AN: If anyone knows what happened in the last 2 chapters; Amy is going to her apartment with Shadow so she could feel better (And I don't mean THAT when she's going with Shadow to his apartment perverts.) Well anyways, I hope you like this chapter! I think I'll put Sonic in the next chapter.

Chap. 3: Getting To Know You

(Station Square) 1:12 am

"Welcome to Station-"'Square' was the last thing it was going to say before Shadow started to home attack the loudspeaker; exploding it into thousands of little pieces. He then muttered, "Weak piece of rubble." "Shadow! What'd you do that for?" as Amy rushed down the stairs; still sick; looking at the now destroyed loudspeaker. "It was harming our hearing senses with its obnoxious yelling." staring at it too with a smirk. "However I stopped it." pointing to himself; looking proud. They then both heard police sirens. "Let's get out of here!" Amy suddenly then grabbed Shadow's hand and ran for dear life out of the train station. "Shadow that was a loudspeaker not a killing machine! Sure it gets annoying but it didn't want to harm us in anyway." lecturing at the confused black hedgehog.

"I still don't get it…" rubbing his hands next to his chin thinking hard. "I told you it was only a machine that helps people not kill them Shadow." Looking at Shadow with a sarcastic look on her face. 'No, not now...' Amy then started to walk a bit slower; clutching to her chest heavily breathing. "What's wrong!" Shadow panicked as he saw Amy going slower and walking awkwardly in a strange way. "Amy! Amy!" were the last words she heard Shadow saying as she collapsed from sickness. 'Shadow, I need help…' as Amy's vision got blurrier.

It then started to rain…

"Shadow…?" Amy then said as she awoke from her 'slumber.' 'Why do I feel like I'm floating? It feels so good…' she then looked down noticing she was floating, no gliding!

Her vision started to clear and immediately saw Shadow carrying her and gliding across the roads, sidewalks, and rails while it was raining! "Put me down Shadow!", as Amy tried to fidget out of Shadow's grasp but failed from her illness. "You're awake" as he suddenly stopped to a screeching halt letting the rain pour on him so Amy wouldn't get more wet than she already was.

"Please put me down Shadow…"Amy muttered but she knew she was lying to herself and that she doesn't want to walk, I mean she was sick already why make it worse?

"Nope" as Shadow then started to pace himself to run, I mean glide!

Amy then felt relieved for no clue why she was. "Just tell me where you live and I'll take you there." Not looking at Amy directly. With some of the little energy she had Amy pointed to her apartment left with her hands. "Right over there…" she then fainted again looking at Shadow; closing her eyes. 'How can someone like you make me feel so good?' was Amy's last thought as she drifted to sleep.

(Amy's Apartment) 1:38 pm

"What time is it?" Amy whispered to herself looking at her digital clock dazedly on her pink bed. 'I guess it was all dream…?' trying to fight off her covers getting out of bed. Just when she got out though, a chill went down her spine noticing Shadow two inches away from her body! He stared at her with his ruby eyes with his same face expression he gave to everybody. "Stay in bed… you're sick." As Shadow slapped a wet rag of icy cold water unto Amy's forehead; sending her body back to bed quickly, making her blush heavily but threw her head over her light pink covers so Shadow wouldn't see.

After a couple minutes, Amy threw her covers off her forehead really hoping this was a dream but this time saw the black hedgehog sleeping! Sleeping! 'My God he's even leaning on a wall! How can he sleep like that?' Amy thought as she looked at Shadow snoring lightly. Amy started to giggle at Shadow's light snores making her feel a bit better.

She then got off her bed; holding a pillow and one part of her three-layered covers moving to Shadow slowly and quietly even though her illness gave her a headache for each step she took.

Amy carefully put Shadow onto the floor placing the pillow under his head and the cover over him very quietly.

'Ah, he looks so kawaii!' looking at Shadow's sleeping state. Amy then nearly almost slapped herself for saying that, 'No! Only Sonic-kun is kawaii and no one else!' yelling in her mind. Amy's thought stopped though; as her illness started to kick in again making her fall on the floor next to Shadow.

'Not now… this isn't fair.' She then immediately fell asleep again next to Shadow, waking him up from the "thump" he heard.

"What the!" as Shadow stared at Amy lying next to him in slumber. He then immediately backed away from her; noticing the cover and pillow as he stood up. "So, you did this for me huh?" looking at Amy. He couldn't help but blush red as he started to remember flashbacks of her helping him, saving him, and even make him feel happy?

"Just like Maria…" he then muttered as Shadow stood and picked up Amy from where she was lying on and carried her to the bed; laying her quietly down.

"Why do you keep helping me?" Shadow asked to Amy; knowing that she wouldn't answer at all since she was asleep. "Why?" he started ask her over and over again not understanding at all why she's going out of her way to help the black hedgehog out.

"Why can't I get you out of mind!" Shadow whispered with a frustrated tone in his voice as he pounded the wall right next to him.

However, just the minute he threw that punch to the wall it finally hit his head like a ton of bricks, "Uh-oh…" Shadow then realized he wasn't in the Space Colony anymore but Amy's house! He took a look at the now dented wall right next to him. Shadow knew what would happen if Amy woke up to see a dented wall right in her face. He shuddered at the thought.

