Chapter Two

Dean grabbed a hold of Alexis.

Alexis: Don't let go Dean!

The thing kept pulling at her and she couldn't see what it was.

Dean: Sammy!

Sam and Ruby ran into the room, Ruby grabbed one of her hands, and just as she did the thing let go of Alexis. Alexis jumped into Ruby's arms.

Ruby: Are you okay?

Alexis: Yeah, what was that?!

Dean: I don't know. Sam?

Sam is using his walkman that he rigged to find the levels of supernatural activity. It is going crazy, but in no general area.

Sam: I have no idea. Its better we wait and question the sorority sisters in the morning.

Dean: (smiles) No complaints here.

Alexis: Now, that's what gets you sent downstairs.

Dean: Hey my sexual appetite is very normal and natural.

Alexis: Sure it is.

They leave the room and the doll is once again watching them and her eyes blink black. Alexis is in a diner and she is eating. Dean comes up and sits across from her.

Dean: Do you always eat?

Alexis: It's been a long time for me. It's been a hundred years since I was able to taste or even feel anything.

Dean: Must be hard.

Alexis: Well, no it's heaven. You don't really do much of anything. Just be at peace.

Dean: So, even if I get out of this deal, do you think that I have a chance of seeing you up there one day?

Alexis: Anything is possible. Dean what you and Sam do is not really sin free, but in all that it is you truly do man kind good. And believe me that counts for something to the big guy. Dean?

Dean: Yeah?

Alexis: Why did you do it? I mean I know why, but Sam was dead. It was his time to go, and you interfered with that.

Dean just looks at her and laughs.

Dean: He's my brother. How could I not?

Alexis: Good point.

Dean: We should get to the sorority house. Sam and Ruby are at the library.

Alexis: Ruby at the library? Hell must be freezing over.

Dean: I think that she and Sammy boy have a thing for each other.

Alexis: Touching.

They get up and leave. As they are walking towards the car Alexis stops and turns around she sees a young woman walk out of a store with a doll in her hands she looks at the doll and the eyes move. Dean puts his hand on her shoulder snapping her out of her daze.

Dean: You alright?

Alexis: Yeah, I just thought…never mind let's go.

They get in the car and drive off. At the library Sam is looking on the computer and Ruby walks up with a stack of papers.

Sam: It looks like this has been happening every few years.

Ruby: I know here are some newspaper articles it looks like there were two deaths in '89, then three more in '93, and the last recorded incident was in '98.

Sam: So, there are several deaths and they just put them down as…

Ruby: All are noted as unsolved 'accidents' no known cause of death.

Sam: They all just croaked.

Ruby sits down next to him and leans over to grab an article he printed. Sam smells her hair. She looks at him funny.

Ruby: Sam?

Sam: What.

Ruby: Did you just smell my hair?

Sam: No don't be ridiculous.

Ruby: And why exactly would that be ridiculous. I know that this body I am in is attractive.

Sam: Because you are a demon.

Ruby: Whatever you say.

She gets up and walks back into the stacks. Sam goes back to work on the computer. At the sorority house Dean and Alexis watch as police and examiners make there way in and out. They get out of the car and Alexis smoothes out her suit jacket and pin skirt. She walks over to Dean and straightens his tie.

Alexis: Ready detective?

Dean: Yeah.

Dean hears a familiar voice. He looks past Alexis and Alexis follows his gaze to Bella. Dean walks over to Bella and grabs her arm and drags her over to where Alexis is standing.

Bella: Oh, so who's the new broad?

Alexis: Broad? Who do you think you are?

Dean pulls Alexis to the side.

Dean: Listen let me deal with this crumpet size pain in the ass you…

Alexis: Will go and do some 'detective' work.

Dean: I was going to say get in the car.

Alexis: While you two have a lover's spat no thank you. Deal with the wife and I will get some work done. We have a case to solve remember.

Dean: She is not…

Alexis: Whatever dude it's your business.

Alexis walks away and Dean goes back over to Bella.

Bella: I never thought I would see the day that Dean Winchester was put in his place.

Dean: What are you doing here Bella?

Bella: Well if you must know I am her on a job. There is a certain artifact that I am meant to acquire and it has something to do with these deaths. So here I am.

