The first thing Shadow had to do was come up with a plan... to trick Sonic, though judging the state of him that wouldn't be too hard. He had to admit however he liked this version of Sonic; it was easier to get along with him knowing that at the end of the day Sonic was more or less like him.

In fact now he looked closely, he could now see how damaged the blue hedgehog really was, the feelings he had consoled in himself all this time were finally being let out... maybe this was the real Sonic and the other was just an act... Shadow quickly shook his head at the thought and once again stared at the blue hedgehog, who was now passing back and forth covering every inch of the room.

Luckily for Sonic no one had seen the little 'incident' on the street with Amy, though to be honest he wouldn't have cared if anyone did. Even though his mood had shifted slightly his thoughts remained the same, to get rid of Amy. Sonic was completely oblivious however to Shadow's gaze and sat down beside him, feeling that maybe he should explain the previous events; but this time the words were too difficult to form.

"You don't need to explain yourself faker." Sonic truly hated the fact that Shadow could read him so easily.

"Oh really?" Sonic couldn't help but mirror Shadow's smirk. "Why the sudden change of heart?"

"You have no idea" Shadow managed, gritting his teeth. "I haven't enough time for your childish games!"

"What?" Sonic blinked. Childish games! Is that what Shadow truly thought of this matter...?

"You know what! I can't be doing with chasing you around. Constantly saving your ass for things that you have done."

"Then why do this?" Sonic had to admit that deep down Shadow was staring to hurt his feelings. "You didn't have to help me! You could have let me kill her!"

"NO...I"

"Oh come on like I wouldn't be doing people a favour!" Sonic at this point was practically screaming at Shadow. But he didn't care. What was the worst Shadow could do to him? He'd already upset him enough today.

Sonic blinked realising his own thoughts. Why did he care so much for Shadow's approval? He'd been taking all of Shadow's crap for years... why was it suddenly getting to him now...

They stared at each other in silence, for what felt like hours but were actually only seconds, before Sonic finally got the courage to speak up again.

"I can't explain this... All I know is that I have to get rid of her, or I'll never be rid of this."

"Rid of what?" Sonic was shocked at Shadow's comment, not because of what he said or how he said it but to the fact that he'd actually spoken to him.

"I... I don't know"

"This isn't just a phase, Faker. By the look of it this is the real you"

"NO!" Sonic snapped back, refusing to believe the words that left Shadow's mouth "This isn't me!"

Shadow shook his head in disbelief. Sonic was more stupid than he thought. Did he really believe that he could switch his personality over... WAIT! Why did he even care?

"Believe whatever you want Sonic" Shadow spoke much softly at this point closing his eyes as he did not realising what he had done.

Sonic's heart skipped a beat. Had Shadow actually called him by his name? Or had he misheard? Either way he didn't really care... or so he thought.

"You said it yourself remember..." Sonic gave a nervous laugh, feeling slightly embarrassed. Shadow kept quiet but opened his eyes to gaze upon his blue rival. "When I first came to you... You said that we had something in common that were more alike than I thought..."

Shadow truly had no idea why Sonic was bringing this up now; to be honest none of this stuff to him really mattered, all he cared about was getting Sonic to stop his murderous rampage. He couldn't help but find the situation somehow quite odd, a few years maybe months ago he would have given anything to see him like this, but now he wanted nothing more than for it to stop. For things to go back to the way they were but deep down he knew that was never going to happen. Sighing to himself Shadow subconsciously allowed his ears to droop down slightly. He felt sorry for Sonic. To Shadow, Sonic had, had everything: friends, fame, popularity and an untroubled life style. But this time it seemed that his thoughts had been wrong for Sonic was more damaged than he let out.

Sonic had always felt that it was his job to protect and fight for everyone whether they wanted it or not and this was drilled into his mind from a very early age; and now that Shadow actually studied the situation, he hadn't exactly made this any easier for Sonic. In fact now that Shadow really thought about it what he thought he felt towards Sonic was not what he actually felt... but something different...

"I'm sorry Shadow..." Sonic's voice was now only a whisper. "I didn't want things to get so badly out of hand and I didn't want to get you stuck with this either".

Shadow felt funny. Not ill or anything but strange. As though... Shadow's thoughts were once again stopped when Sonic continued to poor his heart out to him.

