When Shadow was done with Amy, his cold facade washed back over. He leaned over Amy, whose pink fur was now covered in bite marks that were turning blue, "You'll have all the time in the world to start working for yourself when I'm through with you." He hissed. She looked up at him sadly, there was a sudden darkness in her eyes. At some point, half way through, he had started getting a bit more aggressive during their intimacy. She watched him walk out of the room and into the bathroom to shower. She sighed and fixed her hair, putting her clothes back on as she went back to her own room. She opened the door and shut it behind her, surprised to see Cream still awake, she waved to her friend and sat down beside her. Cream turned to ask Amy how it went, when she noticed the dark look in Amy's eyes. Cream paused the movie she was watching and turned to her, "Amy? What happened? Did Shadow ... do that... again?"

Amy nodded, "Yeah, but guess what Cream? I got asked to be the female lead for a drama in the upcoming fall so... I guess it was worth it." Amy whispered to herself, but was unsure in if she believed it was so worth it. Cream hugged her friend tightly, knowing Amy didn't wan't to talk about Shadow at all.

"Well, I'm glad for you Amy... If you're happy, then I'm happy."

Amy leaned her head on her friends shoulder, "Thanks Cream. For being my friend."

"Of course Amy..." Cream opened her mouth again hesitantly, "Hey Amy, why did you decide to enter the entertainment industry in the first place?"

Amy's eyes opened slightly, "How funny. Aunt and Uncle and even cousin Blaze asked me that same question. After everything that happened with mom and dad, the last thing they wanted was for me to fall under the influence of the celebrity life and for my life to get worse. I told them I was going into it to have fun, and they believed me..." Amy bit her lip, "But I lied. I didn't go in for fun. I went in for Shadow." Cream looked at her friend with sad eyes. The things her friend was having to go through for one man.

"Plus, the pay is great." Amy joked, "More money."

"Amy, you don't need more money..."

"Hey, no one complains about having too much money right?"

"Well Amy, just remember I'm here and im your best friend... so you must share it all with me." She giggled teasingly and Amy giggled back.

"Of course Cream, for every four hundred dollars I make, you'll earn a penny." Amy rubbed the rabbit's head and Cream muttered under her breath about how capitalists were nothing but thieves.


Through out the rest of the week, unless she had scenes with him, Amy avoided Shadow like the plague. She didn't go to the social rooms anymore, didn't go play poker, didn't do anything unless it was work and then going back to her hotel room. When she had to eat lunch in the cafe, she always made sure Shadow wasn't in there first, and then she would grab her food to go. If he was, she would leave and come back and get some when he was hopefully gone. But by then all of the good food was already eaten.

Half a month had gone by and the crew actually got to have a three day vacation because Rouge's birthday was coming up. She had invited the whole crew to her birthday party, and said it would be a carnival. She personally invited Amy, saying she hoped the pink hedgehog would go. Amy told her it would be a maybe, depending on her schedule, but she would try to be there for the bats sake. She knew Shadow would be there so she didn't want to go, but at the same time she and Rouge were becoming good friends and she didn't want to let her friend down.

In the end, she decided she wasn't going to go. She had gone and bought an expensive bag for Rouge instead as a gift, and ran to Rouge's hotel room which was on the same floor as Shadow's. Amy knocked on her door and waited for a few seconds, holding a purple bag in her hand. The door opened and Rouge looked so happy, "Amy!" The white bat hugged Amy tightly, "So nice to see you, come in!"

"Oh, I'm afraid I can not stay long." Amy returned the hug, and held up the purple bag. "I'm afraid I will be busy tonight and not able to attend your party, so I got you a little something to say Happy Birthday and I'm sorry for not being able to make it."

"Thanks Amy, you're a doll." She frowned, "However it's not gonna be any fun without you and Cream. Maybe you could come sooner and leave earlier?"

"Rouge, I never knew you were this pushy." Both the girls turned their head to see Shadow standing in front of his door. It seemed as though he was just getting back and about to enter his room. He looked at Amy who instantly looked away. Amy paled and turned to Rouge apologetically, "Sorry, I have to go, Cream is waiting on me. Happy Birthday!" She turned around and walked straight passed Shadow without even sparing him a glance. Rouge looked at her and then back at Shadow he was wearing an angry expression on his face as he watched the pinkette dart down the hallway. She heard him 'tch!' and then slam the door. Her eyes widened as she tried to replay what just went down.

"What the heck just happened?"


That night, Rouge had been walking around the hotel with a glass of red wine in her hand when she spotted Shadow on one of the balcony's smoking. She stopped and glared hard at his back, and then started marching towards him. Shadows ears twitched and he put out his cigarette before turning to the person who had approached him.

"Rouge."

Rouge nodded towards him and sipped her wine as she stood next to him. "Mr Doom and Gloom."

"What do you want?"

"I wanted to talk to you about your behavior. Your emotions seem to becoming more and more unstable."

Shadow scoffed and turned away from her, "It's none of your business."

"Having woman problems, I see?"

Shadow growled this time but Rouge was used to his attitude and behavior by now. He turned to leave and she took it one step further,

"It's Amy isn't it?"

He froze in his tracks, glaring out of the corner of his eye at her.

"When she fell into the pool you didn't even hesitate to jump in after her. I've never seen you "act" like that before. And when we usually shoot, you are always on your phone, not really concerned with what everyone else is doing. But since this production has started you have become more interested in a single corner of the set... where Amy always is."

Shadow turned sharply then to look at her, his teeth gritted, "Rouge, I had no idea you were capable of imagining up such crazy stories." He was angry and she could tell, so she kept pushing his buttons.

"Now now, listen here. Amy is my friend, I care about her like anyone else on this set does. She's become good friends with pretty much everyone. And this afternoon, when Amy was speaking to me, you were angry. Was it because like me, you also know Amy isn't coming to my party because she's avoiding you?"

"Rouge!" Shadow growled. His quills stood on edge and he glared harder, people were starting to look at them from afar.

"Not only are you pissed, you're jealous because Amy actually looked at me when we held a conversation. Amy didn't even look or say hi to you when she passed you in the hallway. So then, like all children do, you threw a tantrum and shut the door. My my, even jealous of women.."

"Nonsense!" This time, he had stormed off, hoping to shake the bat off of his shoulders. She smiled and flew after him, ignoring the cold environment, "Hey, what is Amy to you anyway?"

"I-uh-erm-wha-crazy!" He stammered as he quickened his pace.

"I'm crazy or Amy is crazy?" She asked as she sped up a bit, keeping up with him easily.