First Triple Treble I've ever written, thought I'd give it a shot.
This is set at the end of the first movie (kind off). Chloe and Aubrey are in a relationship and all the Bellas know.
So… this was supposed to be a one shot but apparently my imagination said HELL TO THE NO!
Anyways hope you like it :/ I'm not sure I like it
Bless The Broken Road: Chapter 1
All the Bellas have gathered in Fat Amy and Beca's room after winning the ICCA's. Aubrey and Chloe – being the only girls over 21 – brought the alcohol. Music is blasting through the portable speakers that of course belong to Beca. One of her mixes fills both the senior Bella's ears when they step inside the room. The alcohol gets pulled out of their hands and pushed into Fat Amy's. The co-captains can't help but snicker at the action. They look around the room. While for everyone else it would look like their trying to suck in their last moments of being a Bella they're really looking for a specific grumpy brunette.
When they can't find her they share a confused look mixed with concern. It doesn't take them long to walk up to their crazy Tasmanian friend who since she is sharing the room with Beca should in theory know where the girl should be. Somewhere in the back of their minds they fear that the brunette is with Jesse…
When Aubrey and Chloe saw Beca kiss Jesse after their performance they almost burst into tears. That had to be their kiss, their moment, their profession of love towards the alt-girl. Aubrey had wrapped her arms around Chloe who had let a tear slip. No one had noticed, thinking it was a tear of joy.
The two girls finally reach Fat Amy and Aubrey taps her on her shoulder. "Hey has anyone heard from Beca?" Cynthia-Rose just shrugs, Stacie looks disinterested while Fat Amy takes a moment to think. "She texted me a while back." Chloe knows nothing will follow so she asks the most logical question. "What did she say?" Fat Amy sighs obviously annoyed that she can't finish mixing her drink. "She said she went out for lunch with her dad or something." Aubrey and Chloe's heads snap towards each other in confusion. The other Bellas don't notice and honestly don't even care.
Chloe pulls Aubrey to a semi quiet corner of the room. "Ok Chlo, relax maybe she changed her mind?" Even to Aubrey that sounds like a lie. They had seen doctor Mitchell in the lobby on their way up and after congratulating the girls he had asked them to tell Beca that Sheila and him are still expecting her for dinner the coming Saturday. "No, she would never do that. She needs at least 3 days to mentally prepare to go to her dad's." Aubrey lets out a sigh. "I know, but where do you think she is? I mean she wouldn't ditch us for Jesse… right?" Chloe's voice sounds small and broken. "No, she would never do that. Do you want to give her a call?" Aubrey asks trying to comfort her girlfriend.
Chloe doesn't hesitate and almost runs out of the room but none of the other Bellas seem to notice. They are all well on their way to getting completely drunk. Aubrey follows the redhead with a sad smile. Chloe had been the most affected by the kiss or at least it's more noticeable, the blonde never really showed any emotion but when it happened it felt like her heart had been ripped out and stumped on by a horde of elephants.
"I forgot my phone in our room, do you mind coming with me?" Aubrey chuckles. "Of course Chlo, I want to get mine as well." The two make their way towards the elevator. They had a room two floors above the rest of the girls because they wanted their privacy. The elevator dings and the captains walk in, Chloe pressing the button for their floor the second she reaches it. The ride is short but the silence is excruciating, well for Chloe it is.
"What do you think she's doing?" The redhead asks. The ding announcing that they arrived at the floor is loud but neither really react to it. "I just hope for all of our sakes that she's not…" Aubrey stops in her tracks making Chloe slam into her from behind. Before Chloe can react Aubrey says the weirdest thing. "…crying."
"Why would she be crying?" Aubrey turns sideways and pulls Chloe from behind her, pointing at the small figure sitting in front of their hotel door. "No, look." Chloe's breath hitches at the back of her throat. It takes her a moment to fully grasp what's happening and by the time she does Aubrey is already on her knees beside the brunette holding her tight. The quiet sobs get louder and Chloe manages to catch a single word… a word that makes her inside boil with anger. "Jesse…" The rest is incomprehensible. Chloe looks down at her girlfriend who looks up at her, the same anger flashing in her eyes. If Beca hadn't been crying right now they both would have started a man hunt.
