The Master's Problems

Chapter 3 - Limitation

Shadow was brushing Sonic's quills that night, just before he went to bed. It was already a routine for Shadow to do that since Sonic rarely brushes on his own.

"Hey, Shadow" Sonic called.

"Yes?"

"What do you think if you met some other master with a bodyguard and it turns out that they have a crush on their servant?"

Shadow stopped for a second before he continued moving his hand, "I'd be very surprised...most importantly because we are not supposed to have that kind of relationship with our master"

He put the comb away and gazed at him, "is someone you know in class feels that way about their servant?"

Sonic blushed and his heart was beating pretty quickly, "y-yeah..."

"That must be quite surprising for you" Shadow chuckled.

Sonic laid himself down on the bed and covered tucked himself ina as Shadow turned the lights off.

"Hey Shad" he called one more time before the servant was about to leave the room.

"Yes?"

"What would you do if you're in that situation?"

Shadow stood by the door and stared at him with a smile, "I'll try and be professional about it" he simply answered, "good night" he said as he closed the door.

Sonic began to overthink his answer. By "being professional" did he meant to never return the feelings since he's a servant? He sighed and kept staring at the ceiling, he was feeling very hopeless that night.

He decided to get his phone and called Mephiles, they exchanged numbers earlier.

"Hello?"

"Hey, I'm not interrupting anything important going on right now...right?"

Mephiles was actually in a meeting, he had his laptop on with a video call software opened showing a guy talking about business and stuff. Mephiles had his camera and mic off.

"Nope"

"Okay cool" Sonic chuckled, "I wanted to talk about Shadow..." he sighed and began to lower his voice.

"What's wrong?"

"I asked him about what he would do if he's serving a master that has feelings for him.." he paused, "then he told me he would be professional about it and that made me overthink it"

"I see," Mephiles leaned back on his chair, "so that means he would still strictly follow the rules of not dating you"

"Oh come on, cheer me up a bit" Sonic complained.

"Hey at least he's being honest" Mephiles stated, "he's an experienced bodyguard, of course he won't just break the rule that easily"

Sonic hide his face on the pillow and groaned loudly before turning back to his phone, "please tell me at least I have the chance to make him fall for me"

Mephiles took a second before he answered, "yeah, I guess you still have the chance" he shrugged.

"Okay, phew, that ease me up a bit" Sonic chuckled, "well I better get to sleep now, thanks for listening to me"

"You're welcome. Good night" Mephiles said and after that they both hung up. He turned to gaze at his laptop again and groaned tiringly since the mobian hadn't finished their presentation yet.

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It had been a week since the first day of class, so both Sonic and Mephiles were getting to know so much about each other. They became really close friends especially when they both like to complain about their problems while also giving each other advices and such. It almost become the most recent thing they would talk about to each other, but they didn't mind it at all.

Sonic attended his class that morning, so Shadow once again waited for him outside, sitting on the same bench with Silver.

"I have a question" the maid said and caught the bodyguard's attention. "Do you ever get upset whenever someone's trying to get close to your master?" He asked.

"I guess it depends on who it is" Shadow answered, he stared at Silver who was strangely staring into nothing, he was in his poker face.

"I actually hate it whenever someone gets close to my master" he stated and surprised Shadow.

"Are you saying you hate my master?" He asked almost angrily.

"No, not yet at least" Silver turned his gaze at him, "he isn't the type to want to be more than friends with my master, is he?"

Shadow narrowed his eyes, "no, he's not like that, you should never assume him that quickly"

Silver smiled and sighed in relief, "I see, my apologies"

Shadow then raised a brow and stare at him questioningly while folding his arms, "you're by far the most intense maid I've ever met"

"That's only because I care very deeply about my master" the maid stated with a chuckle, "so much that I'd do anything to make him stay with me forever"

Shadow's eyes widen in surprise, he put his arms down and looked around to see if there were any other servants near them. Once he knew the two are alone, he started asking as quietly as he could, "you have feelings for him?"

Silver nodded almost shamelessly, which surprised Shadow even more.

"I know it's bad and it's against the rules for servants to have such feelings for their master...but I can't help it, I just care too much about him" he mumbled, "maybe I'm too deep into my job that I become so fixated to take care of my master for my own" he laughed.

Somehow his laugh gave Shadow a small chill and he was supposed to be the intimidating one since he's a bodyguard. Silver was definitely not like the other maids he have met.

"So...he doesn't know about it, right?" Shadow asked.

"Of course not, I'd be sent back and be punished if he and the Head Servant finds out" Silver rolled his eyes, "oh the limits to become a servant, I can't even hug my master" he sighed depressingly.

Shadow still didn't know if he should feel sorry for him or not, he was still too surprised and confused to the whole situation. He cleared his throat and looked away.

"Well...I don't know what to say but the best of luck for you to keep serving your master as his maid"

Silver smiled and nodded his head, "thank you"

Without realizing, their masters already finished their class and they hurried to meet them.