"Oh my God." Stacie groans out slowly as she pulls the blanket over her head.
"Morning drunkie." Aubrey jokes as she puts a glass of water and two Tylenol on the bedside behind Stacie.
"Mmm thankyou." Stacie yawns out as she stretches, realising she is in Aubrey's room, she sits up rapidly causing her pounding headache to pound harder.
"Aubrey? We didn't?" Stacie asks as she pulls the blanket up and sees she still has her clothes on from last night. Aubrey stifles a laugh.
"No Stacie we didn't. Chloe told me that you were pretty hammered last night and Beca brought you by a bit later." Aubrey replies, sitting on her desk chair, her elbows firmly placed on her knees. Stacie smirks.
"Thankyou Aubrey. I'm lucky to have met Beca then hey?" She asks. Aubrey lets out a half laugh.
"Yeah I guess you were. Go back to sleep, I'll wake you up for Bella's practice." Aubrey replies as she turns around and continues her studying for her finals which weren't for another few months however Aubrey wanted a head start. Stacie drifting off to sleep again. Aubrey turns and glances at the girl asleep in her bed, Aubrey had slept next to her apparently, she couldn't remember, she turns her lip up into a half smile as she turns back to her study, trying to remember what had happened less than 12 hours ago, she had woken up with a rather large hangover herself but some Tylenol and Orange Juice soaked up most of the headache and allowed her to continue with her study.
"You know, I saw Jesse this morning. He had a fairly decent black eye, you wouldn't have anything to do with that would you?" Chloe asks Beca, they had agreed to meet, mostly for Chloe's benefit so she didn't have to deal with two hungover girls in her apartment. They walk through the universities central quad, Chloe with a coffee in hand and Beca with nothing as she doesn't drink coffee or tea. She only drank water and she had a reason for it.
"Uh no, he already had that when I found him and Aubrey. I only shoved him off, he practically fell over because he was so drunk." Beca replies, she knew if she told Chloe that it was her who beat up Jesse than Chloe would start asking questions. The answers practically rolling off her tongue as she had done it for so long, lie to people and be someone she wasn't. Beca knows she is Azrael and not Beca Mitchell.
"Oh well you said last night that you dealt with Jesse so I figured but that's okay. I can't thank you enough for helping Aubrey and bringing her home and then Stacie too. You really are a great friend." Chloe smiles and knocks Beca's shoulder with her own. Beca realizes what Chloe had just said and snaps into a flashback from the night everything changed for her.
It's the same routine in the Mitchell residence as any other night but this night was different. Beca's mother, Sophia, crying as her father, John, verbally abuses her. Her younger sister, Hailee is curdled up in her arms as they hide under the dining table in the other room. The yelling in the kitchen getting even worse.
"It's okay, It's okay. I'm here. I'm always here Hale." Beca comforts Hailee, stroking her hair out of her distraught face, planting a gentle kiss on her forehead being careful not to scare her further, her eyes fixated on the door leading to the domestic disturbance.
"Becs, you okay?" Chloe asks. Beca had stopped walking and now Chloe was standing in front of her. Beca closes her eyes for a second before opening them again. Shutting away the images that were swimming through her mind.
"Yeah, yeah I'm good. Just tired." Beca shuts out the redhead. Chloe drops her head slightly, knowing the girl in front of her was lying through her teeth. She lifts her head back up again to meet Beca's storm blue eyes. However, they were glazed over again, robotic. Beca had shut away what had stopped her in her stride moments before and Chloe wanted to know why.
"Beca, you know my mom… I don't like to talk about her much because she has suffered depression. She used to be abused by her father, never told my dad or I about it. She bottled it up till one day, she tried to kill herself. When we found out what had happened to her when she was a child, I lost it at her because she didn't talk to anyone about it. I was eleven years old and I walked in on my mother trying to hang herself in our basement. Basically what I'm trying to say is, if there is something going on then I need you to please talk to me because I can't lose you okay. You're a good friend." Chloe confesses, her eyes start to fog with tears and she recounts the memory. Beca takes in the new information about Chloe's mother and stores it for later reference in case it's needed. She nods with a small smile before turning to walk away, leaving Chloe to watch the brunette, pondering what was going on in the other girl's mind.
