Title: Demons

Author: Jamiexh

Rating: R

Summary: AU Beca has a thriving secret business during her time at Barden. She runs a drug and prostitution ring. Will her secret get compromised while trying to fit in?

Author's Note: The song used throughout this story is Demons by Imagine Dragons.

Warning: Major character deaths

Chapter 6

"Don't wanna let you down

But I am hell bound

Though this is all for you

Don't wanna hide the truth"

"I thought you were going to tell me the truth," Chloe stated, annoyed.

"I am telling you the truth," Beca pleaded. "I can prove it. I'll show you around. Everyone is gone so it won't be too hard."

"Beca…."

"It's true, Chloe. I'll start with this. When I left before, it's because I received a text telling me that a shipment of cocaine just came in. I went to sort through it in the vault in the basement. Here, look." The brunette pulled up the text and thrust it into her girlfriend's hand.

"Cerberus?"

"It's my title. It keeps me anonymous to lower ranking demons. Jesse is called Charon."

"Lower ranking demons?"

"The people in this organization are referred to as demons. Black demons are the high ranking members. They recognize Jesse and me as their bosses. All the other employees don't know that we're in charge and it's better that way."

"I'm not sure I still really believe this."

"Here, come on. I'll show you." Beca led Chloe into the elevator. "You've seen me use my wristband to activate the elevator, but you've haven't seen this." The brunette tapped her wristband twice to sensor. Immediately all the buttons lit up. "The elevator is locked, now. No one can enter while I'm still in here." She pointed to the "B" button on the panel. "The basement is where the vault is, but it's probably better that you don't see that."

"Why?"

"So, you can play dumb if ever encountered by police. Only Jesse and I have access to the vault with the drugs and money in it. The black demons get them from us and distribute it to our dealers. They are referred to as blue demons, but they actually don't have wristbands, because they have no access to this building. It's better to keep them away from here, just in case. Are you okay?"

"Just trying to comprehend this all."

"I can stop. Take you back to my room."

"No, tell me everything."

"Okay. You've seen the first floor. The lobby and Hellhound are the only things on here. On the second floor are the two strip clubs, Succubus and Incubus. Here, we'll take a look at these two." Beca pressed the button and they opened up to small hallway. "Incubus is on the left, Succubus on the right. Incubus has male strippers, Succubus, female. We'll go into Incubus, but they both look the same." They entered a large lounge with a large stage which continued down into the center of the room. Beca pulled Chloe onto one of the couches and sat next to her. "I probably should explain more about the demons now. Hellhound, Incubus, and Succubus are all run by black demons, but the main employees are other colors. White and green demons are bartenders, DJ's, and bouncers. Yellow and orange demons are the strippers. White and yellow demons though don't know anything about the illegal activity in the club. Green and orange are involved with it. But, mostly that means that they have access to Maenad, which is where we are headed next. Jesse and I hide in plain sight by disguising as orange and green demons. We do really do the work though. You've seen me DJ and bartend. Jesse does strip."

"So not everything you told me was a complete lie."

"No. I do really want to produce music. After we graduate from Barden, I am moving to LA to try to do that. Granted, I have to start up another club like this there. I don't have a choice. That's the only way my mother is letting me go."

"Your mother?"

"Yeah, she kind of brought me up in all this."

"What?"

"Yeah, it's complicated. Ah, anyway, let me take you upstairs to Maenad." They got back in the elevator and Beca activated the elevator and pressed the button for the third floor. They entered a small room, and the DJ led them through the door on the right. The room was full of couches with many hotel rooms lined up along the back wall. Chloe went to go sit on the one of the couches, but was stopped by her girlfriend, who instead let her to a chair behind the bar in the center of the room.

"I wouldn't sit on anything here just yet. The cleaning crew doesn't come in for another hour. This is Maenad. To the world it's an exclusive strip club, but that's not true. It's really a sex club. Members make appointments with one of our red demons to have sex with them. We do also have walk-in appointments. Either way, the red demon has full control of the situation. They agree to the appointment and set the limits. And they get paid well for their discretion and services."

