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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍

𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨

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Delaney leant against the side of the ugly orange car that Randy had been cruising around in when he wasn't with Delaney. They had squatted in an old abandoned house for the night to get some sleep so Delaney could be ready to continue the hunt for Lilith. Not like Delaney even got much sleep that night since her mind kept replaying the argument with Dean and Sam inside of her head. She even itched to grab the phone and call her brothers to apologize for everything that happened. However, she knew that the boys wouldn't answer. At least, not right now and they were better off far away from her as possible.

Dean and Sam had pointed out multiple times how Delaney had changed, especially since taking the demon blood. Now that Delaney really thought about it, she could feel herself changing because of it. She had been more sassy and the anger inside of her would flare much more quickly than it typically did. The darkness inside of her now was almost like a blaring bright light in front of Delaney's eyes and she knew she was too far deep to ever go back. She'd never truly be herself again. Not like she'd even have to worry about it because Delaney was sure she'd die killing Lilith.

Delaney just wished she'd be dying while being on good terms with her brothers, but maybe it was better off this way.

"Babe," Randy's voice echoed and distorted in Delaney's ears, snapping her our of her deep thoughts. "Your head in the game here?"

Delaney wiped her jacket sleeves under her eyes to hide the tears that had began to fall at the thought of Dean and Sam. It was the worst fight ━ even worse than the one when she said she was going to Stanford for college ━ they'd ever gone through and the thought alone was nearly suffocating for her. "Uh, yeah. I'm fine. Let's go."

Randy frowned at the obvious distraught look on Delaney's face that she thought she was hiding well, but was not. He could see the unshed tears in her eyes still and the way her mouth stayed down and now fighting to smile like it always did. Her body even had a small hunch to it as if she were trying to fold up on herself and hide from the world and all its evil. Boy did he wish he could hide her from the evil of the world, too. He stepped around the hood of the car and wrapped his arms around Delaney's waist, bringing one arm up to run his thumb along a stray tear. "Princess, I hate seeing you like this. If you ask me, Dean and Sam were wrong for the things they said to you."

"No, they were right to say it, Randy. I mean, can you really even blame them after what I did?" Delaney grumbled, focusing her attention on zipper of Randy's leather jacket so she wouldn't have to look up into his warm brown eyes. His warm, deceiving brown eyes was more accurate. His words sounded so genuine and loving, and yet Delaney knew the truth. However, her body always craved human touch when she was upset and Randy was the closest thing she had at the moment. He was the only thing she had at the moment.

"When we finish this, you guys will patch things up. I mean, you always do. How long can Dean and Sam really stay mad at you for, babe? They treat you like you threw the stars in the sky," Randy assured, rubbing Delaney's sides comfortingly.

"You're talking like I have an after," Delaney quipped, finally meeting Randy's eyes that flickered with a hidden emotion that Delaney couldn't read. "I can feel it inside of me, Ran. I've changed ━ for good. There's no going back now. Look . . . I know what I got to do. It's okay. I'm just saying . . . Dean and Sam are better off as far away from me as possible. It doesn't matter anyway. Let's just get this done with."

Randy sighed heavily when Delaney moved to detach herself from him and he pressed a soft kiss to her forehead before he opened the passenger side door for his girlfriend to get in the car. He already knew it was going to be a long night.

The nurse demon that Randy had mentioned had been at her shift as expected. Delaney and Randy had cornered her when she tried to wheel a newborn infant into back transport hallways to feed off on him. It took almost nothing out of Delaney to fling the demon nurse across the hallway and slamming into the gray brick wall while Randy took the infant back to the nursery before anyone realized he was missing. The nurse had been shocked to see the duo and Delaney was rather pleased with that thought.

Now, Delaney had the demon nurse tied up in a cellar as a fire cackled and roared on the other side of the room to keep the area warm. She smiled tauntingly down at the raven haired demon and wiggled her fingers at her while the demon struggled against the binds that Delaney put her in.

