Hot damn I woke up to like 120 emails the morning after I posted this. So thank you guys for that. I love your enthusiasm. I decided to make this every two days for updates because I'm busier now and I don't want you guys to have to wait long between chapters. Two days gives more of a buffer. So with that, enjoy.


Beca yawned and hit the call button on Skype. She was going to regret this tomorrow, and probably for the rest of the week, but she didn't care. She was going to talk to Mina, damn it. So what if she had a million things to do tomorrow and then work the next day.

The screen fuzzed out for just a second before Mina's face came into focus. Beca smiled and sat up a little bit more.

"Good morning, liebling."

"Technically I can say good morning and have it be right, too. It's after midnight."

Mina frowned, the action freezing mid-frame leaving her with a ridiculous expression before skype actually caught up again. "You need your sleep."

"Yeah, yeah, I'll get sleep, don't worry. I just want to talk to you. I need that too."

Mina huffed out a breath and rolled her eyes. "I suppose, but we will not be on here long. I will not the cause of your extreme sleep deprivation."

Beca wiggled her eyebrows comically. "Are you sure about that."

"Were I there, no, but I am still in Germany so the answer is yes. You'll have to wait to be kept up like that, mouse."

"Ugh, I don't want to. Just invent teleportation or something. You're a scientist. You can do it."

"I have a degree in chemistry, not theoretical physics. As intertwined as chemistry and physics are, I do not think teleportation is one of those entwined areas."

Beca put her head down on the keyboard and groaned. "Are you sure?"

"I am very sure."

She sat up again. "Fine, but while you're at Caltech you have to make a friend who's working on teleportation so we can be like the first in line when that's a thing. This whole three month thing sucks."

Mina nodded. "I know, little mouse, I'm not exactly fond of it myself, but I can't exactly pick up an entire discipline in a day just to invent teleportation. Quite frankly I'm not sure it's possible, but since I'm not versed in the field I couldn't tell you for sure. Unless you want to be the one who magically learns enough physics overnight we're at an impasse."

Beca felt her eyes widen comically. "Uh, no, science wasn't really ever my thing. High school physics was almost painful. Why do you think I took chemistry for my lab credit in college?"

Mina chuckled. "See." She shook her head. Her lips moved a second later but the audio had cut out. Beca waited for it to kick back in. She hated Skype, she really did, but at least it was a way to see and communicate with Mina easily.

When she heard the sound go back on she sat forward again. "What was that, it just cut out so I could see your lips moving, but I literally actually couldn't hear anything."

"Aren't literally and actually the same thing?"

"Literally in American English has become the opposite in a great many cases. But actually what I was meaning is there's a grade school thing that's all about I can see your lips moving but I can't hear anything you're saying. Which of course you can and whatever, you're just being a little shit because you're like seven, but whatever. But in this case it actually was true so, not being a little shit."

"But you are still little." Mina smirked.

"Yeah, well, I always will be little considering most woman have been done growing for years at twenty-two." The stuck out her tongue. "Not all of us can be huge German Goddesses. What's even in Alpine soil that makes you all grow so big?"

"Miracle Grow."

Beca looked off into the distance for a minute. She had walked right into that one and she knew it.

"Right, yeah. Smartass."

"Of course, but I am your smartass." There was another smirk before Mina straightened again. "So how did the signing of the paperwork go?"

"Well the super's actually a really nice lady, so it went well. So many places to sign I think my hand might be fucking falling off. I gave her the safety deposit and told her I'd be back with the first and last month's rent. After we pay that the apartment is ours. It's available immediately so money paid means I can finally get out of this fucking hotel room oh my god."

Mina smiled. "Good, good. I'll transfer my half of the rent into your account so you may move in as soon as possible. I wouldn't want you to suffer any longer in a plush hotel room or anything," she deadpanned.

"Hey! It's not like it's home or anything. There isn't even a microwave."

"I will give you that it doesn't have a great many features, but I'm sure you're just suffering greatly, mouse."

Beca scowled but before she could say anything Mina was continuing on.

"What is my official half of the rent?"

"A thousand a month. It's definitely a great place for the price."

"Mmm, yes." There were sounds of clicking and Mina's face turned to a focused look of concentration. A minute later Mina sat back. "There, done. You can pay the first and last month's rent now."

"Awesome, thanks." Beca smiled. Tomorrow she would have an apartment officially. Thank god. "We're going to have to do so much shopping oh my god." She rubbed her hands over her face. She knew her Dad was going to send her some house warming stuff when she told him that she'd actually found a place, but there were still a bunch of things they would need to make the place completely livable even if it was furnished.

"Once you give us our address I can do some of the shopping online for us." Mina smirked. "Somehow I don't see you as one of the girls who loves to spend hours shopping."

Beca shook her head. "Unless it's for kitchen implements, then for some reason I'm all over it, but yeah, sheets and shit, no."

"Well then you can handle the kitchen implements, and together we can make a list for the rest."

