Part eight: how opposites meet - a Shadilver story
During class Silver quickly plugged in their phone to let it charge. `Wouldn't want to oversleep again tomorrow' Silver thought and turned their attention to the lesson.
This class finally felt a bit normal, as there were many students sitting in between them and Shadow. It relieved a lot of Silver's stress so they could enjoy the class. It finally felt normal, but for how long?
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After a while the bell rang again, everybody quickly put away their stuff to get to the next class in time. Silver felt a fast breeze when packing away their book and unplugged their fully charged phone.
``Uhm Silver, you dropped your pen,'' Silver turned around but the classmate who had said it had already gone to the door. Silver looked down and saw their pen on the floor. Weird thing was that it actually was their pen, the pen Shadow had picked up from the floor yesterday. Silver bent down and picked up the pen from the floor noticing a piece of paper rolled up to it.
``Come on, we have to go,'' Tails spoke excitedly standing in the doorway and they both went to the last class of the day, physics. Silver quickly followed him to the physics classroom.
They got a pair of safety goggles when they entered, which they had to put on immediately. They both sat down and Silver looked around and blew a sigh of relieve, `Luckily Shadow isn't in the physics class. Thinking of...' Silver looked at their pen and unwrolled the piece of paper, there was something written on it.
`Meet me after class, 3.30 pm at the parking lot.' Silver read, `Why?' Silver thought before thinking about all the possibilities. `Maybe he is going to beat me up, maybe he's going to ask weird question, or maybe....' Silver swallowed `...maybe he was going to do the thing he talked about with his friends yesterday.' The youngster started to feel sick a bit. `What does Shadow want? I really don't understand him. He's so scary.' Silver was lost in their thoughts and went through all types of emotions.
Silver didn't notice their classmates were moving around, ``Silver you coming?''
``Huh what?'' Silver asked.
``Didn't you hear the bell? Class is over.''
``What! Class is over but, we just sat down, how....'' Silver looked at the clock hanging above the doorway, which showed it was 3.30 pm, ``How did that happen!''
``You really aren't yourself today, are you?'' Tails asked and looked worried at Silver, his friend didn't respond. ``Is something bothering you?"
``No, it's nothing, I'm just tired.''
``Maybe you should just go home and go to bed early.''
``Yeah you're probably right.''
``BTW will you come over tomorrow for game night?'' Tails asked, as they did so every Wednesday.
``Ow yeah that will be great!'' Silver felt a bit better. It was always nice to go over to their friend's house as his parents were just so nice and Silver could always stay for dinner. ``So I guess I'll see you again tomorrow morning, same time, same place?''
``Well,'' Tails looked a bit guilty, ``As you know tomorrow you have 2 periods of arts and philosophy,'' Silver nodded. ``I don't take those classes, remember.?''
Silvers ears dropped down but didn't want to show too much disappointment as Tails had already done so much these days to take care of them. ``Ow yeah, that's right. Not a problem. Then I will see you tomorrow at 4 pm, your place.''
``Are you sure you will be alright tomorrow?''
``Yes, not a problem,'' Silver smiled convincing.
``You can always text me during class if needed.''
``Will do,'' and with that Tails went home. Silver stood still and stared for a while with the note from Shadow in their hand. `What to do.... I don't think going to meet Shadow would be a good idea in any way. He is so unpredictable, I don't trust him at all.' Silver thought while making their decision. The youngster looked at the clock, it was already 3.45 pm. `Shadow probably wouldn't have waited 15 minutes to meet me. I'm just going to go home, make some homework for the history course and go to bed early.'
The hallways were empty and quiet, maybe a bit too quiet. But Silver didn't notice. Just before the ivory hedgehog could get to the front door Silver got pushed through a doorway and pinned against the wall in an empty classroom. Silver yelped totally shocked by the sudden force. A hand was pushed against their mouth to made the ivory youngster go silent.
Silver's eyes widened and started to struggle but the person who was holding them against the wall was just too strong. The classroom was dark so Silver couldn't who it was.
``Shhh.. Be quiet you stupid hedgehog,'' the one pinning the ivory youngster against the wall hissed. But this only made Silver struggle more as they recognised the voice. `It's that Scourge guy' Silver felt shocked and paralysed. Scourge moved closer to Silver and tightened his grip om the ivory youngster. Scourge was now so close that Silver could feel his breath on their face. Silver closed their eyes terrified to watch what might happen. `Hmmm, I just want a little taste,' Scourge whispered as Silver felt a sharp tongue running across their cheeks.
``Hmm mu hooo,'' Silver said muffled through Scourge's hand.
``You like that don't yah? There is more where that came from,'' The emerald hedgehog pressed his body against Silver who was starting to panic, as Scourge was rubbing up against the youngster. Adrenaline started to rush through Silver's body.
