He is My Master

70: Three Is a Crowd... Five Is An Army

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Sonic the Hedgehog was currently wanting to die.

To demonstrate that point, he was also currently sitting on the couch in Tails' living room, bent over with his head in his hands and groaning.

"Dear gods, why?"

(They had been back for about half an hour by now. After Amy's very abrupt departure from Sonic's apartment – and the realization that, really, Sonic was currently in NO state to go after her - what had followed had been a very cringing (Sonic) and annoyed (Shadow) shower and then a reluctant run back to Tails' place afterward. Sonic knew going after Amy now probably wouldn't be a good idea even if he did manage to find her (and do what, even? Damage control? A talk about privacy, again?) and there were still the dopplegangers staying at his kid brother's place that he couldn't very well leave him alone with. As soon as they had arrived, Shadow had announced he was going to go and train his double some more, which Sonic translated as 'ticked off and needing to destroy stuff with Chaos Spears', which he was fine with. For Shadow-standards, that was probably healthy.

Sonic wished he could go destroy stuff with Chaos Spears.)

"Uh, Sonic?"

"Huh? Oh. Hey, Tails." Sonic grimaced as the little fox poked his head into the room, still looking sleep-ruffled as he had probably been up late working on the interdimensional transfer-thingamajiggy.

"Are you alright? I thought you'd be, uh, happier after...y'know...s-spending the night at your place with Shadow?" Tails said, only stumbling over his words a little, but concern for his brother apparently outweighing his trepidation. Sonic could feel a small smile tugging at the corner of his mouth at seeing the kit apparently trying to follow through on his promise of looking out for him, but then a painful flashback to the events of the morning made him flinch before it could form.

"Well, I was, until Amy showed up. She came right as, uh, well..." Sonic hastily broke off that sentence, realizing there was no good way for it to end (other than 'I did', which he was not going to add here), but fortunately –

"Oh no, what?!" Tails flung his hands in front of his mouth. "She actually caught you two kissing?!"

This was asked with the special mixture of disgust and fascination of all nine-year-olds at the topic, in Tails' case also accompanied by two fluffed tails in alarm.

Sonic considered the answer to that one.

"Yes," he ventured. "Kissing. Yes. It was, uh, pretty bad."

"Oh, gross," Tails pulled a face. "Probably with tongue and everything."

"I'll keep the details to myself, thanks," Sonic gave his brother a dry stare. "And I'd rather not talk about it, if you don't mind. This is terrible enough as it is..." he sank back against the backrest of the couch, groaning.

"Hm, yeah, it is pretty bad, huh?" Tails nodded consolingly. "How, uh, did Amy take it? Is...is Shadow still alive, or...?"

"Honestly? I dunno yet. She ran off right after." Sonic rubbed his face. "Shads is out training his doppelganger again. I might take mine for another run, too. How's the portal coming along?"

"Almost done!" Tails smiled. "I think I'll have it ready by tonight."

"Awesome. At least one bit of good news. Thanks, kiddo." Sonic stood up. "Still any breakfast left?"