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Shadow's presence in everyone's loves was brief, but impactful.
For Rouge, she could feel more vulnerable, more like a person around him... Though she couldn't be because of her mission but in any other circumstance... She could have been friends with him. Best friends even.
With Sonic, he knew Shadow for less longer than Rouge did and they were clashing for most of it, though they had some meaningful conversations by the end.
After Amy convinced Shadow to not blow up the world, Sonic was excited to finally have someone around to challenge him.
Shadow wasn't there for long. But he made such a big impact on everyone. Rouge and Sonic especially.
So when Sonic felt himself draining of energy to go on in his super form after stopping the Ark he went to grab Shadow... But all he found was the Hedgehog's rings. He looked down. He was falling.
Sonic went to reach out to him but Shadow waved him off. Good thing too. If Sonic went back for him he would have fallen with him.
When Sonic got back onto the Ark and collapsed, chaos emeralds flying away, he felt a twinge of numbness but melancholy.
"Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog." He murmured.
Neither of them really remember what happened next. Talking. Chatting. Eventually Sonic found Rouge by a window looking down at earth. She looked at him, then behind him expectantly.
Part of her knew. But she didn't let the thought hold any weight until Sonic handed her Shadow's inhibitors.
Neither of them cried. Just stared anywhere but in each other's eyes. How we're they meant to feel? Sad obviously but... They both felt everything yet nothing at the same time. All they could do was just exist.
★★★
It had been about a week since everything went down. Sonic went on with his life as normal. Supporting his friends. Running around. What else was he meant to do? He didn't feel all that destraught.
Until now.
Of course the moment his feelings decided to show themselves was when he was alone. On a rooftop. In the middle of the city, looking down at where he had first fought Shadow.
And of course for once the roads were fixed up immediately so now it looks like he was never there... Never existed...
Sonic didn't cry. He wasnt a crier. But he just shut down. He hadnt done that since he was a kid.
Going quiet and dissociating. Not able to talk. Throat and chest tightening and gut turning as if he were to cry but he never did.
Staring down, spiralling from thoughts that ran through his head while also not being present thoughts that he really acknowledged at all.
People dying are always sad but he questioned why this struck him so deeply. He hardly knew the guy. Maybe that's the problem. He didn't get the chance to know someone so interesting. Maybe in another circumstance... They could be friends. Racing, sparing.
"Long time no see Blue~" a familiar voice greets. Sonic barely looks at her. Only turning his head to stare at her shoes.
She sat down next to him, legs dangling from the bricks. Now they looked at eachother in the eyes they were the same.
Both having confusing, and a weird sense of greif.
"You doing okay?" Sonic asks putting on his mask of his confident self though it falters as Rouge looks at him with empathy. Nothing gets past her. He's left with a tired smirk that doesn't quite reach his eyes.
"I should ask you the same question. But I think our answer will be the same." She says digging through a satchel.
"I'm doing as well as I can be-" he then freezes as a bottle of alcohol is pushed into his field of view.
"Want some? I need it so I'm sure you do too." She offers.
"I've never actually drank before." Sonic mentions, holding the bottle, his finger brushing over hers without any weight to it. "Let me guess, G.U.N put you up to this. Are you going to get me drunk to question me?" He asks teasingly.
She pops it open and takes a swig. "Nah, I requested some time off. I'm considering quitting actually. But I don't know. What else am I meant to do with my time?"
"Chat with Hedgehogs on rooftops apparently"
"Hm. Yeah." She goes to say something else but the words die in her throat. She brings the bottle up to Sonic's lips.
A moment sits between them before Sonic puts his hands over hers on the bottle and tilting it up to take a few gulps before coughing. "Euuh! What is that?! People drink this stuff? It burns the back of my throat and not in a chilidog way!"
Rouge laughs, "hah! To be fair it's just straight vodka. I got it at a store. I was planning on mixing it with some other drinks back at my apartment. I was on my way there when I saw you actually. Would you want to come along? Watch some crappy movies and have a sleepover?"
Sonic freezes for a moment. Tilting his head. "A sleepover? With you?"
Despite not meaning it in an insulting way, Rouge fakes offence by scoffing, pulling the drink away from him "oh sorry~! I didn't know your mommy would need to approve you to hang out with such a naughty girl~!"
