Jane's first thing was to find Sue after her successful mission. She was so happy, dancing and singing around the room as she waited for the other demon to arrive. It was totally understandable. She knew how many demons had been killed or locked up by the Chosens before and she was the first one in a long time who could do something against them. She knew that she would get a reward for it and she couldn't wait to see what it was.
"I guess you killed at least one of them."
"I stabbed my nails right through his heart" Jane smiled as she turned around to face Sue, standing at the door.
"Will they come after you?" Sue asked.
"Maybe they will" Jane shrugged. "But I know you have a plan for that."
"Of course I have" Sue rolled her eyes. "But I need some more time with the seer. Make sure they don't find us too soon."
"As you wish" Jane bowed and disappeared.
Sue walked back into the dungeon to Kurt. She had let the man awake earlier, to let him think about the possibilities. She had seen how scared Kurt had been when she had told him about the third demon he had had no chance to tell the Chosens about. And it was time to show him what he had done.
Kurt was there where she had left him the last time, tied to a wooden post. As she expected, he was awake, looking at her with those tired blue eyes which seemed to became more and more lifeless with every passed hour. Sue smiled and stepped closer to him.
"Could you just leave me alone for a while?" Kurt asked quietly.
"What's wrong, honey?" Sue cooed, stroking Kurt's chin. "Are you worried about your friends?"
The way Kurt's eyes widened told her everything. Of course he was worried. His fiancé and friends were in danger after all.
"I have some news for you" Sue smiled. "Do you want to know what happened to your friend?"
"You will lie to me" Kurt said, remembering the time when Sue had lied about Blaine's death.
"I swear I won't" Sue said.
"I still won't belive you" Kurt said and turned away.
Sue sighed, shaking her head.
"Let's try something new this time, alright?" she asked and grabbed Kurt's hair, pulling his head back. "Close your eyes."
Kurt's eyes clamped shut before he could protest and the demon next to him made him watch what had happened in the cave with his friends. When she let Kurt get out of the vision she created for him, the man gasped and slumped back while he tried to fight off the nausea.
"Do you believe me?" Sue asked.
"You... you didn't..."
"He's dead" Sue said coldly, leaning closer to Kurt's ear. "And it's all your fault."
~ o ~
Nobody moved, nobody made a sound. It was complete silence since Elliott had passed away. Finn stayed where he had been kneeling beside his friend and the others watched him in worry. The man was crying soundlessly, looking down at the ground with angry eyes.
"Finn..." Blaine broke the silence, taking a tentative step towards the man.
"Don't" Finn warned him quietly.
"We have to move. The demon can come back in any minute" Sam said.
"Be that way" Finn nodded. "I want to kill her."
"We have to be careful" Puck said. "She could kill us, too."
"I don't care" Finn said and stood up. "I want to find that bitch and kill her. Nothing else matters."
"Not even Kurt?" Blaine asked quietly.
Finn turned to look at him. He was so lost in his grief that he forgot about Kurt for a while.
"Right" he nodded. "We have to move. But if we find her..."
"You will be the one who kills her" Blaine nodded.
Finn hummed in agreement and turned towards the dark corridor in front of them.
"I can sense demonic presence that way" he said.
"You can sense them?" Puck frowned.
"Sometimes" Finn shrugged. "That's why I'm here with you."
"Than we have to be even more careful. If they don't want to hide from us, there could be a trap" Blaine said.
"There will be. We're close, Sue doesn't want us to find her" Finn said.
"Then pay attention. Everybody" Blaine said seriously as he took a few steps towards the corridor.
~ o ~
Kurt found himself in another place this time. He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't notice the place around him changing, as well as his clothes. He was still tied up but he was in a lighter place, somewhere that looked like a room of an old house... or castle. He looked down at himself and grimanced in disgust. Sue liked making fun of him, he decided. He was in a woman's clothes, something that looked like the clothes the princesses wore in Disney movies.
"Do you like it?"
Kurt pressed his lips together as he looked up at the demon angrily.
"Why are you doing this?" he asked quietly.
"Your friends are on their way here and I thought a typical damsel in distress scene would be the best for the time they find you" Sue said. "Oh, I made a few changes in the story. When your prince gets here, I will kill him right in front of your eyes. I just can't decide how I should do it. Do you have any ideas?"
