Damages

Caution

  --In the Prison cell—
The sweaty walls continue to drop very small drips of water near the cell window. The water drips were to be swept away by the sun's heat. The drips cried and ran for cover. It was the day for trial. Sonic stretched his arms into the moderate temperature air. His cell was only one with a window with bars. Everyone else's' was either blocked or just replaced with another brick. Green emerald glittery eyes surveyed the area. He still remembered what had happened yesterday, how he responded to Rudolph's affection. But he did that for his own purposes. Then why is he feeling upset over it? On the top bunk slept the tan fallen angel that was soon to be sentenced to his death.

Feeling sorry for his cell mate, he decided to wake him up. The blue teenager climbed down the black escalade and shook him. "Rudy, Rudy! Wake up!" There was no response. Sonic frowned; he was always an ass when it came to waking up. "Rudy! Wake up!" Grabbing him by the ears, the brown hedgehog finally responded. "Huh? What happened? Ouch! Gosh that hurts!" His eyes looked up and his eyes sparkled on the glorious beauty that stood facing him. "Oh, it's you." But he knew better than to respond to Sonic in the affectionate way since yesterday. 'It's you... Those words bothered the hero a lot.' What was he to say? 'Yeah, it's me?' No, he had to respond in a way to get his secret lover back to knowing there was still a touch of living romance still roaming around.

But as his tongue and brain came into contact with the words, there was a halt. 'Shadow' what did he know about romance? The sickening hedgehog he thought. Maybe he could have loved him, if he had never scarred his life. Could it be that he feared losing him? Was he that insane for Sonikku? He shook his head in the thought. No, Shadow is that type of person with no heart, no soul, and a one-man army. What could he fear? Then, another thought came to mind. If Sonic and Rudy did get out of the prison alive, how would Shadow react? God! Would he really kill Rudy to get to Sonic? "Hello Rudy." He said. Sonic tried giving his original heroic smile that he has done for years. The dazzled brown couldn't help but smile back. But his eyes; the eyes... His eyes had other words; they had the expression of forgiveness. Light arms went to a soft young neck. "Oh Rudy! I never meant to misjudge you." He laid there, confused, but returned the hug. "So, you still love me?" "Of course I do!" They both released their grip. "Sonic, I-"His lips were closed by his love's finger. "It was my fault. I'm sorry." They both smiled happily and pressed on each other's lips together.

Soon enough, they were laying both on the bunk bed and kissing like passionate angels. This was something Shadow had always wished to have with the sweet hero. Not every moment is as perfect as they should be. In the corner, before Tails had left, there was a camera. He had come back from the murder scene; which was where he killed Margaret. On his computer, he had hooked a camera in Sonic and Rudy's cell. But what he saw devastated him as he saw his only one in the arms of another. "My God... I'm too late." Said a now depressing hedgehog, who watched the two have a lovely time. Tears formed near his ruby eyes. 'Why?' he thought. 'You knew I loved you like no one else has loved you. I would give my life for you Sonic." He slammed his desk, "God damn it Sonic?! You knew why I did those things! Yet you mock me with your lips on someone else!" As every second passed, it was as if the two had more love to give. There wasn't any type of over exaggerated things that were inappropriate for young people. The only thing that would be disturbing would be two males being on top of each other kissing romantically.

--Inside Apartment 519--
Shadow sat there watching. 'Was all the things he's done actually worth it?' He said to himself. He felt useless and betrayed. Silver, which was walking down the stair now, saw the look on Shadow. "Is something wrong?" The dark one did not answer. The young boy tried walking over to him slowly, for he feared a yell or beating from the hedgehog. Silver felt somewhat of insecurity. It didn't look like he was mad or sad. It made a bit more sense though when he saw water drip down from his eyes. He was surprised when he saw him in this state. He was normally an angry hedgehog with a temper like no one else and as heartless as Dracula. Come to think of it, he kind of at times related to Dracula! They both had mad tempers, immortal, will kill, both have along past, sharp fangs... Could this be a hedgehog version of the mythical vampire?

"Silver, get me a tissue please." Without hesitation, Silver knew this was serious and even though he was quite immature, he did what was asked. He didn't ask anymore questions or make any comments. A white soft fabric like paper was given to a gloved hand. "Thank you." He said and blew his nose. The other stopped and thought. "Did he just say thank you?" Maybe, this whole 'Sonic issue' may turn out for the greater good and bring the best in Shadow. Then again, there are those who never change. "Come, watch this. I know you're wondering why I'm crying." He blew his nose one more time and moved aside so the youngster could take a look.

