Summary: A quick story about exactly what went through Ruby's head when she was outside of the honeymoon suite in "When the Levee Breaks".

Rating: Teen for brief language

Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural or any of the characters in it.

Characters: Ruby, Sam and Dean

Spoilers: From "I Know What You Did Last Summer" to "When the Levee Breaks".

Ruby didn't know when it happened or why, but she fell in love with Sam.

She looked to the ceiling, expecting him to come out of the honeymoon suite any minute. Lately, he'd been a bit demanding. It didn't bother her though; it was for the right reasons. All that they ever thought about was ending that bitch Lilith. Lilith was Lucifer's first human to follow him so that made her able to free him from his rotting cage. She was trying to break the 66 seals to bring on the apocalypse and so far, she was doing a pretty good job.

Ruby and Sam couldn't rely on the angels to help stop Lilith. It was up to them.

At first, Sam could count on his brother but not anymore. Dean was a changed man. Broken and scarred by the fires of hell. He wasn't the same Dean who could take something so massive like the end of the world on his shoulders, or at least try to. He'd taken a lot in the past few years. He'd seen his dad die and being dragged to hell to save his ass, killing Azazel (a blessing and a curse), Sam dying and selling his own soul. Sounds familiar, eh? But sure, Dean Winchester could take that. But he couldn't take Alistair's razor.

That's when it all began. Dean had broken the first seal; from there it was like clockwork. Everything had gone according to plan.

While Dean was way down under, Sam suffered but found Ruby. She took him under her wing, taught him to be strong. Ruby was a mentor to him. She gave him the instructions to harness the curse inside of him. He detested her very presence at first and even made her switch bodies after undergoing major torture and crawling out of hell. Sam was very self-centered, but she loved him.

It was the one night that she tried to console him that she had gotten her wish. Sam recoiled from her touch and moved to the other end of room. Ruby had put herself between his legs and pushed up, giving him no choice but to be as close as she wanted them to be. She wanted him more than anything.

Ruby had given up her life for this human. She was a rogue demon, tortured and sneered at when she was back in the pit. It's in the job description not to be trusted, but she was quite the slippery bitch, even to them. Heaven wouldn't welcome her with open arms. That would be even worse than hell and she knew all too well what that felt like.

His aggressive muscular embrace around her bare torso was overwhelming but she was the closest to bliss now more than ever.

Ruby was a quick-fix escape from painful reality to Sam but to her, he was a dream come true.

Ruby listened to the breaking of glass and wood in the suite. Dean and Sam must be beating the shit out of each other. She wasn't surprised; she had long seen this coming. Ruby was sorry for Sam's sake that their relationship had gone to crap, but what would you expect after all this? Dean certainly wasn't on her cupcake list and vise versa. In fact, he nearly drove her own knife into her throat minutes ago. She fled outside at Sam's order, obeying automatically.

They had learned to trust one another. That was one thing no one but them could understand.

Then there was one sharp, distinct crash behind the door. Ruby tensed, knowing they were close. There was a long silence on the other end. Soon, there was heavy breathing, like one of the brothers had just been choked.

She heard Sam say faintly, "You don't know me. You never did and you never will." Sam stepped toward the door as Dean replied,

"You walk out that door, don't you ever come back!"

Sam turned the knob then stopped. He stared his brother with angry, frustrated, and hurt eyes. Dean looked back with the same expression. Sam turned away, leaving the room for the last time…

Ruby was leaning up against the wall as he walked through, his lip busted and disheveled. He gazed at her with empty eyes. This was it; the Winchester family had vanished once and for all. All that remains was bad memories and pain.

Ruby gave him a sad smile that showed Sam empathy as she stepped toward the love of her life.