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Chapter 3: A Visit.

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The early morning sun rose from beyond the horizon. The birds were up at the break of dawn with their morning songs singing and chirping away in the treetops. A certain blue figure sprawled all over the couch in his living room was still in a deep slumber with a peaceful look across his features. The early suns rays flooding through the window were shining on his resting form.

As the sun rose higher in the sky the sleeping Sonic soon stirred with the morning light shining over his delicate eyes. With a moan of protest he swiftly moved his left arm and covered his eyes with it, laying it across his face. Still some light managed to peak through under his arm where the bridge of his muzzle was and stung his eyes more. With another moan he turned over so he was on his belly and buried his head in the pillow he was laying on.

He soon lifted his head from within the pillow's grasp and took a deep breath of air, not wanting to suffocate any longer. Rubbing his sleepy eyes with his left hand and yawning at the same time, he slowly got up from the couch. He groggily walked into the kitchen to see what there was for breakfast. Opening the fridge up he peered inside, nothing except for some milk, a few eggs, butter and cheese.

"Man... I NEED to go grocery shopping!" He groaned to himself out loud. "I wonder if I've got any cereal?"

He went off towards the cupboards in search for some cereal. Rummaging through the cupboards he finally found some cereal; some sugar O's. He placed them into a bowl, poured the milk in and got a spoon. Groggily he sat down at his table and ate his breakfast.

"I'm going to go see how Shadow is" he said to no one. "But I need to go grocery shopping as well..."

"I know, I'll go grocery shopping first since I'm in need of food, then I'll go see Shadow!" With that settled, he finished off his breakfast and got himself ready. Going off upstairs towards the bathroom and got himself ready.

Soon he was ready and out the door in a flash. He ran down the streets of Station Square to his favourite grocery store and walked in through the automatic doors. For most of the citizens of Station Square it was unusual to see the worlds renowned hero shopping in a grocery store. Most of them watched him in awe as he went down the aisle, him being oblivious about the fact that people were watching him. He was mumbling to himself about making a shopping list in the future so he knew what he was going to get.

After getting his groceries and paying for them he left the store just to bump into someone he'd rather not bump into, Amy. She was in the middle of shopping, you could tell with the amount of shopping bags she held in her hands.

"Oh! Hi Sonic!" She beamed very happily.

"Hey Amy..." Sonic said gloomily knowing that he'll probably be there for awhile.

"How've you been?"

"Fine... I guess..." he said looking towards the ground.

"...How's Shadow? Is he all right?"

Looking up surprised at her question. "He's fine, he came out of his coma last night".

"That's good to know maybe I'll go see him later". She mumbled out loud. "Well it was nice to talk to ya Sonic, I guess I'll see you later since you probably want to see how Shadow's doing". With that she turned on her heel and walked off towards the City's Mall again.

Sonic blinked several times before he realised what just happened. Amy didn't keep him long or stop shopping to follow him around to just be with him for the rest of the day. What's the world coming to? She did have a point though about him wanting to see how Shadow was doing. Sonic didn't know what he'd do if Shadow left his life. Sonic had a deep respect for the black and red hedgehog and somewhat looked up to him. But there was something more then that, a lot more. Sonic then shook his head and turned to go home to put his groceries away and then head off towards the hospital.

He was stood outside of the hospital's main doors and was ready to walk in. He did and was off heading towards the elevator to go to the third floor where Shadow's room was. He came out of the elevator and straight down the corridor. He soon found himself outside Shadow's room, with a deep breath and a heavy sigh he walked in opening the door slowly and peeked his head round the door to see if he was awake. His heart sunk when he saw Shadow and how bad he looked. He was covered in bruises and had stitches here and there. He also had a cast over his right leg, where his leg almost got completely crushed. Shadow's head was facing towards the window, and didn't move to the sound of the door closing with a soft click.

Sonic headed over to Shadow's bed and peered over to look at his face. To his surprise he was awake and was gazing out of the window. To Sonic it looked as though he was thinking and in a world of his own.

Sonic then gently strokes Shadow's cheek, being careful of a few stitches that was on his cheek. He came out of his trance and looked towards the blue hedgehog through half lidded eyes.

"Are you all right?" A small nod from the ebony hedgehog. "Good I'm glad..." the sapphire blue hedgehog beamed.

A small smile appeared on the dark hedgehog's lips. "I bet you can't wait to get out of here?". The blue one asked. A shake of the head, no.

A chuckle left Sonic's lips. There was an awkward silence between the two of them. Sonic didn't know what else to say, apart from something he's wanted to tell him for awhile. But he can't tell him while he's like this; he'd have to wait until he got his memory back. How long would it be before he got it back? Would he even get it back? These types of questions kept going on through his mind. Finally the silence was broken by Shadow.

"Will you help me get my memory back?" He asked looking deep into Sonic's emerald green eyes.

"Of course I will" He replied. "I was gonna do anyway".

A smile. "Thank you, Sonic".

"It's no problem, what are friends for?" This time a chuckle left the ebony coloured hedgehog's lips. Which made Sonic smile and chuckle slightly. "Oh yeah I bought you these". The blue hedgehog reached down into a bag he had brought with him. "It's not much, but hopefully it'll make you feel better".

He passed a small bag to the other male. Shadow took it and opened it up looking inside to find a bunch of grapes. "Grapes?" He asked.

"Yeah, it's kind of a tradition were someone who cares for another is in hospital they give them grapes.... Either that or flowers. I didn't think you'd want flowers, so I bought you grapes".

A nod of understanding. "If you don't want them, I'll eat them for you..." Sonic said with a mischievous grin on his face and reaching over towards the bag in Shadow's hands. A hand grabs the bag and pulls it away. Sonic looks towards Shadow and pouts making Shadow grin with a chuckle. Sonic smiles and looks towards the chest of drawers where there was a get well soon card and another vase with flowers accompanying it.

"Who's the card and flowers from?" Sonic asked.

Shadow looks at Sonic "Oh... um... a white female bat.... What was her name... oh yeah Rouge".

A smile from the sapphire hedgehog. "I was wondering when she'd come and visit you". He said while picking up the card looking inside it. "Yep as I thought it's from Rouge AND Knuckles... In her handwriting. Heh... I wonder when the heck they're gonna get together?" He thought to himself.

"You know her then?" The other asked.

"Yeah, I met her when I met you".

"Yeah?" A nod from the other hedgehog. "I don't remember that..."

"Don't worry you'll remember when you get your memory back, I know you will" Sonic reassured him.

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To Be Continued...