Don't Trip Chapter: 3 (still in flashback)

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The rustling of keys could be heard outside of Sonic's apartment, for he, along with Tails and Knuckles, were about to enter. Sonic lived on the third story of an apartment complex that was located in the better districts of Station Square. Sonic, living in the better of his friend's houses, usually had his friends hang out at his place. For that reason he kept his place nice because he never knew when someone would stop by. His apartment was actually on two floors. Upstairs was his master bedroom and a guest bedroom. The downstairs area was one big room that was split up into a dinning room, a kitchen, and a living room. Sonic had pictures of his friends all over his walls, his favorite was of Amy, Tails, Knuckles, himself, and Rouge. That picture was in the center of all of the other pictures and it had a little light under to make it stand out.

Sonic opened the door and ushered his friends into his apartment, "Alright guys, help yourselves to anything you can find in the refrigerator," Sonic said in a almost depressed tone.

"Thanks Sonic," Tails said excitedly.

Knuckles, noticing Sonic's mood, said, "Cheer up Sonic, The Doc said that she would be alright. No need to worry anymore."

"I know," Sonic said, "It's just.... I....I don't feel like talking about it now."

"Ok, just let me know when you are ready to talk." Knuckles finished.

Sonic nodded and walked into his apartment and sat down at his dinning room table that Tails was already at, biting into some leftover pizza that Sonic had in the kitchen.

Sonic, after looking at the clock, asked, "How about you guys stay here tonight, it is already ten o'clock?"

"Yeah! That sounds like fun!" Tails screamed to Sonic.

Sonic smiled, then said, "Ok well you guys are going to have to fight for the guest room, the other person will have to sleep on the couch."

Sonic laughed as Knuckles got up and started to chase Tails around the living room screaming, "The guest room is mine." After a big roughhousing match, Knuckles just let Tails have the guest bedroom claiming that the couch is probably more comfortable anyway.

"Alright guys, well I'm beat, so I am going to get to bed. Night guys," Sonic said as he left for his bedroom.

"Night," both Tails and Knuckles said simultaneously.

Sonic was too tired to even brush his teeth or go through the normal bedtime routine, so he just laid down in his bed and tried to go to sleep. As he sat there in his bed, he thought of what had happened during the day. The day was so hectic that he didn't have time to think of what had occurred to Amy. It seemed like right at that moment, a ton of bricks came crashing down upon his chest as he thought about what he had done to Amy. Sonic started to choke out a few words for he felt like he was about to cry.

"I'm sorry Amy. I am so sorry. I never wanted to hurt you, but now look at you.... your sitting in a hospital because of me. I just hope that somewhere in that heart of yours, you can find a place to forgive me for what I have done to you. Wait... what am I talking about? Since when does Sonic the Hedgehog care about someone's forgiveness or not?" Sonic laughed at himself, "Look Amy, your making me start to talk to myself. I think I need some sleep," Sonic said out loud to himself. After that Sonic rested his head onto his bed and let himself drift off to sleep.

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Sonic opened up his eyes suddenly and looked around him. He shot straight up when he realized that he was not in his bed anymore.

"What the hell! How did I get out here?" Sonic said as he realized that he was in the hallway of the first floor at the apartment complex he lived in. "What a weird time for Knuckles to play a prank on me."

Sonic started to get a little nervous when he felt like someone was behind him, when he looked, there was nobody there. "Hello," Sonic yelled, "Who's there?" Sonic heard nothing after this. It was so quiet that he started to hear a ringing in his ears. All silence was suddenly broken.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!," a feminine voice screamed, "SOMEBODY, PLEASE, HELP ME!"

Sonic thought to himself, 'That voice... it is so familiar. Oh my god! It's Amy.'

"Amy," Sonic screamed, "Where are you?!"

"Sonic! I am in your apartment. HURRY!" Amy yelled back.

Sonic tried to run like he normally would, but for some reason he could only run like normal humans do. When he reached his floor, he made the left turn to his apartment, but something was different. The way that the apartment complex was set up was different, which confused Sonic. Sonic just ran through the maze of hallways until he saw his apartment at the end of a large hall. He ran as fast as he could down the hall, but the door to his apartment seemed to move away from him as he tried to get closer.

"I'm coming Amy!" Sonic screamed, desperately.

Sonic finally reached his apartment door after what seemed like few a hours. Sonic smashed down his door and gasped at what he saw. A man wearing a hood stood next to Amy while she was tied up in a chair. They were both standing by a huge open window that Sonic had in his apartment. Before Sonic had time to react, the hooded man pushed Amy out of the window. Sonic watched Amy's eyes as she fell out of view, her eyes were pleading for Sonic to save her.

"Nooo!" Sonic ran to the window only to see her hit the ground. "My god, no!" Sonic said in no more than a whisper.

