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Still, the basic premise is the same.\n\nI probably should have split this up into parts, but I just got so into writing it that I couldn't stop. So, it's long. Super long.\n\nI really like this story. I'm really, really proud of it. I'm happy with everything I post, but this one is special. It's my favorite thing I've written so far :D\n\n[s]Methinks my bitterness towards the foster system is showing. Whoops.[/s]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Inspired by an RP with \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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but I changed a lot of details, so it barely resembles the actual RP. Still, the basic premise is the same.

I probably should have split this up into parts, but I just got so into writing it that I couldn't stop. So, it's long. Super long.

I really like this story. I'm really, really proud of it. I'm happy with everything I post, but this one is special. It's my favorite thing I've written so far :D

Methinks my bitterness towards the foster system is showing. Whoops.", "writing": "Sonic had a very good life.\n\nHe was entering his final year of high school with several prestigious colleges begging him to choose them to attend. His adoptive family had remained tight-knit throughout the trials of adolescence. He had parents that were proud of him, and a sweet and adorable little brother he loved doting on.\n\nAnd he had the best boyfriend in the world.\n\nThey’d met at the start of freshman year and they were together by winter break. They defied every expectation of teen romances and stayed a couple throughout high school, and intended to stay together into their college years and long past that.\n\nHis name was Shadow, and he was the most beautiful hedgehog Sonic had ever met before or since. His fur was glossy and black, streaked with intense red the same shade as his firey eyes. His body was leanly muscled and athletic, but still attractively slim. His ass was full and perky and fit perfectly in his hands when they made love. Which they did frequently.\n\nHis face could have been crafted by angels, and his quills pointed upwards and framed his face to give him a regal appearance. His ears were expressive and adorable and his tail was a joy to watch waggle. \n\nHe was headstrong and standoffish, but he opened up to Sonic like a flower to the dawn. He smiled and laughed with him, and gave his body and soul over to Sonic openly. He was smart, and witty, and fun to be with. They complimented and made each other better. A sappier man than Sonic would have called them soul mates.\n\nSonic knew Shadow had his secrets. He also didn’t care. There was darkness in his past, and Shadow preferred to keep it there, and Sonic wouldn’t hold that against him. Sonic believed in living in the present, and so long as they were happy together, Shadow’s past could remain shrouded in mystery.\n\nHe knew Shadow was a foster child, and was unhappy in the home he shared with six other foster children. But college, and freedom, was on the horizon, and they both had full ride scholarships coming their way. Shadow’s was for academic accomplishments, while Sonic’s was a track scholarship.\n\nThere was only one hitch in Sonic’s senior year bliss. Scourge, a green hedgehog that looked eerily like him and hated his guts. Sonic didn’t know why his existence was so offensive to Scourge, but apparently the fact he breathed the same air was repulsive to the bully.\n\nAnd what a bully he was. He ran with a crowd of delinquents that looked to Scourge as some kind of King. He and his gang never failed to harass Sonic, and by extension Shadow, at every opportunity.\n\nThey were annoying and petty, their antics restricted to shouted insults in hallways and the occasionally black eye.\nBut it was Scourge’s final year of school as well, and he planned to go out with a bang.\n\n***\n\nScourge despised how much he had to restrain himself. He wanted to punch that smug blue bastard’s jaw off. He couldn’t though, because he had a parole officer.\n\nHe’d been in and out of juvie for drug distribution through his first two years of high school. He hadn’t straightened out his act since; he just got better at hiding it. But if he reeled back and beat a student, the teachers would report it and he’d be stuck in annoying group therapy and have a curfew slapped on him for months.\n\nBut he wouldn’t be in this town for much longer. Once he turned eighteen his juvie record would be cleared, his parole officer would fuck off, and he’d be free to perform bigger and better crimes.\n\nBut first, he was going to ruin Sonic and Shadow’s lives. The two of them were the school’s ‘it’ couple. They were popular and talented and smart and had their lives on a course for eternal happiness.\n\nThat infuriated Scourge. So, he’d take it all away from them.\n\nOf course, he had to go and fuck it all up before he even got started.\n\nSonic was swaggering through the halls as if he owned them. Scourge blocked his way to class and smirked.\n\n“Morning, loser. Boy toy not with you today?”\n\n“He’s my boyfriend, not a toy, you ass. Don’t say a word about him.” Sonic snarled in response.\n\n“Or what? You gonna defend his honor?”\n\nSonic snorted. “Or I’ll tell on you and [i]he’ll[/i] defend his honor. Believe me, you don’t want that.”\n\nScourge twitched, curling his hand into a fist. As if that whore could match Scourge in anything, let alone fighting. Sonic’s snide insinuation infuriated him.\n\n“Your boy toy would get his ass beat in two seconds. He’d probably enjoy it though, huh?”\n\nSonic smiled slyly. “Maybe he would. All that would mean is we’re having better sex than you, so you lose either way.”\n\nScourge pulled his fist back and plunged it into Sonic’s eye, making him crash to the ground and groan in pain. He realized what he’d done belatedly, and swore to himself.\n\nViolence against another student meant he’d spend the rest of the semester talking about his feelings and being in bed by nine. That threw a wrench in things. He needed time to plot and execute his revenge, he couldn’t waste away in useless therapy.\n\nDamn Sonic for making Scourge punch him.\n\n***\n\nShadow gently tapped the bag of ice to Sonic’s bruised eye, taking care not to cause him any undue pain. Sonic groaned in discomfort at the cold, but the throbbing agony quickly faded away.\n\n“Thank you, babe. My family is still away on that vacation they took without me, so you’re the only one I could ask for help.”\n\n“It’s no problem, Sonic. What did you do to piss off Scourge this time?”\n\n“Nothing, you jerk.” Sonic said playfully, seeing the teasing smirk on Shadow’s lips and knowing he wasn’t serious. “I guess my continued existence offended him.” Sonic snorted.\n\n“Well, I reported him to the principal, and that means he’ll be in trouble with his parole officer.”\n\n“Good. The bastard.” Sonic muttered angrily. Shadow leaned in and pecked the hand holding the ice to his eye.\n\n“Forget about Scourge. Let’s talk about us.” Shadow fiddled with the hem of Sonic’s uniform pants and walked his fingers up to prod the buttons of his blazer.\n\n“Yeah? What about us?” Sonic asked with a lusty grin, which Shadow returned.\n\n“How about we let our bodies talk for a while, and I’ll make you forget all about that black eye.”\n\n“I don’t know, it hurts pretty bad. You’ll really have to work at it.” Sonic removed the bag of ice from his eye and tossed it to the floor.\n\nShadow grinned and put his hands on Sonic’s chest to pushed him down onto the bed. Sonic helped him remove his blazer and undershirt, then stretched his arms up and crossed them behind his head in a relaxed and confident pose. He knew he looked good naked, his track career granting him impressive muscles, so he put it all on display for Shadow’s enjoyment.\n\n“Come on then, distract me babe.” Sonic challenged, and Shadow purred.\n\nHe straddled Sonic’s groin and swayed his hips from right to left as he unbuttoned his blazer slowly, tantalizingly, letting Sonic soak in each inch of newly revealed fur. Shadow stretched his arms and his head back as he slipped the jacket from his body, leaving his torso naked.\n\nSonic already had forgotten about his aching eye, but he wouldn’t let Shadow know that. He wanted more of a show while Shadow was in this seductive mood.\n\nShadow stood over him on the bed and stripped his pants and underwear off, leaving him completely exposed. He lowered himself back onto his knees with a sexy little shimmy on the way down.\n\nHe slid his way down Sonic’s legs and leaned over until his face was level with Sonic’s groin, which was tenting his pants and getting wetter by the second with pre-cum from Shadow’s striptease. Shadow tongued the elevated material before using his teeth to unbutton and unzip his trousers.\n\nHe pulled Sonic’s pants and underwear off with one pull and tossed them away to join his own clothes. He gave a playful lick to the tip of Sonic’s cock, tonguing his Prince Albert with delight.\n\n“I’m in so much pain, babe.” Sonic said with a grin that ruined the illusion. “I think you shaking those sexy hips of yours a little more will make me feel better.”\n\n“Really, now?” Shadow said, an indulgent smile quirking his lips. “I’ll do anything to make my man feel good.”\n\nShadow got off the bed and flipped on Sonic’s stereo, navigating Sonic’s connected music player to select something with a thumping beat. Sonic moved from lying down to sitting with his back against the headboard while he waited for his boyfriend to return.\n\nShadow made quick work of selecting his music, and turned back to Sonic, raising his arms up and doing a slow full twirl, swinging his hips around in seductive circles. He moved forward, each step exaggerated by lifting his knees and shaking his hips far more than necessary.\n\nShadow had Sonic nearly drooling, and Sonic’s hands twitched with desire to reach out and touch his boyfriend.\n\nShadow mounted Sonic’s lap again, sitting on his thighs and avoiding making contact with his erection. That could come later, for now he wanted to tease his boyfriend as much as they could both stand.\n\nShadow crossed his arms over his head and swayed his hips slowly to the rhythm, sliding his eyes shut and letting the music guide his motions.\n\nHe turned around so Sonic could watch his ass shake, which Sonic greatly appreciated the sight of. He reached out, wanting to grab a handful of the luscious flesh, but Shadow saw him and swatted his hand away.\n\n“No touching, Sonic. Don’t you know the rules?” He teased.\n\n“Are you an exotic dancer now, Shadow?” Sonic obeyed anyway, leaning back and enjoying the view.\n\n“Only for you.” Shadow said with affection in his voice.\n\nShadow undulated his whole body to the music’s beat, flexing his back muscles and letting his ass reach back just enough to rub on Sonic’s cock, apparently very swiftly abandoning the ‘no touching’ rule. Shadow loved the feeling of the smooth metal and hot flesh against his ass as he ground back. That piercing had been a stroke of brilliance of Sonic’s part. It felt so good on him and inside him.\n\nShadow’s anus was stained with Sonic’s pre-cum, and it made Sonic want to make even more of a mess of his boyfriend.\n\nShadow trailed his hands down his body, stroking his abdomen and squeezing his hips before sliding them up again and repeating the action. His fur became ruffled and mussed and shimmered with sweat.\n\nHe looked at Sonic and gave a single slow lick across his lips. The sight drove Sonic over the edge, and he grabbed his boyfriend’s hips and pulled him back to run his ass against his cock.\n\nShadow wiggled out of Sonic’s hold and turned around, giving him a smug little grin.\n\n“Lube?” He asked simply.\n\n“In the drawer.” Sonic gestured vaguely to his bedside table and quickly returned to molesting his boyfriend with both hands.\n\nShadow leaned forward and stretched his arms to open the drawer and remove the lube, flexing his abs for Sonic’s pleasure and making him moan in need.\n\n“Damn, baby, I need to fuck you now.”\n\n“Be patient, we don’t always have to go fast.”\n\nShadow graciously lubed up Sonic fingers and guided them to his entrance, letting Sonic do the rest as he stretched and scissored Shadow with practiced ease.\n\nShadow occupied himself with taking Sonic’s other hand and suckling on his fingers, sliding them in and out of his mouth and laving them with his tongue.\n\nSonic finished with stretching Shadow out and used the remaining lube to prepare his own cock. Shadow lifted himself up once he was done and slowly slid himself down onto Sonic’s girth. He felt hard metal first before hard flesh, and the Prince Albert went into him with only slight difficulty.\n\n“Yes, it feels so good…” Shadow mumbled as took in more of Sonic’s cock. Sonic grinned, knowing he was well endowed and knowing Shadow liked a little pain with his pleasure. He let Shadow set the pace of his descent, and Sonic only gently rested his hands on his hips to guide him.