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Title: Coming out of the Dark
Chapter 1 - Prologue
Summary: Beca Mitchell endured something so horrific in her past, it altered the course of her life. As an adult she's found love and acceptance that will be jeopardized when buried memories threaten to surface. Two fandoms will be represented; beginning as Bechloe but endgame will be Jeca.
Warning! Content will include depictions of a violent act with references to substance abuse and suicide. M rated for language and mature subject matter.
Prologue
Beca "Effin" Mitchell had completed the requirements for a Bachelor's degree from Barden University in Music Production with an emphasis in Integrated Media. During her senior year she was accepted into an apprenticeship program and interned for one of the leading producers in the music industry. Working with such artists as Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg while producing songs for Emily, a Legacy Bella and captain of the all female a cappella group by default.
On the surface Beca exuded confidence and had it together. She was in a loving long term relationship and had earned herself a full time assistant music producer position for the record label, 'Residual Heat' she previously interned for. Her desires of relocating back to Los Angeles after her first year in college had been derailed after finding acceptance in the a cappella singing world and was suddenly surrounded by and influenced by good people who wanted to be part of her life.
But underneath the tattoos and scary ear-spike, Beca had buried something in her past so deep and so grotesque that would keep her from fully trusting anyone and letting people in. It was this darkness that dragged her into an underground world of sex and substance abuse that went on during her teenage years. By the time she was eighteen an intervention took place that yanked her from that element and forced her to relocate from the "Golden State" to the "Peach State" and attend the snooty University in the south at her father's insistence.
Her lover since her junior year was a bubbly redhead with piercing blue eyes. She was a couple of years older than Beca and gave her everything she needed. She was her best friend, co-captain of the Bellas but most importantly, she was her companion that kept her warm at night when temperatures dropped below freezing during the cold winter months. Chloe Beale was also there when she would wake up in a pool of sweat from nightmares she was yet to understand. In the famous words of Fox Mulder from the X-Files, 'Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured how to ask.' This would later become Beca's mantra because she didn't know why she was seeing disturbing images that made her yell out. Whenever the ginger questioned the content of her dreams, the alt-girl would do her usual thing and hide behind a wall of steel. She would shut down like a clam, lash out to the point of storming out of the apartment they shared or initiate sexual relations; anything to avoid the real issue.
The other person in her life was Jesse Swanson whom she met on the first day of school and would later be enrolled in the same radio station internship. Just like her, Jesse became the captain of Treblemakers, an all male a cappella group, who was considered the enemy of the Bellas. With his handsome features and southern charm, his quick wit and sarcasm matched her's and he would eventually become Beca's other best friend. She didn't know why she still let him torture her with his weekly movications and put up with his insipid tidbits of film trivia; she just did and found herself amused by him and his obsessions with movies and cinema scoring. One night after a viewing of his favorite film, while sprawled out on her dorm room bed, he leaned in and tried to kiss her but was met with a reality he never saw coming; the petite girl he'd fallen for had not only rejected his advances, she admitted she wasn't into the opposite sex...anymore. After a moment of awkwardness she eventually confided in him about a recent shower incident involving a certain redhead. He was naturally crushed that his feelings for her would never be reciprocated but cared enough about their friendship to offer his support and encouragement in pursuing the same sex relationship. It was this kind of honesty on her part and unselfishness on his that contributed to them becoming the closest of friends throughout and beyond college as they went on to find their places in the world and pursue their careers.
Celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday, Chloe had something special planned for her girlfriend that would ultimately be the catalyst of Beca Mitchell confronting the demons of her past and Coming out of the Dark...
A/N: A special acknowledgment and thank you to Cheryl who came up with the title and encouraged me to write this fic which is outside of my comfort zone, and to my beta with their editing expertise who keeps me on track. This story is inspired by true events that have been adapted to these characters for your entertainment. To all Bechloe and Jeca shippers, it is not my intention to disrespect either fandom, so I hope you'll keep an open mind and give this mini novel a chance. Please review and provide any feedback.
~A~