Bit of a longer Chapter this time guys!
I don't know how many chapters this story will be yet but I'll take a guess at maybe 25-30 depending if they are shorter or longer chapters.
Anyways if you read the title of the chapter, you'd know what scene is in this one.
Enjoy!
"So tell me more about you Beca? What about your family?" Chloe asks and Beca smirks. She flipped her emotional switch off, a trick taught by the league, and looked to Chloe.
"Not much to tell, I haven't seen any of my family in eleven years." Beca replies and Chloe gapes, thinking that maybe Beca was older than she was but figured she had to be around the same age as Chloe.
"I'm so sorry Beca." Chloe comments facing Beca and Beca just shrugs her shoulders, her care factor at zero. Chloe notices this and tries to ignore it but can't. Beca as if reading Chloe's mind continues, lying about her parents.
"My mother was a teacher and my dad, he was a bartender. He came home drunk most nights and liked to beat my mom. Eventually child services found out and pulled me out of home because my mother chose him over me. I was put into the system at nine." Beca lies, not mentioning Hailee or the truth behind her family.
"That's so terrible. I'm really sorry." Chloe decides to stop prying and the girls continue walking.
"Here we are." Chloe says as the two arrive at Chloe's apartment. They stop outside the front door, Chloe nervous about asking the next question.
"Did you want to come in for a bit?" She asks gently and Beca smirks before taking a small step back.
"I'd love to Red but I actually have another class soon and then I'm busy so how about a raincheck?" Beca offers and Chloe beams before leaning forward and kissing Beca on the cheek, causing Beca to flinch back, Chloe noticing.
"Sorry, I sometimes forget the whole personal bubble thing." Chloe jokes and Beca stands still in shock, the place Chloe's lips were still burning in her cheek.
"It's cool, I just. I'm not emotional and I don't do emotions or acts of emotions so fair warning if I'm a shitty person to you." Beca replies and Chloe scoffs.
"You could never be a shitty person Beca. Uh thanks for lunch and we should do it again." Chloe adds nervously and Beca smirks again. "God that smirk." Chloe thinks as images of kissing Beca flash into her head. Beca starts to step away.
"Yeah, I'll see you around Red." She says before walking away.
"See you around Beca." Chloe whispers to herself as she watches Beca walk away before opening the front door and walking into the apartment.
The Next Night:
The Sigma Beta Theta party was in full swing when Beca had turned up. She had noticed all the guys and even some of the girls checking her out but she wasn't interested, she was in work mode. She had to do her part for the league. Michael had called her earlier that morning with a surname and to gain entry for a future kill she'll be making. The surname: Conrad. Liam Conrad, 46, his daughter attended Barden University and was known around as the campus slut, sleeping with anyone, male or female.
"Hey there sexy." Beca turns around at the voice behind her and finds a blonde girl who she recognised from the day she met Chloe, the blonde was standing right next to her.
"Uh Aubrey right?" Beca comments and Aubrey beams at the fact that Beca knows her name. She grins as she leans forward and sloppily plants her lips on Beca's. Beca steps away immediately and the blonde runs off to join another group of girls.
"What the fuck?" Beca says to herself or at least she thought when another voice pops up beside her.
"She is always like that when she is drunk. She has done it to me too. I didn't mind nearly as much as you did though. You're clearly not on everyone else's level." Beca turns to her left to face a tall, leggy brunette with bright green eyes, or at least she thought as it was dark in the house.
"I'm Stacie. Stacie Conrad." The taller girl holds her hand out and Beca immediately takes it with her own.
"Beca Mitchell and no, I just got here." Beca replies and Stacie laughs before handing Beca a red solo cup full of beer. Beca takes the cup and can smell the drink immediately, her senses trained to be heightened by the league. Her sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste all almost inhuman.
"Alright Beca well you must be new, I haven't seen you around campus before." Stacie adds with a smile. Beca nods.
"Yeah just transferred, I was living in New Orleans and just needed to get away but I was still finishing college so I transferred." Beca lies, she was in New Orleans before this job but only briefly as she had made a kill. She remembered it quite well.
