A/N: Once again I'm not sure what I'm doing or where I'm going with this. I don't know what it is with Bechloe that just has me writing down anything that jumps into my head. I can't with those two. Anyway, I will just expect you to roll with it - and I try not to torture you too long.

It was almost noon. Beca hadn't really bothered to get up, last night's drama had kept her awake most of the night. Prison, Jesse, then her dad, and Aubrey's impromptu Bellas-meeting had her on edge, she didn't really need any of this. This was exactly what happened when you let people get close, they knew how to screw you up. Who needed that?

There was a knock at the door, it sounded sort of chipper. Beca had a niggling suspicion who it might be but didn't want to know one way or the other. She let Kimmy Jin get up from her perch at her desk and answer the door. She wasn't surprised when her not-too-friendly roommate said:

"It's for you, white girl." A glare accompanied her words and Beca looked up at the door, at the same time lifting her earphones from her head.

There stood Chloe. It wasn't a big surprise, Chloe had the habit of showing up whenever she felt the need to apologize for Aubrey - the whole group acknowledged that she felt this need often, all members had had visits from the redhead in the few months they'd been singing together. She lifted her hand now, waving her fingers at her fellow Bella and smiling that smile of hers, the one nobody seemed able to resist, her blue eyes sparkling.

"Hey," she said.

"Hey," Beca answered, her less-than-shiny personality coming through and reavealing her natural snarky self. Beca flinched, she knew Chloe meant well.

The redhead stepped into the room hesitantly, giving Beca's roomie a dazzling smile before turning her attention back to Beca.

"So... last night, right?" She said, nodding to herself. Beca had to smile despite herself, Chloe was nothing if not sweet and adorable and you couldn't really not... like her.

"Last night was... certainly out of the ordinary," the brunette confirmed.

There came a huff from the other side of the room and Kimmy Jin rose from her seat.

"I'll leave you alone with your girlfriend but I won't be gone long," she said as if in warning and Beca made a questioning face but before she could follow up with whatever was on her mind, her roommate had left their dwelling. Beca looked at Chloe who gave a little nervous laugh.

"Your roommate's..." but she failed to come up with a word.

"I know," because there really was no explanation needed. They smiled at each other.

"So, what're you listening to?" Chloe pointed toward Beca's earphones.

"A mix I made last week. Wanna hear?" Chloe nodded and came over. She sat down at the edge of Beca's bed, without any regard for personal space whatsoever and took the earphones from Beca. She put them over her ears and listened, intently. After a short while she nodded her head, her eyes did that dazzling thing again and her face lit up in a smile. Beca didn't need any other confirmation that she did good, just that smile, it really said everything.

Chloe kept listening to the song, not just for ten seconds like Jesse had done the week before but for the whole song, singing along after a while; she had a lovely voice. Beca had noticed that their voices sounded really great together during that awkward shower... concert. It hadn't been the only thing she had noticed on that occasion and she had been lucky that she had heard anything beside the hammering of her heart in her chest, the blood rushing through her to set her whole body on fire. But she had pushed all this to the back of her mind, not ready to face any implications - yes, she could flirt with Chloe over it like she did during the aca-initiation. But really no one else needed to know that it happened or that she now thought about it, while alone with Chloe in her dorm room, as the redhead was listening to her music, singing, smiling.

What the hell was happening here?

Beca cleared her head from her thoughts and sat up. She tried to bring some space between herself and Chloe by scooting down to the end of the bed while she let Chloe have the spot next to her equipment. Chloe looked questioningly at her but Beca gave her a reassuring smile.

After a while, Chloe lifted the earphones from her head.

"This is really good. You got more?" She couldn't have said anything more enticing just now and Beca busied herself by playing her favorite mixes to her favorite Bella. They had a good time, listening to music, talking about it. Chloe even volunteered some good ideas for songs Beca had never thought about. They ordered pizza and when it came sat down to just eat. But there was still that conversation about Aubrey to be had although Beca had forgotten by now.

"Listen, about last night: Aubrey... she doesn't always speak for all the Bellas, 'kay? I mean she is the boss and... a lot of times she's right but... not about this one. I think we should try some new things and you have really good ideas. What I just heard... really, you totes rock." Beca blushed at the compliment.

"Thanks, Chlo. It's... you said it, Aubrey is the boss. I just wish..." Beca moved her hands in some of the motions of their routine, even her sign-language looked sarcastic.

"I know. I wish I could... reign her in but since she's taken over... she's become this total control freak. I mean, it's kind of understandable with what happened at the finals last year. She needs control but... sometimes..." Chloe looked sad, and this was a first. The redhead was usually such a positive person, always enthusiastic. This twist with Aubrey seemed to touch her on a deeper level than Beca would have guessed at.

"You two are pretty close, aren't you?" The brunette asked. The look from Chloe's eyes was sheltered which was another first, then she nodded. She dropped her gaze for a moment.

"Our last Bella's captain, Alice, was... she was hard on everyone, really, but Aubrey and I took quite the bashing every single time. Maybe it was because we were the youngest but I think she just didn't like us at all. So, we bonded, instantly. We used to rehearse together, just..." Chloe fell silent. Then she looked up at Beca and confessed what she had never told a living soul: "I had a huge crush on Bree for most of my aca-career. But I seem to be getting over it now." There was another fleeting sad look and then she smiled again. Beca nodded, she hadn't expected anything like this to come out but she wasn't as shocked as she could have been. She took Chloe's hand, pressed it for a moment then let go again.

