Chapter 1
Blue Burns Orange
"Bleed these colors open wide. Burning blues from butterflies, tonight we… tonight we fly. Flying faster through the night, until the orange of morning light. I know it's hard to make this work, when you're all alone. And I've been waiting for so long to hold you in my arms, embrace forever." ~Hawthorne Heights (Blue Burns Orange)
Danielle stood beside her older brother Dean as they watched Bobby set up a device over a large map on the table.
"With the right name and the right ritual, there ain't nothing you can't suss out." Bobby told them.
Danielle's younger brother Sam asked, "Even the town Lilith is in?"
"Kid, when I'm done. We'll have the street name." Bobby assured them.
"Alright then, let's do this." She said, nodding.
The 3 siblings watched as Bobby spoke in Latin and started the ritual.
When the device stopped Bobby read from the map, "New Harmony, Indiana."
"Let's go." Danielle said.
"Whoa, hold on. Elle, we don't even know if Lilith actually holds my deal. We're going on Bela's intel." He reminded her.
"I get that, but Dean she was minutes away from her own contract being up… what reason would she have to lie about it? She knew she was going to die." She reminded him.
"When that bitch breathes, the air comes out crooked." Dean argued with her.
"I'm telling you she had no reason to lie at that point." Danielle stood her ground.
"Even if we get to Lilith, then what? We have no way to gank her." Dean said.
"Ain't you just bringing down the room." Bobby breathed out looking at him.
"I gotta die, but that doesn't mean any of you have to." He said, his voice raised.
"We are down to crunch time here… cutting this way too close. We have to do something." She continued to say.
"So we either go in smart, or we don't go in at all." Dean said.
"Fine, I agree. So I have a plan, a sure fire way to confirm it's Lilith and have a way to kill her." Sam said.
"Damn it Sam, no." Dean yelled, gruffly.
"We are past arguing. I am summoning Ruby." Sam said.
"Okay." Danielle agreed.
"Okay? Elle, you know as well as I do we can't trust her, she is a demon." He reminded her.
"Correct and I don't trust her one bit. But what's our alternative here? Sit around and wait until your time runs out? Dean, you are my brother… and desperate times call for desperate measures." She said looking at him as she spoke.
"No!" Dean yelled at her.
The room was quiet as he calmed down and then said, "We are not going to make the same mistakes all over again. You guys wanna save me? Find something else."
Later that night Danielle and Sam walked down to the basement of the abandoned house they had been staying in.
"Dean's so going to be pissed." She breathed out.
"Then let him be pissed, but at least he'll be alive." Sam said looking at her.
"I know, let's just do this." Elle agreed.
Sam drew the symbols he needed on the floor and Elle lit the candles in the corners of the triangle on the floor.
Standing back she watched as Sam summoned the demon, Ruby.
"You know phones work too, hey Sam." Ruby greeted.
"How do you get around so fast?" Sam asked her.
"I got the Super Bowl jetpack." She responded.
"Did you know?" Elle questioned her voice low.
"Um, gonna need a tiny bit more…" Ruby began to say.
"About Dean's deal. That Lilith holds the contract?" Sam cut her off.
"Yes, I did." Ruby agreed.
"And you didn't think that was important?" Sam asked, angrily.
"You weren't ready. If I had told you, you three would have just charged after her halfcocked. And Lilith would have pulled the meat from your pretty, pretty faces." Ruby explained her reasoning.
"Well, we're ready now." Elle snapped at her.
"We need your knife." Sam said.
Ruby had a knife that not only killed the meat suit, but would also kill the demon residing within.
"Lilith's guard is down. She's on shore leave, a little R and R." Ruby explained to the them.
"What the hell does that mean?" Sam questioned.
"Trust me, you don't want to know." Ruby responded
"You didn't lose those hex bags I gave you?" She asked them.
"We've got them." Elle said.
"Good, then she won't sense that you're coming." Ruby said.
"Give us the knife." Sam ordered.
"No." Ruby replied.
"But you just said…" Sam started to say.
"You wanna charge in with one little pig-sticker? It's a waste of a true blue Window. Like hitting Hitler with that exploding briefcase. Forget it." Ruby told them.
"Then how?" Sam yelled, growing angry.
Ruby explained that Sam's abilities weren't gone since Azezal died; they had just been lying dormant.
"And it's not just visions either. Why do you think Lilith is so scared of you?" Ruby continued to explain.
"Right, she's scared of me…" Sam replied sarcastically.
"If you wanted, you could wipe her off the map without moving a muscle. I didn't say anything until now because fact is, you never would have considered it until you were desperate enough." Ruby was explaining to them when Dean walked in the room.
"So that's you, huh? Our slutty little Yoda." Dean said.
"Dean, charming as ever." Ruby said looking over to him.
