Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 2 of Fault in Our Stars. I have to say that this episode was well a different one to write that is for sure. I mean after all this is one of the episodes that I haven't watched that much of, but I certainly tried with it. I made a choice of who Aeron was going to be with in this episode. She is going to try to split her time up between the boys. After all, why would she just want to spend time with just Sam knowing that Dean is going to hell in a short amount of time? Plus we will find out if the two of them will be alright with Dean actually going to the pit but that will be in due time. We will find out soon enough how this season turns out. Also we will see Ruby again in this chapter. I also added a little scene that explains the name Little Red Riding Hood from the last episode. Well I hope that you enjoy this chapter. Without further ado Chapter 2 of Fault in Our Stars.
Chapter 2
Aeron looked out the window with her head resting heavily on her hand. Her eyelids were drooping a little bit. She had been helping Sam way too much as of late trying to find a way to help Dean out of his contract even though he had told Sam to stop. She couldn't even get him to stop either. She knew that Dean wouldn't be able to get out of his contract with the crossroads demon that he had made the deal with. She had already gone through that with her brother when he had told her and hell she only had a month to try and save him and she couldn't even do that. She didn't think that they would be able to save Dean from the pit. But she wanted to try to help Sam as much as she could.
Sam was busy working on his laptop. Sam was being very frantic. He wanted to find the answers. He really didn't want to lose his brother. "What do you mean you don't think it will work, Bobby? It's a demon-dispelling ritual."
Dean rapped on the front window waving a packet of papers.
"Well maybe we got the translation wrong." Sam let out a sigh."Look, we can't just let Dean fry in hell while we….Well, there's gotta be something that w…." He looked up and saw his brother coming towards them. "Oh, ah, yeah, no, ah, I.. I gotta go. Uh. Okay. Never mind." Sam hung up his phone quickly.
Dean looked at Sam suspiciously. "Hey. Who was that?"
"Ah, I was just ordering pizza."
Aeron looked at Sam with a wide eyed look. God he was going to get himself caught. She didn't know if Dean would believe it.
Dean looked around. "Dude, you do realize that you're in a restaurant?"
"Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I… just felt like pizza, you know?" Sam said, smiling a tight-lipped smile.
Dean sat down. "O-kay, Weirdy Mcweiderton." He cleared his throat.
"Dean, do you have something?" Aeron asked tiredly, rubbing her face.
"So, I think I got something." Dean said with a smile.
"Yeah?" Sam asked, looking over at his brother.
"Cicero, Indiana. Falls on his own power saw." Dean told them.
"And? What, that's it? One power saw?"
"Well… yeah."
"And you think that this is the case?" Sam asked, raising his eyebrows. This didn't sound like a case to him in the least bit. It sounded like a freak accident to him.
Aeron looked over at Dean. "Dean… are you certain about that?" She ruffled up the back of her hair rubbing the back of her head tiredly.
"Well, I don't know. Could be." Dean said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"I don't know, Dean. I… I…" Sam stopped talking, not sure of how to tell his brother that this was most likely that there was no case.
"Alright, there's something better… better in Cicero than just a case."
"And that is?" Sam questioned looking at his brother telling him in his own way to come out with it.
"Lisa Braeden." Dean said with a fond smile.
"Who the hell is that?" Aeron asked, resting her head back in her hand heavily.
Sam looked over at her. He knew that he was asking a lot from her and judging by how she looked he was making her tired by having her do all this research with him trying to save Dean. He looked at his brother and let out a sigh. "Should I even ask?" Sam asked, rubbing his head. He didn't really want to know any of his brother's sexapaids.
"Remember that road trip I took, uh… gosh, about eight years ago now? You were in Orlando with dad wrapping up that banshee thing." Dean said, looking thoughtful. God it was such a long time ago for him. He was almost 20 or was 20 when he did that.
"Yeah. Yeah, the five states, five day…"
Dean laughed. "Yeah. Well, kind of. Although I spent most of my time in Lisa Braeden's loft."
