Reason for Insanity

Shadow's Illness

Since today is my birthday I felt like writing 3 chapters! Usually I would write 2 but today its 3 so enjoy my potatoes!!!

When Shadow got home, she felt the urge to vomit and did so. Her stomach felt queasy. Shadow looked down at her stomach in confusion. "Maybe I should try eating something."

She sighed and vomited again just as the doorbell rang, but heard Tails answer it. Tails invited everyone to come inside and they followed him inside.

"Everyone's here, Shadow!" he yelled.

"I'll...be there...in a few...minutes," she said.

Tails frowned, hearing her vomit. Was it possible that she was... Tails shook his head. It was fully possible that she had gotten sick. He looked at the others and gave them a smile. He had to put his worried to the side for now. They had guests.

"How about dinner?"

"Sure," Shadow said. She walked out of the bathroom and into the living room. Everyone looked at her.

"Are you all right?" Knuckles asked.

"I'm fine," she said. "It's Sonic who isn't."

"What do you mean?" Blaze asked.

"A lot has happened to him," Shadow said. "Maybe we should talk about it after dinner."

They sat down at the table and began to eat, talking about what they had been doing lately. After dinner, Blaze looked at Shadow. "So where's Sonic? You mentioned he's not well."

"He's at the hospital." Shadow looked at Tails.

Everyone gasped in shock.

"Why?" Silver asked.

"The first time, he needed to be taken in for some..." Tails fell silent. "We should start at the beginning."

Shadow and Tails both explained Sonic's situation to the others, taking turns to fill in where the other couldn't. When they were finished, everyone was speechless. They had no idea that Sonic was that way. Shadow and Tails looked around at the others, waiting for someone to get their voice back.

"That's..." Blaze gulped. "That's...saddening. He'll be in a mental hospital from now on starting tomorrow?"

Tails and Shadow nodded.

"Will we be able to see him?" Silver asked. He was getting emotional now. Tears were already starting to run down his cheeks.

"I don't know," Shadow said.

Silver whimpered and looked down.

Tails gulped. "Sonic was...abused...as a child. He's been diagnosed with schizophrenia."

Knuckles chuckled. "So Sonic's insane! He always seemed like it." He laughed, and the others glared at him.

"This isn't funny, Knuckles." There was a growl in Shadow's voice as she spoke.

The echidna gulped and nodded. The others sighed, letting the information sink in.

"Is there anything we can do? At all?" Blaze asked.

Shadow shrugged. "I don't know if we can," she said.

"We can at least keep everyone safe for him," Knuckles said. "He'd hate it if we let something happen to the planet just because something happened to him."

Tails nodded. "I agree. Since he's...mental...now, we can't let anyone near him. He's probably dangerous to be around." He looked at Shadow. "What do you think?"

"I think it's a shame, but you're right. Hopefully, he'll get better and we'll be able to see him."

Everyone nodded. Knuckles, Blaze and Silver stood up.

"Well, we better go," Silver said. "it was...nice...to see you."

Shadow and Tails nodded, and watched them leave. The two remaining people sighed, looking at each other.

"That went about how I had been expecting," Shadow said. "What should we do now?"

Shadow shrugged. "I don't know," she said. She felt the urge to vomit again and rushed into the bathroom. A few minutes later, she came out groaning. "I'm not feeling to well," she said. "I'll be at the doctor's office."

Tails nodded and Shadow left the house. It wouldn't be a good idea to run feeling sick like she did, so Shadow found a different way to get to the hospital. She used Chaos Control, and appeared in front of the hospital. A few minutes later, she explained her situation to the doctor, who examined her. When he was done, he smiled at her.

"I have good news," he said. "You're pregnant."

"Pregnant?" Shadow did a horrible job keeping her voice down. "Are you sure? How can you tell?"

"I did a pregnancy test. It's positive."

Shadow's eyes widened and she groaned, then shook her head. "This is bad," she said. "What should I do?" Shadow started panicking.

"You don't want the baby?" The doctor asked, confused.

Shadow shook her head, then told him what happened. "After everything that's happened to Sonic, I can't make him deal with this too," she finished explaining.

"Well...the only option, if you don't want the baby, is abortion."

Shadow shook her head. "I can't do that."

The doctor nodded. he smiled as Shadow left and went back home. When she got to the house, she lay on the bed and began to cry. Wiping her face didn't do her any good, more tears just taking the place of the ones she had just gotten rid of. No matter what Shadow did, she couldn't get her mind off what had happened.