"So…"Sam raised an eyebrow at Ruby, who hadn't so much as looked at him in an hour since she started driving but instead hummed along to some form of screaming heavy metal band on the radio that Dean would despise. " You know, for a kidnapper you sure are boring."

Ruby's face lifted in a smirk, although she didn't look at him out of spite. "You're not so dazzling yourself, princess. If you wanted a conversation all you had to do was start one."

"Oh…"Sam turned back to looking out the passenger window, sighing. " Alright then."

It was then that Ruby finally looked at him, concern etched across her pretty face. "Sam, what is it?"

Confused, Sam returned the look. "Excuse me?"

"Well you just… gave up." Ruby was still looking at him, and Sam hoped that she was good at driving without watching the road. "That was too easy. What, no smartass comment?"

Sam simply shrugged. "I dono… I guess not. I'm not really in the mood for a fight" –

Suddenly, Ruby started speeding up rapidly, her face on the road again and her hands tight on the wheel. "Fine then."

"What the hell are you doing?!" Sam grabbed onto the sides of the seat on either side of him as the speedometer rose. "Ruby, slow down!"

"Not until you tell me what the hell is going on," Ruby answered as calmly as if she wasn't driving them to their deaths. "You still didn't even tell me why you left in the first place."

"Yes I did!"

"Not the real reason." Ruby actually looked away from the road to glare at him while speeding up at the same time, causing Sam's heart to jump in his chest.

The speedometer hit 180 miles an hour. "Fine!" Sam practically shouted it in her face, wondering what would happen if he tried to grab the wheel and stop her. "Alright, I'll tell you! Just stop already!"

Ruby's face lit up with a grin so annoying that Sam wanted to slap her. But of course, he didn't. He waited until she slowed down completely and pulled over on the side of the road, and then she eventually turned to face him with a smile. "Story time, Sammy." She quirked her eyebrows at him.

Not even aware that he was out of breath until now, Sam took a minute to collect himself. After all, he wasn't exactly in the best condition… But right now that didn't matter. "You bitch." Sam shook his head slowly, glaring daggers at her. "You" –

In response, Ruby revved the engine again, causing Sam to grab the dashboard in alarm. "Okay, Okay! Just don't kill me! Dammit Ruby!"

Ruby put the car in park, crossing her arms over her chest to turn and look at Sam with a mixture of impatience and curiosity. "Well then…"She tilted her head forewords, gesturing for Sam to continue.

Sam licked his lips, wondering where to start. He had told Ruby a lot of things, but this wasn't one of the ones he would like to share. They didn't talk about emotions, or family, or love, or personal reasons like that. And that was exactly what she was asking of him.

Suddenly Ruby's face softened a little bit. "It's your dad, isn't it? Your afraid of what he might think."

Dumfounded, Sam could only stare at her. Was it that obvious? "I… I uh…"

Ruby sighed. "Dean too."

Stop that?!

"Yeah, maybe it does have something to do with my dad." Sam nodded, staring her back in the face like he didn't know what she was talking about. "And Dean too. Maybe I respect my family's opinion of me, alright? Maybe I would rather them see me as I am now than what I'm supposed to become when the vision comes true. Not to mention the fact that they would be safer far away from me. Luck isn't exactly one of the qualities I can account for…"

For a minute, Ruby seemed surprised. She probably didn't expect him to be honest, let alone spew the answer out like that. After a good thirty seconds of returning Sam's stare, she nodded. "Alright then," She uncrossed her arms and turned back to the wheel, putting the car back into drive.

"You…"Sam frowned in confusion at her response. " You don't have anything to say to that. That's it? Alright then? You almost kill me and you wont even comment?!"

The car started to move, this time at a more leisurely – and legal – pace. "There's nothing to say, Sam." Ruby shrugged, completely nonchalant about the whole thing. "All you're telling me I already know. I don't need to hear it again and I'm sure you don't want me to comment, so I wont. I'm just a little disappointed that you didn't have the balls to stay and confront them yourself."

"Excuse me?!" Sam turned his full body to face her, outraged. "You don't know my family. Okay? You don't know me."

Ruby rolled her eyes. "I know you pretty well, Sam" –

"And I'm not afraid of anything. I've never been afraid of them, or what they might think. Like I said… I just respect their opinions." Sam glared at her, wishing that for once she would just react and look a little afraid for once. But of course, nothing.

"If you're not afraid," Ruby piped back as she smirked at the road ahead of her. "Than why did I have to practically drag you into this car? Hmm? Mr. Bigshot Sam Winchester had to have his bag's ransacked just to keep him from running away. I'm not letting you escape with your tail beneath your legs this time. I don't know how your father's deal died, but you clearly did not have any closure and now you are so lost its almost depressing. You think he wont take you back, that he isn't proud of what you've become. As for Dean… we both know that disappointing him has always been your worst fear."

Sam cleared his throat, uncomfortable. He hated – hated – the fact that she was so good at this. Just working with her… that was all it was supposed to be. He never meant to hunt with her, or sleep with her, or let her teach him to use his powers. He never meant to let her call him Sammy, or to let her drive when he was perfectly capable of doing so. He never meant to trust her, or tell her secrets, or let her see him cry. He never meant for her to see who he really was. But it looks like that all went to hell without him even noticing that it had gone. "So… So what if I am afraid of what Dean might think? What if I am afraid of dad not taking me back? It's understandable. We're family. They're all I have…"

Ruby didn't turn back to look at him, although her jaw muscles clenched and a chord in her neck tightened slightly. "No Sam…"Her voice was surprisingly harsh. " They aren't."

It took Sam a long time to realize that she was talking about herself. He hesitated, unsure how to proceed in such unsafe territory. "Look, I didn't mean it like" –

"It doesn't matter," Ruby shook her head with pursed lips, shrugging. "You're right. They are your family, and yeah I do agree that you should go back to them. I'm the one making you go, aren't I?"

It was a rhetorical question, and Sam knew that he wasn't supposed to answer. Still, he felt obligated to say something to fix this. Ever since their conversation in the hotel room before he had had another vision, he had been considering the fact that maybe Ruby had feelings for him. He didn't know what those feelings were exactly, but the fact that she was even the slightest bit emotionally venerable was a new idea to him. Of course Ruby had seen Sam's vulnerability from the beginning, but he had still refrained from crossing that line. They weren't girlfriend and boyfriend. They weren't lovers. They weren't partners. Hell, she was a demon. The thought of feeling any emotional attachment to each other at all, let alone showing it, was incomprehensible. Let alone scary. Even if Ruby had the ability to possess emotions even sublimely close to love, who was to say that Sam was? What if he was so broken that he couldn't even do that anymore? And considering the fact that Ruby had spent centuries rotting in the pit it was hard to imagine her opening herself up to anyone under any circumstance. "Ruby…"Sam cleared his throat uncomfortably. " You know I didn't" –

Ruby laughed, although it sounded forced. "Whatever. Don't worry about it." She hesitated before reaching out a slender hand to turn up her emo music. "I'll take you home."