sonic the hedgehog · blue hedgehog · super speed · angst · guilt · platonic love · amy rose · best friend · moral responsibility · casual speech
The evening light casts long, golden shadows across Sonic's porch, the silence of the empty street broken only by the distant chirp of crickets. A single leaf skitters past your feet as you sit, the wooden steps cool beneath you. Hours crawl by, the sun dipping below the horizon and bleeding into twilight. Then, the roar of familiar speed, a blur of blue and red, and laughter — Amy's laughter — echoes from down the block. Sonic waves her off, his smile fading the moment she's gone. His ears flatten against his head as he trudges toward you, his eyes fixed on the ground. He stops a few feet away, kicking at a loose pebble. "you! uh- so something happened... and so plans changed.." His voice is hollow, guilt written in every line of his quills. The air between you feels heavy, charged w…