Things Aren't as Simple as They Seem :Things Are Never as They Seem Sequel

Diclaimer: I do not own anything mentioned in this story.

A/n: This is the sequel to 'Things Are Never As They Seem'. Tell me what you think:)

Chapter One: Mine

It had been a month and a week since the forming of the council, one month and a week since I was elected to represent demons, one month and a week since Santana was elected to represent humans. It had been a month since school had restarted. Four weeks since my fathers had gotten back to town. Three weeks since Marcus had left the island on a recon mission. Two weeks since Santana had found a small coven of witches. One week since the witches had agreed to work with us for protection. One week since Brittany had finally received her wings. Everything was running as smoothly as anyone could expected. There were still six members on the council, the hunters still trying to pick a representative.

My amulet around my throat began to glow and I growl from my place wrapped around Quinn, we were making out on my bed and I felt the warmth from the amulet, I knew she felt it when she let out a frustrated groan. I quickly peck her on the lips. "Sorry Quinn, I have to go. They're summoning me." Her hand tangles into the hair at the nape of my neck pulling me in for a kiss. I let out a moan as the kiss grows heated, her tongue sliding against my lips before slipping past them. My fingers grip her hip and back of her head as she moves to remove her mouth from mine, her teeth pulling at my bottom lip before letting go. I flop my head against her collarbone before I kiss it and disentangle myself from her. I drop a kiss on her lips again and she deepens it. The amulet begins to glow brighter and hotter, urgently telling me I need to be there. I growl again before pulling away from Quinn. "You want to come with me? I'm sure they wouldn't mind."

She laughs as her fingers run down my face. A devious smirk covers her face as her eyes light up. "They will be annoyed, but yeah lets go." I smile as I wrap my arms around her. The second she is safely in my arms my fingers close around the amulet. I feel a little sting as it pricks me for my blood before the world around me disappears. Quinn buries her face into my neck as the transportation screws with her senses. Its an annoying feeling until you get used to it. My wings thrust themselves out of my back and slowly my eyes are over-run by black before my human brown eyes are replaced with my demon eyes, a black that looks almost purple when the light hits it. My skin remains my normal tan but my teeth sharpen as do my claws. The transformation take all of half a second and the transportation take about five seconds. It feels like you on a tilt-a-whirl and zero-gravity at the same time.

The marble of the council room comes into view as we are thrust into the room by magic. I shake my head and feel Quinn breath deeply to keep herself from puking. Sauriel's blue eyes meet mine. "Finally princess, you grace us with your presence."

Amota is trying to hide his grin from behind his hand as he speak. "Oh cool down Mr. President, you were that age once." I roll my eyes at Amota.

"I am nearly 18 Amota, don't patronize me." Amota grins as I spot Santana in her chair, Brittany sitting on her lap.

"That may be true but you are the youngest here. Which mean by all rights I get to tease you." His grin grows wider and I spot Jolene's hand move stealthily behind his head before she thumps him on the back of it. Lula's black wings flutter in annoyance as she watches them.

"I swear I am trapped with four kids and a stick up the ass father." Five different 'heys' ring out of everyone's mouth. Mine is followed by a pout in Lula's direction. "Don't give me that, you all know I am right, we need to get down to business." She looks at Brittany and Quinn. "Sorry girls but council ears only. You can do what you wish." Brittany kisses Santana quickly before heading towards me and Quinn. I peck Quinn on the mouth before Brittany drags her away.

Everyone's expressions turns serious the second the door shut behind the two blondes. Lula speaks. "Santana what is the update on the witches?"

Santana's posture straightens. "They have been cooperative. They seek protection from those who wish to use them. They gave us the amulets as a peace gift." She looks at me before continuing. "They are worried about the demon hunters. They are fine without having a witch on the council, but they fear what the hunters will do. They said the hunters have been dealing with magic, studying it and using it on the creatures they capture."

Sauriel speaks his face stone hard as he begins. "Did the hunters capture a witch or use it themselves?"

