AN: Hey all, again the chapter with the Glee Club didn't happen and I do apologise, I'll stop promising that it'll be coming around and just say that when the story works out that way, it'll be there. Also, further along the way, you guys will be treated to a special fluff part of the story when the Glee Club go on a small camping/bonding trip and Rachel will be tagging along as a child.
Anyway, this chapter will provide a bit of background so I hope you will enjoy. The chapter is also a bit long.

Chapter 5:

"What are we going to do?" Tina thought out loud.

"I don't know," Quinn said as she tried to cautiously approach.

"Careful, if she is still possessed that thing controlling her could in turn harm us,"

"Okay,"

When the four approached the pair, they heard Rachel suddenly laugh and say as she raised her small arms into the air, "HA, I AM THE MASTER,"

Without thinking, Santana was the first to speak, or rather yell, at the small brunette.

"Rachel get off him," Santana commanded loudly not thinking about the right way to approach the situation making the other three jump at the potential reaction.

Rachel looked up in shock and fell off Mike's back and began to cry because she landed on the concrete.

"What the?" Mike started as he got up, "Rachel are you okay?"

"I hurt," Rachel cried as Mike picked her up.

"Mike?" Tina started.

"Oh hey Tina, girls," Mike said nonchalant as he turned and saw the four looking at him as if they'd seen a ghost.

"What the hell? We thought she got you," Santana said in shock.

"Who got me?" Mike asked.

"Rachel,"

"Well she did, that's why I was on the ground, we were playing cops and robbers and she beat me, I was surrendering, but apparently I'm too big and she has to prove she's the best so she stood on my back,"

"No, we thought she got you, as in you would now be sleeping with the fishes got you,"

"Huh?"

"I got your phone call, you were screaming for my help," Tina said.

"What phone call? I never called you," Mike said.

"Yes you did,"

"Uh, no I didn't, I told you guys to call me when it was okay to bring her home again, we've been here this whole time and having fun,"

"Until I fell on my butt," Rachel said in an annoyed tone and sniffed as Brittany went to Mike and took Rachel out of his arms.

"How about this, we go get an ice cream?" she said to her.

"Really? Even though it's not dinner?"

"Yeah, it'll give Tina, Santana, and Mike a chance to talk,"

"Okay, ICE CREAM, YAY, oh wait, Quinn are you coming too?"

"Uh," Quinn started as Rachel shot her her doe eyes.

As a sixteen year old, Quinn had to admit that when Rachel was staring at her with her true innocent doe eyes she was quite adorable, as a child however...she was so adorable Quinn felt like she was about to melt from the cuteness.

"Okay, okay, I'll come along," she said finally as Rachel yelled out a 'Yay,' before she, Brittany and Quinn walked away leaving Mike with Tina and Santana.

"Right, so what's going on?" Mike asked, "And why do you guys look so spooked?"

"I, we, I received a phone call from you," Tina said.

"And like I said, I never called you, perhaps it was someone else?"

"No, the person sounded exactly like you,"

"Check your phone,"

Tina looked at her phone again and realised that Mike's number wasn't in the call log, in fact, the last listed call was actually her calling him a while ago.

"What's going on Tina?" Mike asked.

"While you were here, we were all discussing a sleepover and then I got a phone call less than five minutes ago, you were screaming that Rachel was possessed and that she was killing someone and for some reason turned and started to kill you," Tina said.

"Would explain why you guys looked freaked when you got here, but I swear that I didn't call you, whoever it was it wasn't me," Mike said.

"What the hell is going on here?" Santana asked.

"Whatever it is, it's toying with us," Tina concluded, "I think it is starting to get stronger, strong enough to manipulate our phones and mimic our voices,"

"Oh god that's just creepy, what do we do?"

"I don't know,"

"I might have to talk to my mother, see what she knows, there's got to be something, or maybe my abuela knows,"

"I also think you should try talking to Quinn's mother, maybe she knows too, it's too weird that all these coincidences keep popping up,"

Santana just nodded her head.

"Santana look, dockolate," Rachel said happily.

"Come here," Santana said as she took a napkin out of the bag that Mike was holding.

Rachel walked up to Santana as the Latina started wiping her nose.

"Aw, Santana," Rachel started to moan in annoyance.

"Hey, I don't like dirty little children, unless of course you want me to throw you in the bath tub again," Santana said.

"No, you left the water cold,"

"Sanny!" Brittany said harshly as Santana cringed.

"It was an accident," she said trying to defend herself.

Brittany just glared at her.

