Rouge followed his path and found herself at the foot of a cave. The red echidna was inside there, striking punches against the wall. She knew he might be nervous. As she was too.
-You shouldn't have accepted that task, you haven't totally recovered yet.
He barely turned around. He was not ready to face the voice of his conciousness now.
-It's none of your business, Rouge.
She rolled her eyes, ignoring his kind invitation to leave and approached him slowly.
-Knuckles, try to be reasonable for once in your life.
He snorted and turned his face looking right in front of Rouge's, finding his nose very near to hers.
Even if it was her intention to be watched into her eyes while talking, she surely couldn't have imagined the emotions she was feeling in that moment.
The outside world stopped for a moment. There were only their breathes and the reflected colours of their eyes.
And now what? Noses were touching, hearts were noisily beating.
The chance to be letting theirselves go in that starry night seemed so easy...
Author's corner:
This moment comes from a long fic I'm writing, in which Knuckles is already hurt and weak from a previous adventure but decided to accept an hard task anyway. He knows he probably won't succeed so he's frustrated and goes in this cavern to hit the wall with punches to blow off some steam.
That's the moment this flash fic takes place. Rouge follows him and there's a moment of pure vulnerability between them, in which, it's up to you to imagine and decide what comes after!
