A/N Man I'm on a roll. Last time I was in this good a groove and sending out chapters like this was back when I first start fanfiction and was doing my Spyro story. It has really short chapters compared to these and terrible writing compared to now but ya.
Here's the chapter… NOW!
Shadow had awoken to find Amy was still leaning against him in her sleep and pet her quills, but let her sleep. He continued to her quills until she stirred and moaned waking up.
"Mmmm" she hummed lifting her had off his chest "Morning Shadow" rubbing her eyes.
"Morning Rose" he smiled letting her sit up and his arm returned to his side.
"You sleep well" Shadow asked.
"Good" she replied stretching unknowingly giving Shadow a nice show.
He reluctantly got up from the view and said "I'm gonna take a shower"
He heard her say "Leave some warm water for me" to which he agreed.
He took a quick shower leaving hot water like he promised. Passing by her as they swapped rooms. She closed the door and Shadow had to shake thoughts of her in the shower from his head "Bad Shadow" he whispered to himself.
After that he got some breakfast, deciding to make pancakes for everyone while also making himself a coffee.
When he was close to finishing his first batch heard light footsteps approached and said "Morning Cream"
"Morning Shadow, those pancakes?" he heard her ask.
"Ya, want some?" he offered which she nodded.
So he gave the first three to her and said "I sound just like your mom right now but hurry up, Tails will be passing by in a bit"
She nodded and ate quickly before getting her stuff ready. Vanilla came down during all this in her robe like always.
Both hedgehog and little rabbit said "Morning, except Cream hugged her mother.
Vanilla hugged her back before waving her off to get ready and said "Shadow, you making pancake?"
"Yup. You want the next batch?"
"Yes please" as she poured herself some coffee from the pot Shadow had made.
She took a sip and hummed warmly.
Shadow had the next batch ready and gave her a plate and let her add anything she wanted. She ate the first bite and made a high pitch satisfied hum "This is good. Your pretty good"
He shrugged "You either cook for yourself when you live alone or starve"
The older rabbit shrugged "Guess you have a point there"
They both heard the shower turn off and expected Amy to come out soon. Shadow continued to make another batch of pancakes for her next.
Within ten minutes she was out in her fuzzy pink robe. Her quills were still wettish and messy. Despite all that he still found her beautiful "Hey, want some pancakes?" he offered seeing her enter.
"Oh man I could totally go for some pancakes right now, give em over" her eyes ravenous with hunger.
He chuckled and hand her a plate with the next batch letting her choose whatever she wanted to add herself.
He made the last batch for himself and sat down with the woman.
"So what's everyone gonna do today?" Vanilla asked looking away from her paper.
Cream shrugged but Amy teased "Hang out with Tails I bet" a smirk on her face explain her meaning.
Cream blushed and the mother rabbit eyed them both. She didn't know about her and Tails.
Shadow noticed and sunk in his seat a bit to try and stay out of the conversation. Amy realized that Vanilla didn't know yet either and bit her lip.
The mother rabbit then crossed her arms "Tell me" stern voice catching them all off guard. Luckily for Shadow her eyes never looked to him, apparently he wasn't suspicious.
After some silence between the two girls silently trying to ask each other who should answer until Cream sighed "Tails… asked me to be his girlfriend…." She looked down frightened her mother would disapprove.
Surprisingly Vanilla frowned "Why didn't you tell me honey?" her voice soft and slightly hurt.
Shadow and Amy looked to one another hearing the woman's tone and it made Cream frown more.
The smaller rabbit meekly said "I thought you'd be angry…"
"Oh honey, I've always been worried that you'd start dating but you chose the one boy I liked. I've known Tails liked you a lot for years. I was hoping he'd liked you this much. He's such a nice boy" Vanilla surprised everyone with how accepting she was of the idea. They were sure it was only because it was Tails.
Cream smiled at her mother and said "Oh thank you mom. You are amazing!"
Amy and Shadow smiled the scene looking to one another for a moment then back to the rabbits.
"So… you are ok with all of this?' Cream asked to clarify.
Vanilla nodded but said sternly "Only if you were are good. I don't want to hear you two doing anything overly stimulating. You hear me?" finger pointed at her.
Cream groaned "MOOOOM, Tails and I are not like that. I promise"
The two bystanders just smiled at her and Vanilla made a stern nod "You had better, or he's staying out of my house forever"
Cream gulped "Yes mom" she nodded making sure to tell Tails that later.
With that conversation over and problem resolved it was one less thing anyone had to really worry about.
Vanilla broke the silence explain what she'd do today. I might call up Vector, or surprise visit him at work if he's there"
Amy said "Oh we're gonna see freak gator-rabbit babies soon for sure" making everyone chuckle, the only exception was the older rabbit blush.
"It's a little early for that…" Vanilla tried to defelct the joke but her blush made them all laugh more.
After finishing laughing Amy said I ws just gonna go and buy some stuff before heading to work tonight.
Shadow said "I should get out for a bit. I stayed inside most of yesterday"
They all nodded at their plans and soon all were finished breakfast.
