The Nightmares are Real. [Open]

[xmadhatterlustx]

"NO!" A scream echoed through out the deserted room as Calie awoke abruptly from her usual recurring nightmare. There she was in the midst of all the chaos in the hospital, lying in bed exhausted, weak, and recovering from her daughter's birth after Johnny had tricked her into thinking he was Brandon, unable to get up and stop him Calie was forced to watch helplessly in horror as Johnny waltzed away with her newborn in his arms, leaving a bloody massacre in his wake and an already torn up sister completely destroyed. But this time around there was something very different-- the location. She hadn't roused in fear of what haunted her in her sleep to find herself sitting up on her bed in the darkness of her room. No, she had woken up someplace completely different, a hospital of sorts, ironically, perhaps even in a different country-- or planet -- all together; Further fueling the delusion that this was, indeed, a bad dream.


Calie had tried--foolishly-- for a few days to convince herself that this was all in her head, that she was somehow trapped in her own illusion or a bad dream, this was all just one big bad dream, but the painful churning feeling she felt deep within the pit of her gut at the mere thought of her daughter's kidnapping told her otherwise.. Violet was gone, stolen by her brother not five minutes after her birth and to make matters worse, she had been transported to this unknown and barren wasteland before she even got the chance to go out and search for her baby. How could she allow this to happen? For all she knew her daughter would soon be experiencing unspeakable horrors, she didn't have much time. And she wasn't even certain if her baby girl was still alive to begin with, a thought that caused a few stray tears to stream down her face, only to be wiped away quickly. Calie had promised Violet the second she held her daughter in her arms for the first time that she would never let anything bad happen to her. She had promised. What kind of mother was she...her pride and joy, her only reason for living, was....gone.

He loved her, he had said he loved her and she knew his statement to be true for a fact.....

Calie couldn't blame her brother for feeling the need to seek revenge for what she had done to him, nor did she expect him to ever understand the reasoning behind her decision to send him to Wonderland in the first place. It was what she felt was the right thing to do at the time and she did not regret her decision, Johnny had been and still was everything to her, the only thing she had left in this world after their parents death and a large piece of her shattered that night along with The Looking Glass. But to take Calie's innocent newborn away from her when she needed her Mother the most, How could Johnny do that? To his own flesh and blood. That was heartless and depraved, even for him. And she would never forgive him for his actions, ever. His battle was with Calie, not Violet, and she would bring an end to this madness once and for all no matter the sacrifice; Calie would gladly give up her own life in exchange for her daughter's safety.

There was nothing to be done sitting around here in the dark. If she wanted her daughter back she would have to begin searching for a way to find her. Forcing herself to stand up on her feet Calie glanced around her current location, her blue eyes taking her surroundings in with worriment and disbelief....This hospital was peculiar, and for someone who had been to Wonderland and back that was saying a lot. It was old, could almost be considered antique with the lack of electricity and design, it didn't appear to be getting much use these days. Or for the past few centuries. How had she gotten there? The last thing she remembered was heading home -or the place that was substituting as home for the time being- after she had left the hospital following the event of her daughter's birth and Johnny's surprise visit. Surely, she had not just appeared here out of nowhere. Someone was behind this, as to who that someone was, Calie was still unsure but she had a strong hunch; Suspiciously enough, she was wearing the very same black dress she had worn on her first visit to Wonderland. [/color]

[ruby]

Had she known he was going to be this much trouble, Ruby wouldn’t have thought twice about choosing someone other than Sam Winchester to pin the rest of her hopes of breaking the final seal on. She would have sought out a stronger man - both physically and emotionally - someone who could put his own feelings and convictions aside and simply go along with what she was trying to do here. Yes, most of the trouble with Sam came from his brother Dean, but if Sam had been stronger, if Sam was just a little more independent, then even Dean wouldn’t have been an issue. That was the problem here. Sam wasn’t either of those things, not yet at least, and while she was working as hard as she could to turn him into the person she knew he could be the progress was slow. Good thing she had picked up a bit of patience during her years in hell.

She was waiting until the last minute to step in and help the boys tonight. They deserved it - this was the third time in as many weeks that she had to pop in and save their sorry asses from being killed by some foul creature or another. They were really off their game lately, though anyone would be after learning that the apocalypse was upon them and that angels and demons were both vying to claim ownership of their support, mind, body, and soul. Both brothers could claim that they were on the side of the righteous, but with all of the prophecies and signs pointing towards Sam’s demon blood, his constant need to be something more than he was, and there were even talks of Satan himself sending for Sam in the future… well, he was a person of interest. A person of the greatest interest. And Ruby knew that he could be the one to kill Lilith. He could be the one to kill her and break the seal. He could be the one to release Lucifer!

That was, if he could survive the night. Somewhere in southern Illinois… or was it Indiana?… Sam Winchester was about to get himself cornered without a weapon. How he always managed to do these things was beyond her, but she knew that she had to save him AGAIN so that she could work with him later. She was used to this routine. Placing her hand over her right side she felt for the knife that she kept strapped onto her at all times. She felt the bulge of the harness, felt the hilt sticking up just a little, and threw on a light brown jacket over her dark teal tank top so that the knife wasn’t quite to obvious. After all, there was the off chance that she was wrong and that she would walk right into a perfectly normal scene. That chance was approximately .05%, but it was still there.

Focusing her mind on Sam, feeling for his energy to figure out his exact location (which was Illinois, she had been right the first time. Always listen to gut instincts…) she used her powers to teleport herself to where Sam was. When she arrived Ruby knew something was wrong immediately. For starters, sam wasn’t there. Then there was the fact that things just felt off. After living on and off of Earth for hundreds of years you got to know what Earth was like, and there was just something about this place that was off even though she couldn’t pinpoint it. She was just outside of a building she didn’t recognize when she heart movement inside. Grabbing her knife and keeping it poised at her side, Ruby moved inside of the building, ready for whatever would greet her.

But she wasn’t ready for whatever would greet her because she hadn’t been expecting a girl in a black dress in what appeared to be one of the oldest hospitals she had seen in a while. As a matter of fact, she wasn’t even sure that she would classify this as a hospital if it hadn’t been for the familiar set-up and medicines and basic equipment strewn about. Ruby raised her knife as a warning to this stranger - she would use it if she had to, either as an attack or as defense.

“Who are you, and where am I?” she asked, wondering if perhaps this girl had brought her here. Perhaps she was a demon, too, though she could usually tell and this girl definitely did not seem like a demon. Ruby was known to slice first and ask questions later but it looked like she had the upper hand combat-wise so she decided to try and find out some information before she got too hasty with the attacking.