Recovery

Seeing People Again

Snow covered the entire area of Station Square, the usually busy city had become a beautiful winter wonderland. The sun managed to squeeze through the dull grey clouds, the rays graced the city with a little warmth, the yellow shine making the blankets of snow sparkle like millions of tiny diamonds.

However to some, the snow could be a quite a nuisance, what with the snow making the chore of going to work a much more painful task. Though, even those who saw this weather as a form of punishment, secretly thought it was a really picturesque sight, no one could really deny it. And seeing young children out playing, having the time of their lives, only helped others push aside their negative thoughts of the 'horrible' weather.

While the children played outside in the snow, there was one young white hedgehog standing by the living room window, mouth a gape, ears perked. He rubbed his eyes vigorously, before letting out a yelp and slamming himself up against the window. "Whoa! Shadow! There's snow! Look! Look!" cried the excited hedgehog who was pressed up against the window, amber eyes wide with wonder and curiosity. "Shadow! Shadow! May I go out and play? Please, please, please, please?!" The boy begged as he whipped his head around to face the kitchen entrance, waiting for a response from his older brother.

A moment later, an ebony and crimson striped hedgehog came out of the kitchen, with two mugs of hot chocolate in his hands, and an annoyed expression on his face.

He clicked his tongue as he sat down on the couch. "Silver, shut up and come get your hot chocolate." The albino hedgehog, gave a disappointed look. Shadow merely smirked as he held his mug up to his lips. "Little brother, I put your hot chocolate in your favorite purple bunny mug."

And like a bullet from a gun, Silver was over on the couch beside his brother, holding out his hands to take his mug. "Gimme, Purple Bunny." the boy whined, much to the amusement of his older brother. Shadow chuckled lightly, and handed the warm mug to the white hedgehog. "Silver, with the way you act, people would think you were a mere five year old." The young hedgehog just shrugged as he snuggled up against his brother.

Wrapping an arm around his little brother, Shadow squeezed the boy gently, and rest his chin atop the white hedgehogs head. The younger hedgehog gave a soft purr and nuzzled into his brothers shoulder, as he asked once again.

"Big brother, since the other kids are outside playing, and there Mammies and Daddies are most probably keeping an eye on them, I was wondering if-" A sharp nip on the ear stopped the boy from talking. With a whine the boy looked up at his older brother, confusion and slight hurt in those big amber eyes. "Shadow?"

Sighing softly, the ebony hedgehog took another sip of his warm drink, before looking down at his younger brother. The look the white hedgehog was giving him, made his heart melt, but no, he wouldn't give in, he couldn't, he just couldn't.

Sighing in frustration, was something he had been doing for the past few months, he gently took his brothers mug and placed it and his own on the coffee table, before he wrapped both arms around his fluffy little brother, pulling him into his lap.

Black and red fingers gently ran through the white hedgehogs chest fluff. Silver gave a soft whimper. He knew what this meant. His brother only held him like this when he had to explain to the boy, why he couldn't go outside. He had heard this speech plenty of times before, whenever he wanted to do something that seemed fun, onto Shadow's lap he was made sit, to listen to his list of reason why he couldn't do this or that.

Silver adored his big brother, even more so after...what had happened a few months ago. However, it seemed like Shadow just didn't want him to have fun, even though his big brother explained that he was only trying to protect him.