Chapter Four: Too much thinking

The entire town seemed abandoned, the combination of the black creatures and the flood must have left everyone who hadn't fled in time dead, therefore, it took only a few hours to find a suitable house, it wasn't too big so as to not be conspicuous, but had enough room for all five to stay overnight.

Sonic was beggining to regain some sense after the hit from Metal Sonic, and looked to Tails, he was sifting through a pile of rubble and had been doing for the past couple of hours. Sonic's eyes trailed away to the skyline, it was getting dark. "What are you doing Tails?"

The kitsune turned to the cobalt hedgehog, "Looking for something suitable to work with, the Tornado only has a broken wing, so if I find a good piece of metal I can cut and fix it with the tools on the plane," He turned around, "I wonder if wood would even work..."

Tails started to mutter to himself. So Sonic's mind cast itself to other places. He wondered how Shadow was doing in all of this mess, Knuckles, Amy even! He prayed for Amy's safety, she couldn't defend herself much, and despite the fact that she was indeed an annoying little fan girl, Sonic would never forgive himself if she got herself hurt, and Blaze. Blaze. Such a beautiful name, he thought, uttering it once or twice - he shut up when he accidentally caught Tails' attention. He did indeed have many, many things to think about. It was going to be a long night, providing that they wouldn't be attacked. Sonic even almost scared himself thinking of what else was perhaps about to fall through the tear in time. The thought of any of his friends getting hurt sickened him, and what sickened him further was the fact that he could do nothing - nothing to protect them.

His mind directed itself to Blaze again, despite him trying to shake this feeling off. How long had it been? Two years? Almost every day his heart had ached, still, he could atleast protect her if no one else, the one most important to him.

Finally shaking away these wretched thoughts, Sonic made his way into the house that they were staying in for the night, and sat down in the front room across from Blaze, who was watching T.V. Forgetting himself, he stared at her for a few moments, his mind trailed back to earlier that day: "I'm not losing you again!" Why did Blaze take such a great risk? She knew she would almost definately die. What made her do it?

She loves you.

No. No, a commoner like you? She's a princess! Get real.

Why else would she do what she did?

She wasn't thinking rationall-

Because she is in love.

...

Sonic brought himself back to the real world, and realised that Blaze was staring back at him. He panicked, quickly coughing and turning back to the T.V.

Blaze herself, had a raging battle going on within the confines of her own mind, as Sonic came in, she was thinking of her future, seperated by an entire universe, how could a relationship be possible? In a year or two, she was to be betrothed - to who, she didn't know - but at that particular moment, that meant nothing. She sighed and looked up, gathering her thoughts just in time to see Sonic panic and turn away, her mind drifted away again, despite her best efforts:

See! See! He does like you! Look how he reacted when he saw you!

Maybe that means he doesn't like you...

No! Remember what he said yesterday?:

"No way! You'll drown!"

"That's better than both of us!"

"The hell it is!"

He tried to sacrifice himself to save you!

That doesn't mean he loves you, he was just being his normal, heroic, amazing self...

Blaze sighed and smiled to herself, before coming back to the real world, Sonic was watching the T.V. "Blaze?" He said to her in a stern voice.

"Hmm?"

"Remember what you did before? After I let go of the branch?" He looked at her.

"Er... Yes.."

Blaze could swear she could see a tear gathering in the hedgehog's eye, he shook it off and then carried on.

"Don't ever, ever do something that stupid, or dangerous, again. Please."

Blaze paused, holding back her own tears, she did this well. "You would have died for me."

Sonic looked up, and his eyes were back to watering slightly; "A thousand times over."

Silence filled the room. It was a few seconds before Sonic spoke up again.

"When... if we get through this... stay here."

"Here?"

"In this dimension... with me." Sonic stood up and sat next to Blaze.

"Why?" Blaze's lip quivered.

"Blaze... I-"

"Sonic!" Tails walked into the room, the twelve year old was completely oblivious to what was going on, and explained to Sonic: "I've found the right parts for the wing, I'll fix it tommorow. There are two rooms upstairs by the way, two beds in each. We can share a room, the girls can go in the other, and Silver's agreed to sleep down here. You coming?"

Sonic looked at Blaze, and then turned to Tails, his nerves got the better of him for the first time in his life. "Y-yeah, ok... goodnight... Blaze" He hesitated before following his friend upstairs. Blaze was left sat on the couch, she sat for a few seconds, thinking about nothing. Every emotion inside of her wanted her to cry out. No. She was a princess. She was better than that. She stood up shakily and made her way up to her room, where Marine was already asleep. Letting Silver finally come in and get on the couch. The grey hedgehog wasn't the smartest of mammals, and didn't notice the problem with the feline.

Blaze's saddness, no, not quite saddness, she couldn't put her finger on what it was, but it was beginning to get the better of her, tears filled her eyes as she walked into her room and put her head on hrer pillow, letting out a short moan.

This woke Marine up, she turned over quietly to see Blaze, sobbing very slightly. The raccoon didn't know what to say, so she said nothing, Tails taught her that one years back. Blaze always seemed to be able to handle things. Surely this would be no different.

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