My Rose, My Baby… My Pain

(Sonic's POV)

"OPEN UP!" I was so damn furious. I repeatedly pounded the door of Scourge's apartment. I screamed at the top of my lungs, "I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE, YOU MOTHERFUCKER! OPEN UP!"

I continued banging on the door until… SHE opened it. She leant against the doorway, smirking maliciously.

"Sonic," Sally Acorn said seductively. Ugh, I hate it when she talks like that. She was wearing a black belly top, short denim shorts, and a pair of black knee-high boots. "What brings you here to—"

"Where is he?!" I yelled at her.

"Where's who?" Sally tried to act innocent.

"Where is that green motherfucking asshole who mutilated my girlfriend and almost made me lose my baby daughter?!"

"I don't know what you're talking about," she answered nonchalantly.

I snarled at her, "Don't play dumb. I know he's in there and I know it was him." I grabbed her upper arm with one hand to pull her up close; she gasped, "If you don't tell me where he is, there will be serious consequences." I threatened her.

Sally gulped, "Living room." She looked scared, but I didn't care. I harshly pushed her out of the way. I entered the shitty-looking apartment and walked to the living room. There, I saw my Anti sleeping on his futon, snoring. He's wearing nothing but his wife-beaters and jeans. Also, on his coffee table, there was a glass board with some sort of white powder, a blade, and a tube sitting atop (you don't want to know what that is) and beside it, a couple of whiskey bottles. I angrily stomped to him.

"HEY!" I shouted, "Get the fuck up!" I woke him up by grabbing his bottle of booze and tossed a large load of brown-tinted alcohol onto his face. Scourge woke up, shaking his head, and then sat up with whiskey all over his face. He looked up at me,

"You…" he growled huskily.

"I know it was you!" I slammed the bottle back down with rage, "I know you're trying to kill my rose and my baby!"

"So you knew," he chuckled malevolently.

"What the hell's the matter with you?! Because of you, Amy's in the hospital dying! If I lose her, how the hell will I raise a kid without her mother?!"

I heard Sally walking into the room. Instantly, I turned to her, "And you," I pointed to her and then stepped up, "why the fuck did you bail him out for?!"

"That's none of your damn business!" Sally replied. I smacked her across the face and she cringed.

"It is now!" I threatened her again, "You better tell me if you don't want to risk yourself getting bitch-slapped again!"

"Okay," she responded coldly, "I've been visiting Scourge in jail for months after you dumped me. We got along really well until we both came up with an idea, so I got him out."

"What idea?" I asked sternly.

Sally finished off, "To get back at you and Pinky after you two broke our hearts. We were planning to kill you."

"You're crazy," I cruelly told her, "we broke up for a reason: Scourge abused Amy and you starting fights with me over everything. And now, you two planned to kill us over that?!"

Sally smirked, "Pretty much."

"And where did you get the money to bail him out?"

"Oh, I didn't have the money," she answered, "I did things."

"What things?"

"You know, things." Sally let out an evil laugh.

It took me a moment to understand what she meant by that; I was truly disgusted by her provocative performance.

"You sick little slut!" I growled at her. Instinctively, I angrily punched Sally in the face and she fell down, wincing and groaning.

"Sally!" Scourge called her. He got up from his futon. I turned back to him,

"And as for you," I punched him in the face as well. Then, I started beating him in the chest, stomach, and head repeatedly to the floor. As soon as he's covered with bruises and cuts, I paused. Scourge was in deep pain.

I screamed at his face, "I SWEAR TO GOD, IF AMY DOESN'T MAKE IT, I WILL RIP YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!" Then, I kicked him hard in the stomach. He was groaning.

I left the living room, leaving the two suffering. I exit Scourge's apartment and sprinted away. I quickly went back to my house to pick up the infant carrier and the baby bag with everything Lavender needs in there. Afterwards, I rushed back to the hospital.

I reentered the waiting room and everybody's still there. I decided to pretend nothing bad has happened during my absence. I calmly strolled to them.

"Hey, what's everybody doing?" I asked them as I dropped the stuff on the floor.

"Sonic," Knuckles responded, "is everything okay?"

"Why do you smell like whiskey?" Silver asked.

