I woke up to the sound of hushed voices. I sit up and look around finding Sam and Jack sitting at the desk writing notes and looking through files. The window behind them suggests that its already dark.

"Sam? Jack?" They both turn to me and smile. "Feeling any better?" Sam asks. "I am, yes." I tell him running my hands up and down my arms.

"We have some work to finish still, but it shouldn't take too long." Jack says.

"Okay." I say shifting in my seat trying to get comfortable. "Do you guys mind if I walk around for a while?" I ask feeling an uncomfortable yet familiar chill race up then back down my spine.

"Not at all. Just be careful." Jack tells me Sam smiling up at me from his seat at the desk that is dwarfed by Jack's sheer size.

I stand up wrapping the jacket tighter around my body. I can feel the chill in the air but then again it could just be me. I walk down the hall and towards the water fountain I had passed on my way in. I spot it the light shining down on it through the giant windows. I can hear nothing but my shoes hitting the tiled floors. I lean down pressing the button and quickly slurp down the arching stream of water. "Hello Auggie, it's been a while." I turn around the light from the windows just bright enough to see his face making me tremble. "Don't call me that!" I tell him referring to his nickname. He steps closer.

"You always loved it when I called you that." He purrs making my stomach churn.

"Get away from me!" I tell him about to take off running when he charges grabbing me and pulling me to the hard ground my head hitting the tiles with a loud crack. "I love it when you bleed." He tells me in a chuckle. I let out a scream making Rex angry. "Now they'll get here and I will have no fun." He says angrily before slapping me.

"The blood loss, I know you enjoy it so." He tells me before slicing my stomach open then slowly carving a heart into my arm as I can hear the rushing footsteps of Sam and Jack. My screams echo through the halls causing pain to shoot through my ears.

"Good bye." He tells me before running off leaving me bleeding on the floor.

"AUGUST!!" Sam cries as Jack pulls out his phone calling an ambulance. Sam slides over on his knees pressing down on my stomach trying to keep me from bleeding out.

I can feel my head getting heavy and my body starting to shut down ever so slowly. My eyes do a dance of opening and closing the image of Sam getting blurrier by the second.

"Stay with me August...please!" Sam begs as Jack soon joins us on the floor.

"He was here...Rex..." I tell them running out of breath quickly.

"Shhh, it's okay." Sam says lowering his forehead to mine. "Your okay." He tells me.

The sound of sirens is heard and the lights flash in the huge windows. "They're here." Jack says stroking my hair. "You'll be okay." He tells me with a beautiful smile. "I'm tired..." I tell them. "No, don't fall asleep, please don't fall asleep..." Sam begs as he pulls me into his lap to lean against his chest.

I play the game of the sleep deprived and apparently the dying. My head lulls forward then I hoist it up again just for it to fall backward.

"Just a little longer August." Jack says waiting for them to show up. "But I'm tired Jack..." I tell him quietly. "I know you are. Just stay awake a little longer."

I lie there in Sam's arms not sure if the disco on the ceiling is playing tricks on my eyes or if I'm seriously seeing my dead parents standing over me with wicked grins.

"I don't want to die..." I tell them tears filling my eyes. "Don't let me die..." I cry as my body gets even heavier.

"Shhh, stay with me." I hear Sam coo.

"We're in here!" I hear Jack yell making me flinch. "Shhh, your okay, no one's going to hurt you. Your safe now." He tells me kissing my head again.

"What happened?" A medic asks as an officer comes in behind him.

"Rex..."

"Some guy who's been stalking her." Jack says as Sam is pushed away so the medic can check me out.

"Get me the gurney now!" He yells as I start to pass out.

"August, baby it's okay, just don't fall asleep okay? Please just don't sleep." Sam tells me as I nod my head. "Sam..." I say trying to reach out to him before they load me on the gurney with a painful jolt.

"I'll meet you at the hospital okay? I love you!" He says as the doors to the elevator close. He loves me? really? He just wants something for himself. There you are cynicism. The ride down is tortuously slow. When we finally reach the bottom I feel like I'm sliding on glass across the slick floor. Jolting out the front doors I groan as pain shoots through me again.

"Ahhhh!" I scream as the pain finally registers.

Everything just disappears the sounds go first, then the touch, then the sight and taste leaving smell as the last thing to go. The smell of chemicals brushing my nose mixed with the iron smell of my blood.

Is this my moment?

Is this my moment to die?

Is this when I die?

Is this what death is like?

The last thing you can experience is the stench of blood and chemicals?

Is this really how I want to die?

No.

No it isn't.

I don't want to go...

Channeling my inner David Tennant...

I don't want to go...

But it's true.

I don't.