But what if there weren't any vampires at the door, because we know it wasn't about the vampires, we know Sam would have bared his throat to vampires for all of eternity if that was the way to save the people he loved, what if it was just Sam and Lucifer, and Lucifer telling him either you go with me and let me show Jack that I brought you back out of the goodness of my heart, or I snap my fingers and you're a corpse again, and Sam said I'm not playing your game, so just do it, and Lucifer held his hand up, fingers ready to snap, and then there was a strangled wait from the doorway, a word that sounded like it had been ripped from someone's throat, and Sam turned to see Dean there, Dean who had fought his way through the vampires and was standing there almost as battered and bloody as Sam, Dean who had been standing there long enough to hear the Devil's offer and to hear Sam refuse it, and he said please, Sam, please say yes.