Chapter 11:

Rachel was alone now, the demon was right, she was alone; and she was badly hurt. The child had been wondering through the rain with a small bag of clothes, some cookies, and a bottle of water. She was wearing her little yellow raincoat as she walked through the streets in her rain boots. Mr Tibbs was carefully put inside her raincoat so he wouldn't get wet. While walking along the road, it became slippery and she fell down the side of the road and tumbled to the ground below due to a small landslide, trapped by logs and branches. But she didn't cry, she couldn't. Her necklace was keeping her safe from the supernatural right now, but it was the natural that was slowly killing her; and all the little girl could do right now was just wait to see if someone would find her.

This situation all began the day she had come home with Judy in the car. Santana, Quinn, and Rachel were all traveling back to Lima city with Judy to go see Maribel at the hospital morgue. Brittany and Tina were going to come back with the rest of the group a couple of hours later.

For the first time in a long time, Santana didn't speak, nor did she even look at Rachel, and every time the child tried to put her hand on the Latina's, she would pull her hand away.

When they arrived at the hospital they were lead to the morgue where Maribel was sitting, tears running down her face.

"Mami?" Santana said as she went to her mother.

"Oh Sanny," her mother said as she hugged her daughter tightly, "She's gone,"

"How?"

"The demon tortured her, and then it snapped her neck before throwing her against the wall," Maribel said, "There was blood everywhere,"

"Sanny?" Rachel started as she tried to put her hand on Santana's.

"Get the hell away from me," Santana snapped as she pulled her hand away.

"Santana," Maribel said.

"It's her fault, her and her stupid powers, she should have stayed the hell away from us,"

"Santana,"

But the Latina had walked away.

"We'll take her home with us, it might be easier for Santana to deal with her grief," Judy said as Quinn looked at Rachel sadly and picked the child up.

Maribel just nodded her head, "You be a good girl for Quinn and Judy, okay,"

"Okay, but what about Santana?" Rachel asked.

"She's angry right now, so it's best to leave her alone, okay," Maribel said softly as Rachel put her arms around Quinn's neck.

"Okay,"

And the days that followed weren't much better. Brittany was with Santana most of the time and the Latina still refused to look at Rachel let alone talk to her. On the day of the funeral it was raining. A fitting effect for how everyone was feeling.

Alma may have been a strict woman, but she was still a loving mother and a grandmother. When the church service was done, and everyone was at the cemetery, they watched as her coffin was lowered into the ground.

After everyone had left, Santana was still standing at the grave, along with her mother, Quinn, Judy, Brittany, Tina, and Jenny. Rachel was standing next to Quinn.

"I'm sorry abuela, I'm so sorry," Santana had whispered.

"She left this behind for you Sanny," Maribel said as she gave Santana a necklace of Saint Luke the Evangelist, patron Saint of Doctors and Physicians.

Santana put it on and felt love pouring out of it, and protection. The last feelings of her abuela that she'd ever feel.

"She loved you very much Sanny, and that necklace was for you for when you decided to go to medical school," Maribel finished.

"Thank you Mami," Santana finally said as Brittany squeezed her hand and Quinn patted her shoulder in comfort.

"Santana," Rachel started.

"Don't you think you've done enough damage," Santana shot at Rachel making the girl pause and jump a little back.

"Santana, stop it," Maribel said.

"No, I'm going to say it, ever since she came into existence she has been a pain in the ass, I couldn't even travel back here with Brittany because of her,"

"Sanny," Brittany said.

"No, it's all her fault, that demon wanted her and it went after all of us because of her, why the hell are we protecting her? Huh? Abuela's gone and it's all her fault,"

Rachel flinched at that.

"Just go away Hobbit, I don't care anymore," Santana said as she looked back at the grave holding her grandmother.

"Sanny I know this hurts, but you can't blame Rachel for being born the way she is, you can't," Brittany said.

"She's a pest,"

"You don't believe that, under all this anger I know you don't believe that,"

"She is, I want her to stay the hell away from me, from us, we'll be safer,"

"Sanny, need I remind you that we are at fault, if we didn't read that stupid spell then she wouldn't be stuck like this, she'd be safe, alone sure, but safe, we did this to her, in fact if you want to blame someone that someone is me,"

"I can't blame you, the demon isn't after you,"

"Sanny, that thing toys with us, it knew it had a chance to get us, the moment I invited Rachel to come to our sleepover, it knew, it knew that I would ask you to perform a spell, it knew that you and Q were skeptical about it, it knew what we would do because it's been observing us, Rachel had nothing to do with it,"

Santana didn't say anything.

"Now Rachel is still a four year old, and she's confused, the sixteen year old understands why you're angry and she'd give you space, but the four year old just wants to make everything better, and you getting angry at her is not helping," Brittany finished.

