One morning, Gil wakes up in his bedroom and sits up fast with his eyes and mouth wide open gasping. He then scans his room looking left, then looking right.

"Boy," he says, "I had a nightmare!"

Gil is still and silent for a few seconds. Then he breaks down and cries. Bubble Puppy, who is sleeping on Gil's bed wakes up and hears him and then looks at him concerned. Bubbly Puppy gets up and slowly approaches him and tilts his (Bubble Puppy's) head. Then Bubble Puppy cuddles up to Gil and Gil uncovers his face with tears still in his eyes.

"Morning Bubble Puppy," says Gil still crying.

Bubbly Puppy licks Gil on the cheek twice.

"Thanks Bubble Puppy," says Gil, "but I'm still feeling really sad right now. You won't believe it."

Gil then reaches over to his night stand and looks at his framed picture of himself and Goby together. Then Gil bows his head onto his arms and sobs some more. Then he lifts his head up, opens his arms, and embraces Bubble Puppy to himself, holding him to his chest and his chin on top of Bubble Puppy's head. Bubble Puppy then licks Gil a few more times. Even though he's very sad, he knows he still has to go to school.

"Come on boy," says Gil. "Let's go to school."

So Gil gets out of bed and gets himself ready for school.

Gil and Bubble Puppy are now on their way to Mr. Grouper's class. Gil leaves home eating no breakfast due to lack of appetite.

Meanwhile, in Mr. Grouper's class:

"Good morning Mr. Grouper!" says his other students.

"Well good morning everyone," he answers back.

Just then Gil's voice is heard.

"GOBY!" he shouts.

Gil sees Goby, yes, Goby sitting in his usual spot among his classmates. When the Mr. Grouper and the little Guppies hear Gil, they see him with small circle-shaped mouths like Nonny almost always has.

"Huh?" they all say as they turn their heads to Gil floating at the door.

Gil then swims as fast as he can towards Goby.

"GOBY!" Gil says again as he's still swimming at him like a bullet with his arms out.

Gil then embraces Goby but squeezes him really tight.

"Goby," says Gil smiling with his eyes closed, "I'm so happy to see you're still here!"

Mr. Grouper and the little guppies, confused, see Gil embracing Goby as if Goby was Gil's prized possession.

Also confused about the situation, Goby says to Gil, "I'm happy to see you too Gil. Now can you please let go of me you're squeezing me too tight!"

"Oh," says Gil, "my bad. But you have no idea how happy I am to see you!"

"Thanks Gil," says Goby, "but why wouldn't I be here?"

"Gil," asks Oona, "are you feeling okay?"

"Yeah Gilly," says Molly, "is everything all right?"

"Why are you embracing Goby like that?" asks Nonny.

"Yeah," says Deema, "I know he's your best friend and we like him too but I've never seen you do that to him before."

"Me neither," says Mr. Grouper. "Something you'd like to share with us?"

"Yeah Gil," says the clam, "what's going on."

Gil is silent for a moment.

"You guys wouldn't believe what happened," Gil says to everyone.

Then he goes silent again.

"Want to talk about it?" asks Mr. Grouper.

"Uh," Gil says.

"It's okay," says Mr. Grouper, "you don't have to."

"No," says Gil, "I want to, it's just not easy to say. But I'll give it my best shot."

So everyone is silent and prepares to listen to what Gil has to say.

"I had a nightmare," says Gil.

"What?" says Deema.

"Oh no," says Oona.

"Yes," says Gil, "I had a nightmare that our own Goby here died."

"Oh I'm sorry," says Oona.

"So am I," says Molly.

"We're sorry too Gil," says Mr. Grouper.

"Yeah," says the rest of the Guppies, except Goby.

"You had a bad dream that I died?" asks Goby. "That explains why you hugged me like you did."

"It sure is," says Gil, "and I'm sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable."

"That's okay," says Goby.

Goby then asks, "Hey, this doesn't by any chance have anything to do with my recent almost dying from Arklampsia does it?"

"As a matter of fact," says Gil, "it does."

"You must still be traumatized by that," says Mr. Grouper.

"What's traumatized mean?" asks Oona.

"Traumatized means to subject to psychological trauma," answers Nonny, "and a trauma is, well there is more than one kind of trauma but the one Gil is suffering from is an emotional wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person. It is also an event or situation that causes great distress and it can have long lasting effects on a person."

"But Gil," says Goby, "I survived, and it's all thanks to you."

"Goby goes on to say to the other guppies, "And to the rest of you."

