Chapter 13! One of my favorite numbers!

I realized today that I probably should have said this earlier: all Sonic characters belong to Sega! Except for Brick and Tyler, they (unfortunately) belong to me.

R&R! 5 DAYS TILL CHISTMAS! :D :D :D

Sonic's P.O.V, 3:19 a.m.

Sonic sighed, as he admired the knocked out fox on the floor. His face was pretty badly mangled. He'd have to have a lot of plastic surgery to fix him. "Good, I'm glad that's finished. Now we can look for Amy."

"Okay this shouldn't be hard," Tails walked over to the closet, peering inside of it, "I wonder why she hasn't heard us yet."

"She might be knocked out," Rouge looked under the first lumpy bed with Cream next to her at the second.

"S-S-Sonic?"

"What is it Cream?" Sonic asked from inside the bathroom. No Amy.

Sonic turned to face the young rabbit as he walked out of the bathroom and was shocked to find her shaking. She was pointing to under the bed, and Sonic came over and looked under the bed.

"What the?" Sonic saw a large green bird with his arms tightly wrapped around Amy's neck. "AMY!"

The then bird rolled out from under the bed and dragged Amy along with him. He stood up and threw the pink hedgehog onto the bed.

"You can have her. I'm pretty sure she's dead anyways."

He ran to the door and kicked Tyler on the way out, but Sonic beat him to it. He thanked god for his super speed abilities.

"What do you mean 'dead'?" He asked.

"Dead, like gone forever. Now move outta my way," He shoved Sonic to the right and Sonic crashed into the wall.

Sonic regained his balance and turned to punch him but missed. Brick was already out the door. He was about to race on after him when Knuckles grabbed his hand.

"Knux!" He struggled to get Knuckles to release his grip on his arm.

"We can catch up with him late . . . Right now . . ."

The red echidna looked over to bed and Sonic followed his gaze.

His throat catches as he watched Tails listen for Amy's pulse. He was frowning at her.

"Sonic, I'm sorry, I think . . ." Tails trails off and shut his eyes, trying not to cry.

Sonic rushed over to the bed to look at Amy . . . So helpless . . . Sonic couldn't help but feel awful.

It was his entire fault. Everything. All this shit was because of him, and now he wished he could back in time and fix it.

"No! This can't be happening!" Cream began to sob uncontrollably as she sank to the floor. Rouge kneeled down and rubbed her back, her own eyes glistening.

"Is there anything we can do?" Knuckles asked Tails, looking at Amy and sulking.

Tails shook his head no and Cream began to cry louder.

"No no NO! There has to be something," Sonic begged Tails, shaking him.

"Well, Sonic, listen I'm sorry," Tails aqua eyes threatened to spill out salty tears, "I don't know how she died . . . So I just don't know what to do."

Sonic turned around and tried not to cry. His friend just died . . .

Friend . . .

Okay. If she really was dead, he should at least be honest and admit that he might have loved her more than a friend.

Now she was gone. They could never have a future . . .

And then, spontaneously he kissed her. It was all he could think of.

A fragile gasp escaped Amy's mouth.

"Sonic . . ."

"Stop. Wait. Does anyone know CPR?" Sonic asked looking around anxiously.

"Yes," Rouge rushed over, "I was a lifeguard one summer."

"Well go!"

It makes sense now. .. Brick's arm was around her neck. He might have tried to suffocate her . . .

"KEEP DOING IT!" Cream cried to Rouge as she wiped her tears. She was starting to become hysterical.

Tails feverishly called the ambulance from the phone on the side table. "Hello? 911? WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW!"

As the ambulance calms Tails down by saying everything will be alright, we'll be right over, Knux and Sonic just waited in the corner for them to arrive.

"Thank you," Knuckles whispered to Sonic. He was leaning against the wall with his arms over his chest.

"Huh? Why?"

"For trying to give CPR to her. We might be able to save her now that you realized she died from lack of air."

The kiss was attempted CPR?

"Oh, uh yeah. No problem," He tried to act casual.

But why wasn't he admitting his feelings? Why couldn't he tell Knuckles it was because he loved her?

Well it wasn't exactly the most appropriate time . . .

But still, admitting his feelings by kissing her had just saved Amy.

"Knux?" He asked his friend.

"Yeah?"

"I-I think I might love her," He said staring into Knuckles deep purple eyes.

Knuckles smiled and closed his eyes. "Oh, I know."

"Huh? How?" I was that obvious?

"I don't know actually, I just knew it . . . You just wanted to save her so much, I guess."

"She's a friend! Of course I wanted to save her! Anyone with a good soul doesn't deserve to die anyways."

"Like I said, I don't know," Knuckles sighed. The whirl of an ambulance siren interrupted the silence outside. "I guess maybe it was the party then. Just the way you looked at her. "

"Huh, when has Knuckles the Echidna become Mr. Love Know It All?" Knuckles smiled at Sonic. And punched his arm lightly.

They listened as a thunder of footsteps caught there attention. A half dozen hospital workers burst into the room and took Amy.

Only one of the hospital people stayed behind. "You guys can come in a special car with me back to the hospital. And don't worry about your friend; I'm sure she'll be fine."

"Um, what about him?" He gestured towards Tyler.

"Leave him."

They followed him down the steps and out the motel. The cat at the front desk watched in awe at their retreating bodies, for once her jaws not snapping her gum loudly.

The cold hit him like a ton of bricks. He shivered, not just because of the cold December air. He was so nervous. Amy could die tonight.

They drove quietly to the hospital right behind the ambulance that held Amy. Sonic was in the passenger seat, and stared at the back of the ambulance with such focus he became slightly dizzy.

Amy might live. Might. If and only if she was just barely alive when he crushed her wind pipes. . .

He prayed that she was alright, that she was breathing, that she would wake to see another day, that he'd get to see her bright emerald eyes again, hear her soft, kind, voice . . .

Why, Amy, why did this have to happen?

When they reached the hospital is blinded his eyes. He was use to the dark, dimness of the motel. All he could see was bright white everything. The man led them to a waiting room, that was empty.

Rouge sat down and "read" a magazine. He could tell she wasn't reading because her eyes never left the same spot on the page. Tails stood awkwardly before choosing to stare at the T.V screen blankly. It wasn't even on. Cream sat next to Rouge and played with the hem of her dress. Sonic paced back and force across the hospital's floor, extremely anxious.

Now all there was to do was wait . . .