PROMPT: You should do a story where beca rescues Aubrey from her abusive father

Beca's shoulders dropped as the door to Aubrey's bedroom slammed shut.

She sank back into Aubrey and Chloe's shared couch with a tired sigh as her hands reached up to rub at unspilled tears from her eyes. The stinging was becoming unbearable.

A creak from her right signaled the opening of a door and Beca's head shot up, looking hopefully in the direction of the sound hoping to see her beautiful girlfriend emerging, instead she found a sheepish looking redhead.

Chloe smiled sadly at her, the sympathy shining clearly in her eyes as she took in the dejected state of the younger brunette.

"Another fight, huh?"

Beca nodded jerkily, the words causing her strong facade to crumple slightly. The corner of her mouth twitched downwards as new tears built up in her eyes because yes. They had another fight. The third one today.

Chloe noticed the slight fall in Beca's face, ever the observant and quickly fell into her comforting role. The same one she took on almost everyday for the past month. The redhead fell onto the couch beside the smaller girl, enveloping her in a tight hug.

"I don't know what I keep doing wrong" Beca proclaimed sadly in a voice that teemed with insecurity.

Chloe sighed deeply. She herself was at a loss on how to explain her best friends erratic behaviour as of late. Chloe always prided versed on being 'in the know' but Aubrey had always eluded her. The blonde was full of surprises.

Chloe didn't even know that Aubrey was gay until she began dating Beca in their final year and even then it was Beca who told her. That was back when their relationship was perfect of course. These days they seemed to always be on the brink of implosion.

"What happened this time" Chloe asked warily, afraid of the answer. She was, as many would agree, a happy person but sometimes the things Aubrey would say could even bring her ever optimistic disposition down a few notches.

Beca sniffed at the question before burying her face in her hands as she began talking. Although her words were mumbled and slight hard to hear Chloe did not ask her to look up. Sharing feelings was often hard for Beca and Chloe knew she found it easier not to look the redhead in her eyes whilst recounting her with the tales of her broken relationship. Beca detested pity of any kind.

"We were watching Tv after dinner like we usually do. She made chicken Parm. That's my favourite so I thought it was like- like a signal, you know?" Beca started vaguely, her voice wavering slightly towards the end.

Chloe couldn't help the amused smile that blossomed on her face at the pink flush she spotted appearing on the back of Beca's neck. Aubrey and Beca were very similar in the way they reacted to anything remotely sexual.

"So after we ate we were just watching Tv" Beca continued repeating her earlier words, Chloe had a feeling Beca was stalling. "And you know. We were-um..." Beca trailers off before mumbling something into her hands.

"Making out?" Chloe finished catching on to why Beca wasn't finishing her sentence and deciding to tease the girl a little bit.

Beca chokes slightly, her hand reaching away from her brightly blushing face and slapping Chloe lightly in the arm. "Kissing!" she corrects pointedly, glancing towards Aubrey's bedroom door anxiously.

After she calms down and takes a breath, Beca continues. Not before shooting Chloe a glare for her giggling.

"So I thought- because of the signals, she wanted our relationship to... Progress" Beca says slowly, her sentences stilted and jumbled as if she herself isn't sure what she's trying to say. She glances up at Chloe waiting for a laugh but the redhead just nods seriously. She knew that if she laughed now then the odds of Beca opening up again were minuscule.

"So I tried to... make the moves" Beca gestures awkwardly before realising what she's doing and sitting on her hands, embarrassed. Chloe can't helps the tiny snort she lets out at Beca's wording, earning herself a glare from Beca.

"But, I guess we weren't in the same page. I mean obviously not. I just thought that, you know, maybe after six months she might want to do a little more than just kiss but now I just feel stupid." Beca rambles, her sentences disjointed. Chloe opens her mouth to interrupt but she recently learnt that once Beca does actually start talking it's difficult to get her to stop.

"Maybe she just doesn't see me like that. Do you think she's only going out with me because she felt bad? I would understand why, she's so gorgeous and I'm just me. I just wish she would have told me sooner so I didn't fall in lov-" Beca rambled out quickly, stumbling over her words before stopping abruptly and staring at Chloe with wide eyes.

"I mean-I-uh..." Beca muddles as she her eyes widen in fear and insecurity. Chloe is momentarily confused by the fearful expression on the brunettes face but then she hears a sound from behind her and turns too see none other than the subject of conversation herself standing in the doorway of her bedroom. Eyes wide and expression clearly shocked. Chloe winces at the familiar sight of Aubrey's face closing off and the blonde withdrawing into herself.

