Sam and Dean finished loading up the Impala and jumped into the vehicle, but when Dean tried to start it up nothing happened.

"Looking for this?" Bobby asked standing outside the Impala with a part of it in his hands. "Do I look like a ditchable prom date to you?" He asked the boys.

"Bobby," Dean started.

"And don't even think about saying that this isn't my fight," He cut off. "Family don't end in blood." Dean looked ashamed of himself.

"I'm sorry Bobby." He apologized.

"And besides you guys are gonna need me. I just checked Metropolis and that place is over flowing with demonic omens."

"We're going to need more help," Sam said.

"I know just the person," Dean said.

"This is so not what I had in mind when I suggested we have a girl's night out," Buffy complained. She and her sister Dawn were surrounded by a seven vampires.

"Come on, Buff. It'll take us what? 2, 3 minutes tops to take these guys down?" Dawn said.

"I'll say two and a half," Buffy said standing back to back with Dawn. They were about to start kicking butt when Buffy's phone started to ring. "Who could be calling now of all times?" Buffy agitatedly thought pulling out her phone. "Hello?"

"Buffy. It's Dean," Dean said on the other end.

"I'm kind of busy- hold on." Buffy ducked one of the vamps punches and kicked him twice in the face. She blocked his hook and tossed him into two of the other vampires. "Make it quick Dean," she said.

"I need your help."

"Hold on a sec. Dawn! Catch!" Buffy threw her sister a stake, which Dawn caught and impaled one of the attacking vampires. She quickly dodged a kick from another vampire and stabbed him. She heard a vampire sneer from behind her and thrust her stake behind her killing it.

"Head's up Buffy!" Dawn yelled tossing the stake back to her surrounded sister. Buffy tossed her phone as high as she could, caught Dawn's stake, and pulled out another one from behind her back. She twirled the stakes and stabbed them into two of the lunging vampires. Once they crumbled to dust Buffy rapidly hit one of the other vampires in his face spun around, stabbed the other vampire, and then impaled the last. Buffy let go of her stakes and caught her phone.

"Sorry about that. Now what can I do for you Dean?"

"I'm in trouble Buffy."

"What kind of trouble?" She asked.

"A while back Sam got killed," Dean explained. "I sold my sold to bring him back to life and now my debt's come due. I have till midnight to live. The only way to save me now is to kill the demon that holds my contract and we've found her."

"But what do you need me for?"

"The town's giving off loads of demonic omens. Sam and I need all the help we can get."

Buffy looked to Dawn and cursed under her breath. She really wanted to spend time with her sister, but she couldn't leave Dean to die. "Where are you guys?" She asked running her hand down her face.

"Sam, Bobby, and I are headed towards Metropolis. That's where the demon is; we're about two and a half hours away. Meet in front of the Luthor Corp. building."

"Alright. I know a quick way to get there. I'll see you guys in two and a half hours," and she hung up. "Is one day off too much to ask for?" She thought.

"Who was that, Buffy?" Dawn asked with a suspicion that they're girls' night out was going to have to wait.

"You remember those brothers I told you about?" Buffy asked while dialing Willow's number.

"The Winchesters. What about them?"

"One of them is in trouble. I need to go to Metropolis to help him out."

"Alright; let's go then."

"Hold it Dawnie," Buffy said. "You're staying here."

"Why?" Dawn asked.

"I don't know what I'm going to be dealing with and I don't want you getting hurt."

"Buffy; I'm not a."

"Don't give me the 'I'm not a kid anymore speech Dawn," Buffy cut off. "And besides someone has to keep watch over Sunnydale," she said finishing her text message to Willow. In a split second Willow appeared in the warehouse the Summers sisters were in.

"What do you need, Buffy?" Willow asked.

"I need you to take me to Metropolis."

"Why there?"

"Long story," Buffy answered taking Willow's hand. "See you later, Dawn," Buffy said and she and Willow disappeared. Dawn waited a few moments before pulling out her own cell phone and dialed a number.

"Hello?" The voice on the other end asked.

"Hi Z. It's Dawn Summers."

"Hey Clark," Lois said to him.

"Yes Lois," Clark said looking up from his computer.

"Have you noticed anything strange about the behavior of some of the members of the staff lately?" She asked sitting on the edge of his desk.

