The Power Couple (Sonadow One Shots)

Flowers of Despair

A/N: Hanahaki Disease is a fictional disease in which the victim coughs up flower petals when they suffer from one-sided love.

It ends when the love interest either returns their feelings, (romantic love only; strong friendship is not enough), or when the victim dies.

It can be cured through surgery, but when the infection is removed, the victim's romantic feelings for their love also disappear.

Sonic let out a pained groan as he rolled over on his bed, his throat feeling like it was on fire.

Laying all around him, and littering the floor of his room, were what had to be at least 100 or more flowers.

These weren't just any flowers though, far from it.

They were Black Baccara Roses. Their petals dark, but also soft and light. What was unique about them however, was the fact that their shades of black and red weren't natural, but resembled the same shades as a certain ebony and crimson hedgehog that Sonic couldn't stop thinking about.

Now, the blue hedgehog may have been reckless at times, but he wasn't stupid. He knew what was wrong with him, and just refused to do anything about it.

After all, what was the point in hoping that someone who was his rival, would ever love him back?

Thinking about this once more, Sonic suddenly felt the now familiar sensation of petals making their way up his throat, and he immediately sat bolt upright, coughing violently into his hand to get rid of the troublesome plant.

He knew this wasn't a permanent fix, but it provided some relief. However temporary.

A few seconds after his latest coughing fit, Sonic's bedroom door flew open, and his brother came running in. Worry obvious in his expression.

"Sonic! Are you alright?! How many was it this time?" Tails asked, hurrying to the hedgehog's side

Sonic sighed, reaching over to his nightstand where a glass of water was waiting, and after taking a few gulps, he held out his other hand. Showing the fox the two latest flowers.

Tails frowned, staring at the flowers which each had a few drops of blood on their petals. That was new, and certainly not a good sign.

"You can't keep doing this to yourself, Sonic!" Tails exclaimed anxiously. "I know you aren't afraid of dying, but that's no excuse for you to do nothing! There's no cure aside from either getting the flowers surgically removed, which you're against, or having Shadow return your feelings. Which you don't think is possible. Don't you get it?! This will kill you if you don't do something about it soon, and I don't want to lose you!"

But the blue speedster merely tossed the flowers on the floor, and shook his head. "I'm sorry, Tails. But you know as well as I do, that there's no way Shadow loves me back. As far as he's concerned, we just share a mutual respect for each other, and work together as allies sometimes. But that's it. He'll never love me like I love him."

Tails huffed irritably, and placed a hand on Sonic's shoulder. "Surely that's not true! You two have come a long way in becoming friends since you first met, and you know that he does care about you. Why else would he agree to help you save the Earth, or go racing with you so much? He could have just left us to save the planet on our own, and continued to push you away when you wanted to race, but he didn't! And it paid off in the end. You two have clearly become closer, so whether you realize it or not, I'm sure that Shadow feels the same way."

"No, he doesn't!" Sonic snapped, moving away from his brother. "Why would he? Shadow has made it pretty clear on multiple occasions that he can't stand me, and this isn't some fairy tale where he'll suddenly just change his mind! Real life doesn't work like that, Tails."