" Sonic! Come and help me with the babies!" Amy's voice yelled through their untidy apartment. Disgustingly cute baby toys littered the floor, almost blinding Sonic with their over brightness, while the walls were splattered with vile blobs of food. Sonic opened his eyes and jumped when he saw all this, freezing for a moment and simply staring at the mess. For a moment he thought Amy was talking about Draco, but when she walked in, with a blue and pink baby nestled in her arms, squealing at the top of his lungs, he almost had a heart attack.
" Amy! Your not pregnant!" Was the first thing that came to Sonic's mind when he saw the infant. Amy gave Sonic an odd look at his comment and said
" Well of course im not, I had the babies two weeks ago, don't you remember?". Sonic stared wide eyed at his child for a while, the ugly blue ball of fur that wriggled like an insect and leaked tears down it's screwed up face. He felt embarrassed and disgusted that he could produce such a thing, but then realised something else about what Amy had said.
" Babies? You mean there's more than one? Plural?". Amy looked even more confused as she tried to keep the baby from crying and replied
" Yeah. I had triplets, don't you remember?" She stared at him for a few seconds before saying " What's wrong with you?". Sonic ignored her question and instead squealed
" Triplets! I don't want three! I don't even want one!". Suddenly, the two other babies that Amy had mentioned appeared in Sonic's unwilling arms. He shrieked and dropped them, causing them to add their own crying to the already load apartment. Then, as if to deliberately make matters worse, Amy looked cheerfully into Sonic's eyes and said with an eager voice
" And im having more! This time it's quadruplets!". Sonic tensed and coiled in on himself, backing against the wall as Amy's belly expanded a lot faster than it should have done. But the babies wouldn't leave him alone. The ones he had dropped started crawling towards him, chanting the word ' Daddy, Daddy' over and over, as Amy began to approach , starry eyed she began explaining how they were the perfect ' Ordinary family'. Sonic, well and truly frightened by now, sprinted out of the room, finding the bedroom full of babies to, all chanting ' Daddy!'. Well a truly lost in panic now, Sonic leapt out of the room, finding Amy approaching him, her arms out screeched, almost like a zombies , ready for a hug, as the babies piled around him, screaming. He shrugged, writhed, desperate for escape, before Amy stopped, looked at him for a few seconds, then burst into tears and yelled
" Don't you love me Sonic!". Sonic couldn't take it anymore, he knew back his head, cupped his face in his hands and screamed.
Sonic's eyes burst open, as he shot upright. He found himself in his bed, Amy snoozing peacefully beside him, laying on her side. In dwindling panic, Sonic searched around the room, finding no babies present, no toys littering the floor and only Draco's empty cot sitting in the corner. His heart rate rapidly normalising, Sonic decided to make one more check and gently, as not to wake her, slid her fingers under the light sheets of their bed and pulled back their covers, leaning over to view Amy's belly.
He was relieved to find the small bump that indicated her pregnancy still there, slightly pushing her silky night clothes up. He smiled slightly, thinking how Amy had chanced from the cute little girl to a fully fledged women, now his child growing in her. Something about fatherhood scared him, but another part of it brightened his mind to the possibilities. He thought of him going out with his son, fighting eggmans robots, he thought of teaching his son to spin dash, to run at the speed of sound, to super transform with the chaos emeralds. He wondered how old he would be when he would be able to do that?
The thought of Eggman reminded him of what he had done some two weeks ago, and he sprang out of the bed in excitement, rushing over to the window, thinking that today would be the day.
But when he eagerly pulled back the curtains, all he got was a view of their large garden, which, through lack of any real treatment, had started to look like a forest. Not that it mattered as Sonic had moved far away from any civilisation to avoid the press, it would be easy for him to get anywhere he wanted, and they didn't even have a car.
He waited for another hour for something to happen, even a little scout droid, something, anything. But, to his heavy disappointment, nothing happened and his look out was interrupted by Amy's awakening. She rose, stretched and with caution approached Sonic. Although generally they had begun to get along better, their relationship was still on edge and now that Amy was showing, Sonic had a constant reminder of what he had done.
" Hey, what'cha doing?" Asked Amy politely, talking as if he barely knew him. Sonic sighed, looked up at her with bored eyes, forgetting where he was for a few moments , and replied
" Waiting for Robotnic". At the mention of his name Amy looked fearful, and she cuddled up to him although he didn't bother returning the affection.