Aeron groaned. "Should I be listening to this?" Aeron palmed her face. She didn't want to hear anything about sex. She hated it when guys shoved it right in front of her. But then again the only reason why it bothered her was because she hadn't been with anyone.
"So let me get this straight. You want… you want to drive all the way to Cicero just to hook up with some random chick?" Sam said, rolling his eyes.
"She was a yoga teacher. It was the bendiest weekend of my life. Come on. Have a heart, huh? It's my dying wish." Dean said pleadingly.
"Yeah, well, how many dying wishes are you gonna get?" Sam questioned his brother.
"As many as I can squeeze out. Come on. Smile, Sam! God knows I'm gonna be smiling after 24 hours with Gumby girl." Dean chuckled.
Sam laughed a little bit.
"Gumby girl." Dean frowned. "Does that make me Pokey?"
"Come on." Aeron said with a groan. "Can we just either go to Cicero or the motel." She ruffled her hair up. "I would like to at least get some kind of sleep. And for dying wishes. This will be your last one." She said with narrowed eyes. "You try to get another one, you might end up in an early grave."
"Okay Miss Grumpy…" Dean said, holding his hands up in surrender.
She narrowed her eyes at Dean. "This miss grumpy has a gun in her pocket. And has the tendency to trigger happiness when she's tired."
Dean's eyes widened. "Jesus, Red are you trying to check my ticket to the pit early?"
Aeron crossed her arms. "I am tired. I want to sleep."
Dean looked at Sam. "Then you can use Sammy as a pillow."
Sam looked at Aeron with wide eyes.
"Oh and how am I to use him as a pillow. You know I sprawl on the back seat when I sleep. Putting Sam in the back is going to make him uncomfortable." Her cheeks were pink from embarrassment.
Dean rolled his eyes. "I am just pulling your leg, Red. Oh and you have to tell us about the story of the being called Little Red Riding Hood."
Aeron groaned. "Really? You still want to know that story even though I am a tired, bitchy trigger happy hunter?" She warned. She was tired and all she wanted to do was get some kind of sleep so she wasn't so tired.
"Oh I will leave you alone if you tell me." Dean said, giving her a look.
Aeron rubbed her face. "How about we get in the car and go to Cicero and I will tell you in the car before I fall asleep. Sounds good?"
Dean grinned. "Oh yeah it does."
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The three of them were in the car.
Dean looked in the rear view mirror at Aeron. "So what's the story?"
"Isaac and Tamara gave me that name. I actually met them when I was fourteen years old."
Sam looked at Aeron concerned. "Was that when you were… "
"Very ill?" Aeron asked, looking at him. She nodded her head. "Yeah. I already had lost my hair." She said softly. "I wore a red tam to cover my head. I didn't want people to know that I had lost all of my hair and was bald underneath it." She let out a soft sigh. "That is how Isaac got the name Little Red Riding Hood." Granted it was a very good memory. She didn't even care that she was sick at the time; it was the first memory she had of the two of them.
"Did they know you were sick?" Dean questioned looking at her through the mirror. He could tell that talking about her cancer and her time being sick was something that she didn't like talking about.
"Actually no… not until I collapsed on the case that we were on." She rubbed her face. "Darrel had to explain it to them when he put me in the car. I don't think I had ever seen him that sad until his last days."
Dean swallowed the lump in his throat. "You can get some rest."
Aeron nodded her head. "Yeah thanks." She said laying down on the seat. She curled up and closed her eyes. She tried to keep the memories pushed back into the back of her mind of the days that she had cancer and her brother giving his own life for hers. And the death of Isaac. The nickname Little Red Riding Hood would never be used again.
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Dean pulled up outside of the Cicero Pines Motel. He stopped the car.
Aeron and Sam got out of the car.
Dean grinned. "Don't wait up for me Sammy, Red." Dean said, starting to pull away as Sam got his bag out of the car as well as Aeron's.