Beca nodded. "Yeah, ok, sounds good. God, out snapchats are never going to get a rest."

"If we do at least some of it online then they will. Copy pasting URLs into Skype's chat should work well enough, ja?"

"Ja, thank god for Amazon." She ran her hands through her hair. "No one ever really informed me what work getting an apartment was, let alone actually getting it set up." She huffed out a breath. "Who even let me be an adult? I'm not ready for this. I mean I have a job and now an apartment but." She shook her head and looked back at Mina who was smiling at her with a soft expression on her face.

"I think you will be fine, little mouse, most of adulthood is faking it anyway. At least that is what my parents have told me, and now that I am not sixteen anymore, I realize they are usually right."

Beca snorted. "I can't even imagine you as a sixteen year old."

"I assure you, I did age normally and I am not an android. I believe I heard the Bellas speculating that I was one more than a few times."

She looked away. "I totally didn't say that or anything, eheh?"

Mina laughed. "You are a terrible liar, liebling. But I'll show you a few pictures of me in high school. Or there is my Facebook. Everything will be in German, but I believe you can figure it out."

Before Mina even stopped talking Beca had minimized the Skype window and was typing in Mina Stauss into the search bar on Facebook. "What, were you like perfect even back then, too?"

"Ah, not so much. I had braces, as many sixteen year olds do, though by sixteen I had gotten rid of the glasses."

Beca minimized Facebook to pull up Skype again. "What, you had glasses?"

Mina reached over on screen, image blurring out and coming back into focus as she stopped for just a second. There was the sound of scrabbling and then Mina made a satisfied noise before sitting back again. She slipped a pair of glasses on her face and cocked an eyebrow at Beca.

"I still down, mouse. I can't wear contacts all the time, now can I?"

Beca blinked for a few seconds. Ah yes, she didn't need those ovaries anyway, right? Because they were totally on their way to Mina and those ridiculously sexy, black rimmed glasses that were sitting on her nose adorably. How Mina could be both sexy and adorable at the same time she wasn't sure, but she was totally pulling it off and Beca was so god damn conflicted.

"Words, Beca, you can use them." The smirk on Mina's face was wicked.

"No, I'm pretty sure I can't thanks to you. God damn sexy librarian angel goddess."

Mina laughed, throwing her head back and exposing her long neck. Beca really wanted to be able to just reach through the computer and kiss that neck, maybe leave a few bite marks to replace the ones that had faded from their night in Copenhagen. If they couldn't invent teleportation, surely they could do something with virtual reality that could let that happen, right? Sometime like now? She groaned.

"You're killing me. You're going to come to LA to a pile of bones, sexually frustrated bones."

"How can bones be sexually frustrated?" Mina just looked at her.

"Uh, well, I'm pretty sure there's an innuendo in there that I could totally go for, but I'm just not going to." She yawned. "I'm too tired for that." She scooted down in the bed, arranging the pillows just how she wanted them. When she was settled she pulled the laptop up on her chest and angled the screen down so the camera was pointed at her once again. She winced at her picture. She wasn't exactly model material in this position, but at least she was comfortable.

"Then sleep, mouse. I will not hold you here."

"I'm too tired to go for the innuendo, but that doesn't mean that I'm too tired to talk to you. We haven't been talking that long." Beca looked down at the task bar. "And I actually haven't seen you at sixteen. You distracted me with those stupid sexy glasses on your stupid sexy face." She clicked around some more and entered Mina's photos scrolling way down and watching at Mina de-aged before her eyes.

"When did you get a Facebook anyway?" she asked, looking at a picture of Mina in a fencing outfit, helmet tucked under her arm, hair messy, with a medal around her neck and a smile plastered on her face.

"The beginning of what you would call my sophomore year."

Beca hummed. "Yeah, basically the same for me." She scrolled down some more. When she finally reached the end she clicked on the first picture and tapped her fingers as it loaded. She loved talking to Mina but Skype made her computer slow as fuck sometimes.

When the first picture opened she let out an involuntary "aww." She sat up a bit more to get a better look. Mina was standing with her friends, who all were around the same height as she was, Jesus what did Germany feed them? She was in a t-shirt and jeans with her hair pulled back, smiling widely with a mouth full of braces, just like she said.

"You're so cute and you don't look like you're about to murder the next person who walks in the door." Beca clicked to the next picture to see younger Mina in a light pink flower print dress. She snickered and clicked a few more pictures where Mina was in attire in much the same line, along with scattered pictures of her just in casual wear. "Oh my god, you were so preppy when you were younger. When did that stop?"

"My final year of high school was when I started to become more of who I am now. You go on long enough and you can see that for yourself, mouse. I have no doubt that you'll be back to look at every single one of the pictures."

"Yup, you know me well."

"We're all very different people in high school."

Beca snorted. "I'm not sure. I'm still moody, into music, and mostly anti-social. The only thing that's really changed is my makeup skill level, how I dress, and the level of my anti-social tendencies."

