Chapter 44
The brothers are preparing their gears. "We're just gonna let Ruby down there?" Sam asks.
"That's the idea…"
"What if, hum… What if Ruby's right this time?... What if we can take out Lilith?..." He insists. Dean looks at him in an odd way again. "Quit looking at me like that!... What are you seeing, huh?..."
"Nothing... Sorry, but I have a hard time to believe that just by giving her a scary stare, Lilith goes poof?" Dean taking his senses back together, after having another monster-masks seizure.
"I don't know what Ruby meant... Maybe we should just go ask her…"
"You wanted the knife, I got you the knife." The elder showing him it.
"Listen to me for a second… Last time, Lilith snapped her fingers, she put 30 Demons on our ass... All we got is one little knife!... Like you said… We go in smart or we don't go in at all."
"This ain't smart…"
"We got one shot at this, Dean… Just one… So, if there's a sure-fire way, then maybe we should just talk about it."
"Sam, I'm practically sure what she meant by 'sure-fire way'... It's using you and Eli to wipe off Lilith..."
"And if that is the case, why not?... I'm sure Eli will do it..."
"No!... Damned!... Don't you see a pattern here?... We all are ready to give our life and souls for each other... And Ruby's just jerking our chains down that road... So now, we stop being martyrs… We stop loosing the people we care about... We take this knife and we go after Lilith our way… The way Dad taught us to… And if we go down, then, we go down swinging…"
"So, you wanna go just the two of us?"
"Hum, hum..." Dean nods. "What do you think?"
"Indiana, huh?" Sam chuckles.
"Yeah, where Lilith is on shore leave... Tell me something… What the hell does a Demon do for fun?" Dean wonders, grabbing his duffel and going for the door.
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Dean is trying to start the engine from his Impala. "What the hell is with my baby?..." A hand is suddenly knocking on his window, showing him a piece from his car. " Where the hell are you going?" Bobby asks with a nasty smirk on his face.
"We got the knife…" Dean comes out of the vehicle.
"Yeah, I see that…" Bobby making a move with his head, showing Eli behind him, her arms crossed over her chest, an angry look on her face. "She also told me what you did to her?"
"What did you do, Dean?" Sam questions, hardening his gaze.
"So, you had the intention to go after Lilith without us? Do we look like ditch-able prom dates to you?"
"No, Bobby, of course not… But this is about me and Sam… Okay, this isn't your fight." Dean trying to calm the old man down.
"The hell it isn't!... Family don't end with blood, boy!... Besides, you need us… You're playing wounded… Tell me, how many hallucinations have you had so far?" Bobby asks him, taking him gently by the collar.
"How'd you know?" Dean says totally surprised.
"That's what happens when you got Hellhounds on your butt… And because I'm smart!..." Bobby gives him the car piece back. "We'll follow… Don't be stopping to pee every 10 minutes either…"
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"Are you gonna tell me? Or do I have to force it out of you?" Sam asks his brother when they got on the main road.
"Where do you want me to start?"
"Oh because there's more to know than what you did to Eli and the hallucinations?"
"No... I caught Eli summoning Ruby... And..." He sighs. "That made me angry... So, I tied her up on her bed..."
"You what?... Oh Dean... But at least it explains why Ruby answers my call so quickly... Eli's gonna make you pay for this..."
"Oh don't tell me... I know..."
"And what about those hallucinations?"
"Well, since this morning I see stuff that are not suppose to be..."
"Like?"
"Like... Ruby's face... Oh, oh..." He suddenly comes, seeing a police car behind them in his rear-view mirror.
"Pull over!" The officer orders in the bullhorn fixed on the roof of his car.
Dean slowly parks his car on the side road and cuts the engine. When the cop comes up to his window, he shows him the car papers and has a look at him. He briskly opens the door, knocking him down on the ground. He grabs the knife and pierces the officer's neck with it. Directly an orange light comes out of his wound, mouth and eyes.
"Dean? How did you know he was a Demon?" Sam just coming out of the car, while Bobby and Eli approach them, having parked their car behind the police one.
"That's what I was about to tell you... That is the kind of things I see lately… I could see its face… Its real face under that one…" Dean answers, out of breath.
Sam and Eli are looking at each other, a sudden worried look on their faces.
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They hide the police car, aside from the main road, under bushes and branches.
"So what?... Now you're seeing Demons?... I mean, you can see if a person is possessed?..." Sam asks his brother.
"Actually, it's not all that crazy…" Bobby explains.
"How's it not that crazy?"
"What you got, Just over 5 hours to go? You're piercing the veil, Dean… You're glimpsing the B-side…"
"Little less New-Age-y, please…"
"You're almost Hell's bitch… So, you can see Hell's other bitches…" Eli answers.
"Oh moddafucking thank you…" Dean fighting with one of the branches that he tries to fix on the roof.
"Look at the bright side... It'll actually come in handy…" Sam intervenes.
"Glad my doomed soul's good for something…"
"Damn right it is… Lilith probably got Demons stashed all over town… We can't let them sound the alarm… If she knows we're here, we're dead before we're started…" Eli explains.
"Well, this is a terrific plan… I'm excited to be a part of it… Can we go, please?"
Eli grabs Dean's sleeve while Bobby and Sam are going up the little slope.
"I know... You're mad at me..." He directly says.
"There is no time anymore to be mad... I just wanted... How are you holding up?" She gently asks.
"It's freaking the hell out of me… If you mind me the bad words play here…"
"What other things did you see?..."
"Why do you ask?"
"Just curious…"
"The colors all around me seemed brighter… It's like I smell things miles away… That sort of things…"
"Hum…" Eli staring at him, trying to figure out if he's lying to her or not.
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