A/N: This is a Halloween themed short-story. There will be deaths, and hopefully it will be mysterious and scary for you guys!
Happy Reading! Happy October!
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Rachel, Kurt, Tina, and Mercedes skipping down the streets of Cleveland with the rest of their club straggling behind. Blaine and Finn walked behind them with their hands in their pockets, laughing at their significant others. Mike, Puck and Shane were close behind them, talking about how they killed Carmel the night before during the game. Quinn, Santana, and Brittany were walking behind the boys, making fun of Rachel's outfit and Mercedes boyfriend.
"I mean, who wears themed outfits?" Santana scoffs at Rachel's Halloween themed shirt that had some terrible phrase on it. "Don't go running to your Mummy? Where does she shop?"
"Kids R Us." Brittany confirms, "But at least she is wearing jeans, I don't think I have ever seen her in jeans. Her ass looks good."
Quinn and Santana both shot her a glare and continued to talk. "And why did Shane get Artie's ticket? How is that fair?" Quinn scoffs.
"It's cause haunted houses aren't wheelchair friendly, but still. I hate him. He takes up so much room." Santana notes.
Puck turns around suddenly, "Girls! Stop! You're ruining this for everyone."
Quinn sighs and they continue to walk, all three linking their arms together.
Finn glances back, "I guess the unholy trinity is back in full force."
Blaine looks backwards, "I don't know what that means, but it sounds scary."
Finn chuckles and nods, "Dude, be terrified."
"Do you think Rachel heard the comment about her shirt?" Blaine whispered.
Finn nodded, "She did, she's just ignoring it."
"Good for her." Blaine comments sincerely.
Rachel led the way into a small Mexican restaurant and everyone followed behind, Finn making his way to her side, "You're going to protect me in the Haunted House, right Rach?" Finn whispered into her ear and she giggled and nodded. "We have 12, can you seat us?" He asked the waiter who walked up. She nodded and spilt the group up into two groups.
Somehow Rachel and Finn got sat with Puck, Quinn, Santana and Brittany. Finn groaned internally but Rachel grinned, she had a plan to shut the unholy trinity up for good.
After ordering Puck and Finn got into a discussion of what players the Browns need to be an actual football team and Santana, Quinn and Brittany started discussing what part of the haunted house they were more excited to make fun of.
Rachel tickled Finn's thigh lightly and he put his arm around her as a reflex, she leaned into him and then sighed loudly.
"It's so hot." She told Finn loudly, everyone turning their attention to her. "This top is suffocating me." She says only to Finn but everyone's eyes are on her.
"Take it off, babe. Don't you have a top underneath?" Finn tugged on it, "I saw you put it on over that one thing."
"A camisole?" Rachel asked with a giggle. "Okay, I'll be right back, order me my usual."
Finn nods and she excused herself to the bathroom. She slips of the long sleeved top and reveals a lacy v-necked tank top. Rachel adjusted her assets in her new pushup bra that she had bought for her Halloween costume, but had gotten accustomed to Finn staring, so she wore it more often. She reapplied her chapstick and looked in the mirror. This would shut them up.
When she strolled out, Puck's mouth dropped and went dry immediately. Finn looked across the table at Puck, confused by his expression until he followed his gaze. "Rachel…" Finn's mouth dropped a bit too, "I remembered that being a little more… uh, covered." Finn said nervously.
Quinn and Santana were glaring at their significant others. "Brit, stop staring."
"I didn't realize Rachel was so hot under all those weird sweaters." Brittany notes.
Finn couldn't help but laugh, "I knew."
"Oh gross." Quinn spits, "Can you cover up?"
"What is wrong with you?" Rachel says back, "You're wearing a low cut dress, Santana is wearing a corset. What is wrong with this?"
"It's one YOU, that is what's wrong with it." Quinn spouts and nudges Puck, "Could you please stop staring."
Puck looked away quickly, "Sorry, I was just, surprised." Puck mentions and shoots Finn an apologetic look.
After dinner they all piled into their separate cars to meet at the 'Factory of Terror'. Rachel was so excited, "I've never been to anything like this before." Rachel tells Finn as he lets her out of the car at the Haunted House, Rachel links her hand with Finn's intertwining their fingers, "Did you know that this place is the Guinness World Record holder for the longest Haunted House in the world."
Finn laughs and pulls her closer, wrapping his arm around her waist, "Good, that's the longer I get to hold you close."
Rachel giggled and stopped, leaning up to kiss him lightly. "You should get earplugs. My scream is going to bust some eardrums." Rachel teases him and shivers at the wind.
