Important Chapter for BeChloe! Audition Chapter!
Also quick note, I may be taking a small break as I have a lot of personal things going on right now. I will try to keep both this story and Familiar Taste of Poison updated at least one a week instead of every couple of days but we will see how I go.
Thanks again for being so supportive.
"Hey Mitchell, get back here!" Jesse and his friends call out as Beca walks away from the class. Eventually Jesse catches up to her and grips her shoulder ripping her back to face him.
"You calling me an idiot is the worst mistake you'll ever make. Watch yourself in future." Jesse warns before Beca hears another voice from behind college jock.
"Leave her alone asshole." Chloe calls out and the guys all turn around, laughing at the angry redhead standing behind them. Beca takes the moment to connect the palm of her hand with her face. 'God damn this girl seriously.' She thinks to herself.
"Or what Beale? You'll sing at us. You don't have a harmful bone in your body. Even if I do this." Jesse taunts as he shoves Chloe making her fall over backward. Beca suddenly pricks up at this, for an unknown reason, and rushes through the guys to them in front of them and Chloe still on the ground behind her. Beca takes a defence stance between the jocks and the redhead she wants to protect.
"Okay you've made your point now leave her out of this." Beca says outright and the guys walk away laughing at the two girls, Beca turns to the redhead and holds her hand out. Chloe takes Beca's hand and with Beca's help stands up. Beca bends down and picks up all of Chloe's books and places them in the bag from which they fell out of before standing up and giving it back to Chloe.
"Thanks." Chloe says with a small smile. Beca returns one of Chloe's favourite smirks on the brunette before starting to walk away.
"Don't mention it Red." She calls out over her shoulder and Chloe's heart skips a beat. Replaying the scene that had just unfolded in her mind, Beca stepping between her and Jesse as if she was protecting Chloe. The way she helped Chloe up and grabbed her books for her. Then there was the smirk which Chloe loved. Chloe walks back to her apartment with only the brunette on her mind. Beca walking back to her room with beating the crap out of Jesse for pushing Chloe on her mind.
Aubrey walks back to her seat next to Chloe, her arms full of folders who were their girls auditioning. Chloe realises that Beca isn't amongst them.
"Where is Beca's folder?" Chloe asks her blonde friend.
"This is everyone which means she didn't turn up." Aubrey counters putting down the folders and spreading them out.
"Hey Bella's, remember when she tried to play in the big leagues and you choked. That should be a lesson to everyone, if you sing the same boring, girly shit every year, you will blow chunks, all over the place, literally vomit everywhere." Bumper Allen, leader of the Treblemakers states aloud so the whole auditorium hears. Aubrey sinks in her chair a little before growing angry and standing up.
"My fellow aca-people, we will not let egotistical, big-headed, garbage dirtballs, whoever you may be, get in our way. I promise you, we will return to the ICCAs and finish what we started last year." Aubrey counters back to Bumper before returning to her seat. She watches as someone walks onto the stage.
"Whenever you're ready dude." Donald, Bumper's best friend and fellow Treblemaker says. The person on stage scoffs and takes off their hat to reveal a large proportion of red hair.
"Yeah hi, my name is Cynthia Rose." She says. Aubrey looks up then back down at the folders realising this girl was trying out for the Bella's. Chloe leans over and glances at the folder too.
"That's not a dude. It's not a dude." Donald questions. Cynthia Rose begins to sing and both Bella's leaders like her voice as she belts out the chorus to 'Since You've Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson.
A few auditions in and Chloe and Aubrey have four girls who they have said will be joining the Bella's including the illustrious Fat Amy, she was better than they thought. They both smile as a girl who was over six feet and the body of a model walks on stage. Chloe audibly approves of the girl when she begins to speak.
"Hi everyone, my name is Stacie and my hobbies include cuticle care and e-network." Stacie smiles as she starts singing. Aubrey nods to Chloe before moving Stacie's folder into the yes pile.
After the auditions, they called it finished and Aubrey watches Chloe's face physically and emotionally drop. Aubrey reaches over and places her hand on top of Chloe's. She looks up and notices a shadow to the left of the stage. She bumps Chloe slightly and Chloe looks up to see Beca arriving.
"Oh wait there's one more." Chloe says as she points to Beca who is standing off stage.
"Hi." She smiles, beckoning Beca forward.
"Hello." Beca wanders out onto the stage, waving awkwardly.