"You're not surprised?" Chloe asked.

"I don't know. I mean, you two... I don't know, Chlo," Beca really didn't know what to say. Had she pegged Chloe for a lesbian? No, not really but then, she never said she was a lesbian, she had just confessed to a crush. And Beca could understand crushes on girls, she had had her share of those. That was nothing to get agitated about and Aubrey was... well, she was at least good-looking. And there were probably some other appealing characteristics when you got to know the blonde better, Beca just didn't know Aubrey that well, or at all. "She's a little too wound up for my taste but... you know her better than I do," she finally said.

"I thought I did but... she's changed. I'm her co-captain, I should have some say but she mainly just ignores me." Beca reached over the pizza box and rubbed Chloe's forearm, she really wasn't good at this but she wanted to give the other girl some comfort. Chloe smiled up at her in thanks.

"So, this crush... you are going out with guys, though, aren't you?"

"Yeah, sure. Guys are fun... I mean, most of the time. It just gets exhausting when they want to be exclusive and act like they were the boss of me... I can't stand that. But I like girls, too. I mean, I haven't done much with girls, just very standard fooling around but it's... good, it's nice, it's... pretty awesome, actually." Beca nodded, a little lost in her own thoughts.

"You never kissed a girl?" Chloe asked and Beca looked up at her in surprise. She shook her head.

"No, I... no." She tried to smile but it wasn't very convincing.

"You don' think... I mean, you're not one of those people who think it's wrong for two girls - or two boys - to be together, right? You're not a phobe," the last sentence was more of a statement than a question and Beca confirmed it with another shake of her head.

"No, I'm not a phobe... I just... I haven't got... a lot of experience, one way or the other," she confessed.

"Really? What about that Jesse-kid? Don't tell me he hasn't tried to put the moves on you yet?" Chloe sounded incredulous. Beca blushed but shook her head once more.

"No, I mean, he tried to kiss me but... we didn't." Chloe looked at Beca curiously.

"Are you into him? And I'm not asking because of the Bellas and that... vow Aubrey's come up with. Just... curious," she stated.

"I like Jesse, he's... well, he's great, good-looking, thoughtful... and for some strange reason, he's into me, so..."

"Just because a guy is into you, Beca, doesn't mean you have to be into him. You know that, right?" Her blue eyes were very serious now.

"I know, Chloe. It's not just that, I really like him... only... well, last night he called my dad to bail me out and... I got pissed at him and yelled at him. I mean, what else was he to do, right?"

"Well, he could have talked to us. I think between all of us we would have been able to bail you out. I... well, I wanted to..." Beca looked at Chloe expectantly. "I wanted for us to go to the police station but Aubrey wouldn't hear of it."

"Ah, of course. She probably thought that being hit on by a bar brawler like Cameron would teach me better than to get into a fight," the DJ nodded in understanding.

"Cameron?" Chloe asked, big-eyed.

"Oh, she was charming. She actually thought I was a flight attendent and asked if she could be my captain on our love plane," Chloe bit her lip but the laughter escaped anyway. "She said she was gonna find me when she came out but you know how those women are... first they want to fly to the moon with you and when they're finally out they have found someone better in their cellmate and gone monogamous."

"Stop it, Mitchell, you're killing me," Chloe was laughing hard and Beca joined her.

"Wait until Aubrey finds out I gave Cameron her number," that had Chloe pushing Beca over on the bed and Beca lay back into her pillows. It took them a few minutes to calm down again, Beca's eyes fell close for a moment and when she opened them, she found the redhead looking at her.

"Are you tired?"

"I didn't sleep much last night, not with all the things that happened," Beca confirmed and Chloe nodded. She closed the empty pizza box and put it on Beca's desk chair, the desk being too crowded with the DJ's equipment.

"It's alright, close your eyes," Chloe told Beca.

"You don't have to leave, I can just..."

"I wasn't going to leave," Chloe interrupted and climbed over Beca onto the bed. She spooned the brunette. "You know what is really good for falling asleep? When somebody holds you," Beca looked suspiciously over her shoulder at her friend.

"You mean as in cuddling?"

"It's okay, just close your eyes, relax." Beca reluctantly lay her head down and closed her eyes. She felt Chloe's hand brush her hair from her temple, her fingernails lightly raking into her hair. It was a strange feeling, calming yet somehow it also gave Beca goosebumps. "Just relax, let it all go," Chloe said, her hand carressing Beca's cheek, then moving over her shoulder down her arm.

"You're not just trying to cop a feel, are you?" Beca joked.

"If I was trying to cop a feel you wouldn't have to ask, you would know," Chloe answered confidently. "And now shut up and relax."

"Yes, sir," Beca answered. She was convinced that she wouldn't fall asleep, not as long as there was someone watching her, touching her. She had a hard time trusting anyone and she wasn't the type to let someone tell her to sleep and then do it. She was... and then Chloe started singing a lullaby, something so low and soothing that Beca found herself drifting off despite herself.