AN

Hello again. Sorry for the radio silence but I've been insanely busy with 3 projects and the finals are also coming up which is pretty stressful too. On a more personal note I realize that I've been acting very needy lately and I apologize. I realize that was unfair to all of you who will read this. Please accept my apology in a review and or enjoy this new chapter of True Love.

Mike stumbles away from the princess and sliding down the door across from her holding onto the small hedgehog as it burrowed into his jacket. "This can't be happening to me… This can't." Mike whispered out shaking his head from side to side while staring at the animal in his arms. Suddenly there's a rapid but quiet knocking at the door that makes Mike jump up causing the hedgehog to cry.

"Mike please tell me that my lady didn't give birth to an illegitimate heir." Lilly whispered through the door. Mike looks down at the hedgehog in his arms and laughs insanely making Lilly shudder.

"The one thing the queen didn't do is give birth to someone who could rule this kingdom ever." Mike said punctuating his sentence with fits of laughter. Lilly sighs, unlocks the door and opens the door causing the doctor and the baby fall out into the hallway.

"MIKE HOW COULD Y-" Lilly suddenly stopped midsentence in her rant about him lying to her when the silver hedgehog sits up and looks around. He sets his yellow eyes on her, smiles and crawls towards her. Lilly is stunned beyond words until it reaches her foot and taps it with his nose. At this Lilly shrieks as only a noblewoman can and runs into the room, hiding behind the bed Princess Elise is lying on. The baby follows her in making Lilly shriek again causing the princess to wake up.

"Lilly please it's ju-"the princess looks over to the other side of the bed to see what critter was terrorizing her maid now when she sees the silver hedgehog crawling towards her and somehow she knows what it is. Somehow she remembers what should have happened to the world. And somehow she knows who the father of her child is. "My son, Silver, Prince of Soleanna and a hero who has already saved the world." As she's speaking Elise gets up mechanically and walks towards her son. She picks him up and brings her back to the bed while stroking his head causing him to fall asleep. She gets into bed just as mechanically, pulls up the covers to Silver's chin, and lies down next to him. All this time Lilly was looking at her queen in shock. She thinks that it might just be stress from the birth that drove her insane but what she says next makes her realize that she's sane "And most importantly he's Olgilvie Le Maurice Hedgehog's son but he likes Sonic better." All this time she's been speaking in a husky voice nothing like her own but when she finishes that sentence she suddenly stiffens her body and a mist seems to leak out of her pores. It forms into the shape of a cat and it softly kisses Silver's forehead and whispers into his ear in that same husky voice

"We will meet again my love. And when we do we will both be much wiser than our years." Then the mist cat slowly drifts up to the ceiling and disappears through the floor boards. Lilly looks around her in horror clutching her chest fearing that her heart would beat right out of it. Suddenly a pile of clothing in the hallway moans and moves slowly. Lilly gasps again waiting for the next horrible creature to come upon her when the pile sits up and Mike's head shows from beneath it. Lilly cries in relief then walks over to help Mike out of the pile still wiping tears out of her eyes and thinking

"Thank god nobody else is on this floor."