To: Blue-Portrait; you come up with better ideas than me (brainwashing), but I hope this isn't too disappointing. I had already written this before I got your review and I didn't want to change it, but thanks for the review!

Posted: 1/8/11

Rescue

"Do you have any idea where they could be" Santana asked, as the 6 finished shifting forms in the garden

"I don't think the Fabray's have much imagination, I have a good idea where they could be, come on let's go" the large brown wolf with the green eyes hopped over the garden fence, the other 3 wolves and two vampires followed.

…

Rachel led them to a house, a house that was familiar to most of the group

"You think they're in there?" Santana asked

"I'm sure they are" Rachel responded without looking away from the house

"Then it's a trap" Puck suggested

"I'm sure it is" Rachel responded again in a similar manner as to before. She then turned to the others "This is how it's going to go, Noah, Tina go round the back. Santana and Brittany, the front door, me and Tal are going to go through the upstairs window. Everyone be extremely vigilant and I'm going to keep communicating with you as we go"

"Can you talk to mum?"

Rachel, as a wolf, shook her head "…No; I'm not getting any response… Let's go"

'Let's go' was never the best catch phrase, in fact it was hardly a catchphrase at all, but just Rachel saying it with authority gave it much more meaning.

They all padded quietly to their different positions, Rachel and Talwyn gracefully hopped onto the porch roof "The window is open slightly; they're expecting us" she projected to the other 5.

She got Talwyn to open the window so she could climb in first; they both crept out of Quinn's old bed room and down the corridor. The upper level of the house seemed clear so they went downstairs meeting the other 4 at the bottom "Basement" Rachel gestured with her head to the door next to the bottom of the stairs.

Brittany drew her bow and readied an arrow, Talwyn drew her sword and held up her shield

"Tal, open the door, quickly"

She walked over swallowing as she got more nervous and held onto the door handle "Ready?"

They all positioned themselves round the door and nodded to Talwyn, the wolves crouched low and Brittany planted her feet firmly as she stretched her bow.

Talwyn yanked the door open; the group couldn't have been ready for the many arrows triggered to release from behind the door. Talwyn managed to react quickly enough to dive in front of them deflecting as many as possible with her shield, she tried not to cry out in pain as an arrow pierced her armour and stuck in her leg.

"Talwyn!" Rachel leapt to her daughter's side

"Its okay" she said trying to stand but clutched her leg and dropped back to the floor, she hit her fist on the floor in anger

"Stay down T"

"Britt?" they heard Santana and turned to see that Brittany got hit in the shoulder, she tensed then dropped to the floor

"Don't pull it out, you won't heal" Rachel warned "The weapons are most likely enchanted, you two stay here, Tina can you look over them"

"Of course"

"But Rae, I-I can't leave B" Santana's voice, even in thought, broke as she tried to communicate

"San; I need you by me side" she nodded in understanding, the three had lost their closeness in recent years but when they fought together and were reminded of times in their past, it made them stronger. Especially when they were fighting to protect the people they loved.

They said short goodbyes and entered the basement; the 3 cautiously descended the stairs. When they reached the bottom they came to a long dark corridor, they could see another door at the far end. They slowly made skulked down the hallway, passing other doors along each side, but they dismissed those doors, the one at the end stood out, especially to Rachel; it was familiar to her.

Rachel stopped in front of the door and just stared at it, she wasn't ready for what could possibly await her on the other side.

"Rach?"

She shook herself from her thoughts "Are you both ready?"

"Yes"

"Ready" they both replied

Rachel crouched down and with a growl in her throat she burst through the door; it splintered and broke free from the door frame.

The three waited for the small amount of dust to clear before sneaking inside, to their confusion there was nothing waiting to kill them, just Quinn in the centre of the room sat and bound to a chair with her head down.

Rachel swallowed the lump in her throat and looked around the room; she could just make out the boundaries of the space so she could confirm that they were alone.

