Well this is a little longer to make up for the wait. hope you enjoy :) amoiix
disclaimer: i dont own them. not at all :( but i do own nathanial and isabella :)
The hearts got what it wants.
Chapter 5
1 year ago
Control room
"Shadow was right, she is a feisty one. A bit naive, but that's easily sorted. Her feelings shouldn't jeopardise the mission."
"Do you think she'll try and make a break for it again, sir?"
"No. If Shadow does as he's told, she shouldn't."
"What about his feelings?"
"He wouldn't, He values his life too much."
Exit A
Amy's POV
Things were bizarre, I was doubting my sanity every second that ticked by. Shadow told me that if I stuck with him, things would be easy. I didn't want to cooperate. It may have been a little childish and a little silly of me, but I wasn't leaving my spot near the door without a fight. Shadow instantly seeing it as a challenge, decided to pick me up and dangle me over his shoulder. Now I'm being carried through endless corridors, apparently to a control room. "Nearly there Amy. I'm really gonna miss you kicking my chest." Sarcasm dripping from his voice. I was beginning to dislike him. He came to a stop and started pushing buttons on a keypad. I tried to crane my neck round to see what he was doing, but by the time I had, he'd finished and the door was open. I huffed and let myself dangle again. I was like a rag doll, being pulled from place to place. He walked through the doors and stopped after a few steps. "Floor or Sofa?"
"What do you think?" I answered, bored.
"Floor it is." Before I had time to protest, he had dropped me onto a plush black sofa. It took me a few minutes to regain composure, this sofa was incredibly comfy. When I looked, Shadow had walked into another room labelled kitchen. The room I was in was large and airy; a few lights adorned the ceiling, giving the illusion of brilliant sunshine. There were a few rooms leading off, kitchen, bunks and lockers. One wall was covered in small monitors, showing different parts of the base I presumed. Another wall covered in more monitors, this time showing different sceneries, there were too many to make out where they all were. There were a few more chairs along with the sofa, and a small simple TV that was switched off. "Water?" I looked to see Shadow standing in front of me with a glass of water and a small sandwich.
I nodded, taking the glass from him, "Please. But I'm not hungry."I didn't want to think it but I couldn't help but have a small worry that he may have put some drugs in to calm me down.
"Good, because this is for me. I figured you would be stubborn." I chuckled and looked into my glass. I looked better than I felt. "Go ahead Amy; we both know you want to ask questions."
I sighed and thought carefully. And instantly I remembered what he said to me before he dragged me here. "Why doesn't Sonic deserve me?"
I could see that this was going to be hard, he didn't want to answer and knowing Shadow he was going to avoid it like the plague, like Sonic. He sighed and put the sandwich down on the table in front of us. "Your too good for them, you have so many skills and so much compassion, and it all goes to waste. Your hero gets all the glory whilst you and Tails sit on the sidelines and watch. He doesn't deserve your attention if he doesn't give you some back."
My heart dropped, "He does give me attention." Doesn't he? I sunk into the sofa considerably, I felt tiny as doubt consumed me.
"I know, I saw," I looked at him confused, "Your party. I was there." The switch turned back on. I had totally forgotten about my birthday. I started to remember the day, the kiss and the nightmare that started.
"You ruined my birthday."
Regret was drawn over his face. I did feel bad for a moment but I remembered how he's treated me. "I'm sorry. I had a task I had to complete, and I wasn't going to stop until it was completed. I don't have friends Amy, if something needs to be done, ill get it done. I won't let feelings compromise the situation."
"I'm your friend. Why was I treated so badly? Why couldn't you just ask me to come with you?"
"You're everyone's friend, heck even Eggman most probably has a soft spot for you! Anyway, if I had asked you nicely, you wouldn't have come along. And I would more than likely be dead now." That last statement shocked me. And by the look on Shadow's face I don't think he meant to say it. He quickly looked around and shimmied closer to me until we were almost touching. He started whispering "You don't know how powerful these people are, they will do anything to get what they want, and get rid of anyone who fails on getting what they want."
"Is that why you're so desperate to keep me here?"
He shrugged, "kinda. I can't think of all the horrible things they would do to you if I wasn't around." My heart did a little twist.
I chuckled and he looked at me confused, "And to think, you were once a grouchy hedgehog who worked with Eggman."