"This isn't working out" Aubrey finally says after many tense moments filled with shocked stares. "We should break up" she adds and Chloe can see her deep swallow after these words and the red tinge to her eyes before she retreats back into her room, the door slamming shut with a certain finality.

Chloe slowly turns back to Beca finding her face emotionless. All traces of sadness and insecurity wiped from every inch of her face although Chloe can see her stormy blue eyes are clouded with anguish.

"Beca..." Chloe starts carefully not wanting to scare the brunette away. She feels an anger building deep within her, a very unusual geeing for Chloe. How could Aubrey do that to Beca? The blonde knew her girlfriend-ex girlfriend- had obvious issues with abandonment and opening up. This was just one more occurrence to add onto the list of things that had hurt Beca Mitchell.

"I should go" Beca shakes her head and Chloe can hear her muttering the words "stupid, stupid, stupid" under her breath. Chloe's heart clenched in sympathy. Beca quickly stands, making her way to the door with her head lowered and her hands clenched tightly around her satchel.

"Becs wait!" Chloe calls as the girls reaches the door. Beca freezes in place, not turning to face Chloe knowing that tears had spelled down her cheeks. She wanted to preserve the last scrap of dignity she had.

"Things will work out" Chloe says rushing over to squeeze Beca in a tight hug. Beca allows herself to be embraced but does not make any move to return the gesture, instead opting to let her arms hand limply by her sides. "You know Aubrey hasn't been herself this past month, we'll figure it out. Okay" Chloe whispers reassuringly and Beca just nods although she doubts Chloe's positivity.

Once Chloe releases her Beca leaves without another word. Her head hanging as she makes her way out of the two seniors apartment.

Chloe shuts the door once Beca is out of sight, turning and narrowing her eyes at Aubrey's bedroom door. Now Chloe had always been respectful of Aubrey's privacy, never once barging in on her friend but she couldn't help breaking her own code of 'roommate-ship' just this once.

She marched across the apartment and barges angrily into her best friends room.

Aubrey flinches as her door is slammed open, jumping backwards into the bed frame from where she had been standing, staring blankly at the wall. Once Aubrey realises it's just Chloe she calms down slightly, her shallow breaths evening out and her heartbeat levelling. Not completely though, not whilst her usually bubbly best friend it giving her the iciest glare possible. Aubrey didn't even know Chloe could glare.

"What the hell have you done?" Chloe asks coldly her voice almost a yell but not quite. "Do you realise that you've messed up the best thing that's ever happened to you? And fucked Beca up in the process?" Chloe grinds out and Aubrey can tell the redhead is restraining herself.

Aubrey can't help the spike of fear that she feels at that moment. The clenched fists, the cold glare and the abusive words are not dissimilar to those she hears on a daily basis. Images that she can't erase from her mind pop up, she panics for a moment before centring herself. 'You are safe' she repeats over and over in her head as Chloe continues to question her actions.

"She basically said she loves you Aubrey and you broke up with her in the same conversation. Do you have anything to say for yourself?" Chloe accuses her anger getting the best of her as her voice raises when asking the question.

Aubrey flounders for a moment, looking for a way to explain herself without revealing to much about her past. Finding no words she settles for a shrug.

Chloe sees this as a sign of indifference. It incenses her.

"Seriously? A shrug, that's all you have. Not even a 'sorry' or a freaking reason" Chloe, though outraged still does not resort to foul language. "I expected more from you. I thought 'Posen's never take the easy way out' Chloe mimics something she heard Aubrey say a while ago. What would your father think of you now" Chloe hisses. She knows this is a low blow, Aubrey's father was always a sensitive subject.

At the mention of her father Aubrey stands, gritting her teeth against the biting words that seep into her tongue she moves to walk past the redhead.

Chloe was sick of Aubrey's closed off attitude and decided then and there that they would be talking, today. She grabs Aubrey by the waist as the blonde struggles to pass her Inge doorway but quickly withdraws when she hears Aubrey cry out.

"What's wrong?" Chloe asks frantically, even though she was mad she couldn't ignore Aubrey being hurt.

