A/N 1: Okay, here's the one I promised a few of you would be up before the next new episode. It's the sequel to Psyche and the one where I give the boys grief and Ruby a past. If you haven't read Psyche it's a good place to start as it lets you follow this one easier. Just my take on things and odds are its way, way out there. Enjoy anyway and don't forget to drop me a review.
A/N 2: The Sanskrit that Ruby speaks and Sam translates is pulled from a dictionary and probably doesn't make and sense so please don't hold it against me. And after days of research for various parts of this fic, I was too lazy to search for more Latin so it's written that Sam translates in his head.
Thanks To: Hey, Sammygirl1963. You've done it again and been a huge help with the part of this one that I wasn't sure of. Hope you like it, friend! Talk to you soon.
And to Blue Peanut. You have been such a great sounding board and friend. Hope you like, and as promised it's here before the new episode.
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em, just making them do what I say.(Oh, how I wish I could!)
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Ruby's Story
Chapter 1
"Let. Him. Go." Ruby said with deadly menace as her eyes flashed black in the light from the streetlamp above her head. She had followed the hunters to Fairborn, Ohio on a demon hunt. She knew this one. It was a demon that caused people to go insane, becoming "stuck" in their own heads. And this demon had Sam. The demon, possessing a tall muscular man with sandy brown hair, had Sam by the throat; using its demonic strength to lift him off the pavement and pin him against a wall. Sam was gagging, trying desperately to get much needed air as he fought to push his fingers beneath the demon's hand and break the grip. Sam had allowed Dean some time to "live out his dying wish" on this hunt and had been walking to the motel when the demon ambushed him.
The demon turned at the sound of her voice and grinned sardonically. "Aindri, I'd heard you were cuddling up to these humans like a puppy begging for attention."
"Achan, I'm not warning you again. Drop. Sam. Winchester. Now!" Ruby stepped up to take Achan but he turned first, still grasping a steadily fading Sam tightly by the throat.
"Fine, you want me to drop him… Here you go!" Achan sent Sam flying with his brute demonic strength. Ruby quickly used her demon telekinesis to ease the force with which he hit the paved alleyway. He grunted, winded and gasping for breath now that his throat wasn't being crushed. He laid his head on the littered pavement and fought desperately to keep from passing out.
"Face me, Aindri. Let's see if you have lost your edge so much that these pathetic hunters control your every move."
"No one controls me!" Ruby advanced on Achan, demonic powers in full swing. Sam raised his head and watched them move faster than he could follow with his dazed eyes. Achan lashed out at Ruby and she fought, pulling her demon slaying blade from the sheath at her thigh. Achan backed away abruptly, fear radiating from his black eyes for a second.
"Where did you get that? You use this blade against your own kind?!"
"Damn right I do." She said as she arched her head to the side and began deftly spinning the blade into a whirling arch, the street lamp light glinting off the blade and turning it a glowing red-pink.
"You have no right to use that against your own kind!"
"I'm not your kind. Your kind made me what I am!"
Achan lunged for Ruby, his speed allowing him to catch her before she could swing the demon killing blade. He tackled her to the pavement and punched her. She kicked him off, rolling him up over her head as Sam watched. He flipped to his feet at the same time as Ruby. Achan was holding the blade. Sam got to his unsteady feet and stumbled as he struggled to draw a full breath. Sam jumped into the fray, trying to help Ruby. Achan turned briefly at the distraction, flicking a wrist and sending Sam forcibly into a wall.
"Guuhhh!" he cried out in pain as he hit and slid breathlessly to the filthy pavement into a lingering puddle left from earlier rains. Sam watched through pain clouded vision as Achan lunged again for Ruby, this time with the knife bared. Ruby met the lunge head on and they tumbled to the pavement again. Sam coughed raggedly and tried to still his swimming vision. Ruby pinned Achan and regained control of the blade. She brought it down and pierced the possessed human's heart. The human's eyes emitted sparks as they flashed between black and the blue of the human. The sparks faded and the human blue dulled out as life left him. Ruby stood, panting slightly and made her way to Sam's side. She helped him to his feet and he leaned against a wall, breathing deeply to will the vertigo to pass. The pain in his back subsided and he stood straight.