"Santana, Santana, do you want some of my ice cream?" Rachel offered.

"That's okay Squirt, you have it," Santana said.

"Okay," Rachel said happily as she gobbled down the rest of her ice cream.

After hanging out in the park for a while, and playing games with Rachel, the crew headed back to Quinn's home. Mike offered to drop Tina off so that she could run to her place and grab some clothes, Santana and Brittany went back to their respective places, and Quinn was driving back to her house with Rachel.

"So did you have fun with Mike?" Quinn asked.

"Yeah, I want to be tall like him when I'm bigger," Rachel said as she looked at Quinn through the mirror.

"We'll see huh?"

"Yeah, Quinn?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you for getting Mr Tibbs, I missed his cuddles,"

"No problem,"

"Did you see Bubbe?"

"Who?"

"Bubbe, she's my grandma, she can walk through walls, it's cool,"

Quinn paused as she pulled the car to the side of the road and looked at Rachel.

"Your Bubbe is a ghost?" she asked.

"Yeah, she tries to help me against the monster, but it hurts her, I don't like it," Rachel said as she held the doll closer.

"Rachel,"

"Yes,"

"Would your Bubbe tell other people to leave the house?"

"All the time, but sometimes some people don't hear her, it's sad,"

Quinn sat back in her seat and thought over the incident earlier that day.

"Quinn? What's wrong?" Rachel asked.

"Nothing Sweetie, c'mon, let's go," Quinn replied as she drove back to her house.

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When she got back home she saw her mother standing outside the front door, arms crossed, looking very angry.

"Mom?" Quinn started as she got out of her car.

"Quinn, what the hell have you done?" Judy asked trying to remain as calm as possible.

"Done about what?"

"The living room and kitchen are a mess,"

"What?"

"It looks like you just went through it and damaged a lot of stuff,"

Quinn looked confused.

Upon seeing the confused look on her daughter's face, Judy's own face dropped, "It wasn't you? Oh god, was someone trying to rob us?" Judy wondered out loud.

"Quinn, I duck," Rachel called from the car.

"Who's that?" Judy asked.

"Oh, it's um, it's, um," Quinn stuttered.

"Quinn?"

"A family friend's daughter that I'm babysitting,"

Quinn went to the car and helped Rachel out.

"Hello Mrs Fabray," Rachel said with a big grin on her face.

"Wait, how'd you know my Mom?" Quinn asked in surprise.

"Quinnie, what have you done?" Judy asked looking horrified.

"Done?"

"Oh no,"

"Mom?"

"Quick, inside,"

"Mom, Tina, Santana, and Brittany are coming too,"

"What?"

"They, we, we all know about Rachel and we're trying to fix it,"

Judy looked at her daughter before saying, "Get inside, I'll explain more,"

Rachel didn't know what was going on as she looked between Judy and Quinn.

"Rachel, how are you?" Judy asked.

"I'm good, I have Mr Tibbs," Rachel said as she ran up to Judy and gave her a hug, "But my necklace, I losted it"

"We'll have to make you a new one," Judy said as she picked the little girl up.

"Okay,"

Once Quinn was inside she saw the disaster that was her living room. There were books strewn across the floor, papers that were ripped, the couch was over turned and the television looked cracked.

"Hello Alma, yes it's me, we have a problem, can you call Jenny Cohen-Chang for me too and tell her to come, apparently our girls all know, or at least are involved, yes, I suppose you should bring Maribel too so she can see herself, yes, good, thank you, see you soon," Judy said before hanging up the phone and looking at Quinn, "Quinn how did this happen?"

"You act like you know what's going on? What the hell is going on?" Quinn asked.

"Quinn, how did you come across Rachel like this?" Judy asked.

"I, we, Brittany had a spell and she, we, casted it while Rachel was with us, we thought it was fake and then this happened,"

"How did Brittany get a hold of that spell?"

"It just appeared,"

Judy rubbed her eyes as the stress was rushing through her.

"I'm so sorry Mom, I didn't know, I thought the thing was fake," Quinn said.

"It's okay, I never told you about me, the real me, the me your father tried to suppress, his pet project for the church apparently," Judy started, "I'll explain more once everyone is here, for now let's clean,"

Quinn agreed as she helped her mother.

By the time everyone had arrived the house was cleaned up and the drink and snacks were set out in the living room. Rachel had gone for a nap on the pillow bed with the throw and was cuddling tightly with Mr Tibbs.

The women all settled down as they listened to what had happened the past couple of days.

When it was done, Alma took her walking stick and whacked Santana's legs.