"Everything that's happening is happening because of her, how long are you willing to protect her when she's the reason those around you will fall dead to the ground?" Santana finished.

"What do you want me to say S? That we should all just give up on her?"

"That would be the idea, we were better off without her or knowing about that world,"

"You want me to give up on Rachel just like that?" Quinn asked without actually asking.

"Giving her up, that's kinda harsh," Tina added.

"She doesn't need our help, she can do everything herself, why doesn't she just go the hell away from us?"

"Santana that's enough," Maribel said, "We cannot change this, we cannot, but now we must work to fix this before everyone is hurt, if that demon gets her he will control a lot more than just her, he will control many lives and he will destroy it,"

"He'll go to the larger cities, he won't bother us here,"

"You know that that's not true, I know you're hurting mija, but you forget that abuela was my mother so you are not the only one who is hurting,"

Santana couldn't say anything.

"Rachel, it's okay mija, okay," Maribel said as she turned to look then looked panicked, "Rachel?"

Everyone paused and looked around, Rachel was gone.

"Where could she have gone?" Maribel wondered out loud but no one could answer that.

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As everyone returned to the Lopez's home, they were trying to see if there were ways they could find Rachel. They called around the Glee Club and everyone promised to keep their eyes peeled for the girl, whether or not they ventured into the rain was currently unknown.

Santana was sitting in her living room half expecting Rachel to pop out from somewhere to say boo just to make her laugh, but the brunette wasn't there. No one had seen her since her disappearance.

What they didn't know was that Rachel had disappeared as she listened to the others talk about leaving her before she had walked back to Quinn's home to grab her things. The child was quick, perhaps it was her powers coming into play, no one was sure and no one would really know. All they knew was that they couldn't find her. One moment she was there at the funeral, another moment she was gone.

"The rain's getting worse, she'll catch her death out there on her own," Quinn said as she looked out the window.

"Where would she go?" Brittany wondered.

"Anywhere but here,"

"This is all your fault," Quinn said angrily at Santana, "If you didn't push her away, if you didn't yell at her,"

"You two stop it," Brittany said angrily, "This is all of our faults, now Quinn you sit there, and Santana, you stay right there because I know that you two are about to have a smack down and right now I don't give a damn about how you two feel,"

The two just looked at her in surprise.

"There is a child out there in the freezing cold wondering why the four people who promised to protect her, to always be there for her, aren't anymore," Brittany said.

"You three didn't say anything," Santana said.

"But we questioned it, a child can't hear what we hear, she probably didn't know that we were questioning you all she heard were words,"

"Whatever,"

"Right, I called the police station, they said that a child was spotted walking down the highway, how the hell did she get there so fast?" Judy wondered.

"Her powers maybe, perhaps it was the emotion, she felt sadness and fear, so she did what she felt she should, she ran as fast as she could," Maribel said, "We should go,"

"I'm going too," Quinn said.

"No," Judy said.

"You know I will anyway, besides this way it'll be faster,"

Judy sighed, "Just be safe, okay,"

"I will Mom, c'mon B, T, let's go,"

"What about you Santana?" Maribel asked as the Latina just looked at her mother but didn't move.

The Latina mother just sighed as everyone left the house.

About an hour had passed now as Santana was still sitting and brooding in her house, thinking and eventually she started to fall asleep from waiting.

"Santana, get up," a voice was heard saying to her.

Santana groaned and slowly sat up and opened her eyes and looked shocked.

"Yeah, it's me," Alma said as she was sitting in the chair opposite the Latina.

"But you're," Santana started.

"Dead, yeah," Alma sipped a glass of gin and tonic, "I must say that I am disappointed in you, Lopez's are strong, vicious, they fight for family, for blood, you, you gave up the moment you hit a wall,"

"You're gone because of her,"

"No, I'm gone because I was victim of a game,"

Santana paused, "Abuela I cant',"

"Yes you can, because I say you can, because you know you can, Rachel is your blood now, you promised her that, remember? You promised that you always had her back, are you going back on your word now?"

"I,"

"You let your anger get the better of you, not something I wished you inherited from me but here we are,"

"I just, I don't want to believe that you're gone and I'm so angry that this happened,"

"Nothing you can do about it, and I'm not gone, not yet, I will not cross over until I know that you are safe, but right now you wake up and you go find that girl,"

"But I want to know what happened to you,"

"In good time, but first you must know that everyone is going the wrong way, go to the highway east of the city, the girl fell because of a small landslide, you can't miss it,"

"Okay,"

"And before you wake up, tell Tina to look for it's name because names have power,"

"What?"

"Now WAKE UP!"

Santana bolted awake as she looked around her house. It was a bit darker now as the time had passed. She ran out to get her car and drove off in the direction that her abuela had told her.