"Wait, Dean. Dean, you…. Dean!" He shouted.
Dean drove off as soon as the bags were taken out.
Aeron rolled her eyes. She put her hand on his arm. "He was bound to do this sooner or later. Come on…"
"A room?"
"Yeah. Who knows how long he will be gone."
Sam groaned.
"I can tell by how you look you have had this done to you before."
"You have no idea."
Aeron rolled her eyes. "Actually I do have a pretty good idea." She said, shaking her head. "Come on."
The two of them went inside of the motel to get a room so they would at least have a place to put their things so they weren't carrying it on them if they decided to get something to eat later on.
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Aeron and Sam had gone to a diner to get some lunch which wasn't that far away from the motel. It was of course a late lunch for them. Sam was on his laptop while Aeron was on her's. The two of them were sitting next to one another instead of from across one another. Sam had ordered some fries and a burger while Aeron had ordered a salad and fries.
Sam's free hand brushed Aeron's free hand.
Aeron looked over at him and saw a small shy smile on his lips. Aeron swore she saw a little bit of blush on his cheeks.
A blonde haired woman sat across from him. "Hello, Sam." She said ignoring Aeron who was sitting next to him.
Sam looked up at the blonde. "You've been following me since Lincoln." He said with narrowed eyes.
The woman closed his laptop. "Nothing much gets by you, huh?" She took one of his fries. She took a bite of it. She moaned. "These are amazing. It's like a deep-fried crack. Try some."
Sam scoffed.
Aeron rolled her eyes.
"That knife you had. You can kill demons with that thing?" Sam said looking at the blonde like she was something that he didn't want to trust just yet. He wanted his facts straight.
"Sure comes in handy when I have to swoop in and save the damsel in distress and his sidekick." The woman said, looking over at Aeron.
Aeron narrowed her eyes on the blonde. She was beginning to really hate this woman.
"Where'd you get it?" Sam questioned lacing his fingers with Aeron's.
"Skymall." She said taking a plate and squeezing ketchup onto it.
"Why are you following me?" Sam questioned again. He wanted her to give him more answers.
"I'm interested in you."
"Why?" Aeron said, narrowing her eyes at the blonde.
The woman ignored her. "Because you're tall. I love tall men. And then there's the whole antichrist thing."
"Excuse me?" Sam said in confusion.
"You know, a generation of psychic kids, a Yellow-eyed demon rounds you up, and a celebrity deathmatch ensues. You're the sole survivor."
"How do you know about that?"
"I'm a good hunter. So, Yellow eyes had some pretty big plans for you, Sam."
"Had been the key word."
Aeron looked at the blonde skeptically. Was this woman actually a demon?
"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. Ding-dong, the demon's dead. Good job with that. It doesn't change the fact that you're special… in that Anthony Michael Hall E.S.P. visions kind of way."
"No. No, that stuff is not happening any more. Not since Yellow-Eyes died."
"Well, I'm thinking you're still a pretty big deal. I mean, after all that business with your mom."
"What about my mom?"
"You know, what happened to her friends… You… I don't know. You've got a little bit of catching up to do, my friend. So, why don't you look into your mom's pals…" She wrote a number on his hand. "and then give me a call and we'll talk again?" She got up to leave. "And, by the way, you do know there's a job in this town, right?" She turned to walk away.
Sam's phone rang. He answered it. "Hello."
"Dude, there is a job here."
"Really?"
"Yeah. You know that one freak accident we read about in the paper? Turns out there's four more that never even made the paper, all in this… Morning HIll gated community. People falling off ladders and drowning in their Jacuzzis all over the neighborhood."
"That is weird."
"Yeah, something's up. Something this nice, big gate can't protect them from."
"See you at the motel?"
"Yeah."
Sam hung up his cellphone.
Aeron looked at Sam. "There is a case here?"