"What? No Devil's Trap?" the demon nurse remarked.

"I don't need one," Delaney replied, shrugging nonchalantly with a smirk.

"Look at you ━ all 'roided up. It's like A-Rod and Madonna over here."

Delaney rolled her eyes at the demon nurse, feeling Randy tug her back when she stepped forward to take her frustrations out on the nurse. He was all for torturing the demon nurse, but not just yet since they didn't try to get answers out of her yet. "Where's Lilith?"

The demon nurse relaxed back against the stone table she laid out on and lolled her head to the side. "I'm not scared of you, Baby Winchester."

Delaney tilted her head and raised her shoulder as she squinted her eyes, pretending to think for a moment. "Mmm, no . . . actually, I think you are. With good reason, too, cupcake."

The demon nurse sighed, knowing fully well she wouldn't be getting anywhere with Delaney tonight. "Look . . . what's my upside? Okay, I tell you, you kill me. I don't tell you, you still kill me. I get away somehow, Lilith will definitely kill me. So where's my carrot?"

"I think what you should be worrying about is what happens before you die."

Delaney raised her hand before the demon nurse could so much as blink and sent the demon into agonizing pain. It was one step below exorcising the demon from the nurse vessel she used and Delaney knew the pain was absolute torture. Loud agonized screams left the demon nurse as her back arched off the stone table and she threw her head back, squirming to try and ease the pain. Unfortunately for her, there was no way out of the pain unless Delaney stopped it first, which wouldn't be happening until she got her answers. She had enough energy to do this all night so it was all just a matter of when the demon nurse would decide to give up.

"Ahhhh! Stop! Please stop!" the demon nurse cried, panting heavily from the pain that coursed through her body.

"Will you tell me where Lilith is?"

"Fine. Fine. Just . . . let me die," the demon nurse begged and collapsed back against the stone when Delaney dropped her hand back to her side. A sigh of relief escaped through the demon nurse's lips and she closed her eyes for a moment, trying to get her breathing back to normal. "Tomorrow night . . . midnight . . . she's gonna be at a convent ━ Saint Mary's, Ilchester, Maryland."

Delaney furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, wondering what Lilith would need from a convent of all places. "A convent?"

"Lilith . . . she's gonna break the final seal."

"What is the final seal?" Delaney prodded, hating that this demon was talking in broken up sentences. 

"I don't know," the demon nurse stressed, her back arching once again when Delaney raised her hand out of annoyance with the demon. "I don't know! I don't know! I swear! I'm begging you ━ kill me, please!"

Randy quickly grabbed his girlfriend's hand when she went to raise it higher to exorcise the demon out of the nurse. He shot Delaney a look when she glanced to him in confusion on why she couldn't get rid of the demon that clearly was no longer of use to them. "You can't, Lane. We have to take her with us. It's the final run of the Death Star and you need more juice than I got right now."

"You promised," the demon nurse accused, staring at Randy and Delaney with wide eyes.

"Sorry, sister, but you're a walking, talking can of whup-ass."

"You bastard!"

Randy hummed teasingly and tapped the demon nurse's cheek as he passed her by. "Aw, I know. You just can't trust any of us these days."

The demon nurse was quiet for a long moment as a devious smirk crept onto her face. She tilted her head to the side that Randy and Delaney had moved over to in order to walk out. "Well, least you won't be able to crack me open that easy. Don't forget ━ it's not just me you're bleeding. In fact, I think I'll take a little . . . siesta in the subconscious ━ hand over the wheel for a little bit."

"What are you talking about?" Delaney questioned, not liking the sound of whatever the demon had planned.

"Cindy McCellen, R.N., come on down!" the demon nurse called, her body going limp for a moment before her eyes blinked open again. She groaned quietly and tried to move, but stopped when she realized she'd been tied down to something. "What . . . where am I? I can't move! What's going on?"

"Just great."

