The Love Of Family
A/N: Hey guys, I'm new to writing fanfiction and I just love Bechole together thought I'd write an AU on them. In this story they are married with three teenage kids (two girls and a boy). Beca is a music producer in LA and Chloe is a music teacher at the high school where the kids go. The kids are Taylor (17, high school senior), Micah (16, high school junior), and Dani (14, high school freshman).
This is family heavy. A lot of scenes with kids with Chloe and/or Beca.
The other Bellas will make an appearance.
Rated M because there will be some lady loving throughout the story. I'll indicate at the beginning of the chapter if I choose to put some in.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pitch Perfect; just the OC's and other stuff you don't recognize.
Chapter One: Meet the Mitchell-Beale Family
Beca Mitchell-Beale was one of those kinds of people where to the world, she's a rough and tough badass with a go-getter kind of personality, but to her wife, two daughters, and son, she was the mushiest person on the planet.
She met her wife, Chloe in college, after an awkward encounter in a shower stall in the dorms at Barden, she joined the acapella group, mainly because something about the red head made her want to be around her.
They got together Beca's sophomore year and Chloe's first year as a super senior and after the both graduated, Beca got down on one knee and proposed to her love in front of all of the Bellas. Six months later, they were happily married and starting their lives in LA.
Three years into their marriage, Chloe brought up the possibility of expanding their family of two. Beca had said that the idea of getting pregnant terrified her and they agreed and a year later Chloe gave birth to their baby girl, Taylor Lee Mitchell-Beale.
Three years later, Beca decided that she wanted to give birth, so nine months later, she gave birth to Danielle Elise Mitchell-Beale. And just a year and a half before this story, Chloe fell in love with a troubled student in one of her freshman music classes, to find out that, he was a foster kid who was being beaten around at home and managed to convince her hesitant wife that the boy needed a safe home. And they adopted him six months before this story takes place.
Now their kids were in their teens making decisions, playing sports, and living a happy life.
Or that's what they thought.
One Saturday morning, Beca woke up with Chloe in her arms, she kissed her wife's shoulder and whispered, "Good morning beautiful."
Chloe turned over to give her wife a good morning kiss, "Good morning baby." She said before kissing Beca again. "You got in late last night."
"Yeah, was in the studio all night. Sorry." Beca said.
"It's fine," Chloe said, pushing her wife's hair out of her face.
"What did I miss while I was gone?" Beca asked.
"Taylor is refusing to open college letters, Micah is withdrawn for some reason, won't even let me cuddle with him, and Dani is nursing her first broken heart." Chloe said placing her head on Beca's chest.
"Isaiah broke my princess' heart?" Beca asked to clarify.
"Yeah," Chloe said distantly, her thoughts on their middle child being distant.
"I'll cuddle with her today." Beca said. "And what letters came in for Taylor?"
"All of them," Chloe said. "So Barden, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia."
"All East Coast schools, why does she have to grow up?" Beca asked.
"We blinked, now she's on her way to find the cure of cancer." Chloe said.
"And our boy?" Beca said knowing that was what is plaguing her wife's mind.
"He only was out of his room for dinner last night, then he spent his time doing homework, and even was doing a mix or two when he was done before playing video games." Chloe said.
"Well he did go through a lot before finding us." Beca reminded her wife.
"I know," Chloe said curling into her wife. "Do you think he feels safe here?"
"Well you force him to cuddle with you every morning before school and every night. I think he does." Beca said.
"Thank you for letting us save him." Chloe said.
"I always wanted a son." Beca said.
"I love you." Chloe said.
"I love you too." Beca said back.
"Hey sweetheart," Beca said knocking on her oldest daughter's door frame.
"Hey Mama," Taylor said writing her paper for school.
Beca came in and started rubbing the girl's shoulders, "How are you?"
"Good," the girl answered. "How was the session last night?"
