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Sequel to I'm Dying of Something Worse Than Death

Though, tbh, all you need to know is that Sonic and pals handed Shadow over to Mephiles, he was tortured, and his mind went bye-bye. There's not much of a need to read it if you're just here for the Shadipse.", "writing": "Shadow laid on his bed, staring up at the ceiling with drooling eyes. He was empty of will, of fire, of everything. Shadow was dying, and Sonic and his friends had killed him.\n\nHe hadn’t spoken, hadn’t eaten, hadn’t done anything but stare into the distance since Mephiles was defeated and he was returned to them. His mind had fled his body and he was left an empty husk, just flesh with nothing to move it.\n\nSonic was beyond distraught. Shadow was in this state because of him, because his friends had let Shadow walk into Mephiles’ grasp to save him. The guilt ate away at him every time he saw Shadow’s lifeless form, every time he closed his eyes and tried to sleep, and in every waking moment as well.\n\nAll of it was made worse by the lack of regret on his friends’ parts. Sonic was fine, and that’s what mattered to them, even though Shadow had paid far too high a price for it.\n\nOmega had threatened death on them for the sorry state of Shadow, and Rouge had lost all her excitement for treasure hunting and thievery. It just wasn’t as fun without Shadow scolding her for it. She wanted her best friend back.\n\nThey and Sonic were Shadow’s only visitors to his corner of the apartment above Rouge’s club. The others had little affection for Shadow, and more than that didn’t want to face the consequences of their actions. It was easier to leave him be.\n\nNot that Shadow knew any visited him at all. He was aware of nothing.\n\n[i]Oh, my love, what have they done to you?[/i]\n\n***\n\n“Knuckles and I got into another fight.” Rouge said to Shadow’s lifeless body. “He said I should be spending time with him instead of you. He called you a vegetable.”\n\nRouge stroked Shadow’s hand which she held tightly in her grasp.\n\n“It’s like he doesn’t care you’re like this because of them.” She mumbled, somewhat hatefully. “They threw you away like you were nothing.”\n\nHer hand tightened around Shadow’s, knowing he wouldn’t feel it but also hoping the painful squeeze would spark something, anything in him.\n\n“I can’t be around him anymore. He doesn’t understand that-that you’re my best friend and I miss you. I miss you so much, damnit!”\n\nRouge collapsed and buried her face into Shadow’s chest to sob until she ran out of tears to shed.\n\n[i]She loves you very much. But not enough to save you. I love you more than anything, Shadow. And I’ll be the one to fix you.[/i]\n\n***\n\nOmega didn’t understand what had happened. Shadow was functional. His life signs were strong. His heartbeat was steady and his lungs drew air. So why did he not remove himself from the bed? Why did he not join Omega and Rouge on missions any longer?\n\n“Meatbag, I require you to return to functionality. Your current state is non-satisfactory.”\n\n“Omega, he can’t hear you. Talking to him isn’t going to fix this.” Rouge attempted to explain to Omega yet another time.\n\nThe robot couldn’t comprehend a broken mind, when his own consciousness was hardware and wires. As far as he knew, Shadow’s state could be repaired in the same way a loose screw could be tightened.\n\n“Please state parameters to repair Shadow.”\n\n“There are no parameters for this, Omega. We can’t repair him.”\n\n“Rejected. All things can be repaired. Modify your statement.”\n\n“Omega, Shadow can’t be fixed. Please, just…just stop this.”\n\n“I do not accept that. State parameters to repair Shadow.”\n\n“There are no parameters! He’s gone, Omega, he’s breathing but he’s dead! We can’t repair him!”\n\n“I reject your statement. Shadow cannot be dead if he is breathing. There must be a method of repair.”\n\n“Please, stop, Omega. Stop.”\n\n“I refuse. Shadow must be repaired. I will not allow him to break.”\n\n[i]The robot doesn’t understand you. No one understands you except for me. I know you, Shadow, and I love all of you.\n\nWho…?\n\nYes, come back, my love. Return and hurry to my side.\n\nYou’re…\n\nI am inside of you, inside your mind. I am repairing it, my love. Do not fear me. I only want to help you.[/i]\n\n***\n\nMore weeks passed with no improvement. Sonic came to talk to Shadow and tell him about the world and about his fights to protect the planet, vainly hoping it would spark his competitive spirit and wake him up.\n\nIt did no good. Shadow’s jaw stayed lax and saliva still dribbled out the side of his mouth. His eyes stared unblinkingly at the ceiling, his caretakers had to put eye drops in them to keep them healthy. He breathed and his heart beat, but he was still practically a corpse.