catfish office work

 11/1/2022 catfish office work

Sephie tapped her foot as she sorted the many papers on the desk. She wondered when the last time any of these files had been sorted. It looked like they had just been tossing the random papers into the cabinets and hoping the files would magically sort themselves. Sephie bit back the harsh cackle in her throat. Her being a magical being organizing these files wasn't lost on her. 

At least she was being paid for it. Though she wondered if she should ask for a raise. After all, she was at risk of so many papercuts. It took several hours to sort the papers and neatly stack them. Sephie groaned as she got up from her desk. She needed a drink before going through the long process of typing up the papers into a digital format. 

The break room has a decent selection of coffee and tea. Sephie stretched her sore limbs as she scanned the selection. What flavor caffeine did she want today?

She continued doing stretches as she tried to make up her mind. Wrapping her hands above her head and leaning her upper body to the left and right. She eventually settled on green tea, taking a paper cup with a lid back to her desk. She hated at the clock. Why couldn't it be time to clock out yet? She blew into the lid opening before sitting the cup down. It would take several more hours to convert these files into digital format. 

Sephie grinned when her watched beeped. "Finally!" She silently cheered. It was time to go home. She had barely made a dent in the sorted paperwork. She would tackle it tomorrow. She checked her now empty cup before tossing it in the trash. She logged out of the computer before clocking out and leaving. 

Sephie stretched out her limbs as she left the building. The breeze felt invigorating as she walked down the street. She wondered if she should take her cat form and take the roof top route. Either route was about the same time. Though each had different short cuts that could be taken.

She decided to walk through the park area while she mused over it. Her eyes caught the glint if scales in the distance. The park had a decent size river with a chill current going through it. She recognized the glint if light as coming off of fish scales. She quickly walked over for a better look. 

Sephie chuckled as her keen eyes caught sight of Tallu's hiding form. She glanced around, there weren't too many people do creating an illusion barrier wouldn't be too much on her. Once her barrier was up, she called out to the mermaid. 

"You're feeling daring today, huh Tallu?" Sephie let the laughter roll into her words. 

10/25/2022 catfish nap

 10/25/2022 catfish nap

Sephie stretched out on the window nook. It was very soft and comfy. The plushies only added to her comfort. Her ears twitched as she heard the foot steps coming to the door. But the sun beam was soooo warm.

The door opened and Tallu kicked off her shoes. She carried a bag towards the kitchen. She stopped in her tracks as she spotted Sephie laid out in the window seat. 

"Sephie, I'm home." She chuckled softly. 

"Welcome back," Sephie mumbled as she drifted between the walking and the dream world. 

Tallu marveled at the odd twisting of Sephie's body as the cat girl softly napped. "Do you want to get up and eat with me?"

Sephie mumbled, "Nu-huh. Too comfy."

Tallu chuckled as she continued to the kitchen. "That's fair." She whispered.

tails recovers files

 10/24/2022 tails recovers files

He sat at his desk staring at the recovered fumes from the old hard drive. Tails normally didn't snoop in people's files unless they were associated with Eggman. But it was Sunday and he was bored. So with a shrug, he decided, why not?

There were tax and business docs. A folder full of games. Tails clicked on the reference folder, curious as to what a clothing designer used as reference. He found fabric and color swatches. Pics of popular trendy clothes labeled by year. It was slightly disorderly, but Tails was sure the feline knew how to find whatever she needed. 

He opened a document with random letters as the label. He skimmed through a few paragraphs before he realized what it was. He felt oddly too warm as he got up to get ice water. He was unaware that Honey the Cat was the type to write out her fantasies down. Much less on a computer. 

Tails chugged the water before filling the glass to the brim with ice and covering it with water. He stared at the reflection of his flush face as he repeated the actions. He glared at his blue eyes.

"What is she seeing?" He muttered. He squinted his eyes at the reflection in the fridge. He saw nothing worth being attracted to much less writing smut about. And yet, Honey had. Tails choked on an ice cube and decided to avoid the kitchen for now. He did not want to die from choking on water. And it would be worse if anyone found the smut fanfiction of himself open on his computer.

Tails glared at the screen as he sat down. He

She hummed as she opened the bento boxes.

 10/31/2022

She hummed as she opened the bento boxes. She loved going to these fan club meetings. One they were fun and two, Amy Rose was there. Amy was bubbly and precious. She felt a bit guilty about purposely sticking up conversations target info about her brother. 

