A/N: Hey Guys, I'm so sorry it's been so long but I have been really busy with my work. Also, I have recently been diagnosed with Type 1 Bipolar and Anxiety Disorders so I have been making sure my medications are working properly. Again I'm sorry and I'll try to get on here more often again.
Beca had returned to Barden, the wounds all over her body still healing. After she had woken up the day after her lashings, Michael had explained that he did it to help her gain more focus again. The rest of the time she was there, she was beaten, lashed further and tested to all limits but she pulled out stronger and as Azrael. She had managed to get far enough as to shut and lock away, the humane part of herself, the part that feels emotions, that loves and cares for others. Beca's switch was set permanently into the off position as she walks back into her room to find Stacie sitting on her bed.
"And what can I do for you Stacie?" Beca asks robotically as she puts her bag on the bed next to Stacie and starts unpacking.
"Aubrey's kicked you out of the Bellas." Stacie replies and Beca laughs instantly.
"And? Look I have more important things to tend to then cry over the fact that I got kicked out of a girls acapella group." Beca laughs out as she continues to unpack her things. Stacie watches as Beca moves around the room like nothing else mattered.
"What's happened to you? You gave a damn about the Bellas in the beginning." Stacie says, standing up and moving toward Beca.
"No I didn't, I gave a damn about Chloe but that is done now." Beca answers honestly and Stacie can't help but hear the venom in Beca's words at the mention of Chloe.
"Aubrey will most likely kill you if she sees you." Stacie adds and Beca just shrugs.
"I'd like to see her try Stacie. She forgets that I saved her from that asshole Jesse, if she were sober and could remember what happened, she wouldn't want to come near me." Beca warns and Stacie takes that as her queue to leave before trying to break through again.
"What about Chloe? You broke her heart you know? She really likes you." Stacie adds and Beca, again, shrugs.
"Not my problem." Beca smirks and Stacie bites back a few venomous words herself and instead turns and leaves.
"Stacie, you're late." Aubrey states firmly as Stacie stumbles into the rehearsal space, her head still spinning from the conversation she had with Beca moments before.
"Sorry Aubrey, I was just meeting someone and lost track of time." Stacie replies, stealing a glance from Chloe. The redhead had not been coping very well, thinking Beca left because of her and what happened between them. Chloe's eyes were dark, bags clearly evident, even her hair was not as vibrant as it used to be, the bright red fading to a dull orange instead. She also had lost a considerable amount of weight as she hadn't been eating more than a piece of fruit a day. Aubrey worried for her best friend every day and so did the other Bellas. They all knew that Chloe's heart had been broken by a certain short brunette.
"That's not a good enough reason. Be on time in future." