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Ruby watched as the younger of the Winchester brothers walked around the empty motel, holding a bucket for ice. She tried to imitate his stiff; broad shouldered, down-to-business stance and walk, but just broke into her own jaunty stride again. He must have sensed something because he turned his head over his shoulder and paused, looking behind his back at the lit up hallway of the otherwise dark, vacant motel. A light flickered, but nothing else. He turned back cautiously and made his way to the ice vending machine.
Ruby smirked, she always liked playing little mind games with him. As he bent down to catch the falling ice in his bucket, she checked out his cute rear in his denim jeans. What came out of the vending machine was not expected. A whole cascade of ice came falling down, over filling his bucket and then showering him in the face, he yelped and jumped back with his hands in his face, and with sub-conscious reflexes at the possessed ice machine, he slipped his hand into his pocket for a repellant or weapon. The lights and buttons on the machine blinked and clicked rapidly to its own accord, the vent flooded with ice and falling out onto the ground, never stopping.
Ruby laughed silently at his bewildered and frightened expression at the ice spilling out of the vent.
She stepped out of her shadows and said sassily, "I guess hunting has made you paranoid of everything…Even ice machines."
Sam whipped his head around to look at her, his thick hair flopping on his forehead endearingly, he exclaimed in a gruff voice, "You!" Ruby smiled even wider, the sarcasm never leaving her playful smile.
He felt his muscles relax a little and retorted, "Well, I guess I have a reason to be paranoid, something demonic is always behind it, isn't it?"
She replied, "Ooh, ouch what's that supposed to imply? Do I really look that satanic to you? I like to see myself more of your guardian angel or something cute like that." She looked at him with a sweet pout and innocent eyes, mirroring his own puppy-eyed expression.
Sam snorted, "Right, angel, that's pretty cute." But he couldn't help it, he felt himself softening and she smiled a little genuinely at him like they were sharing their own private little joke.
Sam suddenly felt sheepish and shy, embarrassed that she had seen him so frightened at her own trick at the vending machine. He crunched on a stray clump of ice with his shoe, the other mini ice bergs melting into puddles on the ground.
She took this as an okay signal and advanced towards him a little, getting closer, sure that he wouldn't run away or try to hurt her this time.
Sam, not knowing what else to say, says shaking, "That was a stupid trick to play, Ruby."
Ruby just laughed and said, "Ah, so the hardy Winchester acknowledges me by my name, hello to you too Sam."
Sam can't help but smile in his wry way at her own wry humor, and says, "What do you want?" She shrugs, driving him crazy, and by her close-lipped smile he knows that she isn't telling.
The truth was, Ruby was bored, but of course, wouldn't admit it. But then she said, "Well, Sammy, it does get a bit lonely these long nights running around by yourself, hiding in shadows, and having no one to talk to. So I thought you could keep me company." She looks up at him with her smoky eyes and a secretive smile. He just dropped his jaw and stared at her with his "deer-caught-in-the-headlights" eyes, not knowing what to say, just staring at her in a dumbfounded way.
She broke out laughing and reprimands him, "No, not in that way you silly boy! I meant, keep me company as in like a friend-to-friend type of thing, you know. Wow, what did you think I said?" Sam tried to close his mouth and felt himself flush, he spluttered, "Well, I didn't-, um, I just thought…" She looked at him smirking, and he exclaimed, "Yeah, right, you, me, friends, I'm sure you just wanted to have some company.
She smiled sweetly at him and asked innocently, "Do you think I am cute?" Sam blinked twice at her, not understanding what she had just asked. He was expecting something sarcastic or witty to come out of her mouth or something to do with whatever she was concealing about a hunt or something, but he had not expected her to ask that question, especially coming from a girl like Ruby. He stuttered, "W-what?" She shrugged and looked at him with those piercing lazy eyes.
Sam shuffled his feet, his broad shoulders slumping, not trying to look so big, his shoes scuffing on the ground; he didn't know how to reply or whether he should at all. He strained his neck back to get a good look at her. Sure, he'd thought about the sassy girl and her flawless features and sparkling blonde hair, but not really. Only in fleeting sub-conscious moments, but he had never really thought about her in that way, he wouldn't allow it and it just did not seem that appropriate to look at her in any way except for with spite.
He could have been attracted to her, he thought, if she'd been a normal girl, but no, he thought of her as Ruby the random girl who pops up everywhere, not even a girl, the demon. Except the last incident at the grips of Tammy, did his view change a little; maybe she wasn't so demonic after all. He felt bad for treating her so coldly, but then reprimanded himself for regretting it. He tried to shake his thoughts of Ruby, but he remembered when he first saw her with the 7 deadly sins, he had no clue to who she was except that she had knowledge about demonic forces. It had driven him crazy not to know who the girl who had saved his life was, he speculated to who she could be, but even then with her glossy locks and pretty little face, cruel eyes, tough voice, he couldn't muster himself to think of her in any way since he never had reason to. If he had thought with the mindset of a normal boy, he would have seen her as pretty and very attractive, but it just didn't seem right to him.
