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As her brain started to gain consciousness once again Surge could smell… Roses and baked goods. Feel soft sheets and fluffy blankets. Everything was familiar… She almost drifted back into a peaceful sleep, but she heard voices in the next room over.
“What if she never wakes up?” The sure sounds of a crying Kit muffled behind a wall.
“She will , Kit…” Amy’s voice was soft and comforting. “But in the impossibility, she doesn’t… You can stay here with me.”
“But you don’t need a side kick you have Cream, and Tails an-”
“Hey, Kitsunami, look at me. You are more than just a sidekick. If, for some reason, Surge doesn’t wake up you will stay here with me. And you can join me on adventures or just make sure the house stays clean. You can go play with Cream every day or visit Tails at his lab and work on whatever you two have been working on the past couple of days.” Surge heard a tiny sniffle from Kit. “So don’t worry about what will happen, just focus on helping her for now.”
“Ok.”
“Come on, let’s get you to bed.” Surge heard the sound of a bed creaking, like someone climbing into it. “Good night, remember if you have a nightmare, I’m just across the hall.”
“Night, Ma’am.”
Surge heard Amy close the door behind her before entering the room she was in.
“Come on, Surge, wake up…” Amy gently whispered, cupping Surge's face.
HOLY SHIT! It took all of Surge’s minimal self-control not to bolt up right then and there. It failed when she felt a wet drop fall on her face. The tenrec's electric blue eye’s bolted open staring up at the crying hedgehog.
“Surge?” Her voice was barely a whisper. Before Surge could say anything Amy flung herself on the bed, wrapping her arms around the other. “SURGE! Thank chaos!”
“What happened?”
“... Kit came running, said you had gotten hurt… Apparently, the roof of your base caved in… I had to dig you out… If you hadn’t been… well you… You’d probably be dead.”
“So you brought me to your room?” Surge teased. Amy rolled her eye releasing the tenrec.
“For your information, this is one of my guest bedrooms. I have one that Cream basically lives in when she visits, and one, for whoever needs it. Kit’s staying in Cream’s room.” Amy explained as Surge took a moment to take the whole ‘building falling on top of you’ thing.
“Explains why I don’t remember anything.” Surge pushed Amy to the side as she got up. “Well, Rosie, thanks for everything, but you know how it is, we either gotta fight or I gotta go.”
“You have nowhere to go, Surge!” Amy grabbed Surge’s arm. “And Kit’s here.”
“Keep Drippy, you just want something to look after anyways.” Surge brushed her off. “I don’t have to worry about him, he gets a safe place to stay with a stable guardian, and you get something pathetic to look after. Everyone happy.”
“Why can’t you just stay!?” Amy grabbed her arm again.
“I’m literally trying to kill one of your best friends, Rosie. You shouldn’t want me here.”
“You don’t have to be here all the time. You can just use it as a base of operations!” Then it struck Surge, a really attractive girl was begging her to live with her.
“I’ll think about it.” Surge relented plopping back on the bed. “Need a few days to recharge anyways.” That earned a smile and a hug from the pink hedgehog.
“You must be starving… I’m sure I have something in the kitchen.”
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Surge and Kit didn’t end up leaving the next day, or the day after that, or after that. Surge spent most of her days laying on Amy’s couch, reading or binging something on TV, while Kit helped with chores around the house, especially when Amy had to leave for Restoration work.
“They’ve been oddly quiet?” Amy’s eyes locked on the two occupants in her home. Surge could tell she was talking to someone of authority. “I mean, isn’t that good for the Restoration?” Surge decided to ball up a tissue and throw it at Amy. The hedgehog glared at the Tenrec catching the next one. “Yeah, I’ll try to keep an eye out for them,” She covered the speaker, “Would you knock it off?” She returned to the phone conversation. “Sorry, Jewel, just a rowdy house guest, I swear they're worse than Sonic .” Amy threw the napkin back.
“How dare you!?” Surge bolted up from her spot on the couch. “You are so in for it.” She darted over and began to lightly shock Amy.
