Err, uhh.this is the first "Chapter" of the story.it gets a little hairy.and um, well, the content just raised the rating so.I don't know.read on.

Chapter 1:

The wind rose and fell on the two, she looked over him once.twice.three times. It was Shadow all right; she remembered exactly what he looked like the moment she talked to him on the ARK. As for the first time, well, she was so confused with the incident on Prison Island, that she had hardly even noticed Rouge standing behind Shadow and the Eggman that day.

"I wonder if he's even alive?" She thought suddenly, looking up.

She got in the sand next to him and bent over him to look for any signs of life, she put her palm to his chest to feel for it's rise or fall. There was a faint sign of movement but it was enough proof for her. (A/N: We're going to assume here that Shadow being a "creation" of Gerald's is purely coincidence, as Shadow is a hedgehog.)

She stood up and turned toward the main road, several people were walking around, and others were driving and went by.

She yelled to them on the sidewalk but they kept walking on, not interested.

"Idiots! Don't they know someone's hurt here?" She shouted.

She heard Shadow groan softly.

"Huh?" She thought, turning back to him. "Are you awake?"

She was unsure of what to do.

"Think Amy, think!" She shouted to herself.

She looked to him and then back to the street, it wasn't too far. The parking lot was just a good hundred feet from where she stood.

She lifted Shadow by the arms and dragged him along the sand. She scraped along the beach, him in her arms, till she finally got to her car. (A/N: We all know Amy can drive, if you remember Sonic R) She opened the passenger door and managed to lift him in. She shut the door and got in the driver's seat, then drove Shadow and herself back to her apartment.

Getting Shadow into her place wasn't all that difficult for her, since she took the elevator and her place was near the elevator's exit. As she got inside she turned on the lights and she dragged him along the carpet, Shadow noising his disapproval along the way, and she then lifted him onto her bed, being the only place to put him in the apartment.

"Well, that's taken care of." She sighed. "Now to figure out what I'm going to do with you."

Amy looked at him and noticed they were both covered in sand and ocean plant life.

"Well, first we're going to have to get you cleaned up." She said to the unconscious Shadow.

She ran some water, letting it run through her fingers until she felt that the water had a decent temperature, and dragged Shadow into her bathroom.

She took his gloves off and his shoes and lifted him into the tub. She let him soak for a bit then took a cup and filled it with water, using the water and her hand to brush off the sand on the surface of him. She took her soap and lathered his body, sort of blushing, as she had to run her hands along his lower torso, despite the fact that he was unknowledgeable to the situation. She got all the sand cleaned from his fur and she then took her shampoo and used it on his quills, scrubbing out any filth she could find.

She rinsed any foamy residue off of him and drained the water, then she lifted him out and dried him off with a towel of hers, it was interesting her, to see the pink of her towel collide with the black of his fur and she let her mind wander to other thoughts, turning her cheeks a rosy color.

"What am I thinking of?" She asked herself.

She looked at the floor, then to Shadow.

"Well, Shadow, it looks like I'm done." She said to the silent hedgehog.

Having all this whole thing done, she dragged him to her bed again and let him rest. She then went back in the bathroom to shower herself off.

Several hours had passed, and Amy had made herself something to eat after her shower. She went back into her room after her meal and looked on her bed.

He still hadn't wakened.

She walked to the bedside and pulled back her comforter and the sheets and pulled them back over him.

"How long can he possibly sleep?" She asked herself.

She left the bedroom and sat in the living room and watched the television for a while to take her mind off of the subject, but it stuck in her head.

She played back the moment after he and Sonic destroyed the Prototype, she remembered the ARK finally going back into orbit then Shadow falling, giving no attempt to resist then.

She heard Shadow again; it was as if he knew when she wasn't there and if she wasn't he would become uncomfortable, so she returned again and sat by him.

He was silent the rest of the day.

As night fell, Amy was beginning to feel hungry, which reminded her that Shadow probably hadn't eaten in a long while. (A/N: Another assumption.)

She wondered if Shadow could take down solid foods, but she grabbed some applesauce for him and took it back into the bedroom. She fed him slowly and he managed to down some of it. She sighed as she cleaned up the stray applesauce and she went back to the kitchen so she could feed herself.

For the rest of the night she stayed up reading until she began to nod off. She blinked a few times and looked at Shadow, he was still asleep. She couldn't stay up much longer and she didn't have a couch. This presented a problem. She considered putting him on the floor but that would be cruel of her, and besides, he was the guest, even though Amy wasn't about to sleep on the floor just because of this. She also thought of calling someone, but it was rather late, and she didn't want to surprise everyone with the fact that apparently, Shadow was alive.

"I doubt he'd wake up." She thought, minding the possibility that Shadow could wake up and find himself in bed with her, not knowing the outcome.

She sighed again and pushed him over as far as she could. She got ready to go to sleep and climbed into her bed with him. She turned away from him and shut her eyes, her cheeks again a scarlet-tint; it didn't take long for her to finally drift off all the way.