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Here it is everybody, the chapter you've been waiting for, Rose's past is finally revealed!!

Chapter 13: Retrieving the sample/Rose's past

Amy and Blackout had made it out of the castle like building and are now heading to where the sample is waiting for them.

"So... For a mission that was meant to be for Rose and Vengeance this is sort of easy." She said to a confident looking Blackout who was nodding his head slowly as she talked.

"I admit that this mission is reasonably easy but I'm sure the boss had his reasons to send Rose and Vengeance along with us." He replied to her, it was her turn to nod her head while he talked.

"Maybe he sent them to watch over us, you know like a guardian perhaps?" Blackout nodded before replying.

"Perhaps he did, ah here we are." He looked at the abandoned warehouse that stood in front of him, he glanced around, wasn't there supposed to be some creatures guarding the specimen? He looked at the watch; apparently there were approximately 10 of them guarding the front doors... well? Where were they? He looked at the watch again, thinking that there must be something wrong with it, he was about to check to see if there might have been a malfunction or something but it was then that a gust of wind went past him, he immediately looked around. But he found nothing. Amy was now staring at him, confused to why he was so jumpy, until that is when she felt something behind her. She spun round quickly, her gun already out to shoot the creature that was behind her, but she too saw nothing. Was she going mad? The happiness that she felt when around Blackout was now obviously getting to her. All of a sudden she was flung to the side, Blackout immediately went to her side, and he looked around to spot the attacker but saw nothing. Knowing that these creatures cannot be seen to the naked eye, standing around will only put them in danger, he grabbed her hand and ran into the warehouse, he didn't ran at his full speed fearing that Amy might get suspicious but he ran fast enough that the creatures won't be able to catch them. Not caring any more if more creatures will see them, he ran up the stairs and ran around all the floors, all they had to do now was to get the sample then get out of here to meet Rose and Vengeance how hard can that be? He was now carrying Amy bridal style but still he kept running, if he kept running he figure that the creatures wouldn't only be able to catch them but they wouldn't be able to make an attack that would hit them. He stopped when he saw the specimen in a glass box in a middle of a room; he quickly zoomed in, placed Amy down for a second and smashed the glass, a hooting sound went off at that moment figuring that that set off the alarm system, he quickly grabbed the specimen and gave it to Amy. She gave him a questioned look and was about to question his actions but he picked her up again bridal style and zoomed out of the warehouse, taking good care not to run into any invisible creatures that might want to catch them. Without another thought he ran back the way they had came to meet Rose and Vengeance. After a while he had stopped running and looked back to see if some creatures were following them, he listened carefully, straining his senses to find even the littlest noise that might be a creature, finding none he sighed in relief, but he couldn't help but think that them getting away just like that was too easy. Way too easy, but ignoring that fact for now he looked at the staring pink hedgehog that was in his arms, he then blushed as he saw how he was holding her but he didn't put her down. They continued to stare at each other, she couldn't look away and neither could he. 'Would it be so wrong to love a stranger?' She thought, she remembered feeling this way before, but that was with Sonic, she didn't want to make that mistake again. But doesn't love require some risks?

"Umm... I should..." He placed her down on her feet, they both were blushing as they walked all the way back, and enjoying the fact they were alone together. Blackout took out his communicator and contacted a chopper that would meet them at the extraction point, it wasn't long before they reach the cave that Rose and Vengeance were in, but what they saw was one thing they wouldn't forget easily. Rose was lying on of the bags that either she or Vengeance had brought for the mission. Rose was as pale as a ghost, as Vengeance was trying his best to keep Rose stable, noticing Amy and Blackout Vengeance spoke.

"Have you got the specimen?" he snapped at the two who were gawping at Vengeance and Rose. Blackout immediately nodded not wanting any trouble from the annoyed hedgehog. Silence filled the air as they looked at Rose; they had never seen her look so venerable, so weak. Every now and then Rose would shake violently but Vengeance would try his best to keep her under control.

"The chopper's on its way." Amy said, breaking the silence that was in the air. Vengeance just grunted while keeping his attention to Rose. The silence continued for a while, until they heard the chopper coming their way. Seeing that the chopper had landed, the remaining hedgehogs (that were conscious) decided on who should bring what.

