Inside the police station…

Sam was drawing another devil's trap on the floor with spray paint while the others lined the windows with salt. Angel and Dean rushed inside.

"They're coming!" Dean yelled as he and Angel ran down the hall, "Hurry!"

Black smoke hit the window that Nancy was at, and she screamed. She and the Winchesters all ran to the main office area where Henriksen was. Dean tossed a gun to Sam as Angel readied her own. The black and blue electric demon smoke surrounded the windows of the building. The lights in the main room flickered and it became darker. Nancy clutched the cross she wore around her neck as dust rained down from the ceiling from the building shaking. Then the smoke seemed to disappear as it became quiet again. The Winchesters looked at eachother grimly before Sam looked around at their group.

"Everybody okay?"

Henriksen looked at him with wide terrified eyes, "Define 'okay'."

Angel patted his shoulder as she passed him on her way back over to her brothers, "Alive."

"Alright, everybody needs to put these on." Dean passed around protection necklaces, "They'll keep you from being possessed." There you go.

Nancy looked at him worriedly, "What about you three?"

Dean and Sam pulled their shirts down to show their matching protection symbol tattoos on their chests. Angel raised hers to show the same tattoo on her ribcage.

"Smart." Henricksen nodded, "How long you had those?"

Sam frowned as he motioned his head, "Not long enough."

Later on…

In the main office, Nancy was organizing some files when she saw a crowd of people gathering outside.

She gasped, "Hey, that's Jenna Rubner."

Dean came over to her to survey the woman with long red hair and black eyes, "That's not Jenna anymore."

She looked up at him, "That's where all the black demon smoke went?"

"Looks like."

As Angel filled her shotgun shells with salt in the Sheriff's office she looked up and noticed Henriksen frowning at Melvin's nameplate. Guilt filled his eyes at the memory of shooting the sheriff while possessed. His eyes moved from the nameplate to Angels silently watching green orbs. The FBI agent looked from her back down to the desk where he picked up one of her finished shells and picked it up with a smirk.

"Shotgun shells full of salt, huh?"

She smirked and cocked an eyebrow at him as she loaded her shotgun, "Whatever works."

"Fighting off monsters with condiments." He shook his head in disbelief as he took his tie off and tossed it on the table, "So." He locked eyes with Angel again before he started filling his own rifle with salt shells, "Turns out demons are real."

"Quick fun fact… ghosts, werewolves, vampires and changelings are all real too." She loudly snapped her shotgun when it was fully loaded, "Oh and so are evil clowns that like to eat people."

Henriksen stared at her for a beat, "How is that a fun fact?"

"Good to know, fun to know, all the same thing right?" She smiled, "If it makes you feel any better, Bigfoot's a hoax."

"It doesn't." She chuckled as they went back to loading their weapons, "How many demons?"

"A lot, enough." She shook her head, "We don't have a total."

"You know what my job is?"

"You mean besides locking up the good guys?" She winked as she walked over him and put the guns she loaded on the desk, "No idea."

"My job is boring, it's frustrating. You work three years for one break, and then maybe you can save… a few people. Maybe." Angel nodded at that part, feeling a little bit of familiarity, "That's the payoff. I've been busting my ass for 15 years to nail a handful of guys and all this while, there's something off in the corner so big. So yeah…" He locked eyes with her again, "Sign me up for that big, frosty mug of wasting my damn life."

Angel studied him, "You didn't know."

"Now I do." He paused again and they stared at one another tensely, "What's out there? Can you three beat it? Can you win?"

"Thats a hard one, Chief…" Angel sighed heavily as she sat on the edge of the desk with a grim look in her eye, "Honestly?" She shrugged, "With everything I've seen and experienced I'm pretty convinced that the world's gonna end bloody and on fire. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight, though. Everyone does have a choice. Me?" She cocked an eyebrow, "I'm goin down swingin' till my last breath."

"Plus you got nothing to go home to but your brothers."

"For the most part." She chuckled softly before motioning to him, "What about you? You seem like the, uh, white picket fence type of guy."

"Mmm-mm." He shook his head, "Empty apartment, string of angry ex-wives."

"Imagine that…" Angel smiled knowingly when he met her eyes with a curious look, "You're right where we are, Chief."

Nodding he chuckled a little as well, "Guess so."

Shattering glass sounding in the other room had Angel and Henriksen running back into one of the offices, followed by Sam and Dean. Someone had broken the salt line at one of the windows allowing a possessed woman to break in. Not just any woman. Ruby.

Henriksen pointed his rifle, "How do we kill her?

Sam lowered Henriksens rifle, "We don't."

"She's a demon."

"She's here to help us."

Nancy and Phil peaked around the corner where the latter scoffed, "Are you kidding?

Ruby stood near the window, breathing heavily and watching Sam as he neared closer to her. Dean sighed in exasperation and Angel seemed to have a permanent look of irritation on her face whenever the blonde demon was around.

Ruby studied the youngest Winchester for a beat longer, "Are you gonna let me out?" Henriksen shared a look with Angel and Dean as Sam scratched the devils trap on the floor with his knife, "And they say chivalry's dead. Does anyone have a breath mint? Some guts splattered in my mouth while I was killing my way in here."

Ruby walked past everyone into the main office. Angel, Dean and Henriksen followed her, while Sam stayed behind to fix the salt line.

Back in the office…

"How many are out there?"

"30 at least." Ruby answered Dean, "That's so far."

"Oh, good. 30. 30 hit men all gunning for us."

Angel looked over to her, "Who sent them?"

Ruby looked between the boys, Dean looked just as confused as Angel, so her eyes landed onto Sam who was now standing in the doorway, "You didn't tell them?" Confusion filled the eldest two Winchesters faces as they both looked to their brother, "Oh, I'm surprised."

