AN: Character DEATHS. Also, the names of the books and demon are just fictional. Just saying.
Chapter 12:
Santana found herself sitting again in the waiting room at the hospital; she found herself thinking about what had happened between witnessing Tina fall out of a building and her getting to the hospital.
Flashback:
"Can you tell us what happened?" an officer asked her.
"I came here because she called me, she was panicked and when I arrived there was no one here, I heard a scream, and Tina, Tina came falling out of the building and onto my car," Santana said, visibly shaken.
"Hey boss, we got something on the tape," another officer said as he ran up to the two.
"Okay," the first officer said as he looked at Santana.
"Can I go now? I want to be with my friend," Santana asked.
"Yeah, we'll be in touch kid,"
Santana didn't even bother about asking about her now damaged car as she jumped into the ambulance with her friend.
Flashback End.
To most, it would seem that Santana had zoned out, and for the most part she was; but she was still thinking things over. Tina was about to mention a name when she got cut off, which meant that perhaps she had been chased for quite a bit. At first Santana was certain that it was the same demon, but something about this seemed off, it didn't seem right.
Eventually she was brought out of her thoughts as the rest of the crew, minus Judy who was looking after Rachel so that Quinn could go see Tina, were now at the hospital.
"How is she?" Brittany asked.
"Don't know, but she's banged up pretty bad," Santana said as the doctor came out.
"Jenny Cohen-Chang?" he asked.
"That's me, how's my baby?" Jenny asked.
"It's a miracle that she survived, the fall broke her ribs and fractured her left arm, one rib punctured her lung so we're monitoring that,"
"Oh my god,"
"The police have her items, so if you want to ask more you can ask them,"
"Okay, may we go in and see her, those three are with me,"
The doctor just nodded his head.
When the crew walked in Maribel held Jenny's hand tightly to comfort her as they saw Tina banged up and bruised whilst lying on the bed connected to various tubes.
Santana walked over to her friend and sat down next to her.
"You should have gotten me to come with you T," Santana said.
"That demon would have gotten you too," Brittany said as she placed her hands on Santana's shoulders.
"Mrs Cohen-Chang?" the doctor said as he reentered the room.
"Yes?" Jenny said as she looked at the doctor.
"I need to speak with you about your health insurance,"
"Okay,"
"I'll come with you," Maribel said as the girls were all left alone.
"T said that someone was possessed, she couldn't quite get the name out, but the person's name started with M," Santana said.
"The only person we know is Mike, but he wouldn't hurt her, would he?" Brittany asked.
"Not when he's himself, but under possession,"
"I thought Rachel banished that demon for a bit,"
"Could be the scout,"
"True,"
Then Quinn said quietly, "S, doesn't your mother's name start with an M?"
"The hell you trying to say?" Santana asked in a whispered anger and annoyance.
"Just saying S, we can't just assume that it's Mike, what if it tricked your mother?"
"I, possibly, but what about her mother? T would always call her mother Mom, right?"
"That is true, and her mother just has knowledge and the power of words,"
"Oh my god, who are we going to be able to trust here?"
"I don't know,"
"But then again, she said 'He's got him,'" Santana said as she sat up a bit straighter, "My natural assumption then is that it's gotta be a guy, and someone she or we all know,"
"What about Mr Schue?" Brittany asked.
"Isn't his name William?" Quinn asked.
"Yeah, but none of us call him that do we? We just call him Mr Schue,"
The crew were quiet for a bit when Quinn spoke up, "S, I know this is cliched, but check her right hand, the doctors seemed to miss that part,"
"Why?" Santana asked.
"Look at it, she's holding it tightly shut,"
Santana looked over as Quinn directed and saw that Tina's right hand was tightly shut. As she placed her hand on top of Tina's, images ran through her head in small shots.
"The name, she has the name in her hand," Santana said as she struggled to pry Tina's fingers open.
"So what if this is the reason why she was thrown out the window?" Quinn asked.
"No, it's not," Santana said, "I can see it,"
"What?"
Santana then explained what happened:
Flashback:
Tina was bored, very bored, as she looked through the files on the computer and in the old textbooks on demonology and the supernatural. Don't get her wrong all this fascinated her and she wanted to know but there was only so long she could do a Hermione Granger and stare at books for hours on end.
This was day number three since Rachel was found and she knew Santana still felt horrible about pushing the child away. But then again for her personally, the fact that no one said anything to really counter-act what the Latina had said meant that they were at fault in some way too, but that was just her way of thinking of it.
Anyway, after going through possible rituals, names, even the types of demon, she finally found what she was looking for. In the "Tome of Odin" she found what she was looking for.
Why the book was called the 'Tome of Odin', she had no idea but she did find what she wanted. The demon was as they assumed, a high ranking one. It was nasty and lived on possession and absorbing the power of the person it wore.
