Accidents Happen: Chapter 41 - FINAL

Accidents Happen: Chapter 41

Sonic's POV

Rouge, Amy and Tails had kept us busy for quite a bit until a passing nurse told them to leave as it was way past the visiting hour. I, as a new father, was allowed to stay by my lover's and our two children's sides.
Now that it was finally silent and all the excitement of these past two days had finally settled, Shadow and I could finally relax.
"Be careful." I practically ordered as I was concerned when Shadow winced while trying to slowly turn to lie on his right side to face me.
"I know, I know, but I'm a little sick of lying on my back the whole time." He responded once he laid on his side comfortably.
He turned his attention to the crib in between us and extended his hand towards it so that he may stroke the cheek of one of our girls. Both of us would've rather wanted to hold them for atleast a little longer, but as both of our arms were quickly getting tired after no sleep at all for the last two days, we deemed it safer to let them sleep peacefully in their crib instead.
A yawn broke through as my eyes were getting heavy. The lack of sleep was finally getting to me, although I didn't really want to sleep. But no matter how badly I wanted to stay awake, my body also kept complaining and pleading for some shut eye.
"It's okay to sleep, you know." My mate told me as he easily noticed my eyes drooping.
"Wha? I'm not that tired." I tried to lie, but Shadow easily saw through it.
"It's okay, just sleep. I feel like falling asleep any moment now aswell." He admitted, his own eyes only half way open as he had a difficult time keeping them open just like me. As if on cue, just as he finished that sentence a yawn left his lungs.
I smiled as I watched him. Maybe it was because he had given birth a little over two hours ago and we were now both parents or maybe something else entirely, but right now everything Shadow did or said just had this extra little something that I couldn't quite put my finger on. He already had it when his belly had begun to grow, but it seemed twice as strong now.
"Sonic? Sonic!" Shadow called for my attention has he had apparently been talking to me, but my tired mind had spaced out some time ago.
"Uh, yeah?" I replied, trying my best not to sound too tired.
"I was just saying how nice it was of our friends to stay for so long, even though it was already long past visiting hours." He repeated. He wasn't even looking at me as he spoke, his eyes were practically glued on our twin girls.
"Yeah, that was nice of them." I mumbled an answer as I was slowly, but surely falling asleep. I was rubbing in my eyes to try and get rid of the the tired and heavy feeling in them, but it was an attempt gone in vain.
"Yeah, Rouge tried to give us a break and so did Tails, but Amy was her usual energetic self. Can you believe she even asked if we were engaged yet? I tried to explain to her that we were going to wait a little longer because we have just been together for seven months, but she..." That was about all I could remember before I lost conciousness completely, Shadow's voice sounding more and more distant as I blacked out.
But it wasn't for long until I woke back up.
I had such a weird dream. I can't remember much of it, only bits and pieces of it in the form of blurry images. But what I can recall gave me this feeling of being incredibly weirded out and made me really glad I was awake now. But a part of me also really wished to remember.
I sighed as I rubbed in my eye before opening them.
The first thing I noticed was the empty bed in front of me. I panicked a little at first as Shadow was supposed to be sleeping there. But as a soft whispering caught my attention, I looked toward the source and let myself relax.
Shadow was standing a small distance away from me in front of the window as he glanced from the window, to the bundle in his arms and to the sniffling Constance in the crib as she was about to cry.
"You're awake." Shadow noted as he approached me with slow, careful steps. Concern for my mate grew as I noticed the altered way of walking.
"Shadow! You should be in bed!" I whispered loudly, attempting to not cause further distress to my daughter sniffling in the crib or disturb the sleeping one in her mother's arms, as I jumped up from my seat to join Shadow by his side to offer support as if he were about to fall.
"I know that, but I really needed to stretch my legs." Shadow told me, to tired and sore to care about my overprotective behaviour, as we returned to his bedside.
Shadow handed the sleeping Ebony over to me, the child continued to sleep peacefully as she was to tired to even notice the change, before picking our youngest one up in his arms. He pulled the hospital robe, which was open at the back I had just now noticed, down from his shoulder and brought Constance in a comfortable position to drink.
"You can breastfeed them? And here I thought we were going to bottlefeed them." I stated, quite surprised at this discovery.
"It's not all that surprising. If I can get pregnant naturally, why can't I feed them naturally too? And besides, I checked it with dr. Burggens on one of our appointments because my chest has been feeling weird ever since month four or something and he confirmed my suspicions. So no, I never had any intention to use bottled milk." Shadow responded in a whisper as he smiled tiredly at Constance as she drank for the very first time.
This kind of first contact with a newborn must feel special too. Kind of like how I felt when I held her for the first time.
I never thought I'd see Shadow with a baby in his arms, not to mention breastfeed it, and yet here he was. With two of them no less if you count Constance's older sister sleeping in my arms.
Now that I thought of it, I didn't think I would ever become a father either.
Speaking of which...
"What should we call you?"
Shadow looked up from the baby he held to look back at me, his smile still visible on his muzzle as absolutely positively nothing could wipe it off now. The same was up with the smile that had appeared on my face without me even knowing it. I know I am the kind of person to smile for the silliest of things, but this time was different. This time my smile was as genuine as could be.
"What do you mean?" He asked, obviously not following.
"Well, do we call you mom or dad like me?" I asked. Sure, Shadow was the one who gave birth, but he was also still technically considered more guy than girl. So it was really up to him weither he wants to be known as a mother or a father.