Amy and Vanilla went upstairs to get dressed while Shadow did the same in the bathroom and came out. Cream was ready and he asked "SO were you actually gonna hang with Tails?"
She nodded "I still need to finish the portrait of him" revealing it and showing the dark hedgehog. Looking it over he found the pictures was almost totally drawn out, it really resembled the fox too. All it was missing was some finer detail and colour.
"This is impressive, whatever happened to me?"
She said "I'm still working on you" flipping the pages to where his picture was and showed him. It hadn't changed much since he last saw it, just some more shading and more realistic curves. He still thought she was making his nose too big but she disagreed.
"Well it looks fine so far. You really got my scowl down" he joked, the picture was of him sleeping. Apparently atleast on that night he slept very calmly.
"I'll get it done soon, I promise" she smiled looking up at the hedgehog.
Shadow looked out the front window and saw Tails outside waiting "You better get going, your boyfriend is waiting"
She blushed at the word but nodded "Ok see ya later Shadow!" then hopped out of the house.
He watched outside as they greeted eachother, exchanged kisses on the cheek then walked down the street holding hands. The dark hedgehog smiled warmly at them knowing they'd be together for a while.
He turned hearing Amy come downstairs who was wearing a pink top and blue jeans. "So do I look ok?" Amy asked twirling around for him.
"You look fine" he wanted to say something else but he felt it was too strong.
Amy smiled and grabbed her purse and said "I'll see you around Shad!" and left the house.
He deiced to get ready to leave as well, he had no idea what he'd do but he just wanted to be outside. He let Vanilla know he was leaving the house so she could lock up and walked down the road.
He let his feet send him somewhere and found himself walking down a road that wasn't busy fir this time of day. He wanted to avoid people and have a relaxing walk. Luckily for him after a few years people didn't bug him for saving the world too often and nobody bothered him today either.
As he walked he felt a rush of air behind him and the presence of someone directly behind him. He spun on his heel and prepared to be attacked but it was just Sonic messing with him "Peek-a-boo"
He rolled his eyes "Faker" his simple greeting sounded very much like he wanted the hedgehog gone.
He waved and acted like Shadow had greeted him nicer "How ya been buddy?"
He hated it when he called him 'buddy' they weren't friends. Atleast not enough to call him buddy. In his eyes they were more like "People who saw eachother often because their friends were the same'
"Hey you in there" he said waving a hand in his face to catch his attention.
Shadow just growled "What do you want?"
Sonic asked awkwardly thinking his intentions were obvious "To talk?"
"Well we are talking, hear the words being sent to one another, now here our 'talk' end" turning wanting to avoid the blue blur, but realized he was too persistent for that.
"Hey, wait up! I'm bored and I think we need to hang out a little" he jogged to catch him.
"How do we 'need' to do anything?" he groaned.
Sonic slouched "Come on, please. I'm so bored cause Tails is hanging out with Cream and all our other friends are busy today"
Shadows fist clenched hard, he felt like his claws would cut his palms but said "Well then go for a run" knowing he enjoyed going fast.
Sonic just whined "But I did that already… several times" now purposely dragging his feet to annoy his dark counterpart.
Shadow wanted to hit him so hard right now but knew he'd never leave and growled "FINE, what do you want to do?"
"Well we could atleast walk and talk?" he shrugged.
"And what would we talk about?"
"Ummm… how's life" Sonic started off with.
Shadow knew he'd never get rid of the blue nuisance so accepted his fate "Fine, Vanilla ia is nice to me and doesn't push me around the house like a slave. Still waiting on Rouge to finally call me"
Sonic nodded "Sounds like Rouge is slacking lately. How long has it been since your latest job anyway?"
Shadow thought back and said "Hmmm, almost nine months"
Sonic nervously asked his next question "Mind if I ask what it was?"
Shadow rolled his eyes "Yes I do mind. If I tell you then that means you will be aiding a fugitive. The less you know the better" He had told Amy about stuff but that was because he actually liked her.
Sonic chuckled nervously believing him "Good point… sooooo Tails was gone most of yesterday. He was at your place right? What's going on with him?" he wasn't clueless, He knew of Tails and Cream, it's just the fox didn't tell him details.
"If he's not telling your details then I's not my job to tell you anything either" Shadow smirked feeling the frustration on the blue blurs face.
"Come on! He was so excited to ask her out and asked me for advice several times and now suddenly he's got locked lips" he whined.
Shadow debated whether he should burst his bubble and tell him that Tails got all his advice from him now. Knowing Sonic he might get a little jealous in that subject on that. Nothing that wouldn't be more then just feeling a bit overlooked. He decided not to because Tails deserved some privacy and he didn't want to put up with a jealous Sonic.
Shadow simply shrugged letting the hedgehog stay in confusion.
He eventually broke from his frustration and asked pryingly "So how are you and Ames?" he still couldn't believe that they were together, still unknown to him that it wasn't real.
