Girls Interrupted
Take a step back and find a way out of here. Can't you see the answer is loud and clear.
St. John's Hospital, New York …
Hicks gets a lead from the hospital when it took him two days to start asking around. It was all those Jane Doe files … he hates those, most of 'em were never found- at least not alive and that's why he hates it. The bad news is never easy to break and right now, Bennett is breathing easier knowing he won't have to tell the Davises their Kris is dead.
Because she's not.
Bennett hicks found her; Doe, Jane 45-098-R3
Kris Furillo Davis walked out of St. John's Hospital on her own two feet- "She wanted some fries?"
Really?
Both the nurse and the doctor nod. They recall their shock at finding the young woman sitting up and nothing wrong with her when she had been dead just seconds before.
"I had just called time of death." He looks a tad ashamed. "Without family or knowing her identity … I'm sorry, we just couldn't keep her like that, without any change or improvement …"
Hospital policy sucks big ones.
Still, they had taken care of Kris and something had to have been done right if she woke up and walked out. And Bennett does the same with a copy of the medical file to add to the police report back in his car. Sometimes faking the brass isn't such a big deal- so long as no one went around asking too many questions and if he didn't get caught … well, even better.
He drives through the sleepy little town and wonders where she's gone to, the why because from what her family has said there wasn't anything Kris needed to run away from … unless, of course she was running to something (someone ?) but then why stop in on her old life?
Her police report paints a clear picture of why Kris never went home; a mugging and she likely tried to hide her ring- the only thing of value she would carry on herself that wasn't in her purse. It was gone too, all of it so the police had nothing to identify her with or call next of kin. That no-good scum with the title of Father had been just a few yards away… holed up in his apartment on the 6th floor of the building just around the corner. Lot of good that had done Kris.
Bennett heads out of town on a two hour drive back to his hotel with nothing else to follow. There aren't anymore leads now that Kris is up and gone and the annoyance is that he missed her by five months…
Five months and Kris has been missing six so where the hell has she been and what has she done?
Maybe she's more her Father's daughter than anyone wants to admit …
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BAR …
She's been watching them. Always out of sight and far enough away they haven't spotted her but then she's had over a year of practice staying out of their sight and wouldn't old John Winchester have something to say to his boys about that?
Ruby feels it again, that annoyance pricking inside her head because it is, that Kris chick vacated-sort of- and waking up is getting real fucking inconvenient. She rolls her shoulders and stamps down those weakening whispers coma girl has taken up with and moves towards the table the brothers are using to hustle cash.
Dean's already seen her and by the suddenly sober expression on his face Ruby can tell its not going to be a fun conversation but she needs to make nice. She needs Dean to back off enough she can start in on Sam again because he's been giving her the run around. Sure he calls, when he's out of juice and wants some more and Ruby is sick of playing supplier without getting anything in return. That quick fuck in the back seat of her car the last time is not even worth mentioning.
No.
Its time to get back on track.
Dean really hates letting the cash walk away and the demon walking around wearing the coma girl is gonna get a tongue lashing for it.
"Well, you got a lot of nerve showing up anywhere near me." He has a long list of krap Ruby's screwed him over and he aint about to forget any of it.
"I just have some info, and then I'm gone." Well, for a little while anyway.
"What is it?" Sam is striving for impartial and he gets a little of how Dean must've felt when it was John and Sam 'fighting' because its Sam trying to play mediator between Dean and Ruby and whose fault is this anyway?
Ruby doesn't like this. This is not her BoyKing, not the Sam she was nurturing and she can see the last few weeks with Dean have chipped away at her hard work and dedication- 'Fucking Dean.'
"I'm hearing a few whispers."
"Ooh, great, demon whisperers - that's reliable." He wants Sam to send her away- prove once and for all he isn't as far gone as Dean's been thinking because he remembers the hotel room door opening and the fact Ruby had been so cozy with his little brother…he really doesn't want to think Sammy would sink that low.