"I'll carry Rose, you two carry the bags." Vengeance stated while carrying Rose, bridal style. At this point the other two hedgehogs didn't want to complain to Vengeance about the fact that they had to carry the bags since the look on his face said that he wasn't in the mood to be arguing with them. Carefully each one of them climbed in, Vengeance still holding Rose protectively in his arms, looking around as if searching for any other dangers that might hurt Rose and send her to her death. Amy and Blackout continued to stare at Vengeance and Rose, both feeling such sympathy for the both of them, neither of them had seen the pair like this, and to be honest it scared them both. For what seemed hours, the chopper finally landed back at the extraction point at Angels 4 Hell. Everything seemed a blur after they got out from the chopper, as Vengeance was shouting at the men around them to get Rose to the infirmary. Lastly he looked at the pair that was staring at him. "You two on the other hand can get that sample to the scientist in the west end of the building, you know where that is, right Amy?" he asked the stunned Amy who could do nothing but nod her head. "Good, if you need me I'll be training." He said as he walked off to the training facility. Both Blackout and Amy just stood there, gawping at what Vengeance had just said.

"Why I ought to kill him where he stands!!" the enraged Amy growled at where Vengeance last stood. "How could he just say that while Rose is in the infirmary!! Screw this." She passed the specimen to one of the remaining members around the chopper. "Take this to the west end. Come on Blackout, we're visiting Rose!" she stomped to the infirmary with Blackout close behind. 'Well at least she isn't mad at me.' He thought as they came to the door which held Rose inside. Amy knocked on the door once before a doctor came to the door.

"May I help you?" he said calmly unaware of Amy's rage.

"We demand to see Rose, the pink hedgehog that came in shortly when we arrived at the extraction point". Said Amy while gritting her teeth, trying her best to contain the anger within her, hearing Amy's tone the man became scared and unsure if he should tell her what Vengeance's demands were.

"I'm s-sorry Miss, but the man who brought her gave s-specific I-instructions not to let anyone interfere with the patient's rest." The man finally said, 

slightly sweating at the look in Amy's eyes. Behind her, Blackout tried his best to keep Amy calm but to no avail. "I'm s-sorry Miss, but we can't let you through." Amy growled at what he had said and brought her hammer to his attention. The man who stood before them swallowed hard. Should he let them through? He remembered that if he did then Vengeance would have his head, but from the look of things, either way he was going to get hurt, as he saw that Amy had a tighter grip on her hammer, as she tried very hard not to let her anger get the better of her. The man sighed before opening the door fully so that Amy and Blackout could step inside but before he could a blue hedgehog with red highlights stopped in front of the pair, making them jump slightly at the sight of Vengeance standing in front of them.

"Well, well what do we have here?" he asked to no one in particular. Amy growled once more, making him chuckle. "I should have known that you would be stubborn enough to go see Rose when she should be resting." He turned his attention to the quivering doctor behind him "also I should have known that someone like you would be intimidated by a pink fluff." He smirked as Amy tried to swing her hammer in an attempt to hit him, naturally he stopped her attack, as he held her hammer so that she wouldn't be able to withdrew it and would have another attempt. He looked at Blackout who had a frown on his face, as he had deep concern to what Vengeance was about to do to Amy, noticing this, his smirk widened. "You should be aware of this one, Blackout she is as feisty as Rose." He threw Amy back a bit so that she would lose balance and so that Blackout would catch her. He was about to say something until the doctor spoke.

"If I may, the two guests may see the patient in about a week's time, after all she is in a very critical condition." Vengeance smirked at the fuming Amy.

"You heard what the doctor said Amy, you may see Rose in a week's time, so I suggest that you should leave Rose to rest for now." He grinned out the last bit as he walked away from the pair and back to his training.

Two days later...

'How strange, I seem to be alive. Is that possible? I was sure I was dying or at least at the brink of death. No matter, I will continue with my training as planned.' She opened her eyes and saw darkness; she tried to sit up but was held back by something, she wriggled her arms. Everything seems to be moveable, so why can't she sit up? Her train of thought however was cut short when she heard someone chuckling in the darkness. She froze. Where was she? And what/who was that? Just then the lights turned on and there stood Vengeance, she growled at the sight of him once her eyesight adjusted to the light. She wanted to lunge at him, but as before, something held her in place. She looked at herself and saw what was holding her back. Around her arms was many chains that bound her to the bed that she was in, she knew that this was his doing, she glanced at him and sure enough he was smirking like he usually does when things went his way.