Shadow simply said "Fine"
"Oh the hesitance means something, I bet you got down with her. You are such a ladies man when you want to be I bet" he teased.
The dark hedgehog growled "Shut up Faker"
"Hey wow I wasn't the one who decided to get with Amy. I have to thank you man, I was worried that she wasn't actually over me yet" he said relief obviously in his body.
Shadow wanted to hit him so bad for that. Feelings of anger and resentment came back to him. He took the situation and asked something he'd always wanted to ask "That reminds me, how could you do all that stuff to her?"
Sonic looked to him surprised "What?" the question catching him off guard.
"You know what I mean. How could lead her on so long!?"
Sonic threw his hands up defensively "Hey I never led her on!"
"Yes you did. Every time she asked to go out with you, hell sometimes just to hang out, you would make up excuses. Like you had prior arrangements, or you would do it later. Or just simply ran away. All those actions left her with hope. She adored you so much she had a scrap of hope you were telling the truth!" Shadow said seething with rage.
"Hey I thought she'd get the hint"
"Shut up, it's a good idea the first few times but when she didn't understand that you never changed. She cried a lot when you rejected her.."
Sonic interrupted "You don't think I don't know that. What I supposed to do, go back and show I care and raise her hopes again?"
Fire was clearly seen in the dark hedgehogs eyes "You asshole! Not only did you lead her on but just left her by herself to cry everytime! On purpose"
Sonic took a step back fearful of what he'd do now as he made a scene in the middle of the sidewalk.
Shadow continued "I'm so glad you finally told her straight about how it wasn't gonna happen, it only took you… what is it, like seven years to finally do it. That's 365 days times 7 days that you led the poor girl on. I may not have been around in the beginning but when I saw her cry I felt sorry for her. And I wondered how anyone could be so cruel to one of their best friends. Not to mention one who adored you beyond measure"
"You know how scary it is to face her and that hammer? If I ever tried to turn her down she'd beat me" Sonic stuttered but his words really hot home.
Around them several people were filming the scene with their phones but both hedgehog s were too busy to notice.
"I've never met anyone as terrible as you. I remember nights you stood her up, that's the worst, you stood her up. It's one thing to subtly try and back away from her and act like you have no time but actually agreeing to a date not showing up. You left her out in the rain by herself for hours hopefully waiting for you. Finally after four hours of waiting she gave up, broke down and cried. Then she had a cold for a week. You know who was there!? Me I watched from a rooftop. I was making sure she was safe and eventually I was the one who walked her home. While you were off god knows where I took her home and made sure she was safe" he ranted telling his story.
Sonic stared at his dark counterpart unable to say anything. He never realized Amy had waited so long that night. He suspected she just headed home as soon as the rain came. Needless to say he felt like the biggest jerk in the world now. He looked away in shame.
"SAY SOMETHING!" Shadow yelled, he didn't think anything he'd say would ease his anger infact he was half sure that as soon as he said anything he was kick his ass.
When Sonic still refused to speak Shadow said "Oh where are you smartass remarks now? Finally realized how much of an ass you are!?"
"YES, of course I feel terrible…. How could I do that to her… I just… I just thought she'd go home"
"That doesn't excuse anything asshole. You still said you would be there and didn't come. You led her on, getting her hopes up. You know what she said to me once we got her back home. She sincerely believed you were off doing something important like fighting Eggman and that's why you missed it. That is how much she adored you. Years of neglect and being stood up and she still believed you to be a good guy!"
The word 'neglect' hit him like a freight trains. He had neglected her. The word made him want to throw up. He'd never realized how much he took Amy for granted, how could he treat her that way. One of his oldest and dearest friends?
"I-I-I… there's nothing I can say to make any of that right…. Even if I changed my mind I don't deserve her, she had all the patience in the world and I just led her on. I should have given her a chance or told her straight up. Or tried whenever I could despite the beating I'd receive" no one not even Tails had explained it to him like this.
Sonic took a step forward wanting to hug him for being the most honest friend he'd had but the dark hedgehog pushed him away "Get the hell away" he spat in front of him and walked off feeling if he stayed longer he'd attack Sonic.
Behind him the blue hedgehog rubbed his chest from the push and slowly looked around seeing the crowd. All the phones followed Shadow until he teleported away in a blue flash. With him gone all cameras pointed to him making him nervous and shrink into himself.
Without a word he ran away to the other side of the city in seconds into an alleyway. Shadows words flowed through his mind like a raging river, every word smashing against his skull. He felt like such an asshole and surprisingly didn't hate Shadow. He, in fact, appreciated what he said cause he finally knew the truth. He had truly thought Amy was just a fan girl but she was so devoted to stand in the rain for hours. He could imagine her in the rain, in her nice dress that she had surely worn that night. It ruined by the rain.
She never told him that. Usually she would find him and yell at him for messing with her but she had never come and told him that one. That scared him far more then anything else. How could it become so normal for him to mess with her that she didn't even tell him?
