Killing Me Slowly (Third Book to the Secrets Will Kill You Series)

Fake It Till We Make It Part 1

Brittney's POV

It was weird. At first...it felt almost like I was floating. It was a calming feeling though. I wasn't in any pain. I wasn't stressed. I had no anxiety. The feeling was really nice. But then it was like a force was pulling me down...pulling me back...something stronger than gravity itself. And when I actually felt my feet hit solid ground. I saw I was in Bobby's kitchen...and I wasn't getting that peaceful feeling anymore. So I rushed forward and swung the sliding doors open to see Bobby sitting down in one of his chairs but there was a man beside him.

"Brittney?" he questioned.

"Bobby...I...I don't know what's happening" I gasped and tried not to hyperventilate. I looked down at myself and saw that my body was fading away and coming back...but each time it faded, it was worse.

Bobby stood to his feet and then looked at the man beside him. "I don't know how she did it but she must have felt your soul was in distress and came to find you" he told him.

"You don't know half the stuff these kids can do" Bobby replied and it sounded like he said it with a lot of pride but I was kind of freaking out right now to process much.

"She has to get back to her own mind. She doesn't belong here. It's most likely her time to go anyway"

"My time to go...?" I wondered aloud...and then I remembered. I got shot. And it was really bad. But apparently not as bad as Bobby.

"Listen to me Brittney. You need to go back and fight for your life. Those kids can't afford to lose anymore. They really need you. You keep them together" he told me as he gripped onto my shoulders.

"But what about you?" I asked as tears rose into my eyes and I began to realize what he was saying.

"I'll be okay...don't you worry about me, are you listening to me? Go back and fight" he enforced. So I shut my eyes and just like that...I was gone.

My POV

I hadn't realized that everyone around me started to literally move in slow motion until about two minutes after. And then they all came to a full stop and I had realized that it was because of me that time had stopped completely. I looked up at Dean to see his face was frozen in the same pained expression as he stared down at Bobby's lifeless body and then I looked up at Sam's frozen teary-eyed expression as he did the same. I only knew the whole freezing time thing was because of me because...well...I was the only one still moving for one. And two? It's what I was thinking before it happened. To freeze time. So I can save Bobby. I put both hands on his head and began to recite and incantation. I was focusing so hard that my nose actually began to bleed...I was never a nose bleeder. But I also never tried to bring someone back from the dead.

I was startled when his eyes shot up and he grabbed my wrist tightly, with his hand. But when he looked over at me, his grip lightened. "Melissa Stern...what the hell are you doing?" he asked but his voice was light.

"We can't lose you too, Bobby. It'll break all of us. And I won't be able to see Dean and Sam so broken and damaged for more weeks to come and we need you. This might be so selfish of me right now but I just...I don't know how to..." I sobbed.

"Melissa..." he said in a way that always made me look at him no matter what. "You may think ya'll need me but you don't. You're big kids now. Everything will be alright" he said and it broke my heart hearing him say those words. The last words I heard my father say too.

"You need to let me go...you all do" he said and that paralyzed me. "You aren't a selfish person" he said wiping his thumb across my forehead.

He showed me that blood came off it. I looked at my reflection in one of his machines. The spell was working. I was getting Bobby's damages. "But you sure are stupid" I gave him a look. "Now will ya just let me die in peace?"