Welcome to my new fic, it's called "Titanium" and it's the threequel of "You make me bulletproof", going right after "Unstoppable" that is the sequel. However, if you haven't read those, I still think you'll enjoy this one and you can always ask me if you're in doubt. So, this story is about Beca and Chloe being married and head of a family and of the adventures they live together as a family with their own children and stuff. I really love the fic, so I'd love to hear what you think! Much love!
Okay, I'm really really sorry for the lack of updates these days, in compensation, here's updates today in ALL my bechloe fanfics. Now, what happened is that last week on Tuesday I finished my exams, that kept me busy for the whole January and so last week I was writing and relaxing on my own. Then on Monday this week I got really sick with a cold that ended up being a horrible thing to have at least Monday, because it didn't seem like a normal cold, I was having chills then being too warm, headaches, stomachaches, sneezes, throat pain, coughs, over sensitivity to light, watery eyes all the time… well, I was a mess and went to Theatre at night to rehearse something I'm doing in May-June and the rehearse ended at night and I came back dead, but couldn't miss it because exams already made me miss two rehearsals so… and then Tuesday I spent the whole day in bed and didn't went to class, which was good because thanks to that yesterday I was a lot better and today I'm really recovering, so all good. You gotta know that I care too much for Emotionless, Lost and Found, Unstoppable and The Last Battle to abandon them and I'm ALWAYS writing new chapters (well, all of the stories are already completely written except for Lost and Found, and even that one has like ten chapters written or more) I only need time and energy to update because I like to update them all at once in order not to forget any behind. So if you see I'm not updating either you missed something I said before some chapter explaining my absence, either I'm sick, dead, or busy as hell.
Again, thanks for always being such great readers and reviewers. I love you all like crazy. I will answer all reviews once I'm completely OK because it's four stories with reviews and I want to take a good time to read them and answer them. Please leave reviews. Love you!
Chapter 1: Things were fine until they weren't.
The sun of May set over the Mitchells' household early that 2026, and while the first sunbeams pecked through the curtains, a happy ginger was already giggling in her bed as her brunette wife chuckled getting on top of her and kissing her, barely a couple minutes after having waking up, despite how early it was. For the Mitchells, life was treating them well. They had a healthy four year old daughter named Elizabeth -Beth- Sarah, a great boy with three years old, named Micah Joseph, and just nine months ago they had been given the privilege to be the parents of a Namibian little girl named Kamara -Kai- Marie -in honor of their best girl friend, Aubrey Marie Posen-, who had now a year and almost four months. Rebeca Mitchell was the brunette and shorter mother of the trio, and she was the owner and founder of Bulletproof Productions, a successful music company that had given her several Grammy Awards in the last few years, while her wife, Chloe Anna Mitchell, was an amazing music teacher at Norfolk Elementary School, that had received much recognition for her labors. They lived in a beautiful house with a pool and an amazing garden in Norfolk, Virginia, and also owned seven year old dog Billie-Jean and cat Avery. They were happy and their lives were settled and perfect so far, and despite of it, they had decided it wouldn't be such a bad idea to welcome another baby, or maybe Chloe had decided it and then convinced Beca, who as everybody knew, could barely say no to her beautiful wife. And just three weeks ago they had gotten a positive and were just a couple days away from their first ultrasound for the new baby Mitchell, that Chloe would be carrying just like she carried Beth.
They were so happy, it didn't even bothered them that much when their youngest girl started crying and calling them, interrupting their morning snuggle session, and making them cross the hallway and get into Kai's bedroom, that she shared with Beth, who had already gotten up. They had space in the house to give a bedroom to each kid, but had decided that as long as they were so little, it was easier to have the girls share one room, Micah having his own as long as another boy didn't came up to share with him, and that way if all three of their children needed them, they could be in both bedrooms at the same time. Kai had already woken Beth up, so while Chloe got Kai and hugged her tight, Beca made sure Beth went back to sleep, as it was still soon before they had to take her and Micah to preschool and kindergarten, while Kai wasn't going to kindergarten anytime soon. The couple took Kai to their own bed and cuddled her between them as the girl stopped crying. It was normal for her to be a crier, because her story was very sad and traumatic, and even if she was too young to remember, her subconscious did and reminded her at night sometimes. Kai was the only child of a Namibian couple that was very poor and lived the rough life. The father had been killed in an attack, and then the mother was eight months pregnant, so knowing she could never give her child the life she wanted, and barely being able to eat sometimes, she had found herself not knowing what to do. Then, she got sick with malaria, and Doctors Without Borders took her to one of their refugees, where she gave birth to also sick Kai and died. After two months, Kamara, as her mother had wanted her to be named, had been finally healthy and put out for adoption. Not long after in the summer, 2025, the Mitchells had gone to Namibia because after spending there a few days in their honeymoon they had loved it, and there some friends that worked in DWB told them the story of Kai, and after meeting her, they were so in love with her, by August she was theirs.
