( THE PIT )

VAN ALLEN HOUSE
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Elizabeth, Renee AND Tammi are around the coffee table again with the altar set up, chanting. "Kihér tolic echranmuk madan fiéré marc oh don duer kianave-"

Sam kicks in the door and the women scream out of fear getting up from the altar raising their hands in surrender. Sam enters the room with the colt drawn. "Let him go." He says.

"Let who go? What are you doing? You're insane, get out!" Renee yells.

"Look, if you know about me, you know about this gun, you're killing my brother, now let him go. Get away from the altar." Sam says.

"What?"

"Now!" Sam yells. They all move away from the altar with their hands still up as Sam keeps the colt trained on them.

HOTEL ROOM
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Elena is crouched next to Dean as he leans over a pool of blood he has spit out gasping and coughing blood still. There are quick footsteps outside and the door is kicked open and Ruby steps in and finds Dean who looks up and sees her.

"You wanna kill me? Get in line bitch." Dean says.

Ruby goes over to Dean and pulls him up by the collar tossing him on the bed, leans over him and forces his mouth open with her left hand as Elena tries to push her away.

Ruby sprays a black liquid into his mouth from a bag at her side with her right hand while Dean still struggles under her hold. Ruby stands up as Dean chokes on the liquid and spits some back out.

"Stop calling me bitch."

VAN ALLEN HOUSE
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Sam is still aiming the gun at the witches. "Go." He says as Elizabeth, Renee and Tammi move over in front of the fireplace with their hands still up in the air.

"What- we- we weren't hurting anyone." Elizabeth says.

"Please we don't even know your brother." Renee says.

"Stop the spell or die, five seconds." Sam says.

"What?"

Sam cocks the gun and points it back at them. "Four." He says.

"No, please, please don't kill us." Renee says.

"We were just getting Renee a lower mortgage rate." Elizabeth says. Sam looks confused but still holds the gun ready.

HOTEL ROOM
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"Next time you point that gun at me, I'm not gonna just disappear, understand?" Ruby tosses a sawed off shotgun over to Dean who is back to sitting on the foot of the bed, his face is cleaned off from the blood and liquid 'cure' that Ruby gave him.

"You saved my life." Dean says.

"Don't mention it." Ruby says.

"What was that stuff? God, it was ass, it tasted like ass." Dean says and Elena couldn't help but chuckle in relief.

"It's called, witchcraft shortbus." Ruby turns and walks out of the room closing the door behind her and leaving Dean on the bed slightly offended.

"You're the shortbus...shortbus."

HOUSE
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"Okay, maybe it's not you." Sam points the gun at Elizabeth. "or you." He points the gun at Renee this time. "Maybe it's you."

Sam points the gun at Tammi who looks upset and scared. "I don't even know what he's talking about, what are you even talking about?" Tammi says.

"I mean, all of you, everyone in your little coven, you've all had runs of good fortune, news worthy good fortune, except for you Tammi. Now tell me, why is that? You didn't want anything for yourself? Or is it because you're already getting what you wanted, like these women's souls." Sam says.

"I can't- I-I'm not- I-I-I don't..." Tammi sighs and puts her hands down, going from looking frightened to calm and her eyes change to black revealing that she is the demon Ruby warned him about. "Nice dick work Magnum."

"Let my brother go." Sam says.

"What's wrong, couldn't find my hex bag? Sorry, sweetheart, but your brothers' lungs should be on the floor by now."

Sam shoots the colt and the bullet trail is shown in slow motion and Tammi lifts up her hand and the bullet loses momentum is slowed and falls to the floor before it reaches it's target. Elizabeth gasps.

"You're in a lot of trouble Sam." Tammi motions her arm at Sam, and Sam is thrown against the wall behind him, and pinned there.

"Tammi, what's wrong with your eyes?" Elizabeth asks.

Tammi turns her head and attention on the other two women, making her eyes look human again, while Sam is pinned helplessly to the wall. "Tammi, what are you doing?" Renee asks.

"Renee, shut your painted hole." Tammi says. 

"What? I-I will- You can't- Not in my house Tammi Fenton."

Tammi waves her right hand at Renee and her head snaps to the right so far it almost turns completely backwards, killing her instantly and she falls to the floor as Elizabeth shrieks in terror covering her mouth.