Rouge's hands accidentally slips and the bottle falls from her hand. There's a split second of grief over her poor expensive (not really) bottle of vodka before she realises that Sonic has leaned over her lap and caught the bottle, one hand holding the neck and the other on her thigh.
Sonic smirks and turns his head to look at her, his nose almost touching her muzzle, "good thing my mommy isn't around to tell me what to do. I'm in!"
★★★
"Woah. This view seems like something out of one of Amy's Pinterest boards" Sonic comments looking out of the large window showing off the sunrise peeking through the tall buildings of the city. He didn't even realise he was out this late- or well, this early.
Rouge walks around and places her hand on his shoulder, "this good view is the one good thing that's come out from working with G.U.N." she pulls out a glass, blue and red. "I mixed some drinks I reckon you'd like"
"Thanks" he takes it in his hands.
Rouge goes and sits down on the sofa, her apartment is a lot messier than she usually keeps it but she can't bring herself to clean it right now. Besides, it's only clutter messy not food filthy.
"I was thinking this. It's a show Shadow and I watched together for a brief moment while we were waiting for Eggman to do something. It seemed like a crappy show about forbidden love but he seemed to be interested in it." Her hand shook slightly, realising that bringing him up might be bad move but sonic just sits on the other side of the couch.
He performativity relaxes back and takes downs half of the glass.
★★★
Rouge hasn't been paying much attention to the show. Just grabbing and offering and drinking one drink after another. She felt tipsy now.
Looking over, Sonic hadnt drank as much but this was his first time so he was quite tipsy. This was only proved by the miserable look on his face. She realised he wasn't paying attention either. He was just staring off into space.
She sets her drink down on the coffee table and crawls over to Sonic's side of the couch, getting up close in Sonic's bubble. He didn't move to stop her so she took her place in snuggling up to his side.
"I miss him too." She mutters. His grip on the glass tightens. A glass that had been long since empty. "I know we barely knew him and-"
"That's the problem. We barely knew him" he cuts her off. Not intentionally being rude. But she understood. "He had a life before. One we didn't know much about. Then it was stripped away from him. Then he tried to destroy the world for it. Then didn't. He wanted to do better. Be better. But he was gone before he got the chance... Before I got the chance to know him. Before anyone-... I shouldn't even be this upset. I don't know why I am"
"Hon... Don't..." She sits up, taking his glass and setting it down on the coffee table next to hers. She cups his cheek, stroking it with her thumb. Her other hand on his arm as comfort. "Don't feel bad about grieving. If you cry or not. If you... You're allowed to feel any way and you should not be guilty about any of it."
Sonic's ears droop. His face follows. Going from something hollow to something visibly saddened. He leaned into her, exhausted and burying his nose into the crook of her neck. He wraps his arms around her, pinning the upper half of her arms to either side of her, leaving her only the ability to use the lower half of her arms to wrap around his waist.
Rouge questioned herself, since when did she care about others this much?... Or well, when did she get the chance?
Sonic was someone who probably never showed vulnerability. His drunken state letting it pour out of him. This boy needed comfort. And by comforting him, she'd get the comfort, and the hole left by Shadow temporarily patched up.
Sonic can't really think right now. He doesn't want too. He usually doesn't like people outside of his close friends touching him but in the position he's found himself in now, lying on the couch, watching but not paying attention to a show on the TV as the person you're grieving's best friend who is sharing the same feelings is laying not quite on your back but just to the side, running her bare hands through his back spines
He usually doesn't like his quills being touched and messed with but it feels nice. Like a massage along with some good scratches in places not even he has been able to reach.
He found himself purring. He doesn't remember the last time he purred.
He was into her touching his quills so tenderly. His mind flooded with lewd thoughts. Ones of those tender touches turning sexual. Her pulling at him... Maybe not even her... Maybe Shadow pulling them-. He shook those thoughts away. Its wrong to think of a dead guy like that
★★★
Thought the morning they got more comfy, taking off gloves and shoes. Rouge even getting into pajamas. It's weirdly vulnerable but they're too drunk and struck with grief that they can't care. They don't want to think about feelings and how it would be considered taboo to be in a position like this. They just want to feel the physical comfort and drink to keep eachother grounded.
Then something somehow clicked in both of their minds.