"Blaine will kill you before you could touch him" Kurt growled.
"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure" Sue sighed. "See, you're tied up, unable to move from here. I, on the other hand, can move around freely and change my appearance in a blink. I will just persuade him that I am you and when I get close to him... I will catch him and bring him here to you."
"I won't let you hurt him" Kurt replied.
"And how do you want to stop me?" Sue challenged. She saw Kurt turning pale and she laughed. "Oh, I knew. And don't think you can use your power this time either. I will make sure you won't be able to use it when the time comes."
"What do you mean?" Kurt asked, his eyes wide and full of fear.
"Well, unfortunately, you can't find Blaine if you're unconscious" Sue said, stepping closer to Kurt.
"You can't do this!" Kurt protested as Sue stepped closer with a weird object in her hand.
"I can, honey. Sleep" the demon said gently and pressed the object in her hand to Kurt's forehead.
It felt warm and cold at the same time. Kurt was breathing heavily as he watched that thing right beside his head, waiting for something to happen. Sue started muttering strange words and the object in her hand made a strange noise, now burning his forehead.
"Stop!" he screamed as pain shot through his head, blinding him.
"Sleep" Sue said.
Kurt screamed again and with a last jerk, he went completely still. Sue stepped away from him, smiling as Kurt's memories get into her mind through the thing in her hand.
"I have a date with your fiancé."
~ o ~
They were getting close, they all felt it. There was something in the air that made them all nervous and now they were moving slower, ready for everything.
"Can you see that?" Sam asked, pointing at something in front of them.
Sure, there was light at the end of the corridor. Blaine frowned and made his legs moving faster to see what it was. They reached it in a few minutes and their eyes widened when they saw they were on a clearing. It was beautiful with colourful flowers and birds singing somewhere nearby, nothing like the places they had seen in the demon world earlier.
"What the hell is this place?" Puck muttered.
Blaine felt something moving under his clothes and he yelped, jumping back. His usual clothes disappeared and he was dressed in old fashioned pants and shirt.
"How did you do that?" Sam asked in awe.
"I didn't..." Blaine muttered.
It was Finn whose clothes changed next, then Sam's and Puck's too. Puck growled and formed a fireball, looking around.
"Okay, demon bitch. Let us see you" he said.
They heard laughing behind them and turned around to see the woman who had killed Elliott.
"You" Finn growled, taking a step towards her.
"No, Finn" Blaine said, putting a hand on the man's shoulder. "It can be a trap."
"Hello, boys" the woman smiled. "My name's Jane and I can't wait to kill you."
"Are you sure you won't be the one who ends up killed first?" Sam smiled.
"Oh, don't worry about me, honey. I will kill you before you can make a move. Just like your friend" Jane smiled.
Finn growled and surged forward before the others could stop him. He made a ball of light in his hand and threw it towards the demon but she jumped away from it easily. She grabbed Finn by his neck and pushed him back.
"Not so fast" she said.
The others went to help Finn, focusing on their powers. But before they could reach her, the plants around them attacked them suddenly, throwing sharp leaves towards them, reaching towards their ankles with their vines.
"What the hell...?" Sam muttered, kicking a vine away.
"The mistress' power is with me" Jane smiled, snapping her fingers.
There was a cracking sound and as Blaine turned around to see what caused it, he saw a large, dark hole where the clearing had been. He felt pain in his right ankle and he cried out, stabbing an ice knife into the vine around him. It pulled back but another one grabbed his ankles again and the first one came back to hold down his arms.
"Don't go near the vines!" he shouted, kicking against his restrains uselessly.
"Stay still!" Puck said when he saw what kind of trouble Blaine was in. He made a fireball to destroy the vines around his friend but he was grabbed from behind, finding himself unable to move. The vines held him down, just like Blaine, and started pulling them towards the hole.
"Sam!" Blaine shouted when he realised what was going on.
"Help them. I will deal with the demon" Finn said and grabbed his sword, raising it towards Jane.
"But..."
"No buts, Sam! They can't die, do you understand?" Finn said and slammed his sword into Jane's sharp nails that were only inches away from his neck.
