and felt his tight inner walls envelope my member. My lover softly moaned and let his head reel back in pleasure as he was stretched for the first time in weeks.\nHe panted lightly once my full length was inside him. He liked being close like this to me, but I wasn't going to let him relish that feeling as I pulled out only to thrust back inside. Shadow didn't need to be prepared. He had lost his virginity to me months ago. All he could feel now from being penetrated by me was pleasure.\nMoan after moan left him as I thrusted with a steady pace, not too fast, but not too slow either.\nI had a tight grip on his thighs to keep them seperated as I thrusted. Not that I needed to. I know that Shadow would've kept them spread himself, but I think that forcing them to stay seperated gave it a more pleasurable touch on my end. And by the way Shadow acted, I think he kinda likes it aswell.\n\"Deeper. Go deeper, please.\" He pleaded with me and I complied, pushing my manhood deeper inside him with each thrust.\nI groaned at the feeling of his moist inner walls around my manhood. I've done it with a few in previous relationships, but I don't think making love has ever felt so good as it does with Shadow. I don't know why. Maybe it's because my feelings for him seemed to be greater than what I've felt for them. Yeah, I think that's it.\nShadow moaned as he felt me hit something sensitive inside, making his grip on the quills on my head and the fur on my back even tighter.\n\"Sonic... Sonikku...\"\n\"Shadow... Is it just me or have you gotten even tighter?\" I groaned as I thrusted inside. The grip his inner walls on my member really did seem tighter than I remember.\n\"What?! Don't say something so embarrassing! And besides, you're an adult already! I'm still a teenager! I have growing to do! Of course, I'm going to be tighter!\" Shadow yelled at me in obvious embarrassment that I dared say something like that about his vagina.\nI couldn't help but chuckle between my panting. Shadow wanted to glare at me for chuckling, but my thrusts quickly made an end come to that attempt.\n\"You can be so adorable, you know that?\" I stated pressed a kiss against his jaw. Shadow's body seemed to tense up with that compliment.\n\"Just... Don't stop.\" He told me through his moans as he felt the tip of my member push up against his cervix.\nHis eyes closed as he held me close, kissing my shoulder and chest almost simultaneously with every time our hips met.\n\"Sonic, I'm getting close.\" Shadow stated as he could feel something build up inside of him. It was obvious by the way he was tensing up around my member.\n\"You're not the only one.\" I groaned as I could feel my climax building aswell.\nMy thrusts might be deep, but they weren't fast or hard. Just gentle. Gentleness was something he needed right now. And I was determined to provide that for him. His body was rocking along with me, although, he wasn't experienced enough to do anything more than atleast try to meet up with my thrusts.\n\"Please, do it inside. I'm not in heat, so it's okay.\" Shadow told me. Not that he needed to. We were in a serious relationship and he wasn't in heat. Of course, I wasn't going to come anywhere else but right inside him.\nAnd I did.\nNot even a moment had passed when I buried my manhood as deeply as I could inside of him and released. I gave him all I had to offer and poured it straight into his womb. Shadow whimpered lightly at the sudden warmth that invaded him, feeling his own orgasm flow through him aswell.\nHis grip on me tightened, not allowing me to escape until I was done cumming in him. Not that I planned on pulling out. Not for aslong as I still had some to offer.\nI earned a moan from him as I tried to push my manhood deeper inside, as if it could help my semen reach further into him. But even after the very last drop had been pushed into him, it had still taken a while before I felt like pulling out and breaking the close contant between our bodies.\nShadow's grip had softened considerably as he let me pull out of him. His hands moved to rest on my cheeks as he leant up to briefly kiss me on my lips before lying back down and smilling to me.\n\"I love you.\" He told me.\nI leant down and returned the brief kiss before placing a hand on his cheek, covering the large bruise on his jaw, and smiled aswell.\n\"I love you too.\"\n\n\"Well, you are looking awfully happy today. Did you do naughty things to Shadow again?\"\nI surpressed a sigh as I watched Rouge sitting on my desk in front of me. Somehow she knew what Shadow and I had done this morning in my bedroom. So of course, she had to tease me about it.\n\"If I did, would that be of any concern to you?\" I asked as I leant with my elbow on the armrests of my deskchair and rested my head on it. I watched her and she stared back at me, a knowing glint present in her eyes.\n\"Of course not! But still... Such a defenseless little kid like Shadow... You have a weird taste when it comes to lovers, you know.\" She said teasingly, making me sigh again.\n\"Didn't the boss call you for something?\" I asked.\n\"Oh, so touchy today. Well, I guess I'll go see the boss if you can't handle a little teasing today. Bye, hun.\" Rouge said as she got off of my desk and left my office with a wink and a smile.\nI sighed for the third time in those couple of minutes. I was glad she left. After the way I found Shadow in front of my appartment, I didn't like how she teased about him. Even though, he did seem to be okay this morning. Well, more than okay since we had sex this morning. But I still felt myself getting worried over him.\nI wonder what he was doing now though. When I asked him about this morning, he said that he absolutely refused to go home under any circumstance today. So he's probably still waiting for me back at my appartment.\nThat was good. It meant that he was safe. Heh, I still need to convince myself of that, though. I still found myself getting concerned over him. Whenever I was sitting in my office, I often checked my phone to see if he hadn't texted or called me yet. Most of the time, my phone would come up black, though.\nMy constant checking for messages and phone calls was disturbed when I suddenly heard my office phone ringing. It was my boss. Apparently she had another job for me and Blaze.\n\"I better get going then.\" I muttered to myself as I pushed myself up from my deskchair and left my office.\nI stood in my boss' office soon enough, looking down at the brown squirrel that sat on her desk chair behind her desk in front of me. Her name was Sally Acorn. Could be quite strict, but she was actually a pretty nice person if you knew her aswell as we did.\nOn her desk laid all kinda of documents that were either finished or ongoing cases. One of those documents were held in her hands as she looked them over again.