His head dropped down, he couldn't even bring himself to cry because then he'd be pitying himself. There was nothing to pity from him. He never had the guts to tell her just stop chasing him around and lay down the law so he hurt her so much.
He had only himself to blame and his fist shook in anger, he wished he could leave his own body and beat the crap out of himself. It was what he deserved for…. Neglecting, her for so long.
He resorted to smashing his fist against the wall he was leaning again, feeling intense pain after the third smash.
"How can I even apologize for all that. How do I walk to her and say "I'm sorry seven years of tears, pain and sorrow?" he asked himself. There were no words to say sorry to something like that. He knew she'd forgive him anyway, he didn't deserve forgiveness. She should beat him down if she knew what was fair.
He was stuck unable to apologize but feeling he had to. He finally cried unable to hold it back any longer. He knew this was probably not even close to how bad Amy had felt but he deserved to feel like shit for what he did.
He just cried in that alleyway himself alone and afraid, he finally felt just a fraction of what Amy had felt. Cause now he had nobody to comfort him, alone and afraid.
His thoughts went back to Shadow for a moment. He was a better man then him. Sure he was a dick most of the time but he was actually there for Amy. When the rain came down and he was nowhere in sight he was the one who walked her home. Perhaps he didn't do it for love back then but he didn't for a reason. Perhaps a random act of kindness or expecting Sonic would do exactly what he did. What it boiled down to was Shadow waited alongside Amy for four hours making sure he'd be safe when he was nowhere in sight.
"ot only was Shadow a better friend to her than he'd ever been but from what he could tell she was happier with him too. She barely spoke to him anymore. Perhaps she hated him and only saw him when she had to now. That hurt his chest even more.
"You fucking idiot. How could you do that to one of your most loyal friends?" he hiccupped through the sentence.
His mind swirled with thoughts but one always stayed. He was an asshole and didn't deserve her in his life anyway.
Elsewhere…
Shadow stood on the top of a tall skyscraper. His rage had barely subsided in the last few minutes.
"It's about time someone told him the truth" he said arms crossed looking over the busy city.
He had been holding that in for years. Course it wasn't as intense back then as it was now. He always had disrespect for him for how he treated the girl who loved and adored him, but now with his new feelings for her his anger boiled hotter then the sun.
His mind swirled with all the ways he wanted to kick his ass but knew he couldn't.
He worked on breathing techniques he'd been working on. It felt good to finally let the blue blur know all that. It was a night he and Amy had promised to not talk about.
Flashback…
Shadow sat on the edge of the a roof overlooking the park. Waiting out there on a bench was Amy. She looked happy and had dressed up in a nicer dress. It wasn't anything exotic or fancy just better then he everyday dress.
He had no idea why he was here waiting alongside her for Sonic, but he just knew that he had to be here. He heard that Amy got a date with Sonic and had a bad feeling in the back of his mind.
He looked to the girl again, she had a picnic basket. A harmless picnic, nothing wrong with that.
He thought it was a reasonable idea until he looked up and saw the clouds in the sky getting thicker and darker.
He was worried she might have to cancel the date due to bad weather which made him feel like his time was being wasted.
Sadly he waited for another half an hour and the blue hedgehog was nowhere to be seen.
Shadow scratched his chin wondering where he could be. How could a guy who could run the speed of sound be late? It started to raise doubt in his mind. In opposite contrast Amy from what he could tell at this distance still enthusiastically waited. Poor dumb girl, too love struck to realize what was more than likely happening.
It wasn't the present so he considered her very dumb and annoying. Did that mean he liked seeing woman disrespected? Not at all.
Another half an hour passed and still no hedgehog. He knew he'd stood her up. What an asshole, sometimes he wondered how such a 'good guy' could be so mean.
From what he could see Amy looked to her watch, the first sign of doubt he'd seen from her since he arrived. She was incredibly blind to what was happening and it somewhat sickened him at how naïve she was.
He expected her to give up and go home any minute now, good, he could go home too.
Then he felt a drop of rain on his nose. He looked up finding the clouds now completely blocking the sun. This only solidified his confidence she'd go home.
The rain picked up in the next fifteen minutes yet she still hadn't move. Atleast from the park. She took a seat on a bench under a tree for cover.
Shadow sighed feeling all the rain coming down now, much longer out here and it would ruin his quills.
"Come on stupid girl, just go home!" he yelled, but he was too far away for her to hear, the rain only adding to the deafening sound.
He could see her curled up a bit, all alone in the park now. Her bright pink and red stood out among the green grass.
Longer and longer both hedgehogs waited. Both drenched by the rain. Shadows quills were now lagging down along his back and his fur totally water logged. Amy wasn't much better, even with the trees cover she was soaked and shivering.
He growled in frustration at how stupid she was. He wasn't coming, just leave!
Hours assed making it nearly four hours now.
Shadow was still there which surprised himself more than the fact she was still there. He didn't worry about getting a cold, his immunity to all illnesses saw to that but he could see Amy sneezing and shivering. Her dress totally ruined now.
