Shitty oneshots I do sometimes

Hydrophobia [sonic-game]

  Just like every morning, the hedgehogs from the racing house began to wake up and start their morning routine, fight for the time inside the bathroom and getting ready for what their day was going to be, some of them talking about racings, other about training and a few of them just wanted to go out and hang out with somebody else.  

 While all the noise came from the hallway there the rooms were, a hedgehog would use the kitchen silently to cook breakfast for all the racers. Sometimes he had to push a chair, stand on it and grab what he needed from the kitchen, he didn't struggle much doing that, pushing the same chair over and over again through the kitchen to get everything he needed.  

  R, the leader of the family, was a short blue hedgehog with metalic limbs, he slowly got all the ingredients he needed to prepare pancakes. He pushed the chair again to get closer to the fire, grabbing the ingredients carefully with his metal claws, cooking them and putting them on a plate next to him once they were ready.  

  The short hedgehog wiggle an ear, hearing steps outside the kitchen before the door was open; two of his younger brothers enter while they were talking, teasing each other in a playful way that they both accepted. All star, one of his younger but taller brothers, didn't live there anymore, but he spend the night at the Racing House because he had a race near that area so it was better for him spend the night at his brother's house. 

The taller hedgehog walk behind R, petting his head softly and giving him a short "good morning" salute before ask Riders, his other blue brother with darker blue eyelashes and marks on his arms,  where the plates were, making the smug hedgehog laugh at his brother's null knowledge of the house, walking next to him to help him. Riders petted R's back when he pass behind him, he didn't say "good morning" but that didn't annoy him.  

R keep cooking, more of his brothers began to enter to the kitchen to get plates, glasses and something to drink; water, energetic beverages, ect.Each one of them pass behind their big brother, petting him and wishing him a "good morning", all of them taller than him. He would hear them talk while they set the table: Rivals used his telekinesis powers to put all the plates on place, Dash and Runners compete by who serve more beverages while Riders screamed in his high pitch voice, trying to make them stop the competition before something went wrong. R laugh softly, he liked to hear the house full of live.

Once he finished cooking he began to put the pancakes on plates. He dash from the kitchen to the table, giving each one of his brothers a plate full of pancakes, he was fast, he was cautious, nobody said anything to him for run in the house [even though it was a strict rule of him] they just thank for the food and start eating.

  They took turns to speak about what they were going that day, as always some were going to compete in a race, others wanted to train and a few wanted to hang out outside, nobody would be at home today. Every one of them looked at R when they mention they would be outside, the short hedgehog would nod his head as a signal of approval, allowing each one of them to be outside that day, even the younger ones that wanted to play with his friends.Their breakfast was fast, the same that set the table took the plates to the dishwasher, once the table was clean the racers began to say goodbye and leave the house. R walk into the kitchen pushed his chair once again near the dishwasher, climbing it to see all the plates there ready to be cleaned.  

"Hey R" 

 Riders walk next to him, adjusting his goggles. 

"I have some free time; do you want me to wash the dishes for you?"

R smiled at his younger brother, shaking his head softly in negation 

"Thank you, but I like to wash the dishes, go on. Have bright day"

Riders nodded and leave the kitchen slowly, not understanding why R liked to wash the dishes. In other houses the hedgehogs always took turns to wash the dishes but in his house R always took care of that, same when it comes to wash clothes and accessories, he always wanted to take the chores that involved water. 

Once all the racing hedgehogs leaved the house the short hedgehog took the handle and opened the water tap, filling the dishes with water and taking away the leftovers from breakfast and putting them into the trashcan. 

R looked at the water for a second, he didn't like it, he could consider himself hydrophobic but the term wasn't 100% correct since he didn't freak out at the presence of water.  

Or, at least, he doesn't freak out anymore.  

 He moved one of his claws near the water, touching it. He didn't know if he was feeling the cold wet sensation through his claw or his mind make him remember how water felt on his hands.   

He remembered the day he tried to run for the first time with his new limbs, how his feet didn't respond to the speed he wanted, neither stopped when he wanted them to. How his back spines where abruptly hurt by the floor of the Regal Ruins, how the pain stopped when his body touches the water and the feeling of being dragged down heavily.  

He remembered the desperate feeling of want to go out, wish he could float so the water wouldn't enter to his lungs and the blood of his back wouldn't spread that quickly, but his metalic limbs were too heavy to float.

 R didn't like the water, but he manages to find a way to cope with his loss; when he had to wash the dishes he chooses when the water run and when it had to stop. It wasn't enough water to drown him again; he was in control of this situation.  

The hedgehog smiled softly and began to hum a song while he grabbed the plates carefully with one claw and a sponge with the other, washing the dishes of the breakfast, calming himself from that horrible memory, replacing it with the excited words of his brothers telling him what they were going to do that day.