The Season's Hour

By Brutal Dog

Author Says:

Characters aren't mine. This is OOC. Just messing around here. Rewrite of a scrap from 2008, it just wasn't for Sonic. I'm dedicating this as a gift to xXxJazzy B. RealxXx and her ShadAmy lemon, "The Hour of Tryst," since that's what moved me to rewrite this. Don't compare the two. Hers is far better, and just makes way more sense. This one is just ridicule.

Mature rating for a reason once the second and last chapter is posted, folks. Don't put your face in the fish bowl if you can't hold your breath in the first place. ShadAmy, mentioned SonAmy, mentioned SonSal.

Prologue

Amy Rose had grown up.

With growing up came grown up decisions, grown up responsibilities, and grown up mistakes.

...To say the least, she wasn't cheating, because they weren't even 'technically' a couple. The blue hero, with all his flits and flutters from place to place, was just never there anymore.

His long year absences gave her feelings room to mature, and her mind to wander while at the same time keeping in one place. She was too old to keep her interests on one thing only now, but also too old to multi-task, yet she mastered it anyway. Her attention span thinned like thread, life taught her new things and grew her up, and that mischief in her allowed her interests to jump from one thing to another, and suddenly, she found strange things interesting things. Strange people, strange places, things she knew nothing about. Involving herself in the terrific terror made her heart rush.

When she saw that pretty long-haired chipmunk of a princess kiss him as mating season came close to date, her eyes began to open up, and she blinked widely when someone stranger than strange was put in her line of sight; a second potential love interest who always had his quiet curiosity on her for thirteen years. He had proven to be a worthy, intriguing specimen who never shut her out or let her in; he left her on the porch when it came to him, giving her a sheer chance. He was an impressive, ambitious person who seemed to have two conflictive personalities duking it out with each other and it made him a strange, enrapturing individual to her, but his determination inspired her like a jolt straight to the heart. He didn't know what he was to himself and gave himself far too little credit, and that insecurity of his made her feel useful and worthy when it was only she who could accomplish stepping in and reaching him in ways his bat ally couldn't possibly do so; she was his stimulant and moved him, and he was slowly beginning to stimulate her. She liked how he looked when he stood atop the building with his arms crossed, face against the moon, and she liked how he looked at her. She wanted to be a part of his attention, something she knew nothing about, and if curiosity killed the cat, then she was risking everything for her excitement. Involving herself in the terrific terror that was Shadow the Hedgehog made her heart rush. She was a troublemaker; she liked mischief, and he was just full of dangerous adventures to be ventured. It helped that he always reacted and responded to her, even when the reactions were not always 'friendly.' It didn't defeat her; it provoked her. She was no quitter. He deflected some of the balls she threw at him and caught others, making her interested. This new energizer was refreshing, a new battery for her compared to what she was always used to. Adneraline excited her, but intimidation aroused her.

He made her feel...different, and the level of attraction was almost sadistic.

But when'd she thought her feelings were based on just interest in finding out who he was deep inside, she saw that simple intrigue turned into light infatuation when he finally did reveal who he was like a beautiful butterfly opening its wings for the first time. She saw through the lines of his personality, and found that their spirits lurched for each other, begging to intertwine ying and yang. She'd soon realize that her smile had won his heart unbeknownst to them both, and her smile alone. Was their moment on ARK the stepping stone? The reliance? The evidence, that she had the possibility to make him feel this way? She needn't promise him the world or her life, she just needed to be herself, the one under that obsessed exterior, and she made him feel alive like he once was in his past life, but in a totally reborn way.

That's what his robot comrade Omega recited, anyway. Around the week mating season was coming. That revelation horrified and fascinated her, because she didn't know how to digest all this while keeping her first love in her heart. The expanding space in her heart to hold another in its capacity was like suffering a heart attack; the change was too drastic and alien to her. She didn't know how to love this way, two at a time. She wasn't looking for love and she wasn't desperate to be loved or something like that, after all. Light infatuation deformed into hard infatuation the more he began to let her in, without her even asking permission. He just gave it, gave it like he was trying to get close to her and speculate the situation they had both found themselves in. Her feelings happened when she was trying not to make them happen, because she didn't go willingly; she fought viciously.

Now that it was at last the mating season, their hormones were their control sticks when they saw each other, which was their very first magnet, making it all the more unbidden for her. Resisting the attraction between same species was futile while her first love had chosen a chipmunk for the season, and their bodies just seemed to fit like puzzles in the moonlight each and every night, which began to trigger a more adult romance she had never experienced before. She had fallen in love with him between all the mixed feelings and raging hormones when she wasn't even trying, and fought hard to keep love and lust on two separate planes to deny that truth. Nature had them meant to be partners until the season ended, so catching feelings wasn't supposed to happen. This affair was temporary, and no one knew about the love their restless bodies agreed to make under a full moon beside her favorite lake. But tonight was their last night for the season.

Were they really in love...?