Wake Up Sonic

Chapter 15

Sonic felt his sweat drop as he re-read the text on his cell phone again.
"That idiot" He grumbled.
"Who's an idiot?" Tails asked.
The trio was walking to school as usual, the sun was shining and was cloudless after all the rain from last night, and it even felt a little warmer.
"Shadow is; look"
He held up the phone for the others to read;
'Dear Sonic, I am texting to let you know I wont be at school today; I have a cold. Therefore you had better make sure you are on your best behavior and tell Tails that he's in charge of helping the sub. if they need it. Good Day -Shadow'
Tails laughed.
"I told him he should have just come over, but oh well." Sonic shrugged.
"I wonder who your sub will be" Said Knuckles before he waved to Rouge and Cream who were waiting in their usual spot under one of the large trees that grew on the fields on each side of the entrance pathway.
"I don't know, as long as it isn't Mr. Barker."
"He's barking mad!" Tails said excitedly earning dirty looks from his friends for the pun.
"Anyway, Hello Rouge, Cream, how's it going?"
"Everything's good true blue; the decorative committee is still planning the dance for next week! We're so excited!. What are you guys going as?"
The guys shrugged.
"I might go as Frankenstein" Said Tails,
"Eh, I don't know, what ever I find I guess."
"Can we help make your costumes?" Cream asked excitedly, more to Tails that to Knuckles.
Tails blushed and scratched the back of his head and mumbled "Sure Cream"
As the others talked excitedly about the dance, Sonic wondered to himself what he would dress up as. And he wondered if Shadow would be going.
Then they were all interrupted as the first bell rang and Rouge and Knuckles went off fighting about what Knuckles should dress up as.
"Why don't those two just get together all ready!" Sonic exclaimed humorously as they walked towards the building.
"Well, Rouge sort of wants Knuckles to ask her out, you know, man up and stuff" Cream explained.
"And we all Knuckles is too shy to do it himself." Said Tails
"Nah; he's not shy: he's just too prideful to admit he likes her" Said Sonic. As they dropped off Cream to her class and walked on.
As Sonic and Tails entered the room Sonic shouted over the noise to the other students.
"YO! Guys! We have a sub today!"
Immediately about half of the students went along to sit with their friends and play games and take out their I-pods.
Behind them they heard the door open and both Tails and Sonic wave politely at Silver who was looking around confusedly.
"What's going on?"
"We have a sub today so everyone's chilling: it always takes the principle about 45 minutes to find a sub."
"Oh." Said Silver "How do you know we have a sub? Is he in a meeting?"
Sonic laughed.
"Nah; The idiot caught a cold running around in the rain last night. The Baka. Anyway, make yourself at home; this chance only comes once in a lifetime."
Sonic turned to walk to his seat, greeting the other students and even joining in to their conversations and games, unaware that he was being watched.
Silver sat down in his seat and began eyeing him suspiciously.
'How did he know that Shadow was sick... and how did he also know what from?' He thought frowning.
He observed Sonic for a while before he was interrupted by Blaze sitting down next to him as engaging him in a conversation.
Suddenly he'd forgotten what he was thinking about.
Sonic was sitting in his chair his feet propped up on the desk as he listened to his I-pod and read The Tao of Pooh that he borrowed from Tails.
It was actually interesting.
He looked up at the clock: they had two more minutes until the sub would get in.
Sighing he stood up and stretched before yelling to the class again.
"HEY GUYS! TWO MINUTES!"
There was a great commotion as everyone hurried up pick up their stuff and pack their contraband away.
1 minute,
The other students scrambled to their seats and began taking out their stuff placing it on their desks.
30 seconds.
Everyone was sitting at their seats staring at the door
5...
4...
3...
2...
1...
Boom!
The door opened with a slam and in came their sub, who they all noted with excitement, was none other than Amy.
"Hii everyone~" She called cheerfully. "As you can probably tell, I'll be your sub for today seeing as Shadow is sick. He left you guys a small lab to do and a worksheet to fill out, and seeing as you've already missed the first 45 minutes of class I think you guys should be able to stay busy. So get into your groups and lets get to work!"
There was a large amount of commotion and Tails volunteered to pass out the stuff.
As Amy came by Silvers desk, he had an idea.
"Ms. Amy?"
"Huh? Oh, Hi Silver, what's up?"
"Would you happen to know what Professor Shadow is sick with?"
Amy wrinkled her brow; "I'm not SURE exactly, but It sounded like a cold. Why?"
"Oh no reason" Silver said quietly.
But his brains were moving.
Not even Amy was sure of what was wrong with Shadow, and yet, Sonic WAS.
And Silver was actually not even sure why it mattered so much, but for some reason it did...
Not that he had much time to think about it, because almost immediately his attention was caught up in the chemicals that were bubbling mysteriously under his nose.
