Chapter 14:

Everyone was now at Quinn's house now, minus Tina of course. And they were all staring at Cataracta and in effect Santana too, who was looking a bit worried but was staring at the ground as she rubbed the back of her head.

"There is a demon in my house," Judy said bluntly as she stared at the large water demon that seemed to be giving the effect of blue fire as the energy around him was glowing.

"Uh, well," Santana started.

"There is a demon, in my house," Judy said again in disbelief.

"This is Stoic,"

"Stoic?'

"Not his real name, I have decided that only Rachel and I will know his real name so from now on he is Stoic unless like this in battle, okay, you get the point,"

"Do other demons know your real name?" Jenny asked.

"No, just the one I killed," Cataracta, now known as Stoic said as he looked away.

Santana placed a hand on his face as if she was trying to comfort him in some way.

"He was a good friend to you huh?" Brittany stated rather than asked.

"Of sorts yes," Stoic said.

"Okay, this is doing my head in, can you change into some other form, please?" Judy asked.

"Sure,"

Cataracta started to shimmer and glow as his body shook and the fur began to blow and melt away until a tall young man no older than twenty stood before them, naked.

"Okay, cover up the man bits," Santana said as she closed her eyes along with Quinn.

"He is eye candy," Brittany laughed as the mothers all covered their eyes, "But here, a towel,"

"Thank you," Stoic said but instead of wrapping the towel around himself he ended up balling it up and covering up his privates making Brittany snicker at him.

"You are very welcome Mr Sexy,"

Santana just looked at Brittany, "Okay, hey, no falling in love with the demon, okay," she said.

"Oh Sanny, if he's binding with you we're theoretically going to have a three way when we do it, besides he is totally hot as a human," Brittany said with a grin as Stoic and Santana actually paled at that.

"Please for the love of all that is holy, release me from the bind when you're doing, that," Stoic pleaded.

"Yeah, will make sure I do that, how the hell does this binding work anyway?" Santana said frankly as she looked at him.

"We kiss and then I'll be a tattoo on your skin,"

"Oh we just, wait what?"

"Kiss,"

"It's the normal way to bind a demon to a human," Brittany said as everyone looked at her, "What? I read it in a book, many cultures believe that in order to seal the deal with a demon you basically have to seal your lips, I'm just glad they don't have to have sexy times or I'd be very jealous"

Santana couldn't really say anything to that.

"Anyway," Stoic continued, "I bind to you, I get tattooed onto your skin and it gives me a chance to rest, and when you want me to walk around then just call me out, but I won't help you unless you say that chant you did at the hospital, so, where do you want me?"

"On her lady bits, she totally thinks you're hot," Brittany teased as the mothers looked at her before looking at Santana.

Santana just looked at Brittany with a confused yet annoyed frown, "Okay, let's get one thing straight here, while Fabio here is pretty damn hot for a guy and if he were human I wouldn't mind going for it, no, just no, girls are my thing, or at least one girl,"

"But the chemistry, it's so thick in the air, I mean I know I said I'd be jealous and all that, but I think you should totally go for it,"

"Okay I've been alive for thousands of years and this is confusing me," Stoic said as Santana pulled Brittany aside and began talking to her rapidly and as quietly as possible.

"Welcome to the random world of Santana and Brittany," Quinn said as she looked at him, "You'll get used to it, Brittany sometimes just likes to tease Santana to no end, just to annoy her because Santana won't say anything about it,"

"And what about you? Do you want to 'do me'?"

"Back in the day, maybe, but there is someone who's worth waiting for,"

"I see,"

"Dude, can you please put some clothes on?" Santana said.

"Why? This is so freeing," Stoic said.

"Okay if we're going to do this whole bonding thing, then respect needs to be mutual, put some damn clothes on,"

"Fine, fine, fine," Stoic said as he snapped his fingers and appeared in a nice suit.

"Cleans up nicely," Judy said as Maribel agreed.

"Mom," Quinn said, "No falling for a demon,"

"Okay, so, before we get side tracked with Mr Hottie here, what exactly is going on here?" Jenny asked as she waved her hands in the air and tried to get everyone to focus.

