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Couple's Retreat: Love Cabin - Unresolved Issues
Continuing to where things left off...
With hands raised into a tight fist and her blood pressure steadily rising, Amy harshly draws her breath when she gets no answer from anyone before her. They all hold surprised and shocked demeanors on their faces which only makes her angrier.
"SONIC THEODORE HEDGEHOG, YOU BETTER ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW, OR I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL-"
"Amy, wait! Please calm down!" Sonic said as he snaps out of his daze and rushes to calm her. By the way she's acting, he can tell it isn't good. Her face is flushed a deep shade of red, and her breathing is low and jagged in an alarming way.
With much force, his arms wrap around her chest as she begins to yell at him to let her go.
"N-NO! LET ME GO!"
He shakes his head and narrows his eyes at her defiant actions. "No, Amy! You seriously need to calm down! Don't you remember what happened last time you got like this?"
Biting her bottom lip, Amy doesn't pay any attention to what he just said. All her mind is focused on the blonde woman in front of her with friends in the background. "Tina..."
Tina, brushing off Amy's obvious enraged state of mind, only cleared her throat. "Well, hello, Amy Rose. Fancy meeting you here."
"LIKE HELL IT IS!"
"Now, Amy. I can see why you're mad like this, but can you please calm down, so we can talk normally.. like real women?"
"NORMALLY? YOU'RE FAR FROM NORMAL AND A REAL WOMAN, YOU FUCKING SLUT!"
Tina is taken aback by the name and struggles to keep herself from lashing out. "W-what? The nerve-"
"YEAH, YOU HAVE SOME NERVE SHOWING YOUR UGLY ASS FACE AROUND HERE! AND ESPECIALLY AROUND ME AFTER WHAT HAPPENED!"
Tina growls lowly as she grits her teeth. It's hard to keep up a good face while someone is basically calling you a whore in front of everyone. With all her might, she keeps her own curses to herself and smiles a small grin.
"Now, Amy.. I know you feel this way, because of what happened in the past.. but I think its time we let all that in the past go and start over. Don't you?"
Amy rolls her eyes. "START OVER? HOW CAN I START OVER WITH SOME BITCH THAT NEARLY DESTROYED MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY LONG-TIME BOYFRIEND!?"
"Please, can you quiet down? Everyone is starting to stare, you know?"
"DON'T YOU FUCKING TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"
This girl is impossible to talk to!
And her face is getting redder and redder by the minute!
Just what I expected...
Tina sighs irritably and folds her arms to walk a bit closer to her. "Amy, look.. I'm sorry for what I did. It was a terrible thing for me to do, and I'm terribly sorry! Can't you just forgive me, please?"
"ARE YOU SERIOUSLY STILL TRYING TO TALK TO ME? YOU BETTER LEAVE, TINA, OR I'LL MAKE YOU-"
There's no use in trying to keep talking to Amy in her current state. The stress from worrying about the baby, feeling guilt for what happened a few weeks ago, where Gabe and Staci had disappeared off too, and the fact that Tina and her friends had just arrived at the very place they were staying, have combined into a catastrophic storm deep down inside of her.
In other words, Tina's unexpected arrival just lit the fuse and set her off...
"Amy! That's enough!" Sonic says to quiet her down. "Calm down, right now!"
Stunned by her boyfriend's words to her, Amy stops her struggling for a second to look up at him. "What did you say to me?"
"I said that's enough! How much longer are you gonna keep on yelling at her when she's only talking to you without screaming like you are?"
"W-hat? Huh? Wait, a second... So you're DEFENDING her!?"
"No! That's not it! It's just that if you keep yelling and raising your blood pressure like his you'll pass out again! Don't you understand?" Sonic tries to tell her as he holds onto her for dear life in fear that she might escape from his grasp.
Amy shakes her head as her breathing rate becomes even faster. "No... I don't understand, Sonic. Why is she EVEN here!?"
"If you would just listen then-"
I can't believe he's actually defending her?
After all that bitch has done to us!
Maybe.. he still wants her...
"Amy, please.. listen to me-"
The furious pink hedgehog grinds her teeth together as her blood continues to boil. "Listen? Listen to what? I don't want to listen to a damn word that this slut has to fucking say to me!"
"AMY!"
"WHAT!?"
The woman at the front desk finally speaks up amongst the yelling and arguing. "Umm.. excuse me. I'm afraid you all are going to have to take this somewhere else. I can't you scaring the other guests and-"
"YOU, STAY OUT OF THIS!" Amy quickly snaps at the woman. "THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU!"
Backing away, the lady at the front desk turns the other way and tries to ignore the death glare she's receiving.