Sam nodded his head. "Yeah. But what it is… I have no idea." Sam said, rubbing his face.
"Dean going to meet us?"
"Yes."
Aeron closed her laptop. "I guess we should meet up with your brother then."
"You alright?"
"Hm?"
"You okay?"
"I don't trust her." Aeron said gesturing to his hand that had the number of that blonde haired girl.
"Are you jealous?"
Aeron scoffed. " Me jealous of her? Nah. Just don't like someone that knows way too much about you." She shook her head. "She might be a demon Sam."
Sam pulled her against him. "She won't be you, Ry." He said, pressing a soft kiss onto her forehead.
Aeron smiled. "I am glad that you think that."
"You look cute when you're mad."
Aeron laughed, shaking her head. "You're only saying that because I'm a pistol."
Sam hummed at the thought. "Maybe." He said with a grin.
Aeron just shook her head.
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Dean and Aeron were walking back to the car since Sam was busy getting information of the father that had fallen off of a ladder.
Dean stopped.
Aeron looked at him. "What is it Dean?" She asked in confusion.
"Come on."
"Dean."
Dean took off towards the boy.
Aeron quickly followed him.
"Hey, Ben." Dean said, sitting down next to him.
"Hey. You were at my party." Ben said, looking at Dean.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm Dean and this is my friend Aeron." He saw the look on Ben's face. "Everything okay? Something wrong?" He saw an empty case in Ben's hands. He looked across and saw four boys on the field playing a gameboy type game. "Is that your game they're playing with?"
"Ryan Humphrey borrowed it, and now he won't give it back."
"Well, you want me to go…"
"No! Don't go over there! Only bitches send a grown-up."
"You're not wrong."
"And I'm not a bitch."
"Is that Humphrey? The one that needs to lay off the burgers."
"Dean." Aeron said, giving him a look.
"Easy there Red."
Ben nodded his head.
"Hm."
"Dean don't you dare."
Dean leaned over and whispered something into his ear.
Ben got up and walked across the park to talk to the group of kids.
"Dean what the fucking hell is wrong with you. You can't tell him to go over there. He's going to get hurt."
"He's a bully, Aeron."
"So Dean. That doesn't mean you tell an 8 year old to do something like that. He's going to get hurt."
"And why did you come with me?" He questioned. "Shouldn't you be with Sam."
"I came with you to keep your sorry ass from doing something stupid and it seems like I can't even do that right. If he gets hurt it will be your fault." Aeron said, scolding him.
"You sound too much like Sammy. No wonder the two of you will be perfect for one another."
Aeron's cheeks flushed red. "Quit being an asshole."
Dean smiled when he saw Ben kicking Ryan between the legs. He looked around and made sure that no one else saw it.
Ben came back running over with his game. He grinned at Dean. "Thanks. Dude, that was awesome."
Lisa walked over seeing what had happened. "Benjamin Isaac Braeden! What's gotten into you?"
"He stole my game." Ben told his mother.
"So you kicked him? Since when is…" She looked at Dean who was grinning. "Did you tell my son to beat up that kid?"
"What? Somebody had to teach him how to kick the bully in the nads." Dean said as if it was something normal.
Aeron scoffed, shaking her head.
"Who asked you to teach him anything?" Lisa said looking at him like he had gone insane.
"Just relax."
"What are you even still doing here? We had one weekend together a million years ago. You don't know me. And you have no business with my son. And you have a girl with you." She walked over to her son grabbing onto him to get him away.
"Lisa. She is just a friend." Dean said looking at the woman that well he enjoyed being with eight years ago.
"Just leave us alone." She said forcing her son to leave.
Ben pulled out of her grip running back to Dean giving him a big hug.
"Ben!"
"Thanks." Ben told Dean before going over to his mother.
Aeron shook her head.
Dean noticed that three children were staring creepily. He cleared his throat. "Red."
"Hm?"
"I think we should go and find Sammy."
"Why?"
