Chapter Thirty-Three

A New Life

A few days later, Rouge sat on the sofa back at the house cradling Angel in her arms, she had never felt so happy, she gazed down at the small black hedgehog in a white woollen baby suit as he lay in her arms sucking his fingers.

After she came out of hospital, Amy, Sonic, Blaze and the rest of the team had thrown a party at their house to welcome her and the newcomer and also had set up a baby's room for Angel in the spare room. Rouge was overjoyed that the Sonic Team were talking to her again after they had heard the whole story about Knuckles.

Rouge then picked up a bottle of warm milk she had next to her and brought it to his lips, Angel opened his mouth and eagerly began to drink the milk. She smiled and stroked his soft black fur as she cradled him, Angel seemed to be very thirsty as he was drinking the milk very fast.

After a while, Angel stopped drinking and then yawned, Rouge smiled again and began to rock him, Angel yawned again and brought his little black hands up to his face and closed his eyes. As he slept Rouge stroked his quills and continued to stare at him with love.

Just then she saw Shadow come into the room, he walked over and sat next to her, then pulled her close to him and began to nuzzle her neck. Rouge moaned, Shadow then looked down at his sleeping son, "he looks so peaceful" he whispered. Rouge nodded "he does" she whispered "I love him so much"

Shadow kissed the back of her neck and then began to stroke his son's quills, Rouge rested against him then picked up the remote control, "I'm planning to take Angel to the Mobotropolis Prison tomorrow, I want to show him to the murderesses and also thank them again for all the help they've given me"

Shadow smiled "they'd love that" he said, the murderesses had sent Rouge an invite to celebrate Chloe's Seventeenth birthday and the officers had allowed Rouge and Shadow to come if they wanted to, and Rouge had replied with an eager yes.

Rouge then turned on the T.V making sure the volume was down so as not to wake Angel. She then switched the news and she nearly gasped in horror. The newsreader, an old black bear was talking about Buxton saying she'd escaped from prison.

"A female prisoner Buxton Mongoose has escaped from Mobotropolis Woman's Prison, the public is advised to be cautious as she is appeared to be armed and dangerous' a photo of Buxton appeared, showing the fierce yellow mongoose against the height chart. 'Buxton was serving a life sentence for trafficking illegal immigrants and making them work in the sex trade where she forced them to whore with men, many of the girls who were at her trail claim she had abused them and made them sleep in poor conditions whilst she kept the money for herself and lived in luxury"

Rouge was shocked, so was Shadow "no!" she cried "a nonce on the loose!" "Slag!" said Shadow "such an evil cow after what she did to those poor girls" The newsreader began talking again.

'As yet the police has been unsuccessful in finding the body of Buxton, bounty hunters have been called to search the areas surrounding Mobotropolis and also check points at airports have been warned to make sure she doesn't leave the country'

Rouge was worried "I gotta ask the Deadly Six about this" she said "when we go in tomorrow" Shadow nodded "ok" he said as he held her close "if she does try to do anything" he said "like come near you" he flexed his hand "I'll spear her through the throat!"

Back at the prison, the prisoners were wondering what had happened to Buxton, after the officers and guards realised she was missing, they searched the whole prison, whilst they were doing that, the murderesses were nervous, as they thought they would discover the body of Buxton in the rubbish.

But before the officers had realised Buxton was missing, the rubbish van had come to get the rubbish and seemed to have taken Buxton's corpse with them. Kaliyah smiled at Celia as they sat at the table in the canteen. Most of the prisoners were helping the officers set up the canteen for Chloe's birthday.

"I'm excited about Rouge coming!" said Kaliyah, "I've missed her!" "Me too" said Celia "you think she may bring Shadow with her?" "I dunno" said Kaliyah, "be great if she does!" Darlene then walked over "Yoo dink Rouge's coming?" she asked, "I hope so" said Kaliyah.

Much later Rouge, Shadow and Angel arrived at the prison, they were showed in by Sylvia who spent a lot of time cooing over baby Angel. When Rouge arrived, the party was just getting into a full swing.

When Chloe and the other murderesses saw Rouge they ran over cheering and began hugging her, they then went to pieces when they saw Angel, "Awww!" cried Darlene "Awww!" said Julia "what a little darling!" Rouge smiled proudly, "awww" said Kaliyah "can we hold him?" "Sure thing!" said Rouge, she placed the child in Kaliyah's arms.

