A/N: Hi, welcome to my brand new fanfic, bechloe and jaubrey, hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 1: New York City.

Rebeca Mitchell sometimes hated her work with her whole heart. It was past noon and she was stuck in the FBI building of New York City where she was now doing paperwork to close a recent case she had had. It was July 12th of 2015, and it was her son Noah's birthday. He lived with Chloe, his other mom, after in court Chloe proved Beca worked too much to handle taking care of their son, and Beca knew she was right, even if it hurt. Also, as an FBI agent, she knew Noah could be in danger in her apartment. So he lived with Chloe, and Beca could see him anytime, unless Chloe texted Beca previously announcing they had plans for the day, and also also two weekends of every month, Beca got to have him all for herself. The holidays were distributed every year, although Beca knew their seven year old always had more fun with Chloe's family. Also, since Beca got sent for ten months to Pakistan two weeks after divorcing Chloe, she really had no chance with her son's custody. And today, Beca was about to be thrown to the wolves if she arrived late to her son's birthday in Chloe's house. Also called Chloe and Jared's house. God, she hated that guy.

"Still working, Mitchell?" Jesse Swanson smiled from behind her desk. He was wearing his fancy dark suit, courtesy of FBI rules, and he looked at his watch "You know, or we go now, or we better book a flight to Norway so our angry wives can't find us."

Beca sighed and nodded slowly, turning her computer off, and standing up, grabbing a black suit jacket just like Jesse's. She didn't even have time to shower and change clothes. She opened a drawer of her desk, getting a perfectly wrapped up present out of it, and closing the drawer again with her keys before following Jesse to the elevator.

"I'm driving" Beca said suddenly, and Jesse chuckled.

"Only because you have to stand Mr. Perfection soon."

"Seriously Jesse" Beca said as they walked through the parking lot towards her car "how can you even stand him? You should be jealous, he's your wife's best friend."

"Beca, he's a jerk who believes to be awesome only because, like my amazing wife, went to Oxford. But I'm sexier, I'm the one who put a ring on it, he's completely after your ex-wife, and I'm the father of Aubrey's children. I can't be nervous, I'm too lucky" Jesse said with a little smile "You, on the other side, are screwed." He added with certain complicity, patting Beca's back once very softly. Beca huffed.

"I'm such a jerk. Twelve years and four months serving my country, being a damn good captain of the United States Air Forces, a bunch of medals, and that guy still got the best in the world because I was stupid enough to lose her, and he still makes me feel like a nobody and a loser" Beca let go with frustration. They opened the car and got into it, Beca starting the engine.

They were parking by the beautiful house of Chloe –Beca would rather die than admit Jared Berkley also lived there- and saw the garden was already full of people and children running around, playing. There were also tons of colorful balloons.

"Mommy!" a short brunette boy with stormy blue eyes and a wavy hair cut short but still long enough to cover the back of his neck, with bangs to cover his forehead, ran towards Beca in the second she and Jesse entered the garden through the door in the fences, and launched to her arms. Beca grinned hugging him tightly and spinning around. She kept the boy sitting against her hip "You came!" he said happily.

"Of course I came, I would never miss your birthday" Beca smiled kissing his cheek. It hurt her enough in her chest that she had missed the first four months of his life, his third birthday and his fifth birthday. She left him back on the ground and he greeted Jesse effusively too. Jesse and Aubrey were his godparents, Jesse being Beca's best friend and Aubrey being Chloe's best friend "I have a present for you, you know?" she said, giving him a package. He grinned taking it and opened it quickly.

"It's an EF-111A Raven!" he yelled with enthusiasm. It was a small replica of one of those war planes Beca had piloted many times.

"Yeah! Do you like it?" Beca grinned seeing his enthusiasm. He had inherited hers and her father's love for planes.

"Are you kidding me?" the now seven year old replied "I love it! Mamma's gonna flip!" she added, running to the beautiful ginger that stood not very far away talking with her boyfriend, Jared, and also Aubrey, Jesse –who had gone there after hugging Noah-, Chloe's sister Gwen, her husband Finn, and some parents of friends of the birthday boy. Beca looked up and her heart stopped. Chloe was so beautiful, not that she even knew how to be otherwise. Jared smiled at Beca, and kissed Chloe in that moment. Beca sighed and opened her jacket instead of taking her gun and shooting Jared like she wanted to, while walking towards them.