He wasn't even angry anymore. He felt pity for her. She was so devoted to Sonic she would stand out in the rain for him when it was obvious he wouldn't show. All his anger and frustration was aimed at the blue hedgehog now. There was no end to how much he abused her loyalty.
He just couldn't take it anymore and teleported behind her.
Now that he was next to her he could see she had curled up and was crying. He frowned, poor girl.
He didn't want her out here any longer then they had to and he touched her shoulder with surprisingly gentle hands.
He saw her flinch. Even without seeing her face he could tell what she was about to happen.
"I knew you'd co-" she turned on her seat excitedly but then saw it was the dark hedgehog. Her expression quickly turned to a frown turning back around. The short moment he saw of her face burned into his mind. Her mascara was drizzling down her face. Not to mentioned so many tears, even with the rain he could distinguish the difference.
"Amy" he said softly "You need to go home before you get sick"
"NO!" she huffed "He'll be here, he said he would" then sneezed not helping her case.
The dark hedgehog growled in frustration but said again trying to keep his cool "It's raining out and you've been waiting for him for several hours. He's not coming!"
She gasped at his words "Of course he'd come, he keeps his word"
He scoffed rolling his eyes "Obviously not. If he did he'd have been here hours ago"
She looked down still facing away, her sniffles clearly being heard. With heavy reluctance she stood up and started to head for home totally broken and felt like getting his by a car.
Shadow watched her and sighed knowing he'd have to stay with her.
He followed her catching up. He heard her sneeze against as she did and rolled his eyes.
He took off his jacket "Listen, just take this" putting it around her frame.
She didn't even respond. The entire walk was like that. No words were exchanged. He was pretty sure she was in her own world of despair.
Apon reaching her home he quickly took the jacket back.
He could vaguely hear Amy whispered meekly "Thank you"
"Don't mention it" he said quite seriously before teleporting away. And to this day nobody knew that story.
Present…
He guessed she hadn't told anyone because it humiliating. Not that he didn't appreciate it but now Sonic knew, and he felt it finally drove home how bad he was to her.
He gritted his teeth at the thought of the blue blur. What else could he say, he was a massive asshole that never deserved her in the first place.
He remembered that Amy bugged him a lot back then too, mostly to hang out. But he never lied to her.
"No" would be all he'd ever say in response. Short, to the point and truthful.
His anger was slowly subsiding. His one relief was knowing Sonic was beating himself up right now.
He flashed away in a light of blue reappearing on the sidewalk and walked down the street. He ignored all the surprised looks of people who saw hedgehog just appear from nowhere.
He thought about Amy, how happy she was now. Ever since their talk in the forest she had been much more consistently happy. It made him feel good to see that. If she deserved anything after 7 years of pain and sorrow it was near never ending happiness.
The whole story made him want to find her and hug her and tell her everything was ok now. Tell her was here for her and he'd never neglect her like Sonic had. Nothing in the world would make him happier to have a chance like Sonic had and show her who truly cared about her.
All the anger escaped his body thinking of holding her soft, small frame.
He sighed contently with a dreaming smile.
His mind was interrupted hearing two familiar voices approaching. He opened his eyes and saw purple and white.
"ooff" all three grunted. The silver figure falling over unlike his companion.
"Hey watch where you are going" female said "Hey wait… hey Shadow" her tone quickly reversed to a kinder tone.
Shadow looked and saw his suspicions were right, it was Blaze.
"Oh hey Blaze, sorry about that. Was in deep thought"
He could hear her companion getting from his fall which he learned was Silver but then looked to Blaze who replied "Nah it's right, no harm done"
Silver groaned rubbing his knee "Ya… no harm" obviously having scraped his knee.
"So what'cha up to?" the cat asked the dark hedgehog ignoring her boyfriends comment.
"Nothing. Just walking through the city enjoying the day" he explained casually crossing his arms.
Blaze nodded, her elegant background making her polite and make subtle movements most wouldn't notice.
"Silver and I were just one a walk" she said simply taking the silver hedgehogs hand which made him smile.
Shadow nodded, how long had they been together now? Wasn't it like a year and a half now?
He didn't bother to ask "Were you gonna do anything else besides walk?" not wanting to join, just seemed kinda boring for the couple to do all day long.
Silver shrugged "Might stop for lunch a bit later. Then see where our feet take us"
Shadow nodded and started walking beside the couple hands in his jacket pockets.
He wasn't sure what to ask but Silver blurted out "So… how's you and Pinkie?"
Shadow actually chuckled at the name "We're fine, she's off shopping somewhere. She forced me to come along yesterday. Ya I'm gonna make sure I disappear everytime she wants to do that now"
Silver laughed "Man I'm glad Blaze isn't a shopping kind of girl. I don't do good in woman's sections of stores" remembering back to when he embarrassed himself in a woman's store.
Blaze suddenly said "Oh we need to go shopping now" joking around but he jerked and said "No, please no!"
Blaze laughed at him "Anyways, I gotta say I'm still surprised you two are together. It just seems so odd. She's sound…. Well… she's Amy and you are… you" finding it easier to just describe them that way. Silver nodding in agreement.