"One of the hunters is married to a witch. She is a lone witch and does not belong to a coven." Sauriel nods his face still serious.

"What of the coven that is here on the island?" Sauriel asks this, his voice inquisitive. Since discovering witches we had helped them and they helped us, there is now a coven settled on the island. Some act as guards along with the other species and others as consults.

"The number is still five, one for earth, water, air, fire and spirit. They won't grow any larger unless one of them has a child, which I don't see happening anytime soon. The fire one, Celeste, is on the guard. The others help around the island. Luna, the water part of the coven, helps at the clinic. Gwendolyn is Earth, she helps with protection of the island. Rowan is the spirit, she helps us with the difficult magic, and her sister Rayne is air, she is currently bouncing between helping each of her coven-mates." I had met only Rayne, she seemed to be like her element, flitting between everything, never staying on one subject or in one spot.

Lula speaks her voice cautious. "We're sure they can be trusted?"

Santana looks insulted. "You think I would put everyone in danger like that? Brittany comes here with me. If you don't trust my judgment then trust in my power to protect Brittany with my life. I would never bring dangerous people here!" She looks angry and I intervene before another argument breaks out. Santana is strong willed and so is almost everyone in this room..

"Calm down San, you would have asked the exact same thing. We all bring family here, so just answer her question." She still looks pissed and insulted.

"Yes, I checked everything on them, they are legit. They just want protection from other covens and witch hunters. So yes they can be trusted." She crosses her arms. I know she is waiting for Lula to apologize, but Lula won't because she was only looking out for everyone.

I talk before Santana can say something scathing. "Speaking of hunters, what are we going to do about the council hunter, and what they are doing to those creatures?" Sauriel looks thoughtful.

He speaks before anyone else can. "What did your fathers say they were doing with the creatures?"

I thought back to that argument with my fathers. "They said that the hunters had promised not to harm my dad if they both worked for them. They were sent to different locations to capture creatures and study them. Sometimes they had to hunt the creature because they were killing innocent and couldn't be stopped."

Jolene speaks. "Wait if they were collecting information where is it? And why were they collecting it?"

Everyone turns to look at me. "They were creating a database so they could identify the creature causing havoc earlier than normal. They have a large database right now, but it continues to grow with every mission a hunter is sent on."

Sauriel nods his head, his cobalt blue eye steely in seriousness. "We need to have a hunter on council soon. We need information on what they are doing, we can't have them as a loose cannon. It could be disastrous."

"They are still choosing. This has got to be a ploy and we need to remain on our guard. We do not include the hunters until they have given us a representative." Lula's wings twitch as she speaks. Jolene nods in agreement as does Amota. Santana nods also and my head moves, agreeing with Sauriel. My father may be a hunter, but the whole organization was given us a vibe.

Santana spoke, a smirk taking over her features. "As for the where the info is, I have it right here." She pulls out a flash drive that I recognize.

"Britt?" Santana nods her head. "The night we released those creatures?" Santana nods again and I smile. Brittany is a whiz with computers. The hunters had freaked on my fathers when they realized the creatures were gone, luckily they had already taken notes on them. The hunters questioned me and I told them I only released the creatures. They didn't know we had information and they wouldn't be able to find out we did. Brittany didn't even leave a trail.

Jolene looks excited. "We have part of their database?" Santana nods and the other look impressed.

Lula voice echoes throughout the room. "We have data, get your mate to sift through it." She say this to Santana then looks at the rest of us. "We are the only ones to know about this, tell no-one else. This must remain a secret." Everyone nods in agreement.

Sauriel move through a stack of papers. "Marcus has replied to me just this morning, he's still in the catacombs deep in the mountains of Himalaya. The attacks have gotten more frequent and he has sent a request for back up. It is rare for Marcus to ask for help, we must decide who to send. He doesn't cooperate well with demons, but he will need their extra strength and vision. Rachel, I will choose some angels and you can pick some demons, make sure they won't fight with Marcus." I snort but nod, Marcus did not like demons at all.