"Alright" Sam nodded resolutely and turned back towards his friends.
He knew he could break the vines easily but he had to be careful to not be caught before that. Blaine and Puck were too close to the hole, he had only one chance to free them.
He jumped between the vines, grabbing a few of them, and pulled them out of the ground. They made a sharp noise as if they were screaming and fell to the ground. Sam smiled and repeated it with the other vines. Now he was close to his friends, he had only a few more to kill.
"You killed Elliott!" Finn shouted angrily as he tried to stab Jane again.
"That's right. Are you angry, sweety? Because I can send you after him" the demon laughed, jumping away from Finn.
She turned around quickly, stabbing her nails into the man's shoulder. Finn screamed in pain and pulled away, almost dropping his sword.
"Oh, you poor little boy" Jane cooed. "You miss your darling Elliott, right?"
"Right" Finn muttered. "But he will be proud of me if I kill you."
And with that, he raised his sword again to attack the demon.
At the same time, Sam reached Puck and helped him get free of the vines.
"Burn them" he said, motioning towards the vines he had pulled out of the ground.
"With pleasure" Puck said, making fire.
"Sam, hurry!" Blaine said, trashing desperately as he felt himself being pulled towards the hole.
"Hold on, Blaine" Sam said and reached towards the vines holding his friend down.
The hole was dangerously close, Blaine could feel it with his feet. He tried to kick the vines, to make them slow down until Sam could reach him, but they seemed to pull him even faster towards the darkness at his feet.
"Sam!" Blaine screamed as his legs disappeared in the hole.
"Dammit!" Sam said in frustration and grabbed Blaine's arm with one hand while he held down the the vines with the other.
"Need some help?" Puck asked from behind them and before his friends could open their mouth, he burnt the vines around them.
Sam pulled Blaine out of the hole, breaking the remaining vines in the process.
"Thanks" Blaine breathed.
"You're welcome, dude" Sam smiled.
Blaine looked up to meet his eyes – and he almost cried out. Because Sam's eyes were black again, as well as Puck's. He took a few steps away from his friends, careful to not step into the hole.
"What, dude?" Puck asked, stepping closer to him.
"Stay away from me!" Blaine screamed.
Finn heard that there was something wrong behind his back but he couldn't turn away. Not when there was a demon in front of him, who wanted to kill him.
"Come on, I'm getting bored" Jane said, sinking her nails into the man's leg.
"And I'm tired of this" Finn growled, slamming his sword into the demon's arm.
She screamed in pain and stepped back, watching down at her arm that hung limply beside her body. She couldn't move it.
"You son of a..."
Finn smiled and attacked the demon again, cutting down her other arm. The demon fell to her knees and screamed in agony, looking in horror at her arm lying beside her. Finn stepped closer and she looked up at him with wide eyes.
"Don't" she pleaded. "I-I didn't want to kill him. It was Sue's..."
Finn didn't let her finish the sentence. He brought down his sword once again, beheading the demon.
"That's for Elliott, bitch" he growled and turned back towards the Chosens.
"Calm down, Blaine, we won't hurt you" Sam smiled.
"We can show you the way to Kurt. Don't you want that?" Puck asked sweetly. Too sweetly.
"Uhm... No, thank you" Blaine said and with a quick motion, he made a cage around his friends.
Sam and Puck looked at each other, smiling. Sam raised his arms into the air and slammed his fist into the wall of the cage, breaking it easily.
"You see, it's all useless" Sam smiled, stepping forward.
"I don't think so" Finn shouted, forming another cage out blue light around Puck and Sam. "Blaine, you have to go alone. I think it's a spell but I need time to clean their minds from it."
"How will I find Kurt alone?" Blaine asked in concern.
"You will feel it" Finn smiled. "Go!"
And so Blaine did.
~ o ~
He was floating. He felt so light and peaceful, he wanted to smile. But the darkness around him made him worried. He hated darkness, it always meant something bad. Kurt wanted to get away from it but he couldn't move from his place. He knew deep in his mind that he had to hurry because... because of something he couldn't remember.
Blaine.