"Um, I didn't know we had to prepare that song." Beca adds, feeling unprepared as she had lost track of time during her workout in her room. Beca could feel her eyelids dropping from the tiredness that loomed over her.
"Oh, it's okay, sing anything you want." Chloe replies calmly watching as Beca reaches centre stage. Beca fiddles with her hands for a second before seeing a bright yellow cup holding pens in front of her. She remembers back to when she watched her mom and Hailee play around with a cup and sing, creating a song, Beca could remember the song clear as day. The thought makes a small smile creep up Beca's face as she finally remembers something happy instead of THAT night, she reaches forward toward the cup of pens.
"Uh may I?" Beca points to the cup. Chloe nods and Aubrey sits back in her seat as Beca grabs the cup and carefully tips the pens onto the desk. She sits back on the stage and crosses her legs placing the cup on the stage in front of her. Beca claps her hands and starts making sounds with the cup to form a beat just as her mother did in her memory before she starts singing.
I've got my ticket for the long way 'round
Two bottle whiskey for the way
And I sure would like some sweet company
And I'm leaving tomorrow. What d'you say?
When I'm gone, when I'm gone
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You're gonna miss me by my hair
You're gonna miss me everywhere, oh
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Beca places the cup down as she finishes. She looks to Chloe who is grinning wildly and then to Aubrey who is sitting stone faced but in truth, the blonde is impressed by the smaller brunette.
"Thank you." She finally says sternly and Beca makes her way out of the auditorium bumping into Stacie on the way out.
"Hey." Stacie says with a tinge of sadness in her voice. Beca doesn't know what to do at this point, if she should ask how she and her mom are doing because she honestly didn't care. Beca was just here to make her kill then go back to Israel or on to her next kill. She didn't want nor could she have any form of friendships or relationships in the business she was in, not that anyone who would consider having any form of relationship with Beca would actually hang around long enough because Beca's emotional switch was always in the off position.
"Hey. How are you doing? How's your mom?" Beca asks, acting as if she is being sincere. She had been in the League for eleven years and started killing at age 12, it was almost like acting, acting that you care when you don't, acting that you feel sorry for the family of a target you kill. She was being someone that she wasn't when in surveillance mode like she was now and she hated it, because she had to act human when she was more machine.
"Yeah, I'm hanging in there I guess. My mom is destroyed. I'm trying to be strong for her you know but I hear her crying in her room. Thanks for being there, like taking us to the morgue and everything." Stacie replies and Beca nods.
"Don't mention it. I'm here if you ever need." Beca adds before walking away, hoping that she did all of that correctly. Offering to be there if they needed was one of the main comforting techniques right? The League had never showed any form of emotion so all of the assassins had to learn how to interact with other people through their missions. Beca being out in the field the most out of all the assassins, had the advantage but being emotionless for eleven years did have its downfalls, sometimes the switch would flicker back on and Beca would experience nightmares or flashback like she had been recently and she couldn't help but blame a certain redhead for all of it.
"Aubrey come on! We have to let her in!" Chloe argues back as they walk into the kitchen.
"She was better than any of those girls and plus she was different." She adds. Aubrey stands still, crossing her arms over her chest.
"That's exactly the point Chloe, she is different. She was late, unprepared, alternative. She is not Bella material Chloe and I will not let her poison this group!" Aubrey replies, yelling herself but Chloe doesn't back down.
"Alternative and different is what this group needs! Bumper was right, we do the same boring shit every performance and the crowd hates us! It's time to change Aubrey and as much as you are stuck on tradition, and how much you want to impress your father. Doing these performances won't do it. We are the captains, we have the chance to change this all around so get your head out of your ass and look past tradition Aubrey!" Chloe says, trying to provoke a response from Aubrey.
"Grrr, Alright! Let the emo hobbit in but only because she has a good voice, you weren't wrong about that. She is under your supervision! If she does anything wrong by us or the group then she is gone! Do I make myself clear?" Aubrey replies angrily and Chloe nods rapidly before smiling and heading to her room.
"Thankyou Bree. Love you." Chloe calls out as she reaches her room.
"Yeah, love you too." Aubrey murmurs back before hearing Chloe's door shut. She crashes down on the couch and starts looking through her decisions for the Bellas, moving Beca's folder straight away to the yes pile for Chloe.