Now the black baby giggled as Beca made fart noises against her tiny belly and Chloe smiled at them while stroking the baby's hair.
"I'll go make breakfast and after it, you come with me to take Beth to preschool and Noah to kindergarten, right?" Chloe said kissing Beca.
"Sure. Eva will be here soon too" Beca replied. Eva was the wife of her secretary and very good friend, Wyatt Lightwood, and she was their nanny, and also had a son named Toby that was a year and a half old, and she always brought him because he and their children loved each other. Because Kai wasn't going to kindergarten yet, and Toby wasn't either, they usually shared a morning of fun at their house while Beca and Chloe were at work.
Beca took Kai down to the playpen in the living-dining room and then got back upstairs to wake her remaining children.
"Come on Beth sweetie, time to get up and start the day" Beca sang kissing her daughter's chubby cheeks and getting the ginger tresses of hair out of her face.
"Wanna sleep" the kid muttered.
"Me too, but I've got a job to do and you have things to learn that will help you have an amazing adult life one day" Beca replied opening the curtains of the bedroom and then took Beth out of her bed before she got time to fall asleep again "Mamma is making pancakes. Come on, I gotta wake your brother."
She kissed the child again, and went to her son's bedroom, opened the curtains and giggled when she heard a muffled nooo from her son's bed.
"Good morning Micah, there are pancakes downstairs" she said kissing his son, that had wavy brown hair spread over the pillow "Get up son, today both your mamma and I will take your sister and you to kindergarten and preschool."
They had breakfast as entertaining as always, because Beca and Chloe decided long ago that the best way to start the day was by joking, singing, listening to good music, and cheering their children up as much as possible before they had to get dressed and out of the house. Eva and Toby came to stay with Kai, and the other four Mitchells got into the car and as Chloe drove, they sang and danced, until each kid was at their place.
"I'm gonna get you to work, head to mine and maybe you could pick the kids out later? I have a class now, then I'll go to the grocery store, and I've got another class that ends at noon" Chloe said as they drove away from Micah's kindergarten and to the Bulletproof Productions building.
"Okay, Emily will take me?" Beca guessed smiling kissing Chloe in the cheek.
"Awesome" Chloe smiled widely and just two hours later, Beca was at one of the studios in her company's building recording the latest song of the famous singer Emily Junk.
Emily and Benji lived in LA until they got married in 2023, when they decided to move to New York City so Benji could get into Broadway as he wanted -he had now won several Tony Awards- and Emily who was already a famous singer with Grammy Awards in her shelves, could be closer to Beca, who was her producer. Now Emily was making an album, so she flew to Norfolk three times per week, and still got to be with her daughter Hailee, who would turn two in August.
"That sounded amazing Em, well done" Beca complimented her smiling as her friend walked towards her after the recording, a bottle of water in her hand.
"Really? I thought I lost the pitch at the end."
"Not at all, it was awesome, you wanna hear it?" Beca suggested, and Emily nodded excitedly.
After that they took ten minutes to go down to the cafeteria and rest for a bit, and then Beca's cell phone sounded.
"Beca Mitchell" she greeted as always.
"Miss Mitchell, I'm a nurse from Norfolk General Hospital, you are Chloe Mitchell's emergency contact."
"She's my wife, what happened?" Beca immediately froze in place and felt a lump in her throat.
