Familiar Taste of Poison Chapter 4, a pitch perfect fanfic

"Beca, sweetheart, you're supposed to be in class, why are you here?" Warren asks his daughter. Beca cowers unto her bed as Warren steps into the room. "Why are you trying to get away from me?" He asks, his voice more stern. "You need to leave, please." Beca begs as she hugs her knees to her chest. "Why are you not in class Beca?" Warren asks sternly as he sits on the bed, his hand placed on her leg. "I-I didn't feel well." Beca's voice stuttering in fear as she tries to find a suitable answer. "Well I can help you out with that." Warren says as he leans forward and puts his lips to Beca's. "No, get off." Beca cries out as she pushes Warren away. She watches as Warren's face turns angry. "You don't get to order me around bitch!" He retorts as he punches Beca in the face causing her head to hit the back of her bed. She reaches to the back of her head and feels blood oozing down her skull. Her vision blurs as she watches her father bring his fist back. He punches her in the face again, knocking her out.

"I'm going to hit the showers." Aubrey says as she is about to leave, she looks into the kitchen and notices Chloe asleep on the dining table. Aubrey watches for a moment as her best friend sleeps peacefully. Aubrey knew that Chloe had been under a lot of stress with the Bella's and trying to find more singers, her thesis for her psychology class and this new Beca girl that she had feelings for. Aubrey moved over toward the table and noticed her laptop open. Aubrey opened the screen and noticed Chloe was trying to start her thesis on sexual assault victims and how they struggle to blend into society. She also noticed that Chloe had gotten in contact with several sexual assault survivors who were struggling with PTSD and none of them had agreed to help her with her thesis. "Hey, Chloe, sweetie wake up." Aubrey says, shaking Chloe's shoulder gently. Chloe stirs before her eyes open. "Aubrey." She groans as she reaches out, grabbing Aubrey's arm. "Hey sweetie, I'm just heading to the showers. How about you head to bed and I'll come in later okay? We can talk." Aubrey smiles. Chloe nods, her eyes trying not to drift off again as she stands up and heads to bed. Aubrey leaves the room and heads to the showers.

Beca wakes up on her bed, her head throbbing and a pain she was all too familiar with. She looks down and realises her pants are pulled down. She sits up and looks around the room. No Kimmy Jin. She reaches around and touches the back of her head, she brings her hand back and notices blood on her fingers. She focuses her mind on trying to remember what happened, putting her hands to her temples then pulling away. She winces in pain before touching next to her eye and noticing it's tender. She gets off the bed and moves over to the mirror hanging behind the door. "God Dammit." She whispers as she looks at her reflection. The black ring around her eye and blackened skin on her cheek. Beca's head drops back and she groans aloud as she realises she would have to go to class looking like this. She would have to walk around the campus and into the radio station looking like this. She decide that she would have a shower in order so calm her tense and sore muscles.

Beca arrived into the shower block and walked straight into a shower, pulling the curtain closed and undressing. She looks down at all the scars over her upper legs, hips and stomach. She sits at the bottom of the shower and the water cascades down her scarred back. She moves over to her shower bag and pulls out her razor. She sits back down before placing the razor down on the skin of her hip and yanking it causing a deep and bloody cut. It had been the deepest she had gone yet, the blood not stopping like usual, the blood on the floor of the shower turning red. She repeated the action several times over across her hips and legs, deep cuts also. Beca stops and just sits for a moment, silently sobbing into her knees.

Aubrey enters the shower block and walks into a stall. She undresses before turning on the water. She could hear someone in the stall next to her and proceeded to wash her hair. As she rinses the conditioner out of her hair, Aubrey looks down and notices under the stall that the water is red with blood, too much blood for the girl in the other stall to be having her time of the month. Aubrey knocks on the wall between her and the person in the other stall. "Hello? Are you okay in there?" She asks. There is no answer but instead the water shuts off and the person shuffles around in the next stall, probably putting clothes back on. Aubrey decides to quickly do the same and gets out of the stall before the other person. She watches as the small girl from the activities fair, the one Chloe has feelings for. Beca, she remembers Chloe telling her. "Beca?" Aubrey call out. Beca turns around and faces the blonde she spoke to at the activities fair. "I thought it was you, you little hobbit. Stay the hell away from Chloe, all you are going to do is hurt her and that's the last thing she needs. Telling by that black eye, I know you're trouble. I don't want you near Chloe so stay away." Aubrey enforces. Beca almost cowering into a corner, nodding ferociously. "Good." Aubrey reacts before walking out of the showers. Beca leaning her head back against the wall and sobbing quietly again.