Delaney and Randy had gone up to the first floor of the abandoned house they'd been hiding in so Delaney could do research on the place Lilith was supposed to be headed to the next night. The nurse was now laid out on a spare table upstairs, passed out thanks to Randy. Delaney sat the table in what she thinks used to be a dining room while Randy leisurely walked around the room until Delaney found whatever information they needed. She paused when she pulled up an article with the headline ST. MARY'S ABANDONED AFTER PRIEST DISEMBOWELS EIGHT NUNS.

"Holy crap," Delaney whispered, gaining her boyfriend's attention as he walked over to her. She leant forward slightly when Randy leant his hands on either side of her on the table so he could read the article over Delaney's shoulder. "St. Mary's ━ abandoned in '72 after a priest disemboweled eight nuns."

"What's black and and read all over?" Randy mused, chuckling as his eyes scanned the text of the long news article. 

"Shut up, Randy," Delaney huffed, only earning herself a kiss to the side of the head from a still laughing Randy. "The priest said it wasn't his fault. He said a demon made him do it and that he even remembered the demon's name. Azazel."

Randy hummed quietly as he pushed away from the table before he pulled himself up to sit on it next to the laptop. "So, Lilith, Azazel ━ all the A-listers are paying visits. Certainly gives the joint credibility."

"As a place where the final seal goes down."

"Well, it's good enough for me. Let's pack up Nurse Betty and hit the road," Randy suggested, hopping off the table to make his way over to the demon nurse.

Delaney shot up out of her chair and grabbed onto Randy's wrist, her heart dropping at the thought of taking this woman with them. She was now herself again even though the demon still raged inside of her somewhere. It didn't feel right to her to go after this woman when she was herself. "Ran, maybe we can . . . uh . . . find another demon."

Randy rose his eyebrows at his girlfriend and scoffed, gesturing to the nurse behind him lazily. "Babe, that blubbery don't hurt me crap ━ it's just an act. She's playing you."

Delaney had to bite her lip from shooting back a so are you at Randy. The apple truly didn't fall too far from the tree. "I'm not so sure."

"Even if she's not, there's still a Hell-bitch snoozing in there. I mean, come on, princess. It's not like you haven't done this before, right?"

Delaney's hand dropped limply to her side when Randy turned away from her to get everything ready for them to leave. They were on a limited time frame now and they needed to get to Lilith before she broke the seal. It was times like this that Delaney wished she had Dean and Sam with her to give her advice or help her work out her thoughts.

Delaney sat in the passenger seat of the ugly orange car that Randy loved for whatever reason. The road ahead of them was empty and dark, the headlights being their only source of light at the moment and the light from Delaney's phone as she stared down at the voicemail left by Dean. She barely even heard Cindy's screams from the trunk of the car as her mind was too focused on opening the voicemail or not. Her thumb hovered over it, but she couldn't get herself to press the play button.

"What are you ━ twelve? Babe, just listen to it," Randy said, glancing from the road and over to Delaney's phone that she'd been staring at for the past five minutes.

"Mind your business, Ran," Delaney closed her eyes and banged her head back against the back of her seat, Cindy's screams and cries slowly becoming more and more annoying by the second. It was almost like a constant guilt trip that raged inside her ears with every cry, scream and thump from the raven haired nurse. "God, I just wish she'd shut up already.

"That can be arranged, you know. I don't get it. All the demons you cut with the knife ━ what do you think happens to the host? How is this any different?"

Delaney stared at the side profile of Randy for a long moment, trying to work out what he'd just said. "Was ━ was that supposed to make me feel better?"

Randy exhaled heavily and took one hand off the wheel to place it over Delaney's knee, squeezing it gently. "I know that you're having a hard time with this, princess, but we're in the final lap here. Now is not the time to grow a persqueeter."