When Kaliyah had the child in her arms, she cooed and Darlene, Chloe and Verona began to coo, "awww" said Kaliyah "aren't you just the sweetest little thing?" she ticked the baby hedgehog under the chin making him giggle, whilst the other murderesses smiled, made goo goo noises and poked their fingers at Angel who seemed to enjoy it as he smiled and gurgled.

Rouge then pulled Celia and Julia aside away from the guards earshot, "what happened with Buxton?" she asked "all other the news they've been saying she escaped, but yet the police and detectives have found no sniff of her" Celia then smirked, "you know where she is Rouge" she said.

"You do?" asked Rouge confused, she looked over to the guards, but they were too busy watching the other prisoners than paying attention to them. "Where is she?" she asked, "she's dead" said Julia with a grin "what!" said Rouge in a loud whisper, "we killed her" said Celia "it was pretty bad I'd say!"

Rouge didn't know what to say, she was shocked that the murderesses were so bloodthirsty, but on the other hand she was really happy that that nonce wasn't free and she couldn't abuse anyone else. Celia then told Rouge about her gruesome death, "she got what she deserved" said Julia "all the prisoners here aren't sorry she's gone, they've always hated her, yet her murder is just between us murderesses" "Ok" said Rouge "you're secrets with me" she smiled at the murderesses and they smiled back.

Later, Chloe had had her birthday cake that Jenny and Julie had made for her, and now the murderesses, Ellen, Jenny, Julie, Shadow and Rouge were sitting at one of the tables. They were all staring at baby Angel.

"I wanted to come back so I could say again how grateful I am to you all" said Rouge "for helping me cope whilst in this hellhole" the ladies giggled "and to show my real appreciation" she said "I want you all to be godmothers to Angel" "Wow!" cried Jenny "for real?" said Julie.

Rouge nodded "we'd love to!" said the murderesses together "it would be an honour" said Ellen, "yeah" said Jenny and Julie together "such an honour" Rouge smiled, "I'll keep coming back to see you all" she said "and we're gonna stay on good behaviour" said Julia, "we've got to really work hard, Chloe and I" said Verona "we got life, gotta serve at least 10 years before we're considered for parole"

"I'm sure you can do it" said Rouge "yeah" said Julie "we can do some better, all of us!" Rouge nodded and smiled, and baby Angel giggled and cooed at all the ladies around him. "We hope to be good godmothers" said Chloe "yeah" said Kaliyah "very good ones!"

Chloe smiled "wow" she said "this is the best birthday ever!" Rouge smiled at the poodle "why Hun?" she asked, Chloe smiled, "well, not only have I seen you again Rouge" said Chloe "but Nicholas came into my cell this morning to wake me up and also wish me happy birthday, and guess what he gave me!"

"What?" asked Rouge, Chloe proudly showed them a silver locket she was wearing around her neck with the engravings C (Chloe) and N (Nicholas) on them. "He told me his feelings for me, and how he wishes I were out of prison so we can be together and why he worked here! So he could be with me! Then we kissed!"

Chloe began to get excited "he loves me Rouge!" she cried "and I love him!" she cried with happiness, Rouge beamed "I'm so happy for you Chloe" she said. Shadow nodded at Chloe with a smile and Angel gurgled. "He's a good kisser too!" said Chloe happily "Ooohhh!" said Verona with a laugh "naughty!" Rouge's eyes went wide, then everyone laughed.

When it was time to go, Rouge hugged all the murderesses and, Ellen and Jenny and Julie, they also kissed Angel many times, and Shadow shook hands with them all and thanked them for looking after Rouge.

"We'll see you soon" said Rouge as she began to leave, the murderesses smiled and waved, then Rouge got Angel's little hand and began to gently wave it at them. "Say goodbye Angel" she whispered, the murderesses waved and sighed 'Ahh' at Angel, then Rouge turned and walked out with Shadow.

As they walked out of the prison, Rouge looked back at the prison, she smiled, even though life inside there was painful, she knew she was free and was walking towards her freedom. She looked at Shadow who wrapped his arm around her lovingly then down at Angel who fell asleep in her arms. She then looked up at the setting sun and tears of happiness rolled down her cheeks, it was a whole new life for her and her new family.

The End

Awww! How sweet! Chloe finds love in Nicholas, and Rouge has a new life!

Well, that stroy was hard to write!

Acknowledgements to Rocker Raider for the ideas and for his requested fan character Nicholas the Poodle.

Now I'm gonna start on my new fic 'Powerful One' so watch this space!

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