"I feel like a piece of meat, I thought people don't do that to others anymore," Stoic commented.

"Double standards, welcome to the human world," Santana said.

"Ah,"

"Right, okay, moving on, Stoic here said that in order to keep staying with us he has to bind to one of us, I offered because I was there," Santana started.

"Santana, are you crazy?" Maribel asked, "You are really going to bond with a demon,"

"Yeah, he saved you,"

Maribel looked at her before saying, "Because you called him, how did you call him?"

"Rachel taught me the incantation, chant, whatever," Santana said with a shrug.

"You haven't bonded with him yet have you?" Judy asked.

"No, not yet,"

"I think it's a very bad idea to bind with him, let him wander,"

"Rachel trusts him, okay, if she didn't trust him I wouldn't trust him,"

"I just don't think letting a demon stick to you is that good,"

"He's a good demon,"

"And how do you know that this isn't a trick? That what you experienced there isn't some trick to trap you?"

"Because I know, okay, I feel it, and I trust Rachel's judgement, coupled with the fact that if he was really that malicious he would have turned in the last minuted and killed Mami followed by me," Santana said with absolute frustration.

"What is the requirement Santana? Mija what will you lose if you bind with him?" Maribel asked.

"I, my life gets shortened,"

"Then no, No, No, NO, you are not binding with him,"

"This is my decision, help me out here Q, B,?"

Quinn just shrugged her shoulders at that.

Brittany looked at her strongly before saying, "As much as I don't want to have less of a life with you, I know you want to help people and I won't stop you,"

"Thank you," Santana said.

"Okay, how about a deal then," Jenny said.

Maribel looked at her as did Judy.

"What? You know exactly that she'll just do as you said she shouldn't, so we might as well have a fail safe," Jenny said.

"What are you suggesting?" Maribel asked.

"You, Stoic, help us get Rachel back from the other world and then we'll talk about you binding with someone,"

Stoic just looked at her then said, "So be it,"

"Just like that?" Judy asked in a unbelieving tone as she raised the infamous Fabray eyebrow.

"Yes,"

"Aha,"

"Problem?"

"I just find it hard to believe that a demon would just freely do something, just like that,"

"You know nothing about me,"

"Okay, before we get angry and waste time, let's save Rachel, okay, and then we'll look at helping Mike," Quinn said.

"Sure thing Romeo," Santana said, "Vamos, let's do this,"

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Santana sat in a chair in Rachel's new room at the Fabray's place. She felt a tinge of sadness when she looked at the little girl who just wouldn't wake up.

"Okay, now you listen to me very, very, carefully," Stoic said as he knelt in front of Santana and looked at her, "That nether is full of lost spectres, spirits, ghosts, and demons, you get the point, you must not stray from the path I instruct you on, okay,"

"Okay," Santana said.

"Now relax and listen to my voice,"

Santana did as told.

"Just relax and imagine going to Rachel's home," Stoic started.

"Why Rachel's home?" Judy asked.

"Because that is where the demon would have taken her back to,"

"Yeah but,"

"Shh, don't interrupt," Stoic said in annoyance, "What do you see Santana?"

Santana relaxed and did as instructed, she moved as she could through the plane to see if she could find Rachel's place, "I see her front door," Santana said.

"Go through the door, carefully,"

Santana did as instructed, she walked through the front door being mindful what she saw. Around the house she saw various ghosts running through the place, some were just lost souls and her heart ached (yeah she found that odd too) at the sight of them. Others were staring at her with sinister smiles that filled her with unease.

"Don't stop Santana, keep moving, Rachel's room is up the stairs and at the end of the hallway," Stoic said.

Santana walked through the place carefully, she heard odd sounds and a child crying in different rooms but she kept walking towards Rachel's room.

"Slowly and carefully Santana, from here on you're on your own, I can't help you once you enter her room, rules unfortunately, but once you have Rachel grab her and run, do not stop until you get back to this house and to your body, do you understand? I will make sure to the best of my ability that nothing enters your body, your mother, Quinn's mother, and Tina's mother will do the same," Stoic said.