"Mom. I want to be a mom." It didn't take Shadow even a second before he answered, which caught me by surprise a little.
"I kind of like sticking to traditions... Well, if I find them acceptable, that is. That's kind of why I want to be called a mom." He answered and brought Constance upright now that she was done suckling and tapped on her back to help her burp.
"And we shouldn't forget that I'm not just a guy down there, but a woman too. So I really don't mind to be called... No scratch that... I really want to be called a mom. So that's the title I decide to use." He added before I could speak.
"Okay then. Mama Shadow it is." I whispered, which made him huff as he carefully placed Contance back in the crib. I am absolutely certain he didn't mind the name, though.
"So, Mama Shadow, now that the kids are fed, I think it's best you get some sleep now. You look terrible." I chuckled lightly as I sat back down on the chair, still holding Ebony as I refused to let her go for now.
"Why thank you for the delightful compliment, but no, I will not be going to sleep. These past few hours have made it quite clear to me that I just can't fall asleep right now. I tried, but it's impossible. And frankly I don't want to sleep either." He said as he stood there, staring down at our youngest, lightly stroking her cheeks once more.
I don't blame him, I was far to engrossed by our oldest myself.
Heh... Our oldest, our youngest. It still felt so strange and unreal.
Shadow, getting the feeling he won't be able to stand for much longer, decided to take a seat on the bed, which made him wince as soon as he made contact with the mattress.
"Are you okay?" I asked as I obviously heard him.
"No, I'm not. Down there is completely ruined. It feels stretched out and sore. I can't sit, stand or lie down without feeling pain in my hips, lower back or vagina..." Shadow stated as he moved to lie on his back again.
He wasn't really the kind of person to hold back words that were considered bad to other people. For example the words penis or vagina. They belonged to our bodies and everyone had either one of the two, so Shadow really didn't see the point in giving them special cover names to confuse children.
And it was, apparently, more healthy for a child's upbringing to hear those words as it helped them to grow up believing that there was nothing wrong with their bodies and made it easier to talk with their parents about things concerning them. I once read that a couple of times too, but I had never been so open about it.
There was no mistake Shadow would be as open about these kind of things as he saw fit. And since he was raised by a scientist who knew the anatomy of a human and mobian body like the back of his own hand and was most likely not as shy as people were back on the day about all those terms, without a doubt that was something Shadow got from him.
"I'm glad that I'm the Ultimate Lifeform, that way I'll atleast fully recover. Normal women and hermaphrodites can't do that, so be grateful!" He whispered over to me as he reached for the covers before wincing and deciding that sleeping without them for tonight maybe wouldn't be such a bad idea.
I couldn't help but chuckle, which made him look at me again.
"Good thing our sex life will survive, I guess? You know, I'm really not the one who's going to be bothered by the pain for months to come, so why do I need to be grateful? What about you?" I asked as I got up from my seat and approached the bed to cover Shadow up with the blanket since he couldn't reach it himself.
My question made a light smirk appear on my mate's muzzle.
"What about me? Well, I get to guilt trip you into spoiling me, of course. I mean, it was because of your drunken stupor that I got pregnant to begin with." He said, the smirk not leaving just yet.
"Oh really? Is that what you're planning on doing? Blackmail me into doing your every whim?" I asked, smirking as I sat down on the side of the bed after kicking my shoes off when Shadow slowly moved a bit to the side. Well, after I had put Ebony to bed in the crib, of course. I was just glad that this bed was big enough for us.
"Of course." He said and rested his head on my chest after I wrapped an arm around his shoulder.
"yeah, I think you may be taking a little after Eggman too with your diabolical plan." I stated, smirking at my boyfriend.
"Of course! All Robotniks are evil master minds! Didn't you get the memo?" He replied, smiling tiredly back at me.
"But seriously, though, that totally wasn't my fault." I spoke again, an obvious sarcastic tone audible in my voice.
"Oh, so you got me pregnant on accident than?" He asked. One of his eyebrows was raised.
"Well, yeah! Accidents happen, you know!" I replied, to which he responded with a huff and I chuckled.
"Just make sure an accident like that doesn't happen anytime soon, okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, sure." I answered, not even trying to sound convincing.
Shadow looked at me with a stunned look on his face.
"I swear to Chaos, hedgehog, if you as much as try to get me pregnant again before we're married, I will find the nearest emerald and shove it up your ass!" He threatened.
Thankfully his tone of voice was still limited to whispering. Otherwise we might've had two crying infants on our hands. And I don't think Shadow wants to be dealing with that for the time being. He did get them to sleep just a mere moments ago.
"Just kidding, just kidding!" I chuckled, albeit a little nervously. I didn't think he'd actually take it seriouly.
"You better be." Shadow muttered as he snuggled closer to me, wrapping an arm around my torso.
It was as clear as day that he was tired. Speaking about day, the sun was already rising again. No wonder Shadow was tired. He hasn't slept ever since he woke up two days ago. Well, three days ago now actually.
You might think that, after the birth was finally over, he'd finally get some well-deserved sleep. But no! While I was happily dozing off, he had spend the last few hours not getting any sleep at all. He had been unable to get any kind of shut eye at all.
But now that he could snuggle up to me like this after tending to our girls, Shadow seemed to be able to relax a little. In fact, I think he was falling asleep.
"Good night, babe." I whispered to him, placing a soft kiss on his forehead. Shadow responded with a tired hum. I doubt he even understood what I was saying anymore.
I smiled as I let my head rest on the pillow. I glanced at the two girls sleeping in the hospital crib and felt my smile widen a little.
Without a doubt, last night was the best night of my entire life.