Beca arrives to the first Bella's rehearsal and notices that the other girls are checking out some photos of the old Barden Bella's groups. They join the group and gaze at the photos.
"Man the old Bella's were hot." Cynthia Rose comments, her gaze shifting from photo to photo. "Yeah they kept it tight." Fat Amy replies.
"Okay, Sopranos in the front, Altos in the back." Aubrey orders, clapping her hands together. All the girls move and take their seats quickly out of fear of Aubrey's wrath.
"As you can see Cory is not here with us, she was treble boned and she has been disinvited from the Bella's." Aubrey says, pointing out the empty seat before grabbing it and taking it away. Stacie looks to Beca through her sunglasses, she notices that Beca isn't paying much attention but instead is on her phone, doing something that seemed important as Beca's face showed concentration. She turns back to the front to find Chloe watching Beca also. She raises an eyebrow to Chloe who in return raises one back, both questioning what Beca was doing.
"That oath was serious?" Stacie questions. Aubrey puts the chair down harshly, causing a loud clatter as the metal hits the floor. Everyone jumping but Beca.
"Dixie chick serious. You can fool around with anyone you want to, just not a Treble." Aubrey replies as she walks back to the front where Chloe stands, her eyes on Chloe's and Stacie's interaction. "That's not going to be easy, he's a hunter." Stacie comments sarcastically, her hands pointing to her crouch. Fat Amy stifles a laugh.
"You call it a dude." Fat Amy grins wildly. Stacie look back and winks at Beca who raises her eyebrows at the gesture, was Stacie flirting with her? Chloe watches as Stacie practically jumps on Beca with her eyes, a fire rising in her belly at the exchange.
"Stacie, the Trebles do not respect us and if we let them penetrate us, we are giving them our power." Aubrey replies to Stacie and Fat Amy's jokes with dead set seriousness, scaring the both of them. Beca leaning back in her chair and watching the exchange between the Bellas and almost shaking her head at how ridiculous all of these girls were.
"Not a good enough reason to use the word penetrate." Fat Amy chimes in making Cynthia Rose and Stacie laugh but a stare from Chloe makes them almost choke on them. Beca watches as Chloe stands up straight, her eyes looking at Beca. She smirks slightly and watches as the redhead's leadership stance falters and a small smile breaks out. Beca feels her phone vibrate in her pocket and brings it out to find a motion sensor alert going off in her room. Someone was in her room.
"Um I'll be right back, this is kind of really important. I'm sorry Aubrey." Beca says, rushing out of the room. Stacie turns and looks at Chloe who glances back at Stacie, all the girls in the room confused.
Beca enters her room and grabs the small knife she has hidden along the top of the door frame, it was a thin piece of metal, hand carved by Beca herself. All her knifes were the same so she could identify which ones were hers and so could the League.
"Who's in here?" Beca asks as she creeps into the room, noticing it is trashed. Someone had been in there and they were either looking for something or sending a message. Beca's thoughts immediately jump to Jesse until her phone rings.
"Eizrayiyl , laday muhimmat jadidatan balnsbt lk. (Azrael, I have a new mission for you.)" Michael says as soon as Beca puts the phone to her ear.
"Nem sydi, walikan shakhsaan ma qad aqtaham gharfati alnnawm . ma madaa 'ahammiat hadhih almuhimm? (Yes Sir, however someone has broken into my dorm room. How important is this mission?)" Beca answers as she sits down at her desk and starts reviewing the camera feeds to find out who broke into her dorm.
"Ealiat alqimat almustahdafat eizrayiyl . lays hunak ma hu 'akthar 'ahammia. (High Value Target Azrael. Nothing is more important." Michael responds and Beca can't help but here the tinge of both anger and fear in his voice. Was this someone he was afraid of?
"Wahu hadaf alssayr? (Who is the target Sir?)" Beca asks. She wanted to help out Michael, the League and he took her in when she was left with nothing. They saved her life and she owed her life now to Michael, Uriel and the League.
