9. Malleus Maleficarum

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ย  ย  ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™œ๐™š๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ก๐™– ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™Ž๐™–๐™ข.

"I hate witches." Dean states, Scarlett get up from the back seat she says, "Wow." Sam chuckles as Dean looks surprise

"Not you, but they're always spewing their bodily fluids everywhere." Dean says.

"Pretty much." Scarlett agrees, "don't break a witches heart unless you want to get hexed."

"It's creepy, you know, it's down right unsanitary." Dean adds.

Sam says, "Yeah, well someone definitely had it out for Janet Dutton."

"Yeah, someone who snuck into that house and planted the bag. So what are we thinking, we're uh, looking for some old craggy Blair bitch in the woods." Dean says offending Scarlett who smacks him in the head. "Sorry babe."

Sam says, "No it could be anyone. Neighbor, coworker, man, womanโ€”that's the problem, Dean, they're human, they're like everyone else."

Scarlett nods in agreement. "You won't find a witch unless she wants to be found or she's a newbie."

Deam asks. "Great. How do we find 'em?"

Sam turns to look at Scarlett, "This wasn't random; someone in Janet Dutton's life had an ugly axe to grind. We find the motiveโ€”"

Dean finishes off, "We find the murderer."

Sam says, "Yeah. Plus we have a witch of our own."

"Wake me up when the action start!" Scarlett says falling on the back seat pulling a blanket over her.

Dean starts the Impala and pulls away from the curb, driving off in the rain.

ย  ย  ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™Ž๐™–๐™ข ๐™–๐™ง๐™ง๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™„๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ก๐™–. ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™ค Paul who's chocking and yells at Sam, "Check the car!" Waking Scarlett up. She rushes out.

Sam searches under the dashboard and steering column as Dean tries to help Paul.

"Sam! Doll!" Dean yells.

"Got it!" Sam gets up removing the hex bag he found as Dean pulls Paul up from the pavement.

Dean says, "Come on." Scarlett lights it up, Sam drops it to the ground as it glows with blue and green flames.

Paul recovers from choking and leans back against his car.

Dean asks, "You okay?"

Paul asks, "What the hell is happening to me?!"

Dean explains, "Someone murdered your wife and now they're trying to kill you, that's what's happening to you."

Paul oppress, "That's impossible! There's no wayโ€”"

Dean says, "If we hadn't have been following you, you'd be a doornail right now. Now who wants you dead?"

Paul stutters, "I-uh..."

Scarlett tells him, "Come on think."

Paul says, "There's a womanโ€”uh"

Dean asks, "A woman, okay?"

Paul says, "An affairโ€”a mistake, she was un-balanced, she was blackmailing me and I put an end to it a week ago."

Sam asks, "What's her name?"

Paul asks, "Whaโ€“What could she have to do withโ€”?"

Dean asks again, "Paul! What is her name?"

ย ย  ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ก๐™ค๐™˜๐™  ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐˜ผ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™– ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ๐™š, ๐™›๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™š๐™™ closely by Sam and Scarlett, with their guns drawn. Scarlett was ready for a fight. They enter the room and find Amanda's lifeless on the table covered in blood and switch on the light. The flames are still burning, so this is very shortly after she died.

Dean staring at the body says,ย  "That's a curveball."

Sam says, "Yeah."

They approach Amanda's body, and Dean about to lift her right arm, but Scarlett levitates it and they look at the other as well.

"Three per wrist, vertical. She wasn't foolin' around." Dean says.

Sam puts his gun in the back of his jeans and bends down to look at the scattered remnant of the altar holding his nose to the smell of the burnt rotten food.

Sam says, "Yeah, looks like she was working some heavyweight evil here."

Dean says, "Yep."

Dean turns around, then jumps back, startled โ€“ he nearly walked into a rabbit, hanging from the ceiling, dead. "Oh god! Freakin' witches! Seriously man, come on!"

Sam says, "Guess we know where she got the rabbit's teeth from." Scarlett analysis the room.

Dean says, "Well, Paul sure knows how to pick 'em huh? It's like Fatal Attraction all over again." Scarlett rolls her eyes

Sam agrees, "Yeah."

Dean says, "And why does the rabbit always get screwed in the deal?! The poor little guy."

