The Bounty
RATED T
Chapter 2: Differences
The next day goes fairly well. Everyone decided to continue to unpack and get comfortable in their new home. The house is small, but they make do with that they have. Living in only a two bedroom house, Aubrey has to be partnered up with Beca and Chloe. She doesn't really enjoy the fact that they're always stark naked around each other.
Other than that she doesn't mind being roommates with the duo. Now that they're a team with real enemies they need to start to work together. Aubrey and Beca have come to a conclusion. They'll be themselves and if the other person has a problem, they shut up and not make a comment.
Around four in the evening, Beca calls for another meeting. Everyone once again sits around the table. This time there's a metal suitcase in the middle of it. Once everyone was seated Beca starts the meeting, "Let's start with the names."
"We should be the Bellatores," Luke insisted. Getting confused looks around him he describes it more, "It means warriors in Latin."
"That's too cliché Luke. We should be the fantastic five!" Jesse tells everyone.
Beca points to him and sighs, "No Jesse. There's already a fantastic four."
"What's so bad about that?" Jesse questions.
"It is un original," Aubrey buds in. "We're different from them."
Jesse frowns but shuts up. He's not going to fight the team on a name whether he likes it or not. "Then I'll second Luke's suggestion."
Beca looks to everyone for a confirmation. No one opposes, so now they have a name. Beca stands when everyone averts their attention to their leader. She first directs their attention to the suitcase. She flips the seals then slowly opens it. There are weapons in there, and a lot. She looks to Aubrey, "This is what you requested?"
Aubrey raises the shiny black bow. Her face lights up with joy. From now on she'll practice with the bow. Beca seems elated that Aubrey enjoys her new weapon. That's all a real leader wants, is their teammates to feel… needed. Aubrey slings it over her back and sits back down, clearly not able to wipe that grin off her face.
"Okay time for the schedule," Beca continues. She hands out a piece of paper to everyone. "Do I have any objection? But before you say them, remember that there's a reason for this schedule."
Everyone takes some time to check over their times. It seems pretty basic. Either everyone is awake or not. No one can mess this up. This will determines if they're able to actually trust each other. They have countless hours of training but they do need it. Starting tomorrow is their real day, together, as a team.
"This is so fucking hard," Jesse yells not able to activate his power. It probably doesn't help that Luke is already up in the air, teasing him.
Every day that Beca and Chloe are together, they find out something new with their power. Apparently lifting two hands towards a target can stop them in their tracks. Like an invisible force field and they can also throw their target by a flick of their hands.
It seems that they all get stronger by the day. Luke has been able to activate his power without trouble, Chloe and Beca are training with the invisible force, Aubrey can reload the bow quickly but her aim is a bit off. As for Jesse, he's falling behind. Jesse can't activate his power frequently.
"Jesse concentrate," Luke whispers trying to calm down a raging Jesse.
Jesse nods and starts to take deep breaths, attempting to calm himself down. Without luck, he just floated up and fell back down. Everyone around him laughs. Beca walks over to him and offers him her hand. He takes it, smiling as the small girl helps him up. Luke floats down beside him and throws his arm around Jesse's shoulders.
"Calm down Jess. You're stressing," Aubrey yells then releasing a shot, which hits directly on the red dot.
"That's easy for you to say. You just shoot-, "Jesse gets cut off when an arrow is pointed at him.
"Aubrey calm down," Chloe mutters standing close beside Beca.
Aubrey lowers the bow but doesn't retract the arrow. She swiftly lifts it up and turning to the target, she shoots. It hits the red dot and she wasn't even looking. This starts to terrify Jesse. With the change of emotion, he starts to levitate upwards. Everyone starts to smile. All it took was to bring something other than anger into Jesse.
After several hours of training, they're done for the day. By the end of the day, Jesse was more able to activate his power. All it really took was some encouraging from Aubrey when he got too annoying. Aubrey was defiantly more skilled with her weapon and that would help the team a lot. A bow and arrow is accurate and a silent kill. Aubrey will be the one usually in charge of stealth missions.
Chloe and Luke were practicing combat on each other and every time Chloe was about to be hit, Beca somehow stopped him. It's either she uses her power to stop him or she just interrupts them. Yet every time Chloe hits Luke, Beca's never there.
As for Beca, she has been doing paperwork more than training. She's definitely the most skilled out of them all. She has amazing control over her powers and she knows how to use them. Beca can't help but feel insecure. What if her team thinks she's too full of herself? What if they secretly hate her?
Clearly Chloe doesn't hate Beca. Chloe always steal glances at Beca whenever she could. That's probably one of the main reasons why Luke can actually hit her. Beca would always walk by their fight, wearing tight yoga pants. How can Chloe not look?
After dinner, everyone decides to watch a movie. Everyone except Beca that is, but Chloe went against Beca and said something about majority rules. Somehow they actually talked Beca into this and now she's on the end of the couch with Chloe on her lap.
"Chloe, why do you do this to me?" Beca mutters into Chloe's ear when the couple on the screen kisses.
Chloe shrugs and kisses Beca sweetly. She starts to kiss Beca's jaw, slowly moving down to her neck quietly, trying not to draw attention to them. Beca can't sit there and let Chloe fiddle with her. She leans down to Chloe, "We should get out of here."
Chloe smirks and bites her lip seductively. She nods and slowly chambers off of Beca. "Beca and I are going to- sleep early."
Beca entwines their hands and walks off with Chloe. They leave Aubrey sighing, "They're going to have sex. This is great; I am stuck on the couch today."
Jesse and Luke snickers at the blonde, feeling no remorse for her. She's the one that picked being roommates with Chloe and not Jesse's. But it's obvious that Aubrey wouldn't choose them. Jesse and Luke decide to go to sleep too, so they leave Aubrey alone in their living room.