"Hi!" Chloe smiled giving Beca two polite kisses on the cheeks and handing her a glass of beer.

"Hi" Beca smiled at the group.

"Mamma, look what momma gave me!" Noah said excitedly waving the plane in front of Chloe, who smiled stroking his hair "It's an EF-111A Raven, right mom?" he added, looking up to Beca, who nodded with a tiny smile.

"That's great! One more to your amazing collection, soon you'll be able to make your own little army if not already" Chloe said happily.

"Cool plane!" Jared was a tall man, taller than Beca and Chloe, with brunette hair, grey eyes, and looked like a closet, although Beca knew she was much more fitted than he could ever be. He had a beard of one or two days, and he also had a beer in his hand "How's everything going Beca?" he added, looking at Beca with a sympathetic expression.

"Good, very good" Beca replied stroking Noah's hair to have her two hands too busy to punch Jared's nose. She looked down at her son, and then, something sparkled. Her falcon eyes quickly found the source, trained to see the smallest of things from the air, and her heart almost stopped, her need to throw up rising "New ring, Chloe?" she said getting pale. She knew what that was. Chloe grinned and flashed her hand in front of her excitedly looking at Jared.

"Pretty, right? It's sapphire" Jared commented.

"Chloe?" Beca stared at Chloe with a forced smile, ignoring Jared.

"Jared proposed a couple days ago and I said yes" Chloe told her. Beca gulped and looked at Jesse, who looked down. He knew. Everybody knew.

"Great" Beca drank from her beer "Congratulations!" Beca felt so much pain inside, she was surprised of not seeing blood coming out her chest "Noah, let's play a bit, uh?" Beca suggested feeling she couldn't be there much longer, and Noah nodded.

They played chase with other children from a while, and then Noah wanted to leave his plane with the rest of the collection, so Beca walked with him inside. The house was beautiful, and Beca had spent there the best nine years and two months of her life, since she asked Chloe to marry her and Chloe said yes, although she hadn't really been there much, that's the prize she had to pay for being captain in the US Military Air Force. There were framed photographs everywhere, mostly featuring Chloe and Jared's happy life together, and Noah. They entered a blue room with wooden floor and tons of photographs around of Noah, school, soccer matches, planes, and many photographs of Noah and Beca. Beca always procured doing thousands of photographs of them together every time she could, so they could remind each other they always had the other, even if they didn't live together. Beca smiled proudly when she saw a bookshelf was filled with figures of military planes of all kinds. Noah had them perfectly organized, and put the new one in its spot, and smiled at Beca.

"Mom?" he asked, sitting on his duvet, that was also filled with planes.

"Yes, sweetheart?" Beca curved her lips forming a tiny smile, and sat beside him putting a hand on his back.

"Why don't you and Jared get along?" Noah asked looking up at Beca's stormy blue eyes, with his tiny hands intertwined on his lap. Beca nodded slowly.

"Because both of us are in love with mamma, I'm jealous because he has everything I want with both of you and gets to live here, that has been my home for more than nine years, and he is jealous because he can't have the relationship with you that I have, because he's not your father, and I'm badass and have a hotter body" she added with a smirk, a Jared chuckled "Is that something that worries you, son?"

"Well…" Noah shrugged "Not really. But he makes mom really happy, and I don't like that she has to suffer seeing the man she loves and the woman she also have strong feelings for argue and be in such bad terms."

"You're right. I'll back off in front of your mother, okay?" Noah nodded with a little smile "Are you happy with Jared, Noah? Are you okay with him living here, marrying mamma and becoming your step-father?" This time, Noah took a little longer to think about it.

"I'd love it if you could marry mamma again and come to live here with us, and Jared was just mamma's friend with whom I got to play from time to time, instead of him being here all the time, and I barely having chances to hang out with you, that are my mother" Noah replied "But if that can't happen, as you and mamma explained it was, then, I guess I'm happy with mamma being with him and him living here with us. He makes mamma laugh and I catch them kissing a lot, which I guess is good, and they barely fight, and he's always here with us, many times he picks mamma up from work before they come get me from school and we come home, and we have a lot of fun. He's very nice with me, and we play soccer and other stuff, and he's fun, he even spent the whole morning here with me getting everything ready and didn't go to work. So I guess I'm happy." Beca smiled with a bittersweet taste.