\n\nHe started to bounce slowly, only pulling up slightly before falling down again, and he steadily increased his pace until he had to brace his hands on Sonic’s firm abdomen and his leg muscles were working and straining to support him.\n\n“Yeah, fuck yourself on my cock, babe. You’re so sexy. Your ass is so tight.” Sonic babbled, the pleasure overwhelming him. Shadow’s perfect body and firm muscles were all flexing in front of his eyes, and he drank in the sight.\n\nSonic’s cock piercing pressed into Shadow’s prostate as Shadow found the right angle to hit the bundle of sensitive nerves inside of him. He threw his head back and moaned, displaying his long and elegant neck to Sonic and making him want to kiss it.\n\nThey rutted fast and hard, Shadow deciding he’d had enough of gentleness and desired something rougher. He took to short and fast thrusts onto Sonic’s dick, maintaining constant heat and friction on Sonic’s length and driving them both wild.\n\nSonic came inside of Shadow as his ass clenched up when Shadow’s own orgasm hit. Streams of cum poured from both of their dicks as they basked in the afterglow.\n\nShadow collapsed, muscles strained and exhausted. They cuddled close, uncaring of Shadow’s cum matting their fur.\n\n“Baby, you are amazing.” Sonic said once he had regained his breath.\n\n“I do my best.”\n\n***\n\nScourge cursed group therapy, until he actually attended the first session. And none other than Shadow himself was there.\n\nHow interesting, seeing as how this was a session for violent juvenile offenders. It seemed Shadow counted himself among Scourge’s ilk.\n\nThe look of shock on Shadow’s face when Scourge entered the room just shy of being late had been priceless. He was always so together and collected, seeing him completely lose his cool was a moment of perfection.\n\nHe barely listened to anything during the therapy session, deigning instead to stare at Shadow and grin. Shadow was shifty and nervous throughout the session, and practically leapt from his seat when the therapist dismissed them.\n\nHe didn’t escape fast enough, though. Scourge caught him in a hallway and forcefully pulled him into a bathroom. The therapy session took place on a Saturday in the afternoon in a church basement, so he strongly doubted anybody would be passing by, giving them plenty of privacy.\n\n“Well, well Stripes. I didn’t know you were one of us delinquents and criminals. What are you in for?” Scourge asked with a smirk.\n\n“None of your business Scourge. Get out of my way.” Shadow tried to push past the bully. He was already in a bad mood from having to come to this session with Sonic’s cum still dripping from his ass and his own semen tangled in his fur. He’d been unable to sit still the whole time.\n\n“Nah, I think it is my business. Everything that happens in my school is my business.”\n\n“Your school?” Shadow replied incredulously. “Just how is it your school?”\n\n“Because every damn person in it fears and respects me.” Scourge said smugly.\n\n“Well, I don’t. And Sonic certainly doesn’t. And Knuckles definitely doesn’t. And Rouge thinks you’re a joke. And-“\n\n“Shut it! You think you and your pathetic friends are somebodies? Give me a fucking break.” Scourge slammed a hand into the wall next to Shadow, barely missing pounding his fist into Shadow’s face.\n\n“No, you give me a fucking break. You’re here because you put your fist to my boyfriend’s face, you fucker. You think I’m gonna put up with your shit?” Shadow stood tall and stomped forward, glaring with all his might. Scourge took an involuntary and stumbling step back.\n\n“You don’t know shit about me. You never will. And you don’t scare me. So stay the fuck away from me and from my boyfriend. I’m sick of your face.”\n\nWith that, Shadow turned and marched out of the bathroom, leaving Scourge shocked, furious, and more than a little frightened.\n\nScourge didn’t stay frightened. He got angry instead, and he decided to instigate his plans for destroying the school’s celebrity couple. And Shadow had just created the perfect in.\n\nShadow was in group therapy for violent juvenile offenders. He had returned for the two following weeks after their confrontation, so his presence was no accident. He’d done violence to someone, and Scourge wanted to know who.\n\nScourge didn’t approach Shadow again, and he told himself it wasn’t because he was intimidated by him. He just wanted some extra ammunition the next time they met.\n\nAnd ammunition he found. He had someone in the juvie records office, a teenaged intern named Fiona he sometimes laid, and she dug up Shadow’s sealed files.\n\nAnd boy were they a doozy. He’d teach Shadow to mess with him.\n\n***\nSonic hummed a merry tune as he dressed for his and Shadow’s date. He had big plans for this night. He and Shadow were a sure thing, Sonic was positive they’d last.\n\nHe’d bought matching promise rings for them. Even if they ended up attending different colleges they would be staying together, and the rings would be a reminder of what they shared.\n\nSonic adjusted his suit and tie to perfection, and smiled with glee when a knock came to his door. That would be his boyfriend, arriving so they could walk together under the starlight hand in hand to their dinner.\n\nSonic opened the door with a grin, which fell away immediately when he saw the look on Shadow’s face.\n\nTears were in his eyes and his lips were quivering. He looked so miserable Sonic immediately opened his arms to him.\n\nShadow didn’t step into them. He stayed outside and stared at Sonic.\n\n“Babe, what’s wrong?”\n\nShadow sniffled and wiped at his eyes and nose.\n\n“I’m breaking up with you.” Shadow said through a heartbreaking sob.\n\n“What?” Sonic let in a gasp of air. “Why? Babe, if I did something, I swear I’ll fix it. Just talk to me, don’t drop the breakup bomb out of nowhere.”\n\n“I’m sorry. This isn’t your fault. I love you so much.” Shadow buried his face in his hands and turned from Sonic, running away from his door and into the night.\n\n“Shadow, wait! What’s going on?” Sonic begged to the empty doorway and Shadow’s retreating back. He received no answer.\n\n[i]If Shadow loved him, why was he leaving him?[/i]\n\n***\n\nHe’d been so close. He’d almost made it to eighteen without anybody learning of his past. He was almost done with the therapy, almost done with the nerve wracking stress, almost done with fearing Sonic would find out.\nAt eighteen his record would have been cleared, and no one would know anything about what he’d done.\n\nBut Scourge, of all people it had to be [i]Scourge[/i], found out and shoved it in his face.\n\n[i]A little birdie told me you are a very bad boy, Shadow. Attempted murder? Tsk, tsk, even I haven’t gone that far.[/i]\n\nScourge had threatened to tell Sonic of his past transgressions if he didn’t break up with him. It broke his heart, but their relationship would end anyway if he knew of Shadow’s criminal history. At least this way Sonic wouldn’t hate him, wouldn’t look at him with shame for ever being with him.\n\nWhat they’d had was real, was special, and now it was over thanks to ghosts and Scourge’s meddling.\n\nScourge emerged from his hiding place behind a tall hedge in the neighbor’s yard as he cried and dripped tears and snot all over himself.\n\n“Not much of a show, Stripes. I can’t say I’m convinced.” Scourge taunted.\n\n“What else do you want from me?” Shadow demanded through his scratchy and croaking throat.\n\n“Oh, our time together is only beginning. For now, I want you to keep this up and stay away from your boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend now I suppose.”\n\nShadow gave a wordless angry shriek at Scourge, ruined by an interrupting miserable sob.\n\n“I’ll text you tomorrow. Let you know my other demands.”\n\n***\n\nShadow spent the next day at school avoiding Sonic. He had to duck and dodge his way through the halls. But once their shared history class came about, there was nothing Shadow could do to avoid Sonic.\n\nHe arrived very close to past the late bell so Sonic wouldn’t catch him before class. He ducked his head down and stared solidly at the ground as he sat in his seat, unfortunately placed next to Sonic’s.\n\nSonic reached a hand over and touched Shadow’s arm. Shadow almost melted at the gentle stroke, nearly breaking down in the middle of the classroom. But he held fast to his will, and refused to look over.\n\nThe teacher entered, and Sonic lost the opportunity to speak to Shadow. And once the bell signaling the end of class rang out, Shadow bolted with speed that impressed even the track star.\n\nIt also greatly disappointed him. [i]Why wouldn’t Shadow even speak to him?[/i] Sonic wondered.\n\nAt the day’s close, Shadow hung back from the crowds of students flooding out of the building. Scourge had texted him as promised, and he had told Shadow to meet him in the boy’s bathroom nearest Shadow’s locker.\n\nHe waited in the bathroom, expecting Scourge to arrive and berate him a little, maybe ask about Sonic’s personal life or some such shit.\n\nHe came alone, at least. That was a small blessing. So this wouldn’t be some sort of beat down.\n\n“What do you want Scourge?”\n\n“All work and no play makes Stripes a dull boy. So, I’m here to play.”\n\n“I’m not in the mood, Scourge. Get to the point.” Shadow growled.\n\n“Well, you said it, not me.”\n\nScourge lunged at Shadow and pinned him to the wall with his forearm on Shadow’s throat. Shadow gagged and choked, clawing at Scourge’s arm in an attempt to escape. He couldn’t get leverage as Scourge had slid his body up the wall and only the tips of his toes touched the ground. He hung there and choked until Scourge grew bored.\n\nScourge dropped his arm and slapped Shadow across the face, and he would have stumbled to the ground had it not been for Scourge pinning his arm to the wall.\n\n“What?” Shadow gasped.\n\nScourge only slapped him again, enjoying the sound his hand made against Shadow’s face.\n\n“Stop! What do you want?” Shadow demanded, tired of this treatment. Surely Scourge wanted something from him and didn’t yet realize how tightly he had Shadow by the balls with the information he had and believed he needed violence as well.\n\nThat wasn’t the case though. Scourge just wanted to slap Shadow around a bit, because he could and because Shadow wouldn’t report him to anyone. Scourge had missed beating those less than him while his parole officer breathed down his neck.\n\nHis violent side satiated for now, he held a hand to Shadow’s chest and obscenely rubbed his groin.\n\n“What do you think you’re doing?” Shadow snarled, shoving Scourge away at last. He curled in on himself by crossing his arms and hunching slightly.\n\n“What I brought you here for. You aren’t going to say no, are you?” Scourge raised an inquisitive and taunting eyebrow.\n\nShadow’s eyes widened. This was Scourge’s kind of play? This was the purpose of the blackmail? To rape him in the school bathroom? How sick and twisted was Scourge?\n\nBut what choice did he have? Nobody could know what was in his sealed juvie criminal records. Nothing could be worse than having that exposed.\n\nHe uncrossed his arms and looked down at the ground, unable to find a way out and submitting to Scourge. The vile bully grinned and walked back and leaned against wall opposite to the one Shadow was previously pinned on.\nHe crooked a finger and smirked. “Come over here and suck my dick, Stripes.”\n\nShadow let out a shaky breath and took a few steps towards Scourge, who tutted at him.\n\n“Crawl.”\n\nShadow cringed at the word, but didn’t argue. He got down on hands and knees and crawled over to Scourge, who grinned at him all the way over.\n\n“You look good down there where you belong.” Scourge thrust his pelvis forward as he spoke. “Use your pretty lips for something better than talking.”\n\nShadow put his mouth on Scourge’s crotch and undid his buttons with teeth and tongue, and as he pulled down his fly he remembered when he’d done exactly this to Sonic only three days before while dancing on top of him. It had been fun with Sonic, but doing the same for Scourge disgusted him.\n\nThe cock under his mouth was quickly hardening, and somehow his pre-cum tasted bitter and gross while Sonic’s tasted delectable. That shouldn’t have been the case, but it was still true. Everything about Sonic drew Shadow in, while everything about Scourge repulsed him.\n\nHis own feelings didn’t matter anymore, though. He had to do this.\n\nScourge’s pants, followed by his boxers, were pulled to the ground, and while his face was close to the tile, Scourge wiggled his foot back and forth a little.\n\n“Kiss my feet while you’re down there, why don’t you?”\n\nShadow glared daggers into the ground, but didn’t let Scourge see his anger as he pressed his lips to the top of Scourge’s shoe, squinting his eyes to shut out what he was doing. He looked up at Scourge once the act was done.\n\n“Come on, then.” Scourge frowned down at him condescendingly. “Do I have to repeat myself, you dumb fuck?”\n\nShadow shook his head and eyed Scourge’s engorged member. Like Sonic, Scourge too had his dick pierced, but instead of a Prince Albert he had a Jacob’s Ladder decorating the entire underside of his length. Shadow held back the temptation to gag and slid his lips over the tip.