"Guard the door" She commanded to the other two as she padded over to the still vampire, she reached out with her mind to get no response, she felt worse when she realised she could smell blood; Quinn's blood, she could still remember the smell from when she saved Quinn (and Sue died) in the auditorium 26 years ago. Rachel shifted to her human form.

"Quinn?" her voice cracked "please" she nudged her wife as a tear ran down her cheek. At her plea Santana and Puck turned around to see what was happening. She closed her eyes tightly in hope as she reached forward to raise Quinn's head.

She inhaled shakily with relief; there was no slash to her neck. Then Quinn's eyes opened sleepily, the vampire groaned

"Quinn!" she cried out, she went to the back of the chair to un-tie Quinn's hands, she paused; now she realised why she could smell blood, there were several cut's in each forearm "Come on we have to get you out of here" she continued to untie the rope around Quinn's wrists

"No… Rae… trap" she struggled to get the words out, her blood loss and the sedative had drained her. Rachel helped her to her feet, but she went limp against Rachel straight away. She propped Quinn up.

Two yelps were heard and Rachel looked over to her friends, they were flat on the floor with two blonde beings crouched over them, the wolves both had needles jammed into their necks, they had been dosed with the same sedative.

"Well if it isn't Quinn's Bitch to the rescue" Russell sneered standing up and sauntering closer with Judy close behind.

Rachel still holding Quinn up, in her human form, growled

"Ooh bad dog" Judy chastised, Russell chuckled in an evil manner.

Rachel carefully sat Quinn back on the chair. Quinn's eyes kept drifting open and closed. Rachel was careful to never take her eyes off her approaching in-laws.

She started to shift but in the few seconds it took Russell had already tackled her; he tried to hold her still as Judy held her blade ready to strike. Despite Rachel's struggling she couldn't free herself. She was in her wolf form and Russell was on his back holding her back to his front, she couldn't find an angle of attack in this position. She managed to shift back in his arms and elbowed him in the ribs, he didn't seem affected, so she shoved him with her elbow again this time she heard the distinct crack as she broke something. He still didn't release.

In the struggle Judy bought the knife down to the vulnerable werewolf, Rachel tried to move out the way on top of Russell, but she could only move so far, the knife went into a fleshy part in her bicep scraping the bone, she howled out in pain. The knife was still in her arm, out of desperation she wriggled upwards in Russell's struggling embrace, she held the injured part of her arm over his head, his eyes widened in realisation but it was too late.

She freed her other arm and reached up to the knife plunging it further into her own arm, out the other side and straight through his skull, his body stopped moving all together and Rachel scurried to her feet, yanking the knife out screaming out in pain, she stumbled towards Judy who had left the two briefly to grab another knife, she was now angry she had lost her husband again.

Judy through her knife to the floor and fearlessly punched a weak Rachel in the face, her nose broke then reset by itself, but she dropped to the floor, from the blood loss of her knife wound and Judy's punch that left her stunned.

Her vision started to blur and she struggled to stay conscious. She saw Quinn drop off her seat and crawl towards her, their fingers brushed, but before they could savour the contact Rachel felt a sharp pain in her head as she was dragged from the floor to her feet by her hair.

"You may have killed my husband, and poisoned my daughter but I will have my revenge. I will destroy you" she started to Rachel as she drifted to the edge on consciousness and back again "I already saw that we got your daughter, she's still alive, barely, that arrow won't kill her but I will… soon, and that vampire traitor, we used the sedative on your other wolf friend too"

"Why?" Rachel exhaled "Why didn't you just kill them?"

"We wanted to kill you first, we'll finish them off when you are gone, you dead will crush their spirit then I'll take their lives" she struck Rachel with her fist again letting her drop to the floor. "You're the one that poisoned my baby" She kicked Rachel over so she was on her back and looked down into Rachel's eyes, they were flashing from green to brown, she was trying to summon her wolf, in the hope it would give her enough strength, but she couldn't she was too weak.

