Cloud 9

AN: Picks up after When Your Broken. Just a heads up, its finals time, so please work with me-updates will not happen as often. They will start back up in a couple weeks.
Enjoy, tell me what you think!

Dean was exhausted from not sleeping and loosing most of his blood, so he hadn't moved since slinging a protective arm around his sister. Ashley cried most of the night and finally slipped into a restless sleep. Her dreams were happy ones involving Max and her going down to the park, or sleeping in because they spent all night watching movies. Ashley felt like she was living those memories all over again, until she saw the scene change around her.

Ashley was now back on the grave yard battle field. She was watching Michael and Lucifer square up to show down. Lucifer was then suddenly standing over Dean, hitting him over and over and over again-until he was an unrecognizable bloody mess. Ashley kept screaming, trying to get Sam to get control over the devil inside, but instead just kept wailing on Dean. "Hey" echoed on the battle field, breaking Ashley's concentration on her brothers.

"Hey" Dean said, grabbing Ashley's thin shoulders "what's going on?"

Ashley was still really groggy from little sleep and being woken up in the middle of a dream. Ashley had neither the desire of the energy to tell Dean about her dream, so instead she rolled over and fell back asleep. Dean was running on only a couple hours of sleep, so he took Ashley's action as an I'll tell you later and also fell back asleep without moving from his current position.

Ashley fell right back into a dream, this time it was her being dragged down to hell. Ashley was being choked by Ruby and being dragged towards the Devil's Gate in the middle of the old cowboy grave yard. "No" she spat into Ruby's face, but she was awarded by Ruby latching on to Ashley's neck.

"Ah, Ashley" Ruby laughed at Ashley's desperate attempts to fight for her freedom. "Ash" Ruby said again, pinning her arms to her sides. This time Ashley could have sworn it sounded like Dean's voice.

"No!" Ashley shouted, breaking free of Ruby's hold and running-straight into the present.

Dean was standing over Ashley, holding her arms down, concern written all over his face. "The hell, Ashley?" Dean begged. Ashley tried to look away from Dean, but he quickly put his face back in Ashley's line of vision.

"Nothing just a bad dream" she choked out from her sore throat.

"Yeah, not letting me sleep, so I'm not letting you get away with it this time" Dean growled as he finally released Ashley's arms. "Would you just tell me?"

She didn't want to tell her brother either dream, but she knew Dean wasn't letting her off the hook.

"It was Sam's swan dive first. He was pounding on you and for some reason I was rooted in place, I couldn't move-I couldn't save you, Dean" she sobbed. The tears stung her eyes, but wouldn't spill over the brim.

"Yeah well" Dean started "my face can take more hits than yours" Dean smirked.

"Not funny, Dean" she sniffled.

"I wasn't trying to be. So what about this last one?"

Ashley knew this last one was really going to hurt her big brother on many levels. The first level was the fact that Ruby's name was mentioned, second being the fact Ruby was in their lives because he got himself dragged to hell which let Sam get closer to the demonic bitch. And thirdly, the fact that she was being dragged to hell would really be the blow that knocked Dean out.

"Uh" she stalled "well, R-Ruby was uh- trying to d-drag me through Devil's Gate" she finally got out.

As expected, Dean wasn't expecting to hear that specific combination of those words come out of Ashley's mouth. "Please say something De" Ashley pleaded. Dean still sat there on the edge of the bed by Ashley's feet. "Dean-"

"It's not going to happen, Baby Girl" he muttered into his hands.

"Dea-"

"I said, not going to happen!"

"Dammit Dean, listen to me!" she yelled louder than Dean had. "If it does, you won't go pawning yourself off again."

"No Ash-"

"Hey, I said not sell your soul, or Sammy's. Just- get me back, yeah?"

"Sure thing, Kid" Dean agreed.

Sam and Bobby were waiting around for the other two Winchesters to get back before they made the call. Sam wasn't sure what Ashley would want, so he ordered up the basics, along with a little something for him and Dean.

The roar of the Impala's engine finally coming up to the porch told Sam it was time to put the plan in motion. Ashley didn't know Sam already knew, so she asked Dean to tell him so she could take a shower.

"Got everything set?" Dean asked Sam once their sister was out of earshot.

"Yeah, they'll be here in 15 or so."

"And what about us?"

"Taken care of" Sam said with a big smile.

Ashley was lounging against Sam's side on Cloud 9. Her brother's most definitely knew how to pick up her spirits- the firefighter by far was her favorite one though.

"Thanks for tonight, Sammy" she said snuggling under Sam's arm lounging on the back of the couch.

"We had a Winchester down, only way to resuscitate her was to call in a real live firefighter" Sam laughed at the memory of the firefighter giving her mouth to mouth. But according to Ashley's memory, that's not all he put his mouth to in order to try and revive her, Sam just got busy with his own entertainment and snuck the firefighter into a private room.