"I knew you'd show up." He said to her.
Then looking up to his younger siblings he said, "Because I knew you two wouldn't listen."
"You're going to give me that knife, and then you're going to go crawl into whatever slop you came from and never bother me again, are we clear?" Dean asked the demon.
"Your brother is carrying a bomb inside of him and we'd be stupid not to use it." Ruby argued.
"Sam, she wants you to give into this whole demonic, psychic crap. I mean hell, she probably wants you to become her little Antichrist superstar." Dean said.
"I want Lilith death, that's all." Ruby yelled over him.
"Why?" Dean asked her.
"I've told you why." She continued to yell.
"Oh, right. Because you were human once. And you like kittens and long walks on the beach." Dean said gruffly.
"You know, I am so sick of proving myself to you. You want to save yourself? this is how, you dumb, spineless dick." Ruby yelled at him.
Dean looked around the room for a second before he punched Ruby.
Falling backwards she quickly regained her composure and hit Dean knocking him backwards.
"Ruby, hey!" Sam yelled trying to stop her, but she knocked him back and kicked him.
Jumping in the fight Danielle knocked her to the ground, the two girls rolled around on the dusty floor punching and hitting each other.
Finally Ruby got the upper hand and jumped up, kicking Danielle hard in the side sending her flying backwards.
Standing up she had some blood running from her nose and corner of her mouth, but she let out a low laugh and smiled.
"What are you grinning about?" Ruby asked.
"This." Elle said as she proudly displayed the demon killing knife she had managed to steal during their fight.
"I'll kill you!" Ruby yelled as she charged forward.
Elle had the knife pointed out, ready to kill Ruby, but the demon wasn't able to get any closer.
Looking up both girls saw a devils trap painted on the ceiling.
"Like I said, I knew you'd come." Dean said, walking over to them. He also had blood running from the corner of his mouth.
"Let's go." Dean said as he reached down and took the knife from his sisters hand.
Sam pulled himself to his feet and the three of them started up the stairs.
"You're just going to leave me here? Fine, you deserve to die and go to hell. And I wish I could be there, Dean. I wish I could smell the flesh sizzle off your bones. I wish I could be there to hear you scream!" Ruby yelled after them.
"And I wish you'd shut your pie hole, but we don't always get what we want." Dean breathed out.
Wetting a washcloth, Elle walked into the room with her brothers.
"You're welcome." She said, as she wiped the blood off her face and looked down to where the demon killing knife was lying beside Dean.
"I would thank you, but you were the one stupid enough to agree with Sam on summoning her." Dean responded looking up to her.
With a sigh she felt the bones on her nose to make sure they weren't broken.
Sam stayed silent as he loaded some weapons into a bag.
Finally he said, "We just gonna let Ruby rot down there?"
"That's the idea." Dean responded, not looking up to his brother.
"What else are we going to do with her?" Elle asked as she looked over a few guns from her bag.
"What if Ruby's right? What I can take out Lilith?" Sam questioned.
"Quit looking at me like that…" He said, at seeing Dean's expression.
"What? Give her a Carrie stare and Lilith goes poof?" Dean asked.
"I don't know what Ruby meant, maybe we should go ask her." Sam offered the idea up to his siblings.
"You wanted the knife, Elle got you the knife." Dean pointed out.
"Listen to me for a second, last time Lilith snapped her fingers and put 30 demons on our ass. All we have is one little knife." He said.
"We are not going to make the same mistake all over again." Dean repeated his earlier sentence.
"What does that even mean?" Sam asked.
Elle let out a ragged breath and zipped her bag shut as she looked back and forth between her brothers.
"Dad's deal, my deal, and now this? Every time one of us is up the creek, the other's beggin to sell their soul. That's all this is man, Ruby is just jerking your chain down the road. You know what it's paved with, and you know where it's going." Dean answered.
"Dean, what are you afraid is going to happen? This is me, I'm gonna handle it." Sam said.
"Why even risk it?" Dean asked.
"Because we are family, what kind of question is that?" Elle asked looking at them.
"It's not worth it." Dean said.
"You did the same thing for me…" Sam reminded him.
"All I'm saying is that you guys are my weak spot. Hell, we're all each other's weak spots." Dean pointed out to them.
"You don't mean that. We're family." Sam corrected him.
"I know, and those evils sons of bitches know it too. I mean, what we'll do for each other, you know how far we'll go. They're using it against us." Dean said, his voice quiet.
"So what? We just stop looking out for each other?" Sam asked.
"No, stop being martyrs. We stop spreading it for these demons. We're going to take this knife and go after Lilith our way, the way Dad taught us to." Dean said holding Ruby's knife up.
"And if we go down… we go down swinging." Danielle said.
Dean looked over at his sister and nodded.