There was that voice again, the one that appeared sometimes from nowhere, whispering things into his ear. Like before he had been kidnapped. He didn't have time to think about what it could be, because finally, he remembered everything. He knew that Sue wanted to get close to Blaine, using his form, so he had to get out of the darkness to save Blaine before it would be too late.
But he couldn't open his eyes.
"What should I do?" he asked from the strange voice.
It didn't reply, though. Kurt looked around, still seeing nothing, and growled in frustration.
"I don't have time for this! I have to help them!" he shouted.
Suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of him, blinding him temporarily. He blinked a few times to get used to the sudden brightness. It was a ball of blue light, moving towards him. His eyes widened in realisation.
"Not again..." he whispered but it was too late. The light reached his face and sneaked under his eyelids.
Kurt screamed, throwing his head back.
~ o ~
Blaine grimanced, shaking his head. He didn't have to walk too long when he found a castle and he was sure he would find Kurt in there. Preferably in the hightest tower. The demon had weird taste.
He took a deep breath and stepped inside. He had to hurry since Finn had been left alone with Sam and Puck, and Kurt was waiting for him somewhere inside...
He yelped and jumped back when a big, furry animal attacked him from nowhere. It was almost like a wolf, but not exactly. It was bigger, seemed stronger, and its face was too human like. Blaine opened his mouth to talk to him – it – but it attacked him again, giving him no time to talk.
"I don't want to hurt you" he said, although he didn't understand why. It was a cruel creature like the demons, then why did he care?
The creature growled and surged forward again. Blaine was prepared this time, stopping it with a quick wall in front of him. The creature slammed his head into it hard and collapsed onto the ground.
"I'm sorry for this" he said and after a second hesitation, he left the creature and started running up the stairs.
He found the tower relatively fast and stopped in front of the door. The demon should be in there, waiting for him. She should have seen him arrived, so he had to be careful. And quick. Getting slow now would lead him nowhere.
He formed a sword in his hand and kicked the door open, rushing inside.
"Blaine?"
Blaine suppressed a sob. Kurt was there, right in front of him. He was tied up but seemed to be fine.
"Kurt" he breathed, stepping closer. "Where-where's the demon?"
"I don't know" Kurt said. "She left but didn't tell me anything."
"Okay. I will free you and get you out of here" Blaine said and with the help of his newly formed sword, he cut through the rope around Kurt's wrists. "God, I missed you so much."
"I missed you too" Kurt said, putting his arms around him. "We have to go."
"Sure" Blaine said, hesitating. "Uhm... I'm gonna ask you a question, just to make sure you aren't some illusion."
"Go ahead" Kurt smiled.
"Okay, uhm... Where did I propose?" Blaine asked. It was so weird to ask questions from Kurt about them but he knew it could be a trick of the demon, he had to be sure.
"That's easy" Kurt smiled. "In front of the building where we first met."
"It's really you" Blaine said, running his fingers through Kurt's hair.
"Of course" Kurt said, kissing his hand. "Let's go before the demon finds us. I know the way."
Blaine nodded and grabbed Kurt's hand, letting him lead him out of the room and through the corridors. They went downstairs and Kurt opened a door, motioning him to step inside.
"Hurry, Blaine!" he hissed impatiently.
Blaine nodded and stepped inside, not noticing the brief flash in Kurt's eyes. He looked around in confusion. There was no other door, so they couldn't escape.
"I don't understand..."
As Blaine turned around, Kurt grabbed his neck and pushed him to the nearest wall. Or the thing that made him think he was Kurt.
"Where's he?" Blaine asked in sudden realisation.
The demon smiled, pressing her fingers more tightly around Blaine's neck. She didn't break the illusion, she kept Kurt's from, so she could torture Blaine even more.
"He's locked up in his room safely" the demon answered. "But don't worry, you will meet him soon. I need your help."
"I won't help you" Blaine said. He made a knife in his right hand and stabbed it into the demon's leg. She cried out and jumped back.
"You little..." she growled, slamming Blaine back to the wall.
Suddenly, the door swang open, revealing... another Kurt. If he was the true one or not, Blaine didn't know. But the way his eyes widened when he saw Blaine in the demon's grip, it told him it was the real Kurt. The only problem was that Blaine couldn't free himself from the demon's grip who held him tightly in front of him as she faced Kurt.
