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Beca ran a fever all night. Chloe and Aubrey kept watch over her, waking her up periodically to take a fever reducer or take her temperature. They were both extremely worried about her and once considered taking her to the hospital. Every time she fell asleep, she'd start breathing heavily and mumbling under her breath. That continued even after they got her fever under control with medication. Come early morning, they took a trip to the store and came back with drinks of electrolytes, medicines, lozenges, and vitamin popsicles. Then they started on breakfast for her when she woke up, hoping she'd still have an appetite. Aubrey and Chloe each picked something for breakfast and got started, moving in their usual rhythm to get started on the day. Despite their worry for the brunette sleeping in their bed, they were both just happy she was there.

They'd finished up with breakfast when they heard a sound from their bedroom. It was a deep inhale of breath followed by a fast deep breathing. Panicking. Chloe and Aubrey dropped what they were doing and ran back to their bedroom, where they found Beca sitting straight up. She looked like she couldn't get a full breath in her lungs. Her entire chest went out as far as it could and decompressed. She was covered in a cold sweat, her hair was wet. "Hey, hey, it's okay, it's okay." Chloe said as they got on the bed and comforted Beca as best they could. Each of them were rubbing circles on her back. "It's alright, it's okay." They soothed.

Beca continued catching her breath as they soothed her. "It was only a dream, it's okay. We're right here for you." Aubrey told her. "Just a nightmare." Beca curled into herself, pulling her knees to her chest to ride out the panic attack. She was crying.

Chloe furrowed her brow, thinking about how Aubrey assumed it was a nightmare. "You were having a nightmare?" Beca could only nod, agreeing that she had a nightmare. "Is that why you've been having trouble sleeping?"

Beca looked guilty when she met Chloe's gaze. "Yeah." She mumbled. "They're stupid."

"They aren't stupid if they're keeping you up at night or waking you up like that." Aubrey told her. "How often does this happen?" She probed. "How much sleep do you get a night?"

Beca pulled her knees closer. "A lot more recently. It's just a recurring nightmare. I got them a lot when I was a kid. I… haven't been getting much sleep."

Chloe took a seat behind Beca and put her hair up to get it off her neck. "And how long have you been having them? Recently?"

Beca thought for a moment. "The last couple of months, maybe."

Chloe drew circles on Beca's back. "Baby, sleep deprivation can cause a lot of other health problems. It weakens your immune system too, which is probably where this virus came from."

Beca sighed. "Yeah, I guess."

"Do you want to talk about it?" Aubrey asked. "Maybe we can find ways to keep them at bay. Have you told anyone about them?"

Beca shook her head. "They're just stupid nightmares." She mumbled.

"Try us." Chloe told Beca, urging her to relax and lay back against Chloe.

Beca's shoulders were tense, but she followed Chloe's lead and laid back against her. "It's just.. it always starts with my parents fighting. They scream and scream and I'm panicking because I can't find my headphones to block them out. I can't leave because we're in the car and they're screaming. I don't even know what it's about, but I'm twelve again and my mom is crying.." Chloe could feel Beca's heart rate against her, speeding up just thinking about it. Beca paused before she went on, almost unsure if she wanted to tell the rest. "Then I'm in your living room apartment. You're screaming at each other." She pulled her knees ever closer. "You're breaking up because of me." She wiped newly formed tears away and Chloe wrapped her arms around Beca's waist. "You hate me." She said in the smallest voice. "I have it every time I close my eyes.. it's just, never ending. Same thing every night." Her skin burned against Chloe's arms, but she was also shaking. Her fever was back.

"Baby," Aubrey sat up in front of Beca and looked her in the eye. "That is never going to happen." She said, more confident than ever. She picked up Beca's wrist and pointed at her tattoo. "You belong to us. We're not going anywhere and neither are you."

"Maybe you should stay here for a couple of days. Maybe if you're with us it'll lower your anxiety." Chloe said. "I don't really want you leaving with a fever like this anyway. You're terrible at taking care of yourself."

Chloe didn't see Beca roll her eyes, but she was pretty confident that she had. "I'm not that bad."