Angel tried to quell the bubbling up frustration and anger that was spilling over, "Tell us what?"

"There's a big new up and corner. Real pied piper. Her name is Lilith."

"Lilith?"

"And she really, really wants Sam's intestines on a stick. 'Cause she sees him as competition."

Dean's head whipped around, "You knew about this?"

"That's great. That's just…" Angel angered at her little brother's stretched silence, "Is there anything else you're holding onto, Sam?!"

"How about the three of you talk about this later? We'll need the Colt." Ruby looked at Sam, who didn't meet her eyes, and then between Angel and Dean, both of which were giving her wide eyed looks, "Where's the Colt?"

Sam answered, "It got stolen."

"I'm sorry. I must have blood in my ear. I thought I just heard you say that you were stupid enough to let the Colt get grabbed out of your thick, clumsy, idiotic hands." Angel and Dean eyed each other at that as Sam's mouth dropped, unable to tell her different, "Fantastic. This is just peachy…"

"Ruby…"

"Shut up." She raised her hand to dismiss Sam, "Fine. Since I don't see that there's any other any option, there's one other way I know how to get you out of here alive."

Angel cocked a brow from beside Henriksen, "That would be?"

"I know a spell. It'll vaporize every demon in a one-mile radius. Myself included. So, you let the Colt out of your sight and now I have to die. So next time, be more careful." Ruby glared between the Winchesters with disdain, "How's that for a dying wish?"

"Okay…" Dean stood after a beat of silence, "What do we need to do?"

"Aww…" She cocked her head at him, "You can't do anything. This spell is very specific. It calls for a person of virtue."

Dean nodded, "I got virtue."

"Nic try." She chuckled, "You're not a virgin."

"Virgin… like Virgin, virgin?" Angel gaped with wide eyes and then chuckled when Ruby nodded, "Are you kidding me? Nobody's a virgin anymore."

As a long silence stretched Ruby looked from Angel to Nancy and slowly everyone followed her gaze to the wide eyed secretary. Nancy immediately looked away from everyone's shocked expressions.

"No… No way." Dean turned to her with wide shocked eyes as he studied her, "You're kidding me, r-. You're-"

"What?" She scoffed at him, "It's a choice, okay?"

"So, y- you've never… Not even once? I mean not even…" His shocked eyes turned back to hers, holding an impressed look as he thought about it more, "Wow."

"So, this spell…" Nancy turned from Dean to Ruby with a smile, "What can I do?"

"You can hold still…" Ruby slowly walked over to her, "While I cut your heart out of your chest."

Nancy's eyes went wide, "What?"

Angel was immediately standing, "What?"

Dean also angered at that, "Are you crazy?"

"I'm offering a solution."

"No, that's not a solution you're offering." Angel shook her head with a scoff, "You're offering to kill somebody!"

"And what do you think's gonna happen to this girl when the demons get in?"

"We're gonna protect her." Henriksen interjected as he also stood, "That's what."

Nancy looked between them, "Excuse me."

Ruby scoffed, "Very noble."

"Ex- excuse me."

"You're all gonna die. Look. This is the only way."

"No, no." Angel dismissed, "There's no way that you're gonna-"

"Just trust me-"

"Trust you? No-"

"Would everybody please shut up?!" They all stop arguing to look at Nancy, "All the people out there… will it save them?"

"It'll blow the demons out of their bodies. So if their bodies are okay… yeah."

Tears filled Nancy's eyes as she took in Ruby's words. A long pause stretched as she found her voice to make the decision.

After a moment she nodded, "I'll do it."

"No!" Angel yelled in immediate dismissal along with Henriksen and Dean, "No!"

"Hell no!"

"No, no." Dean shook his head, "You don't need to do this."

"Hell no!"

Nancy pleaded with them, "All my friends are out there."

"We don't sacrifice people." Henriksen dismissed, "We do that, we're no better than them."

Ruby rolled her eyes in exasperation, "We don't have a choice."

"Just shut up." Angel reared on her, "Your choice is not a choice!

Ruby then turned to the only Winchester who had been quiet this entire time, "Sam, you know I'm right."

Angel and Dean both turn to stare at Sam with Ruby. Angel studied her little brother in contemplation. He had been silent this entire time and his eyes were sad as if he already made a tough decision.

Dean smiled slightly in the expectation that Sam would agree with him and Angel, "Sam?" Once again Sam said nothing earning a fiery gaze from his sister and a tense look from his brother, "What the hell is going on? Sam, tell her."

Nancy's voice cut through the tension, "It's my decision."

Ruby smirked at her, "Damn straight, cherry pie."

"Stop!" Dean barked out angrily, "Stop! Nobodys killing any virgins!"

"Sam." Angel's anger was enough for her little brother to meet her eyes, "Now." Sam and Dean both followed her into the hallway where she swung around angrily on Sam, "What the hell is going through your head right now? You can't actually be considering holding down some innocent girl and cutting out her heart?!"

"We're talking about 30 people out there, guys. Maybe more." Sam pressed, "Innocent people who are all gonna die, along with everyone in here."

"It doesn't mean that we throw away the rule book and stop acting like humans!"

"I'm not gonna let that demon kill some nice, sweet, innocent girl, who hasn't even been laid." Dean barked back in agreement, "I mean, look, if that's how you win wars, then I don't want to win."

"Then what? What do we do?"

"I got a plan." Dean turned away for a moment before turning back to them with unsure eyes, "I'm not saying it's a good one. I'm not even saying that it'll work. But it sure as hell beats killing a virgin."

"Okay, well at this point i'm ready to hear anything that has a shot." Angel motioned, "So, what's the plan?"

"Open the doors, let them all in and we fight."