"She was driving and her car got out of the road and rolled down a hill" the nurse explained "when she got here, we discovered she had an ectopic pregnancy and it was probably the reason she crashed in the first place. She's really bad and just got into the O.R." Beca panicked immediately.
"I'll be right there." Beca hung up and looked at Emily, fear in her face "Chloe had an ectopic pregnancy and she probably was in sudden pain or something, and ended up crashing her car. Can you please take me to the hospital right now?"
An hour and a half later, Beca had already threw up from stress, and Emily was stroking her back softly as they patiently waited in the hospital's waiting room. Beca had asked Emily to call Eva from her so she could pick her children up and take care of them until she could go home to check on them, and also she had called to the preschool and kindergarten to let them now Eva Lightwood was picking the Mitchells up that day. Then Beca had encouraged herself to call Aubrey and George, Chloe's eldest sibling, as they knew Chloe was very grave and her state was serious as hell. Another couple of long hours had to pass until a female doctor came.
"Hi, I'm doctor Meyers, I'm Chloe's surgeon, you are her wife right?" she greeted.
"Yeah, I'm Beca. How's she?" Beca asked anxiously.
"She's in the ICU, but she's alive. She had a ectopic pregnancy that had caused the loss of a Fallopian tube and an ovary, not to mention the baby, of course, and the car crash caused her left wrist to twist, and broke a rib. She also had a concussion but she should be alright. What worries us now the most, is that she lost a lot of blood, and she developed an infection that has her with high fever, but in about forty eight hours she should be better. We have her in induced coma so her body can recover from the intense trauma and we can prevent any major damage to the brain. She was two months and a half pregnant."
"Can I see her?" Beca asked with broken voice.
"Yes, but only you, and only for twenty minutes, because the visiting hours in the ICU are about to end" the surgeon said.
"That's alright, I'll call Aubrey and George to let them know the details and wait for you in the car" Emily said stroking Beca's back and kissed her cheek "Go see your wife."
When Beca saw Chloe full of tubes, cables, the IVs, and looking so pale, with scratches and some bruises here and there, she broke into heavy cries leaning into the side of the bed. But she didn't have much time there and soon, she was sitting in shock in her couch, as Emily and Aubrey, who had taken a jet to Norfolk half an hour after them calling her the first time and also from NYC could be there really fast, sat each in one side of her, trying to make her feel any better. They had told the children Chloe was a bit sick and in the hospital, but nothing big, and the kids were playing in Beth's room.
"Jesse will be here in half an hour, he got my parents to take care of the kids" Aubrey commented after checking her phone for a moment "And Cormac and Gwen are also about to land." Gwen was Chloe's little sister. Chloe was the third of four siblings, George, Sophie and Gwendoline, the youngest. George, his wife Hannah, and their children John and Katherine, lived in Springfield, Missouri; Sophie, her husband Seth, and their children Emma, Edith and Parker, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Gwendoline, her husband Cormac, and their son Owen, lived in Tampa, Florida, were Chloe's family was from, together with Chloe's parents Charles and Anna Beale. Aubrey and Jesse, on the other hand, had married two years ago, five years after having fraternal twins Anna -in honor of Chloe Anna Beale- Margaret and Daniel Marcus, and now they also had Catherine, who was around eighteen months old.
Beca nodded leaning her head on Aubrey's shoulder and closing her eyes as automatically the blonde moved an arm behind Beca's back to caress her hair tenderly. She didn't know if it was from all the emotions, but she felt exhausted, and the lump in her throat had installed pretty comfortably in the opening of her stomach, making her impossible to eat.
"Aren't you hungry yet?" Aubrey asked in a kind whisper before giving Beca a peck on the forehead.
"My stomach has closed up" Beca replied with a hoarse whisper.
"Chloe will be all right, you'll see" Emily said optimistically "it'll take time, but soon she'll be worrying about puppies around here again."
"I hope so, but right now she is miserable, and I know that, and there's nothing I can do to help which is frustrating and infuriating" Beca replied without energy to talk very loud "Let's not mention how she's gonna be when I told her she lost the baby, an ovary and a Fallopian tube, and almost her life too, and she has to learn the small percentage she has now of having a successful and problem-free pregnancy ever again."
