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Sonic felt an arm grab him as he sat down, dropping the tray on the ground. He turned around. "Listen bu-Shadow? Shadow!" He hugged the slightly taller hedgehog. "I missed you."
He felt the agent's arms wrap around him. "I missed you too." He sat down. "What's been happening around here since I left?"
The blue hedgehog smiled. "Nothing much, we saved the day, as usual, but I missed not having you there. You're always come to save me."
Shadow felt one of his eyebrows raise. That wasn't like his regular Sonic. Sure, Sonic liked to joke that Shadow sometimes saves him from danger, but that was because he loved him. He had been protecting him more lately, and Sonic seemed to be getting more "distracted" during fights.
Wait, was Sonic having a victim complex? He was somewhat clingy and had been worried about getting hurt a lot more lately than he had before. What if it wasn't a victim complex, and he was hiding something terrible that had happened when he was gone?
The hedgehog in question leaned against him. "My leg hurts."
His leg? Was something wrong with it? "Maybe we should get you to Tails."
He received a nod and helped him to the fox's workshop. "Hey, you two, what's up."
Shadow sat Sonic down on the make-shift bed in the workshop. "Sonic's leg hurts."
The fox went to fetch an ice pack. "Sonic, you know you're supposed to stay off of it until it heals."
Shadow jerked his head up. "Is something wrong with it?"
He received a confused noise. "He didn't tell you? He twisted his ankle in a fight with Eggman."
The blue hedgehog felt the agent's arms hold him. "No, he didn't, but I'll be more than willing to look over him as he heals up."