"What did you do to me?" his smirk widened when she asked him this, obviously amused by her question.

"Me? I did nothing but protect yourself from yourself." She frowned at him.

"I must tell you that I hate mind games so tell me, where am I? And why am I bound to this bed!?" She demanded her fist shaking with fury.

"First of all, you're in the infirmary. And-"

"LIKE HELL I AM!! IF I WAS IN THE IMFIRMARY THEN I WOULDN'T BE CHAINED TO THE BED!!" she yelled at him, cutting him off from his explanation. A frown was replaced by his smirk that he had on his face as he frowned at her tone.

"Think about it Rose, I know that it takes you 2 days to heal from anything, but that doesn't necessary mean that your fully healed. Also I know that you would be stubborn enough to get back to training once you awoke so I had the doctors to put those on your arms. In a way, I'm helping you get fully healed. You should be thanking me." His frown deepened as she tried to wriggle out of the hold, but to no avail. "Stop your struggling, you're only going to injure yourself even further." He said while folding his arms, trying to make her see sense.

"For the last time, I don't need your help, I don't need anyone!! And who says I'm trying to wriggle out of the hold?" she reach for her belt, but found that it wasn't there! She searched for her backup weapon, but only to find that her spare weapon was gone too! She growled when Vengeance chuckled, he lifted the belt that he had hidden, and smirked once again at her expression. But then was taken aback by what he saw in her eyes. Pure hatred.

"Give that back to me." She spoke slowly while gritting her teeth together, her fists clenched, her eyes looking around for something she could throw at him. He looked at the belt in his hand, looking for what was so special about such a thing. He was about to give up when he spotted something, something that he would've missed if he wasn't looking carefully. There in silver colouring, on one of her throwing stars were two words, but even though it was two words, it seem to mean everything to her, because there in silver colouring were the words 'Happy Birthday'. He looked at her; her eyes were so much different than usual, like before he saw pure hatred but they weren't for the same reason as usual, it was like that the belt meant a lot to her, but why exactly? She was desperately trying her best to get free; she shook the chains roughly, hoping that all her time training wasn't for nothing, but the chains were too hard to break. She was about to try again when her belt landed on the bed in front of her. She froze once again. Did he just give her belt back? Just like that? Wasn't he going to make her beg for it or something? She looked up from her belt to question his strange behaviour but to only find that he was gone. She looked back at her belt, picked it up and wrapped it around herself. And for some strange reason, she felt safe, like before, before she joined Angels 4 Hell, back when she was with him. To be honest she would be able to break free now that she had her weapons back, but what Vengeance had said stuck in her mind. 'May be staying here will do me some good' she thought as she laid back and tried to get comfortable despite the chains that held her to the bed.

The remaining 5 days later...

A week had finally passed and Amy was finally allowed to see Rose. Blackout went with her just in case her anger got the better of her. Although when she saw Rose in chains, she finally exploded.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!" Rose looked up from sharpening her throwing stars and throwing knives to see an angry Amy. She then realized that she was still in chains and found out what Amy's anger was all about.

"Oh, this? It's nothing really." She tried to reassure Amy as she couldn't get up and calm her down herself, she tried to calm her down with words, hopefully that would be enough. But of course she was wrong, before Blackout could calm Amy down; she was trying to get Rose free from the chains that bound her to the bed.

"You shouldn't do that you know." Came a voice behind the three.

"Vengeance, did you do this to Rose?" Blackout calmly said, while keeping Amy from doing something that she would later regret.

"If you must know, I was helping her." He replied to the confused pair, he then noticed that Rose was covering her eyes, knowing what was about to come next.

"HELPING HER?! HOW ARE YOU HELPING HER BY CHAINING HER TO A BED!!" Amy yelled at him as he desperately tried his best to cover his ears while trying to get his hearing back. Noticing that Vengeance's patience was wearing thin, Rose thought it was her turn to help him.

"Actually, by chaining me to the bed I would be able to be fully healed instead of beating myself up every time I train." She said calmly while Amy raised an eyebrow at Vengeance.

"Is this true?" she said slowly, her voice in pure shock. The deafened blue hedgehog nodded his head.

