Wow Chapter 10 already, this story is flowing fast and I'm so happy with how it's turning out already.
Beca walks Chloe back to her apartment after a Bellas rehearsal. The SBT Fall Mixer was the next day and the redhead blabbering on about something that Beca wasn't paying attention to. Her attention was focused on the fact that Chloe's and Aubrey's apartment door had been forced open.
"What the hell is that?" Chloe says as they reach the door. Beca inspects where the door had been kicked in and found it was done with a Men's shoe, size 10. She knew Bumper had the same size feet and figured it was him with Jesse.
"Chloe, stay here." Beca holds her arm out as she makes her way inside the apartment, Chloe waiting out the front as Beca asks of her. Beca walks through the apartment, one of her knives attached to the hidden hilt behind her back, at the ready. She clears each room separately and properly, ensuring there is no danger in the apartment. As Beca makes her way into the final room, being the living room, she finds a knife stuck into the wall and she immediately recognizes the inscription on the blade. It was Azrael in Arabic. This was Amitiel, a message from her to Beca.
"Beca?" Chloe appears in the hallway and Beca rips the knife out of the wall, hiding it as Chloe appears in the living room. Beca smirks when Chloe smiles at her.
"All good, just thought someone was in here and was a bit worried. Someone definitely broke in here though. Make sure you let security know. I have to go." Beca replies as she takes off out the front door before Chloe can even say anything back. Amitiel was now crossing lines, it was obvious that she had been observing Beca with Chloe and now Beca was pissed, in fact, she had completely switched off Beca and become Azrael. Beca was going to kill her best friend from the league.
The Bellas were at the fall mixer for SBT and to put it lightly in Beca's words they sucked. The Bella's were off key and out of tune. Beca seemed pretty distracted herself after what happened with Chloe a couple of hours before, Chloe was also distracted not allowing her angelic voice to hit its full potential. Beca glances over and finds Tom in the crowd of unhappy college boys. Tom smiles at Chloe and mouths a quick 'I need to talk to you' to her. Chloe politely nods unaware of the exchange also being watched by the brunette, a small fire igniting in her family. Beca is finally happy when Tom's friend Howie stops the Bellas. Aubrey walks over and starts speaking to Howie.
"I'm so sorry Howie I know we aren't performance ready." She says quickly and Howie responds.
"I wanted the hot Bellas not this barnyard explosion. I'm not paying for this, come on let's go." He replies. Beca glances over at Tom again and he is nudging his head to the side, she looks to find Chloe moving out of the crowd. Beca quietly slips away from the Bellas and follows Tom and Chloe into the house while the rest of the Bellas leave the SBT house.
Tom pounces out and pushes Chloe into the wall gently.
"Hey there beautiful." He smiles. Chloe returns the smile.
"Hey yourself. What did you want to talk to me about?" She asks. Tom smiles before leaning down and putting his lips to Chloe's. He pulls away.
"Well that was one and the other thing was, this mixer is going to become the biggest party of the year tonight and I want you to be my date. Interested?" He asks and Chloe beams. The Barden Fall Mixer had been talked about since she first arrived at the university, to be able to go to the party was an honor.
"Tom, I would love to but I was hoping to go with Beca." She answers confidently and Tom steps back, twirling the redhead around.
"Come on baby. Just come with me and we can have a lot of fun, if you catch my drift." Tom offers. Chloe works it out in her head that making Beca jealous by being with Tom but she didn't want to have the 'fun' that she'd be Tom was offering. Having Tom after the party wasn't an interest for Chloe, she was more interested in a certain brunette that she thought was outside but was actually watching the conversation happening.
"We could even have some extra fun." Tom adds, pulling a small bag of pills out of his pocket and Chloe notices. Beca watches as Chloe smiles, hoping she wasn't falling for the bullshit that Tom was saying.
"Come on Chlo. That Beca girl is crazy. She beat the crap out of me and the other guys the other night for no reason. She's crazy and I really like you Chlo. Come to the party with me." Tom says, getting close to Chloe whom is squeezed in between his body and the wall. Chloe registers Tom's confession about Beca beating the guys up, remembering back to Jesse's black eye and how Beca shuts down. Could Beca be actually crazy? Was she chasing after a psycho?