"It was good," Beca said continuing to rub her daughter's shoulders, looking around her desk to see all of the envelopes from the colleges on her desk. "So Mom told me the letters came in, but you aren't opening them?"
"Mama please don't," Taylor said. "I'm not ready for rejection."
"You'll never know until you open them," Beca said continuing to rub her daughter's shoulders. "And no matter what happens Mom and I will be here for you."
Taylor took a deep breath and said, "Could - could you maybe give me a moment?"
"Of course, I need to go help your sister mend that broken heart of hers." Beca said, stopping her massage. "You know where to find me."
As Beca was walking out of the room, she heard, "Mama?"
"Yes baby?" She said.
"I love you."
"I love you too." Beca walked out of the room and ran into Micah, "Hey bubba."
"Hey Be- Mama." He said, holding a can of Sprite.
He had just started calling the couple 'Mama' and 'Mom' and was trying to get himself to call them that without having to correct himself.
"You okay?" Beca asked. "Mom said you've been distant lately."
"I'm fine." He said. "Really."
Beca stood on her tip toes to kiss his temple, "Well we're here if you need anything." She said.
"I know, I, uh, my friend Tyler is waiting on XboxLive, I should get back to him?" He said.
"Of course honey," Beca said. "I was on my way to see Dani anyway."
"If you need help holding Isaiah down to kick his ass, let me know." He said.
"Will do bubba." Beca said with a small smile.
"Oh another thing," he said before going into his room.
"What's up?" Beca asked.
"Tyler wants to know if it's okay to go to the Dodger game with us on the extra ticket. You can say no, I was just curious since none of the other girls want to go with us."
"Of course he can," Beca said. "How's his new foster home?"
Micah shrugged, "Better than his last I guess." He said as he entered his room.
Beca then turned around and walked into Dani's room, "Hey princess." She said softly.
"Hi Mama." She said curled in bed.
"Do you plan on getting up today?" Beca asked sitting next to the girl running her hand through the girl's hair.
"Do I have to? I already did my homework in study hall yesterday." Dani said.
"Well, can I lay with you?" Beca asked. "I could use some Dani snuggles."
"Okay." The girl said making room for her mother on the bed.
Beca got behind her daughter and wrapped her arms around her kissing the top of her head as the girl rested it on her mother's chest, "Do you wanna talk about it?" Beca asked.
"Not really." Dani said. "I just want mama snuggles."
"Okay, we'll do that then." She said being quiet running her hand down the girl's back.
Chloe wandered into Micah's room with laundry and saw him sitting in his game chair, playing his game, "Go, go, go! Behind you!" He said into the microphone.
"What are you playing?" Chloe asked. "And who are you playing it with?"
"Call of Duty with Tyler." He answered his mom. "Go, go." He said into the microphone and quickly looked over his shoulder. "Oh, I could've done my own laundry, Mom."
"Nonsense. I do your mama's and sisters', of course I'll do yours." She said.
"Okay dude, I'll see you tomorrow." He said into the mic. "I'll text you the info for the game tomorrow. Okay. Later dude." He then turned off the console and turned around to help his mom fold his clothes. "At least let me help you fold."
"Okay," she said with a smile. "How's Tyler?"
"Good," he answered. "He's going to the Dodger game with me and Mama."
Chloe's eyes lit up as she smiled, "Oh, that's great honey." She said.
"Mhm," he nodded.
They folded his clothes in silence for a few minutes before Chloe said, "You've been really withdrawn lately, is everything okay?"
"I'm adopted now, of course I'm okay." He responded.
"Just because you're adopted doesn't be you have to be okay." Chloe said.
He shrugged, "I'm loved, fed well, and I'm not scared of Mama anymore. What could be the problem now?" He said.
In the midst of their conversation they heard a loud thump coming from Taylor's room, almost like a fist went through a wall.
Both Chloe and Beca were in the hallway in an instant, "What's going on?" Beca called out.