Judy stepped onto Rachel's throat "For what you did, to my Russell; I will destroy your daughter, I will torture her, kill her slowly, I'll make her cry out and there will be nothing, Nothing!" Judy emphasised her anger and power by pressing down harder onto Rachel's neck with her boot "that you will be able to do abo-"

Judy was tackled to the ground; Rachel looked over as she saw Judy with a blonde vampire on top of her, struggling. Judy had her hands round the other vampire's wrists as she tried to claw at her. Rachel's vision cleared long enough for her to see that it was her blonde vampire who had saved her, it was Quinn.

Judy Kicked Quinn off her, and the younger blonde just landed in a heavily breathing heap near the chair. Judy gritted her teeth "Don't start this again, Quinnie… I'll deal with you in a minute"

She bent down to pick up the knife she threw away earlier; she turned to Rachel and stepped towards her.

Quinn moved her head (in her position it was as if she was looking upwards) to look towards Rachel, Rachel ignored Judy advancing and just looked back at Quinn with a brave smile, Quinn smiled back and looked at her wife lovingly. Rachel's hearing faded as she was about to drift out of consciousness.

Rachel broke eye contact with Quinn to look up at her attacker. Judy stood over her again, she held the knife high in the air, and brought it down quickly with brute force. Rachel cringed and tensed ready for the blow… but it never came, she forced her eyes open and she saw Judy's remains on the floor, she saw a brown wolf similar to herself, wearing a tarnished brass armour, stand over the corpse, two vampires then came into her line of vision, and then everything went dark.

…

"Rachel, Rachel" she felt someone nudging her, she opened her eyes slowly; looking back at her was an older version of herself

She furrowed her brow; then groaned at the pain "Shelby?"

"Yeah, Rach, she showed up at my brother's house to get me and Sam" Mercedes was now looking down at her too

"Where's Quinn?" she tried to sit up and answered her own question when she saw Quinn still in the same place she was earlier, flat on her back, Rachel was relieved when she could she Quinn was breathing steadily.

"She's fine, Shelby healed all of you"

"She's still out and so are Puck, Santana and Tina, but that's because they were given the sedative. You, Brittany and Talwyn are now fully healed" Shelby explained.

Rachel didn't look at her she just nodded, she looked around, she saw the corpses of Russell and Judy, they weren't recognisable; they looked like they had been dead in the ground for many years… so how they should look since the first time they were killed.

"You're wondering why they look like that?" Shelby asked Rachel just nodded her head from where she sat in the floor "That's how they should look when they were reanimated, that's what necromancy 'spells' usually create, the fact that they looked normal again means we're dealing with some very powerful beings"

"We're?" Rachel asked, she was still annoyed from their discussion earlier that day, but after what Shelby had done, it wasn't right for her to act like that

Shelby chose not to answer and checked Rachel's arm again "It's finished healing, I'll just fix the armour now" she used her healing abilities to 'heal' the armour (Usually the armour would take power from the wearer to self-repair but the enchanted weapon that damaged the armour in the first place, supressed the ability)

"Thank you" Rachel looked up at Shelby who was crouched next to her and half smiled. Shelby returned the smile.

"Here" she stood and held out her hand, Rachel accepted and pulled herself up with Shelby's help.

Rachel stretched her arm, it didn't even hurt but maybe it was a little stiff. She steeped next to a drugged Quinn and picked her up slinging her over her shoulder.

…

"Shelby, why did you show up?" Rachel asked as they entered the house and she carried Quinn to the sofa. Brittany carried Santana, Mercedes carried Tina and Sam carried Puck. They went upstairs and settled these 3 in their bed rooms.

"Because I may never be your parent and I understand and respect you for that, but I can still be your friend or even just your ally"

Rachel nodded in understanding then returned her attention to Quinn next to her "We need more allies" Rachel muttered still looking away from Shelby.

"Rachel; there are still things I need to tell you, but I'll wait until you want to talk"

"She has time now" Talwyn interrupted, Rachel looked over to her daughter then back at Quinn "She'll be fine, I'll stay with her"

"If she wakes, tell me"

Talwyn nodded her head "Go on" she gestured for them to leave the room.