The screen was black and white, but you could see a stand out of two figures. Shadow pointed to the small figures and told Silver that there was Sonic. There was a line of silence. Both of them stared at the screen speechless. Slowly, Shadow moved over to the mouse and clicked the X button. Shadow walked out from his area crying still. He didn't moan in his sorrow. The only noise he made was the sound of sneezing. Silver just stood there watching him as he went to his haven of a room. "I should do something..." he said after Shadow left. An idea pressed onto his head, "I know! I'll break those two up somehow so that Shadow can once again get what he wants. That will make him happy again." He quickly ran to a refrigerator and grabbed a Diet Pepsi, then fled out the door. Shadow couldn't tell what was happening. He would have gone to the prison, snuck in, and what have killed the bastard, but he knew deep in his black cold heart, what he saw was something he will never get if he did that to his beloved Sonic.

---Back In the Prison Cell—

The two continuously loved each other without caring about what was around them or who was watching. But it was put to an end when Sonic remembered his trial was to begin today. "Rudy! Hold up!" It seemed like the hedgehog had no ears. He was on top of Sonic, giving butterfly kisses like crazy and as Sonic tried pushing him off, the brown hedgehog blurted out in a whisper. "Fuck me!" Green eyes widened at what he said and quickly pushed him off before he was very eager too. "That's just wrong! And you know that!" Rudy began to whimper, "But why can't we? Is there something wrong with me?" "No Rudy, there's nothing wrong with you." The brown hedgehog felt imperfect, how could he not want something so beautiful to be done? "Is it because I'm young?" "No." "You think I'm not good enough." 'I imagine you might be." "Then why? I'm good enough! I'm fourteen and we could do it like mad weasels in a sewer-"Sonic was strangely confused, "You've actually seen that?" Rudy ignored Sonic, for he simply hoped to agree with him. "I have a mouth like ten fingers, and ten fingers, like a –""Shut up Rudy!" The young fan shushed. He remained quite and allowed his love to speak, "Listen, I don't care about your potentials or desires. I'm telling you we can't and that's final!" Rudolph didn't say anything until he was assured that the blue blur was done talking.

"Can I ask why though?" "Hello! We are in the range of people seeing us!" "So?" "So?! Amy! " He paused, "I mean, Rudolph, I have a trial today and unless you want me to go to a courtroom with cum on me, we can't alright?!" "Alright!" He raised his voice, "Just don't forget my name is Rudolph, not Amy!" Sonic stood up and walked over to Rudy, who was in the corner now after Sonic hollered at him on his rejection. "I didn't mean to mistaken your name. I'm sorry. It's just..." He sighed and dropped his face into his gloved hands. "Just what?" Rudy crawled closer to Sonic. "It's just..." He gripped his friend tightly in a hug and continued talking in a sad voice, "I miss her so much." Tears began to fall out of his eyes and the water dripped down brown fur. He rubbed the hero's back to comfort him. "What exactly happened to her?" More tears fell as his memories returned. You could hear parts of his cries through the hall if you listened carefully. Just as he was about to tell the story, Rudy tightened his grip on Sonic. "I'd rather not hear it, if it hurts you."

"Rudy, I..." before he could finish, loud footsteps came into contact with their sharp ears. The man with the dark blue shirt and the tag name, "Sam." Sewed on his uniform. They watched with blank expressions when he passed by, but halted. Next to him was a being hiding in the darkness of shade. Sonic could not make out who the figure was. "You lawyer is here." said 'Sam'. Sonic stood up from the bunk bed, "Let her in." For that moment, he was sure this was not Shadow. Or was it? The man backed away; taking his squeaky boot sounds with him. The sound of clapping wood was now in their ears. It wasn't until the red bright glossy heels hit the sunlight beam from the cell window did her image become visible. Sonic approached closer to the woman after seeing it was not Shadow. Even with half his heart given to Rudy; that's what was left of it, emerald eyes could not help but gaze at her appearance. Middle-aged and medium-height. Her hair was the color of the sun in the formation of twisted complex curls. Her face was pale and dotted with freckles. Her eyes were the color of the Dead Sea on summer. She wore a formal red dress with explicit views covered and a black vest over. "My name is Mary Ellen Key." "How do you do?" A few ideas entered the blue-blur's mind. Could he have surveyed me so much that he learned to develop an obsession? The pudgy dark man closed the door and placed a dirt rag in his back pocket. Sonic, as a gentleman, offered Mary Ellen a seat that she took later. When she did, the brown hedgehog moved to a sharp angle, so that his eyes caugt on both of them. Rudolph doesn't trust this bitch. "I'm okay." She replied and took out a file with about three sticky notes on every sheet. "I just want to know a few things before we get over there. So, let's start in case you have any questions." Before the hero could ask, Rudy barged into the conversation. "Why did you get chosen for this case?" "I wanted this case." She replied straightforwardly. "Did you get involved for the money since, after all, you are protecting the most important person living in Station Square." "I simply dedicate my time to doing my job." "Oh, really." He replied sarcastically. Tensions were rising and Rudy was prepared to mark his territory.

