AN: Annnd we have an update...Yay. so this is mostly a filler with dark edges. There is a Trigger in here as this chapter touches upon sexual assault of a minor under the age of 13. As well as some graphic violence...kinda.
As always I own nothing other than my plot. Oh and the errors... *sigh*... those are mine.
Stay Sexy lovelies and enjoy.
Winter had finally shown its full face in Lima and the small city was covered in snow along with a temperature drop. Brittany had been living with Ray for just over two weeks. Currently she was with Quinn in her bedroom in Ray's house putting the finishing touches on her outfit for a night out. Ray had insisted and wouldn't take no for an answer and resorted to using his own pout on her to get Brittany to concede. She was still currently on the outs with Santana. They weren't exactly broken up but Brittany wasn't exactly speaking to her girlfriend either. Ray had also convinced Puck, Mike, Tina, Kurt, and Blaine to come out as well. Kurt would be driving with Blaine, Tina and Mike while Ray would drive Quinn, Brittany, and Noah. The group was meeting at Breadstixx for dinner before heading out to an all ages club. Finally satisfied Brittany gave her cat stern instructions to behave and joined everyone else who was waiting downstairs to go. Ray helped her into a jacket and soon they were off.
Dinner had been full of laughter and just an over all happy vibe. Mostly because they were just finally relaxed and had the next two weeks off school for winter break. Ray pulled up to a building that was just on the outside of the roughest part of the entertainment district. He got out of his truck and waited for the others.
"Are you sure that we are safe here Ray?" Kurt whispered as he glanced around nervously.
"Relax Kurt. Anything happens to your SUV and I will pay for it to be fixed." Ray replied calmly as he looked around looking for something specific.
A minute later he found what he was looking for and let out a shrill piercing whistle causing those around him to jump and flinch at the sound.
"Holy shit, Deacon is that you man? Guys, it's Frost!" A young man who was clearly a gang banger called out as he approached Ray.
"Hey Manny. How is everyone?" Ray asked as he stepped forward to greet the hard looking banger.
"Oh you know doing what they have to do. The hustle is the hustle man. But with the outreach centre that you got going again for the younger ones, it has been easier on everyone. My grams don't worry as much about my lil cousins, which means she isn't all up in my grill about how I'm making coin."
"Good. Do me a solid dude and get the word. The crew behind me and the two vehicles behind us...off limits. I'm just out trying to have a good time tonight, trying to cheer up a friend who has been going through some really shitty times."
"Yeah I heard about that. Word was the cracker had put feelers out and was trying to put a hit out on ya. Jonsey chased him off...sent his ignorant ass sprawling before telling him to fuck off. Anyway no worries man. We may be a lot of things but had that happened to one of our own… he wouldn't have been breathing afterwards. You and yours are good I'll put the word out that you're here and to not fuck with your people."
"Thanks Manny." Ray slapped his hand against Manny's in a complicated handshake and slipped him a couple of c notes.
"You guys heading to Stages?"
"Yeah."
"I'll let Jimmy know. He's head of security in there if you can believe that and Chico is on the door." Manny replied as he backed away from Ray and disappeared into the shadows once again.
"What the hell was that? Kurt whispered fiercely as he looked around.
"That is a 'the less you know the safer you are'." Ray replied with no emotion.
Kurt went to question it further but Ray shook his head once in a warning for Kurt to drop it.
"Did he call you Deacon Frost?" Puck asked his oldest friend.
"Caught that did ya?" Ray asked in amusement as he held out his arms for both Quinn and Brittany to take and began walking towards the club. "That is a story for another time."
Ray bypassed the long line and went straight up to the doorman and was instantly ushered inside the club and had their hands stamped. The music was loud and the bass was thumping and Ray smiled as he glanced around the club and spotted Jimmy right away. The music changed and Brittany gave a small squeal at the opening notes of the song and grabbed Ray's hand dragging him onto the dance floor as the other smiled at hearing the happy sound leave the blonde dancer. The two moved to the music with such ease and familiarity with one another that those around them couldn't help but stop and watch them. As a remix to a popular Spanish song began to play Puck let out a whistle.
"You guys are in for a treat." Puck yelled out over the music to be heard by everyone as he pointed to where Ray and Britt were combining salsa, samba and rumba as they commanded the dance floor.
Mike was impressed with how quickly the two friends were moving their feet intime to their hips and how crisp their spins and half turns were. Quinn for her part was biting her lip as she watched Ray move his hips and remembered how they had felt moving against hers two weeks ago during the private dance Quinn had demanded from him once Brittany had settled in. Ray had selected Singularity by BTS as the song to dance to. The song was definitely a vibe. The Point Guard had chosen a sensual beat over the usual harder driven base lines that most people would have danced to. Ray had teased her by slowly stripping off his shirt and undoing his jeans just leaving them open as he danced for her. By the end of the song Quinn had jumped her boyfriend and had her way with him.