So, Indiana, huh?" Sam said.
"Yeah, where Lilith is on shore leave." Dean said nodding.
"Who vacations in Indiana? There's nothing there but cornfields." Elle said.
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Elle sat in the middle of the backseat of the impala, while Dean drove them towards Indiana and Bobby followed in his car.
"Dean, if this… uh, if this doesn't go the way we want…" Sam started to say his voice growing a little hoarse.
"No, no. no. You are not going to bust out the misty goodbye speech, okay? I mean Elle hasn't even tried that and she's the girl." Dean said looking over at his brother before making eye contact with Danielle in the rearview mirror.
"Yeah, Sam… I mean god forbid we have an emotional family moment." Elle said.
"If this is my last day on earth, I do not want it to be socially awkward." Dean said, looking at her in the mirror again.
"Then turn on the radio, because this silence is making me want to have a chick flick moment." Elle said, managing a small smile.
Shaking his head with a small laugh, Dean turned the radio on.
Bon Jovi's song Dead or Alive played through the speakers.
"Bon Jovi?" Sam asked looking over to Dean.
"They have some good songs." Elle chimed in.
"Bon Jovi rocks, on occasion." Dean said nodding.
Sam raised his eyebrows at them.
Dean started singing loudly, and soon his younger siblings joined in.
Elle fought back tears as she sang along.
"And I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back. I play for keeps, cause I might not make it back. I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall. I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all. Cause I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride. Cause I'm wanted, dead or alive…"
Hearing sirens, Elle looked over her shoulder out the back window.
"Great…" She muttered.
"We getting pulled over?" Sam asked.
"I got a busted taillight. It's not like we're in a hurry or anything." Dean said with a heavy sigh as he pulled over.
When the officer came up and started talking to them, Dean threw his door open knocking the cop backwards.
"Dean!" Sam yelled, as he opened his door.
Figuring her brother had a good reason for attacking the cop she waited until he stepped back in front of the back door, and she threw her door open knocking him down to the ground.
Quickly Dean pulled the demon killing knife and stabbed the officer.
A few moments later Bobby pulled to a stop and jogged up to them.
"What the hell happened?" he asked, looking down to the dead officer.
"Dean just killed a demon." Sam answered.
"How did you know?" Sam asked him.
"I just knew, I could see it's face. It's real face, under that one." Dean admitted, still shaken up.
"How are you seeing a demon's real face?" Sam asked.
"We're down to less than 6 hours. The veil's getting thinner…" Elle reasoned.
"That'd be my guess." Bobby agreed.
"That could come in handy." Sam thought out loud.
"Well, I'm glad my doomed soul can be helpful." Dean retorted.
"Damn right it can. Lilith probably has demons all over the town, we can't let them sound the alarm. If she knows we're in town, we're dead." Bobby explained.
It was nighttime by the time they made it into New Harmony, Indiana.
After taking out a few demons, Bobby separated from the group and used a rosary to turn the water in the sprinkler system into holy water and then he waited in an empty house that was up for a sale across the road.
Elle had the knife, she and Sam has just killed another demon.
Rounding the side of the house she saw Ruby had Dean pinned against the fence.
"Give me my knife, please. Or your neck snaps like a chicken bone." Ruby growled.
Grabbing Ruby and pointing the knife at her neck, Danielle said "He doesn't have your knife, so back off."
Letting go of Dean, Ruby took a few steps backwards and looked at all of them.
"How the hell did you get out?" Dean asked her.
"What you don't know about me could fill a book." Ruby responded.
Noticing everyone on the street was standing outside of their houses, and they were all demons Dean told everyone to get inside the house.
Sam tried to pick the lock the on the door, and the demons closed in on the yard of the house, but then the sprinklers started and stopped them from getting any closer.
Once inside of the house, Ruby went into a room up stairs.
Dean put the father of the little girl that Lilith was possessing in the basement and salt lined the door.
Sam quietly opened the door to the little girls bedroom and Elle walked in, knife drawn.
Slowly they made their way across the room and over to the bed.
The girl was laying sound asleep, her head on her mother's chest.
"Do it!" The mom whispered, her entire body was shaking in fear.
Elle adjusted the knife in her hands, and looked down to the little girl.
"Do it!" The mom whispered louder, growing more panicked.
"Why did I have to be the one with the knife?" She breathed out, as her arms shook.
"Do it!" The mom said louder, as the little girl started to stir.
Taking a deep breath, Elle raised the knife and started to bring it down but Dean stopped her.
The little girl looked over at them and screamed.
"It's not her, it's not in the girl anymore." Dean said, keeping a hold on his sister's arm.
They got the mom and daughter into the basement with the father, and instructed them to not come out no matter what they heard.
Standing in the living room of the house, Elle took a few deep breathes trying to calm herself.
