If You Love Me Come Clean

Chapter One

Dr. Robotnik had never been one for emotions. He had them of course, but he would never admit it, not even to Agent Stone, and Stone knew this. It was just too... human for Robotnik.

So this is why when Agent Stone started to develop feelings for the doctor, he did his best to keep it under wraps. It wasn't that difficult at first. I mean, come on. He was a gay man, he had crushes on straight people before. But as him and Robotnik began to grow closer, it became increasingly more and more difficult. Before, Stone had gotten used to pinning himself to the wall when the doctor got mad, but one fateful moment recently, Dr. Robotnik had pinned him himself, and Stone could not contain how surprised he was. He could, however, contain how aroused he was.

When he was standing across the room from Robotnik as he worked on his newest invention, he was absolutely overcome with infatuation. Robotnik was just so skilled at what he did. It also didn't hurt that he was nice on the eyes.

It was rather loud in the lab Robotnik was working in. Stone stood on the other side of the project he was working on. He was only able to see an occasional glance of the doctor when he stepped back to look at his work or to catch his breath.

Stone mumbled "God I love that man".

He didn't expect Robotnik to hear it. God, he could barely hear it over the noise of the machine. But of course he conveniently forgot that Dr. Robotnik had the ears of a fruit bat.

Robtnik spoke loudly, not even taking his attention away from his machine "What was that, agent? You know I hate it when you mumble. I did not understand a word of what you just said".

Stone panicked. He certainly did not want to tell the doctor what he had said. He also didn't want to lie to the doctor, he could always tell if he lied. So stone settled for a simple "It was nothing important, Sir".

That was a mistake.

Dr. Robotnik now took his attention from the machine and stood up, looking Agent Stone in the eyes. Now Stone knew he fucked up.

"Now don't be shy, Stone. It must be important if you thought you could interrupt my work like that. now tell me, are you keeping something from me?"

The correct answer was, yes, he was very much keeping something from him, but that was not what he would tell him. "I would never, sir" is what he told him instead.

"So what is it, exactly, that you said?" Robotnik began to walk closer to him.

The doctor would not move on without an answer. He had to give him something. He had to try his best to calm himself enough to lie without alerting the doctor.

Stone finally tore his eyes away from the doctor. He could no longer stand to maintain eye contact.

Another mistake.

"I- I just said that your machine is coming along nicely".

"Well of course it is, I'm building the damn thing, but that is certainly not what you said before," he was now standing over Stone intimidatingly "You are lying to me, it's written all over your face" He punctuated that by leaning in closer to stone, their noses almost touching.

Stone took a step back, something he rarely did, but felt compelled to do now. Robotnik just took another step to meet him. Stone was trapped.

"I- I, uh, I said-"

He was cut off by Robotnik "You said what? If you want to make a joke you might as well share it with the class, Stone"

Agent Stone started to take another step, which aggravated the doctor even more. The doctor ended up just pushing him against the wall to make him stop moving. Stone gasped at the sudden movement. As previously stated, this had only happened once before.

Agent Stone looked at the doctor in fear. Dr. Robotnik would never do anything to physically hurt Stone, but he certainly made it seem like he would.

Stone wasn't getting out of this. He had to just tell him, rip it off like a band-aid. God this was terrifying.

"I love you"

He had said it quietly, but Robotnik certainly heard him.

"I'm sorry?"

Stone looked him in the eyes, and turned back into the loyal assistant he was any other day "I said I love you, sir" his heart beat out of his chest as he stared Robotnik in the eyes.

Stone swore he saw a flash of fear in Robotnik's eyes before he quickly took control of his face and stepped back. It was now his turn to break eye contact.

"Very funny, agent" Robotnik said humorlessly as he stepped away from Stone and back to his machine.

What the hell had just happened? He confessed his feelings to Robotnik and he took it as a joke? Did he not reciprocate his feelings? Stone would not be too surprised if he didnt feel the same, but to laugh at how he felt? That was just wrong. It was almost unlike Robotnik to be that much of an asshole.

Stone then realized he was being spoken to.

"Well? Are you just going to stand there like an imbecile or are you going to do what you're told?" Robotnik snapped.

"Im very sorry sir, what was that?" Stone very rarely missed something the doctor said, he was shocked with himself.

Robotnik rolled his eyes and said "Lattes, you idiot. We'll be up for a while."   

Stone quickly excused himself with a quiet "of course, sir".