Normal Pov:
"Is it on yet?" Sophie anxiously whispers as she brings a large bowl of buttery popcorn into the living room.
"Shhh…it's starting," Amy whispers back.
Everyone (Sonic, Amy, Tails, Cream, Cheese, Sophie, Rouge, Knuckles, Frank—yeah, I know this is an extremely long list and by now you probably have to look back to remember who is in the room—and Jenna) turns their attention to the television.
"And now for—" the voice is cut off, "Here's the weather with June Bigsbee."
Sophie yells, "Hey, what happened?"
Sonic elbows his oblivious echidna friend, "Hey red, you're sitting on the remote."
Knuckles pulls the clicker out from nearly becoming embedded in the couch cushion, "Heh…sorry." He surrenders the remote to Sonic who changes the channel back.
The television flashes momentarily, fading out to the image of Jenna walking on the beach. "Hi there! I'm Jenna Laurens and this is For Better or For Worse. On today's episode, one girl finally has a chance to have all her dreams come true. Will those dreams actually come true or will her special day turn out to be a nightmare? Well, whatever happens, let's hope this happy couple can ride on through…for better, or worse."
(a/n: I forget exactly how the show starts out, so bear with me here.)
The image changes from Jenna walking on the beach to Jenna walking up to Amy's front steps. Amy answers the door perfectly on cue, leading Jenna and the camera crew into her living room, where Sonic is waiting on the couch. He is slouched casually, as if ready to watch the super bowl. Jenna promptly begins their interview.
"So, how long have the two of you known each other?" Jenna asks.
Amy answers gleefully, "It's hard to remember a day where I didn't know Sonic."
Sonic says, "Hmm…I'd say, almost nine years now."
Next Jenna inquires, "Wow. So then, what made you realize that this was right, that this was definitely the person you want to spend the rest of your life with?"
With a bold smile Sonic replies, "It's all instinct." He points his thumb to his forehead.
Jenna questions, "Are you referring to general male instincts, or a hedgehog's instincts?"
Sonic rubs his ear, "Uh…a little of both I guess."
Amy secures his answer, "Sonic always knows what he's doing."
Sonic shrugs, "Well…sometimes."
"Amy, what would you want your dream wedding dress too look like?" asks Jenna.
Amy sighs, "Oh gee, there's so many to choose from, I'm not really sure actually. I guess something I can move in would be best, something elegant, but not real poofy."
Jenna nods at appropriate times, "And, what is your dream wedding day?"
Amy looks at the ceiling dreamily, "Which dream? …oh, it doesn't matter as long as Sonic is the one I marry…just nothing too uh…extreme."
Jenna guaranteed, "Don't worry; this is the learning channel so we'll keep it pg rated."
Sonic snaps his fingers pretending to be disappointed.
"OK, last question…are you guys excited or what?"
Sophie who is watching the television with her hand submerged in the bowl of popcorn mutters, "Are you kidding? She's giddier than Jolly Rancher." Amy giggles and Knuckles snorts air out of his nose.
Cream laughs out loud and accidentally spills her chocolate milk all over the carpet. She dons a shameful frown, "I'm sorry Amy."
Amy sighs, "Don't worry about it, I have some stain remover under the sink. Hey Sonic, could you pause it for a sec?"
It takes a few seconds for Sonic to locate the pause button, "Need any help?"
Amy shakes her head, "Nah, but thanks anyway. This won't take long."
Amy and Cream go into the kitchen to look for the stain remover.
With the television still on pause, the room quickly gets uncomfortably quiet. Jenna volunteers to speak first, "So Sonic, can you believe you've been married for three weeks already?"
Sonic whistles, "Has it really been that long? It feels more like three days ago."
Sophie smirks resting her chin on her palms, "Aren'tcha glad I Tivoed this?"
Sonic replies, "Yeah, good thing you and Tails know how to work it or I mighta taped a football game or something."
Rouge crosses one leg over the other, "That surprises me Sonic. You don't seem like someone who's technologically challenged."
Sonic admits, "Yeah well, I'm good at a lot of stuff, but ask me to hook up the playstation and I might as well be colorblind."
Frank asks, "Then why did we give you the remote?"
Rouge answers, "Cuz Knucklehead gave it to him."
Knuckles snaps, "Well, nobody warned me."
Amy and Cream finally come back after a long four minutes. "Found it," Amy says holding up the bottle of stain remover. She quickly cleans up the spilled milk and then plants herself next to Sonic. They resume their program which has been frozen on Knuckles' perplexed face as he examines an abstract painting.
Amy turns to Sonic, "Do you think we could skip to the wedding?"
Sonic agreeably nods, "Yeah sure, we saw this part like five times already." He hits the remote.
"So, how long have you two known each other?" the Jenna on the tv asks.
Amy whines, "Sonic…you pressed the wrong button."
Sophie suggests, "Maybe you should hand that remote over to your wife."
Sonic sheepishly chuckles and hands Amy the remote, "Hehe…whoops."
