Broken Trust
By: Chailyn
"Ruby! Stop, drop the gun!" Jo yelled cocking her gun in the other female hunter's direction.
"Uh uh, I'm sorry Jo, I know he's your friend but he's evil and I have to stop him before he kills again." Ruby trained her gun on Sam, who was tied up and barely conscious after she'd knocked him out with the butt of her rifle.
"You even try and you'll be dead." Dean warned, "You touch my brother and I'll waste you like the things you hunt."
"Dean, I like you I do. You're a good hunter but your brother, he isn't your brother--thanks to Jo, I know that now. He's a murderer and if someone doesn't stop him he'll keep killing."
"That wasn't Sam. He was possessed." Dean said, "You can't blame him for that. What your trying to do, its murder, you're killing an innocent person."
"He killed a hunter--my dad, he killed him. Hunters don't kill hunters." Ruby looked at him with hate in her eyes. "Even if he's innocent now he might not stay that way forever, for the sake of everyone else, he's got to go."
"He's innocent." Jo pleaded with her, she had to put this right this was all her fault. She had thought she could trust Ruby, that she was like her--she hadn't meant to tell her about what had happened when Sam was possessed but it had just slipped out. "If you kill him you are no better than a demon."
"God! Jo! I thought you'd understand. You said you were a hunter, that you were out their to kill evil--he's evil Jo!"
"My brother is not evil." Dean was friggin sick of the monologue he just wanted to get Sammy back. "Drop the gun and I swear I won't hurt you, we'll just let you go your way."
"Dean your brother is well…demonic, dammit! He even has demon blood in him."
Dean was furious with Jo, he told her that she couldn't talk about that stuff about Sam, he'd told her not to tell a soul. He had told her she couldn't trust Ruby, that hunting with Ruby would get her killed and he had trusted her, he had trusted her with his brother's life and now Sammy could die because of her. And it would be his fault; all his life he'd been smart, he'd kept it all in but he screwed up this time trusting her…his brother might de because of him and if that happened he would never never forgive her, or himself for that matter.
"Leave him alone!" Dean screamed at her, "I'll kill you Ruby, I will. I don't give a damn who you are or aren't I will shoot you dead; human or not."
"Dean, I don't want to kill you but if you stop me," Ruby started, cocking her gun in the elder Winchester's direction, "I will."
"Hey Ruby," Jo waited until she had Ruby's full attention and that her gun was away from Sam.
"I have to do it Jo, you know, you should understand--their father killed your dad, don't you think he deserves it?"
The shot went off before Dean even realized what was happening. Jo hit her dead on, wasting her with a headshot.
Dean ran over to Sam to untie him, glancing over at Jo with a look of…fear? Surprise? He wasn't sure what, just that he wanted to get to Sam.
"Sam, Sammy?" Dean untied him trying to get him to regain consciousness. "C'mon Sammy!"
"Where is she?" Sam mumbled groggily his head throbbing like it had been bashed in with a cinder block.
"She-don't worry about her Sammy." Dean said trying to block his view of her. "Can you walk?"
"Uh…Dean, I don't know." Sam's voice was gravelly and he spit out a gob of blood. Sam groaned in pain as he tried to get up.
"Okay okay," Dean pushed him back down to the ground, "Don't move."
"Jo," Dean called her over trying to ignore the fact that she just murdered someone and trying to remind himself that it wasn't like the girl had been innocent she was trying to kill his brother. But she never would have known about Sammy if Jo hadn't let it slip to her, the little voice in the back of his said. "Jo! C'mon I need you to help me get Sammy out of here."
Jo nodded her head and walked over avoiding Dean's eye line completely. She knew what she just did and though she could justify it, she killed a human being. The two of them supported Sam, carrying him out, both ignoring each other's glance.
When the doctors took Sam into surgery, Dean was terrified. Until they got Sam inot the Car Dean hadn't realized that not only did she knock his brother out, she had stabbed him in the stomach and while they had been trying to get her to not shoot him, Sam was lying their slowly bleeding to death. Dean tried to forget it, but every time he thought back to that warehouse and his desperate and frantic search to save Sam, he kept coming back to Jo. None of this would ever have happened if it hadn't been for her. Ellen was on her way to the hospital after Jo called her, and Bobby was hopping on the next plain to Missouri as soon as he took care of the demon he was hunting. Dean was alone with Jo, waiting, and he wasn't sure if he could take it.
"Dean?" Jo talked to him for the first time since they left the warehouse. "Dean I--please I never met for any of this to happen. It was an accident."
"An accident?" Dean was incredulous and felt his resolve to keep his temper in check dissolving before his eyes. "My brother might die because of you, do you not get that? And you're sorry! I trusted you Jo, I trusted you and you swore you would never tell anyone, and now a girl is dead and Sammy--now I might lose Sammy too."
"Dean…"
"No! I trusted you with something I've never trusted anyone with, anyone. How many other hunters did you tell Sam's secret to? A dozen? Two dozen? Were you the one who told Gordon?"
"Dean, god, no!" Jo didn't know how to make this right, and she didn't know if Dean would ever forgive her. "I would never do that!"
"You told Ruby."
"I thought I could trust her. She was just, I never knew she'd do something like that. I thought she was like us Dean, I would never do that. Why would I want someone to kill Sam?"
"I don't know. Payback for what happened to your dad? I. Don't. Know. Okay? And really, I don't know if I want to know. All I want is for my brother to be okay, and then we're gonna be gone, and we're gonna stay gone."
