WHO: Sam & Ruby. WHAT: Hunting demons. WHEN: Early evening. WHERE: Right outside of Lawrence. RATING: TBD.
This wasn't awkward at all. Picking up the demon that had once been set to betray him and everyone else so that Lucifer could crawl out of Hell; the very same demon that Sam had to push himself away from because being close after all the secrets and lies did nothing but hurt. No, definitely not awkward. Not even a tiny bit. Sam grit his teeth, fingers wrapped tightly around the steering wheel of the car that he had hijacked to get to Ruby's place. He hadn't even bothered to suggest that they swap vehicles. She had a car that was in good shape to drive, but he didn't really want to talk. Didn't want to do much besides get this hunt done and get back to the apartments where he could hide at his place and sulk for a little while on his own. Odd behavior for the one who had invited her along to begin with, wasn't it? Well, it didn't help that he'd had second thoughts about it from that moment onward. As soon as Sam had suggested that Ruby come along with him, he found that he wanted to do nothing less than hit himself in the face for being so stupid. Asking her along was only going to complicate the hunt. Hunts were not meant to be more complicated than they already were. Now that he had this extra emotional baggage to worry about, Sam feared that he was going to screw it up somehow. That wasn't something that anyone in Lawrence could afford. Demons were serious business. The fact that they had been so subtly hidden just outside of the city all this time? Yeah, it showed just how serious the situation was. Like the band of them that he had tracked back to that business building a while back, they were probably positioned to wait for Lilith's orders on attacking them. They certainly couldn't attack them if Sam and Ruby got the jump on them first, now could they?
From what Sam had determined, there was no more than a good handful waiting for them. That could be handled well enough between them. He'd have been concerned if there were more - Dean would probably be coming along, in fact - but since there wasn't he decided to cut the hunt short between himself and Ruby. Himself originally. But now Ruby was here and...Sam glanced over at her from his side of the car quietly. He hadn't really said more than two words to her since he had ushered her into the car and taken off from her place. What could he say? Nothing. Really, nothing. Nothing that would be appropriate or would keep the calm air between them. Calm? Yeah, no. It wasn't calm. It was completely uncomfortable and the mere thought of how uncomfortable it truly was had Sam pulling at the collar of his jacket anxiously.
They were already halfway there. Maybe they didn't have to talk to each other; maybe they could take care of this hunt without saying a single word to one another.