As I drove up to my boyfriends house my heart dropped and I stopped in the middle of the road- flinging Shadow into my dash "God damnit! What the hell?" he hissed hand holding his nose.

"I- I don't know what to do." I held a death grip on my steering wheel.

"Great I'm glad you decided this I- on the other hand- am tired of dealing with

your nonsense and I am going home." he turned and opened the door.

He walked around to my side the front of my car and I leapt out. I don't know

why, but I felt like I needed him there.

"No don't- please I need your help." I stood in front of him.

"No. You don't. Now take care of your problems." he moved to walk around me and I stepped in front of him. He glared up to me "Don't even think about trying something stupid, human."

"This is part of your mess too!" I argued.

"No- it's your mess and I just happened to be involved. Your love life is none

of my concern." He walked to go around again and I grabbed his arm. In a second I was against the concrete and I let out a shrill yell.

He bent my arm in the exact direction it wasn't supposed to go but not far

enough to break it. "I thought I said not to do anything stupid." he hissed and began to bend my arm farther. I screamed and began to struggle. A gunshot sounded and we both froze looking to the fresh bullet hole in the street.

There stood my boyfriend holding a pistol with shaking hands.

Shadow let go of my arm and stood, facing his new opponent, pulling out his own pistol.

"D-don't make me shoot again!" my boyfriend shouted, beginning to shake harder. Shadow let out a scoff and began a very slow walk over towards my boyfriend.

"you've only seen what I can partially do human..." he sprinted to the left in the blink of an eye and my boyfriend spun accordingly. "I'm faster than sound..." he sprinted up and hauled up my boyfriend by the collar, Shadow's shoes keeping him up off the ground high enough.

"I'm much stronger than you can ever be." and hurled the poor boy across the

road, his body taking out a mailbox.

"Shadow stop!" I cried out.

"Then don't beg for me to help you!" he shouted back.

He walked over to my limp boyfriend, whom groaned in pain.

He just got up onto his hands and knees when Shadow shoved him back over with his foot.

"You're weak." Shadow growled. My boyfriend coughed up blood and let out a small whine.

"Get up, human!" Shadow shouted.

"Leave him alone!" I screamed, tears streaming.

My boyfriend struggled to his knees and Shadow kicked him over again "I said get up!"

I scrambled to my feet and sprinted and full-on tackled the hedgehog. We tumbled through the grass and I ended up on top due to my height. I landed a punch or two before I was tossed off. I felt a strong pain in my ribs when I collided to the ground.

Shadow stormed over to me, yanking me to my knees by my shirt. His eyes burned with hatred and his teeth where bared.

"What are you going to do now? Kill me?"

"Don't think I won't, girl!" he yelled with rage.

I immediately thought of something to say- I would regret it entirely and probably feel bad for saying it but it will either save my life... Or backfire horribly.

"Yea kill me like you did to Maria!" I shouted.

Then everything stopped. My heart dropped to my stomach and his grip began to loosen. His eyes were wide "What... What did you just say?" his voice was quiet and low. "You heard me hedgehog." my voice was low as well.

He inhaled and I watched his fur stand on end "I did not kill her!" he bellowed-

then tossed me across a nearby lawn. I tumbled threw the grass and knocked my head against the ground. My hearing was muffled with the exception of a ringing and everything was spinning. I attempted to stand, ignoring the burning and ache from my limps. I wheezed as the pain in my ribs worsened, I looked around for some blurry form of Shadow. I couldn't see him anywhere, and I stumbled toward my car. My vision unblurred and I grabbed my phone out of the cup holder.

I dialed 911.

"911 what is your emergency?" the woman spoke calmly.

"I need an ambulance- my boyfriend and I were just attacked." I huffed.

She asked me my location and I told her, hanging up after she told me that the ambulance was on it's way.

I made my way over to my boyfriend and sat down next to him in the grass.

Hi everyone! Sorry for being so dead lately! And thank you for all the great reviews- here's an edited version of chapter 8 (thanks to FireWolfHeart for pointing them out!) anyway- sorry for this short chapter- I normally try to keep each chap around atleast 1,000 words and chap 7 was almost 2,000 so I figured it was ok to leave this one a bit short J

If you guys have any questions about anything feel free to ask and I will try to answer them in chapter 9!

-FurrReal

P.s. yes allie has a habit of pissing him off- I wanted to kind of keep it to a point where they barely get along at this point in the story.