Chloe awoke in a strange bed with Aubrey standing next to her. Her head was pounding and then Chloe realised what had happened. She sat up quickly.
"Where is Beca, I need to see her, what's happened? Is she out of surgery?"
Aubrey took Chloe's hand, "she is still in surgery, they have been working on her for the last 5 hours, its 6am why don't you try getting some sleep"
"No I can't, why did this have to happen to her? She was the best of us." Chloe collapsed in Aubrey's arms "I can't lose her."
The two girls stayed there for a while before Chloe decided she needed to get out of bed. She swung her legs of the bed and stood up.
Chloe's head rushed and the edges of her vision went blurry.
"Ok maybe you should take it a bit slower, you will be no use to Beca if you faint again" Aubrey caught Chloe just as she started to fall.
"Maybe we should take it slowly, there is a vending machine round the corner so I will grab us something to eat and we can take on the hospital later" Aubrey walked off round the corner while Chloe sat herself back down on the side of the bed.
Aubrey came back with some no brand chips and very weak coffee. Chloe gave Aubrey and incredulous look. "It may only be hospital food but it's better than nothing" Chloe's stomach rumbled so she quickly devoured the chips.
The girls had just finished up their coffee when there was a knock at the door, it was the nurse again.
"Beca has just come out of surgery, she was very lucky, it appears that she didn't lose as much blood as we initially thought and she should be ok. Whoever kept the pressure on her wound with those jumpers almost certainly saved her life."
Both of the girls immediately burst into tears, thanking God that their fiery DJ was going to be ok.
"there was also one other thing, we looked on file for anyone we should call but there doesn't seem to be anyone, as she is 18 it is not a legal requirement for us to call her parents."
Both girls nodded understanding that Dr Mitchell he wouldn't know until they found him.
"Chloe I'm going to go and let the other girls know, they dropped me off here and went back to Barden to see if they could get hold of Dr Mitchell but I don't think he is here yet"
"I'm going to go and see Beca, oh Brey I'm so happy she is ok"
The girls then went her separate ways, after inquiring about Becas whereabouts Chloe found herself at the foot of Becas bed. There were wires everywhere and she looked so pale but the uniform beeping of her heart rate monitor reassured Chloe that everything was going to be ok.
She sat in the chair next to the bedside and her mind wandered to Becas father, why wasn't he here yet? What could possibly be more important than Beca being nearly killed?
Chloe chocked up at the thought but quickly pulled herself together. That was not going to happen Beca was a fighter and if anyone could get through this she could. Meanwhile there were things to be done; they had still heard nothing from Dr Mitchell. Chloe decided that this was paramount to anything else and called Aubrey.
"Dr Mitchell is still not here, you need to find him, I will keep trying his number and see if I can find any way to get his house number"
Even as Chloe said this she realised that Beca would have had her phone on her.
"Damn it, sorry Brey I've just thought of something, I have to go, keep searching for him. Ok Bye"
Chloe hung up and eventually found a lady in nurse's uniform that looked like they may be able to help.
"Hi sorry, I'm with Beca Mitchell and it's just her dad hasn't showed up yet, I was wondering if you had her belongings she came in with."
Recognition flashed across the woman's brown eyes "oh that poor girl, she had such a horrible accident didn't she, of course, I will go and see where they put everything."
"Thank you so much!" Chloe called after the nurse who was already jogging down the corridor, brown ponytail swinging behind her.
Chloe went back to sit next to Beca to await the nurses return, that was when she heard "right this way sir, Beca is just round here." Chloe jumped up ready to tell Dr Mitchell exactly what had happened when someone she was not expecting walked round the corner.
"Jesse?"
To say Chloe was shocked was an understatement.
"Chloe what happened? Why was she by herself when she was stabbed? You should know better than to leave another girl by herself at night, now look what's happened!"
Jesse was getting closer and closer to Chloe, he grabbed her arm.
"Don't you see? This is your fault; she didn't even want to go to your stupid night out anyway" He was almost shouting now.
Chloe shook her arm desperately trying to get him off her "Please Jesse you're hurting my arm, I didn't mean to, she just ran off after that man by hers…"
Just then there was a shout from behind Jesse. "Get your hands off her!"
It was the nurse again. "You should know better than to assault a girl while she is in hospital, now get out!"
