Chapter 6: Kidnapped

The pink hedgehog walked along the cold sidewalk of the crisp night. It was one of those nights that she would usually wish to spend with Sonic. Somehow, she still felt the emptiness inside of her even though she had convinced herself that she was over the blue heartbreaker.

As she looked up at the sky, she realized that it was beginning to get cloudy. "Great…" she said letting out a loud sigh. She began to walk a little faster to where she was going. Rain was coming down hard by the time she reached her destination.

Amy stood on the ledge of a brick bridge. Looking down she could see speeding cars going what seemed like Sonic's speed. A silver tear rolled down her cheek as she readied herself to jump. She took one step closer and closed her eyes, choking back more of her tears. She almost let herself drop when she heard something in the distance calling her name.

Amy turned to see who it was but lost her footing and took her fall. Something strong grabbed around her waist and pulled her back up to the top of the bridge. "Amy…" the voice said softly.

Whoever it was now had their arms her, holding Amy close to them. She could hear their loud and fast heart beat, her head under their chin.

Amy looked up now and saw that the figure was none other than Sonic the hedgehog. Only this time he had tears in his eyes. "Amy…I-I thought that I would be too late. But you're alright. I don't know what I would do if I lost you."

The pink hedgehog was silent, but now did not forbid her tears from flowing. A flash a lightning made her jumping and buried her face deeper into Sonic's fur. "Sonic…" she whispered, slowly slipping from his grip.

"Amy?" he said with a little bit of worry in his voice. Amy began lose conciseness. As she did she could hear Sonic faintly calling her name.

As she fell further, Sonic's voice got a little louder.

"Amy? Amy?" Amy could feel a hand on top of hers. She opened hers eyes as wide as she could and looked around. The first thing she saw were green eyes looking into her own. Amy began to sit up, looking around.

"You're in the hospital Ames." She looked over at Sonic who was sitting next to her. Indeed she was. She was in a hospital bed with blankets thrown all over her.

"What?" she said faintly. Sonic put a warm smile on his face.

"You gave us all a scare Amy. You were in a fire. Don't you remember anything?"

Amy rubbed her head and found it was bandaged up. 'That was all just a dream. A crazy dream…'

"A fire?" Amy repeated. Just then one of the nurses walked in.

"Ms. Rose? Oh, lovely! You're awake." She walked over and put a tray on the side of Amy's bed.

"How are you feeling?" she asked nicely.

"A bit dizzy…" The nurse frowned slightly. "You need to get some rest for the pills to work okay? You just inhaled a lot of smoke and passed out so there's no need to worry." Sonic was silent but looked around anxiously like he wanted the nurse to leave.

"You should be out by tomorrow but we need to keep you tonight so we can make sure you're fine." The nurse motioned for Sonic to follow her as she left the room. He turned off the light and put his hand on the door knob. "I know you still hate me Amy, but please get better for me." with that, he closed the door and followed the nurse down the elevator and into the lobby.

From there she informed him that Amy was going to be okay and that he needed to stop worrying. Sonic let out a stressful sigh in response. He gave the woman his thanks and left the quiet hospital.

"I'm so sorry Amy." Sonic said looking up at the moon. "you need to find someone who will treat you better than what I have, I understand that. If you ever find it in your heart to forgive me for the many mistakes I've made by mistreating you…" Sonic stopped. He felt a small smile fade its way onto his face.

"There's no way that will happen." He kept walking, picking up his pace. 'and I don't blame at all my pink rose…' Sonic then broke out into a run, dashing through the lit city avoiding people and cars.

Back in the hospital, Amy was feeling the need to leave something just didn't feel right. She got out of the bed and looked out of the window. From the view of the 8th story window, she could see the nighttime version of Station Square. Lights were beaming everywhere, cars were honking and people were talking.

Out of the commotion of all this, she could see a neon blue trail moving and disappearing within the city. The first thing that popped in mind was Sonic.

She watched as the blue shooting star made his way to emerald coast on which he came to a sudden halt. Sonic gazed at the rolling ocean beaming moonlight within every wave that crashed against the shore. He looked as if he was confused from what she could see of him.

"Sonic…"she said whispered quietly to herself. She couldn't bare to see him like this. His green eyes flashed as he truned from the sea and looked down. Amy watch the blue hedgehog with sadness in her heart, feeling tears in her eyes. "Sonic…if you treat me so harshly, then why do I still think I have feelings for you?"

Amy walked back to her bed and sat down. "You're willing to make things right and I turned up the offer. Why then…?" she buried her head in her pillow.

"Sonic…you're making me love you again." she said drowning her pillow in tears. After a few more moments of soft tears, Amy sat up and wiped her eyes.

"You can't take back the pain I went through just to be true to my heart and yet somehow…I still…I still love you, Sonic the hedgehog."

"Okay Ms. Rose, you're free to go." The woman at the front desk of the Station Square hospital said nicely. Amy smiled and exited the building. She stretched her arms as she exposed herself to the sunlight, thinking about what she had said last night. The first thing on her mind was to find Sonic and talk with him. Without even remembering about her home, she ran off to find him.

Amy wandered the streets asking around for the hedgehog. She checked his favorite spots and places to be but found no traces of him anywhere. Amy continued to look for him until sunset, feeling it was the most important thing in the world now. Her feet ached as well as her head.