\n\n“I know you’ve sucked Sonic’s dick, so no need to go so fucking slow.” Scourge growled, putting his hand on the back of Shadow head and thrusting him forward to fully take all of Scourge’s hard flesh into his mouth.\n\nShadow gagged and sputtered. It was true he’d sucked Sonic off before, but Sonic had been his first and only before this, and with him he’d never been asked to deep throat him. Sonic knew Shadow wasn’t comfortable swallowing Sonic’s considerable girth.\n\nScourge had no such reservations. He cared nothing for Shadow’s comfort level, and he laughed as Shadow struggled and attempted to pull back.\n\nScourge took mercy on him only because he feared Shadow would puke on his cock, which is nearly what he did as he gasped for breath and turned his head away to vomit.\n\nHe spat up bile, but no partially digested food seeing as how he was unable to eat all day due to nerves. He coughed and hacked until his stomach was empty.\n\n“Disgusting.” Scourge scoffed as he gripped Shadow’s quills tight and pulled him until his face was thrust under a sink faucet, turned to the side so when Scourge turned the water on in gushed into his mouth.\n\nShadow sputtered and struggled to breath, feeling like he was drowning. Scourge shut the water off and let Shadow spit into the sink.\n\n“We’ll work up to it.” Scourge darkly promised. So, this wouldn’t end here? Shadow thought with growing dread.\nScourge dragged him over to the wall he’d previously pinned Shadow against to get away from the puddle of vomit. He dropped Shadow and leaned against the wall.\n\n“Try again, and I’ll go easy on you. This time.”\n\nShadow took in as much of Scourge’s length as he could, not wanting to disappoint him but also not wanting to puke again. He went to work using all the skill he’d gained while with Sonic, and despised himself for wanting to please Scourge, even if it was to avoid punishment.\n\nScourge leaned his head back and groaned in ecstasy, resisting the temptation to thrust. He really didn’t want puke on his dick. So he enjoyed Shadow tonguing his piercings and sucking on his tip.\n\nThere was a lot more he wanted to do to Shadow though, and he didn’t want to come yet. So, he kicked Shadow off of him, and he yelped in surprise when he hit the ground.\n\n“Strip.”\n\nShadow shuddered, knowing what was coming and was terrified of it. He still obeyed, shakily unbuttoning his blazer and trousers, dropping his clothes onto the floor.\n\nHe stood naked in front of Scourge, red from anger and embarrassment. Scourge moved behind him and kicked him forward, making him throw his hands out to keep from smacking his face into the wall.\n\nScourge approached him from behind before he could recover his bearings and thrust a harsh, dry finger into his anus. Shadow stifled a cry, not wanting to give Scourge the satisfaction of hearing him.\n\nBut he couldn’t stop his screech of pain when Scourge cruelly dug his claws into his passage and drew blood.\n\n“Why are you doing this?” Shadow asked through gritted teeth as he clenched his fist and pounded against the wall.\n\n“Because I can.”\n\nScourge removed his finger and thrust his cock into Shadow’s anal passage, slickened by blood and tight from pain.\n\nShadow whimpered and tried to pull away, but Scourge kept a tight grip on his hip with one hand while the other kneaded his ass.\n\nSonic was fixated with his ass. He loved holding it in his hands, smacking it playfully, squeezing and rubbing it, and keeping it in his grip when they fell asleep in each other’s arms at night. Shadow found it arousing and more than a little amusing.\n\nYet another thing Scourge could only poorly imitate. These hands dug into his skin painfully and smacked his flesh with the intent to hurt, not play.\n\nShadow endured every thrust into his bleeding passage, his own erection failing to form due to how little care Scourge had for Shadow’s pleasure and the immense pain he was in.\n\nBut he endured, and he knew he would have to endure it again for an untold number of times. It would be worth it, though. All of it was worth it to keep Sonic from hating him and regretting knowing him.\n\nScourge came with a moan and a final deep thrust that hit his prostate by accident. The brief spike of pleasure was drowned out by agony and Shadow barely noticed it at all.\n\nHis rapist backed away and retrieved his pants after wiping the blood from his cock. He redressed and winked at Shadow.\n\n“I’ll be nice and give you some time to recover from that little scratch you have in there. Be here same time next week.”\n\nScourge left Shadow weeping and naked on the bathroom floor, ass leaking blood and cum.\n\n***\n\nAfter a week of continuing to avoid Sonic, Shadow was again in the location of his rape, waiting for his rapist to arrive. It was so sick Shadow wanted to puke at the thought, but he choked it down.\n\nHe heard footsteps approaching, but several pairs. It couldn’t have been Scourge, but rather some slow students on their way to use the bathroom before going home.\n\nShadow wasn’t so fortunate as that, however, as the footsteps proved to belong to Scourge and two of his lackeys. Shadow immediately knew what was in store for him, and he quivered in terror.\n\nThe lackeys wordlessly moved forward, one being a hulking bear and the other a muscled wolf. They immediately tore at his clothes, ripping the buttons from his blazer and tearing the zipper from his pants.\n\nAt least he had spare uniforms, Shadow thought as a sad attempt to escape from what was happening to him. But he was brought harshly back to reality when the bear stuffed Shadow’s mouth with his cock.\n\nAs a small consolation, he didn’t vomit this time as the bear’s dick had more girth than length and it didn’t touch the back of his throat. The wolf occupied himself with fingering Shadow’s ass.\n\nShadow heard an electronic click, and with horror realized it was the sound of a phone’s camera going off. Scourge was taking pictures of him being raped.\n\nHe shifted his eyes to the side to confirm what he already knew. Scourge had his phone pointed in their direction and was snapping photos. As if he didn’t already have enough to blackmail Shadow with, he had to take it another step further?\n\nScourge considered the pictures insurance for just in case Shadow ever stopped fearing his case file being exposed. Even if that were to happen, his pride would drive him to keep these events secret and these photos buried.\n\nThe wolf entered him after only token stretching meant more to test his anus and not increase his comfort level while the bear continued to make use of his mouth. The wolf groaned and said,\n\n“Hey, think you can get in here too? It feels fucking great.”\n\n“What? No!” Shadow protested when the bear pulled out of his mouth, which absolutely no one listened to.\n“Try it out.” Scourge encouraged with a grin, preparing his phone for more snapshots.\n\nThe wolf laid on his back with Shadow sitting on his cock and facing him, and the bear forced a finger into Shadow’s already overly stretched passage to further make room for his own cock.\n\nShadow whined and screamed in pain as the bear forced his dick into a place where there was no room for it. The two set an alternating pace, keeping constant and painful pressure on Shadow’s insides.\n\nScourge snapped away with his phone, considering sending these to Sonic just to fuck with him. Maybe he’d think his boyfriend broke up with him because he had an insatiable need for dick that Sonic alone couldn’t satisfy.\n\nHe’d do that if he got bored of his current method of tormenting Shadow. He’d doubted he’d bore of this, though, watching Shadow’s eyes roll back into his head and his throat vibrate with screams of agony.\n\nHis anus tore, and blood poured over the two cocks inside of his passage, making the pair laugh and taunt him.\n\n“Can’t take this much, whore?”\n\n“I thought you wanted dick!”\n\n“Is that really blood or are you just wet for us, slut?”\n\nShadow sobbed and took the pain, wishing it would end. Wishing it would all end, the looming presence of his past, Scourge’s torment, the torturous pain. He wanted all of it to just end.\n\nHe wanted Sonic. More than an end, he wanted Sonic to wrap his arms around Shadow and kiss him until his problems faded away. He wanted Sonic to make love to him and whisper affection and sappy pet names to him.\nHe felt sexy when he danced for Sonic or made love with him. He doubted he’d ever feel sexy again, or ever dance for his boyfriend again.\n\nInstead, he bled and screamed.\n\n***\n\nScourge and his cronies left Shadow weeping and bleeding and leaking cum for a second time, but not for the last. Scourge brought more of his people, and demanded Shadow’s time with more frequency, regardless of how much blood he spilled.\n\nHe was raped by two or three or four people at once, each one taking their pleasures from his ass and coming inside before passing him off to the cock that had just been in his mouth, or both of their impatient colleagues waiting their turn.\n\nSometimes Scourge joined in, sometimes he didn’t. He always took pictures though.\n\nAnd all the while as the semester passed by Shadow somehow kept up with his school work and continued to avoid Sonic. He’d had to make changes to his class schedule to get out of Sonic’s history class, because he wanted so badly to throw himself at his ex-boyfriend and beg him to take him back, damn the consequences. He continued to attend his therapy like a good little criminal, and Scourge would often use him in that church basement at the end of the session.\n\nEven as more time passed and midterms came and went, Sonic still pursued him, insistent on talking things through. Shadow had no idea why Sonic was spending so much effort on just talking to him with no promise of getting him back. Shadow wasn’t worth his time. Not before, and especially not now that he was dirty and stained.\n\nThe day midterms ended, Scourge demanded his presence in the football locker room. It unnerved Shadow, because usually Scourge and his gang assaulted him the men’s bathrooms. The change of venue meant nothing good.\n\nHe waited on a bench, expecting Scourge to show up, but instead in walked the football team, both first stringers and benchwarmers, totaling twenty two people.\n\nShadow stood and considered running, but knew there would be no point, and Scourge would punish him for it.\n\n“Damn, Scourge promised a post midterms present, but I didn’t think it’d be Shadow himself.”\n\n“I thought he was dating Sonic.” Somebody else muttered. “Why would he agree to get fucked by us?”\n\nApparently, Shadow was the school slut now, Scourge’s property to pass out to whomever he pleased. Even those outside his gang of rapists. And Shadow couldn’t correct them by saying he was here unwillingly, because Scourge would only go through on his threats.\n\nSo, Shadow let himself be passed around like a commodity, his mouth and ass taking every one of the twenty-two dicks belonging to the football team.\n\nAt least these men didn’t make him bleed. They touched him and stretched him and brought him to orgasm several times, but that was somehow worse. At least with Scourge’s crew he could hate the people doing it to him, but these horny teenagers thought Shadow had volunteered for this, and he was granting them pleasure willingly.\n\nHe laid back and allowed them to do as they pleased. They came in him and on him, and at least had the courtesy to wear condoms if they came in his mouth or ass. Something Scourge’s group never did, and Shadow had made several trips to his doctor to get tested for STDs. He’d only had one bought of gonorrhea, which he had treated quickly. He was lucky in that respect. He could have gotten much worse.\n\nTwenty-two men had their way with him in that locker room, on top of the faceless people under Scourge’s reign. More people than Shadow could count.\n\nHe couldn’t even call his body his own anymore. It Scourge’s plaything. His to toss at every horny dick that pointed his way.\n\nThe football team left him, patting each other on the back and returning to their girlfriends and their normal lives, their brief kinky stint over with.\n\nShadow would never go back to his normal life.\n\n***\n\nMethods of tying a noose were easy to find on the internet. One search and he found out how to tie a knot that wouldn’t loosen or break under the weight of a hedgehog’s body.\n\nHe tied the noose and attached it to his ceiling fan. He had to be quick because he shared a room with two of his foster siblings and they might enter the room at any moment. Not that they’d much care if he died, they’d likely let him choke and only be annoyed that his corpse hung in an inconvenient spot in the middle of the room.\n\nHe stood on a chair and looped the rope around his neck. He took a bracing breath and kicked the chair aside.\n\nThe fall wasn’t far enough to snap his neck. He hadn’t expected it to be, and he almost wanted to draw this out in the vain hope someone would actually stop him.\n\nThe life was slowly choked out of him, and as his throat burned with pain, a knock came to his door.