"Randy, I know you're a demon and it's hard for you to wrap your black eyed skull around this, but this isn't like tying my shoes. This is me bleeding and drinking an innocent woman while she watches me. Sorry if my human side is little apprehensive about that little detail," Delaney snapped, her annoyance and frustration reaching its peak between Randy's nonchalance and Cindy's screams.

"And save the world as a result. You know, the thing you kind of been wanting to do lately?" Randy shot back at her.

"I don't know. I - I just . . . I'm starting to think . . . maybe my brothers were right about everything."

Randy's jaw ticked slightly and he tried desperately not to hurt Delaney's feelings. He still needed her help with Lilith and he couldn't push her away. Not like Dean and Sam had done to her. "Babe, we're gonna see this through, okay? We always figure it out. I promise."

A bit later, Delaney stood in front of a wooden sign that read ST. MARY'S CONVENT 2 MILES on it. She needed to get out of the car for a minute to stretch her legs and properly think a few feet away from Cindy's constant screams. She'd been quiet the rest of the drive, deep in her own thoughts and Dean's voice mail still displayed on her home screen. Almost like it was just asking her to listen to it already.

"Delaney, it's time. Are we doing this or not?" Randy asked, his tone dripping with frustration. He didn't really hide the fact he was annoyed with Delaney for being flip-floppy. In his mind, he thought they should get this whole thing over with so Lilith could be dead. So that Delaney could stop worrying about every single thing. She couldn't do that if she constantly worried about what Dean and Sam thought.

"Just give me a minute to think," Delaney replied, her eyes trained on the wooden sign as her mind raced rapidly. 

"Delaney ━ "

"I said give me a damn minute, Randy! Before you're the one I bleed and not Cindy," Delaney growled over her shoulder at the demon. She didn't even give him the satisfaction of looking at him as she dug into her pocket for her phone. She needed to listen to that voice mail from her brother before she lost her mind. 

The automated voicemail voice stated that Delaney had one unheard message and she pressed the phone to her ear to listen to what Dean had to say.

"Listen to me, you bloodsucking freak. Dad always said Sam and I'd either have to save you or kill you. Well, I am giving you fair warning, baby girl. Sam and I are done trying to save your ass. You're a monster, Delaney ━ a vampire. You are not my baby sister anymore and there's no going back."

If Delaney's heart wasn't already torn in two, it sure as hell was now. She knew she fucked up, she did, but hearing her brother say that he and Sam were done trying to save her from herself. It hurt, a lot. She deserved it and Delaney knew that, but she never thought Sam and Dean would actually just give up on her like that. They were always there for her, no matter what. Now they both wanna just leave her in the dust and possibly kill her next? 

Delaney sniffled quietly, making sure to dry her face of any and all tears so Randy couldn't see. If Dean and Sam thought she was a monster, she'd show her what one really looked like. 

"Do it, Randy."

Against her conscience, Delaney had cleaned out Cindy and she felt stronger than she ever had before. She could practically feel her strength at its peak and knew she'd be able to fling Lilith around like a rag doll effortlessly. Just in time, too, because Randy and Delaney made it to Saint Mary's about twenty minutes later and Delaney rushed down to the sanctuary where she saw Lilith. This time she'd gone for a blonde haired and blue eyed woman, a tight white gown adorned her body as the blonde curls fell down her back.

Delaney kicked the double doors open all the way and shot her hand out, sending Lilith flying across the room and crashing into the stone altar on the other side of the room. She stepped into the room as Lilith pushed herself up to sit and Delaney used her abilities to push Lilith up against the stone altar behind her with a devious smirk. "Well, well, well. If it isn't Goldilocks. You know, I've been waiting to do this for a long time. Since you dragged Dean down to Hell."

Lilith didn't falter and merely flashed Delaney a smirk right back, not even struggling against the invisible force. "Then give me your best shot, Dellycakes."

