Fic Background:
Beca and Aubrey are close sisters, two years apart. Chloe and Aubrey have been best friends since Aubrey went to Barden. Beca and Aubrey become really close during Beca's high school years when Beca was involved in a car accident with her best friend/first love and neither could count on their divorced parents. Beca comes to Barden and joins the Bellas with Aubrey and Chloe and all the other girls. Fic starts in a Bellas rehearsal, Beca's a freshman, Chloe, Aubrey and Jesse are Juniors.
"Come on ladies, two more laps around the stairs and then we're done, come on aca-bitches! Cardio is important!"
Beca was running up the stairs next to Chloe. They'd been getting along really well recently whilst Aubrey was freaking out about sectionals. They were about two thirds of the way up the stairs, the last ones in the Bellas on this rotation. Chloe was saying something about a guy on the swim team she liked the look of when Beca noticed something weird. It took her a moment to realise why, there were clouds at the corners of her vision. She was about to tell Chloe that there were clouds in the room when she saw a familiar figure standing at the top of the stairs.
"Beca? Beca, are you even listening to me?"
"Rose." She whispered before the clouds turned to blackness and she felt herself falling.
"Beca?! Aubrey!"
Beca's body went limp, she tumbled down the stairs and into a small heap on the floor.
"Oh my god! BECA!"
All the girls ran down the stairs and straight over to Beca.
"What happened?!"
"I don't know, we were running and I was talking and then all of a sudden she just went really pale and said 'Rose' and the next thing I knew she was falling!"
"Rose? She said Rose? Are you sure?"
"Yes Aubrey I'm sure!"
"Becs, Becs hunny! Wake up for me sweety! Come on Beca, wake up!"
"Who's Rose?"
"Not now Fat Amy! Come on Beca!"
After about two minutes Aubrey got up and started pacing in front of the piano. Chloe sat down beside Beca and took her head into her lap softly stroking her hair.
"Brey, should we go get the nurse or something?"
"She just fainted right? She should be okay soon. Right?"
"I'm sure she's A-Okay! Maybe it was a sign that we shouldn't do so much cardio..."
"Amy, I don't think now's really the time."
"Girls you can go, practice is over for today, we have one at 10 sharp tomorrow though so don't be late!"
"Is Beca going to be okay?"
"She'll be fine, on you go!"
As all the girls led out of the rehearsal hall Chloe felt Beca stir in her arms.
"Brey, she's waking up."
Aubrey quickly rushed over to Beca, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear.
"Becs, you there?"
Her eyes flickered open and both Chloe and Aubrey sighed with relief.
"W-What happened?"
"You fainted sweetie."
"I fainted, I fainted, Rose, where's Rose?"
"Beca, Rose isn't here, Rose died remember?"
"I-I I need to go"
With that Beca got up and sprinted out the rehearsal hall.
"What the hell was that?"
"In her junior year in high school Beca was having a pretty tough time. Our parents were still fighting and I'd just left to come here and she didn't really have anyone. Then this new girl came, I think she moved to our town form Chicago, anyway her name was Rose, I didn't like her, she manipulated Beca and was a complete bitch but her and Becs became real close. She was her only best friend and I think she kinda fell in love with her, anyways, when things got really hard for Becs at home she used to go out with Rose. One day, they were out driving and there was this storm. It was raining really, really hard and Rose was the one driving. She wasn't paying attention, she was trying to get Beca to smoke and she was messing around with the wheel. She didn't see the truck coming towards them, the car flipped and they ended up almost a mile away from the freeway. Rose was killed on impact but Beca was sat in that car for hours just bleeding. I got a call from her a week after the accident, I hadn't heard about it, she was crying, Becs never cries, she was terrified, she had just woken up and our parents were fighting, that's why I disappeared early for spring break in freshman year. She had broken her arm and her leg, had a serious concussion and she went into a serious, serious depression. My dad had an affair and left and my mum moved her to a boarding school for her senior year, she was told she wasn't allowed to talk to me but we wrote. Stayed close. She got better by talking to me and really loosened up. She came here and well you know the rest."
"Wow! I had no idea! She just seemed so strong!"
"What I don't get is what just happened! She looked so lost! So confused."
"She didn't seem to remember that Rose was dead"
"It was weird, I've never seen her like that."
"Maybe she just needs some room, she'll be okay at rehearsals tomorrow I hope"
She was back in the car, it was that night again. It was always that night. She coughed, the smoke from Rose's cigaret irritating her lungs. It was different this time. She could feel it, something was different.
"What am I doing here?" She heard herself asking.
"Aha, welcome to your mind."
"Sorry?"
"I've been sent for you Beca."
"You've been sent for me? What do you mean?"
"I can't tell you that Beca, now I think you remember how this goes from here."
The lights flashing from the drivers side, signalled to Beca that their conversation was over. This dream was going to go the same way the other dreams always went. The next thing she knew the car was rolling over and over again. When it finally came to a stop Beca opened her eyes. There was blood everywhere, her blood. This time however. Rose just got up, she got up and walked out the car. She turned around and said, "I've been sent for you Beca" before turning and walking away. That was when the flames came. There were never usually flames, except it wasn't the car on fire, it was her lungs. She couldn't breath. She heard the screams. The screams of her parents fighting, of Aubrey yelling for them to stop, of Rose when she was drunk and finally the screams of herself, crying out for help.