\n\n“Shadow? Your foster dad let me in and said I could talk to you. Can I come in?”\n\nSonic. Of course it would be Sonic. Shadow couldn’t have invited him in even if he wanted to. He could only gurgle and gag as the world faded to black and his lungs screamed for air.\n\n“I’m coming in, even if you don’t want to talk to me. We can just sit and-”\n\nThe door opened.\n\n“No! Shadow, no, no!” Sonic screamed and dove for him. He had the presence of mind to grab the fallen chair and place it under him, forcing his knees to uncurl as Shadow lifted his legs to keep from standing.\n\nThe pressure on his neck was relieved as Sonic forced him into a standing position on the chair, and Sonic quickly climbed up onto it to take the noose off of Shadow’s neck. He took Shadow into his arms and lowered him to one of the beds, screaming for someone to call for an ambulance.\n\nThat was the last thing Shadow was aware of before he blacked out.\n\n***\n\nShadow didn’t stay in the hospital for long. He was only held for a requisite 48 hours for suicide watch before being let into his social worker’s custody.\n\nHis foster family was investigated for neglect, but Shadow cared nothing for that. He cared nothing for anything at all. He was only waiting to be left alone for even a moment so he could try again and end his life.\n\nHe denied Sonic’s visits, telling his nurses to keep everyone away. Once he was released, Sonic had no idea where he was. As it happened, he was staying at a local orphanage while his social worker attempted to sort out the mess he’d caused.\n\nSonic called and texted frequently. Shadow ignored every attempt at contact.\n\nHe continued his education through homeschooling. A teacher, Miss Vanilla, volunteered to come to the orphanage to bring him homework from his other teachers and tutor him on the basis that he was such a good student and he shouldn’t fall behind on his studies. She believed keeping him busy with schoolwork would remind him of everything he had to look forward to in college and his future career.\n\nIt didn’t work. Shadow did his due work, but there was no will behind it any longer. College was a distant dream he didn’t want to pursue. He didn’t want to pursue anything.\n\nHe was constantly watched, even escorted to the bathroom to prevent another attempt to take his own life. Shadow figured he could try drowning himself in a toilet in the sparse privacy of a bathroom stall. It would be an appropriate end to a worthless life like his.\n\nSonic hadn’t been informed of his release and didn’t know where he was staying, and Scourge didn’t dare come near him for fear of Shadow’s reaction at seeing him would spark suspicion towards Scourge as the cause of his attempted hanging.\n\nNo one came to see him except the orphanage workers assigned to watch him, his tutor and his social worker. The children of the orphanage avoided him, frightened by the dead look in his eyes.\n\nAfter a week of constant monitoring, he was allowed freedom. Apparently a week was enough for the system to decide he was no longer in danger of killing himself, or that was how long it could keep the orphanage workers from their real work of ignoring their charges.\n\nHe was a minor, so he had a curfew, but he was free to leave the orphanage at long last.\n\nShadow initially intended to walk into traffic or jump off a building as soon as the orphanage doors let him through, but something stopped him.\n\nSonic had wanted to save him. Sonic had saved him. At the very least, he deserved a goodbye for all the years they’d had together.\n\nHe entered Sonic’s house without knocking. He knew Sonic’s family wouldn’t mind the intrusion.\n\nNo, they welcomed him, but stayed out of the way of his and Sonic’s reunion, providing them much needed privacy. At the sight of Shadow walking into his room, Sonic sobbed and threw his arms around him.\n\nShadow had truly wanted to die. He saw no future for himself. Scourge had taken everything from him.\n\nBut the moment Sonic held him all his dreams for their future together returned in a sudden rush. He wanted to go to college on his scholarship, wanted to share a room with Sonic if they went to the same college, or video chat with him every night if they didn’t.\n\nHe wanted to marry his high school sweetheart. Sonic would no doubt stage an elaborate proposal while knowing full well that him on one knee would be enough for a yes. Sonic always said he was worth extravagance, deserved to be celebrated.\n\nTheir wedding would be small, though. Only close friends and family would witness their union, but the reception would be a party to remember. Shadow would dance for Sonic again, this time on the ballroom floor and in his arms.\n\nThen he’d dance in the privacy of their bedroom, a slow and seductive dance for Sonic’s eyes only. \n\nThey would adopt two children, a boy and a girl. They’d raise them to love fully, to care openly, and to give graciously.\n\nThey would spend their lives together, no matter any obstacle that blocked their path. Scourge had made him forget all that amidst all the torture and torment.\n\nFor the first time in a long time, Shadow wanted to live.\n\n***\n\nOnly moments before Shadow arrived, Sonic had come home to see a folder left for him on his bedroom nightstand. He was disturbed to know someone had entered his home, but the folder had his most beloved’s name on it, so curiosity made him open the file.\n\nHe opened it and read every detail of Shadow’s history.\n\nShadow had lost his parents in a car crash when he was a child, and was adopted by a single father. He befriended a neighborhood girl by the name of Maria, and she visited his home frequently.\n\nAfter a few years, Maria’s corpse was discovered in a gutter near their house. She’d been tortured and murder by Shadow’s adoptive father, apparently having been abused by the man for years since she began visiting Shadow at their home.\n\nShe kept coming back though, because she couldn’t leave Shadow alone and lonely. She’d compromised her safety and wellbeing just to provide Shadow a friend.\n\nShadow’s father had confessed all of this to Shadow, stating that he intended to make Shadow into his protégé of violence and murder.\n\nShadow lost control of himself, and brutally beat the man nearly to death before the police arrived, responding to a neighbor reporting his sorrowful and angry screaming.\n\nThe extenuating circumstances of the attack and Shadow’s tender age of eleven allowed for a lenient sentence; group therapy until he was eighteen and community service until he was sixteen.\n\nShadow’s adoptive father was arrested once he was released from the hospital, and given a life sentence for Maria’s and several other murder that came to light during the investigation.\n\nShadow was placed back into foster care, but he never stayed in one home for long. Any transgression was taken as a prequel to violence, and the families never kept him for more than a year. No one dared adopt him again.\n\nSome of the families were abusive, but their crimes were revealed through other children reporting them. Shadow never reported any violence done to him for fear of being displaced yet again.\n\nHis life had been one of abuse, loneliness, and misery. It seemed that Sonic was the only good thing he had in his life.\n\nSonic closed the file and threw it in the trash.\n\n***\n\nNow, Shadow was sobbing in his arms and Sonic was sobbing just as much. The reason for their breakup was revealed between sorrowful cries. Sonic was furious, but exacting vengeance on Scourge would wait until Shadow was definitively his again.\n\nShadow confessed everything. The history Scourge had used to blackmail him, the repeated rapes, and the psychological torment. Shadow held nothing back.\n\nSonic only listened, stifling his rage and focusing on his complete adoration for Shadow. He cared nothing for his criminal past, nothing for anything besides the hedgehog in his arms.\n\n“Please don’t hate me. I’ll die if you do.” Shadow sniffled and sobbed.\n\n“I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you…I’ll say it until you never forget it again. I love you, I love you, I love you...” Sonic declared, repeating it again and again as Shadow cried tears of joy and relief. \n\nHis burdens fled. Shadow feared nothing, not Scourge and not his own demons. He couldn’t feel fear in Sonic’s arms, wrapped so tightly around him.\n\n***\n\n“What the fuck did you have us do, Scourge?” An angry voice questioned, and Scourge turned to meet it, annoyed.\nHe came face to face with a first stringer of the football team, a crocodile by the name of Vector.\n\n“You said he was up for some fun, then I hear about him trying to kill himself? Did we rape him, Scourge?”\n\nVector’s face was twisted in an expression of regret and rage. It tore him asunder to think he’d been a part of Shadow’s torment, even if he hadn’t meant to be. The rest of the football team shared his sorrows, and they’d gone to confess what they’d done to the police and to the principal and accept any consequences that came their way.\n\nNot a single one of them wanted to hide their terrible act. Vector had only separated from the group to confront Scourge and demand answers. He’d asserted to his teammates to include his name in their confession in his stead.\n\nThey wouldn’t walk away from this. They refused to assist in driving a good person to suicide and then plead innocence. They were a part of this, and they’d face what they had done.\n\nScourge gaped for a moment, shocked that Vector would confront him rather than dismiss their act as one of ignorance. But he was far from stupid, or so he believed, and he knew when a fight was lost, and he’d lost this one badly. He ran.\n\nUnfortunately, in his haste, his phone clattered to the ground in front of Vector, who picked it up and saw the gallery of photos on it, pictures of Shadow crying and bleeding and the faces of his rapists.\n\nHe left to join his teammates at the police station, evidence of Scourge’s crimes firmly in hand.\n\n***\n\nShadow heard of Scourge and his crew being arrested for aggravated rape after the high school quarterback Vector delivered evidence of his actions to the police. Sonic was overjoyed to know that his boyfriend’s tormentors were being punished for their deeds, and Shadow relaxed and felt safe again for the first time since the whole affair began.\n\nThough Vector had delivered crucial evidence of Scourge’s crimes, they hadn’t bartered for a plea deal, and asked to be tried without consideration for their actions in getting Scourge arrested.\n\nTo the football team’s utter shock, Shadow had pleaded in their defense, asking for a lenient sentence on their behalf. As their victim, his words held great weight, and they were all sentenced to community service until age twenty-one.\n\nShadow didn’t hold what the foolish and ignorant students had done against them. He knew full well the weight of Scourge’s manipulations, and the guilt of what they’d done, as well as their willingness to face their actions, would be enough of a lesson.\n\nThe scars of what happened didn’t fade easily, and Shadow continued to see a private therapist to work through his trauma, but he made no further attempts to take his life.\n\nThe media had a field day with the story, reporting on teenaged sex cults and made a villain of every player in the story, from the football team to Shadow himself. They drove Shadow to retching sobs in Sonic’s arms more than once.\n\nSonic stayed firmly by his side through the whole messy and painful process of recovery. Shadow applied for and was granted emancipated minor status and moved in with Sonic and his family, who welcomed him with open arms.\n\nSomehow, Sonic’s younger brother, Tails, accidentally overheard a news story that painted Shadow as a villain rather than a victim. Shadow had expected the impressionable youth to scorn him and believe the authoritative news outlet, and for Sonic’s parents to throw him out. Experience had taught him that adoptive parents and temporary homes were to be feared. \n\nBut instead Sonic’s adoptive parents swore off that particular news outlet, and Tails had written a very angry letter to the news station condemning them for saying such mean things about his new big brother.\n\nShadow had no shame about hugging Tails tight and crying as the young kit patted his back and assured him it would all be okay.\n\nThe final half of his senior year was spent being homeschooled by the kind Miss Vanilla. Shadow wouldn’t be able to take the whispers behind his back and gossiping about what they heard on the news of him being a slut that ruined the lives of promising students with his accusations of rape.\n\nHe had feared the media circus would make colleges hesitant to give him scholarships, and some certainly did go back on their promises of full rides, but most didn’t, and Shadow still had his choice of higher education.\n\n***\n\nYears later, when they were celebrating their marriage, Shadow danced for Sonic.", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Sonic had a very good life.