Shadow rolled over on his side facing away from the window and groaned.
He felt miserable.
He felt horrible.
He felt....sick.
Duh.
He gave a cough and shivered violently, bringing his huge fluffy comforter around him tighter, and tightened his closed eyes.
This was so unfair!
Why did he have to suffer so!
With a moan of annoyance he sat up.
He couldn't sleep; he was much too uncomfortable.
He looked at the clock; it was so early...
And he wasn't getting anywhere with the whole sleep thingy... so why should it matter if he tried to actually get something accomplished?
He rolled over again and swung his legs over the edge of the bed, and pulling his comforter with him picked up the box of tissues from his bed-side table and walked from his bedroom to the living room where a huge stack of papers were awaiting him.
He sat down curling up in his blanket and got to work, his red pen at the ready.
Time for some good old fashioned productivity.
"Good job subbing today Amy" Sonic said as the group all gathered at their usual lunch seats.
Amy giggled.
"Thanks! I actually like subbing for your class. Of course I could have done without the various explosions though." She said ruefully, earning a sheepish look from Silver, who was now distracted from where Knuckles and Tail's were giggling to 'Elmo's World Behind the Scenes' on Knuckle's laptop.
"Elmo's not going to drink this piss!"
"I'm really sorry about that! I don't know what happened"
"It's alright Silver, everyone makes mistakes" Amy said
"Yea dude, just last week Tails and I blew up a desk and set the room on fire!.... It was pretty cool" Sonic said scratching his nose and grinning.
"Are YOU STEPPIN? Are You Steppin' to Elmo? What makes you think Elmo wont CUT you!"
"I really don't know how Shadow can put up with it"
Sonic shrugged still grinning,
"I guess he just likes teaching"
"Oh yea; I'm sure he's teaching you LOTS Sonic" Knuckles said teasingly.
And Sonic gave him a dangerously mischievous look.
"That's funny coming from YOU Knuckles. So TELL us; how much have you learned from that Master Emerald of yours? Or did it not want you either?"
Knuckles' face flushed angrily at the jibe that obviously related to his long standing uncertainties about Rouge, and in a flash they were running around the cafeteria, Sonic laughing loudly as Knuckles chased after him with a chair.
"Can't catch me Knuckle head! Hee, hee, hee"
"Ah, those two" Amy said feeling her sweat drop. "They will never grow up, will they"
The others watched the fight interestedly, but Silver found his attention on other thoughts.
Something that Knuckles had said, even if it was teasing was beginning to bring back his thoughts from earlier.
First was the fact Sonic had known about him not being at school when nobody else, including the other teachers knew,
Then the way Knuckles was teasing was suggestive of something .... erm.... Not good to Silver.
Obviously Sonic was close to the dark Professor, but what exactly was their relationship like?
After all the way Shadow acted from what Silver had seen towards the blue hero, it seemed like a normal teacher-student relationship.
But he couldn't be sure; he'd only been around for a few days.
There was of course the possibility of Sonic simply crushing on the dark hedgehog one-sidedly.
After all, wasn't he doing the same thing?
But for some reason there was a bad nagging feeling when Silver thought of that;
He didn't have a problem when he saw OTHER people were crushing on Shadow. And there were a lot of them that did; but it was only the idea of Sonic doing so that really bothered him.
And so what if he did?
He observed the blue hedgehog as if sizing him up.
If he DID in fact have a crush on Shadow, and if by some twist of fate the professor would pick between the two, what were his chances?
Silver got a sinking feeling in his stomach.
Sonic had A LOT going for him.
First of all; he was a famous hero known all over the globe for fighting the forces of evil that threatened the every day lives.
And Silver?
So far the only thing that stood out about Silver was his telekinesis that still needed a lot of work, and couldn't even match Blaze's pyrokinesis.
Secondly Sonic was the embodiment of all things fun and friendly and kind. Wasn't he the one who'd introduced Silver to the friends that Silver was starting to warm up to?
And Silver?
He wasn't nearly as friendly or loud as Sonic; he kept mostly to himself most of the time and he simply couldn't be that inviting and happy-go-lucky.
2 points for Sonic.
And lastly where their looks compared to each other.
Silver was vain enough to realize that at the very least he was handsome, and he vividly remembered girls he'd known telling him that he was cute, or even hot.
But... those girls were few and far in between, where as Sonic had an entire planet of females dreaming of him on a regular basis.
Unfortunately for Silver, as cute as he could be; there was really no contest between him a Silver.
3 Sonic, 0 Silver....
He felt his sweat drop and felt a wave of depression and just a little twinge of jealousy.
Either way, he really, really hoped that his suspicious weren't true.
"I'll see you two later; I'm going to go see how Shadow's doing" Sonic said to Tails and Knuckles as they left their last class of the day, joining in with the crowd of fellow students.