"We'll cross that bridge when we get there, let's not overwhelm ourselves for now." Aubrey said.
"Momma!" Beth came running followed by her siblings and Beca sat straight and opened her eyes immediately "Can we visit mamma later this afternoon?"
Beca blinked to dissipate her slumber and managed a tiny smile to her siblings.
"Come here" Beca tapped her lap and soon, Kai was on it, and Beth and Micah had made themselves at home between the other women and her mother "Your mamma is really sick in an hospital, and hospitals are full of very sick people, which is why they won't let anyone younger than sixteen visit anybody inside, that's the hospital's policy, because you youngsters have much more possibilities than us adults to catch anything contagious another patient has, because the little invisible soldiers that protect us from illnesses are as big as you are" she explained, and the children frowned understanding that was a no "Not only that, but your mamma is in a certain part of the hospital where they have a really strict visitors policy, which is why I, that am her wife, can only be two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon with her, and only two people can be with her at the same time. So I believe, we are all going to have to get used to not seeing your mother much or anything for some time."
"But that's crappy!" Micah pouted.
"Yeah, I wanna see mamma!" Beth frowned. Kai just looked at Beca with dying puppy eyes.
"I wanna see her too, and I want all of you to see her too, kids, but hospitals have security guards making sure any kid gets in" Beca explained trying to be patient "Look, maybe your mamma will get her own room the day after tomorrow, and then, maybe I can get the security guard to let you guys come and see her, okay?"
"Why doesn't she has her own room already?" Beth asked confused.
"Because she's in a larger room with other people, so the doctors can look after her faster even if they are busy with another patient."
"Why? You said she wasn't too sick, is she sicker than we thought?" Micah asked. Beca sighed taking in her children's confused faces.
"Look... I'm gonna be honest with you okay? Your mamma was pregnant. She was pregnant, but there was a problem, nothing that is anybody's fault, and the fetus, that is what a baby is when it has just started forming, died, and it hurt so bad, and caught your mother so much by surprise, she was driving and her car went against a tree, so your mother got a little bit more hurt than just by losing the fetus" All three of the children opened their eyes and mouths widely in surprise.
"Oh my God, she's dying isn't she?!" Beth alarmed herself with watery eyes.
"No!" Beca was quick to deny it "Your mamma is not dying anytime soon, all right? That is a statement and that has to be clear in your heads. Your mamma is gonna get better, and come back home really soon. But she had some internal damage, and wounded her head and one of her wrists just a little bit, but she's in the hospital so she can get the best care there is, and get better faster than if she was here with us. She will probably be back home in a couple weeks."
"Is she in pain? Did you see her? How was she?" all the kids started making questions all at once.
"I did saw her before, but the doctors had given her strong painkillers so she could just sleep it off and not suffer not even a tiny bit, just like when you are sick and spend the day sleeping so when you wake up you feel immediately better" Beca explained "Now your mamma's siblings and parents, and my dad, and uncle Jesse, are all coming, so we can distribute the tasks better and somebody can always be with you and your mamma never has to be alone as long as the visiting hours are on."
"Okay..." the kids nodded.
"Kiss mamma from us?" Kai asked and Beca smiled.
"I'll give her a huge kiss from you guys and I'll tell her how much you want her back home so she puts even more effort into healing up. Now, why don't you go back to play?"
The children obeyed knowing better than to try and argue, and Beca got up.
"I'm gonna have a shower, feel free to attack the kitchen or whatever, make yourselves at home" Beca muttered before going upstairs to her bedroom's bathroom.
She turned the hot water on and sat under the shower's spray as soon as she was nude, and from that on, time just flew. When she got downstairs again, already dressed, she was surprised by too many people in her living-dining room and kitchen, which made sense, because she had called them five hours ago, give or take. There were Jesse, all the Beales without their children, Alan Mitchell, Benji, Wyatt and Eva. Beca had cried her eyes out in the shower and was a bit stunned by so many people there, but she greeted them anyway and accepted a sandwich from Jesse, and went to the living sitting with her children that were devouring Nutella toasts like if there was no tomorrow.
"When is visiting hours again mamma?" Beth asked after awhile.
"In an hour sweetheart" Beca replied.
"And you're going?"