He was entering his final year of high school with several prestigious colleges begging him to choose them to attend. His adoptive family had remained tight-knit throughout the trials of adolescence. He had parents that were proud of him, and a sweet and adorable little brother he loved doting on.

And he had the best boyfriend in the world.

They’d met at the start of freshman year and they were together by winter break. They defied every expectation of teen romances and stayed a couple throughout high school, and intended to stay together into their college years and long past that.

His name was Shadow, and he was the most beautiful hedgehog Sonic had ever met before or since. His fur was glossy and black, streaked with intense red the same shade as his firey eyes. His body was leanly muscled and athletic, but still attractively slim. His ass was full and perky and fit perfectly in his hands when they made love. Which they did frequently.

His face could have been crafted by angels, and his quills pointed upwards and framed his face to give him a regal appearance. His ears were expressive and adorable and his tail was a joy to watch waggle.

He was headstrong and standoffish, but he opened up to Sonic like a flower to the dawn. He smiled and laughed with him, and gave his body and soul over to Sonic openly. He was smart, and witty, and fun to be with. They complimented and made each other better. A sappier man than Sonic would have called them soul mates.

Sonic knew Shadow had his secrets. He also didn’t care. There was darkness in his past, and Shadow preferred to keep it there, and Sonic wouldn’t hold that against him. Sonic believed in living in the present, and so long as they were happy together, Shadow’s past could remain shrouded in mystery.

He knew Shadow was a foster child, and was unhappy in the home he shared with six other foster children. But college, and freedom, was on the horizon, and they both had full ride scholarships coming their way. Shadow’s was for academic accomplishments, while Sonic’s was a track scholarship.

There was only one hitch in Sonic’s senior year bliss. Scourge, a green hedgehog that looked eerily like him and hated his guts. Sonic didn’t know why his existence was so offensive to Scourge, but apparently the fact he breathed the same air was repulsive to the bully.

And what a bully he was. He ran with a crowd of delinquents that looked to Scourge as some kind of King. He and his gang never failed to harass Sonic, and by extension Shadow, at every opportunity.

They were annoying and petty, their antics restricted to shouted insults in hallways and the occasionally black eye.
But it was Scourge’s final year of school as well, and he planned to go out with a bang.

***

Scourge despised how much he had to restrain himself. He wanted to punch that smug blue bastard’s jaw off. He couldn’t though, because he had a parole officer.

He’d been in and out of juvie for drug distribution through his first two years of high school. He hadn’t straightened out his act since; he just got better at hiding it. But if he reeled back and beat a student, the teachers would report it and he’d be stuck in annoying group therapy and have a curfew slapped on him for months.

But he wouldn’t be in this town for much longer. Once he turned eighteen his juvie record would be cleared, his parole officer would fuck off, and he’d be free to perform bigger and better crimes.

But first, he was going to ruin Sonic and Shadow’s lives. The two of them were the school’s ‘it’ couple. They were popular and talented and smart and had their lives on a course for eternal happiness.

That infuriated Scourge. So, he’d take it all away from them.

Of course, he had to go and fuck it all up before he even got started.

Sonic was swaggering through the halls as if he owned them. Scourge blocked his way to class and smirked.

“Morning, loser. Boy toy not with you today?”

“He’s my boyfriend, not a toy, you ass. Don’t say a word about him.” Sonic snarled in response.

“Or what? You gonna defend his honor?”

Sonic snorted. “Or I’ll tell on you and he’ll defend his honor. Believe me, you don’t want that.”

Scourge twitched, curling his hand into a fist. As if that whore could match Scourge in anything, let alone fighting. Sonic’s snide insinuation infuriated him.

“Your boy toy would get his ass beat in two seconds. He’d probably enjoy it though, huh?”

Sonic smiled slyly. “Maybe he would. All that would mean is we’re having better sex than you, so you lose either way.”

Scourge pulled his fist back and plunged it into Sonic’s eye, making him crash to the ground and groan in pain. He realized what he’d done belatedly, and swore to himself.

Violence against another student meant he’d spend the rest of the semester talking about his feelings and being in bed by nine.  That threw a wrench in things. He needed time to plot and execute his revenge, he couldn’t waste away in useless therapy.

Damn Sonic for making Scourge punch him.

***

Shadow gently tapped the bag of ice to Sonic’s bruised eye, taking care not to cause him any undue pain. Sonic groaned in discomfort at the cold, but the throbbing agony quickly faded away.

“Thank you, babe. My family is still away on that vacation they took without me, so you’re the only one I could ask for help.”

“It’s no problem, Sonic. What did you do to piss off Scourge this time?”

“Nothing, you jerk.” Sonic said playfully, seeing the teasing smirk on Shadow’s lips and knowing he wasn’t serious. “I guess my continued existence offended him.” Sonic snorted.

“Well, I reported him to the principal, and that means he’ll be in trouble with his parole officer.”

“Good. The bastard.” Sonic muttered angrily. Shadow leaned in and pecked the hand holding the ice to his eye.

“Forget about Scourge. Let’s talk about us.” Shadow fiddled with the hem of Sonic’s uniform pants and walked his fingers up to prod the buttons of his blazer.

“Yeah? What about us?” Sonic asked with a lusty grin, which Shadow returned.

“How about we let our bodies talk for a while, and I’ll make you forget all about that black eye.”

“I don’t know, it hurts pretty bad. You’ll really have to work at it.” Sonic removed the bag of ice from his eye and tossed it to the floor.

Shadow grinned and put his hands on Sonic’s chest to pushed him down onto the bed. Sonic helped him remove his blazer and undershirt, then stretched his arms up and crossed them behind his head in a relaxed and confident pose. He knew he looked good naked, his track career granting him impressive muscles, so he put it all on display for Shadow’s enjoyment.

“Come on then, distract me babe.” Sonic challenged, and Shadow purred.

He straddled Sonic’s groin and swayed his hips from right to left as he unbuttoned his blazer slowly, tantalizingly, letting Sonic soak in each inch of newly revealed fur. Shadow stretched his arms and his head back as he slipped the jacket from his body, leaving his torso naked.

Sonic already had forgotten about his aching eye, but he wouldn’t let Shadow know that. He wanted more of a show while Shadow was in this seductive mood.

Shadow stood over him on the bed and stripped his pants and underwear off, leaving him completely exposed. He lowered himself back onto his knees with a sexy little shimmy on the way down.

He slid his way down Sonic’s legs and leaned over until his face was level with Sonic’s groin, which was tenting his pants and getting wetter by the second with pre-cum from Shadow’s striptease. Shadow tongued the elevated material before using his teeth to unbutton and unzip his trousers.

He pulled Sonic’s pants and underwear off with one pull and tossed them away to join his own clothes. He gave a playful lick to the tip of Sonic’s cock, tonguing his Prince Albert with delight.

“I’m in so much pain, babe.” Sonic said with a grin that ruined the illusion. “I think you shaking those sexy hips of yours a little more will make me feel better.”

“Really, now?” Shadow said, an indulgent smile quirking his lips. “I’ll do anything to make my man feel good.”

Shadow got off the bed and flipped on Sonic’s stereo, navigating Sonic’s connected music player to select something with a thumping beat. Sonic moved from lying down to sitting with his back against the headboard while he waited for his boyfriend to return.

Shadow made quick work of selecting his music, and turned back to Sonic, raising his arms up and doing a slow full twirl, swinging his hips around in seductive circles. He moved forward, each step exaggerated by lifting his knees and shaking his hips far more than necessary.

Shadow had Sonic nearly drooling, and Sonic’s hands twitched with desire to reach out and touch his boyfriend.

Shadow mounted Sonic’s lap again, sitting on his thighs and avoiding making contact with his erection. That could come later, for now he wanted to tease his boyfriend as much as they could both stand.

Shadow crossed his arms over his head and swayed his hips slowly to the rhythm, sliding his eyes shut and letting the music guide his motions.

He turned around so Sonic could watch his ass shake, which Sonic greatly appreciated the sight of. He reached out, wanting to grab a handful of the luscious flesh, but Shadow saw him and swatted his hand away.

“No touching, Sonic. Don’t you know the rules?” He teased.

“Are you an exotic dancer now, Shadow?” Sonic obeyed anyway, leaning back and enjoying the view.

“Only for you.” Shadow said with affection in his voice.

Shadow undulated his whole body to the music’s beat, flexing his back muscles and letting his ass reach back just enough to rub on Sonic’s cock, apparently very swiftly abandoning the ‘no touching’ rule. Shadow loved the feeling of the smooth metal and hot flesh against his ass as he ground back. That piercing had been a stroke of brilliance of Sonic’s part. It felt so good on him and inside him.

Shadow’s anus was stained with Sonic’s pre-cum, and it made Sonic want to make even more of a mess of his boyfriend.

Shadow trailed his hands down his body, stroking his abdomen and squeezing his hips before sliding them up again and repeating the action. His fur became ruffled and mussed and shimmered with sweat.

He looked at Sonic and gave a single slow lick across his lips. The sight drove Sonic over the edge, and he grabbed his boyfriend’s hips and pulled him back to run his ass against his cock.

Shadow wiggled out of Sonic’s hold and turned around, giving him a smug little grin.

“Lube?” He asked simply.

“In the drawer.” Sonic gestured vaguely to his bedside table and quickly returned to molesting his boyfriend with both hands.

Shadow leaned forward and stretched his arms to open the drawer and remove the lube, flexing his abs for Sonic’s pleasure and making him moan in need.

“Damn, baby, I need to fuck you now.”

“Be patient, we don’t always have to go fast.”