\n\nSonic wondered if he was aware of anything, if he was a prisoner in his own mind. If he was fighting to get out and return to them. Sonic hoped that was the case, but it didn’t seem likely.\n\nTheir group of friends had torn themselves apart over the last few weeks. Knuckles had suggested just letting Shadow die, that it would be a mercy more than anything, and Rouge had screamed and sobbed at him and they had broken up on the spot. They hadn’t seen Knuckles leave Angel Island since.\n\nRouge refused to admit that Knuckles had a point, that they were only delaying the inevitable, and that maybe it would be a mercy to let Shadow die. It was just too hard though, to give up on him after they made him this way. They couldn’t be his killers as well as his betrayers.\n\nTails wanted to see Shadow, thought maybe he could fix him, but Sonic refused to allow him. He didn’t want his little brother to try and help their friend only to fail. The young kit didn’t understand Shadow was beyond their help. Sonic had fought with his brother, more viciously than they ever had before, and Tails was refusing to speak to him even as he begged for forgiveness outside his shut and locked bedroom door.\n\nNobody could take being around Omega. He just didn’t comprehend that Shadow’s problem couldn’t be repaired like Omega could be. Shadow was broken in a way that was beyond Omega. His insistence that Shadow could be fixed only made them feel more wretched.\n\n[i]Your mind is so far gone. But I will bring you back, I promise, love.\n\nPlease…\n\nSoon, you will be healed and in my arms, love. Soon.\n\nNeed…\n\nI need you too, my love. I ache for you. We will be together soon, my love.[/i]\n\n***\n\nSonic had little to say to Shadow anymore. It had been months and he’d made no improvements. Once, he’d babbled cheerful little anecdotes of his day to Shadow, but that had long since ended. There was no hope left.\n\n[i]I’m coming for you, my love. Wait just a little longer.\n\nHurry…[/i]\n\nThey’d spent these months feeding and bathing him dutifully, talking to him, trying to coax him out of this state, but he stayed firmly locked away in his own mind.\n\nThey had to let him go. There was nothing of their friend left.\n\n[i]Please…\n\nI’m almost there, my love! He won’t take you from me![/i]\n\nHe would make it gentle, make it easy. Sonic took the pillow from under Shadow’s head and placed it over his face, pushing down until Shadow’s weak breaths couldn’t pass through his mouth and nose.\n\nShadow didn’t twitch, didn’t struggle at all, and that made it easier to kill him. Sonic cried and sobbed as he smothered his friend.\n\n[i]Eclipse…![/i]\n\nThe door burst open. Sonic jumped away from Shadow, thinking that Rouge had somehow known what he was doing and had come to stop him.\n\nThe creature in the doorway was definitely not Rouge.\n\nHe’d never seen such a thing before as the one now marching across the room towards him. He got into a battle stance, but the creature completely ignored him, and instead went to Shadow.\n\nThe creature stroked a three fingered hand across Shadow’s brow, and Sonic relaxed. He didn’t seem to intend to do harm, so perhaps he could help Shadow?\n\nShadow blinked.\n\nSonic stared in shock. Shadow hadn’t twitched in months, and with one touch from this creature he had blinked. Now, his eyes were roaming the room, foggy and unseeing but still moving.\n\nSonic gave a cry of joy, and immediately regretted it as the creature turned on him with a fierce glare.\n\n“You have no right to be happy, you traitor! You made him this way to begin with, you have no right to celebrate his return. I have brought him back, I have repaired his mind while you gave up on him and were ready to throw him away, again.”\n\nSonic gaped, but he couldn’t argue. The creature was entirely right. None of them had done anything to try and fix Shadow, they had actively prevented any attempts to do so. Omega and Tails were both told it was hopeless, even though they had only wanted to search for a way to help.\n\nShadow’s eyes found the creature, and a weak and wavering voice that Sonic was so grateful to hear again, said quietly, “Eclipse…You’re here.”\n\nEclipse sat on the bed and pulled Shadow into his lap and wrapped his arms around him. “Yes, I’m here, my love.”\n\n“Can I…?” Sonic began, holding his arms out to Shadow. Eclipse growled and gripped Shadow tighter.\n\n“No! You don’t deserve to touch him, traitor! He’s mine and you will not take him from me!”\n\n“Please, just let me hold him! He’s my friend and I thought he was gone forever! Just let me hold him!” Sonic begged, beyond pride in his desperation to reassure himself of Shadow’s survival.\n\nShadow only buried himself into Eclipse’s chest at the sound of Sonic yelling, as if he were a child flinching from thunder. Eclipse petted him and cooed.