She sighed as she locked her door. She wanted to hug her brother so bad. But just showing up, saying "hey! I'm an ultimate life form made by Professor Gerald Robotnik too! I see us as siblings. Let's get along." Would end horribly. Being hated by the brother she adored so much. Being attacked by him and his friends? And the worse possible out come, being imprisoned by gun. 

10/21/2022

Shadow sat on the old bed board. He didn't chaos control to the ark often. He has so many painful memories of this place. Good, bad, traumatizing. Shadow fell back on the bed. Maria's beef wasn't as soft as he remembered. It did bounce a bit from his body flopping over on to it. He often came to Maria's room when he missed her so much the greif felt paralyzing. 

He sat there staring at the ceiling. The glow in the dark animals. He still remembered most of their names he thought. He tapped his fingers in the bed as he attempted to name them all. 

Shadow jumped when a book fell off the head board. He glared at the thin green notebook. Maria kept a lot of books on the headboard. He frowned as the book wasn't labeled. 

"Odd," he muttered. "Maria labeled everything."

He flipped open the book. 

"I don't understand how I wound up in the room of my last life. But I did."

Shadow continued reading the diary. It didn't take long since reading quickly came easy to the ultimate life form. What soon became clear the was that Gerald had made another ultimate life form who was aging. And they had Maria's memories. They'd were at first very confused until they found proof amongst Gerald's belongings. They took it and hid it as they tried to figure out how to chaos control back to earth. Another fact was she had a child younger than her with her. Shadow couldn't gather much other than she chaos controlled to the ark by accident while running away. 

Shadow frowned as he read they wore his clothes. He hated it when anyone touched his stuff. He got up and walked to his old bedroom. It was right beside Maria's room. He hadn't been in the room since the day Maria passed away. 

He frowned as he turned on the light and saw the room messy with random papers on the floor. A fort of pillows and blankets was made in the corner. 

"They could have cleaned up." Shadow bent down to pick up the papers. There were scribbles he couldn't recognize. He saw a scary stick figure of Dr eggman and people scared and crying. He saw two families and then just two stick figures. He frowned. The kid with the Maria clone didn't understand everything but they knew enough. 

He placed the messy stack of parts on his desk. He moved to undo the fort. He frowned at the small polaroids attached to the blanket with tape.

"I see they found my camera." He plucked a few photos off the blanket. He froze as he recognized the face in the image. They were barely a toddler, but the smile was the same. He dropped the items in his hand before chaos controlling away. 

Amy was super happy. She made a lovely lunch and Sonic had agreed to have lunch with her. And he actually showed up.

Amy giggled as she took a sip of her lemonade.

"You're in a good mood," Sonic joked. Their relationship had been a lot easier since they had that awkward forced talk of him only seeing her as a sister. It did take Amy sometime to accept it, but now their relationship was better than ever. 

"Of course I am!" Amy beamed, "Nothing kept you from showing up for lunch!"

Sonic gave a nervous laugh. "I must be lucky."

A flash of green caught their attention. Shadow made a beeline for Amy as she greeted him with a bubbly smile. 

"Hey Shadow,"

Shadow felt awkward and he hated it.

 10/18/2022

Shadow felt awkward and he hated it. The feeling was foreign. And yet here he was. Wearing a suit he really wanted to chaos blast into ash. 

"You won't die from being social." Sonic teased. Shadow glared at him. Sonic, his hands to in defeat before going about his business.

Stupid formal setting. Why did he have to participate in some pompous night while government officials talked and mingled. He would much rather ditch this evening.

"Agent Shadow."

Shadow kept his poker face though the urge to groan was strong as he turned to face Commander Towers. "Commander," Shadow saluted. Inside he was muttering about how much he hated the stupid military suit. The princess Eloise was beside him. Shadow was pleased the Commander seemed to not be enjoying this event to.

"Agent Shadow, this is princess Eloise." The commander stiffly introduce him. 

"Greetings your majesty." Shadow bowed. 

Princess Eloise smiled. "It's nice to meet you." She gave a soft curtsy. She seemed uncomfortable as she looked around. Who was she looking for? Shadow had a sinking feeling he would be doing the finding. 

"Why isn't Miss Rose with you?" The commander demanded more than asked. 

Shadow arched a brow at the commander. "Rose is mingling with a friend. Do you need her for something?" Shadow straightened his posture. The commander has no reason to want to talk to her. 

