A/N: First of all, sorry for the long wait. For those seeking an explanation, I moved to another country in the last weeks, so I have been busy with that. I am eager to continue this story, so here is a short chapter. More to come soon! Thank you guys for the continued support!

Beca didn't know how to make things up with Aubrey, so she decided that training as much as possible over the winter break would be the best mode of action. Since Chloe was gone and she didn't feel like spending the time with her father, she needed something to do anyway. She went for runs most of the days, worked on her core strength and watched old games during the nights she didn't have a shift at the radio station. At times one of her teammates or Jesse would join her, but she was mostly alone with her music. She dedicated part of her time on music as well and started making music specifically for her workouts.

The weekend before classes started again Chloe would come back and frankly, Beca couldn't wait. Aubrey had wanted to pick up her best friend and Beca decided not to cross the blonde, so she was sitting in her dorm waiting for Chloe to come by. She killed her time watching games from the London Olympics. Since she wasn't blasting music for once, she could hear the door and turned around quickly. As soon as she caught a glimpse of red hair, she flew towards her girlfriend and hugged her tightly. This was very uncharacteristic of her, she was well aware, but she couldn't help it. Chloe returned the hug just as tightly and for a moment they were just standing there.

After a while Beca found the strength to release her girlfriend and took a step back. She looked at Chloe and the other girl was staring back at her. Chloe looked taller somehow, and stronger. Her arm muscles were exposed by the shirt she was wearing and had visibly grown. She looked really good. Beca took her time admiring this new form. When she finally realized that she was behaving rather rudely, she took Chloe's hand, made her sit down on the bed and offered her something to drink. When both of them were holding their preferred drinks, Beca sat down next to Chloe, turned to face her, and asked her to tell her everything.

The rest of the night consisted of Chloe telling Beca about the other girls, the exercises, the food and anything remotely interesting that had happened. Beca didn't have many interesting stories, so she mainly listened. She loved looking at her girlfriend telling stories, since Chloe always accompanied her words with many gestures and expressions. When both of them were done sharing their stories, it was already late. They were both very tired and Beca didn't want Chloe to leave, so they snuggled up in Beca's small bed and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning Beca was up early. Sharing the small bed with Chloe wasn't ideal, since her girlfriend needed her space. She had pulled up her leg, so that the knee was poking in Beca's back, and was taking up at least two thirds of the bed. Beca decided that she might as well get up and get them some breakfast, since she wasn't going to sleep much more anyway. She put on some decent clothes and went to Chloe's favourite shop.

By the time she got back, Chloe had stirred and was now lying with her face to the wall. There was just a tiny space left besides her. Beca crawled in and laid her arm across Chloe's exposed stomach. She heard Chloe's breathing change and felt a hand on her arm.

'Goodmorning, babe," Chloe said with a voice that was course from talking too much the previous night. "I've missed waking up next to you."

"Goodmorning," Beca replied. "I got you breakfast, if you're ready to get up."

"No, five more minutes," Chloe said in the cutest voice, before pulling Beca in even closer. Beca couldn't help but smile and let herself drift away. It was a lot longer that five minutes before they finally got around to breakfast. Chloe thanked Beca at least a dozen times for getting her favourite. Beca was just glad have her girlfriend here with her and to see her happy.

After breakfast Chloe had to get back to Aubrey, since the blonde was still her best friend and they both had loads to tell each other. Beca only reluctantly agreed, but knew that Aubrey was important to her girlfriend and she knew better than to keep Aubrey from her best friend. Besides, Chloe promised her that she would come by again later.

Chloe was a nervous wreck for most of the next week. She was anticipating the phone call on the selection results. Beca tried to keep her busy best she could. Consequently they spend a lot of time together, something both girls didn't mind. The closer the phone call came, the more convinced Chloe was that she wasn't good enough. Beca tried to convince her otherwise, but wasn't sure she was getting through to Chloe.

When the day of the phone call finally came, Chloe was pacing around in Beca's dorm. Her nervous behaviour had scared Kimmy Jin away earlier, so it was just the two of them. The phone was lying on Beca's desk. Beca was sitting on her bed watching Chloe walk around nervously, she didn't know what to do anymore. She wasn't very good with words. She had tried to pull Chloe onto the bed to cuddle earlier, but even that didn't work, since her girlfriend was too restless.

Finally the phone call came. Chloe looked at her phone like it was an alien device. She didn't make any movement to pick it up, so Beca retrieved the phone and shoved it in her hands. Chloe answered the call with a small voice. Then she said nothing for a long time. She didn't have to for Beca to know the result. The normal radiating smile had disappeared from her face and was replaced by a very serious look.

Chloe gripped onto the phone long after the phone call had finished. Her body had gone rigid and her face had fell. Beca first wanted to give her girlfriend some time, but figured out that wasn't what her girlfriend needed after a while, so she stood up and embraced Chloe. The redhead collapsed into her arms and silent tears started flowing. Comforting people wasn't Beca's thing, but she tried her best.

When Chloe had calmed down a bit, they sat down together and Chloe started talking. She told Beca about her dreams to make it into the national team. She told her that she wouldn't let anything stop her and that she would start to train even harder. She would request a meeting to discuss her weaknesses and would work on them. She wanted this more than anything. Beca was glad to see a bit of the optimistic Chloe shine through.

"Thank you for sharing this with me," Beca said when Chloe was done talking. "I know you can make it if you work hard and keep improving. You'll get another chance and they will see that they made a mistake."

Chloe shuffled so she could sit on Beca's lap and draped herself around the smaller brunette. "I love you so much, thank you for putting up with me."

"I love you too," Beca responded.

When classes started again, Beca was getting busier. She was still working out a lot, now most of the time together with Chloe, had her shifts at the radio station and even attended most of her lectures. She spend most of her free time either on Chloe or her music, and if possible, both at the same time. This made time fly, and before she knew it she was back on the pitch for the first training of the spring season. Aubrey and the coaches wanted to dedicate this first training to evaluating everybody's fitness level. Beca knew she was fine, and so was Chloe, but some of the other girls hadn't taken Aubrey's cardio schedule to serious during the holidays and it showed. That meant that they barely played any hockey, but focussed on getting back into shape.

Aubrey was distant and cold towards Beca the entire training, and even both of her coaches didn't seem too pleased with her. She obliged to Aubrey's orders best she could and made it through without giving the blonde a reason to shout at her. This seemed to make her captain even more furious. Chloe tried to defuse the situation several times, but failed miserably. When everybody was packing their bags, she walked towards Beca.

"I'm going to talk to her again. This tension is creating a bad atmosphere for everyone. We need to be one team."

Beca looked at her. She wanted to refuse, but knew that it was a lost cause. She just nodded, indicating that she wasn't going to stop Chloe, and continued packing her bag. She felt Chloe's hand on her back for a moment, before she ran away to catch up with Aubrey. She didn't have much faith in the cause anymore. Chloe had tried to talk to Aubrey several times during the last few weeks. Beca had even tried again, but Aubrey had just thrown the door in her face. Apparently the blonde felt like she had said everything she wanted.

Chloe hadn't given up, and probably wouldn't. Beca knew that Chloe felt like this was too important. For one, the team wouldn't function as well if Beca and Aubrey couldn't work together. This might not only compensate their chances of winning, but also Chloe's own chances of getting into the national team. However, that was not even the most important reason Chloe wanted Beca and Aubrey to get along. She saw the effect the feud was having on both her girlfriend and her best friend, and knew they would both feel better if this was resolved. She was just unfortunate to be surrounded by two of the most stubborn people in the world.