Forever & Always

Chapter Six

I took a daring step backwards as Sonic took a step forwards, defensively. I shouldn't have spoken. I should have held my breath and remained silent until he left. Stupid, stupid, girl! How could I be so stupid?

A low growl escaped Sonic's lips. I took another step backwards.

"Oh, calm down, faker. I'm not taking your girl. I'm taking mine and putting you back where you belong!"

"You'll never touch her again," Sonic growled, a dark aura suddenly surrounding him.

"I don't have the time to play games with you, faker. I have a wedding to re-plan. Thank you for interrupting it."

"Wait a second," I said, stepping in front of Sonic, facing Shadow. "You expect me to just let you take Sonic away again?" I laughed without humour, "and you want me to get married to you? That's the funniest thing I think I've ever heard. On top of that, you watched me suffer for ten long years, knowing where he was? No, you didn't just know where he was, you kept him from me! Who does that? You're insane, Shadow."

"Amy, get away from him!" Sonic growled.

I took the engagement ring Shadow gave me and threw it at him. "I'll never marry you! Ever! You fooled me once, but never again, Shadow. Never. Again." I turned to hide behind Sonic, again, but arms were around me, and I was being carried at the speed of sound.

I looked up to see the man who was the last man I ever wanted to see.

"Shadow," I spat. "Put me down!"

"Oh, but, sweetheart, what fun would that be? I'm only taking you somewhere you'll be safe!"

"Safe? I'll only be safe when I'm away from you!" I tried desperately to get out of his arms, but had no luck. I sighed in defeat.

X

I woke up with a massive headache.

I sat up and looked around. My jaw nearly hit the ground as I noticed I was in a cell. I didn't have to pay attention to anything else to know that I was were Sonic was being held prisoner for the past ten years.

"Amy? You're awake, thank God!"

I turned around, to see Sonic in a separate cell. I crawled over to the end of mine to be as close to him as possible. "What happened?" I whispered.

I knew Shadow caught me, but catching Sonic? Again? That seemed impossible.

"I tried to save you. I'm sorry. I never meant for this to happen."

"Hey, it's alright. It's not your fault Shadow didn't handle being dumped well," I smiled lightly, trying to add humour to the awful situation.

Unfortunately, Sonic didn't think I was that funny. He looked at me, clearly thinking about how horrible I was at trying to be funny.

"Alright, so I've never been good at the whole humour thing. At least pretend I'm funny, geeze."

Wether Sonic thought what I had just said was funny or not, he laughed.

"You should know better than to laugh in here, faker."

I turned around to face the black and red hedgehog standing in the doorway. I shook my head at how he had lost all of my trust and respect in so little time. Not that he had much of it, anyways. I always knew something wasn't right about him. I never looked very deep into it. I didn't care enough to. I had only cared about Sonic. Silly me, if only I hadn't have been so blind...

"How did you escape anyways?"

"Heh... You claim to know this place better than the back of your hand, all you have ever said was I'll never escape. When I finally do, you don't know how? You left the dog unguarded and the bone near."

"...What?"

I shook my head, again. Shadow owned his own, personal prison for Sonic and I, mostly for Sonic, and didn't even know what that meant? It was basic information. The dog, which holds the keys in it's mouth, was left unguarded, and there was a bone near Sonic to lure it close enough to get the keys. Of course, there was no dog here, so... I had no idea what Sonic was referring to.

"I suppose you know what he means?" Shadow asked, suddenly looking at me.

I nodded once. "I'm not telling you, though."

"And why not?"

"I don't owe you any favours."

"Well, then I guess I don't owe you any, either."

"Oh, no, you do. You owe me my freedom. You kidnapped me! Now you're putting me in your little jail? You're insane, Shadow! Insane! What will everyone think when they find out you're keeping your fiancé... Well, ex fiancé in a prison cell?"

Shadow laughed a very, very evil laugh. "What makes you think anyone will find out?"

"Who do you think you are? You had nothing but luck to keep Sonic here for ten years. You'll never keep us both here. Never!"

"You underestimate my power, Amy. I thought you of all people knew me better."

"There are so many sides of you, Shadow, no one will ever be able to tell which is real. No one will ever know the real you."

X

~ Six weeks later~

"Sonic, it's been a month and a half. Where is your brain?" I said to the blue hedgehog in the cell next to mine. He was supposed to come up with a way to get us out of here. We should have been out already. "Can't we get out the same way you did before?"

"It's not... easy."

"Hey, I don't care about easy. I just want out. Give me possible, that's all I need."

"Several things I've thought out are impossible."

I groaned and laid down on the cold floor. "Think of something possible!"

"I'm trying. I don't see you thinking out any plans."

"Want to hear my plan? I can easily get Shadow to let me out. It'll take a great deal of acting, but we can pull it off. Then I can let you out, later... somehow."