\n\n“You are frightening him. Stop or I will [i]stop you[/i].” Eclipse warned.\n\n“Shadow…why are you…? Did you do something to him?” Shadow didn’t whimper in fear! Shadow didn’t cringe from Sonic, he fought back! What was wrong with him?\n\n“I did nothing but wake him up. I repaired what was left of his mind to allow him to function again. Whatever damage remains is the result of your neglect and abuse, the result of you throwing him at Mephiles and leaving him to suffer!”\n\nEclipse bundled Shadow in his arms and lifted him up, apparently much stronger than his spindly frame suggested.\n\n“I’m taking him away.” Eclipse announced.\n\n“What? Where? You can’t do that!”\n\n“Somewhere safe, and somewhere far away from you. You won’t see us again, but since you claim to give a damn about him, let me assure you he will be happy with me.”\n\nWith that, Eclipse walked away, and Sonic didn’t pursue. Perhaps this was for the best. He and his friends had only driven him to sacrifice himself and devalue himself. They’d betrayed him so many times. They’d reduced him a drooling corpse.\n\nEclipse had fixed him as best he could, had brought him back from practical death, and had promised to take care of him. Certainly better care than he’d had in Sonic and friend’s hands.\n\nSo, he let them go.\n\n***\n\nEclipse took Shadow home, to where he belonged, to the Black Comet. It took them far away from Mobius, away from Shadow’s tormentors and so-called friends.\n\nHe kept his promise. He made Shadow happy, which proved to be very easy to do. Much of his mind was still broken beyond repair, and he had lost much of himself because of it.\n\nShadow could feed and bathe himself, but much of his ability to speak had been lost. He spoke slowly and simply, but he understood everything around him. He laughed at Eclipse’s clever jokes and he declared his love for Eclipse frequently. He was an integral part to formulating their battle strategies, even if it took him time to voice them.\n\nHe was unable to fight, would never fight again. His body was so weak and atrophied that it would never recover after Mephiles’ tortures and his own death-like state. That was fine, though. Eclipse would protect his love, as would the other denizens of the Black Comet, who had come to adore and respect Shadow almost as much as Eclipse did.\n\nThey made love at the close of nearly every day, which they spent together unless Eclipse and his soldiers had a planet to conquer. In which case, he spent his time in their bedroom or with Black Death discussing war tactics.\nShadow’s days were blissful, and he couldn’t even worry over having lost almost all of his memory. He recalled distant faces, a bat he was fond of, a blue hedgehog he may have fallen in love with had life been different, but their names and the details of his time with them were lost.\n\nIt mattered little when he was so happy with Eclipse.\n\nEclipse licked and sucked at Shadow’s cock while Shadow did the same to Eclipse’s. Shadow had been nervous about sex after his brutal rape, but he soon warmed to the idea once Eclipse proved he would give Shadow nothing but pleasure.\n\nEclipse had been willing to wait for Shadow to be comfortable with him, and the payoff was more than worth it. Shadow’s body was a wonderland Eclipse loved exploring, and he was so responsive and sexy it blew Eclipse away.\n\nShadow deep throated him and Eclipse rewarded his lover by moaning with Shadow’s cock deep in his mouth, the vibrations from his throat running down Shadow’s length.\n\nShadow swallowed down Eclipse’s cum when he orgasmed, not letting a drop escape, relishing the taste as if it were ambrosia.\n\nEclipse did the same for Shadow when his orgasm hit him. The moaned and thrust down each other’s throats and drank each other up.\n\nThey adjusted until they were face to face, and Eclipse flicked a speck of cum from Shadow’s lip and waggled it teasingly in front of his face. Shadow poked his tongue out cutely and lapped the cum off Eclipse’s finger before suckling on the appendage like a nursing babe.\n\n“Are you happy, my love? Have I made you happy in your new home?”\n\nShadow nodded. “Eclipse…love.” He mumbled, still embarrassed by his inability to properly speak his mind.\n\n“I love you too, my most precious one. My greatest treasure.”\n\nShadow smiled and snuggled into Eclipse’s arms.\n\nEclipse found himself cursing Sonic and his fellows yet another time. They had no idea what they had once had in Shadow. Their loss was Eclipse’s gain. And they were both happier for it.", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Shadow laid on his bed, staring up at the ceiling with drooling eyes. He was empty of will, of fire, of everything. Shadow was dying, and Sonic and his friends had killed him.

