"Any minute, now."
As if on cue, the door was broken down and three men came charging in, shotguns aimed and loaded full of rock salt. The two demons simply stared at them and smiled.
Ruby stepped forward, shaking her head to clear a few stray strands of hair from her eyes. "Sammy," she cooed. "How nice of you to finally join us."
His eyes darted from his lover to the child that stood behind her and back again. "Tell me it's a trap."
She lightly pushed his arm out of her way and pressed herself against him, staring up into his eyes. "It's a trap," she whispered, sliding her hands up onto his chest, palms open, trustworthy. "But not for Lilith." Her eyes flashed black as Sam flew across the room and connected with the wall, his gun skittering across the floor.
Two shots went off, both aimed at the child, who deflected them with an easy wave of her hand. "Oh, Dean," she said, eyes turning milky white as she smiled up at him. "I missed you so much!" She ran toward him, arms outstretched, but Cas stepped between them, shotgun raised and eyes narrowed. The little girl crossed her arms over her chest and pouted, stopping about a foot from them. "Now where's the fun in that? I don't get a bodyguard." She jerked her head to the side, sending the former angel flying into a corner. "That's better. I like it more when we play fair."
"You stay away from me." Dean growled.
"Silly. We're gonna be best friends now." She smiled. "Ruby says so." She leaned comically to one side, looking around Dean to watch the scene playing out on the wall behind him.
The hunter shifted slightly, keeping both demons in his sight. "You bitch," he directed at the one who was gazing up at his brother with lust in her eyes, "you sold us out."
"Yeah." Ruby spun, her eyes flashing, glaring, glowing for a moment under the fluorescents that had been hung from the ceiling of the warehouse they'd found her in. "What's your point?"
"I trusted you," Sam muttered, struggling to free himself from the wall.
The demon laughed. "Sammy, come on. I'm a demon. You didn't really think Lilith would let me out that easy, did you?"
"You can still come back to us." Four sets of eyes turned to see Castiel struggling to his feet. "You can still redeem yourself. We can offer you protection."
"I've seen your protection," she scoffed. "I'd rather live as a traitor than die by your hands." Again, something flashed across her eyes, something rippling through the pools of black, smooth and shiny.
"Say it again," Lilith coaxed. Ruby opened her mouth, but was cut off by the sound of rustling wings. Uriel was standing in the midst of the scene, his eyes roving over the three humans and two demons. The child smiled. "Let the games begin."
Uriel stepped forward slowly, the movement calculated, his eyes never leaving Lilith's face. "You will not break the Seal. Lucifer will not be allowed to roam free."
"That's what you think," the child said, looking up at the angel with malice in her eyes. She stood still and let Uriel approach, watching him with great interest as he reached out and caressed her face, his large hand moving from her cheek to the top of her head.
"You couldn't break the Seal yourself, whore," the angel muttered, his face screwed up in concentration, "what makes you think that this underling can?"
"Because, silly," Lilith hissed, reaching up and grabbing Uriel's hand, snapping his wrist and twisting his arm with unexpected strength and speed. "God and Adam were the only ones who trusted me. Both sides believed in her." She tugged on the angel's limb, pulling him to his knees. "Once more," she whispered, "that's all it takes. Her third denial."
"Could have sworn that was Peter," Dean said as he swung his shotgun at her, connecting the stock firmly with the side of the demon's head. Lilith stumbled, maintaining her grip on Uriel, and glared up at him.
"Tired of shooting?"
The hunter leveled the gun at her. "Depends. You gonna let him go?"
Lilith simply smiled, her eyes flashing white again as her hand began to glow with the same white light that demons seemed to have become so fond of in the past year. Dean fired off another shot without hesitation, but the bullets didn't hit the girl, just stopped midair and fell harmlessly to the floor.
Uriel screamed as the light intensified and threw Dean backwards into a wall. He slid down to the floor, unable to regain his feet, and looked over at Cas, who was staring at the demon with fear in his eyes.
That was when Dean realized what was happening. He'd never thought to ask before how angels could be killed, had kind of taken for granted the fact that they were just always there, and now he was watching one being murdered and there was nothing he could do about it.
He looked across the room, searching for Sam in the haze of murderous light. Sam had the knife. Sam had powers that he wasn't supposed to use. Although neither of those things had worked on Alastair, maybe they could work on Lilith. Maybe they could save the asshole of an angel that had gotten them into this mess.
Sam, he saw, was otherwise occupied. Ruby had pressed herself up against him, her hands running up and down his chest, her mouth latched onto his as he fought to get away from whatever force was powerful enough to plaster him to the wall like that.
The angel screamed once more as the light reached an impossible intensity, shining like a small sun in the warehouse, and then burnt out abruptly. The body that Uriel had been using dropped to the floor, lifeless.
"That was fun," Lilith said, turning from the still form on the floor to look at Dean and Castiel. "Now, who's next?"
Dean pushed himself up onto his hands and knees and crawled across the floor to the fallen angel. Things were looking bad. Things were looking very bad. "What now?"
"We fight," Cas shrugged.
"Tried that," Dean muttered.
Lilith turned her attention back to Sam and Ruby. "Maybe I should start with you, Sammy? Doesn't that sound like fun?"
Ruby finally pulled herself from the hunter's face, smiling up at him. "I'm sorry, Sam," she said, leaning up once more to nip at his chin.
The hunter pulled away. "You can still save us. You can still save yourself."
"Nope. Don't think so. I've chosen my side. You should choose yours." With that, her eyes slid back to black. The demon stepped away, smiling, to stand beside Lilith. Again, something flashed across the black, something that shimmered and shifted and stayed, molding and melting until Ruby's usually black eyes shone silver in the light.
The earth under their feet began to shake, startling the demons into releasing Sam and shocking the two humans on the other side of the room into attempting to stand. Something deep in the ground rumbled loudly, causing Ruby's new eyes to widen and Lilith to giggle like the sadistic maniac she was.
Dean leaned against the wall for support and looked over at his own companion. "What's going on? Cas?"
Wide blue eyes turned toward him, chilling him to the bone. "The end."