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Tweak says, "Dad's on a hunting trip..."

winchester, sam. (ex_demonbloo908) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2010-07-25 23:44:00

Entry tags:

jo harvelle, ruby, sam winchester

WHO: Sam, Meg, Ruby, Jo, and Cara. A few NPC demons too.
WHAT: Getting Ruby back; losing Jo.
WHEN: Not too long after the final seal broke.
WHERE: An abandoned house near the church.
RATING: High. Death and violence!

Lucifer was out of his cage. Free. Walking upon the earth, planning out his apocalypse, probably working on bringing forth the end of all humanity in itself in terrible, unimaginable ways. He would kill everyone. Lucifer would lead the front lines of the apocalypse and he would see the world burn. Sam wasn't a moron. He knew that was what they were all in store for. Sam knew that they were all royally screwed. After all, that was partially what Meg had been bitching on about through her happy little rantfest, wasn't it? They had lost in more ways than they could have ever imagined and it was all because he had gotten screwed into breaking the final seal. Lucifer. Sam angrily ran a hand through his hair. He was beyond emotionally and physically shattered at the moment, but that didn't mean that he was going to fall to his knees and call it quits. Maybe it didn't matter anymore. Going out of his way to so much as do anything - think, breathe, feel - maybe it was all pointless now that Sam had personally condemned the entire world to death. But knowing that Ruby was out there, probably hurting and alone because of what Meg had done to her made it impossible for Sam to stand around and bury himself in the fear and self-loathing that he felt. The world was going to end. Fine. But Sam was going to make sure that it didn't end before he got to see Ruby one more time. In a different body with an entirely different face, nothing more than a puff of black smoke - it didn't matter how he saw her. Sam just wanted to find her. Because if the world was ending, he didn't want for Ruby's last moments to be filled with nothing but pain and loneliness. Sam wouldn't let it end that way. Not for her.

Even though his perspective on the situation was wrong, Sam felt very much like the world was going to explode at any second. Lucifer was out. How long would it take for someone as powerful as he to destroy everything? Would he hesitate to do so? Would he do it right away? Would he set the end of the world at a slow, painful pace? Sam didn't know. He knew nothing now, except for how badly he had screwed everyone over. They were all going to die.

I've killed everyone.

Sam climbed out of the old car he and Meg (disguised as Ruby) had driven up to Maryland in earlier. They were no longer at the church. No, they had high-tailed it away from the exploding light and escape of the Devil as fast as they could have managed. Now? Now they were here. At this quiet, abandoned place littered with rusting fences, overgrown grass, and houses that were faded and broken. The neighborhood was an old one. If anyone lived in it before, it seemed to be evacuated entirely now. Sam was more than certain that was because the demons that Meg had been working with had taken it over entirely. No pesky humans to make things difficult. Sam scowled in irritation and moved around to the trunk of the car. Meg was trapped in there. With a Devil's Trap painted right on the inside of the trunk door, there was no way that she could escape without Sam letting her out. Sam reached into his pocket and grabbed the knife he'd stolen from her. Ruby's knife. As far as Sam was concerned, Meg didn't deserve to touch it. She had already disgraced Ruby enough as it was by walking around and pretending to be her for so long. But she'd get hers for that, all right. Once Sam had Ruby back? Meg was going to suffer more than she had in her entire pathetic existence. Sam was determined to make Hell look like a walk in the park for what she had done.

Sam pulled the trunk door open and immediately jabbed the knife at Meg's throat. He hated that she was wearing the face that Sam had become so accustomed to calling Ruby's own. "You're going to cooperate. If you don't? I'm going to stab you in the neck." Sam pressed the blade roughly against her throat to illustrate his point. "Which house?"