"Beca, sweetie? Do you think you can stand?" Aubrey's voice is sweet and carrying. Chloe watches Beca try to get up both her body doesn't allow it. Aubrey positions herself and picks the brunette up with ease. Beca wraps her arms around her neck holds her tight. Chloe takes this moment to swipe the card and open the hotel door so Aubrey can carry the younger Bella inside. The blonde places Beca on the bed but when she tries to let go the brunette whimpers and clings even tighter to the blonde. Chloe quickly decides to join Beca and her girlfriend on the double bed, spooning her from behind.
The three girls lay in silence while Beca's sobs die down and her breath starts evening out. Only when Chloe is certain that Beca has fallen asleep that she dares to whisper to Aubrey. "We should have told her." Aubrey nods carefully not to wake the brunette in her arms. "We wanted to tell her after the ICCA's but she chose… Jesse." Aubrey frowns as she's saying the Treble's name. "Yes but by the looks of it he did something to upset her." Chloe stays quiet for a brief second. "If we had told her before she could have been happy right now… we could have been happy right now."
"How do we even start explaining that we're both in love with her? She'll freak out and run… Even if she might have any feelings for us she'll never agree on being with us… with me?" Chloe sits up slightly but still holds on to Beca. "That's where you're wrong. I have seen her look at us, she has opened up to us so much since our pool moment. She doesn't spend so much time with any of the Bellas as she spends with us." Chloe lets out a light chuckle. "The couch in our apartment practically has a Beca Mitchell imprint on it from the amount of times she has stayed over. If that doesn't mean anything I don't know what to do."
Chloe leans in and gently places a kiss on Beca's cheek. "I'm going to get ready for bed, I'll take over your spot when I'm done so you can do the same." The redhead pulls away slowly, making sure that Beca doesn't wake up. When her mission is accomplished she covers both girls with the bedcover and heads towards the bathroom with her pajamas. Aubrey watches her girlfriend walk away before turning her attention back at Beca, whispering a soft I do really love you in her hair before placing a gentle kiss on her head.
When Chloe finally returns Aubrey manages to escape Beca's grip and lets Chloe take her place. "I'll join you in a minute." The blonde whispers placing a chaste kiss on Chloe's lips before leaning further to kiss Beca on her cheek and cover the two girls with the covers. Aubrey quickly finishes her nightly routine. As she emerges from the bathroom she sees Chloe fast asleep oddly being spooned by Beca. The blonde slips into the bed behind Beca and in turn spoons her, wrapping her long arm around both the brunette as the redhead. It doesn't take long for sleep to take over and for the few hours they would sleep they could be happy… just the three of them.
The sun manages to only hit Beca in the face though the blinds, which of course wakes her up. Her senses slowly start coming back to her and she feels something soft tickling her nose. When she tries to move her arms to scratch the assaulted spot she notices that someone has a tight grip on her arm. Beca's eyes shoot open in a flush of panic but she quickly relaxes when she recognizes the red hair and the lavender smell belonging to the one and only Chloe Beale. She knows she should be embarrassed that she knows how the redhead smells but there's something intoxicating about it.
Last night's events flash back into her mind. The joy she felt when winning the ICCA's, the tingling and semi burning she felt when Aubrey and Chloe hugged her and thanked her. She had just shrugged and looked at them, how they shared a kiss. It was that kiss that made her run off the stage into Jesse's arms… Jesse that traitor.