"Send Cernobog, he is getting restless with guard duty on the island." I pause to think for a second. "Send Claramond with him." I quickly choose my strongest and smartest demons on my guard. Claramond is a great tacticalist and very smart as is Cernobog. They can both help Marcus stay out of trouble.

"Alright, that a good pair. I'm going to send Cassiel." I remember the leader of the angels before the council was formed. "And Adelina, she is one of our best warriors." I nod my head and he looks at the other three. "You can send your own troops if you wish but half's aren't as strong in battle." They nod their head in understanding, the half's are sent on recon missions with either a fallen, demon or angel. "Any fallen you can think of Lula?"

She looks contemplative. "No, most of the fallen are on Earth and some are here in guard groups. Wait, there is one though. Abebi, he is a guard here, but his group can handle themselves without their leader." Sauriel nods before he whistles. A falcon flies through the window that Sauriel had just opened. "Get these to Cassiel, Adelina, Cernobog, Claramond and Abebi." He ties notes to its leg before it takes off out the window screeching. I would never get used to the messenger hawks. They could located a person just by their name easily thanks to the witches help. Cell phones didn't work so well up here.

Santana looks at her watch. "Shit guys, I need to be home in like five minutes. My mother will flip if i'm not home again for dinner." Santana's parents didn't know about her other life, they didn't know about supernatural creatures. They didn't know their daughter was on a council designed to keep peace. They were lenient the week she spent on the island, thinking she was on vacation with Brittany due to the 'earthquake', but the second school had started they kept a close eye on her.

Sauriel looks annoyed. "Yes it is over, but be prepared if we have an emergency meeting. There may be urgent issues."

Santana nods before apologizing and rushing out the door. We each get up to leave and I exit the room, I see Quinn coming towards me. "Hey Rach, how'd it go?' I shrug my shoulders in a bored fashion. Her wings bumped into my in annoyance at my lack of words. "Santana left pretty fast?"

I laughed and nudged her back with my wing. "Yeah, it was almost time for dinner, her parents are still watching her every move after she came here that one night." The witches had been testing the amulets and summoned all of us out of our beds in the middle of the night. Santana's parents found her room empty and freaked out. She told them she'd snuck to Brittany's house. They were livid and grounded her. The witches finally added in a 'must prick for blood before transporting' charm to it so that there wouldn't be any more incidents.

Quinn laughs. "Poor S, elected onto the council and her parents don't even know. Its gotta be hard."

I nod my head in agreement. "Yeah, at least the others took school into consideration. I'm pretty sure San's parent would kill her if she didn't go to school. Though it does suck that we have to go to keep up appearances." Quinn nods in agreement. "Hey you wanna go back now or do you wanna have some fun around here?"

Quinn looked contemplative as we walked around the marble castle or mansion as some would call it. "Let's hang out here for a bit, I never get to see the island that much." We had only had a few afternoons together due to the council, and school was hard because we were in completely different classes. It was also hard since we couldn't be ourselves. Sure everyone knew we were together, but we couldn't be our true selves, demon and angel.

I nodded and we walked in comfortable silence. Our wings brushing against one another as Quinn's hand was threaded through mine. The hair on the back of my neck prickled after we had walked into the forest, I shoved Quinn to the ground landing on top of her before I jumped up. There was a dull thud as something hit a tree. I looked at the dull knife before searching the forest with my sense. I felt more than saw Quinn get up and crouch into a fighting position. "Warn me next time, Rachel." She hissed this at me, pissed that I had pushed her towards the ground.

"Sorry if I wanted to protect you Quinn." I growl this out as I search the forest again, my sense picking up silence. I felt my skin ripple as protective scales flooded over my body, beginning at the base of my wings before covering my whole body.

"I can protect myself Rachel. I am not helpless." I growled softly in annoyance.