"Black magic comes with a price." Scarlett says, remembering her Grams words to never practice even when she knew she was a Mikaelson witch and they practiced black magic, practically inventing it.

Sam says, "You know what I don't get, Dean? If she was so bent on revenge, why do this?"

Dean says, "Well, she got Janet Dutton, thought she finished off Paul, decided to cap herself and make it a spurned lover's hat-trick."

"Maybe." Sam says.

Sam starts to look under the glass table that Amanda is on.

Dean says, "I mean, this doesn't exactly look like the TV room of a bright and stable person, you know?"

Scarlett says, "No, but then..." reaching around and pulls out another hex bag that is tucked under the table and stands up tossing it to Dean

She says, "There's this."

Dean asks, "Another hex bag? Come on!"

"I wouldn't use a hex bag, leaves a trace."
Scarlett says, "they don't have much practice, which means they weren't born with magic."

Sam shoots her a look, "I was born with the gift, Grams taught me, I learned how to hex when I was twelve. My hexing wouldn't be as messy as this one. The only who knows where to look would be a witch or a supernatural being, or a trained hunter." She winks at Dean.

Dean opens the bag to find similar contents of the bag they found in Janet's bathroom and he tosses it on the table reaching for his phone.
"Looks like we got a hit, huh? A little witch-on-witch violence?"

"I guess." Sam says.

Dean dials the phone and hold it up to his ear. "I'd like to report a dead body, 309 Mayfair Circle. My name? Yeah, sure my name isโ€”" He clicks the phone shut, cutting himself off. "Why are witches ganking each other?"

Sam says, "I don't know, but I think maybe we got a coven on our hands."

๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ'๐™จ ๐™™๐™ง๐™ž๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™—๐™–๐™—๐™ฎ, ๐™Ž๐™–๐™ข ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™จ๐™จ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™š๐™ง'๐™จ ๐™จ๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ. Scarlett lays in the back seat.

Dean says, "Well, I'm already sold on that Elizabeth chick. Did you see that victory garden of hers? Belladonna, wolfsbane, mandrake, not to mention that little flinch she threw when we mentioned the occult."

Sam says, "Well, she's definitely had a good run lately, gone up a few tax brackets; won almost too many raffles. Kinda thing a little black magic always helps with."

Dean agrees, "Yeah."

Sam adds, "I don't think she's alone either. Looks like 'MRS. Renee Van Allen' has won almost every craft contest she has entered in the past three months."

Dean states, " Yeah, a regular Martha Stewart, huh? Except for the devil worship, I'm thinking that was the coven we met back there, minus one member."

"Amanda was clearly going off the reservation." Scarlett adds.

"What do you think, they killed her to keep up appearances?" Sam asks.

"Seems like an appearance kind of crowd, don't you think?" Dean asks.

Sam says, "Yeah."

"If they killed the nut-job, should we uh, thank them or what?" Dean asks.

Sam says, They're working black magic too, Dean. They need to be stopped.

Dean asks, "Stopped' like stopped?"

Sam gives him a look that says 'of course'.

"They're human, Sam." Dean argues.

Sam argues back "They're murderers."

"The aura says they've been practicing and they aren't born witches. Which means Sams right. Witches aren't supposed to kill, we're here to keep the balance." Scarlett tells. "But we also have to take our witches who harm more than do good." She says thinking of the Balance, they were the clean up crew.

Dean looks at Sam for a second with surprise and then shrugs in agreement. "Burn witch, burn"Dean continues to drive when baby stutters and starts to choke up. "What the hell?"

Then head lights of baby flicker on and then back on again as it slowly comes to a stop in front of a figure sanding in the middle of the road. Its Ruby. Sam gets out of the car first and Dean and Scarlett follows.

Sam greets "Ruby."

Ruby says, "Sam, listen to me, there's no time."

Sam asks, "For what? What are you talking about?"

She says, "You have to get out of town."

Dean asks, "So this is Ruby, huh?" Scarlett glares at the demon. He raises the Colt and aims it at her, cocking it. "Never had the pleasure."

Sam yells, "Dean!"

"I was hoping you'd show up again." Dean says.

"Point that thing somewhere else." She says.

"Hahahaha! Right." Dean says.