The commander crossed his arms as he stared down at the 3 foot hedgehog. "Agent Shadow," he began in a warning tone. Shadow glared back. "We're going to find Miss Rose and you're going to stick next to her until the end of this event."

Shadow gave the commander a questioning look.

Kid at training

 10/14/2022 Kid at training

"You…" Sonic elongated every word as his eyes darted between Shadow and the toddler in his arms. "Brought a kid with you?"

Shadow nodded simply. 

"Shadow, we're sparring today," Sonic stated gently. "And toddlers don't exactly go well with sparring."

The toddler squirmed closer to Shadow.

"His care taker is sick and I am apparently the only one he likes." Shadow rubbed the child's back. 

Sonic scratched his neck as he watched the child. Babysitting was the last thing most people would expect Shadow to do. But Sonic knew better. He has heard Maria had a baby a while back. 

"Well, him only liking two people is a sign you two are related." Sonic laughed. He leaned in to look at the hiding toddler. "Hey buddy, I'm Sonic. Let's be friends, okay?"

The child glanced up at him. His eyes were a bright green. His black quills combed down. He tilted his head as he looked up at Shadow. He stretched up like a caterpillar up whisper in Shadow's ear. 

Shadow nodded. "You can greet him." 

The toddler nodded with a smile. "Hello Sonnikkun." He bowed his head before curling into Shadow's chest. 

Sonic smiled. "Has he met Amy?"

Shadow simply nodded. He sat the child down at the table. He placed a bag next to him. "Behave and we'll get Ice cream."

Tails moved to sit next to the kid. "Hi, I'm Tails." He smiled at the small child. "Do you want a snack?" He offered a small bag of chips. 

The child looked up at Tails before turning to Shadow. 

Shadow stared at the bag, scanning it with his eyes. "He's too small."

Tails gave a nervous laugh. "Gotcha." He turned to the kid. "Do you want to cheer for Shadow while he spars?"

"Yes!" He nodded as he patted the bag next to him. "I brought a pompom!"

"I'll beat Sonic and Knuckles in our usual sparring match and we'll leave." Shadow told the toddler.

"Okay!" The toddler beamed. 

Maria’s Crush

 10/11/2022 Maria’s Crush

Manic hummed as he cooked in the large kitchen. Today was a chill day. His friend, Maria, had called him over to cook for her. To Manic, this was the easiest job ever. A knock at the door made Manic paused. He pressed a button on the counter. “Maria door.” Manic sang into a speaker before going to answer the door.

“Sup?” he greeted the two at the door. 

Shadow stared straight ahead with a poker face as Amy smiled with that head title that Manic knew was questioning. 

“Maria is in her work room, but she should be up soon.” Manic stepped aside to let them in. “I’m almost done cooking lunch.”

Shadow nodded as he entered. He glanced around the place, taking note of the decor. 

“Will you be joining us for lunch?” Amy made light talk as they followed him to the kitchen. 

Manic shook his head. “Nah. Maria offered to pay me to cook.”

Shadow nodded as he pulled out a seat out for Amy. A rare show of his manners that Amy accepted. “I’ll go let Maria know we’re here.” Shadow stated before disappearing in a green cloud. 

Shadow appeared in Maria’s workroom. It looked like a tornado swept through with all the items every where. The blond hedgehog was fiddling with a headband on a mannequin. 

“Maria,” Shadow called out to her as she walked up to her. 

“I heard Manic call. I’ll be up in a sec. This needs one little tweak.” Maria carefully placed a gem on the head band. 

“Speaking of him.” Shadow gave a mischievous grin. “Why is the crush you have a lovey dovey shrine to in your kitchen?” Shadow leaned onto her work desk. “I”m amazed you’re not up there drooling over it.” 

Maria blushed as she glared at her brother. “I don’t drool in front of him!” Shadow arched a brow at her. “And 2nd, hiring him to do a random task is good. I get eye candy and he gets paid and is none the wiser about my crush on him.”

Shadow gave a simple nod. 

Maria gave him a light slap on the arm. “You better not drop any hints and many my relationship with him awkward or else.”

“Or else what?” Shadow smirked. 

“I might drop some not so subtle hints to Amy that you have a crush on her.” Maria warned.

“Why not so subtle?” Shadow glared.

“Amy is dense when it comes to realizing people are into her.” Maria put the last gem into the head piece and left it to dry. She poked Shadow in the cheek. “My poor little brother. Your love life is unrequited.”