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Bad Romance - Hurt/Second Best/Love Potion XXX - Alicia & Sonic

By now, Alicia was used to the smell of blood, and the feel of intense pain. So instead of tending to the blood dripping out of the side of her chest, she was headed to a locked room within her castle. Due to having a familiar, she knew this wound would heal faster than that of a normal mortal, but it still hurt like hell. She momentarily touched the injury - it'd been a slice from a sword, from Scourge himself. To her, that made this twice as painful.

But no more painful than the last resort she was about to attempt. She fumbled for her key, and unlocked the door to the library of spells that had been both passed down and hidden away in her family. It was only to be used in emergencies. Alicia believed this more than qualified.

With a deep gulp of air and a hobble, she walked inside, scanning the spines to find the right book for the right potion.

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Given the last fight they were part of, Sonic had to take a rest as he recuperated the energy that was needed to be corporeal. It had taken too much energy for him to stick around, so Sonic hadn't been around to see the ending of the fight or what happened after as he was forced to rest.

By time he regained awareness of what was going on, it took him a moment to take in his surroundings. "..." He recognized the rows of books all around them and wearily admired their location.

But where they were wasn't as important as figuring out what happened in the last battle. "Hey. What happened? Where are we?"

"I'm alive." She replied bitterly, her natural tone of voice. "So that obviously means we won. As for where we are..." Alicia appeared to have found what she was looking for, as she slid out a dusty book with a dark red color, a color similar to the one coming out of her. "... This is my family's library of spells and potions. No one knows about this place, and no one else is allowed in here."

She gave him a quick, curt glance. "So you are to understand that you're never to speak of this place when we leave it."

"Sweet." Sonic took a moment to concentrate and form himself into a physical being nearby. He looked to his hands and flexed his fingers. Ah, being able to see himself again!

He blinked and looked from the books to Alicia, then to her wound. "Hey. You're hurt." His tone sounded dismayed but still worried by the site of blood. Sonic approached and ducked down to get a better look. "What are you doin' here in a library, you need to get to a hospital or somethin'."

Alicia began to open the book, eyes going over every word and page to find the exact combination she needed. "Because of our connection, a matter like this won't kill me. It will heal on its own in a matter of hours." She flipped the page rather loudly as if to make a statement.

"If you can't handle the sight of blood, you're of no use in battle. Now be quieter, I'm trying to concentrate."

Sonic grimaced. Though their connection had benefits, sure, that didn't mean she should brush things like that off. At least, in his opinion. Not handling blood was hardly the point.

"Fiiiine. Sorry for asking." With a sigh, he headed to one of the nearby reading tables and plopped down in a chair. He sat there for a few minutes and tried vainly to entertain himself, But soon enough he grew bored and snuck up behind Alicia so he could peek over her shoulder.

"What'cha readin'?"

Thankfully she managed to resist the urge to roll her eyes. It was a fair enough question, and she supposed he should know all of her battle plans.

"It's a potion book." She finally answered, going through another page flip. "I'm going to make Lord Scourge fall in love with me."

She said it so calmly and casually, like one would describe the weather outside.

"You're---?!" He took a step back, but the expression on his face must've illustrated his thoughts for him--which mostly consisted of 'what the heck are you thinking'. "You want him to what? But you don't even like the guy!"

Wasn't Scourge the guy who was trying to overthrow her Kingdom, the dude she battled against in the last fight, and.. just.. why in the world would she want him to fall in love with her?

"I told you to be quieter." She wound up leaning against a bookshelf, the pain getting too much for her for the moment. "And I despise him. But that doesn't matter."

She paused momentarily - ah, this was the page she wanted. Her eyes went back and forth as she read and memorized its contents.

"If this works the way it should, he will be so completely consumed by love that he will no longer attack the kingdom. He will devote himself entirely to me, and become a servant."

"But that guy is a total creep." Sonic lowered his voice, but he couldn't quite edge out the skeptical tone of voice. "I don't think he's gonna be happy with just bein' your servant."

His expression perked up. "We'll just beat him the outright. I'll get stronger if we just train more."

No surprise, Alicia ignored his complaints. But what she did next might seem strange - she touched the blood on her side, and then ran her wet fingers down the selected page, causing it to glow in a dark hue. She murmured ancient words in an old tongue, and then ripped the page right out of the book. It stopped glowing, but the entire page had changed colors.

"I am the master. You are the familiar. I give the orders. You follow them. We going through with this plan. And should I endure a..." A pause of hesitance. "...If he tries anything untoward... I can handle it."

A longer pause. She swallowed. "I have before."

He stayed still during her spell, though he couldn't help but look on curiously as he'd never seen magic like that firsthand.

But through it all, Sonic could feel a twinge of.. something in his gut at the whole situation. It felt like a mixture between anger, jealousy, and utter frustration. "You don't have to do everything by yourself." Sonic snapped after the spells conclusion in a rare tone of anger. In that moment, his voice sounded like Scourge himself though it quickly returned to sincere.