"Are Brittany and Quinn safe? Tina?" Santana asked.

"They are safe in a protective charm, don't worry about them,"

"Okay, I'm going in,"

Santana felt a connection to the physical world completely leave her, she knew she was alone as she tip toed into Rachel's room. The place was dark, very dark, and there were red lights here and there that gave a sinister glow. A track for the song 'Jeepers Creepers' was playing in the background.

"Jeepers, Creepers, where'd ya get those peepers, jeepers, creeper," the lyrics kept going as the sharpening of claws could be heard.

She shuddered as she looked for Rachel. There, in the far corner, she found the four year old chained to the wall.

"Rachel?" she whispered as the four year old looked up at her, "Hey, it's me, the real me,"

Rachel started to cry quietly.

"Hey, shh, it's okay,"

"He's upstairs," Rachel said as she pointed upwards causing Santana to look up.

"You have stairs in your bedroom?"

"No, he put them there,"

Santana finally saw the demon with her own eyes sharpening his claws and shuddered. The place was just damn creepy; luckily for her, the demon had his back to her and was completely unaware of her presence.

"Okay Rachel, listen to me, okay, I'm going to slip you out of these chains and we're going to go quietly out of that door," Santana said.

"I'm stuck," Rachel said quietly as Santana took out her hair pin and started to pick the lock.

Carefully she removed the chain and placed it carefully on to the floor as she picked Rachel up and held her close and managed to slide out the door. She raced as fast as she could out of the house.

"Oh, a car," Santana said, "Get in Rachel,"

"I don't have a car seat," Rachel said.

"Spiritual world, doesn't matter," Santana said then paused as she looked at the window of Rachel's house to see the demon glare angrily at her as he let one of his claws scrape the window as he bared his teeth at her, "Oh shit, get in,"

She rapidly put Rachel into the car , jumped in and started to drive, "Close your eyes Rachel," she said as the little girl did so, "He's going to be on our ass,"

Santana raced the car as quickly as she could, how the car appeared or why all of a sudden she had to go from one end of the town to the other was beyond her and she didn't get it, but it happened.

"GET OVER HERE," the demon yelled angrily as he reached out at the car and made it swerve, causing Santana and Rachel to scream.

Santana tried a trick to get him off, and it seemed to work, until she heard a thump on the roof of the car and a claw slammed through the roof, nearly piercing her.

Again she screamed as Rachel saw the claw and screamed too, the car was swerving crazily as the demon landed on the bonnet and glared in.

He hissed at her and tried to slammed his arm through the windshield only to have Santana slam on the breaks and sending him flying before she drove off again.

"Santana, can you hurry the hell up," she heard Stoic say, "We're fighting as hard as we can here,"

Santana could slowly hear the sounds of battle as voices of the dead filled her ears and she knew that they were trying to enter the room and take her body along with Rachel. She drove as quickly as she could, the demon having recovered started chasing her and was hot on her tail.
His eyes glowed angrily as he let out a roar as Santana just drove faster.

Part of the way she managed to lose him for a bit, but she kept driving and didn't stop as she raced to Quinn's house. Once there she heard the angry souls trying to get her as she took Rachel out of the car and ran for her life.

Rachel screamed as a soul caught her.

"Let her go," Santana said angrily as she heard the demon not far behind her. She hit the soul in the face incredibly hard, "Run Rachel, go to your room and jump into your body, NOW,"

Rachel did as she was told as the demon finally caught up to the house.

Santana recited the incantation, but it only slowed him down for a little bit. Santana slammed the door shut as she ran up the stairs too, tripping along the way as spirits tried to stop her, she tried to kick her way through but it was getting difficult.

The demon roared as he slammed open the door. He rushed at Santana and sliced her stomach making her physical body cough and spit blood out.

"NO," she heard her mother scream.

"Focus," she then heard Stoic said, "Stop them, and Santana, run for your god damn life, hurry up,"

Santana forced herself to run as she heard Rachel scream as the demon started to chase her down the hallway.

