Penny's POV
This was what pain felt like.
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I had experienced my fair share of it, but never on this level.
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There were pieces of metal in my chest, I realized vaguely, as I struggled to breathe. That was where the sharpness was coming from. Oh.
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When I had been sitting up on stage, listening to Captain Hammer singing his ridiculous song, I thought that I was going to die of embarrassment. Was it irony that I was dying now? That was what was happening, I decided. I could feel myself slipping, consciousness fading. What was there really to hang on to anyway though?
Then I saw him. The stranger that, just a few moments ago, was parading around wielding a death ray and causing chaos in a white lab coat. When I had first seen him, heard him, I had frozen. I was drawn to him, drawn to the inevitable familiarity of him. Then he said my name, he had said my nickname for him, and I knew.
He bent down in front of me now, saying my name and repeating the word no over and over. My eyes met his, and my heart broke at the overwhelming sadness in them, and I realized I had made a huge mistake. Then, something odd happened.
They say when you are about to die, your whole life flashes before your eyes. Instead, the life I could have had flashed in front of mine.
Leaning in all the way to kiss him at the Coin Wash, realizing he saved me from the van, never dating Captain Hammer, love in his eyes, a gold band, a child with red hair and slivery blue eyes, all of the what ifs and should have beens, right there in front of me.
My eyes refocused and looked straight into his again, recognizing for the first time the look that I saw there. Forgetting Hammer, forgetting that he was a villain, nothing else mattered but the things that I had saw.
I worked hard to get as much voice as I could as I said, "I'm holding on, Billy. Save me. I don't have much left."
And my Billy, my dear Billy Buddy, nodded, with tears clearly running his face.
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~OtterPotter