A/N: what up, aca-people? Another day, another chapter. It's a day late but... I swear I never updated so fast in my life. Thank you for all your support and amazing reviews! I know many want to know what happen 12 years ago. But we have to wait for a 'civil' conversation between the sisters to find out. Stick with me?

'until its gone' : I had the exact feels times 10 when I wrote that part. My heart hurt to picture the scene in my head but I had to get it out before I exploded. :(

Disclaimer: who even reads this? No one mentioned my last reference in the disclaimer. :( I don't own anything :-/

Chapter Four: Cross Your Heart And Comfort Me

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It was almost midnight when Stacie managed to get Aubrey back to her place. They'd spent the last couple of hours at a local diner, where they sat in a corner booth, talking about the smallest of things or sitting in a comfortable silence until the blonde had recovered enough from the evening's encounter. Stacie found her to be quite fun and interesting, with a light sense of humour, quite similar to Beca's but less snarky.

Aubrey, on the other hand, decided to use this extremely rare occasion to put on her older sister instincts to use and get to know the person who claimed to be her baby Bug's best friend. Also, she wanted the opportunity to add to the never ending list of things she missed out on in her sister's life. Disappointed slightly when Stacie refused to give more than the basic review of the last 11 years that she'd been friends with Beca, Aubrey realized that she needed to face her sister for more than that. She almost couldn't hold back the tears that stung her eyes, knowing that it wasn't a good possibility.

Sensing the blonde's distress, Stacie quickly changed the discussion to the one thing that cheered up Beca in times like these. The sparkle of excitement was quite visible in those green eyes as the girls spend the rest of the night talking about all things music. Well, Aubrey talked; Stacie just spent the time watching her, liking this carefree, unguarded side of her. This definitely wasn't the uptight Aubrey Posen who called her sister a bitch on their first meeting after twelve years. This was Bee, the protective older sister that Beca told her about, the one Stacie had began to love over the years and the past few hours.

Wait, LOVE?!

Reality struck her like lightening and she almost choked on the hot coffee she'd been sipping, making Aubrey stop her stories about the Bellas to look at her with concern. Stacie shivered under the intense gaze, deciding to cover up her awkwardness by saying something about it getting late and chilly and that she should get home to Beca. She frowned a little, realizing that she hadn't thought of checking up on her best friend all night.

Aubrey must have realized the same thing as she looked at her with a mix expression between 'how-could-i-forget-about-that' concern and 'aren't-you-supposed-to-be-her-best-friend' incredulity. Although, even she couldn't deny when the tall brunette offered to walk her home before she went back to her dorm.

Thus, the pair had ended up at the blonde's door, close to midnight, waiting for the other to say the first goodbye. Although, the silence in which they stood outside in the cool September air wasn't nearly as awkward as it should've been. In fact, they were weirdly comfortable just staring at each with the smallest of smiles in place. However, their bubble burst as soon as the loud beep of the blonde's phone startled them to reality.

Aubrey frowned at her phone; more specifically, at the message she just received from Chloe.

"I should go, check up on Becs," Stacie spoke after a moment of watching the blonde rapidly type on her phone, mainly wanting to leave before things got more weird.

"No need. Chloe's with her." Aubrey said with a slight confusion and anger in her voice, still typing on her phone. "Apparently, she met her at the quad after our... argument? Chloe took her to her dorm and now she is cuddled up with MY baby sister."

"Wait, what?" Stacie voiced her confusion, moving quite close to the senior to check out the phone for herself. Not aware of this closure yet, the other just stopped writing her furious replies to her best friend and scrolled the screen to the only text by the redhead in all that time.

Hey, Brey. Can't come home tonite. Met ur sister quad after class. Smthing happen? She cried to sleep, hugging me. Got to go b4 I wake her up. xoxo

"Do they even know each other?" Stacie said, raising a brow in question, although Aubrey was too busy typing threat messages again, to see.

"Well, Chlo's been my best friend since 5th grade so, of course I told her about my sister. She only met her at the fair, though." She replied with another confused frown. "But you'll be surprised to know how many people she ended in bed with, with far less introductions."

"She didn't look like a slut though. What surprises me is that it's Becs. Beca Mitchell doesn't do cuddles!" The brunette exclaimed, sharing a well known fact about the badass DJ.

"No, Chloe isn't a slut. She just can't understand personal boundaries. I think, I should've told her to STAY AWAY FROM MY BABY SISTER." Aubrey sighed as she realized that the redhead wasn't going to reply anytime soon. Recalling the last part of Stacie's last comment, Aubrey turned towards her with furrowed eyebrows, "What are you talking about? Beca used to be a cuddle monster when-"

Both girls stopped any movement as soon as they realized the distance (or the lack of) between them. For the longest moments, none of them spoke, or made any moves to break the weirdly recurring little bubble that surrounded them for the night.

"Do you..." Aubrey asked hesitantly in a low voice. "Maybe wanna... c-come inside?"