"No…not really," he replied with some hesitation as he got distracted by Lois' long legs.

"How strange?"

"Watch," she said as Jeff the intern entered the bullpen. "Hey John…"

"It's Jeff! For once in your life will you get it right! My name is J-E-F-F, JEFF!" He shouted at Lois with all the fury he could muster. Jeff then proceeded to curse Lois out, turned around, and stormed out of the building. Once he got out he saw Cat Grant waiting for him outside.

"I could hear you yelling from out here," she said to him.

"Jeff here has wanted to go off on Lane for a long time," the demon inside Jeff said. "So I did it for him."

"Well now that you've taken care of that let's head for the Ace of Clubs. Can't let Lilith have all the fun can we," Cat said; eyes turning black.

"See Smallville; Jeff would never actually have the guts to yell at me like that, let alone curse me out."

"Maybe he's just finally reached his breaking point," Clark suggested.

"It's not just Jeff though. The Editor hasn't been around to yell at me all week and at times it feels like this place is less busy than usual."

"You're imagining things. You have been burning the midnight oil as of late. How about we hang out at the Ace of Clubs later tonight? I think you could use the break from your work."

"Are you asking me out on a date?" Lois asked.

"That depends; are you going to say yes?"

Lois gave Clark a bright smile. "Yes."

Clark gave her his own wide smile. "Great; I'll see you at 10 outside the Ace of Clubs."

"Alright. I'll see you then," she said heading out the Daily Planet.

"Lois; where are you going?"

"To get ready," she replied.

"It's only 7:30."

"And that still doesn't leave me enough time. See ya," she said and exited the Daily Planet.

"Never thought I'd see the day," Tess said.

"Tess?" Clark said looking to his right. "How long have you been sitting over there?"

"Long enough. I was wondering when you were finally going to get the guts to ask her out," Tess said.

Clark rolled his eyes. "What are you reading?" He asked noticing something on the desk Tess was sitting at.

"Nothing important," she answered tucking Sam and Dean's journal under her arm. "I'll leave you to prepare for your date now," she told him. Tess left the Daily Planet and got in her car. She drove out of Metropolis until she reached what she was looking for; a crossroad. She'd read about them in the journal and what she found intrigued her. She dug a hole in the crossroad and buried her photo in the center.

"Howdy Tess," Lilith said appearing before her.

"So you're the crossroads demon?" Tess asked facing her.

"Not exactly. I'm what you'd call their boss actually. So what do you need Ms. Mercer? And can you make this quick because I have a party to get back to."

"Power," she simply responded.

"What do you need that for?" Lilith asked.

"I have my reasons," Tess answered. In truth she wanted power to ensure that she could keep her Injustice League in line. Some of them weren't exactly being cooperative; especially Plastique.

"Well I guess you know the drill. Ten years and then I come back for you," Lilith explained.

"Do you really want my soul now?" Tess asked.

"Why wouldn't I?"

"My soul is tarnished enough as it is. I'll probably wind up seeing you again at some point in my life."

"That's true," Lilith thought.

"Is there anything else I can do besides giving you my soul?" Tess asked.

Lilith rubbed her chin in thought and then smiled. "I'll tell you what. You can keep your soul, but in return you have to do something for me at some point in the future."

"What?" Tess questioned, glad that she could keep her soul.

"You'll see."

"So it's a deal then?" Tess asked her.

"Yes," Lilith answered.

"So how do we make it official?"

Lilith smirked at her. "With a kiss." Tess raised an eyebrow as Lilith approached her.

"I'm sorry is this uncomfortable for you?" Lilith asked stopping an inch from Tess.

Tess looked into Lilith's eyes, then her lips, and said, "I go both ways," and then kissed her.

Two hours later

Lois could hardly imagine how fast time had flown by. It was now about 9:30 p.m. Upon arriving back at her new apartment in Metropolis that she got after her raise from Tess she'd gotten an hour long shower and spent the following hour getting ready for her date with Clark. She still couldn't believe that Clark had asked her out. Not that she was upset that he did; she'd wanted him to do so for a while now. Believing herself to be ready she decided to head out for the Club.

Clark was just about ready to super speed over to the Ace of Clubs. Even though he could've gotten himself ready in little more than a few seconds flat he took his time given that it was his first date with Lois. He whipped out his phone and called Lois just to make sure they were still on for tonight.

