Chapter 27

No Rest for the Wicked

Sam's POV

A few weeks later

This is it. My brother's, Dean, final day on earth. By midnight tonight he will be killed unless I can find a way to get him out of the contract. I have hope that I can but it's slowly depleting as the hours pass. Bobby and Ruby have been helping, trying to pinpoint where Lilith is hiding.

I look to find Dean in the kitchen drinking a beer acting calm and collected, but I know he's not. I know he's scared. I know that he doesn't want to leave me and Bobby behind but it's inevitable. There's a voice within me saying that I need to accept fate and say goodbye to my older brother, but I can't. I still have hope that I will find a way.

I can't but think about Blade and her unfortunate death. I knew both Bobby and Dean haven't been the same since that night. Dean through himself more into hunts than usual and Bobby's been a bit of a recluse. He's hardly talked unless he's needed to. Her death has taken a toll on all of us. It's hard when we expect her to walk through the door while saying she's alive and has been in hiding but it doesn't happen. Sometimes at night I heard Bobby in her room. I know it's been hardest on him since she was practically his daughter.

I sometimes catch Dean staring at something of hers for a while before he shakes himself out of it and walks away. I knew there was something going on between them. They didn't know, but I figured it out a while back. I would sometimes catch Dean or Blade looking at one another when the other wasn't looking. I would see the small smiles when one caught the other before they would look away as if they would never get caught. I would never say anything. I didn't want to ruin what little happiness that brought both of them.

Dean looks up at me and gives me a reassuring smile and raises his beer in my direction before taking a drink. I can't help but be mad at my brother for his stupid decision. If he hadn't made the deal, I would be right not and he could go on living but my brother is stubborn and would have himself dead rather than me. It was the same way with dad. He sacrificed himself to save Dean. Dad had to much pride as Dean does now. I turn away and go back to looking at the map as Bobby and Ruby mix ingredients for a spell to help find Lilith.

When everything is ready Bobby set everything up and begins the spell. When he is finished the map begins to burn away until a small piece is left. We have Lilith's position, she's in New Harmony, Indiana.

Dean and I get everything together. Bobby loads up his truck and Rub tells me to contact her when we've reach New Harmony.

We get into our vehicles and head east. As we reach the outskirts of town, we get pulled over by a cop. Just as Dean's asking him what he did wrong, Dean takes Ruby's knife and stabs the cop under the chin. His face is flashing orange before Dean rips the knife out, the cop falling to the ground dead.

"Dean what the hell?" I yell at him shocked.

"He was demon Sam." Dean said a little shocked himself.

"How did you know?" I asked as I looked at him.

"I could see his face. I mean the ugly demon face underneath." He says as he looks over at me.

"So what you can see demons now?" I asked confused.

"I guess the closer it gets to me dying, the more things happen." He said as he put Ruby's knife away. We see headlights pull up behind us, knowing it's Bobby. He gets out of his truck and makes sure not to step on the dead cop.

"What the hell did you to do?" Bobby asked gruffly.

"He was possessed." I tell Bobby.

"How did you figure that out?" Bobby asks.

"I could see the demon inside of him." Dean confesses.

"Hm, well I'll get rid of this body you make your way into town and find out where Lilith." Bobby says and then gets to work. Dean turns the car back in and takes off. I contact Ruby and she tells us she knows the vicinity where Lilith is hiding as it's crawling with demons.

We come up with a plan of turning the sprinkler system into a raining shower of holy water in order to keep most of the demons away. We also discover that Lilith is possessing a little girl that has her family hostage. When we turn on the sprinkler system the demons start steaming as we make our way to the house. We make in with only a few casualties. We split up trying to find the little girl.

Ruby and I take the upstairs as Dean takes the downstairs. I find the little girls room to find the terrified mother laying down with the girl fast asleep. The mother sees the knife in my hand and tells me to 'do it'. She knows that there something wrong with her little girl and she wants me to end her life.

The little girl wakes up and just as I'm about the plunge the knife in her Dean grabs y arm informing me that Lilith has left the little girl. We make our way back down only for the clock to strike midnight and Dean to tell us that he can hear the hellhounds.

He looks to his right letting us know where it is before we take off with it on our heels. We take off down the hall and run into a room shutting the doors. Ruby and I hold the door shut as Dean spreads a black powder across the floor to keep the hellhound at bay.

The creature stops scratching at the door and Deans runs to spread more powder on the windows.

Ruby asks for the knife saying she could probably hold off the hound so we can try and make as escape when Deans tell me that Ruby isn't Ruby anymore. I raise the knife to try and kill Lilith but she flings me against the wall and Dean against the table. I try to fight against the hold as does Dean but it's useless.

Lilith's eyes turn white as she talks about how grown up and pretty Ruby's body is. She tells us that she sent Ruby far, far away before turning on me. In her child-like voice she tells me how she's wanted to meet me for a very long time, then she kisses me. I try to bargain into getting her to let Dean go since she has me but she refuses. Saying I have nothing she wants.

Deans demands to know if she had planned this all along, but Lilith smirks saying she doesn't have to answer to puppy chow. She walks away from me and over to the closed door.

She opens the door tell her hound to go after Dean. All I can see is the dust flowing away before I hear the tearing of clothes and flesh. Deans scream as the hound rips into him. I'm begging Lilith to make it stop but she just stands there laughing at the carnage. Dean's blood is gushing from his body as the claws of the hellhound rips into his body.

Lilith has stopped laughing as she watches in amusement and admiration. I keep screaming 'no' at her. She says 'yes' looking at me as she thrusts her open hand at me. A bright white light shoots from her hand. I feel myself drop and shield my face.

It only lasts a few minutes before the light dies down with a confused looking Lilith staring at me. I stand up realizing I'm not dead.

"Back." She says. I can here the trembling in her voice. She wasn't expecting me to live, so I start to advance on her. "I said back."

I quietly pick up Ruby's knife, that I had dropped when Lilith had flung me into the wall, and get ready to stab her with it. "I don't think so."

Just as I raise the knife Lilith throws her head back and black smoke erupts from her mouth and heads into the vent. I take cover and watch as Lilith leaves Ruby's old body. When the body falls to the floor, I know she is dead. It is then I see Deans mutilated body lying next to hers.

I feel the tears in my eyes at the sight of my older brother covered in his own blood, dead. I bite my lip to keep from crying out I walk over and lift his body into arms. I call out my brothers name in hope that he may still be alive, but I know it's too late.

Dean is dead. His soul dragged down to the depths of hell by the hellhound that murdered him.