Sonic lay unconscious in the guest room of Amy's cottage. The pink hedgehog sat at the bedside to watch her crush sleep. A few seconds after Sonic had blasted off, Amy heard a faint crash and went to investigate. Just as she thought, to her dismay, the crash was caused by Sonic falling to the ground at such high speeds and with a high force. The hero had knocked himself out. So, Amy took him back to her house to look after him until he woke up. Perhaps when he got better, he would thank Amy and even fall in love with her. Nursing him while he healed would be a brilliant way of bonding with Sonic. Amy felt giddy and became excited for when Sonic woke up. Amy began to smile in delight and blank out as she thought about how she and Sonic would get on when the hedgehog finally woke up.

Sonic began to stir, and his eyes opened slightly. Amy bent over in anticipation, how would Sonic react to being in Amy's house? Sonic's pupils pointed to his right where Amy was sitting. The hedgehog could see her with his blurred vision. He groaned and shifted under the covers, and stopped while hissing in pain when he moved his legs by accident. The poor hedgehog was in agony from the waist down since he'd pulled all of the muscles in his legs.

"I can't move…" Sonic complained worriedly, his eyes darted back and forth between Amy and the covers of the bed where his legs were. Amy put her hand on Sonic's shoulder to reassure him.

"Don't worry, Sonic. You don't need to move, I'll look after you," she said as she tucked Sonic even tighter under the duvet of the bed. Amy's attempt to make Sonic more comfortable made him feel even more uncomfortable than before. Amy noticed the way Sonic cringed and leaned away from her with the useable top part of his body. "Please, Sonic! Don't be like that; I won't hurt you."

"O-Okay…" Sonic said reluctantly.

"If I hadn't found you then you'd be outside in the cold right now. Aren't you glad you're inside with me?" Amy said and clasped her hands together. Sonic didn't answer. "Anyway, would you like something to eat?"

"Yeah, got any chili dogs? How long was I out of it? Three days? Because it feels like I haven't eaten in that long," Sonic said groggily.

Amy smiled and went to make her precious crush some chili dogs. She had the recipes pinned up on her notice board in the kitchen, ready for an occasion like this. She had planned it in her head a few dozen times already.

Sonic enjoyed his chili dogs, and Amy admired Sonic's cheerful look as he chomped down his dinner. The hedgehog eagerly munched away all of the chilidogs on his plate, then he looked at Amy with thankful eyes. Amy looked back at him, right into his emotional green irises. The both of them stayed that way for a while. Amy felt giddy with delight; it was working. Cooking Sonic his favourite food had warmed him up to her.

Sonic opened his mouth, it looked like he wanted to say something. He stayed silent, though, as though his words were caught in his mouth.

"Sonic?"

"Amy…" Sonic said reluctantly. "It's taken me this long to realise that… I kind of like you…"

"Oh, Sonic! I knew you loved me!" Amy squealed. Sonic smiled in relief.

"We have time to kill while I wait for my legs to heal… so perhaps we should-" Sonic started, but he was interrupted when Amy kissed him on the lips. At first, he found himself pulling away due to the shock then he embraced it. They finished their kiss. "Yeah… that."

Amy felt as though her heart was doing flips inside her chest and her stomach was filled with a million butterflies. Then, Sonic leaned towards Amy to kiss her back. The two of them leaned into each other slowly, reaching closer and closer to each other's lips. They were about to touch when.

CLICK

Amy turned around to see the bedroom door open, when it was never open before. She turned back to look at Sonic, but he wasn't there.

"Aww! I was day dreaming! It never happened! And Sonic's gone!" Amy cried out and ran to look for Sonic. She ran out of the room and to the front door to see it open and a dust trail floating to the ground. "Sonic… you didn't appreciate me…" she said sadly.

Suddenly, Amy decided that she wasn't going to let Sonic get away with it that easily. She ran after him as fast as she could by following the settling dust. But, after a while, she was too late to see any remainders of a dust trail, and there were no skid marks or footprints anywhere on the pavements or roads, and when she got outside of station square and on to the fields, there was no signs in the grass or dirt. Sonic had done well to make sure Amy couldn't follow him by being lighter on his feet.

"I don't know why I took him in!" Amy said while she stopped running and put her hands on her hips. "He's well enough to run away."

