Ladies and Gentleman,

Here it is, the final chapter of Taking A Turn, a great request sent in by SoraRose7. This marks the end of my writing or a little while now, and I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has not only read, followed and reviewed my stories but followed me! I really hope you've all enjoyed this story as well as all of my others. Be sure to read and review this final chapter and keep sending in your requests, hopefully I'll get to them in the near future! Sending all my love to everyone here. For the last time, Enjoy!

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Amy didn't sleep that night, seated at his bedside on Tails' office chair, her arms folded as she slouched down, staring between the floor and the unconscious hedgehog. She didn't think she was even blinking, but that was the least of her worries. Some of the gang had gone to sleep upstairs while the others that lived close by went home to go back to bed. Sonia wanted to stay up with the fuchsia hedgehog, but the others insisted she and Manic needed a good night's sleep.

The next morning, everyone woke up and went about their morning routines as normal before headed to the garage, prepared to send Amy to bed. They all walked in around the same time to find the bubble gum teen in almost the exact same position they left her, raising some concerns. They all exchanged timid glances before Tikal walked up to Amy slowly before crouching down so she could look into her red, puffy eyes.

'You haven't slept, have you?' Tikal asked in a hushed voice.

'He could've woken up.' Amy shrugged.

'Sweetie-'

'He could've woken up.' The frustrated heroine cut the peach echidna off.

Tikal nodded to acknowledge Amy's response before rising to her feet and dusting off the invisible dirt before walking back towards the others. The fuchsia hedgehog's eyes flickered over to Sonic and the monitors, checking for any abnormality before turning back to focus her gaze on the ground. Everyone still stood around, wondering if she would say anything else, but nothing came. So, Knuckles gave it a go.

'Amy,' he said in a barely audible tone, causing her to at least turn her eyes to him, 'you don't have to wait here with him. I know how you care for him and all but… he hurt you, and you can blame him-'

'Don't.' Amy said firmly through gritted teeth, averting her eyes.

'Amy, I'm trying to help you.' Knuckles insisted as he moved around in front of her, forcing her to look at him.

'And I'm helping you by telling you to back off!'

It was as though her roar had physically pushed the fiery echidna backwards before he slowly got back up to his feet. He and everyone else felt the sickening and awkward pain shoot through them before they exchanged sad looks again, complying with her request. The gang looked back at her one last time before all leaving the garage, leaving her alone with is how it stayed until late into the night.

By then, she'd only moved to go to the bathroom twice, before resuming her slouched position on the office chair at the navy hedgehog's bedside. It was somewhere around ten when Tails came home, walking through the garage and contemplating leaving her be, but even he knew that just wasn't an option. He drew in nervous breaths before putting up a strong front and headed towards her.

'Are you going to push me away too?' Tails cocked a brow.

'Not if you go away on your own.' Amy spat.

'You don't see it, do you?' Tails began boldly, knowing his plan could either work or go horribly wrong.

'See what?'

'You're turning into him.'

As the kitsune cocked his head towards Sonic – not Sonic, Sonic, but the new Sonic – he knew that was a vicious tactic, but it wasn't untrue. For the past twenty four hours, Amy hadn't been acting that much different to Sonic when he was in his dark form. Tails felt his nerves rise up in his throat as he awaited Amy's response, and was – as horrible as it was – pleasantly surprised.

It worked, he knew that for sure. He could see that shooting pain of realisation flash across her eyes as they lit up in horror before looking up at him, almost in fear. He wanted to comfort her immediately, but he still didn't know what was to come. He gave her a nod, a pained expression on his face before turning on his heel and headed upstairs, leaving her to decide on whether or not she wanted to be comforted now or later. She had brilliant friends that way.

She listened to Tails trudge up the stairs tiredly, before reaching the top and turn out the lights. She figured he was clearly trying to coax her into sleeping, but the glows and beams of the monitors and computers weren't going to let that happen. She did move though, pulling her chair closer to Sonic's side so she was facing him square on. She felt a few shaky breaths slip out as she reached up to trace his hand with her finger tips.

'I know you'll apologise, and so you should. You're not the only one with something to be sorry for, though.' Amy began, whispering to a sleepy Sonic, tears beginning to form, 'I ignored you when I should have made more of an attempt to help. I pushed you over the edge. I'm sorry, Sonic.'

