AN: So I was actually debating for a little while if I wanted to continue with this, but then I got a few PM's after I updated Defeated making sure that Pack Life was on deck for an update, so this is for those people, you know who you are. There is a lot of Finn in this chapter, but as of now his character status has been updated from annoying relationship hurdle to evil minion with high risk of death. Hope that's okay. Anyway please let me know what you think, even if you hated it I would love to hear why. Have a good one.
Finn finished draining his fourth hobo of the night when the sun started to come up, who knew there were so many homeless people in Lima. Of course none of them had tasted as good as that first one, but Jesse told him that that was because of how young and healthy he had been compared to the old and ill of all the homeless people he had eaten since. Jess was leaning against the alleyway entrance when Finn turned toward him. Finn felt the first rays of light then, and hissed through his teeth as he moved farther back into the ally, and looked down at his hand where the suns light had touched him, his skin was smoking.
"What the hell is this?" Jesse was standing in the sunlight and he looked fine, why was it that Finn wasn't like that? "Dude I thought Vampires sparkled in the light or something." Jesse just laughed at him as he moved closer, though he was still in the light.
"What is with your generation and you obsession with twilight? Of course Vampires don't sparkle you moron, we are the creatures of the night, the sun is our biggest enemy." Finn was confused, if the sun was his enemy how could he be in the light? "Now that I have you here, and you're not likely to go anywhere, I have to ask something of you."
"How am I supposed to do anything for you if I'm about to be turned to dust?" Finn was watching as the sun was slowly filling the alley, forcing him back further into the dark, soon he would be pressed against the wall a few feet behind him, he wouldn't have anywhere to go, and that would not be a good time.
"Why I'm going to give you this if you agree." Jesse reached into his pocket then and pulled out a set of dog tags and held them up to the light, Finn read the name Christopher Hudson and his heart jumped to his throat. "I believe these were your fathers, you wearing them around wouldn't cause many heads to turn, and they've been spelled to counter the effects the sun will have on you if don't agree to what I'm about to ask you. So I wouldn't think to hard about agreeing if I were you."
"How did you get those?" Finn knew those had been in his room sitting on his bedside table when he had last been in his room, then Finn looked at the corpse of the man he had just drained and his mothers face flashed in his mind.
"I had a lovely conversation with that beautiful mother of yours." The smile on Jesses face made Finn want to run and find her, to make sure she wasn't like all the people he had killed now, but the sun was still closing in on him. "Oh, don't worry; I only had a little taste before I went on my way."
"What do you want me to do?" Finn didn't see any way to get out of whatever it was, he knew Jesse had him, and Jesse knew it too.
"I want you to attack someone for me, at that school of yours." Jesse tossed the necklace at the boy then and Finn wasted no time in putting it around his neck and tucking the dog tags beneath his shirt. Finn then held his hand out and stretched until just his fingertips where in the sun light, then smiled when he didn't feel the burning he had before. "Pay attention you ogre, there are dangers and you can't expose us to the general population or more heat than you can imagine will come down on our heads." Finn focused his attention back on Jesse then, all he wanted to do was go and check on his mother, but he knew if he didn't do what Jesse asked than his new fancy necklace would be taken away and he would be left for dead in the sun light. Being toast did not seem like a good way to spend his life. "The Corcoran and Lopez family are what you know as Werewolves, and they will be protecting your mark, believe me when I tell you that you don't want to fight those dogs, you would lose."
"Werewolves are real?"
"Of course they are you idiot, stay away from them." Jesse rolled his eyes then and tried to not lose his temper, maybe he should have picked someone else to do his dirty work. Then Jesse looked back at the tall boy across from him and quirked his lips up in a sinister smile. "All I want you to do is bring me Quinn Fabray, alive would be best but don't strain yourself."
Rachel was excited, so excited that she had left the house ten minutes earlier than she had told Quinn she would pick her up and now she was sitting a block away in her brothers Mustang counting down the minutes until she could finish driving to her mates house. She had convinced Noah to let her take the Mustang in exchange for him taking her bike today, because as much as she would love to have Quinn pressed up against her, she wasn't sure if Quinn would forgive her for making her ride it. Rachel looked at the dashboard then and put the car in drive again when she saw she would only be five minutes early now, that was much more acceptable and she wasn't sure if she could just sit around anymore and wait. Rachel pulled into the Fabray's driveway a second later and pulled out her phone.
I know I'm early, but I couldn't wait to see you- Rae Rachel sent off the text and took a deep breath to call her nerves, she hoped that she wasn't being to needy, and only a second later Quinn was stepping out her front door and smiling her way as she opened the passenger side door and sat down.
"I couldn't wait to see you either." Quinn was blushing a little and reached her hand out and put it on top of Rachel's on the center console. "I've actually been ready for awhile and was just waiting for you." Rachel smiled broadly at the blonde then.
"I was sitting a block away for the last five minutes." Quinn smiled then too and leaned across the divide and kissed once softly on the lips. "You're such a nerd."
