Chapter 6: Maybe there's more to you

Shadow was passing through the park right about now. "Why am I out here I don't even care about that girl." He felt a cool breeze blow across him he looked around and a certain pink hedgehog caught his eye he could just see her under the dimness of a street light. He ran too her. She was laying out on the ground her body looked so weak and her clothes were all messy looking. He bent down to her. "Amy get up." She just lay there still in an unconscious state. "Amy." She still didn't move. Shadow felt a cold chill run down his spin. "Amy what's wrong with you?" He rolled her over softly she looked as though she might never wake up. He gently picked her up and held her in his lap. "Amy wakeup." He pushed her bangs out of her face. Shadow didn't understand a very strange thing that was happening at this moment. He was thinking that Amy actually looked attractive with the shine of the full moon hitting her just right. He tried not to think like that especially right now of all times for something so insane to running through his mine, but maybe it was because she wasn't awake and yelling and insulting him. Shadow had never noticed that his enemy was this beautiful. He saw stirring a bit. "Amy open your eyes…please." Wait did that just come out of his mouth he never said please to anyone particularly to someone he wasn't fond of.

Amy's eyes opened softly and she looked up to the one holding her. "Please sounds nice coming from you." She smiled weakly and closed her eyes for a moment.

"Amy?" Shadow called her name wondering if she was out again.

"It's okay I just lost a little energy." Amy sat up from his grip. "I'll be fine." She tried to standup but she went down to knees in seconds. Shadow shook his head at her. She was as noble and big headed as he was.

He walked over to her and carefully pulled her up onto his back. "You can barely stand let alone walk I'm taking you home." He began to walk out of the park and in the direction of her house.

Amy wrapped her arms around his neck gently and then let her hands kind of rest on his chest. "Why are you doing this for me?" She didn't understand he could of just left her there but he was helping her like a friend.

"You don't need to be left out here all alone and I don't fell like dealing with a guilty conscious." Maybe she'd been wrong about Shadow perhaps he wasn't the cold hearted jerk she first thought he was.

"Thanks Shadow." Amy wasn't sure why but she felt safe with him like she was protected. She rested laid her head on his shoulder and shut eyes. "You know I think there's more to you than I first though."

Shadow shrugged his shoulders at the comment. He pulled her a little closer to him as he neared her house. "Amy is this your house?"

Amy cracked her eyes open slightly. "Yes." Shadow walked up to and opened the door strangely it wasn't locked.

Shadow walked into the house still carrying her. "Amy where's your room?"

"Up the stairs."

Shadow proceeded up the staircase slowly so as not to cause Amy any pain. When he reached he didn't have to ask which room was hers because he noticed one of the doors had Amy's name painted on it in black letters with florescent pink outlines. He pushed the door open with his foot. The room wasn't that messy it had some papers and junk stored about and there were guitar picks everywhere. He gently put Amy down on her bed and turned on the lamp that was on the nightstand. Amy sat on the bed a little weakness showing although it was unintentional. Shadow looked at her with a thought in his mind but he wasn't sure if she would allow it, but as if by magic she seemed to answer his question. "You can sit down with me you know." She gave him a frail grin as she looked.

Shadow sat down he was staring at his feet not really knowing what to say at first, but then a good question popped into his head. "Amy what were you doing out in the park so late at night and why were you past out?"

"Well that doesn't really matter Shadow it's not important I just got a little upset and I over reacted is all…I guess my body couldn't take the stress." She reached into her pocket and pulled out two one hundred dollar bills. "Here this is for the first couple of weeks."

Shadow took it from her wondering how she came up with it so fast. "Look I'm gonna call my house and tell your friends that you're home and then I have to go." He got up from the bed and started to walk out. He looked back at Amy she had kicked off her boots and was under the covers of her bed staring at Shadow one last time before rolling over to fall asleep. "Hey Amy."

"Yea?"

"How'd you get this money so fast?"

She closed her eyes tightly and pulled the covers up over her shoulder as if she was trying to hide from him now. "What's it matter as long as you have?" "I'll see you tomorrow for practice." She reached out and turned out the light so that it was dark and she couldn't see anything but the outline of his body.

"Night Amy." Shadow closed the door just enough so that there was only a crack of light coming in.

Amy shook her head slowly as she pulled the covers tighter to her body. "Please don't ask me ever again…" She whispered before falling asleep.

Shadow picked up the phone and sat down at the bar. He dialed the number and waited as it rung. "Hey Knuckles is everybody there?" Knuckles had answered the phone. "Good you can tell them I found Amy and she's here at the house." "I'm on my way home right now see ya when I get there." He hung up the phone and walked toward the door. He gave one last look up the stairs before he left.