"Leave her alone," Santana yelled as she was pushed aside angrily by a spirit as she watched it race towards her body, "Hell NO,"

Santana fought against the spirit as she watched the demon race into the room and slam the door shut.

Then eerie silence.

Rachel gasped as she opened her eyes.

"Rachel?" Quinn said cautiously as the little girl cried.

"This ain't over, Santana where the hell are you?" Stoic said angrily as Santana gasped and opened her eyes.

"Do the spell," Maribel said, "Cast them away,"

"No,"

"What?"

"I'm not going to do it because that's not Santana," Stoic said as he angrily grabbed the body that was Santana, "Get OUT," he sneered.

"No, this body is mine," a different voice said, "It's mine,"

Stoic roared angrily as he let out a fiery breath into the Latina's body, scorching the soul inside, "Santana Lopez, get your ASS HERE NOW,"

On the other side, Santana watched as the spirit that tried to take her body ran screaming in pain as it was being punished with fire. The demon she saw too but he was glaring at her; unmoving.

"I don't want your pathetic body, but be warned, the battle draws near, and my army will be strong, you win, for now Latina," he growled as he slinked away.

Santana wasted no more time as she jumped back into her own body and gasped. She woke and started coughing; Stoic saw her wake properly and he cast a spell so strong that it repelled all spirits that weren't meant to be in the house.

When things settled down, Stoic looked at Santana in a very unamused way as he healed her wounds, "I told you not to stop," he said finished and crossed his arms at her.

"I was a little preoccupied with my guts getting slashed, and my feet pulled, it still hurts you know," Santana said back, "But thanks by the way for helping me out,"

"No problem,"

"Rachel?" Quinn said as she looked at Rachel.

"Good morning Quinn, can I have a pop tart?" Rachel asked, "I'm hungry,"

Quinn just smiled as she picked Rachel up and held her close, "Yeah, we'll get you a pop tart, welcome back,"

"It's good to be back, thank you Santana for saving my ass,"

"Hey, don't say that word,"

"Huh?"

"Santana?!" Quinn said as everyone glared at her.

"Heh, heh, oops," Santana said sheepishly, "Well my excuse was that that demon was literally on my ass, and no problem Tiny,"

Everyone sighed as they nodded in agreement to that.

Quinn looked down at Rachel who was looking at Stoic with her head slightly tilted.

"Oh right, introductions," Santana started, "Rachel, this is..."

"MR TIBBS, you're human again," Rachel said as she wiggled out of Quinn's arms and ran up to Stoic who picked her up in a hug, "Why are you dressed like that?"

"Hello Sweetpea, I'm dressed like this because I can't be in pajamas," Stoic answered.

"But you look like Daddy when he goes to work,"

"Yeah, I don't like this either, I like my pajamas,"

"You should be in your pajamas,"

"I don't think the others here will like it,"

"So? Pajamas are cool,"

"Yeah they are, anyway, are you okay?" Stoic asked.

"Yeah, thanks for telling Santana how to find me, and helping her," Rachel answered with a big smile.

"No problem, your friend my friend,"

"Yay, oh and Mr Tibbs you shouldn't lie, NAUGHTY," Rachel said as she slapped the demon's shoulder.

"Ow, I was just checking her out, I don't know her and her intentions,"

"Still naughty,"

"Stop hitting me child,"

"No," Rachel laughed as Stoic tickled her a bit.

"This is weird," Judy said in surprise as Jenny and Maribel stared at them in shock, as did Quinn.

Brittany couldn't quite make up her mind what she was feeling.

Santana however, "Okay, what the hell? He's Mr Tibbs?" Santana said in shock as everyone looked at Rachel.

"Yeah," Rachel said as she hugged Stoic again, "Welcome home Mr Tibbs,"

"I'm so confused," Quinn said.

"You're not the only one," Santana said back as she watched the demon hug the little girl.

AN: Okay team, we're ending it there. Hope part of this chapter got your hearts racing. Next chapter should be in the works, I'll see how I go so no promises.

And yes, next chapter we will expand a bit more on Stoic/Mr Tibbs. Until next time.