Chapter 29
Standing stiff as a ramrod, Eli faces Abrahel. The little bottle she drank earlier gives her a sudden sensation her blood is boiling in her veins. The anger of seeing Dean agonizing on the floor and Sam nearly passing over, trapped against a wall, give her the strength of ten. She lifts her fist in front of her, aiming at the Demon and while she is slowly turning it, Abrahel puts her hands over her chest, like her inside wanted to come out on the outside.
"See, how strong she is?... Don't forget to tell the others when you'll be back in the tormented flames of Hell!..." Ruby yells in delight.
Eli still holds her fist firmly closed, her head slightly bend on the side and her eyes screwed up. The Demon is forced to slowly open her mouth, starting to gag, the black now smoke pouring out of her in little waves. She lets out a huge inhuman scream when the nearly empty body falls on its knees. Eli slowly comes closer, towering over the Demon till the last inch of smoke has disappeared into the cracks on the floor. Ruby approaches, putting an arm around her shoulder. "It's over... Let's get out of here..." She gently whispers, turning around to look at Sam. Even if no force was holding him pinned anymore, he was still against the wall, so astonished he was from what he just witnessed.
"What just hap...?... How did she...?..." He stutters.
"That is why we came here... Eli can now also exorcise with her mind..." Ruby says in a smile.
"Oh God... She was right... I should have understood it when she told me..."
"Right on what?..."
"You activated her..."
"What are you talking about?"
Sam rushes to Eli, spinning her to face him. "Did she give you something to drink?" He asks her.
"Yes..." She blandly answers, her eyes still showing traces of rage.
"You promised me, Ruby!... You promised me that you wouldn't do it to her..." He yells.
"The circumstances didn't give me much choice... I just wanted to teach her the mind-exorcism... I..." She pleads.
"SHUT UP!... Now, I am sure you only brought her here because you knew exactly what would happen!..." They suddenly hear someone moaning. "We'll discuss this later... Dean?..." Sam looses Eli and goes near his brother. "Hey?... How to you feel?..." He helps him to stand up.
"I've a terrible taste in my mouth... It's like I ate something rotten... And my stomach burns like Hell... Man, what happened?" Dean asks his brother, looking around him.
"The first Demon was your doing... But that Abrahel bitch put a jinx on you and you just felt unconscious..." Sam starts to explain.
"I gave you an antidote... That's the bad taste you still feel... It'll pass as soon as you'll eat something..." Ruby adds.
He finally raises his gaze at Eli, still in the middle of the room, not saying a word and her gaze on the floor. "Are you okay?" He gently asks, discretely checking her for wounds. She just nods a timid 'yes', avoiding looking to Sam or Ruby. "So, you got the bastards... Nice job..." Dean turning to his brother.
"Yeah..." Sam staring at Ruby, ordering her stay silent over the method that was used.
On the little balcony overhanging the place, a little girl slowly walks away in the dark, the Colt in her hand.
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Back at the motel, the brothers decide to take a room too for the night and drive back home in the morning.
Sam asks Dean if he could go for some food before settling down. "Good idea... I'm starving... Be back in a sec'..." He says in a smile, restarting the engine of his car.
The younger brother leads Eli to her quarters. When Ruby wants to enter, he stops her by putting his whole body in the frame of the door. "I think you already did enough damage for today... I want you to leave now." He harshly says.
"Sam... I had no choice..." He does not listen and slams the door in her face.
"I need a shower..." Eli says, going already for the bathroom.
"Later... First we need to talk..." Sam ordering her.
"Sam... Please can you hold your bust-up till tomorrow... I'm totally exhausted... And my head hurts."
"I know..." He flings, making her freeze the door handle in her hand. "Eli... It is important that Dean doesn't know anything about this... Okay?... If he knew, he would..."
"I had no intention to tell anybody anything we're doing lately... But, Ruby is right on one thing... We need to be prepared in case Dean cannot make it through his deal... We need to be trained with all possible means we have... The Colt and the knife are not enough, you know that... We have it in us anyways, so why not using it to kill the bad guys, huh?..." She pleads, coming back near Sam.
"Ruby lied to me... I made her promise that only me would be trained... Not you..."
"Why?... Why would you do it on your own, huh?..."
"I just want to protect you, Eli..."
"I don't need protection... And what is done is done, Sam... We are at war... And it seems it's only working with the both of us together..." She returns to the bathroom, slamming the door on her way in.
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Dean comes back from the store holding some food boxes in a paper bag. He walks along the corridor of their Motel when the lights start flickering. He gently puts the bag on the floor and goes for the Colt in his inner pocket but it's not there. He tries to remember the last time he had it when he sees a shadow in the parking lot. Ruby stands next to his car, waiting for him.
"So the Devil may care after all… Is that what you are trying to make me believe?" Dean smirks.
"Life can be full of surprises…"
"So, let me get this straight… You were human once. You died. You went to Hell and became a…"
"Yeah…"
"How long ago?"
"Back when the plague was big…"
"So all of them, every damn Demon… They were all human once?" Dean a little bit astonished.
"Everyone I've ever met."
"Well, they sure don't act like it…"
"Most of them have forgotten what it means… Or even that they were humans… That's what happens when you go to Hell, Dean… That's what Hell is… Forgetting what you are… And it's not a metaphor… There's a real fire in the pit… Agonies you can't even imagine…" Ruby explains.
"Oh no, I saw 'Hellraiser'… I get the idea."
"Actually, they got that pretty close. Except for all the custom leather… The answer is 'yes' by the way…"
"Sorry?"
"Yes, the same thing will happen to you… Might take centuries, but sooner or later, Hell will burn away your humanity and will turn you into what ever one of us are…"
"There's no way of saving me from it, is there?"
Ruby sighs. "No… There isn't…"
"Why did you tell Eli and Sam that you could?"
"So they would talk to me… You, hunters, can be pretty narrow-minded sometimes… I needed something to help them get past the fact I'm a Demon…" Ruby suddenly vanishes, when she hears a room door opening.
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Dean goes back to his room. "Hey... Did you have the Colt?" He asks Sam.
"No, though you had it..."
"I dropped it when I fell unconscious... But it was not there when I woke up... So, I though you might have used it..."
"It must have slide under something... We need to go back to the warehouse..."
They search everywhere for about an hour without success. "I'm sure it's one of Ruby's trick again... It has to..." Dean angrily comes, throwing an empty wooden box away.
"Why would she do something like that?"
"You still believe she's in our lives to help us, huh?..."
"I will summon her when we're back home..." Sam says, furious inside.
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