A/N: hey guys! i am so so sorry that i havent updated in over a month ! i'm just kinda draggin this one out if i'm honest lol. so yeah, it should be over in the next couple of weeks! I know! but this is the set up chapter, just to gain momentum to get this show on the road, not much soppiness in this chpater but i am enlisting the help of a very special annoying, "hurry up and get me a chapter" ex-bitch-turned-soppy-fluffy-bunny to make all you girls hearts break!

So anything you think mite happen? Anything you wanna see? give me a review you know you want to!

Love you all!

K

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Here's a toast, to the enemies we love the most.

"A demonic virus?" Sam asked bemused and Dean nodded. "So I've died twice? Who brought me back this time like you two looked like two horny teenagers caught in the act and I should know!" Nomi blushed furiously and Dean laughed.

"Yes, Sammy You should."

"So who was it?"

"Hmm?"

"That brought me back?" Sam asked again.

"Ruby I guess," Naomi shrugged and Dean nodded.

"How?" Sam cocked his eyebrow and Dean looked at Naomi.

"I asked her nicely?" Naomi shrugged and the colour drained slightly from Dean's face.

"You?" Sam looked as though someone had shot him.

"Yes."

"Why?"

Naomi looked baffled. "Why?" she repeated and Sam nodded. "Cause I wanted you back in our lives? I wanted our kid to know it's uncle, and if we cant save Dean I want our baby to be able to come to you and here what a hero it's dad is from someone other than me."

Dean sat on the bed motionless, the word "hero" dancing about his head like a ballerina on ice. "Hero." he repeats into the empty silence and Naomi turned to face him,

"yes Dean, Hero," she smiles that dazzling smile and he felt the same feeling he felt all those years ago when they were snuggled up under that tartan blanket in her apartment. Dean smiled slowly and Naomi lent forward and captured his lips in a soft kiss.

Sam clenched his jaw hard to stop the tears he felt stinging his eyes. "you're going to be a dad Dean." Sam smiled and barked out a laugh as he wiped his eyes with sleeve. Naomi smiled and lent over to Sam and gave him a kiss on the head before leaning back onto the pillows.

"You two better go and get some sleep." Naomi rubbed her eyes and yawned as Sam nodded and made to stand but Dean stayed put. "Dean?" Naomi asked as she tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"I think I'll stay here." he smiled weakly and Sam's brow furrowed in confusion.

"Dean?" he asked softly and padded back over to the bed and sat down, "what's the problem?"

"nothing."

"Dean"

"I just…"

"Dean?" Naomi asked and gently cupped his face in her hands forcing him to look her in the eye.

"Ward 4." he whispered accepting defeat.

"What about it?" Naomi asked gently

"Death." Sam said quietly and Naomi looked up at him.

"I'm not gonna die."

"And I'm not gonna take the chance." Dean leant back from her and stretched.

"dean, go. I'll be fine" Naomi said again and held her hand out for Dean. "Besides you two have a week to catch up on." she playfully nudged Dean, his ring slipping up and down her finger.

"Sam?!" came the startled gasp from the doorway.

"Hey Ellen." Naomi smiled around Sam who turned around and nodded.

"Oh God." The colour drained from Ellen's face and Naomi looked at Dean.

"Chair." she whispered faintly and Dean grabbed the chair before walking Ellen over to it.

"You okay?" Naomi asked and help out a glass of water for Ellen who simply nodded never taking her eyes from Sam.

"Who made the deal this time?" Ellen asked eventually causing all three people to look at her. "please tell me you we're so stupid." Ellen looked at Naomi who had resorted to playing with the ring on her left hand. "You have a kid to think about and…..you have got to be kidding me!" Ellen exclaimed, forcing Naomi to look up at her. "You got engaged." Ellen whispered sadly and Naomi nodded, suddenly feeling very tearful.

"I didn't make any deals." Naomi looked back to the ring on her finger.

"What happened then?"

"I made a suggestion?" Naomi suggested and leant back into the pillows, Ellen smiled softly and leant over to push her hair from her eyes.

"you boys look beat to hell, you should go rest I'll stay with her." Ellen smiled at them and the boys exchanged looks.

"Okay, but call me." Dean stated as he stood up and straightened, "Love you." he whispered into her hair before kissing her soundly and making his way out of the door, surprisingly comfort at the soft sound of Sam's foot steps behind him.

"I dunno Sam, I have this sick feeling we shouldn't have left them there." Dean mused and before Sam could protest the Impala had done a 360° turn and was heading back to the hospital and his brother's -hopefully- annoying case of Paranoia.

Ellen stroked Naomi's hair as she drifted off into sleep, Ellen watched her breathing and her heart monitor that they had hooked her up to shortly after dean had left.

"I'm just here to check miss Nichols' vitals" the nurse smiled as she opened the door and walked curtly to the bed. Ellen smiled but couldn't ignore the felling in her gut that something was wrong, where had the nurse come from in this deserted ward? Ellen was far from stupid, her coffee break had turned into so much more and as she stood watching the older nurse take Naomi's pulse even though all she had to do was look at the screen screamed out to Ellen that this was it, this was what Bobby had warned her about.

Sam and Dean heard a loud crash as they entered the ward and began to run, reaching Naomi's bed just in time to see Ellen thrown across the room and of off a wall.

"Ellen!" they both yelled simultaneously and ran towards her. Dean felt more than heard Naomi's pained scream as she was pushed up against the wall, the nurses grip tight around her throat, her lips already beginning to tinge blue. Dean began to shake there was no way he could shoot the nurse without killing Naomi in the process and well that just wasn't an option.

Dean gazed up and Naomi's eyes met his: desperately pleading for him to help her but all too soon the force was gone and the nurse was bursting into a pile of flames.

"Naomi." Dean ran over and gathered her sobbing form into his arms.

"no need to thank me Winchester, I coulda left her ass for dead." A voice perked from the back group and Dean turned around.

"Ruby, em…" but his words were cut off with her startled intake of breath.

"Sam?" she choked out and he turned away from Ellen to face her.

"but I thought?" Naomi rubbed at her eyes and Ruby shook her head, fear evident in her face.

"Well if you didn't, who did?"