#ruby x lilith

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~1k, Ruby/Lilith Day 55 of 100 Days of Femslash

She was barely more than a child 13 or 14 and the Naumkeag girl, Tonalli, wasn’t much older when her family sailed over from Spain. The girls worked hard to communicate and chose to mostly use pictures.  By the time they were 18 or so they had learned the other’s native tongue as well as the other’s heart and body.  

A former schoolmate found them. She had seen the still unmarried Ruby sneak off into the forest.  When she found them lying in the grass clothes scattered and bodies writhing, she sounded the alarm.

The city council found Tonalli to be guilty of bewitching young Ruby with her spellcraft, and they burned her in the town square. Ruby’s father held her still and forced her to watch while she screamed and screamed.  She can still, so many centuries later, remember that smell.  It was a unique blend of her and the putrid stench of burning flesh.

 Ruby did not leave her bed for three weeks.  Her little sister brought her water and changed her clothes. She helped her to the chamber pot and held her hair when she threw up what she had been given to eat.  Six weeks.  She did not count the days but Maria did, and she told her that if she did not leave her bed soon her parents were going to leave her in the woods where they had found her with the heathen girl, and if there was one thing Ruby could not do it was to return to the last place she had been truly happy.  

She crawled her way from the tattered sheets and stinking hay, and her mother sent her to the market. Ruby could feel their eyes on her.  The verman sneered as she walked past or worse, looked upon her with pity, but she refused to lower her eyes. She stared every one of them down and made her way to the town square.  

The pire had long since been removed, but if she looked, she could still see the scorch marks on the ground. She looked up when she, once again, felt eyes on her.   Across the square, there was a young woman staring back boldly with gold in her hair and fire in her eyes.  It was like lightning.  The moment their eyes met she was ablaze and her feet moved her across the square and she had to stop herself from touching her in that very first second.  Lilith smiled sweetly with just a few too many teeth.  

Word count: 800 Pairing: Lilith x Ruby Summary: Mere hours before the final seal is fated to be broken, two of the most important players have had enough. Lilith and Ruby are not pawns to be ordered around and sacrificed at will, not when they both still have so much left to see and do. If Heaven and Hell want a war so bad, they’ll just have to manage without them.

[Written for the SPN Femslash Bingo. Square: Lost]

The deserted gas station was the only mark of civilization the highway had to offer. Flat, dusty fields stretched out either side of the road as far as the eye could see, not so much as a bush to break the flat line of the horizon.

Ruby stood with her back to the car. The air was stagnant and heavy, pressing in on her bare face and arms and leaving her skin prickling. She couldn't wait to get further north – the hot climate near the equator didn't suit her.

Behind her the station door opened, creaking on its hinges. She turned to see Lilith walking towards her, arms laden with supplies, every step throwing up clouds of dirt around her feet. When they'd started out seventeen hours ago Ruby had scoffed at her decision to remain in the formal white dress that should have been her shroud. Now, her own black jeans and tank top were clinging to her unpleasantly, damp across her back and thighs, and she envied Lilith's freedom.

"Get everything?" she asked when Lilith levelled with the car.

"Everything they had, which was hardly anything." She opened the back door, depositing her haul onto the back seat. "I can't wait to get back to somewhere inhabited."

"The big cities are where they'll go looking first. And not just hell, remember. We screwed the guys upstairs just as much as our own boys."

Ruby x Lilith Vampire AU