Blind Date Ch16
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Krissie: Let's continue the story and hopefully finish it by Chapter 20.
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Shadow found paperwork tedious. He tapped his pen back and forth as he read over the paperwork. Every word was just a brick of text, but government work involved mountains of paperwork.
Shadow finished one form and picked up the next. It was a form about increasing trade with the Kingdom of Mercia. Shadow didn't know much about the kingdom. He got up and went to the library. He collected a few books on the country and returned to his desk. He skimmed through the pages quickly.
The country was rustic and mainly rural. The Eggman Empire had set the country back decades if not centuries. Shadow felt something akin to pity for the people who lived there. Mercia used to be a hub for magical artifacts and arts. Shadow wasn't a believer in magic, but he had seen enough to know it existed. He just wanted to stick to science.
He made a list of pros and cons of opening up trading with Mercia. Most of the cons were the costs of helping Mercia with infrastructure, but Shadow didn't care about that. If they could remove the Doctor's influence from a country Mercia's size, it would greatly diminish his resources and make it easier to apprehend him in the future.
Once Shadow finished the paperwork. He put it in the submit folder. He heard many of his coworkers compare it to school essay assignments. With all the research needed to do a simple 3 page report, Shadow was glad he never went to school.
It had been a few months and Shadow still hadn't heard from Rose yet. He was concerned about her, but from what he had heard, she was fine. She was still in contact with her friends. Mainly the girls.
Shadow kept it to himself, but he wished she would hurry up and contact him.
Sonic greeted him with a huge smile and wave.
"Hello Sonic," Shadow greeted as Sonic hopped off of the fence. Shadow wondered why none of the soldiers stopped him from perching on the fence of the base.
"Wanna go for a race?" Sonic beamed.
Shadow wasn't really in the mood. But beating the blue blur would give him some satisfaction. He nodded with a shrug. "Where to?" He began stretching.
"How about to Apotos for some ice cream?"
Shadow nodded. Ice cream sounded good. Shadow wasn't one to decline sweets.
It didn't take long for the two to reach Apotos. Unfortunately, Sonic couldn't slow down enough and slid into the water way. Shadow leaned over the water way and watched as the blue hedgehog popped up gasping for air. Shadow quickly took a picture on his communicator. He then reached down to grabbed Sonic's flailing arm and pulled him out in a quick motion.
Sonic gasped for air dramatically as Shadow shook his head. Sonic looked like a blue sad mop head.
Shadow wanted to do nothing but laugh at the sight. But a quick glance around to all the people walking around and the few that stopped to stare at a soaking wet Sonic and then at Shadow told him it would be a bad idea. Shadow felt like they were suspicious that he pushed Sonic into the water.
"Will you get up Faker?" Shadow crossed his arms.
Sonic nodded as he began squeezing excess water from his quills. "Sorry about that." He stood up and moved slightly towards the people glaring at Shadow. He shook his whole body like a stop and water flew off his body. Kids laughed at the flying water, while those staring quickly went about their business. "Looks like you've won this race, Shads." Sonic beamed.
Shadow smirked at that. He liked winning.
"Now off to ice cream!" Sonic proclaimed jumping up and pointing his finger into the direction of the ice cream vendor. Shadow followed behind as he composed a message on his communicator. He attached the photo of Sonic in the water.
'Sonic ran to fast and fell into a water way. It was funny.' Shadow wrote before hitting the save to drafts option. His whole draft folder in his emails were nothing but messages to Rose he had wanted to send, but decided not to. After all, she wanted space and he was going to wait for her to contact him.
"Shadow, you're not supposed to be working," Sonic pouted as he slapped his communicator on his wrist.
Shadow glared forgetting about the message. "I wasn't," he held his arms out of Sonic's reach. "Besides, shouldn't you be deciding what ice cream you want?" He pointed at the ice cream vendor in front of them.
"ICE CREAM!" Sonic cheered as he raced to the line. He rocked on his heels as he waited.
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