The loathsome stench of hospital machines and sickly disease snapped open two green eyes. A blinding white light greeted her with the utmost surprise to her heart. The irises scoped the surroundings, seeing a chair, a curtain, and wires attached to each pink, skinny arm. The jade eyes then widened, horrified at the sight of the wires. This can't be – I don't want to be in here. I want to go home!

Amy sat up in her bed in startled speed, a rapid, repetitive beeping annoying her sound fragile ears from behind her. It was the heart monitor, which exactly matched the emotion that her pulse was feeling.

Feeling all around her body, as when she reached her legs, she realized that each one was wrapped in warm blankets. Only memorizing when she saw Sonic and that hedgehog girl, Amy still tried to recollect what had happened for her to be ending up in Station Square Memorial Hospital.

"Hello? Is anybody here?"

As she tried to climb out of the bed to look for a doctor, a sharp pain struck where her spinal cord was located, almost paralyzing her instantly.

A high pitched sound crept out of her mouth as the pain was more violent, to the point where it drove her conscious insane. Tears sprouted from her crying eyes, crying for at least some assistance and explanation for this pain.

Is this what I deserve? For prying into Sonic's romantic, private life by taking a peep show of it? Amy remembered miserably.

That was then, a fox nurse watched through the door and, seeing Amy's critical condition, rushed into the ward with a cart along with her.

Taking out a transparent liquid in a bottle, she laid down the unstable Amy, who was still screeching out in stressed tension. "Wait, what are you doing to me? Don't just stand there; what's wrong with me!?!"

"It's okay sweetie; just a large dose of this will ease the discomfort. You're just in a very crucial position and we need to make sure that you get the medication possible." The nurse soothed, injecting a hypothermic needle into the liquid.

"Now, hold still. This won't hurt one bit…"

"But that still doesn't explain to me why I'm…in….here." The poor lady hedgehog never had a chance to utter one more word, because her eyelids were heavier, everything a blurry world. It was silencing the sight that was vividly pierced with confused shame and sadness.

The next morning, Amy opened her eyes to a bright sunshine, the atmosphere a bit cheerier than last night. Attempting to sit up in her warm bed, she was halted suddenly by a large hand. Glancing up, a large image of a built, young purple hedgehog was besides her bed, a stethoscope around his neck. A large smile appeared on his friendly face, so it softened Amy's awareness a tad bit.

"Well, well. Our sleeping beauty has awakened the sincerities of blossoming morning glories." He approached Amy closer, raising her eyelids with a little light to examine them. "It looked as though you had a very good slumber too." He chuckled at Amy's blushing figure. She hopes that nobody noticed, but to see her doctor up close to her observation, she suddenly concluded that he was very…charming.

But it didn't stop her of trying to get to the bottom of this.

"Doctor…urm…"

"Angel. Dr. Angel, Amy."

His name is Angel. It sounds like an aria. And the way he said my name…

The more her prepubescent heart swooned, the more off track she became. Snapping out of herself, she pursued her question.

"Yes, Dr. Angel. I was wondering, what happened for me to be in the hospital. I mean, I was fine yesterday but I –" she was cut off by a throbbing headache.

"Don't strain yourself too much Amy. What you had encountered last night might've been too fatal for your cause, especially if you're this young."

"But what happened to me? Was I hurt? Did I get into an accident?" Amy's expression grew more frightened and realized at how serious this is.

Dr. Angel sighed in exasperation.

"Well, it looked like you collapsed in that storm out there, and a case of moderately gradual hypothermia was disabling both of your legs to your spinal cord, so we had to rush you here to the I.C.U as soon as possible. Also, a severe fever was slowly taking over your conscious, so we took precautions and extreme measures to make sure that your heart was still intact to the activity of your brain."

Now the moment came back to her. She did faint in the rain, her hitting the cold ground, unfeeling of the animosity of strangers passing by.

An expression of relieved affection grew in his handsome face, his grey irises glistening with noticeable shine.

"I'm glad that we came to your need just in time. You were in a pitiful condition, and I knew right away that a gorgeous little spirit like you doesn't deserve to leave the Earth so early, so I took up the job as to take of you."

Blushing again, Amy sprang to her next question: how long was she to stay here?

"Oh, seeing as how remarkably good you're recovering, you'll only be staying here until tomorrow. You will be up in no time."

Just as he left the room, Amy looked out her window.

"I almost died out there last night…does Sonic have that much control over my heart and emotions that he has the power to hurt me this much, so much as to make myself feel useless to the world?"

This observation made her think. When she fell out of consciousness, it made her feel strangely…safe. And her heart immune from the torture and hurt that reality reveals in the world. No one would taunt her. No more chasing. No more sorrow. No more –

Heartbreak. Her eyes widened at the founding of this. What if she can escape the hurt of the world, forever enjoying her world, the heaven that she dreamed of as a blissful memory to cherish and never run away from? Maybe, just maybe…

Without notice, the fox nurse entered in, holding the door open. Hearing voices like 'I hope she is okay' from a little girl's voice, the nurse spoke to Amy.

"Ms. Rose, you have company. Come on in here everybody."

After the nurse, in came Cream the Rabbit and her mother Vanilla, along with Miles 'Tails' Prower, and then Knuckles the Echidna, behind him Rouge the Bat, followed by an emotionless Shadow the Hedgehog. The whole company was carrying a bouquet of roses, carnations, and violets in their hands.

Then, the last one to come in, with the biggest bouquet of pink roses and a balloon saying 'Get Well Soon', and surprising Amy to petrified suddenness, was Sonic the Hedgehog.

Oh dear. If Sonic's here, I wonder what Amy's going to say to him now, since he didn't even notice her condition in the storm... ;)