Ray smiled to himself as he watched his best friend lose herself in the music and genuinely smiled as she danced. He really hoped that Santana would pull her head out of her ass soon. As the music changed, Ray encouraged her to go pull Tina and Quinn out onto the floor knowing that the boys would follow. He had already warned Mike and Puck that if either Blaine or Kurt went to the bathroom one of them were to follow. As much as he had connections inside the club, it was still Lima and there will still bigoted asshats that had been teaching their kids their hate. Not to mention an initiate might think that they would be a good way to prove their worth by jumping the couple, especially Kurt. Ray was leaning up against a railing that overlooked the dance floor as he drank a non alcoholic beer when he felt someone slide into the space beside him.
"Wanna tell me why I shouldn't kick your ass for the way you have scared my cousin?" The deep voice asked in a threatening tone.
"Because you know that I would break you apart without breaking a sweat. Besides we both know that she wasn't afraid of me until after she spoke to you and found out who I am."
The owner of the deep voice let out a chuckle. "That is true."
"I've been meaning to ask, what all did you tell her Jimmy? She couldn't even look me in the eye and was shaking like a leaf when she apologized to me that morning." Ray asked as he turned to look at the tall unassuming man standing beside him.
Jimmy Rodriguez stood roughly around 6'2" and was lanky but he was fast and mean as a pit viper when pushed. He was Santana's older cousin who had been in and out of juvie in his teens for petty crimes. The two had met in an underground fight club in the heights two years ago. Ray had pointed out which fighters were cheating by having loaded hands or feet. When asked how Ray could tell, the short guard pointed out how the fighters shoulders stay dropped, the hands stayed low or how the person was slow on their feet and slow to bring their leg back from a kick. Sure enough when word got back to the organizers about the cheats, they checked the hands and feet and found what Ray had pointed out. The cheats had been banned and word had gotten out about them and soon they had been banned from all the underground fight clubs in Lima.
"Oh, I uh told her about Rosita and how you caught the diddler last year and how the police found what was left of him."
Ray closed his eyes for a moment as the memories came back.
Ray had been jogging through the heights after school. Brittany was busy with Cheerios practice and Noah had football practice. His fathers well they had been god knows where for the last few weeks. By that time Ray had already made a reputation for himself via the fight club tournaments so the rougher characters left him alone as he ran through Lima Heights. He had stopped to take a drink of water when he heard a scream come from one of the run down houses. Sadly normally in the neighbourhood that he happened to be in it wasn't uncommon to hear yelling and screaming. It was the sound of the scream that moved Ray to the house. It was blood curdling, full of fear and pain and sounded young. Ray quietly entered the house and what he saw made him lose himself in a fit of blind rage. He honestly didn't remember what happened after he saw a twenty-something forcing himself on a girl who looked to be between ten and twelve. He remembered coming to when he heard the whimpers from the small girl and his heart broke as he saw the blood on her thighs. Looking around the rundown house, Ray had grabbed a sheet and shook it out a few times before slowly and cautiously approaching the girl who kept saying that she wanted to go home. It took some time but Ray was eventually able to wrap the sheet around the girl and carry out of the house, making sure to shield her from seeing her attacker. Ray had managed to get a few blocks from the house when he was staring down the barrel of 9mm for the very first time in his life. Turns out the girl was the baby sister of one of the LT's of the local gang and they had been searching for her when they found her abandoned backpack tossed in an alley. Ray blinked once in shock before letting the anger creep over his face and he snapped at the teen to either shoot or get the fuck out of the way as the girl in his arms wanted to go home. It was an intense stare down between the two as Ray had refused to back down in his quest to get the violated girl back to where she felt safe. It was Jimmy who broke the stand off when he started cussing out the gang banger and told him to put hi dick back in his pants. Ray and Jimmy had a quick conversation where Ray told Jimmy that the girl needed to go to a hospital but she had demanded to go home first so that's where she was taking her. One of the boys offered to take her and Ray gave him a look of disdain and asked Jimmy to get one of the girls to drive the girl home and that the one of the boys could follow behind. It had taken another few minutes for the cars to arrive but soon the girl had been laid down in a car and was being driven home. Once the cars were out of sight Ray turned and told the older brother that if he ever pulled a gun on him again he would shove it up his ass and the brother would be spitting out the shells before turning to Jimmy and telling the man to follow him to the house where he had found Rosita.
The diddler was just starting to wake up as the group entered the house. He tried to run when he saw Ray standing in front of a group of guys that ranged from 12 to 21. Ray had waved his hand forward as if to say have at it but asked that they leave him alive for the finale. Ray had watched as the older brother and a couple of his crew laid a beating on the diddler. While the crew had been beating the diddler, Ray had found a 2x6 board and a couple of nails. After quietly asking around, one of the crew had come back with a hammer and eyed Ray warily.
"Alright that's enough." Ray called out stopping the sound of flesh hitting flesh and the pained grunts.
Rosita's older brother glared at Ray and went to snap something out but stopped when he saw the cold fury in Ray's eyes.