"S-s-sorry.."
Clearing his throat, Scourge eases his way towards Tina to whisper to her. "Look, maybe you and your friends want to just go your own way for now. Amy is not in any condition to even see or even rationally talk to you. Like I said before."
"I can see that!" Tina scoffs as she looks back to Amy in Sonic's strong grasp. "I was hoping this would have gone a lot better.. I tried my best to be nice too!"
"Yeah, and look where that has gotten you.." Sonia says offhandedly making Tina scowl in her direction.
"Watch it, you! I'm only trying to be nice!" Tina finally snaps at Sonic's sister. Sonia's negative attitude towards her has finally gotten her to explode. "Nice, nice, nice! That's all I'm trying to do, but you're only making it hard for me!"
Sonia scowls and raises her fist. "It WOULD have been nice NOT to see you at ALL! Huh, you thought about THAT?"
"Sonia, calm down! We can't have you and Amy losing control like this!" Manic says as he grabs a hold of his sibling. "Just don't say anything to her."
"B-but!"
"Sonia, listen to Manic! Just be quiet, alright?" Sonic tells her as he still keeps a tight grip on Amy. Feeling the surrounding atmosphere steadily getting unpleasant, he knows Sonia could only make it even worse.
"But, Sonic-"
He shakes his head. In his mind, he's only trying to do what's best for Amy. With her being pregnant and needing to stay stress free like Doctor Lupe had said, all the yelling and cursing is doing no good at all.
"No, sis. Just be quiet and let Tina and her friends go their own way for now!"
Tina shakes her head in protest. "But Sonic, I-"
"No, Tina! Right now is not a good time... For now, I think you should leave. And I don't mean leave the lodge. I just mean, avoid us, especially Amy, for a while until we can get her calmed down. It's the best thing we can do right now. We have to or Amy will-"
He's still trying to protect her?
Telling Sonia to be quiet? His own sister?
Even me... like I'm the bad one...
"... that's why we should leave now, so we can get Amy to the doctor's office before anything bad happ-"
"YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO PROTECT HER!" Amy yells of a sudden.
Sonic stops in his speech to give her a questioning look. "What are you talking about? I'm doing this for-"
"TINA, YES! YOU'RE DOING THIS FOR HER! TELLING ME TO BE QUIET AND YOUR SISTER TOO? HOW CAN I KEEP SILENT AFTER ALL SHE'S DONE TO US! AND SHE HAS THE FUCKING NERVE TO SHOW HER FACE HERE! WHAT ABOUT ME, SONIC?"
Feeling the sting of her words, Tina does her best to calm her nerves. "Look, I only wanted to-"
"YOU, SHUT THE FUCK UP! I STILL DON'T WANNA HEAR A DAMN THING YOU HAVE TO SAY! JUST LEAVE THE LODGE RIGHT NOW WITH YOUR STUPID FRIENDS BEFORE I !"
"Amy, please keep your voice down. Everyone is staring. Look, let me carry you to the doctor's office to get you checked out, alright?" He lifts her gently into his arms without any argument from her. He guessed she's tired herself out from all the yelling, screaming, and fighting she'd done.
She slowly shakes her head. "NO! THE ONLY WAY THAT WILL HAPPEN IS IF YOU TELL TINA AND HER FRIENDS TO LEAVE!"
"You know I can't do that, Amy. Would you listen to yourself?"
"I am! And why not?"
"Because I don't have a position to just kick them out! Only the owners can, but I think the only ones they'll be throwing out is us, if you keep this up!"
Biting her bottom lip, Amy growls under her breath. "Then I'll do it! Just put me down, and I'll-"
"Amy, you know good and well that you can't fight her." Sonic reminds her with a profound expression. By the second, he's growing more and more irritated by all that's going on around him. The stress cannot be good for their baby at all. Desperately, he desires for it all to end, so he could have a doctor take a look at Amy, but she obviously isn't thinking straight.
"And why not?"
"Because you're pregnant!"
"So what? I can still take her!" Amy says, but then she grows quiet. "I..."
Sonic sighs and rubs the side of her face with his free hand. "Amy, that's enough.. see? You tired yourself out now."
Unable to respond, she lazily nods her head up and down. "..."
Upon hearing the word 'pregnant', Tina and her friends, as if she doesn't already know, gasp. "S-she's pregnant?"
Ha!
As if I don't already know...
But I still have to act this out, right?
Sonia, seeing the shocked look on the blonde's face, snickers. "Yeah, bet you didn't know that! And she's not faking it either like you tried to do, but failed miserably!"