They don't care about feelings.
It doesn't matter.
Rouge let's sonic roll onto his back and they look at eachother for a while before they slowly started to do more.
Rouge, with her bare hand, reached and dragged her hand up Sonic's thigh, hip, ribs, and up his arm which he had lazily laid above his head. When her hand got to his they interlocked and she firmly pushed her hand, and by extention, him onto the couch to pin him without actually trapping him.
He lets her.
She isn't sure she should be doing this. Just as she was about to strip her hand away, Sonic's spare hand found her hip then subconsciously putting his legs back together, letting Rouge bring one of her knees to the other side of his waist to straddle him.
They stay there for a moment. Sonic seems to be thinking before shaking his head. "Ah fuck it" he says simply as he goes up to kiss her, only for her to beat him to it and push him back down in a passionate kiss.
It goes on and off for a while, sometimes long kisses, to little pecks on the lips and around the general area. To them giving eachother love bites and hickies.
Rouge giggles as she geared him whimper as she bit and sucked on his neck, leaving lipstick marks all over
Eventually they go back to kissing. This time their tongues find eachother and dance together. It's clear Sonic doesn't really know what he's doing but Rouge is willing to teach him. "Follow my lead Blue~"she whispers, then sensing his hesitation she follows it up with, "don't you dare worry about anything. No matter what you do here, it'll be enough."
That gets Sonic to relax a lot more as they pick up the pace and the heat. Touching eachother up. Moaning into each other's mouths.
Rouge smiles and reaches down to the hedgehog's crotch. He freezes, so she does as well.
He laughs nervously; "wow.... We're really doing this, huh?"
"We don't have to."
"I... I know... I want to"
Rouge let's out a chuckled sigh, "remember. We can stop, or slow down at any time. I won't make you feel bad."
Sonic let's out a sudden, single, loud laugh: "HAH! Slow down? Do you know who I am Miss Rouge?! If that is your real name~"
"Of course I do Sonic the hedgehog, if that is your real name~" she sasses right back at him. They giggle childishly before Rouge plops down to lay on the side of his chest. "Ready?" She asks. He nods.
She reaches down and feels that nub is growing and finally poking out from where it was tucked away. She traced her finger around the sides, giggling and nuzzling her face into his when she saw Sonic biting his lip to hold back a moan.
She then spotted down to look at the growing length before lightly grasping it in her palm. "Hm, I wonder...~" she pretends to ponder, before peering up at Sonic, smirking as she notices his flushed expression before taking him in her mouth.
She's good at this, disgustingly so. But she doesn't think of it as gross though. It's a skill that brings the great pleasure of feeling someone unravel under you. In which Sonic was keeping his composure suprisingly well for a newbie. She'd wonder if he was still a virgin. Maybe not.
"Ah~ shit..mm.. Rouge~" he huffs, swinging both of his arms above his head to grip the pillow underneath his head.
Rouge is very tempted to climb up and wrap her hands tightly around his wrists to keep him pinned down. Hell, she wants to tie him up right now. But maybe if this is their first time getting freaky it would be a intense starting point for the both of them.
Maybe if they continue to hook up in the future Rouge can bring up the possibility of some form of BDSM.
Rouge pulls away and takes off her pajamas, throwing them to the side. Sonic is a bit flustered seeing her but quickly shakes the feeling off.
She crawls up to sit on his chest. "Blue, do you want a tour~?" She asks pointing down.
"Huh?" Sonic tilts his head, knowing what she's talking about just not what she specifically means.
"You have a handsome face hon. And body too. It would be such a waste if you didn't know what you were doing In case you get with anyone else like me~" one of her hands scratches his chin and the other groping his chest (one that's quite big and bare for a male hedgehog) as she explains. "And also I need to be loosened up a bit before we go at it"
"Oh! That would be helpful" he laughs nervously.
She hums and crawls up further to let him get a good view before using her fingers to part her lips and starts an explanation. "This hole is the one you need to look out for, and the bean above it is the clit. Most born females have it. I'm not sure which species of mobians would or wouldn't have one. But its the specific sex organ for us. Full of nerves. It can be rubbed, licked... But don't go straight into it, too much too soon can dull sensation. And well toys feel nice too. It can be used as a good warm up to get the vagina nice and relaxed and wet so it's ready to take in bigger things like your dick. But its better to test the waters with your fingers first. Want to try your tongue~?"