\n\"You're next job will be a report about domestic violence. Apparently the neighbours, as they put it, heard the mother scream bloody murder followed by their child yelling back and running away in the middle of the night. According to them, the abuse has been going on for years now. Their family has been trying to keep it quiet, even the child that is being abused. So their neighbours thought it was about time that someone finally complained to the police and got the child out of the situation.\" Sally explained as she handed the report over to me.\nI frowned. This situation was all to familiar to me.\n\nI was right. About half an hour later, I was standing on the porch next to an all too familiar house. My eyes glared at the building. I knew who lived there and I wanted nothing more than to bash that front door down and give the lady living inside a piece of my mind. And probably of my fist too.\n\"What's up with you? You look like you're about to bash someone's head in even if they as much as look at you wrong.\" Blaze stated as she watched my angered expression.\n\"You would be angry too if you know who lived there.\" I said and turned to look at the front door as it opened before Blaze to could answer back, revealing a middle-aged woman behind it.\n\"Oh, it's the police. Good, very good. It's about time that something was done about those awful parents. Come on in you two.\" The woman said as she opened the door further and invited me and Blaze inside.\nI took one last look at the house before walking inside. It might've just been for a moment, but I certainly didn't miss the woman peeking through the window, glaring at me in anger before shoving the curtains close.\nAfter closing the front door behind us, the woman guided us to the livingroom, where her husband was already seated on the couch, and offered us a drink.\n\"No, it's fine. We like to act quickly with cases like these.\" Blaze said as she denied the lady's kind offer.\n\"So how long has this been going on?\" I asked and sat down as the couple told us to take a seat if we wanted. Of course, I knew something was going on and for how long as I had a relationship with the victim in question. But these people didn't know that.\n\"Oh this has been going on for years, sir. Their boy is bright one, so we figured that he would make a complaint himself, but he never talked to anyone about it. Not his teachers or friends. And when we ask him about it, he just answers that everything is fine.\"\n\"Of course, we know that he's just covering up for his folks. Boy gets beaten by his mother ever since his first breath and he still loves 'em.\" The husband interrupted his wife.\nThe tv he had been watching just a moment ago had turned off as soon as Blaze and I took a seat. We had his full attention now.\n\"Can you tell us what usually happens in the house?\" Blaze asked as I took a notepad and a pen ready. It's always useful to write important things down for the full report that would come after this. Don't want to miss any important details, right?\n\"We don't know everything, but he hear yelling all the time. And-\"\n\"The yelling is not so frequent now that the son constantly runs away to God knows where.\"\n\"Don't interrupt me, Dear. Anyway, the yelling isn't as nearly as terrible as the bruises the boy had to go to school with. He even walked around with a couple of burns and broken bones.\" The woman said once her husband stopped interrupted her.\nI felt my blood boil.\nHow dare this bitch call herself a mother when all she does is harm her only child. How can anyone harm their own child like that?! Let alone a kid like Shadow.\nI'm glad someone finally decided to file a complaint. And I'm glad that I've been put on this case. It was time that sorry excuse of a mother got what she deserved.\n\nThe conversation with the neighbours was short. As soon as we heard and noted down all we needed to know, we said our goodbyes and left the house shortly. I didn't waste my time getting Blaze and myself back to the office to get a warrant.\nWe had a solid complaint now with alot of accusations that couldn't be ignored. Child abuse, child neglect, domestic violence, disturbing the peace and harassment. That was way too much to ignore. Especially since Shadow wasn't the only victim.\nThe two latter were accusations coming from other people. No one in the neighbourhood liked that woman. Apparently she caused trouble for other people where ever she went. Especially with her big mouth and tendency to use her fists.\nWith all of these accusations held against her, she is definitely not getting out of this so easy. Especially if Shadow is going to back all of this up. I'm sure he's not going to cover for her if he knows that's he's safe.\n\nIt's been nearly two hours now, but we finally got that warrant and got back on the road. Blaze had to tell me to calm down more than once, saying that I had to handle this professionally instead of letting my feelings get in the way.\nI knew she was right, seeing as I needed to handle this situation calmly in order not to screw anything up, but I couldn't help myself. I felt angry hearing about all the things she done to Shadow. But I also felt happy that my lover would soon be safe.\nI drove us back to the street from before, but instead of pulling up in front of the middle-aged couple, I parked the car in front of the house next door.\nI got myself loose from the seatbelt and out of the car, Blaze quickly followed.\n\"And don't forget, we do this case like we are supposed to do! Professionally and calm. If you want to be on this case, than don't show people that you know Shadow from the inside out, understand! We can't risk losing to these people and losing Shadow in the process. So try to be on your best behaviour, alright?\" Blaze lectured me, trying to drill it into my head that I should not be let astray.\n\"Don't worry, okay! I'll do anything to get these folks behind bars.\" I responded as I walked past the small fence and up on the porch.\nI noticed the curtain moving like before, but I barely paid it any mind. She knew I was here and I was glad she did. That meant she knew she was in trouble for her actions.\nI couldn't help but smirk. Parents like these two could hardly be called parents. I've seen alot of cases like these. Some minor while others so bad they look like they came straight out of a horror movie. Knowing that this particular case was going to end just fine, filled me with satisfaction. Shadow was going to be just fine. I just knew it.\nWith a firm knock on the door, well more like a bang than an actual knock, I let them know that they had visitors and waited for anybody yo come and open the door.\nBlaze's ears twitched and so did mine. We could hear voices inside, the kind that are yelling at eachother, but try to keep it quiet aswell. I narrowed my eyes. Those two better not be hiding anything in there.\nI banged on the door again and after a couple of moments, we finally heard footsteps in the hallway leading to the front door.\nWhen it opened, my confidence in this case melted away as I saw who it was that opened the front door.", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "
Jailed By Heart 2


Sonic's POV

'Fine.'