" Yeah, I heard he got out. I guess your waiting to fight him off" she said quietly. Her voice had a little hint of fear in it. But, mostly she felt that Sonic could protect her, like he always used to. Sonic nodded at her statement, so far she was right, hitting the nail right on the head. She continued in a soft voice "I'm glad after all these years your still protecting me". Sonic felt a wave of guilt run through him when she said this. He hadn't even thought of protecting Amy when he was fighting. In fact, Amy was pretty much out of the picture all together, the loving housewife that took care of everything while daddy and his son went out fighting all day.
Amy however, didn't see his silence as an act of shame and reached down to place a hand on her belly underneath her night shirt. She smiled in a motherly way and Sonic said
" Five and a half months". The pink hedgehog sighed in contentment, her eyes vagueness showing her mind drifting off like it so often did lately. For Sonic, it was hard not to know how far along Amy was, as she never failed to remind him with every week which passed and if he somehow had become deaf over the course of the seven days, Amy had about five calendars which she faithfully marked every month that passed on her pregnancy, the dew date in August heavily highlighted and arrowed. Sonic had got used to this behaviour, as well as Amy's annoying habit of eating pretty much everything they had in the fridge when she felt particularly hungry. However, despite this, Amy had only very recently stared showing, her midwife predicting that she was probably only expecting one, although it was at an early stage to tell.
"Yeah, it won't be that long now" Amy said , Sonic didn't reply. It was hard for the two of them to make conversation on this sensitive subject. Amy would happily chatter about it for days on end, but for Sonic, anything more than a few sentences worth seemed to be far to much for him to digest. Amy had only recently picked up this fact, trying not to talk about anything to do with pregnancy or children. But it was getting hard now, they needed to talk about certain things before the baby arrived. " Thank you for letting me go through with this Sonic" she said, and cuddled up to him, nestling her head into his cream coloured chest. " I love you" she added softly, and Sonic felt a twinge of guilt with those words. He didn't love her, did he? What was love anyway? How could you define such a wild, unpredictable thing?
" It's ok Amy. I'll stand by you" Sonic said, hoping he could keep up his promise and keep the piece. Amy smiled dreamily, her thoughts slowing down as she felt herself falling asleep again. She was woken by Sonic shifting around underneath her, leaning over so he had a better look out of the window. With Amy being so peaceful next to him and not threatening to smash his face in with a hammer, Sonic felt he had to confess at least some of what he had been carrying around with him lately. He simply couldn't keep the secret in anymore. " Amy" Sonic called quietly, causing Amy to lift her head up and look him directly in the eyes. Her shimmering greens meet his emerald ones and suddenly the whole thing seemed that much more difficult. But he knew if he didn't tell someone soon, he would explode from the pressure. Who better to tell than the girl who loved him? Surely she would understand? " I had a thought, the other month" he began, choosing his words carefully so to lower Amy in gently, making the whole thing, as he saw in his mind, less of a shock. Amy took this a good thing and nestled up to him, sighing in contentment and urged
" Go on". Sonics eyes shadowed, he frowned, broke the eyes contact and sighed.
" When we used to fight Robotnic, all those times we would smash his robots. I remember that was the best feeling ever, and I miss it" the blue hedgehog said sadly, his eyes fixed on the window, looking out into the world, as if wishing the scientist to come. Amy nodded slight against him and he felt the movement in his chest rather than with his eyes. She would get a bit of a buzz when she won against the robots, knowing that perhaps Sonic would finally see her for what she was. But now that she had Sonic and was expecting his child, there was no longer any desire to fight again, it was such a childish thing to do. She didn't say this to Sonic of course, not wanting to spoil the rare moment when he was sharing his real feelings with her.
She didn't need to prompt him this time, as he soon continued his speech. " And then, I thought about my son, thinking what a great gift it would be to give him. At the time, it seemed like the best thing to do" Sonic mumbled, his voice growing quieter as he approached his secret, hoping Amy would see his view on the story, not her own.
" But Sonic, Robotnic was locked away" she said, somewhat stupidly, taking her head out of his chest and looking him in the eyes once more. Her smile was gone, replaced with one of confusion and worry. The usual, gentle gaze which Amy would usually wear was gone, replaced with a somewhat cold glare, one which immediately made Sonic regret telling her. His eyelids lowered, he mumbled, avoiding her gaze again
" was locked away..." He hinted, hoping Amy would figure it out on her own. The hedgehog stared at him for a few seconds, seeming to be thinking things through, before letting out a frightened gasp, her voice quivering when she whimpered
" Sonic, you didn't free him". Sonic looked up at her, lowering his gaze, too ashamed to answer. Amy however, finally understanding just what Sonic had done, got up sharply, backed away from him, shacking her head, her body shaking. Sonic couldn't believe how scared she was.