She let out a sob before standing up a little to lean over and gently kiss the edge of Sonic's lips as she caressed his cheek with her thumb. A tear ran down her cheek and dropped onto his nose before she pulled away, the water soaking into his fur before she noticed. She pulled away and stood up straight, knowing there was nothing left she could do but wait for him to wake up and be his normal self… if that was to happen.

She backed away a few steps before turning on her heel and slowly plodded along towards the staircase, desperate for sleep. She wrapped her arms around her stomach and rubbed them to suppress the goose bumps, but she wasn't cold. She felt fresh tears sting her eyes and trickle down her face, the odd sob escape her lips.

Just as she reached the bottom of the stairs stopping to grasp the wall in order to help herself up, the tears in her eyes began to glisten from a bright light reflecting off the walls. It wasn't just a bright light, it was physically warm and… whole. She felt her sob choke up into a gasp as the remaining tears fell from her eyes before whipping her head around to the source of the light. She began walking cautiously towards the bright rays streaming out of her hero hedgehog before breaking out into a jog until she reached his side.

Now that she had a closer look, the place where she had kissed him was glowing, the beaming, gold light slowly spreading out across his lips and cheeks throughout to his quills and down his body. It continued to glow until the light reached every tip of his body before it spewed out into the room, blinding rays spreading out everywhere until Amy had to shield her eyes. She held her arm up until she heard a groan coming from below her as the light faded away, causing her body to snap her arm away so she could see if she was hearing things.

'Argh, my head.' A now royal blue hedgehog moaned as he reached up to rub his temple

'S-Sonic?' Amy whispered, suppressing her sobs.

'Ames?' Sonic's raspy voice asked as he tried to sit up until she held onto him to stay still.

'How do you feel?' She asked with a smile as she began to stroke a few of his quills.

'Well, I have a splitting headache, which I'm guessing has something to do with why I'm struggling to remember anything after… after we fought off the Anti-Mobians?' Sonic cocked his brow.

'It'll come back to you,' Amy nodded, her smile fading, 'the main thing is that you're better now.'

'I am?'

'I'm sure of it.'

Sonic looked at her curiously, wondering what could possibly have been wrong with him? He sat up a little as Amy sat up on the bed with him, continuing to ease his headache as she stroked his fur. He felt a surge of dizziness wash over him, causing him to rest his head on her shoulder as he squinted his eyes shut trying to suppress the pain. He tried to focus on Amy's gentle touch, which definitely helped, until all the memories came flooding back…

'Oh, my God.' Sonic's hushed voice gasped as his head snapped up to look into her eyes.

'What is it?' She asked, concerned.

'I did this to you.' Sonic began as he brought his hand up to the cut on her lip, caressing it once with his thumb before she pulled away, not wanting him to feel guilty. 'Didn't I, Amy?'

'Sonic, it's ok,' Amy smiled, 'I know you didn't-'

'There is absolutely no excuse for what I did.' Sonic cut her off before another memory came back, 'I'm surprised Shadow didn't beat me to within an inch of my life.'

'Sonic, please, what's done is done.' Amy begged before feeling a forceful pull.

Within a second she felt herself buried in his fur, his large arms wrapped around her firmly as she inhaled his scent. He caressed her back with his gloved hands, pecking her forehead as she laced her fingers through his chest fur with her free hand, the other wrapped around his back. Once her breath had finally steadied, they broke away far enough so they could look into each other's eyes comfortably.

'So, will you give me a chance to make it up to you?' Sonic asked, his cocky smile returning.

'How do you plan on doing that?' Amy cocked a brow with a sly smirk.

'Well, we could start with this.'

The cerulean hedgehog took in a nervous breath before swooping in to plant a tender and gentle kiss on her lips, slowly and gradually increasing the intensity. She laced her arms around his shoulders as he pulled her closer to him, both with smiles etched across their lips within the kiss. When they finally had to break apart for air, Sonic pecked her on the check before they began to laugh in each other's arms.

'I guess we should call the others over?' Amy suggested, 'They've been really worried about you. Plus, Cream will be ecstatic to know her theory actually worked.'

'Her theory?' Sonic tilted his head.

'Oh, she thought that the entire princess and the prince scene would- you know what? Never mind. We'll see them all in the morning!' Amy smiled before leaping into his arms again.

The real Sonic's arms.

Goodbye for now, everyone
Keep up all the awesome stories, I still need something amazing to read!
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