Looking around Amy did find that she made her way all the way to the edge of the city and was on the very beginning of the acres of plains that Sonic had rescued her from once before.

Amy collapsed on the nice soft grass below her and gazed out over the horizon. To her surprise, she saw a spiked figure sitting on a slight hill. Her ears perked up in hope of it being the one of which she looked for and dashed towards the figure.

"Sonic!" she yelled getting closer and closer. The figure turned around and sure enough, it was Sonic. Amy breathed a sigh of relief. She tackled Sonic to the ground when she was close enough and tumbled in the grass until they can to a stop, Sonic on Amy.

"Ouch…" he said rubbing his head and beginning to get up. "Amy?" he said looking down at her underneath him. He quickly climbed off and helped her up. Amy began to blush a bright red.

"Sonic, I've been looking all over for you." Sonic now had a puzzled look on his face.

"Amy, what are you…" Amy cut him off, placing a finger on his lips.

"Sonic, I want to talk…I don't want to ignore this feeling anymore." Sonic sighed.

"Amy, I think we need to talk too. I'm glad you're here…I-I have something I need to tell you that I've been hiding for a long time." Amy sat next to him and cradled her legs in her arms.

"Let me tell you first." She said. Sonic sat in silence and watched the sun set.

"About what happened the other day…I told you some things that I don't really think I meant. I mean, all that day I was trying to convince myself that I didn't love you anymore. But…that's not true. I gave myself a heartache yearning for you." Amy stood up allowing the wind to play with her red dress.

"I know now that maybe I was the one who was wrong. That I shouldn't have tried to lie to myself just to make the tears stop flowing." Amy said with some sadness in her voice. Sonic stood as well.

"What are you trying to say?" Sonic asked still looking at the sun.

"I…I still love you Sonic!" Amy blurted out. A tear rolled down her cheek.

There was a moment of silence until Amy broke it.

"I know I'm annoying, but I didn't want you to think I don't love you anymore. Sonic…you mean the world to me. I just want you to realize that." Amy looked over at the hedgehog who stood still next to her. Amy felt more tears about to come and started to run back to where she came from, but the sound of her name being called just like in her dream stopped her in her tracks.

Sonic turned and looked her in the eye. "Amy." He repeated, taking a few steps towards her. Amy closed her eyes letting the tears flow now. To much of her surprise, she felt Sonic's arms around her waist. He whispered softly in her ear as he held her close.

"I was trying to tell you before that I was sorry the way I treated you Amy. No one deserves to feel the pain you did. I'm so sorry." Amy sniffled as Sonic pulled away from their embrace, wiping a tear from her cheek.

"I've come to realize that when I ran from you, I was also running from the feelings that I had for you. It's taken me years to realize that I couldn't run any more and face the fact that I love you, Amy."

"Sonic." Amy whispered, "Do you know how long I've been waiting for you to say that?" Amy wrapped her arms around Sonic's neck, both falling over again. He looked at her and she smiled.

"I'm sorry I've kept you waiting." He said leaning over. Before both of them knew, Sonic had sealed the space between their lips. Amy quickly accepted the kiss and faintly smiled. After a few minutes, Sonic broke the kiss, looking around.

"It's getting late." Realizing that it was now night. "shouldn't we be getting back?" Amy let out an inner depressing sigh now remembering what happened to her apartment.

"But I…my home is…" Sonic laid a finger on her lips.

"It's kind of ironic really. Rouge went to go stay with Knuckles, so you're more than welcome to stay with me." he said smiling.

"If you're sure this won't be a problem."

Sonic nodded as he scooped Amy up in his arms and dashed off into the city. Amy looked up at the blue hedgehog. 'I'm glad I could finally find a place in your heart Sonikku.' Amy thought as she held onto him tighter, closing her eyes. A few minutes later, Sonic announced their arrival but had a bit of confusion in his voice.

All of a sudden, Amy felt the feeling of flying above ground come to an end as Sonic skidded to a stop. Amy opened her eyes to see what was going on. They had stopped in front of a huge crown of people being pushed back by police men and in the center was a large robot. It looked like a giant wolf but with eight arms and three tails.

Around it were a few slaughtered people and another few trying to get away. Sonic immediately got into battle mode and motioned for Amy to get to a safe place. With a little hesitation, Amy did as he said and ran a few yards back.

Sonic scanned the robot for a weakness. After a few seconds, he lunged himself into the center of the creature, almost knocking it down. The moment Sonic's feet touched the ground, the robot took him around the neck with a blue aura beginning to form around its fist and Sonic.

"W-what are you doing…?" Sonic managed to get out. The robot just tightened its grip, making Sonic unable to breathe.

"E-4021, don't forget your original mission." A voice said coming from the neck of the robot. Before Sonic almost passed out from lack of air, the robot dropped him immediately and leaped in front of Amy.

She froze as its large red eyes scanned Amy up and down. It clenched her around the waist and took off into the night sky, using its tails as rockets.

"Amy." Sonic said in a weak voice. He laid there on the cold sidewalk of the city, unable to move.

'That damn robot has Amy…I have to stop-' but before Sonic could finish his thought, he passed out.