I Know What You Did Last Summer
Flashback; June 2001.
Genna sat on a hospital bed, staring out the window, contemplating. She wore a close fitted white t-shirt and blue scrub-like pants. Her red hair was barely kept and her skin pale. A nurse spoke to her.
"Genna? Do you know where you are? You're at the Connor Beverly Behavioral Medicine Center," Genna looked at her hospital's wristband, "do you know why you're here?" Genna shrugged.
"Do you remember what you did," Genna nodded, "you were hysterical. It took four people to restrain you."
"I...I was trying to warn them," Genna turned to the curly hair woman.
"Warn who?"
"Everyone. Forget it. It was stupid," her voice was soft, gentle.
"What were you trying to warn them about?""
"Look... I get it. You think I'm nuts. If I were you, I'd think I was nuts. But it's all true."
"It's okay. You can tell me. I'm here to listen."
"The end...is coming. The apocalypse. Not now, but in 7 years. The end will come."
"The apocalypse. Like in the bible?"
"Kind of. I mean, same bottom line. This demon, Lilith, is going to try to break the 66 seals to free Lucifer from hell. Lucifer...will bring the apocalypse. So...smoke 'em if you got 'em." She turned back to the window and resumed to hearing distant voices.
"Genna?" She turned back around.
"Sorry."
"What were you doing?"
"Nothing. Just listening."
"So, you were saying that there are, uh, 66 of these seals in the world?"
"No. No. There are about 600 possible seals, and Lilith only has to break 66 of them, and no one knows which 66 she's gonna break."
"I see."
"That's why it's nearly impossible to stop her. And that's why the angels will lose. That's why we're all gonna die."
Night. A male nurse entered the room with a small paper cup.
"Genna, it's time for your meds," Genna's back faced him as she sat on her bed, drawing.
"Genna?" She turned around and saw that his face was distorted. She got out of bed and backed up against the window.
"Your face. What happened to your face?"
"I know. I'm downright kissable." His eyes then turned black. He closed the door. She concentrated on a white dresser and used her powers to thrust it against him, causing him to hit his head on the glass of the door. As he laid unconscious, she struggled to open the door.
Sam is seemingly drunk at a pool table with a heavyset, bald man.
"Brian, come on, man, just one more. Just - just give me a chance to win it back."
"It's your cash."
"Excuse me," Adonia stood next to Sam in a somewhat revealing shirt and her hair somewhat curled, "my boyfriend's a little too wasted to be making bets." She put her hand on his shoulder and stroked his hair, giving Brian a sweet smile.
"He insisted."
"Yeah, but you've already taken, what, two bills off him? I'm just saying. It doesn't seem right, does it?"
"Stay out of this, sweetie. I'm fine," Sam said drunkenly.
"No, you're not fine. You're drunk."
"Let's make it 500."
"$500?" Adonia asked in shock.
"Sure."
"500," Sam agreed. Sam took the money out of his shirt pocket and laid it on the edge of the table.
"Your break," Brian said. As Brian set up the game, Adonia stood to the side and gave Sam a wink, sober. He winked back in congratulations. Sam took his shot and hit a few balls down the holes. Brian looked at the table in shock, knowing he was just hustled. Sam looked up and broke from his smile. Ruby was sitting at the bar.
"Keep the money," he said as he walked away from the table.
"Keep the money?" She asked with her arms open. She turned around to see Ruby and grew angry. She walked her way.
"Hey-" Sam began to say.
"Well, you got a lot of nerve showing up anywhere near me," Adonia said to her as she stood next to Sam.
"I just have some info, and then I'm gone."
"What is it?"
"I'm hearing a few whispers." Genna looked up from her glass of whiskey, breaking out of thought. She rolled her eyes and downed the drink. She elbowed Dean, who was flirting with a woman.
"Great," he mumbled before they both joined the party.
"Oh great, demon whispers. That's reliable," Adonia said sarcastically.
"Demons are looking out for some girl. Don't know her name or where she is, but the demons are pretty keen to finding her. Apparently, some real heavy hitters turned out for the easter-egg hunt."
"Why?" Sam asked.
"No idea. 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."
"Look, maybe we should check it out," Sam turned to the rest.
"Actually, we're working a case, but thanks," Dean said.
