Ruby/Claire/Sam - Posession Practice
Claire really hadn't expected a warning anyhow, and if there was anything one could attach a bit of 'grateful' to as far as a possession, it was probably that as far as Claire was concerned. It meant there was no bracing during a lame count of three or tensing any more than a fraction in the seconds between Ruby exiting Coma Girl and entering her.
This time was different, as she was expecting to retain a little more of it because it was longer, but that wasn't the case. Rather than just being a fog, it was an intermittent thing, brief gaps of nothing – the black out – coming as Ruby settled into her body, as she commanded more control of conscious movement. The only thing, in all of this, that wasn't foreign was the sound of Ruby's voice in her head, because that she was familiar with from having Peter in there so much, save for the month and a half spent at the Winchester's, a second voice. It was still far more than her experiences with Peter, as Ruby's mind was there, persistent, not leaving, but it was one less thing Claire had to reconcile.
But this time she didn't consciously try to fight and focused on dulling the instinctive fight while Ruby voiced those reassurances. This was weird and wrong still, Claire knew she wasn't going to like just being a passenger – and a muffled one at that – in her own body, but the longer she took to adapt to this, the more time Alastair had to escape. This wasn't a time to ask to get used to it or figure out if she could wrestle Ruby for even brief moments of control – it was just time to act.
"Happy?" Uttering a soft pfft-ing noise of dark amusement after reacclimating to being alone in her body again, she stood up from the chair, shaky but determined. "Ruby, if you're expecting me to, like, break out my pompoms, you're in for a long wait."
Only a crazy person would be happy or gung ho about this, and Claire wasn't that kind of crazy. But she was ready for this, barring one more question, a question for Ruby.
"If you end up with a piece of something jammed into your back," she asked, dead serious and unflinching as she looked at Ruby, "are you ready for yanking it right back out without missing a beat?" Ruby had always inhabited human bodies that felt pain fully and a lack of that could be a novel thing, even distracting while witnessing how the body healed and did it so fast. "It'll still hurt, but a lot less than you normally feel. So if you want to see, feel it, in action now, you should probably do it now. I've got a knife in my purse."
For Ruby, it was about a human learning something foreign to them – possession. For Claire, it was about Ruby learning something foreign to humans and demons alike – rapid cell regeneration.