"Hal tudhkar Amitiel? (Do you remember Amitiel?)" Michael asks and Beca's breath catches in her throat. Beca turns away from her computer and moves back to her door to shut it. Amitiel was almost like another mentor to her until she and the League found out that Amitiel was killing other League members. She lost her mind after a kill she made, nearly killed Beca in the process as she was protecting Michael and Uriel from Amitiel's blade.
"Ana la yumkin 'abadaan 'an nansaa laha maykil. (I could never forget her Michael.)" Beca replies, shutting her eyes to push away that day that Amitiel had turned on her.
"Hi hunak , fi bardn . tarqub w qatilha 'iidha kunt bisruha , fahamt? (She is there, in Barden. Keep an eye out and kill her if you sight her, understand?)" Michael asks of his favourite student. It had been years since Amitiel disappeared and Beca was now the best of the best. She wanted Amitiel's head just as much as Michael did and Michael knew that.
"Tamamaan ya saydi, wa'ana ln nakhdhalakum. (Perfectly Sir, I won't let you down.)" Beca growls, she knew that she wanted Amitiel to approach because she knew Amitiel would die.
"Wa'ana 'aelam 'annak ln tafeal dhalik. takun aminat eizrayiyl. (I know you won't. Be safe Azrael.)" Michael responds before hanging up. Beca puts her phone back down on the desk next to her as she glances back to her computer, the video had loaded and she clicks play to find Jesse with his friends, Tom and Bumper trashing her room.
"I've got you." Beca whispers to herself as she deletes the footage and shuts her laptop, leaving her room to go back to Bellas rehearsal, trying to forget about Jesse and Amitiel for now.
"Sorry guys, I had a quick emergency but I'm here now Aubrey so what did I miss?" Beca asks as she jogs back into the rehearsal space. Aubrey glances at Chloe and takes a deep breath, trying to keep her composure for her best friend.
"Well Beca, seeing as you weren't here. This is a list of all of the songs we've ever performed and you will notice that we only do songs made famous by women." Aubrey replies as Chloe hands Beca the paper. Beca skims through the pages and her mouth speaks before her brains filters it.
"There's nothing from this century on here." She murmurs and Chloe takes a deep breath in, feeling Aubrey tense beside her. Stacie smirks, knowing that she made the same comment when Aubrey had handed them the same pages only thirty minutes before.
"Because we don't stray from tradition." Aubrey replies calmly. Beca leaves herself with a serious face before returning to the pages of songs in front of her, unfazed by how Aubrey was talking to her but a certain co-captain was getting annoyed at how her best friend was treating Beca.
"Now remember ladies, this is how we will become champions." Aubrey adds as she moves over to the white board and turns it around to reveal a giant whiteboard with everything. All the other girls had already seen it and groaned at the idea of seeing it again but Beca looked shocked and the amount of detail needed for a singing competition, then again the only information she ever looked at were files for her targets and they went into great detail.
"Okay girls let's begin with a jog, get your sneakers on." Chloe says, her voice perky and way too bubbly for running.
After an hour of running and Aubrey awkwardly slapping every girls buttocks, even Beca's to her discomfort, Aubrey finally discovered Fat Amy was 'horizontal running' as she liked to call it. The girls had a laugh with the Australian and then thanked her as the girls finally moved on to learning choreography, splitting up into two groups, one group learning one part from Chloe, the other group, the other part from Aubrey. Stacie, Beca, Ashley and Fat Amy were with Chloe while Jessica, Denise, Cynthia Rose and Lily were with Aubrey. Beca was struggling to learn the dance moves and kept swapping out with Fat Amy while Lily had started freestyling in Aubrey's group causing Fat Amy to yell out "Dance Battle" and jumped in next to Lily freestyling her dance moves. Stacie jumped in next showing off some ballet moves from years before all while Aubrey took Chloe aside and told her to pull her head in for laughing at the stupidity, Chloe's bright demeanour fading and noticed by Beca.
So who the fuck is Amitiel and why is Michael and Beca so afraid of her? Have no fear, all will be answered and there will be a couple of flashbacks.
Also just so you guys know, I am okay. I have resolved my personal issues that have been going on and have been continuing my writing however I may not post often still as I have a lot going on.
Thanks again guys!