A/N: short update, getting really into this fic, so I'm having issues stopping lol

Finally going back to work tonight, even though I still sound and feel like death. Please review! Thanks guys!

Stacie slowly reached out, running her fingers over the slightly raised skin of Becas back. Six. Six, long bruising welts across her back. She tensed at her touch, but then slowly relaxed. The coolness of her fingers were rather soothing.

"You are not going back to your dorm." She said as she pulled her hand away and opened the cabinet below the sink, pulling out a bottle.

Aubrey and Chloe looked at her. So did Beca.

"I thought you said it was her choice, if she wanted to stay or not." Aubrey said.

Stacie nodded as she popped the cap of the bottle open and poured some out onto her hand.

"I take it back, I'm sorry, but going back there, where he knows where to find you..." She said and gently began spreading the cool gel - which she now knew was aloe Vera- over her welts.

"Beca, please consider staying here with me?" She said. Chloe watched as Beca relaxed under her touch.

"I have the room, it's just me here, you don't have to worry about rent, I have that easily covered. And with Aubrey and Chloe in the same building, we will know you are okay. Please think about it?" She asked as she continued to apply the cooling gel to her back.

The smaller brunette looked up.

"That's really kind of you, but-"

Stacie stilled her hand. "I said to think about it... 3 seconds is not enough time." She said. Beca looked back down.

"Please Beca?" Chloe asked. She looked over to the redhead wit shiny blue eyes.

"Stay here with her? I'm right down stairs, and I can be right here if you need me. Please?"

Beca looked back at Stacie through the mirror.

"I guess I don't really have much of a choice." She said smiling lightly.

They all returned her smile. "No, not really," Stacie said as she finished with the gel.

"Beca, can I talk to you?" Aubrey asked. She looked at her as she slowly pulled her shirt down.

"Thanks Stacie." She said.

Stacie nodded as she put the bottle away. "No problem."

She looked back at Aubrey. "Sure, what about?" She asked as the blonde led them from the bathroom.

"Well, first, I think it would be best if Chloe and I went to get your stuff?" She asked.

She sat down on the couch, next to Chloe, who promptly pulled her against her. She smiled lights, getting used to this little quirk about the redhead, and relaxed against her.

"Yeah, I guess that would be best." She nodded.

"Also, I feel like it's my responsibility to report this." She said. Beca went to move away from Chloe, but the redhead wrapped her arms around her.

She looked at her in confusion. "You can't report it." She said.

Chloe held her gently, "Beca, he attacked you. He can't just get away with it." She said.

"He knows people. He is highly respected and he has money. He has already gotten away with it." She said. "He got away with it when I was little, and he got away with it this time too. Reporting this, is only going to make it worse for me." She said.

"Please, I said I would stay here with you, he doesn't know where you live, can't we just leave it at that?" She asked.

Aubrey looked at Stacie, who looked at Chloe.

"On one condition." Stacie said. Beca looked at them, waiting.

"One of us needs to be with you, at all times. Just for a little while, until this passes, I mean, he has to back off sometime."

Chloe nodded immediately.

"I agree, one of us, can make sure you get to and from your classes, and the station when you work." She said.

"I don't need a baby sitter." She huffed. Chloe smiled.

"We just want to make sure you are okay, Becs." She said. "This will give us a little piece of mind."

Beca shook her head looking down. "You guys, really don't have to do this." She said. "Aubrey, what happened to needing to focus on the Bellas? And studying?" She asked.

Aubrey looked down, getting frustrated. "I'm really trying here, Beca, could you work with me?" She snapped.

The smaller brunette recoiled slightly, moving a little further into Chloes embrace.

"I'm sorry."

Aubrey nodded. "It's either, you take the compromise, so we can make sure you are safe, or I call the police and report that bastard for what he did."

She nodded. "Okay, yeah," she said. "Waste your time watching over me like a child." She said and shrugged away from Chloe.

They looked at her in slight shock, not used to her snide remarks, or bad attitude. She stood up.

"Can I shower?" She asked Stacie. She nodded.

"Towels are in the cabinet," she said.

Aubrey sighed. "We will go grab you some clothes and things from your dorm." She said. Chloe looking a little hurt, stood up.

"We will be back." She said and followed Aubrey to the door, while Beca walked into the bathroom.

Stacie was soon, alone in the living room, trying to figure out, why Beca had suddenly become so snappy, and seemingly annoyed with them, when that morning she had been so timid and shy.

She stood up, and made her way into the kitchen for a drink, her mind still running.