I loved writing this chapter, hope y'all enjoy it. 3
Entry 22After Dean and Sam had a long conversation about why Sam trusts Ruby, Ruby herself appeared. She'd possessed a maid bringing towels to our room, and took us to some kind of old barn thing. I have to say, after Sam's explanation, it kind of clicked why he likes Ruby. She's actually a really good actress. She acts like she really cares about Sam, like she's actually just a freelance demoness just running around doing her thing, which is helping Sam just because she likes him. I guess I can see how it wouldn't necessarily be so obvious to Sam that she's lying. He doesn't know her. Ruby is doing a really good job.
Anyway, we got to the barn, no biggie, and even poor Anna was convinced that Ruby is OK. Well, y'all idiots, Ruby's mission is to convince Sam she's OK. Not much surprise if she pretends to be a good person. But, I guess, if they had the sense to not trust her, they probably also wouldn't trust me, and I wouldn't like that too much, so there are benefits to naïveté.
Dean told Ruby he owed her for saving Sam's life. It was really awkward. He's so cute when he's trying to deal with relationships and emotions, but I felt so bad that he was trusting Ruby again, even a little bit. Nothing good can come of it.
Then Anna asked if she could call her parents, and Sam had to tell her- you know what. I felt that sting in my nose before I'm about to cry, and ran out of the barn. And right into- guess who- that dratted blue-eyed angel again.
"Aah! I'm sorry. Don't kill me! Please, I won't do it again," I yelled incoherently, and tried to run away into the woods. On foot. I am getting so stupid. It must be from hanging around with humans so much.
Sticks snapped loudly as I fell to the ground after tripping on a rock. I turned frantically. Castiel was offering me his hand.
I looked at him like he had three heads. Why would he offer to help me? Even Uriel seemed not to have any snotty remarks to say. I looked around, but there was nowhere to run. I looked back at Castiel. He didn't look like he was mad at me or wanted to kill me. I couldn't believe what was happening, but I took his hand and let him help me up.
"You guys are crazy," I said, a little out of breath. "You should be trying to kill me."
"We're here for Anna," said Castiel. "Stay behind us. Don't try to stop us, or we will kill you."
"Got it," I said, still shaking. No way was I getting in the way of an angel, anyway.
I followed them to just outside the door. Castiel blew the door open with a mighty wind. Angels are such drama kings. I guess they're so scary that they can get away with it, though.
After letting everybody's hair blow around for a moment, just for effect, Castiel and Uriel walked into the barn. I stayed close behind them. No way was I going to do anything to make them think I was a threat.
Ruby's face paled and her eyes snapped black.
Dean and Sam looked at the three of us carefully.
"Please tell me you're here to help," said Dean. "We've been having demon issues all day."
"I can see that," said Uriel. "You want to explain why you have that stain in the room?"
Angels hate demons. They were totally going to kill me, I was sure. So why hadn't they?
Dean and Sam made no attempt to explain anything, so Castiel got to the point.
"We're here for Anna," he said.
Dean got annoyed. "Here for her, like, here for her?" he asked.
"Stop talking," snapped Uriel, getting angry. At least he wasn't mad at me yet. I backed away from Uriel and stood behind Castiel, hoping he wouldn't let Uriel kill me if Uriel got even madder.
"Give her to us," commanded Uriel.
Sam eyed the angels. "Are you going to help her?" he asked.
"No," said Castiel. "She has to die."
So, this is what they were worried I was going to get in the way of. I wasn't even sure who was right, so why would I get myself killed? I know better than to mess with angels.
Sam and Dean's faces hardened.
"You want Anna?" Sam asked, shocked. "Why?"
"Out of the way," said Uriel.
"Whoa, whoa, okay," said Dean. "I know she's wiretapping your angel chats or whatever. But it's no reason to gank her." He smiled, trying to get Uriel to agree that that was silly.
Uriel matched Dean's smile. "Don't worry. I'll kill her gentle."
Dean looked at them in shock.
"You're some heartless sons of bitches, you know that?" he said.