"Beca? Beca! BECA!"
The screams where still there, surrounding the angelic voice that was breaking into her consciousness.
"Come on Beca, don't do this to me!"
She felt her whole world shaking and thought to herself; 'this must be it, this is where it all ends.' Then her eyes snapped open and light flooded her vision.
Chloe, Aubrey and the rest of the Bellas were all waiting in the rehearsal hall, Beca was nowhere to be seen.
"Maybe I should go and check on her Brey?"
"Could you? I just want to be sure that she's okay?"
"No problem, I'll be back real soon!"
With that Chloe grabbed her bag and jogged out the hall. She found her phone and gave Beca's number a call. Without it even dialling she was met with Beca's all to familiar voicemail. She'd been hearing it all last night, her and Aubrey had stayed up calling Beca and never got a response. As she neared Baker hall she got a funny feeling in her gut that something just wasn't right, this was confirmed when she bust into Beca's dorm room to find the brunette tossing and turning on her bed. She was sweating and the sheets were all tangled up, every couple of seconds she let out a pained whimper.
"Beca? Beca! BECA!"
The younger girl stilled for a moment before the whimpering started up again, worse than before. Chloe gripped Beca's shoulders hoping this would still her, however it didn't have the desired effect and she began thrashing underneath Chloe's grasp.
"Come on Beca, don't do this to me!"
She shook Beca's shoulders in a last desperate attempt to wake her up. When Beca's eyes flicked open relief hit her like a tidal wave and she crashed her body into Beca's in a bone crushing hug. Beca lets out a sharp cry that causes Chloe to pull back immediately.
"What is it? What's wrong did I hurt you?"
Beca shakes her head but the evident look of pain in her eyes says otherwise.
"Bullshit! Beca, what is it? What's wrong?"
"Take me home?"
Even though they were both on Beca's bed in her dorm room Chloe understood exactly what she meant. Chloe stood up from the bed, picking up what she recognised as Aubrey's Barden hoodie from the floor and passing it to Beca before giving her the once over.
Chloe shot Aubrey a quick text telling her that she'd found Beca and was taking her back to their apartment and that Brey should come over after rehearsal.
"You ready?"
"Yeah"
"Do you need anything else?"
"I think I've got everything. Do you think we could just get back to yours now?"
"Sure thing."
The two walked across campus with their hands linked, Chloe kept sending cautious glances Beca's way, making sure she was okay. Every so often Beca would catch Chloe's glances and send a reassuring smile her way.
After about 20 minutes both girls were back at Chloe and Aubrey's apartment, just as they were walking down the first floor corridor Chloe felt a resistance on her hand as she pulled Beca along. She turned around to look at the shorter girl; Beca's eyes had glazed over and she was staring straight ahead. She looked scared, very scared and her grip on Chloe's hand was getting tighter and tighter.
"Bec sweetie, can you hear me? Is everything okay?"
"This can't be," Beca mumbled softly.
"What's wrong Beca?"
"She's here. She can't be here. She died!" Said the brunette, her voice escalating as she tried to reason with herself.
"Who's here Beca? Is is Rose?"
"She's been sent for me!"
"Come on, why don't we get you inside and you can have a shower whilst we wait for Aubrey?"
"Y-yeah, yes please."
Chloe opened the door to their apartment and held it open for the younger girl. She noticed that Beca's expression was still vacant so Chloe did the only thing she could think of and opened up her arms for the Bella to fall into.
She wasn't sure how long the two of them had sat on the floor together, Beca's hand fisting and un-fisting in Chloe's shirt, when Aubrey burst through the door.
"Is she okay? What happened?!"
"How long ago did I text you?"
"About an hour, maybe more. Why?"
"We've been sat here for just under that."
Both the older girls looked down to see Beca seemed to be sleeping. Aubrey bent down as Chloe lifted the small girl from her arms and into Aubrey's. She carried Beca through to her room and placed her on the bed before coming back out and giving Chloe a hand off the floor.
"Thank you Chloe, for all this. You know you didn't have to but she, she's just, well she's my baby sister y'know. I practically raised her between our parents' constant fighting and general ignorant behaviour. She's more than just my sister, I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to her."
"I get it Brey, and really it was nothing. You know I love Beca so it was really nothing. I'm just worried about her. When we were on our way back over she saw her again, she saw Rose."
"I don't get it, I mean she's had nightmares before of that night but never anything like this. She just seems so afraid."
"This may sound like an awful suggestion but maybe she should go see a doctor, just to make sure?"
"I dunno Chlo, she hates doctors." The two were disturbed by a knock on the apartment door. Chloe kissed the top of Aubrey's head before getting up and going to Aubrey's bedroom to go and check on Beca. Aubrey got up from the sofa and trudged over to the door, she was met by a bunch of flowers. She held out her arms and Jesse placed the bunch in his girlfriend's hands before leaning in and placing a kiss on her cheek.