"Hi Clark," Lois said answering her phone. "What's up?"

"I'm just calling to make sure we're still on for tonight."

"Don't worry Smallville. As a matter of fact I'm heading to the club now. What about you?"

"I'm on my way as well," Clark responded.

"Don't keep me waiting, Clark," Lois said in a sultry voice.

Clark was about to respond when he heard someone wolf whistle on the other end.

"What do we have here?" He heard someone else say.

"Lois; what's going on there?" Clark asked worried.

Lois was surrounded by four demons all eyeing her like she was the main course of a meal. "Clark; I'm going to have to call you back," Lois said then her phone flew out of her hand and into one of the demons.

"What the hell?"

"Lois? Lois! ?" Clark yelled. The demon hung up the phone and the line went dead.

"Why don't you come with us?" The demon said approaching her.

"Why don't you leave her alone?" Dawn said entering the back alley.

"Who the hell are you?" A demon asked.

"Just a concerned citizen," she replied. "Muggers. Shouldn't take me too long to take down," she thought. "I still have a half hour to track down Buffy." Dawn had been searching for her sister for two hours now in this giant city. When she had Zatanna teleport her to Metropolis she didn't take into account that she had no idea where Buffy would be meeting the Winchesters. Buffy hadn't been answering her cell phone either.

"Ok, screw this; take them both," one of the demons said. The demon behind Lois rushed her, but she spun around and threw a punch at his chin. The demon stumbled back, but recovered in seconds. One of the other demons back flipped towards Dawn, and threw a kick at her forehead. Dawn fell down, but got quickly got back on her feet. She kicked the demon in the chest and stomach, but her grabbed her foot during the third kick and tossed her into a trash can. Lois ran to help Dawn, but a hand grabbed her shoulder and turned her around. Lois instinctively threw out a punch, but the new arrival blocked it. Only then did Lois realize who was attacking her.

"Chloe!" Chloe's eyes turned black and she hit Lois in the face with all her strength knocking her out cold. Dawn sprang up and threw the garbage can at one of her attacker's. He tossed it aside with his mind and kicked Dawn into the arms of the demon controlling Chloe.

"Let me go!" She ordered struggling to break free.

"As you wish," Chloe said and threw Dawn into the brick wall knocking her out cold.

"Hi, it's Lois. Leave a message."

Clark hung up his phone; that was the third time he tried Lois' cell. He had to face the truth that something bad must've happened to her. He left the house and super sped to the Isis Foundation. Maybe he could use the computers there to see if he could trace Lois' cell phone.

Tess stumbled into the Luthor mansion feeling extremely lightheaded. After her kiss with Lilith everything went black for some reason. When she recovered she'd discovered that she was out cold for almost two hours. She poured herself a glass of water and downed the whole thing in a single gulp. Her vision began to blur and she felt an urge to just lie down. She walked to her bedroom, but when she grabbed the doorknob it broke of the door. Tess looked at the broken handle and then at the door. "I can always get another door," she mumbled and shoved both her hands into the door knocking the whole thing off its hinges. Tess had a look on her face that was part shocked and part bewildered. It'd actually worked. She had power. Then suddenly a great pain began to surge on her back. Tess fell to the floor and fought her desire to scream. The pain soon subsided and Tess walked over to a mirror. She turned her back to it and lifted up her shirt. Tess gasped at what she saw. The symbol of a devil's trap had appeared on her lower back.

Lilith downed another glass of beer making sure she didn't drink too much. After all she liked this body. She checked the clock in the club and saw it was a little past 9:30. Almost time for Dean's debt to come due. Her cell phone vibrated and she checked her message.

"Hey everyone! Entertainment's here!" She called out to the demons. The elevator doors opened and two demons stepped inside dragging 'the entertainment' behind them. They tossed both Lois and Dawn into Lilith's view. "This is going to be fun," Lilith said licking her lips.

To be continued…

Brief teaser for the next chapter:

"You ready to play a little game; Lois is it?" Lilith asked Lois.

"Go to hell," Lois said still trying to break out of the chair she was tied to.

"Been there done that," Lilith said running a hand down Lois' cheek. "Let's see what secrets little miss iron will here keeps locked up in her head."

A/N: What Angelus is up to will be revealed later in the story.