"Director Knuckles, I have decided that I am going to kiss Amy for real in this scene."

He had tried to keep quiet, but the gasps of the crew members around him said loud and clear that they had all heard him. They all started whispering to each other. Their eyes all settled on Knuckles and Shadow as more rumors started to float around.

"Shadow usually makes it clear he will kiss no one in dramas. He's even been sued for breaking a contract because he was pressured into doing one."

"He had to pay a lot of money for breaching that contract..."

The Echidna stared at Shadow for a long time, "Um, what do you mean?"

Shadow stood up and made eye contact, "This scene will be a real kiss scene." He turned around quickly, ignoring the jaw dropping yellow fox beside him, "Tails, I shall be in the bathroom." Shadow cooly left the group and walked towards the mens room. Rouge who had been sitting nearby smiled to herself, knowing what he was up to. He paled as he walked past her and dared himself to take a glance. She gave him a teasing smile back and winked. "Go get her," She whispered. He flushed and turned away from her as his steps increased towards the bathroom.

Knuckles jumped out of his chair. This was going to be huge on the news. He bolted to Amy's dressing room and threw open the door, "Miss Rose, for the kissing scene, it is going to be a real kiss!"

Amy, who had been having her make up touched up, turned and looked at Knuckles with disbelief. "A... real kiss?"

"Yes a REAL KISS!" He grabbed her by the shoulders suddenly, trying to encourage her, "Amy, as an actress your most basic skill is professionalism! So when we shoot, don't get nervous! It's just one kiss, but give that kiss all you've got!" He let go and skipped out of the dressing room happily like a school girl. Amy's face turned red as realization set in. She could feel the stares of the other angry actresses and female crew members from far away.

"Shadow's actually going to kiss someone."

"Amy has some luck."

"I wonder if the kiss will involve tongue?"

'French kiss?' Amy thought quickly. She shut her down and slid down it blushing, "French kissing Shadow in front of all those people." Cream came to her friends aid and began shaking the pink hedgehog,

"Amy! You've got to pull yourself together! As your friend and agent, take this as an opportunity to get back at him for all he's done to you. Prove to him that you can breeze through this kiss with ease, and become a great actress!" Amy's scared eyes turned into one of determination as she gave her friend a nod.

"You're right!" Amy stood up, her fist in the air, "I can do this."


The two got back into their positions. Shadow and Amy made eye contact. Her green eyes sparkled and narrowed, ready to challenge him in this game of theirs. She took her spot on set back to the couch. He walked in drunk and she got up to get water and when he grabbed her wrist this time, it was a little harder. He used more strength this time as if he was grabbing something he really wanted. It shocked Amy to the point where she fell onto the couch and he toppled over her. Even though this was different from the script, Knuckles still let it continue. Amy forced her eyes to stare right back into Shadow's. His eyes were dark red and beautiful. They held eye contact for about ten minutes. When Amy thought he was going to lean down and kiss her, she saw his eyes change. They darkened but still held a spark. Amy was so fascinated that she didn't even look away. In his eyes, she saw intense love and pain. Amy felt her heart go numb. And then, Shadow lowered his lips slowly, his lips finally connecting with hers.

A strong current traveled between the two hedgehogs bodies. From the moment their lips touched, he didn't make a single move. Their lips just collided together peacefully. No one made the first move. The crew watched with jaws dropped, and even Knuckles was sitting at his chair, rubbing his hands together, getting more pumped as time went on. That was when Shadow's primal side came out. He pried open Amy's lips with his tongue as he pressed her into the couch further. She moaned and let her fingers pull on his tuff of chest hair. The ebony hedgehog wrapped her tongue with his, and he kissed her harder as their tongues twisted and turned even more together. Amy couldn't tell what was going on anymore as her eyes closed. All she could hear was the sound of their breaths, pants, and moans. He kissed her as though he was going to swallow her up. It was strange that he could only kiss her like this when they were filming. He could poor all of his love and soul into this kiss with the cameras on. After quite some time, the two of them pulled away from each other without breaking eye contact. Shadow took deep breaths and Amy did too, as well as keeping her eyes gently closed.

Just as Knuckles was about to raise his hand to cut the scene, Shadow's hand cupped the side of her face gently. Amy's eyelashes twitched and finally opened slowly. Their eyes finally met again. His hands stroked her face twice as his ruby eyes focused on her jade ones. In that instant, the cold Shadow was gone and Amy could see a more affectionate one. He finally opened his mouth to speak to her,

"Your smile lights up my entire world."

The confession scene was supposed to come after the kiss scene, so instead of stopping Knuckles let it continue, for it seemed Shadow was getting to that part. Staff and crew looked between Knuckles and the set, some of them wanted him to stop before Shadow got too caught up on Amy, some of them wanted the scene to keep going to see what would happen, since none of this was in the script.

"Who knew that Shadow's skills would explode this way ..." Knuckles whispered.

Amy became entranced at Shadow's words. They entered her ears and filled her heart as she found herself holding one of his hands. His hands trembled against her face as he leaned his forehead onto hers. His eyes became filled with a sadness. "You are the brightest thing in my world, please never leave me again, alright?"

Amy was so transfixed she didn't respond. She could only nod as she relaxed into his tough, closing her eyes as did he, and the remained quiet in that scene holding each other. Knuckles jumped up, "DONE! Wow, that was AMAZING you two!"Beautiful, that was beautiful!"

As soon as the scene was done, Shadow shot straight back up, His affectionate side disappearing as he turned away and walked off set. Amy still sat on the sofa, in a daze, not believing what had happened. Rouge smirked at Shadow on his way out and he glared at her, "I'm gonna go take this makeup off..." He then ignored her and Rouge shook her head before flying over to check on Amy with Cream.

"Hey hun, how you doing?" The bat asked. Amy looked up at her, finally coming back to reality. Her heart that was filled with warmth turned cold again as she gave a forced smile, "Oh, I'm fine. Kind of shocking to be honest." Cream rubbed her friends shoulder reassuringly.

"Yeah, Shadow is a little tense to work with sometimes. You should go get the make up off your face and rest. You and Shadow sure look pooped after we had to reshoot so many times because of him." Rouge laughed and Amy actually found herself chuckling.

"Of course, time to wash up and get some dinner." Amy stood up and walked with Cream to wash the makeup off. Cream beamed, "I wish everyone around here was as nice as Rouge is about the whole Shadow thing." Amy nodded, for it seemed Rouge was the only one not sending her death glares or cursing at her for being in a role partnered with Shadow. Speaking of whom, walked right past her as she entered the makeup room. He didn't spare her a glance and as he walked out, Cream turned her head to glare at his back.

"That jerk, hurting my friends feelings like that..." Cream mumbled.

"It's okay Cream, he'll never have those types of feelings, it least, never for me.."