Mother Knows Best

inspiration's bit me in the butt tonight, so here's another one. pre-series.

Mary had seen the girl before, in her dreams.

"But who was to say they're dreams?" the girl asked, "You don't really think they're just dreams do you? You know the truth."

She did know the truth.

"What do you want?"

Alone in her son's nursery and she was confronted with a kind of evil she'd pushed herself into believing didn't exist. She didn't want it to exist, because if one of them did, they all did; and if any of them existed...she was scared.

"To help you."

"I don't want your help. None of your help...I-I know what you are."

"No." She said flatly, "You have no idea who I am, if you did, you'd be begging me for my help."

"You're evil."

"No." She corrected, lifting her glance up so that she was even with Mary's. Her eyes flashed black, then returned to normal. "I'm a demon."

Her grandmother taught her exorcisms as a girl, and after a while, she'd thought it was a joke. She thought lying about her dreams would mean she'd be okay. That she'd be safe from what she saw.

"Demons are evil."

She was so sorry now.

"I'm a demon who wants to help you." She continued, ignoring the comment. "You're in trouble, you're whole family is in trouble."

It was Sam. She had seen it in her dreams. They wanted her son but she wouldn't let any of them have him.

"You want my son."

"You're not listening." The humans were so frustrating she could barely bear it. "If you don't listen to me, you're going to die. You're all going to die--except for Sam. He wants Sam real bad."

"You have to leave." Mary told her. When one comes they all do, her grandmother's lessons flashed through her mind constantly anymore, at least the ones she still remembered did.

"I'm trying to save your lives. Get your husband, get your kids, and get the hell out of here. If you don't, its going to be the apocolapse. Literally. you're son is going to be the anti-christ and we have a small window to stop it from happening."

"Its not real. None of this is real." Mary shook her head, this couldn't be happening.

"You don't think this is real? Join us in the real world. You're marked and I am the only chance you have of saving your family, your son. You want to wait, not do anything...he's going to be a demon."

"Like you."

"Except he won't be running around saving people's asses. He's going to kill, and its going to be ugly. If we save him though...he's going to save us all."

"Your a demon, why would you help?"

"I'm selfish. My chances are a hell of a lot better with him, than the other one."

"True, isn't it Ruby"

She turned in the direction of the voice.

Mary wanted to turn away but couldn't, she was drawn to him.

"Don't worry, sweetheart." The man with yellow eyes, the man that had been in her dreams since she was a little girl turned to look at her. "Everything's going to be just perfect."

He grabbed the blonde girl by her hair and before she knew it, he had plunged a knife deep in her stomach.

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When Mary awoke, she was glad it had just been a nightmare.