"Look, you got me, let the girl go." Sam says.

"Wait your turn young man." Tammi says.

Elizabeth makes another scared noise bringing Tammi's attention back to her. "Shhh, Lizzie, its okay." She says.

"You're not Tammi." 

"No, but I'm wearing her meat. I had to break the ice with you girls somehow." Tammi says.

"You killed Renee." Elizabeth says.

"Renee, Amanda, that's what happens to witches who get voted off the island."

"Who are you?" Asks Elizabeth.

"Funny story actually. You remember all those dark demonic forces you prayed to, when you swore your servitude? Just who did you think you were praying to?" Tammi asks.

"This-this isn't it can't b-"

"What did you think it was? Make believe? Positive thinking? The Secret? No, it was me. You sold yourself to me, you pig." Tammi says as Elizabeth gasps and continues to stare at her in horror. "All I had to do was bring one good book to book club, and you ladies lined up to kiss my ass."

"No, no, we didn't know-" Elizabeth says.

"Oh, yes you did. You knew every step of the way, and now your ever living souls are mine." Tammi turns back to Sam who is still pinned to the wall. "Comments? Questions? Hmm, Sammy Winchester, wow! Right here in our little town. You know, my friends and I, we've been looking for you."

"Why? Oh, right, cause I'm supposed to lead some piss poor demon army." Sam says.

"No, not at all. You're not our Messiah, we don't believe in you. But, there's a new leader rising in the west, a real leader." Tammi says. "That's the horse to bet on Sam, the one who's gonna tear this world apart. Thing is, this demon, it doesn't like you very much, doesn't want the competition." She raises her hand and Sam slides up the wall and is suspended against it. "Nothing personal, it's a P.R. thing, so, buh-bye."

Tammi keeps her hand raised, and Sam begins to be crushed into the wall, paint and plaster cracking as he is pushed harder into the solid wall. Elizabeth stands there watching, frozen in fear and the front door to the house slams open.

Dean and Elena run in with weapons drawn and Tammi turns around easily throwing him over the sofa, and when he gets up, she pins him to the wall behind him. "Three for one, lovely." She pins Elena on the wall also.

Ruby's voice cuts in before Tammi can finish what she started. "Wait." Ruby walks in with her hands raised in surrender. "Please, I just came to talk." Ruby puts her hands down

"You made it out of the gate, impressive. That was a bitch of a fight wasn't it?" Tammi asks.

"Doors outta hell only open for so long." Ruby says.

"What do you want Ruby?"

"I've been lost without you, take me back. That's why I led the Winchesters here." Ruby says.

Dean looks angry, and mouths 'I told you so' to Sam. "They're for you, as a gift."

"Really?" Tammi asks.

"Let me serve you again, I've wanted it, I've wanted you for so long."

"You were one of my best." Ruby and Tammi look at each other, and Ruby pulls her knife out and tries to stab her, but she catches it in mid-air. "But then again, you always were a lying whore."

The knife is thrown sideways out of their hands across the wood floor. Tammi and Ruby fight, and Tammi throws Ruby into the TV, but she gets up and kicks her and goes to run past her, and Tammi clotheslines Ruby causing her to fall flat on her back.

Tammi pulls Ruby up and throws her into a bookcase and gets a fireplace poker from the stand on the hearth, looking at Elizabeth who is still cowering from Tammi, before she walks back to Ruby with the poker in her hand.

"You're really telling me you threw in your chips with Abbott and Costello here?" Tammi asks.

Ruby tries to get up, and Tammi hits her across the face with the fireplace poker. Elizabeth runs to the altar and dumps a bunch of pins out of a bow onto the cloth with the demonic symbol on it.

Elizabeth is unseen by Tammi who is still paying attention to Ruby. "Come on, get up." Tammi says. Ruby is panting and not moving, with blood coming out of her nose. "I said get up!"

Tammi tosses the poker aside and crouches over Ruby grabbing her by the jacket and pulling her up. "We've been here before haven't we?" She chuckles to herself and looks over at Sam. "She didn't tell you?"

Tammi turns back to Ruby and continues. "Pretty mortifying I guess. She was one of mine. I turned her out a long, long time ago. Ruby here was a witch. Of course that was when you were human."

Dean and Sam both look surprised even though they are still both pinned to their respective walls. Tammi throws Ruby back down onto the debris of the bookcase she crashed through and stands up.