"That's what I've been trying to tell you..." he started to mutter something under his breath, thankful that Amy couldn't hear him. Rose sighed slightly, glad for the fact that Amy was no longer screaming. She looked at her for a moment, thinking that it's time to finally tell her of her past life.

"Amy, I think it's time for me to tell you about my past life." As soon as the three hedgehogs heard that they forgot all about the previous argument and crowded around her. Amy being closest to her, Blackout a little further away and Vengeance was leaning against the wall being the furthest away from her, but his eyes held the same interest as Amy and Blackout. "But remember no one says anything out of this room got it?" The three hedgehogs nodded their heads. She sighed before beginning her story. "My parents were owners of two major companies. That's right; I was the rich kid that everyone wanted to be, I had money, food, clothes and a loving family what could be better? But of course since when did life became so easy? My parents thought that the opposition might kidnap me in exchange for their blueprints so they thought they might as well get me a bodyguard for my own protection. I was only 7 when they decided this so I didn't really fully understand what was going on but, I understood enough. When he came, I was surprised, the bodyguard they had chosen was only a year older than me, even though ridiculous as it sounds, and he was obviously well experience since my parents had great trust in him. He didn't seem like a bodyguard, he was kind, friendly, everything that a bodyguard shouldn't be and before I knew it, we were best friends" She took a deep breath before continuing, to open up like this was a hard thing to do, especially since she kept this hidden from everyone for so long. "Two months had passed and I developed feelings for him, I started to take more of an interest in him then before. He usually had frequent training sessions, and even though I had a busy routine I always found myself waiting for him." She paused, now thinking that it wasn't such a good idea to tell Amy of past. She glanced at the three hedgehogs that were waiting patiently for her to continue. Not wanting to hear their complaints, she thought it'd be best if she'd continued. "One night, I had trouble sleeping; I thought I saw a shadow moving across the room and like I said before I was 7 when this happened, so I thought it might have been a 'monster' coming to get me." She lifted her hands to make quotation marks with her fingers, to prove her point, seeing Amy nod, she carried on. "I had made whimpering noises at first, trying to get somebody's attention, but knowing that no one is going to help me, I rushed into his room next door to mine. My parents thought that it would be best if our rooms were next door to each other making my safety even more secure."

Flashback

"Danny?! Danny wake up!!" she shook him gently not wanting him to be mad at her for interrupting his sleep, so she decided to roll him out of bed instead. He landed with a 'thump!' and was awake in seconds.

"Who?-What?!-Where?!" he was confused for a moment and had to look around to see where he was, looking at his expression she giggled. Hearing the sound his head snapped to her, he raised an eyebrow, wondering why she was in his room 

and why she had woke him up. "Rose, what's wrong? Everything alright?" he stood in front of her, his eyes checking her over for any injuries.

"I think I saw something moved in my room, I'm sure that a shadow moved." She said as she watched his eyes grow more and more serious.

"Do you have any idea what it could be?" he asked innocently.

"A scary monster," she paused, "with a shadow..." he rolled his eyes, not believing that she had woke him up thinking that there was a monster in her room.

"There is no monster in your room so let's just go back to sleep okay?" he said as he climbed back in his bed. Rose pulled his arm in effort to get him back out of bed.

"Well could you at least check before I go back to bed, please?" she asked as politely as she could. He sighed before climbing out of bed.

"Alright, alright but if there's nothing there then you better be sorry for waking me up at this time." He said as he yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He was supposed to make it as a threat but instead he just made it as if it was a statement. He walked over to her room and stopped at her door. "Whatever happens, stay here." He said to her before stepping inside her room to investigate. A couple of minutes later he came back out to meet her, his eyes looking very tired. "Rose," his voice also seemed tired. "There is nothing in your room," he yawned once more, "goodnight Rose." He said as he walked passed her, he was about to enter his room when a hand on his shoulder stopped him.

"Could you at least stay with me tonight?" she asked as sweetly as possible, her hand still on his shoulder.

"You know that your parents will not allow it." He said as he turned his whole body so that he was facing her.

"Please," she begged, "you can leave early in the morning before my mum checks on me." She said trying to reassure him. He rubbed his eyes once more desperately trying not to fall asleep in the middle of the conversation.

"Fine," he said finally admitting defeat "but where am I supposed to sleep?" he asked curiously.

"In my bed, next to me of course, why, you thought I was going to make you sleep on the floor?" she asked him with a raised eyebrow.