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Santana drove as quickly and as safely as she could as she went to the east of the city. She eventually found the landslide and pulled over, rushing over quickly.

"Rachel?" she called out but hear no sound.

When she was at the pile she looked around and saw no one, until something caught her attention, Mr Tibbs was there on top of the dirt.

Santana went over and started to pull debris aside until her hand caught smaller ones, "Rachel," she said as she carefully pulled the child out.

Rachel tiredly opened her eyes as she looked at Santana.

"You found me," she said quietly and hoarsely.

"Yeah, I did," Santana said.

"You won't leave me right?"

"No, not yet,"

"Okay,"

But more could not be said as Rachel closed her eyes again, prompting Santana to call for an ambulance.

At the hospital she waited for everyone else to arrive as she thought over about what her abuela had said to her about how she reacted to Rachel. And when she did think over it more, she ended up having to sigh, not at the situation but at her own anger.

"Where is she?" Quinn asked as she ran up to Santana.

"In the room with the doctors," Santana answered as Quinn was about to slap her in anger but was stopped by Brittany and Judy.

"You BITCH, she wouldn't even be in there if it wasn't for you,"

"And I won't deny it,"

"Quinn calm down or you will be taken away from here and you won't have a chance to see Rachel," Judy warned as Quinn calmed down but moved away from Santana.

"T, I need to talk to you," Santana said as she spotted Tina.

"Sure," Tina said as Santana pulled her aside.

"My abuela told me, in my dream, that you need to look for this thing's name, something about names holding power,"

"You saw your abuela?"

"Yeah, and I did what you told us about, I listened, she told me where to find Rachel, and she told me to tell you about the name thing,"

"Name thing? Oh my god, names, of course, I'll look into it,"

"What's the big deal? A name is a name,"

"But not in the spiritual world, in almost all cultures that deal with the supernatural like this there is always the concept of true names, if we learn the demon's true name we will get to keep him at bay, or something like that, I'll start researching as soon as I can,"

"Good," Santana said as she looked away.

"Look, Santana," Tina started as she placed a hand softly on Santana's shoulder, "Don't blame yourself too hard, you were grieving and people grieve the way they do, I don't blame you,"

"What I said caused the kid to run,"

"And if Rachel was in her sixteen year old self she'd have known that you didn't mean it like that, but a kid is a kid and we all forgot that,"

"Thanks T,"

As the two returned to the others, Rachel's doctor walked out, "Rachel Berry's guardians?" he asked.

"That's us," Judy said.

"Okay, she's fine, healing and we've put some sedatives into her so that she'll sleep, she may have caught pneumonia but that is unsure just yet, she may just be on the onset of a bad cold because of the weather, other than that bruises and abrasions,"

"Okay, can we take her home, I'd feel better if she was at home with me, I promised her fathers that,"

"Sure, everything should be okay for now, the sedative should wear off, if you like we can have a home nurse come and visit every day just to check up on her,"

"That would be good,"

After Rachel was moved to the Fabray's home, Quinn rarely, if ever, left her side. The little brunette still hadn't woken up.

Today was day number three and Quinn was just sitting next to the bed, laying her head on the mattress holding Rachel's hand in hers.

Santana decided to pay them a visit that day, and as she entered the room, Quinn woke up and glared at her.

"The hell do you want?' she asked.

"Just came to see how the kid was doing," Santana said.

"I thought you didn't care,"

"And you of all people know that I said it while I was angry, it don't make it right, but that's how it was, how is the kid anyway?"

"No change, nothing, the nurse had to set up a drip for her,"

Santana just frowned at that but before she could say anything her phone rang, "Hello?"

"Santana you have to help me, I'm at the old library on Brass," Tina was heard pleading on the other side.

"Tina?"

"Oh my god, no, you can't have him,"

"Tina?" Santana started as she heard the sound of Tina running.

"I found it, but he knows I found it, help me, he's got M...," but before Tina could say anything else her phone was cut off.

"Oh SHIT," Santana said as she put her phone in her pocket.

"What?" Quinn asked.

"That was Tina, I think she was just attacked,"

"Do you know where she is?"

"Yeah, I gotta go, call your Mom and keep an eye on baby,"

Quinn nodded her head as she did as Santana asked.

Santana called her mother on the way to the Library and her mother promised to meet her there.

When she arrived, she saw no one and she wondered what the hell was going on until a scream was heard, Santana looked up in time to see Tina's body come flying out of library window and land on top of her car.

She could do nothing but scream as she looked at the bloodied body of her friend.

AN: So, we shall end that chapter there, I hope you have enjoyed it.

As for me, I shall now go bang my head hard on the table because my setting was reset and I can't remember my reddit site password; but on the plus side, I'll be working on the next chapter. Until next time team.