That was all his message read. It was brief and obviously rushed, but it did say that he was just fine. I wanted to believe his word, Shadow didn't lie when he didn't need to, after all, but a sense of worry still nagged my heart.
I managed to convince myself that I shouldn't be too concerned, that I shouldn't make any more rash actions. Who knows, maybe Shadow is even having fun at home for a change! I have nothing too worry about!
Right?
I sighed and placed my right hand against my forehead. Wait. All I needed to do was wait and see. Atleast, for a little while.
My head moved to look up when the sound of footsteps reached my ears. Blaze left her office and walked past mine with a yellow folder tucked safely under her arm as she made her way to our boss. She must've finished the report.
Good, otherwise I needed to stay longer after my shift was done. And I would've prefered to go home as soon as my work was done here. I wasn't a fan of staying longer, unlike some of my co-workers.
"Hey, Sonic! Do you feel like doing something after work?" Tails asked as he peeked with his head into my office.
"Tails! What do you have in mind?" I asked, curious to know wht he meant with 'doing something after work'.
"Well, Rouge suggested that we get together after work along with Knuckles since we haven't really spend some quality time with eachother besides work. She says that has been nearly impossible since we are busy with work and you so busy with Shadow." The kitsune explained as he advanced further into the room and stood at the other side of my desk.
I only thought a moment before I had my answer ready.
"Sure, Shadow is supposed to stay with his parents today and tonight, so I have some time on my hands." I answered.
"Nice!" Tails exclaimed when he heard my agreement to the little get-together Rouge had arranged for the four of us. More people meant more fun, after all.
"Where do we meet?" I asked.
"8pm tonight in that new club that opened up a couple of weeks ago. I can't really remember the name, but Rouge says she'll write it down for me. So I'll see you there?" He asked and I nodded.
"Definitely!" I stated before Tails left the room again, probably to tend to something important that he still needed to do.
So, that new club that opened up a couple of weeks ago. I think I've heard of it before. If only I could remember the name. Heh, I guess I'll need to ask Rouge about it later, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to go.
My thoughts were quickly drifting back to Shadow as I checked my phone, expecting a call for help. But my screen was blank except for the time, date and a picture of my current lover and me flashed brightly.
Was it really okay to go on my own? Shadow would probably want to go too, right? Probably not. Shadow didn't like large crowds and that was also the main reason why he didn't go out and have fun like other teenagers his age. Too much noise. Way too crowded. Much too hot. In other words, Shadow really wouldn't like being there.
I sighed. I felt like going out and having some fun with my friends for once. I'm sure that Shadow wouldn't mind. He would understand. He wouldn't want me to worry about him.
My phone suddenly vibrated. I another message.
'So you're coming to the club tonight? Maybe Shadow can come too. I wouldn't want him to think that I'm taking his hunk away from him. ;)'
I chuckled lightly. As if Shadow would think that. He knows that I'm bisexual, but he also knows that I'm loyal to him. Well, I hope he does.
'Yeah, I'm coming.' I answered back to her, coming to my final desicion that I would take her up on her offer and have some fun for tonight.

I have to be blunt. When I heard about this new club that everyone was talking about, I had expected it to be a little more... welcoming.
The building looked like any other club on the outside. But the inside...
As soon as we set one foot inside, an incrediblly uncomfortable heat and the smell of sigarets and alcohol overwhelmed me and Tails.
"Why did we take Rouge up on her offer again?" The kitsune asked me as he stood next to me in front of the entrance.
"I have no idea." I answered, one of my ears twitching at the painfully loud music that was being played.
The club was filled with young mobians in their teens and early twenties. I recognized some of them as troublemakers and runaways we had to return home after a little argument with their parents when they didn't get what they wanted.
I swear, kids these days were being spoiled way too much by their parents. And to think that there are children like Shadow who wish for atleast a little bit of affection from their parents only to get some more bruises instead for even thinking about getting some love.
It made me angry.
"Come on." I huffed to Tails as I walked further into the club and approached the loving couple's table. We told them 'hi' before taking a seat, but they were far to engrossed with eachother to even noticed our arrival.
"You know what? I'm going to get us something to drink, you try and take those two apart, deal?" I suggested before walking away, denying Tails the chance to protest and convince me to try and get those two apart instead.
It was difficult making my way through the dancing crowd of teens and reach the bar, but I was glad when it finally came in view.
"Two cokes, please." I requested the bartender once I had gotten his attention. I received my order not a moment later.
But before I could make my way back to my friends, an amused snicker made me halt in my actions. As I looked over, I recognized some of Shadow's former classmates, including one of the main bullies of the school who had also targeted my young lover and ended up being one of the reasons why he quite in the first place.