"I thought you might want me to." He said as he shrugged his shoulders. She looked at him and smiled.

"Whatever gave you that idea?" She said as she pulled him in her room and climb into bed, he soon followed, never realising that she had such a huge bed. And there they stayed till the next morning.

End of Flashback

Amy and Blackout both stared at Rose for a moment without blinking.

"All that time you didn't..." she left the sentenced hanging for Rose to respond.

"Didn't what?" she asked the other pink hedgehog, her head tilted in a dog like way as if confused by what its master had told her.

"You didn't think..." he too left the sentence hanging as if reading Amy mind he continued to where Amy had left her sentence. Rose's eyes widened realizing what Amy and Blackout were implying. Vengeance couldn't help but chuckle at her expression, just because he was at a distance, doesn't mean that he wasn't observant.

"You actually thought that I would think that when I was 7 years old?!" her eyes had narrowed and her usual frown was on her face once more, as soon as 

Amy and Blackout saw her expression, they both shrunk in their seat, not wanting to say anything else.

"Anyway, ever since that day, he continued to sleep with me every night since he thought that I would still be afraid of 'the monster' therefore he usually gets up before my parents check on me every morning. After all my parents would get the wrong idea if they find me and him sleeping in the same bed." She explained after she tried very, very hard not to strangle both Amy and Blackout.

Flashback

On one summer night a young nine year old pink hedgehog was running away from a blue hedgehog with light blue highlights, but of course with ease he caught her easily. The pink hedgehog giggled, at the look on the blue hedgehog's face, he seemed extremely pissed.

"Rose," he said after she stopped giggling "please get to bed, your parents will kill me if they found out your up this late." He said trying to make his voice as serious as he could even though he was enjoying the little game they were playing.

"Can't we play another game?" she asked him sweetly "pwease?" he sighed at her.

"No you can't, now I'm asking you nicely, please go to bed, don't make me carry you all the way there." He threatened.

"But I'm scared, what if I get kidnapped or what if something else happened to me." She said try her best to hide the fear in her voice, his face softened at her tone.

"Look," he crouched slightly so that they were eye level "I promise that no harm will come to you, okay?" the pink hedgehog nodded her head fully understanding his promise, "and besides," he straightened himself up "that's what I'm here for, remember?" she once again nodded.

"You promise?" she said loving to play this little game, he nodded unaware of her intent, "pwomise?" she said again but this time in a baby voice that usually drove him insane. He frowned, now knowing her little game.

"Now don't start that again." He stated simply. She giggled

"But you promise right?" she said her voice now a little worried. She held out her little finger to him, a gesture for a promise.

"Yes I promise." He said as he held out his little finger, their little fingers locked together. He had now pinky swore a custom that little children do for a promise such as themselves on that particular day.

End of Flashback

Rose closed her eyes and was now talking with her eyes closed, as if she was trying to relive the experience again.

"But of course, things change therefore when I turned 8, everything changed."

Flashback

Today was her 8th birthday, on this particular day she was looking forward to the presents that she was getting because lately, she hasn't been telling anyone what she wanted mainly because that there is only one thing that she truly wanted. She wanted 'him'. She sighed as she thought about him while getting dressed, she hadn't told him her feelings yet but she knew that he knows, the trouble was, she wasn't sure if he actually like her or not, therefore she assumed that he 'liked' her. If only she could hear the words from his own lips. She let out another sigh before opening her door and climbing down the stairs, she stepped into the living room to find all her presents placed neatly on the table in front of her. Naturally she was shocked, she didn't expect this much, but of course some of the presents were from the staff as well and the maids that usually tend her throughout the day. A bright smile appeared 

on her face, as she sat on a chair and eagerly opened the first present that was close to her. She didn't expect anyone to come and watch her, after all, her parents were at work, the housemaids and the rest of the staff were doing their duties and of course 'he' was training as usual. Her smile widened as she received her first gift, a game console that she wanted for some time now, yes that's right she was a tomboy, she never had a liking to dolls and makeup and other useless things that girly girls do in their time, therefore she found some things that interested her. Boy stuff. For some strange reason she became fascinated at the game consoles and the violence that each game held, also she was interested in things such as violence and blood, sometimes gore. Therefore she had more friends which are boys rather than girls. Proud with her first gift she set it aside for now, placing it carefully to one side seeing as it was very precious in a way. She then looked on to the other gifts, deciding that she was going to open all of them anyway, she ripped through the paper of all of them and stared at the presents that were revealed. There was a bike, books, comics, a drawing book, a laptop, more books and finally a mobile phone. She smiled again, proud of the gifts, just when she was about to take them all up to her room, she heard someone walking next to her, she looked up and her eyes widened. It was 'him'. Her heart was pounding hard because there he was, standing next to her, shirtless. She swallowed hard as her eyes took a glimpse at his body. Her hormones was taking over, she stared at him until he spoke.