Delaney raised her hand again and thrusted it forward, a bright white light bursting out of Lilith's eyes and mouth. Lilith began to scream and pant in agony as Delaney put her through the worst pain imaginable, slowly killing the first ever demon bit by bit. However, through the pounding of her heart in her ears and Lilith's agonized cries, distorted and echoey voices shouted her name. Two distorted and echoey voices that sounded just like Dean and Sam. Her hand slowly lowered, stopping her slaughter of Lilith and turned her head towards the double doors of the sanctuary where faint thuds and bangs could be heard. "Dee? Sammy?"

Randy didn't give Delaney much time to think about why Dean and Sam would be there, screaming bloody murder for her as if they were worried. Something that was a total contrast to how Dean had sounded in his voicemail. The heartbeat in her ears only grew more and more and Lilith's laughter cut through all of it, gaining Delaney's attention fully again.

"You turned yourself into a freak. A monster and now you're not gonna bite? I'm sorry, but that is honestly adorable, Dellycakes."

Delaney, having enough of Lilith, raised her hand again with a hard expression, not realizing that her eyes had gone fully black and that Lilith's eyes widened at the sight. The bright white light filled up Lilith once again and she began to convulse, panting and breathing rapidly until she jerked one last time and dropped to the floor dead. Delaney's hand dropped back to her side as she felt all the energy she'd used on Lilith vanish from her.

Lilith's blood began to pool out around her and then began to move in an ordered kind of direction, twisting and forming random shapes as it moved along the tiled floorings. An act that blood should not be doing, demon or not. 

"What the hell?" Delaney breathed, watching as the blood moved along the floor.

"I can't believe it," Randy whispered, his eyes trailing along the blood in astonishment. "You did it, princess. I mean, it was a little touch-and-go for a while, but . . . you did it!"

Delaney's eyes blew wide and she whipped her head up to glance at Randy, not understanding what he was talking about. Yes, she killed Lilith like he said she could, but what the hell was going on with her blood? "What? What ━ what did I just do?"

Randy beamed in pride at his girlfriend and reached forward to bring her face closer to his, pressing his lips to hers out of joy. He pulled away after a moment to bounce his gaze between the still moving blood and the very confused Winchester before her him. "You opened the door and now He's free at last. He's free at last."

Delaney blinked rapidly as her brain tried to keep up with what Randy was saying. He couldn't mean that Lucifer was free, could he? She just killed Lilith before she could do anything with the seal. That meant they were safe, not in danger. "No, he ━ Lilith ━ I stopped her. I killed her!"

"And it is written that the first demon shall be the last seal and you bust her open. Now guess who is coming to dinner," Randy explained, his beaming smile only growing by the second. He was excited as he bounced on the balls of his feet, his eyes going right back to the still forming blood on the tiled floors. "You know even know how hard this was ━ all demons out for my head because I betrayed Hell and fell in love with you. None of them really knew. I was the best one of those sons of bitches! The most loyal! Not even Alastair knew. Only Lilith."

Delaney turned to Randy with a hurt expression as she heard him say out loud that he'd used her. He'd used her like a fucking doll and then would probably toss her to the side when he was done. She didn't even care that he said he was in love with her because she had never felt more dumb and used in her life. She had been tricked and deceived this whole time and Dean and Sam both tried to tell her that. This is what she got for not listening to her older brothers.

"Okay, I know you're angry at me right now, but come on, baby! Even you have to admit ━ your boyfriend is the king!"

"You bastard! You lying fucking bastard!" Delaney cried, not even bothering to hide the fat tears that pooled out onto her cheeks. She thrusted her hands forward to exorcise Randy and get rid of him, but an intense pain radiated through her skull and she pressed her hands to her head, crying out in pain and dropping to her knees at Randy's feet.

"Don't hurt yourself, princess. It's useless. You used all your mojo on the boss," Randy said, reaching out to place a hand on Delaney's head but she smacked it away with a deadly expression. "And I never lied to you, baby. I do love you. Everything I did was to protect and save you."