Aubrey arrives back to her dorm room and walks into Chloe's room to find her again on her laptop. "Chloe, you need to stop stressing over this thesis. You'll end up vomiting like I do. Just put it to the side and let's talk." Aubrey stresses as she pulls the laptop off of Chloe's lap. "I can't get her out of my head Aubrey." Chloe says as she rest her head in her hands. "The emo hobbit. Really Chloe?" Aubrey asks. Chloe looks up at her best friend, tears brimming in her eyes. "Yeah Aubrey, really? She- She just has this hold on me so I'm trying to think about her less and more on study like always. It's just a crush, it will pass, it already is." Chloe smiles to Aubrey. "Hey, she won't bother you anymore. Promise. You'll be able to let go of this silly little crush. Be with Tom. You'll be fine." Aubrey mirrors Chloe's smile before wrapping Chloe in a warming hug. Chloe soon falling asleep in her best friend's arms.

Beca sat in her class and scribbled in her notebook, lyrics flowing suddenly after her encounter with the blonde that morning. Her headache not decreasing at all, even with the number of aspirin in her system. She keeps writing down the lyrics, at the top of the page is written a small sentence. 'I could never be what you want me to.' Underneath are the lyrics.

It's caving in around me

What I thought was solid ground

I tried to look the other way

But I couldn't turn around

It's OK for you to hate me

For all the things I've done

I've made a few mistakes

But I'm not the only one

Step away from the ledge

I'm coming down

I could never be

What you want me to

You pull me under

To save yourself

(Save yourself)

You will never see

What's inside of me

I pull you under just to save myself

Beca reads over the lyrics and thinks to herself that this is how dark she has gotten. She scrunches up the paper and drops it under her seat before her professor calls the class to an end. Beca thankful that class is over grabs her bag and beelines it to the door. "Ah Miss Mitchell, could I speak to you for a second?" She hears her professor, Dr. Brooks call out. Beca turns around and heads toward the centre of the theatre. "Miss Mitchell, unfortunately I don't have much time because I have enough class but I quickly wanted to discuss the results for your assignment." He places her assignment in front of her, the paper with 32/100 written on top. "Rebecca." He uses her full names. "Just Beca please." She reiterates. She hears a noise behind her and notices the students for Dr. Brooks next class walking in, one student in particular being the redhead, Chloe. She watches as Chloe stops and glances at Beca. "Miss Mitchell?" Dr. Brooks voice snaps Beca out of her trance. "I'll do better sir. Can I please go now?" She asks, a quick glance thrown to the redhead who is walking up the steps towards where Beca sat and sits in the exact same spot that Beca did. "I also wanted to ask very quick question about your eye. Miss Mitchell what happened?" The professor asks, pointing to her face. Beca quickly thinks of a response, moving the hair out of her face. "I got into a fight with a door sir, no biggie." She laughs nervously. Dr. Brooks drops his head, nodding slowly. "Beca if there is anything you wish to talk about I'm here." He says reaching out and grabbing Beca's hand. "Don't touch me!" Beca yells before storming out of the theatre.

Chloe takes her seat in the theatre and watches the exchange between Beca and her professor. She watches as he points to her face and says something. Chloe only then noticed as Beca moves her hair out of her face that there is a giant bruise from her temple to her jaw and across her eye. Chloe sits up straight and leans over, observing the bruising on Beca's face. She watches as Dr. Brooks reaches out to grab Beca's hand until she yanked it away. "Don't touch me!" Beca yelled out, echoing through the whole theatre. Chloe's eyes widen as she watches Beca leave. She puts her head on the desk before noticing a scrunched up piece of paper on the floor. She picks up the piece of paper and opens it, reading the single sentence at the top, 'I could never be what you want me to' followed by the rest of the page.