Ruby

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Name	Ruby
Actor	Season 3: Katie Cassidy Season 4: Genevieve Cortese
Dates	died around the 1350s (Subsequently went to hell, and over time became a demon.3.09)
Location	no fixed address
Occupation	Demon
Episode(s)	3.01 The Magnificent Seven 3.02 The Kids Are Alright 3.04 Sin City 3.09 Malleus Maleficarum 3.12 Jus in Bello 3.16 No Rest For The Wicked 4.01 Lazarus Rising 4.02 Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester 4.03 In The Beginning 4.04 Metamorphosis 4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer

• Ruby is a black-eyed demon, which is the same type that possessed both Meg and Sam
• She possesses a knife which can kill demons, something even Bobby hadn't heard of.
• In 3.09 Malleus Maleficarum, we find out that when Ruby was human, she was a witch who sold her soul to Tammi, and that this was during the time of 'the plague' (around 1350).

• Casting Side for Ruby from June, 2007. This is an early draft of the final scene from 3.04 Sin City between Ruby and Sam which was used to cast the role of Ruby.

See Also Demonology.

3.01 The Magnificent Seven

Ruby first appears to watch the Sam as Bobby and the Winchesters track the Seven Deadly Sins demons. She joins in the fight as Sam is attacked, and uses a knife that appears to be able to kill demons, and then disappears mysteriously.

3.02 The Kids Are Alright

Ruby meets with Sam unexpectedly as he researches ways to save Dean's soul. She claims she is a hunter, and insinuates things about Sam's past and his destiny, setting him on a path to research more about Mary Winchester. Disturbed to find all of his mother's friends are dead, Sam demands to know exactly who she is. Ruby reveals she is a demon, and claims that Sam fascinates her and, in the pursuit of knowledge for her own ends, is "on his side". The episode ends with her offering Sam a deal - he works with her to find out more about his destiny, she helps him save Dean's soul from the Crossroads Demon.

3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock

Sam tells Dean about his encounter with Ruby, although not about the information she gave him about the deaths of Mary's friends. Dean is angry that Sam didn't kill the demon, while Sam insists that they can use her to get information about the demons they are battling, as well Dean's deal with the Crossroads Demon.

3.04 Sin City

Ruby comes to Bobby while he is working on The Colt. Bobby shoots her with it, but with no effect. Ruby offers to help Bobby make it work, and they succeed - Bobby brings the Colt to a hunt Dean and Sam are on and Sam kills two demons with it. Later, Ruby and Sam argue - Ruby threatens to take the Colt from Sam and give it to someone else who'll use it; Sam threatens Ruby with the Colt. They come to a truce again when Ruby reminds Sam that if he kills her, she can't help him save Dean's soul. She refers to herself as "the little fallen angel' on Sam's shoulder.

3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

Ruby appears to warn Sam and Dean away from the town where they are investigating a coven of witches. She tells them a demon is present that will come after Sam. Dean tries to shoot her with The Colt, but Sam intervenes. When Dean is attacked by a force that causes him to bled internally, Ruby saves him with a witch's potion. When Tammi is about to kill Sam and Dean, Ruby appears and at first acts as if she is on Tammi's side, but then tries to kill Tammi with her knife. Tammi reveals Ruby was once a witch who sold her soul to her. After Dean manges to kill Tammi with Ruby's knife, she tells him all demons were originally human, but during their time in hell they lose all trace of their humanity, but she has retained some of hers and wants to help humans. Ruby reveals to Dean that she can't save him from hell, but that she needs his help to prepare Sam to fight the demons after he is gone.

3.12 Jus in Bello

While the boys are under seige from demons while in a police station, Ruby shows up, able to get in through a salt line damaged unwittingly by the deputy. She tells them that demons are from Lilith, Sam's demonic rival from "the west", and tries to convince Sam that the solution is a spell she knows that will "vaporise" all demons within radius - including herself. However the spell requires the sacrifice of a virgin. Nancy volunteers but Dean is vehemently against the plan, convinced Sam instead that they need to just open the doors and fight off the hoard themselves. Exasperated, Ruby leaves.

After the boys have escaped, seemingly victorious over the demons, Ruby turns up at their motel room & tells them to turn on the television, where they find out that everyone left in th epolice station was killed by Lilith.

3.16 No Rest For The Wicked

In an last attempt to save Dean from his deal, Sam summons Ruby. She tells him that he contains the power necessary to defeat Lilith, but Dean intervenes and in the ensuing struggle traps her beneath a devil's trap and steals Ruby's Knife.

Ruby escapes and tracks the boys to the house where Lilith is tormenting a family. On entering the house they find the little girl Lilith was possessing is human again. Sam turns to Ruby for help again, but she says it is too late to save Dean. As the hellhounds come for Dean, the boys barricade themselves in a room. Dean, who is able to see the true face of demons, realises that the body possessed by Ruby now contains Lilith. Lilith says she has sent Ruby "far, far away".

After Lilith leaves Ruby's body, the latter is seen lying on the floor beside Dean, lifeless.

4.01 Lazarus Rising

Ruby has returned and possessed another body to walk among humans. Since Dean's death, she apparently has taught Sam to use his powers, among them the power to exorcise demons by forcing them out of their host bodies with the sheer power of his will.

4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester

Ruby has found out that Dean was saved by an angel. She tells Sam she is going to take off for while because she is scared that angels will smite her, even if she is being helpful to him.

[4.03 In The Beginning]]

At the beginning of the episode, Sam leaves a sleeping Dean and leaves to go somewhere with Ruby.

4.04 Metamorphosis

Dean finds Sam with Ruby, and witnesses him exorcising a demon. Ruby attacks Dean, but Sam warns her off, and she leaves to take the now unpossessed human to hospital.

4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer

In the present day, Ruby informs Sam and Dean that a woman called Anna Milton is being pursued by demons. She helps save Anna when Alistair attacks.

Dean demands Sam tell him why he trusts Ruby. In flashback we find out that while Dean was dead Lilith had released Ruby from Hell, on the condition that she kill Sam. She instead kills the demon with her and tells Sam she is there to help him. A grief-stricken Sam rejects her help, and demands she vacate the body she is possessing.

Ruby then possesses the body of a woman in a coma who is brain dead, and whose soul has left her body, and returns to Sam. She offers to help Sam use his powers so he can take revenge on Lilith and he accepts. He is unsuccessful at first in exorcising demons, and becomes even more despairing. Ruby tells him things will get better with time, and seduces him. After that, Sam finds omens that lead him to Lilith and he pursues her despite Ruby's warning not to. Sam walks into a trap, and his attacked by two demons until he is rescued by Ruby. She kills one with her knife and Sam successfully exorcises the other.

She later possesses the body of a maid at the hotel where Sam and Dean are so she can warn them that demons are closing in on them.

Sam and Dean meet up with Ruby and Anna, where they are confronted by Castiel and Uriel.

In Fandom

• spn_ruby - A LJ community for Ruby
• sam_ruby - A LJ community for pairing Sam/Ruby
• dean_ruby - A LJ community for pairing Dean/Ruby