"What case?" Ruby asked, clearly not buying it.
"Uh, we've got leads, big leads."
"Sounds dangerous," she said with sarcasm.
"Yeah, well, it sure isn't goose chasing after some chick who, for all we know, doesn't even exist, just because you say she's important."
"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." Ruby walked out.
"Thanks Addie," Sam said and walked away.
"Oh, cry me a river." Genna and Dean looked at each other.
"Here we go," Dean said. They followed them out the door.
"I thought we were over this," Sam said as he walked towards the Impala.
"No, Sam. You keep pretending that everyone's okay with Ruby being around and we're not. I don't know how many times we have to say something to you about it. You're acting like a rebellious teen that just has to do the opposite of what you're told." He turned to face her. They were now standing next to the car.
"Maybe you should stop telling me what to do and trust me," Sam said seriously. Adonia lowered her eyebrows.
"Trust you? Sam, I'm afraid if I trust you, one of us will end up dead." Dean looked at the scene wide eyed. Sam laughed slightly.
"I know what this really is. You're jealous." Dean covered his mouth. Adonia started turning red with anger. She took her hand, grabbed Sam by the shirt, and pushed him against the car with her arm.
"I'm not, jealous. Don't you dare think that's a possibility ever again," she said without blinking. Dean came behind her and grabbed her off of him.
"Whoa, whoa. Be careful with my baby." Sam brushed himself off.
"I'm fine, Dean." But Dean moved him out of the way and grazed his car to look for scratches.
"Damn. You two are worse than Gen and I," Dean turned around to laugh with her, "uh, guys, where is she?" They turned around and she was gone. First instinct, Adonia looked at her phone. One new text message,
Gotta do something. I'll call you later. Adonia showed them the text and they returned back to the motel.
The next day, still no sign of Genna. They were tempted to go out looking for her, but they got another tip that the girl they're looking for is hiding in a church in town. Adonia texted Genna to let her know where they were headed, hoping she would meet them there.
They entered the tall, white church with guns ready. They took every corner cautiously in case demons were lingering.
"Dean," Sam said quietly, pointing to a figure behind a stained glass wall. They all put their guns away, knowing it was the girl.
"We're not gonna hurt you. We're here to help. My name is Sam, this is my brother, Dean, and our friend, Adonia."
"Sam? Not Sam Winchester?" The soft voice said.
"Uh, yeah," he answered, confused.
"And Dean? The Dean?" The girl walked out. It was Genna. She was different. Some kind of possession it seemed. They were all confused, but thought it would be best to play along with it. Adonia's heart was racing. She didn't know what happened to her best friend.
"Well, yes, the Dean, I guess," Dean said with an awkward smirk. She walked up to them and stood before Dean.
"It's really you. Oh, my god. The angels talk about you. You were in hell, but Castiel pulled you out, and some of them think you can help save us. And some of them don't like you at all," she said looking at Sam, "they talk about you all the time lately. I feel like I know you." Dean looked at the other two, who were just as shocked.
"So...you talk to angels?" He asked.
"Oh, no. No, no way. Uhm, they probably don't even know I exist. I just kind of...overhear them."
"You overhear them?" Sam asked. Adonia couldn't speak. A part of her wanted to grab Genna and shake the thing out of her and another part wanted to cry.
"Yeah, they talk, and sometimes I just...hear them in my head."
"Like...right now?" Dean asked.
"Not right this second, but a lot. And I can't shut them out, there are so many of them."
"Genna, when did the voices start? Do you remember?"
"I can tell you exactly- first was on June 26, 2001, but then they stopped. I started hearing them again September 18, this year."
"The day I got out of hell."
"First words I heard, clear as a bell - 'Dean Winchester is saved.'"
"What do you think?" Dean asked Sam. He scoffed.
"It's above my pay grade, man."
"Well, at least now we know why the demons want you so bad. They get a hold of you, they can hear everything the other side's cooking. You're 1-900-angel." Genna laughed and then looked behind them.
"Who are you?" She asked Adonia. She hesitated and the boys stepped out of her view.
"Adonia," she finally said. Genna smiled.
"You look familiar. You have a kind face." A tear came down Adonia's face. She tried to read Genna, but there was silence. She turned away and sat down. Genna looked at her, confused.