"Rudolph, this does not concern you," Sonic told in a serious tone. The immature hedgehog ignored his beloved. It was now a fight between owner and dog for the bone. "So Mary, do you just testify results, or better yet, results of your greatness or worse days of sleeping with all the court judges." "I beg your pardon." She quickly added. "Cause to represent such a guy like him, they would send him one of the best. " Forest green eyes faced the speaker, "Rudolph, Shut the hell up!" he tried apologizing for his cell mate's rudeness. "No." he replied and continued, 'Admit it! You stupid bitch!' Now completely enraged, Sonic hollered, "Rudolph you better shut the big hole in your face you call a mouth before I shut it for you!" Both the lawyer and Rudy gave a moment of silence and shock. With nothing but a growl from Rudy, he hindered in the corner in the fetal position. Sonic sat back down on the bottom bunk bed. "Excuse him, he is a rather feisty one." He said in a friendly tone. "No hatred." She replied. "To answer your question, do you have any evidence to prove my innocence?" "Yes, luckily Fred Grayson left has notes in the drawer at his office." Eyes widened, "You guys found the papers?" "Yes, but I need to know some things that happened." "Oh..." Blue ears dropped, and a frown was made. "Like what?" he asked.

An exchange of questions was made between the two. Sonic answered honestly to all of them, but kept Shadow out of it. Things like, "Did you see who killed him?" he would reply a yes, but made up about how dark it was and he couldn't tell who exactly it was. And why Scourge attacked his killer was because of self defense. He mentioned how the young hedgehog had saved him, but nothing of the killer's true purposes before it occurred. The techniques worked until he was questioned about his own case. "Your attacker, he was in the same place you were in. Is that correct?" "Yes." "Have you ever thought that this attacker could be Scourge's killer?" Sonic gulped, for he knew he had to make a good response. This was tricky; he knew this was going to be difficult. So, he decided to make up the first thing that came to his head, "Um, no, because, he... was asleep! Yeah! My attacker was asleep during the time and Scourge defended me while I was with him. But since I couldn't see who it was, I could say that maybe it was. I'm not sure because it was dark and my attacker is pretty sly." Seeing how well this response was, Mary-Ellen bought it as truth and wrote it down on her lined notepaper.
Sea colored eyes looked over the golden watch on her pale bony wrist. The time was 7 minutes before 3 PM. And the trial was at 3:30 P.M., so only thirty minutes remained. "It's getting late; we should go Sonic." She concluded their discussion with a soft voice and opened the cell door for our hero. The blue one nodded and begun to walk towards the exit. As they were beginning to proceed away from the cell, Lovable emerald eyes were stopped by speedy feet as its owner looked back at Rudolph; he didn't know if he'd ever see him again since his execution was moved even sooner that expected. "Come on! We don't want be late!" she rushed the cerulean hedgehog and continued walking. Sonic returned to Earth and proceeded in the trail lead by Key. Meanwhile, inside the cell, an evil eye zoomed off Key after she was out of sight. With a cold voce, he muttered, "Stupid ass bitch."

As the two reached the dead end zone, 'Bob' stood there, guarding the door with metal handcuffs waiting to be clipped onto gloved covered wrists. Sonic sighed when he saw what the man had. He thought he had grown adjusted to seeing handcuffs, but it remained a disturbance to him even after the noise it made. Click! The handcuffs locked the hedgehog's wrists together. The two adults lead our hero to the thick red doors that lead to freedom. Key held Sonic's left arm while Bob held him from the collarbone incase he tried escaping. It has been months since he has seen the skies blue and has breathed the afternoon wind.