"That's good then. Noah, I just want you to have clear in your mind and in your heart, that I would do anything, anything for you and mamma, that I love you both more than anything, and that the most important thing in my life is your happiness, so in the moment you're not feeling happy, you know you have to call me and I'll do whatever it takes to fix it" Beca said getting serious "If in any moment you don't want to be here, or live here, or you just want to hang out with me a bit, you tell me, and I'll be here in less than ten minutes. You don't have to miss me just because of school, or work, or because a jury said you had to live with mamma and not with me. And also, you need to remember your mamma only wants the best for you, too, but sometimes, she may not know what to do, or I may not know what to do, and then you have to tell us."

Noah nodded eagerly.

"Thank you momma. I really missed you" he hugged her and she smiled kissing his hair and wrapping an arm around her "I wish you didn't have to work so much."

"I know, I wish that too… but the only reason I work so much, it's so I can create a better world for you to crush it" Beca said pressing her lips against his forehead as he looked up to her "You know you can call me while at work, right? At any time, day or night, and I'll be here."

"Even at four in the morning?" Noah asked, and Beca chuckled.

"Specially at four in the morning" she replied.

"Momma, can you stay for the day here, until after dinner?" Noah asked.

"Sure thing, as long as your mamma wants me here. You'll have to ask her, okay?" Noah nodded, and then they heard a knock on the doorframe, they had left the door open. Chloe was by the frame, and looked nervous.

"Noah sweetie, can you leave momma and I alone for a moment? I need to talk with her in private" Beca raised her eyebrows, and Noah nodded, standing up and running out of the room. Chloe came in closing the door after her "I hope that you don't mind much" she added looking at Beca with a little smile and a hopeful expression. Beca pressed her lips together and shook her head intertwining her hands on her lap nervously. Chloe sat on Noah's desk chair near the bed "This weekend is your turn to have Noah" Chloe stated "Do you have anything ready yet?" she asked. It was Friday.

"Yes, but it's supposed to be a secret" Beca replied, and Chloe nodded.

"This weekend Jared had planned a trip, the three of us to Florida, where his parents live, so we could announce our compromise and introduce Noah. Jared's father owns a boat and we were going to plow through the seas, celebrate, maybe teach surf to Noah, have fun." Beca nodded slowly.

"Well, then Noah will be excited for next week's weekend."

"Yeah, the thing is…" Beca saw Chloe's nervousness, her doubt, the shame in her voice for talking about it with Beca, and Beca knew where their conversation was going "Next week, Jared's planning won't be in the States. And we can't wait until my next weekend with Noah after that one to tell Jared's family, the sooner Noah gets to know them, the better. Jared is going to be his step-father and he's gonna have new grandparents, and uncles, and aunts, cousins… they don't know each other at all, and this weekend they're all going to be there."

"They aren't going to be Noah's cousins or anything, Noah already has an aunt, an uncle and two cousins. Jared's family is not his family, is his step family, and he doesn't need to be close to them" Beca argued stubbornly.

"Beca…" Chloe started warningly, and then gulped and nodded, deciding to avoid the argument "This is important for me Beca. For our family, Jared, Noah and me. We are a family. Noah is a part of two families, just like I'm part of my parent's family and then I have my own, Noah has you and then has this family, and it's really important for us, it would mean a lot if you could… I need you to let me Noah this weekend. In exchange, you can have him next weekend, and the one after that. Please."

Beca huffed and stood up, pacing towards a bookshelf hugging herself with one arm and pinching her frown with her free hand.

"So" Beca said in a whisper "I only get four entire days and nights with my son, my only family alive despite my mother in Portland, per month, while you get the other twenty something days, and now you tell me in all those days you couldn't make it to go to damn Florida" Beca whispered with frustration and nodded for herself, refusing to look at Chloe and instead staring at a photograph of her and her son in the bookshelf, as she felt her eyes get wet. She never, ever cried, unless it was something about her son, except on the few amazing occasions she had to cry without being anything Noah related, that were the day Chloe said yes to marrying her, the day of their wedding, some of the times she got sent away for a war, the day Chloe told her she was pregnant (Beca had given her her things so Chloe could carry Beca's baby because Beca had been injured and unable to do so, and also Chloe wanted to have someone like Beca to remind her of Beca), the day she got a call in Iraq from Chloe saying Noah had been born, the day Beca met Noah (although all of those were Noah related things), and then, if Beca thought about it, the only other time she had cried, was when she was too traumatized and when she was losing Chloe, until she finally lost her.