"Dean." Jo was practically begging him, it was a mistake all a mistake and she didn't want to lose him, she was almost certain that she loved him.
"You almost got my brother killed!" He screamed, his resolve finally crumbled just in time for Ellen to see.
"Hey, hey, what the hell is going on? Dean, what…where's Sam? Is he okay?"
"No he's not okay--your daughter almost got him killed. He's in surgery right now." Dean could barely look in Jo's direction with the anger that kept building up.
"What-what are you talking about? Ellen asked completely shocked at Dean's accusation.
"Jo." Dean jabbed his finger in her direction, "It's her fault that Sammy's in there. If it wasn't for her Sammy would be…" Dean's voice trailed off as he saw one of the doctors who had taken Sammy through those double doors come back through them.
"Mr. Winchester?"
"Yeah," Dean spoke eagerly, "My brother, Sammy is he okay?"
"Your brother has sustained severe internal bleeding. His left lung was punctured by a broken rib…Mr. Winchester we're doing our best but you need to understand your brother had suffered extremely serious injuries."
"I know," Dean felt like he was drowning as the doctor spoke, "Please, I'm begging you don't let my brother die."
"We'll do our best." The doctor walked away and Dean collapsed in the chair, resting his head in his hands and just wishing he could rewind his day and get a fresh start.
"Dean, Sam's going to be okay." Ellen reassured him looking a bit pale herself after hearing the doctors words. "Now, will one of you please explain to me what happened and why you were screaming that Jo almost killed Sam so loud I could hear it in the elevator?"
"Why don't you ask her?" Dean shot back bitterly.
"It was an accident." Jo was practically in tears.
Ellen nearly had a heart attack. Were they for real, did her daughter really have something to do with Sam Winchester being in the hospital.
"Jo, what happened?" Ellen's tone was sharp.
"Mom, it was a mistake and a-a giant accident. Ruby, I thought I could trust her and I was angry with Dean and it all slipped out. I really thought I could trust her, that she was like us."
Ellen didn't know what to think, she was still horribly confused. What could her daughter have told that other girl to make Dean blame Jo for what happened to Sam.
"I told you that you couldn't trust her." Dean shot back, "Sam told you, he showed you the things she was capable of--how she would kill innocent people just to get to her mark."
"Jo, what did you tell that girl?"
"I-mom I didn't mean for this to happen, I never thought…I told her about Sam." Jo said, "I thought she'd understand that she could--I don't know."
"What did you tell her?"
"That he had visions, that he was one of the demon's chosen," Jo started practically whispering the last part, "I told her about how Sam killed that hunter and how he went after me when he was possessed."
Ellen didn't know what to say. She had told Dean, promised him, that Sam's secret would be safe with them, that they were loyal to their friends--why would Jo do something like that?
"And then what happened?"
"She grabbed him, and knocked him out. Stabbed him and almost killed him--still might have." Dean said. "She wouldn't listen to reason…"
"Jo why would you tell some one that? Even another hunter, you know they can't be trusted--especially with something like that they don't all understand…where is she now?"
"Dead." Dean said flatly.
"Dean, you shot her? That's--Dean she's still a human--"
"Maybe you should lecture your daughter." He said, "She's the one who wasted her with a headshot."
Ellen was speechless and Dean was exhausted.
"I'm getting coffee." His tone was sharp and curt and he sounded beaten down, not unlike his father.
Ellen waited until he was gone to turn to her daughter.
"Why would you tell anyone all of that Jo?"
"Mom, it--this sounds so horrible but it just slipped out. I was so angry with Dean, that he wouldn't let me go on that hunt with them…Ruby understood and she had been such a good friend…better than Dean at least and mom please, I didn't mean for Sam to get hurt like this, I never thought she'd go after him."
"That's right Jo, you didn't think. We promised Dean and Sam that we wouldn't tell anyone about his secret--you know how hunters are, they kill anything if they feel like it--especially that girl, Ruby, I told you she was trouble Jo--Damn it! Dean even told you she was trouble, she almost killed a kid trying to get a demon!"
"You know, we haven't always been able to trust them--you even said that yourself--last year, remember!"
"For gods sake Jo! I was scared and I was upset, you had been used as bait, I thought you were going to end up like your father--I thought Dean was like his father. I made a mistake, but I never would have gone as far as you did, and if your father knew about this, he'd have a stroke. I-"
Ellen cut off as she saw a doctor walking towards them again.
"Go, run and get Dean." She told her daughter as the doctor stopped in front of him.
"Winchester family?"
"Family friends, my daughter went to go and grab his brother."
"Has his brother phoned their parents?"
Oh, lord, Ellen thought, that doesn't sound good. "Their parents are deceased, its just the boys but they're like family--please, is Sam going to be okay?"
"He's out of surgery and--
The doctor was cut off as Dean came running into the waiting room, Jo trailing behind him, slightly slower.
"What's going on?" He demanded, "Is Sammy okay?"
"We won't totally know until he wakes up, but he's out of surgery."
"Wait-wait. What do you mean, wake up?"
"Your brother's injuries were severe and he is in a comatose state."
"No." Dean said looking from him to Ellen. "No."
"I'm sorry." The doctor said walking away.
"Oh god, Sammy," Dean had slumped down against the wall, his head in his hands, everything from the last couple of days coupled with this causing him to crack under his usually tough exterior.
So...what did you think? Great, sucked, whatever...c'mon toss me a bone and review will you, pretty please? I know I kinda left you hanging there but I think I've got something good in the works for chapter two, which I hope to post within the week, next friday at the latest. But if you review maybe I could be persuaded to do it sooner.