He was constantly looking around at the crows and pigeons flying for the south. "Don't think about escaping kiddo." Warned the man with a creepy tone. The man did not accompany Sonic, but he left him with an officer named Larry and his lawyer. It looked like Fred Grayson's Toyota Tundra; black interior and leather glossed seats. The car drove off out of the prison parking lot that was for staff only. Larry drove and Mary-Ellen stayed with Sonic in the back seats of the vehicle if he ever felt upset. They didn't bring reinforcements due to his mental and physical conditions, but they remained alert for the latest twitches. How can two business people catch a hedgehog that can create a sonic boom?

Sonic had no intentions of running away even if it was his desire to run back home and hide under his covers for years. He had begun to miss his days of freedom. When his now deceased friends Knuckles and Amy including his living friends; Tails and Rouge, would defeat the plots of Dr. Eggman and save the civilians that were in danger. When Amy would scream loud as hell for her hero to arrive. A feeling of suicide touched him, but it never entered his mind. Trees were losing their leaves from green to golden yellow. And a car usually parked in the apartments was following the path of their car. A black Hummer with a psychoactive driver pursued the vehicle unknowingly. This driver was mentally challenged; not knowing whether to follow the orders of people, or to do what's best for the world. The young white hedgehog felt it was a duty, for he had already caused the lives of many for the benefit of his master's desires.

Shadow knew nothing of Silver's plan and therefore remained at home, thinking of what to possibly do now. A blade was nearby his desk which he used to open envelopes. Without thinking, he picked up the scissors and begun to cut. Cut, cut, cut! The adult screeched in agony and misery. He felt the world go in circles. Blood was on his mind. Now, he didn't cut himself, but a white parchment that when he flipped over, realized was a picture of Sonic and himself. They were both sitting down playing games in his house; 3 months before he had attacked Sonic. Memories filled his mind like pictures being remembered in a slideshow. The flashed multiple times; repeating over and over in both color and gray.

--At the time of the picture—
**Flashback**
"Say cheese!" Amy giggled with her new digital camera that she bought for Sonic, but borrowed for the occasion. It was Thanksgiving afternoon and everyone was in good cheer. Surprisingly, Shadow was not frowning as usual. He and Sonic were to busy playing with videogame consoles. The ebony one had been eyeing the blue one slowly. He watched everything he was doing; from where he was going to whether he was in the bathroom or not. "Are you playing on expert or hard?" asked the blue one. "Depends, if the song is by Slipknot, I'm doing expert." A heroic smile formed on light colored lips after hearing Shadow's response, "A challenge then?!" The two guitarists battled each other until their fingers cracked. But the dark hedgehog gained his strength by the presence of his crush. Unknowingly, he muttered while Sonic moved to look at his archrival, 'I love you.'

The blue one blinked twice and asked in confirmation, "Did you just day you love me?" Blood rushed to Shadow's cheeks, "What?! No!" Knuckles walked up from the ear dropping of the boys, "Hey, it's alright if you're a homo." "No one's asking you red head!" he defended himself; blushing even more. "Aw! You're blushing!" Rouge added, who was in the middle of hearing and cooking the hard cold turkey. Shadow stuttered, 'Oh shit.' He thought and replied to his friends, "You're all embarrassing me! You know God Dam well I don't love anyone!" Rage built in his body, which flooded the love signatures. Everyone minus Amy begun to worry about his rage. Knuckles spoke up, "Chill out Shadow! We were just playing around!" Rouge replied with the same idea to cool the hot hedgehog down from exploding in rage. Sonic, although still wanted a response, "But then, what did you say? Cause, if you do love me, just so you know, I'm not gay." he asked. Red eyes were closed down and a sigh was heard. He felt as if all chances were lost and all the signs of love were fake. "Never mind." He said sorrowfully and left in a slow pace; leaving the guitar controller to the one person wanting to play it, Tails.

--Reality—
Shadow sighed and slowly dropped tears from his eyes. "Then, what are you? Did you lie to keep your secret? Did you not tell because of Amy and other embarrassment reasons? Did you love someone else and lie so I wouldn't be hurt?" A fist slammed the table so hard that the fish had fled to the bottom of the bowl. "Why?! Why do you love that hedgehog that has done so much more than me?! Did you not know? Why didn't he tell you?! "Multiple tears formed around hs eyes. He doesn't usually cry this much. In fact, he hasn't ever since Maria perished at the Space Colony Ark over 50 years ago.