Shadow graciously lubed up Sonic fingers and guided them to his entrance, letting Sonic do the rest as he stretched and scissored Shadow with practiced ease.

Shadow occupied himself with taking Sonic’s other hand and suckling on his fingers, sliding them in and out of his mouth and laving them with his tongue.

Sonic finished with stretching Shadow out and used the remaining lube to prepare his own cock. Shadow lifted himself up once he was done and slowly slid himself down onto Sonic’s girth. He felt hard metal first before hard flesh, and the Prince Albert went into him with only slight difficulty.

“Yes, it feels so good…” Shadow mumbled as took in more of Sonic’s cock. Sonic grinned, knowing he was well endowed and knowing Shadow liked a little pain with his pleasure. He let Shadow set the pace of his descent, and Sonic only gently rested his hands on his hips to guide him.

He started to bounce slowly, only pulling up slightly before falling down again, and he steadily increased his pace until he had to brace his hands on Sonic’s firm abdomen and his leg muscles were working and straining to support him.

“Yeah, fuck yourself on my cock, babe. You’re so sexy. Your ass is so tight.” Sonic babbled, the pleasure overwhelming him. Shadow’s perfect body and firm muscles were all flexing in front of his eyes, and he drank in the sight.

Sonic’s cock piercing pressed into Shadow’s prostate as Shadow found the right angle to hit the bundle of sensitive nerves inside of him. He threw his head back and moaned, displaying his long and elegant neck to Sonic and making him want to kiss it.

They rutted fast and hard, Shadow deciding he’d had enough of gentleness and desired something rougher. He took to short and fast thrusts onto Sonic’s dick, maintaining constant heat and friction on Sonic’s length and driving them both wild.

Sonic came inside of Shadow as his ass clenched up when Shadow’s own orgasm hit. Streams of cum poured from both of their dicks as they basked in the afterglow.

Shadow collapsed, muscles strained and exhausted. They cuddled close, uncaring of Shadow’s cum matting their fur.

“Baby, you are amazing.” Sonic said once he had regained his breath.

“I do my best.”

***

Scourge cursed group therapy, until he actually attended the first session. And none other than Shadow himself was there.

How interesting, seeing as how this was a session for violent juvenile offenders. It seemed Shadow counted himself among Scourge’s ilk.

The look of shock on Shadow’s face when Scourge entered the room just shy of being late had been priceless. He was always so together and collected, seeing him completely lose his cool was a moment of perfection.

He barely listened to anything during the therapy session, deigning instead to stare at Shadow and grin. Shadow was shifty and nervous throughout the session, and practically leapt from his seat when the therapist dismissed them.

He didn’t escape fast enough, though. Scourge caught him in a hallway and forcefully pulled him into a bathroom. The therapy session took place on a Saturday in the afternoon in a church basement, so he strongly doubted anybody would be passing by, giving them plenty of privacy.

“Well, well Stripes. I didn’t know you were one of us delinquents and criminals. What are you in for?” Scourge asked with a smirk.

“None of your business Scourge. Get out of my way.” Shadow tried to push past the bully. He was already in a bad mood from having to come to this session with Sonic’s cum still dripping from his ass and his own semen tangled in his fur. He’d been unable to sit still the whole time.

“Nah, I think it is my business. Everything that happens in my school is my business.”

“Your school?” Shadow replied incredulously. “Just how is it your school?”

“Because every damn person in it fears and respects me.” Scourge said smugly.

“Well, I don’t. And Sonic certainly doesn’t. And Knuckles definitely doesn’t. And Rouge thinks you’re a joke. And-“

“Shut it! You think you and your pathetic friends are somebodies? Give me a fucking break.” Scourge slammed a hand into the wall next to Shadow, barely missing pounding his fist into Shadow’s face.

“No, you give me a fucking break. You’re here because you put your fist to my boyfriend’s face, you fucker. You think I’m gonna put up with your shit?” Shadow stood tall and stomped forward, glaring with all his might. Scourge took an involuntary and stumbling step back.

“You don’t know shit about me. You never will. And you don’t scare me. So stay the fuck away from me and from my boyfriend. I’m sick of your face.”

With that, Shadow turned and marched out of the bathroom, leaving Scourge shocked, furious, and more than a little frightened.

Scourge didn’t stay frightened. He got angry instead, and he decided to instigate his plans for destroying the school’s celebrity couple. And Shadow had just created the perfect in.

Shadow was in group therapy for violent juvenile offenders. He had returned for the two following weeks after their confrontation, so his presence was no accident. He’d done violence to someone, and Scourge wanted to know who.

Scourge didn’t approach Shadow again, and he told himself it wasn’t because he was intimidated by him. He just wanted some extra ammunition the next time they met.

And ammunition he found. He had someone in the juvie records office, a teenaged intern named Fiona he sometimes laid, and she dug up Shadow’s sealed files.

And boy were they a doozy. He’d teach Shadow to mess with him.

***
Sonic hummed a merry tune as he dressed for his and Shadow’s date. He had big plans for this night. He and Shadow were a sure thing, Sonic was positive they’d last.

He’d bought matching promise rings for them. Even if they ended up attending different colleges they would be staying together, and the rings would be a reminder of what they shared.

Sonic adjusted his suit and tie to perfection, and smiled with glee when a knock came to his door. That would be his boyfriend, arriving so they could walk together under the starlight hand in hand to their dinner.

Sonic opened the door with a grin, which fell away immediately when he saw the look on Shadow’s face.

Tears were in his eyes and his lips were quivering. He looked so miserable Sonic immediately opened his arms to him.

Shadow didn’t step into them. He stayed outside and stared at Sonic.

“Babe, what’s wrong?”

Shadow sniffled and wiped at his eyes and nose.

“I’m breaking up with you.” Shadow said through a heartbreaking sob.

“What?” Sonic let in a gasp of air. “Why? Babe, if I did something, I swear I’ll fix it. Just talk to me, don’t drop the breakup bomb out of nowhere.”

“I’m sorry. This isn’t your fault. I love you so much.” Shadow buried his face in his hands and turned from Sonic, running away from his door and into the night.

“Shadow, wait! What’s going on?” Sonic begged to the empty doorway and Shadow’s retreating back. He received no answer.

If Shadow loved him, why was he leaving him?

***

He’d been so close. He’d almost made it to eighteen without anybody learning of his past. He was almost done with the therapy, almost done with the nerve wracking stress, almost done with fearing Sonic would find out.
At eighteen his record would have been cleared, and no one would know anything about what he’d done.

But Scourge, of all people it had to be Scourge, found out and shoved it in his face.

A little birdie told me you are a very bad boy, Shadow. Attempted murder? Tsk, tsk, even I haven’t gone that far.

Scourge had threatened to tell Sonic of his past transgressions if he didn’t break up with him. It broke his heart, but their relationship would end anyway if he knew of Shadow’s criminal history. At least this way Sonic wouldn’t hate him, wouldn’t look at him with shame for ever being with him.

What they’d had was real, was special, and now it was over thanks to ghosts and Scourge’s meddling.

Scourge emerged from his hiding place behind a tall hedge in the neighbor’s yard as he cried and dripped tears and snot all over himself.

“Not much of a show, Stripes. I can’t say I’m convinced.” Scourge taunted.

“What else do you want from me?” Shadow demanded through his scratchy and croaking throat.

“Oh, our time together is only beginning. For now, I want you to keep this up and stay away from your boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend now I suppose.”

Shadow gave a wordless angry shriek at Scourge, ruined by an interrupting miserable sob.

“I’ll text you tomorrow. Let you know my other demands.”

***

Shadow spent the next day at school avoiding Sonic. He had to duck and dodge his way through the halls. But once their shared history class came about, there was nothing Shadow could do to avoid Sonic.

He arrived very close to past the late bell so Sonic wouldn’t catch him before class. He ducked his head down and stared solidly at the ground as he sat in his seat, unfortunately placed next to Sonic’s.

Sonic reached a hand over and touched Shadow’s arm. Shadow almost melted at the gentle stroke, nearly breaking down in the middle of the classroom. But he held fast to his will, and refused to look over.

The teacher entered, and Sonic lost the opportunity to speak to Shadow. And once the bell signaling the end of class rang out, Shadow bolted with speed that impressed even the track star.

It also greatly disappointed him. Why wouldn’t Shadow even speak to him? Sonic wondered.

At the day’s close, Shadow hung back from the crowds of students flooding out of the building. Scourge had texted him as promised, and he had told Shadow to meet him in the boy’s bathroom nearest Shadow’s locker.

He waited in the bathroom, expecting Scourge to arrive and berate him a little, maybe ask about Sonic’s personal life or some such shit.

He came alone, at least. That was a small blessing. So this wouldn’t be some sort of beat down.

“What do you want Scourge?”

“All work and no play makes Stripes a dull boy. So, I’m here to play.”

“I’m not in the mood, Scourge. Get to the point.” Shadow growled.

“Well, you said it, not me.”

Scourge lunged at Shadow and pinned him to the wall with his forearm on Shadow’s throat. Shadow gagged and choked, clawing at Scourge’s arm in an attempt to escape. He couldn’t get leverage as Scourge had slid his body up the wall and only the tips of his toes touched the ground. He hung there and choked until Scourge grew bored.

Scourge dropped his arm and slapped Shadow across the face, and he would have stumbled to the ground had it not been for Scourge pinning his arm to the wall.

“What?” Shadow gasped.

Scourge only slapped him again, enjoying the sound his hand made against Shadow’s face.

“Stop! What do you want?” Shadow demanded, tired of this treatment. Surely Scourge wanted something from him and didn’t yet realize how tightly he had Shadow by the balls with the information he had and believed he needed violence as well.

That wasn’t the case though. Scourge just wanted to slap Shadow around a bit, because he could and because Shadow wouldn’t report him to anyone. Scourge had missed beating those less than him while his parole officer breathed down his neck.

His violent side satiated for now, he held a hand to Shadow’s chest and obscenely rubbed his groin.

“What do you think you’re doing?” Shadow snarled, shoving Scourge away at last. He curled in on himself by crossing his arms and hunching slightly.

“What I brought you here for. You aren’t going to say no, are you?” Scourge raised an inquisitive and taunting eyebrow.

Shadow’s eyes widened. This was Scourge’s kind of play? This was the purpose of the blackmail? To rape him in the school bathroom? How sick and twisted was Scourge?

But what choice did he have? Nobody could know what was in his sealed juvie criminal records. Nothing could be worse than having that exposed.

He uncrossed his arms and looked down at the ground, unable to find a way out and submitting to Scourge. The vile bully grinned and walked back and leaned against wall opposite to the one Shadow was previously pinned on.
He crooked a finger and smirked. “Come over here and suck my dick, Stripes.”

Shadow let out a shaky breath and took a few steps towards Scourge, who tutted at him.

“Crawl.”

Shadow cringed at the word, but didn’t argue. He got down on hands and knees and crawled over to Scourge, who grinned at him all the way over.

“You look good down there where you belong.” Scourge thrust his pelvis forward as he spoke. “Use your pretty lips for something better than talking.”

Shadow put his mouth on Scourge’s crotch and undid his buttons with teeth and tongue, and as he pulled down his fly he remembered when he’d done exactly this to Sonic only three days before while dancing on top of him. It had been fun with Sonic, but doing the same for Scourge disgusted him.

