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 8

"So they dug your grave

And the masquerade

Will come calling out

At the mess you made"

"I need to talk to you in private," Aubrey said to Beca. The seriousness in Aubrey's tone was nothing unusual, but the urgency struck the brunette as odd.

"Okay, my room?"

"Sure."

Aubrey quickly followed Beca as she led the way into her room. "What's up?"

"I may have done something stupid, but I feel that it had to be done."

"What did you do?"

"I just found out that the black demons had Stacie killed."

"What?"

"Yeah. She did something to make them mad and they killed her."

"Okay. So what does that have to do with you? Did you confront them or something?"

"I sent the police an anonymous message about what we do here."

Beca gasped. "What?"

"I didn't know what else to do," the blonde tried to explain. "Apparently this isn't a good place."

"So quit. You just got all of us sent to jail. And probably just signed your own death certificate."

"What do you mean?"

"God, Aubrey. Why do you think Stacie was killed? She exposed us!"

"I didn't know."

"You didn't think." Beca took a deep breath and looked back at her friend. "You should go."

The blonde nodded. "I'm sorry, Beca." With that Aubrey was out the door.

But it was too late. Beca already knew what she had to do. She didn't want to, but it was required of her. She quickly pulled out her phone and called the black demon in the lobby.

…

"Let me go," Aubrey yelled as two black demons pulled her into an interrogation room. She was quickly handcuffed to chair across from a small table. The two demons then stood behind the blonde and waited. "You can't keep me here."

"I don't believe that you will be here long," one of them replied.

Aubrey quickly choked back her vomit at his words. She was immediately filled with dread. Beca was right. She had made a big mistake. After what felt like an eternity, she heard the door open, but she didn't look up, for fear that she might stress vomit all over the place.

"Leave us," a familiar female voice announced. Immediately, the other two demons fled the room and Aubrey looked up to see the brunette that she spoke to just moments before.

"I should have known you were a black demon all along," Aubrey worked up the courage to say. "It makes sense. You and Jesse, you both just knew everything."

"I'm not a black demon, Aubrey," Beca said as she sat down at the other end of the table. "I'm Cerberus. Jesse is Charon."

"So everything you guys did was about recruiting and making your business bigger."

"No. Not everything. Jesse did like you. That's why you even got the bartending job here. When he made you a red demon, he wanted to sleep with you. And I did consider you a friend."

"So you killed my girlfriend."

"Had her killed. And yes, there is a difference. She was cheating on you, you know."

"So that makes it better?"

"No. But, she betrayed me. She told the Trebles about the demons. For that they had to die."

"So you're here to kill me? Why not just get it over with? Or better yet just have me killed like Stacie?"

Beca took a deep breath and when she looked up at Aubrey she looked like she was on the verge of tears. "You think that I really want to kill you? You are my friend, Aubrey. You're Chloe's best friend. Hell, my cousin still is jumping through loops for you. This isn't easy for me. I don't want to do this. But, I don't have a choice. You took that choice away when you went to the police. I'm sorry, Aubrey, I really am," the brunette said as she raised her gun and pointed it at the blonde.

…

"Hey Chloe," Jesse greeted as they both walked into the hotel. "Coming to visit Beca?"

"Yeah. I'm taking her to lunch."

"Very nice." But both of them stopped short when they noticed a group of black demons standing in the lobby. "What's going on," Jesse demanded.

"Got a traitor," one of them replied. "Boss lady is taking care of it."

"Who is it?"

"The blonde red demon."

Realization hit the boy like a ton of bricks. "What room are they in?"

"B."

In a panic, he hit the elevator button and pulled Chloe inside. Quickly tapping his wristband to the sensor twice he selected the fifth floor.

"What's going on, Jesse," the redhead asked.

"Aubrey's in trouble."

"What?"

"Apparently she exposed us."

"That doesn't sound like Aubrey. And wait, the fifth floor? I thought that there were just more employee rooms on the fifth floor. That's what Beca told me."

"She lied." But, before he could explain further, the elevator doors opened and he quickly led the redhead to room "B". Through the one way glass, they could see Beca talking to Aubrey in that room. But they still didn't waste any time bursting through the door.

"I'm sorry, Aubrey, I really am," Beca said, pointing her gun at Aubrey as the door flew open.

Both Jesse and Chloe yelled variations of her name and stop before rushing towards them. Chloe stepped in front of her best friend, while Jesse grabbed his cousin.

"What are you doing," Beca yelled at her cousin.

"What are you doing," Chloe yelled back at her girlfriend. "You were about to kill my best friend."

"She betrayed us," the brunette tried to explain.

"And you betrayed us," the redhead spat back.

"What? Chloe, please."

"No. You lied to me. You told me that this was nothing more than more hotel rooms. But this is where bad things happen isn't it? Have you killed before?"

"Chloe…"

"Answer me!"

"Yes," Beca whispered.

"And Stacie, did you have something to do with her death?"

"I ordered it. Along with Bumper, Unicycle, and Donald, but Chloe…"

"Enough," Chloe looked back at her girlfriend with tears in her eyes. "You're a liar and coward. I can't believe that I trusted you about anything."

"It's not like that. I was trying to protect you."

"Protect me? By killing my best friend?"

"There's a reason."

"I don't want to hear it," Chloe stated, taking a deep breath and trying to fight off her own tears. "We're through."

Tears immediately streamed down the Cerberus's eyes. "Chloe, please."

"I can't trust you. I thought I could, but…your own greed and selfishness destroyed everything. I can't do this."

"Don't say that. Please," Beca pleaded.

"Release Aubrey," Chloe commanded and Beca did it without hesitation. Once Aubrey was freed, Chloe led her best friend to the door.

"This can't be it, Chloe," the DJ called to her. "We can fix this."

The redhead walked back over to her now ex-girlfriend. "There is nothing to fix. How could there be? You're not the person I thought you were. I don't understand how you can kill someone and not be affected by it. You're not a person. You're a monster." With that Chloe and Aubrey left, and Beca just froze, paralyzed by her own grief.