A/N: This is going to be my first long Fanfiction, so I hope you guys like it. Also I apologise for any thing wrong in this, my geography is not the best thing in the world

Christmas was always a nightmare in the Posen-Conrad household, due to Aubrey's obsession with schedules and how everything had to be planned in at least 2 months in advance and Stacie's manic decoration skills and last minute shopping usually left a panicked and stressed Aubrey in a mess on their bedroom floor trying to organise presents and cards and gift bags for everyone. Stacie knew how to destress her girlfriend, but Aubrey was sometimes even too stressed for that.

But this year was different, Stacie had prepared and nearly brought all of her present and they were only halfway through November, this was because she needed all the extra time to buy an extra special present for Aubrey, she knew that this would take time so she got everyone else out of the way first and shifted her focus to her girlfriend, she has had one of the most stressful few months of her life and Stacie wanted to make their first Christmas in California the best ever. Of course Aubrey had all of her present either brought or on order, she was always the first one out of the two of them to purchase a present, so when Stacie announced that she had already done her Christmas shopping it shocked Aubrey and then made her rather suspicious.

"So explain this again" Aubrey said with a confused tone in her voice "You have already done all of your Christmas shop"

"Yup" Stacie replies, swinging the remaining bags as she walks to their apartment, trying not to drop the phone as she bounces along

"All of it?"

"Yup"

"Even the hobbit?"

"Yes Bree even Beca, speaking of her are we going to see them this year? We didn't get round to it last time until after Christmas and now every time I phone Beca Chloe grabs the phone and asks. We need to see them and their new house!" The younger girl asks as she walks into their apartment building. "You know they missed us last year"

"Yeah we are, I've just got to finalise some dates with my boss and then we can defiantly say a date"

"But Bree you are basically your own boss, so really you are just consulting yourself" She smiled to herself, know this would provoke a reaction from the blonde

"I am not! Okay maybe I am, but I need to find out when this last group will leave, they're taking forever to get out of this place" she sighed, this was her last summer as the Director at the Lodge of Fallen Leaves, she loved it there but she needed to move on and pursue something else. She had been looking for another job ever since last year but nothing came up and she thought that she would just be the director of this Lodge for the foreseeable future, but then a few months ago Chloe told her of a job at the University of California being the Director of Arts and Music, which means that she would continue her role of being the best and the head of something and she would get to manage the Acapella groups, sort out set lists and choreography and be involved in the world of Acapella again, she wasn't so sure about it though, she only knew about the singing and choreography, could she be the leader of all of it? Her worries were vanished when Stacie reminded her that she is Aubrey Posen, she can do anything she wanted and set her mind to.

And that is how they came to live in a Southern California Apartment, just fifteen minutes away from Aubrey's new place of work and only forty minutes away from Beca and Chloe, they had lived there for a couple of years now, Beca's Music producing career had taken off and Chloe was an Elementary school teacher, so they all were living their dream jobs. Stacie had just transferred headquarters of the pharmaceuticals company she worked for, which made their move even easier.

"Anyway I've just got to finish all of my forms then hand them in and I am free to go, so I can be with you in our apartment by the evening" Aubrey had to drive back to the Lodge of Fallen Leaves and finalise some paperwork, she didn't really want to leave Stacie so soon after they had moved in but she had to, and it gave Stacie the perfect opportunity to get their apartment ready for her.

"I know you do" Stacie struggled to open the door with bags in her hands and a phone "But I hated seeing you go the other day. Wait. Is this the longest time we've spent apart?"

"I think it might just be Stace, we've spent two days away from each other and it feels like I haven't seen you in weeks, it was much longer than that when I graduated, I don't know how we got through" She said with a slight laugh and a smirk.

"But we weren't dating then, much to my disappointment, so I had nothing to miss"

"Well you should have asked me out sooner"

"I tried but you were too busy being perfect, which let's face it has worked well in my favour. I am now the girlfriend of the hottest captain of the Barden Bellas"

Aubrey was trying not to get distracted from her girlfriends loving words

"Now I really have to go if you want to see me by five"

"Okay, I suppose my charming ways can wait for later. Love you"

"Love you too. Bye"

Aubrey put down her phone and continued to finish her paperwork, this would take her at least another hour and then she could drive back and see her wonderful girlfriend in their home.

Stacie got off the phone with Aubrey and almost immediately called Beca, she thought she would never answer but after about ten rings, she picked up.

"Hey. I just got off the phone with Aubrey. She doesn't suspect a thing"

"Well I hope so for your sake, I don't want to deal with you crying over Aubrey. Again might I add"

"The only tears I will be shedding are tears of joy Mitchell"

"It Beale-Mitchell actually, I got married to the cutest ginger on the planet, remember?"

"Yeah yeah I remember" Stacie had got rather drunk at Beca and Chloe's wedding and Beca will never let her forget it. "Right you need to come and help me get this apartment ready, I can't move all these boxes on my own"

"Already on it, we're halfway there. Chloe had to stop for a toilet and coffee break"

"Okay see you soon!"

Stacie couldn't wait to get their apartment ready for when Aubrey came home, it was too early for Christmas decorations she had been told by both Aubrey and Beca, so she was putting out Aubrey's favourite flowers, lily's and she had brought some of Aubrey's favourite scented candles and put them around the apartment. She just needed to get these stupid boxes out of the way and into the correct rooms. Luckily Aubrey's forward planning meant that each box was labelled with what room it came from, what room it was going into and how important it was. Stacie had tried to help with this but she was simply given the less complicated task of putting together boxes. She had made sure that the box with all the Christmas bits in it had been left out, as soon as the first of December was here Stacie would be decorating their apartment, regardless of her girlfriend's objections. Twenty minutes later she heard an excited voice at her door.