"I just don't want to be this anymore. The one that everyone depends on!" Sonic had to fight back tears; he wasn't going to cry in front of Shadow!

"I don't understand..." Shadow at this point was still oblivious to what Sonic was actually saying, and was actually thinking out loud at this point.

"What?" Sonic blinked... how he could not understand was a mystery to him, after all he'd explained it the best he could.

"How can I been feeling like this..." Shadow still had no idea that what he was thinking was actually being said out loud. He was still trying to get his head over these strange feelings he'd just found. How had he not noticed them before... or had he just blocked them out? And more importantly how had he gone from wanting to destroy Sonic to longing to help him?

"Like what?" Shadow was cruelly brought back into reality at this point and somehow was still completely oblivious as to what Sonic was on about. "You asked me why you were feeling like this...? Only I don't know what you're feeling..."

Shadow glared at Sonic, feeling that he needed to be put back into place.

"Shadow..."

"It doesn't matter".

"Oh" Sonic couldn't help but smile... maybe he knew what this was about. "Why not tell me... After all you've helped me a lot it's only fair I help you..."

"I don't need help" Shadow moved away from Sonic and growled. How dare he! Shadow wasn't like him, he didn't need help, he wasn't weak.

"Well I do. I can't risk getting rid of Amy by myself. Shadow... I need your help too."

Seriously... was Sonic asking him to kill? Shadow shook his head in disbelief, refusing to allow the word he spoke to process in his mind. Yes he was right he'd be doing people a favour... even him, but speaking from experience Shadow knew the more people Sonic killed the worse his state would get.

"Fine." Feeling defeated all Shadow could hope for was that Sonic changed his mind at the last minute, but that was very unlikely.

When they left the sun was still up, making the sky a pastel orange and yellow colour, It was now when they light was catching Shadow's fur that Sonic realised how magnificent Shadow's form really was. He'd been looking at him wrongly all this time.

Truth be told Sonic was going through the same confusing state as Shadow only he seemed to be handling the situation slightly better but that was the least of his concerns. He had to find Amy, before Shadow got board and left or even changed his mind. Deep down however he knew that finding her wouldn't be so difficult, after all she always managed to find him easily, so why should it be any different when coming to find her.

His doubts were put to rest however when he heard her painfully high voice shriek his name as loud as possible. Had she forgotten about what had happened last time she had approached him or was she mad?

She stopped inches away from him and glared at Shadow, who found this hilarious as she seemed to forget that he had saved her life only hours ago.

"I want to talk to you Soniiic!" She beamed ignoring the expression on their faces. "Alone!"

Shadow put his hands in the air and turned to walk away, he was no longer regretting the idea of getting rid of her but now trying to take in as much information as he could, wanting to remember the day to ever last detail.

"Listen Sonic I know Shadow put you up to what happened this morning, and I don't blame you!" Amy stepped closer to Sonic unaware of what was actually going through his mind. "And I just know you're going to make it up to me!"

Realising that he hadn't thought this through Sonic backed away. How was he even going to do this? What if she screamed? People would come looking...Sonic took a reassuring look at Shadow, trying to compel himself for what was about to happen. It was now or never...

Pushing Amy to the ground Sonic paced both hands around her neck and squeezed, looking deeply into her eyes, watching her desperately squirm underneath him, desperate for air, some how this made his grip tighten even more. Shadow looked away, he hated Amy yes, but he didn't like the situation she was in and even more he hated seeing Sonic like this. Closing his eyes Shadow felt it was probably best to wait and not inter fear with Sonic's 'fun'.

Shadow let a couple of minutes pass until opening his eyes again. He was surprised that it was over so quickly but he figured that's what happens when years of hatred are finally released.

Sonic was stood over her still body.

The smile on Sonic's face sent shivers down Shadow's spine.

Sonic on the other hand felt emotionless to the situation. Looking to the sky he finally smiled to himself. He had never felt so alive. And so free.

Struggled with this, had to keep rewriting Amy's death, kept getting carried away with the details but due to the T rating I figured not too much detail.
I defiantly think that I will be including some Sonadow but probably towards the end.
Thankyou for all the hits and review so far! Let me know what you think and idea's are welcome! x