"I know," says Gil. "But in my dream, kind of the same thing happened and we tried to save you but…"

Gil has a hard time talking. He cannot talk anymore without crying.

He continues: "but you didn't make it."

Gil sits down on the floor and sobs in front of everyone.

"Awww," say all the other guppies.

Mr. Grouper then comes to Gil and rubs Gil's back with his fin.

"It's okay Gil," says Mr. Grouper, "let it all out."

Mr. Grouper then goes to get Gil a cleanix. Molly takes over as Gil's comforter and rubs his back too.

Then Goby comes to Gil and this time, now that he understands why Gil hugged him the way he did earlier, Goby is willing to be hugged by Gil again, so he taps Gil on the shoulder.

When Gil looks up at Goby, Goby opens his arms wide and says "Come here."

Gil then goes to Goby and they hug each other, and Gil doesn't hug Goby as tightly but does cry on Goby's shoulder, but Goby doesn't mind and even rubs Gil's back. And not much later, all the other Guppies start to shed tears, even Goby.

Mr. Grouper comes back with a tissue box and everyone gets a couple pieces of tissue, one to blow their noses and the other to dry their eyes.

Finally Gil and Goby let go of each other but Goby puts his hands on Gil's shoulders.

"Gil," says Goby, "look at me. It's all right. I'm still here as I just said. And it was just a bad dream you had."

"That's right Gil," says Oona, "it was only a dream."

"Oona and Goby are right, Gil," says Mr. Grouper, "what you experienced didn't really happen. All your friends including Bubble Puppy are here.

"And plus," says Deema, "don't you think you should be happy that you helped save Gil in real life?"

"You should try to remember that," says Molly.

Gil thinks about it for a moment.

"You're all right," he says, "I did help save my friend Goby here. However, I couldn't have done it without all of you here."

"Yeah," says Goby, "and I owe my life to all of you, especially you Gil."

Gil gets a little delirious again, "Goby, please don't ever leave me. You are my best friend, and…"

Gil tears up again, "I love you buddy."

"I love you too," says Goby, "and I'll try to stick around as long as I can."

"In fact," Gil says to Mr. Grouper and all his friends, "please, all of you, try not to leave me. You all are not only my friends, but you're my best friends too and I love you all and I don't know what I'd do without any of you."

"We love you too Gil," says Mr. Grouper.

"We sure do," say all the other Guppies.

"And we don't want to lose you or each other either, Gilly," says Molly.

"We're here for you if you need us," says Nonny.

"Thanks guys," says Gil. "I'm still a bit sad, but now that I know Goby is still here, I'll try to get over it and move on."

"That's okay," says Mr. Grouper, "take your time, no need to rush. In fact, I think I'll call off all of today's activities and let you all have a free day today.

"Thanks Mr. Grouper," all the Bubble Guppies say.

"This way Gil can take the time he needs to recover," says Mr. Grouper.

"Thanks Mr. Grouper," Gil says again.

So the Guppies have a play day all that day. They also come and comfort Gil whenever he needs it.

The Happy End

Author's Final Notes: So did you guys really think I would kill off Goby or any of the other Bubble Guppies characters? No way! I mean that's what I wanted you all to think at first, but I had no intention of killing off any of the characters. This was supposed to be a bad dream Gil was having but I didn't want any of you to know that yet. And after not updating for more than 24 hours, which was intentional, I see I have sparked some reaction to my first readers, which was kind of what I was expecting, although I was hoping no one would get harsh with me and no one did so far so thank you.

But I didn't just write this story, this story was inspired by Bubblegupsluvr96's story "Healing a Sick Friend," which I hope you guys also read or will read. But Bubblegupsluvr96's story is the reason why I wrote this story. I wanted to write this after reading hers and I wanted to post it but I didn't do it until I got her permission.

But let me say this much, Goby is my second favorite of all the Bubble Guppies (Nonny's my most favorite.) Plus, bad things almost never happen to Goby, they usually happen to Gil, although Gil was a bit affected in this story only not physically but emotionally. I feel like Nonny doesn't have it any easier either but bad things don't befall him as much as they do Gil, except those lunch jokes, especially in the later seasons.

Even though I did write this particular story, I do not deserve all credit for this. Much of the credit is awarded to Bubblegupsluvr96, because I used her story to write this one.

Thanks again Bubblegupsluvr96 for granting me permission to use your story to write mine. By the way, I didn't write this story to try to out-do Bubblegupsluvr96's story, this was just something I wanted to write, but still give Bubblegupsluvr96's story a chance. I hope you read that story before reading mine.

Thank you all for reading.