"Once grouchy? You haven't seen me in the morning," he shuffled back and picked up his sandwich. We sat in a comfortable silence for a while until it was broken by loud laughing outside the door. "Oh no." i looked at Shadow, who was looking at the door warily, whilst shimmying closer to me. The door swung open to reveal a couple. A girl hedgehog around the same size as me, but with dark purple fur and long wavy hair that was tied up into a high ponytail. A taller boy hedgehog who looked similar to silver, but with dark blue features. They both had their arms intertwined and were laughing at a joke.
The girl hedgehog looked our way and instantly stopped in her tracks. She nudged her friend and they both looked between me and Shadow. Her mouth formed a small o, and her friend was the first to talk. "Shadow. Is this your friend?" he seemed to have difficulty saying the last part.
The girl slapped her friend on the arm and he looked at her a little shocked. "Stop it," she hissed under her breath. "You must be Amy. I'm Isabella and this is my partner Nathanial. How are you settling in?" She was much nicer.
I opened my mouth to explain to her that I hadn't yet, but Shadow beat me to it.
"Isabella. What do you want?" He had suddenly gone back to the Shadow I knew before. Gruff and moody, not the Shadow who just basically told me he wanted to protect me.
"Sorry, I was getting carried away." Isabella looked up to Nathanial who was now frowning at her. It was a little uncomfortable; my water was suddenly very interesting. "We were here to collect you actually; Eggman had another inventive way of taking over the world. And it seems the hero is having a little trouble." As soon as I heard hero, my head snapped up, I looked at Shadow who was staring at Isabella, and Isabella's eyes quickly darted to mine and then back to Shadow's.
"Sonic? Is he hurt? Is he ok?" I was starting to panic now, Isabella wasn't saying anything and Shadow's stare was forming into a scowl. "Please tell me."
Nathanial was the one to talk. "He's fine, he just got a little cocky and now he's been captured by Eggman. Seeing as Shadow is the only one who interacts with him, we need him to go bail him out. Before Sonic makes this any worse than it already is." He looked at Isabella and swiftly walked into the kitchen. Isabella muttered a sorry and shuffled in after her partner.
I looked at Shadow who was avoiding eye contact with me. "Why are you still sitting here? Shouldn't you be going?"
He looked at me and then towards the monitors on the wall. "Do you want to help?"
I was a little shocked. "Don't think i'm gonna run away again then." I joked.
"I trust you." He said it so seriously it made me blush a little. Why am I blushing? And why is my stomach doing somersaults. Amy snap out of it!
I nodded my reply and waited for him to fetch Isabella and Nathanial. Nathanial didn't look too happy at that I was tagging along, but Isabella was all too pleased to have a female companion. After a few minutes of walking through the endless tunnels, we realised I was the slowest of the group. And as Nathanial not so kindly reminded me that time wasn't the essence at the moment, which caused Shadow to pick me up and run with me, cradled in his arms.
My whole body was tingling, every hair standing on end. Chills were being sent all the way down my spine. I looked at Shadow's face, furrowed with concentration; I had never seen him in this light before. It was like all previous feelings of anger and sadness had been replaced with totally new ones. These feelings were very new, sonic feelings were definitely different to Shadow feelings. What am I talking about, I don't have Shadow feelings. Shadow works alone; he never sticks around for long enough. Same as sonic.
Whilst I was arguing with myself, I didn't realise we had reached our destination and I was still staring at Shadow's face. "Amy? We're here." He shook me a little and that did it, I came crashing back to earth.
"Huh?" I looked around to see Nathanial and Isabella in a subtle embrace looking away from us. We were in a wooded area but I could hear the faint sound of waves from the ocean. I looked back at Shadow who was looking at me expectantly as if mentally telling me to get off. "Ooh, sorry." I had suddenly gotten drunk and couldn't even land properly when I jumped out of his arms.
He wrapped a hand around my arm to hold me steady, a jolt of electricity ran up my arm and I quickly looked at Shadow and then down to the ground. "Amy, are you ok? A minute ago you looked like you wanted to kill me and now your acting a little strange." I didn't look back up at him, hoping he would just forget it, he tried again, this time a little louder, "Amy. Are. You. ok?"
I noticed Isabella looking towards us now, waiting for us to join them. I couldn't lie. Im not ok, but I couldn't tell him that, so I settled on a twist,"I'm not deaf Shadow, I can hear you." I hurriedly walked over to Isabella and left Shadow to walk with Nathanial.