"Come on. Can't tell you here."
Aeron nodded her head. "Alright."
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Sam was on his computer doing some research.
Dean came in with Aeron behind him. "Something's wrong with the kids in this town."
"Yeah. Tell me about it." Sam said, rubbing his face.
Aeron came over and saw what Sam had up on the computer. "Huh… that might explain it."
"So, what do you know about changelings?" Sam asked, looking at his brother.
"Evil monster babies?" Dean asked in confusion.
"No, not necessarily babies." Sam said, shaking his head.
"They're kids. Creepy, stare at you like you're lunch kids?"
"Yeah. There's one at every victim's house."
"Oh wow… Nice. I hate changelings." Aeron groaned, rubbing her face.
"Have you faced them before?" Sam asked, looking at her.
"Hell no. Was taken and replaced with one of those things." Aeron said, shaking her head. "Evil little fuckers they are."
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Dean was preparing a kerosene torch.
Sam was seated on the bed. "So, changelings can perfectly mimic children. According to lore, they climb in the window, snatch the kid. Y'know, there were marks on the window sill at one of the kid's houses. Looked to me like blood." Sam told them.
"The changeling grabs an id, assumes its form, joins the happy fam for kicks?" Dean questioned.
"No." Aeron said, rolling her eyes.
Sam nodded his head. "She's right."
"Changelings feed on the mom. Synovial fluid. The moms have these odd bruises on the back of their necks. Changelings can drain them for a few weeks before mom finally dies."
"And then there's dad and the babysitter." Dean said, rubbing his face.
"Yeah." Sam said, rubbing his face. "Seems like anyone who gets between the changeling and its food source ends up dead."
Dean held up his torch. "And fire's the only way to waste them?"
Sam nodded his head. "Yup."
"Great. We'll just bust in, drag the kids out, torch them on the front lawn. That'll play great with the neighbors. What about the real ones? What happened to them?"
"According to lore, they stash them underground somewhere. I don't know why, but if it's true, the real kids might be out there."
"We better start looking." Dean stopped for a second. "So, any kid in the neighborhood is vulnerable?"
"Yep."
"We gotta make a stop. I want to check on someone."
"Well Dean, if the real kids are still alive we don't have time. We…"
"We have to."
"Ben." Aeron said, realizing what he had meant.
Dean nodded his head.
"Of course…"
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Dean had decided to go and check on Ben. He had grown to like the kid. He thought that Lisa had done a good job with her son. And it really made him wonder if Ben was really his child. After all the things that stood out to him were the things that Dean himself did. "I will be right back." Dean told Aeron and Sam before getting out of the car.
Aeron groaned.
"You want to tell me what that is all about?" Sam asked turning in the front seat a little bit to look at the strawberry blonde in the back.
"He may have or may have not gotten attached to Lisa Braeden's kid." Aeron said, shaking her head.
Sam's face scrunched up in confusion. Why would his brother take an interest in a boy that was eight years old? "Seriously?"
Aeron shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe Ben reminds him of when he was young. I don't know."
Dean ran up to the car. "They took Ben. He's changed."
"What? Are you sure?" Sam questioned Dean.
"Yeah, I'm sure. I checked his windowsill."
"Blood?" Aeron and Sam questioned looking at the elder brother.
"I don't think it's blood, and I think I know where the kids are."
"Are you certain about this?" Aeron asked softly.
"Yeah." Dean said quickly getting into the car.
"I hope that you are right about this."
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They arrived at a semi-finished home that had a mound of dirt outside of it that had a Cicero Realty For Sale sign outside of it.
Sam picked up some of the dirt and looked it over. "Red dirt. That's what was on the window."
"Ah, you take the front. I'll go around."
"And what about me?"
"How about you go with Sammy?"
Aeron rolled her eyes. "You don't want me to work with you?"
"Well it is easier for you to work with Sammy."
Aeron shook her head. "Come on Sam."
