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Here is my newest story, 'Dangerous Waters'! An awesome request sent in by my gal pal, aliixo. I hope you all enjoy it, it's definitely not something I've done before! I hope you like it, aliixo! Be sure to read and review, everyone! Enjoy!

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The gang were feeling good after a morning of adrenaline rushes, the wind at their faces and a quick session of defeating yet another Egg-contraption as a team. It was like when regular Mobians were able to leave work early, and realised they had all day to do whatever else it was they wanted, this was sort of the same.

Sonic and the gang certainly loved what some would say was their 'job', but when one of Eggman's so called 'ingenious inventions' basically collapsed on its own accord, it felt good knowing they could go home barely breaking a sweat. Even better, today the grossly obese doctor had taken the courtesy to bring the battle to them, making it only a short few minute flight from home.

'Well, that was disappointing.' Manic sighed as he lay himself down heavily on the lush grass.

'How do you figure?' Blaze cocked a brow, glancing between the sap hedgehog and Tails driving the Tornado into the garage.

'Maybe disappointing isn't the word. It was just…' Silver trailed off.

'Uneventful.' Shadow finished, the grey hedgehog agreeing with him.

'It scares me that you see what happened this morning as 'uneventful'.' Tikal sighed.

'Let's just thank our lucky stars that Egghead conjured up something harmless enough to not get out of hand but enough to keep these guys occupied.' Rouge rolled her eyes through a chuckle as she gestured to the boys who were now sprawling out on the grass under the sun.

'Shhh!' Sally snapped, 'Don't jinx it! I don't think I can take another day of them literally having nothing to do…'

'They are difficult to deal with.' Cosmo giggled.

'You girls are such drama queens.' Sonic smirked as he rest his eyes.

'Oh, really? Coming from the Hedgehog who got so bored last time it rained that he ran laps inside the house, creating a small tornado, which Sonia and I ended up cleaning up.' Amy cocked a brow through a cheeky smile, causing the blue blur to open an eye to look up at her.

'I told you both I'd clean it up?' Tails reminded them, causing the hedgehogs to turn to him.

'Oh, sweetie.' Sonia sighed as she walked up and placed a hand on his shoulder, 'You said you would three times and two hours later you were still tinkering away in the garage.'

'That probably shouldn't have surprised you?' Cream giggled as she covered her hand.

'Hey! If he said he was going to, then he was going to.' Knuckles nodded matter-of-factly.

As the fiery echidna unintentionally started a spirited dispute between the dysfunctional little family, Amy shook her head through a smile at them before she took a seat next to the now dozing off Sonic. She leaned back, resting on her palms, watching the debate unfold and began giggling to herself, the sound tingling in Sonic's ears.

'It's a wonder Rouge hasn't killed him yet.' Amy laughed as she watched her ivory friend verbally abuse the crimson guardian.

'It's only a matter of time.' Sonic mustered a smirk.

'Before she kills him or finally admits she's in love with him?' Amy cocked a brow as she turned to Sonic.

'Both, but who knows which will come first.' Sonic smiled as he looked up at her, causing them both to start laughing.

'So… Are we still on for tonight?' The fuchsia heroine asked nervously after a few seconds of comfortable silence.

'Sure are. Golden Lake at seven?' Sonic confirmed, trying to force back his blush.

'I'll be there.'

Sonic gave her a friendly wink before closing his eyes again, his hands propped behind his head, as he began to doze off again, the familiar sounds of Rouge and Knuckles' bickering in the background. Amy looked down at him for a few more seconds, a dreamy smile plastered across her muzzle, suppressing a loved up giggle.

She turned back to face the others, the ivory spy clearly dominating the argument as the other simply sat back and laughed, throwing in their own opinions every once and a while. She rolled her eyes at them as she sat up and dusted invisible dirt off her dress before looking down at her everyday attire. She had to get home sometime soon and decide on an outfit for tonight.

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6:50

Amy stepped out her front door, locking it behind her and slipping the key under the mat before she straightened up and smoothed out any creases in her dress. It was a beautiful, summery, Saturday sunset, perfect for fashioning a new ensemble she had picked out for herself in the city a few weeks ago with Rouge and Sonia.

A beautiful white silk-like dress, a fitted bodess with black lace going from above her bust up around her neck, leaving her arms completely free. The white dress flared out at her hips, which was wrapped with a black ribbon, to end at her knees, swirling around her with every step she took. She topped it off with a pair of pretty white sandals, a little mascara and her quills left out.

She looked positively radiant, but not too dressed up. She wasn't sure what Sonic had planned, and quite frankly, she didn't care. She figured this was kind of a date, at least she liked to think so. Her sapphire hero had asked her if she wanted to catch up tonight, nothing much more said than that, and she jumped at the chance. With a cool and calm demeanour, of course.

7:05

Ok, so it had taken her a little longer to walk to their meeting spot than she had originally anticipated, but she figured that was for the best. Showing up fashionably late was probably a good thing, anyway, right? Wouldn't make her seem too eager, or whatever. Although, she was surprised to get there and be alone.

