STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me, BlackPetals23.


Chapter Two:

Pancakes?

Shadow opened the door with difficulty.

She had fallen asleep in the truck and after countless times of slamming the door to try and wake her, she slept on. Shadow sighed and put her on the couch. He was pretty proud of himself; he only hit her head on something hard once.

The soft didn't matter, right?

He walked over to the door and got her stuff out of the truck, locking it and then putting her stuff by the door. "Why do women need so much but all she needs is one suitcase and a purse?"

He then remembered that Sonic had once said women had everything in their purse, and that Amelia Earhart was still alive walking around in a jungle carrying her purse. He chuckled at that; Sonic got it from some comedy awhile back.

He heard a moan from behind him. "Of course, she wakes up after I set her down."

Shadow walked over to the fridge and got a Coors Light can and went to the arch doorway separating the kitchen from the living room. He watched as the pink hedgehog got up.

Amy rubbed her head and glanced around. "Where am I?"

"Apparently your new home," Shadow said, walking over to her.

She rubbed her eyes. "Why is it freezing?" she rubbed her arms and yawned, finding Shadow's glowing red eyes in all the darkness.

"Maybe because I left the windows open," he said.

"Why in the hell would you do that?" she asked.

"Oh, so you do have a sailor's mouth," he smirked.

"Rarely," her ears pointed forward.

He looked to the window then to her. "Well, if you got a problem about the cold then close the damn window."

"Why can't you?"

"Because I leave it open at night for a reason," he sneered.

"Why?"

"Because it gets hot."

"Yeah, right, it's always cold every night where I live…well, lived."

"Yes, lived, so now you're going to get use to the cold weather in the morning, the hot in the afternoon and the even hotter at night."

Amy glared at him. "What's your problem?"

He took a sip of his drink while leaning against the couch's arm across from her. "Oh, I don't know, maybe because you live here now."

She sat up. "You have a problem with me?"

"Well, you'll probably just sit around and do nothing all day."

Amy glared. "Alright then, Shadow." He almost flinched at how sharp her voice was. "Then you can teach me about farming and I can repay you for letting me stay here by helping you in your farm work."

The room was filled with his laughter, "You? Farming? That's a sight I would love to see," he stepped closer.

"Fine," Amy seemed to agree.

He took a sip of his drink but he stared at her; chugging the little can, he crunched it up and threw it in the garbage can. Shadow walked over to her while she crouched back on the couch. "Alright then," his breath smelt like alcohol. "We start at five."

"Five?"

"Yes," the ebony hedgehog looked at her, backing up to head to his room. "See you in the morning."

"Wait, five in the morning!?"

Her only answer was the door slamming. She paused before asking, "Shadow?"

Amy sighed after a few seconds and huddled close to the couch for warmth and fell asleep again.


Shadow woke up and took a shower. After he got on a white shirt with his blue pants he walked out and saw Amy cuddled up on the couch. He saw little goose bumps on her arms.

Damn…you forgot to give her a blanket….

He walked down the hall and stopped at a closet that held blanket, towels, and a first aid kit. Getting a black blanket, he threw it on her gently and walked to the kitchen.

Making his normal coffee he got orange juice and started making pancakes as usual. The door opened and he stopped. Whether it was Sonic or a robber he was ready, for either the teasing or the beating.

"Shadow, buddy?"

He sighed. "Faker…."

Sonic walked in through the arch doorway. "I see you put her to bed."

"Just barely got her the blanket actually," Shadow said as he flipped a pancake.

Sonic put his index finger with his thumb and put his three other fingers up in a nice hand thing. "Best move ever."

Shadow glared at him. "I'm not trying…."

"I'll make you…."

"Why do you want me with someone so badly?" Shadow went on with the cooking.

"First, is one for me?" he asked pointing to the pancakes. "And second I think it'd be good for you….and her."

"Why?" Shadow eyed him.

"Because I'm hungry."

"Not the pancake thing! The girl thing!"

"Oh, right, well, you both have a little thing to share right? You being from the country and she likes the city, you both could show each other different things."

"First off, you cook your own damn pancake, I barely felt nice enough to do one for her, and second don't forget we once lived in the city before we all split up."

"First off, I can't cook worth a shit and second I do remember but it's been so long since you've done anything city like."

