"It's not your fault," Sam muttered as he scooped up more dirt. "I'm a hunter. I knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to stand by you." He paused, for a moment, and shot a determined look Ruby's way. "I don't regret it, either. The crap they're throwing at us sucks, but it's worth it if I still have you here with me." Though, with those hunters eying them, that didn't leave much room for Sam to be sure that Ruby would always be there with him, anyway. He furrowed his brow and tried not to look too conflicted; frankly, it was something that he appeared to be failing horribly at. "Doesn't mean I gotta like what we have to put up with. I just want us to be left alone. No Lucifer, no demons, no hunters. Just us." That was too much to ask for, much as Sam wished they could be free of it all. He cast a longing look back toward the house that Ruby had seemed so enthused about earlier, shook his head, then kept on digging.
Let it be me.
"No," Sam said shortly, "I know you can handle yourself, but I don't want to risk you going at them alone. Besides, we're in this together." He propped his shovel into the ground, then walked over to still Ruby from her own digging. Sam put a hand on her shoulder then, looking all too focused on their conversation for someone who was walking on the site of a hunt. It was reckless, sure, but that was kind of how he got around her. Ruby made him crazy. "Maybe it'll be hard for me, but I wouldn't blink twice to put those sons of bitches down if I thought for a second that they were gonna kill you. You're my family now. Do you understand? No matter how I feel about going after other hunters, nothing in the world is ever going to be more important to me than you. If they come lookin' for us, we're gonna take them on together. They won't die thinking that two monsters just got the best of them; they'll die knowing that they tried to take down two people in love and that, in doing so, they made the biggest mistake in the world."
His hand slid from her shoulder and into her hair and Sam nodded silently, as if he'd already made up his mind for the both of them. "You and me have to stand together. It's the only way we're gonna survive."
And at that, the ghost reappeared behind Sam and smacked him upside the head with his own shovel.