"Yeah..." Stacie answered in the same whisper, breaking their bubble with a smile matching the blonde's as they finally opened the door to enter the house together.

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Chloe furrowed her brows as she scrolled down the long list of threats she'd received from her best friend in the past ten minutes. However, a smile out did that frown as soon as the redhead felt the cause of those threats, nuzzle their face deeper in the side of her neck, tightening the grip on her abdomen unconsciously.

She looked down at the tiny brunette hugging her like a baby koala and almost laughed at the silly comparison. Koalas were no match for the cuteness of this amazing creature curled up beside her. She slowly turned her head to catch a glimpse of the brunette's face in the small glow provided by her cellphone and smiled when she took in her beauty. Beca scrunched her face as the light hit her and turned almost on top her cuddle pillow to block it out.

Chloe closed her screen in a silent reply and put her phone away before holding the brunette against her and drifting off to sleep again.

Her last thought of the night was how beautiful this girl was and how she was worth a million threats to the anyone who wanted to hurt her. In her last moment of consciousness, Chloe swore to herself that she never would.

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Stacie smiled subconsciously as she surfed through the small collection of CDs on Aubrey's side of the living room shelf. Many of them were similar to Beca's but different in ways that defined both sisters. While the DJ listened to all genres and looked for songs that she could blend together, her older sister had music that was perfect without any blend but limited to a few genres such as light rock, alt-rock, R&B and classical pop-rock.

As she waited for Aubrey to freshen up, the tall brunette started going through the book collection underneath the CDs. Beca loved reading too, but didn't own more than a dozen of them since she spent all her money on music every time, half of those books were Harry Potter anyways. So, Stacie was the one with the book shelves that Beca borrowed from (and vice versa was with the CDs). She realized that the older Mitchell had a similar arrangement with her best friend, both having equal collections for music, books and movies but never having two copies of the same thing.

"Hey, you wanna have a cup of coffee?" Stacie turned to see the senior making her way to the small kitchen that attached to the living room. She had changed into a much homey attire of a grass green BU hoodie over a purple tank top and a pair of shorts that went to her mid thigh, leaving her long legs bare. The brunette snapped her head up before the blonde turned to face her. Even with her hair in a messy ponytail and her make up removed, she looked damn gorgeous. Wait, this again?

"Yeah, that sounds good." She spoke up with a mechanical nod before she it could get any more awkward on her part. She turned to the shelf again, hoping that the blonde would buy it, relieved when she did. "Hey, Aubrey? How come you only have the first part of Harry Potter in your collection? Both movie and book."

Aubrey shrugged, not looking up from her work, "It's my favourite part. I've had the book with me since I moved to Barden. The movie was the first one I bought in the stack, as soon as it was released. You can choose a movie to watch if you want."

Stacie took the obvious hint to change the subject and picked up a cheesy chick flick from the pile instead. She set it up in the already opened laptop and sat crossed legged on the couch. Aubrey came back with two steaming mugs, handing one to her and taking seat on the opposite end, the laptop placed on the coffee table in front of them.

"A cinderella story? I bet Chloe put it on my side," the blonde tried to lie as soon as the opening credits came on.

"I think you lost that bet, you secret closet romantic." Stacie replied with a smirk, knowing the expression on the blonde's face to be the same one as Beca's when she gets caught listening to Taylor Swift from time to time. She took a sip from her mug and realized that it was hot chocolate instead.

"Oh, it's something I like to drink during these movies. Since you are going to tease me about it anyways, I might as well enjoy it." Aubrey explained, turning her attention to the small screen, unaware of the small smile that the brunette had as she learned another quirk about her. This girl was getting more and more amazing by the minute.

Half way through the movie, the pair weren't even looking at the screen. They'd started talking about random things, not even ten minutes into the movie. Aubrey learned more about her sister's best friend and how perfect she was... for her sister, that is. And Stacie got to know the real Bee in that time. They finally shut the laptop, sitting side by side on the couch with their legs propped up on the table, in a comfortable silence only disturbed by the occasional sipping of the last remains of their drinks.

"Beca and I used to read first Harry Potter together as kids." Aubrey spoke up after a while, clenching her mug tightly. "Well, I would read and she would just sit there listening intently, every once in a while making me do imitations of the characters with funny accents."

Stacie smiled subconsciously when the blonde let out a shaky laugh at the memory, looking at the floor as if she could see their younger selves. She didn't know what to do other than grab both their mugs, setting them on the table before taking the older girls hands in hers. She must have done something right because the blonde returned the smile as much as she could with the tears building up in her eyes before speaking again.

"I had the most horrible British accent at the time, but Beca didn't care. She probably heard the story a dozen times but would be so engrossed in it every single time that you could see the emotions on her face. I swear, she cried the first time I told her that Harry's parents were only in his reflection in the mirror of erised." She chuckled again, this time joined by the tall brunette. "We only had only one copy at the time, so when I moved to Barden, I took it with me as a souvenir, I guess? That's also why I bought the movie too. I mean, Chloe is a huge potterhead so of course she had the rest of the series and made me read and watch it all the time. But the first one was always special to me."