"You came to practice with a 102 fever Beca, without even realizing it." Aubrey countered quickly.

Beca took a deep breath and sighed. "I… don't like waking up alone in your bed."

Chloe hugged her tighter. "You won't anymore. We promise."

Beca gripped Chloe's arms around her. "Will you guys stay and just..?" She didn't finish the question. Beca Mitchell would never explicitly ask to be snuggled. Both girls just nodded and they repositioned themselves. Beca turned toward Chloe and looped her hand around Chloe's waist. Aubrey laid behind her and looped her hand around Beca's waist. Beca snuggled into both of them as close as she could be. Even with them and the comforter, she was still shivering.

"We should take your temperature and…"

"It can wait a little." Beca mumbled into Chloe's neck and Chloe shivered. It was a little backwards, if Chloe thought about it. The three of them hadn't even been on a date but they were snuggled in bed together. They hadn't even kissed, but Chloe felt so close to Beca in a different way. Beca let her and Aubrey into her little world in a different way. This was almost more intimate. Almost more loving. Chloe snuggled in closer. Beca's sleepy voice was something Chloe would die to hear. This felt more right than anything ever had in Chloe's life. And they finally felt stable.

An hour or so later, Chloe and Aubrey had Beca back in a fever reducer. They had her take a shower and get out of her old clothes and into fresh ones. She ate breakfast, had a popsicle, and drank Gatorade. The onslaught of items helped Beca feel better over the course of the day. By the afternoon, they were all tangled up on the bed and watched some television, though they were hardly paying attention. They were just talking about this, that, and the week they hadn't seen each other.

Aubrey was sitting with Beca's head in her lap, while Chloe laid Beca's knees over her lap. Neither of them would let her get up for anything other than what was necessary. She even fell asleep and got the smallest amount of real rest, without too bad of a nightmare. And when she woke both Aubrey and Chloe were right there to reassure her and settle her anxiety. It helped - Beca admitted to them.

"Thank you… for taking care of me." Beca mumbled, after dinner later that night.

Aubrey wrapped Beca's hair behind her ear. "We'll always be here for you, Beca."

"I love taking care of you. Both of you." Chloe added.

There was a pause in between that and Beca's next comment. She seemed nervous about making it. "Would the two of you like to go on a date with me? Sometime?" She asked. "A real date, dinner or something? Anything but a movie." Chloe found the rambling cute and sweet. She couldn't control the way her eyes lit up at the very notion of Beca asking them before they could ask her. The initiative was striking and Chloe could see it surprised Aubrey too. "If you don't want to I mean.. I totally get it. I'm such a mess, I really shouldn't ask you when I'm an absolute wreck running a fever-"

"Beca, we've wanted to go on a date with you for months." Aubrey said in a long breath.

"For so long." Chloe agreed, her smile as bright as ever. "Becs, yes. Please. When you're feeling better though! And you are not a mess. You're absolutely beautiful."

Beca bit her lip. "How did I get so lucky to have two soulmates who take my breath away?" Aubrey and Chloe both blushed.

"Are you delirious from the fever or is Beca Mitchell a secret softie?" Aubrey asked and Beca rolled her eyes.

"Watch it, Posen." Beca gave her signature "badass" look.

Aubrey cocked an eyebrow down at the girl in her lap. "Honestly I don't even find you the least bit threatening short stack." Beca gave her a death stare, but both of the other girls were laughing.

Over the next few days, Beca got used to sleeping next to the two girls. Her anxieties eased with the passage of time and with Chloe and Aubrey's renewed energy around taking care of her. They stayed in bed until she woke up, not caring when that would be or how long it took. They let her sleep. She needed the rest. Her fever eased after a few nights of better sleep. The nightmares grew less frequent and by the end of her week at their apartment, they stopped all together. The girls decided after that they'd go on a date the following weekend - since Beca had to "prepare" in some way or another. Chloe looked forward to it with her entire being and she could tell that Aubrey felt the same.

For the first time in her life, Chloe felt whole.