Amy rolls her eyes and presses the fast forward button. After a little scene hopping, Amy stops on the image of herself getting out of a limousine. Amy watches herself get out of the limo blindfolded, allowing Jenna to navigate her past the main lobby and into a small sitting area with a fire place and burgundy couches, fluidly meandering around any obstacles in their path.
After a while Amy begins to wonder if Jenna is leading her up Mount Everest. Why are there so many stairs? They finally come to a small dressing room with a tall glass mirror opposite of the doorway. Jenna positions Amy in front of it, "Okay Amy, are you ready to see yourself?"
Amy squeals clapping ecstatically, "Yes!" Jenna carefully removes the blindfold, teasing Amy with an agonizing suspense.
"We'll be right back after this commercial break!"
Thanks to Tivo, Amy gratefully fast forwards past the advertisements promoting toothpaste, some brand of dishwashing soap, and a deodorant that claims to last as long as three days.
Her thumb instinctively punches the play button as she sees the blinking letters spelling For Better or For Worse. A brief recap and then focus is once again on Jenna removing the blindfold.
Amy's immediate reflex is to put her hands to her mouth, "Huh! You guys…it's so beautiful!"
Jenna's grin spreads like soft butter, "Oh good, I'm so glad you like it."
Amy lets a tear escape, "Oh…I just can't believe this day is really here, it feels like any second I'm going to wake up and find out it's all a dream."
As if feeling the need to prove this wrong, Sonic pulls Amy closer to him. Sophie is squeezing a couch pillow, as if about to break down into tears herself.
"Are you ready Amy? They're waiting for you." Jenna murmurs softly, almost motherly.
Deprived of the ability to speak at the moment, Amy merely nods.
In another flash the scene changes once again. Outside, surrounded by a forest of red roses, orchids, lilies, and tulips, the groom fidgets with his tie impatiently, suddenly sick with anxiety. Sitting in the front row, Knuckles actually tries to grant Sonic an empathetic it's gonna be ok there's nothing to worry about look. Behind Sonic is the preacher who has a Santa Clause like smile as his fuzzy chocolate belly jiggles with glee. His huge paws are clasped together in front of him tranquilly, his damp nose twitches.
Without warning the piano starts playing Here Comes the Bride in a ragtime style. Now focus is on the center aisle that fissures between the pews, which instead of hardwood benches, are white chairs with red cushions. Blanketing the aisle is a red velvet carpet, as if they were awaiting the arrival of a queen. Though today, Amy sure feels like a queen.
First to come down the aisle is Cream and Cheese, followed by Rouge and Sophie. The spectators coo silently as a young polka dotted cub emerges. Katie may not be able to see what she's doing, but she is a natural flower girl. She tosses the rose petals gracefully, as if spilling sand from her fingertips. When she finally makes her way up to Sonic, he tickles her chin a little which makes her recoil for a second. Sonic takes Katie's hand guiding her to an empty spot between Cream and Knuckles.
Sonic's eyes nearly melt when he returns his gaze upward. Amy had never looked so beautiful. An angelic essence radiates off her as she steps gingerly down the aisle. Sonic looks over to Frank whose arm is securely hooked with Amy's. Their steps are slightly out of sync, but that does nothing to obscure their grace whatsoever. Sonic's gaze on them coming forward is so hypnotic that Frank has to wave a little to regain Sonic's attention. Now conscious again, Sonic reaches for Amy's hand. Frank shows a little reluctance in letting go, but finally nods his approval and steps to the side, taking a seat in the front row next to Rouge.
Since this was only a sixty minute show, they were forced to cut to the man and wife part (They have another tape of the whole thing, but that is roughly three and half hours including the reception). "You may now kiss the bride," says the merry grizzly bear. As their lips meet, so do everyone's hands as they cheer and shout. Bubbles are blown, seeds are tossed.
The scene hops again, now in the reception room there is a glimpse of Shadow shaking Sonic's hand, but it's only for about three seconds.
Now Amy and Sonic are cutting the cookie cake into pizza sized slices. The sugar high sends everybody to the dance floor doing all kinds of spasmly new moves that promise to catch on in all the popular clubs. There's the row row row your boat jitterbug, the tornado hair twirl, and the cotton eyed joe conga. No one seems particularly interested in the music playing, until Knuckles grabs the microphone from the dj.
Knuckles suddenly grows hesitant as he realizes that everyone is staring at him. "Uh…this um, song I wrote is a toast…" looking around the room he winks at Rouge, "for my pal Sonic the hedgehog and Amy. There is silence for a long moment as Knuckles tries to gather himself to clear his throat.
Knuckles opens his mouth, but no sound comes out. It's as if his brain doesn't know how to put the words to melody. He tries again, but all that exits his mouth is a puff of carbon dioxide and water vapor. Choking on his mortification, Knuckles can feel the tension in his nerves banging furiously against the insides of his flesh. His next instinct is to drop the microphone, but before he can Rouge swipes it right out of his hand.
"Okay folks, since Knucklehead here doesn't have the guts to do this all alone I'm going to have help him out like always." Knuckles gives Rouge a relieved look, she winks and brings the microphone up to her lips. "Sonic and Amy…ya look good," she gives the couple a thumbs up.
