Adopt Me [HIATUS]

Chapter 10: New things

Shadow was sitting in his office at work, filling out his report of his most recent encounter with the doctor. It had escaped his mind to call him "Dr. Eggman" when he saw him, so when he was writing about, he lightly facepalmed as he remembered. He just decided to make a mental note to tell him next time he saw him.

Just as he finished filling out his report, the phone on his desk rang. It was his boss's number. Shadow rolled his eyes and picked it up, listening to his boss telling him he wanted to meet him in his office to talk. Shadow agreed, hung up the phone and began making his way to his bosses office.

The talk was exactly what Shadow expected. Why wasn't he taking more hours? Why was he leaving work so soon? Why were his scouting missions so short? Shadow answered each question with the same answer. Personal reasons. Thankfully, he had no obligation to tell his boss the truth, as his boss had no right to know what was going on in his personal life, and Shadow had already talked to his boss's boss about his change in contract, since the doctor wasn't being too active these past few weeks, so Shadow had proof that he wasn't violating anything.

While Shadow was basically being interrogated by his boss, it was unknown to him that his cell phone began to ring back in his office. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, Rouge just happened to be walking by, and her bat ears happened to pick up the buzzing noises of his vibrating phone. Curiosity took over her, and she decided to take a look. The number on his screen was shown as unknown, so that made her even more curious. She looked around, and picked up the phone, swiping the answer button.

"Hello?" She said, holding the phone up to her ear.

"Hello, is this Shadow the Hedgehog?" The voice on the other end asked.

"No." She answered. "Who is this?"

"Oh, I need to speak with Shadow." The voice said. "It's a bit of an emergency."

Rouge wanted to dig deeper, but hearing the word "emergency", she figured it was just best to let Shadow know, and bother him about it later.

"Sure, just a moment." she replied, placing the caller on hold.

She pressed her hand on the page button on the desk phone, sending a page to their boss's office.
"Shadow, there's someone on your cell asking for you." She explained. "They said it was some sort of emergency, and they need to talk to you."

"Shadow and I are busy at the moment, Ms. Rouge." their boss replied, making Rouge roll her eyes. "If you would just tell that caller to wait, then-"

Their boss didn't even finish his sentence as Shadow appeared in the doorway of his office. Rouge smirked and tossed him his cellphone. Shadow nodded to her, and took the caller off hold and began talking to them.

"Hello?" Shadow asked, holding the phone to his ear.

"Hi, is this Shadow the Hedgehog?" The person on the other line asked.

"Yes." Shadow answered. "Who is this?"

"This is Wynona the Cat from Green Hills elementary school." She explained. "I'm calling because your child, Sonic, came in here just a few minutes ago, and wasn't feeling too well. So we took his temperature, and it turns out he has a fever. It's just a small one, but we think it would be best for you to come and get him."

"Okay." Shadow responded. "I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Thank you, Mr. Hedgehog." She replied. "I'll let Sonic know."

"Okay, bye." Shadow said, and hung up, rushing to grab his things.

"Okay, what's going on?" Rouge asked. "Where are you going?"