Chapter 8 - Closure with love

                                                                                                Closure with love...

"Damnit, damnit, damnit...." Manic paced, nervously tapping his finger against the side of his leg, muttering nervously.
Sonic watched him; he'd been like this ever since Busty went into labour, which to be honest he couldn't exactly blame him for; afterall, his twins were coming! He stood up, going over and gently putting a hand on his arm. The older one started slightly, but relaxed quickly when he saw it was only Sonic. Both shared mutual, reassuring smiles, silent ofcourse; but there really wasn't anything left to say at this point. A smile was all each other needed at the moment...just a simple smile could work wonders sometimes in the passage of nervous time....

A small tone calmly beeped from Busty's room; both males looked up curiously, and before anyone could stop him, Manic had run in there in time to be presented with his children. Sonic quickly joined him, but he was in time to see both twins snuggled up in their father's arms. A boy and a girl...he could tell by the blankets. Busty was asleep; exhausted ofcourse from the labour. Sonic could only look on longingly at Manic, watching him cuddle and cradle the babies lovingly...cuddle and cradle his real son also....the younger one sighed "I'm just an intrusion now..." he thought, saddened once more as he turned to walk out of the room
"Hey, where dya think you're going?" the speedster whirled around; Manic was standing there, smiling lovingly at him
"Oh..umm, nowhere..." Sonic laughed nervously, smiling a little at him again
"Hey listen; my arm's gettin' tired. Can ya hold Mike for me a second?"
"Mike?" Sonic blinked, knowing that Manic meant the boy, his nephew "Oh,sure!" he nodded, gently taking the little baby boy into his arms. His eyes widened slightly in amazement....Mike was a mix...a mix of his father and mother; but his father's features stuck out more on him than his twin sister...the girl was the same, but took the features of her mother. Sonic swallowed, smiling nervously "h-heya baby...." he started "I'm...I'm ya uncle...." he swallowed again; watching as the little one gazed up at him, disbelief seeming to flash in his little ice blue eyes
"Just their uncle? Sonic; c'mon, you can do better than that," Manic chuckled
"huh? What dya mean? Manic I'm-"
"hey now, you know what to call me," the oldest hedgehog continued to lovingly chide. Sonic blinked, thinking back to what he'd ever called Manic
"Dad?...I can still...?...but I thought-"
"Sonic I told you; you may be my little brother, but you're my son too..." he nuzzled Sonic lovingly "You're my first born son, and you're not just their uncle; you're their surrogate brother too ya know....I guess Mike and Bella are....ah! Extended siblings, think of 'em as that." the green adult grinned lovingly, cuddling his daughter, Bella.
Sonic stared at Manic with wide, child-like eyes for a minute, before feeling a wave of emotions wash over him as he looked back to his nephew...no...his 'extended sibling' "hiya Mikey....I'm ya uncle....I'm ya uncle, and ya brother...fun huh?" he chuckled lovingly, feeling relief and happiness wash over him at the exact same time; causing tears to fall. But they weren't tears of sadness, no, they were more like tears of gladness finally being released out into the open. Mike giggled cutely, catching the tears before snuggling up to Sonic. This caused Sonic to instinctively cuddle the baby back; ofcourse he loved both of the twins, he always would love them both...but after this, all he could silently say to himself; that if he had to choose...given the circumstances, Mike would always be his personal favourite, solely for the reason that they both had one thing in common: they were both Manic's sons......

the end.

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