Beca, dressed in her assassin's gear watches her target, Mr Brodie Lovett, a manager for a brothel that was secretly run underground. He had been selling girls bodies for his own gain and when they had tried to escape, he killed one of them. Beca puts her mask on as she notices Mr Lovett turn his bedroom light off before jumping down off the roof, landing silently and gracefully. She looks around and finds guards surrounding the property before slowly sneaking around the corner and toward the front door. Beca finds a guard standing at the door and from her position in the garden next to the door, calls out with a whistle only loud enough for the guard to hear. When the guard walks down to check it out, Beca grabs him, wrapping her arms around his neck in a sleeper hold until he passes out. From there, she grabs the keys from the guard's belt and continues into the house.
"The deadliest predator is the one you cannot see." Michael's training echoing through Beca's mind as she stops behind a corner and glances around, noticing no one is there she makes her way around and up the stairs. As Beca arrives near the top, she spots a guard and drops her head. She pulls out one of her small poison darts and throws it, hitting the guard in the side of the throat. Beca watches as she falls to the ground unconscious before moving around and pulling his body into a room and reshutting the door. Beca gets to Mr Lovett's bedroom door and sees the window beside her. She remembers from her recon that he leaves his window open at night.
"Window it is." Beca whispers almost mutely to herself before heading out the hallway window and landing silently on the edge of the building. She shimmies along the edge and enters through Mr Lovett's window, touching her feet on the ground with no sound. She looks over her target, sleeping soundly in his bed before she unsheathes her syringe from her back pouch and injecting it into the side of his neck. Mr Lovett wakes up at the pinching feeling and looks around frantically to find no one in his room. He puts a hand to his neck where he felt the pinching, a fever start to rise in his body before a pain develops in his chest. He gets out of bed and stumbles into the bathroom.
"HELP!" He screams out attracting his guards into the bathroom where he now lies in his own vomit.
Mr Lovett died that night from Arsenic poisoning, one of Azrael's personal choices of killing. The other being causing a heart attack which both can be seen as nature deaths, overdose and heart attack, that way it keeps the league a secret although they are a myth, the League of Angels have been described as ruthless and creative in their kills, hiding in shadows and taking the souls of people doing wrong. Azrael, in the myths was said to be the most ruthless and hides in plain sight, Beca remembered once reading that Azrael was child of the grim reaper, helping souls pass to the other side. Beca was always proud to read the stories that were written about her which was why she loved Middle Eastern Mythology.
"Earth to Beca." Beca snaps out of her daze and looks back to Stacie. A small smirk on her face as she sees Stacie smile.
"You want to get out of here?" Stacie asks and Beca sees her opportunity, she nods and Stacie takes Beca's hand and leaves the party, both girls completely oblivious to the redhead watching them leave together.
"HELP!" Both Stacie and Beca wake up to screaming the next morning. Beca remembering that she was still naked, lying next to a naked Stacie Conrad under the bed sheet of Stacie's bed in her house.
"Mom!" Stacie calls out, jumping out of bed and getting changed, Beca jumps out too and does the same. Both girls make their way downstairs and into Stacie's parent's bedroom to find Julie, Stacie's mother hysterically crying over a lifeless Liam.
"Oh my God Dad!" Stacie runs over and checks her father over. Beca pulls out her phone and calls 911, explaining the situation. An ambulance arrives shortly after and pronounces Liam Conrad dead, Stacie and Julie hugging each other whilst both crying. Beca had already had her switch off but acted as if she was sad but she knew the truth. Liam Conrad was the leader of a paedophile ring, the third largest in the world to be exact, when the league found him, they knew that Beca would take this one because of her past.
After Beca drops Stacie and Julie at the morgue, Beca leaves, switching on the radio and listening as a song comes on, a song she recognised and loved.
I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose.
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am Titanium
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am Titanium
Beca starts dancing as the beat plays before arriving back at Barden and walking back to her room to grab her shower things. She empties her pockets of change and also the small and thin needle that caused Liam Conrad's death. Beca had woken up in the middle of the night and snuck into the room, injecting Liam before slipping back into bed with Stacie, as far as Stacie remembers Beca was with her the whole night and from the intel Beca was given, Liam had been receiving death threats. Beca walks out of the room and down to the showers.