Shadow pulled out the last excuse he used "Hmmm, maybe opposites attract"
Silver smartly replied "Relationships aren't like magnets, there's got to be more to it"
Shadow felt like he was being interrogated "Why do you care so much?"
Blaze smirked as Silver looked away nervously.
Shadow was caught off guard by the sudden nervousness "What?"
Blaze laughed "Come on just tell him, it's better to say now"
Silver groaned "But he'll kill me" not very secretively to the cat.
Shadows eyes narrowed on the silver hedgehog, he averted his eyes scratching the back of his head "Spit it out" he growled.
Silver finally sighed "Ok… for awhile I…. like Amy" his hands fiddled through the conversation but as soon as he finished he flinched in fear expecting a fist.
"Wait what?" Shadow asked confused.
Blaze looked to the dark hedgehog "Exactly what he said. Before we got together he liked Amy. But she turned him down, politely of course. So he moved on and we got together. I'm not worried though. I'm confident fire to the face is a good deterrent from impure thoughts" a smirk heavy on her face.
Shadow found that incredibly amusing "You got him on the proverbial flaming whip eh?" She nodded as Silver groaned.
"I mean I'm not controlling right?" she looked to her boyfriend who quite quickly and instinctively shook his hands "No of course not!"
Shadow chuckled but looked to the silver hedgehog "Well, I trust you. So you can stop cowering like a child"
He sighed "You won't regret it man. I'd never betray Blaze… my conscience wouldn't be able to handle it, plus I'd risk third degree burns from her"
Blaze grabbed his hand "That's sweet of you to say, not true but sweet"
Both hedgehogs looked to her oddly.
"What? He's wrong, he'd get fourth degree burns" she joked but Silver took it all too seriously and gulped.
Despite their bickering and threatening of eachother Shadow knew they were good for one another. They worked off one another well. In an everyday sense she gave him confidence. He could work on his own and was much more confident these days but unlike others he had visual doubts in himself.
Blaze got a fun partner that helped her escape her usually totally serious and polite attitude. Like Silver she had gotten better and was able to joke around more but generally was the most serious of all their friends only be trumped by Shadow himself.
Perhaps that why he liked Blaze and got along with her more. She understood how to be serious in a situation. Putting the jokes and talk aside and knew what needed to be done to get the job done.
As for Silver he found him easy to get along with because when on a mission he had a strange single minded approach. Everything else not pertaining to his mission came second. With that said sometimes he got too single minded and didn't slow down to think. It reminded him a bit of Sonic. Guess that's why he and Blaze worked well to together, the man of action and the woman of logic. Together they were a dangerous match. Shadow even had to admit they'd be a hard pair to fight even if he and Sonic teamed up.
He got back to his conversation with them. Apparently in his thought Blaze and Silver got talking again. Apparently trying to decide what to do.
Shadow jumped in knowing the pair would never think of something themselves. "Silver, think about she likes?"
"Uhhh… well she royalty… so… a nice dinner?"
Blaze shook her head "Nope, I may be royalty but I kinda hated it"
Silver nodded forgetting that "Ok how about…. " his eyes brightened smirking "I got it! See ya around Shadow"
He watched as his hands glowed green and an aura appeared around Blaze both floating "What are you doing!?"
Silver smiled "Ever wanted to fly?"
Before she could answer he flew off with her right next to him slowly floating into the sky. Then once above the buildings he increased speed and flew off into the distance with her.
Shadow just watched and had a slight feeling of jealousy "Wish I could fly on demand"
He quickly turned and wondered if he'd meet anyone else. He already had the unfortunate luck of meeting with Sonic who he had no idea where he'd ran off to a now Silver and Blaze.
But the after another half an hour of walking and ending up in his old neighborhood he felt his pocket buzz.
Reaching into his pocket he bet it was either Tails or Amy. He turned it on and saw it was from Rouge.
Meet me at the park-Rouge
Shadow nodded not responding and running off to the park. He suspected she finally found them a job. He wanted to feel relieved but actually worried that he'd have to move out. That didn't stop him, for now he still needed to answer Rouges text and arrive at the park.
Once there he waited under a tree. What could she possibly have for them to do? If it had taken her this long to find a new job then it either meant she finally found something big or was desperate and took found for less high end work survive a bit longer. He sort of hoped for the latter, it would give him a reason not to move out of Vanillas house yet.
Within another minute or two he saw Rouge fly down near him with her signature seductive smile. He had become immune to it over the years. Needless to say she had nearly gotten him lost in all that beauty. His young mind trying to adjust to the feelings of lust and other sexual emotions. Luckily Rouge was a little more responsible then she appeared. She refused to do anything with him unless he knew the consequences and that it was more important to her than she led on.
That was when he suspected that the bat liked him. She oddly flirted with him more and generally liked being closer to him than anyone else, in body and socially.
Although it stopped after awhile and went back to normal with the occasional non-professional talk hear and there. Still flirty but that was just how she was. He suspected that saw she was making no headway with her advances and gave up.