"Dean, don't swear in front of angels," I said. Then I clapped my hand over my mouth. I had definitely not meant to get in on this discussion.
"He's a mud monkey," said Uriel. "Of course he swears."
"Hey, we don't all swear," I said, angrily. "I mean, um, sir. I'm sorry."
"You're not a mud monkey," said Uriel. "I know what you are."
"Well, they don't all," I said quietly, sort of hiding behind Castiel. "Besides, Dean's not a mud monkey either. He's a human. Just because humans are the most like monkeys doesn't mean they evolved from them, and just because you're a theistic evolutionist doesn't mean God is."
"Well, God isn't here," said Uriel. "So I'll call humans whatever I want to call them."
"Uriel," said Castiel. He glared at Uriel, who shut up.
I couldn't believe I was in the middle of a fight between two angels, and it wasn't even over who got to kill me first.
"Give us Anna," said Castiel to Dean and Sam.
"Anna's an innocent girl," said Sam.
"No," said Castiel. "Anna is far from innocent."
"And what is that supposed to mean?" said Sam.
"It means, she's worse than this abomination you've been screwing," said Uriel. "Now give us the girl."
Dean and Sam looked at each other. I could tell what they were both thinking, and apparently they could tell, too.
"Sorry," said Dean. "Get yourself another one. Try JDate."
"Who's gonna stop us?" asked Uriel. "You two? Or this demon whore?"
He attacked Ruby, throwing her against the wall, and then trying to kill her with his angel powers. Castiel and Sam looked at each other. Dean went after Uriel, first trying to hit him with his gun, then trying to punch Uriel. Uriel grabbed Dean's fist and twisted it back until Dean gasped.
Castiel started towards Sam.
"Cas, stop. Please," said Sam. Castiel put two fingers to Sam's forehead and Sam passed out. Then he turned to me.
"It's okay. I won't do anything, I promise," I said.
Castiel nodded. "Stay out of the fight, Keigh."
Uriel was beating Dean up, hitting and kicking Dean's face.
"Been waiting for this," he said gleefully.
Castiel put his hand on the door handle, and everything went crazy.
Light was everywhere. I saw Castiel and Uriel get blown out of the room and disappear. I knelt on the floor, covering my head. Soon, the light faded away, and Ruby and Dean started to breathe again.
Dean spat blood but got up, and then helped Ruby up. Sam squinted and woke up. Ruby went to Sam, and I followed Dean down the stairs to where Anna had drawn some crazy thing on the mirror in her own blood.
Anna looked terrible. She was very pale, and there was a long cut on her wrist that was oozing blood.
"Are they gone?" she asked breathily.
Dean was wrapping her wrist in his handkerchief to stop the bleeding.
"Did you kill them?" he asked.
"No," said Anna. "I sent them away. Far away."
Ruby came down the stairs.
"You want to tell me how?" asked Dean, looking at the mirror.
Anna followed his gaze. "That just popped in my head," she said. "I don't know how I did it. I just did it."
Dean sent Sam to investigate about Anna, while he and Ruby took Anna to the panic room at Bobby's house. I went with them to Bobby's house, but when Ruby tried to offer me a hex bag so that no angel or demon could find me, I refused.
"Tell Sam and Dean that if you guys want to hide with Anna, that's fine, but I'm not taking the risk. If I try to hide from the angels, maybe they'll get mad at me and kill me. It's just not worth it. This isn't my mess, Ruby. I don't even know what Anna did or didn't do to make them so angry. Just don't tell me where you're going, and I won't have anything to tell anybody else."
Ruby shrugged. "Fine by me. I'll tell Sam and Dean."
"Oh, and by the way," I added, "I know you're still working for Lilith. I don't know why you're still messing with Sam. I would think he would have figured out by now that you're not his friend, but I guess not. Just remember that I'm watching you."
Ruby looked like she wanted to stick her tongue out at me, but she just nodded. "Goodbye, Keigh," she said silkily.
I disappeared. I found a nice empty beach by the ocean and teleported my journal over so I could collect my thoughts. That's where I wrote this.