"Yeah okay." Chloe finally agrees with a smile. Tom leaning down and kissing Chloe on the lips, infuriating Beca so she walks out to where the Bellas are. Chloe arriving a minute after Beca, a wide grin on her face. Beca can't help the fire in her belly so she switches off her emotions, becoming the killer she really is.
"Well I hope you all remember the way you feel right now so you will never want to feel this way again." Aubrey states firmly as the Bellas stand outside the SBT house.
"Chloe, your voice didn't sound Aguilerian at all. Chloe for serious, what is wrong with you?" Aubrey almost starts yelling at her best friend. Chloe turns around and speaks up.
"I have nodes." She says. The Bellas all break out into whispers and gasps.
"What? Oh my God!" Aubrey practically starts crying without the tears.
"I found out this morning." Chloe replies.
"What are nodes?" Beca asks unemotionally as she watches the exchange between Chloe and Aubrey. She looks around and watches Tom leave the house with his friends, probably to get supplies for the party that night.
"Vocal nodules." Aubrey replies sarcastically as if Beca was supposed to know what nodes were.
"The rubbing together of your vocal chords at above average rates without proper lubrication." She adds.
"They sit on your windpipe and they crush your dreams." Chloe adds also. Aubrey holding her hands tightly in a supporting manner.
"Isn't that painful? Why would you keep performing?" Jessica asks politely, the Bellas worried for their captain.
"Because I love to sing." Chloe replies, looking around and realizing Beca isn't with the group. "Where's Beca?" Chloe asks and all the Bellas turn and look around for their fellow Bella but the assassin was gone, tired of hearing the redhead's voice and the abuse from the Bellas, she was Azrael and she didn't deserve this.
"Beca. Beca! BECA STOP!" Chloe pulls the brunette back and Beca looks down to her feet, not bothering to look at Chloe. It was three days after the mixer, Chloe had given in to Tom's request under pressure and had sex with him along with do drugs but the whole time, she was wondering where Beca was. She later found out that Beca didn't even turn up to the party. Beca had mediated all three nights, without sleep on the thought that she had gotten too close to her target and she needed to focus on her goal, killing James Beale, not protecting Chloe. If Chloe died, Beca wouldn't care, not at the moment, not while she has her switch forced off.
"Beca please look at me." Chloe uses her fingers to hook under Beca's chin and lift her head up to face Chloe but when she got the chance to glance into Beca's eyes, she couldn't see her friend, she saw a robot, someone without emotion. Beca's eyes were the furthest away she had ever seen and it scared her. Beca simply turned and walked away, leaving Chloe completely shocked and confused.
Beca was walking along the floorboards, carefully placing the pads of her feet down on the cool wood. She was only ten years old and already well respected in the league. Her body littered with scars from the lashings, sword training and torture lessons she had already received.
"Liakun alghayb , yjb 'an takun ghyr masmue. (To be unseen, you must be unheard.)" Michael says, quietly, Beca being blindfolded can only hear her master's voice. She continues to step along the floor when she hears a deafening squeak from the floorboard below her. She had stepped on the wrong spot creating noise. She feels her blindfold be removed and knows that it is Michael standing behind her.
"Kunt yukhib li eizrayiyl . 'ant taerif alqawaeid , yahdur qadamayk. (You disappoint me Azrael. You know the rules, turn up your feet.)" Michael asks and Beca does as he says and turns her right foot up to face him.
"Eud biha . (Count them out.)" Michael adds as he takes his bamboo stick and whips it across the pad of her foot. Beca winces in pain but does as her master asks of her, taking a deep breath and trying to switch off the pain.
"Alssayr wahid. (One Sir.)" Beca says. Michael continues to whip the bottom of Beca's right foot five more times, Beca counting each time, bending the pain to her will and ignoring it. She then switches feet and receives her six lashes on the other foot before continuing across the floor, leaving bloodied footprints along the floor. Michael impressed in his student.