He took a deep breath of the fresh air outside as he walked out the doors into the sunshine, and he turned to the left waving back to his friends as he walked along the way to where Shadow's apartment was, waiting to cross the sidewalk before breaking into a super speeded run.
As he sped through the sidewalks he grinned as girls held their skirts down and guys spilled their coffees, affected by the mysteries wind.
"Hee, hee, I love super speed" Sonic said to himself.
He skidded to halt outside Shadow's apartment and he grinned again as he spotted a Motorcycle outside with a huge reed symbol on its side that marked it as obviously Shadow's
'Nice ride' He thought and in a flash he'd run up the many flights of stairs to the third to last floor outside Shadow's apartment and he knocked on the door.
Knock, knock, knock...
He tapped his foot impatiently as there was no response
Knock, knock, knock...
His eyebrow twitched as he remained waiting.
Knock, knock....
He was about to knock again when he heard the bolt of the door move and it swung open as Shadow answered the door looking tired and sick as he was rapped up in his blanket.
Sonic almost giggled a little.
Shadow blinked in surprise as Sonic grinned at him.
"Hey'a Shads!"
"Sonic? What are you doing here?"
Shadow frowned as he resisted the urge to sneeze, and suddenly Sonic had walked past him inside, making Shadow roll his eyes.
"Obviously I'm here to check up on you! Nice digs by the way"
Shadow grunted.
"You really shouldn't be around me while I'm sick..."
Sonic waved it off as he looked around at the spacious and classy apartment.
"Nah; I'll be fine! Unlike you Mr. Coffee Addict, MY immune system can handle it."
He glanced at the couch where Shadow had been working and he raised an eyebrow and shook his head.
"Ugh! You are SUCH a workaholic! YOU need to be resting; come on"
He grabbed Shadows wrist, Shadow protesting feebly, and lead him back to his bed room before forcing him to lie down.
"But I have work to do!" Shadow whined gruffly making Sonic grin.
"Oh no you don't! You are going to stay in bed and get some rest! And besides, I can grade papers for yuh!" He said excitedly scratching his chin mischievously as he thought about all the students whose grade he COULD destroy.
"Don't you dare!"
"Alright, alright! Now you stay right here and don't move; I'll go and make you some lunch!"
He ran off down the hallway grinning around Shadow's kitchen; he felt right at home here!
"Shouldn't you be at home doing homework?" Shadow called from his room before sneezing loudly.
"Nah! Homework is for people without other responsibilities!"
"Hmph! And what responsibilities are those?"
Shadow had gotten up, to Sonic's annoyance and walked in sitting down and resting his head on his table.
He had a headache.
Sonic grinned back at him as he put a pot over the stove and lit it up.
"Well; I think you would be the biggest one!" His face turned concerned as he caught Shadow with his head on the table.
"Hey; you alright? Besides being sick, I mean"
Shadow grunted and lifted his head up.
"I'm fine just a headache"
"Bah! You're just chalk full of issues aren't you?" He went over to the cabinet over the stove and pulled down the box of medicine supplies.
"Have you taken Robitussin yet?" He asked looking up at the black hedgehog who frowned a little.
"No, and how the heck do you know your way around my house?"
Sonic grinned as he poured the requested amount of medicine in a mini cup and got out a glass and pulled the jug of water from the fridge.
"I WOULD say that I've been sneaking into your house at night, but I don't want you to think I'm a creeper" He shrugged and Shadow gave him a suspicious look, and cringed as he down his medicine and water.
Sonic dumped the noodles in the boiling water and set it down to simmer before turning back to Shadow.
"Oh yea; nice motorcycle"
Shadow smirked but said nothing, he wasn't exactly sleepy but he wanted to lay his head down.
Sonic watched the resting black hedgehog for a while then grinned and walked over and behind him and pulling gently at Shadow's quills playfully.
Shadow raised his head as he felt the soft tugging on his head and looked up at the blue hedgehog wearily.
"What are you doing?"
"Playing with your quills~"
"Why?"
"Because it's fun!"
Shadow gave him a blank look that said he was obviously questioning his sanity and Sonic blew him a raspberry as he continued before Shadow gave a huff and laid his head back on the table.
Sonic rolled his eyes and pulled Shadow up, tugging on his arm to bring him to the sofa of the living room.
"If you wanna lie down then just sit here already!"
"I was doing that earlier" Shadow said gruffly, laying his head on a pillow near the arm rest.
"Yea, but you had been working!" Sonic grabbed up the papers on the coffee table and shoved them in Shadow's briefcase before moving it out the way.
Then he glanced to the kitchen before shrugging and as he sat in the space between Shadows' curled legs and the couch he grabbed the remote and flipped on the television.
"Comfy?" Sonic asked the ill hedgehog.
