The Awakening

🌋🌁 Therapist 🌋🌁

Knuckles sat in his Master Emerald, dozing off. It was boring to just sit there, doing nothing.... His eyelids became heavy as it became hard to keep them open. "Hey hun!" A voice called to him as he jolted awake. He looked around and finally spotted a female bat. "Oh... Hey Rouge." Knuckles said with boredom. "What's wrong?" She asked with concern as she landed next to him. "Nothing. That's the problem." Knuckles answered. "Why don't you go somewhere?" She suggested as he shook his head. "No way! I know you'll try to be sneaky and come take the Master Emerald!" Knuckles growled. "You have my word... And the polices and Commanders. Overall I won't take it, I'm busy doing something today." Rouge said. "Doing what?" Knuckles asked confused. "I'm going to be Shadows therapist. He got into a situation and said he needed 'professional help' and they sent Espio, wimps. He said he'd only go it were me as Shadows therapist, Espio said they agreed. I have orders on what to do." Rouge answered as she sighed and gestured to a black book bag by her waist. "I doubt it'll work." The red echidna commented. "Oh shush! I think it'll work.... Some. Well, bye hun." She said with a wink and flew away as Knuckles rolled his eyes. "That bat."
Rouge landed in front of the door. Her ear strained to listen, seeing if she could hear what they were doing. Only muffled talking, taking note it seemed safe to barge in, she did so. Sonic sat on the couch watching TV. "Hey Rouge!' Shadow yelled from the kitchen. Sonic finally looked at the white bat and smiled. "Hi Rouge." Sonic greeted. "Hey blue. What cha doing?" She asked as she sat next to him. "Watching TV with Shads. I'm looking for something interesting." Sonic replied as he flipped through the channels. Shadow returned after Sonics reply. "What are you doing here anyways?" The blue hedgehog asked as he scooted over and sat behind Shadow. Shadow was between Sonics legs as the blue hedgie buried his muzzle into the crook of Shadows next, inhaling his scent. "I could get high on you." Sonic commented but it sounded muffled. "Whatever Sonic, you can't even do that if you had the chance. You can't get high if your a hero." Shadow said as he rolled his eyes. "Makes me wonder what's up with Egghead..... Haven't seen him in a while...." Sonic mumbled in wonder. Rouge coughed, showing that she was still present. "I'm here as Shadows therapist." Rouge stated as she opened her bag. Shadow got up and grabbed her a chair from the dining table before setting a couch cushion on the seat and the back of the chair. "Thanks hun." She said as he nodded and went back to his place in between Sonics legs. Sonic did the same as before, placing his muzzle into the crook of Shadows neck as he hugged the dark ones waist. "So tell me, how do you feel right now. Be descriptive." She said as she reached into her bag and grabbed a clip board before grabbing a file and opening it, fishing for something before pulling out a piece of paper and returning the file into the bag. She then pulled out a white pencil pouch and pulled out a purple pen. "Can see your equipped and ready." Sonic said as Shadow nodded in agreement. "I feel fine I guess....maybe happily content?" Shadow simply said with a shrug. "So just emotionless except for slightly happy?" Rouge asked. "Uh.... I guess, technically." Shadow agreed. "So let me explain this paper. I'm writing down how your feeling and if they change and writing little comments as well." Rouge said as Shadow nodded in understanding. "Today, we're working on stress relieving activities." Rouge stated as she stood up and motioned for the two to follow. She lead the couple to the dining table. "Ok. So in today's stress relieving activity is art. I've brought supplies for doing little art projects. Like glue, paint, markers, coloring pencils, pencils, crayons, paper, pasta shapes, string, probably other things. I'm going to give assignments and I want you to complete them. For example," Rouge started off as the two stood to the side waiting as she looked into her bag. She searched in the bag for a minute and pulled out many packets of things. "If I say, I need you to draw a dog to show happiness, then you need to do as instructed. I grade you on different things. Such as behavior, corporation, attitude, etc. Got it?" She asked as the two nodded.