Delaney barked out a humorless laugh and dropped her hands from her head, glaring up at Randy through blurry, tear filled eyes. "Yeah, fucking right. You poisoned me with the all that demon blood."

"No. It wasn't the blood," Randy corrected, kneeling down so he was eye level with Delaney. Boy, did she wish looks could kill so Randy could be sent back down to Hell for the rest of his evil, blood sucking life. "It was you . . . and your choices. I just gave you the options and you chose right every single time. You didn't need the feather to fly, Lane. You had it in you the whole time, my little Dumbo. I know it's hard to see it now . . . but this is a miracle and I did this all for you. Everything Azazel and Lilith did just to get you here. You were the only one who could let Lucifer free."

"Why? Why me?" Delaney grit out through her teeth as Randy cupped her face in his hands, gingerly brushing his thumbs along her tear soaked cheeks. She didn't even have the energy to slap him away a second time, her head still pounding from trying to kill Randy with her abilities.

"Because . . . because it had to be you, pretty girl. It always had to be you. You saved us. You set Him free and he's gonna be so grateful. I was promised nothing would harm you, princess, so long as you got him out. That we can be happy together for the rest of our lives and be a regular couple. We won't have to look back. Lucifer is gonna repay you in ways that you can't imagine."

Suddenly, the double doors to the sanctuary broke open and Sam stumbled in besides Dean with a large candelabra in his large hands. He chucked the golden item to the side with a deadly look on his face that matched the one Dean wore. 

"You're too late, boys," Randy called over his shoulder, standing up to his two feet and turning to face Dean and Sam who stormed over to the couple.

"We don't care," Dean growled.

Delaney pushed herself to her feet and snatched the demon blade from Dean's hand, whirling back around to Randy with a dark glare on her face. She gripped the blade tightly in her hand as she gripped onto the front of Randy's leather jacket. "Consider this my break up call to you."

Before Randy could utter a word or fight for his life, Delaney let out a cry as she plunged the demon blade into his chest. Randy's body lit up much like Lilith's had and he stared at Delaney in betrayal as his body went limp in her arms. Delaney huffed and shoved Randy's body to the ground once she removed the blade from his chest. She sniffled as the onslaught of tears crashed into her again and she slowly spun herself around to face her two older brothers who just stared at her.

"Dee . . .  Sammy . . . " Delaney sobbed, the crushing weight of everything she'd just done suddenly slamming down onto her along with the crushing guilt. It was nearly impossible to breathe from the weight and Delaney had to take a few shuddering breaths before she could say any more. "I'm s-s-sorry."

Dean's eyes softened for the briefest second but it was replaced once again by an unreadable expression. He nor Sam were given much time to respond to their baby sister as a bright white light shot out of the circle design that Lilith's blood had made. The middle began to turn slowly as more and more bright white light came out, almost looking like a small door in the floor opening up. "Della, we need to go!"

Delaney clutched onto her big brothers' wrists and shook her head before he could get her far. Her eyes slowly trailed back over to the blood type door that fully had been taken over a blinding light and she gulped audibly.

"He's coming."

END OF BOOK FOUR!

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Hi hey hello

WELCOME TO THE END OF THE DANGEROUS GAME, LADIES AND GERMS! That was a WILD ending and I will not admit to how long it took me to write that ending because I was FREAKING OUT. On the bright side, Randy is finally dead. Boy truly did love Delaney, but he's still a dick and I'm glad Delaney got to stab him!

Now we get to move onto Book 5 ( DEVIL'S KEEPER ) where we'll finally get to see Lucifer. I am so ready for that plot point like WHEW. Delaney is gonna be even more badass than she already is ( if that's even possible ) and I can't wait to introduce you guys to my new original character that will eventually be Delaney's love interest. The book has already been published on my profile and you guys can add it to your libraries for when I start it either next week or the week after. Wanna take a tiny break to do my other stories since I've only focused on Delaney for the past week!

Buckle up, peeps, because this ride isn't even close to being done.