"Oh holy shit", Beca whispered, staring down at the pregnancy test. "Oh, fuck fuck fuck…"

Pregnancy was not a part of the plan. Maybe Jesse's plan ("we're gonna have aca-children. It's inevitable"), but she was fairly sure that he meant in fifteen years or so. In another lifetime.

Not after six months of dating and in their second year of college.

But here they were, facing the reality that was their life.

"Hey Beca!" Fat Amy called, hammering on the door. "Hurry up, stop hogging the bathroom!"

Gathering up her things and doing her best to conceal it from Fat Amy, she opened the door and barged out, past Fat Amy.

"I just wanted a minute!"

"Jesus, what crawled up your arse?" Fat Amy said, with her usual eloquent concern.

Ignoring her roommate, Beca continued down the hall, on a mission towards the Treble House.

"Hey Beca!" Donald greeted her, as he combed his hair in the living room.

"Jesse around?" she wanted to know. "Sorry, hi".

"Jesse!" Benji called from the kitchen.

"What?"

"Beca's here!"

"Hey Bec!" Jesse called. "Come in!"

Beca farewelled the two boys, before all but running into Jesse's room. He grinned at her enthusiasm, before seeing her face.

"Bec, what's wrong?" he asked in concern.

There was no point in trying to prolong her confession. The sooner she got the words out, the sooner he could crush her heart into tiny pieces and they could begin to move on with their lives.

"Jesse", she mumbled, looking down at her hands and beginning to fiddle with the blanket on his bed

"Beca?" He tilted her chin up so he could see her eyes, and her pupils darted away from his, as she picked at her nail polish. "Bec, what's up?"

"Jesse… I'm pregnant".

"What?"

"I took a pregnancy test today, I'm pregnant. We're going to have a baby".

"What?"

"Don't make me repeat it", she murmured, pulling her head away from Jesse's fingers.

"You're pregnant?"

She barely nodded, looking at the bed.

"You said you took a test?"

She nodded again.

"Are you sure you did it right?" Jesse wanted to know, and she stared.

"How exactly do you pee on a stick the wrong way?" she wanted to know. "It's idiot proof".

"Sorry, stupid question".

"Yeah". She nodded curtly.

"So…"

"So what?" she wanted to know, wringing her hands around.

"What do you want to do?" he put an arm around her, and she put her head on his shoulder.

"I don't know, Jesse". He could tell by the way that she was sitting, that her walls were slowly going back up. And there was no way, that under his watch, he would let her walls go back up. He had spent their freshman year breaking them down, slowly but surely, and he wasn't about to go through that again. "What do you want to do?"

That's what she wanted to know. She had hoped that Jesse had some sort of idea, because she was completely unsure.

"Bec?"

"What, Jesse?"

He tilted her head so she was looking into his eyes. Pressing a kiss to her lips, he took her hands in his. "Do you remember what I said to you, at hood night?"

"Yes".

"What did I tell you?"

"That I was one of those aca pella girls, you were one of those aca pella boys-"

"And we're gonna have aca-children", he finished for her, capturing her lips in his once again. "It's inevitable".

"You're happy?" her voice wavered slightly, tears pricking at the back of her eyes, and he felt his heart soar.

"Of course I'm happy! Bec, you're having my baby! The girl I love is having my child, what's not to be happy about?"

"I'm really scared, Jess", she admitted, her voice barely louder than Lily's.

"I know, Bec, so am I", he said, just as quietly. "But we're going to get there, you know why?"

"Why?" she looked up at him and she looked so young and vulnerable that Jesse felt his heart ache.

"Because we're Beca and Jesse, and I spent a year trying to get you. An aca baby was inevitable". He pressed a kiss to her lips and he felt her smile, for the first time since she had burst into the Treble House.