"Sure. What do I do with my tongue?" Sonic asks a bit hesitant but willing.
She hums. "How about licking around the area before going in circles over the main part. I'll tell you when you get the sweet spot~" Sonic goes to sit up but Rouge grabs him by his quills and forced him back down, "ah ah ah~" she giggles before lowering herself down on his face.
Sonic does as asked beautifully. When he finally gets to the organ he almost immediately licks the area that tinges up her spine. She gasps, "that's a good spot handsome~ keep going~"
He obliges and keeps going at her. She leans down harder to grind down on his face as she grips his quills spread out messily beneath them and pulls him up towards her. She groans deeply. "Gosh Blue, you're a natural~! Any girl would be luckily to get you into bed with them~"
Sonic gives a little hum of appreciation as they keep going for at least a few more minutes. Rouge pants but decides she wants him in her now so she pulls him away from her.
"Alright. Now let's see what those fingers do~" she flirts grabbing one of his cute hands with paw pads and blunt nails. He has a lot of scars on his hands and they also seem quite dry and uncared for. It's odd but not like she'd comment on it. "Maybe we need to do some work before though. I'll be quick. Go wash your hands while I get my stuff" Rouge demands.
Sonic nods, "on it" he walks over to to sink.
Rouge runs to her room and grabs nail clippers alone with a condom from her drawer.
"In here Blue" she calls out. He walks inside her room. It's elegant but messy like the rest of her apartment. Her bed for the most part is untouched and there's a beam above them which is where she hangs from when the human style of sleeping isn't doing it for her. But she figures her queen sized bed would be a larger area to work with than the sofa. And also... She didn't want to get fluids on her cushions.
Rouge spends a quick minute of trimming his nails and sanding them down so he wouldn't scratch her walls.
When she was done she layed on her back, head on her silk pillows and spreading her legs and made a hand motion to gesture him over.
He crawls over. Hands fiddling with eachother, feeling how clean and nice they felt after the small trim.
He kneels down Infront of her and starts to use his fingers to rub her clit for a moment, feeling a sense of pride bubble up at her gasps.
"Put a finger in~" she demands. He does. "A second" he puts a second one in "alright. Now move them apart from eachother to scissor me. It stretches it out easier"
She bites her lip "now curk your fingers dear~" she whispers. He does for a while but Rouge is slightly disappointed that his fingers aren't reaching her special spot inside. Oh well, no matter. She knows that she could take him without any trouble now.
"Alright. Time for the big moment Blue~" she sits up, grabbing the condom from her nightstand and rippsing the packaging open with her teeth.
She looks at him, smirking maliciously before pounding on him, kissing him until she manages to get him down in the same position she had been in previously.
"Woah!" He laughs, resting his hands on her hips.
She reaches down and rolls the condom down onto his dick.
She gives him a quick peck on the lips before she went back, using her hands to hold his length upright as he rubbed his tip gently against her lips before she slowly went down onto him. Moaning as she does.
She didn't realise how sensitive he'd manage to make her until now and she was very pleased at it
She starts to ride him, his hips thrusted up as she went down. His hands on her hips and her hands on his chest.
She falters and slips a bit, hands sliding to be either side of him as she leans down.
"Are you okay?" Sonic asks.
"Mm... Just my legs are getting weak..." She mutters as she feels sweat forming on her forehead.
"Hm.." Sonic thinks for a moment then immediately grabs her and spins their position around so he's on-top of her, "I've got it!" He gives a thumbs up as he start to thrust into her cautiously, eyeing to see her reaction.
His consideration makes the bat blush as she nods, giving him permission to thrust into her faster.
They had been going at it for a while. Sonic didn't want to finish too fast, (contradictory to what he was all about) so he held back.
That was also partly due to his slight guilt of Shadow slipping into his mind often as he fucked her. He should be thinking about when right?
But he eventually feels her grab the side of his head, gripping his quills and pulls him forward. Something he finds really hot.
Her legs are shaking and her breath is hot and heavy. "Please Blue...~ I... I need... Mmm~! Harder~!" She whines and begs.
Blush crosses Sonic's muzzle. A groan is caught in his throat