With a deep belly breath she begins to sing,
"It's not hard to find what you're looking for,
All you need is the will to not ignore…what you already have.
And once you've found what you want,
Don't forget what you had.
Remember…remember me,
Don't let me fade,
From depths of your memory,
Through fears and rage my image will wade.
Don't, don't…let me fall away.
Sometimes it's tough, not knowing where you're going.
But that's not what matters,
It's what you do when you arrive,
How do you survive?
Remember…remember me,
Until forever, Till nights and days blend,
You are my love, you are my friend,
Remember me for days on end.
Don't, don't…let me fall away."
Knuckles joins in,
"I know I've found what I was looking for.
It's always been right here.
After my feet are bruised and sore,
And my shoulders twinge and sear.
I may not have noticed until now,
I was never searching after all;
Only waiting for the sun to bow,
What was I trying to stall?
I was waiting for fate to find me,
But it already had.
And now finally I can see,
It's plan was not so bad.
I will remember you,
You'll never fade away,
Until forever,
You won't fall away,
Don't let me fall away."
(a/n: I know this was totally corny, but keep in mind it's fanfiction)
Sonic looks over at Knuckles who seems somewhat uncomfortable watching himself sing on tv. Sonic can't resist the opportunity, "Hey Knux I didn't know you were such a poet."
Knuckles blushes a little, "Don't get used to it, I only did it for the bet."
Rouge smiles cunningly, "You know, technically you still owe me that dinner since without my help you would have chickened out."
Knuckles, "Can we talk about this later please?"
Sonic asks Amy, "Hey rewind it, I wanna see that part again."
Rouge teases, "Fine, have it your way. But we all know the truth Knuckie."
Knuckles blushes again and sinks a little lower into the couch.
Amy comes to his rescue, "Aw, quit picking on poor Knuckles."
"Thank you Amy," says Knuckles gratefully.
Rouge adds in one last remark, "Well maybe he shouldn't be such a sourpuss." Knuckles has apparently had enough and only grunts.
The rest of the show just does a quick recap of everything and concludes with some wedding photos. Uninterested in the credits, Amy clicks the television off. Silence again, everyone stays where they are, too lazy to get up.
Sophie yawns, "Well, this has been fun and all, but I'm tired so you people are gonna have to leave."
Knuckles replies, "Well goodnight to you too."
Sonic gets up, "Okay, we'd better get going too."
He helps Amy get up off the coach which she does with reluctance. "Thanks Soph."
Tails gets up rubbing his eyes, "Hey Cream, I can give you a ride if you want. I can drop you off in the Tornado."
Cream says sleepily, "Thank you Tails. I would like that."
Everyone waves their final goodbyes to Sophie and head out for home.
Sonic makes sure to run at a steady pace so he doesn't wake up his bride who managed to fall asleep in his arms. In order to open their front door though, he is forced to put her down. She stirs, stretching her arms as her eyes flutter open. "Morning," he greets though it is pitch black outside. Amy giggles silently, leaning her head on his shoulder. Sonic finally gets the door open, but for a while they don't go in.
Sonic whistles, "Three weeks…man."
Amy jokes, "You getting sick of me already?"
Sonic mocks, "Actually…no."
Amy's eyes narrow sarcastically, "I love you too." Sonic embraces her, kissing her face lightly. Amy's lips meet Sonic's. After they break apart it is quiet for a long time.
Amy shivers, "Why are we standing out here?"
Sonic shrugs and steps aside, "After you my lady."
Amy gives him one more sarcastic glare before entering their new home which sits just at the base of the mountains. The sun is doing its final curtsey before the night sky drops it's curtain.
Journal entry 20, Amy Rose
July 21, 2006 8:15pm
I still get chills every time I say the words, my husband. It's almost like I'm swearing in some foreign language, and I don't even know the meaning of the words.
And daddy's finally getting used to the idea of me being with Sonic. And I'm just finally getting used to the idea of seeing my dad…it's still a little awkward but we've been getting along alright. Sophie says now that I'm married, she'll have to get married too so we can both talk about being married…I told her that was crazy, she should just get married if she wants to, but she just insisted so I just shrugged and said whatever.
I wonder if Rouge and Knuckles will ever tie the knot, or maybe they just have so many knots in their relationship they have to loosen them all first…if that makes any sense. Katie comes to visit once a week and she shows me all of the new signs she's learned, now she doesn't even need a cookie every time. As for Cream and Tails…I think they still need some time before they have a real relationship, but they're still young so we're not in any hurry.
Now what? I keep asking myself. I don't know what comes now. You never know what's gonna happen down the road, but you have to keep going anyway. Right?
Beep. Beep.
"You've got mail."
To: Amy Rose From: Sophie the cat Subject: coffee tomorrow
We're meeting at nine sharp. You, me, Sonic and Steve.
Cya later :)
Sophie
p.s. why do you suppose there's so much violence in the world?
Amy giggles to herself quietly, "Friends. You gotta love'em."
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