"Beca… I'm really sorry" Chloe started. Beca was really thankful she hadn't gotten the typical you got into this yourself answer, and just nodded.

"Fine" Beca said then "Leave me alone, please." Chloe nodded, and Beca heard the door open and close. She spent five minutes with her eyes closed, sitting on Noah's bed with her face between her hands. She wasn't upset for changing one week her plan, was upset about everything, and mostly, was the most upset with herself and the stupid decision she took when she was twenty two to join the American Air Force Army. Decision she still had to regret, more than ten years later, now that she was thirty six years old.

Finally, she decided to go back to the garden and enjoy her son's birthday, and they played for a bit. Then, they had lunch, he blew the candles, and they ate the cake, and he went back to play with his friends while Beca resigned to adults' conversations.

"For Colin, history is the hardest" Beca hadn't been paying much attention, but a mother was speaking about an older son she had, the brother of one of Noah's friends.

"It's a luxury when the time comes we will have Beca to explain at least the wars and political issues to Noah, right Becs?" Jared said then, and Beca looked from Noah to him, coldly.

"Firstly, call me that ever again Jared, and I will punch you" she said, making the adults chuckle except Chloe, who knew she was serious "And secondly… yes, I guess I'll be the one to talk with my son about wars and stupid presidents making stupid decisions." The parents of Noah's friends smiled kindly.

"Somebody hates politicians a bit, uh?" a father joked.

"I reckon I hate politicians a lot" Beca shrugged, the statement wasn't such a big deal for her "After all, they're the ones to sign in for crazy and completely unnecessary wars."

"Oh, yeah, my kid said one of Noah's moms used to be in the military" the same father said "it's understandable to hate the ones that decide the wars… what were you in the army, if I may ask?"

"When I left, I was Captain of Squadron 176 of the American Air Force Special Operations Command, but of course I had to be things like Lieutenant, Airman, and a bunch of others. I got promoted quite quickly somehow" Beca bit her lip and took a sip from her beer, that she had recharged twice already. She needed lots of liquid courage to stand Chloe and Jared's perfect life. The parents, however, seemed quite content and satisfied with her reply, like judging what kind of kid Noah was, and Beca wasn't about to let people believe her son was a nobody or something like that.

"So you piloted those cool planes from the movies?" a mother asked with an excited smile.

"I piloted planes, helicopters, bombardiers, rescue planes and whatever I was asked to. I never fancied movies about wars, so I don't quite know what Air Force seems to be in them… but yeah, I piloted stuff sometimes, and other times I was just at the base waiting to be called for something. If I had free time, I flew my favorite planes, usually the ones that are really fast, really silent, and fly really high and can spin and do really cool stuff. I didn't like big planes much."

"Seems cool" a father said nodding satisfactory.

"At first, yeah" Beca nodded "Then, missions come, and you don't always agree. Most soldiers don't really agree with most of the stuff they're asked to do, but you do it, because there's a contract, because you made an oath, and have bosses, and people to protect, and because you know if you disobey hell can break loose. I'm not saying soldiers are threatened or something, not at all, but the system is made so it's easy to get in, but really hard to get out, so they don't send hundreds of soldiers to a war, end up having a few dozens, and they all get killed. It's just a job, and I'm glad I left it."

"How did you left it, by the way" Jared said with a frown "Because Chloe asked you many times without a result, right?"

That's it Beca thought he's dead. How does he dare to get into our personal business in front of everybody? Even Chloe seems uncomfortable.

"Jared, that's quite personal honey" Chloe said with a polite smile "You aren't supposed to…"

"It's fine" Beca said through grilled teeth "It's an opportunity to get some sense into your fiancée's brain. For your information Jared, I didn't pretend to not be hearing my wife's petitions to leave the army, I had been wanting to leave for quite some time myself. I asked, multiple times, I talked with my superiors, I sent tons of letters, and as I was saying, the system is done so it's hard to leave. I ended up getting a bunch of now it wouldn't be the best moment, Captain Mitchell, and then I got sent to war time after time until my wife divorced me and then before I could find a new house, I was being deployed again, to Pakistan, for ten months. How did I got out? Easy actually, my plane got bombarded and I was left in coma for weeks. After all military thought I was too shaken up to go back. Happy?" Beca said so politely it hurt. Chloe seemed uncomfortable and threw a killing look to Jared, who nodded with a tiny smile. The other parents looked uncomfortable, Jesse and Aubrey were with the children, and Chloe's sister tried to break the ice.