Beca releases a soft grunt and tries to wriggle out of Chloe's grasp when she feels another arm and body squeezing her tightly. Beca turns her head in confusion and sees the blonde hair that belongs to Aubrey and the smell of fresh honey fills her nose. Why do I keep noticing how they smell? They're a couple, you're nothing to them. Beca gets pulled out of her thoughts when she feels Aubrey stir behind her and stretch. It's when Aubrey pulls her even closer with a content sigh that Beca can't help but let out a chuckle. The arm that was wrapped around her waist retracts itself and Aubrey rolls on her back.
"Never pegged you for a cuddler Posen." Beca turns her head so she can look at the blonde who stares back at her with her mouth hanging open just slightly. "You're one to talk." Aubrey shoots back when she finds her common sense back. "You're girlfriend has a death grip on my arm, not my fault." The minute the words leave Beca's lips her eyes widen and she quickly retracts her arm, shooting up and scrambling off the bed taking a seat on the small couch on the other side of the room. "What in…" Chloe's sleepy voice attracts both Aubrey and Beca's attention.
"I'm soooo sorry Aubrey I didn't – I would never – I'm such an idiot…" Beca hides her face the palms of her hands while her elbows dig into her thighs. She completely misses the wordless exchange between her two captains. 'What happened?' Chloe mouths towards the blonde. 'I don't know.' Aubrey mouths back with shrug and looks back at the distressed brunette on the couch. Chloe doesn't wait for any other reaction and gets up from the bed to kneel in front of Beca taking her hands into hers.
"What happened?" Beca tries to avoid the baby blue eyes staring into her soul but the next best thing are Aubrey's piercing green eyes and right now she cannot look at them. So instead she settles her eyes on her knees. "I uhm we- my arm…" No real sentence is going to make it out of Beca and Chloe knows it so she steps in. "You did nothing wrong Becs." The brunette shakes her head with a heavy sigh. "I was hugging you… Aubrey's girlfriend and I… I liked it."
Beca lets out a frustrated groan. "Not in a bad way because Aubrey's felt good too… aaaand I'm going to leave because I'll keep saying stupid things that'll only keep getting me into trouble." Beca tries to get up but gets pushed back down by both Aubrey and Chloe.
"Hey you're not being stupid for wanting human contact when you're upset." Aubrey quickly realizes that her choice of words might not have been the best seeing tears forming in the brunette's eyes. "Shoot Beca I'm sorry I wasn't thinking." Beca takes a deep breath trying to keep her tears from flowing. "No it's fine Aubrey, I appreciate what you did for me." It takes Beca another minutes before she can speak up again, Aubrey and Chloe giving her all the time she needs rubbing her knees gently. Chloe is still sitting in front of Beca while Aubrey chose to sit next to the brunette. "He played me… he uhm he never cared about me."
*Flashback*
Beca waves the Bellas goodbye promising that she'll join them in a minute. After coming down from her initial high of winning the final and kissing Jesse she needs a moment to herself. She takes a quick look around in the hopes of finding Jesse to tell him she'll see him back at Barden the next day. But the Treblemaker is nowhere to be seen. None of the Treblemakers really.
Beca goes to the dressing room that the Bellas had occupied to pick up her jacket that she had left there during the performance. On her way back she hears familiar voices and for no apparent reason she follows them and finds the Treblemakers. Beca has ever been one to eavesdrop but when you hear your own name curiosity kind of takes over.
"Congrats with Beca." The adorable voice that belongs to Benji travels through the little crack. The idiots don't know how to close a door. "Whatever Benji, what are you going to do Jesse?" This voice seemed to belong to Donald or was it unicycle? "I don't know dude, the deal was that I would seduce her so the Bellas would kick her out so they couldn't win but she reacted way later than I thought."
Beca feels like someone just punched her in her gut. She can't believe what she's hearing… everything was a lie? He only pretended to like her so they could sabotage the Bellas? "At least she's hot." Another Treble chimes in. "Yeah I guess… Maybe I can string her along for a while and break up with her and get some good sex out of it." Beca hears the boys laugh. It takes all of her willpower not to burst in and slap each and every one of them.
