Misery Loves Company
ShadAmy
Rating: T/M
Language: English
Summary: Amy Rose was tired of how she was seen by her peers in her home town, so she leaves at the first chance she gets to a college in a big city across the continent to reinvent herself and start a new chapter of her life. It was going well, until she met Detective Shadow. AU
Chapter 1:
The kids swarmed them, their small team of heroes who protected New Mobotropolis (and the world) from Dr. Eggman.) They cheered on the team, where Sonic the Hedgehog himself would smile proudly and sign children's pictures of him. Knuckles and Tails' right by his side, with Rouge hanging off Knuckle's shoulder as she planted a big (and embarrassing) kiss on his cheek in front of the media.
Then there was Amy Rose, only 16 at the time, but realizing that she didn't quite fit in with the mold of the group. They were all there together because they were friends protecting their home from some egg-shaped asshole with help from the United Federation, along with G.U.N., and the Freedom Fighters. While yes, Amy was there to protect her home too—she was only there to be closer to Sonic. To help Sonic. To get Sonic to just notice her. It was all terribly selfish. Rouge joined for selfish reasons as well, but she eventually grew to love protecting her friends and the townspeople, as well as developing her relationship with Knuckle's more. Amy hadn't come to appreciate it as much as Rouge had.
In those moments though, as fans approached them all from left and right as they came to the town square to be greeted by the Royal Family (again), Amy felt more like an outsider than a hero who helped save the town- especially at the looks that Sally and Sonic gave each other, their bashful glances and tinted cheeks.
After the ceremony she slipped away. Nobody noticed for a few days, but a few weeks? They had started to get concerned. Her friends called on her, and she really wanted to go with Sonic when he came and asked her for a day out, but she declined.
Seeing the absolute bewilderment on his face hurt her more than she would've ever thought possible, not the idea that she was turning him down for once—but that that's how he, everyone, saw her. That she would jump at the chance to go out with Sonic, because she was obsessed with him.
It wasn't a great label to bear, and the more she became aware of her epiphany, the more uncomfortable she became even in her own skin. The dresses she wore suddenly felt wrong, or too tight. Her quills were even styled like Sonic's and she only realized how desperate that made her seem.
She didn't feel like the Amy Rose she knew she was, she felt like the Amy Rose, Sonic's Obsessed Not-Girlfriend that the media and everyone knew her to be. There was that word again, obsessed. Sure, she knew everything about him; wanted to spend as much time with him as she could (or she did), but did he know anything about her aside from the face-value stuff? Were they even friends?
Although after another encounter with Sonic while she was at Tails' shop asking for advice on one of her devices, Sonic asked what they were talking about; It was common knowledge among their group, or at least with Tails' and Rouge it was, and Knuckles knew of her interest in Tails' work at least. Though Sonic seemed blind sided by this new knowledge of Amy's interests, he had no idea that Amy liked technology, or that she even followed Tails around like a puppy at times, read his journals and helped him work on his machines—Sonic had no idea.
So, Amy knew then, that they weren't (actually) friends.
After that encounter she had thrown herself into her studies, more so than she had been before, for years. As a result, she was able to graduate on time with the rest of her peers from school.
Once her note of acceptance came from one of her top pick Universities, she was gone. Leaving notes for her friends, selling her house and larger items to the bank, taking only a few bags with her as she boarded the train. It took only a week for all of this to happen, but her teammates came to see her off at least.
Even Sonic came, but he stayed only long enough to hug her before speeding off to find the next big adventure. Knuckles left too, but Rouge and Tails stayed. Waving goodbye to her sadly as the train departed from the station finally. Amy's heart panged with guilt, wondering if she had made the correct decision—but her view of them, of her friend's, was interrupted suddenly by the tunnel that left town.
And now she wouldn't know until she tried.
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BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
The horrendous sound blared through the dimly lit bedroom, a strangled moan escaped the mass of covers that seemed to be housing some sort of life on top of the bed in the room. A pink furred hand escaped the cocoon to fish around on the bedside table for the blasting noise. Hands wrapped around the cord and yanked it from the wall, hearing the satisfying clatter as the cord hit the ground.
Amy Rose shimmied her sheets from her mussed-up head, she stared bleary eyed up at the cream ceiling. It was more like a tired glare at the least, she mustered up a sighed, rubbing her head at the headache that all too suddenly formed.
She glanced over to her alarm clock, which wasn't blinking or lighting up or anything. It was just a blank screen, haunting her. Mocking her.
Amy sighed, rubbed her eyes, and let out a loud, low groan into the room that echoed throughout her empty apartment.
"Alright Rose, you've got 6 months left. Let's do this." She said to herself, but still she didn't move.
It's going to be a long day.
A/N: This is a project I'm working on for fun and in my spare time between work and school! So I'm sorry if updates are slow but I'm, planning on actually getting this story finished and not get put on Hiatus like all my other ones (sorry guy's). This story is heavily AU based but with comic hints, as well as dealing with adult content and mental illnesses. Thank you for reading! Please review!