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Chapter Eleven

FLUFF! -Glee-

WARNING: Drug implements mentioned too...

Shadow wasn't impressed with what the grey hedgehog had told him. How can someone know of a warning and not know the contents or who it was from? Amy on the other hand was phoning Sonic and telling him what the other hedgehog had said. Shadow walked to the living room window and looked out of it, the way he used to do at his old 'home'. He watched the wind blow through the trees and the clouds follow the path of the wind. He leant with his two hands on the window sill, letting his arms support all of his weight. The dark hedgehog couldn't explain why the pink hedgehog suddenly started liking him and not the blue faker. She'd kissed him, his mind wandered back to the actual kiss. It had been sweet and inviting. Shadow didn't know what was coming over him. Could it be that he wanted to be with the pink hedgehog? Or was it the reminders of the dream where she was Maria? Shadow lifted one of his hands off the sill and held his head. He needed to get out of the presence of Amy Rose. He needed to clear his head. The only place that he could think of at that moment in time was the ARK. He stiffened when he felt arms going around his waist. He looked down at the pink fur, and then turned his head to look at the pink hedgehog. Amy smiled up at him. He simply turned his head away from her. Crimson eyes looking back out the window. Amy's arms left him for a few moments before they wrapped around his arm. He looked back down at her.

"If you want to leave Shadow you can" She whispered. Shadow blushed and took his gaze away from the pink hedgehog.

"How do you know these things without a word from me?" He asked her. Amy smiled and tip toed up and gave the blushing hedgehog a kiss on the cheek, she then tried to walk away from him. He span and caught her arm. The shock turn caught Amy off guard and she fell to the floor. Shadow looked down at her. He was stuck between walking away from her, and helping her and just being with her. He let his hand drift towards her. She looked up at his hand, took it and lifted herself off the ground. Shadow gave her an apologetic look. Amy tightened her grip on his hand. Amy looked into Shadow's red eyes looking for any reciprocated feelings. Shadow tried to turn his head away, but Amy's other hand came up and made sure he was looking at her. She caressed his cheek softly. Shadow's mind was racing. He felt nervous but yet he wanted to be this close to the rose hedgehog. He Sighed and closed his eyes.

"Shadow" Amy's voice made him reopen them. He looked at her emerald eyes and then averted his eyes away from the enticing depths. "What do you see Shadow?" She asked him. Shadow gulped before bringing his eyes back to hers. She poured all of the affection and love into her eyes so that Shadow could see it. Shadow saw her eyes sparkle with love. A dark red blush caught him off guard. He tried to tear himself away from her gaze, but he was trapped. He wouldn't admit what he saw to her, not until hell had frozen over. Amy reached her arms up and wrapped them around his neck. Shadow was still staring into her eyes to even notice that the female hedgehog had pushed herself up against him. Amy leant forward and gently placed a kiss upon his lips. Shadow snapped out of his daze, his eyes widened in shock as the pink hedgehog pulled back with a slight smirk. Shadow calmed and smirked back at her wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her. It was Amy's turn to be shocked as he captured her lips with his. Amy willingly accepted this rare opportunity with the dark hedgehog. Shadow's mind was blank; he couldn't believe he was kissing her. He quickly pulled away from her and let his arms fall to his sides. Amy smiled with her arms still around his neck. He sighed and Amy's smile disappeared. She dropped her arms from his neck. Shadow lifted his red eyes to her green ones.

"Amy… I…" Shadow stuttered and he mentally slapped himself. He opened his mouth to start again put Amy put her finger on his lips. Shadow looked away from the other hedgehog; he fought to keep control of his raging emotions. He wouldn't let her get any closer, he couldn't. Fresh pain rippled through his heart as his mind flashed an image of Maria in front of his eyes. He wouldn't let the same thing happen to Amy. Shadow walked away from Amy, walking quickly, but not so much as to seem as if he was frantic. Amy looked after him, confusion glistening in her emerald eyes

"Shadow?" She asked after him, he faltered in the doorway. He didn't want to face her; he couldn't see the hurt on her face. Shadow straightened his back and turned his head to look at her through one ruby eye.

"Thank-you for your hospitality" He said to her as softly as he could muster. "I appreciate it" He walked out of the door into the street where he chaos controlled away. Amy looked at the spot where he had last stood, tears in her eyes. How dare he! She was going to go to his flat and confront him and if he wasn't there; she'd wait for him. She grabbed her coat and marched out of the door and down the road that lead to Westopolis.

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Shadow looked down at the Earth from his vantage point. How could he of just upped and left? Why did he do it? He leant forward on the window sill, resting his head on the glass. The ARK was dark and cold; the complete opposite to Amy's house. He sighed; he had run away from one of the only people who had ever cared for him. He felt terrible for doing that to Amy, but it was for the best, she was getting too close. He looked to the side and imagined Maria standing next to him, looking out over the Earth. He smiled softly at the image before he looked away again; letting the image dissipate. He looked to where Maria had been; trying to conjure the image up again, but try as he might, he couldn't get Maria's image back in his head, all he could imagine was Amy. Shadow growled, how the hell had he let her do this to him? His growl dried up as his mind went back to the dream of Amy in Maria's place. Why had that happened? It didn't make any sense; she only knew snippets of his past. The only way she could have known what happened would have been through divine intervention, but that was stupid. Shadow thought about other ways. Rouge was too busy talking about Knuckles to indulge that information to Amy and Sonic knew jack anyway. He couldn't point fingers because no one knew. He raked his fingers through his spikes with a sigh. Something was behind this and he wanted to know who.

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Amy pushed open the door to Shadow's flat and scrupled her nose up at the surroundings. Shadow wasn't here and Amy suspected that if he was, there would have been a window open or something. Her eyes scanned the room, eyes raking over various articles of drug uses over the floor. She was going to have to be careful no to stand on needles or touch anything that looked nasty. She stepped inside and carefully walked to the window where she knew Shadow liked to sit. Amy placed her hand on where she thought he would have sat; it was cold. Amy looked around from the window and looked around. It was dreary and Amy felt out of place. Amy wrapped her arms around herself; she would wait here for him. What she didn't know was that a pair of emotionless, robotic eyes was watching her from the shadows.

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Finally! -holds aching hand- Chapter twelve out soon!