Fandom A Rose And A Thorn (Shadow x Amy)

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"If he were smarter, he wouldn't go around doing that. But his intelligence gets him only so far before it drops. I want to make him pay....but I...can't do that. Why does fate do this? Why can't.....I want to end him....I don't care if I'm fired from my job, I just want him to pay." Shadow said

 

[Breech Loader]

Amy didn't want Shadow to fight SOnic. Her final trial had happened because she'd wanted to keep the two powerful hedgehogs from clashing.

"I just don't care any more," she told him, "About anything... Do what you like..." Ouch. Those words again.

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"Please, I don't want to do anything you won't appreciate. Amy, I want to help you...and see how Sonic found out..." Shadow said, "You can sleep on my bed while I can sleep on the couch."

 

[Breech Loader]

"I don't want to sleep in a bed ever again-" Amy stopped, "Wait... how did Sonic find out? He never said, but I know Blaze didn't tell him. She was with me all of last night but she agreed not to tell Sonic. He was so angry, and yet he was so sure of it... There was you and me... and the chauffeur... and Blaze, and..." her eyes widened, "Vex! Vex left right after we left you, and he didn't come back all night! Do you think he told Sonic?"

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"I do not know where Vex could be....or if he told Sonic but that is the best thing we might have to come up with. We'll have to find him.....and set things right." Shadow said to Amy.

 

[Breech Loader]

"Blaze has gone looking for Chaos Emeralds," Amy replied, "She said Vex might be helping, but I don't know where she actually s..."

Sonic, on the other hand, would be much easier to track down.

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"So then we find Sonic. Don't worry, though.... I'll be the one talking to him. No fighting.....no foul-play....just the two of us talking." Shadow said.

 

[Breech Loader]

Amy wasn't sure she believed Shadow on that, but she doubted anything was going to stop him confronting Sonic, no matter how ill-advised. She stood up and headed to SHadow's bedroom, but when she got there, she just stood in the door, staring blankly at the bed and shivering.

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

Shadow got up afterward and went towards his bedroom, looking at Amy. "I.....understand a little. If you are uncomfortable with wanting to sleep in my bed, I won't force you to. My place is as much as yours." He said.

 

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Amy didn't say anything for a while. She just sat down on the carpet at the foot of the bed, hugging her knees and staring unblinkingly at the wall. She just didn't want to sleep at all, because of what happened every time she closed her eyes.

"It's okay," she told him, "I don't care."

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"Amy.....I....stop saying you don't care, for one....it's....starting to scare me a little. I'm worried for you. I want to help you.....why won't you let me do that?" Shadow asked.

 

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"Because caring... means I have to care about what Sonic did," Amy cringed, "It hurts so much, Shadow, it hurts so much, that kind of betrayal... and I don't want that kind of hurt to be a part of me..." she looked up at him, "Would you?"

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"No.....I wouldn't....but keeping it there would help you learn as well. From betrayal, you'll know better than to face with the same situation again and deal with the problem better." Shadow said to Amy.

 

[Breech Loader]

"Oh, so I'd better face up to it in time for the next time I'm faced with a rapist?" Amy shook, "I wonder than that will be? I'd better hurry up, huh? Stop my whining so that I'm in a suitable state to be bedded again, huh?"

Her face was stiff.

"Shadow... you are not what anybody would call a sterling example of how to deal with trauma," she scoffed, "All your memories from the Ark were wiped and then you were sent out to destroy the world, so don't tell me how it's so much better to face up to the pain! Either go out there and get yourself raped, or shut up about how I'm being such a baby about it! You didn't have an unwanted dick tearing up your insides, but right now the only unwanted dick inside this room is you!"

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"I never said-...nevermind..." Shadow gave up and went back to his couch, knowing that there was no point in arguing. He sat down and sighed, moving his hands to his head.

 

[Breech Loader]

(About two hours later)

Shadow was woken up on the couch to the sound of screaming. Really loud, really frightened, and worse, for once it wasn't him. It was coming from his bedroom and it didn't take a genius to realise who it was.

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

Shadow ran over to his bedroom and opened the door. "Amy?! What happened?!" He asked, generally worried and frightened.

 

[Breech Loader]

Amy was screaming, and her eyes were open, but she wasn't really awake. She had fallen asleep at the foot of the bed, and she was there now, kicking and struggling and screaming in her sleep, and she didn't wake up at Shadow's shout.

They're all over me, they're touching me everywhere, I'm suffocating, I'm drowning, I'm going to die...

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

Shadow went over to Amy and pressed his hand to her forehead. "Wake.....up." He said in her ear and removed his hand.

 

[Breech Loader]

Amy continued to scream for several seconds longer, staring at him and thrashing, but she blinked as she did so, showing that she was at least awake. Her screams subsided, but she was almost burning up, sweating and shivering at the same time.

"It was... it was..."

Unthinking, she started to scratch at her bare arms, feeling so dirty that she was trying to peel off her own skin.

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

Shadow grabbed her arm gently and sighed. "Amy, wake up." He said to her, "Please....it's a nightmare."

 

[Breech Loader]

Amy could barely look at him, but at least she stopped trying to claw her skin right off, "I knew... I knew it would happen," she shook her head. She'd been certain she'd have nightmares, and she had, "And it did..." she couldn't look into Shadow's eyes, but pressed her face to his chest, "Shadow, I'm so sorry... I'm just so scared of closing my eyes..."

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

Shadow slowly moved an arm around Amy's back. "I'm sorry you had a nightmare.....do you think....it would be better if I....slept with you....you would be in closer proximity to someone you know and....I wouldn't do anything that would make you uncomfortable." He said.

 

[Breech Loader]

Amy flinched, "I don't... Do what you..."

She let out a choking sob and clutched at Shadow's shoulders, hiding her face in his chest fur.

"Don't leave me alone..."

 

[RedtheRoyalGuard]

"I promise, Amy.....I will not leave you alone." Shadow said, moving his hand to behind her head and rubbing the back of it slowly.