The entire car ride was silent. Sam stared at the road, every muscle in his body tensed while Ariel stared out of the window watching her home town flick by.

As soon as they pulled up to the motel Sam was slamming his door and storming up to their room. Ariel followed trying to calm her beating heart. It was fair enough that he would be angry, but the way he moved with such...intense rage, it made her want to turn around, run away, far away and hide forever. Lucky she had a little more will than that. She followed him into the room, catching the door before it hit her in that face. Well that was rude. Sam stopped dead in the middle of the room looking around him.

"Where's Dean?"

Ariel glanced at the shattered glass that littered the floor and sighed, "He's with Bobby, don't worry he's fine," Ariel dismissed it all wanting to focus on Sam and Ruby.

"Don't worry? Look at this place," Sam exclaimed.

"Yea Castiel tried to talk to him, just don't worry, can we talk about Ruby?"

"I...Fine," Sam snatched a chair from the tiny table beside him and sat staring at a startled Ariel.

"Fine what?" she asked.

"Fine. Tell me what you know about Ruby,"

Ariel sucked in a deep breath, bracing herself for the speech. It was going to be a long one.

"Ruby is working with Lilith-no shut up and let me explain," She snapped before he could say what was on his tong "Her Lilith and Azael are...well were for Azael. Anyway they are working to free Lucifer from hell. Ruby is corrupting you so that when the time comes he can ride you into battle with Michael aka the apocalypse. That's also why Dean was set free, because Michael is supposed to ride him. But they're angels so they can't just move in uninvited. You have to be willing to let them in. Wait what was I saying? Right Ruby, to set Lucifer free they need to break 66 seals on his cage. Dean...the first seal has been broken and they are going to break more...the thing it the last seal...Sam the last seal is killing Lilith. Ruby is training you to kill her, break the last seal, set the devil free and destroy mankind," Ariel took a deep breath staring straight into Sam's glassy eyes. He didn't move or even breathe for a good minute. Finally he spoke, "You're not kidding are you?"

"No," Ariel shook her head fighting to contain the feelings or sorrow and pity for him. She had seen the toll this took on him over the course of a season. To have it all stuffed down his throat in a matter on minutes must be unbearable. She was truly surprised that he hadn't called her crazy by now.

"Um...I just, this is a lot Ariel I want to believe you...I think. But the whole thing is so..."

"Crazy? I know when I first watched it I was like, angels? Really? But this is all going to happen, unless you stop seeing Ruby," She moved to stand a foot from Sam.

He shook his head looking down at his hands "How did you get here?" he looked up at her a million questions written across his face.

"I wish I knew, I just woke up in this dimension, I really have no idea what's going on"

"That makes two of us," he sighed "Maybe you're supposed to warn us maybe something brought you here to stop what's going to happen,"

Ariel's features twisted with doubt "I'm not sure, my being here is a huge disruption, everything I know is so unpredictable now because my presence has probably whipped everything up," she moved her hands in the air to demonstrate the 'whipping' motion.

Sam stood up pacing across the room as Ariel watched him walk back and forth "I think I need proof before I can solidly believe this,"

Ariel raised an eyebrow and shrugged "Wait till Dean gets back then. He's going to have a hell of a story to tell"

Sam stopped dead in his tracks and turned on his heel to face her "What?"

Dean certainly did have an interesting story to tell, so interesting that him and Sam argued about it the whole way to Bobby's. They had decided that his book collection was a necessity for this particular mystery as it is for almost every other one. Then the argument continued when they arrived. It seemed like they were never going to stop. Obviously Ariel knew better, but it was hard not to get caught up in the moment.

"Well then tell me what else it could have been?" Sam asked referring to Castiel. Long story short, Sam believed Ariel and Dean...didn't. Ariel sat at the kitchen table, across from Sam watching the confrontation with a distant interest as the scene, once played out on TV went on before her.

"Look all I know is that I wasn't groped by an angel," Dean cried flicking the top off of his third beer.

"You were," Ariel sighed resting her cheek in her hand

"You. Shut-up," he ordered waving his bottle at her spilling several drops over his hand.

"Okay look Dean. Why do you think that this 'Castiel' would lie about it?" Sam stared up at his brother beginning to reach his last nerve.

"Maybe some kinda demon. Demon's lie," Dean shrugged taking a swig of beer.

"He isn't a demon Dean and you know, you should just be grateful,"

"I thought I told you to shut up," Dean growled, glaring at Ariel.

She wanted to back down and just let the brothers have it out until Bobby piped up to convince Dean that Castiel was in fact an angel, but he was just so freaking annoying and rude and arrogant and stubborn, and stupid. She was beginning to wonder why he was the brother she fantasised about.

"I'm trying to help you, you fool. Stop treating me like a child,"

"Then stop acting like one," Dean snapped.