Dean winces cus he doesn't even want to picture it! Gah…
Ruby ignores him. "Girl named Anna Milton escaped from a locked ward yesterday. The demons seem pretty keen on finding her. Apparently, some real heavy hitters turned out for the easter-egg hunt."
What she isn't telling them is how everyone in the girls life has died. That it's just the girl … an important one both sides are gonna want and if it weren't for Dean fucking with her plans then Ruby wouldn't even be getting in the middle of this krap. But then, she's hoping a little reunion will bring Dean around to her way of seeing things.
"Why? Who is she?"
"No idea." Ruby shrugs. Its damn great acting and she wants to smirk but the annoyance of having to go through this charade kills the urge. "But I'm thinking that she's important, 'cause the order is to capture her alive. I just figured that whatever the deal is, you might want to find this girl before the demons do."
Sam believes her and why not when she's spent the last four months giving him exactly what he's been asking of her, when ever he asks for it and sometimes even when he doesn't and Ruby just wants it.
"Look, maybe we should check it out." Sam is uncomfortable- he already knows Dean will say no just because its Ruby bringing them the lead but its not like they're even doing anything.
"Actually, we're working a case, but thanks." Dean bypases the No and his look tells Sam he better just go with it.
"What case?" Ruby knows its bull krap. She's been watching them and the fact Sam has just been riding shot gun with this fucktard playing Thelma is not productive in any way.
"Uh, we've got leads, big leads."
"Sounds dangerous." Ruby's sarcasm is heavy and there's a thread of annoyance as well. She's not hiding that.
"Yeah, well, it sure ain't goose chasing after some chick who, for all we know, doesn't even exist, just because you say she's important." He's not falling for it. He isn't about to let her snare him same as she hooked Sam with whatever krap story she spit out.
Ruby takes her cue. Its time to go and let them hash it out but if she knows Sam as well as she thinks then they boys will at least check out her story. Hell, even Dean will be curious enough to dig around even if he hides it from Sam.
"I'm just delivering the news. You can do whatever you want with it. Far as I'm concerned, I told you, I'm done."
Sam gives Dean a look, same one that says Dude, come on but Dean is being stubborn.
"Wait, wait, wait. This hospital Anna escaped from - it got a name?"
Ruby has the smirk playing at the corners of her lips hearing Sam. So maybe all that time spent working him hasn't been a complete waste if she can still manage to grab his interest.
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Davis Ranch…
The picture doesn't do her justice. It's flat and impersonal and Kris has never been that pale. Junior knows this because Kris has been with him the last 6years. She's suffered colds, flu, two pregnancies and not once did she ever look like this … this …
"Where could she be?" Dani's tone is soft, as if hoping Junior's hearing will have failed him. Her eyes flick towards her brother blankly staring at the picture Hicks just handed over. There are a few more, from the police file and at the hospital though not one has Kris with her eyes open. Dani hopes no one voices her thought of how Kris looks more like a corpse –
"After she left St. John's there wasn't anything to follow." Hicks hates telling them the truth and that is this; Kris Furillo is gone. No, she isn't dead as far as he's been able to find out but neither does he have a way to find her. She hasn't used her name and if she doesn't want to be found she'll change it, change her entire identity and go to ground. She'll live off the grid, pay in cash and it's not like there aren't ways to get money or make it and Kris has the know-how on where to start.
"So," Ken leans forward in his seat. His son is absorbed in the picture, ignoring everything going on around him and it has to stop. "Where do we go from here? What else can be done to find my daughter-in-law?"
Junior knows his Father's answer to everything is throw money at it. Only this time, as anytime with Kris, money won't make it better; money isn't going to bring back his Kris.
"I'll be honest." Bennett Hicks could easily ride the wave a few more weeks, maybe stretch it a month or three, collect cash and sit on his ass, or work other cases with an occasional call to the Davises to appease their need to be kept 'in the loop'. "There's not much else I can do. However, you can report her missing. Distribute her picture… I know it's not what you want to hear. That you'd rather have her back with your family… Mr. Davis, Kris walked out of the hospital. According to the doctor and as you can see in the file, she was in good health."
