Genesis

Nothing Much

  Knuckles knocked on Rouge's front door; it took a while before it opened. Knuckles left no time for Rouge to figure out why the hedgehog and echidna were on her doorstep before barging in, Shadow following more calmly, he seemed off in his own little world, but you could tell by the look on his face that whatever he was thinking about was causing him a great deal of worry. Rouge watched as the two came in, and with a confused look at them, closed the door and followed, sitting down on the couch next to Shadow, while Knuckles sat on the chair opposite.

Shadow of course was a lot more worried about what was going on, but unlike Knuckles, he was a lot better at staying calm.

"Calm down and sit down Knuckles!" Rouge grumbled, sick of him getting up out of his seat, then sitting down, up and down, up and down. Knuckles nodded as his panic suddenly ceased, and as he flopped down onto the chair a more thoughtful look crossed his face. The three sat for a while in silence, Shadow in worried thought, Rouge in confused thought, and Knuckles, just in thought.

It took a while before Rouge decided to break the ice.

"Anyone wanna tell me why you both just suddenly barged in here?" Knuckles seemed to snap out of his train of thought and looked at Rouge, he looked at her for a minute, almost as thought he had only noticed her there, then began to tell her about Sonic and Espio. Rouge nodded calmly through the story, she worked as a spy, she was more used to these things then the other two, thought Shadow was probably better at keeping his cool than the hot-headed echidna. At the end of the story, she nodded, then began thinking quietly again. The two males watched her, awaiting her reaction.

She thought a little longer, then looked up.

"Hmmm, I may have an idea."


Sonic was staring blankly at the ceiling, he wasn't sure how long it had been, he just knew he had been laying there the whole time, and there was pain, so much pain, and so much time to suffer through it, god how much longer would Espio keep him there? He shifted uncomfortably and sighed, his mind was blank as he lay on the velvet duvet, he'd stopped thinking about what had happened a while ago, it hurt to remember. It left room for other thoughts though, thoughts about Shadow, he was worried about him, Espio had done his worst to him, but, he didn't know what he'd do if Espio hurt Shadow.

He shivered a little at the thought, and reverted back to just laying on the bed, not thinking at all just seemed to more appealing now. He turned his head slightly as he heard the door open. His eyes went wide when he saw the silhouetted form of Espio standing in the doorway. He lay silent, he knew he couldn't do anything, he just prepared himself for the pain about to come. He closed his eyes tightly and waited for Espio to come. He heard him come closer, but opened his eyes as he felt his arms being unshackled and the duvet being pulled over him.

He looked round to see Espio coming under the covers with him, arms wrapped round Sonic. Sonic tried to wriggle free from Espio's arms, but he felt something metal against his neck and froze when he realised it was a knife, he stopped in his efforts and lay still as the chameleon drifted off to sleep behind him.


"OK, everyone got it?" The echidna and hedgehog nodded silently and Rouge clapped her hands together, "OK then, let's get to it, we'll wake up at 6:00 tomorrow morning, for now, there's two beds in the spare room, I'll just be in here," she pointed to a nearby door, "night." She walked off to her bedroom and the other two went to the guest room, Shadow still hadn't said very much, and he was in deep thought again, Knuckles didn't need three guesses over what he was thinking about.

They both silently got in their beds, Knuckles almost immediately fell asleep, with guarding the master emerald he was used to practically sleeping all day, Shadow on the other hand, wasn't finding it so easy.

'I hope Sonic is alright, only god knows what Espio could've have done to him, well, we'll find him tomorrow, for now I should just try and get some sleep.' He nodded in agreement to his thoughts, and after putting out the bedside light, he attempted to get to sleep.

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Suspense!!!!!! More chapters to come in a matter of a few days I promise!

Also gonna do a new Sonadow story called A Reason for Insanity after I finish this book! So stay tuned for that! Byeee....