"Yes I am."
"And who else?"
"Uhm..." she looked up to Anna and Charles Beale "There can only be two persons at the same time until she's out of the ICU."
"Then, you go babe" Charles smiled at his wife, who nodded.
"All right." She smiled at Beca a bit taking her exhausted expression in and caressed her head with a hand softly. She had been like a mother to Beca ever since her own died, almost eight years ago "You okay honey?"
"I will be, as soon as she's smiling widely and honestly at me" Beca murmured finishing her sandwich.
"Bec, almost forgot, police called to say Chloe's car it's in an auto repair shop, and that the insurance will pay for it" Jesse remembered "I gave them your cell number so they could talk to you in case you were in the hospital next time."
"Okay" Beca nodded "Thanks Jesse."
"No problem."
"Momma, can we play upstairs?" Micah asked.
"And can I draw in the kitchen?" Beth asked.
"Sure" Beca nodded "Make sure you don't get everything covered in paint honey." Micah and Kamara ran upstairs to play with their trucks, and Beth went to the office for paper and paints, and then to the kitchen, leaving the adults alone again in the living.
"So Emily said Chloe had an ectopic pregnancy?" George commented "We didn't even know you guys wanted another baby."
"It was your sister's idea" Beca said "I was content with our three amazing children, even more after having just gotten Kammy, but she loves being a mom and being pregnant, and it had been too many years since she got to be pregnant for the last time, and she loves babies and children despite working with children, and many people around us were having kids and I guess she just really wanted another" she explained "It took time, but you know how difficult it is to say no to her, and eventually I supported it, and three weeks ago she seemed pregnant so she peed on the stick and it was a positive, we were going to have an ultrasound the day after tomorrow and we were gonna wait until she was three months pregnant before telling anyone just in case."
"God, she's definitely going to blame herself for this" Gwen whispered supporting her head on her hand.
"She is" Beca nodded "She will say it's her fault, or that she's a bad mom, or anything like it I guess, and then I'm gonna have to cross my fingers and hope her therapist does her job as well as she has been doing it for the past seven years and a half."
"She's a tough lion sweetie, I'm sure sooner or later she will be fine" Charles said optimistically "By the way, we called Alex, he's in San Francisco working but is coming tomorrow."
"Nice" Beca nodded. Alexei Klowsly had been Noah Spaughton's boyfriend for several years until Noah died from leukemia five years ago. Noah was Chloe's best friend since high school, and now Alex had another boyfriend from the last couple years after not dating anybody for years. "How's Alex, by the way?"
"He's great" Sophie replied "Noah's family is also much better."
Beca nodded and stroke her face with her hands, not having reapplied make up after her shower. Her dad, who was sitting in the sofa beside her, hugged her against him with an arm.
"Why was Chloe driving by the way? Wasn't she supposed to be at work?" Gwen asked suddenly.
"She had a couple hours free and was going to do the grocery shopping" Beca explained. Then Chloe's cell that Beca had taken from the hospital and was in her pocked rang and she took it "Beca Mitchell."
"Beca? It's Nora, Chloe completely skipped two classes and haven't replied any of my calls all day? It's everything okay?" Nora Montgomery was the principal of the Elementary School Chloe taught music in.
"Oh, shit, shit!" Beca bit her lip "I'm so, so sorry Nora, I should've called you, but I completely forgot. Chloe had an ectopic pregnancy this morning while she was driving between classes and had a small car crash and well, she's in the ICU."
"Oh my God! Is she gonna be all right?"
"I guess, I'm going with her mother to visit her in a bit. She lost an ovary, the baby and a Fallopian tube, and twisted a wrist and broke a rib, but otherwise she's fine. They have her in an induced coma to give her time to recover a bit, and maybe they'll put her in a room the day after tomorrow because she got a huge infection and they don't want to move her until her fever goes down." She explained.
"Let me know when she has a room so I can visit! And don't worry about anything Beca, take care girl."
"Okay, thank you Nora, bye." She hung up "I forgot Chloe missed two classes and the principal was ready to get moody. Luckily, she's a friend."
"Good" Anna smiled.
"It's half past five, maybe you guys should get going." George reminded them looking at his watch.