"Hey baby, what are you doing here?"
"I got a text from Amy, she told me everything. I figured you might need me tonight. How's she doing?"
"Not good." Aubrey stepped aside and allowed Jesse into the apartment. Chloe stuck her head out the door of Aubrey's room.
"Hey Jess."
"Hey Chloe."
"Do you think you could do me one small favour real quick?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"Can you lift Becs onto my bed for me so you and Aubrey can get some sleep in her room tonight?"
"Sure thing."
Beca woke in the middle of the night to find herself closely nestled into Chloe's side. Her arms were wrapped around Chloe's abdomen, one of Chloe's arms was around her shoulder the other holding Beca's arm in place. A smile stretched across the younger girl's face as she admired the sleeping Bella. She'd noticed how gorgeous Chloe was before and yes, she'd had a huge crush on her ever since Aubrey had introduced the two of them three years ago, she'd never told Chloe this, but now she looked stunningly beautiful. So much so that Beca raised her hand up and traced Chloe's delicate features her fingers stopping to rest on her lips.
"How can I be so in love with you and you barely even know who I am? God, you are so beautiful." Chloe's bright blue eyes popped open. Beca pulled away her hand at lightning speed moving over to the other side of the bed like someone had zapped her. She felt movement in the bed beside her and an arm snake around her waist.
"You don't like milk in your cereal, you use the door frame to stretch when you wake up in the morning even though you can barely reach, you like to write in pencil because it's easy to undo your mistakes, the first time you met Jesse I think you scared the living daylight's out of him incase he hurt your Aubrey even though I'd already done exactly the same, your favourite colour is purple, you get lonely sometimes but you're too scared to ask people over for company, you beat up the guy who laughed at Aubrey for being protective over you, you smile with your eyes before your mouth, you lick your lips and then bite your lower lip when you think, you like to run but early in the mornings when nobody can see you, you take your coffee black with one and a half sugars even though you say two, you haven't spoken to either of your parents in three years, you think of Aubrey as your mum because your mother never did anything to help you, you cry every time you watch the Lion King at the bit where Mufasa saves Simba, your laptop password is ABMP which stands for Aubrey Beca Mitchell Posen, you're scared of the dark and you like to watch the sun go down, you find it hard to sleep on your own and when you do you hug a pillow, in the summer this part of hair right here goes light blonde and your hands get really tanned, your favourite food is four cheese pizza and your favourite drink is strawberry milk, you still have the stuffed toy dog named Wilson that Aubrey gave you when you were five and you carry the picture that you, me and Aubrey took of us all in the photo booth on Santa Monica peer last summer. I know you Beca Mitchell and I love you too." She placed a gently kiss on Beca's shoulder blade before nuzzling her face into Beca's neck. The smaller girl spun round in Chloe's arms, gazing up into those mesmerising blue eyes.
"You know me. You know me and you love me?"
"You're amazing of course I love you."
"You love me?"
"I love you."
Beca leaned upwards and Chloe met her half way with a soft yet passionate kiss.
"You love me?"
"Yes, I do. And thank you by the way. I haven't been called beautiful in a really long time."
Beca jumped up on the bed and started bouncing.
"Becs, what are you doing?"
"The most beautiful girl in the world, that I've had a crush on since I met her loves me back!" Beca's hand flew to her mouth.
"What is it? What's wrong Beca?"
She flew off the bed and sprinted out the room.
"Beca!" Chloe yanked the sheets back and ran out the room after the younger girl.
"Chloe, go back to bed I don't want you to see this!"
"Becs, I've dealt with your sister's stress vomiting for the three years we've roomed together! I got this."
Once Beca had finished she rested her head against the bathroom floor as Chloe grabbed a flannel and ran it under the tap before bending down and placing it on Beca's forehead, before sitting on the floor next to herand pulling her into her arms.
"What's going on with you, trouble?"
"I'm scared Chlo."
"Shhh, it's okay, I've got you. You're okay."
Aubrey's door creaked open and the tall blonde gently padded down the dimly lit corridor to the bathroom.
"Everything okay in here?"
"Um, yeah Brey, I'm fine, I was-"
"She was sick"
"What? Do you have a bug? Do you need me to get you some meds?"
"Brey I'm fine!"
"Is she running a fever?"
"She is right here," Beca pulled herself up from her position in Chloe's arms on the floor but quickly had to steady herself to stop her from falling. Both the older girls ran forward to support her. "I'm okay Brey, in fact I'm more than okay. I'm great." She turned to Chloe with a bashful grin on her face.
"Anyone wanna tell me what's going on here?"
"She loves me."
"Right..."
"Look Brey, I get if you're upset but I really do love Beca and I won't hurt her, I promise. I know that you really love her and I really love her too-"
"Chloe, slow down. I'm not upset. My best-friend and my baby-sister who've both had a crazy crush on each other since they met have finally got together. I'm definitely not mad. Just know that if you hurt her, despite you being my best-friend, I will end you. Understood?"
"Understood."
"Good, now Becs, are you sure you're okay. You look kinda hot and sweaty?"
"I-I I, shit my head," Beca's body became limp once again as she fell into Chloe's side.