Chloe knocks on the door of Beca's room, she had gotten the information from Beca's registration form and the room she was at was the room Beca had written down. It was the night for the Bellas initiation and Chloe was there to bring Beca. When Beca doesn't answer, Chloe decides to try open the door so she turns the knob and the door is unlocked. Chloe steps into the room and looks around, it was full of exercise equipment. A boxing bag in the corner, weights, push up bars, a weird device that looked almost like a ladder with a bar on the bottom. Chloe finds Beca on the ground doing push ups in front of the boxing bag, her back to Chloe and with earphones in. Chloe continued to watch as Beca did push up after push up when Chloe had counted 62 Beca hold her push up in the down position.
"See something you like Red." She calls out and Chloe stumbles for a moment as Beca stands up and turns around. Chloe noticing that Beca had both earphones in and a tight tank top on that showed the outline of her abs.
"H-How did you know I was here?" Chloe stumbles over her words and Beca lets out a genuine smile as she reaches over and grabs her towel, wiping the sweat off herself. Chloe can't help but watch, biting her bottom lip in lust. Beca removes her earphones and turns back to Chloe.
"I felt a presence in the room. I figured it was you." Beca replies seriously and Chloe cocks her head to the side, trying to figure out what Beca meant by presence in the room. Beca recognises this and steps forward.
"Ever since I was a little girl, I've had an idea, it's more of a theory really. Everything we see, like physical things, it's all just islands and under them, carrying it is a sweeping current and if you pay attention you can start to feel." Beca grabs Chloe's hands and holds them out in front of her. Beca uses her own hands to push Chloe's around in circles as she continues to explain. Chloe watching Beca moving her hands around and listening to Beca intently.
"Now if you can feel the current, you can feel other things in the current, and we can feel how the current will move them and you can see where they'll go. Follow my hand." Beca says as she stops moving Chloe's hands for her and Chloe automatically moves her hand in the figure 8 pattern Beca's left hand is creating, her hand mirroring Beca's. Beca steps behind Chloe and continues the figure 8, Chloe following Beca's hand with her own.
"It's all in the movement, you see it pushes itself. It's easier to move with it then against it. It's how we feel someone walking into a room or people can see things slower than usual, look at your hand." Beca whispers the last part in Chloe's ear making Chloe shudder but she obeys Beca and glances at her hand and realises she can see it as if it is slowed down. Beca steps back in front of Chloe with a tennis ball in her hand. She takes a few steps back.
"Catch the ball." Is all Beca says before she throws the ball at Chloe with all the strength she has. Chloe watches the ball come at her but it isn't like normal, it's slowed down. Chloe reaches up and catches the tennis ball in her hand, grinning and looking back at Beca who is smirking. Chloe drops the tennis ball and moves toward Beca.
"So it's like a pulse." Chloe says to Beca and the brunette nods.
"Yeah, that's one way of looking at it. I've never told anyone this so yeah." Beca replies as Chloe stops in front of Beca and they both look into each other's eyes. Chloe leans forward to kiss Beca but when the assassin works out what Chloe is doing, she steps away and flicks her switch back to the off position.
"So why are you here?" Beca asks and Chloe takes a second to recover from Beca stepping away from the kiss before turning around and taking the blindfold out her back pocket.
"It's initiation night and I'm supposed to take you with this on." Chloe says, referring to the blindfold. Beca glances at the fabric in Chloe's hand and smirks before turning around.
"When you're ready." She calls out and Chloe steps forward, putting the blindfold on and directing the smaller girl out the door. Beca knowing exactly where to go without Chloe's guidance either way but her mind was reeling from the moment they had shared in her room. Thinking about that moment they shared making her smile, the weird feeling appearing in her stomach again.
'What is this girl doing to me?' The only thought in her head.
"I can hear you thinking from here Mitchell." Chloe whispers in Beca's ear and Beca surprising shudders at Chloe's voice in her ear.
'What the hell! Why won't my switch stay off anymore?' Beca says to herself as she switches off her emotional switch again. Chloe taking her out of Baker Hall toward the Bellas rehearsal space.
*o* (mic drop)
What is happening to Beca?! And that moment in Beca's room! If you want to see how that scene looks, watch Mr. Right with Anna Kendrick and picture the scene as if it were Chloe and Beca.
Bit of drama coming up next chapter. Not huge amounts but a bit. Azrael will make a small appearance and someone will experience what Beca/Azrael is capable of.