The cock under his mouth was quickly hardening, and somehow his pre-cum tasted bitter and gross while Sonic’s tasted delectable. That shouldn’t have been the case, but it was still true. Everything about Sonic drew Shadow in, while everything about Scourge repulsed him.

His own feelings didn’t matter anymore, though. He had to do this.

Scourge’s pants, followed by his boxers, were pulled to the ground, and while his face was close to the tile, Scourge wiggled his foot back and forth a little.

“Kiss my feet while you’re down there, why don’t you?”

Shadow glared daggers into the ground, but didn’t let Scourge see his anger as he pressed his lips to the top of Scourge’s shoe, squinting his eyes to shut out what he was doing. He looked up at Scourge once the act was done.

“Come on, then.” Scourge frowned down at him condescendingly. “Do I have to repeat myself, you dumb fuck?”

Shadow shook his head and eyed Scourge’s engorged member. Like Sonic, Scourge too had his dick pierced, but instead of a Prince Albert he had a Jacob’s Ladder decorating the entire underside of his length. Shadow held back the temptation to gag and slid his lips over the tip.

“I know you’ve sucked Sonic’s dick, so no need to go so fucking slow.” Scourge growled, putting his hand on the back of Shadow head and thrusting him forward to fully take all of Scourge’s hard flesh into his mouth.

Shadow gagged and sputtered. It was true he’d sucked Sonic off before, but Sonic had been his first and only before this, and with him he’d never been asked to deep throat him. Sonic knew Shadow wasn’t comfortable swallowing Sonic’s considerable girth.

Scourge had no such reservations. He cared nothing for Shadow’s comfort level, and he laughed as Shadow struggled and attempted to pull back.

Scourge took mercy on him only because he feared Shadow would puke on his cock, which is nearly what he did as he gasped for breath and turned his head away to vomit.

He spat up bile, but no partially digested food seeing as how he was unable to eat all day due to nerves. He coughed and hacked until his stomach was empty.

“Disgusting.” Scourge scoffed as he gripped Shadow’s quills tight and pulled him until his face was thrust under a sink faucet, turned to the side so when Scourge turned the water on in gushed into his mouth.

Shadow sputtered and struggled to breath, feeling like he was drowning. Scourge shut the water off and let Shadow spit into the sink.

“We’ll work up to it.” Scourge darkly promised. So, this wouldn’t end here? Shadow thought with growing dread.
Scourge dragged him over to the wall he’d previously pinned Shadow against to get away from the puddle of vomit. He dropped Shadow and leaned against the wall.

“Try again, and I’ll go easy on you. This time.”

Shadow took in as much of Scourge’s length as he could, not wanting to disappoint him but also not wanting to puke again. He went to work using all the skill he’d gained while with Sonic, and despised himself for wanting to please Scourge, even if it was to avoid punishment.

Scourge leaned his head back and groaned in ecstasy, resisting the temptation to thrust. He really didn’t want puke on his dick. So he enjoyed Shadow tonguing his piercings and sucking on his tip.

There was a lot more he wanted to do to Shadow though, and he didn’t want to come yet. So, he kicked Shadow off of him, and he yelped in surprise when he hit the ground.

“Strip.”

Shadow shuddered, knowing what was coming and was terrified of it. He still obeyed, shakily unbuttoning his blazer and trousers, dropping his clothes onto the floor.

He stood naked in front of Scourge, red from anger and embarrassment. Scourge moved behind him and kicked him forward, making him throw his hands out to keep from smacking his face into the wall.

Scourge approached him from behind before he could recover his bearings and thrust a harsh, dry finger into his anus. Shadow stifled a cry, not wanting to give Scourge the satisfaction of hearing him.

But he couldn’t stop his screech of pain when Scourge cruelly dug his claws into his passage and drew blood.

“Why are you doing this?” Shadow asked through gritted teeth as he clenched his fist and pounded against the wall.

“Because I can.”

Scourge removed his finger and thrust his cock into Shadow’s anal passage, slickened by blood and tight from pain.

Shadow whimpered and tried to pull away, but Scourge kept a tight grip on his hip with one hand while the other kneaded his ass.

Sonic was fixated with his ass. He loved holding it in his hands, smacking it playfully, squeezing and rubbing it, and keeping it in his grip when they fell asleep in each other’s arms at night. Shadow found it arousing and more than a little amusing.

Yet another thing Scourge could only poorly imitate. These hands dug into his skin painfully and smacked his flesh with the intent to hurt, not play.

Shadow endured every thrust into his bleeding passage, his own erection failing to form due to how little care Scourge had for Shadow’s pleasure and the immense pain he was in.

But he endured, and he knew he would have to endure it again for an untold number of times. It would be worth it, though. All of it was worth it to keep Sonic from hating him and regretting knowing him.

Scourge came with a moan and a final deep thrust that hit his prostate by accident. The brief spike of pleasure was drowned out by agony and Shadow barely noticed it at all.

His rapist backed away and retrieved his pants after wiping the blood from his cock. He redressed and winked at Shadow.

“I’ll be nice and give you some time to recover from that little scratch you have in there. Be here same time next week.”

Scourge left Shadow weeping and naked on the bathroom floor, ass leaking blood and cum.

***

After a week of continuing to avoid Sonic, Shadow was again in the location of his rape, waiting for his rapist to arrive. It was so sick Shadow wanted to puke at the thought, but he choked it down.

He heard footsteps approaching, but several pairs. It couldn’t have been Scourge, but rather some slow students on their way to use the bathroom before going home.

Shadow wasn’t so fortunate as that, however, as the footsteps proved to belong to Scourge and two of his lackeys. Shadow immediately knew what was in store for him, and he quivered in terror.

The lackeys wordlessly moved forward, one being a hulking bear and the other a muscled wolf. They immediately tore at his clothes, ripping the buttons from his blazer and tearing the zipper from his pants.

At least he had spare uniforms, Shadow thought as a sad attempt to escape from what was happening to him. But he was brought harshly back to reality when the bear stuffed Shadow’s mouth with his cock.

As a small consolation, he didn’t vomit this time as the bear’s dick had more girth than length and it didn’t touch the back of his throat. The wolf occupied himself with fingering Shadow’s ass.

Shadow heard an electronic click, and with horror realized it was the sound of a phone’s camera going off. Scourge was taking pictures of him being raped.

He shifted his eyes to the side to confirm what he already knew. Scourge had his phone pointed in their direction and was snapping photos. As if he didn’t already have enough to blackmail Shadow with, he had to take it another step further?

Scourge considered the pictures insurance for just in case Shadow ever stopped fearing his case file being exposed. Even if that were to happen, his pride would drive him to keep these events secret and these photos buried.

The wolf entered him after only token stretching meant more to test his anus and not increase his comfort level while the bear continued to make use of his mouth. The wolf groaned and said,

“Hey, think you can get in here too? It feels fucking great.”

“What? No!” Shadow protested when the bear pulled out of his mouth, which absolutely no one listened to.
“Try it out.” Scourge encouraged with a grin, preparing his phone for more snapshots.

The wolf laid on his back with Shadow sitting on his cock and facing him, and the bear forced a finger into Shadow’s already overly stretched passage to further make room for his own cock.

Shadow whined and screamed in pain as the bear forced his dick into a place where there was no room for it. The two set an alternating pace, keeping constant and painful pressure on Shadow’s insides.

Scourge snapped away with his phone, considering sending these to Sonic just to fuck with him. Maybe he’d think his boyfriend broke up with him because he had an insatiable need for dick that Sonic alone couldn’t satisfy.

He’d do that if he got bored of his current method of tormenting Shadow. He’d doubted he’d bore of this, though, watching Shadow’s eyes roll back into his head and his throat vibrate with screams of agony.

His anus tore, and blood poured over the two cocks inside of his passage, making the pair laugh and taunt him.

“Can’t take this much, whore?”

“I thought you wanted dick!”

“Is that really blood or are you just wet for us, slut?”

Shadow sobbed and took the pain, wishing it would end. Wishing it would all end, the looming presence of his past, Scourge’s torment, the torturous pain. He wanted all of it to just end.

He wanted Sonic. More than an end, he wanted Sonic to wrap his arms around Shadow and kiss him until his problems faded away. He wanted Sonic to make love to him and whisper affection and sappy pet names to him.
He felt sexy when he danced for Sonic or made love with him. He doubted he’d ever feel sexy again, or ever dance for his boyfriend again.

Instead, he bled and screamed.

***

Scourge and his cronies left Shadow weeping and bleeding and leaking cum for a second time, but not for the last. Scourge brought more of his people, and demanded Shadow’s time with more frequency, regardless of how much blood he spilled.

He was raped by two or three or four people at once, each one taking their pleasures from his ass and coming inside before passing him off to the cock that had just been in his mouth, or both of their impatient colleagues waiting their turn.

Sometimes Scourge joined in, sometimes he didn’t. He always took pictures though.

And all the while as the semester passed by Shadow somehow kept up with his school work and continued to avoid Sonic. He’d had to make changes to his class schedule to get out of Sonic’s history class, because he wanted so badly to throw himself at his ex-boyfriend and beg him to take him back, damn the consequences. He continued to attend his therapy like a good little criminal, and Scourge would often use him in that church basement at the end of the session.

Even as more time passed and midterms came and went, Sonic still pursued him, insistent on talking things through. Shadow had no idea why Sonic was spending so much effort on just talking to him with no promise of getting him back. Shadow wasn’t worth his time. Not before, and especially not now that he was dirty and stained.

The day midterms ended, Scourge demanded his presence in the football locker room. It unnerved Shadow, because usually Scourge and his gang assaulted him the men’s bathrooms. The change of venue meant nothing good.

He waited on a bench, expecting Scourge to show up, but instead in walked the football team, both first stringers and benchwarmers, totaling twenty two people.

Shadow stood and considered running, but knew there would be no point, and Scourge would punish him for it.

“Damn, Scourge promised a post midterms present, but I didn’t think it’d be Shadow himself.”

“I thought he was dating Sonic.” Somebody else muttered. “Why would he agree to get fucked by us?”

Apparently, Shadow was the school slut now, Scourge’s property to pass out to whomever he pleased. Even those outside his gang of rapists. And Shadow couldn’t correct them by saying he was here unwillingly, because Scourge would only go through on his threats.

So, Shadow let himself be passed around like a commodity, his mouth and ass taking every one of the twenty-two dicks belonging to the football team.

At least these men didn’t make him bleed. They touched him and stretched him and brought him to orgasm several times, but that was somehow worse. At least with Scourge’s crew he could hate the people doing it to him, but these horny teenagers thought Shadow had volunteered for this, and he was granting them pleasure willingly.

He laid back and allowed them to do as they pleased. They came in him and on him, and at least had the courtesy to wear condoms if they came in his mouth or ass. Something Scourge’s group never did, and Shadow had made several trips to his doctor to get tested for STDs. He’d only had one bought of gonorrhea, which he had treated quickly. He was lucky in that respect. He could have gotten much worse.

Twenty-two men had their way with him in that locker room, on top of the faceless people under Scourge’s reign. More people than Shadow could count.

He couldn’t even call his body his own anymore. It Scourge’s plaything. His to toss at every horny dick that pointed his way.