"Sam, please. Go. Get in the car and don't look back." Ruby says.

"Why? I don't understand." Sam asks.

"Hey, hot stuff, we can take care of a few kitchen witches, thanks." Dean says, Scarlett rolls her eyes.

"I'm not talking about witches, you jackass. Witches are whores. I'm talking about who they serve." Ruby says, Scarlett rolls her eyes and glaring at her, Scarlett begins to boil her insides and Ruby's face morphs into pain and then laugh.

Dean and Sam both look confused for a second, but then it dawns on Sam. "Demons. They get their power from demons."

"Yeah. And there's one here, now." She says.

"Oh, what, you mean besides you?" Scarlett asks.

"Sam, it knows you're in town and it's gonna come after you and its way more than you can handle." Ruby explains.

"Oh come on, what is this, huh? Please tell me you're not listening to this crap!" Dean argues.

"Put a leash on your brother, Sam, if you wanna keep him." Ruby glares. Scarlett sends her flying back. "Mikaelson." She glares as Scarlett smiles.

"Dean, look, just chill out." Sam says.

"No! No! She's messing with your head, God knows why, that's who they are!" Dean argues.

"I'm telling you the truth." Ruby says getting up.

"And I'm telling you to shut up, bitch." Dean argues.

"I'm sorry, why are you even a part of this conversation?!" Ruby asks.

"Oh, I don't know maybe because he's my brother, you black-eyed skank!" Dean says, Scarlett glares at Dean.

"Oh, right, right. You care about your brother so much. That's why you're checking out in a few months, leaving him all alone?" Ruby asks.

"Shut up." Dean says and Sam and him get into a fight.

๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ก๐™ ๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ค๐™ข ๐™›๐™ž๐™ง๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ฃ the light and Sam follows right behind him. Scarlett stayed outside giving them privacy.

"What's going on with you?" Sam asks as Scarlett enters.

Dean moves around in pain, still clutching his stomach, and he can barely force words out.
"I don't know." He bends, gasps, "Ohโ€” Sam something's wrongโ€” bunch of knives inside of meโ€”"

"Dean?" Sam asks, he moves off the bed and kneels in front of Dean who is now leaning all the way forward with his head almost between his legs.

"Son of a bitchโ€”" Dean says. Scarlett looks for the hex bag.

"Dean, hey." Sam says.

"The coven man, it's gotta be the coven." Dean says.

"Don't worry." Sam gets up and rushes into the bathroom opening the cupboards below the sink looking for the hex bag as Dean yells in pain and lies back on the bed, his face still twisted in pain. Scarlett pulls things out of the cupboard throwing them aside.

Dean leans forward again falling to his knees in front of the foot of the bed, spitting out blood, choking and sputtering. Sam is still looking for the hex bag, in another cupboard pulling out pillows and when he finds nothing, he moves to the bed while Dean is still choking on blood and spitting it out of his mouth. Sam pulls off the covers to the bed tearing back the sheets and slices the mattress open with his knife and still cannot find the hex bag.

"Dean, I can't find it." Sam say, Scarlett goes to Dean who falls over sideways and looks weak and hurt and still in pain. She does a spell transferring the pain from him to her, she begin to choke on her blood, keep her hands on him. Dean looks at her surprised.

"No" Dean screams, as Scarlett continues to cough blood weakly now, Sam rummages through his bag and pulls out the Colt and opens it to make sure there are bullets in it.

"Sam, what are you doing?" Dean asks holding onto Scarlett.

Sam gets up and moves toward the door.

"Sam!" Dean yells. Sam leaves closing the door behind him.ย  "Sam!" Scarlett groans in pain as her vampire blood begins curing her and the hexing does

ย ย  ๐™Ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ง๐™ก๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™– ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ค๐™ก ๐™ค๐™› ๐™—๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™™ ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™–๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™œ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ and coughing blood still. Dean holds her, "It's going to be okay." Dean lies to her. There are quick footsteps outside and the door is kicked open and Ruby steps in and finds Scarlett and Dean who looks up and see her.

"You wanna kill me? Get in line." Scarlett asks.