"Now you get to wear actual clean clothes, that must be a great thing" Gwen said with a smirk. Beca almost laughed. She had always loved Gwen, her humor, her ability to not be proper, her optimism, and the fact that she reminded her of Chloe. So she smiled and decided to clear the air too, for her son's well.

"That's actually true, this suit is fancier and smells way better than most of my military clothes. Although heels suck" she smiled, the parents smiled, Chloe seemed more comfortable, and Gwen chuckled. That counted as a win for Beca.

"Mamma!" Noah came running to Chloe.

"Yes love?" Chloe smiled caressing Noah's cheek.

"Can momma stay today with us, until after dinner? She said she could" Noah asked "And since you said I couldn't see her this weekend…" he pouted.

"Yeah, of course she can" she smiled at Chloe "No work this afternoon?"

"FBI usually frees me after lunch on a daily basis" Beca stated, to make it clear that it wasn't common for her to not see her son all day.

"Cool, that way we can play with the remote-control plane you gave me for Christmas!" Noah said excitedly.

"Yeah!" Beca grinned taking Noah up in her arms "You know I have something really really cool planned for next week?"

"Even cooler than the boat Jared's family is gonna get us in?" Noah asked surprised.

"Much cooler" Beca nodded grinning.

"Cooler than your medals?"

"My medals are crap compared."

"Cooler than…" he thought for a moment "Cooler than Portland's snow?" Beca chuckled.

"Noah, it's the coolest thing in the world for nerds like me and you. But it's a big surprise, you have to hold on until next week. Your mamma said that weekend is us, so we are only allowed to do amazingly cool stuff and have fun."

"Can't you give me a clue?" Noah asked.

"Only if that's your last question about it?" Noah nodded "It's an activity."

It was a long, exhausting afternoon, but Beca had fun with her son, and almost felt like in the few birthdays of Noah where they were still the Mitchells. After everybody left, Chloe and Jared went to make dinner and Beca and Noah played with Noah's remote-control plane in the living room.

"That's good Noah, that's good!" Beca encouraged his son squatted down behind him with his hands on his hips and a grin on her face. Noah had the best concentration look as he flew his plane up to the ceiling and then made him spin and other cool stuff.

"Come on kiddos, dinner is served!" Chloe called them from the table. Moments like that, Beca had it hard to believe that she really would be spending the night alone in her apartment, that that wasn't her family anymore, or her house. And the family that lived there had really made a huge effort to erase Beca's path. New furniture, new paint, new organization… Beca felt a knot in her throat and walked behind Noah, who hurried to the table.

They had been having dinner for a while, Beca mostly centering her attention on Noah and not in the happy couple, that always seemed twice as cheesy and romantic when she was present.

"Come on Noah, you're late for bed and tomorrow we have to get up early" Jared told Noah, who, entertained with Beca and their tiny under-the-table jokes, was barely eating. Jared was being nice, but with a hint of scolding, and Noah frowned. Beca hated that man felt like he had the authority over Noah, and hated that Chloe didn't say a thing. Beca couldn't say it either, it wasn't her home.

"It's okay sweetie, if you eat it all, I'll sing you something in bed" Beca said amicably with a tiny smile lovingly caressing Noah's cheek, talking to him so only he could listen. Noah smiled, and nodded.

After putting Noah to sleep, Beca felt the knot in her throat grow, and prepared herself to leave, taking her jacket, that she had left on a chair.

"Thank you for everything Beca, it really means a lot" Chloe said with a kind expression when she was opening the house's door for Beca to leave. Beca was about to reply when her cell rang and she put it against her ear.

"Mitchell" she answered "On my way sir." She hung up "Sorry Chloe… I… really have to go. Duty calls." Beca said with an apologetic look looking back from the door. Chloe nodded biting her lip.

"Okay" Beca nodded, and started to walk away "Beca!" Beca turned around "Just… take care, okay?" she said after debating with herself in silence for a moment. Beca nodded, and left.

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