"Barden, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia rejected me." The high school senior let out. "I don't even want to look at Harvard's letter. I can't handle anymore rejection."
"Barden rejected you? How? Like that's our Ala Mater." Beca said receiving a glare from her wife, the look saying, "not now."
Taylor began to shake and then turned around and slammed the door behind her. Chloe and Beca looked over their shoulders to see the child they were previously with and they both said at the same time, "Go ahead."
Chloe softly knocked on the door, "Baby girl?" She said. "Can we come in?" No response.
Beca decided to just open the door and when the couple walked in they saw her face first in the pillow. Chloe stopped her wife from going any further in case she said or did anything stupid.
The red head sat on the edge of the bed and started rubbing the girl's back, "Baby girl," she murmured, "can you look at me? Can you look at Mommy?" Taylor turned over and looked in her mother's eyes, "Hi baby girl."
"Where's Mama?" She asked.
"Right here," Beca said not moving from her spot not wanting to cause the girl any more grief.
"Do you want us to be here when you open the letter from Harvard?" Chloe asked.
Taylor nodded as she sat up and went to her desk to grab it, Beca moved to the bed making room for the girl between them, Taylor sat down between her moms who both wrapped their arms around her, "Whatever is in that envelope, we still love you more than you'll ever know, more than we'll understand." Beca said.
Taylor nodded and slowly opened the envelope and read it to herself before reading it out loud, "Dear Miss Mitchell-Beale, I am please to inform you that you've been accepted to Harvard University..." A smile came on her face as it sunk in, "I'm going to Harvard."
Both the moms scooped their daughter up and kissed her cheek, "Congratulations baby girl." They said.
The three of them stayed like that for awhile.
"What smells good in here?" Micah came into the kitchen asking.
"It's takeout." Beca said to the boy. "Mom didn't feel like cooking tonight."
"Cool, I love Chinese food anyway." The boy said. "It's all of your guys' comfort food right?" Four sets of eyes looked confused at the boy, "What? When I got here I started people watching you. It's only awkward if you make it awkward."
"You people watched us?" Taylor asked.
"I did it in every other foster home I was placed in." He said. "It was when I realized whether or not I was safe."
Everybody froze, it wasn't often that Micah opened up about his past, and when he did, the four females always stopped and listened.
Chloe made her way to him, he often refers to the woman as his savior because she was the one who made the call to CPS and got him out of the abusive home he was in.
Chloe wrapped him up in a hug and kissed his cheek, another thing he often thought is how much Chloe reminded him of his birth mom when she was sober and wasn't high on some kind of drug or alcohol.
"Anyway, food." He emphasized.
"Yes," Beca said. "Food."
"Y'know Mama," Taylor said, "sometimes I mistake you for a teenage boy."
"Thanks baby girl." The music producer said. "I appreciate that."
The five of them sat at the dinner table passing around plate, utensils, food, and once they finished that, Micah said, "So Taylor, Harvard?"
Taylor's face lit up, "Yeah, Harvard." The high school senior said.
"We've been saving up since she's been able to say Harvard," Beca told Micah.
"That's cool," he said behind his hand as food was in his mouth.
"Kind of glad you're not going to Barden though," Chloe said.
"Why? You don't want me to become a Bella?" Taylor said jokingly making Beca spit out the beer she was drinking with dinner.
"You okay?" Micah asked as he was sitting next to her.
"Yeah, yeah." She said.
"Are you laughing at how we met?" Chloe asked with a tilted head.
"No of course not baby." Beca said. "I just was trying to imagine our daughter as a Bella and when I did it made me laugh. Our tomboy daughter, who currently plays rugby, as a Bella? Do you remember being a Bella?"
"Alright, this is going to sound really stupid, but what is a Bella?" Micah asked.
"It's an acapella group at Barden University." Beca answered. "It's where Mom and I met."
"Oh acapella groups, those are like things? Like an instrument-less Glee club?" Micah asked.