"You love it." Then Rachel brought their joined hands up and kissed Quinn's hand while holding the girls eyes. "So we should get going I guess." Quinn nodded but didn't release her hand so Rachel awkwardly put the car back in drive and started down the road. She was stopped at a red light when she smiled and turned her eyes to the girl beside her. "Tell me something about you that I don't know."
"Uh okay, I love bacon; I think it should be served with every meal." Rachel barked out a laugh at that and Quinn hit her playfully on the arm. "Okay you tell me something then."
"When I was little I loved animal sweaters, the more sequins the better; and every year for Hanukkah Noah likes to get me one to remind me how much of a dork I was." Quinn face was bright as she laughed, Rachel pulled into the school parking lot then but neither girl made a move to get out and join their classmates. "Your turn again."
"I actually wear glasses." This made Rachel's eyebrows shot up and her mouth quirk in a smirk.
"You should wear them for me sometime."
"Maybe I will." Quinn liked the look of the slight blush on Rachel's cheeks but she pushed the thought aside. "Your turn you perv."
"I want to take you out on a date." The smirk on Rachel's face fell into a soft smile as she spoke and her eyes light up at the sight of Quinn trying to hide her own smile. "I want to take you to a nice restaurant and pay for dinner and after that take you to a romantic movie and hold your hand, then take a moon lit walk through the park while you wear my jacket and try and be subtle about how much you actually like wearing something of mine. How's Friday sound?"
"Friday sounds perfect." Quinn leaned forward then and Rachel met her halfway as they brought their lips together. Rachel tilted her head slightly and brought her hand up and ran it through Quinn's hair, marveling at the softness. Quinn pulled back first but only far enough to lean her forehead against Rachel's so they were starring in each other's eyes. There were quiet for a few minutes then, content to just be close to each other.
"Look, I know you said it, but I want you to know that nothing is binding yet, you can back out anytime you want, this is just like dating." Rachel's voice was quiet and vulnerable and Quinn knew that Rachel just wanted her to have all the information, but she could still feel that it hurt the girl to have to say it.
"And what do we have to do for it to be binding, and what happens after that?" Quinn felt the rush of warm breath on her neck and face as Rachel released a breath, it made shivers go up her spine; but then Rachel pulled away from her and leaned back in her chair, the only connection being their still joined hands.
"Well there are a few different levels of a binding; you have to verbally say you accept to my alpha, meaning my mom. If your human, which you are, you have to drink a little bit of my blood, I know that part's gross but it's symbolic in Lycan culture of having your mate with you always; it wouldn't turn you though, it would give us a mind link. And then we would have to have sex." Rachel had kept eye contact with Quinn to see how she would react, the blondes face had remained neutral until the end when a deep blush covered her face, but then Quinn just cleared her throat and acted as if nothing had happened.
"Okay. Does that all have to happen within a certain time of another of if we did all those thing over the course of like a year mean we accidently bound ourselves." Quinn knew she wanted to be with Rachel, but what if one day she didn't, she wasn't sure she was ready for that sort of commitment. And what the hell was a mind link?
"No it all has to happen within about four hours of each other or it doesn't take. Nothing is going to happen unless you want it to." Rachel was looking her straight in the eye, giving her her undivided attention ready for any question she may have when there was a knock on the window. Rachel sighed and gave Quinn an apologetic glance before opening her door and scowling up at her brother. "What?"
"Sorry, I know I'm breaking up a moment or something, but you want to see this." Rachel sighed again before looking back to Quinn, only to have the blonde hand her her back pack and smile at her.
"It's okay, we can talk more later, we have all the time in the world." Rachel nodded at the blonde and quickly kissed her on the cheek before they both stepped out of the car.
"What am I looking for Noah?" Rachel slung her bag over her shoulder and made a quick sweep of the parking lot as Quinn moved around the car to stand next to her.
"You seriously don't sense him?" Noah looked down at Rachel incredulously before pointing to a truck on the other side of the lot with a tall boy leaning against it and looking at them.
"It's Finn, he's okay." Quinn moved to walk towards him, but Rachel stopped her with a hand on her wrist. "You couldn't sense him that means he's not a Vampire right?"
"I couldn't sense him because he's not powerful enough to even register as a mythic to me, but I can definitely smell him." Quinn furrowed her brow, what did that even mean. "He smells like death Quinn, it means he's feed recently."
"What are we going to do about this, I don't see a ring, so whatever Jesse had enchanted is going to be something inconspicuous. Do you think Jesse even told him about us? And if he didn't there's no way he doesn't sense us." Noah was standing beside his sister with his arms crossed over his broad chest glaring right back at the newly minted blood sucker, the boy had to know better than to come straight at them in a public place, especially with how pathetically weak he was.
