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Chapter one: Dashing for life

Shadow gripped the bouquet of flowers, he could do this. He had loved her for a very long time, ever since he saw her glorious emerald green eyes. He walked up a large flight of stairs; he had forgotten to put oil in his shoes, so he would just have to deal with walking. He walked into the door smiling brightly. He froze the moment he saw what she was doing, she was standing out of a ten story window; her hand only touching the frame of the window. She turned around, tears rolling down her cheeks freely. He dropped the flowers and tried to get here out of the window. But she stopped him before he got any closer.

"Stop, don't come any closer." She pleaded defensively.

"Amy, don't do this. Please, we can talk about this." He tried to walk another step but, she pulled herself a bit more out of the window.

The wind gusted by her cheek, she was scared. She wasn't expecting anyone to come to her house at this time. Her fingers gripped the frame, it was time. Before Shadow could run to catch her she was already falling and was half way to the busy streets of station square. Without a thought he jumped out the window too, he knew what he needed to do. He tried to pivot himself in a vertical position so that he would fall faster. After a few minutes he finally caught up with Amy, he grabbed onto tightly to her and tried to make it so that he would be the one absorbing the impact. He shut his eyes and braced himself for what to come. With a large BOOM he felt himself hit the ground. He was hurt bad, he looked at Amy; she wasn't in good shape either. Her legs were crumpled up in disgusting fashion and it look like her head was bleeding. Blood covered their bodies but he couldn't tell if it was hers or his; if she did not get help soon she would be a goner.

He got up carefully with her n his arms and began to run, to the nearest hospital. One of his legs was badly injured, but he couldn't think about he had to think about Amy. Adrenaline pulsed through him; he couldn't even feel large gashes in his arms or legs. He ran until he became a black and red blur, his eyes darted around to look for any nearby hospitals. Everything became blurry he could feel his heart pulsing. He was confused; he looked down at Amy she was covered in blood.

"It hurts" she whispered, the pain was now getting to her.

"Hold on," he sternly whispered back.

"I'm getting tired." She slowly moaned; her head was starting to ache.

Shadow knew what would happen if she fell asleep now, there would be a very slim chance of her ever waking up. "No, please don't," he spoke quickly. "Talk to me."

She began to go on a tangent; her mind began to drift away. Shadow wasn't really listening; he just wanted her to stay awake. After a few minutes of running Shadow began to see the bright light of the closet hospital. With all the strength he could muster, he ran until he reached the sliding doors. The moment the doctors saw him they quickly grabbed Amy from his arms and rolled her into the emergency room. He then began to walk out of the hospital, his body was torn and mashed, and he didn't feel the pain until he tried to run out the doors. He face planted onto the pavement and laid there still until he felt a pair of hands picking him up.

As he was being picked up he saw one of the doctor's faces. "Save her first." He said in a raspy voice, before he finally shut his eyes and lost consciousness.

The next day he slowly opened his eyes, the whiteness of the room blinded him. He rubbed them and his mind was trying to get a hold of what happened yesterday.

"It hurts a voice" whispered softly in his mind, and then everything starts to come back to him.

Falling, pain, blood and lots of it. "Oh no Amy," He dashed out of his bed as fast as he could muster. Pain shock through him but he didn't care; he needed to see Amy.

His legs ached but he got there, she was lying on a cot covered in tubes a bandages. His heart lurched for her as he finally stumbled onto her bed.

Her eyes fluttered open. "Hi Shadow" She whispered softly, a small smile touched her lips.

He stared up at her open eyes, the emerald sparkle that had always made his heart jolt was now gone. She was dying.

He gripped her hand softly. "It's going to be okay." Deep in his heart he knew everything wasn't.

"I shouldn't have done it," she wheezed. "I know I don't have much time left. The doctors told me." Tears ran down her cheeks.

He only stared, blinking only slightly.

"Why- why did you visit me that night?"

"I-I was going to tell I-I loved you." He sobbed, tears running freely down his cheeks.

"Shadow, I want you to know that I always loved you to-"Her sentence was cut short as he saw all traces of life leave her eyes.

"Amy, Amy AMY." He shook her lifeless body, trying to see if she was taking a nap.

Soon enough doctors came rushing to restrain him. He struggled until he felt a needle pierce his skin. His breathing slowed as he felt the world start to move around him. He shut his eyes and fell helplessly to the ground.

What's there to live for when everything you ever wanted is gone.

Author's notes: Here it is the first chapter of bleeding beneath. You'll see where Mephiles comes in the next few chapters; anyway thanks for reading please review. The next chapter will be coming out in the next few weeks.

~ Siberian Forest