So this is second chapter of this new story… and this story goes for Nikki, Su, and all those great stories out there. I'm very excited about this story and I hope you guys like it as much as I do.

2. Seven months later.

Chloe nervously caressed her pregnant belly with one hand, supporting her temple against the window of the plane. She never usually got nervous, but it was the first time she took a big flight while being pregnant. She usually took small ones to see her family, one to one part of Canada and then to British Columbia one or two more, but now she was flying to London, and she was trapped for seven hours there, which gave her certain anxiety and kept her with a hand over her belly, making sure it was alright. She hadn't wanted to know if the baby was a girl or a boy, the whole thing had been a surprise, so it could keep being a surprise until the end.

She had settled in New York City, she lived there, she liked it there, so there was where she wanted to be and where she wanted to raise her baby, although the British Columbia wasn't a bad idea either. She had planned to deliver there so her family could help her with everything the first few weeks, and later when the baby was a bit bigger, they would go back to the big city.

"Please fasten your seatbelts and get ready for the takeoff." The pilot announced. Chloe felt a bit dizzy and she closed her eyes. This was going to be a long flight.

Chloe's eyes got wet with tears as she stared at Doctor Mitchell.

"She… left? To LA?" Doctor Mitchell, her Comparative Literature teacher at Barden University, nodded with a sad expression.

"I am very sorry, Chloe… she couldn't tell you, she had to go really fast, it was very out of the blue… she really wanted to talk with you and apologize…"

"Bullshit." Chloe shook her head "She didn't even leave a letter, right?" Doctor Mitchell, her girlfriend's father, looked down and shook his head. Chloe nodded "Thank you sir. Have a good day."

Chloe woke up and moaned as she stirred her neck, that hurt from the position. The baby was kicking and the plane was shaking with turbulences.

"Sh…" Chloe rubbed her belly softly with a worried expression looking around. The flight attendant was saying to the people that they were 'experiencing some turbulences' "It's okay baby, you're fine, we're okay. It's just turbulences." Chloe smiled at her belly talking very softly and sweetly to it "Turbulences are just wind shaking this plane a tiny bit, it'll be over soon."

But the turbulences weren't over. They were getting stronger. People started making noise when the oxygen masks came from the ceiling, and they were instructed to put them on. Then, Chloe saw with her eyes full of terror and panic how suddenly one of the flings of the plane was covered in flames. She shut her eyes close trying to calm down and avoid hearing the yelling, and breathed deeply through the mask, hugging her belly with both arms and launching herself forward.

"I love you." She whispered, as two blue eyes came to her mind.

"Chloe?"

"Chloe, are you awake?"

"Chloe."

"Mmm…"

She was so tired, so exhausted, and she only wanted to sleep. She felt dizzy, and so heavy…

"Chloe…" somebody called like singing. She knew that voice. Uh.

Darkness was suddenly interrupted as a big flash of light entered her blinking eyes.

"Mm…" she grunted and blinked to get used to the light. When her eyes got used to the light, two beautiful dark blue eyes were staring at hers. Chloe blinked, confused, and was conscious of being lying down on a bed, hospital bed judging by the noises of monitors, and feeling too numb, dizzy, exhausted and heavy, to even try to attempt moving. She felt things here and there, like cables and other things, so she tried not to move much.

Her head was bandaged and supported on a pillow, her face leaning to a side and her eyes immersed in those dark blue eyes. The eyes that belonged to a face she had dreamed with too many times and missed even more. A face she loved more than anything, but at the same time she missed so much for so long. Her chin a bit separated from the hands she had on Chloe's side of the pillow, her eyes looking at Chloe's and then, Chloe's eyelids closed.

Chloe's eyes opened up widely. She still felt pretty much the same, but she also felt more alert and awake. She was in a hospital room and that made her nervous. Her body felt as if she weighted ten more pounds and she had a slight headache. There was the intermittent sound of machines she was hooked to, a mask on her face that helped her to breathe, and then she heard noise to her right, so she looked, and what she saw confused her.

A woman with a white coat, presumably a doctor, was putting a blanket over a woman that had dozed off sitting on a blue armchair near her bed. Chloe blinked and frowned a little was that…? Before she could open her mouth to ask, the doctor turned around and grinned seeing her awake.

"Look who woke up." The doctor said looking satisfied, getting closer to her "I'm Doctor Galway, I'm your doctor and also general surgeon. How are you feeling?" as she said this, the doctor removed the mask from Chloe's face to put a cannula instead.