Sonic, now filled with anger, turned to the hooded man as he started to walk away. Sonic put a hand on the man's shoulder to turn him around and he raised his fist so he could pound the living crap out of this man.

"You will die now, you stupid son of a....," Sonic stopped himself as he looked in horror at who this "man" was.

"No...No...it can't be," Sonic said in horror.

"What, Sonic, is it so hard to believe?" the man said to him, "You can save Amy from everyone in the world, but you can't save her from yourself."

Sonic quivered in fear as a hedgehog that looked identical to himself, stood in front of him. Then he started inching closer to Sonic.

"Stay away from me!" Sonic screamed, feeling helpless.

"Its kind of funny when you think about it," the Sonic clone said, "I mean, Eggman is not Amy's biggest threat. You are the one that killed Amy and now, you are going to die with her."

Sonic screamed as he was pushed out of the window by his look-alike, "NOOO!"

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Sonic sat straight up screaming, "Ahhh!" After taking a few seconds to realize what had just happened to himself, he spoke, "Oh, thank god, that was just a dream. It seemed so real, though, and what did it mean?" This puzzled Sonic to a point where he knew that he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. After looking at the clock and seeing that it was four o'clock, he decided that he would go out into the kitchen and get something to drink. He walked by Knuckles, who was fast asleep on the couch, on his way to get a drink.

As he was pouring some water into a glass he heard Knuckles speak, "Can't get any sleep?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you," Sonic apologized.

"It's ok. I had trouble falling asleep myself. Do you realize that you were screaming Amy's name in your sleep?" Knuckles asked.

"Again, I'm sorry, I was just having a bad dream."

"Oh, it's ok. What was the dream about?"

"Well that's the thing, I don't quite understand what it was about," Sonic stated.

"Just tell me what you remember."

Sonic proceeded in telling Knuckles the whole dream that he had just woken up from. "..and then as I was falling, I woke up."

"Wow...interesting. That just proves what I thought." Knuckles said

"And what would that be?" Sonic asked

"Like I said in the hospital," Knuckle stated hesitantly, "I could tell you, but I don't think that you will want to hear it."

"Oh will you just tell me!" Sonic said impatiently

"Well, ok.... I think that the whole dream has to do with an underlying fear you have of yourself." Knuckle said.

"In English, please."

"I think that you are starting to have feelings for Amy," Knuckles continued, "This scares you because you have never had a girlfriend and Amy means so much to you that you...."

"What are you talking about. I have no feelings for Amy!" Sonic interrupted.

"Just listen Sonic, then you can comment," Knuckles said, "Ok...so basically, you are just afraid that you won't know how to treat her. Sonic...you are petrified of relationships. This causes you to push her away. What you need to realize is that you are hurting her more by doing this."

Sonic sighed. He knew that in a way he was right. Sonic just decided to come clean with Knuckles, "Well, in a way that is true. I mean, I do kind of like Amy. The reason that I am pushing her away, though, is because I just am afraid that I am going to be tied down with a relationship. I am a free hedgehog."

"You know, that is the reason Amy is so perfect for you, she realizes that you need your freedom. I mean, she really doesn't seem to show it by the way she chases you around, but she knows your line of work, she knows that you won't be around all of the time. The thing that Amy will always do for you is listen to what you have to say."

"You know what Knuckles, your right. Maybe I should just give her a chance, but aren't we forgetting the fact that I told her off and said that I didn't want to be her friend." Sonic said.

"Sonic, this is Amy we are talking about. You tell her how you feel and she will forgive you." Knuckles said with a laugh.

Sonic laughed and said, "Thank you Dr. Phil. I think I will apologize to her first. Then, after she is feeling better and walking again maybe I will tell her my true feelings."

As Sonic finished talking to Knuckles, the phone rang a Knuckles picked it up. As he was talking on the phone Tails came down from the guest bedroom and said good morning to Sonic.

When Knuckles was done on the phone he turned to the group and said, "Well guys, that was Jim the doctor on the other line. He just called to let us know that Amy woke up a hour ago and is doing fine. Jim said that we can see her at any time now."

"So how about it," Sonic said to the group, "do you want to go see Amy?"

"Yeah," Tails said in a monotonous tone.

"Sure, lets go," Knuckles said.

As the group left to go to the hospital Sonic slipped a picture of Amy into his hand. Sonic was slowly falling in love with Amy and he was starting to show little signs here and there to prove it. Knuckles noticed when Sonic put the picture of Amy in his hand. Knuckles then turned to Tails and sang in a deep voice, "Love is in the air," making sure that Sonic heard it.

Sonic not amused with his antics yelled, "Shut your damn mouth!"

The two of them laughed at Sonic's reaction and decided that they were going to mess with Sonic the whole way to the hospital.

A/N: How was this chapter. Please review. Thanks