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Anonymous Fan: I'm so glad you liked my BAU story! Are you watching Criminal Minds now? I bet if you are you're thinking the characters as my characters, huh? :P and thank you for the complement, it's really nice to hear that you like my style!

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The doctors continued to work on Shadow.

"Oh man," the wolf said seeing inside Shadow. "It's worse than we thought."

"His pulse has dropped to seventy-two," the hawk surgeon said.

Something bad was happening.

Shadow and Maria were watching the memories of Shadow still. He felt so happy being with her, his heart felt like he was falling in love with her all over again. Then someone sat beside Maria, so she was between the two. Shadow looked past her; his heart started racing, his skin started crawling, his mind started flashing back.

"Hope I didn't miss anything," the dark figure said; it was Mephiles.

"What's he doing here?" Shadow asked Maria, he had a ting of fear in his voice but he didn't want to show the demon any of his fear.

"Oh, it's okay," Maria whispered to Shadow as she kept her eyes on the screen. "I invited him."

Maria and Mephiles watched the window, then Amy came on; it was the memory of her and Shadow on their first official date.

"Whoa," Mephiles said eyeing Amy. "If that isn't a sight for sore eyes..."

"I know," Maria smiled. "She's so pretty."

"And hot. If I were alive," he laughed, then he turned to Shadow. "Hey, I bet she's a real 'hedgehog' in the sack, huh?"

Shadow growled at him; despite the demon being dead, Shadow's hate for him was very much alive.

"Oh, Shadow," Maria said patting his arm. "He's just playing. Let's just keep watching."

As much as Shadow wanted to pounce Mephiles and kill him all over again, he relentlessly turned his attention back to the window where they continued to watch Shadow's memories. Then Shadow felt something warm on his hand, he looked down and saw Mephiles pulling his hand out of Maria's stomach. His hand was covered in blood and Maria was bleeding out. Shadow started getting the flashback where he was beating Mephiles to death; where with every blow he delivered, he was punching for a victim.

"Maria! No, no, no," Shadow shouted seeing her bleed out, but she didn't seem to notice; he pressed his hands in her stomach to try and stop the bleeding. "Somebody, help me! Help me, please!"

"Your shouting is going through my ear, Shadow," Mephiles told the panicking hedgehog.

"Maria, I'm sorry. This is all my fault," Shadow sobbed to her, he still blamed himself; her blood poured onto Shadow's gloves, staining them red. "I can't stop the bleeding. I can't stop the bleeding!"

"It's okay," she whispered to him, reassuring him. "You're not suppose to."

She put her hands on his to calm him down, but she turned her head to watch the rest of the memories.

Meanwhile, the doctors were trying to shock Shadow's heart back to life for it went into V-fib.

Outside the operating room, an albino female bat was pacing back and forth, becoming very impatient. She waited for anyone who worked in the hospital to give he an update on Shadow, she'd even ask the janitor if she had to. Then a nurse came out of the OR doors, so Rouge went over to her.

"Nurse," Rouge called to her. "Any word on Shadow?"

"I'm sorry miss," the nurse told her. "I can't give you any information yet. I'm sorry."

Rouge was left there alone as the nurse walked off to do her rounds. The bat sat down in the seating area, wondering what was happening, wondering if she'd ever see his 'not-smiling' smile again. She pulled out Shadow's inhibitor rings from her 'secret department', she held the rings close to her heart and rocked quietly back and forth to herself.

"Shadow, you have to pull through," Rouge said to herself. "You have to. I... I'm not ready to say good-bye yet."

A tear rolled down her cheek, she didn't seem to care. She just kept holding his rings, rocking back and forth.

And in case anyone was wondering what V-fib was; it's when the heart isn't pumping blood, it's just seizing and if it's not shocked the person can die. O_o...

AAAAAAHHHHHH SHADOW!