I would go over and give that brat a piece of my mind, but I knew that wouldn't help anyone, not anymore. It could probably only serve to get me in trouble and Shadow through alot of shame if these little bastards decided to tell authorities that I 'harassed' them.
I decided that ignoring them was the safest path to take and made my way back to my friends, taking the two drinks along with me.
"About time you got back! These two are driving me crazy!" Tails yelled as he watched me return with our drinks. He wouldn't be able to go on for much longer if I were to stay away for much longer.
I couldn't keep a chuckle from escaping.
"I'm sorry, bud. I'll try to catch the bartender's attention through a crowd of drunk teens faster." I responded as I placed our drinks on the table and took a seat.
"It's fine, just don't leave me alone with these two anymore." Tails said as he took his glass and took a sip from it. I followed his example.
"Now that we're on the subject of lovers going crazy over eachother, how's Shadow?" He proceeded to ask.
"Shadow? Shadow's fine." I lied. Well, it was a partial lie. The said hedgehog had told me through a text message that everything was fine, but with his parents near? I could never know for sure if he was telling the truth or not.
I guess I'm going to find out next time I see him. And who knows when that will be. It could be in a couple of hours, tomorrow or a few days or even weeks from now.
I sighed and leant back against my chair as I remembered the last time Shadow had been gone for so long. When I got him back, It took me a week before I got even a single word out of him. And he didn't even tell me anything about the time he stayed with his parents.
That was another thing that bothered me. Shadow had confessed to me once that life at his home wasn't always sunshine and rainbows, the bruises backing his claim up, but that was all he told me. Not once did he ever say one thing that they could've done to him.
"Sonic!" Tails called my name. He had been talking about something and I had not been listening. Probably because my mind had been elsewhere.
"Ah, sorry, I wasn't listening. What were you talking about?" I asked.
"Nothing important. I was trying to talk to you about something I read in the newspaper." My friend answered, slightly dissapointed at the fact that I wasn't listening.
"Really? What was it about?" I asked, my curiosity having been sparked as I hadn't kept myself updated for a while now and it had me wondering what was going on in the world.
"It was a serious study about people with serious debts. It was shocking to read just how far they are willing to go just to repay it all." He said, an unusually serious expression present on his features that was unlike his usually happy one.
"Studies, debts and crazy people, we get it, Tails! Now lets talk about something fun instead of work for a change!" Rouge suggested as she managed to take her attention off of her boyfriend for once.
"Something fun? What do you h\tave in mind?" Knuckles asked. He had an idea about what Rouge could possible mean when she said 'fun', but he decided that it was a better idea to keep it to himself for now.
"Hmmm, I have a couple ideas, Knuxie." She said, giving him that smile that she saves just for him. Knuckles smirks in satisfaction as he crosses his arms in front of his chest.
'Yeah, he's gonna get laid tonight.' I thought as I watched the two of them. And judging by Tails' expression, he was thinking something along those lines aswell.
"Anyway, how's you're love life, Tails? We practically know all about the naughty things Sonic does with our poor Shaddie, but what about you? Don't have a certain green girl in mind, do you?" Rouge asked with one of her sly smiles as she watched my best friend suddenly blush out of embarrassment upon hearing the combination of words: 'certain green girl'.
"L-love life? What do you mean?" He asked and chuckled nervously. He was trying to play dumb.
"Oh, come on, Tails! You're smart enough to know what I mean." Rouge stated as she continued to tease the poor kitsune.
"I assure you, there is nothing going on between me and Cosmo!" Tails suddenly said, louder than he had wanted to. It made my lips curl up in a brief smile before I drank from my glass.
"Cosmo? That girl from the coffeeshop that Tails visits so often lately?" Knuckles asked in surprise. It seems like he had yet to notice something going on between the two of them. I nodded to confirm his statement.
Soon enough that smirk appeared on his muzzle again.
"Nice going, kid! When are you going to ask her out?" He asked as he leant back on his chair.
"A-Ask her out?! No way! I can't ask her out!" Tails protested.
I decided to join in on the conversation instead of drinking from my glass and listening in amusement.
"Why not? The last time I was in that shop with you, she seemed to like you. Why not take a risk and go for it? The two of you might hit it off." I told him, trying to convince him to try his luck instead of teasing him. Tails smiled at me, seemingly appreciating it.
Rouge, however, faked a pout as she noticed that I wasn't joinging in on their harmless teasing, but she knew a way to turn this back on me.
"Oh, I see why you've suddenly turned your back on us! It's because of Shadow, isn't it?! You don't want us to tease you with the hedgie you caught, so you're siding with Tails, hmm!" She stated with a victorious grin as she thought she had me. But she was wrong.
"Heh, such big talk for someone who was slobbering all over her lover in the middle of a public spot on a busy hour." I said.
Rouge sunk back in her cheek as she looked around her. She was so into teasing me and keeping herself busy with Knuckles that she had barely even noticed that we weren't alone. But that wasn't what bothered her. It was the fact that I was right. Here she was teasing me and Tails for having someone we liked while she and Knuckles could barely keep their hands off of eachother.
"You little bastard." She muttered, uncharacteristicly embarrassed as she knew that I had made a point.
Knuckles knew aswell. He didn't make another attempt at teasing our friend.
I chuckled in satisfaction and took another sip from my drink, knowing that I had won.