I must've spilled some booze on myself when I tossed the alcohol at Scourge. I quickly sniffed my shirt and he's right.

"Long story," I don't know whether or not if I should tell them, it would bring tension to everybody. I changed the subject, "so where's Lavender?"

Rouge got up from her seat, "She's right here." She transferred my daughter from her to me. I cradled Lavender into my arms as she cried. I hushed her and I let out a warm smile,

"It's okay," I whispered, "daddy's here. I'm sure mommy will be okay. If you made it, I know she can make it, too." However, I don't know if that's true or not. Lavender opened her eyes and I can see the color of her irises: emerald green, just like mines. I pulled down the blanket a little and her skin is a perfect shade of apricot, like Amy's. When she grows up, hopefully her fur will be light blue— or better yet, light purple. Like her name.

On the outside, I felt warm because of my daughter, but really in the inside, I felt… miserable as hell. If it's not the good news I anticipated from the doctors, then I don't know what to do.

We've been staying in the waiting room for a few hours and it was already 5:30 pm. Damn… Well, at least Shadow and Rouge were kind enough to order us take-out dinner for all seven of us (Silver and Blaze went home somewhere at 4:15 pm, so it was just me, my best friend and his honey-bunny, the echidna couple, Faker and his future bat-wife). Lavender was sleeping in her infant carrier and she's wearing her pink newborn baby outfit that I put on her. I watched her and she looked so cute. If only Amy could see her…

"Excuse me, Sonic the Hedgehog?" I looked up to see the same wolf doctor from earlier and so did everyone else; Cream and Tikal woke up after dozing off on their boyfriends. By the look of Dr. Wolf's facial expression… he doesn't look happy at all.

"I'm afraid we have some very bad news pertaining to Amy Rose," he said.

Anxiously, I said, "What's the bad news?"

The Next Day…

I was back at my house. Early afternoon, I started screaming hysterically and I started knocking down and breaking things in the living room. Everything's completely dismantled: the mirror on the wall, the vase, the lamps, and everything else that was on the mahogany furnishings. To make matters worse… everyone's with me, especially Lavender. They were watching me going through a psychotic meltdown… right in front of my daughter.

"Sonic! Sonic! Calm down!" That was either Knuckles, Shadow, or Silver or all three inarticulately shouting.

I face them, "NO! I CAN'T FUCKING CALM DOWN!"

"Sonic—"

"SHE'S NOT GOING TO MAKE IT!" I continued screaming, "90% SEVERE BLOOD LOSS AND ONLY 5% CHANCE OF SURVIVAL! AMY'S NOT GOING TO MAKE IT! SHE'S GOING TO DIE, JUST LIKE I PREDICTED! I'M GOING TO LOSE HER!"

"WELL, SCREAMING AND BREAKING SHIT WON'T DO ANYTHING BUT SCARING THE HELL OUT OF US!" Shadow yelled.

"FUCK OFF!" I replied. I grabbed an empty beer bottle from the floor and I threw it against the wall— where Tikal, Blaze, and Rouge were sitting together, holding onto Lavender. They screamed as they ducked from the flowing remains of the bottle and huddled altogether, defending my baby. She started crying.

"SONIC! STOP IT!" Silver remarked in anger, "YOU'RE SERIOUSLY SCARING THEM, AND YOU'RE HURTING YOUR OWN DAUGHTER! JUST BECAUSE THE DOCTOR SAID THAT AMY WON'T MAKE IT, DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO GO FUCKING CRAZY ON US! YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE, WE MISS HER TOO!"

"SHUT UP!" I was about to punch Silver in the face, but Knuckles stopped me.

"SONIC! WILL YOU CALM THE FUCK DOWN?!" he urged me.

I broke free from his hold, "NO!"

Then, I saw Tails and Cream holding onto each other in the corner of the living room. Cream was crying and Tails looked frightened as he comforted her. I got closer to them and yelled,

"AND YOU TWO!" Tails looked up at me, "WHY ARE YOU SO DAMN QUIET?!"

"Well, what are we supposed to do?" Tails remarked.

"YOU'RE THE GODPARENTS! YOU TWO ARE SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT ME INSTEAD OF SITTING IN THE CORNER LIKE FUCKING COWARDS!"