Finn takes his letterman jacket off and asks Rachel to hold it and pulls off his long sleeve thermal sweater off revealing his Halloween themed under shirt, "Here." He hands her the sweater. "Wear this."
Rachel looked up at Finn with excitement, "You're wearing the matching Halloween shirt I got you."
The shirt had a witch on it, saying 'Witch way to the treats?' Rachel had laughed for a good ten minutes when she found it and thought it was perfect for Finn.
"Of course I am, it was just a little cold, so…" Rachel's lips on his cut him off and she asked him if they could go back to the car to get her mummy shirt. He said yes and they quickly ran to the truck.
"I love Rachel, but she should be shot for her choice in clothing sometimes." Kurt noted as they waited for Rachel and Finn to make their way back.
Blaine chuckled, "Don't be mean, Kurt. I think her outfit is sweet. And it's sweet of Finn to participate."
Kurt shook his head, "They are perfect for each other, plaid and reindeer sweaters."
Santana over heard this and laughed, "Or the fact that he has man-boobs and she has a man's chest."
"And man hands." Quinn notes.
Brittany seems confused by this, "I think Rachel's hands are nice, and we just saw her boobs, what are you-"
Santana elbowed Brittany quickly, "I love that you are so sweet, but sometimes you just have to let me make fun of Berry, alright?"
Kurt rolled his eyes, "You three are too hard on her." Kurt spits.
"You were just saying-" Quinn starts.
"I was saying I don't like her fashion sense. I wasn't stoning her because of it, unlike you three."
That is when they heard Tina scream. Everyone turned quickly and Rachel and Finn ran up to the group. There was a mummy with terrible make-up following her and Mike and would not let up. Mike was yelling at him to back off, but the guy wouldn't let up.
"The trick is to ignore them, they'll go away." Puck tells them, "Or point out someone who is more scared." He looks around the crowd as they head towards the line.
"Like her?" Quinn points to Rachel who is cowering behind Finn.
Finn shoots Quinn an unforgiving look and Quinn grins from ear to ear. The mummy makes his way to her and Rachel hides under Finn's arm.
"He can't touch me." She started to chant quietly over and over.
Finn looked down at his terrified girlfriend, "Maybe this wasn't the best idea."
"Oh stop it." Santana rolls her eyes. "Grow a pair and start walking, dime-nips."
"That's a new one." Brittany grins at Santana.
Santana smiles back, "I'm working on my insults, trying some new ones out."
Kurt rolls his eyes, "Let's just get in this damn house."
The mummy growled in Rachel's ear and she squealed and Finn turned to the dude swiftly, "I swear to God, dude. Leave her the fuck alone or I'll punch you so hard you won't wake up until next Tuesday."
The mummy began to retreat, trying to jump at Brittany and Quinn before moving to the next group.
"You're so chivalrous." Rachel grins up at her tall boyfriend and Quinn makes a gagging noise. Rachel turns to her quickly, "What is your problem? You're ruining this for everyone."
"Not for everyone, just for you." Quinn spits back.
Puck sighs out, "Nope, for everyone." He grabs Quinn's arm, "We'll take front, Finn, Rach, you take back."
Finn nods and gets to the back of the group. Kurt and Blaine make their way to the back in front of them, "I'm sorry she's being so awful."
"She's just upset about me and Shelby getting close." Rachel admits, fidgeting. "Finn and I have been babysitting Beth and she's not happy about it. I'm a baby and boyfriend stealer."
"That's not really fair, technically Beth is your sister." Blaine mentions.
"That's what I said." Finn shrugs, "I don't get what her deal is."
"Jealousy" Kurt sings suddenly, in the tune of the Mr. Brightside song and the foursome laughs.
After a 30 minute wait and a lot of convincing they convince the employees to let all 12 of them go in together, even though they normally don't let groups bigger than 8 go in at a time. Rachel clutches Finn closely.
They pass through the clown area quickly and Tina screams the entire time, while Kurt makes Rachel laugh by commenting on each outfit. When they get into the room that has the girl from The Ring in there, Santana makes a nasty "Look, it's Berry!" comment and Finn resists the urge to go up there and smack her.
Suddenly as they pass into the 'Psycho Manner' section of the house Puck stops in his tracks, "This door won't open."
"Don't fuck with us, Puckerman!" Finn shouts from the back.
"Seriously! Come try it, dude." Puck spits back and Finn lets go of Rachel's hand and She clings to Blaine and Kurt.
They are in what looks like a concrete room. No one in sight. Rachel knows someone will pop out. Finn tries the door, a couple of times.