According to the lore that was written, this demon could only be controlled by its' name and it could only be destroyed with its' name. The trick however was having a powerful psychic do it. 'Why always the powerful one?' Tina wondered in annoyance. But this demon wouldn't go down without a fight.
As she wrote down the name of the demon as well as starting to write down the ritual to summon and contain so that they could get rid of it, she heard a noise behind her.
"Hello?" she turned and said but saw no one there, 'Probably the Librarian,'
But before she could continue working she heard a loud bang and saw a shadow that she dreaded. A demon was inhabiting a body. Whether it was wearing a human suit or whether it was just a possession of the mind she wasn't sure. But she didn't want to stick around to find out. So she grabbed her stuff and scrunched the name tightly into her hand.
She got up and began to walk.
"So, where are you going?" a man's voice asked making her jump.
"God, Mike," Tina said, "What are you doing here?"
"I saw you come in a while ago and figured that perhaps you'd like company,"
"Oh, no, I'm good, I'm just going to see Rachel, so yeah,"
"Can I come?"
"Uh, no, Judy is very specific about who can or can't go in,"
"Oh, but it's just me,"
"Yeah, I know,"
"So, you find the stuff on the demon that you needed?"
Tina paused as she looked at him, "How'd you know I was looking for that?"
Mike turned his face and stared sinisterly at her, "Lucky guess,"
"I'm going to go now," Tina said as she started to walk off quickly.
But Mike was all of a sudden in front of her.
On instinct Tina recited an incantation making Mike repel backward and hit the books behind him giving her time to run.
"YOU CAN'T RUN FROM ME," Demon Mike yelled angrily as he ran after Tina.
Tina dialed Santana's number and began to beg her for help, telling the Latina where she was before Mike crushed her phone with his power and slammed her against the books.
Again Tina recited a chant that blasted him backwards from her.
"I have your precious Mike, I have him, you will rue the day you tried to help those brats defeat my master," the demon yelled.
"You're a lower demon, you can be killed you know," Tina yelled back as she tried to run for the doors and realised that the demon had blocked the path.
She looked around and saw the librarian was dead, blood was gushing from her neck as she lay strewn across her desk.
"Oh my god," Tina gasped in horror, "Why?"
"Because it's a fun game," Demon Mike said as he picked her up and strangled her slowly, "There is no need to give a reason as to why, we just are,"
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because it's fun, it's fun to control you puny mortals and it's fun to watch as you scream and burn with agony at what we do,"
"You're helping now, why?"
"My master bidded his time because he was waiting for that brat to mature to her full potential, I planted that spell in the idiot's bag because I knew she'd make her Latina lover read the text to curse the brat back to her childish form so that it'd be easier to get her, we played you all, there is no true protection from us,"
"But Alma,"
"Got what was coming for her, my master delighted in ripping her to shreds on the inside, and he will pick you off one by one, starting with her and finishing with the blonde one,"
"Oh no,"
"Yes, Quinn Fabray will be the final one to die because she is the dearest,"
Tina tried to struggle loose but nothing worked.
"Your beloved Mike is dead, I killed him and wore his body like a suit," the demon mocked, "I suppose I could have tried to just possess his body without destroying him but I was bored,"
"Monster," Tina gasped.
"I try, the next death will be yours, farewell Tina Cohen-Chang, your mother will be joining you soon," the demon laughed as he threw her out the window.
Flashback end.
"Oh my god," Santana said, "It's picking us off one by one to get to Rachel, you're the last one it'll target Q, Jenny is next, Tina was supposed to die,"
Quinn looked at her in horror.
"Mike's dead, that demon stole the idea from that movie we were watching and wore him like a suit," Santana said, "Dios mio,"
Suddenly the machines started to beep like crazy.
"Tina?" Santana started as everyone looked at her, "Get out, Q, B, get out,"
"What? Why?" Quinn asked.
"Get my mother, now, he's here," Santana said as Brittany and Quinn race out of the room.
"You're an idiot," the demon said.
"You killed an innocent, Mike was a good guy," Santana said.
"What do I care? I serve my master,"
"Who would destroy you,"
Tina's beeping became more erratic now.
"What the hell are you doing?" Santana asked.
"Giving her natural cause of death, a heart attack, so simple, yet good," Demon Mike said.
"Stop it,"
"No,"
"Why? Why now? Why not just go after the one Rachel loves the most out of all of us?"
"Because it's too much fun to make her feel the pain of losing everyone she loves, one, by, one,"
Santana became enraged as she began to chant a spell she had never heard before. But it seemed so innate that she knew she could do it.
"Are you crazy, the hell you doing?" Demon Mike hissed as he struggled to move towards the Latina, "I'll kill you next, fuck the rules,"
But before he could attack something stood in his way.