"You okay, handsome?" Ruby asked with an odd look on her face.
"Think so." Sam muttered, drawing another deep breath and letting it out in a huff.
"Good, 'cuz I don't think I am." Ruby's brown eyes swam with tears and clouded with pain as she stumbled and began to collapse.
"Ruby? Ruby?!" Sam followed her down and helped her to sit on the pavement. "Let me see." He said as he moved her jacket aside. Ruby's shirt was cut, revealing a long, deep gash across her abdomen that was red and angry looking around the edges and black in the center. It had something looking vaguely like dark colored dust or ash clinging to the edges. Ruby moaned and started to fall backwards. Sam caught her, pulling her into his arms against his chest. "Okay, it's okay. I'm gonna get you outta here. Just hang on." Sam held her as another spasm of pain ripped through her. She moaned and closed her eyes, her head falling back over Sam's forearm. "Hey, Ruby? C'mon, stay with me here. I'm gonna get you back to the room. Can you put your arms around my neck?"
Ruby forced her eyes open again, but couldn't find the strength to raise her head. Sam helped her, putting a large hand to the back of her neck and moving her head to rest against his shoulder. He eased her up into his arms and stood, feeling her hands slide up around his neck to drape loosely around his shoulders. Ruby whimpered as Sam began moving quickly back to the motel room. "Shhh, it's okay." Sam whispered, wondering absently why he feared for her life. Sam made it to the motel and shouldered open the door. "Dean, you here?" he called out to his brother, hoping to have a little peace while he took care of the touchy subject that was Ruby. He received no answer and the bathroom was dark so he laid her on his bed and helped her shrug out of her jacket. She whimpered again and his breath caught.
"Sam…" Ruby forced her eyes open again and looked around for him.
"Shh… I'm here." He replied, moving so she could see him. She smiled weakly.
"Don't …worry so much. It'll give you … wrinkles. It hurts like a bitch, but it's…not gonna kill me."
"Uh, Ruby… last I checked that blade kills demons. You're a demon." Sam deadpanned. "If it doesn't kill you it'll kill your host."
"Not quite." Ruby chuckled and winced.
"What?"
"Sam, I'm… not a demon, and I'm not…possessing anybody." Her eyes slid closed.
"Ruby? Ruby!" He tried to wake her, rubbing her neck. His hand stilled when he felt something. "She has a pulse?" He muttered incredulously. Ruby shifted on the bed and cried out. She tossed her head and Sam touched her cheek. It was flushed and warm. "Great… a demon who's not a demon with a fever. What the hell's next, huh? You gonna tell me you're an angel?"
"Sahodara... andhakaara…" Ruby whispered, tossing her head again.
"Shhh…Ruby, easy. It's okay, you're okay." Sam soothed. Ruby continued to mutter incoherently in a foreign language. Something sounded familiar about it but Sam couldn't recognize it. He quickly pulled his cell phone from his pocket and turned on the voice recorder, holding it near her mouth to catch her whispers.
"Akshay, karoti ma!" Ruby's head tossed and she cried out. "No! I don't…. won't …please, please. I can't fight it! Sam!" He quickly pocketed his cell phone and pulled her up into his arms and held her.
"Ruby, shhh… its okay. I've gotcha." Her eyes flew open and she began to fight him, glassy-eyed and scared out of her mind. He held her tight, trying to keep her from thrashing about and hurting herself. She jumped in his arms and stilled. She gasped in pain and he quickly but gently laid her back on the bed. Her cheeks were colored with tear tracks and fever spots.
"Sam?" Ruby turned onto her side and curled in on herself, wincing again.
"Ruby, you're still hurt and you're obviously not right. Let me help."
"Leave me be. I don't want to hurt you." Sam touched her shoulder and she flinched. "I told you, leave me be!"
"You were mumbling while you were unconscious. You mentioned 'Akshay.' I know that is a name. Who's…?" Ruby bolted from the bed and her eyes flashed black. She flicked her wrist and Sam flew backwards to be pinned against the wall. "Guuhhh!"