"What's wrong with her?" She asked kindly. Dean smiled nervously.
"She's just a little emotional right now." Genna nodded. Ruby stormed in.
"You got the girl. Good, let's go. Wait, Genna?" Genna screamed.
"Oh my god! Her face!"
"It's okay. She's here to help."
"Don't be so sure," Dean mumbled.
"What the hell is going on? You know what, it doesn't matter. We have to hurry."
"Why?" Adonia asked, now standing.
"Because a demon's coming- big timer. We can fight later, Adonia."
"Well, that's pretty convenient, showing up right when we find Genna with some big wig on your tail?"
"I didn't bring him here. You did," she protested.
"He followed you from the motel. We got to go, now."
"Dean." Sam pointed to a statue with bleeding eyes.
"It's too late. He's here." Genna covered her mouth in disbelief and fear. Adonia takes her arm and pulls her to a closet.
"Wait in here. Don't move, okay?" Genna nodded in agreement.
"Sam, you gotta pull him right away," Ruby said to him.
"Whoa, hold on a second," Adonia began to stop her.
"Now's not the time to bellyache about Sam going dark side. He does his thing, he exorcises that demon, or we die." The demon appeared as an older man in a suit and Sam extended his hand to exorcise him. But it doesn't work.
"That tickles. You don't have the juice to take me on, Sam." The demon thrusted Sam over a small railing and down a flight of stairs. Adonia takes fire in hopes to stun him, but it just went right through him.
"You're little gun's not gonna work either, doll," he thrusted her against the bleeding statue, causing it to break and her to pass out. Dean then tried to attack him with the knife, but he grabbed him.
"Hello again, Dean." Dean and the demon fought while Ruby went to the closet to grab a screaming Genna.
"Come on, Dean. Don't you recognize me? Oh,I forgot - I'm wearing a pediatrician. But we were so close...in hell."
"Alastair," Dean noted. Sam came up behind Alastair and stabs him in the back.
"You're gonna have to try a whole lot harder than that, son." Adonia stood just in time for the three of them to jump out of the window as a last resort.
"You almost done over there?" Sam whinced in pain as Adonia took the sewing needle through his wound. All three of them were covered in blood, scratches, and bruises.
"I'm going as fast as I can," Adonia protested. Dean spit blood into the bathroom sink and walked over to grab a bottle of whiskey.
"Good, 'cause you know I got a dislocated shoulder over here."
"Yeah. I'll pop it back when I'm finished."
"Give me that," Adonia demanded. She poured some of the liquid over Sam's wound. After trying to keep himself from screaming in pain, he took the bottle from her and took a drink.
"So, you lost the magic knife, huh?" He asked Sam.
"Yeah. Saving your ass. Who the hell was that demon?"
"No one good."
"We gotta find Genna," Adonia said and she stood from the floor.
"Ruby's got her. I'm sure she's okay." Adonia glared at him, but brushed it off.
"Alright. Come on," she said walking over to Dean. She grabbed his left shoulder, "on three. 1..." She snapped it back in place. He walked away in pain.
"You sure about Ruby? 'Cause I think it's just as likely she used us to find out who the girl was everyone's looking for and then brought that demon in to kill us."
"No, she took Genna to keep her safe."
"You better hope so. If anything happens to her, I won't think twice about killing her," Adonia added.
"Why hasn't she called to tell us where she is?"
"Because that demon is probably watching us right now, waiting to follow us right back to Genna again. That's why he let us go."
"You call this letting us go?" Adonia said pointing to her patched up leg.
"Yeah, I do. Look, killing us would've been no problem to that thing. That's why, for now, we just got to lay low and wait for Ruby to contact us."
"How's she gonna do that?" The room grew quiet after Adonia's question. "Why do you trust her so much?" Dean had to ask, but sincerely. Sam felt closed in.
"I told you," he said with a frustrated sigh.
"You got to do better than that. Hey, and I'm not trying to pick a fight here. I mean, I really want to understand. But I need to know more. I mean, I deserve to know more." Adonia rolled her eyes towards Dean. She didn't understand why he would even bother trying to see a shining light in befriending a demon.
"Because...she saved my life."
