The Fine Line Madness and Love (chapter 3)

"Amy, why do you always leave everyday? Cosmo always worries, day after day, you go to that castle….what is it there that is so interesting to you?"

Amy had been about to descend to meet Shadow once more as she had been doing for the past few weeks. The time past so quickly, days only felt like hours to her now, she spent so much of her time with him that her duties seemed to slip from her mind.

Yes, she felt bad knowing she had thrown away her responsibilities to see a demon, but there was something about him that made her so drawn to him, it was unnatural.

Cream stared at her as she was about to walk out of the glided golden gates. Her brown eyes reflected worry, her brows were furrowed in slight confusion, as she stood only a few feet away.

Amy looked back remorsefully at Cream, then out before her though the gates. She hated to hide things from the poor novice angel, but there was no telling what would happen if anyone knew that she was seeing Shadow on earth. Yet God must have already known. You can never hide anything from God. She wondered why he had not already ordered her to stay away. She did a mental sigh at how great it was that God was so merciful.

"Amy?"

Amy snapped out of her thoughts to face Cream once more.

"…I'm sorry Cream, but you don't need to worry. How about we go to earth tomorrow, me, you, and Cosmo. Is that okay?"

"…I guess Amy….but please be careful, I don't want any demons to hurt you…." Cream said as she waved goodbye.

As Amy was about to step onto the surface of the earth, two arms encircled her waist, causing her to squeak in surprise.

Shadow had caught her, and he placed her down on the wet ground. He himself was soaking wet, and had gotten her slightly wet as he had caught her.

"You would have slipped….it just rained a while ago, and the ground is too wet to simply descend without caution…so…" Shadow trailed off a little, but that was not what was worrying Amy so much.

"Are you okay Shadow? What happened to you? And the rain has gotten you as I can see!" she pointed.

She meant the great bleeding scratch that crudely been slashed into his left cheek, and the small trickles of blood that ran down his right arm through his jacket. His jacket had been slightly ripped in several places, mostly on the right sleeve where the bleeding was. His right fist tightened at hearing her words, wishing that she had not noticed the wounds.

The grounds of the stone castle that was their meeting place was slightly more damaged than before, and what was most strange were the few black feathers that were littered about the ground.

Picking one up, she brought it up to examine it.

"…What are these….?" She asked him, looking into his eyes.

"..T-The feathers of a crow that was flying here earlier…." He said quickly.

"Where did you get your wounds? Let me see them…" she said, walking closer to him unflinchingly.

He wanted to pull away, but he saw her concern, and let her lift his right sleeve.

There appeared to be a mark of some sort, words etched into his skin, seemingly with a blade. It took her time to wipe away the blood, but then she saw the words completely.

"Traitors shall only know betrayal….Shadow, who did this to you? What do they mean by traitor?"

Amy had so many questions for him.

He turned away, his silence spoke for him, his expression showed a twist of sadness and anger. Amy's expression also saddened, she let his arm go after she had wiped the blood away.

"….It's alright….I don't need to know what you don't want to tell me….I don't want to overstep-.."

"We've already overstepped the boundaries quite enough…but it does not matter…I have broken so many boundaries…it is unbelievable…." He interrupted her, turning to face her now, his eyes focused on her entirely.

"My concern is you, when they find what you have been doing these past weeks, you will be accordingly punished…and I don't want to see that happen…" he said slowly, emphasizing on his every word.

"But I also concern about you…we risk so much…especially you. Seeing what has already happened to you, I'm scared for you." Amy said.

She lifted her left hand, reaching out to him, and wiped the blood off of his bleeding cheek, causing his red eyes to widen slightly, and a small blush formed delicately over her cheeks. Her eyes narrowed on him, and a feeling so strange overcame her. Her other arm lifted, touching his other cheek softly, and his eyes narrowed back.

"I care about you a lot…and I can't understand why. It hurts…and yet I like the pain. What is this, the strangest and most confusing feeling, and it only happens if I see you. What is wrong with me Shadow? I don't understand it….I don't at all…what is it called? It feels as if I am like a human…" her words filled his mind, and he stared into her eyes, green as an emerald, beautiful and bright.

"…..are you in…" he murmured.

"What?"

His hand moved to her cheek, pulling her closer than she had ever been to him.

He caressed her cheek, and taking one of her short locks of hair, he twisted it around his fingers, and brought it to his lips. He whispered to let her hear his words.

"You're breaking the last boundary. You've fallen in love, as I have." He said.

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I went with something more simple than a kiss on the lips! In comes the drama part, and my school time is evil. And my uniform makes my booty look bigger than it already is...and the good news is, Sister Anne (I go to a private Catholic school) is not my math teacher, I got Math advanced!! YAY!! CHEER!! .