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    Shadow woke.

    Because of course he did.

    Joy.

    He woke up gagging on water and vomiting up onto the shoreline he’d been unceremoniously deposited onto. A mercy, all things considered, that the water would so gently lay him ashore when it’d so mercilessly bashed him against every rock imaginable beforehand. He could have cried in relief, and if a few salty streaks ran down his cheek despite himself then…then there wasn’t a soul around to tell of his weakness.

    Everything still hurt.

    Worse, actually, than it did before.

    If it were possible.

    . . .

    Shadow would like to rest.

    Knuckles will not let him.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    For months, Shadow and Sonic have been finding eachother late into the night and having brutal spars. Nothing is more exhilarating to Sonic. They throw their lives at each other and trust the other enough not to take it. But as Sonic's trust grows, so does his care. He wants to know what drives Shadow to their late-night fights. When he finds out, he comforts Shadow.

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    Sonic and Shadow regularly beat each other up in the middle of the night until one night Sonic refuses to.

    Content Warnings: seeking injury (through fighting), non-graphic violence, mentioned PTSD nightmare- Shadow briefly describes seeing Maria's corpse in his nightmare

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    14 Feb 2026

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    Sonic is lonely. All of his friends have grown up, left and started new lives. Amy now works as a volunteer in disadvantaged communities, Knuckles looks after the Master Emerald 24/7 and Tails is in university now, doing a degree in robotics. Shadow… honestly, he has no clue what the (grudgingly attractive) dark hedgehog gets up to anymore. He knows he’s being selfish, but he wishes everything would go back to normal. So what, sometimes he gets drunk on his own? And so what, sometimes he wakes up, hungover, with shallow cuts around his wrist? No one’s going to be around to see it anyway. Until someone does, of course.

    Shadow isn’t proud of himself. He’s the ultimate life form, brought up by Gerald Robotnik himself. The professor taught him everything he knew. And according to him, liking another male is a sin. So he can’t like Sonic. He can’t. He just wishes Sonic was a girl. But now he's fucked up. Rouge is mad at him, he has nowhere to stay. And there’s no one to turn to besides Sonic, the one person he wants to avoid at all costs.

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    TLDR: Shadow gets kicked out of Team Dark's apartment, and Sonic lets him stay at his for a bit. Both hedgehogs get more then they bargained for.

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    04 Jan 2026

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    “And you know,” the other hedgehog continued, lowering his voice to a playful whisper that seemed to curl around Shadow like smoke, “you can relax around me. I’m not gonna bite.”

    “Unless you ask.”

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    12 Dec 2025

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    With G.U.N. defeated, the secret of Shadow’s survival revealed, and life returning to normal, Sonic works tirelessly to integrate Shadow into the Wachowski family. It isn’t easy, but with steady steps, he is able to help Shadow settle into his new home.

    However, Sonic is not done keeping secrets. Because now, he is faced with a new problem…

    …and that is the fact that he has no idea how to tell Tom, Maddie, Knuckles, and Tails about his blooming romantic relationship with Shadow the Hedgehog.

    [AKA, five times that Sonic’s friends and family almost discovered his relationship with Shadow, and the four times that each of them individually found out.]

    [Sequel to 'The Secrets in our Quills']

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    11 Dec 2025