Amy decided to run a little further, in case Sonic had stopped somewhere and she would find him. If she didn't find him in the next five minutes, she would turn back home. After walking for a few minutes, to Amy's surprise, she saw him in the distance. There it was, Sonic's silhouette standing tall. She realised that charging towards him and calling his name would definitely scare him away, so she decided to sneak up to him.

As she got closer, she realised that he had his back turned to her, so it would be very easy to do so. When she felt she was close enough, she ran towards him with her hammer out so she could immobilise him and interrogate him. At full speed, she ran towards Sonic, ready to swing her hammer. The world around her become a blur, but she'd subconsciously calculated where Sonic was, and swung her hammer as hard as she could when she reached him. Unexpectedly, she hit nothing but thin air and went spinning to the ground with a yelp of surprise. Then, she got up and turned around to see a hedgehog appear in front of her.

It was Shadow.

Amy sighed, she'd made same mistake again.

"Amy, I've been expecting you," Shadow said in monotone.

"Have you? Did you hear me coming? I was so quiet!" Amy complained.

"No. Sonic told me what happened, and I thought there was no doubt that you would come running after him," Shadow said casually.

"Sonic went this way? So I was going in the right direction. Shadow, where did he go?" Amy asked hopefully.

"He asked me not to tell," Shadow said and folded his arms. Amy was about to groan in protest. "But, since you won't catch up with him anyway, I might as well show you." Shadow pointed to his right, just in the line of site, was another city.

"Thanks, Shadow!" Amy said, and decided to run after Sonic, despite the low close to certain chance that she would never find him.

"Amy!" Shadow called after her; she stopped and turned around. "Don't go after Sonic."

My noticed Shadow's softer tone. Did he… feel something for her?

"Why don't you want me to go after Sonic?" Amy asked, while walking up to him. She thought that if she couldn't have Sonic, then Shadow would be good a second best… for now.

"Because, you deserve better. You're wasting your time with him," Shadow lectured.

"Then, what do you suggest I do instead?" Amy asked, feeling her heart rate almost double. This was her chance. Shadow began to feel uncomfortable when he noticed Amy's wide eyed excited look.

"Just, move on from Sonic and do something different, like, get a hobby, become an independent woman," Shadow said. Amy felt disappointed, that was not the answer she was looking for.

"You think I should stay single forever?" Amy asked sadly. Shadow smirked at her naivety.

"Of course not. How old are you? Hardly a teenager, I suppose. You have your adolescence ahead of you. You've still got a long way to go, plenty of time before you need to settle down with a boy. You need to get yourself ready for a life of independence. Stop preparing for marriage to Sonic and being a house wife, instead, prepare for a womanhood of independence and power!"

Amy didn't know what to think of Shadow's motivational speech, it was certainly not what she was expecting.

"Why do you chase after him so desperately, anyway? Surely you can't love him that much…" Shadow said callously.

"Because the tarot cards said so! They're always true!" Amy yelled and stamped her foot.

"You're not planning your whole life out because of a silly superstition, are you?" Shadow said in disbelief.

"It's not silly!" Amy said and swung her hammer at him. Shadow grabbed it with no problem and snatched it out of her hand. Amy clicked her finger and another appeared in her hand. She swung that one too, but Shadow caught it with the other hand and took it.

"Calm down! I didn't mean to offend you!" Shadow yelled urgently. "You just can't rely on prophesies to decide your life for you! You're a strong girl, you can fend for yourself. You don't need Sonic."

"Has Sonic put you up to this?" Amy said angrily.

"No, seeing the pain you go through led me to do this," Shadow said. "I can't stand to watch such ignorance anymore."

"Ignorance? How dare you!" Amy swung a third hammer at Shadow. With no hands to defend himself with, since both of them were holding the first two hammers, Shadow leapt back quickly to dodge the attack.

"Just telling it how it is. It's up to you whether you take my advice. Now, I'm not wasting any more of my time on you," Shadow said and disappeared.

Amy was left alone again to think about what she'd been told.

Author's Note: To Shadamy Fangirl: Sonic wouldn't have died from that. You're forgetting something: he's Sonic. He's fallen from space and high places (Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Adventure etc.) and hit the ground face first several times, and he was completely fine. Anyhow, thank you for the reviews.