Isabella didn't talk for most of the walk, but Shadow and Nathanial had no problem in argueing about me behind us. Nathanial didn't really understand the term talking behind someone's back. The object is to make sure they can't hear every word your saying. He clearly didn't trust me as he told Shadow many times during their conversation, and he was betting on me running off again. Shadow had been quick to defend me and assured him that I was one to be trusted. At one point he told Nathanial that just because I was pretty didn't mean I couldn't be trusted. This made my heart flutter like thousands of butterflies were trying to run away with it. Isabella noticed this.
"So…You and Shadow huh?" she looked at me expectantly. "You like him."
"No I don't." yes you do.
I could swear she was reading my mind, "You do, I can tell."
"I don't…I couldn't, I have someone." I glanced behind me to see Shadow ignoring Nathanial, and Nathanial doing the same to Shadow.
"Oh. Sonic, I take it? I didn't know you two were together, sorry."
"We're not…together." She raised her eyebrows at me and went to say something until Nathanial snaked an arm around her waist and kissed the top of her head. She looked around him and whispered later to me. I could tell she was going to be a pain, a nice one, but still a pain.
We slowed to a stop near a few boulders; Shadow walked up to one of the boulders and pulled out a small black backpack. He opened it to reveal a few essentials like, bandages, water and jumpers. He handed a jumper to me and put the bag back. I suppose the bag's for emergencies. "Your gonna need to put this on. We can't risk you being seen." I nodded and pulled the jumper on. "Nathanial, you can step in if there's any danger. Isabella will take Amy and scan the area for any casualties. And I'll go sort the mess out."
We walked to the border of the trees and could see the situation clearly. Eggman was in his carrier, looming over a cage with Sonic in. the cage was suspended above the sea. Sonic could handle this, all he had to do was run as soon as he hit the water and he would run straight to the shore. I failed to notice the ropes binding his arms together and his legs together. He also had a gag in his mouth. I instantly looked around, worried. Isabella was telling Nathanial to be careful before he ran off. I looked to where Shadow was stood, only to see him speed off towards the scene.
"He'll be fine." I timidly smiled at Isabella. But which one did she mean? There were two people out there I cared for.
We circled the perimeter a few times looking for casualties, before deciding that Eggman, Shadow and Sonic were the only involved in this confrontation. We decided on stopping on a cliff just above the action. We listened in on the insults Eggman and Shadow were giving each other and watching as Nathanial crept in the Shadows behind Eggman, ready to disable his device.
It all seemed to be going well, Shadow was distracting Eggman with taunts, whilst Nathanial was working underneath Eggman's carrier. The events that followed all seemed to happen so quickly. Nathanial had made a mistake and instead of disabling the carrier, he caused an explosion. The explosion threw Nathanial into the trees, this made Isabella leave my side and dash to see if her was partner was ok. Shadow was thrown back onto the sand knocking him out; Eggman was thrown into the air, only to be picked up by another carrier that was no doubt waiting for him the whole time.
The floor of the cage had collapsed and Sonic was flung into the water. Without thinking I ripped my jumper off and dove straight off the cliff. Sonic could clearly be seen trying with all his might to undo his ties. By a stroke of luck, the gag around his mouth had been pushed upwards so it was now covering his eyes. I grabbed a hold of the rope on his arms and pulled him towards the surface. Gasping for air, I carried on pulling him towards the shore and flopped him onto the sand. I quickly undid his bonds as he was still rolling around trying to untie them.
Just as I was about to unravel the last knot around his hands, someone came behind me blocking the sunlight. I looked up to see Shadow standing above me with a frown on his face. I know he didn't want Sonic to see me. But that meant I had to leave him. Shadow pulled me up and I signalled to him I could walk on my own. As I was walking away I could hear Sonic calling out for help.
My heart ripped into two. One half belonging to a life I had, a life I loved. The other belonging to a life I could have, could love. I looked one way to see Shadow looking at me with pleading eyes. Another way seeing Sonic rolling on the floor crying out for help. My earlier conversation with Isabella came back to me. I was never Sonic's, would never be Sonic's. Everyone knows he doesn't stop for long, so what makes me think he will stop for me. Sure, we shared a moment that was special to me, but deep down in the bottom of my heart, I knew that it was just for my birthday. If he did love me, it wouldn't be for long, it's just not him.
They say you never forget your first love. I never will.
I mumbled "Goodbye Sonic, I'll always love you" hoping the small goodbye would reach him somehow. I turned away and started the short but heavy walk to Shadow, leaving my old life and love behind. Tails would find him.
Ahead was my new life, new love.