"Starburst" Sonic The Hedgehog Au

Plans and Progress

Sonic and Shadow were talking back and forth to each other as Sonic probed Shadow for questions about things Shadow wanted to do, he let Shadow talk about his interests as Sonic had a big smile on his face. He let Shadow speak and he didn't interject or comment unless it felt appropriate to do so.

Shadow appreciated being listened to let alone about things he liked or enjoyed. Seeing Sonic only nod and write things down while sitting next to him his body visibly relaxed more as it seemed a wall that mentally separated the two had broken down a little bit by Sonic merely letting Shadow talk about his interests.

Shadow and Sonic kept this up till Shadow couldn't think of anything else he did like. Sonic happily thanked Shadow for sharing and said that he would do his best on the days they do find time to do something Shadow genuinely liked.

 Sonic set the paper down on the table and pulled off the hoodie he had been wearing.

 " Bleh- I'm getting stuffy in this thing now. I'm gonna put this away." Sonic spoke as he walked to the attic door and climbed up slowly, going up the ladder did make one of his legs twinge as it was still irritated from the run back, however, it was mild and manageable.

 Sonic entered his room and threw it in the small washer that sat in his room. He puffed softly and looked at his gloves. "...hm.. now that I'm staring at them, these probably need to get washed too.. wait-"

He paused thinking to himself realizing he probably needed to as well.

" Honestly I probably should wash myself too. Yikes, how did that even slip my mind.." 

He frowned as he twitched his ear. Sonic huffed softly, took his gloves off, and tossed them in the small washer as well as any other clothing lying around that needed to be washed. It was rare for him to do this but now that he realized it's been a while since he even cleaned himself he felt kinda gross so his brain decided to go all out in regards to cleaning up.

 Once he got the small washer going shadow heard Sonic climb down. he only silently watched Sonic grab a towel and walk into the bathroom to shower. Shadow scoffed glad that it seemed Sonic was starting to get back to normal.

15-20 minutes passed and Sonic came out finished drying himself off and simply went back up the ladder to his room and disappeared for a while seemingly chilling up in his room.

Shadow noticed Sonic was by himself for a while so Shadow called out from the couch. " You alive up there?"

Sonic chimed back in a calm tone. " yeah I'm good, just waiting for my stuff to be done. " 

He spoke popping his head out from the attic door and looking down at Shadow.

Shadow looked up and twitched his ear. " Fair." He mumbled and looked down back at his phone.

 Sonic smiled and calmly shut the attic door giving himself some privacy while he waited for his things to get cleaned. The workshop was quiet for a while as Sonic was quietly reading as he let his gloves and socks air dry a bit, Shadow was on his phone, and Tails was in the garage of the workshop.

 Soon Sonic had his gloves and socks dry and clean. Putting them on he climbed back down and plopped down next to Shadow holding a book. Shadow looked over at Sonic and noticed he had not brushed back his quills.

Shadow wrinkled his nose slightly. "...do..you not brush your quills when your done?"

 Sonic blinked a few times then smiled. " no why? It gets blown back eventually."

 Shadow squinted his eyes. " get me your damn brush."

Sonic perked his ears chuckling softly with a confused expression. " pfft are you serious? why does this bother you.?"