Yeah...again sorry for the long wait. I've completely lost track where this fic was supposed to be going...

Chapter 23: Scared

That stupid, stupid, STUPID, girl!

Sonic shouted in his head as he zipped towards one place and another in search for the pink hedgehog. He hadn't known how long he'd been looking for the girl, but the darkening of the sky told the blue hedgehog that it had been a while. He alerted himself at every mobian girl that had pink fur or close to that color. When searching alone wasn't getting him anywhere, he tried asking every person he encountered if they saw a female pink hedgehog, leveling his hand to describe her height, her eye color and specified that she was carrying a suitcase. Plenty had only shook their heads , which made the blue hedgehog frustrated. To his immense delight, an elderly raccoon pointed him to where the man had last scene the girl, and the path lead towards the sub-way.

A fresh wave of panic surged through Sonic's system.

He ran down the staircase into the underground passageway, scanning every face that came within his optical horizon. He searched for her, and searched for an entire half hour. Sonic was starting to fear that she might have already left...

But then he spotted her. Right there standing at a train that just stopped. Mobians crammed inside the train as it opened its entrance and she followed suit.

Snarling, Sonic zoomed towards her and scooped her with his arms before she could into the mode of transport. The suitcase in her grip fell; she let out a surprised yelp and the people about gasped at the wind that swept by but Sonic ignored all of these as he left the subway, carrying the pink hedgehog, bridal style.

Sirens and horns rang. Sonic sped along the many vehicles along the road. He sometimes overtook on the road in such a hurry it was as if he was a criminal trying to run away from pursuing cops. And the girl in his arms, shouting and protesting didn't help him concentrate.

"Hey! Put me down!" She yelled as she thrashed and squirmed against his hold.

"Shut up and keep still!" he growled, his voice sounding harsher but he intended it to be.

She quieted down. From the corner of his eyes he could see the stunned expression on her face, making him feel a tad guilty; but he steeled his will. He couldn't let any emotion distract him now.

They reached the middle of a playing ground that was empty of people. A huge cloud of dust puffed behind him as he halted. Sonic dropped the girl nestled in his arms to the ground beside a tree and then crossed his arms over his chest as he looked away, enraged.

"Ugh!" she huffed and rubbed her rear.

That hurt! Amy glared up at the blue hedgehog who had his eyes focused elsewhere. Outraged, she stood up, fists balled at both sides and eyes blazing like a wildfire. "What do you think are you doing?!"she demanded.

Sonic's head snapped in her direction so that their gazes met. She quietly gasped at the intense fury that boiled inside his emerald green eyes. This was the first time she saw him display such amount of anger and it made her a bit scared because all that emotion was directed at her.

"What am 'I' doing?" Sonic snarled, then took a step forward and pointed an accussing finger at her. "What are 'you' doing?!"

His aggressive voice actually caused Amy to take a step back. Although her glower remained, deep inside the pink hedgehog was really frightened at this side of Sonic's personality. The blue hedgehog continued with his accussation.

"How can you just pack and leave after seeing your mother once? Shouldn't you be happy to be reunited with your family after all these years?"

"Happy?" Amy repeated, her voice dripping with every bit of bitterness. "Did you expect for someone who had been abandoned and forgotten by her so-called family when she was just five years old to be happy?" She shot back.

The blue hedgehog knew nothing of what she just blurted out.

"Do you think, that after what they've done ten years ago, would be easily brushed aside just because they decided to show up and seem like they want me back?!" Her voice rose as she spoke.

He had no immediate response to that. True, that any child who would undergo the same experience would loathe his parents for doing such thing. But that will only happen if the kid didn't know the reason behind the act. That was most what initiates hatred and scorn between fsmily memebers, misunderstandings.

"That doesn't give you the excuse to leave!" Sonic scolded.

"So what?! I just walk up to her and say 'Mommy, I missed you so much; take me home'?" Amy spat as if the words were foul in her mouth.

His face darknened. "Just talk to them!"

"There's nothing for us to talk about. Now get out of my way!" She stepped to the side and tried to get past him but Sonic snatched her arm and pulled her back, pushing her against the tree.

"You're not going anywhere but to them." Sonic affirmed, his grip tightening with every word that escaped his lips. Amy glared in pure hatred towards him, hedgehog teeth barred as she struggled to get loose.

Sonic grabbed her wrists and pressed them against the trunk above her head. She shot her knee up and hit him on the stomach to which he gasped in pain upon impact. He sneered at her before pressing his knees against her thighs to competely immobolize her.

Amy blushed furiously at their position. She thrashed like a captured bird, twisting her body in all directions but Sonic held onto her firmly. "Get. Off!"

"Not till you I knock some sense into you! Why do have you have to be so stubborn, huh, pinky?!"

"ENOUGH OF THAT!" She shrieked, body moving frantically against her captive's entrapment. "You just don't get it do you? They left me, Sonic! How can they just hand me over to a complete stranger without telling me why!"

"And that's the reason why you need to talk to them. To know why."

Amy's eyes narrowed like ice shards, the tone in her voice when she spoke next was laced with so muh hatred and scorn. "I don't want to know why!" She shouted at his face. "Whatever reasons they have they can keep it to themselves because it's already too late for an explanation! I'm leaving! If they want to go after me then they can do so! But I am NOT going to -"

And it was this moment that he suddenly crashed his lips against hers.

