Silent Lucidity

VIII

[Death's Door]

INT. VEHICLE - NIGHT

"Bobby?" Sam called. "Bobby? Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hold on."

"Sam, Kennedy, is he dead?" Dean asked.

"I'm checking." He felt Bobby's neck for a pulse.

"Is he dead?!"

"Just drive, Dean! Bobby!"

Kennedy shook her uncle. "Uncle Bobby, please. I can't lose you too!" Her voice shook as she continued shaking he uncle.

"You gotta talk to me, Sam!" Dean cried.

"All right, he's breathing," Sam told him. "There's a pulse."

Dean entered numbers on his cell. "Keep him upright. Stop the bleeding."

"I'm not an idiot, Dean! I know first aid for a damn bullet to the head!"

Dean spoke into the phone. "I need the nearest trauma center."

"Hold on. Hold on." He glanced to Kennedy. "We're gonna help him, okay?"

"What's the address?!" Dean glanced back a moment. "All right, Bobby, hang in there."

The vehicle skidded as Dean accelerated.

Kennedy climbed over the seats and sat in the passenger's seat next to Dean. He took her hand and rubbed gentle circles on the back of it.

"Bobby!" Sam called. "Just hold on!"

EXT. FOREST - DAY

"Well, I guess we found Phil," Dean said.

Bobby frowned. "Wait a minute. Something's not right here."

"Yeah, no kidding. There's a corpse in a tree."

"Something bad's about to happen."

Kennedy gestured to her gun. "Yeah, well, danger's kind of on the W2 - that's why we got the guns."

Blood dripped onto Bobby's hand. There was a bloodstain on Bobby's cap. He put his fingers to his head and saw more blood on his fingertips when he lowered his hand.

"Or something bad's happened already."

INT. OLD HOUSE - DAY

Bobby, Dean, Sam and Kennedy entered. Bobby removed his cap and touched his head. There was a small amount of blood on his forehead.

"Balls," Bobby muttered.

"Y-you want to tell us what's going on?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, what's going on with your head?" Dean wondered.

"I got shot in it!" Bobby yelled.

"You what?"

Kennedy frowned as she looked at her uncle. "We've been with you all day."

"Yeah, I think we woulda noticed if you took a bullet," Dean said.

"I didn't take one here. I-I took one out there, i-i-in the real world," Bobby told them.

"You lost us."

"Look, Bobby, you - you want to sit down, seriously?" Sam asked.

"No, there's something I gotta tell you," Bobby replied. "I-I... Dammit, I can't get at it."

"Well, it -it's okay, take your time. We're - we're right here."

"No, no, not you you. Real you. Out - out there, in the waking world. Numbers. Numbers. Where's paper?" He walked towards the table, on which there was a pen and notebook and wrote. "I didn't have time fore to tell you what..." he wrote '454895' in the notebook, "...they're cookin' up. You need to know." He put the piece of paper from the notebook in his jacket pocket.