Sam nodded his head.
Dean walked around the building and went in through the back. He heard a noise from the basement. He walked into the basement and saw a large amount of cages each one had an abducted child. "Ben… Ben… it's okay. I'm gonna get you out of here, okay?"
Ben looked at Dean and nodded his head.
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Sam and Aeron were looking around upstairs.
A red haired woman entered seeing the both of them. "What do you think you're doing?" She questioned with narrowed eyes.
Sam's hand found Aeron's. He looked at the woman's reflection and saw the true monster on a pane of glass.
Aeron swallowed the lump in her throat.
"This is private property. I'm calling the police."
Aeron and Sam didn't move.
"You heard me! Get out!" She said advancing on the two of them.
Sam reached for his bag. "Ah, I could… Just let me get my bag. I'm going. I don't mean to cause any trouble." He said reaching for his bag and pulled out the flame thrower. He aimed it at her and whoosh she was gone.
The two hunters shared a look with one another. The two of them looked around. Where did she go?
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Dean broke the cages open. He got Ben out who in turn helped him with the other kids.
"It's okay. You're gonna get out of here, alright?" Ben told them. "Hurry."
"Come on, girls! Come on! Keep moving, keep moving." Dean said, leading them towards a window. "Okay, everybody back! Everybody back!" He cleared off the windowsill.
Ben ushered the kids back.
Dean grabbed a plank of wood and smashed it. He used it to brush it off.
"Here." Ben took off his jacket. "Use this."
"Alright. Alright, Ben." He said using it. "Come on. Come on."
"Him first." Ben told Dean.
Sam and Aeron came running in.
"Hey! Dean! There's a mother." Sam said, trying his best to catch his breath.
"A mother changeling?" Dean asked, looking at the two of them with wide eyes.
"Yep. We wouldn't lie about this." Aeron said, moving around Sam.
"We got to get them out of here quick."
"Right there, right there. There's one more. You have to break the lock!" Dean told them.
They were so close to getting out of there.
"I guess that's why the changelings are keeping the kids alive… so the mom can snack on them." Sam said freeing the red haired woman. "There. Come on, I gotcha." He said help her out.
Katie screamed as she saw the mother changeling behind her.
Aeron felt the mother changeling run into her causing her to fly to the ground hard. She felt the air leave her lungs. She groaned.
Sam was about to use the flamethrower and lighter on her, but she kicked the lighter out of his hand. She roundhouse kicked him. She kicked his ass pretty much before throwing him across the room causing him to land on top of Aeron.
Dean lunged at her with a two by four. She nailed him, knocking him down. "Ben, get them out of here." He grabbed a brick and got to his feet again to clock the changeling mom with it.
Ben helped the others out of the window while Dean fought off the changeling mom.
Sam had gotten up off of Aeron. He was going to have to tell her sorry for landing on her the way that he had. But right now that changeling needs to be dealt with.
She turned and faced Sam, but it was too late. She was torched and burned to a crisp thanks to Dean's homemade torch.
Sam dropped the torch which Dean caught in his hands. He went and checked on Aeron. "You alright."
Aeron slowly got up to her feet. "Yeah…" She said, trying to take a few deep breaths. "Just had the wind knocked out of me is all. I'll be fine. Let's just get those kids home to their families."
Sam nodded his head and pressed a soft kiss on her forehead.
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Dean, Sam, and Aeron give Ben a ride back home.
Ben opens the door and gets out of the car running towards his mother.
"Ben?! Ben! Baby, are you okay?" Lisa asked, pulling him into her arms.
"I'm okay, mom."
"Oh, my god." She sobbed. "What the hell happened?"
"I'll explain everything if you want me to, but, trust me, you probably don't. The important thing is that Ben's safe."
"Thank you." She hugged Dean. "Thank you."
Sam and Aeron looked at one another.
Aeron's hand gripped onto Sam's.
"I'm gonna give you guys some time."