"I TOLD YOU TO DROP IT!" She screamed at him, before the anger left her. She released him from the wall and turned away. He forced himself to take a deep breath without coughing and he walked up behind her.
"Ruby?" Sam said softly. He didn't touch her. She was shaking like a leaf in a hurricane and Sam was concerned. "Ruby, you need to rest. Let me help you." Ruby turned to him, tears streaking down her pale, fever spotted face. "Hey," he cupped her cheek gently; she was very warm, "what?"
"Akshay was my twin brother." She whispered. "I killed him." Her legs gave out and Sam caught her, picking her up and lowering her back to the bed three long steps later.
"You need to let me see that wound again Ruby. You're sick." She laughed softly, a sarcastic chuckle.
"You have no idea…" She let her voice trail off as Sam parted the gash in her shirt. The wound was still very ragged looking and Sam felt heat radiating from it and her skin. She sighed and closed her eyes as he stretched a hand up to touch her forehead. She sighed again and went limp on the bed, passing out. Sam quickly got a cool washcloth from the bathroom and bathed her face, folding the washcloth to rest it on her forehead.
He looked at her thoughtfully. "I have no idea what the hell has gotten into me but I have to find a way to help you." Sam pulled his cell from his pocket and went to his laptop, quickly powering it up. He logged into his translator and played her words that he'd caught on the phone's memory. He used her pronunciations to spell them and soon had the origin and the English meanings. "What the …brother, death, darkness…..don't give in…?" Sam ran a quick search and soon knew why the word Akshay seemed familiar to him. "Oh, my God." He sat up straight and looked at Ruby, realizing he'd uncovered more questions than answers and she was getting restless again. She fidgeted on the bed and began speaking in that language- Sam knew now as Sanskrit. She cried out and began muttering again. He quickly typed in a few words as he got a better idea of how to soothe her. He just hoped it worked. He walked to her side and put a hand to her cheek.
"Shhh,manogata. Manogata, Aindri. He whispered, stroking her cheek; that it was all in her mind. She settled and curled herself around his arm. He sat with her and watched her sleep, realizing there was more to Ruby than anyone, including him, knew. Now he knew that she could do what she said. Sam heard the lock click and Dean came back into the room, stopping short at the sight that greeted him.
"What the… Sam?" Sam extracted himself from Ruby's grip and stood, motioning for his brother to be quiet. Dean stepped forward and caught Sam by the arm, dragging him forcibly from the motel room. Dean whirled on Sam in the parking lot, not caring who heard. "Sam, what the freakin' hell are you doin' curling up on your bed with a freakin' demon?"
"Dean…"
Dean cut him off. "If you're gonna say that she's here, in your bed, to save me I'm so gonna take your freakin' head off your shoulders!"
"Dean, would you just shut the hell up for a minute and let me say something!"
"Fine!"
"Fine! Look, Ruby is here because she got hurt."
"Hurt? Sam, she's a demon. She can't get hurt!"
"She can with her own blade. She saved my ass from a demon that was trying to choke me to death. She went after him and he took her blade and cut her with it before she managed to kill him."
"That should've killed her. Doesn't that blade kill demons?" Dean looked at Sam closely and stepped up to him, raising his chin to see the ring of bruises that marred his throat. "Damn Sammy, you okay?"
Sam nodded. "Dean, Ruby isn't a demon."
"What?" Dean asked incredulously. "She tell you that?"
"She was clear out of it by the time I got her back here. She was talking, muttering really, about her brother, twin brother. I translated some of what she said. It's ancient Sanskrit…"
"I don't give a damn what language she can speak. She's lying. She can't stay here, Sam. She's a freakin' demon!"
"I though you were gonna listen to me, Dean?"
"I can't believe you trust her. You're so willing to listen to whatever bull she spouts off. Why is that Sam? Huh? You bring her here because she got scratched?! What the hell's next, you want me to let her stretch out in the backseat of my car because she gets a headache?!"
"She got hurt doing your job, Dean!" The words were out before Sam could censor them. Dean stilled instantly and his face clouded over, features going stoic. "Dean I…"
