AN: Hey guys, still with me? OK good, here we go on to Chapter 2. Still brand new at this and any and all reviews/suggestions still more than welcome! Responses to all my lovely reviewers (at the time this was published) are at the end of the chapter, but I will say, here, thank you all for your kind words! NOW ON WITH THE SHOW!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pitch Perfect 1 or 2 or any of the characters therein. (if you didn't guess that already)

Beca sat dumbly watching Chloe walk out of the booth. She was devastated. She remembered making the comment, she was angry at Aubrey and when Chloe tried stand up for her she struck out, just like she always did. She didn't mean it. God, did she not mean it. Chloe should have known that, she knew Beca better than anyone else. Chloe was the most important person in Beca's life, the only person who could bring her out of her shell, the only person who could pull her out of her "Mitchell mood swings" as Chloe had called them. Chloe knew that, didn't she? She had to. How could she not? There's no way she couldn't. Right?

The latch on the door of the DJ booth clicking shut finally broke Beca out of her haze. She was up in a flash running out of the booth to catch Chloe before she got too far away, figuratively and literally. As Beca threw the door open and rounded the corner she saw Chloe, shoulders slumped and head hung with her hand on the door that led out of the radio station, just getting ready to push it open and leave. The sight broke her heart, knowing that she, and she alone, had caused Chloe I'm-pretty-confident-about-all-this Beale to look like a beaten puppy.

"Chloe, wait, please!" She called louder than she meant to. She flinched as her own voice echoed back to her, bouncing off the walls in the small room.

Chloe stopped, but didn't turn around or take her hand off the door.

"Chloe, please, please, just…" Becca stopped, words failing her as usual.

"What Beca? Please what?" Chloe said all the usual pep and happiness in her voice replaced with a sadness and tiredness that was beyond description and made Beca's chest hurt and eyes burn with unshed tears.

Beca fell to her knees, she didn't know what to do, she was totally clueless. Chloe was always the one to help her know what to do in these situations, the one, the only one, that could help guide her through her own endless and tumultuous sea of emotions, but the light from Chloe's lighthouse was dark for the moment and Beca felt dangerously close to fatally crashing on the rocky shore. The only thing Beca knew for sure, was that she couldn't let the redhead, her redhead, out that door. So she said the only thing she could think of, the truest sentiment she could express at that moment.

"Don't go. Please don't go" It came out barely above a whisper, her voice breaking with every syllable, she wasn't even sure if Chloe had heard her. "I didn't mean it Chlo, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry" Beca sat back on her heels and covered her face with her hands only realizing that the unshed tears that had been stinging her eyes had started to fall, when she felt the moisture on her own cheeks. She just kept repeating "I'm so sorry" over and over again like a mantra or a magical chant that would somehow take the hurt and anger out of Chloe's voice and make her eyes sparkle again.

There was a moment of silence from the other side of the room and then a small noise, Beca knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the noise was Chloe walking out the door, never to look back, and the slow falling tears quickly became sobs that shook her entire body. One flip comment too many had cost her her heart and she didn't know if she'd ever be able to forgive herself.

"Becs?"

Beca, convinced she was now alone, jumped for the second time tonight at the familiar but unexpected voice. She dropped her hands from her face to find Chloe on her knees on the floor in front of her, eyes glistening with tears of her own, not reaching out, just waiting and staring at her like she wasn't totally sure who she was looking at.

"Chlo?" Beca said hesitantly as if she was afraid that if she spoke too loud Chloe would disappear and she would be alone again.

Chloe nodded slightly, and the corner of her mouth twitched into the slightest smile Beca had ever seen from her. With that simple confirmation Beca launched herself at the girl she hadn't been able to get out of her head since that day at the activities fair, almost a year ago. They both fell into a pile of tangled limbs and Beca wrapped her arms tightly around Chloe's body and laid her head on her chest, holding tight as if her very life depended on maintaining the contact. Neither of them were terribly comfortable, Chloe on her back on the cold hard floor and Beca laying awkwardly and mostly on top of Chloe, but neither of them wanted to break the contact they had both needed so badly, so they lied there on the floor awkwardly but content, together, before Beca broke the silence.

"I'm so sorry Chlo, I'm so sorry." Beca started to repeat again.

"I know." Chloe said bringing a hand up to rest gently on Beca's back, stopping Beca from repeating how sorry she was, and then added. "Why didn't you call or text or anything? I needed you." Chloe's voice was soft and gravely from the tears, and even though the anger was still absent, the hurt remained.

Resolved that the only way to fix this was to be honest with the redhead in her arms Beca said.

"Because I needed you too, probably more than you'll ever know, and it scared me, and sometimes I'm just too dumb for my own damn good"

Beca's honest statement earned a chuckle out of Chloe, and the sound was like music to Beca's ears. Feeling slightly better Beca raised her head from Chloe's chest. Making eye contact, steel blue to crystal blue, Beca opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. Beca closed her mouth and eyes and took a deep breath. She opened her eyes and tried to speak again.

"Chlo?"

"Becs?"

"I love you."

Chloe sighed a contented sigh, this may not have been the most perfect moment of her life, lying here on the cold floor of the campus radio station, but it was exactly what she needed.

"I know, I love you too." Chloe sighed more than said. She wasn't used to this more emotional side of Beca, but she certainly wasn't complaining.