"Jesse definitely told him, probably even told him to be scared of us or he would be coming over here right now and starting a fight." Rachel turned her attention away from Finn for a second and saw Santana and Brittany making their way over to them, Santana's eye's never leaving the tall boy watching them. She waited for her cousin to join them and used the time to think about what needed to be done. They couldn't just kill him, as far as they knew he hadn't done anything wrong yet, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to. This also wasn't his fault, or even about him at all, he was just a, mostly, innocent bystander caught in Jesse's crosshairs. "For now we don't do anything, just go about your lives as if nothing has changed, but keep an eye on him and each other, we don't know Jesse's plan. Finn could just be a distraction." The bell rang then and Rachel was suddenly reminded that she didn't have any morning classes with Quinn. Santana seemed to sense her worry and put a hand on the shorter girls shoulder.
"Don't worry, even he's not stupid enough to make a move during school hours; even if he was, we'll have eyes on target all day, nothing's going to happen." Rachel nodded then and the group started towards the door to the school. Once inside Brittany, Santana, and Quinn had to go one way and Rachel and Puck another, but Rachel watched them go until they turned into their class room. Rachel felt a slight prickle on the back of her neck and turned to see that Finn had followed them in and was standing at the other end of the hallway, silently watching them.
Rachel could hardly breathe when Quinn wasn't in sight, she knew she was being irrationally, but if anything, Finn was a message. Jesse had taken someone from Rachel's school life and moved him into her Mythic life, she still had to go to school with him, still had to have football and Glee practice with him, and he would always be Quinn's ex-boyfriend who, if angered, could now do a lot more damage. The clock moved so slowly through her morning classes that at one point she was convinced they were broken, but now school was finally out and over the course of the last six hours Rachel had decided that she needed to talk to the newborn Vampire. So when the final bell rang she mentally called for Santana and Noah to meet her by the Mustang. It took no time at all for the five of them to all meet back up, and then Finn was walking towards them instead of to his truck as he came out of the school.
"So, I know you guys are losers, but does it really need to be three on one." Finn was only a few feet from them when he came to stop and crossed his arms over his chest and attempted to put a smug smirk on his face. Then he was looking at Quinn and Brittany and raising an eyebrow at them. "Or did they turn you guys too just for it to be five on one?"
"What do your senses tell you Hudson? Because I don't think I need to tell you that you should be running right now." Rachel stepped forward and Finn didn't hesitate to take a step back, she could feel the fear and anxiety coming off the boy in waves, and she didn't blame him for being scared, she just wanted to know what he thought he was doing challenging someone who was so obviously stronger than him. "I know Jesse turned you, I know you didn't ask for this. You don't have to do what he tells you."
"Like hell I don't, he's been in my house, he'll kill my mom, then he'll kill me."
"Don't you get that he already did kill you?" Rachel took a deep breath then and put her hands on her hips. "He'll hold that over your head for as long as you let him, it's how he operates. Tell me what he wants you to do."
"I don't need your help, I'm a god now and I'm immortal, I tell you what to do not the other way around. You're just a dog who should kneel at my feet." Finn's words were shaky, and Rachel could tell that he was just repeating something he had heard Jesse say, that didn't mean it didn't make her hackles rise.
"Dog my ass!" Santana had stepped forward and Rachel caught her arm as the taller girl moved to go past her. Then Santana's eyes were on her. "What, you're just going to let him talk about us like that? Hell no, Pillsbury Dough Leech needs to be taught just who calls the shots around here. This is our territory!" But Rachel didn't respond, she just looked Santana hard in the eye and never wavered, Santana was the first to look away then she stepped back, but only back far enough to put herself between Rachel and the two blondes still leaning against the Mustang watching everything unfold. Rachel quickly looked around to see if there was anyone left around then advanced on the tall boy.
"You really want to pick a fight with me?" Rachel voice was quiet and controlled but she was in front of him before the boy had a chance to move, Rachel's hands reached out with half morphed hands and grabbed the front of the boys shirt and brought him down to her eye level. Then she only made him stare at her and she slowly started to shift into her half form. Her teeth elongates first and her ears pointed, then the both of them were slowly moving up as Rachel feet shifted into harsh claws, her ankle moving up and out of her shoes, then her jaw cracked out of place and slowly started to form around her now to big teeth into a muzzle, soon Finn was lifted from his feet and claws were digging into his chest; and still Rachel only starred at him. "You still want to pick a fight with me?" Finn shook his head fast and Rachel dropped him when she realized that he had wet himself. Rachel voice was harsh and gruff when she asked the only question that mattered. "What does Jesse want?"
"He told me to bring him Quinn!" Finn's answer was squeaked out high and fast and Rachel had to stop herself from turning away from the boy and towards her mate, she wasn't sure how Quinn would react to her half form, it definitely wasn't the prettiest of her forms. So instead Rachel took a deep breath and tilted her head to the side to crack her neck as she forced herself to shift back down to her human self.
"You tell Jesse that he'll have to go through me first." Then she turned a tripped and fell on her face because one of her feet hadn't shifted back right inside her shoe. That was not the dramatic exit that she had pictured.