They watched silently for a few minutes. She continued as Sonic glanced at Shadow who stood perfectly still and perfectly straight as he crossed his arms across his chest as his face was bored. He had his eyes half closed with a small frown. Sonic slowly made his way behind Shadow before quickly grabbing him in a hug. Having his guard down, focused on trying to find out what each packet held, Shadow was startled by his lover from the hug. Shadow jumped and let out a small growl in irritation. "Sonic! What are you doing?" Shadow whispered as he looked at Sonic who looked up and down at Shadows body. Sonic then raked his fingers up Shadows torso, slowly and pressing in a little. Then he placed small kisses along his neck before sucking and nibbling on it. Shadow bit his lip, trying be quite. Sonic knew that his neck was his weak spot and how'd he get if he did that. He wanted to tell him to stop....not really now but he knew if he opened his mouth he'd let out a moan, at the moment he was letting out small squeaks and whines. Sonic then yanked on Shadows tail and bit hard. It caused the dark hedgie to gasp before moaning a little. Sonic was about to do it again before a voice stopped him. "Quit blue. I can't do my job as a therapist if your over there trying to seduce him. He's gonna go all jelly from all the attention he's receiving then he won't even pay attention to what he's supposed to be doing. Doubt he'll even be able to do something. Now, hurry it up over there." Rouge said as she had her back to them, looking over the table. Sonic rolled his eyes with a sigh as he lapped up at the wound he left and Shadow shivered from the action as he was holding Sonics hands, slightly clutching them. Once the blood was gone, Sonic continued to lick Shadows neck, trying to get a reaction. Shadow squeezed his hands as he whined silently. "Sonic! What'd I just tell you?" Rouge said as she yanked on the blue hedgie ear. Sonic hissed in pain as he let go of Shadow and put his hands up in defense. "I didn't do anything wrong! I'm just doing what you said!" Sonic said as Rouge gave him a questioning look. "That's why Shadow looks perfectly fine." Rouge said, waving a hand to her friend as Sonic looked at him. Shadow panted lightly as he had a small blush and his the fur on his neck was messy. Looking back at Rouge, Sonic shrugged with a guilty grin. "Sorry, didn't mean to get him worked up." Sonic said as he put his hands behind his back and tried to grab Shadows tail before Rouge gave him a look. "Sonic." She said sternly as he laughed nervously. "Sorry but seeing him like that doesn't exactly help." Sonic said as Rouge signed and shook her head. She pulled Sonics hand and sat him in a chair that was the closet to Shadow who still stood. Then she carefully directed him opposite of Sonic and she sat next to the blue hero. "Aw! How come I can't sit next to Shadow?!" Sonic complained and pouted. "No. Because your sitting next to me, I told you stop but you just continued." Rouge said as Sonic sighed. "I can't believe I'm sitting next to the teacher! I haven't done that in a while..." Sonic said to himself as she rolled her eyes. "Ok guys, now listen up! This is your first daily assignment, for every six we do a test. Well do this for a month probably before moving on. Today's assignment is pasta pictures. I want you to make a picture out of the pasta shapes I've brought and then I want you to decorate them. You have two hours today and if you don't finish today we'll do it tomorrow." Rouge said as Shadow reached over and grabbed a pouch that was to his right and opened it. It had string pasta that Shadow grabbed less then a handful before grabbing another pouch. It contained mechanical pencils and led. Shadow grabbed a purple one before sketching something on a paper Rouge set in front of every seat. Sonic just watched him and looked at Rouge who jotted something down before she reached and grabbed some strong pasta. Sonic then followed and found some Penna pasta shapes and place some on his paper, coming up with a plan.
He was happy with how his work piece was going. He was so focused until he heard crunching sounds and looked up to see Shadow crushing some past into small pieces and looked at his artwork, he couldn't recognize what he had drawn. Sonic shrugged it off and glanced at Rouge who was painting her picture purple. From his angle it looked like a square but just guessed it was a bag maybe. Getting an idea Sonic scooted his chair forward so he was stuck between it and the table. He stuck out his leg and rubbed it against Shadows.