"Cause that makes this all better?"

"I knew you wouldn't approve of all this. Why do you think I didn't want to tell you?"

"Because it's illegal."

"That's part of it. But, I…I didn't want you to see me as a monster."

"So you just live in your hotel room, while all this shit goes on in your building?"

"I have an apartment on the seventh floor."

"That makes it worse. Take me to the lobby. I need to process this."

"Okay," Beca replied, sadly. Once they got into the lobby, Beca stopped Chloe before she left completely. "If it will help, talk to Aubrey. She doesn't know about me and Jesse. She can't know about that. But, she knows about Demons and everything else I told you about."

"Do I want to know how?"

"You probably should ask her."

"Fine."

…

"I still don't know how you have the stamina to keep having sex after working all night," Aubrey panted as she recovered from her orgasm.

Stacie just smirked as she replied. "I told you, he's a hunter."

"You're insatiable is what you are."

Stacie smiled wider and was about to push for another round, when a bang on the door woke her up.

"Ignore it," Stacie said, as she trailed her fingers lower.

But Aubrey pushed her away. "I can't. It could be one of my residents with an issue." The blonde quickly threw clothes on and tosses a shirt to Stacie before she opened the door.

"Chloe," Aubrey gasped. "What are you doing here at," she glanced at her alarm clock, "6:07 in the morning?"

"I need to talk to you," the redhead demanded. "Alone, if possible," Chloe added, looking at Stacie.

"Give me a minute," Stacie mumbled as rose from the bed in only a shirt. She quickly pulled off the long shirt Aubrey handed her and changed into her clothes, not caring that she was naked in front of the redhead.

"Stacie," Aubrey scolded.

"Consider it practice," the brunette laughed before pressing a kiss to her girlfriend's lips. "It's nothing new, babe. See you later." With that Stacie turned and left, closing the door behind her.

"What's wrong," the blonde asked.

"I just had a fight with Beca," Chloe started. "She was being sneaky and I called her out on it. She ended up telling me about Demons. She said that you knew about it, but she wouldn't tell me why."

Aubrey sighed, sitting on her bed. "Maybe you should sit down," she replied patting a space near her on the bed.

"Ew. No," Chloe exclaimed.

"Right," the blonde replied, realizing why Chloe would be reluctant to sit next to her on the bed. "Desk chair is safe."

The redhead nodded and pulled the chair closer to the bed.

Aubrey took a deep breath. "What exactly did Beca tell you?"

"She said that the club was front for a prostitution ring and drug trade. And that you, she, and Jesse were involved with it to some capacity."

"Beca's only a green demon. She bartends and DJs for all the clubs. I don't know how much she is involved with anything else. Jesse is an orange demon. He's a stripper, but he is also a waiter in Maenad. I think I'm a little deeper involved than they are. I work at Maenad. I'm a red demon. I'm basically a prostitute there."

"What," Chloe questioned, in shock. "Bree?"

"It's good money, Chloe. When my father cut me off I had nothing. I started off as a bartender there and was making decent money, but now I make more money in one night than I did in like three months. And they treat us well. We get to set the limits and agree to the clients. It's as bad as it seems. Everything is safe."

"Aren't you worried? This is all highly illegal. Not to mention somewhat immoral too."

"I am a little. But, that's something that the black demons take care of."

"How?"

"I don't know exactly. But, I trust them to do their job."

"You don't know them, but you trust them?"

"The black demons, Charon, and Cerberus take care of everything. And I trust that they will still do that. Please, don't judge us, Chloe. We do what we need to. Beca, Jesse, Stacie, and me, we're all just trying to survive."

"Stacie?"

"Yeah, remember when she and I were having a rough patch with me constantly working? Well, Beca and I got her recruited. She's a red demon now, too."

"So everyone was hiding something from me?"

"Beca and I care about you. We didn't want you to be disappointed in us."