"Hold him down." Ray ordered before crouching down near the diddler's head.
"You know the only reason they didn't beat you to death is because of me. Tell me why I shouldn't let them kill you."
The diddler began to cry and blubber out his apologies and that he couldn't help himself and that Rosita was just so pretty and he had thought that she was flirting with him. Ray had snarled and moved the board just under the diddler's naked ass as his pants were still around his ankles. Ray motioned for the guys to pull the pants off the rest of the way before having them hold his legs wide apart.
"You thought a child was flirting with you?! Unbelievable and adults call us teens dumb." Ray muttered after grabbing the hammer.
"Tell me, did you cum after you forced yourself in her."
The diddler nodded in response to Ray's question in hopes that his honesty would spare him from further harm.
"That's what I thought." Ray replied before nailing each of the diddler's testicles to the board.
Ray had been amazed that a grown man could squeal that high. The crew had ended up nailing the diddlers hands to the floor along with the board. Ray had borrowed a blade and in a single strike removed the diddler's penis and shoved it in his mouth, tip out. Rosita's brother had then carved out the word 'Peado' in the diddler's chest. That was how the police had found the body. When the cops asked how Rosita managed to escape, all she would say was that she had been rescued by an angel. It was shortly after that incident that Ray became a driving force in getting the rec center in the heights up and running once again. It was because of that incident and how Ray had acted - cold and calculated and how Ray had easily commanded some of the most feared individuals in Lima and the refusal to flinch in the face of brutal violence that the boys had issued the nickname of Frost.
"Yes well I did have some help with that."
"True I think the fact that you lived after threatening Manny was the icing on the cake."
Ray snorted out a laugh before sobering.
"I hope you told your cousin to get her shit together. She is hurting her girl who happens to be one of my best friends and I can't have it Jimmy. I will do everything that I can to protect Britt."
Jimmy nodded. "I hear you. If it makes a difference she is seeing a counsellor to work through her emotions."
"Good perhaps she should tell Brittany that. Maybe someone should call her and let her know that her girl is here tonight. Britt is miserable without her."
"Already done my man, already done." Jimmy pointed out where his cousin was standing watching the blonde dancer.
Ray fist bumped Jimmy before disappearing onto the dance floor. He came up behind Brittany and began dancing with her from behind as he spoke to her causing her to let out a happy sound at his words with a single demand of 'Where?' Ray pointed out where Santana was standing. Brittany stared for a minute before looking at Ray as if asking for his permission. Ray smiled gently at his best friend before nodding once. Brittany broke out into a beautiful smile and hugged him before disappearing into the crowd. Moments later she appeared at the Latina's side and they began talking. Ray turned his attention away from his best friend and her girlfriend to his girlfriend and the group of friends. They danced, laughed and overall had a great time for the rest of the night.
For Christmas, Ray spent the afternoon with Quinn and her mom after spending the morning with Sue and his Aunt Jean. Ray had quietly donated an obscene amount of money to Lima's soup kitchen and for the children's toy drive and had ventured over to help serve lunch before he finally made his way over to Quinn's.
New years eve had found him at a party at Puckerman's house. Ray had drawn the short straw and was one of five DD's for the night. Quinn, who had been feeling sick earlier that day, refrained from drinking as well and offered up her services to drive people home that night as well. They had charged 5 bucks to those needing rides at the beginning of the night to cover the cost of gas. Ray had filled up at the start of the night before even getting to Noah's. He was borrowing Artie's dad's van and left Hiram's car in exchange should either of Artie's parents want to go out that night. It worked out well and any left over cash went into a pool for the next party. For those that were not staying at Puck's they were quickly driven home as soon as they asked. Party goes left in groups of five and six, drivers taking turns until it was just Ray and Quinn left as DD's. Everything went smoothly and by 3 am, Ray was curled up with his girlfriend in his bed at his house. It had thankfully been a drama free night, mostly due to the fact that Finn and his merry band of misfit friends hadn't shown up. Finn was still grounded according to Kurt, while Karofsky and Azimio were still being shunned by the other football players.
A loud knocking disturbed the comfortable quiet in the apartment. Looking at the time Shelby was perplexed and concerned as to who would be knocking on her door that late at night. School had been back in session from the winter break for two weeks now and the next day was a school day as well as a work day for most people. Taking a deep breath she slowly opened the door only to fling it open. Shelby took a closer look at the boy standing in her doorway, noting his bloodshot eyes and slumped posture. She gently grabbed his arm and led him inside her apartment after closing the door. She sat him down on her sofa and sat on the coffee table in front of him.
"Ray!? What's wrong, baby? It's incredibly late." Shelby was shocked when she opened her door to see her son on the other side as it was after midnight.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize the time. I'm sorry to have disturbed you. I'll just head home." he stated quietly in a hoarse voice.
"Tell me what's wrong Ray." She gently coaxed as she faced her son.
"Quinn's pregnant mom."
AN2: Dun Dun Dun... Till next time.