"I'm…" suddenly she felt panic as she put a hand on her belly and noticed her belly was almost gone.

"It's okay, your baby is fine." Doctor Galway quickly answered with a big British accent, seeing her panic rising "She was born eleven days ago. She's at the NICU but she'll be alright, she's a strong little girl. Your friend Stacie is with her at the moment." Chloe calmed down a little but felt more confused. She had a baby girl? She had been born? What the hell was she doing in the hospital?

"I'm so utterly confused… what happened? Why are we here?" Chloe asked. Her throat was itchy and raspy and she was starting to get dizzy. At least her girl was okay and with someone she would trust her life to "Where are we?"

"You are at the hospital in London." The doctor answered kindly "Today is July 20th, 2016. What's the last thing you can remember?"

"Uh" Chloe frowned confused and tried to avoid the headache she felt incoming "I was getting into a taxi, it was May… 31st… and I was in New York City. I was on my way to the airport cause I had a presentation for my newest book here in London. I'm a writer." Her eyes moved to Beca's sleeping body in the armchair and back to Doctor Galway "I… did we have a car accident or something?"

"Okay Chloe, try to relax." Doctor Galway sat on the very verge of her bed "What I'm gonna tell you is hard, alright? So just try to take it easy and it'll be okay." Chloe nodded, nervous "The night of May 31st, the plane you were in to come to London suffered a technical failure while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. One of the motors exploded, they're still investigating why, and one of the flings broke in half, covered in flames. From that, things went downhill and well… the plane crashed against the Ocean. There were 432 passengers on board. Fifteen disappeared, nobody knows what happened to them. Three hundred and forty died in the crash." She explained, and Chloe made a huge effort to breathe deeply and stay calm. She was alive, her baby was alright. Doctor Galway kept speaking calmly and in a kind voice, like if talking with a baby "The remaining 77 passengers between which you were somehow survived and swam to a tiny island in the Ocean. There you guys fought for survival for around twenty six days, until you were found and rescued. In this hospital we have fifty nine passengers, including you, all in different stages of recovery. The other eighteen died, ten of them here, and the rest, in the island. Some bodies were found, some weren't."

"Oh my God…" Chloe took a deep breath and felt a pinch in her lungs.

"Calm down, okay? It's fine, it happened days ago, there's nothing you can do." Doctor Galway rubbed her arm affectively "You came here June 27th and you've been here ever since. We were monitoring you and tried to keep your baby inside of you as much as we could but you were recovering very slow, baby was almost nine months old, and you needed a kind of meds and treatments that weren't possible with a baby in your womb. So July 9th we performed a C-Section and your baby was born. Your friend Stacie hasn't left her side much in the past few days, she was here very little after we had you here and called her, she is your emergency contact, and she's been rotating from here to her all the time. She also called your friend Cynthia, Benji, Flo… and… Jessica? And they've also come here. They are around quite often, just left for the night." Doctor Galway explained and Chloe felt herself relax as she knew her baby wasn't being left alone.

"How's my baby, when can I see her?" Chloe asked anxiously.

"She's okay, everybody's been taking tons of photos and videos of her constantly so you won't miss a thing. She was mostly fine when she was born, is the little miracle of the accident, kind of famous. Families of passengers have brought her presents" the doctor smiled "miraculously she was just underweight, so we have her in NICU so she recovers some, and she almost weights normal by now, so she'll be leaving in a couple days and your friend Stacie already said she would take care of her like if she was her own until you can join them." Doctor Galway explained. Chloe smiled a bit and nodded "Little girl is sleeping now, is around eleven night… but we'll bring her here to meet you in the morning right after your breakfast, I promise." Chloe grinned happily "Do you want to know how you are?"

"Yeah, guess so…" Chloe replied a bit nervous and Doctor Galway went to pick up her chart from the night stand.

"So, firstly you're a bit underweight, but have recovered a lot in the past few days so we should be letting you go home soon and you can finish your recovery there." Doctor Galway explained, Chloe nodded "You have some burns that are from the crash and the sun of the island. Dehydration, some concussions, head concussion, some scratches here and there. Apparently you didn't end too bad after the crash, but judging by the injuries all survivors have and by the investigation that's going on, it seems like the island was a fight for survival and you guys fought between each other. You have cuts that were too recent to be from the accident, as well as recent bruising. When you were found you were unconscious and have been waking up and dozing off to sleep continuously for weeks now, too dizzy to do much. You have internal bruising and some internal bleeding, your right lung is punctured from the ribs… also, your left radius is broken, but besides all of that, you're fine. It's a miracle you're so fine, actually. It was a bit dramatic when you first arrived but… not it's much better. You recover fast." Chloe nodded.