As she approached the usual sway in her steps he nodded to her as his greeting.
"Hey there Gloomy, how are things?" the bat asked stopping a few feet away from him.
Before you text me or after?" he asked.
"Let's go with before" she smiled.
He thought about if he should tell her everything she was his closest and oldest friend. Didn't mean much considering they barely spoke outside work.
"I was out for a walk when you called. Met up with Sonic, then Silver and Blaze afterwards"
Rouge smiled glad to see he was getting a little more social able "Oh ya and what were they up to?" Her desire for information showing slightly.
"Sonic wanted somebody to talk to, Blaze and Silver were out for a walk trying to decide what to do" his answer brief and floated over how he verbally assaulted Sonic.
The bat then smirked "And what of Amy, I would think you'd be on her heels all the time?"
Shadow rolled his eyes at her comment. "I'd love to but she's out shopping and I'm not doing that again" his head shaking.
Rouge fake pouted "Awww, damn, I was gonna ask the same thing"
He just sighed "What did you really want Rouge?"
She crossed her arms at his somewhat rude comment "I was trying to talk a bit, we rarely do"
He didn't apologize at first and just stared at her getting increasingly annoyed by her. For some odd reason it made him angry… no confused when she decided to try and talk. It just wasn't how they worked normally. He hated being confused which is probably why his anger went up.
He sighed "Sorry… just got things on my mind lately" he decided apologizing was worth it, he really didn't want to get into another fight with someone he actually considered a friend.
His apology surprised the bat, but made her smile. She knew despite his apology he would like to get down to business so she said "Well I finally got us a job. It required me to talk to some old friends and pull some favors but I got us two tickets to an upcoming ball at a rich guys party"
Shadow raised an eyebrow. It surprised him she pulled that many favors all at once. She had to be really desperate.
He guessed that they were gonna steal something from this rich "So let me guess. We go to the ball, and I stay with the party while you go and steal whatever it is we need?"
Rouge smirked "Actually I'm not coming with you. I got details on the security and there's no way for me to come in ground floor without being seen. Whether it be cameras or bodyguards. So I'm gonna fly on the roof and break in through a skylight"
Shadow raised his brow again "Ok? So why do we have 'tickets" then putting special emphasis on the plural.
"Because you are gonna go with a date. Everyone will have a date at this thing and coming alone could raise the slightest amount of suspicion, which we don't need. Besides you stand out because you are well… you. A good looking girl will help keep anyone's minds off that" the bat explained.
Shadow crossed his arms "So you are hiring a third wheel?" he didn't like that, a third person would only add variables he wasn't comfortable with.
"No, you are bringing the third wheel. I thought that maybe with you and Amy together you could use a good date night" She smirked smartly.
Shadow saw it now, why she pulled so many favors. Why she was trying so hard get those tickets. He really wished he hadn't made that stupid plan now.
He growled in anger, which made the bats smirk larger. Since when did she play matchmaker?
"Oh but I suggest you tell her what we're doing incase something bad happens and we need to fight our way out. Though I doubt that will ne the case" she said seriously.
The hedgehog just paused in thought before asking "What's in there?"
Rouge guessed he meant what was the prize "Well first is seeing how awkward you are in a party with your girlfriend. The actually endgame is a safe. I will need some time to open it but once inside there will be tons of money. I hear rumors of even more being in there too but I'll have to get inside to learn of that"
Shadow liked the sound of that "Good, I'm in. I'll have to ask Rose though"
Rouge smiled glad he was into the plan "I'm sure you can convince her" her grin saying more than she led on.
He tried to ignore it and asked "I'll let you know once I've gotten an answer, but what if she says no?"
Rouge shrugged "Then we'll have to find some of my other old cohorts and them your date. It won't be as fun and we'll probably have to give a bigger share to them but it will still work"
"Wait you want to give Amy a share?" it wasn't that he didn't want to give her anything. If she helped she deserved the money but unlike Rouge and himself she didn't know how to cover up the money trail. He could always help her out though.
"Of course, that's the other reason I wanted her to know what she's doing. So when you suddenly give her a pile of cash she won't be confused. I was thinking you and I get forty percent and she gets the last twenty?"
Fair enough. Rouge made the plan Shadow would be the muscle if they got caught, Amy would just have to be there and look pretty. Which she did all the time.
"Alright, how we getting the money out?" it would be a long process if she was doing standard bag work.
She smirked "I went to your little friend Tails… well more like broke in when he wasn't around. I 'borrowed' something called the Mass conversion vacuum. I tested it out and from what I can tell it sucks up things then shrinks them down inside the compartment. Meaning I could suck up millions of bills and still have room. Then you put it into reverse it spits them out and vwala! It's normal size again. It looks like a leaf blower in design" she explained the machine using simple words.
Shadow surprisingly had a problem with this, she stole from Tails? He just hoped the boy wouldn't notice until their job was done and it was back. It brought up the question, why did Tails even make that thing. He obviously had way too much time on his hands.