Beca sat up and pulled Chloe up with her into a sitting positon, scooting a bit closer to her in the process.

"No that's not what I mean"

Chloe chuckled again and a smile ghosted across Beca's lips at the sound.

"I love you is pretty self-explanatory Becs."

Beca was bad at this, she knew it, she always had been, but she knew she had to get this out, she had to finally tell Chloe what she meant to her. She pulled her knees up to her chest, rested her arms on them, rested her chin on her arms, and looked deeply into Chloe's eyes trying to convey what she was wanted to say through her soft gaze. Chloe looked back at Beca questioningly, whether she was just too tired from the emotional night to read her, like she usually could, or if she was just trying to make Beca voice her feelings for once, Beca wasn't sure; but either way there was no easy way out. So Beca took another deep breath and soldiered on.

"When I say I love you, I don't mean it like we've always meant it in the past."

"Beca, please." Chloe said quietly "I'm exhausted, I've barely slept the last few days and this evening has drained the last bit of energy I had. Please just tell me what you mean."

Beca closed her eyes, scrunched her face and blurted out as quickly as she could.

"I'minlovewithyouChloeBealeandIhavebeenforaverylongtime."

Beca heard a sharp intake of breath from Chloe, and couldn't bring herself to open her eyes, being terrified of what she might find on the face of the only person who could quite literally bring the badass Beca Mitchell to her knees. Another moment of silence and Beca felt a soft hand touch her cheek. She opened her eyes to find Chloe's face inches away from hers for the second time tonight, but this time her eyes held none of the previous anger in fact they shone with nothing but love. Chloe took a shaky breath and readjusted until she was kneeling in front of the balled up girl and pulled Beca up from her guarded position until they were kneeling in front of each other.

"You have no idea how long I've been waiting to hear those words." Chloe shortened the gap between the two and said incredibly softly, her lips ghosting against Beca's, so Beca felt more than heard her say "I'm in love with you Beca Mitchell, and I have been for a very long time."

Beca closed the rest of the distance and felt Chloe's lips press into hers, impossibly soft and warm. Beca had imagined this moment more times that she cared to admit, even to herself, but in all her imaginings she could have never guessed exactly how incredible it would feel to actually kiss Chloe. They stayed like that for a long moment, lips pressed softly together, just breathing, enjoying the feeling of being so close and so intimate, but suddenly reality started to settle and it wasn't enough. They had both wanted this, unbeknownst to the other for so long, and now they both needed more. Chloe was the first to deepen the kiss, even if just slightly, she brought her hands up, running them up the length of Beca's arms to wrap them around Beca's neck pulling her the last little bit closer to her. With this small bit of encouragement Beca placed one hand on the small of Chloe's back keeping their bodies pressed flush against each other and fisted the other into the wild red hair that she loved so much. With the feeling of Beca's hands on her Chloe couldn't stop the sound that had been building since their lips first met and moaned quietly against Beca's lips. Beca smiled into the kiss and slowly ran her tongue along Chloe's full bottom lip, tentatively requesting entrance, still not completely believing this was happening. Chloe's lips parted and in an instant the kiss changed from sweet and shy, to the most passionate moment either of them had ever experienced, and suddenly they were crashing into each other. Beca was the one to end up on her back this time, being pressed into the cold floor by Chloe's full weight on top of her, both of their tongues fighting for dominance, hands exploring freely, limbs dancing together to a rhythm, that any outsider would never be able to see, and even though it was brand new to them, they both knew it as well as they knew the beats of their own hearts. In that instant neither one of them would have been able to tell you where they ended, and the other began. It was bliss, it was euphoria, it was the true definition of perfection.

It was only a moment later, Aubrey's voice came screaming through the passionate haze. "GET YOUR ASS UP MITCHELL, YOU HAVE THINGS TO DO." Beca sat up straight in bed her arms still around the pillow that had been the real life star of her dream.

"Shit" Beca screamed to no one in particular, throwing the pillow across her bedroom before reaching over and silencing the alarm notification she had asked Aubrey to record for her during the retreat she had taken with the Bellas five years before.

Beca swung her legs over the edge of her bed and sat looking out her window at the sky line of Los Angeles, before scrubbing her face with her hands and saying to out loud to herself. "It's gonna be one of those damn days."

AN: So there you have it chapter 2 done and over with. Still with me? I hope so! There is plenty more to come. Quite a bit more explanation coming in chapter 3, which should be out in the next couple of days.

Also little bit of an extra note, I was listening to "Still Hurting" from the soundtrack of "The Last Five Years" (if you haven't seen it, go, go now and watch it. I'll wait…) on repeat for about ten hours, while writing these first two chapters, so that may give you a hint at where some of the angst came from. ;)

: Yay you are my first reviewer! Digital cookie for you my friend! I know, it always bothered me that Chloe never went upside Beca's head for being such as asshat to her after regionals.

Becs: Here's a bit more for you. I know right, there is a definite lack of angry Chloe in the movies!

jalex1: Yep angry Chloe is amazing! She finally got her say in!

vahuene: Sorry about the heart tugs, my friend! Hopefully this chapter helped that out a bit.

xcombixgirlx: It did blow up, big time! I think it's been a long time coming though. Chloe is sweet as pie but a girl can only take so much. Ya know?