The rest of the evening passed by quickly. Before either of us knew it, it was already midnight. And knowing that all four of us had a job to do tomorrow, Tails and I decided to say our goodbyes to the lovely couple and go home.
But my return was anything but peaceful.
My mind and heart felt content.
Despite their attempts at teasing me, the busy crowd and the smell of alcohol and sigarets, I had still enjoyed myself and the time I spend with my friends.
But that feeling dissapeared when I looked up to face my appartment after grabbing my keys. My heart had briefly fluttered in joy. A figure stood in front of the complex's front door, wearing a hood over his head. But even so, I still knew who it was. And that was what made me happy.
"Shadow, you're back. That was awefully-" I halted in my actions of approaching and speaking when the hedgehog faced me.
Even through the darkness of the night and the covering of his hood, I could see the dark bruise on his tan jaw and right eye.
"Sonic." Shadow said, his deep frown turning into a relieved smile upon recognising me. He looked tired. His crimson eyes were bloodshot as if he had been crying.
"Shadow..." I returned his call, but much less enthousiastic.
"I just got here... I wasn't sure if I should enter. I actually thought you would be sleeping by now." He said, turning his body fully to face me. His left hand held his right arm. He was a lefty, something that I had noticed a long time ago.
I walked closer until we were at armslength away from eachother and pulled his hood back to reveal the dark bruise in the light of the moon.
One of my ears twitched upon hearing him stiffle a sob. Because I drew attention to his minor injury, he became emotional again.
I sighed and placed a hand on his cheek, covering the bruise on his jaw. The frown my muzzle became more prominent. I didn't need to guess twice to know who had done this to him.
Shadow closed his eyes and leant into my touch, enjoying the small bit of affection I gave him.
I wanted to become angry, but I surpressed the feeling. It wouldn't do Shadow much good now.
"Can we go inside?" He asked. He was trembling and tears were threatening to escape his closed eyes.
I didn't say a word as I took my key again and pushed it into the lock, clicking the front door out of its lock. I held it open as I let Shadow enter the complex first. He wasted no time in walking in and running up the stairs, not in the mood to wait for the elevator to come. I closed the door behind me and quickly followed his example, the front door automaticly locking for outsiders.
As soon as I took a step inside my livingroom, Shadow had practically thrown himself at me as he wrapped his arms around me and hid himself in my chest. He was still trying to keep his sobs and tears from coming, even though, his heart was hurting immensly.
I returned the embrace and stroked his quills. Shadow couldn't stop himself for much longer and began to cry.
"No questions, please." He requested, knowing that I was going to ask him about this sooner or later. Although, we both knew it would be useless.
"Okay. But it must hurt. Can I atleast get some ice? It might reduce the swelling." I said, but neither of us made a move to pull away for atleast a good couple of minutes before he nodded and pulled away from me, turning to face the room and drying his cheeks.
I ignored the feeling to stay in the room and quickly entered the kitchen to grab an icepack and wrap it in a kitchen towel before returning to the livingroom.
Shadow took the pack with a soft 'thanks' before pressing it up against his jaw and walked over to the couch, deciding to make himself comfortable and take a seat. I followed his example onc emore and took a seat next to him, wrapping an arm around his shoulder and allowing him to lay his head on my shoulder.
"Shadow... you..." I started, but I never finished my sentence. I don't even know what I was trying to say in the first place.
"I'm fine. Really. It just hurts for a while." He answered.
I surpressed a sigh. I didn't like this and I wanted to say something about this, despites his request not to.
"Did she do this again?" I asked.
His shoulders shook again with another silent sob.
"I don't understand. She seemed so happy to see me home. But as soon as dad came home..." He couldn't finish his sentence anymore.
My hand lifted and came to rest on top of his head.
"Shadow... Just give me the word and I can-
"No!"
My young lover suddenly sat up and glared up to me.
"I said no! I'm not going to make a complaint about a few family dissagreements!" He stated, the icepack lying on his lap.
"Shadow, these aren't just a few arguements. This is child abuse and you know it. You don't deserve to go through this." I said. I guess, I was trying to convince him to go against the two people that brought him into this world.
"They're my parents, Sonic!"
"Which makes it even worse when they hurt you!" I contradicted him. Shadow just continued to glare at me.
"Okay, they are your parents. So why are you putting up with this?" I asked.
"Isn't it obvious? They're my parents. It doesn't matter what they do to me or how much I dislike them, I still love them and I can't turn my back on them." He tried to explain, hoping that I would understand.
I just sighed and let the matter rest.
His mother was a child abusing bitch and his father a neglectful, drunk bastard, but not once did he even think to tell anyone besides me about what happened behind closed doors. Shadow loved those two people alright.
Shadow looked down at the icepack on his lap.
"I'm going to put this back in the freezer. Do you mind if I go to sleep? I'm a little tired." He said.
"Go ahead, I'll follow you." I said and watched him get up and leave for the kitchen before I got up and made my way to the bathroom.
I closed the door behind me once I walked inside and began undressing myself, hanging the clothes I removed up on a coat hanger on the wall, leaving only the pair of boxers I wore. I quickly brushes my teeth before leaving to find Shadow standing behind the door, awaiting his turn to freshen up a little.
As I left for the bedroom, I heard the bathroom door close as Shadow walked in, occupying it what would be quite a while to come.
