Seven
"This better be good!" Lily snapped as she appeared beside Dean and Bobby with her archangel blade in one hand and a knife in the other. "I was in the middle of smiting some of Lilith's demons. What's wrong?" she asked.
"We've got a problem with Sam," Dean replied. He and Bobby were standing out the front of the boiler room where Sam was inside screaming and slamming his fists against the walls. "Did you know Sam was drinking demon blood?"
"Well I was in the middle of coming back from a scouting run against Lilith," Lily answered as she stared into the boiler room. "She mentioned something to me about it, was kind of a kin to gloating. Bitch left me alone with thirty demons to contend with. I love it when they think I'm human."
"We tried calling your cell," Bobby answered. "Almost couldn't get him in the panic room."
Lily paused. "You built a ghost proof panic room? Bobby, you're awesome."
Bobby laughed. "Dean said the same thing."
"Where have you been?" Dean asked her. "We tried calling, Cass said you would be alright and you'd come back. When you didn't come back I decided that if Cass would come on a prayer maybe you would too."
"I've never had someone prey to me before," Lily laughed as she sheathed her blade she pocketed her knife.
"Yeah it was weird for me too," Dean grumbled.
"How long's he been like this?" Lily asked. She looked into the panic room to see Sam fidgeting like a drug addict coming down from a high. "I've been feeding on demons for a long time-I went fifteen years without energy and I was never like this."
"Ever since Cass raised me from Hell," Dean answered. "Probably started when that demon bitch Ruby got her claws in him."
The three of them made their way back up into the house. Bobby asked if they wanted some beers as the two of them sat down in their usual seats at the kitchen table.
"Ruby?" Lily asked. She nodded her thanks to Bobby for the beer. "Yeah I heard Sam say something about her once or twice after you died. Where's Cass?"
Dean took a deep breath and started telling her everything that had happened when Castiel's host Jimmy reclaimed his body and Castiel was taken back to heaven for punishment for rebelling. Lily felt a pang of guilt as she felt responsible for what had happened. Jimmy had agreed to be Castiel's host once more and now the angel was an obedient soldier once more.
"So Castiel won't be helping us," Bobby finished.
Lily stared into the bottleneck of her beer with a sigh.
Dean raised an eyebrow. "You ok there sis? You look a little disappointed."
"I kinda liked Cass," she shrugged. Lily sat the beer back down, "I had high hopes for him. Poor guy thought he could fix me. It was cute in a child-like way." A shiver ran down the back of her spine as she remembered that night her and Castiel had been together. She closed her eyes and ran her tongue over her lip ever so slightly with a slight moan before she realised where she was.
When she opened her eyes Dean was staring at her with his beer almost to his mouth. "Ok what the hell was that?" the eldest Winchester asked her. "Did you and Cass bump uglies or something?"
Lily blushed.
Bobby choked on his beer. "With an angel?"
"It's not like that!" Lily objected.
"So you got together with an angel who is wearing the body of a married man with a child?" Bobby asked her, a hint of anger in his voice. "Girl you are nine different types of stupid."
"Fuck of Bobby!" Lilly snapped. "It's different. He was trying to fix my Grace like I said. It fucking hurt like you wouldn't believe. He grabbed my wings to make sure I wouldn't hurt myself-when you touch an angels wings its sort of the same feeling you get when foreplay is involved."
"Ok you can stop!" Dean laughed.
"You asked!" Lily replied, her eyes wide with annoyance. "I'm still pure in body Dean Winchester so don't you forget that!" she told him. "I may have to lie and cheat and steal in this line of work but I certainly have not given it up."
Dean roared with laughter as Bobby disappeared into the next room to answer his phone.
"You're impossible Dean!" she growled.
As Dean and Lily sat in silence listening to Sam yelling for them to let them out, Bobby came back from his call with a frown on his face.
"News?" Lily questioned.
"Rufus said it ain't good," Bobby answered when he sat down. He handed Dean a newspaper and the elder Winchester studied it deeply.