He hadn’t spoken, hadn’t eaten, hadn’t done anything but stare into the distance since Mephiles was defeated and he was returned to them. His mind had fled his body and he was left an empty husk, just flesh with nothing to move it.

Sonic was beyond distraught. Shadow was in this state because of him, because his friends had let Shadow walk into Mephiles’ grasp to save him. The guilt ate away at him every time he saw Shadow’s lifeless form, every time he closed his eyes and tried to sleep, and in every waking moment as well.

All of it was made worse by the lack of regret on his friends’ parts. Sonic was fine, and that’s what mattered to them, even though Shadow had paid far too high a price for it.

Omega had threatened death on them for the sorry state of Shadow, and Rouge had lost all her excitement for treasure hunting and thievery. It just wasn’t as fun without Shadow scolding her for it. She wanted her best friend back.

They and Sonic were Shadow’s only visitors to his corner of the apartment above Rouge’s club. The others had little affection for Shadow, and more than that didn’t want to face the consequences of their actions. It was easier to leave him be.

Not that Shadow knew any visited him at all. He was aware of nothing.

Oh, my love, what have they done to you?

***

“Knuckles and I got into another fight.” Rouge said to Shadow’s lifeless body. “He said I should be spending time with him instead of you. He called you a vegetable.”

Rouge stroked Shadow’s hand which she held tightly in her grasp.

“It’s like he doesn’t care you’re like this because of them.” She mumbled, somewhat hatefully. “They threw you away like you were nothing.”

Her hand tightened around Shadow’s, knowing he wouldn’t feel it but also hoping the painful squeeze would spark something, anything in him.

“I can’t be around him anymore. He doesn’t understand that-that you’re my best friend and I miss you. I miss you so much, damnit!”

Rouge collapsed and buried her face into Shadow’s chest to sob until she ran out of tears to shed.

She loves you very much. But not enough to save you. I love you more than anything, Shadow. And I’ll be the one to fix you.

***

Omega didn’t understand what had happened. Shadow was functional. His life signs were strong. His heartbeat was steady and his lungs drew air. So why did he not remove himself from the bed? Why did he not join Omega and Rouge on missions any longer?

“Meatbag, I require you to return to functionality. Your current state is non-satisfactory.”

“Omega, he can’t hear you. Talking to him isn’t going to fix this.” Rouge attempted to explain to Omega yet another time.

The robot couldn’t comprehend a broken mind, when his own consciousness was hardware and wires. As far as he knew, Shadow’s state could be repaired in the same way a loose screw could be tightened.

“Please state parameters to repair Shadow.”

“There are no parameters for this, Omega. We can’t repair him.”

“Rejected. All things can be repaired. Modify your statement.”

“Omega, Shadow can’t be fixed. Please, just…just stop this.”

“I do not accept that. State parameters to repair Shadow.”

“There are no parameters! He’s gone, Omega, he’s breathing but he’s dead! We can’t repair him!”

“I reject your statement. Shadow cannot be dead if he is breathing. There must be a method of repair.”

“Please, stop, Omega. Stop.”

“I refuse. Shadow must be repaired. I will not allow him to break.”

The robot doesn’t understand you. No one understands you except for me. I know you, Shadow, and I love all of you.

Who…?

Yes, come back, my love. Return and hurry to my side.

You’re…

I am inside of you, inside your mind. I am repairing it, my love. Do not fear me. I only want to help you.