"You might be onto something. Keep going."

I smiled.

"I hate you!" I yelled, as loud as I could, "I never want to see you again!"

"That's too bad, we're stuck here together!" Sonic yelled back, just as loud. "There's no way out, so you might as well suck it up and learn to like me!"

"I'll never like you! You're horrible! Shadow is twice the man you'll ever be!"

Sonic said nothing in return, he looked hurt. "Sorry," I whispered. "Part of the plan."

Sonic nodded, but remained silent.

A second later, Shadow walked through the doors.

"Shadow!" I yelled, jumping up onto my feet, "I've never been so happy to see you in my life."

He raised an eyebrow in response.

"You were right. About Sonic. About everything. He's no good. I'm sorry I didn't listen to you, before."

"Uh-huh.." he didn't believe a word I was speaking. I had to kick it up a notch. "What exactly happened?"

I put my head down, and covered my face with my hand. "I don't want to talk about it," I tried as hard as I could to try to cry. Thankfully, I managed to get a few tears to fall.

"What did you do, faker?"

I heard Sonic growl from his cell. "I didn't do anything."

"Liar!" I yelled, forcing out more tears.

"This isn't my problem," Shadow said. He turned around, about to leave.

"Shadow! Wait!" I called after him.

He stopped in the doorway, looking back at me.

"I'm sorry, Shadow. I... I love you." I almost threw up then and there at the thought of having any feelings for him other than hatred.

"You love me? Why did it take you so long to see that?"

"His fault," I pointed to the innocent blue hedgehog in the cell next to mine. "He interrupted our wedding and got me confused. Then he kidnapped me! If he hadn't come back at all, we would be happily married right now."

After a few moments of thinking about it, he decided to let me out. "What have I got to loose? I love you, after all. You'll stay by my side twenty-four seven. Got it?"

I nodded, as he opened the cell door, freeing me from the horrible mini prison. I would have gone insane if I was in there another day.

I threw my arms around Shadow and thanked him. I had to keep up this act, no matter how disgusting it was.

I kept close to Shadow as he walked out, and headed to see Eggman. I didn't dare look back at Sonic. Shadow would probably know it was fake from the very second I turned my head.

Shadow headed up to where Eggman was. He wouldn't let me close enough to hear their conversation, but I wasn't allowed to be far enough that I would be out of his sight. I watched him intently making sure I wouldn't miss what he did with the keys he still held.

X

Shadow and I arrived home... Home... His home, sometime after eleven. It was late, and I was tired. I hadn't taken my eyes off of him for hours. Since he let me out of the cell, some time ago. He still had the keys on him.

We headed into the bedroom, and as I collapsed on the bed, Shadow headed in the bathroom. He came out a second later without the keys. I acted like I didn't notice. I quickly got changed into my awaiting pajamas and climbed in the bed. Shadow did the same.

I waited for an hour before I got up. I went straight to the bathroom and began searching. Soon enough, in a bottle of pills, I found aa key. The key. Incase I woke Shadow up, I flushed the toilet. I needed a good alibi.

I went back to the bedroom, and headed for the stairs as quietly as I could. Unfortunately, I wasn't quiet enough.

"Amy? What are you doing?" Shadow's groggy voice called out to me.

"I can't sleep. I'm going to make some tea, I'll be back up soon."

"Alright."

I quietly sighed in relief. I hurried out the door and started the car. I had to get to Sonic as soon as possible

X

I ran into the incredibly large building and made my way up several stories to get to Sonic. I burst through the door and opened his cell. "Sonic," I said, shaking him lightly. "Sonic, wake up! We can leave, now!"

Sonic slowly woke up, and sat up. "Amy..."

"Hey. I don't know how much time we have, so we should probably... go..."

"Right," he jumped up on his feet. "Where to? We should go somewhere Shadow would never think to look."

"What about staying in the city?"

Sonic shook his head, "Shadow will want to look where he thinks we think he won't look, which would probably be the city."

I frowned. "Okay, what about at the bottom of an ocean?"

"Also predictable."

"A cave?"

"Done it."

I sighed, "alright Mr. Smarty pants, you think of somewhere."

"You look tired."

I nodded, "I am."

He picked me up, "how about I run us to wherever the wind blows, and you can sleep?"

I smiled, "alright. Promise we'll go somewhere where Shadow will never find us?"

"I promise. I'll never let him get us again. Nothing else will ever hurt or come between us. I promise. I'm sorry. I love you, Ames."

"I love you too Sonic," I managed, before closing my eyes and falling asleep in his arms.

A/N: Weeeeeell, that's it. Sorry for how lame this is, o.O I lost all inspiration with this, and I haven't really any idea where it's headed. It's also gotten boring for me, so, I had to end it. Hehe