I was thinking about this idea for a while. Tell me if I should continue it and what you think about it. Hope you'll enjoy it ;)
Desclaimer: I do not own Pitch Perfect and the characters in this story.
A brunette girl is walking through the airport with headphones on while her parents are arguing behind her. It's not something unusual, from the day they told her about the all moving stuff they've been arguing no stop and every time their daughter asked about it she received the same answer "It's nothing". She stopped asking.
They step inside a private plane and take a seat.
Beca turns to her father "Potresti ripetermi perché ci stiamo trasferendo in Georgia e con così poco preavviso?" (Can you please tell me again why we're moving to Georgia and with such short notice?)
Her father stays silent for a few seconds before he sighs "Per lavoro Rebecca ed inoltre potrai finalmente conoscere i tuoi parenti americani" (For work Rebecca and then you'll finally meet your American relatives)
Beca knows he's lying about the work thing, but she doesn't question him, she just rolls her eyes and turns back to look out the window. She doesn't want to deal with their lying, like she's a kid and wouldn't understand whatever it is that is going on.
The flight from Rome to Atlanta is about eleven hours so she takes her laptop and starts mixing some song, she's getting good at it, she even bought a mix console. She's always had the music in her veins, since she was little she's started to play the piano and the guitar and now she even writes original songs. Her dream is to make music, to become a music producer and that's the reason why she didn't protest so much when her father told her that they were leaving Italy to move to Georgia. Because being a music producer in Italy it's harder than being it in place like LA.
Few hours later a hostess brings the dinner, a very cute blonde hostess. Beca stares at her and the woman smiles like she's waiting something. In that moment Beca realizes that the hostess asked her something but she has her headphones still on. The brunette raises her index finger as to say to hold on a second and tries to hide her blushing while she pauses the track and takes her headphones off.
"Scusami stavi dicendo?" (sorry, were you saying?)
The blonde chuckles and points to the cart in front of her "Le ho chiesto cosa gradisce da bere" (I asked you if you want something to drink)
"Oh, ehm… acqua va benissimo, grazie" (water is fine, thanks)
Beca stares at the woman as she walks off towards the back of the plane after she handed her a bottle of water.
After eating Beca watches the time with a sigh, the flight will long eight more hours. She decides to walk to the bathroom to stretch her legs. Her parents are angrily whispering and she rolls her eyes at them when they stop as she walks next to them. She's curios of course, but she knows that her parents won't tell her a damn thing. She's lost in her thoughts when a body collides with hers and the said body lets out a girlish yelp. The blonde hostess turns around to face her assaulter.
"Signorina Mitchell, mi ha spaventato!" (Miss Mitchell you scared me!)
Beca's hands, she doesn't know how or why, are on the blonde's waist. She blushes and clears her throat while she removes her hands and looks at the woman.
"Scusa, non volevo. Stavo…uhm…cercando il bagno" (Sorry, I was…I was looking for the bathroom) Beca curses herself, why she's to be so awkward.
"Non fa niente e il bagno è dall'altra parte dell'aereo" (It's ok and the bathroom is on the other way)
"Oh, beh grazie" (Oh, well thank you)
Beca turns quickly around avoiding the hostess' eyes.
She's sleeping when it all happens. The first thing is an explosion and then screams. Beca jumps fully awake and her breath hitches when she takes in the scene in front of her. There is smoke and she hears her mother screaming.
"Mamma! Papà!" (Mom! Dad!)
"Beca! Dove sei?" (Beca! Where are you?) Her father appears in front of her.
"Cosa è successo?!" (What happened?!)
Before he answers there is another explosion and she's flying away. She feels the air around her. She's falling. The next thing she sees is that she's above a river and before she crushes into it she hears a loud explosion and looks up where there was supposed to be her father's plane but there is only a grey cloud and falling pieces on fire. She wants to scream but she's suddenly under water. She has no time to process what is happening, she hits her head in a rock and a powerful force pushes her. The river is carrying her while she's under water. She tries to swim but it's too strong. She's panicking. Her heart is beating too fast and her lungs are burning for the lack of air while she desperately tries to reach the surface, but she realizes that she can't and that she's drowning. Then she breaths the water and it burns a thousand times more…
Beca wakes up in her dark room covered in sweat, she sits straight while she's breathing heavily like every time she's dreamed that day. She wakes up every time in this part of her dream and every time she can feel the water in her lungs like she's drowning again. It's been two years from the accident where her parents died. She remembers that day like it was yesterday. Beca tried to ask her aunt and uncle what happened, how she ended up in the hospital, because she remembers breathing the water and then waking up in a hospital with two strangers that she learned were her aunt and uncle, but they just say that it was a bad experience and that she should forget it. What an advice right? Like she could forget. For fuck sake her parents died that day and she died too. She died, she's sure of that but still, she's alive and she doesn't know why or how. All she knows is that something happened in that river, something that changed her. She takes a deep breath and takes her face between her hands trying to calm herself. She's used to it so in about two minutes she will be sleeping again. Hopefully she didn't scream this time so that her aunt and uncle are still sleeping. Beca's living with them since it happened. She remembers waking up in a hospital surrounded by strangers. Then a woman told her that she was her aunt and what happened. She believed her because she looked like her father. Beca didn't cry that day, no, she had a breakdown three weeks later. That's the day where she finds out that she wasn't the same anymore. She took a shower and first it was all normal but then she started to struggle breathing and then she was under water in that river again trying to breath. Her only wish was that she could get out of there and go to her room on her bed. And there she was. Naked, soaked, on her bed. She was scared at first but then in a few moths she discovered that she could teleport wherever she wanted. Sure, she spent a lot of time trying to control it and it took a lot of awkward situations before she could control it, like that one time she tried to teleport from her room to the street and ended up in the middle of the neighbor's garden while he was watering the plants. There's no need to say that he thought she was crazy.
After discovering that power a few months later she discovered that she could control the elements, then that she could jump really high and she was strong, really strong. She learned how to control these powers every time she discovered a new one all by herself. She didn't and doesn't trust anybody when it comes to her secret. Not that she trusts somebody about other things. She has this "don't talk to me or I'll kill you" attitude that most of the time pushes away every person who might wanted to befriend with her. So there she was, an almost 18 years old fighting her demons alone, waiting for her 18th birthday when she'll be able to move in the house her father bought before going to Georgia, drop the college, sail the house and move to LA to become a music producer. What an amazing plan right? Little did she know that her future isn't going to be like she planned.