Series Title: 31 Nights of Frights, Dos Quatros
Part Title: Walk Away From This Hell
Author: Jmaria
Rating: FR-15
Disclaimer: I own nothing, Joss owns the Buffyverse stuff, Kripke owns the boys, & Rhimes owns Seattle Grace.
Series Summary: Thirty-one experiments in insanity with a Halloween month theme, er, take four.
Part Summary: The toughest choice to make involves more than one heart.
Words: 670
Series A/N: Yeah, I don't know Spanish. I took French in school - I lifted the Quatros from Psych
A/N: Ah, Subset season is once again upon us. Bringing back Coping Mechanisms from last year's 31 Nights of Frights, Chapter Three, because I kinda left it loose-ended. Did Sam pack up and take off with Dean? Did he pick Vi and Lexie over his vendetta and brother? What happened with Ruby?
31 Nights of Frights, Dos Quatros
2. Walk Away From This Hell
"I wish I knew who did do it, Dean. But I don't!" Sam protested, hurt that Dean would even think he'd do something like that.
"So you didn't bargain with a demon to get me out of hell?"
"No, Dean, I didn't. I tried for a month or two, but - I walked that path once and it didn't do any good!" Sam shouted, raking a hand through his hair.
"How'd the Council find you?" Bobby asked, startling the boys out of their argument.
"A Wicca named Willow -"
"Are you fucking me?" Dean blew out, staring at Sam in disbelief. "You took up with a witch. After everything those bitches did -"
"She's wiccan, not a witch. And she only ever went bad when her lover Tara was killed," Vi snapped, unable to ignore them anymore. Lexie had been freaking out since the second they had showed up, and had hidden in the bathroom worried that her life at Seattle Grace would be in jeopardy.
"Did anyone ask you, Red?" Dean snapped back.
"Excuse me?"
"Don't talk to her like that," Sam glared at Dean.
"She saved the world, and my life a few times, so yeah, when you bad-mouth a person you don't even know then you are asking my opinion," Vi turned away from them, knocking gently on the bathroom door. "Lexie, hon, let me in."
The door creaked open far enough for her to just scoot through the doors. Lexie had jerked on a pair of scrubs she'd brought with her from the hospital. Lexie had brought a lot of weird stuff home lately. She was nesting and being a klepto from what Vi could gather. Now she just looked scared and worried.
"Is Sam gonna take off with those guys, Vi?" Lexie burst out. She also had abandonment issues. Vi was only a few months older than her, but the other slayer still looked up to her.
"I think-"
"What the fuck do you mean you can't leave right now?" Dean's voice burst through the door.
"I think he has to, for just a little while," Vi said on a shaky breath. "I don't think he can just give up his brother yet."
"But what about us? We're his slayers."
"And that's his family out there. His Dean, and his Bobby." Memories of his stories about Bobby and Dean played through her mind. Giving Lexie a shaky smile, Vi pushed her way back out through the door and into the main room.
Bobby was looking at her warily. Dean was giving her the death glare. So what? She'd seen worse, including Resolve Face. Sam paused mid-rant and glanced over at her.
"I think you should leave," Vi said firmly, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Now look here -" Dean half-shouted.
"I'm not talking to you, stud," Vi snapped. "Or to Bobby. I'm talking to Sam."
"Huh?"
"Vi -" Sam blinked at her a few times.
"I think you should go with Dean and Bobby for a little while, until you can figure out what dragged him out of hell."
"But you and Lexie -"
"Can handle ourselves for a while. I lived through the First, I can handle her and Seattle Grace for a couple of weeks," Vi pasted a thin smile on her face. "Your brother is alive, Sam. Don't you think you should figured out why? See if she's behind it?"
"She? She who?" Dean frowned.
"Ruby or Lilith," Vi answered. "We'll be okay, Sam."
"I'm supposed to look out for you,' Sam murmured, his eyes betraying just how torn he was.
"Then go handle this. It's for the best."
Vi watched as he gathered up some of his stuff and headed out with Bobby and Dean. He turned back at the door.
"I'm coming back, Vi. I'm not leaving forever," he whispered, his lips pressing in for one quick kiss.
"I know," Vi lied. She wasn't sure that he was ever coming back. To her heart, it felt like the end of the world.