Shadow then left Amy's room and looked around her apartment luckily finding wood, a pair of nails, and a hammer in Amy's kitchen. (AN: Why she has that in her kitchen was a random thing.--;)

"Time to get to work", Shadow went to the spot he dented the wall and started to quietly fix it…

Amy's Apartment (5:00) pm

"What a nice nap I feel so much better now!" Amy yelled as she stretched out her arms and stood up without any difficulty. "Now to go find my So-"but stopped frozen as she saw one part of her walls with wood and nails all over it. "What happened?" as Amy stood in shock looking at her deformed wooden wall. "Get off!" that's when Amy then noticed something under her feet moving but was too late as she fell down to the ground hitting her head on the back of her head.

"Yeowch!" was the sound Amy had made as her head impacted with the side of her bed. "You were stepping on me so I had to do something…" Amy heard from a mutter as she tried to stand up to see Shadow having his arms crossing his chests looking at her. "At least help a lady in distress Shadow!" Shadow then given Amy a hand to help her up to her feet.

Amy then noticed Shadow holding nails and a hammer on one hand. "Shadow did you do that?" she pointed at the wooden wall as Shadow followed the direction of her finger and sweat dropped. "Hmph, what if I did?" trying to smirk at Amy hoping that he didn't make a wrong move or its curtains for him. Amy immediately smiled at the black hedgehog flicking his nose too. "You forgot to color it pink silly Shadow!" as she left the room and returned with a bucket of pink paint and 2 paintbrushes like they were trophies.

He couldn't believe it; Amy just forgave that quickly to him! He tried to hide his embarrassment by giving her the silent treatment but that didn't stop her, not by a long shot! However she got the wrong idea of why he was doing that to her. "Hey Shadow! You have to help me paint as well since it looks like you're the one who broke my wall! You have to help me paint it or is pink not your favorite color?" Amy stared at Shadow for a couple of minutes but sighed in defeat.

Amy then gave her trademark smile to him, "I'll be right back!" she dashed out of her room and came back, holding something behind her gloved hands; smiling even more cheerfully then she usually did. "Guess what I'm holding Shadow!" He snapped at Amy saying at her, "A picture of Sonic…" 'Bet I'm right…' Shadow thought knowing how much of a fanatic Amy was to her Sonic. "Wrong! Try again!" as Amy's smile then turned to a grin. Shadow almost nearly fell over 'I'm wrong?' he thought to himself feeling a bit pathetic for being the 'Ultimate Life Form' and yet; he can't even guess correctly on some stupid game!

"I give you a hint it looks like you! But it isn't!" "I give up, I despise riddles…" glaring at the wooden wall as if it was his foe. "It's black and red paint!" she then threw the two buckets of paint unto Shadow; almost nearly painting him but he fortunately catched them before they got near him.

"Surprised?" as Amy walked over to Shadow; looking at him happily. 'My god he looked so funny!' Amy thought seeing Shadow's facial expression when she threw the cans of paint to him. "I hate surprises too you know." Shadow said coldly to Amy but he knew he enjoyed it only a little. Amy frowned at him in despair looking like she was about to cry but then shook her head violently as she turned her frown upside down. 'No! I can't let that get to me! I'm Amy Rose, but why does my heart ache so badly now? This never even happened with Sonic-kun and he always says some mean things to me…' she pondered but stopped abruptly as Amy noticed Shadow eying her suspiciously.

"Well what are we standing here for? Let's start painting!" Amy then picked up her paintbrush, dipped it into the black paint and started to paint with Shadow mimicking the pink hedgehog like a 3-year old trying to mimic an adult driving a car.

After a while of silence Shadow; with a lot of courage; asked, "Where did you get so much paint from?" He mentally slapped himself for asking such a boring question to make a conversation. "Oh my paint? Tails gave it to me for a Happy Birthday present when I turned 12; I never really liked art so I never used it much. Why?" still a bit in shock that Shadow; this Shadow; had asked her a question! "Just to get to know you better…" Shadow replied to Amy blushing even brighter than the red can of paint. Amy almost nearly squealed from hearing that. "You know Shadow you're the first person to tell me that not even Sonic told me that ever! He never even gave me a present on my birthday…" Amy's ears started to droop down remembering that flashback.

Amy's Flashback

"Thanks everybody for coming really I'm so happy! But where's Sonic?" " Amy about that, um, Sonic couldn't come he was, uhh… sick! Yeah sick! Sorry." Tails said. "Oh, that's ok Tails really… really…"

Shadow started to see Amy on the verge on tears but he knew he couldn't do anything except…

"Shadow?" Amy said in surprise as she then immediately was hugged from the black hedgehog. Amy immediately started crying on his shoulder even though she knew this wasn't Sonic. However the moment didn't last very long as Shadow pushed Amy away from him quickly turning away from her.

Amy couldn't help it; she asked, "Shadow… why'd you hug me?" blushing at the hedgehog right next to her. "Don't think I like you or anything I only did that because you looked pathetic crying and it doesn't suit you at all!" Shadow yelled trying to act all tough and mighty. He then went back to painting the wall not staring back at Amy.

"If that's what you say Shadow-kun…" Amy then let out a light giggle a she picked up her brush and dipped it in her pink paint and drew herself on the wall. 'Whatever you say…'

'Getting to know me…?' she let out another giggle 'I also want to get to know you too!' As Amy smiled to herself cheerfully like she always was… A cheerful pink hedgehog.

AN: I'm not done writing the story yet if you think that I am! I hope I got their character right though… I hope you liked this chapter and don't forget to R&R!