Trigger warning: Suggestion of future sexual assault
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"I don't want to do this dad!" Beca said as she looked in the mirror as she prepared for her wedding.
"I know sweetie, but you're over 20, you have to be married." Beca's dad explained. "It's the law, you know that."
"It's a horrible law and you know that." Beca screamed. "I know you didn't vote for any of the assholes in charge, but you're a straight white man, you don't have to deal with as much as I do."
"I know that Beca, and I'm sorry, but we have to make the best of it."
"Make the best of it?" Beca screamed at her father. "Jesse is going to force me to do things I don't want to do because he can. He's been obsessed with me ever since he first saw me. I'm gay, I have girlfriends, I do not consent to being with Jesse."
"I know Beca, but Senators Walker and Green say that's not a thing and you have to marry a man." Beca's father explained.
"I knew this was going to be what happened if republicans won in 2022." Beca sighed. "They made that orange asshole Speaker of the House, then impeached Biden and Harris, and voted to make his orangeness President for Life."
"And then fascism, I know." Beca's father nodded. "It's horrible, but we can't do anything about it anymore, we're not allowed to vote."
"It kills me to know that Bree is going through this same thing." Beca said. "Why did this happen?"
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Beca woke with a start, happy to find herself between Chloe and Stacie, with Aubrey on the other side of Stacie. She kissed the other brunette's forehead, saying softly to herself "It was all a nightmare."
"You had the forced marriage dream again?" Aubrey asked "I'm terrified too. We can't let them win."
"We won't." Chloe said, pulling Beca tightly to her.