Casey sat in the park. It was the most beautiful day she had seen yet. The sun was shining and the snow had already melted and she could hear birds singing, it was a perfect day, a perfect day to die. She decided that if she had to pick a day to leave earth forever then it would be one like this. She was going to die.
As that word echoed through her head she realized that four others would be going up to heaven, one of them for the first time. It could be Ricky, what would she do if his life was cut short, as much as she loved him she didn't want his life to be end so soon. Sure, she wanted to spend eternity with him but not now, not when he still had his life before him. Deep down inside she felt that Ricky wouldn't be the fifth chair, she didn't know why but she knew it wouldn't be him.
If only he had stayed long enough for her to convince him that she really was an angel, she could have showed him the watch, explained about the fifth chair and what heaven was like and maybe then he would have believed her. But now she had run out of chances. She looked at the cap over her watch that told the real time, 5:31pm. Had she really been sitting here that long? Watching the people walk by, breathing in the fresh air, in almost six hours she would never feel any of this, see any of this. The spring flowers blooming, the birds of so many vibrant colors, the soft cool wind that brought with it so many wonderful scents, it would all be gone soon. Very soon.

Night had fallen hours ago and Casey sat back down on her bench, she had looked for Ricky, desperately hoping for one last chance to love him, but he was no where to be found, she had left a note at the Scanlon's, thanking Frank for looking out for her and telling him goodbye. Afterward she had had a 'last meal' as they called it, a big greasy cheeseburger, salty fries and a chocolate milkshake. When she was done she had been tempted to look for Rafe, or even Paige, or Amy so she wouldn't be alone when the time came, but she knew that they would be spending time with the ones that they loved. So she had walked back to the park and sat down on the bench waiting.
Casey tried to hold back tears as she looked at her watch, it was now 11:58pm she had three minutes, at 12:01 she would be gone forever. She could hear her heart beating in her ears and she anticipated the bright light but then she saw him and for a moment Casey thought she was imagining it, but it was him, it was Ricky.
"Ricky!" she said calling out and running over to him.
"What?!" he asked turning around and with blood pounding in her ears and tears threatening to fall Casey realized that he hadn't come looking for her, that he still didn't believe her.
She glanced down at her watch. "I have one minute left," she said her voice shaky, her breath constricting in her chest.
"Ricky, please, I'll never see you again, please just tell me you love me," she pleaded clasping his face in her hands.
"No," he said and he pulled her hands away.
"Ricky-," she whispered and then she felt it, knew it was happening, but praying to God that it wasn't. There was a sound like thunder and her eyes were blinded and she shut them as tears ran down her cheeks. Ricky had been holding her wrists away from him but the feel of his hands faded, yet somehow lingered, and then she was gone.
Ricky grasped thin air, he kept blinking, she had to be wrong, she wasn't angel, yet she had disappeared into thin air. He put his hands to his cheeks where Casey's hands had been, and his cheek was healed.
"Casey, come back," he pleaded into the still night.