Shadow nodded and shut his eyes.
As comfy as he could get at this point.
He gave a cough and brought the blanket closer around him.
"Hey, you should get some sleep; the soup wont be ready fro a while anyway" Sonic told him, and Shadow shook his head.
"I can't"
Sonic glanced over at him and then he smirked evilly.
"I can help with that"
Shadow's eye widened as Sonic's hands pulled his shoulders up form where he was laying and back so he was now lying with his head on Sonic's lap.
"There, that's better"
Sonic laughed as the black hedgehog struggled against him, but Sonic simply pulled him back whenever the black hedgehog tied to get away.
Eventually though Shadow gave up and proceeded to glare up at the blue hedgehog poutingly.
He didn't mind the closeness when he initiated it and was in control but otherwise...
"Aww Stop giving me that look! As much as you go pouncing me all over the place!"
Shadow continued his pouting stare and Sonic smirked in return turning Shadow over on his stomach before the black hedgehog could start fighting again.
"Ah well I guess I'll have to MAKE you relax" Gently but firmly he buried his fingers in-between Shadow's quills and fur and massaged the skin under it as Shadow attempted to struggle again, but his squirming didn't last very long; slowly the gentle stroking began to sink in and eventually he began to settle down.
He laid across Sonic's legs unmoving trying to keep his face expressionless.
"Hmph! I'm NOT enjoying this!" He proclaimed grumpily, and Sonic grinned down at him as he continued his massage.
"Oh stop lying, you Faker!" He brought his fingers to Shadow's upper back between the shoulder blades, and Shadow arched his back in pleasure as it sent tremors down his spine and before he could stop himself he let out a soft, deep purring sound making Sonic chuckle a little before the black hedgehog huffed, caught, as he was, bluffing.
Sonic stifled a yawn with the back of one of his hands as the other continued to scratch softly at Shadow's shoulders.
"Tired?" Shadow asked gruffly, his voice muffled slightly by the pillow he'd moved under his chin.
"Eh? Not really, no."
"Hmm"
"You know; you're really tense Shads"
"Hmph! With people like YOU around, I have every right to be. And my name's not Shads!"
"Aww~ So grumpy you are~" Sonic said laughingly as he brought his finger behind Shadow's ear and began to scratch it softly, causing Shadow to arch his back and squirm.
"Nngh!"
"Hee, hee; you make some of the cutest sound effects" Sonic said.
Shadow grunted in disgust;
"No I don't!"
"Oh yes you do~"
Shadow gave a low growl but it was completely wasted on Sonic as it was muffled by the pillow leaving Sonic grinning as his ear picked up the sound of boiling water.
"Alright, alright, calm down Mr. Gotta-be-Bad-ass. Soups ready!"
Grinning mischievously he dug his fingers into Shadow's sides in a hard tickle and as Shadow jumped up from the unexpected sensation Sonic ran to the kitchen before Shadow could exact his revenge.
"Hmph! That hurt!" Shadow grumbled as he walked in to his kitchen.
Sonic grinned at him and forced him into a seat setting a bowl of soup in front of the grouchy hedgehog.
"Good~, you deserve a little pain sometimes"
"Tck! What kind of lover are you? Abusing me while I'm sick!"
Sonic grinned and looked around.
While Shadow was eating he would explore a little.
He went first to Shadow's bedroom.
There wasn't very much to look into; the drawers mostly had socks and gloves and normal clothing, minus underwear which male Mobians didn't need.
Eventually he got bored of snooping through Shadow's clothing and he ran down the hall to the other room and turned on the switch.
It was an office complete with a huge wooden desk, tall palm-tree-like plants and book shelves and a huge rug over the carpet.
Sonic rolled his eyes; Shadow was so classy, he should have seen this coming.
Grinning he went around the office going through random books on the shelves and the drawers, he was actually scanning over some of Shadow's pictures when the black hedgehog came in sneakily and grabbed the blue one from behind.
"Got you."
Sonic felt the black hedgehog nuzzle into back as they fell forward, Shadow lying on top of Sonic on the floor pinning Sonic down.
"hey! Get off!"
"No"
"Bleh! You're so heavy!"
"No I'm not"
Shadow nuzzled closer and tightened his arms around Sonic, suddenly tired now that he was full, and also warm both from Sonic's body temperature and the blanket he was carrying around.
"Night Sonic"
He closed his eyes, hugging Sonic closer and tried to sleep on top the squirming hedgehog below him.
"Aww great! Now I'm stuck here"
Sonic gave a huff and put his chin on his arms in front of him sighing.
Meh, at least it was nice and warm, and Shadow's weight was oddly comfortable...
He glanced over his shoulder at the black hedgehog who was starting to doze off and with another huff he closed his eyes. Maybe he was a little tired... he would just take a nap until Shadow got off him....