Flick of the Switch Ch. 11
Disclaimer: I don't own the Winchesters and I am making no profit from this story. Unbeta'ed so please forgive any mistakes.
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Previously: As Ahriman entered, he quickly scanned the room to see two of the hunters struggling to get up from the floor as the eldest Winchester stood between him and his children. Staring down the frazzled hunter, he mockingly said "Let the pain games begin."
"Go to hell you son of a bitch" John snarled as he flung as flask of holy water into the demon's face and watched as his skin startle to sizzle.
"Ouch, that hurt. Not!" Ahriman smirked with an evil gleam in his eyes. "If you think something as simple as holy water will hurt somebody like me, you better think again" the demon stated as wrapped a hand around John's neck and lifted him off of his feet and then tossed him across the room where he crashed onto a cart holding medical supplies before falling to the floor. He took sadistic glee in watching a sharp scalpel plunge towards the fallen hunter.
John landed on the cart with an "Oomph" before falling haphazardly to the floor. He felt a sudden stinging pain in his arm as a surgeon's scalpel fell from the cart and sliced deeply into his arm. "Damn" he sputtered as he felt the blood beginning to stream down his arm. John didn't have time to contemplate the damage as the demon advanced on and hauled him to his feet him once gain.
"I am going to take great joy in forcing you to watch as I slowly kill your pathetic children in worse ways than you could possibly ever imagine" Ahriman crowed as he applied a bruising grip to John's neck. "They'll be begging for death by the time that I get finished with them" Ahriman then telekinetically forced the hunter to his knees as if to drive his point home.
"You're the one who needs to think again" Joshua raged as he valiantly tried to plunge a silver blade into Ahriman's heart but was unable to do so as he was psychically thrown across the room and collided shoulder first with the wall. Joshua grunted in pain from the impact as he struggled to a standing position once again.
"Give it up you ten pound weakling" Ahriman stated as Joshua began to advance on him once again. "Haven't you realized yet that young Sammy is tainted and isn't worth fighting for!"
"That's where you're wrong" Caleb said as he pulled his gun and fired a consecrated iron round into the demon's shoulder as he took him by surprise. He could see the smoke pouring out of the wound and the grimace on the demon's face before he smiled fiendishly once again.
"Nice try hunter, but as usual, you humans fail once again." Ahriman announced as he slowly closed his fingers into a fist and squeezed. He took satisfaction in watching as Caleb raised his hands and tried to break the invisible hold around his throat. In no time at all, Caleb began to see black spots dancing in front of his eyes and knew that he would soon lose consciousness and die. At least he would be giving his life for a worthy cause, fighting to protect John's children.
"It's you who will fail" Bobby enunciated with fervor as he began to recite a binding spell. If he could just bind his powers long enough for the others to exorcise the bastard, then they all might make it out of this mess alive. He had only recited the first part of the spell however before he found himself slowly sliding up the wall. He felt sheer terror knowing what would be coming next after learning of the way that Mary and Jessica had been eviscerated over Sammy's bed. He prayed that the kid would stay unconscious long enough not to witness his death in the same exact way. He didn't want his death to be another added burden on Sammy's shoulders.
"N-No" rasped Dean who had finally fought his way back to consciousness as he heard the fight going on around him. He knew things were bad as he heard his dad and the others fighting with the demon. He needed to protect Sammy while the others sent Ahriman back to the pit of hellfire and brimstone where he belonged. He felt overwhelming fear in opening his eyes to see the predicament that Bobby was in.
"What's the matter Deanie?" Ahriman questioned using the moniker that Sammy used to refer to Dean when he was just a wee child of four. "Is little Deanie afraid of da big bad demon?"
"You'll find out what fear is when I make the pits of hell look like a walk in the park for you" Dean spat out seemingly unfazed by the demon's remarks. As long as he could keep the demon focused on him, then the others would have a chance to regroup and take him out before he had another chance to hurt Sammy.
"You and what army ya boring little twit? "Ahriman questioned as he chuckled at the bravery but stupidity of the kid who was obviously still drugged to the gills, otherwise he would have known to hold his tongue. "It ought to be obvious to you imbeciles by now that there is no defeating someone as strong as me. I'll have fun playing with you and when I tire of the games, then I'll kill you all as easy as squashing a bug beneath my feet."
"Yeah, well you haven't come up against the four hunters of the demon apocalypse before have yoy" Dean stated in reference to his dad and the others as he struggled to push himself up into a sitting position. He had no doubt they could defeat the demon, they just needed the time to get it together enough to do so. "My dad and his friends will send you sniveling back to hell like the coward you are you sorry son of a bitch."