I sighed as I laid down on my bed and hoped that I was wrong. After such a difficult day, I didn't like it when Shadow spend so much time in the bathroom, preventing me from knowing what he could possibly be doing at this very moment all on his own. I hoped that I would be proven wrong and Shadow would join me here in my bed as soon as he got rid of his clothes.
He didn't.
Close to half an hour had passed by the time I heard the bathroom door open and footsteps lead to my room.
By the sound of hesitating footsteps, I could conclude that Shadow was entering carefully, making sure if I slept or not. He couldn't see that I was still wide awake. Even though, I was facing him. I had my eye closed, so he couldn't see.
His footsteps told me that he walked around the bed to his side. The sudden dip in the matrass behind me let me know that he crawled up on the bed and laid down behind me, hesitantly placing a hand on my upper arm as he snuggled up against my back, easily avoiding my quills.
Even through the fur on my back I could feel that his cheeks were wet as he hid his face in my fur. He was trembling slightly aswell. Had he been crying in the bathroom all this time? Guess, he still had some emotions he needed to relief. Temporarily, atleast.
Knowing that it wouldn't be fair to him to let him think I was sleeping in his moment of need, I turned lie down on my other side and wrapped an arm around him, holding him close.
Shadow looked up to me. He thought I had been sleeping, so he hadn't expected me to pull him into a hug so suddenly. Not that he complained, of course. Instead he snuggled up to my chest and closed his eyes, falling asleep only a moment after telling me 'good night'.
I watched his sides and shoulder softly rise and fall with each breath until I was certain that he was asleep before dozing off myself.

"Wake up!"
The sudden call startled me awake from my slumber. My eyes snapped open, expecting to see someone in danger by the how desperate the voice sounded.
Instead, I found my young lover sitting on my lower belly, grinning at me as he knew I was expecting something entirely else to wake up to.
"Did I scare you?" He asked, his grin not moving an inch.
"Pff, don't be ridiculous! Such a handsome cop like me? I'm fearless!" I stated as I sat up, pulling Shadow closer to me and preventing him from falling backwards as he moved to sit up on my lap.
"The handsome part I can agree with." Shadow answered before pressing his lips against mine in a good morning kiss.
I wasted no time in returning it. Shadow wrapped his arms around my neck as he pressed our bodies together. He shivered lightly and pulled away with a gasp before looking into my eyes with a slightly embarrassed glance. I smirked lightly as I knew why.
"Can't make it any more obvious, huh? You're such a pervert sometimes." Shadow stated as he felt something rub against his lower lips through my boxers.
"Says the hedgehog who doesn't wear any underwear." I chuckled, refering to the fact that he wore nothing on his lower body. In fact, he wore nothing at all.
"But seriously now, though, I dreamt about you." I said.
"Dreamt about me? Well, judging by your boner rubbing against my vagina, I think I can guess what kind of dream it was." Shadow said as he moved his hips a little. It felt weird to him to have my erection pressing against his most intimate area. But he couldn't say that he didn't like it. Well, not with me.
"You know, I'm not in heat." He reminded me as he felt himself becoming excited aswell. I smirked lightly in anticipation to take my lover once more. But a thought made my smirk fade away as I was reminded about what had happened to my said lover the evening before.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked. I could understand that he wouldn't want to do this after his rough evening yesterday and I didn't want to force him into this.
Shadow's head tilted a little as he watched me in confusion for a second or two until the meaning of my question dawned on him. He smiled as he leant up to kiss me briefly.
"Sonic, of course, I'm sure! I want this just as much as you do." He said and kissed me even more passionatly then before. I returned the kiss, requesting entrance as my tongue ran over his lower lip. Shadow granted it, parting his lips as his tongue began playing with my own.
A soft moan left him as we made out. The passion didn't stop with just kissing.
Shadow's hands stroked through the fur on my chest and toned muscles that came along naturally with years of intense experience in the field. My own hands stroked the fur on his waist, back and thighs. His frame was much different than mine. His was much more feminine, which was only natural with his gender.
But his figure wasn't as soft as some other c-boys or girls I've dated. He wasn't muscled either. He just had what required to jump and climb over tall fences and run for a while, or in short, what it took to escape from the authorities.
Not that he ever needed to escape again. Especially not right now.
I could feel my boxers getting moist on the spot where our crotches met. Shadow definitely felt just as excited as I was. I don't know if it was because of the kissing or my erection practically burrying itself in his crotch, but something was definitely getting him turned on.
"Sonic..." Shadow called my name under his breath as he got a bit daring and rubbed his wet gender against the fabric that kept my erection from entering him. It was to tell me that he couldn't wait any longer and needed me to take him now. I wasn't going to ignore him.
With one swift move I switched the positions we were in. Instead, Shadow was lying on his back with his head on the pillow as he looked up to me. I had his hips suspended in the air as I held tightly onto him while I was bend over to kiss the side of his throat.
When I let my body lay down onto his, I began teasing him by pressing my still covered member against his entrance, making him automaticly spread his legs even wider at the sensation.
"Sonic, please, stop teasing me like this and take me already!" He begged me as he tried to pull my boxers of himself. Not wanting to make him wait for much longer, I got rid of the clothing article myself and aligned my stiff member with his small, wet opening.
Shadow gasped and I held my breath as I thrusted inside and felt his tight inner walls envelope my member. My lover softly moaned and let his head reel back in pleasure as he was stretched for the first time in weeks.
He panted lightly once my full length was inside him. He liked being close like this to me, but I wasn't going to let him relish that feeling as I pulled out only to thrust back inside. Shadow didn't need to be prepared. He had lost his virginity to me months ago. All he could feel now from being penetrated by me was pleasure.