He had all the information he needed and nodded "Fine. I'll text you later tonight when I got her answer"
With that the hedgehog and bat went their separate ways. She took off to the sky while he ran home. He secretly hoped she wouldn't agree. He had no idea if she would be ale to keep her cool or be morally able to go along with it anyway. He should have asked Rouge if the guy was a scumbag somehow.
When he got home he just waited for people to come home. First it was Cream who went upstairs to draw. Amy next so he walked to her to ask his question.
"Hey Amy, can we speak in private?"
She looked around "Well… we are alone"
He couldn't help but chuckle at the. He also noticed some look in her eyes but said "Listen… I need your help" scratching his head.
The look in her eyes went away and the look of disappointment replaced it "Oh, what is it?"
He looked at her and said "Rouge called me and we have a job…. But… we need a third person"
"Ya?" she asked slowly not sure what he was asking yet.
He sighed and decided to just tell her ""Ok, so we are going to a ball a rich guy is holding. During the party Rouge will steal stuff from a safe upstairs. I need you to be my… date and keep an eye on the people so nobody catches her off guard… we'll pay you a share of course" he tried to make it sound easy for her.
"You want me to help you steal from someone?" she asked obviously surprised.
Shadow tried to cover his ass "It was Rouges idea not mine"
"And you would need me to be your date?" she asked catching him off guard. He expected her to just flat our refuse but she was considering it.
"You are actually considering it?"
"You're my friend and I want to help. Besides I haven't done anything exciting in a long time. Plus a nice night out would be really fun" her enthusiastic smile on her face.
He couldn't believe what he was hearing, he wasn't sure if he liked it or not. First was now she'd be an accomplice to his and Rouges exploits but on the other hand… damn… seeing her act bad like this only made him more attracted to her.
"Well… you'd need a nice dress" he'd a need a tux too but he could easily rent one out.
"Luckily I got one today. Call it an impulse buy but now it's gonna come in useful" she smiled glad she'd be able to wear it after all.
Shadow paused again blinking once or twice and asked "You're sure you want to do this?"
She giggled at his concern "Oh Shadow, I know you and Rouge do things properly. All I need to do is simply be there. It can't be that hard"
Shadow just crossed his arms "You need to keep your cool and not act like you are undercover. That is hard, to act natural" he said bluntly.
"Ya but isn't my natural loud and attracts attention? Wouldn't that be a good thing? While everyone is either talking to me or watching me less people will be thinking about upstairs"
She was surprisingly right "You haven't done this before have you?"
Amy giggled "Nope, just saying what I think makes sense"
He just shook his head smiling at her. She was so adorable.
Then she asked "When we doing this?"
He guessed she was in and said "I'll text Rouge and she'll let me know"
Amy nodded and then asked "What's my share? You mentioned I'd get one earlier but what is it?"
"Rouge and I thought you'd get twenty percent of whatever we end up with, deal?" Shadow explained typing on his phone.
The pink hedgehog thought "Hmmm. I am new and basically there to fill in a spot so I guess it sounds fair" shrugging as she finished.
He wanted to so badly tell her that their conversation had been surprisingly sexy but went with "Good, I doubt Rouge would have changed those terms" he was still waiting for her reply which came a few seconds later.
I'm glad she agreed. It's going down in three days. I'll send you the specifics in a bit-Rouge
He turned to Amy who seemed too excited for her own good making him chuckle "So it's in three days. Try to calm down before then, ok?"
She nodded "Good, I don't have work that night. It's gonna be amazing, you'll see. I'll be the best fake date you've ever had"
All he could think of was how she'd be an amazing real date if he ever got the courage to ask and nodded with a chuckle.
They didn't speak of the coming heist for the rest of the night but he could tell she was thinking about it constantly. She hardly sat still and her eyes clearly showed she was daydreaming. She was almost like a kid. He hoped she'd calmed down before they went or they might have a problem.
The rest of the night went normal like always eventually ending with everyone going to sleep. Right before bed Rouge sent him the more specific information like the address, exact time, the name of the host. His and Amy's back-stories incase anyone asked an finally some instructions of how they'd handle the plan going bad.
After read it all he went to bed excited and scared for the event. Excited because he'd be with Amy at a party having fun. But afraid that she might get caught up with them and get caught if something went bad. She could handle herself but the pressure might get to her or she might be tracked down after the job.
Despite all this there was another storm brewing on something else he did today…
So left it off with a cliffhanger. If you are paying attention I'm sure you can guess what the coming problem is. As for bad Amy, that's gonna be fun to write.
This chapter I wanted to move away from the Shadamy a bit. I mean I recently said something to somebody about focusing on the two main characters and thought I should get them away from eachother a chapter. So I got one other thing I wanted to get done, Sonic and Shadows fight. Well more like a hard lesson for Sonic. As for Silver and Blaze I like them and I wanted to get Shadow with them for a minute and describe his feelings on them. Hope all the non shadamy stuff was ok.
Until next time!
Admiralkirk