"Thanks." Chloe whispered feeling too tired to do much more. She moved her face to stare at Beca. She didn't understand what she was doing there, last she knew, Beca was in Los Angeles accomplishing her dreams "Did she fly all the way here from the States?" she asked Doctor Galway who smiled staring at Beca and shook her head.

"No." Doctor Galway said "She lives here. Beca and I are good friends. She has told me your history and when I saw who you were, I told her and she has barely left that armchair ever since. You guys should talk when she wakes up, but for the moment, you should both sleep." Doctor Galway stood up and tucked Chloe better. Chloe nodded.

"Thanks…" Chloe then saw something shine in Beca's hand and saw she had a ring. Nothing weird, the girl liked rings, but this one was a golden ring in her left hand, in the ringer finger. Her stomach shrink "Beca is married?" Chloe asked suddenly moving to see Doctor Galway, who stopped by the glass door of her room. Doctor Galway looked at Beca and then at Chloe.

"Yeah." Doctor Galway answered, and nodded. Chloe frowned, she felt sad and angry at once. How had everything changed so much? "You girls can talk tomorrow. Now, it's time to sleep, it's late. Have a good night."

When Chloe got up in the morning she smelled like food and saw some nurse was coming in to bring her breakfast.

"Thanks." Beca was up and took the tray with Chloe's breakfast. Chloe realized Beca was wearing the same clothes as the night before. She made an effort and sat up a little, which made Beca look at her and smile "Hi."

"Hi." Chloe replied quickly to move her eyes to the tray "My breakfast?"

"Yeah." Beca nodded putting the tray so Chloe could start eating. They sat in silence, Chloe eating and pretending Beca wasn't there and Beca watching her "Stacie is downstairs with your baby… she's getting released today, apparently, so Stacie will bring her up in a bit." The news were amazing for Chloe, but she refused to show any kindness to Beca after what she did to her, so she just nodded and kept eating "How are you feeling?" Beca asked, tense noticing the tension in the air.

"As I'm expected to feel." Chloe answered without looking at her. Beca decided to shut up and Chloe finished her breakfast closely after.

"I'm sorry." Beca said suddenly after the nurse disappeared with the empty tray. Chloe stared at her and saw Beca was leaning forward sitting on the armchair, with her forearms on her knees and her fingers intertwined, looking down "I'm sorry I left you. You have no idea how much it hurt me to do that to you. But I was a damn coward and couldn't bring myself to… and I thought that way you could hate me and forget about me. Also…" Beca sighed "I think the best think I ever did for you was leaving you. You deserved much better than me, you still do. So I went to LA and made my dreams come true, and I heard about you from my father, since our friends stopped talking with me after what I did to you… which I completely understand. I'm very happy you accomplished your dreams too, Chloe. And I'm so sorry I hurt you so much, and now you're here and all this plane crash crap… I'm sorry." Beca looked up to her and Chloe saw her eyes were glassy. She never saw Beca cry and that softened her a little "I'm here to stay this time around. I want to help you and that baby. Doctor Galway told me she told you I live here now, so you know that, and you can be hella sure that you can stay with me all you want and I'll make sure you two are alright and well taken care of until you can go home. And if you want me to stay away… I will."

Chloe nodded slowly and they lied more comfortably on bed, thoughtful. There were some seconds of silence before Chloe spoke again, in a weak whisper.

"So… what happened?" Chloe asked. Beca sighed.

"I got called to work in Los Angeles as an intern in a music production company. It scaled from there and now I have a music production company here in London. Los Angeles was good for the job but… I got tired of that crazy life and London is more relaxing, and I don't know, I like it here. I'm happy here." Beca explained.

"Good." Chloe nodded. She wasn't sure if she felt angry, sad or happy, but she imagined it was a combination of all. She just had so many emotions, between Beca, the car crash, her baby girl… "Listen, Beca, could you… like, tell Stacie to bring my girl here?" Chloe looked hopeful at her and Beca smiled and nodded.

However, before Beca reached the door of the bedroom, it opened and Stacie was holding something.