Here's the next chapter! Thought about waiting to post it but then I decided I actually wanted to live to see Season 8 Hope you like it!

After stabbing the demon and seeing him drop to the floor, Sam looks up to see his niece running out to the parking lot. There's a noise behind him and he sees the second demon. He shoves the demon killing knife through the bottom of the demons' chin. There is a flash of light and the demon drops to the floor mimicking its counterpart. Sam sees something out of the corner of his eye and he looks up to see the lead demon making its' way to the door to go after Gracilynn. Knowing he can't get to him before he gets outside in front of the crowd now forming, Sam puts his knife away. Holding his hand out, he begins to exorcise the demon. The demon stops, stuttering in his movement. He jerks and black smoke begins to climb out of his mouth. Suddenly, Sam loses the strength to finish, mentally kicking himself for not hooking up with Ruby the other day. The black smoke begins to pour back into the demons' mouth and he turns to face Sam, an evil grin in place. The demon flicks his hand and Sam goes flying into the far wall. Sam cringes, feeling the pull on his not fully healed cuts on his chest. He groans, looking up as the demon sneers at him and turns towards the door again. Sam pulls himself up by a shelf next to him, fully intent on going after the demon.

"Sam," a voice says. Sam turns around and sees Ruby behind him. "Come on."

"I can't. Gracilynn," Sam says, pointing towards the demon walking towards the door.

"I've got it taken care of," Ruby says, grabbing Sam and dragging him out of the back. Sam sees a gas line lose and hissing on the way out. Once outside the door, Ruby lights fire to a cloth stuck in a bottle filled with alcohol. She throws it into the building and she and Sam take off running. There is a small explosion directly before a big explosion, setting the whole store in flames. Sam and Ruby fall to the ground from the force of the explosion, covering their heads. Sam looks up and back at the store, seeing the flames billowing out of the broken windows. He hears screaming and yelling from the crowd out front. Mentally, he hopes that his niece was far enough away when the explosion occurred.

"Sam we need to go," Ruby says. Sam looks over and sees she is already on her feet. He lithely jumps to his own feet and the two of them stealthily make their way to the front of the burning building.

"Crap," Sam says, looking into the crowd. Ruby looks in the same direction and sees the burly demon walking through it, towards a girl running down the street, shoving people out of her way.

"Damn it. He wasn't supposed to get out," Ruby says.

"Come on," Sam says, running after the demon, Ruby following him. Halfway there, a fireman stops Sam in his tracks.

"Sir, where did you two come from? Are either of you two hurt?" he asks.

"No, we're fine," Sam says, trying to get past him to get to the demon before he gets to his niece.

"Are there any more people in there?" the fireman asks.

"No, they're all out," Sam says, annoyed at being stalled.

"Sir I have a few questions to ask you," says an officer as the fireman walks away to relay the information Sam gave him.

"Can it wait?" Sam asks, looking for the demon but finding he has moved out of sight, "My niece is out here and I need to make sure she's okay."

"Of course, but stick around for questioning," the officer says. Sam nods his head and he and Ruby take off towards the hotel.

Once they get to the hotel, Sam and Ruby slow down. They cautiously round the corner and creep along the wall to the room. Sam notices the door wide open just before he hears voices coming from inside of the room. Once of them is definitely his brothers.

"I'm going to rip your lungs out!" Sam hears his brother growl with hatred. The only other times Sam had heard that tone of voice from Dean was when someone, or something, threatened him, so he knew the demon had threatened his niece somehow.

"Now that's a great idea. I'll be sure to tell Alastair when I hand deliver your daughter to him," Sam hears the demon say. Sam cringes at the thought of Alastair touching his niece. He looks around the corner cautiously as he hears the demon speak again, this time to Gracilynn. "You ready?"

The matching looks of pure terror on his brother and nieces' faces spurs Sam into action. As the demon gets closer to Gracilynn, Sam creeps into the room, Ruby standing guard over the doorway. Sam catches Deans' eye, seeing the pleading look on his face. Just as the demon gets close enough to touch Gracilynn, Sam comes up behind him and stabs him in the neck.

SNSNSNSNSNSNSN

Just as Gracilynn is about to lose it, she sees her fathers' gaze shift to something she can't see behind the demon. Before she knows it, a knife appears and is stabbed into the neck of the demon. The demons' eyes glow for a minute and fades out, the demon dropping where he stands in front of her. Gracilynn finds the force holding her to the wall, disappear. The sudden freedom of her body is surprising and she falls to the floor. Just as suddenly, strong arms grab her and hold her up. She looks up and sees her father staring at her; checking her over to make sure she's okay.

"You okay?" Dean asks his daughter, worry clearly evident in his voice. Gracilynn tries to get her emotions under control, completely forgetting to answer her father. Dean grabs her face with both hands, forcing her to look at him. "Gracie, come on Baby, answer me. You okay?"

"Yeah," Gracilynn answers quietly, nodding her head and looking at her father.

"Sammy, you okay?" Dean asks, not taking his eyes off his daughter.

"Yeah," Sam answers from behind Dean.

"You sure?" Dean asks, this time looking over his shoulder, silently looking his brother over to make sure he doesn't have any injuries.

"Yeah," Sam responds, looking over his brother at his niece, seeing she's okay for himself. As soon as Gracilynn sees her uncle and that he is, in fact, okay, she hulls herself up. She runs over and slams into him, giving him a huge hug.

"The store exploded, and you didn't come out. I thought…" Gracilynn says into his body, trailing off.

"I'm fine. I promise," Sam assures, returning the hug. Gracilynn reluctantly lets go of her uncle. Hearing a noise near the door, she looks over seeing a dark haired woman standing there.

"Who are you?" Gracilynn asks, eyeing her cautiously. Something about this woman did not seem right. She steps back closer to her father, waiting for an answer.

"This is Ruby," Sam says, "She's a…friend."

"And he uses that term loosely," Dean says with a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"Okay," Gracilynn says, thinking about the explanation, "Why haven't I ever heard of her? And why'd she randomly appear?"

"'Cause Sam knows I hate her," Dean says, glaring at Ruby. Sam gives Dean his patented Bitch-face.

"She came to help. She found out we were in trouble," Sam answers.

"Why do you hate her?" Gracilynn asks her father, then turning to her uncle, "How'd she know?"

"I can answer both questions," Dean says, "She's a demon."

"Wait a minute," Gracilynn says, turning to her uncle, "You're friends with a demon?"

"It's a long story," Sam says.

"Well, you plan on telling me or do I have to wonder why you're paling around with practically the same demon skanks that are after me? And trust me, the way my brain thinks, it ain't heading down a clean path," Gracilynn laughs. Dean stifles a laugh at the sarcasm, then sobers when he realizes what his fourteen year old daughter just said; Sam shoots them both a glare.

"Can we take this on the road?" Ruby says, "It's only a matter of time before demon back-up shows up."

"You mean you're not it?" Gracilynn asks.

"Cute," Ruby replies, "If I didn't know already, I'd guess you were Dean's daughter."

"All right. Gracilynn get your stuff together. Ruby can you just wait outside?" Sam says. Both Gracilynn and Ruby roll their eyes, but they do as they're told. Sam turns to his brother, who has a very amused grin on his face. "You mind not finding this so amusing?"

"I didn't say or do anything," Dean says, holding his hands up in surrender.

"It's written all over your face," Sam says matter-of-factly, effectively ending the conversation by gathering his things. Dean smirks and follows suit.

Let me know what ya'll think! What did you think of the meeting between Ruby and Gracie?