A/N: Here's the next chapter you guys. Don't forget you guys are welcome to ask me questions and I'll answer them in my A/N section.

Yay for the chapter that explains my take on vampires. Hope you like. ^_^

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Chapter 11

Amy woke laying in her bed. "Oh yeah...I'm home." She sat up remembering the events of the day before. "I can't believe they let me go..." She went to the kitchen to make some breakfast. She was still thinking when she looked out the window. "AHHH!" She screamed jumping back. Someone was standing on a branch looking in at her. She felt her heart beat slow a bit when she recognized Shadow. She took a deep breath and opened the window. "Shadow what are you doing out there? You gave me a heart attack!" She said sounding a little stressed.

Shadow slipped inside landing gracefully on his feet. "Knuckles won't allow you to go unwatched, at least not for a while. If you'd rather him watch you I can make that happen."

"I'm just saying you didn't have to scare the crap out of me like that." Amy went back to making her breakfast. "Want something to eat?" She suddenly realized the offer she'd just made and turned carefully to see his reaction.

She was dumbfounded to see Shadow grinning at her clumsy mistake. "Thanks for the offer, but I've already eaten."

Amy looked away with a somewhat embarrassed blush. "So how long do you plan on watching me?" She asked trying to change the subject.

"Being as it's Sunday, all day." He said with his arms folded. "Knuckles won't cut any corners in the matter. Until he is sure of your allegiance you will be watched constantly."

"What?" Amy turned to him. "What does he think I'm going to do, run to the nearest mass media building and proclaim that there are vampires living here and going to school here and that I stumbled onto their lair?" She was feeling rather upset. "And who on Earth would believe me? Vampires aren't suppose to be real, all that would do is put me in the nut house."

"Doesn't matter." Shadow leaned against the counter. "No one's suppose to know. You've changed that balance."

"But,"

"You aren't very grateful." Shadow's eyes shifted away from her.

"What?" Amy looked at him almost astonished.

"You're only being watched. You could be held prisoner in our 'liar' and never allowed to leave, or we could have devoured you." Shadow crossed his arms angrily.

Amy looked up at him her eyes trembled once as she searched his expression. "Could I really have been eaten?" She asked.

He looked down at her. "Don't flatter yourself. My brothers and I don't eat scraps."

Amy couldn't decide if she was relieved or offended. She simply turned away from him and poured a glass of juice. She made herself some toast still feeling uncomfortable under Shadow's constant gaze. "Shadow..." She didn't look at him. "Do you have to watch so closely?" She asked as she cleaned up the kitchen. "You know I'm not going anywhere don't you?" She turned to see if he was listening and he was simply watching her still. She moved closer looking him in the eye. "You know I keep my promises...so why are you doing this?"

"Because I also keep my promises." He looked down at her. "And I promised my brothers that I would guard you."

She finally nodded. "I understand." She had to relent in the argument there was no way to fight when she completely agreed with him. He had to keep his promise just as she had to keep hers. "So tell me," She didn't want to give him time to gloat. "Are all the stories about vampires true?"

"Um?" He blinked suddenly seeming perplexed by her question.

"You know," She sat down in a chair in the den as he followed. "Does garlic really keep you away? Can you turn into a bat? Do you sleep in a coffin?"

"Slow down." Shadow sighed as he folded his arms and sat down on the couch across from her. "You humans are so ridiculous. Always making up stories about things you can't understand or comprehend."

"Well." She pressed.

"First of all if you'd seen the kitchen you would know the garlic is hanging on the spice rack, second the only reason Tails wanted to do his project on bats was to see if he could understand why people think vampires can change into such creatures, third we don't sleep in coffins because we aren't dead." He looked at her with a blank stare.

"Are you cold? Do you do have a heart beat or a pulse?" She asked still a little wide eyed.

"Of course." He moved so he was beside her and took her hand placing it first on his wrist and then on his heart. "See." Amy nodded as she felt his heart beat she also felt how warm he was.

"I don't understand... If you have a heartbeat and a pulse why do have to drink blood?"

"Our bodies can't produce enough blood for us to survive. If we do not drink blood we die." He said plainly.

"So do we have anything right about you?" She asked pulling her legs under her.

Shadow's eyes seemed to change to that of thought. "Human legend does refer to us as being fast and having a mysterious power over you humans."

"What do you mean by that?" She leaned on the arm of the chair. "Power over humans?" She thought deeply for a moment. "Is that what happen to me?" Shadow looked up at her as she continued. "Did Tails use this power to try to erase my memory?" She asked.

Shadow sighed feeling a little annoyed with all her assumptions. "It's funny how you assume that just because we are vampires we have more power over you than you have over yourself." He leaned down and locked gazes with her.

"What are you doing?" Amy blinked as she stared into his red eyes.

Shadow simply stared at her as his eyes began to rim with a red glow. "When did you first meet me?"

"I...at school..." She suddenly felt as if she couldn't blink.

"Are you sure? " He leaned a little closer. "Did you glimpse me across the street perhaps? Our eyes met through the mist?"

"Through the mist..." Amy saw images of her eyes meeting Shadow's on a misty afternoon. "I met your eyes..." Then suddenly she flashed to the real moment when she first saw Shadow in the hallway at school. "Wait...that's not..."

Shadow finally broke their gaze and sat back down. "We only have as much control over you as you allow us to have." He folded his arms. "If you want to believe what we tell you then things are much easier. If you want to resist our mental suggestions then there is the possibility that you can break free from our mental hold." He looked over at her seeing her in awe. "Such as in your case. At first you wanted to believe that there was nothing more to me and my brothers than a dream."

"You." Amy said.

"Um," He looked at her again.

"I never dreamed about your brothers at all. My dream was always about you." She looked up in thought. "I can't ever remember having any dream, but one. It was the same one every time. It was always about that first night I came to your house." She trailed off a bit as she thought back to that moment in time. She hadn't considered how he would feel about that. She remembered the kind of tension that had been in the air when Shadow and his brothers had brought up the subject of drinking human blood.

"Don't you dare pity me." He stood and looked away from her swiftly. "You're kind is to be pitted. I am above you in every way." Shadow folded his arms. "I will not be looked down on by the likes of you."

"Shesh." Amy shook her head. "No need to get all high and mighty." She sighed. "I get enough of that when you are at school. I can't stand the way you treat me there." She tried not to sound angry. "Why do you have to be so cold anyway?"

"My reasons are my own."