Ahriman bellowed out in laughter after hearing Dean's remarks. How damn stupid could the kid be to think that mere mortals could cause a demon apocalypse? His kind would soon be ruling their insignificant world using humans as their pets to do their bidding. "You're a riot kid. I might just have to keep you alive as a source of elaughter for me."
As the verbal sparring went back and forth between the demon and Dean, Donovan had made his way over towards John and applied a pressure bandage to John's arm and then wrapped an ace bandage around it to slow the bleeding until he could put some stitches into it. There was no way he could take the time to do it now while the demon was causing such a ruckus. After checking on John, he started towards Caleb only to be stopped in his tracks by the demon.
"Move another step and you die" Ahriman sneered as he glared at the doctor who was taking it upon himself to help his enemies. He couldn't allow his attention to be pulled in so many different directions and keep a handle on things. It was hard enough keeping Bobby suspended in mid air, and Caleb pinned to the floor while he verbally caterwauled with Dean.
"What's the matter Airhead?" John asked with a look of pure disgust in his eyes. "Are you so feebleminded that you're afraid you can't handle more than one of us at a time?" John inquired. He wasn't going to allow Dean to be the only smart ass in the group. He could see how his wisecracks were causing the demon to become more pissed, which in turn would cause him to become sloppy and hopefully give them the opening they needed to kill Ahriman.
"Be silent" Ahriman roared as he walked over and backhanded John harshly across the mouth. The hunter had to be punished for his mockery of Ahriman's name. He took satisfaction in seeing the fire red hand shaped welt that appeared on John's right cheek within seconds as blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. "You will respect me and call me sir" Ahriman informed John as he snatched him by the hair of the head and forcefully jerked his head back. "I will break your spirit and have you referring to me as master before I am done."
John snickered and then spat at the demon to show him just what he thought of Ahriman's self righteousness. "I'd rather die and go to hell first."
"That can be arranged" Ahriman replied before kicking John viciously in the side. He relished in ecstasy as he heard the sound of breaking ribs. He loved nothing more than causing immense pain to those he played with. He thought about killing the hunter who was now doubled over and clutching his stomach area, but decided against it. He hadn't had enough fun yet and he still wanted to watch the hunter beg and grovel for the life of his children.
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Sam could hear the sound of a battle going on around him in the far recesses of his mind and he struggled to being himself to awareness. He wasn't sure where he was or what was happening, but something told him that he needed to wake up and help whoever was valiantly fighting against what had to be a force of evil since he could smell sulfur and felt the cool temperature in the room. The problem with that though was that he could feel his consciousness drawing him back to that warm safe cocoon of blessed nothingness. That was until he heard Dean's desperate outcry of "No."
Feeling sudden panic building in an all consuming need to help his big brother, he pushed himself beyond his physical limits and was rewarded as his eyes opened just a slit and he was able to see what was going around him though everything looked shrouded and fuzzy. Glancing to his right, he could see Dean struggling to get to a seated position as he focused on something happening on the other side of the room. Sam could see the terror in Dean's eyes and shifted his own to see what had his brother so blatantly upset. His breath was nearly stolen away as he saw Bobby suspended in air as he inched closer to the ceiling. To make matters worse, he could also see his father struggling with a bloody bandage around his arm and Caleb who looked to be unconscious on the floor.
Sam would have smirked if it were physically possible for him to do so when he seconds later he heard his dad taunting the demon in front of him. One thing was for sure, his dad was doing one hell of a good job of pissing off the demon. He didn't have to wait long to see how the demon would retaliate and he inwardly laughed at what the demon had said. It must have been ten kinds of crazy if it thought his dad would ever bow to him and call him master. When he saw the demon kick his dad viciously in the stomach, Sam knew he had to do something to stop the demon before it could hurt anybody else he loved. Slowly he began to quietly utter the words "Regna terrae, cantate Deo, psallite Dominoqui fertis super caelum caeli ad Orientem Ecce dabit voci Suae vocem virtutis,tribuite virtutem Deo. exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica."
"You sneaky little bastard" Ahriman grated out as he focused all of his attention on Sammy. "You'll pay for that with your life" he said as he glared over towards the youngest Winchester.
Sam felt a sudden pressure in his chest and his breathing became irregular as he struggled to draw oxygen into his deprived lungs. It felt like the demon was literally constricting his heart and squeezing the life out of him with it's bare hands. He knew without a doubt that he was going to die as he faced his brother with tears rolling down his face.
TBC The exorcism that Sam was stating is the one that was used in Born Under a Bad Sign.