'Where is he?' Amy mumbled to herself as she looked around.

She kept her guard up, expecting him to jump down from a tree or out from behind a bush to scare her before scoping her up in his arms to whisk them away to- ok, maybe she was merely reliving a fantasy. She calmed herself down before taking a seat on one of the bigger rocks by the lake, slipping off her sandals to let her feet dangle gently in the cool, clear water.

7:20

'OK, no big deal. He probably just forgot where we were meeting? He probably went somewhere else and then realised and now he's on his way here.' Amy told herself.

'An even more plausible explanation would be he ran into Eggman and had to quickly defeat a small and insignificant robot before making his way here a little later, furiously apologising for being so late and promising the best night ahead. Yeah, that's it.' She continued.

7:45

Forty minutes later, and still no Sonic. Amy still sat upon the same rock, her toes beginning to feel numb in the water as the sun had almost completely gone down and allowed no warmth. The bubble gum hedgehog tried to take deep breaths and insist there was a reasonable explanation. Having said that, she was determined to find out just what it was.

'Hello?' Tails voice rang on the other end of the communicator.

'Hey, Tails, it's Amy.' She smiled at him.

'Hey there, Amy, what's up?'

'Uh, well, I was trying to get through to Sonic on his communicator and-'

'Oh yeah, sorry, that was my fault. I took it today to do some experimental upgrades.' The twin-tailed kitsune cut her off.

'Oh, well, that makes sense. Anyway, have you seen him tonight?' She cocked a brow innocently.

'Well, yeah? He's upstairs on the couch, probably watching some lame sit-'

'Ok, got it. Thanks a lot, Tails. Bye!' Amy interrupted before cutting off the connection.

There she was. Sitting on a rock by the lake in her new outfit, cold, alone and stood up. She supposed in retrospect, she should have seen it coming, right? She so badly wanted to believe that they had matured. She guessed she was wrong, really wrong. She let out a disappointed sigh, refusing to get angry or upset – yet – before sliding off the rock and putting her shoes back on before quickly making her way back home.

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'That was weird?' Tails said more so to himself as he took a seat by Sonic in the living room.

'Amy just called asking where you were, when I told her she-'

'Oh sweet, Chaos! I completely forgot!' Sonic exclaimed, cutting off Tails, as he leapt to his feet.

'Oh no,' Tails sighed as he caught on, 'You're going to pay big for this, pal.'

'What am I going to do?!'

'She's going to kill you. She is actually going to kill you, dead.'

'Tails. You are not helping!' Sonic screeched in a panic.

'Well, there's two options here,' Tails shrugged as he got to his feet to meet his brotherly figure, 'you could go and find her now in her satanic state and run the very high risk of being pounded to death by that hammer of hers.'

'Or?' Sonic coaxed.

'You could wait it out until tomorrow, after she's had the night to cool off, then make it up to her. Although this time, try not to forget, because I don't doubt she won't let you live to see another sunrise if you forget.'

'Ok, ok, I'll wait. Until tomorrow. Yeah. Ok, that should be fine.'

'How you manage to mess this up every time, I'll never know.' Tails mumbled as he headed towards the kitchen, Sonic's evil glare following him there.

'Oh, man, I'm in trouble.' The cobalt creature muttered to himself.

It was nearly eight o'clock by the time Amy had made it onto the dirt track that led down to her cottage home. She did want to get home fast, turn on a nice hot shower before going to bed and forcing herself to sleep in, but she just couldn't find the energy to make herself walk any faster. As she dragged her feet along the path, she heard a twig snap up ahead.

She snapped her eyes up, trying to adjust her vision to the dark, as she looked around for whatever had made the sound. She could see her house in the near distance, ready to just head straight for it, before making out a shadowy figure not far in front of her. She squinted her eyes awkwardly, tilting her head as if it would help, before finally realising who it was.

'What are you doing out so late, Rose?' Shadow cocked a brow as he stopped in front of her.

'Hey, Shadow. Nothing, just taking a nightly stroll, I guess.' Amy lied as she laced her fingers behind her back.

'Dressed like that? Trying to look good for the wildlife are we, Rose?'

'Ha ha, very funny.' Amy rolled her eyes, not even able to muster a smile.

'So, what's on your mind?' Shadow cocked a suspicious brow.

'What makes you think anything is on my mind?' The fuchsia hedgehog shrugged.

'You know I'll probably find out eventually anyway, might as well tell me now.'

He had a point, she supposed. Shadow didn't really care for emotions or affection of any sort, but he did care about his friends. It was like a sixth sense, no matter how well any of them tried to hide it, he could always tell if something was up. Luckily for him, Amy had never been very good at hiding when she was upset.

'Sonic and I were supposed to go out tonight,' Amy began before shrugging, 'I guess he forgot.'

'I'll bet you any money he'll be grovelling at your feet tomorrow in order to avoid a beating.' Shadow smirked at the thought.

'You're probably right.'

'Come on,' Shadow announced after a few seconds of silence, 'Let's go.'

'Where are we going?' Amy questioned.

'You'll see.'