" Amy! He's just an old man! He was barely alive when I saw him! It's not that bad!" He said, panicking a little, attempting to mend the situation before things got messy.
" NOT THAT BAD!" Amy echoed, louder than Sonic had said it. Tears started to make their way down her cheeks, rolling down in an unruly fashion. She shuddered still. But, even though she was crying, she was no longer upset. Her eyes hardened and her voice turned to one of utter spite " Your an idiot! I can't believe you would do this!" She screamed, her voice so high it broke into a shattering shriek. Sonic watched, shocked into silence, as Amy ranted, shouted and sobbed at his foolishness. " He has tormented us for eight years! Tried to kill us all a million times over! And you let him go! How could you?". Sonic held up his hands in a pathetic gesture of defence, countering Amy with
" But he never won! All those times we stopped him! All those celebrations! I want my son to be a part of that!". Amy bared her teeth in frustration at Sonic's stupidness, clenching her fist, as if gripping the handle of her hammer.
" You want our child to risk his life, fighting all it's life? Don't you realise what that could do to it?" She screamed, but Sonic, now getting annoyed himself, howled back
" Nothing ever happened to me!". Amy screwed her face up in hatred, saying spitefully under her breath.
" Your not right in the head, wanting that life back". Unfortunately for the both of them, Sonic heard her, his eyes widening at her oppression to him. Normally she wouldn't say a bad word towards, but now, here she was, insulting him.
" I'M not right in the head! Your the one who wants to be a perfect ' ordinary family'. Your the ones who's happy to sit and clean all day! It's as if you want to forget what makes us all special in the first place. Why do you want to be normal?". It was the pink ones turn to feel shame, lowering her head down to the floor. Sonic felt he had won the fight and straightened up in a dominant manner. But then Amy replied, her tone back to normal but Sonic could still feel the anger towards it.
" I don't want to forget what happened to us as kids. Those adventures were wonderful and changed me into something I could never have become". Sonic was curious. Why was Amy still angry if she agreed with him? " But that was when we were kids. When are you going to grow up and face life as it is? I'm pregnant! You can't just go fight the doctor whenever you want! And that's not going to change. How would you feel if you got back from fighting the doctor who you seem to love more than me, and found one of his robots had come while you were away? What if it had killed me? Then your precious ' son' would be dead! How would you feel then?". Sonic felt the vile taste of bile rise in his throat as his anger reached it's highest rate. At that moment, yelling was out of the picture and his voice had been reduced to a low, warning tone, just like Amy was speaking. The calm before the storm. He took one look at Amy, his eyes hard as rocks, and spat scornfully back
" I wouldn't care". Amy looked like she had been hit at his reply and stepped back wards, colliding gently with the wall. All the anger miraculously vanished from her face and she began to sob again, loosing control of herself and sliding to the floor, her back against the wall, crying. This fazed Sonic a little and some of his anger slid away. He didn't move, and considered apologising, but then Amy spoke up, managing just a wavering voice tone through her tears.
" That's it isn't it? You never wanted this child! I knew it! I knew it from the very beginning! But like a fool I thought you would change! I thought perhaps you would care about me one day! But your not ever going to change are you Sonic? Your just a spoilt little brat who everyone loves. Well guess what? I don't love you anymore. I HATE you!". She lifted her unsteady hand to the door, while Sonic stood, digesting the whole thing, thinking how it must have been a dream, a joke? Anything! But no, it turned out the whole thing was serious, as Sonic found out when Amy said the words in as much as a threatening tone which she muster in her strained state " Get out". Sonic did a double take.
" What!". Amy sniffed and moaned, saying again, more forcefully
" Get out!". Sonic took a few steps towards the door. He stood still once he stopped, stared at the handle and turned around, laughing unsteadily, as if the whole thing was a joke.
" You can't kick me out! You love me!". Amy closed her eyes, as if the very sight of him pained her and screamed
" Just go! Go fuck Robotnic if you care about him so frickin' much!". With whatever strength she had left, she grabbed the nearest object, an expensive vase Sonic had given her for one of her birthdays, and hurled it at him with all her might. It missed and shattered into tiny pieces just beside Sonic's head. That finally got the message through. Sonic gave Amy one last resentful look and left the room, slamming the door behind him so hard it rocked the walls, leaving Amy weeping in the corner.
Authors notes
One scene, I know. But I thought this one was just too important to put up with another one. Poland was great, anyone who cares, lots and lots of snow.