"Hey Stace, we're here!" A very excited redhead called out from the doorway

"One sec" Stacie struggled to open the door, as this was a relatively new apartment they door was very stiff and required a lot of force. She knew this was going to be a problem when she and Aubrey wanted to get into the apartment fast.

"I hate this door" Stacie exclaimed as she finally opened to door to be greeted by a very excited Chloe and a grinning Beca. She gave them both a hug and welcomed them into the apartment.

"We brought you some food and drink, consider it a housewarming gift" Chloe made her way to the kitchen to put down the two bags she was carrying

"Oh you didn't have to do that!" She gave Chloe and Beca another hug, much to the shorter girl's dismay and protesting

"Now, how come you are so prepared this year and have already brought Christmas presents" Chloe motioned to the shopping bags currently sat in a pile in the corner of the door way

"Ooo" Beca made a move towards the bags and was annoyed when she felt a weight pulling her back, she turned round to see her shirt currently in Chloe's fist "Hey! No fair, I wanna look" She made the grabby hand gesture and looked towards the presents and then back to her wife.

"You're worse than a five year old" She pulled the shorter girl towards her and wrapped her arms round her waist and pecked her lips. "And you have to wait until it is actually Christmas" Stacie was pretty sure Beca would have gone off and mumbled something about it being unfair if she was not currently being hugged by Chloe.

"Guys, we have no time for this, Bree gets home in three hours and twenty nine minutes" Stacie suddenly became very anxious when she realised how much stuff they actually had to move.

"Sounds like she's home already" Beca retorted with a smirk, Aubrey's panicky state had obviously rubbed off on Stacie.

"Beca!" Chimed Chloe and Stacie at the same time

"Alright alright. I'll go and move some stuff. What do you want to start with?"

"I think we'll start with the bedroom boxes, there is more of them. All the boxes labelled spare bedroom and main bedroom should go in the spare bedroom" Stacie started to instruct

"Why are the main bedroom boxes going in the spare bedroom? Shouldn't they go in the main bedroom? You don't wanna mess with the plan after all" Beca asked, not being prepared for the answer.

"The boxes would just get in the way when we have our evening activity" Stacie winked at Beca making the smaller girl realise what she meant.

"Ew! Dude that is gross!"

"Don't act you and Chloe don't do it, which we all obviously know you do if college was anything to go by" She gave Beca a playful stare and saw the brunette look in every other direction possible.

"So spare bedroom, yeah?" Beca wanted to get out of that kitchen as soon as possible.

After two hours the three girls had managed to get every box at its destination, asides from the main bedroom boxes who after much questioning from Beca, would get in the way of what Chloe heard Stacie and Beca talking about earlier. Stacie knew that she had an hour and a half to make herself look presentable for Aubrey's first evening in their new home. She had picked out her outfit this morning, knowing that she would not have enough time to do it now. She had chosen a black dress that came down to above her knee, it was strapless and it was one of Aubrey's favourites and Stacie had even worn it on their first date.

She had ordered the food to be delivered to their apartment so that she did not have to worry about it when Aubrey arrived. She couldn't believe that they had only been apart for two days, it seemed silly really. Beca and Chloe once went a whole month without seeing each other, Beca was doing some tour thing and Chloe had to stay because she had to teach her classes. She didn't know if she could ever cope that long without Aubrey, well she hoped the situation would never arise and that one of them would ever have to leave. After all those years of bottled up emotions they have learned to share everything with each other, even if it was only small or insignificant. Stacie had learned that Aubrey knew how to speak French and German, And Aubrey had learned that Stacie had always wanted to go to England for a holiday.

Stacie's face instantly lit up when she received a text half an hour later

Aubrey:Just stopping for coffee, I'll be home in thirty minutes :)

Stacie:Yay! Thirty minutes until I can see your beautiful face again

Aubrey:I would say the same, but I'm obviously just with you for your body ;)

Stacie:Dammit, I knew that was true. But yours is equally if not more amazing so I think I can let it slide ;)

Aubrey: Well I would hope so, or I would be really stuck.

Stacie stop for a minute and smiled at her phone and then Aubrey's name came up on the screen again

Aubrey:I shall see you soon! Love you

Stacie:Love you too.

Needless to say, Stacie was very excited.

She saw Aubrey's silver BMW pull into one of the parking spaces for their apartment, Stacie could barely contain her excitement. She rushed out of their apartment, grabbing a set of keys as she went getting locked out was the last thing she needed, and went down the stairs as fast as she could, taking them two at a time. She reached the parking garage Aubrey had barely got her suitcase out the back of the car when a very excited Stacie was running towards her. Eventually they met and before they had even said a word to each other, Aubrey's lips were on hers and her arms were around her waist and Stacie moved her hands to around Aubrey's neck, they stayed like this for a few minutes. They pulled away from each other, mainly due to the lack of oxygen but also due to the fact that Stacie wanted to show her the apartment.

"Well that was a nice welcome home" Aubrey smiled and gave her girlfriend a peck on the lips "I should go away more often if I get greeted like that every time I come back."

"You are never going away without me, I hated it all on my own. There was no one to cuddle up to" She gave Aubrey her best sad pouty face, only for them both to burst out in laughter.

"Come on then, I wanna show you what I did to the apartment!" Stacie picked up her bag and headed towards the stairs

"Please tell me you have not put the Christmas decorations up already, it's only November"

"Nope, Beca told me that I could not do that"

"Ah finally, we agree on something"

They arrived at their door and it took Stacie many attempts to try and open the door, but after the third attempt she finally got it.

"Ready?"

"Ready"

And for the first time they walked into their new apartment together.