"Would you shut up!?" Tina tells her angrily. "I've only tried to be nice, and you're still attacking me like this!"
"Yeah, because-"
"Sonia, shut up! You're not helping!" Sonic scolds her. Right away, Sonia shuts her both, but keeps her set of hard eyes on Tina with a smug look on her face.
From below, Amy starts to feel a bit lightheaded and her stomach begins to churn uncomfortably. Her head bobs up and down as she tries to keep her eyes on Tina standing before them.
"Tina, please. Can you and your friends just go? Please, that's all I'm asking." Sonic says as things begin to calm down.
Narrowing her eyebrows, she sighs and nods her head politely. "Fine!"
"Thanks-"
Just hearing them communicate, gives Amy enough strength to speak up. With every word, her energy drains even further.
"Thanks? I know you have a lot more you want to say to her! I bet your glad she's here.. so you can run off leaving me in the doctor's office, so you can c-cheat on me again!"
As soon as those specific words left her lips, everyone immediately stopped what they were doing. No one could hardly believe what she'd just said, minus Tina of course. Even a few passersby stop to listen and watch to see what would possibly happen next...
"Amy, w-w-why would you say that?" Sonic asks as he looks at her with stunned eyes.
W-what the hell?
Has she been thinking that that WHOLE time? That I would really do such a thing?
So... the real reason she's this angry is not the fact that Tina and her friends are here, but.. because she thinks I would cheat on her again?
"B-because.."
"Because of what? Amy, just tell me. Why are you thinking like that? I thought we moved past that already."
Her heart continues to pound and her whole body begins to sweat from the radiating heat. "I... I.."
"Amy? Amy, answer me."
" I'm... ri... ght.. uhh.. are..n't I..?" Her words begin to slur into gibberish, and her body suddenly feels lighter than air.
Sonic, noticing the sudden change in her, quickly takes a look at her. "Amy? Amy? What's the matter with you?"
With no immediate response, Sonic notices her eyes fluttering open and close a few times before finally shutting. Moving close to her mouth, he hears her taking short, shallow breathes, and feels the intense heat radiating from her body.
"Shit! She's hardly breathing now! I knew something like this would happen.."
"WHAT?" His siblings say at once as they surround him and completely forget about Tina still being there."We have to get her some medical attention!"
"I know that, dammit!" Sonic curses as he turns to follow them on the way to Doctor Lupe's room. Remembering Tina for a split second, he looks back to see her and her friends heading off in another direction of the Lodge.
"Don't worry about it, Sonic! I'm sure we'll run into each other again."
Not feeling comfortable with her words, he only nods his head. "Right..."
"Oh, and by the way, Sonic!" Tina says which causes the blue hedgehog to glance back at her. "Earlier you called me Staci, and I didn't say anything about it! Hell, I don't think the others notice, but I'm saying something now, before we have to go out own way... Don't confuse me with my cousin again, got it!?"
"Oh, sorry. wait.. Y-your what!?"
The very mention of Tina being Staci's cousin sends alarms off in Sonic's mind. His mind fills with the possibly of her showing up at the same Lodge they're staying in is not just a coincidence at all. It mostly could be something more.
Just before he can get an answer from her, Sonia grabs his arm and turns him around. Right now, his attention is needed elsewhere.
"Snap out of it and come on, Sonic! Amy needs to see Doctor Lupe right away!"
"Yeah, I know!"
But what Tina just said... didn't she hear it? Or was she too busy worrying about Amy's health to hear?
I'm worried too, but... even more now, because that...
Tina is Staci's cousin, and her sudden presence here may not just a wild coincidence!
A while later...
[.Doctor Lupe's Office.]
"It's a good thing you got her here just in time." Doctor Lupe says as she carefully covers Amy's sleeping body laying in the medical bed. Placing a hand on her forehead, she feels her temperature has gone down since she's gotten there.
That's good...
"Any more stress on her body would have been... very unfortunate."
Sonic sucks his teeth as he leans against the wall of the office. "Thank God, we did then..."
About thirty minutes ago, Sonic and siblings had burst into her office with Amy still passed out in his arms. Luckily, Doctor Lupe had just gotten off her lunch break a few minutes before they got there. Seeing her condition, she immediately knew what was wrong and went to work.
With two many people crowding her office, Sonia, Scourge, and Manic wait outside to give her some room. The only ones left inside are Doctor Lupe, Sonic, and Amy...
Doctor Lupe nods and pulls of her white gloves and walks over to the sink. "So?"
"So? So what?"
"So what happened this time?" She repeats, but gets a little more specific. "Last time it was Dr. Hunchkin's therapy session, so what is it this time?"