Moan after moan left him as I thrusted with a steady pace, not too fast, but not too slow either.
I had a tight grip on his thighs to keep them seperated as I thrusted. Not that I needed to. I know that Shadow would've kept them spread himself, but I think that forcing them to stay seperated gave it a more pleasurable touch on my end. And by the way Shadow acted, I think he kinda likes it aswell.
"Deeper. Go deeper, please." He pleaded with me and I complied, pushing my manhood deeper inside him with each thrust.
I groaned at the feeling of his moist inner walls around my manhood. I've done it with a few in previous relationships, but I don't think making love has ever felt so good as it does with Shadow. I don't know why. Maybe it's because my feelings for him seemed to be greater than what I've felt for them. Yeah, I think that's it.
Shadow moaned as he felt me hit something sensitive inside, making his grip on the quills on my head and the fur on my back even tighter.
"Sonic... Sonikku..."
"Shadow... Is it just me or have you gotten even tighter?" I groaned as I thrusted inside. The grip his inner walls on my member really did seem tighter than I remember.
"What?! Don't say something so embarrassing! And besides, you're an adult already! I'm still a teenager! I have growing to do! Of course, I'm going to be tighter!" Shadow yelled at me in obvious embarrassment that I dared say something like that about his vagina.
I couldn't help but chuckle between my panting. Shadow wanted to glare at me for chuckling, but my thrusts quickly made an end come to that attempt.
"You can be so adorable, you know that?" I stated pressed a kiss against his jaw. Shadow's body seemed to tense up with that compliment.
"Just... Don't stop." He told me through his moans as he felt the tip of my member push up against his cervix.
His eyes closed as he held me close, kissing my shoulder and chest almost simultaneously with every time our hips met.
"Sonic, I'm getting close." Shadow stated as he could feel something build up inside of him. It was obvious by the way he was tensing up around my member.
"You're not the only one." I groaned as I could feel my climax building aswell.
My thrusts might be deep, but they weren't fast or hard. Just gentle. Gentleness was something he needed right now. And I was determined to provide that for him. His body was rocking along with me, although, he wasn't experienced enough to do anything more than atleast try to meet up with my thrusts.
"Please, do it inside. I'm not in heat, so it's okay." Shadow told me. Not that he needed to. We were in a serious relationship and he wasn't in heat. Of course, I wasn't going to come anywhere else but right inside him.
And I did.
Not even a moment had passed when I buried my manhood as deeply as I could inside of him and released. I gave him all I had to offer and poured it straight into his womb. Shadow whimpered lightly at the sudden warmth that invaded him, feeling his own orgasm flow through him aswell.
His grip on me tightened, not allowing me to escape until I was done cumming in him. Not that I planned on pulling out. Not for aslong as I still had some to offer.
I earned a moan from him as I tried to push my manhood deeper inside, as if it could help my semen reach further into him. But even after the very last drop had been pushed into him, it had still taken a while before I felt like pulling out and breaking the close contant between our bodies.
Shadow's grip had softened considerably as he let me pull out of him. His hands moved to rest on my cheeks as he leant up to briefly kiss me on my lips before lying back down and smilling to me.
"I love you." He told me.
I leant down and returned the brief kiss before placing a hand on his cheek, covering the large bruise on his jaw, and smiled aswell.
"I love you too."

"Well, you are looking awfully happy today. Did you do naughty things to Shadow again?"
I surpressed a sigh as I watched Rouge sitting on my desk in front of me. Somehow she knew what Shadow and I had done this morning in my bedroom. So of course, she had to tease me about it.
"If I did, would that be of any concern to you?" I asked as I leant with my elbow on the armrests of my deskchair and rested my head on it. I watched her and she stared back at me, a knowing glint present in her eyes.
"Of course not! But still... Such a defenseless little kid like Shadow... You have a weird taste when it comes to lovers, you know." She said teasingly, making me sigh again.
"Didn't the boss call you for something?" I asked.
"Oh, so touchy today. Well, I guess I'll go see the boss if you can't handle a little teasing today. Bye, hun." Rouge said as she got off of my desk and left my office with a wink and a smile.
I sighed for the third time in those couple of minutes. I was glad she left. After the way I found Shadow in front of my appartment, I didn't like how she teased about him. Even though, he did seem to be okay this morning. Well, more than okay since we had sex this morning. But I still felt myself getting worried over him.
I wonder what he was doing now though. When I asked him about this morning, he said that he absolutely refused to go home under any circumstance today. So he's probably still waiting for me back at my appartment.
That was good. It meant that he was safe. Heh, I still need to convince myself of that, though. I still found myself getting concerned over him. Whenever I was sitting in my office, I often checked my phone to see if he hadn't texted or called me yet. Most of the time, my phone would come up black, though.
My constant checking for messages and phone calls was disturbed when I suddenly heard my office phone ringing. It was my boss. Apparently she had another job for me and Blaze.
"I better get going then." I muttered to myself as I pushed myself up from my deskchair and left my office.
I stood in my boss' office soon enough, looking down at the brown squirrel that sat on her desk chair behind her desk in front of me. Her name was Sally Acorn. Could be quite strict, but she was actually a pretty nice person if you knew her aswell as we did.
On her desk laid all kinda of documents that were either finished or ongoing cases. One of those documents were held in her hands as she looked them over again.