"Yes," the couple said.
"That's cool, I guess." He said.
"What about you?" Taylor asked her brother. "Do you have plans after high school?"
"Yeah," Chloe said, "You're a junior. It's time to start thinking about that, huh?"
"Oh, uh yeah, about that." He said getting flustered.
"Please don't say, 'I'm not cut out for college' because that's a load of bull." Beca said.
"No, it's not that, it's just," he took a deep breath, "I've been on track to go into the military after graduation. That's always been my dream."
Beca looked to Chloe, she knew her music teacher of a wife has grown pretty attached to the boy she brought into their home. And she'll be honest to admit when the boy came to them broken, bruised, and confused, she was hesitant to allow him into her home and heart.
"That's wonderful, baby boy." Chloe said after a few minutes. "What branch?"
"Army, in honor of my dad." He said.
That's another thing he didn't walk about. He didn't talk about his birth family.
"I think that's honorable," Beca said. "Don't you honey?" She added looking at her wife.
"Very honorable." She said.
Silence fell over the family and Micah looked up from his food to see Chloe pushing food around her plate, "Mom." He said softly. "I'm not Taylor, I still have another year before graduation."
Beca looked up at her wife who was sitting directly across from her, "Baby," the music producer said to the music teacher softly.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." She said. "Sorry, I just remember that scared little freshman who always used to help me out after school because unbeknownst to me he was scared to go home to his drunk, abusive foster parents."
"And you and Mama and Taylor and Dani saved me from that," he said. "And this family continues to save me every single day." He was sitting next to Chloe and wrapped his arm around her, "I love you Mom and I've been planning this long before I landed in my forever home with my forever family." He kissed her cheek, "I'm sorry for just dropping it on you."
"It's fine," she said kissing his cheek. "It just took me by surprise, that's all. I need some time to process it."
"Of course," he said. "Take all the time you need."
Silence then fell over the family of five again until Beca put her arm around Dani, "You're really quiet. You okay princess?" The mother asked her daughter before placing a kiss to her cheek.
"I'm fine." She said. "Fine."
Micah looked at his younger sister, the two of them had a special kind of relationship, when he came into the home, Dani took a liking to the boy before Beca and Taylor did. So when she was hurting he definitely had the big brother thing nailed to a science.
"What do you say we watch a movie as a family after dinner?" Micah suggested. "That way we can all be together?" His eyes never left his little sister as he said it.
"Yes," the moms immediately said. "That sounds like a good idea, son." Beca said.
After the movie and family snuggle session on the couch, Beca and Chloe found themselves alone in their bedroom for the first time since that morning. They went through their nightly rituals and then cuddled in bed. Chloe's head was on Beca's chest.
"What a day," Beca said running her fingers through red hair.
"Yeah." Chloe said sounding distant.
Beca kissed her wife's forehead and asked, "Whatcha thinking about beautiful?"
"Harvard, the Army, and how stupid teenage boys are." Chloe said before burying her face into her wife's chest.
"So the kids," Beca said.
"Yeah," she said. "Sorry, I know this is our time."
"It's fine beautiful." Beca said. "I love you Chlo."
"I love you too, Bec." Chloe said looking up to kiss her wife.
"So I was thinking, maybe next weekend us and the kids could get away for the weekend?" Beca said.
"That sounds like a wonderful idea. Where?" Chloe said.
"I was thinking to the beach house in Orange County?" Beca said. "That way all we have to pay for is food and you know the kids' happy place is the beach. We could surf as a family."
"I don't surf," Chloe said.
"We could maybe teach you how?" Beca asked.
"Okay," she said. "A family weekend?"
"A family weekend." Beca agreed. "I think the kids could benefit from it."
"Me too." Chloe said kissing Beca again, initiating a small make out session.
End of the Chapter A/N: Just a little introduction. A lot more fluff, a little my angst, and more coming your way!