"I didn't expect you to be awake so soon" Sue said.
Kurt's head was spinning. Blaine was here, he came to save him. He took a step towards him and the demon but stopped as Sue growled at him, tightening her grip around Blaine.
"Stay there" she said.
"Let him go" Kurt said quietly.
Blaine struggled against the demon, trying to break free. He had to get away from her and bring Kurt out of here as soon as possible.
"Nah, he's just arrived. We should have some fun, what do you think?" Sue asked, bringing one hand up to Blaine's hair.
"I will kill you" Blaine growled, forming a knife out of ice in his hand but Sue grabbed his wrist, twisting it. Blaine groaned in pain and couldn't stop the demon from taking the knife from his hand. Sue grabbed the handle and pressed the knife to Blaine's neck.
"We're going back to your nice little room. If any of you try something, I will kill the other. Do you understand?" Sue said.
"Don't do this, please" Kurt pleaded.
"Back to your room. Now" Sue said, pressing the knife to Blaine's neck.
Kurt swallowed and nodded quickly. He couldn't let Blaine die, so he had to do as the demon told him. He turned around, taking slow steps towards the stairs.
"Move" Sue told Blaine, pushing him forward.
Blaine tried to come up with a plan. They had to find out something quickly and get out of here, back to the others. Finn could open the gate for them, he was sure. They just had to do something to hold back the demon for a while.
They reached the tower and Sue dragged him inside, keeping the knife at his neck. Then she pushed him forward, grabbing Kurt instead before Blaine could do anything.
"Tie him up" Sue said, motioning towards the bed. There were ropes lying there that Kurt hadn't realised earlier.
He took a step towards the bed, with the knife pressed to his back. Blaine was free and he had to keep it that way. He knew Sue wouldn't kill him, not until she needed him, so it was his chance to do something. He acted fast, twisting around and grabbing the knife in Sue's hand. The demon growled and pushed him backwards.
Blaine was there in no time, kicking the knife out of Sue's hand and forming another one to stab the demon. She grabbed Blaine's wrist before he could injure her and slammed the man to the wall, grabbing his neck.
"I'm gonna kill you slowly" she growled.
"Let him go."
Sue and Blaine turned their heads towards the unnaturally deep voice behind them. It came from Kurt who was staring at the demon with hateful, yellow eyes.
Blaine's eyes widened and he opened his mouth to say something but Sue was faster. He let go of him and attacked Kurt but the man grabbed her easily, throwing her to the nearest wall.
"Come on!" Kurt said, grabbing Blaine's arm.
Blaine wanted to protest but the room disappeared from around them and he found himself on the clearing again, with Kurt and his friends. He looked into Kurt's eyes but they were blue again, shining from happiness. Blaine opened his mouth to say something but he was still confused.
"Kurt!" Sam, who was back to his normal self, shouted happily, throwing his arms around the man.
"We have to get out of here" Kurt said urgently, looking towards the castle.
"Right" Finn said and started muttering strange words to open the gate.
"You're not going anywhere!" Sue shouted from behind them as she appeared.
"Hurry!" Blaine shouted and when he saw the gate opening, he pushed Kurt forward and turned back to the demon, sending dozens of ice knives towards her. No matter what happaned to Kurt, he was here to save him. He can deal with the other things later.
"What are you doing? Come on!" Puck said, grabbing Blaine's arm and pulling him towards the gate as the others disappeared in the blue light.
"No!" Sue screamed but it was too late. The men stepped through the gate and it closed behind them.
Kurt looked around with wide eyes as he found himself in a new place. It was like heaven, or so he had imagined it before. It was all peaceful and beautiful. He turned back around, looking at the others, especially Blaine. When he saw the man, he felt tears escaping his eyes and he threw his arms around his fiancé, kissing him.
"I can't believe you came for me" he said through his tears.
"Kurt" Blaine whispered quietly, hugging his fiancé tightly.
Kurt was finally back with him and he felt like he wouldn't let go of him ever. He had to keep him safe and close to him.
"It's alright. You're safe now" he whispered into Kurt's ear, although he knew it wasn't true. It couldn't be.
But he didn't know if he should be worried about the demon chasing them or the darkness he had seen in his own fiancé.