"I'm not saying this as a familiar. I'm saying this as your friend. We can find some other way other than makin' you the focus of his attention." Being one of the few people that he knew, of course he cared for her. There was no way he'd want her to invite trouble to her. Sonic began to pick books off the shelf near the one she was currently reading. "One of these other books must have some sorta spell you can use."

Alicia momentarily wondered if he had picked up on her 'confession', or if he was ignoring it as best he can. Either way, she closed the book as she no longer had any use for it.

"You really only hear what you want to hear, don't you." Her snide voice was harsh, and she began to storm over to him, slapping his hand to make him stop touching the books. "I have subjects, I have servants, I do not have friends. Weaknesses like that would only hold me back." She then held up the spelled page defiantly. "Once he digests this, he will no longer attack my kingdom, and the greatest threat to my land is gone. That is what's most important. A true queen must be ready to sacrifice anything to guarantee the safety of her people."

Though she might have done well to get him to stop looking at her books, that didn't mean he was through trying to get her to stop. Her dismissing him as a friend just just made him more frustrated and thus more likely to make his own impulsive decisions.

He bent his ears back, and with a glare he grabbed the piece of paper from her hand and dashed off into the library.

Alicia had to blink a few times before registering what had happened. She had never been so utterly defied.

She had also never been so utterly pissed.

"SONIC!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, and began to run after him. Her wound, while healing, slowed her down, and Sonic himself seemed to have a natural speed to him. Her hands clenched and unclenched over and over, visualizing strangling him. "Give that back to me this instant!"

Well. Someone sounded a touch upset.

Though to be fair, Sonic didn't exactly have an endgame for how he thought it would all play out from there. Unfortunately there was only so far he could run, Familiar's could only stray so far away from their masters before they felt intense pain.

He rounded a corner and found himself face-to-face with a dead end. "Great. Now what, hedgehog?" He looked around for a place to hide the spell, but there was no place around that would hide an obnoxiously glowy thing.

So he made a face, looked at the spell, and stuffed it in his mouth.

It didn't take her long to track him down, violent thoughts racing through her mind. The truth was she wasn't going to do anything she - and likely Sonic - was imagining, as she couldn't risk killing such a powerful familiar. He might endure a hard screeching and maybe a good smack upside the head. Repeatedly.

Once she found the blue hedgehog, a hot blow of angry air flashed through her nostrils. "After all I've done for you, this is how - " She stopped herself, realizing something crucial - the page was gone. "Where - where is the page?! It was the only one of its kind!"

Sonic tried to swallow as subtly as he could so that the answer to her question wouldn't be so obvious. Whether or not she actually noticed that.. well.. it was debatable.

"Don't look at me." Sonic said cooly as he folded his arms. "Guess it flew the coop."

Silence. She looked left and right - there were no obvious places to stuff it, and if he'd ripped it to pieces the floor would show the mess. She looked back at him to demand an answer -

And then she put it together. Her eyes widened, and she opened her mouth, though words didn't come out right away. Her cheeks began to tint without her permission. Then...

"... You... didn't."

Sonic coughed into his hand as he felt the gross-tasting magic whats-it go down completely. Ugh, that was going to be a bad aftertaste.

"Didn't what?" He wouldn't be able to keep up the charade for long, as the spell began to twist and churn in his stomach. He clutched a hand to his belly and winced in pain as he felt it start to emit a warm sensation. "I don't know what you're talkin' about."

"You... you... you..."

It was all she could think of to utter. How could something with such great potential be so massively foolish? Even if she could make him vomit it back up, the magic was already in his system. For once, she lost her calculating, smooth demeanor as she came apart at the seams. She flailed slightly, panicking taking over.

"You... fight it, somehow!" She snapped out. "You're... I have to find a cure, if there is... Gods above!"

A sincere smile crept across his face in spite of the warm sensation in his stomach. "Sure, whatever you say." His tone was much more calm and soothing than its usual inflection.

"Do you want me to help you look at some books?"

In some ways, this was perfect. Now he'd be completely obedient to her and stop giving his own foolish opinion. He'd finally work as she wanted him to all along.

... Alicia felt a knot in her chest. For all the positives this situation brought, there was a lingering bitter taste to it.

She rolled her shoulders, and turned away from him. "... Yes. We'll look through every single book here if that's what it takes. Then... then I will rest."

As she turned away from him, his eyes couldn't help but fall to her backside. He may have stared for a brief moment before looking away, a flush to his cheeks.

"Right." He trotted ahead. "I can take a quick look through 'em. Look fast, act fast, read fast! You know how it is."

Maybe he could impress her if he worked fast enough and found that spell.

If Alicia noticed, she gave no sign. She quietly went to the bookshelves, looking for anything that could be about antidotes, cures, reversals, anything that would fall under the category of undoing what had been done. As she explored as best as her frazzled mind would allow, a thought came to her. She could finally tell him the truth about one matter, and perhaps in his 'new state', he would take it better. Then, once he was cured, they would move on.