Dean: And now it is time for you to leave.

Bella: I am sorry I didn't mean to be ill to your little tart, but making your life more difficult couldn't please me more.

Dean: Bella. Leave. Now

Bella: Alright, but let's get one thing straight I will have my artifact Dean.

Bella leaves. Dean walks over to where Alexis is questioning and officer.

Alexis: Sir, this is my partner.

Dean: (flashing a badge) Jack Morris. So as I am sure that my partner has already asked. What was the cause of death?

Officer: To be determined. They are still doing and autopsy.

Dean: Thank you very much.

Alexis: We will be in touch.

They leave.

Dean: Now what?

Alexis: I say we have a look at that body.

Dean: Why do I always have to do the dirty work while Sammy just clicks away on his little mouse?

Alexis: Because you need to bad boy up that pretty boy look.

She slaps him on the cheek.

Alexis: Come on princess. Let's get those hands dirty.

They get in the car. Fade out.

Fade In. Sam and Ruby are standing outside of the coroner's building leaning against the car.

Ruby: So what do you think?

Sam: About?

Ruby: My sister and me.

Sam: That it's all just weird and screwed up. I mean it had to be hard to know that what was happening was bad. That what your father does is bad.

Ruby: It was. The first chance I got I was out of there. When you opened the gate that was my chance, I was free.

Sam: And he never tried to bring you back?

Ruby: He doesn't have that kind of power. This plane is sort of the safe house for those of us trying to find something better.

Sam: So, why help me? You don't even know me.

Ruby: You and your brother do good that's all I needed to know.

They hear a noise come from the trees behind them.

Sam: Did you hear that?

Ruby: (pulling out her knife) yeah.

There was another sound. They pull out their flashlights.

Ruby: There it was again.

Sam: Come on. Let's check it out.

They make their way to the trees. In the morgue Alexis is looking through the charts and Dean is covering his nose.

Dean: Do you realize that there are dead people in here.

Alexis: Stop being such a baby.

Dean: I am not a baby.

She stops on a chart and puts it down. She walks over and opens a door and then pulls out the tray with the body. Dean gags.

Dean: Oh, my god.

Alexis rolls her eyes and puts on some gloves, and picks up a scapula. She begins to cut.

Outside Ruby and Sam are going into the woods. They hear the noise in two different directions. Ruby looks at Sam and nods. They go in opposite directions.

Ruby hears the noise from behind her she turns around and looks down. She smiles.

Sam is walking through the woods and he hears the noise too. He turns and sees nothing.

Ruby looks at the doll and it is lying in the grass. She picks it up.

Ruby: Oh how cute.

Then the dolls eyes turn black and she screams.

Sam is looking around when he hears Ruby scream and runs towards her cry.

Alexis has her hand inside the body. She pulls out the heart, and then the liver.

Alexis: It all looks normal. It's like her heart just stopped here feel.

She grabs Dean's hand and puts it inside the body.

Dean: Oh my god. Now, this is just wrong.

Alexis: Are you serious all the stuff you see almost everyday and this scares you.

He looks past her at the girls head.

Dean: What's that?

Alexis: What?

He tilts her head to the side and pulls her earlobe forward. There is a symbol behind her ear.

Alexis: What is that?

Dean grabs a paper and pen and draws the symbol on paper and stuffs it in the bag.

Dean: Let's go.

She puts the body back in the door.

Sam runs and turns a corner and sees Ruby lying on the ground. Sam shakes her and she comes to.

Sam: What happened?

Ruby: Huh?

Sam: What happened?

Ruby: motioning towards the ground) that bitch.

Sam picked up the doll the face was old and withered.

Sam: A doll?

Ruby: It attacked me.

Sam: Okay well it's not doing anything now.

He helps her up.

Ruby: Let's get back to the car.

As Dean and Alexis get out to the car Sam and Ruby are walking out of the woods.

Alexis: What happened?

Sam: Well, Ruby was attacked.

Dean: By what?

Sam holds up the doll. Alexis laughs.

Ruby: That is not funny Alexis.

Alexis: No of course not.

Sam: Did you find anything?

Dean pulls out the paper.