"So I see that you've opened all your presents then." He said as he looked at all the wrapping paper on the floor. She nodded quickly, her eyes still on him. He leaned in so that their faces were reasonable close. "But you missed one" he whispered, she swallowed hard yet again.

"W-where?" she asked nervously. He grinned at her as he stood up straight and pointed at the far corner. She turned her head and saw a long grey box leaned up at the corner, in the shadows. Forgetting the other presents she crawled over to the last present, picking it up carefully she laid it on the floor and opened the lid. She was confused when she saw what was inside. There, was a leather belt neatly wrapped in some tissue paper, she glanced up at him, confused by what she was given. He simply pointed to the little box that was also inside the present, she looked at it and shook it slightly, hearing a little rattle she opened it, her eyes widened. It was a throwing star, but not an ordinary throwing star; since it had the words 'happy birthday' engraved on it. Even though she was grateful for the gift, she was still confused to why she had got such an unusual gift, she looked at him with a confused expression, seeing this he grinned once again.

"Time for your first training lesson." He said simply.

End of flashback

Amy and Blackout was once again shocked, noticing their faces she sent them a 'what?' expression.

"You were training at such a young age," Vengeance said simply knowing what Amy and Blackout was shock about. "That's why these two are in so much shock." he said sarcastically as he glanced at the still two gawping pair, rolling his eyes at them before returning his attention back to Rose who was also rolling her eyes at Amy and Blackout. Ignoring them, she continued with her story.

"When I was 9 he hurt me in a way I didn't know was possible." Amy noticed that Rose sighed slightly while looking away.

Flashback

She was now 9 years old, still the same young girl but with a difference, she had toughed herself up thanks to his training. She had now concluded that her favourite weapon is the throwing star that he had given her last year, even though she had one to start with, at least it's better than none. She knew that if her parents find out that they would send him away but of course for some strange reason he took the risk into helping her. Why? Was it because he 

actually likes her? Or was it because that he sees her as a snivelling weakling therefore he had to do something about it? Either way, they were spending more time together and she loved every minute of it. She was heading her way to meet him, but instead of finding a calm looking hedgehog, she found an annoyed one. He seemed extremely pissed; actually scratch that, beyond pissed.

"Umm... are you okay?" she asked nervously, she had never seen him like this before and it scared her.

"I'm fine!" he snapped at her, she took a step back, he was angry about something but what? Since she didn't want to push it, she decided to walk to the training area that they usually practised in. He soon followed afterwards. After a few hours, she was having great difficulty in learning a move that he was trying to teach her, finally he snapped. "For god's sake Rose, why can't you do this simple move." She flinched at his words; he has never raised his voice at her before. Does this mean that he hates her? "What's the hell's the matter with you? You know what, your pathetic you know that?" One blow to her heart, "You're a pathetic, miserable weakling who only depends on everyone except yourself!!" another blow to her heart, she tried to protest but he cut her off before she could even start talking, "I can't believe how I can stand you, you and your mouth are really annoying, can't you keep your mouth shut for once in your life?!"Another blow, "You know what? I wish I'd never have met you, I wish you wasn't in my life, I wish you were gone for good!!" hearing that her heart simply broke, she could even hear the smash of heart, or what's now left of her heart that was now broken to pieces. A single tear rolled down her cheek, she suddenly felt cold and numb all over, but even though everywhere else was numb she could feel the heartache in the empty hole that has now replaced where her heart once had been. Naturally on instincts she ran, she didn't care anymore, she just ran as fast as she could. The tears was now blurring her vision as she tripped over many objects while she tried desperately to reach her room, at least it was one place away from 'him'. She ran up the stairs, tripping over them constantly, she prayed that no one was in her room, knowing full well that a maid or two might be in there doing their job, but still it was a risk that she would have to take for now. She burst through her door and had a quick look around, seeing no one else inside, she immediately locked the door. She then jumped onto her bed and just cried for hours and hours.