"What the?" the demon hissed.
"Hi Mike," Santana said as she looked over at the spirit standing next to her, "I know it hurts to hold yourself here, but I will find a way to bring you back, I will,"
"Your grandmother knows how," Mike said looking at her, "For now, let me possess a demon,"
Santana nodded her head, "I will find a way to help you,"
Mike nodded his head in return as he turned angrily to the demon and with a roar jumped back into his hollowed out body.
Demon Mike screamed as Santana continued the curse and bound him to the spot.
At the scream the doctor ran back in.
Santana looked back up at him and said, "He's just in shock, I'll take him home with me,"
Back at Santana's home, she tied Mike's body up in the basement as the demon woke up and glared at her.
"I'll kill you," he hissed.
"No, you won't, and you won't be hurting anyone else, see killing Mike, that's a shit move, he was a good guy," Santana started.
"Who helped you, next I go after your blonde girl, perhaps you'd like to be there,"
Santana refused to hit the thing in the face since she knew it was actually Mike's.
"My mother will banish you, and when you're done being torn to shreds in hell, well, we'll call you back and make sure it happens again," Santana finished.
"You can't do that,"
"Try me,"
"You think you're so smart, but let me tell you something, your friend's insides are gone, it's just a hollow shell, once I leave this body it will disintegrate, and his soul will be left without a holding place and he will go mad and then start to hurt those around him because that is the nature of humans who can't move on,"
"I will find a way to help him, for now, enjoy being drugged and having a human possess this body with you, you can't hurt him, but he will hurt you, this sigil will see to that"
And with that Santana put masking tape over the demon's mouth, painted a sigil of protection for the good soul over the demon's chest so that Mike's spirit would be protected but the demon could be attacked, then she smiled and went back upstairs.
"Santana, what are you doing?" Maribel asked, "We can't keep a demon here,"
"But he has Mike, Mike told me that Abuela knows of a way to get him back, and I will find out for his sake, he helped us and now he's dead because of it," Santana said, "How's Tina?"
"Fine, they're keeping watch over her, something is wrong with her heart,"
"And Rachel?"
"Still no change,"
"I'm going to talk to Abuela, see if she knows why,"
"Santana,"
"I'll be careful, trust me,"
Maribel watched as Santana ran up the stairs to her room.
"Okay Abuela, help me out here," Santana said as she closed her eyes and went to sleep.
"Ah, Santana, I see you're getting better at controlling your power, that's good" Alma said as she was found sitting in a chair in a library study with a fire going. Santana just gave her an appreciative nod.
"Didn't think you liked this kind of decor," Santana said as she sat down opposite her.
"Makes me feel rich, you know, what do you need?"
"Help,"
"For?"
"Rachel's not waking up, it's been four days now, and Mike's dead, but his spirit is still here and it's in the body with the thing that killed him,"
"Neither task will be easy, Mike will never be human again, even if you resurrect him in some form,"
"Okay, I'm listening,"
"You have to ask him if he's willing to pay the price to be half a human,"
"What does that mean?"
"You ever hear of a shade?"
"The being from Sherrilyn Kennyon's Dark Hunters books?"
"You reading things you shouldn't?"
"They are good books,"
Alma just let out a disproving sound as she glared at her granddaughter, "Anyway, a shade is normally a dead person who dwells in the underworld, but a shade can have many shapes and sizes, there is a way to bring your friend back,"
"How?"
"You must find the 'Vivlío to̱n Nekró̱n', the German's call it 'Buch der Toten',"
"And in English?"
"'The Book of the Dead', in it is a resurrection spell, a way to bring back your friend, but at a price, you will find what you need in there,"
"A book like that won't just be hanging around, where will I find one?"
"Jenny knows where you can find one, and don't worry, you all will be safe for a while, with that one bound in your basement and his master still in the dark world, you'll be fine in the physical, but don't wait too long others will join his fight,"
"Thank you Abuela, I will do, now onto Rachel,"
"You have to be that planeswalker you were born to be,"
"I have to astral project to that world, don't I?"
"Si, mija,"
And with that Santana woke up and knew now what she had to do.
But before she could say anything, her mother came into her room with tears, "Mija, I'm sorry," she started.
"About what?" Santana asked as she stood up.
"Her heart, it just gave out, and she, she,"
"Did something happen to Jenny?"
"No mija, your friend, Tina,"
"What's wrong with Tina?"
"Tina's dead mija, I am so sorry,"
Santana felt nothing as she slumped backwards, her back against her bed and feeling completely numb.
AN 2: Right, we shall end it there, sorry about the delay I was having laptop issues and then fell into a raged tantrum because I was frustrated with it.
Anyway, before you curse me out, there is a plan, there is always a plan. Until next time team.