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frostandsnow
2010-08-20 03:27 pm UTC (link)

He was being so gentle with the now dead girl, leaning her against the side of the car. It was all confusing in some ways, Ruby was learning to see her as something other than just the meat she'd been trapped in, but a living breathing girl that was dead now because of her. Like so many others over the years, all the lives she had taken, all the potential she'd snuffed out and why that was a bad thing. She was learning, from Sam mostly but from everyone here, how she needed to think about those people. Not that she let herself dwell on it, she thought it might destroy her if she did. She wasn't human, she didn't have the same emotions anymore, not all of them anyway. Though she hadn't thought herself capable of love until Sam. So maybe guilt. Maybe it would find her. "...We don't have to burn her, look at the body, no demons gonna want that. We call, we let them know where it is, make sure your prints aren't on her and then that family have something to bury that still looks like her. I've taken that right from too many families. Lets not take it from this one"

As he broke the trap and helped her out of the truck Ruby had to admit, seeing him like this worried her, bothered her more than she cared to admit. He was supposed to be the strong one wasn't he. "Sssh" she coaxed once she was on her feet, and raised her hand to his cheek lowering his head till he met her gaze. "You don't need to say anything Sam, there's plenty of time for that later, you're here, we're together, and we'll deal with the rest okay?" She couldn't resist giving him a soft kiss, just wanting him to know that whatever had happened, whatever Meg had done. This was her. This was them. And that was what was important. But he was right. They needed to get out of here. "Just get the body and we'll go"

She was still looking at the girl as she spoke, waiting, wondering what exactly she was supposed to think about it all and more worried about Sam than any of it.

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ex_demonbloo908
2010-08-20 09:07 pm UTC (link)

"It's not demons I'm worried about," Sam said quietly, "it's her. Think about what she went through." Sam cautiously looked over to Ruby. "Most angry spirits are born from violent deaths. I think it's more than safe to say that her death was unpleasant." He didn't want to deprive the girls family of proper burial rights, but Sam didn't want to condemn them to a life of torture and potential tragedy if their daughter or wife or sister or whoever this was happened to come back as a violent spirit. "I'd like to hand her off to her family more than anything in the world..." Sam uncomfortably looked in the direction of the body. "But we can't. We can't leave anything behind. Was there anything personal on her?" Sam looked over at Ruby, frowning slightly. "A wallet? ID? Anything that they can use to identify her when they find the remains?" He wasn't going to spare any parts. Not even a tooth. Sam knew that it all had to go, otherwise he was leaving someone at risk. Even after raising Lucifer from the pit, Sam was still trying to play by the rules. He was a hunter at heart. He had to.

Of course, Sam didn't necessarily bother sticking to every rule. As the demon before him reached for his face, Sam didn't cringe or retaliate in anger - he leaned into her touch, eyes squeezing shut at the simple gesture. Ruby was being forgiving. God, Sam couldn't understand why she would even want to - but she was. For that, Sam found he was more than grateful. He didn't have the strength to stand there and watch her walk away. That would have been the last of him left. Sam would have been nothing with her gone. He'd have had nothing because God only knew how much Sam had left after all the terrible things that he had done. "Okay," Sam said in an uneven voice, reaching for the hand that covered his cheek. He dragged her fingers to his mouth and kissed them, then grabbed her hand and pulled her close. He didn't need to say it. As Sam looked across at Ruby, the look he gave her spoke for him: thank you. He needed her. She was his strength and if he was to go on after this, Sam was going to need her.

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frostandsnow
2010-09-02 03:39 pm UTC (link)

Ruby understood in theory. She'd never waited around to think about the violent spirits, or anything that might have gone with the lives she played fast and loose with when she'd taken their bodies to do such evil with. The families of those girls. Their lives, their deeds. None of it was fair and she was learning that from Sam. He was teaching her what she needed to know to be better, and being around her own kind again Ruby could see how far she had come. But he was right, he couldn't leave her, neither of them could. Ruby thought back to what the body might have contained. "Check the coat I guess, I think she had a wallet. I didn't really think about that kind of stuff, maybe they took it off her. I don't know." That done and Sam now holding her close Ruby could only focus on him. On making him feel better, as much as she could anyway. He needed to feel better. He didn't deserve any of this.

"We're gonna come through this. You know that right? Whatever it takes, whatever we have to do. You and me are stronger than any of this." She could tell just how worried he was, how much the last few days had shaken him, loosing her without knowing it, freeing Lucifer, finding her again. His voice was shaky, his grip on her tight, as if he was scared to loose her again. He loved her and she didn't need any proof of that. He always would, that look in his eyes, the gratitude... he shouldn't have to offer her that. She was the one that was grateful. "I love you Sam. You know that don't you. And I'll be here whatever you need", she stayed close, kissing him on occasion. Holding him. Just being what he needed.

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