Beca turns around and tries to wipe away the tears that have fallen. Taking out her phone she sends Amy a quick text telling her that she's going out for lunch with her dad – a lie of course. The brunette rushes out of the building and flood of relief fills her when the cold air hits her. But reality comes crashing down just as quick. She decides to take a walk and try to clear her head before joining the Bellas at the victory party in her room.
Beca walks around for a few hours but the tears haven't stopped yet. Her mind keeps jumping from Jesse's betrayal to her captain at an extremely fast rate. Seeing that calming down won't happen she goes back to the hotel trying to recompose herself but nothing works. When she enters the lobby she heads straight to the elevator pushing the button to the 7th floor.
It's only when she reaches the floor that she realizes that she's on Aubrey and Chloe's floor. No matter how hard she tried to get the two women out of her mind during her walk they kept creeping back in. And now, standing in front of their door Beca realizes that she needs them… even if they don't like her the same way she needs them. Beca's back hits the door and she slowly slides down bursting into tears once again.
*End Flashback*
Aubrey and Chloe listen to Beca's story - which might be missing some minor details – in silence. "I'm not completely sure how I ended up inside but I assume you found me?" Beca never gets an answer to her question because Aubrey gets up and bursts towards the door with Chloe following her closely. Thank the gods that Beca has pretty quick reflexes and noticed the extremely pissed off looks on both senior's faces.
The brunette jumps up and runs to the door blocking it with her tiny form so the two Bellas can't get through. "Step away Beca…" Aubrey's tone is one that you usually don't want to fight but seeing the circumstance maybe that's not the best idea. "No Aubrey, I will deal with him. I appreciate it but this is my battle not yours." Beca watches the blondes shoulders slump in confusion. "But us Bellas always stick together." Aubrey tries but it's a lost cause. "Don't get me wrong but up until a month ago you were ready to feed me to the wolves, honestly I'm surprised you didn't do it last night…"
Beca reaches for the doorknob behind her back and opens the door. "I'll see you guys in the bus, you better start rounding up the rest of the Bellas instead of chasing down the Trebles who're already at Barden by the way." With that Beca leaves the two captain baffled and confused behind in their room.
Aubrey and Chloe managed to round up all the Bellas. The party had taken a different high and all of them were hung-over. They didn't see Beca at all during their round up and they of course got worried.
The two captains are pleasantly surprised when they see the brunette pulling up with the little bus they had rented. "Hey I thought I'd fill up before we leave, we wouldn't want a repeat of the last time." Beca jumps out and helps Aubrey and Chloe put all the luggage in the trunk at the side of the bus. "I thought Amy was supposed to drive the first part?" Chloe says looking at Beca who is currently twirling the bus keys between her fingers.
Beca shrugs and points at the half comatose Bellas standing at the front of the bus. "If you think I'll be letting one of those weirdo's drive in their state you're completely crazy. Also out of the three of us I'm the only one who can drive this thing." Aubrey and Chloe share a guilty look. Both could drive a car but neither had ever dared to drive a bus and Beca had some experience from one of her summer jobs. "Dudes it's fine I don't mind driving and if I get tired I'll let you know." With that Beca urges the Bellas inside counting them to make sure they had everyone. In moments like these Aubrey realizes that Beca will be a great captain the following years.
"Are you coming?" Beca's head pops out of the bus looking at the two remaining Bellas. "Yes, let's go." Chloe's cheery voice sounds as she pulls Aubrey inside. Most of the girls have fallen back asleep before the engine has even started and a good 15 minutes into the trip the only people awake are Beca, Aubrey and Chloe. Well no surprise there I guess.
Two hours into the 13 hour drive Beca's stomach starts to rumble. The brunette takes a look into the mirror and her dark blue eyes meet piercing green. Beca quickly averts her gaze back to the road, not wanting to cause an accident.