"OW! What was that for?" Santana asked annoyed as she jumped off the couch and sat on Brittany's lap.

"You, you never listen to me Santana, never listen, I told you to never play with the spirit world, I'm sure your Mami told you that too," Alma chastised.

"I didn't know, I thought it was all bogus, that it wasn't real,"

"Santana, mija, why didn't you tell me that that was Rachel?" Maribel asked.

"I didn't think you'd believe me, besides how did YOU not recognise her?" Santana asked back.

"I never really saw her face or I would have known, I just believed you for your word,"

"I told you you spend too much time working," Alma said, "A woman should stay with her family,"

"Mami can we not start this again, what we should worry about is that that thing was strong enough to make the spell appear in Santana's possession and make a phantom phone call to Tina,"

"The spell was actually in Brittany's possession but same diff," Santana corrected with a shrug.

"Rachel's necklace is gone," Judy said as Maribel sighed at that.

"Necklace?" Santana asked.

"I was the one who crafted Rachel her necklace," Maribel started, "Jenny finished it by blessing it, as long as Rachel wore it, she would be protected from that dark spirit,"

"I told you we should have tattooed her, that way it would forever be with her and we could always add as the powers of that thing grew stronger," Alma said strongly.

"Too late now, besides she's a child, there's no way we could subject her to that,"

"Why didn't you guys just banish it?" Tina asked.

"We thought we did, but it must have crawled back, something must have opened a door way, did any of you play with a Ouija Board or cast a different spell?" Jenny, Tina's mother, asked.

"No, just that one," Brittany replied.

"Tina were you involved?" Jenny asked her daughter.

"No way, I know better than to play with things that shouldn't be played with," Tina replied as Jenny looked proud of her.

"I told you three that something was off about that exorcism, I told you," Alma said crossly, "Now we have to do it again, I will not allow that dark creature to take another child,"

"Another child?" Quinn gulped.

"Yes," Judy said as she looked at the other older women with her and they nodded at her to explain, "I should explain, around the time Rachel was four, as in the real four, there were quite a few cases on her street of children becoming possessed, we had to help out and a few died along with their families,"

"How were you not implicated?"

"Video data, the cops didn't know what to make of it,"

"Why her? Or them?"

"There are some people in this world who possess a different energy, spirits love that, and they love to see the potential that a being has, Rachel was one of many who had an aura that if used a certain way would give a spirit a lot of power, Rachel is like me but a lot stronger,"

"You?"

"I'm psychic, a real one, maybe more on the Medium end, but that's where I am, so is Alma,"

"I'm more of a Curandero thank you, not too much on the psychic end,"

"What about you Mom?" Santana asked.

"I'm also a Curandero," Maribel answered.

"How about me? Why didn't I know of this?"

"You don't have the same gifts as I do and for that I am glad, I was hoping that you'd never have to hear of this world or have to worry about it, how naive of I to believe that you could escape this, I'm sorry Mija,"

Santana just nodded her head before saying, "It's okay Mami, I understand,"

Maribel smiled at her daughter as Judy continued, "Jenny is a demonologist, or for a more broader sense, she's a supernaturalist, someone who knows about that world and can read it, she is also an ex-Buddhist Nun, so a lot of incantations, spells, protections and blessings from the quote unquote 'Oriental World'she knows about and can cast them,"

"Ex Nun?" Tina started.

"Just because you cease to be one thing doesn't mean you stop having your powers from it, I left the Nunnery because it wasn't the right life for me and I knew it," Jenny said as she touched Tina's head, "And then when I met your father we just clicked, this world of the supernatural, this is the world that we both knew and would know how to fight if we had to, when we adopted you we felt led to you and we are very glad we did,"

"And Rachel?" Quinn asked wanting to know.

"Rachel is also psychic, but her power, her abilities, they are beyond anything that we have realised capable of any human being," Judy answered, "That's why that thing wants her, because when Rachel becomes a fully matured human being her powers would be great, damn demon, wait for her to mature and then turn her back to a child so that it could better take her body over,"

"So you guys know what it looks like?" Santana asked.

"No, and if stuff in here got damaged I'm assuming it wanted to destroy ways of us looking for it, we'll have to start from scratch,"

"Actually," Quinn started, "I thought something was off so I told everyone to grab their stuff so we still have everything we were researching,"

Judy looked at her daughter proudly.

Brittany reached into her bag and pulled out the picture and gave it to Judy.

"Oh, shit," Judy said as Quinn and Santana looked at her, "What?"