"Scourge." She said, her back to Sonic. "... He was my former lover."

The news of them having been..together made Sonic stop as his eyes flashed with a hint of pure jealousy, he tried to hide it and focus on looking through the books. Though the nagging thought crept up in his mind: What did she see in that guy?

Whatever the case, he tried to keep it lighthearted and not turn green himself. Though he couldn't help but practically slam the book that he was flipping through back down on the shelf in front of him. "Heh. We all make mistakes." He nodded to her side before returning to his books. "If he's willing to hurt you like that now, it just shows he was never worth it."

"I hardly need relationship advice from you." But at least now it was out in the open. She sighed before continuing. "It was... a long time ago. He's a marvelous actor. He made me think I... changed his life, that I was his world."

She walked around the library, still searching for the right book. "I was young and foolish. I even planned to marry him and make him King. But... I found out from my personal servants that he was jumping any woman who so much as made eye contact with him. I was only a tool to get to the throne. I confronted him, we fought, I gave him the scars on his chest... and... that's that."

"And now you're still fightin' him." Sounded like he hurt her just as bad as she hurt him. Almost being conned by some jerk and about making such a bad guy King could make anyone in her position question whether or not relationships were worth the trouble.

Sonic stayed quiet as he continued to thumb through all the books in the section of the library he'd claimed to search. One in particular on a lower shelf caught his attention--a worn book that looked as though it was looked through often. He picked it off the shelf and looked at the cover. It was titled 'Controlling and Obtaining Familiars'. He looked through the first few pages.

"... Hey." He breathed in. "If you hate him that much--Scourge--then why do I look like him?" Did summoners have control over that?

Since she wasn't looking at Sonic, she had no idea what book he had found. She wouldn't have believed her luck was that bad. She leaned on a bookshelf, hating to relieve those memories. Why did she feel that Sonic deserved them?

So she decided to lie. "I don't know... maybe his was just the first face that came to mind."

He slowly put the book back on the shelf and moved on to the next one. Was his entire reason for being some weird way of her getting back at the guy she hated so much? Was that why she was saying all of this all of a sudden?

"Me lookin' like this must really make you hate me." Sonic said with a light chuckle just to keep the tone light, but given the spell and how it made him feel about her, the mere thought of Alicia hating him made his chest tighten with sadness. "But I like you."

A scoffing noise left her mouth. "Yes, I imagine swallowing a love potion page makes you like me very much." She then bent over a little, a hand on her wound. "I hate Scourge, and Scourge alone. You..." She waved a dismissive hand. "However I think or tolerate about you, I'll tell once we get rid of that spell coursing through your veins." Another sigh.

"... Which we'll have to do later. I'm not healing as fast as I thought I was. I need to lay down."

At least that was some consolation. Sonic made a slight 'phew' noise to himself as she provided that tidbit of info. "Sure."

He trotted around the row of books and offered her a hand. "I'll help you back to the room. Grab hold."

She eyed him warily - momentarily not trusting him because of the spell - but she slowly placed her hand on his. What choice did she have but to rely on him now?

"Don't go too fast. I need to rest, not pass out."

"No problem." With that, Sonic scooped her up in his arms and opted for carrying her instead of taking the risk of her passing out. "Here we go!" It was just easier that way!

With the spell in him, it made her conscious of everything he did, and wonder how much of it was his own will, and how much of it was 'forced' upon him. She sighed, closing her eyes, and leaned on him. What a ridiculous, exhausting day.

Forced or not, Sonic smiled with glee as he trotted down the castle hallways with Alicia in tow. Though it was normal for him to carry those who needed it.. it might have seemed a touch unusual that he was hugging her so close and loving every second of it.

He soon rounded the corner to her room, headed in, and sat her at down gently by her bedside. "Here we are!" He gave a theatrical bow. "Anything else you need, Queeny?"

With another long, heavy sigh, she laid down, not bothering to change out of her bloodstained clothes. Who knows what a love-spelled Sonic would do at the sight of her undressing. She entertained herself with that idea for just a moment, but quickly out it aside.

"Do whatever it is that you do." She said, putting an arm over her eyes.

"Ten-four." Sonic sat on the floor by her bedside and pulled his knees up to his chest. There wasn't much else he could ever do given he was a familiar, So he closed his eyes and tried to concentrate. If he could make himself a physical form with some concentration maybe he could help heal her up. It was a longshot, but hey, it was something.

The only sounds that could be heard were Alicia's light breathing, and the occasional weather outside from the window up high. She took deep, steady breathes, only trying to focus that and nothing more. Despite Sonic's current state, she decided she trusted him enough to sleep there in front of him, if her body decided to go in such a direction.

If it was Scourge under that spell, she'd sleep with one eye open. But... Sonic...

... Sonic was not Scourge. Simple as that.

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