You are my sunshine... Billdip Oneshot

You are my sunshine...

The press had foretold it for weeks. The scientists had tried desperately to cover it up, but once the media gets ahold of something, nothing can make it let go. People were killing themselves, people were acting out of control, people were simply hiding and hoping it was a bad dream. Earth was in chaos.

The end of the world was coming.

A huge asteroid was hurtling towards Earth, predicted to be bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. It had been flying towards the planet for thousands of years, but had only just gotten close enough to be seen. There was no stopping it, no slowing it down, no time to escape from Earth. The human race was doomed.

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'Today's the day, Dipper.' I heard Bill's voice call to me. I opened my sore, drooping eyelids and looked at him. He looked just despairing as I did.

I knew what today was. Who didn't? The whole planet had been talking about nothing else ever since it was announced. The day that the meteor would hit Earth.

'We should... we should go out. Go and see everything again, before...' His voice trailed away. He didn't want to say it. I nodded, gazing at the floor. I slowly got up, and he followed my lead.

We walked outside the house, not bothering to pick up the keys. We knew we'd most likely never step in that house again. Looking up at it, I remembered some of the memories I'd made in that place. Fresh springs, endless summers, gorgeous autumns and cozy winters. I remembered when I'd first stepped inside, and knowing this was my home. I'd been so happy then. Now, I was trudging out of it into the weak red sunlight, blocked mostly by the large shape in the sky, with a spiralling feeling of nothingness settling around me.

We went to all our old haunts. The diner, the park, the hills, every place we'd spent time together. Every single one gave me a piercing flood of bittersweet memories. The time when I'd tripped while rollerblading and got a bloody nose, and Bill carried me all the way back home. The time we built a tree fort and roleplayed as medieval knights all afternoon. The moonlit clearing where we shared our first kiss. And strongest of all, the hilltop where we'd joined hands in marriage. I'd never forget that day.

When we'd visited every place, we sat down on the forest floor. It was less than five minutes until the meteor hit, and the spiralling sense of dread I had continued to whirl around in my mind, consuming all my other thoughts.

'You know...' I suddenly heard Bill say beside me. 'This is the spot you first saw me in my human form...' With a jolt, I realised he was right. 'Yeah, it is...' I murmured quietly. There were a few moments of silence, before he said, 'But it won't be the last. We'll see each other again one day. I know it.'

Again, there were a few moments of silence, broken only by the faint sounds of raging flames as the meteor drew closer. I couldn't take it anymore. I began to sob.

'Hey, hey!' He said, with the tinest hint of sadness in his voice. 'Don't cry. It's... it's gonna be okay.'

'Okay? Okay?!' I whispered despairingly. 'It's the end of the world, Bill. We have two minutes left...' I choked, before continuing to cry. He looked at me, lost for what to say.

For a minute, or an hour, or even a year, it was just me and my tears of grief. Everything was over. I was going to die. Until suddenly, like a sweet scent filling a room, a voice pierced the veil of sadness surrounding me.

'You are my sunshine...'

I looked up, dumbfounded. It was Bill. Singing.

'My only sunshine...'

I gaped at him. This was the final song that had played at our wedding, and the soothing melody had played in my head ever since.

'You make me happy...'

My tears continued to flow, silently dripping onto the soft grass below me.

'When skies are grey...'

I could hear the crack in his voice now. The meteor was less than a minute away.

'You'll never know, dear...'

He pulled me closer to him until our foreheads touched. He was ice cold.

'How much I love you...'

I felt a tear run down his cheek. I clutched his shoulders.

'Please don't take...'

The meteor got closer and closer by the second.

'My sunshine...'

Fifteen seconds to go...

'Away...'

With that, he wrapped his arms around me and our lips met in a final kiss, as the meteor hit and darkness swallowed both of us.