"Okay, you're not shitting us, that thing is locked tight." Finn groans.
Rachel feels a hand touch her and jumps and sees that damn mummy. "You can't touch me!" She shouts, the mummy laughs.
"Seriously dude." Finn yells as he walks over to Rachel, "What did I say?"
"Just come open the door!" Puck screams at the mummy and he walks his way, Finn pulls Rachel up in his arms.
"What are you doing, dude?" The mummy towers over Puck and forces Puck backwards, "Open the fucking door."
Mike and Shane made his way to the front and pushed Puck away, "Dude you're not helping" He told Puck seriously. And Shane turned to the Mummy.
"Hey man, sorry. I know there's a lot of us, but if you could just let us to the next round. Some of our girls be getting scurred." Shane said in a friendly manner.
The mummy laughed again, "Good." He growled and the next thing anyone knew was the Shane had fallen backwards.
The room was full of screams and Mercedes ran to Shane's side, "What hap-" Mercedes began to ask until she saw the knife in Shane's belly. "SHANE!"
Everyone looked at Shane in shock and horror, the mummy used this moment to knock on the door three times. The door opened, the mummy was dragged into the darkness and the door shut quickly.
Quinn began to gag and Brittany cried. Santana, Mike and Puck helped drag Shane to the side of the room and he coughed up blood. "Oh my god, Oh my god!" Mercedes was crying and holding Shane's hand. Kurt, Blaine and Rachel moved to comfort her, but Finn wouldn't let Rachel out of his grasp.
The noise in the room was a sea of, "This can't be real."
"Why is this happening?"
"Oh my God!"
"We're going to die."
Finn swallowed hard and ripped off his jacket and commanded Rachel take off her top, she did so and handed it to him. He covered her with the letterman jacket and she slunk her hands into the arms. Finn kissed her quickly, "We're going to get out of this, you hear me?"
Rachel was still in shock, until she heard those words it never actually doned on her that NOT getting out of here was an option. Rachel whimpered and he pulled her to Shane's side.
Finn tapped Shane's face, "Stay awake!" He turned to the group, "Everyone, shut the fuck up."
Silence replaced panic and Puck stood by Finn, knowing he had a plan and already deciding to stand by him, "Listen to Finn, guys!"
All that could be heard were Mercedes whimpers and Shane's ragged breath, "This is really screwed up, but we have to work together. And these fuckers gave us one thing." He turned to Shane, "This is going to hurt, brother." Finn whispered before pulling out the knife and handing it to Puck. Finn used Rachel's shirt to hold to the wound. "Mercedes, hold this to him. Keep pressure on it." He directed.
"Kurt, Blaine, Quinn, and Brittany. Look around. Look for a way out, look for any crack, any crevis, we need to get out. There has to be another exit."
"The way we came?" Rachel whispered.
Kurt shook his head, "That door is locked." He informed the room and the four got the work. Brittany lifted Quinn on her shoulders looking for a way up and Blaine took the floor, looking for a way down as Kurt checked every inch of the walls.
"Puck, Mike, San. We're the strongest. We need to try to get through this door."
"But that is the way he went." Mercedes cried.
"We might not have another option." Finn noted. "Rachel, baby, I need you and Tina, I need you to scream."
"W-W-Why?" Tina asked and Rachel looked Finn in the eyes, terror filling her.
Finn put his hands on either side of Rachel's face, "Because, you girls are the loudest. If they'll hear anyone. It'll be you."
"We're in a haunted house, Finn." Quinn spit at him.
"I'm well aware, Quinn." Finn spit before turning his attention back to Rachel, "Scream baby!"
Rachel nodded and wiped a tear off her face, "Cover your ears, guys!"
She grabbed Tina's hand and they screamed, they shouted and screamed. They chanted 'Help' and 'Help us' and then would just scream. Long screams, terrible long screams. They screamed until they couldn't scream anymore.
"Rachel?" Tina whispered, swallowing, "I can't anymore."
Rachel nodded and looked at Mercedes who stood and Tina replaced her. "Okay guys, round two." Mercedes cried and everyone nodded.
Finn, Puck, Santana and Mike pounded the door, pushed the door. Quinn climbed on the ceiling, searched and searched. Blaine was on the floor, looking everywhere. Kurt was banging on the walls. Tina was holding the rag and Mercedes and Rachel were screaming.
And they kept screaming. And deep down they knew, no one would hear them. No one would come.
But they screamed…
Please review! Let me know what you think! I looooove Halloween, so I just had to start this story!
