When Amy found Lilly Curtis, her sixty year old neighbor, running down the stairs she knew something wasn't right.

Lilly crashed into Amy's arms, almost knocking down the petite girl with all her morning shopping. Amy held her tight, trying to calm her down. "Lilly?"

Lilly never ran.

Lilly Curtis was a gentle woman , who never rose her voice and who always knew how to handle a situation. In the two years that Amy had lived in the same apartments as her she had never had a problem. In cold days the elderly woman would invite Amy over for hot chocolate and in hot summers they would make a large jar of pink lemonade. So when pinkster saw her friend heaving and gasping for air, face stricken with fear, it was instant heart ache.

"A-a-amy!" Lilly voiced wheezed making Amy flinch.

"Lilly what wrong are you ok? W-what happened?"

Nearby was a bench where Amy lead Lilly to. Ounce seated the youth rubbed the elder's back repeatedly and there Lilly explained what had happened.

During her story Amy didn't utter a single word. A couple of head nods here and there but that was it. The girls pursed her lips, what could she say, no, what can she do? Her eyes wandered to Lilly who during all this time kept a sympathetic frown.

"Amy dear, I am so truly sorry. I-I wish I could have helped in any way."

"Oh Lilly-" Amy leaned forward hugging the woman." – Its fine there wasn't anything you could have done."

"I could have called! I could have put out the fire myself!"

'Now now Lilly whats done is done, there is—" a sigh escaped her lips and she smiled "—Im just glad your ok."

It was freighting to know about your home catching on fire, all your stuff burning , but like she said what could you do. Then again this wasn't the first time something like this happened. Years of eggman had made it clear that anything can be gone in a seconds notice. It was a painful price to pay but -

Amy found herself thinking of Eggman. Did he do this? Was this another of his way to declare war? Was he trying to send a message? If he did, why her house? God did it infuriated her. Why could he go to Tails house! She didn't want to wish anybody wrong, course not, but her two tailed friend did have state of the art security. Not to mention a fire prof house, a militia of robots, and of course…Sonic . Why couldn't she have him move in with her hand keep him as a body guard? N-not she need him, she could handle herself perfectly fine, then again she wouldn't mind having him…..Agh! but that wasn't the point! The point was…. she needed an upgrade. The next time Egg-butt attacked her apartment complex they wouldn't be so lucky.

"Amy dear?"

"Uh, yes?"

Lilly held Amy's small hand's in her own. Her shaking had stopped, Any noticed. Oh did Amy feel bad about putting Lilly in this position. She was so frail and old…..

"Would you like to stay at my place?"

At this Amy shock her head.

"Oh no, Lilly, I – I couldn't ! its too much to ask for!"

"Don't be ridiculous! It's the least I could do!"

"No, Lilly its too dangerous."

"then where will you go?"

She thought for a minute. Where was she going to go? Her first thought was Vanilla and Cream's house. Obviously! Who else better? However, and this caused Amy's ears flop, Vanilla and Cream were out of town on a trip.

Rats!

'think rose, think…where else could you go?...you can't stay here…..'

Then it clicked.

Why didn't she think of this before!

Amy reached out into her bag taking out a phone book. She opened it, looked for a page and then ripped it out.

"What this?"

Amy's giggle was a sign of relive for Lilly who held the paper closely to herself. If she wasn't mistaken Amy looked almost happy, excited more or less, to explain the directions and phone that was written down.

"Oh nowhere far but a little place I call Team Sonic HQ!"

-A/N:

Ahhhh I have always wanted to write this story, it's been stashed away in the back in my brain for mouths and just before it went away completely…. I wrote it down!

So this is ment to take place when Amy is about …..lets say 15.

Her fangirlness is washing away a more mature girl taking it place but as you can see she still has feeling for our blue hero ^^

Please send me some feed back and tell me what you think!

Ps: any grammar errors please let me know!

-Kaiga