Epilogue XXXXVII – Telling The Bellas

Beca and Chloe sat side by side as they watched their best friend's in amusement. A cocktail bar wasn't exactly their number one choice of Saturday night locations – curling up on the couch together at home far better suiting them nowadays – but they weren't here for themselves. They were here for Aubrey and Stacie.

Aubrey and Stacie who were celebrating a joint bachelorette party in London of all places ("This was where we first kissed!" Stacie burst excitably as she motioned to the elevator doors that began opening with a 'ping'! Beca wasn't sure how true that was but based on Aubrey's reaction of tugging Stacie into her side and the two of them sharing a quick kiss on the lips, she had a feeling it might be.)

Beca had been continuously checking with Chloe that she was okay. Okay with the flight over, okay with the food, okay with the full itinerary, okay with the lack of alcohol. But her wife was miraculously thriving in her first trimester. The current thing plaguing Beca and Chloe's consciences now was that it had been almost six weeks since they'd found out they were pregnant, and the only Bellas they'd told so far were Aubrey and Stacie – Chloe having called Aubrey the evening that they'd told Beca's parents. None of the other Bellas knew. And while Aubrey and Stacie had given the couple their blessing to announce it during their bachelorette weekend, Beca and Chloe were still trying to find the right moment.

All until a round of shots began making its way from one Bella to another. The women all grinned at their respective liquor eagerly. Except for Beca and Chloe who both passed on the offer. An action that had their friends looking at them with stunned expressions.

"Since when did you start passing on shots?" Amy asked, her eyes wide in disbelief as she pointed accusingly at Chloe. Because it was no secret that Chloe had always loved a round of shots during nights out with The Bellas.

"Hey I'm not having a shot either." Beca tried to interject to detract from the accusation being indicated towards her wife. But Amy seemed to just flap her hand at the brunette as though it really didn't matter. The women all stared at Chloe, patiently waiting for an answer. And after a brief glance at her wife, Chloe took a deep breath while a smile spread on her face.

"I'm pregnant."

The cocktail bar erupted as massive excitable screams sounded from the private table towards the back of the room and all nine Bellas around Beca and Chloe rose to their feet to pull them into huge hugs. And Beca and Chloe just grinned and chuckled as their received one hug after another, both assured that their unborn child would be the luckiest child on the planet because of the unconditional love it would receive from all it's Bella Aunts.

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Stacie stirred awake thanks to the morning sun, her head feeling a little heavy due to the alcohol consumed last night. But a soft sleepy smile swept onto her face as she noticed the familiar figure of her fiancée laying beside her, staring up at the ceiling, clearly deep in thought.

"You okay, babe?" Stacie mumbled, drawing her lips up to the woman's bare shoulder and placing a gentle kiss on it. She watched as Aubrey took a deep intake of breath through her nose, a calm smile appearing on her face as she turned to look at the brunette.

"Yeah I was just thinking…" and she paused. For many, the pause would indicate that Stacie would need to provide some words. But Stacie knew this pause was what her fiancée did in order to pull together the rest of her sentence that she would've thought about carefully. True enough, Aubrey's lips parted again and she continued her sentence, "…after we get married…did you want to look into trying for a baby too?"

A broad smile spread across Stacie's face as she looked into her fiancée's beautiful eyes. They were due to get married tomorrow. Then after that, their next big adventure would begin. And what an adventure having a baby would be! Their very own baby.

"I think that's a fantastic idea!" Stacie burst, her heart thumping with excitement.

"You're sure?" Aubrey checked, the topic of children having not been something they'd really covered yet, "Because it could happen really quickly if Beca and Chloe's pregnancy is anything to go by…"

Stacie propped her head up on her elbow, looking down at the blonde affectionately while whisping her fingertips across the woman's bare abdomen, "Even if it does happen really quickly, we'd still have nine months to get our heads around it." she watched as Aubrey appeared to take a heavy breath of air as a way of trying to calm herself down a bit. Stacie continued, "I couldn't imagine anyone better to raise a child with than you, Aubrey Posen."

"Ditto." Aubrey replied, with a grin to rival her fiancée's. Stacie slowly brought her face down towards Aubrey's and they shared a gentle kiss – thrilled that the next part of their life together was vaguely planned out.

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