Beca snaps out of her flashback as she beats the crap out of the punching bag in her room before moving to her salmon ladder. It had been a while since she did the salmon ladder but she felt a want to do it. She pulls her tank top back down to cover her scarred abdomen and takes a hold of the bar, she pulls herself for a chin up before pulling herself up, catching the bar on the set of rungs above the initial ones, she repeats the process until she is at the top before doing the same back down the ladder. As she is about halfway up on the third round, she feels the all too familiar presence in the room.
"What do you want Chloe?" Beca says as she drops down from the salmon ladder, turning around to face Chloe who was standing just inside the room. Chloe was counting on Beca being back to her normal self compared to what she saw the day before. The two girls hadn't spoken in 4 days and the Bellas could tell there was tension between the two in rehearsals.
"I just wanted to talk to my friend. Find out if she was okay. I felt like something was going on with you and I want to be here for you." Chloe attempts to take a step forward and succeeds when Beca doesn't move. Chloe changes the subject for a moment, looking to the salmon ladder behind Beca.
"So that is what that is used for? I'll be honest, it was kind of hot watching you do that." Chloe admits and Beca can't help but allow a small smirk cross her face. There was something about the redhead in front of her that continued managed to break down her walls and flip her emotions back on.
"You want to try?" Beca offers and Chloe grins, happy that Beca was at least talking to her. She didn't see Beca as an emotional person at all so sitting down and talking about feelings wasn't in Beca's style so Chloe was happy with Beca just talking to her. Chloe walks over to the salmon ladder and watches as Beca climbs the side to grab the bar and put it back on the first set of rungs.
"The key is to lift the bar as you're pulling up, let the momentum from your pull get you up then just hook on the next set of hooks. Like this." Beca explains before taking the bar and showing Chloe the action. Beca lets go and Chloe grabs onto the bar and pulls herself up, hooking on side of the bar onto the second rung but the other side slipping, Chloe falls but Beca catches her. The girls pause in that moment, staring into each other's eyes, Beca holding Chloe by her hips. Chloe reaches up and moves a loose, sweaty strand of hair from Beca's face but doesn't remove the hand instead leaving it settled on Beca's cheek. Both the girls feel gravity pulling their faces closer and Chloe eagerly leans forward, placing her lips on Beca's and noticing that Beca was responding. They pull their lips apart and Beca touches her forehead to Chloe's.
"W huna aietaqadat lm almalayikat la wujud laha. Bed ant jamilat mthl 'ay almalak. (And here I thought Angels did not exist. Yet you are as beautiful as any Angel.)" Beca hums in Arabic and Chloe doesn't care what Beca just said, she was on Cloud 9. Beca on the other hand was scared as her stomach erupted with what felt like fireworks. She had not felt this feeling before, this sense of belonging, this feeling of… Happiness. Beca hadn't known how to be happy her entire life and now she knew the feeling and it scared her. Before she had a chance to pull away, Chloe pulls her in and they kiss again. Beca moving Chloe over to her bed and leaning her down carefully, not disconnecting their lips. Chloe's hands start to wander, tugging at the hem of Beca's tank and Beca goes to oblige with Chloe's unsaid request but the girls are interrupted as a rock smashes through the glass, followed by a knife that spins toward Chloe. Beca catches the knife and puts it behind her back, looking to the ground to see the rock. Chloe sits up and gazes at the broken window before looking to Beca to see a piece of glass had made a small cut on Beca's cheek. Chloe leans up and places her hand on Beca's cheek but Beca pulls away.
"I'm fine, it must have been Jesse and his friends but I think it's best if you leave. I have to clean up. Here I'll escort you home." Beca says and Chloe nods without saying a word. Beca cleverly hides the knife behind her back before throwing on a sweatshirt and leaving the room with Chloe to take her home.
*Drops Mic*
BECHLOE KISS! AHHHHHHHHH! Haha!
It's gonna get better from here guys! I can spoil that one of the Bellas will find out about Beca being Azrael. Who will it be?
Who is it threatening Chloe? Amitiel, Jesse, Michael even? And what do you all think of jealous Beca? Let me know in your reviews!
I've been thinking this story over and looking at about 35-40 chapters. But who knows it could be more, or unfortunately it could be less. Depends on the length of chapters but thank you for sticking by me guys and see you next chapter!