Ruby goes over to Scarlett and pulls her up by the collar tos, forces her mouth open with her left hand Scarlett tries to push her away. Dean tries pushing her away but Ruby pushes him against the wall. Ruby sprays a dark brown liquid into her mouth from a bag at her side with her right hand while Scarlett still struggles under her hold. Ruby stands up as Scarlett chokes on the liquid and spits some back out.

Ruby panting says looking at Dean and her mom , "Stop ... calling me bitch."

"๐™‰๐™š๐™ญ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™œ๐™ช๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š, ๐™„'๐™ข ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉย  ๐™œ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™– just disappear, understand?" Ruby warns Dean.

Ruby tosses a sawed-off shotgun over to Dean who is standimg

"You ... saved my life. Why?" Scarlett asks.

"Don't mention it." Ruby says.

"What was that stuff?" Scarlett asks.

"It's called witchcraft, you're familiar with it." Ruby turns and walks out of the room, closing the door behind her and leaving Dean and Scarlett.

"Don't ever do that!" Dean tells her.

"Save your life?" She asks.

"Yes." He says.

"Never, you here me? You can't ask me that. I'll always preorder you." She says following after Ruby.

๐™๐™–๐™ข๐™ข๐™ž ๐™ ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ๐™จ ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™จ๐™š๐™™, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™Ž๐™–๐™ข ๐™—๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™—๐™š ๐™˜๐™ง๐™ช๐™จ๐™๐™š๐™™ 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 runs in with his shotgun drawn and Tammi turns around, easily throwing him over the sofa, and when he gets up, she pins him to the wall behind him. Scarlett rushes in throwing her back.

"Three for one. Lovely." Tammi smiles.

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

"You made it out of the gate. Impressive. That was a bitch of a fight, wasn't it?" Tammi asks, trying to push Scarlett back who doesn't move.

"Doors out of Hell only open for so long." Ruby says.

"What do you want, Ruby?" Tammi asks as she analyzes Scarlett. "Mikaelson."

"I've been lost without you." Ruby continues to advance, "Take me back. That's why I led the Winchesters here and a Mikaelson Fairchild witch."

Dean looks angry, and mouths "I told you so" to Sam.

"That's why she's so powerful? I bet your ancestors aren't disappointed." Tammi says.

"That's debatable." Scarlett mutters.

Ruby adds, "They're for you ... as a gift."

"Really." Tammi says.

"Let me serve you again. I've wanted it โ€“ I've wanted you โ€“ for so long." Ruby says, Dean lifts his eyebrows at this hot-demon-chick on hot-demon-chick flirtation. Scarlett is finally pushed against the wall with Dean and Sam.

"You were one of my best." Tammi says.

Ruby and Tammi look at each other, and Ruby pulls her knife out and tries to stab Tammi, but she catches it in mid-air.ย  "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.

"Come on. Get up." Tammi tells Ruby who's 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.ย  "We've been here before, haven't we?"

Tammi chuckles to herself and looks over at Sam. "She didn't tell you?" She turns back to Ruby and continues. She 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.ย  "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.ย 

Scarlett yells, pushing Tammi to the wall. "We're in the twenty first century! Demon! We don't name call each other! Especially not when men do so! Or a fellow witch!" Scarlett makes a fist tightening her airways. Dean and Sam are released.

Tammi feels Scarlett powers to her core, "the name is Scarlett Salvatore. Her name is Ruby!" Scarletr spits out.

Tammi begins to cough and Elizabeth is chanting under her breath at the altar. As Tammu coughs harder, Scarlett brings Elizabeth to her holding hands as they both chant. 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 clenches it into a fist. Elizabeth breath catches and her eyes go wide as her heart stops and she falls onto the altar, dead. Scarlett checks her pulse.

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. Scarlett stares at Elizabeth.

"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."

"I'll help her." Scarlett says.

Dean and Sam stop and look back at Ruby one more time. Ruby turns her eyes black and glares at them. "Go.

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

"You were a witch?" Scarlett asks Ruby.

"Yes, I was Scarlett. Is it hard to believe?" Ruby asks.

"No." Scarlett admits.

"I knew your great great like many great grandfather George Fairchild." She says, Scarlett raises her eyebrow.

"He was alive in the fourteen century." Scarlett says. "You're, you're that Ruby?" She asks surprised. Her great grandfather wrote about her

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