Aubrey whimpers quietly, Chloe is momentarily shocked. She had never heard Aubrey sound even remotely weak. Chloe hold me up her hands in a surrender position as Aubrey quickly backs away from her and into the corner of he room furthest from the door. An arm wrapped securely around her stomach.

"Aubrey?" Chloe asks hesitantly inching towards the blonde, wary of scaring her. After Aubrey doesn't flinch she feels safe to move closer and sit next to her best friend on the floor.

Chloe refrained from saying anything, knowing that if she waited Aubrey out the blonde would eventually cave. After a couple minutes Aubrey's heart rate finally settled down and she glanced up to see Chloe sitting patiently next to her.

"What just happened?" Chloe asked as soon as she saw that the blonde had calmed down.

Aubrey bit her lip, the conflict clear across her face. She didn't know if she wanted to reveal anything about her past to her best friend. It wasn't that she didn't trust Chloe, it was just the fact she didn't trust herself to talk about it without breaking down completely.

She sighed, realising that she would have to tell Chloe if she wanted the redhead to ever forgive her for what she had just done to Beca.

Beca. Aubrey felt tears build in her eyes at the thought of her girlfriend, no ex-girlfriend. She couldn't imagine what the younger girl was feeling right now. The image of Beca, alone in her room crying only furthered the hate Aubrey was feeling for herded at that moment.

"What I'm about to show you, you can't tell anyone. Not even the Bella's especially not Beca" Aubrey began swallowing the lump that had built in her throat.

Chloe's brain stalled. What the hell was Aubrey going to tell her? Chloe was not very good at keeping secrets, it was how Aubrey found out about Beca's feelings for her however after seeing the look on Aubrey's face she knew the blonde was about to tell her something important so she nodded. She would keep this secret for Aubrey.

Aubrey waited until Chloe eventually nodded and after a quick scan of the girls face she decided to show her.

She shut her eyes tightly as she moved away from the wall, her hands curling tensely around the bottom of her jumper. She slowly lifted it up to reveal her toned stomach to her best friend.

Aubrey didn't open her eyes when she heard Chloe gasp, she could feel the tears waiting to drop from behind her eyelids.

"Bree..." Chloe breathed out in shock, her eyes roaming over the damaged skin that Aubrey had revealed to her.

Aubrey winced at the sound of Chloe's voice, she still refused to open her eyes but she could feel Chloe's eyes leaving a burning trail over her stomach.

Chloe's eyes traced the four white lines that were placed haphazardly over her best friends body. It was obvious what they had been caused by and Chloe had an inkling as to who had caused them as well.

"Your father?" Chloe asked carefully not missing the way Aubrey's jaw clenched at the mention of the man.

"It was, wasn't it. That bastard!" Chloe burst out causing Aubrey open her eyes in shock and slight amusement, Chloe swearing was ridiculous.

Aubrey lowered her jumper as she nodded in confirmation to what Chloe already knew.

"Well does anyone know, we have to call the police!" Chloe exclaimed her blue eyes widening in fear at the man who had done this to Aubrey still being free.

"He's gone now." Aubrey assured her panicking friend "My mum kicked him out when I was seventeen and we read in the paper three wars ago that he'd been sent to prison for a minimum of ten years" Aubrey added trying to calm Chloe down. "Some kind of fraud, stealing money from his clients" Aubrey shrugs it off.

"He should be there for life" Chloe growls at the injustice. "Why don't you press charges?" Chloe asked.

"We haven't seen him for seven years and he doesn't know where we are or if we're still in the country" Aubrey starts "I don't want to see him let alone testify against him" Aubrey says as Chloe nods in understanding.

They lapse into silence as Chloe's mind wanders back to the break up she had witnessed half an hour ago. Her anger at Aubrey had dissipated but she was still confused.

"Aubrey?" Chloe asks hesitantly and Aubrey hums in reply, also deep in thought. "This still doesn't explain why you just broke up with Beca" Chloe says as she look to the side and sees Aubrey's face flash with sadness once again.

"We were getting too serious, i didn't want that" Aubrey says her face steeling into blank expression.

Chloe huff as Aubrey avoids eye contact. "Look at me and say that again" she ordered in a skeptical voice. Aubrey squares her shoulders and turns to Chloe, repeating her statement.

"You're lying, your nostrils always flare when you lie" Chloe states matter of factly before her features harden again. "Now do want to tell me the real reason you broke it off with a girl who's clearly in love with you and who you also love" Chloe asks, holding up her hand when Aubrey opens her mouth to protest "Don't try to deny it, I can tell" Chloe says.