***

More weeks passed with no improvement. Sonic came to talk to Shadow and tell him about the world and about his fights to protect the planet, vainly hoping it would spark his competitive spirit and wake him up.

It did no good. Shadow’s jaw stayed lax and saliva still dribbled out the side of his mouth. His eyes stared unblinkingly at the ceiling, his caretakers had to put eye drops in them to keep them healthy. He breathed and his heart beat, but he was still practically a corpse.

Sonic wondered if he was aware of anything, if he was a prisoner in his own mind. If he was fighting to get out and return to them. Sonic hoped that was the case, but it didn’t seem likely.

Their group of friends had torn themselves apart over the last few weeks. Knuckles had suggested just letting Shadow die, that it would be a mercy more than anything, and Rouge had screamed and sobbed at him and they had broken up on the spot. They hadn’t seen Knuckles leave Angel Island since.

Rouge refused to admit that Knuckles had a point, that they were only delaying the inevitable, and that maybe it would be a mercy to let Shadow die. It was just too hard though, to give up on him after they made him this way. They couldn’t be his killers as well as his betrayers.

Tails wanted to see Shadow, thought maybe he could fix him, but Sonic refused to allow him. He didn’t want his little brother to try and help their friend only to fail. The young kit didn’t understand Shadow was beyond their help. Sonic had fought with his brother, more viciously than they ever had before, and Tails was refusing to speak to him even as he begged for forgiveness outside his shut and locked bedroom door.

Nobody could take being around Omega. He just didn’t comprehend that Shadow’s problem couldn’t be repaired like Omega could be. Shadow was broken in a way that was beyond Omega. His insistence that Shadow could be fixed only made them feel more wretched.

Your mind is so far gone. But I will bring you back, I promise, love.

Please…

Soon, you will be healed and in my arms, love. Soon.

Need…

I need you too, my love. I ache for you. We will be together soon, my love.

***

Sonic had little to say to Shadow anymore. It had been months and he’d made no improvements. Once, he’d babbled cheerful little anecdotes of his day to Shadow, but that had long since ended. There was no hope left.

I’m coming for you, my love. Wait just a little longer.

Hurry…

They’d spent these months feeding and bathing him dutifully, talking to him, trying to coax him out of this state, but he stayed firmly locked away in his own mind.

They had to let him go. There was nothing of their friend left.

Please…

I’m almost there, my love! He won’t take you from me!

He would make it gentle, make it easy. Sonic took the pillow from under Shadow’s head and placed it over his face, pushing down until Shadow’s weak breaths couldn’t pass through his mouth and nose.

Shadow didn’t twitch, didn’t struggle at all, and that made it easier to kill him. Sonic cried and sobbed as he smothered his friend.

Eclipse…!

The door burst open. Sonic jumped away from Shadow, thinking that Rouge had somehow known what he was doing and had come to stop him.

The creature in the doorway was definitely not Rouge.

He’d never seen such a thing before as the one now marching across the room towards him. He got into a battle stance, but the creature completely ignored him, and instead went to Shadow.

The creature stroked a three fingered hand across Shadow’s brow, and Sonic relaxed. He didn’t seem to intend to do harm, so perhaps he could help Shadow?

Shadow blinked.

Sonic stared in shock. Shadow hadn’t twitched in months, and with one touch from this creature he had blinked. Now, his eyes were roaming the room, foggy and unseeing but still moving.

Sonic gave a cry of joy, and immediately regretted it as the creature turned on him with a fierce glare.

“You have no right to be happy, you traitor! You made him this way to begin with, you have no right to celebrate his return. I have brought him back, I have repaired his mind while you gave up on him and were ready to throw him away, again.”

Sonic gaped, but he couldn’t argue. The creature was entirely right. None of them had done anything to try and fix Shadow, they had actively prevented any attempts to do so. Omega and Tails were both told it was hopeless, even though they had only wanted to search for a way to help.

Shadow’s eyes found the creature, and a weak and wavering voice that Sonic was so grateful to hear again, said quietly, “Eclipse…You’re here.”

Eclipse sat on the bed and pulled Shadow into his lap and wrapped his arms around him. “Yes, I’m here, my love.”

“Can I…?” Sonic began, holding his arms out to Shadow. Eclipse growled and gripped Shadow tighter.