Shadow glared at him. "First off, you can get Sarah to cook you a damn pancake and second I don't need to relive the city life."

Sonic took a moment to think. "Alright, first off, if I do she'll yell at me and probably won't let me have sex with her for two months and second, why the hell not?"

"First off that's a good thing for me and Amy," he said pointing to the living room. "Because then we both can get some sleep without hearing you two, and second it's a waste of my time when I have things to do."

"Okay first off we're not that loud, second I want my damn fucking pancake and third, fine, but you're gonna regret it."

Shadow looked at him impressed. "First off you are loud, second that's too bad, and third I don't think I will."

Sonic glared at him as Shadow glared back, "I want a damn pancake…"

"Then cook yourself a damn pancake…."

"Why can't you cook it for me?"

"Because one I don't like you, second I'm not your maid, third I couldn't care less if you starved, and fourth I won't."

Shadow smirked as five minutes passed and Sonic had nothing to say. "Leaves you kinda speechless?"

Sonic stood there. "I'm gonna wake Amy up," he walked to the living room.

"Why?" Shadow asked.

"Because it'll get you in trouble…"

"How?" Shadow snorted.

"If it's one thing I learned having a girlfriend, it's that you never wake a girl this early in the morning unexpected…." Sonic said as he looked around for something to wake Amy up.

Shadow rolled his eyes. "Good luck with that, I slammed the door so many times trying to wake her but even after what felt like my millionth try she hadn't even flinched."

"Ah!" Sonic reached for a stack of books. "Watch and learn Shadow."

Shadow smirked at him. "It's not gonna work…." he walked over to them, watching.

Sonic grabbed the book and instead of slamming them on the table next to Amy he dropped the ten books on the floor near her.

"AHHHH!" Amy screamed, jumping awake.

Shadow watched as Sonic ran down the hall in a blue blur before she could see him. Shadow rolled his eyes, "So, what, Sonic? It worked."

He met the blazing green emerald eyes of Amy Rose. Filled with anger she screamed at him. "What the hell was that!?"

Shadow watched as she jumped over the couch and practically tackled him. If it wasn't for the wall they both would've been on the floor. She grabbed his collar of his shirt and pulled. "What the hell were you thinking!? I'm trying to sleep and you wake me up at the crack of dawn! You big jackass; I should do that each morning to you!"

Shadow was actually afraid…a little, he had to admit she looked scary. "Listen, Amy," he grabbed her hands gently and tried pulling them off, he tugged harder but nothing, he sighed. "It wasn't me."

"Oh, who was it then? Fairies? Santa Claus?"

Shadow looked at her, "Sonic."

"That was gonna be my next guess!" she yelled, tugging harder.

He was actually choking now; he growled and grabbed her wrists…hard. Switching sides so her back up against the wall he growled, "It was! The little chicken just ran away!"

Amy would've made a smart ass comment but he was hurting her, she felt tears coming.

Come on, Amy. Hold yourself together! You fought a bunch of robots without crying and you can't even fight him...? Then again, that was years ago, you became weaker…

She felt it—a tear going down her cheek. Shadow's eyes widened and he let go. She kept her wrists there as if she were frozen. He saw his fingerprints slowly disappearing around her wrists but they were still red afterwards. He slowly reached up to hold her wrist.

Amy flinched. "Shhh," Shadow shushed her whimpers and caught a hold of one wrist. "I'm sorry…my anger get's the best of me sometimes."

She hiccupped. "It's fine…."

He looked at her with soft eyes and sighed, wiping the tear away then looking at her wrists again. "Let's get water on it, I guess."

She nodded and they walked to the kitchen, she smiled when she saw the two plates with the now cold pancakes. "You cook?"

"Sonic can't."

He turned on the water and took her wrists, putting them under the water. "Ow! It's hot!" Amy wailed.

"What'd you expect?" Shadow asked, looking at her. "Warm water?"

He left her there to put the cooking pan away and to get the syrup. "I hope you don't mind cold pancakes."

Amy laughed. "It's fine…."

She shook her hands in the sink and walked to the towel hanging on the oven handle. Shadow came to the sink and turned the water off for her before walking to the table. Amy followed and the two ate their cold pancakes and syrup in silence.