Rachel stood up and left towards the kitchen, Shelby following "can I get you anything to drink?"

"Erm, water, would be great thanks" Rachel got two glasses out of the cupboard and filled them from the tap.

"Before we talk about what you want to say, I need to talk about the Fabray's, I hope you have some answers"

"Go ahead" she nodded

"We thought we were dealing with necromancy but they weren't… normal for that type of 'spell' I mean they had brain functions they understood what they were doing; it was more than a reanimation of life it was as if nothing had changed and they were back, it was more like a resurrection … I mean they didn't feel pain but they died… I'm confused"

"I don't think this is usual 'witchcraft' it's not even witches I can tell it's like an adopted and evolved version of 'spell'. I'm sorry I don't know any more"

Rachel nodded in understanding "Thank you anyway…What did you want to say?"

"We should sit" she gestured to the stools at the breakfast bar. They both took a seat and faced one another "I don't really know how to say this without it hurting you, so I'm just going to say it and hope that you don't hate me even more"

"I'm listening" Rachel said trying to comfort the older wolf

"The men who you grew up with and knew as dad and daddy… neither of them were, I know what they told you, I suggested they say it to comfort you, then you wouldn't ever think bad of both your real parents"

Rachel's mouth hung open slightly and her brow furrowed "You mean, they lied to me too"

"I told them to, and no matter what the loved you don't forget that"

"I suppose… so who's my real father?"

"He was a wolf, he was my mate and he died protecting us… well protecting me when I was pregnant with you. At the time we could tell one day you would fulfil the werewolf prophecy, and when those who disagreed with us found out, our sanctuary at the castle was no longer safe. I worked at the castle as a healer, that's how I healed you and your family, so effortlessly earlier tonight"

"But I was told I wasn't the prophecy until 56 years ago"

"You were always destined to fulfil it you just weren't ready until then. Anyway; we were traveling through Europe but we were ambushed in Spain, He died protecting us, he stayed back to fend them off so we could get away, I got on a plane to America and I ended up in Manhattan. That's where I met the men who would raise you. I saw one of them while I was still pregnant, he was trying to adopt so I got in touch through an agency, he was using; I knew his 'friend' was more than a friend, and in the super natural races, gender isn't an issue so I didn't care. The three of us privately then organised your adoption… I'm sorry I had to separate us, it was for your own safety, I was going to find you just before you were 18 to help you but when I returned to their house in Brooklyn, they weren't there, they had moved, I searched for you for the next 60 something years, and I was scared something bad had happened… but then I heard the prophecies had been fulfilled I didn't need to worry anymore and I felt like I'd missed my opportunity to be your parent again, so I left you to be with your own family"

Rachel took all this in, it had made her a bit emotional and a few tears had leaked from her eyes "But why approach me now?"

"I heard there was trouble in Lima, I've only been here since September, I took over the glee club, when their teacher went missing… when you showed up and not some of your troops I thought it was, what do the humans call it?…"

"Fate?"

Shelby nodded "Fate, I thought it was an opportunity I couldn't miss… I now realise I've just caused more pain" she took a mouthful of water and got up to leave

"Shelby" Rachel's voice cracked ever so slightly "We need you; I need you… like you said, not as a parent… I had two wonderful dads growing up and I have my own child now… but I need your help. I am extremely grateful to you, extremely. We'd all be dead if it weren't for you"

"Thank you and of course Rachel I want to be here, to do all I can"

"Maybe you should stick around for a bit… safety in numbers, go home pack a bag and move in tonight please, it won't be comfortable but you'll be safe… and It will put my mind at peace to know you are safe"

Shelby smiled brightly "Of course, thank you" she finished her water and left out the back door so she could shift, she sprinted home in wolf form; but she had to stop somewhere else first.

"Mother?" Rachel looked up to her daughter "Mum's waking up"

Any thoughts?

Was the rescue too quick, was it disappointing?

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