They can all hear what Bennett doesn't say.
That Kris hasn't called them. She's made no contact in the last five months …
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Hotel …
"Ruby came back for me. … Whatever you have to say, she saved me. More than that, she got through to me. What she said to me... It's what you would've said. …If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here."
She's not above listening in and who the fuck said you never hear anything nice about yourself by eavesdropping?
'Morons.'
Ruby knocks on their hotel door. "Housekeeping." She's got a schedule to keep and the boys need a nudge but she's got that end covered too. Its not so hard to get a few lower level punks to run after the Winchesters without putting much effort into being obvious.
"Not now!"
Ruby holds in the snort though she lets the eyes roll. "Sir, I've got clean towels." And when Dean opens the door she barges in with her arm load of kraptastic towels just to keep up appearances.
"Couldn't you just leave 'em at the door?" Dean says to her back and she loves that they aren't picking up on the fact it's her. God she could kill Dean so easily and he'd never even see it coming.
"I'm at this address."
"I'm sorry. What?" Sam is really disappointing. Ruby would pout but she can't waste too much time gabbing with the boys and she's gonna have to get on Sam's ass later about his flagging abilities. How many times did she jump meatsuits with him around that this time he can't even-
"Go now." She has to shoo them in the right direction cus they're both just standing there gawking at her and she isn't even hot. "Go through the bathroom window, don't stop, don't take your car, don't pass go. There are demons in the hallway and in the parking lot."
"Ruby?"
And they still aren't moving! Jeez…
"Okay, yes, so I'm possessing this maid for a hot minute. Sue me." Because she really doesn't want to hear him bitch about her taking over some poor woman off the street who has a family and yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah! Its not like he can kick her out of the car this time around and no way is keeping the hefty maid when she has a nice piece already broke in-
"What about-."
"- coma girl?" Ruby's got an inside smile for that. "Slowly rotting on the floor back at the cabin with Anna, so I've got to hurry back. See you when you get there. Go!" she walks out of the room and so what if she lied about the rotting part. She's not lying about hurrying though because if the stirrings coma-bitch has been making the past week are any indication the original resident wants her suit back there's gonna be trouble in fucking paradise.
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It takes them a good while to make the cabin but Ruby's managed to avert any crisis and coma-bitch is back under where she belongs though she got a little loud and that Ruby will not abide.
"Glad you could make it." And the sarcasm is just a by-product of the headache she has to put up with.
"Yeah, thanks." Sam nods in bare acknowledgement of the trouble Ruby's gone to because he turns to Anna right away. He's got these big hazel eyes on full puppy soulness Ruby just wants to claw them out of his God damn head!
"Anna, are you okay?"
"Yeah. I think so. Ruby's not like other demons. She saved my life."
Ruby almost huffs because finally, somebody is giving her some credit where it's due! And they don't even know how hard she's been working both sides.
"Yeah, I hear she does that." Dean hedges but approaches and Ruby's not dumb. Her arms are crossed but she's got a knife in easy reach of both hands right where they are so if he's gonna try something… "I guess I... You know."
"What?"
"I guess I owe you for... Sam. And just I want to you know…" the words aren't getting any easier to spit out and Dean's staring down at Ruby who finally gets where he's going and rolls her eyes.
"Don't strain yourself."
Dean almost expels a Thank God! but manages to control that urge. His tone is rough once again, dislike for her in every look now that he doesn't have to voice a real Thank You for keeping Sam from going off the rails though that's exactly what Ruby has planned.
"Okay, then. Is the moment over?" Dean gets a nod and that's; "Good. 'cause that was awkward."
"Where's the knife?" she wants her damn knife! And neither dumb ass has been brandishing it in the last few hours which might just be a record…
"Uh...about that…"
"You're kidding." Ruby demands and straightens up though the lack of height on this body almost brings a snarl to her lips. She liked the blond corpse- 'Fucking Lilith.'