"You alright?" Dean asked her.
"I almost killed an innocent kid." She said, looking to him.
Then she saw the clock on the wall behind him, and saw they didn't have much time left at all.
"You win, what do I have to do?" Sam asked Ruby.
"What?" Ruby asked.
"You said you knew a way that I could kill Lilith, what do you need me to do?" Sam asked her again.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Dean asked him.
"Shut up!" Sam yelled pushing his brother back.
"You had your chance, you can't just flip a switch. We needed time…" Ruby said to him.
"Sam!" Dean yelled grabbing his arm.
"Don't, Dean! I'm not going to let you go to hell!" Sam yelled.
Taking another look at the clock, Danielle's eyes filled with tears, they were down to only minutes.
"Yes, you are! I'm sorry, I mean, this was all my fault." Dean yelled back at him.
"Sam, what you're doing isn't going to save me. It's only going to kill you." Dean told him.
Tears slid down her cheeks as she looked at her brothers.
"What am I supposed to do?" Sam asked his eyes watery and voice hoarse as he spoke.
"I want you guys to keep fighting, take care of my wheels. You remember what Dad taught you, and remember what I taught you." Dean said, his own eyes misty as he spoke to his two younger siblings.
"Okay?" Dean asked when they didn't respond.
"Yeah." Elle said nodding her head, her voice barely over a whisper.
"Okay." Sam agreed.
They could barely hear Sam over the clock chiming for midnight.
"I'm sorry Dean, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy." Ruby said.
Everyone looked around when they heard a hellhound howling.
Elle looked at Dean and then over to Sam who had tears running down his cheeks.
"Hellhound…" Dean raggedly breathed out.
"Where?" Sam asked.
Looking to the doorway of the room Dean said, "There."
The growling grew louder followed by loud barking.
Sam, Dean, Elle and Ruby all took off running into the next room.
After getting the doors and windows lined with an herb that repels hellhounds, the group of four stood and looked at each other.
Ruby looked at Elle, "Give me the knife, maybe I can fight it off."
"No way." Elle said, tightening her grip around the handle.
"Come on, that dust won't last forever!" She yelled.
Looking down to the knife, she started to hand it over when Dean yelled. "Wait!"
"Do you want to die?" Ruby asked him.
"Elle… that's not Ruby." Dean said.
Quickly she raised the knife and tried to stab Lilith who had taken Ruby's meat suit but Lilith raised her hand and sent Danielle and Sam flying across the room, where she used her powers to keep them pinned against the wall.
The knife got knocked from Elle's hand.
Waving her hand again, she used her powers to pin Dean against the table.
"How long you been in her?" Dean asked her.
"Not long. But I like it, it's all grown up and pretty." Ruby responded, as her eyes turned to white.
"Where's Ruby?" Sam questioned.
"She was a very bad girl, so I sent her far, far away." She answered.
"I should have seen it before, but you all look the alike to me." Dean snapped.
"Hello Sam, I've wanted to meet you for a very long time." Lilith said as she walked up to him, pausing before she held his face still and kissed him.
"Ugh." Elle groaned as her face scrunched with disgust.
"Alright, so you have me. Let my brother go." Sam said, struggling against the hold her powers had on him.
"Silly goose, you want a bargain you have to have something that I want." Lilith said.
"So is this the big plan? Drag me to hell and kill them? Well, then what?" Dean asked.
"I don't have to answer to puppy chow." Lilith replied.
Walking over to the door, Lilith opened them and said, "Sic em, boy."
"What? No!" Danielle screamed as she tried to break free.
"Stop it!" Sam, yelled as the hellhound pulled Dean off the table onto the floor.
"No!" Dean yelled in pain as the hellhound started to shred his skin and tear him apart.
"Stop!" Elle pleaded looking over to Lilith as tears poured down her face.
"Stop! Stop it, no!" Sam screamed, more tears fell down his cheeks as he watched Dean continue to be ripped apart as blood sprayed from the open wounds.
Both Sam and Danielle continued to cry and scream as they watched their older brother get killed.
Once he was dead, Lilith released her hold on them.
Seeing her raise her hand, Sam pushed his older sister behind him.
Lilith tried to use her powers on them, but Sam was able to block the attack.
She lowered her hand and looked at them shocked, as they both got to their feet.
"Stay back" Lilith ordered.
Sam walked forward and picked up the knife.
"Back!" She yelled again.
"Don't think so." Sam said. But as he went to stab her, she smoked out of the meat suit.
"No…" Sam breathed out, tears starting to run down his cheeks again as he walked over to Dean's body.
"Dean…" Elle whispered, barely able to see him through her tears as she dropped to floor beside him.
A/N - Thank you for reading, I really hope you all liked the first chapter. ^_^
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