"I know you can but it is my instinct to protect what is mine." As this passes my lips gruffly I hear a crunch and head straight towards it. I can hear Quinn hiss my name in frustration as I move forward. It wasn't my fault. This person had threatened my mate, they would pay. As I zoomed towards the noise I heard another crunch behind Quinn. I growl, changing my direction as quickly as I could and yelling at Quinn. "Behind you!"

She turned quickly remaining in her crouched position. I left out a growl as I made it back to her side. "I wish I had a fucking weapon, I am never leaving without it again." She said this as she looked around the forest, waiting for the next attack.

"I have weapons." My teeth flashed in a growl and my claws clinked against one another. "And when I get them on the person I am going to tear them limb from limb!"

We remained in defensive positions. A growl was rumbling through my chest and up my throat until it passed my barred lips. The forest was still silent and I closed my eyes focusing on my hearing. I heard a hud-dub, hub-dub from the left straight in front of us. I whispered it to Quinn and she nodded. I focused my hearing until I heard three more hub-dubs. We were surrounded and I told Quinn as much and she sounded pissed. "Why the hell are we being attacked on the island, its name meaning peace and fucking safety. This doesn't feel safe or peaceful!"

Another dull knife came flying at Quinn and I jumped in front of her, my wings spreading over us. The knife hit my back, right at the base of my spine and I growl as it falls to the ground, just barley bruising my skin due to my scales and the dullness of the knife. "Damn it Rachel, I can look after myself."

I growl again before I tell her to fly. She rolls her eyes as we took up into the sky. I spot the four assailants. They were dressed head to toe in camo, two demons, and angel and a fallen. I growled again as I went to pick them up telekinetically. So focused on them, I didn't hear the angel until it was to late, she had tackled me and we were falling. I growled as I spotted a fallen heading for Quinn. I used my telepathic ability to throw the fallen about five hundred yards away from Quinn. She growls in frustration at my interference before she heads towards me, but my protecting Quinn was all the angel needed to bring a knife to my throat.

I let out a deep rumbling growl at being bested and the fallen from the ground group flies up to the angel holding me. Both hold one wing and one hand behind my back in an uncomfortable position. They flashed Quinn the knife as they flew towards the ground she kept her distance as they forced me to my knees. I growled and lunged at the demon in front of me. He tsked. Quinn stays in the air before landing on the ground. The demon growls in warning and the roar that flew from my chest and out of my throat makes him jump. The other laugh at him and he scowled under his only part visible from all the creatures were the color of their wings and tails if the had them. Their faces were hidden under camo mask as were their bodies.

His voice was garbled as if it was robotic. "Well well princess we have you, now what do we do with the two of you." The second he mentions two of us I explode at the thought of them hurting Quinn. My telekinetic ability throws all the assailants away from us.

Quinn is left untouched as they all groan and move to get up. I pull the demon that had growled at Quinn towards me. "I want to see you face before I kill you. No one threatens my mate." My voice is scratchy and is followed by my growl as I rip his mask off. I am greeted by Hania's face, he was one of the guards.

I growl again at him and he looks fearful. "Woah! Woah I didn't betray you, it was a training exercise meant to help you and my team." The others rip off their masks and hold their hands up. Slowly the other five members in his guard come forward from their positions I had thrown them to. The two that captured me, an angel and a fallen, the fallen that went after Quinn, another angel and the other demon.

I threw him to the ground. "You might want to think about attacking the demon princess council member and her mate next time. Your lucky I didn't kill you." The other demon snorted.

I raised my eyebrow at her. "We had you captured, your weakness was evident and we used it. If we were true enemies you'd be dead."

I laughed. "My dear precious demon. I could kill you in a heartbeat, never threaten my mate ever again." My voice became lower and deeper. "Do you understand me?" The cocky look on her face disappear when she looks into my eyes and hears my voice. She nods dumbly and I smirk before grabbing Quinn. I wrap my fingers around the amulet and it pricks my hand before transporting me back into my bedroom.

