This is my take on how Sam would attempt to get his brother out of hell. Its a twisted little tale and I hope you will like it.

Thanks to Raptor for finding my most glaring errors. The rest of the spelling, grammar, run on sentences that you will see, well they are mine all mine and I take full responsability for them.

Disclaimers: I don't own, I don't make no money, blah blah blah!

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DLB1 Tortured Soul

The dark pit of oblivion surrounded him. He could feel the heat scorching his skin. Chained spread eagle in the midst of hell he screamed his brother's name. "Saaaaaaammmmmmmmm."

All he heard was cackling, chittering laughter in the distance. Fear skittered through him when he felt the chains begin to bounce as if someone or something was walking across them. He drew in a panicked breath at the sight of the creatures crawling toward him.

Hellhounds!

Dean knew they weren't done with him yet. It wasn't enough that they had dragged him from life into death. They needed to teach him a lesson in what hell was all about.

He heard the clickedy clack of their claws scraping across the chains. Huge gaping maws inched closer until their hot fetid breath brushed across his face. Drawing in a frightened breath he turned away, fighting to escape his fate.

He yanked at the chains in desperation to be free yet knowing it was useless. As one they attacked. Razor sharp claws tore into his body sinking deep into muscle and breaking the bone beneath. Fangs dripping with ichor tore through his neck. He screamed in agony and died again.

It was the way of hell, tortured memories that would haunt him for eternity. Stripping away his humanity, until only the demon inside him remained.

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It was eerily dark, the hot air seared his lungs as he woke and grabbed for breath. His eyes were closed his sandy blonde hair hung in limp strands down across his face and shoulders. The skin of his face was grimy, covered with soot and ash. It was the worst nightmare he'd ever experienced.

Only it wasn't a nightmare. It was hell!

He couldn't see he could only imagine what lay beyond the darkness a few feet from where he hung. All around him he could hear the screams of tortured souls. He shuddered, praying to a god he didn't really believe in. Knowing his prayers would never be answered.

Stinging sweat poured from him, mingling with his blood as it coursed down his body. He hung from chains that bound him to this nightmare. Like everything else the bindings were designed to cause extreme pain. Spikes tore into the flesh of his wrists and ankles; it was nothing but a dull ache now.

No sunlight, just an unrelieved fiery darkness surrounded him. He didn't know how long he'd been there. Time had no meaning, just pain, agonizing mind-bending, gut-wrenching pain. The hell hounds were only the beginning. They had ravaged his physical body tearing at his soul and dispatching him to death, over and over and over again.

He vowed never to give in, never become one of them, but they knew all the ways to make him suffer and suffering twisted the mind. As strong as he was eventually even he knew he would break.

They beat at him with everything they had; fire seared his body while greedy bugs ate at his flesh. The dark denizens pelted him with rocks. He heard their laughter, their scorn for what he had been and what he would soon become.

He heard the crack of the whip a nano second before the barb sliced into his back tearing off a strip of skin and laying him open to bone. His body arched against the pain, but he didn't cry out when the agony tore through his body. Again and again the whip snapped out flaying his back until not an inch of skin was left intact. This wasn't the first time, it wouldn't be the last.

Fleeing from the pain tearing through his body the hunter's mind fled inward. He hid behind a wall where they could not touch him. His body would suffer but he was used to that.

In an instant it all changed.

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Chapter 1 down - I hope you liked it. Another chapter will follow in a couple of days. I'm doing my very best to finish up the last chapter, its almost there, I just need a couple hrs computer time to git er done! Huggers. Please review and let me know what you think, Thanks!