"Me too."
"Come on." Lisa said, smiling at her son.
Lisa, Ben, and Dean went inside of the house that she lived in.
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Sam had dialed a number to ask about people from his mother's life. Perhaps he would get somewhere while Aeron was in the shower. "Hi. I needed to check some facts with your, uh, with your secretary about a fire that occurred on November 24, 2006 in Lawrence, Kansas. Hardecker was his name. Okay. Great. I was just trying to find out the date he died. This is police chief Phil Jones. July 13th. Can you check the records for Robert Campbell? July 19, 2001. Dead on arrival. What I'm after is, is, the cause of death. Heart condition? Wasn't he a cardiac surgeon? Wouldn't he have known about it? I'm looking for information on… on Mrs. Wallace's death. Two deaths. Who was the other? Ed Campbell. Any survivors? No, that's all I needed. Thank you very much." Sam hung up his phone. He threw it onto his bed. "Oh, my god." He rubbed his face. This had gone from bad to worse.
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"They're all dead. All of them. All of my mom's friends. Her doctor, her uncle… everyone who ever knew her, systematically wiped off the map one at a time." He laughed. "Someone went through a hell of a lot of trouble trying to cover their tracks."
"Yep. The Yellow-Eyed Demon."
"So, what's your deal? You show up wherever I am. You know all about me. You know all about my mom."
"I already told you. I'm…"
"Oh, right, right. Yeah, yeah. Just a hunter. Just some hunter who happens to know more about my own family than I do." Sam sighed. "Just tell me who you are."
"Sam, it…"
"Just tell me who you are."
She laughed. "It doesn't matter."
Sam narrowed his eyes. "Just tell me who you are!"
"Fine." She blinked her eyes and they went black. She blinked again and they went back to normal coloration.
Sam backed up fumbling in his bag.
"Think twice before going for that holy water."
He pulled out his flask holding it up. "Just give me one reason I should."
"I'm here to help you, Sam."
"Is this some kind of joke?"
"God's honest truth… or whatever. Better than that joke of a girl that is in the other room wondering where you are." Ruby said with a smile.
"You're a demon. And she's my…"
"Don't be such a racist. I'm here because I want to help you. And I can if… you trust me. Ane what is she to you? Your girlfriend? Poor choice there."
Sam narrowed his eyes. Now that he didn't like it. "Trust you?" He held the flask out. There was no way that he could trust her.
"Sam, calm down."
"Start talking. All those murders… What was the demon trying to cover up?"
"I don't know."
"What happened to my mother?"
"I honestly don't know. That's what I'm trying to find out. All I know is that it's about you."
"What?"
Ruby laughed. "Don't you get it, Sam? It's all about you. What happened to your mom, what happened to her friends. They're trying to cover up what he did to you. And I want to help you figure it out."
"Why would you want to help me?"
"I have my reasons. Not all demons are the same, Sam. Not all of us want the same thing. Me?" She shrugged her shoulders. "I want to help you from time to time. That's all. And if you let me, there's something in it for you."
"What could you possibly…"
"I could help you save your brother."
"Aeron said that there were slim chances." Sam said, looking at Ruby.
"And she's right. You're just not looking in the right place."
Sam rubbed his neck. "I should go."
"Back to your girlfriend?"
Sam looked down. "Yeah."
"Don't tell her about this meeting. She might not like it."
"And who are you to order me? I won't keep secrets from her."
Ruby shrugged her shoulders. "Well I guess then you will be in a load of trouble then."
Sam slung his bag over his shoulder. "At least she will know I won't lie to her." He said walking out of the room.
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This is the end of Chapter 2. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. Do you think Aeron will be upset with Sam for talking to Ruby like he had been? Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'm going to try to update as soon as I can with the next part of this story. I think currently I'm going to work on a series at a time. Pick a few and write them out and get them all finished up and post them as quickly as I can. Reviews help me keep going when it comes to writing. Until next time.