"Hey, don't look at me." And Dean turns towards his brother.
"Thanks a lot." Sam knows how particular Ruby is about her knife and having lost it … its their ace and they don't have it anymore.
"Great." Ruby throws both hands up and glares at the pair. "Just peachy. Impeccable timing, guys, really."
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota…
Ruby has babysitter duties.
She's as close to the damn salt coated iron room as she cares to be and still feels it- that itch all along her skin and the car ride had been no fun. Backseat with the chick both sides were coming after and yeah, a fallen angel. Sometimes Ruby wonders if it was such a smart idea to volunteer for the job of breaking the last seal. Correction; of corrupting and misleading the BoyKing to break the last seal on Lucifer's cage.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not like the others."
Ha! Ruby almost says so out loud. Instead; "I don't find that very reassuring."
"Neither do I." but then Pamela wouldn't seeing as how she can't. You know, see. And Ruby certainly doesn't have to lift a finger let alone say a word against the angels when they're doing a bang up job of making themselves into the bad guys. Castiel made his presence known right from the start with the dreaming threats of tossing Dean back to the pit and burning out Pamela's eyes. Hell, Ruby likes where the conversation is going now because Anna is only confirming Heaven and its garrisons of angels are not the saviors all the 'mudmonkeys' are thinking they are.
When was the last time Sam actually prayed?
Ruby hated when he would, even though it was only once or twice-
"I ripped out my grace."
Ruby perks up hearing that because she knows what finding a grace could do for her not that there wouldn't be a shit load of demons on her ass wanting to take it from her but hey. And they're all standing about talking like this isn't a cluster fuck of Heavenly proportions. She wants them on track and how it all plays out has to benefit Ruby one way or another.
And no one is going to make sure it does if Ruby doesn't move her ass. "I don't think you all appreciate how completely screwed we are."
Anna nods. "Ruby's right. Heaven wants me dead. "
"And hell just wants her." Ruby points out but then, they should all know that. "A flesh-and-blood angel that you can question, torture, that bleeds. Sister, you're the Stanley cup. And sooner or later, heaven or hell, they're gonna find you."
"I know. And that's why I'm gonna get it back."
"What?" Sam blinks, hazel eyes a little confused but Ruby's sort of liking this chick… you know, sort of.
"My grace."
"You can do that?" because somehow Dean was under the impression if an angel fell … well, that was sort of it, wasn't it? After all, Nicolas Cage fell for Meg Ryan. He gets the short end of the stick when she dies but not once in the movie they ever mention being re-angelfied … What. City of Angels. 'Nough said.
"If I can find it."
Now this, yeah, Ruby likes where this is going and if she can get to the grace before any of them… well, why not?
It's later that night with Sam surrounded by books and old magazines at Bobby's desk that he finally finds a lead.
"Here. In March '85, a meteorite vanished in the night sky over northwestern Ohio. It was sighted nine months before Anna was born, and she was born in that part of Ohio."
"You're pretty buff for a nerd." Ruby notes and for just a second it feels like it did when it was just the two of them. Ruby's sort of surprised Dean hasn't spent the entire time hovering around them.
Sam almost smiles but then he remembers where they are and what he's been doing with Ruby the last few months, how Dean looks at him and that's without even knowing about the demon blood …
"Look, I think it was Anna and here, same time - another meteor over Kentucky "
Ruby takes the hint- a little disappointed and yeah, not that she'd admit to anyone but … hurt … that Sam would dismiss her and their time together just because he's 'home'. She's a demon but she feels just like everyone else.
"And that's her grace?"
Sam shrugs. "Might be."
Ruby sighs but then this is better than nothing and that's all they has a few hours ago. "Alright. That just narrows it down to an entire state." Her tone says its not good enough and Sam reacts.
"Look, it's a start."
Ruby waits a beat then; "Sam... I'm sorry."