The football team left him, patting each other on the back and returning to their girlfriends and their normal lives, their brief kinky stint over with.

Shadow would never go back to his normal life.

***

Methods of tying a noose were easy to find on the internet. One search and he found out how to tie a knot that wouldn’t loosen or break under the weight of a hedgehog’s body.

He tied the noose and attached it to his ceiling fan. He had to be quick because he shared a room with two of his foster siblings and they might enter the room at any moment. Not that they’d much care if he died, they’d likely let him choke and only be annoyed that his corpse hung in an inconvenient spot in the middle of the room.

He stood on a chair and looped the rope around his neck. He took a bracing breath and kicked the chair aside.

The fall wasn’t far enough to snap his neck. He hadn’t expected it to be, and he almost wanted to draw this out in the vain hope someone would actually stop him.

The life was slowly choked out of him, and as his throat burned with pain, a knock came to his door.

“Shadow? Your foster dad let me in and said I could talk to you. Can I come in?”

Sonic. Of course it would be Sonic. Shadow couldn’t have invited him in even if he wanted to. He could only gurgle and gag as the world faded to black and his lungs screamed for air.

“I’m coming in, even if you don’t want to talk to me. We can just sit and-”

The door opened.

“No! Shadow, no, no!” Sonic screamed and dove for him. He had the presence of mind to grab the fallen chair and place it under him, forcing his knees to uncurl as Shadow lifted his legs to keep from standing.

The pressure on his neck was relieved as Sonic forced him into a standing position on the chair, and Sonic quickly climbed up onto it to take the noose off of Shadow’s neck. He took Shadow into his arms and lowered him to one of the beds, screaming for someone to call for an ambulance.

That was the last thing Shadow was aware of before he blacked out.

***

Shadow didn’t stay in the hospital for long. He was only held for a requisite 48 hours for suicide watch before being let into his social worker’s custody.

His foster family was investigated for neglect, but Shadow cared nothing for that. He cared nothing for anything at all. He was only waiting to be left alone for even a moment so he could try again and end his life.

He denied Sonic’s visits, telling his nurses to keep everyone away. Once he was released, Sonic had no idea where he was. As it happened, he was staying at a local orphanage while his social worker attempted to sort out the mess he’d caused.

Sonic called and texted frequently. Shadow ignored every attempt at contact.

He continued his education through homeschooling. A teacher, Miss Vanilla, volunteered to come to the orphanage to bring him homework from his other teachers and tutor him on the basis that he was such a good student and he shouldn’t fall behind on his studies. She believed keeping him busy with schoolwork would remind him of everything he had to look forward to in college and his future career.

It didn’t work. Shadow did his due work, but there was no will behind it any longer. College was a distant dream he didn’t want to pursue. He didn’t want to pursue anything.

He was constantly watched, even escorted to the bathroom to prevent another attempt to take his own life. Shadow figured he could try drowning himself in a toilet in the sparse privacy of a bathroom stall. It would be an appropriate end to a worthless life like his.

Sonic hadn’t been informed of his release and didn’t know where he was staying, and Scourge didn’t dare come near him for fear of Shadow’s reaction at seeing him would spark suspicion towards Scourge as the cause of his attempted hanging.

No one came to see him except the orphanage workers assigned to watch him, his tutor and his social worker. The children of the orphanage avoided him, frightened by the dead look in his eyes.

After a week of constant monitoring, he was allowed freedom. Apparently a week was enough for the system to decide he was no longer in danger of killing himself, or that was how long it could keep the orphanage workers from their real work of ignoring their charges.

He was a minor, so he had a curfew, but he was free to leave the orphanage at long last.

Shadow initially intended to walk into traffic or jump off a building as soon as the orphanage doors let him through, but something stopped him.

Sonic had wanted to save him. Sonic had saved him. At the very least, he deserved a goodbye for all the years they’d had together.

He entered Sonic’s house without knocking. He knew Sonic’s family wouldn’t mind the intrusion.

No, they welcomed him, but stayed out of the way of his and Sonic’s reunion, providing them much needed privacy. At the sight of Shadow walking into his room, Sonic sobbed and threw his arms around him.

Shadow had truly wanted to die. He saw no future for himself. Scourge had taken everything from him.

But the moment Sonic held him all his dreams for their future together returned in a sudden rush. He wanted to go to college on his scholarship, wanted to share a room with Sonic if they went to the same college, or video chat with him every night if they didn’t.

He wanted to marry his high school sweetheart. Sonic would no doubt stage an elaborate proposal while knowing full well that him on one knee would be enough for a yes. Sonic always said he was worth extravagance, deserved to be celebrated.

Their wedding would be small, though. Only close friends and family would witness their union, but the reception would be a party to remember. Shadow would dance for Sonic again, this time on the ballroom floor and in his arms.

Then he’d dance in the privacy of their bedroom, a slow and seductive dance for Sonic’s eyes only.

They would adopt two children, a boy and a girl. They’d raise them to love fully, to care openly, and to give graciously.

They would spend their lives together, no matter any obstacle that blocked their path. Scourge had made him forget all that amidst all the torture and torment.

For the first time in a long time, Shadow wanted to live.

***

Only moments before Shadow arrived, Sonic had come home to see a folder left for him on his bedroom nightstand. He was disturbed to know someone had entered his home, but the folder had his most beloved’s name on it, so curiosity made him open the file.

He opened it and read every detail of Shadow’s history.

Shadow had lost his parents in a car crash when he was a child, and was adopted by a single father. He befriended a neighborhood girl by the name of Maria, and she visited his home frequently.

After a few years, Maria’s corpse was discovered in a gutter near their house. She’d been tortured and murder by Shadow’s adoptive father, apparently having been abused by the man for years since she began visiting Shadow at their home.

She kept coming back though, because she couldn’t leave Shadow alone and lonely. She’d compromised her safety and wellbeing just to provide Shadow a friend.

Shadow’s father had confessed all of this to Shadow, stating that he intended to make Shadow into his protégé of violence and murder.

Shadow lost control of himself, and brutally beat the man nearly to death before the police arrived, responding to a neighbor reporting his sorrowful and angry screaming.

The extenuating circumstances of the attack and Shadow’s tender age of eleven allowed for a lenient sentence; group therapy until he was eighteen and community service until he was sixteen.

Shadow’s adoptive father was arrested once he was released from the hospital, and given a life sentence for Maria’s and several other murder that came to light during the investigation.

Shadow was placed back into foster care, but he never stayed in one home for long. Any transgression was taken as a prequel to violence, and the families never kept him for more than a year. No one dared adopt him again.

Some of the families were abusive, but their crimes were revealed through other children reporting them. Shadow never reported any violence done to him for fear of being displaced yet again.

His life had been one of abuse, loneliness, and misery. It seemed that Sonic was the only good thing he had in his life.

Sonic closed the file and threw it in the trash.

***

Now, Shadow was sobbing in his arms and Sonic was sobbing just as much. The reason for their breakup was revealed between sorrowful cries. Sonic was furious, but exacting vengeance on Scourge would wait until Shadow was definitively his again.

Shadow confessed everything. The history Scourge had used to blackmail him, the repeated rapes, and the psychological torment. Shadow held nothing back.

Sonic only listened, stifling his rage and focusing on his complete adoration for Shadow. He cared nothing for his criminal past, nothing for anything besides the hedgehog in his arms.

“Please don’t hate me. I’ll die if you do.” Shadow sniffled and sobbed.

“I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you…I’ll say it until you never forget it again. I love you, I love you, I love you...” Sonic declared, repeating it again and again as Shadow cried tears of joy and relief.

His burdens fled. Shadow feared nothing, not Scourge and not his own demons. He couldn’t feel fear in Sonic’s arms, wrapped so tightly around him.

***

“What the fuck did you have us do, Scourge?” An angry voice questioned, and Scourge turned to meet it, annoyed.
He came face to face with a first stringer of the football team, a crocodile by the name of Vector.

“You said he was up for some fun, then I hear about him trying to kill himself? Did we rape him, Scourge?”

Vector’s face was twisted in an expression of regret and rage. It tore him asunder to think he’d been a part of Shadow’s torment, even if he hadn’t meant to be. The rest of the football team shared his sorrows, and they’d gone to confess what they’d done to the police and to the principal and accept any consequences that came their way.

Not a single one of them wanted to hide their terrible act. Vector had only separated from the group to confront Scourge and demand answers. He’d asserted to his teammates to include his name in their confession in his stead.

They wouldn’t walk away from this. They refused to assist in driving a good person to suicide and then plead innocence. They were a part of this, and they’d face what they had done.

Scourge gaped for a moment, shocked that Vector would confront him rather than dismiss their act as one of ignorance. But he was far from stupid, or so he believed, and he knew when a fight was lost, and he’d lost this one badly. He ran.

Unfortunately, in his haste, his phone clattered to the ground in front of Vector, who picked it up and saw the gallery of photos on it, pictures of Shadow crying and bleeding and the faces of his rapists.

He left to join his teammates at the police station, evidence of Scourge’s crimes firmly in hand.

***

Shadow heard of Scourge and his crew being arrested for aggravated rape after the high school quarterback Vector delivered evidence of his actions to the police. Sonic was overjoyed to know that his boyfriend’s tormentors were being punished for their deeds, and Shadow relaxed and felt safe again for the first time since the whole affair began.

Though Vector had delivered crucial evidence of Scourge’s crimes, they hadn’t bartered for a plea deal, and asked to be tried without consideration for their actions in getting Scourge arrested.

To the football team’s utter shock, Shadow had pleaded in their defense, asking for a lenient sentence on their behalf. As their victim, his words held great weight, and they were all sentenced to community service until age twenty-one.

Shadow didn’t hold what the foolish and ignorant students had done against them. He knew full well the weight of Scourge’s manipulations, and the guilt of what they’d done, as well as their willingness to face their actions, would be enough of a lesson.

The scars of what happened didn’t fade easily, and Shadow continued to see a private therapist to work through his trauma, but he made no further attempts to take his life.

The media had a field day with the story, reporting on teenaged sex cults and made a villain of every player in the story, from the football team to Shadow himself. They drove Shadow to retching sobs in Sonic’s arms more than once.

Sonic stayed firmly by his side through the whole messy and painful process of recovery. Shadow applied for and was granted emancipated minor status and moved in with Sonic and his family, who welcomed him with open arms.

Somehow, Sonic’s younger brother, Tails, accidentally overheard a news story that painted Shadow as a villain rather than a victim. Shadow had expected the impressionable youth to scorn him and believe the authoritative news outlet, and for Sonic’s parents to throw him out. Experience had taught him that adoptive parents and temporary homes were to be feared.

But instead Sonic’s adoptive parents swore off that particular news outlet, and Tails had written a very angry letter to the news station condemning them for saying such mean things about his new big brother.

Shadow had no shame about hugging Tails tight and crying as the young kit patted his back and assured him it would all be okay.

The final half of his senior year was spent being homeschooled by the kind Miss Vanilla. Shadow wouldn’t be able to take the whispers behind his back and gossiping about what they heard on the news of him being a slut that ruined the lives of promising students with his accusations of rape.

He had feared the media circus would make colleges hesitant to give him scholarships, and some certainly did go back on their promises of full rides, but most didn’t, and Shadow still had his choice of higher education.

***

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