“Ow! Sorry, just some weak static .” Amy pushed Surge away from her. “Yes, tell Tangle hi from me back. Bye.” Amy hung the phone up. “Surge! I’m trying to work here.”
“Maybe you shouldn’t talk shit, Rosie~”
“You are being so obnoxious .” Amy giggled as Surge tackled her, tickling and lightly shocking her.
“ You’re the one who begged me to stay, remember.”
“Kit! Help I’m being bullied!” The pink hedgehog giggled.
“Drippy can’t help you now!”
“I’m doing dishes,” Kit said on cue, laughing a bit himself.
Amy and Surge wrestled for a few minutes until it happened.
“Hey Ames, Tails and I were talking and we’d kill for some-” Sonic walked in, and all he saw was Surge pinning a defenseless Amy on the ground. “AMY!” Sonic tackled Surge off of her. Tails ran over to Amy to check on her, but noticed other than a bit disheveled, Amy was perfectly fine. The pair ran after Sonic and Surge, who were now aggressively fighting in the kitchen. Kit had climbed onto the counter for safety.
Seeing Kit by the dish-filled sink wearing rubber gloves and the spare apron on made something click for Tails, while Amy ran over to the fighting speedsters and forcibly tore them apart.
“What are you doing?!” Sonic shouted. “She was trying to-”
“Tickle me.” Amy clarified. “We were messing around Sonic.”
“What? But she attacked me.”
“You attacked me first, motherfu-”
“There are kids present.” Amy scolded. Surge glanced at the two foxes.
“... I stand by my sentiment.”
“Wha- But- I…” Sonic looked between the two girls and finally faltered.
“Now that we have some breathing room, why don’t we let Amy explain what’s happening?” Tails suggested, helping Kit off the counter.
Amy reluctantly came clean, meeting up and hanging out with Surge in the forest, sending them care packages, the cave-in, and then letting the pair camp out at her place.
“I’m guessing Jewel doesn’t know?” Sonic asked.
“No one knows, and no one can know,” Amy begged. “As you can see they’re turning their lives around… Well Kit is, Surge just freeloads.”
“I’m looking for a hobby.” Surge countered.
“I didn’t want to tell anyone in case they came over to attack them,” Amy explained.
“In my defense, I saw her on top of you and didn’t realize you two were on friendly terms.” Sonic raised his hands in surrounder.
“Oh, I’d like to be more than friendly with Rosie, but she ‘doesn’t date bad boys or bad girls’.” Surge held up quotation marks.
“Can we have less hitting on me and more trying to come to some sort of truce with Sonic?”
“Problem, I still want to beat his face in,” Surge whined.
“To be fair I’m 80% sure Shadow does too, depending on the day.” The blue hedgehog joked.
“You’re not helping.” Amy looked exasperated. Sonic rubbed the back of his head.
“Hey, in my defense, some of my best friends want to smash my face in at least once a week, I mean look at Knuckles.”
“Can I start a ‘let’s beat Sonic’s ass’ club that tries to beat the shit out of him once a month?” Surge asked.
“I’m going to pretend you’re joking. And later when Sonic is gone, I’m gonna ask you.”
“I’m gonna pretend too.” Surge joked. Amy stuck her tongue at her. “Keep it up, Rosie, I’ll put that right back where it belongs.” She saw Sonic roll his eyes as he leaned back onto the counter. “What?”
“Nothing!”
“What?!”
“Bold of you to think empty threats will stop Ames when she’s feeling sassy.” Sonic joked. As if to double down on the statement Amy stuck her tongue out at Surge again.
Before anyone else could realize what was going on, Surge’s mouth was on Amy’s, her tongue shoving the hedgehogs back into her mouth.
“Oh, that's what she meant…” Kit simply stated. “I thought she was gonna punch her.”
Sonic grabbed Surge and pulled her off Amy for the second time that day. The tenrec had a shit-eating grin on her face while Amy just looked shocked and dazed.
“I warned her.” Surge crossed her arms happily as Sonic glared at her.