"I just don't like people lying to me, Bree."

"Well, now that you know, can you live with the truth? I'm sure Beca is eagerly awaiting that answer."

…

It took a couple of days of thinking about the whole situation for Chloe to figure out where she stood on everything. But, once she figured it out, she immediately went back to Demons to talk to Beca.

The DJ greeted her in the lobby with a small smile. "Hey babe."

"Hey. I wanted to talk to you."

"Ok. Let me take you upstairs," Beca led Chloe to the elevator and when they got in she tapped her wristband to the sensor twice. "I didn't get to show you this last time." She quickly selected the button labeled "7." The doors opened to a small hallway with two doors. "The right is Jesse's. The left is mine."

Chloe was shocked as she entered the apartment. It was beautiful. They walked into a fairly large living room which attached to a modern eat- in kitchen. But, that wasn't what shocked the redhead. The wall along the back of the apartment was glass.

"It's one-way glass. I can see out. No one can see in. It continues into my bedroom as well." Beca sat on the couch in the center of the room and patted the seat next to her. Chloe nodded and sat next to her. "I feel like this is a conversation I'm going to need to be seated for. Go ahead. Break up with me."

"I'm not."

"Not what?"

"Breaking up with you. I needed a couple of days to think after talking to you and Aubrey. It's hard to think about the fact that your girlfriend is a criminal. It's a lot to digest, you know?"

"I get it."

"You don't. I know you think yourself a monster, but you're not. Aubrey said that you were good to your employees. She said that you treat them well and let them dictate their encounters."

"Engagements. But, yes, I do. I told you that though."

"True, but it gets more credibility coming from her."

"I understand that."

"I know you do. It's hard to accept that you are doing something highly illegal, but I trust you when you say you didn't have a choice to start this."

"I didn't."

"I know," Chloe said, pausing. "But, I want you to stop. I want you to walk away. You and Aubrey."

Beca's face dropped. "I wish I could."

"What's stopping you?"

"So many things. Tip of the iceberg being my mother. If I walk away, she won't hesitate to pull me back to Portland and work in her version of Demons."

"Why?"

"Because we're too far wrapped in all this. I wish I could leave, but unfortunately there are only three ways out for me. One is prison. Two is fleeing the country. But, the last is the most likely. Death. I'm in it until I die. So as much as I would love to leave and make you happy I can't."

"You can. You just won't."

"Dammit, of course I would if I could. I want to make you happy and make you proud."

"Why?"

"Because, I love you," Beca blurted out before covering her mouth.

"You love me," Chloe asked gently. Beca just nodded. "Good. Cause I love you, too. And I want what's best for you."

"Really?"

"You were honest with me when I asked you to be. I trust that you told me the whole truth about everything. I still want to be with you. And I want you safe."

Beca looked into Chloe's eyes. "I'm as safe as I'm going to be." She paused for a moment. "Come with me," she said, leading Chloe into her bedroom. She opened up one of her drawers and pulled out a white Demons wristband. "I had this made for you. I was hoping that you may still want to be with me. I didn't think you really would, but I had to hope. It has the same setup as mine and Jesse, except for access to the basement and fifth floor. But, you have to double tap it to gain the full access."

Chloe held out her wrist as Beca fastened t around her. "What's on the fifth floor? You never told me."

"Oh, it's more hotel rooms," the Dj lied. Beca still wasn't willing to lose her girlfriend by telling her the darker parts of her job. "Like the ones Jesse and I have on the fourth and sixth floors. There is really no reason for you or me even to be there."

"Okay," Chloe replied with a smile which was quickly replaced with a wicked grin.

"What's that look," Beca asked with a smirk.

The redhead quickly closed the gap between her and the brunette. She placed a small kiss below Beca's ear before whispering into it. "So, have you christened this bed yet?"

Beca moaned at the tone in her girlfriend's voice, but still shook her head.

"What are you waiting for then? What better way than makeup sex?"