“No! You don’t deserve to touch him, traitor! He’s mine and you will not take him from me!”

“Please, just let me hold him! He’s my friend and I thought he was gone forever! Just let me hold him!” Sonic begged, beyond pride in his desperation to reassure himself of Shadow’s survival.

Shadow only buried himself into Eclipse’s chest at the sound of Sonic yelling, as if he were a child flinching from thunder. Eclipse petted him and cooed.

“You are frightening him. Stop or I will stop you.” Eclipse warned.

“Shadow…why are you…? Did you do something to him?” Shadow didn’t whimper in fear! Shadow didn’t cringe from Sonic, he fought back! What was wrong with him?

“I did nothing but wake him up. I repaired what was left of his mind to allow him to function again. Whatever damage remains is the result of your neglect and abuse, the result of you throwing him at Mephiles and leaving him to suffer!”

Eclipse bundled Shadow in his arms and lifted him up, apparently much stronger than his spindly frame suggested.

“I’m taking him away.” Eclipse announced.

“What? Where? You can’t do that!”

“Somewhere safe, and somewhere far away from you. You won’t see us again, but since you claim to give a damn about him, let me assure you he will be happy with me.”

With that, Eclipse walked away, and Sonic didn’t pursue. Perhaps this was for the best. He and his friends had only driven him to sacrifice himself and devalue himself. They’d betrayed him so many times. They’d reduced him a drooling corpse.

Eclipse had fixed him as best he could, had brought him back from practical death, and had promised to take care of him. Certainly better care than he’d had in Sonic and friend’s hands.

So, he let them go.

***

Eclipse took Shadow home, to where he belonged, to the Black Comet. It took them far away from Mobius, away from Shadow’s tormentors and so-called friends.

He kept his promise. He made Shadow happy, which proved to be very easy to do. Much of his mind was still broken beyond repair, and he had lost much of himself because of it.

Shadow could feed and bathe himself, but much of his ability to speak had been lost. He spoke slowly and simply, but he understood everything around him. He laughed at Eclipse’s clever jokes and he declared his love for Eclipse frequently. He was an integral part to formulating their battle strategies, even if it took him time to voice them.

He was unable to fight, would never fight again. His body was so weak and atrophied that it would never recover after Mephiles’ tortures and his own death-like state. That was fine, though. Eclipse would protect his love, as would the other denizens of the Black Comet, who had come to adore and respect Shadow almost as much as Eclipse did.

They made love at the close of nearly every day, which they spent together unless Eclipse and his soldiers had a planet to conquer. In which case, he spent his time in their bedroom or with Black Death discussing war tactics.
Shadow’s days were blissful, and he couldn’t even worry over having lost almost all of his memory. He recalled distant faces, a bat he was fond of, a blue hedgehog he may have fallen in love with had life been different, but their names and the details of his time with them were lost.

It mattered little when he was so happy with Eclipse.

Eclipse licked and sucked at Shadow’s cock while Shadow did the same to Eclipse’s. Shadow had been nervous about sex after his brutal rape, but he soon warmed to the idea once Eclipse proved he would give Shadow nothing but pleasure.

Eclipse had been willing to wait for Shadow to be comfortable with him, and the payoff was more than worth it. Shadow’s body was a wonderland Eclipse loved exploring, and he was so responsive and sexy it blew Eclipse away.

Shadow deep throated him and Eclipse rewarded his lover by moaning with Shadow’s cock deep in his mouth, the vibrations from his throat running down Shadow’s length.

Shadow swallowed down Eclipse’s cum when he orgasmed, not letting a drop escape, relishing the taste as if it were ambrosia.

Eclipse did the same for Shadow when his orgasm hit him. The moaned and thrust down each other’s throats and drank each other up.

They adjusted until they were face to face, and Eclipse flicked a speck of cum from Shadow’s lip and waggled it teasingly in front of his face. Shadow poked his tongue out cutely and lapped the cum off Eclipse’s finger before suckling on the appendage like a nursing babe.

“Are you happy, my love? Have I made you happy in your new home?”

Shadow nodded. “Eclipse…love.” He mumbled, still embarrassed by his inability to properly speak his mind.

“I love you too, my most precious one. My greatest treasure.”

Shadow smiled and snuggled into Eclipse’s arms.

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