Sam began telling the story of his experience on the road without Dean. He had come back to his apartment one night, drunk, and was attacked by two demons, one in which was Ruby. It had been a trick and she ended up killing the other demon and getting Sam away from there. She found a new body, a coma patient, and promised Sam that she could help him kill Lilith. The only catch was it took time, sobriety, and they had to make sure they did it right this time; using his psychic abilities.
That's when the story took a different turn. He had been practicing exorcising on low level demons, but it wasn't working out so well. On the night of another attempt, Ruby made a move on Sam. He pushed her away and refused to go down that road, but she seduced him into doing so anyways. A part of it was Sam simply not caring for that moment and needed to release sexual tension.
"Sam?" Dean interrupted Sam's thorough description of that night.
"Yeah?"
"Too much information."
"Hey, I told you I was coming clean."
"Yeah, but now I feel dirty. Okay, well, uh, brain-stabbing imagery aside... So far, all you've told me about is a manipulative bitch who, uh, screwed you, played mind games with you, and did everything in the book to get you to go bad."
"Yeah,well, there's more to the story."
"Just...skip the nudity, please," Adonia said. For a moment, Sam forgot she was in the room and he began to feel guilty and embarrassed. Those feelings began running through his mind.
"Pretty soon after...that, um...I put together some signs, omens."
"Saying what?" Dean asked.
"Lilith was in town. And I wanted to strike her first."
Sam had gone to find Lilith on his own. He found a house with a dainty little girl sitting at a table filled with sweets. He knew it had to be her. By the time he got inside to strike, she had left the body and he was attacked by two demons. Ruby came in with the knife and saved him from one of the demons. At the end of the battle, Sam successfully exorcised the last demon.
"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." Dean and Adonia didn't know what to say. There's was a knock at the door.
"Housekeeping."
"Not now," Dean said sternly.
"Sir, I've got clean towels," the woman insisted. Dean opened the door and the maid entered.
"Couldn't you just leave 'em at the door?"
"I'm at this address," the woman said, handing Sam a note and closed the curtains. Sam laughed.
"I'm sorry. What?"
"Go now. 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?" Adonia asked.
"Okay, yes, so I'm possessing this maid for a hot minute. Sue me."
"What about-" Sam began to ask.
"- coma girl? Slowly rotting on the floor back at the cabin with Genna, so I've got to hurry back. See you when you get there. Go!" Ruby left and Dean and Adonia gave Sam a look.
The hunters went out to the dimly lit cabin and it was still dark. Ruby opened the door.
"Glad you could make it," she said to them.
"Yeah, thanks." Adonia went straight to Genna, who was sitting on the couch.
"Genna, are you okay?"
"Yeah. I think so. Ruby's not like other demons. She saved my life." Adonia glared back.
"We gotta get the old Genna back." Dean laughed.
"Yeah, I hear she does that," Dean turned to Ruby, "I guess I...you know."
"What?" She asked.
"I guess I owe you for...Sam. And just I want to you know-"
"Don't strain yourself."
"Okay, then. Is the moment over," Ruby nodded, "Good,'cause that was awkward." Ruby looked at Adonia.
"I'll just save my apologies for when this is all over," she said with a sarcastic smile.
"Fair enough," Ruby commented. Genna started gasping in terror.
"They're coming." The electricity starting fading in and out.
"Back room," Dean pointed out. Everyone headed to the back while Ruby securely locked the front door. They came back out, leaving Genna in the back room. Weapons were being grabbed and ready for a fight.
"Where's the knife?" Ruby asked.
"Uh, about that," Dean said.
"You've got to be kidding me."
"Hey, don't look at me," Dean said with a glance over to Sam.
"Thanks a lot," Sam said for being ratted out.
"Great. Just peachy. Impeccable timing, guys, really." The door bursted open with Castiel and Uriel walking through. Ruby's eyes immediately went black out of fear.
"Please tell me you're here to help. We've been having demon issues all day."
"Well, I can see that. You want to explain why you have that stain in the room." Adonia snickered quietly.
"We're here for Genavieve," Castiel said.
"Here for her like...here for her," Adonia asked.
"Stop talking. Give her to us," Uriel snapped back. Adonia fought back the urge to attack him.
"Are you going to help her?"
"No. She has to die," Castiel said sternly.