Shadow crunched the pasta to pieces and put them into a plastic bowl Rouge brought. He had no idea how she fit it all into her bag, he could probably do that but he thought it was a little impossible for someone as 'normal' as her. It must of been from shopping experience. He then grabbed the hot glue gun and put some on the paper before sprinkling some of the pasta pieces on. He continued this for a while before stopping. He grabbed some stiff, string pieces and broke them into different lengths before gluing those down. He was putting more glue on the paper before jumping slightly. It startled him when he felt something on his leg. He looked under the table to see Sonics leg and looked up at the blue speedster who looked at his paper. Green, emerald forest colored eyes looked up to see ruby one looking at him before looking back down. Shadow continued his work like Sonic as the blue hedgie kept rubbing legs with him. Shadow was half way complete before stopping and stretching. He looked at Rouge who looked at her paper in concentration. Shadows bowl of pieces of pasta was empty before he grabbed red paint and a paint brush. "How much time to we have left Rouge?" He asked as he dipped the paint brush into the color. She opened her bag that hung on the chair and pulled out a watch. "Mm.... Less then an hour." She replied, receiving nod from Shadow. "Can I sit next to Shadow now?" Sonic asked as she gave him a look. "Sonic, how can I let you go over there if your gonna disturb him?" She asked as Sonic looked offended. "What do you mean?! I didn't do anything this time!" Sonic denied as Rouge sighed. "Sonic I know your messing with him under the table." She said as Sonic gave a busted look. "Its fine actually, sorta relaxing." Shadow said as Sonic put up a hand that pointed to Shadow. "See? I'm not disturbing him!" Sonic said as she pondered. "I guess so then. But any funny business and you'll be removed. You got three strikes." Rouge agreed as Sonic smiled. He got up and moved next to Shadow with his art. Sonic plopped to Shadows right as he gave him a smile. Shadow returned it as he scooted closer and Sonic did the same and rubbed legs with him. "So cute but you guys need to finish." Rouge said. Shadow continued his work, after finish painting with the red he grabbed some blue and put it over the remaining red paint. After finish with the blue, he mixed the paint together so it turned purple. He used it before setting it to the side and placed black paint into a new bowl.
Sonic had a bowl with blue and white, mixing it together to get light blue. Then he grabbed markers had colored his pastas before grabbing a mechanical pencil and coloring pencils. He was about to finish before he looked at Shadow who leaned forward and had his chin in the palm of his gloved hand, falling asleep. Sonic reached a hand out and push the dark hedgie closer, so Shadow leaned on Sonics chest as he was slowly falling asleep. Sonic stopped and scratched behind Shadows ear and nipped at it, earning a flick of the ear. "Sonic, get back to work. He needs to rest and that's strike one." Rouge said as Sonic did as told. "But I was, look I'm almost finish." Sonic said as he gestured to the picture. "Good because you only have about 15 minutes." Rouge said as Sonic quickly tried to finish.