Aubrey curses herself for choosing to have such an observant best friend.

"I'm not enough for her, okay!?" Aubrey groans out, allowing her head to fall backwards into the wall as she stares at the ceiling. Blinking back tears. "I'm damaged and I don't want her to have to deal with all my baggage" Aubrey says angrily, the anger directed at herself.

"Of course you're not damaged!" Chloe cries out with a gasp as she reaches out to touch Aubrey's arm but stops when the blonde flinches.

Aubrey growls in frustration at herself. "You see! I just flinched back from you even though I know you'd never hurt me. Whenever someone gets too close all i see is him standing there. When Beca wants to go further I have to push her away even though it kills both of us." Aubrey rambles as tears begin to fall down her face. "I can't let her stick with me when she gets nothing in return" Aubrey finishes dejectedly looking down and the carpet as more tears fall.

"No"

Aubrey sighs "What do you mean 'no'. You know it's all true" Aubrey mumbles.

"No"

"There's no need to spare my feelings, I already know what I'm like" Aubrey says sadly. Remember 'Aca-nazi' and 'general posen'. I'm just like him" she says looking distraught.

"No! For gods sake, Aubrey!" Chloe shouts, interrupting the blondes set deprecating ramble.

"First of all, get this into your head. You are nothing like that man." Chloe says pointedly, emphasising each word in an attempt to make it clearer to Aubrey "I mean when you accidentally hit Beca in the face whilst practising choreography, you cried for a full half hour and felt guilty for weeks. You are not like that man. You've never hit anyone out of anger and I doubt you ever will" Chloe rants.

"Second, you are under no circumstances 'damaged'" Chloe scoffs, putting the word in quotation marks "What that man did to you doesn't define you. He is just a sad, lonely piece of crap and you are much better Han he ever will be." Chloe continues, not pausing for breath as her hands gesticulate wildly.

"Finally, Beca will never think any less of you for this. She practically worships you for crying not loud. Do you not see the 'heart eyes' she has whenever you're around? Or the bruises she has from tripping over so much because she's constantly staring at your ass?" Chloe asks causing Aubrey to blush deeply. Chloe shakes her head. Why are her friends such prudes?

"Beca thinks the world of you Aubrey and i know you feel the same. Why should something that someone else did seven years ago make you so unhappy now?" Chloe finishes, finally pausing to breathe deeply.

"You're right" Aubrey nods determinedly as she stands and grabs her coat from the coat-hanger on the back of her door. "I'm going to go see her now" Aubrey says as she exits the room.

Chloe slumps down against the wall, her speech having taken all of the energy from her. "I should be a motivational speaker" she mumbles to herself in satisfaction as she hears the front door open and shut.

Six months later

"Ahh" Aubrey gasps as she launches upward from her sleeping position, drenched in sweat as her hands shake uncontrollably. She glances around frantically in the dark as she lingers between real life and her dream, unsure of what is and isn't real.

A warm hand tracing her jaw drags her out of the dark. She looks to the side to see Beca staring at her lovingly with slight concern in her eyes.

"It's okay, you're safe with me" Beca mutters soothingly as Aubrey collapses tiredly into the brunettes waiting arms. "Everything is fine" Beca reassures her.

Aubrey nods slightly as her heart rate levels out and her breathing becomes less shallow. Beca continues to hold her late into the night, her fingers gently tracing the faded scars on Aubrey's stomach as they both stare quietly into the darkness.

Aubrey finally relaxes way past three in the morning. "I love you" she mumbles tiredly as her eyes begin to droop. "Always" Beca replies as the blonde drifts of to sleep. Beca soon following after.

Aubrey is forever grateful that she has Beca because even in the now rare nights when Aubrey relived her horrors the brunette was always there. Always waiting to save her from the memory of her abusive parent.

At that thought Aubrey squeezes the brunette tighter in her arms as they drift off together.

This is a little of prompt but i hope you still enjoy it :)

Also i just read this review for the blind date AU from earlier and thought it was a great idea...

Would be funny as all heck if Chloe tells Aubrey and Beca that she set them both up with horrible women at the same resturantant on the same night ... across from one another KNOWING FULL WILL that their eyes would meet eventually ... and they would ditch their "dates".

Credit for that idea goes to reviewer Bhare , just wanted to share it with everyone because i thought it was funny.