Stacie squeezed her hand in assurance, "If it helps, Beca doesn't have it in her collection. She doesn't have the first book, and she has reread all the others at least a dozen times now, but never the first."

Aubrey was surprised at this confession but couldn't help the wide smile that came on next. After all these years, her baby Bug could still surprise her with new ways of expressing her love. She gave Stacie a bone crushing hug before they decided to finish their movie any ways, ultimately falling asleep, cuddled up on the couch, by the time the ending credits rolled up.

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"Beca... wake up..."

"Too early... Too comfy..."

"Rebecca Mitchell! Get up and out of MY bed, before I toss all your music stuff out the window!"

The tiny brunette had never jumped out of bed so fast in her life as she did now, scared to test the threat she got. However, she didn't realize her position until she rolled out bed grabbing the hold of her cuddle pillow before ultimately dragging it down on floor with her.

"Oomph!" "Ow!" Chloe snapped open her eyes as soon as she made contact with the floor. Again, not exactly the floor, but Beca.

"Hi!" She breathed as her baby blue eyes looked straight into her navy blues.

"Hey, there!" Beca replied with a small smile, forgetting all in her surrounding except the perky mass of baby blue and fiery red pressed up against her. "You know, this is the second time you've tackled me in less than 12 hours, yet I don't even know your name."

"Oh, really?" Chloe asked with a raised eyebrow, matching her teasing companion. "Well, you didn't have to sleep with me just to ask my name. Although, I did appreciate all the free hugs. I am Chloe, by the way."

Beca blushed deep red at the teasing but smiled nonetheless. However, this unusual sight of reddening cheeks was too much for the third person in the room who cleared their throat to make their presence known.

It did the trick as the pair broke apart to stand up at the speed of lightning, glaring at Stacie. Well, it was more like, Beca glared while Stacie smiled innocently and Chloe silently watched their amusing exchange. It wasn't long before the shorter brunette broke the eye contact with one final sharp look and announced, "I am going to take a shower."

"Oh! Me too!" Chloe said, not quite regretting her tongue slip when the shorter brunette immediately reddened, despite the wolf whistling from Stacie. "I meant separately. I can't be seen in public looking like this."

Beca couldn't help but stare at her appearance as she gestured to herself. A voice in the back of her head almost made her admit that the redhead was the most gorgeous person she knew, all 24 hours a day. But the rest of her brain told that voice to shut up as she averted her eyes to grab her own stuff, "Stacie give her some clothes. Mine won't fit."

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"Don't do anything, I wouldn't!"

The pair walked to the showers in an awkward silence (mostly on Beca's part) courtesy of the farewell comment that Stacie decided to give them. Once inside, Beca made her way to the furthest cubicle she could find, closing herself in and sighing in relief when she heard the redhead take one a few stalls away. Luckily, most classes had already started so there weren't any students in the bathroom as far as the brunette was concerned.

She started up the hot water, slowly singing a song that she'd been repeating in her head since the yesterday's fiasco. Some how it calmed her nerves and comforted her.

"...I am bullet proof, nothing to lose. Fire away, fire away." Just as she was about to step under the water, her shower curtain was ripped open, revealing a very perky, very bare redhead.

"You can sing!" Chloe exclaimed, making Beca whip around and immediately snap the curtain close, only for it to be opened again as the redhead stepped further inside.

"Dude!" Beca shouted, trying her best to cover herself with her arms, her death glare ignored as Chloe turned off the water, getting even close to her. "What the hell?! Get out!"

"Not until you sing Titanium for me." She insisted, not even a little bit concerned about her nakedness that Beca tried hard not to look at.

"You know David Guetta?" She asked with a little surprise, mostly to distract herself from the view.

"Of course! It's my jam." Chloe said proudly before leaning closer and whispering, "my lady jam."

"Gross." Beca mumbled as she pressed herself further against the marble wall to get as far as possibly could.

"Can you sing it for me?" It sounded more like a demand than a request which made Beca raise her brow in incredulity. "I am not leaving until you sing, so..."

Beca look away, hoping that the girl was joking and would leave soon. But when she didn't, the DJ sighed in defeat and started the chorus to the song, mostly to get the other girl away from her. When Chloe joined her halfway, she was surprised at how well their voices blend together. However, as the singing came to an end, Beca slipped her a smile before awkwardly waiting for her to leave, mumbling something about the shower.

Chloe's smile didn't falter a bit as she nodded her head in acceptance, practically ordered the brunette to come to the Bellas auditions next week before walking out the stall. The baffled brunette could just stare at spot she stood and tried to think what in the hell happened? Although, one thing was sure:

Titanium will NEVER comfort her the same way again.

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