"You never swear, like, ever," Quinn said.

"This is a bad one Quinn, this one here will not stop until it has her, I don't know how Rachel held it off for so long, but now that she has reverted back to her childlike state, I don't know Quinnie, oh my god, I knew it was a bad one but this bad?!"

Alma also looked at the picture, "Dios mio,"

"So what is it?" Tina asked as she watched her mother take the picture and gasp.

"This is a shadow demon, but this one, I know of this one, this is a Hikage Karite, a Shadow Reaper, I have only heard of one case before and the host was killed and their body destroyed while the people were trying to destroy the demon, we need to get to work on a very powerful talisman for Rachel, no wonder this one could come back after years of being warded off, it will take her soul and damn it to the void so that it can use her body, the Rachel you know will be killed if we cannot stop it," Jenny said.

"All these years, and you guys are psychic, how did you not know?" Santana asked.

"Because we were blocked from seeing it, and I have an odd suspicion I know who blocked it," Judy said as she looked at Rachel who was sleeping on the floor, "She must have wanted to protect us in that adorable childish way,"

"So she must be stronger than we thought," Alma said.

"Yes, she must be,"

"Clue us in here Mom," Quinn said.

"The necklace that we made was to suppress Rachel's powers so that the supernatural world would leave her alone, we thought it best at the time," Judy said.

"I thought bottling such things up was a very bad thing because without proper control it could get stronger?"

"That is true, perhaps suppress is the wrong word, the word bind or dormant might be a little better, either way, the problem that Rachel and her fathers had was that her powers were strong enough to draw almost anything and open doors that she shouldn't, but she was too young to understand what it all that meant, we were going to teach her when she was old enough, but we always seemed to lose contact of the Berry Men,"

"Perhaps that thing has been toying with us all this time and we didn't know," Alma suggested.

"Perhaps, god I wish I had more time and that Russel didn't stop me,"

"Wait, wait, wait, Did Russel know about this?" Quinn asked.

"Of course he knew, but he deemed this work unnatural, I'm glad to be rid of him and be able to be who I was meant to be, who I was born to be, I had to go behind his back many times just so I could try and help people who were in trouble," Judy answered.

"And when I was pregnant?"

"Who do you think helped out with the adoption papers and other important things that you neglected?"

Quinn was quiet after that before remembering her earlier conversation with Rachel, "Rachel told me that her Bubbe still talks to her and tries to help her with that monster and that it hurts her, I'm assuming that that's who threw Mr Tibbs at my face and told Santana and I to get out of the Berry House, even though we didn't actually even go into the house," she recounted.

"Oh, I thought that old woman decided to cross over," Maribel said, "I'm glad she stayed, but let's hope we can help her cross, it will be harder for her to hold on to her sanity if she stays on this plane for too long, and if that thing is hurting her, that is pain beyond imagination,"

"I want to know who opened that door," Alma said suddenly, "That thing, I know we shut it good, maybe not strong enough, but the door had to open somehow,"

"The monster started to appear when Daddy was playing with that game you told him not to," Rachel said suddenly as she woke up and looked at Alma.

"What game mija?"

"The board with the triangle glass and the letters, he said he was trying to talk to Bubbe because she was strong and then we started to see her again but the monster came too, but I can see it and they can't,"

"So they opened the door, idiot men they should have remembered what they were told,"

"Don't call my Daddies idiots, that's mean,"

"I'm sorry mija,"

After some time, the group decided that it was best to have dinner so Judy and Quinn went to make a meal while Jenny, Tina, Maribel, and Santana went late day shopping for items that they'd need for Rachel's new necklace.

Alma and Brittany were the only ones left in the living room watching over Rachel.

"You love my granddaughter, Brittany?" Alma asked.

"Yes, very much so," Brittany said.

"Good, you keep her in line, okay, that girl needs to remember her roots, her history, you make sure she remembers and takes heed now,"

"I shall,"

"And you remember your history,"

"I shall do my best,"

"Abuela, look what I can do," Rachel said with a giggle as she started to make Mr Tibbs levitate a bit off the ground.

"Dios mio, you stop that now,"

Rachel just giggled childishly as she softly put Mr Tibbs back on to the ground.

AN 2: Right, we'll end it there. I hope you guys enjoyed that and enjoyed the slight "twist". Next chapter will be back to school for the girls and a camping/bonding trip is in the works too.
I hope that this chapter also gave a bit more background as to the why of Rachel; and yes, I decided to make Alma accepting of Santana and Brittany - it just seems better for me personally.