"This is what Rufus called about?" Dean asked once he was done. "Key West sees ten species go extinct?"
"Yep," Bobby replied. "Fifteen-man fishing crew all stricken blind, cause unknown. New York, teacher goes postal, locks the door, kills exactly sixty-six kids. All this in a single day. I looked them up. There's no doubt about it, they're all seals. Breaking. Fast."
"How many are left?" Lily asked.
"Who knows?" Bobby admitted. There was a look of worry on the old hunters face. "Can't be many. Where the hell are your angel pals?"
Lily shrugged. "You tell me. And Bobby-they're not my pals."
"I'm just wondering," he sighed.
"What?" Dean inquired. He hoped that Bobby would have some kind of an idea cause he was running out of them.
"Well with apocalypse being nigh and all-" he started.
"Nigh?" Lily teased. "Watching too much daytime TV?"
Bobby ignored her. "Is now really the right time to be having this little domestic of ours?"
Dean paused. "What do you mean?"
"Well I don't like this any more than you do," he started to say, "but Sam can kill demons. He's got a shot at stopping Armageddon."
"Am I chopped liver?" Lily asked.
They both ignored her.
"So what?" Dean snapped. "Sacrifice Sam's life, his soul, for the greater good? Is that what you're saying? Times are bad, so let's use Sam as a nuclear warhead?"
Bobby frowned. "Look, I know you hate me for suggesting it. I hate me for suggesting it. I love that boy like a son. All I'm saying is maybe he's here right now instead of on the battlefield because we love him too much."
Lily cleared her throat, grabbing Dean and Bobby's attention from their stare fest. "I'm going to speak with Sam. Than I'm going to have a shower. I have demon blood in places I didn't even know I had. Once I'm done I'm going to have myself some food and then I'm going to go and gank myself a Ruby. Is there a problem with that?"
"Be my guest," Dean laughed.
Lily placed her weapons on the table before she went back down into the basement where the panic room was. She didn't bother opening the door in case he tried to escape so she just phased in through the wall like an X-Man.
"Hello Sam," she spoke as she walked over to him.
Her younger brother sat on the floor with his legs crossed, looking like he was trying to meditate or something. When she walked around to his front Lily stumbled back into the wall with a small gasp. His face was covered in slightly glowing red veins. "Jesus Sammy what have you done to yourself?" she asked him.
His eyes snapped open and he stared up at her. "Let me out Lily."
She shook her head. "Not gonna happen little brother."
"Don't call me that!" Sam snapped. He jumped up to his feet and cross the room until she was pinned against the wall. "You are not my sister! You're a parasite!"
Lily frowned. "I would hardly call me a parasite, more like a glowing ball of black light-think a ball of smoke."
Sam wrapped his hands around her throat. "You're a parasite! Dean thinks you're a parasite too. Whilst you were off killing demons we spoke about ways to get you out of her. Maybe using your own angel blade against you. You deserve to be locked up. Not me. YOU'RE NOT MY SISTER! GET OUT OF HER!"
Sam's attempt at choking her wasn't doing any damage to her, just her vessel. It was a curious feeling choking.
Her eyes rolled in the back of her head before she forced herself back up into the kitchen coughing. She was fighting so hard for air as she collapsed on the ground.
"What in blazes happened?" Bobby questioned when he pulled Lily to her feet.
"He tried to strangle me!" Lily cried. She rubbed her throat, Sam's words running through her head. She looked sideways at Dean, "it's what you think of me isn't it?" she questioned. "You think I'm a parasite and that I'm not your sister. Did you really speak to Sam about killing me with my own blade?"
"That's not true!" Dean argued.
"When Sam's detoxed enough to understand the damage he's caused tell him I'm gone," she answered. "Although you might want to get this body to a hospital. The moment I'm gone the body's gonna slip into a coma. Probably die if you don't."
"Lily no!" Dean shouted seconds before a bright red light filled up the room, forcing them both to close their eyes. He opened his eyes when they heard her body crumple to the ground.