Quinn's face is annoyed as she shakes her head, still not used to teleporting. She glares at me, about to yell at me for my idiotic moves during the fight. I beat her to it, pinning her to the wall in my bedroom. She growls in annoyance, sounding more like a demon then an angel as I kiss her. My sharp teeth nipping at her lips. The thought that they could have hurt her keeps running through my mind. I growl at that thought, pinning Quinn's hands to the wall with both of mine, her wings are stretched out behind her, splayed out against the wall. She moans as I kiss her for everything she and I are worth. I nip at her bottom lip before moving my mouth to her ear, sucking behind it as she lets out another moan.

"Never." I nip at her neck, her skin reddening slightly. "Ever." I kiss the spot I just nipped only to do it again lower on her neck, her breaths are shallow. "Berate me." I run my lips and teeth against her collarbone before latching onto it, intent on leaving a mark. My body seems to have a mind of its own. Her hands fight against mine as she tries to touch me. I growl lowly in my throat and she groans. "For wanting." I pull back and look at the mark, the claim I had left on her, my possessiveness takes over and I move to mark the same spot on the other side of her body. She writhes against me, her mouth open as she is about to say something. I quickly kiss her deeply, silencing her except for her moan of arousal and groan of annoyance when she can't move her hands. I breath deeply, her arousal filling my nose as well as my own, a sweet musky scent that causes something in me to rumble. I slow the kiss down until we are kissing languishly. Her tongue brushes against my teeth and I moan at the feeling before I pull my mouth away and latch onto the base of her neck, laying open mouth kisses on her neck until I make it to her ear. "To protect." I nip at the spot behind her ear, earning me a moan of appreciation. "What's mine." I kiss her harder than ever, taking control of the kiss quickly. Her tongue catches on one of my teeth and copper fills both our mouths. I pull back with a groan and so does she. She open her mouth to speak when my door bursts open.

I growl lowly, glaring at the person who dared enter my room while I was with my mate. My daddy's normally dark face flushes with a blush. I spot Shelby behind him and she looks at our position and takes in my growling along with Quinn's panting. "Leroy, we should leave them be and shut the door." My daddy goes to argue until his demon hunting training kicks in once he spots my expression. They shut the door and leave.

Once they're gone, my possessiveness disappears somewhat and I slump against Quinn, my head falling against her chest. I can hear her heart beating erratically and as it slowly calms down, I do to. I look up at her sheepishly, knowing she hated it when her former boyfriends got possessive. A growl rumbled in my throat as I thought of that. She wasn't theirs, she was mine. She nudges me and I move to back away from her as I dropped her hands. But I was stopped by her hands gripping at the sides of my cheeks before I could get away from her. She kisses me softly, her lips moving against mine in sync as my hands move to her hips to rub circles on the skin under her shirt and jeans. She release me with a soft pop of our lips separating.

Her fingers brushed against my cheeks. "I may hate it when you push me out of the way, but I also love that you would give everything to protect me." Her expression turns sad as she brushes another kiss against my lips, one of her hands traveling down to brush against the scar on my stomach. "But the reason I am so angry is because you put your life in danger for mine. I can protect myself and I love when you want to protect me, but please let me protect myself when I can. I hate you risking your life when I can handle it perfectly fine."

I nod my head before pulling her in for another kiss. I lay my forehead against hers as we stop kissing. "I know you can, I just hate thinking of you in danger and my instincts take over, but I will be more controlled if I can." She nods and I go to apologize for staking my claim on her, my possessive side showing through.

She smiles, her teeth showing. "Don't apologize." It like she read my mind, I thought as she brushed a kiss against my lips again. "Never apologize for kissing me, especially like that." She smirks. "Though I would like the use of my hands next time." I laugh and kiss her again, my smile bleeding into the kiss.

