Paying the Price
By: RaeRaethehedgehog
My 7th fan fic.
This is another…Sonamy!
I don't know how much I can keep this updated…but I'll try. I'm working on three things at once currently. Plus I have summer homework and a cat now!
Lets see how this works out.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything Sonic related. Sega and Sonic Team does.
"So, have you told her yet, Sonic?"
"Well…I,uh, I was-"
"You didn't tell her yet," The young twin-tailed fox said knowingly, still tinkering with a prototype of the Tornado.
"…No. But I'm going to tell her tonight." Sonic sighed and scratched his head, thinking of a way to get out of this, or at least a way to make this go smoothly.
"You can't hide it any longer. You know how Amy is. You better tell her," Tails suggested.
"Tell me what?" Amy walked into Tail's workshop; a big smile present on her face.
"Uh…"
Tails shot Sonic a death glare and threw down a screwdriver before leaving the room.
"Tell me what?"
Sonic scratched his head and chuckled nervously, "Eh heh heh. Nothing."
"Come on you can do it! Tell her! She'll hate you but tell her!"
"Um…Amy."
"Yeah?" Amy shifted her weight on one foot nervously, scared of what was going to be said.
"I'm…um, do you wanna hang out with me for a while?"
"Great job! Perfect time to tell her when she's acting all gaga over me on a date, which will make her even more pissed when I get around to telling her. She's gonna murder me alive."
Amy's eyes widened and her mouth dropped, "Y-you really want to?"
"Yeah." Sonic slowly walked over to Amy and draped his arm over her shoulder.
Amy blushed and giggled nervously, secretly trying to bite her tongue to keep herself from screaming.
Sonic slowly led Amy out of Tail's workshop, after telling Tails he was leaving, towards the direction of downtown Station Square. Amy sighed nervously, hardly containing the excitement that she was on a date with Sonic, AND he had his arm around her while he was walking with her. She snuck a glance up at Sonic, to see how his reaction was, but found herself oddly confused.
"Sonic?"
"Huh?" Sonic looked away from the sky, to Amy, and faked one of his signature smiles.
"You seem…distant."
"No. I'm fine. Really." Sonic assured Amy until she finally gave up and stopped talking.
***
"Wow, Sonic that was really fun! The rides, the food, and just being with you was great. You finally take me on a date, and to my favorite place. Thank you." Amy squeaked happily and jumped up from the bench by the colorful cotton candy booth and threw her arms around Sonic.
"Y-yeah. No problem," Sonic said quickly and gently pushed Amy off of him.
"This was a bad idea. Well I better break the news to her now. Before I feel even worse."
"Hey, Ames. How about we go somewhere real special before I take you home?" Sonic held his hand out to Amy, who gladly took it, and helped her up.
"So what did ya have in mind?"
"You'll see."
Sonic gently picked Amy up, bridal style, and took a deep breath before running off the direction of the Mystic Ruins.
***
"Okay…open."
Sonic removed his hands from Amy's eyes and took a step back.
"Oh my gosh!" Amy put her hands over her mouth, to keep from screaming and admired the scene. A beautiful stream flowed next to her, sparkling under the moon light. The grass was as green as it could get. There was a full moon overhead, greatly complimenting the area with a dim light that made it shine. There were so many stars, Amy stared up at the sky, in awe, almost forever.
"Ames?"
"Huh? Oh, sorry. Sonic this is beautiful!"
"Yeah…"
"Why did you bring me here?"
"Well, there is something I've been wanting to tell you for a while," Sonic announced nervously.
"Ok. Fire away," Amy laughed.
"You should sit down." Sonic grabbed Amy's hand and led her to a giant grey rock by the edge of the creek and sat down Amy down next to him.
"Well…," Sonic shook his head nervously and looked away from Amy's gaze, sweating furiously.
"It's okay, Sonic." Amy put her hand on Sonic's and gave it a gentle squeeze of encouragement, sensing he was nervous.
"I'm…going away for a while with Tails tomorrow morning."
"How long is a while?"
"Well I'm not sure exactly. I'm going to be training with Tails for however long it takes til I get better. Stronger. Ever since that battle with Eggman…"
"Sonic! That wasn't your fault. You got captured. It happens-"
"But I got everyone else trapped too! We all had to be rescued by Shadow! I can't depend on him for anything. Ever. I need to train."
"So your gonna train til you get better? What if it takes months?"
"It might even take years. But I have too. I'm a hero. I have to stay strong."
"So you brought me on this date, to tell me that you were leaving, because you felt sorry for me?"
"No it's not that. I wanted to spend time with you."
"But only because your leaving!" Amy snatched her hand off of Sonic's and stood up.
"Amy, please don't. Lemme explain." Sonic got up and caught Amy's hand.
"No, thanks. You've explained well enough." Amy snatched her hand away from Sonic and darted towards the forest.
Sonic watched as Amy ran away, holding himself in place from going after her. He knew it would only make things worse if he tried to talk to her. Hopefully she would say goodbye to him before he left tomorrow.
***
Amy ripped through the forest, shoving branches aside, not caring where she was going. As long as she was away from him. She ran for who knows how long, looking back every second just to see if he was following her.
Everytime she let herself think about stopping, she thought of Sonic catching her, which only drove her to push herself harder.
After ten minutes of running, Amy jolted to a stop with her hand over her chest, heaving. She could barely look around to see where she was, due to the fact her vision was blurry from tears that were flowing freely down her cheeks. When she stopped crying long enough to study her surrondings, she found nothing familiar about where she was.
Amy fell to her knees and pounded her fist to the ground, sobbing loudly. She felt so tired she couldn't even stay up right and fell to her side; curling into a ball.
"Why? Why is he leaving? Why did he take me on a date and decide to tell me the night before he was leaving. No wonder everyone has been so nice to me. Vanilla and Cream made me a dress because they felt sorry for me. Why couldn't they just tell me! How could they do that to me?"
The young pink hedgehog shook violently and cried until her eyes were puffy and she couldn't produce anymore tears. After that she just stared in to the night sky, in shock, with a blank face.
"What did I do to deserve this?"