Ariel pulled back, her mouth moving without words, sort of in a shocked, frustrated twitch sort of thing. "You stupid, stubborn, RUDE hypocrite for once in your life just trust us. I get it you don't want to believe this because you don't think that you deserve the help of an angel but it's time to get over you self pity because a lot of people are going to die very soon if you don't stop being an idiot,"

He stood staring at me as rage slowly stained his face red, "You-"

"You three chuckle heads wanna keep arguing religion or come take a look at this," Bobby finally cut in. Took him long enough. Ariel was the first to step up to his desk, followed by Sam and then a brooding Dean. He really was a sulker. Ariel never imagined that she would be arguing with the troubled hunk in this situation. Her fantasies contained a little more...steam. But he was really just so infuriating, it was unbearable.

"I got tons of lore, biblical, pre-biblical. It all says an angel can pull a soul from the pit," I couldn't help the smirk that crossed my lips as Bobby told the boys what he had found. I may be 19 but I'm still a teenager which warrants one more year of childish behaviour.

Dean didn't believe it instantly though. What a surprise. "What else?" he demanded.

"What else what?"

"What else could do it?" Dean looked at Bobby that familiar look of almost desperate assurance on his face. He really couldn't bear to imagine the fact that an angel saved him. Bobby just sighed looking up at him.

"Lift your ass from the hot box? As far as I know, nothing."

Dean was silent for once, finally presented with the hard facts. It was an angel, not a demon, not a freaking warlock or whatever it was an angel. Everyone believed it but him and now it was his turn to have faith. You know I've said this plenty of times now but the emotions that almost possess Dean are a lot worse than the show gives him credit for. He is beyond tortured and the rest of them are beyond clueless because it's obvious. Or maybe it's just obvious to me because I know why. Regardless, he's still stubborn, cocky and annoying.

"See," I remarked folding my arms and blatantly staring at him with a smug satisfaction. He looked at me grimacing, at the sight of me. Ouch.

"You really need to stop talking, I can see the bull shit leaking out of your ears," He sneered.

My hand instantly shot up to my ear, despite better judgement.

"Dean!" Sam cried.

"Sam," the sarcasm in his voice was nerve grating. He was lucky I didn't jump across Bobby's deck and rip at him with my metaphorical claws, like a panther in heat. Then maybe he could catch me and throw me against the wall, savagely kissing me as our bodies are crushed together like a lustful vice.

Now that has been a long time coming. I had been waiting to lose myself in a Dean-dream, from the moment I got here. It was a welcome familiarity, certainly better than the itching annoyance that he had been causing me.

"When you ijits are done? We got some reading to do," Bobby piped up slamming a stack of books down with a puff of dust. Dean snatched the first book holding my gaze in a glare until he turned and stalked to the kitchen.

"Don't worry about him," Sam soothed touching my arm as if it should make me suddenly feel amazing.

"I'm not worried," I snapped flinching away from his touch and snatching the second book on the daunting pile. Not that I was actually going to try and read the gibberish but it would provide a good distraction, or at least make me look like I'm distracted while I actually ogle Dean.

Sam and Dean had a seemingly heated conversation in their little corner which only ended with Sam announcing that he was going to get pie. I couldn't help but laugh, Dean and his pie...it really wasn't fictional. Ruby wasn't fictional either. I shot up just catching Sam at the door.

"Hey um, can I tag along?" I asked trying to give him the 'just go with it look'.

"Yea sure," he shrugged holding the door open for me.

As soon as the door clicked shut I snatched Sam's jacket flinging him around to face me.

"Ruby!" I announced before he could protest, "She's going to be there, she's going to try and contact you."

Sam looked down at his feet and to my utter disgust he just shrugged. "Look I'm not saying that I don't believe you Ariel, but I can't just avoid her she'll get suspicious."

"Then kill her," I hissed grabbing his arm again as if I was going to shake him but deciding otherwise.

"What?"

"Kill her you have no reason to keep her alive and you have the knife Sam. I'm telling you, you need to end Ruby," I made sure to put particular emphasis on the need and end part of my sentence.

"No I-I can't do that. Not yet," he stepped away heading towards the impala.

"Because of the blood?" I hissed in a whisper careful not to let Dean or Bobby overhear. Sam stopped dead in his tracks, back turned and suddenly tense.

"No. Because Ruby can lead us to Lilith and Lilith still needs to die,"

"But if you go on trusting Ruby you'll-"

"Ariel!" Sam cut me off turning to silence me "I just want to use her okay? I've been doing this for a very long tine...trust me,"

And with that he had started the engine, leaving me choking on the dirt cloud left behind.

I stepped back into Bobby's foyer taking a moment to absorb my surroundings. I had always imagined that Bobby's house would be smelly and gorse, but it was surprisingly homey. It was beginning to grow one me. Eww not literally though, I hope.

"Sam ditch you?" Dean asked with very little interest as I re-entered the study.

"No actually your car smells weird," I smiled down at him, picking up the book I had been reading and sauntering back to my seat as he burned holes in my back.