"For what?" Sam turns to her. Its easy to forget she's a demon after all this time, not that he pretends not to know what she is or fake himself into some blindness to it but their time together … yes, he was grieving for Dean, he was bi-polar according to her and maybe she was right. Hell, he admitted as much to Dean in an effort to get things right between them again but so far it wasn't enough and maybe it never would be, so falling into complacency with Ruby was just easier. It would be easy…to go off with Ruby and hunt down Lilith like he still wants to do because Dean still went to hell. Because Sam still had to watch his brother torn to shreds. Because Sam still had to bury his brother and go on living with the knowledge that Dean was dead because of him…
"For bringing you this mess. If I had known, I would have kept my trap shut." Not likely but she can she would so long as it gets him talking to her again. When he's talking that means he's willing to listen to her and right now Ruby needs that with Sam.
"Yeah, well, we'll muddle through."
"Not this time." Ruby shakes her head. Dark hair framing her face and Sam has that urge to smooth the dark strands behind her ear…
"You do not want to get between these two armies. It's Godzilla and Mothra. If one side doesn't get us, the other one will."
"So, what do you want to do?" Sam focuses on the task at hand. He can daydream later- or not. "Dump Anna and run? Forget it. Look, I know the angels freak you out."
"Forget the angels." Ruby waves a hand in dismissal. "It's Alastair I'm scared of."
"Alastair?"
Oh…baby! And that's all Ruby needs to know that Dean hasn't said a friggin thing to Sam about Hell and what he was doing there.
"You met him in the church. Practically the grand inquisitor downstairs. Picasso with a razor."
"And?" Sam still doesn't get it and Ruby just gloats feeling all warm on the inside. She's gonna have to be careful on what she says about Dean's 'mentor' from Hell.
"And you should pull him out and throw him back in the pit..." she wants to pat herself on the back for leading him by the nose and this is exactly the 'talk' they need to be having though being in the same house with Dean… yeah, Ruby just takes what she can get. For now. "If you weren't so out of shape."
"Ruby..." Sam is way uncomfortable. His brother could walk in and hear something Sam would rather he didn't-
"No, your abilities -." Ruby frowns because this is no joke. "- you're getting flabby."
"Yeah, so how do I tone up?" Sam lowers his voice, he's tense but he knows she's telling him the truth. Sam felt it; trying to pull Alistair…it shouldn't have been hard. He's taken out dozens of demons…
"You know how. You know what you got to do."
She's right. He does know but he promised Dean and he's already broken that promise but still. Sam shakes his head. "No, I'm not doing that anymore."
"Sam..."
"I said no."
Ruby pouts just a tiny bit and there's just a faint glance she recognizes but then Sam puts it away but she knows what he was thinking and the pout definitely affected him. It's been weeks … quite a while considering they would fuck like bunnies when she wasn't off scoring his next demon or faking a lead for him to find.
"Well, then you better pray that Anna gets her groove back, or we're all dead." Not that Ruby's sticking around for that. Plan or no plan.
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RainTree Ranch…
Dani pulls up to the house and finds Jean coming out to the front porch. She waves and gets out of the car moving to the back where Max is already pushing on the buckle of his car seat.
"Gamma Jeen!" Max exclaims loudly just as Dani leans into the backseat.
"Yes, yes, Max!" Dani lightly brushes his hands out of her way and finally gets the buckle undone. "There, you are free. Run you little monster." Dani sets him on the ground with a swat to his bottom and watches him run off. His infectious laughter has them both smiling but there's still Delilah to get out of the car. By the time Dani has the baby in arms, Jean is sitting with Max on the porch listening to him chatter on about the horses in the stable he isn't allowed near.
"You know …" Jean taps his nose and gets a giggle for her efforts. "Horses are big and with you being so small well, they'd be scared having you around. You wouldn't want that."
"But I's not gawna hurts 'em, Gamma Jeen." Max' dark eyes go wide and the innocent expression is so endearing Jean hugs him laughing at his words.