"You shout it out, but I can't hear a word you say." Beca starts singing as she enters the showers.
"I'm talking loud not saying much. I'm criticized but all your bullets ricochet. You shoot me down but I get up." She continues as she walks into the stall, taking off her robe, hanging her towel and closing the curtain.
"I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose, fire away, fire away, ricochet, you take your aim." She sings the chorus as she turns the water on, allowing the water to run down her back that is painted with scars.
"You can sing!" She hears a voice behind her. Beca spins around noticing it's Chloe, grabbing the shower curtain immediately to cover her scars.
"Dude!" She yells to Chloe as her back hits flat against the wall.
"How high does your belt go?" Chloe asks as she reaches over and turns the water off.
"My what? Oh my God." Beca internally freaks as she grips the shower curtain tighter.
"You have to audition for the Bella's." Chloe insists. Beca looks down then back up again immediately.
"I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk." Beca replies harshly. Chloe takes a second to glance at Beca's beautiful muscular body, she gapes at Beca's six pack.
"Just consider it. One time we sang back-up for Prince. His butt is so tiny that I can hold it with like one hand. Oops." Chloe jokes, accidentally knocking the bottle out of Beca's hand. Beca lets them drop not wanting to let go of the shower curtain. Beca stands there still looking dumbfounded.
"Seriously?" Chloe asks, looking down Beca's body then back up, obvious enough for Beca to notice.
"I am nude. You are nude, you are in my shower. Please get out." Beca states as she looks down to the ground. Chloe notices how Beca's eyes turn different, similar to in the Chinese restaurant when Beca shut herself out. Chloe knew she was about to do it again so tries to nudge Beca into opening up a bit.
"You were singing Titanium right?" Chloe asks earning Beca's head raising again.
"You know David Guetta?" Beca asks, keeping a straight face and emotionless tone.
"Have I been living under a rock? That song is my jam. My lady jam." Chloe smiles brightly. Beca's head dropping again.
"That's nice." She acknowledges, trying her best to figure out what the hell was happening, she had been an assassin now for eleven years but this was a first for her.
"It is. The song really builds." Chloe says with a small wink. Beca cringes at the thought of Chloe masturbating to Titanium, she would never be singing that song in public or private ever again.
"Gross." She states, holding the curtain tighter as she notices Chloe is closer than she was before.
"Can you sing it for me?" Chloe asks. Beca looks up.
"Dude no, get out!" She replies a little harsher than expected, than again Chloe had just strutted into her shower naked so anyone would have reacted the same.
"Not for that reason. I'm not leaving here until you sing so." Chloe tries to make a deal. Beca stares into Chloe's bright blue eyes almost begging her not to but Chloe doesn't move, breathing aloud with a sigh. Beca takes a few deep breaths than starts to sing.
I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose.
Chloe than joins in, harmonising with Beca's alto-like voice.
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am Titanium
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am Titanium
They both stop singing and Chloe smiles to Beca but Beca looks away as a sign for Chloe to now leave.
"Oh yeah, I'm pretty confident about all this." Chloe states, moving her hands around her body.
"You should be." Beca replies sarcastically, smirking. Chloe smiles in return not even picking up on Beca's sarcasm and thinking Beca may have been flirting.
"Well." Chloe says as she turns around, grabbing Beca's towel and handing it to her. Beca takes the towel, dropping the shower curtain and holds it over her body, her back still firmly against the wall to prevent Chloe seeing all the scars on her back.
"I still need to shower." Beca says sadly, almost asking Chloe to leave.
"Oh okay. See you at auditions, tomorrow, two o'clock." Chloe states before leaving the stall. Beca taking a deep breath, putting her towel back where it was and turning on the water. She thinks back to how Chloe and her sang together and how funny Chloe was. A smile creeping over her face but is quickly dropped as Beca forcibly flicks her emotional switch to off again.
"What the fuck is happening to me?" Beca asks, realising that Chloe was making her feel emotions again. She was pulling Beca out of assassin mode and making her human again. Beca didn't like this.