Cream, being all submissive and vulnerable, was sobbing loudly onto Tails. "SONIC, THAT'S ENOUGH!" he got pissed off, "WE ARE SUPPORTING YOU BUT YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S MAKING EVERYTHING WORSE! AND SHADOW'S RIGHT; SCREAMING AT US FOR NO DAMN REASON WON'T BRING AMY BACK! LIKE SILVER SAID, YOU EVEN ALMOST ATTACKED YOUR OWN KID. IF THIS PERSISTS, CREAM AND I WILL TAKE LAVENDER AWAY FROM YOU!"

There was a pause and I heard everything what Tails said. "We mean it," he finished off.

I turned around to the rest of the girls and Lavender was still crying. I strolled to them, "Let me see her," I demanded.

"No!" Tikal responded as she held my baby closer to her and away from me.

"LET ME SEE HER!" I repeated. "C'MON, SHE'S MY DAUGHTER!" I was about to get near Tikal, but Blaze and Rouge stepped up in front of her in defense. They're trying to prevent me from seeing my own daughter.

"No!" Rouge began in resentment, "Not until you calm down first! We cannot let this poor defenseless baby see her father like this! Another violent outburst and she goes away."

"Please—"

"You heard her!" Blaze cut me off.

I broke down and all the enragement swam back into me again. I cannot control myself. I let out a growl and I punched a hole through the wall in hostility. I let my head down and tears ran down my eyes. Everyone went silent for a few moments.

"Guys," I heard Tails, "we're going to head off now. This is already too much for us."

"And," said Cream, "We're taking Lavender with us…" I immediately picked my head up in alarm. "Is that alright?"

I glimpsed at Tails and Cream. Tails already had the baby bag over his shoulder and holding the infant carrier. Tikal got to them and she passed Lavender to Cream. I was heartbroken.

"Just make sure she's okay," she told them.

"We will, we promise," Cream replied.

"No wait!" I was about to pounce to them and get Lavender back, but everyone stopped me. I struggled to break off their hold. "I'M SORRY, OKAY?! I'M FUCKING SORRY! PLEASE, I JUST WANT TO SEE MY DAUGHTER! I DON'T MEAN TO HURT HER!" I sobbed.

Shadow faced to the couple, "Tails! Cream! Just go before he gets hysterical!" he told them.

Tails and Cream instantly turned to the door and left. I see Lavender's face over Cream's shoulder.

"Lavender! Lavender, daddy loves you!" I called out in solemn, "Daddy will be better, I promise!"

The three were already gone. I was released from their grip and I collapsed on the couch, breathing heavily. I had my palms to my eyes, wiping off the tears, even though I'm still lamenting. I know that is not me, but when it comes to losing the ones I loved, Amy and Lavender Rose, that's when things get melancholy.

Everything went tranquil for the next two minutes until…

"Sonic?" I opened my eyes and let my hands down. I looked to the others. Rouge held out a small red velvet box to me. "I've found this lying on the floor next to the broken vase. What is it?" she asked.

I sat up and took the box from her. I opened it a little to look inside, without letting the others to see. It's a diamond engagement ring. I got disheartened from the look of it. I closed the box and held it close to my heart.

"There's something you guys should know," I said softly and emotionally, "Weeks ago, I bought an engagement ring and it was supposed to be a secret. My plan was to propose to Amy right after our daughter is born. I couldn't let you all know yet, so I hid it in the vase where no one, not even Amy, can find it. All I ever wanted was to be a happy family… but now, it's all backfired. It's all because of that damn promise I broke. I promised her that I'll be there and make sure she's safe for the next few months… and I didn't. It's all my fault, none of this would've happened if I just stayed home and defend her. Now… I'm going to end up as a father of a baby with no mother… and you're taking her away from me because of what I've just done. I don't think I can move on like this…"

My palms are back to my eyes and I continued weeping. There was silence from the gang; they probably understood my pain. I felt a hand on my shoulder. I didn't bother to look to see who it was.

"We are deeply sorry to hear that," Shadow said in sympathy. "Is there anything we can do for you?"

Suddenly, I thought about what I want to do— for Amy and Lavender. I glanced up and I see that the gang was in deep melancholy. Shadow let his hand down from my shoulder. I remarked with coldness,

"Yes— Shadow, do you still have your gun?"