"No, no you sure wouldn't but all the same you listen and keep your distance." Jean looks up as Dani sits in the wide chair with Delilah gurgling, her little hands grasping at the light blanket. It's been two weeks and still no word on Kris or a call from her. They never say anything in front of the kids-well, Max.
"How's Junior?" Jean's smile turns sad and Dani sighs yet again. She finds herself doing that a lot and though Noah hasn't mentioned it he has to have noticed it as well.
"As well … moping." Dani admits. Anyone can see it and Junior makes no excuses. He doesn't care and though he tries to smile for Max its not enough to pretend everything is fine when ever he's asked when Mom is coming home from the races. "I'd kick his but into gear but … I just can't."
Jean nods. As tough as Dani Davis can be … "Give him time. Come on." She smiles down at Max in her arms and sets him on his feet. "I've got fresh cookies and can use some help eating them."
"C'Kies!" Max hurries to the front door and pushes while Dani just smiles and follows them inside. Today is going to be 'normal'. It's just like any other visit to RainTree with Max running around Jean's house or off with Pablo riding on Wildfire… Dani feels tears sting her eyes and blinks them away. She's gonna have some words with Kris when she comes home because this is not ok…
'Please be alright, Kris.'
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Woodsdale, Ohio…
Ruby hates having missed out on the prize at the end of their little road trip and it shows the more Dean keeps talking about heading back to hole up in that dungeon of Bobby's.
"What, forever?"
"I'm just thinking out loud!"
She'd hate to see what not thinking is like; "Oh, you call that thinking?"
Sam has enough; "Hey! hey, hey, hey. Stop it." Everyone (Ruby and Dean) is behaving like a kid pissing a fit.
Ruby doesn't see any of them getting the reality of what's happened. Of course, she was planning on screwing them over anyway but now… Saving their asses only helps out Ruby. "Anna's grace is gone. You understand? She can't angel up. She can't protect us. We can't fight heaven and hell. One side maybe, but not both. Not at once." She wouldn't have to fight either side if Dean had just stayed dead but the angels had to pull him out and drop him like a fucking wrench in her plans and lap. She's saddled with the fool and each time she tries to maneuver him out of her way-
"Um...guys? The angels are talking again." Anna's head tilts slightly, listening… "It's weird... Like a recording... A loop. It says, 'Dean Winchester gives us Anna by midnight, or'..."
Dean doesn't know Anna well but the expression on her face isn't good and that he couldn't miss. "Or what?"
Anna really doesn't want to tell him. she's afraid for herself and what he may do- do what they're asking of him-Anna knows what disobeying means and she's paying for her disobedience now. If there were anything to regret it would be not getting to grow old, of having to remember who she was-what she had been… "or we hurl him back to damnation."
Ruby can see the wheels turning as Sam question the fallen angel they're so hard-up trying to protect. It's a waste of her time without no real gain without the grace but Sam has a plan.
Ruby hates the plan and says so because who the hell said it was ok to send out into the line of fire just so they could get little Anna her groove back? And that's if the plan worked the way they were thinking it should because Ruby knows better than anyone that plans fall apart all on their own at anytime. She's living it right fucking now!
But she still burns up her hex bag-
"Hello, Ruby."
Ruby isn't joking about her fear of him. "Alastair." Picasso with a rasor is only just the tip of the iceberg and Dean knows it too but did he care what would happened to her? Ha!
"I have to say, I'm surprised to find you out in the open like this."
"Yeah? Desperate times."
"That they are. You looking for this?" he takes out her knife, turns it in the faint moonlight, tauntingly and she wants her fucking knife! "Your gawky human friend gave it to me." More like shoved it in the meatsuit and quite painful too.
"Keep it. I just came to talk." She's got no intention of letting him keep it but there's no way of taking it from him right now, not for Sam's plan to work and Ruby needs it to work.