I pull back and grab her hand, intent on going downstairs to see what they wanted and to apologize for my growling at them. She laces our fingers together and we head down the stairs, our wings still out, my fathers had all the windows closed and locked with dark curtains in front of all of them. Daddy is in the kitchen with Shelby, I smell food and my stomach rumbled in hunger. Quinn laughs as we walked into the kitchen. Daddy keeps sneaking looks at me but Shelby didn't even seem bothered by what happened upstairs.

I looked at my daddy and questioned him with my eyes. He smirked, much like Santana does, a warning goes off in my head and my body tenses. "Just waiting to see how you're going to stake claim on Quinn. I mean you marked her already but what next, pe-" I growl and throw an orange from the fruit basket at him. He laughs hysterically as he ducks behind the counter, the orange flying until it hit the far wall. Shelby just shakes her head as she finishes dinner.

Quinn looks at Shelby, dying to ask a question but Shelby answers before she can even ask it. "Beth is in the living room, she fell asleep while we were making supper." She looked at us both. "We went upstairs to see if you guys were there or on the island." She smirks before turning around. "We got our answer." The smirk drops and she smiles at Quinn. "When I finish with dinner can you go wake her up?" Quinn nods enthusiastic. I smiles at the spark that seems to over take her eyes at the mention of Beth.

I look at my daddy. "Where's dad?"

Daddy picks up the orange off the floor. "He is over at Ethan's house, they're still catching up. Judy's there to." I roll my eyes at that, laughing. Ethan and my dad have been catching up for the last four weeks, though I could understand wanting to visit with you best friend after almost nineteen years of not seeing them.

Shelby laughs at my expression before setting plates on the table. Quinn rushes out of the room to get Beth and I focus my hearing enough to hear Quinn quietly murmur to Beth as she wakes her up. A smile breaks across my face. Shelby and Beth had been over many time in the last month. Shelby wanting to get to know me and Quinn to get to know Beth. I wouldn't care if Shelby didn't want to see me, I am just happy Quinn gets to see Beth, Shelby is an added bonus for me. We began to eat dinner and my dad showed up halfway through it, grabbing a plate and joining into the discussion on what weather is the best or more fun to fly in.

Shelby and I agreed that rain was the funnest to fly in, but only if you didn't have feathers. Dad said flying during the day was the best, Quinn argued saying night was the best. The discussion continued until dinner was over. The night passed in a blur of laughter and then goodbyes until I was walking Quinn home, having shifted back into my human form before we stepped outside.

I walked her to her house, our hands intertwined. The silence isn't awkward, its a silence that both parties enjoy. We make it her her house and I walk her into it before we stop by her backdoor. I kiss her on the lips moving to pull back so I can fly home, she doesn't let me get far before a grin over-runs her face and her hands pull my lips to hers again. I smile into our kiss, my lips sliding against her effortlessly. The kiss becomes heated when Quinn's fingers rake down my neck. I growl one of my hands running up her back to tangle into her hair. I thread my fingers through it, tugging gently to tilt her mouth into a different position. She backs me up until I hit the wall. I groan as she pins me to the wall with her body. There's a thump upstairs and we both stop, breathing heavily as we hear a voice. "Quinnie is that you?"

Quinn's voice is husky as she answers. "Yeah." She clears her throat. "It's me mom."

I hear a shuffle up stairs. "Well you have school tomorrow hurry up and go to bed." She pauses then adds as if an after thought. "Oh, Rachel fly home safe okay?"

We both blush at being caught, at least she didn't walk down and catch us in a heated make out session. "I will, good night Mis- Judy."

Quinn laughs as she presses her forehead to mine, her nose brushing against mine before she kisses me slowly. I reply in earnest before she pulls back somewhat, her lips barely a breath away from mine. "Good night Rachel."

I kiss her again before I open the back door. "Good night Quinn." I smile and shut the door, checking the back yard before my wings force their way out of my back. I shake them still not used to the small pain they are preceded by. I thrust them towards the ground as I jump slightly. My body is airborne as I flap my wings quickly, disappearing into the night.