Rouge spoke, seconds after Sonic had finished. "Ok. Time up. Now it's time to see your pictures." Shadow just snuggled into Sonic and grumbled. "Not yet, I'm still tired." Shadow said as Rouge quietly got up and walked behind him, about to pull his ear. That always got him up, and it did again. "Ok, I'm getting up." Shadow said and sat up straight as she walked back to stand in front of them. "Ok, I want you to present them. I'll start first, showing you how it goes." Rouge said as the two nodded. She grabbed her painting and put a hand to her chest. "Hi, I'm Rouge. This is my painting, --tell me why you made it --I made it because I like to shop. Then you've got to explain your colors --I chose the purple and black because I like the colors and I made little hearts on the side that represent my friends. And I want you to tell me if its dedicated to anybody --it's dedicated to me and my friends." Rouge said as they watched. "Now it's Shadows turn." Rouge said as Shadow got up. He grabbed his painting. "Uh, I'm Shadow." The dark hedgie started out before stopping and Sonic gestured for him to continue. "And, why'd you male it?" Rouge asked as she write something down in the paper with the clipboard. "Because you said I had to." Shadow said sarcastically. She smiled slightly as Sonic laughed a little before grinning. "Shadow. You know what I mean." She said as he sighed. "Its in memory of someone and someone I love." Shadow said as she nodded and wrote something down. "I have my colors because its my favorite colors and the other make me think of who its for." Shadow said as he finally showed his drawing to them. It was a skillfully drawn rose that was filled in with pasta. The pasta was crushed into small pieces, about a centimeter each and in some place the pasta was smaller, giving a shadow effect. It was painted a cobalt blue most of it besides the shaded looking parts that were dark blue. Outside of the rose was the string pasta that almost surrounded it besides the gape around the rose. The gape was painted in different shades of purple and the strong pasta was painted red besides the ends of them being black. And who did you dedicate it too?" Rouge asked as Shadow looked at his drawing and pointed to the rose. "I guess I have to explain the colors more. You see the rose? Its blue because it stands for Sonic and Maria. The purple here," Shadow started as he pointed to the purple. "It's different types if you haven't noticed. You see thus lighter one represents you, Rouge while the darker one is me and Sonic. Red and blue make purple, add the black and get dark purple. And it's obvious the read and blank is me. So, really the picture is dedicated to you and Sonic and Maria." Shadow said as he sat back down. Rouge nodded as Sonic gave Shadow a quick peck on the lips before getting up to present. "Thanks Shadow." She said as he smile slightly. "Ok. I'm Sonic and I made this painting cause I like adventure and friends." Sonic said as he held up his art proudly. "The colors are realistic to how its supposed to be. It's dedicated to my friends and uke." Sonic said as Shadow rolled his eyes. It showed Shadow under a tree next to Rouge who was talking to Knuckles who was near Tails as Sonic ran around. Espio was in the tree while Charmy and Cream were next to each other with Cheese. Vector was off to the side looking at Espio.
Rouge collected the drawings and put them into her folder. "This was a good start. Next time we'll do portraits of someone. See in a day or two, maybe tomorrow since we finished today." She said as she hugged the two. "I'm going to leave these here for tomorrow and I'll bring something to put them in." She said before leaving.
Shadow got up and cleaned up the table, putting it on the ground, up against the closest wall. Sonic watched Shadows every move. "Stop staring pervert." Shadow said as he had his back to the blue hedgie and was bending over. Sonic then walked behind him and grabbed his tail. "But you know you like it." Sonic whispered into his ear. Shadow pushed away from Sonic. "We already did it yesterday. You can't go and start doing it again." Shadow said as he left to get something to eat. "Doing what again? Please you all the time?" Sonic asked. "And what do you mean by that?" Shadow asked as he eyed Sonic and rested on the wall. "You know exactly what I mean. Yesterday was a different day, today's a new day." Sonic replied as he inch forward to Shadow slowly. Seeing what he was doing, the dark hedgie tried to make a escape but Sonic grabbed his arm and pushed him into the wall so Shadows back was too him. "And where do you think you're going?" Sonic whispered into the dark hedgie ear before kissing the base of it. "To the library." Shadow replied, his voice shaky. "And to do what?" Sonic asked as he put Shadows hands on the walls and pulled on his waist. "T-to study." Shadow answered as Sonic put Shadow into a bending position. Why did he always make him feel and look so.....fragile? Weak? Vulnerable? Shadow stared at the wall in front of him when he felt fingers run down his spine causing him to shiver and he felt a tug on his tail. A hand rubbed his tail, making him whine lightly. Shadow felt the hands dissappear and looked back at Sonic who took off his gloved. Then Sonic held two fingers to Shadows face and looked into his eyes. "Suck." Sonic demanded and Shadow did as told, the tip of his ears and cheeks were red, blushing. He opened his mouth as Sonic pulled them away and placed the other hand above Shadows tail, holding him in place. Shadow gasped and faced the wall again, eyes closed tight as he felt Sonic insert the fingers into his tail hole. Sonic began to make a scissor like motion before he heard a knock followed by a voice. "Hello?!" It was a female voice that they didn't recognize, but the two had a feeling that they knew it.