Looking away, Sonic gets a nervous look on his face. "Well..."
Doctor Lupe quickly washes her hands and then walks over to where he's standing. "In order for me to help you two out to the fullness of my capabilities, I'll have to know everything. You came here for help, right? You and your friends came to the couple's retreat, right? You also went to Dr. Hunchkin's office for a relationship class, no?"
"Well, yeah.. technically." Sonic admits to her.
"Just like you told her everything, tell me as well. I may be able to do a better job since I've actually been in a committed relationship and through the hardships it brings, unlike Dr. Hunchkin."
Sighing, he takes the time to think. Well, she is right. They had told Dr. Hunchkin everything about their relationship on the first night of them being there, without even knowing how professional and licensed she actually was.
Besides, maybe Doctor Lupe can help him and Amy out.
Yeah, maybe she can...
I hope...
"It's like this..." Finding the right way to say it, Sonic explains to Doctor Lupe every single detail of his and Amy's relationship. He even goes into the tiniest details leading up to the moment in the front lobby of the Lodge. He makes sure to leave nothing out in hopes of getting help.
"... When I got to the front Lobby, Tina was there and trying to tell me that she wanted me to forgive her or something... And that's when Amy showed up a few minutes later as well. She was furious and couldn't even speak straight. I literally could see the fire and hate in her eyes as she tried to attack Tina. Luckily, I stopped her.."
Flabbergasted, Doctor Lupe takes a spot next to him on the wall. "Well! That is certainly quite a roller coaster you two have experienced so far. I'm surprised you are both still together after all of that, and no offense."
"None taken.. I'm surprised too!"
"Mmm.. it seems you both have persevered through all the test and trials, but as you can see more are still to come!"
Sonic nods to her reasoning and agrees. "Yeah, I can tell.. but..."
"But what?"
"Can you tell what she meant by saying that I would cheat on her again?"
"Hmm? And when did Miss Rose tell you this?"
"Amy, said that to me just before she passed out. She thought that I was defending Tina, but actually, I was only trying to protect her and the baby from the stress.."
"Oh, she did? Did she? Well, it's true, when under extreme pressure and stress, people say things that they don't mean. BUT on occasions, they may actually do... mean what they say."
Sonic slowly shakes his head. "So she really thinks that I would cheat on her?"
"I believe so, dear.. it's not just with a random girl either. From what you've said, it's around this Tina person, because she hasn't acted this way when you were around other girls, I assume. From what happened today, I think she's afraid that you would cheat on her with Tina, specifically, again."
"W-what? I would never let that happen again! Ever!"
"Then when she wakes up, you can tell her that, because it seems to me that you two still have a few unresolved issues to work out, if you truly want your relationship to work." Doctor Lupe says as she crosses her arms. "Maybe Tina coming here is a good thing, so you can final settle things out, because you didn't really do that before."
Yeah, and it's also a terrible thing as the same time!
Dammit...
"I guess.., and I will, but.. that means.. that Amy really doesn't fully trust me not to cheat on her anymore? Is that right?"
"Unfortunately, yes.. She may not believe it herself if you tell her, but deep down, I think Amy's unconsciousness has that mind set. Even if she doesn't realize what she told you earlier herself, those words explain it all."
"I bet your glad she's here.. so you can run off leaving me in the doctor's office, so you can c-cheat on me again!"
But I would never...
NEVER, EVER, AGAIN!
I WOULD RATHER DIE FIRST THAN CHEAT ON YOU, AMY!
I... I love you too much... I want to marry you and raise a family together, but... you don't trust me not to cheat on you anymore?
"I see.."
Pushing himself off of the wall, Sonic walks over to Amy's bed to look over her. Her body is covered with a thin white sheet and a heart monitor is hooked up to her. Faintly, he can hear her breathing in and out as her stomach rises and falls.
Carefully, he places a hand over her own. She's warm to the touch making him smile a bit. Pressing his hand gently on her stomach, he can almost feel their child's faint heartbeat in her womb In his stomach, he feels a tingling feeling taking over him and causing his eyes to water. Moving down closer to her sleeping face, he lips softly touch hers and move up to kiss her forehead.
My child... my child is in there.
And... And... I almost lost him/her twice already!
Dammit, this is all Tina's fault! If she hadn't shown up, this would have never happened!
And I bet this all has to do with Staci and Gabe missing too!
"I'll be back." Sonic quickly says as he turns and heads for the door leading out.
Doctor Lupe picks herself up from her position to go after him. "Wait, where are you going?"
"To find Tina, and end this once and for all!"
And this time, Amy can't follow after me...
End.!
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