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3. In which there are demons

Ruby is precisely on time, it's something that lingers from her time as a witch, certain rituals you have to perform at exactly the right minute or they will be useless, so when she got the message that she had to be here at midnight there was no doubt that she'd be there exactly at the strike of twelve. Eri knows this of course, knows Ruby too good for comfort really, which is why she arrives in the dark and empty parking lot barley a second after Ruby.

"What do you want, Eri?"
"It's Meg now, you have to keep up with the changes Ruby", the other demon answers. She has found herself a young chick with short blonde hair to possess, much like the old one.
"Just answer the question."
"I want you on our team, come on Ruby, it will be fun, just like old times. What do you have to win fighting for heaven anyway?"
"I'm fighting for the humans, the world. To let it stay as it is, we don't need Lucifer."

Meg chuckles at that, but there's no real amusement in her eyes.
"Lilith will succeed, Lucifer will escape and then Ruby, you will die, neither of us want that."

Meg has taken a step closer, and Ruby can almost recognize her friend.
"Join me Ruby, take this last chance to be on the winning side."
"No, you should join me Meg, you are not your father, let his plan go, stop trying to be Azazel, be you, do you remember what it's like?" She keeps moving towards the other woman as she speaks, tries to make contact with her friend in there.

When she's close enough to reach out and touch her Meg takes a step back.
"I hope I won't have to kill you Ruby", are her last words before she disappears into the darkness.
"Or I you", Ruby whispers into the silence of the empty parking lot before she hurries away to be by Sam's side.

Sam recognizes three of the demons the moment they show up, that there is three more doesn't really bother him. He has found himself strangely unaffected by danger since Dean died. First he had tried everything to get his brother back, when it hadn't worked and he had given up, Ruby had come. Then everything left in Sam was vengeance, he and Ruby started hunting down Lilith, and now he is strangely unconcerned with his safety.

He takes a rifle loaded with rock salt, makes sure Ruby's demon killing knife is still in his belt and starts to make his way towards the house. His plan is to sneak in through a window but of course they notice him, he has just been able to exorcise one of them when the rest is on him, all at ones.

He holds one at bay with his psychic powers, stabs one with the knife and slows another one down by shooting him, but then he is hopelessly outnumbered. He's pressed against a wall by joined demonic powers and finds that he's having a hard time fighting back, he has lost the knife somewhere along the way.

"So, Azazel's little experiment thinks he can take us all out by himself", one of the demons, apparently the leader, says. The girl she's possessing can barely be fifteen years old and looks very much out of place. Sam doesn't have time to think of a cocky response cause then she falls to the floor, stabbed in the back and then his brother is there, Dean is there, fighting the three remaining demons on his own. It just takes a second of pure shock before Sam reacts on instinct, draws on his power and starts exorcising one of the demons with his psychic powers while Dean kills the other two, it's over in seconds, and only then does Sam remembers that the plan was to let one of them live.

"Hello Sam", says his brother, slightly insane eyes, blood dripping knife in one hand and the other moving restlessly back and forth as if patting an invisible dog, he really hopes that isn't the case.

I know Dean (and Cass) had to take the back-seat on this one, but this is not only about Dean, some other stuff is going to happen too, (I actually do have a plot planed, somewhat anyway) but he'll have things to say in the next chapter, promise.
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