"You're next job will be a report about domestic violence. Apparently the neighbours, as they put it, heard the mother scream bloody murder followed by their child yelling back and running away in the middle of the night. According to them, the abuse has been going on for years now. Their family has been trying to keep it quiet, even the child that is being abused. So their neighbours thought it was about time that someone finally complained to the police and got the child out of the situation." Sally explained as she handed the report over to me.
I frowned. This situation was all to familiar to me.

I was right. About half an hour later, I was standing on the porch next to an all too familiar house. My eyes glared at the building. I knew who lived there and I wanted nothing more than to bash that front door down and give the lady living inside a piece of my mind. And probably of my fist too.
"What's up with you? You look like you're about to bash someone's head in even if they as much as look at you wrong." Blaze stated as she watched my angered expression.
"You would be angry too if you know who lived there." I said and turned to look at the front door as it opened before Blaze to could answer back, revealing a middle-aged woman behind it.
"Oh, it's the police. Good, very good. It's about time that something was done about those awful parents. Come on in you two." The woman said as she opened the door further and invited me and Blaze inside.
I took one last look at the house before walking inside. It might've just been for a moment, but I certainly didn't miss the woman peeking through the window, glaring at me in anger before shoving the curtains close.
After closing the front door behind us, the woman guided us to the livingroom, where her husband was already seated on the couch, and offered us a drink.
"No, it's fine. We like to act quickly with cases like these." Blaze said as she denied the lady's kind offer.
"So how long has this been going on?" I asked and sat down as the couple told us to take a seat if we wanted. Of course, I knew something was going on and for how long as I had a relationship with the victim in question. But these people didn't know that.
"Oh this has been going on for years, sir. Their boy is bright one, so we figured that he would make a complaint himself, but he never talked to anyone about it. Not his teachers or friends. And when we ask him about it, he just answers that everything is fine."
"Of course, we know that he's just covering up for his folks. Boy gets beaten by his mother ever since his first breath and he still loves 'em." The husband interrupted his wife.
The tv he had been watching just a moment ago had turned off as soon as Blaze and I took a seat. We had his full attention now.
"Can you tell us what usually happens in the house?" Blaze asked as I took a notepad and a pen ready. It's always useful to write important things down for the full report that would come after this. Don't want to miss any important details, right?
"We don't know everything, but he hear yelling all the time. And-"
"The yelling is not so frequent now that the son constantly runs away to God knows where."
"Don't interrupt me, Dear. Anyway, the yelling isn't as nearly as terrible as the bruises the boy had to go to school with. He even walked around with a couple of burns and broken bones." The woman said once her husband stopped interrupted her.
I felt my blood boil.
How dare this bitch call herself a mother when all she does is harm her only child. How can anyone harm their own child like that?! Let alone a kid like Shadow.
I'm glad someone finally decided to file a complaint. And I'm glad that I've been put on this case. It was time that sorry excuse of a mother got what she deserved.

The conversation with the neighbours was short. As soon as we heard and noted down all we needed to know, we said our goodbyes and left the house shortly. I didn't waste my time getting Blaze and myself back to the office to get a warrant.
We had a solid complaint now with alot of accusations that couldn't be ignored. Child abuse, child neglect, domestic violence, disturbing the peace and harassment. That was way too much to ignore. Especially since Shadow wasn't the only victim.
The two latter were accusations coming from other people. No one in the neighbourhood liked that woman. Apparently she caused trouble for other people where ever she went. Especially with her big mouth and tendency to use her fists.
With all of these accusations held against her, she is definitely not getting out of this so easy. Especially if Shadow is going to back all of this up. I'm sure he's not going to cover for her if he knows that's he's safe.

It's been nearly two hours now, but we finally got that warrant and got back on the road. Blaze had to tell me to calm down more than once, saying that I had to handle this professionally instead of letting my feelings get in the way.
I knew she was right, seeing as I needed to handle this situation calmly in order not to screw anything up, but I couldn't help myself. I felt angry hearing about all the things she done to Shadow. But I also felt happy that my lover would soon be safe.
I drove us back to the street from before, but instead of pulling up in front of the middle-aged couple, I parked the car in front of the house next door.
I got myself loose from the seatbelt and out of the car, Blaze quickly followed.
"And don't forget, we do this case like we are supposed to do! Professionally and calm. If you want to be on this case, than don't show people that you know Shadow from the inside out, understand! We can't risk losing to these people and losing Shadow in the process. So try to be on your best behaviour, alright?" Blaze lectured me, trying to drill it into my head that I should not be let astray.
"Don't worry, okay! I'll do anything to get these folks behind bars." I responded as I walked past the small fence and up on the porch.
I noticed the curtain moving like before, but I barely paid it any mind. She knew I was here and I was glad she did. That meant she knew she was in trouble for her actions.
I couldn't help but smirk. Parents like these two could hardly be called parents. I've seen alot of cases like these. Some minor while others so bad they look like they came straight out of a horror movie. Knowing that this particular case was going to end just fine, filled me with satisfaction. Shadow was going to be just fine. I just knew it.
With a firm knock on the door, well more like a bang than an actual knock, I let them know that they had visitors and waited for anybody yo come and open the door.
Blaze's ears twitched and so did mine. We could hear voices inside, the kind that are yelling at eachother, but try to keep it quiet aswell. I narrowed my eyes. Those two better not be hiding anything in there.
I banged on the door again and after a couple of moments, we finally heard footsteps in the hallway leading to the front door.
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