End of flashback

By now Rose was keeping her eyes away from Amy's sympathetic glare and Blackout's once again shocked face. 'God, he's worse than me.' Blackout thought remembering that he was like the person who hurt Rose all those years ago. Rose could practically feel the stares from the three hedgehogs, even without looking at them she could tell that Amy had a sympathetic look on her face while Blackout would be shocked, but as for Vengeance, he would have an emotionless look on his face, like he usually does. How she hated that memory so, she hated being so weak back then, letting a simple male hurt her with words, how weak and pathetic. She growled, letting her mental defences take over from the delicate memory. Hearing her growl surprised Amy, she didn't expect her to be over the memory that quick. Vengeance kept his usual expression, not once changing it, Amy noticed this, and 'did he expect this or something?' she thought to herself. Either way, Rose just carried on.

"Since then, I stayed at my room for days, not drinking or eating anything. Occasionally I would hear 'him' walking up to my locked door and apologising for his behaviour the other day, but of course I didn't care anymore, I mean saying sorry isn't really going to help me then was it? Either way I refuse to come out of my room, until one day I finally got my thoughts straight. I decided to leave my so called happy home and just go somewhere else; after all he didn't want me there with him and I didn't want to be a burden to him any longer. Ever since I had fallen for him I wanted to make him happy, so in a way I was. He wanted me to leave him alone then fine; I won't interfere with his life any further. But of course it wasn't that single action that made me want to leave in the first place; there was a time when it was on Valentine's Day. I made a homemade chocolate cake just for him, and well to make a long story short he didn't like the present that I gave him, I had to put it in the trash since he had an allergy to one of the ingredients that I had used. Keeping that in mind I just left, only to bring a few of my belongings such as my weapons since you never know when you might need them and of course the basics, food, clothing ect. When I was in the woods that were beyond my house, I came across a common thief, I wanted to fight but I couldn't. The reason that I fought was for 'him' and so that I could impress him whenever we did a sparring match but now that he was gone from my life, I just couldn't fight anymore, therefore I lost. I also lost my right eye that day." She shrugged off their stares as she continued. "It was then that I met your friend," she looked at Amy who had a confused look on her face. "The black hedgehog, I believe Shadow was his name." Blackout was shocked but tried his best not to show it as he pretended not to know him, Amy on the other hand just couldn't take it anymore.

"You met Shadow?" Amy asked, as she tried to be sure.

"Sure I did, we got on as friends. He continued my training, and taught me how to fight without using my right eye." She explained, calming Amy down a little. 'So that's what Shadow was hiding from me, I knew he had something to do with Rose.' Blackout thought, as he tried his best to not know who Shadow was.

"Is this 'Shadow' one of your friends Amy?" he asked her who immediately turned her attention to him. She nodded.

"He was one of my many friends back in my past life." She stated simply as she wanted to continue to listen to Rose's story. She turned her attention back to Rose and nodded to tell her to continue. Taking the hint Rose continued, not caring if anyone listened anymore. But of course, Vengeance was watching her with silent eyes.

"Shadow trained me for a year before he left me to some human." She folded her arms as if she was still angry with what Shadow did to her. "I easily escaped and got in Angels 4 Hell." She paused for a moment. "Vengeance recruited me." Everyone immediately looked at Vengeance who just 'hmphed' and looked away.

"So what if I did recruit her? That doesn't mean that you have to look at me like that." He said before facing the three hedgehogs.

"It's not that, it's just well..." Amy trailed off not sure how to put it.

"It's just that you and Rose don't get on with each other but you're the person who recruited her in the first place." Blackout said, as he finished off Amy's sentence.

"Of course we don't get along, but who said that she isn't fun to annoy?" he grinned at them before jumping out of the way from a throwing star. "See what I mean." He leaned back on the wall once again. Rose looked away with her arms still folded. But then all of a sudden, the lights went out. There was silence, no one making a sound, but when the lights finally went on, Rose was gone, and so was the throwing star that she had thrown.

There you go everyone! Rose's past is finally revealed!! But what do you think? Did you guess it right? R&R everyone!!