The youngster opened their mouth and bit down hard on Scourge's fingers. ``I said, let me go!'' Silver yelled. The ivory hedgehog started kicking their legs which were dangling above the ground, hitting Scourge between his legs and making him let go of Silver. As Silver dropped to the ground the emerald hedgehog growled in pain and stepped back while holding his groin .
All of a sudden the door of the class room flew open as Silver had yelled so loud that it couldn't have gone unnoticed.
``What the hell is going on here!'' Shadow stood in the doorway and looked at the scene. Silver was lying on the ground against the wall, rubbing away Scourge saliva with the back of their hand and Scourge was down on his knees in the middle of the classroom with his hands between his legs.
``Arrgh, that little bastard kicked me in the nuts,'' Scourge growled.
Silver looked terrified of what Shadow would do as he walked over to the youngster.
``What did Scourge do?'' He asked with a monotonous voice. Silver looked up at him as they didn't know what to say and what the effect of their words would be. Silver just looked down and didn't answer. ``What did he do?!'' Shadow spoke louder making the ivory one cringe.
``H-he, he, uhmm,'' Silver started with a small voice, ``H-he dragged m-me into t-this room a-and pinned m-me against the w-wall,'' Tears were forming in their eyes, ``H-he said h-he...'' Silver shivered and took a deep breath, ``He said he wanted to have a little taste and then h-he licked me.''
Shadow turned around and walked over to Scourge and stood there towering over him, ``Hey, what's up boss?'' Shadow grabbed Scourge by the collar of his jacket and lifted him off the ground. ``Thanks,'' Scourge quickly said as he thought Shadow was helping him up, ``You can put me down now.'' Shadow looked up at the emerald hedgehog with fire in his eyes. Scourge looked nervous and gulped.
``Don't you dare touch the youngster!'' Shadow growled angrily, ``We had an agreement!''
``I-I'm s-sorry, I couldn't r-resist,'' Scourge replied but something felt off. Scourge's eyes twitched from Shadow to Silver and as quick as it was something shifted in his eyes, as if he didn't really care about Shadow's authority, but it was just for a split second.
Shadow pulled Scourge closer to his face, ``Just wait for your turn,'' he whispered threatening. This whisper wasn't meant for Silver to hear, but because of their sharp hearing they did. The ivory hedgehog turned pale. ``Go, now!'' Shadow yelled as he dropped Scourge to the ground.
Scourge swiftly went for the door but when he passed Silver he whispered, ``A bit feisty I like that.'' Which made Silver cringe again. Scourge left and closed the door with a loud `BANG'. Leaving the ivory and ebony hedgehogs alone, in silence and darkness.
Silver couldn't move as they was far too scared and shocked by the whole event. Shadow turned to Silver and looked at them up and down. The ivory one just stared at the ground, too afraid to say something or to just go for the door. Shadow slowly stepped over to the youngster. Silver looked at Shadows boots which stopped on the spot Silver was staring at. The youngster swallowed nervously but just couldn't look up at him.
``Come,'' Shadow spoke but his voice had changed, he wasn't rough and threatening anymore, it had turned soft and, what was that, caring, maybe? The sudden change in his voice caught Silver by surprise. The ivory hedgehog looked up, Shadow was holding out a hand, his face was emotionless. ``Come,'' he repeated.
``W-what are you going t-to do with m-me?'' Silver whispered.
``Nothing,'' Shadow answered still holding out his hand, ``Come'' he said again. Silver took his hand still a bit distrustful. Shadow pulled the youngster, who was still a bit shaky, up and set them down on their feet. ``Here,'' he pulled out a piece cloth from his pocket and handed it over. Silver took it to wipe aways their tears.
``Why are you doing this?'' Silver whispered. Shadow looked down at the youngster and looked away. To be honest, Shadow didn't know why he was doing this either. Weeks ago Shadow would have helped Scourge, maybe even hold the other person down and keep them from struggling, but something felt off. There was just something different about this ivory hedgehog.
``Stay away from Scourge, he can be dangerous,'' was Shadows answer. Silver looked confused since that didn't really answer their question. Shadow turned around and headed for the door. Silver stood there on their own, feeling puzzled.
``Wait!'' Silver yelled and went after him. Shadow stood still as he pushed open the front door of the school, but he didn't turn to face the ivory one. ``T-thank you,'' Silver said softly. Shadow's ears perked up and he looked over his shoulder towards the youngster. He looked them up and down before turning back towards the door.
``Don't get used to it,'' he replied as he walked through the door and left.
`What the hell was this all about?,' Silver thought as he stood there, still puzzled. `Does this mean he will be nice from now on? Isn't he going after me anymore? Why did he even want to meet me? Why does it feel like before he would have wanted to kill me, abuse me, and now... now he was doing what? Taking care of me? Watching my back?' Many questions went through their head and none of them Silver could answer. After a while Silver just gave up and walked home quietly, still drifting away in their thoughts.