"Oh I'm sure there's more than that, mouse." There was a pause and the sound of clicking. "In fact, let's find out."

Beca groaned. "God just don't look at me any different afterward."

Mina laughed. "Yes, well, I don't think you see me in pink floral print dresses anytime soon, do you?"

"Um, not really unless there's like leather side panels." Beca pictured that. "Never mind that would be horrible."

"Ja, that's what I was thinking."

"Whatever, the point still stands that unless it's black or leather I can't see you in it. Unless it's nothing because I can totally see you in nothing and it's a beautiful picture." Beca stared off into space for a second, just remembering what Mina looked like completely naked below her and Jesus take the wheel she couldn't go half a day without thinking about this.

"Don't drool all over your pillow, mouse," Mina teased.

Beca yawned again, wide enough that she cracked her jaw. "I already do drool on my pillow sometimes when I'm sleeping. Just a spoiler alert for when you're living with me." She felt like slapping herself for that little outburst. Could she never play it cool? Just once?

"I think we all do that at some point, little mouse. It's almost adorable, like a drooling baby."

"I am a grown ass adult, I will cut you. Ok, well, probably not cut you because you're too pretty, but I mean. Throw a pillow at you doesn't exactly sound threatening, you know?"

Mina put her hands up and started to exaggeratedly shiver. "Oh no, whatever shall I do if you throw a pillow at me. With your tiny arms you would get no acceleration anyway."

"What did you play softball or something really stereotypical?"

Mina scowled, confused. "Just in gym class, but why would it be stereotypical?"

Beca rubbed her face. "How come you know all the American things but the ones I don't want to explain?" She sighed. "Anyway, it's sort of a running gag in the U.S. that the only girls who play softball are lesbians. It's a load of crap and yet at the same time it isn't? Don't ask me." Beca shrugged.

"Oh, well, that was more fencing at my school." Mina laughed. "The competition trips were…adventurous."

"Oh my god, you slept with your whole fencing team?"

Mina titled her head back and forth. "Well, not all of them, little mouse, but a fair number. High school experimentation, you understand."

"Most people experiment in college. Then again I did my experimenting after college and now I'm on Skype with your ass talking about this. Jesus, you're lucky I'm so head over heels for your beautiful face and everything else really."

Mina hummed. "And here I thought that the Bellas were rather more…incestuous within the sisterhood."

"Oh ew, did you have to put it like that? But I don't know, there may have been something with Jessica and Ashley and Stacie and Cynthia Rose at some point, but I really didn't pay attention."

"Not you and the other small one, Chloe?"

"Yeah, no, not with her. Though before you came along she was the most likely candidate to actually get my bisexual ass out of the closet, but it didn't happen. Jesse sort of popped up before anything big could happen and so we were just friends."

"Color me surprised."

"Yes, well the closet was a safe place, ok? It was cozy." Beca stuck her tongue out and then quickly pulled it back in. She was totally not a five year old.

"And would you rather be there now, mouse?"

"No, I know where I'd rather be and it's not in the closet, it's in bed beside you."

Mina laughed. "That is certainly not in the closet."

"Exactly."

"Mina, bist du wach?" someone called from off screen. Beca thought it probably was Mina's mom.

"Ja, Mama, ich bin wach," Mina called back.

"Gut, Frühstück wird bald fertig sein, mein Schätzchen."

Beca snickered. "Schätzchen, huh? So the invincible Kommissar has another cutesy nickname."

"Mothers are allowed to have nicknames for their children. I'm sure your father does." Mina arched an eyebrow.

Beca shrugged. "He's a guy, the most creative he gets with nicknames are honey and sweetie, dude. Little treasure. There's nothing little about you, though the treasure part I might agree with. Still, I think engel fits you better."

Mina shook her head and smiled. "Yes, well, thank you, but I believe that was my call for food, so I will talk to you later, liebling. Get some sleep. Do you want me to call you later and wake you up?"

"Yeah, that'd be cool."

"All right then. I will. Goodnight, meine kleine maus."

"Night, engel."

Beca hit the end button and sighed. She'd have a better night if Mina was sleeping beside her, but right now she was really tired so it wouldn't matter so much. She set her computer aside and almost immediately fell asleep to dreams about a new apartment and Mina in it.


German Translations:

Mina, bist du wach?- Mina, are you awake?

Ja, Mama, ich bin wach.- Yes, Mom, I'm awake.

Gut, Frühstück wird bald fertig sein, mein Schätzchen. -Good, breakfast will be ready soon my little treasure.

I know some of you wanted me to put the translations beside the words in chapter. I don't like that ascetically, it bothers me, and for chapters that only have a couple things it doesn't seem as necessary. But if there's a chapter again that's got a lot of German dialogue I'll probably do that. Until then it'll be down here. Thanks to xxraug-mossxx for the translations as always. Also thanks for everyone who fixed the breakfast one. Whoops.