It's not that she was totally and purposely seductive, her curling voice was hot to him, but she didn't exactly try to speak to him for him to take it like that. She had never tried, really, and he didn't want her to or he never thought about that, but even then she was seducing to him, even if she had not known it. She didn't try to be girly or sexy or appealing at all, even her normal clothes reflected that and that's what Sam liked. He had never really been with a girl like her, but to him, she seemed very attractive.
Without effort she had attracted his attention. This was pretty hard for Samuel Winchester. He wasn't the type like his brother to check out every pretty girl, he barely looked at them, unless there was someone very special or eye-catching to him. He didn't think of girls 24/7 exactly, he had other worries; he didn't have that mind set.
Even with his past girl friends or relationships, he had to feel truly connected or comfortable with the girl, they had to be the kind type like him, or at least have a past with him. He did not connect to Ruby like that, he didn't know much about her, but she intrigued him, which was a rather hard ordeal. And she had done it so effortlessly!
Sam smiled at her in spite of himself; she seemed more of his brother's type, or at least the type that would attract flirtations from Dean.
So Sam brought his thoughts back to the present and pondered at the "girl" staring at him, waiting patiently for an answer. Sam shrugged and said simply, "Well, I think your human host's body is cute, but…you, I don't know. Your personality…is cute." He had meant that to come out more sarcastically than it had. She smiled triumphantly, exposing those glittering whites to him, and he shuddered inwardly. She shoved her hands into her pockets and said, "That means you think I'm cute. My body and personality are cute 'cause I'm cute."
Sam snorted angrily at himself, "You're not cute, and cute is a far cry from you, cute is cuddly, your personality, the real you, is not really that cute, and you're more wild than cute."
She grinned even more and said teasingly, "Oh, is little Sammy mad? You are so cute when you're mad." Sam blushed and grit his teeth in anger, he didn't know what games she was trying to play with him, "Okay, Ruby, get to the point, what did you really come here for?" Ruby said mockingly, "Oh, no, don't try to change the subject Sammy, you have to answer me."
Sam exhaled impatiently, his temper running short, "Okay, maybe your host is pretty, and your personality is annoying." Ruby squealed uncharacteristically, "Don't you get it? I am my host! This is basically my body! Gees, your brother never tries to differentiate the host and the demon; he takes it as it is! But thank you for the compliment, I think you're pretty too. Your personality is a bit, eh though."
Sam was bitten, "Eh? What do you mean, 'eh'?" Ruby shrugged, "You're so bitter and suspicious." Sam stared at her dead-on, she continued, "Okay, so maybe you have to be suspicious, but liven it up a little Sam, you would think that you were the older brother!"
He curled his hands into a fist at his sides, she eyed them, and said teasingly, "And I know that you would never hit me, being the gentleman you are. No matter how annoying or mean I can be, I know you wouldn't." Sam looked defeated.
She got closer to him, and put a tan hand on his hard chest, "Now, can we be friends? Have we settled our differences?" Sam looked at her stubbornly, standing taller than her. Sam said unconvincingly, "We could never be friends."
Ruby straightened his collar for him and beat his hair back with her hand, he involuntarily winced. Ruby whispered, "I knew someone just like you once."
Sam wanted to know more, but she stepped back from him and smiled wryly, even under the dim and harsh light of the dirty motel, he couldn't help but notice how naturally pretty she was, or at least the girl she was in or whatever it was.
Sam, not wanting to delve more, asked softly, "can you really help me save my brother?" Ruby opened her mouth but then something inside her stopped. She saw him staring at her sadly, with his gorgeous tan, imposing height, but sad eyes and boyish haircut. She just smiled back sadly and nodded slowly, hating herself for lying to him. It was like lying to a child that their dead pet was only on vacation or something.
Ruby yawned suddenly and Sam raised an eyebrow and asked appraisingly, "Demons get tired?" She smiled mysteriously, "There are lots of things you don't know about demons."
She waved a bye at him and turned into the shadows, disappearing and Sam just stood there, knowing not to go after her, wondering wildly when their next meeting would be, he had no choice but to go back to his own room where his brother would be waiting, more alive than ever. Sam picked up his bucket and went to his room.
Dean was sitting at the laptop, and looked up as his brother came in looking changed, "Hey where were you man?" Sam looked surprised, "What?" Dean continued, "You were gone for a while, just getting ice." Sam shrugged, "I got lost. All the doors looked the same." Dean just shook his head at his brother's foolishness. Then he roared at the sight of the water swishing around in the otherwise empty bucket, "Sam! Where the hell is the ice you were supposed to get?!"
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