A/N Before you freak out, I squished 24 part 2 in with the first part.

Part 25

Amy's POV

"Shadow…..what the hell?"

Sonic was yelling at Shadow again, he had just broken a million dollar lamp in his collection.

"What are you talking about?" He spat, stepping over the broken shards.

"What did I hear just now?" Sonic yelled again, so painfully loud I was sure he was right next to me. I wasn't though; I was…..on the ceiling?"

"You didn't hear anything." Shadow replied angrily, crossing his arms defensively.

Somewhere in my sub-conscience, a voice whispered; "Weren't they just talking about breaking something?"

"Odd," I mused to myself, "What's going on?"

I couldn't feel anything. It was as if I was swimming beneath the surface of a pool of molten glass. Everything seemed blurry. Sights, Sounds…What I was seeing didn't register in my head. The image kept changing. However, the yelling grew steadily louder. Until it droned out all other senses until there was nothing left.

Opening my eyes blearily I found that it was all an illusion. I was still lying on the desk next to Shadow's bed. However, something was amiss.

The spot where Shadow should have been was instead piled high with white sheets.

Turning behind me, I gazed at the scene that lay before me.

Ok, not all of it was an illusion.

My dreams had become reality, or rather, reality had become my dreams. Whatever. At this point it didn't matter to me. What did matter was that there were two idiot hedgehogs attempting to strangle each other at the end of the bed. And it was hurting my head.

"What the hell are you two doing?" I said tiredly, rubbing my eyes.

They froze.

"What, I can't ask what's going on when I wake up to you guys trying to kill each other?" I said sarcastically.

"Well what about why you spent the night here?" Shadow retorted.

Sonic cast a dirty look at me. "Or why you said that you lo-"

Shadow clamped a hand over his mouth. "Shut up faker, you heard nothing."

Sonic's POV

Sometime in between the bit where I walked in the door and Shadow almost kicked me in the face, Amy woke up.

I don't know how, we were being perfectly quiet.

"What the hell are you two doing?" She said angrily, or tried to was a better word. She was obviously way too out of it to get a firm grasp on what was going on. A low whisper was all that came out of her mouth.

Shadow's POV

Shit.

Amy's POV

I stared from one to another. "What do you mean he heard nothing, Shadow? Weren't you talking about lamps?"

Wait, wait, and wait. I need to remember. That was a dream.

"Just kidding," I laughed lightly, but suddenly turned serious again. "Really though, what were you doing?"

"Nothing." Shadow said gruffly, releasing the grasp on Sonic's ear and shifting as far away as possible from him. "Sonic was paying an early morning visit. He was concerned-"He emphasized the words, smirking a bit as he did, "about where you were. He was just-" Shadow smirked again, turning to the blue hedgehog glaring daggers at him. "Leaving."

"No, I'm not." Sonic argued, turning back to me. "I'm not leaving till you give me an answer."

"W-What answer?" I said hesitantly, afraid I already knew.

"How do you feel about me?" He asked, staring into my eyes.

That made me uncomfortable, looking away I replied; "You already know the answer to that. You're one of my best friends."

"Fine." He said coldly, "If you won't answer me directly than how about another question?"

"How do you feel about Shadow?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Shadow and I both yelled at the same time. I glanced at him, but he quickly averted his eyes.

"Shadow and I are friends. He's saved me, I've saved him…" I began again.

"That's not what it looks like, Ames." He shot back bitterly. "I think there's something else going on. You guys l-"

"Enough questions!" I snapped, knowing what he was going to say. "Why are you always-"

"OHOHOHO~ HOW NICE TO SEE YOU ALL~!"

A large voice boomed out of nowhere.

"That voice….." I whispered.

"Eggman!" Shadow replied, striding quickly over to the window.

Sure enough, the same retarded blimp/ship thing was floating overhead, casting a gloomy shadow on the city.

"I BET YOU'VE MISSED ME HAVEN'T YOU SONIC? UNFOURTUNATLEY I'VE HAD BUISNESS TO ATTEND TO, SO I TOOK A FEW MONTHS LEAVE. WELL? COME OUT OF YOUR HIDING SPOT. LET'S HAVE A FRIENDLY REUNION."

The said hedgehog was getting really angry.

"That son of a-"

"OH, AND BRING ALL YOUR LITTLE FRIENDS TOO. THE MORE THE MERRIER YOU KNOW~"

"If he's got that thing with him…" I said worriedly.

"We have to go." Sonic replied. "If Eggmans's controlling him there's no telling what he could to do the city. You can fight right? Come with me. I'll let the others know too."

I sighed with relief. For now, most of the tension was gone in the moment of panic.

Shadow walked slowly over to us. "I'll…go too…I can still fight." He said grimacing.

"Nonono. YOU stay here." I pushed him forcefully back onto the bed. "If you re-open any of those wounds you could die. Well, not from blood loss, but if he finds you you'll die for sure. We can handle it."

He growled at me. "What makes you think that I will-"

"Chaos lock." I already had an idea this would happen. Luckily, I was prepared.

Shadow froze. Literally. "What…did you do?"

"Oh, nothing." I replied cheerily. "I just kept you from leaving this room."

Giving me a really frustrated look, he rolled his eyes. (About the only thing he could do at the moment.)

"Come on," Sonic grabbed me, leading me toward the door. "We should hurry."

At that moment I was taken back to when I was ten.

All those memories of him….I chased, he ran away. He fought, I- well- I tried to fight.

But now I actually can….

I wonder what would happen if my past self could see me now? Falling for an old enemy? Despising someone who I thought was the love of my life? Getting so confused, crying oceans.

We came around a corner of another skyscraper, finally reaching the edge of the massive ship.

I glanced toward Sonic, his face so determined and firm, then where our hands met, and finally up at the ship.

If only we could go back to when life was so much easier.

Slowly, I pulled my hand away and began to run on my own.

Yes. If only…

A/N Blahhhh…. I hope this isn't crappily written. I haven't wrote anything in like a MONTH or something. I was planning to update sooner. I kinda want to get this story over with. One year is long enough for a fanfic. You know how much can change in a year?

Anyway, review please! Tell me what you think and I just might be able to update faster! ;3