Sorry if this chapter seems a little rushed!! And if anyone is confused or you think that something doesn't add up please let me know!

Dean didn't know how long he had been down here. Days, weeks, months…years? It felt like forever. The pain he felt now was worse than the pain he'd felt when he'd lost his Mom. Worse that the pain of losing his dad…losing Sam. But that wasn't what hurt the most; he couldn't bear to think about the fact that Sam was going to end up in hell because of him. After all a demon had brought him back…where else would Sam go when he died? He wished that he'd never made the dam deal in the first place because it had caused nothing but trouble. He had thought that when they killed the yellow eyed demon that everything would be okay…but thatokay…but that wasn't the case. Everything had just spiralledspiraled out of contorolcontrol. Dean wished that he could close his eyes and block everything out but he couldn't. Every time he tried he just saw Sam and he wondered hwohow he was handling things. Dean just hoped that Sammy was trying to get him out of here.

Dean didn't belong here. He wasn't a bad person; he'd done a lot of bad things but that didn't make him a bad person. He'd dedicated his life to hunting and killing anything Supernatural…supernatural…and he'd saved a lot of people in the process.Thatprocess. That didn't make him a bad person did it? He'd given up everything and yet he'd ended up in hell, he didn't deserve to be here. Dean knew he had to get out…he had to make sure that Sam was okay. The thought of Sam being all alone brought on a whole different kind of pain. Dean couln'tcouldn't help thinking that he hadn't fulfilled his puposepurpose yet .He hadn't saved Sam; not yet.He'dyet. He'd made that deal because he had let Sam down. But makigmaking the deal hadn't saved Sam. It'd only become the beginning of his end. And Sam was caught in the midst of all of this. What would happen if Dean couldn't save him? But Dean wasn't going to let it come to that; he had to get out of here. He had to save his brother. He'd never forgive himself if he couldn't.

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Sam couldn't believe it; he's spent days trying to get his powers to work but nothing had happened. But now he'd managed to use them without really meaning to. Or had he meant to? He wanted to stop 'Dean' from attacking him so maybe he had meant to. All kinds of thoughts were filling Sam's mind. He'd have to unfreeze Dean t some point. He took a deep breath and he made a flicking motion with his hand and he stepped back so that he was ready to defend himself if Dean attacked. However Dean disappeared and Sam was left standing in an empty room. "Dean…?" he called as he looked around the room .room. What's happening now? He thought with a frustrated sigh. He jumped back as he heard the doorkobdoorknob turn. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was Ruby and Bobby.

"Thank God you're here…" he said as soon as they entered the room. He looked at them questioninlyquestioningly but neither of them looked back at him. Sam turned to Bobby,

"Bobby what is it…what just happenddhappened to me…" he asked. But Ruby answered him instead.

"You've come a long way Sam" she said. Sam raised an eyebrow,

"What are you talking about" he asked. Ruby looked straight into his eyes and told him that she'd only been trying to help and that she thought that they'd made progress. Sam didn't have a clue about what she was talking about. He was exhausted after his confrontation with 'Dean'. He walked over to one of the armchairs and he sat down. He had a pounding headache and he just wanted it to go away.

"Ruby just cut the crap okay? I'm not in the mood for this…" he snapped angrily. Ruby shifted her gaze onto Bobby momentarily and she said,

"And you said I should take it easy on him.." She looked back at Sam once more and told him that he'd been a mess, she hadn't had a choice. She'd heard something about Lilith sending an 'army of demons' after him and she'd panicked because Sam wasn't ready. Sam closed his eyes briefly, so Lilith was sending an army of demons after him. Great. .Ruby had stopped abruptly but Sam told her to continue. Ruby told him that obviously she had to get him resadyready for the attack…and maybe push him into using his powers. She had to come up with something that would trigger Sam's powers. Something clicked inside Sam's mind and he nodded and said,

"So what you're trying to say is that you used Dean to get me to use my powers…" he said calmly although there was a hint of darkness in his voice. Ruby shrugged apologetically and she nodded.

"So what was all of that stuff inside my head" Sam said and he shook his head as he realised how strange that sounded.

"I just wanted to help you out" Ruby replied quietly. Sam remained silent as he tried to come to terms with what Ruby had just told him; he couldn't help feeling betrayed somehow. He couldn't believe that Ruby had used Dean like that. He was just grateful that the feeling that it had really been his broher had been shattered before it'd even surfaced. He still couldn't believe that the real Dean was really gone.

"How did you make it look so real?" he asked quietly.

"Trickster". Sam nodded, there was a sad look on his face as he remembered his last encounter with the Trickster. It just made the situation even worse.

"How could you be so cruel…" he said bitterly.

"I did what I had to do…maybe one day you'll understand but right now you're just going to have to get over it and get ready" Ruby said sharply.

Sam really wished that Dean could be here to tell him that everything was going to be okay. They'd figure out what to like they always did. But Dean wasn't here and Ruby was right; he had to step up his game and make sure that he was ready to go up against Lilith.

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A few hours later Bobby and Sam were in Bobby's basement whilst Sam practisedpracticed using his ablitiewabilities. Ruby had helped out for a while and then she'd said something about going to check on Lilith and she'd disappeared. Sam knew that he still had a lot to cover although he couldn't help thinking that Dean would turn in his grave if he knew that Sam was prepared to use his powers. And from the looks that Bobby had been giving him Sam guessed that Bobby was uncomfortable with him using his ablitiesabilities. Sam wou;dwould have prefereedpreferred to be using a more conventional method but he didn't know if that would even work. The headaches he got from using his powers were painful but this was Lilth…they'd tried conventional methods before and look at how that had turned out. She's just trampled all over them. The only thing that Lilith seemed to be really scared of was Sam.

"Sam are you sure about this, you don't have to do anything that you don't want to" Bobby said suddenly. Sam turned to look at him,

"yesYes I do" he said, " If I don't then I could die…and I can't die…not when I know that Dean is coming back". Bobby stared at him with an incredulous look in his face. "Don't look at me like that Bobby…I don't know how I know… I just do" After a long silence Bobby sighed deeply and said,

"Just be careful Sam" Sam nodded absent mindedlyabsent-mindedly. He could sense something, he didn't know what it waswas, but it was bad. He knew that much. Just as he was thinking this the door burst open and Ruby rushed in,

"Sam they're coming…they're coming for you" she said in a raised voice. Sam felt panic rising up inside of him - he wasn't ready for this. Not yet.

"Lilith…?" he asked.

"I don't know!" Ruby said, "I.." but the rest of her sentence was cut off as a deafening sound erupted in the room. Sam winced in pain as he threw his hands over his ears. He gasped as he felt himself being pulled down by and invsibleinvisible force.