There are a lot of things Ruby's had to do to get to where she is, for what she's doing. A lot of things she stopped caring about a long time ago and deep down all that really matters anymore is what she's getting in return, the bragging rights for what she's going to accomplish. Failure is not an option, it doesn't even register in her mind anymore as anything that can happen because Ruby is going to make sure it doesn't. Talking her way into and out of things is an art and she was good at it when she was still alive.
"Hmm. You know...I'd always heard that you were a devious, cowardly little slut. You don't disappoint."
Ruby doesn't like this, the knowing pain is all Alistair can give her but she keeps to the script, the part she has to play, for Sam, for what he's going to do for her in the end. She'll make sure of it. "So, what do you say?"
"It's interesting... Prudent." He smiles as the two demons appear and grab her from behind. "But, uh... Let me make you a...counteroffer."
It's a krappy room all set up for Alistair and though Ruby puts up a bit of a fight she has to let them win. She has to let them strap her down in that chair and flashes of memory from when she still had her soul hit her like bricks and take her breath.
Alistair doesn't speak to her at first. He likes to slice at her skin and watch blood slowly bead on her fair skin. He uses her knife and that makes the cuts burn a thousand times worse than they should. He whistles as he works, one more cut down her inner thigh and the fire burning past skin to muscle and tendon and bone. Ruby gnashes her teeth together, refusing to scream but coma girl is wide awake now and that's just a complication she wasn't planning on having to deal with.
'Great timing.'
'Make it stop!'
Ruby thinks it through-sort of- and figures a little bit of screaming wouldn't hurt and coma girl can vent some of her 'frustration and fear', Alistair loves fear and without much else Ruby shoves Kris to the front as another gash opens up on her breast.
Alistair pauses mid whistle to enjoy the muffled screams coming out of Ruby. Her struggles are frenzied now and he looks at the knife in his hand loving his new toy. The next few hours are going to be so much fun…
Kris begs, doesn't know what any of the words mean because all she can feel is the fire all over her body and the voice-that other voice- in her head laughing. None of it makes any sense and she can't remember anything but she knows this isn't where she's supposed to be. It hurts too much and she cries. It doesn't make him stop, doesn't take his attention away from the bits of skin he's slicing up and then peeling off with his fingers to expose the red beneath…
"You know the problem with your generation?" Alistair pauses, knife raised. "Instant gratification. It's all now, now, now. No patience, no craftsmanship." He goes back to cutting and the knife sinks deeper all Kris can do is gurgle. She's not struggling so hard anymore and somehow the burning seems to have faded though maybe it's due to the black fog creeping in.
"But I do have to say... This knife of yours... It's an exquisite piece. You must tell me where you found it." Alistair slides his gaze to her face and Ruby blinks, half of what he's said she didn't hear but thankfully coma girl is out and apparently she did a real good job of giving Alistair what he needed because he's smiling. "You know... I haven't been up here since Poland '43. Truth is, I loathe it. It's chilly. No stink of blood or sizzle of flesh or the wet flap of flayed skin. I don't know how you stand it. So, the sooner you cooperate, the sooner I can finish up with this ghastly angel business and return home to my studies." He shrugs. "But no rush. Let's take our time... Relish the moment." He reaches to her face, fingers dripping blood and little bits she'd rather not are from where or what on her body. "Now, I'm going to remove this, but don't you go smoking out of that meat. You won't get very far."
Ruby gasps out a pained breath and there's still tears running down the side of her face but her throat is raw from all the screaming Kris was doing.
"Now you tell me where that angel is."
"No."
"No?"
Ruby has him now but there's no smirk or satisfaction at all. Everything hurts a little too much for that and fucking Sam is going to owe her! "No. I tell you, you kill me. But I'll show you."
And she certainly does. She takes him and his to the barn the Winchesters thought was great place to hide what with angels and demons hunting them down…
'Idiots.'
After all the fights and the light show Ruby got at least a little concern from Sam and completely ignored by Dean, at least verbally. They were riding their victory high.
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