Jesse looked stunned, Chloe was unsure if he didn't realise how close he had got to her or if he wasn't expecting to be confronted.
"Why me? It's her fault Beca is in here to start with!" he said pointing a finger at Chloe.
"Yes it is." The nurse was nodding her head
"Wait what?" both Jesse and Chloe turned their heads unsure that they had heard correctly.
"If this young woman had not been there then Beca would be in a morgue right now instead of alive in a hospital bed. She saved her life and now you are giving her a hard time about it. You are a disgrace; now get out before I call security"
Chloe collapsed in the chair while Jesse shot her an apologetic look before sulking away.
"I'm so sorry about that, boys can be so immature sometimes so don't listen to a word he said. Anyway hun I got you those things you were asking for, the phones out of charge but I stole a charger from one of the doctors desks, I'm sure he won't mind." The nurse gave her a quick wink "I thought that was what you might be after most but I thought I had better bring the rest of it too"
Chloe turned to plug in the charger before turning back to thank the nurse but she had already gone.
Now all she had to do was wait.
After only about 10 minutes though the phone had charged enough to turn on, several messages had popped up when the phone had been turned on. Chloe went straight to contacts and found Home.
She dialled and was suddenly extremely nervous. How would Dr Mitchell react to them not being able to contact him earlier?
"Hello?"
"Um hi is Dr Mitchell there?"
"I'm afraid not, he hasn't lived here for the last 5 years I'm afraid"
"I'm sorry who is this? I think I might have got the wrong number, I'm phoning about Beca"
"This is Rachel Mitchell, Becas mother, has something happened?"
Chloe froze- how could she have forgotten that her parents had split up?
"She… she was in an accident, she is ok now though… we are at Atlanta Medical Centre"
"I'm on my way; I will call you when I arrive"
The phone line went blank.
"Oh my God! How could I have been so stupid? You don't stop having a mother just because your parents split up! And now I am talking to myself. Great."
"It is the first sign of crazy you know"
Chloe's head shot up, Aubrey and Stacie were standing straight in front of her.
"Oh god am I pleased to see you guys, you will never guess what just happened."
Chloe went on to explain the whole story starting from when Jesse arrived.
"That complete acca-douche! Eugh I am going to slap him so hard he's going to wish he was never born!"
"Ok calm down Aubrey, I'm sure he will come to his senses soon although it might take him a little longer as he is a boy." Stacie had put her hand on Aubrey's shoulder and immediately she had relaxed.
"That's weird…" thought Chloe but she didn't have time to say anything as just that second Becas phone started to ring.
"It's Becas mum…" Chloe whispered before answering
"Hello? Yeah…. Yeah… I don't think so…. We are in the East wing… yeah ground floor. Ok Bye"
Chloe hung up before walking off, she turned and called back to them
"Going to meet her mum! Will be back in a minute!"
Chloe walked round the corner to the entrance of the ward and sat at the front desk.
There weren't that many people around the ward but Chloe knew Becas mum as soon as she saw her.
Chloe got up and started to walk over to the shorter woman. She had long brown hair just like Beca's but tinged with grey; the most striking thing about her though was the deep blue eyes that Beca has obviously inherited.
"Hi I'm Chloe Beale, the one you spoke to on the phone. Beca's this way."
Chloe wasted no time with introductions as she knew right not all Rachel wanted to see was her daughter.
"She is fine we think and the doctors say she should recover well. I'm so sorry we couldn't contact you earlier, we didn't have your number and Dr Mitchell still isn't responding."
Chloe realised that they had got to the ward that Beca was in.
"Sorry we will leave you two alone" Chloe signalled to Aubrey and Stacie that they should all leave, the three Bellas walked out of the ward and into the corridor.
"Oh my god her and Beca are like split images of each other!"
"Well S she is her mother, some resemblance is expected"
It was only now that Chloe had a chance to think about something other than Beca she noticed the close proximity of Aubrey and Stacie. Not to mention the nicknames, Chloe raised her eyebrow at Aubrey before deciding she should investigate further before calling them out on whatever it was they were doing.
The nurse that had previously kicked out Jesse was back
"Hi girls, the lady at Becas bedside… presumably her mother or elder sister wants you to go and see her"
Chloe noticed a name badge on her uniform
"Thanks Alison, and thanks for everything else too"
Then the three girls wandered in to find Rachel at the foot of her bed, she didn't look too happy.
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