Amy let out a surprised noise. Jade eyes dilated as the blue hedgehog's grip around her wrists tightened as he roughly kissed her. She then shut her eyes closed and tried to fight Sonic off, trying to pull away from him but her head was trapped in between the tree behind her and Sonic.

He pulled away, leaving her breathless, as soon as she recovered, Amy snarled at him and was ready to complain. "What was that all about you sick-"

She was unable to finish her sentence as suddenly she found her mouth encased again. Sonic moved much more ungently than the previous kiss. His hold had actually become tighter and his body was now pressing firmly against hers, making her flush madly.

Sonic pulled away, their lips separating with a loud smack.

"Stop doing t-"

Another kiss, rougher and more desperate than the other two. Amy protested against his mouth but that had been a huge mistake as, even at the briefest moment that her lips parted, it gave way for the blue hedgehog's tongue to invade her mouth. Amy stiffened and then whimpered as Sonic worked his lips against hers, his tongue already taking dominance inside her own mouth. Her lips felt sore, being so unused to this sort of passionate act. The third kiss lasted longer and she needed air. Amy released a stranggled sound against Sonic's lips to let him know thay she needed to breathe. He only pressed his lips harder against hers, abusing her own pair. She felt hot tears flood her eyes as she finally gave up and let the male hedgehog had his way. Thankfully, Sonic drew back before Amy suffocated.

Jade eyes glared scathingly at him, full of hate, full of anger and...betrayal? She blushed madly at what he had done to her. To Amy it felt like he had just harrassed her.

Sonic's face remained seriously calm. He narrowed his eyes to dare her utter another word, but Amy held her tongue, knowing quite well that even the slightest sound escaping her lips would result to the blue headgehog capturing them with his.

Her strength from earlier had somehow seeped away fron her body for now she felt so weak, drained and spiritless. The pink hedgehog's face remained fierce, but the slumping of her shoulders signaled her admit of defeat.

Sonic let slowly let go of her hands, which immediately moved to cover her face.

Amy started crying.

For a few minutes, he just let her cry and let out all the emotions she had kept bottled up for the past ten years.

Amy cursed herself for wasting her tears on such stupid things again. But she couldn't help it. The past two days had been emotionally overwhelming to the pink hedgehog and her little heart could only handle so much at a time.

She felt arms wrap themselves around her quivering frame, pulling her into a warm and comforting embrace. Amy didn't push him away, instead threw her hands around his torso, crying on his chest. He stroked her pink quills while the other lovingly rubbed her back. These actions only made her cry even harder.

Sonic's visage softened.

"I know this is hard for you to believe," he spoke softly and tenderly into her ear, "that suddenly they appear at your doorstep and want you back with them." He buried his nose into her head, inhaling her sweet scent. "But I think it's not because you hate them, that you don't want to see them. Isn't it, Amelia?"

She froze when he addressed her with her real name.

"You're scared."

She sniffed and her shoulders jerked, but she wasn't sobbing anymore.

He continued, "You're scared to face what you've been trying to avoid all your life. You claim to not want to see them when in truth you crave for them. Your torn between two sides, you want to hate them for what they did to you, but another part is willing to forgive. And you don't know which side to take. " Sonic pushed her gently, tilting her head with his fingers so that they were looking at eacb other. "That's why you're leaving, so you wouldn't have to be faced with this difficult decision. You know running away is never a solution, Amelia."

There it was again, the full name. It sounded so weird coming from him, it was a good sort of weird, though. Amy closed her eyes and sank it into his chest once again, her arms still around him while his own continued to carress her hair.

"I know," she replied quietly.

For a while they just stood there, holding the other close. Then Amy suddenly moved, her arms briefly squeezing Sonic's middle.

"Sonic?"

"Hmm?"

"Do...do you know where they are? And...can you come with me?" She asked, almost pleading.

Sonic chuckled flashing a bright smile before planting a sweet kiss on top of her head. "Yes and of course."

He walked her home. Throughout their journey, he held onto her hand and she didn't seem to mind. Every now and then she would squeeze his hand just like a child for the first time, was entering school. To this Sonic only smiled and tell her not to worry, which rewarded him with a precious smile from the girl. At one point during their walk, Amy stepped closer to hin until their shoulders were touching. When they got close to her house, Amy suddenly stopped, body going rigid when she saw Andrea and her mother along with Cream and Rouge standing by the gates that lead to her front door, apparently waiting for her.

Sonic gave her hand a reassuring squeeze, giving her a gentle push towards her waiting family. She turned to him with wide, pleading eyes and for a moment she looked like a kid who was scared to go inside a classtoom.

He smiled encouragingly at her, grabbing her by the shoulders and slowly turned her into the direction of the other two pink hedgehogs and her friends. "Go on." He whispered. "You can do this."

Amy swallowed and bravely walked down the road to confront the people standing at her gates. Before she could reach the people ahead of her, she turned to the blue hedgehog. "Can you please stay and...wait for me?" she asked him with hoping eyes. Sonic nodded. He watched as she tentatively made her way towards her family and two best friends...and smiled as Rouge and Cream threw their hands around the pink hedgehog when they saw her. The white bat gave her a short nagging moment afterwards, but Amy simply smiled and awknowledged the words.

Soni's smile only broadened when she cautiously approached her mother and sister and all three of them burst into happy tears.

There you go, but expect the unexpected. Soon...ish?