Dean: It was on the girl. Look familiar.

Sam: No not at all. I'll have to cross reference it with my laptop. Let's go.

They go to get in the car and Ruby looks at Alexis.

Ruby: What?

Alexis: Nothing.

A little girl is playing with her doll and she puts her down.

Woman: Lena come and brush your teeth before bed.

Lena: Okay, mom coming. I'll be right back Lucy.

Lena puts the doll on the dresser and when she leaves. The eyes turn black.

They are in the hotel room and Sam is on his laptop and Ruby is staring at the doll. Alexis walks up to her.

Alexis: Has it attacked you yet?

Ruby: Very funny I swear it did. I mean why would I make it up? We've seen weirder.

Alexis: I am sure it did. Where's Dean?

Ruby: He went to the bar down the street.

Alexis: I am going to check on him.

Ruby: You do that.

Alexis: What?

Ruby: You know what.

Alexis: You should talk.

Alexis leaves. Ruby walks over to Sam.

Ruby: Find anything?

Sam: Close, but nothing yet.

Ruby: I am going to take a shower.

Sam: Okay.

Ruby goes to the bathroom.

Alexis walks into the bar and there are eyes on her. She walks over to Dean and takes a seat.

Dean: This is the last place I expected to see an angel.

Alexis: I'm not an angel for the next few months.

Dean: So that means.

Alexis grabs the shot that the bartender just sat down for Dean, and takes it.

Alexis: No rules.

Dean: Okay. Bartender we'll have two more, and make then a double.

Alexis raises an eyebrow.

Ruby walks out of the bathroom in her towel. Sam looks at her then quickly looks away.

Ruby: Find anything?

Sam: I think so. It looks like this symbol belongs to those they call soul snatchers. They inhabit inanimate objects and through those steal the souls of young women delivering them to a host for their youth and beauty.

Ruby: That explains why that thing destroyed itself.

Sam: Why is that?

Ruby: I'm a demon Sam I don't have a soul, a pure one anyway.

Sam: Okay so the question is where are these dolls coming from? They can't just appear out of nowhere.

Ruby: So, we need to find the store where they are coming from.

Sam: Get dressed. We should go and get Dean and Alexis.

Ruby: No let her have her fun. Besides there is nothing we can do about it tonight.

Sam: Okay, so what do we do now?

Ruby: I can think of a few things.

At the bar Dean and Alexis are still drinking. Dean slams down his shot glass. I Shall Believe by Sheryl Crow comes on the juke box. Alexis holds out her hand to Dean as she stands up.

Alexis: Can I have this dance?

Dean: I don't dance.

Alexis: Plaese Dean?!

Dean takes her hand and they go out onto the dance floor. He is holding her and they are swaying slowly to the music. He closes his eyes. She looks up at him and smiles.

Alexis: I can't remember the last time I felt so calm. I mean since I clipped my wings.

Dean: I know it's been an intense couple of days.

Alexis: But this is nice.

Dean: Normal.

Alexis: Right.

Dean: I forgot what that was like.

She leans in and kisses him softly.

Alexis: Thank you.

Dean: For what?

Alexis: The last few times that I did this was hard and painful. You made it easier.

Dean: Thank you.

Alexis: For what?

Dean: Saving me.

Dean and Alexis are walking back to the room laughing and holding hands. They stop in front of the door and Dean tucks her hair behind her ear. He kisses her. She smiles and opens the door and when they switch the light on.

Alexis: What the hell are you doing?

Sam is shirtless ontop of a naked Ruby. Ruby quickly covers herself and punches Sam who falls off the bed. He sits up and rubs his chin. Alexis quickly closes the door, and she and Dean look at eacother and laugh.

Alexis: I think I need another drink. You?

Dean: Sounds great.

He takes her hand.

Back in the room.

Sam: What the hell was that for?

Ruby: Sorry I panicked.

He was heading for the door and grabbed his shirt. She got off the bed.

Ruby: Where are you going?

Sam: To get some ice.

She pins him to the door.

Ruby: Oh come on Sammy I was just playing around. It doesn't hurt that bad.

Sam: Listen Ruby this was a bad idea.

Sam walks out of the room leaving Ruby standing there. Fade out.