Love is like war: easy to begin but hard to end.

Dean Winchester groaned as his stomach growled loudly. His eyes lit up as he spotted a diner; he pulled up in the impala and went inside. He took his seat and ordered a cheeseburger and a beer. Hanging out with Lisa and Ben had been entertaining but after a while he couldn't take it anymore, he had to get out of there. So he hit the road and decided to just drive until he wanted to stop. Life without Sam felt empty and meaningless but he knew that he had to keep his head held high. He wanted more than anything to go back to being a hunter.

Dean sighed heavily as he finished off his cheeseburger. He chugged down the rest of his beer before getting up from his booth. Across the diner he spotted a woman that looked strikingly familiar. She had dark brown hair, and she was wearing a leather jacket. She made eye contact with him but he couldn't quite make out who she was.

He smirked and made his way across the room to introduce himself. As he got closer her face looked more and more familiar.

"What the fuck?" He blurted out as he gaped at the woman with dark hair. He knew who she was…Ruby.

Ruby smirked, leaning back in her chair. "Good to see ya, again, Dean."

Dean blinked twice to make sure he wasn't dreaming. "H-how? What?" His hand begin to head toward his knife.

She rolled her eyes. "I know, it's such a surprise. But here I am, little Miss hellfire herself."

"Get out of here, Satan's little slut." He snapped.

She leaned forward in her chair, resting her arms on the table. One strand of thick dark hair had fallen forward in her face. "Now why would I do that when I've come all this way to see you, short-bus."

"No one wants you here, black-eyed skank." He grabbed her by the arm dragging her out to the front of the diner.

"Let go of me." She jerked her arm away from him. "I'm just here to offer my help."

"Why would I want that?" He scrunched up his face.

"Well, I don't know I just got out of hell, which you sent me back to by the way." Ruby snarled. "I know what the demon's are planning."

"I don't care. I'll find out some other way, bitch."

Giving him an exaggerated eye-roll she turned her back to him and started to walk way. "I went out of my way to offer my assistance, you jackass, and you're just gonna treat me this way."

"Fuck off, Ruby, no one needs your help."

She rounded on him, her blood boiling. "Listen here, you douche, I'm trying to help I don't need to be here. So you should stop being such a dick and accept my help."

"All I need you to do is tell me what's going on I can do the rest by myself." He rolled his eyes.

"Aww, that's adorable. You think you can do this alone." A small smile splayed across her lips, her eyes sparkled wickedly.

"What's the big deal? What's so big and badass that I can't handle?"

"For starters, all of hell is gonna be after your ass."

Dean groaned, rubbing a hand over his face. "Can I just deal with this is in the morning? It's been a long night and I just wanna go to bed."

Ruby threw her hands up in exasperation. "Whatever, Winchester. There's a motel just down the road."

He nodded and started back to his car, before he opened the door he looked back and Ruby was gone. After he'd arrived at the motel, he threw himself down on a bed and past out.

Dean opened his eyes, letting in the morning light. He groaned as he muscles screamed while he sat up. Stripping off his clothes, he jumped into the shower. Once he was done, he wrapped a towel around his waist and exited the bathroom.

"Woah, I did not need to see you like that." A female voice said.

Dean whirled around to see Ruby sitting on his bed. "Ruby, what the hell are you doing in here?"

She held up her hands in mock surrender. "I just came to finish discussing what we talked about last night."

"Well, you couldn't have come later on?"

"It's urgent, Dean, no more avoiding it."

"Can it wait until after I get dressed?" Dean frowned.

She shrugged, watching beads of water roll down his chest. "Fine." She turned around and Dean eyed her carefully before removing the towel. Ruby bit her lip and stifled a laugh, Dean Winchester was undressing while she was in the room, who would've thought.

"Okay, I'm dressed." Dean said, breaking her train of thought.

"Good." She faced him again.

"Now, what's so important?" Adding air quotes around important. "How do I know that you're not just leading me along like you lead Sam?"

She cocked an eyebrow at him. "You don't trust me?"

"Hell no." Dean scoffed.

"You want my help, you're going to have to start to," Ruby rolled her eyes. "Look, I'm not sure why but the demons are planning something big. Against Lucifer."

Dean's eyebrows raised. "Well, I did not expect that. Isn't he in the cage?"

"Yes, but that doesn't mean they can't get to him." Ruby told him, propping her chin up with the palm of her hand.

"Alright, listen bitch—"

"Don't call me that." She snapped piercingly.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. If I do agree to let you help me, how do I know that you're not just gonna screw me over?

"You don't," She shrugged. "But I don't plan on screwing you over."

"Yeah, I've heard that before. Anyway, what are they planning on doing?"

"They're going to kill Lucifer."

"And this is a…bad thing?" He wrinkled his forehead.

"Yes, because no one can actually kill Lucifer. They can absorb some of his power while trying to though."

"So, we'd have a ton of little baby Lucifer demons running around."

She nodded curtly.

"Oh, that is bad." He deadpanned.

"No shit, sherlock." Ruby let out a bark of laughter. "That's why we need to stop it from happening, and don't worry, I'll be there with you, that little fallen angel on your shoulder."

He snorted. "Thanks, that just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Wait, how in the hell did you come back to life anyway? We didn't exorcise you, we killed you."

"With my knife, you think I would've made a knife that killed demons without making sure it couldn't kill me."

"But I saw you lying on the floor, you died."

"All my knife can do to me is exorcise me. So when I finally could crawl out of hell, I did." She answered.

"And now you're back, which is good I guess."

"Aww, it's so sweet, you missed me." She said tauntingly, fluttering her eyelashes mockingly.

"Shut up." He groaned. "Why are you helping me, anyway?"

"I don't have to justify my actions to you, Dean." Ruby narrowed her eyes. "Here," She tossed him a hex bag. "It'll hide you from the demon that's in town."

"There's one in town?"

"Yep, at the abandoned factory down the road, and we're gonna kill him."

So here is the first chapter of my first Duby fic :) Hope you liked it. Review please!

~Becca