"Didn't want your friends to know that all those centuries back you sold yourself to me? Embarrassing I guess, but don't worry love, no secrets where you're heading remember?" Tammi begins to chant and black smoke rises out of Ruby's mouth curling and hovering inches above her mouth.

"Monyé valack forsa, ulu iri regatt ruac, fieesh nieesh forthsa lé inmist infirum forthsa por un betest a té un fornalles ecclaisee i." Tammi begins to cough and Elizabeth is chanting under her breath at the altar.

As Tammi coughs harder, Dean is dropped from the wall and he falls forward. Sam also falls from the wall and drops to the floor as Tammi brings her hand up to her mouth. She coughs up a handful of long pins into her hand, her mouth bleeding in the process.

She looks at the pins and raises her right hand and clenched it into a fist. Elizabeth's breath catches and her eyes go wide as her heart stops and she falls onto the altar, dead.

Dean comes up behind Tammi and stabs her in the back repeatedly with Ruby's discarded knife. Tammi dies as well as the demon that was inside of her and she falls to the floor. Dean looks at Ruby and goes to help Sam up and they both move toward the door and stop to look at Ruby.

"Go." Ruby looks at them slightly embarrassed and wipes the blood away from her mouth. "I'll clean up this mess."

Dean starts to walk toward the door, helping Sam on his way. "Come on." Dean, Elena and Sam stop and look back at Ruby one more time.

Ruby turns her eyes black and glares at them. "Go." She says.

Dean and Sam walk out the door and Ruby leans over Tammi's body and takes her knife out of her back and holds it up. The knife is covered in blood and smokes.

HOTEL ROOM
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Sam is splashing his face with water and looks in the mirror above the sink with a worried expression etched in his face.

Dean is walking outside of the hotel as the lights flicker, he looks around, and then back to where he originally was looking and sees Ruby standing there in the shadows of the hotel parking lot. Dean walks toward her.

"So the devil may care after all, is that what I'm supposed to believe?" Dean asks.

"I don't believe in the devil." Ruby says.

"Wacky night. So let me get this straight, you were human once, you died, you went to hell, you became a..." Dean starts.

"Yeah." Ruby turns to leave.

"How long ago?"

"Back when the plague was big." Ruby says.

"So all of 'em, every damn demon, they were all human once." Dean says.

"Every one I've ever met."

"Well, they sure don't act like it."

"Most of them have forgotten what it means, or even that they were. That's what happens when you go to hell Dean. That's what hell is, forgetting what you are." Says Ruby.

"Philosophy lesson from the demon, I'll pass thanks." Dean says.

"Its not philosophy, it's not a metaphor. There's a real fire in the pit, agonies you can't even imagine."

"No, I saw Hellraiser, I get the gist." Says Dean.

"Actually they got that pretty close, except for all the custom leather." Ruby says.

Dean looks thoughtful and Ruby stops her departure, and turns back to Dean. "The answer is yes by the way." Ruby says.

"I'm sorry?" Dean asks.

"Yes, the same thing will happen to you. It might take centuries, but sooner or later hell will burn away your humanity. Every hell bound soul, every one turns into something else. Turns you into us, so yeah, yeah you can count on it."

"There's no way of saving me from the pit is there?" Dean asks.

"No." Ruby says.

"Then why'd you tell Sam you could?"

"So he would talk to me, you Winchesters can be pretty bigoted. I needed something to help him get past the-" Ruby starts.

"The demon thing? It's pretty hard to get past." Says Dean.

"Look at you, tryin' to be all stoic. My god it's heartbreaking."

"Why are you telling me all this?" Dean asks.

"I need your help." Ruby says.

"Help with what?"

"With Sam. The way you stuck that demon tonight, it was pretty tough. Sam's almost there, but not quite, you need to help me get him ready, for life without you; to fight this war on his own." Ruby turns and walks away again.

"Ruby, why do you want us to win?" Dean asks.

Ruby turns back around to face Dean. "Isn't it obvious? I'm not like them, I- I don't know why, I wish I was, but I'm not. I remember what its like." She says.

"What what's like?" Dean asks.

"Being human."

Dean looks down lost in his thoughts, and when he looks up Ruby has disappeared leaving Dean alone in the parking lot.