Beca's hunger really takes over and with growl she notices that the next stop is pretty far away so she's left with two options. Ask Aubrey or Chloe to take a sandwich from her bag or try to get it out herself… Being the stubborn person she is she chooses the latter. But the minute she reaches for her bag she find a hand stopping her. "Focus on the road, I'll hand you whatever you need." Aubrey's voice is soft, it's different from the Aubrey she usually knows. "Oh uhm yeah uhm … I'm hungry and I bought some sandwiches, they're in my bag." Beca tightens her grip on the wheel, feeling really awkward.
"Here you go, if you need anything and I mean anything don't hesitate to let me know." Beca nods and takes the sandwich from Aubrey's hand with a quick 'thank you'. She watches the blonde go back to her seat where Chloe also dozed off a while back. Taking a huge bite out of the sandwich the brunette lets out a satisfied moan for which she receives a chuckle from the blonde behind her. Beca rolls her eyes but deep down she feels extremely embarrassed.
The drive goes smoothly and another two hours later, so four hours into the trip, Beca stops so she can fill up the bus again. Most of the Bellas had woken up by now and had taken the opportunity to use the restroom and stretch their legs. "Someone else can drive the next part you know." Beca jumps in the driver's seat when Chloe sneaks up to her. "Shit dude why would you do that?" Chloe laughs at the young Bella's antics. "And FYI I'm ok with driving, it keeps my mind… occupied."
"You're not driving anymore Beca, Lilly is taking over the next few hours." Aubrey's authoritative voice states. Right at that moment the blond walks in and gives Beca a look and points at an empty seat where Beca's bag had ended up. Although she didn't remember putting it there. "I'm fine with…" Beca doesn't even finish her sentence. She could never say no to Chloe's puppy dog eyes but add Aubrey's on top of it and she's done for. "Please Beca we only want what's best for you." Aubrey's voice sounds desperate. With a soft sigh Beca gets up and takes a seat next to her bag.
One by one the Bellas start filling up the bus again. Beca is listening to a random playlist on her phone looking out of the window trying to ignore the looks she's getting from her captains. Her attention only shifts to her phone when she gets a text from Jesse. The brunette angrily shoves her phone deep into her bag and tries to keep her tears from falling.
She feels a shift in the seat next to her when her bag is lifted and someone sits next to her. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who it is, the lavender smell can only belong to one person. Beca feels a soft tug at her headset, out of instinct she removes them. "What happened?" Chloe's voice is filled with concern and because of it she looks to her left and sees both Aubrey and Chloe looking at her. "It's nothing." Of course her first reaction is to lie. "So you won't mind if I check your phone?" Beca's eyes widen at Chloe's semi request and tries to take a hold of her bag but the redhead is too fast and hands the bag to Aubrey.
Aubrey takes out Beca's phone and her face turns from concerned to furious in a matter of seconds. She shows the message to Chloe who gasps.
[From] Jesse
Are you still coming over tonight babe?
In their moment of 'weakness' – or just them not paying attention – Beca snaps her phone back from the blond and shoves it in the pocket of her hoodie. "You're not going anywhere." Chloe hisses. "You can't tell me what to do and secondly, I wasn't planning on going anyway."
"Beca we're just trying to help…" Aubrey's words get lost in a scoff coming from Beca. "Why do you guys even care if my heart got broken anyway? I mean I did break the no dating a Treble rule." Beca words cut deep for both seniors. "I should have never come to your room last night… just forget this even happened. You're graduating anyway so you won't have to watch me being a disappointment any longer."
Chloe slowly makes her way back to her original seat, back into Aubrey's arms letting her tears fall silently but Beca hears the sniffles anyway. Shit… I made Chloe cry! That's like… that's like kicking a puppy…
With a sigh Beca gets up and kneels down beside Chloe but doesn't touch her. Hell she can't even look at her. "I'm sorry… you guys are trying to help and I know that but right now I just need some time to process everything. That's just who I am…" Not expecting an answer Beca gets back up and shuffles back into her seat when Aubrey's voice reaches her. "You're always welcome at our place, just remember that."
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