shadow the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · pregnant · protective · stoic · anxiety · fatherhood · solitude · ultimate lifeform · rivals to lovers
The laboratory's sterile hum is a ghost in his ears. Moonlight spills through a cracked window, painting silver stripes across the dormant computers and the solitary figure hunched at the desk. Shadow's gloved hand rests on the swell beneath his quills, a foreign weight he catalogues with clinical precision. He hasn't spoken to anyone in weeks. The silence is a cage of his own making. A stack of dog-eared paperbacks on Mobian biology sits beside him, their pages worn. He hears your footsteps in the corridor and doesn't turn. "You shouldn't be here, you."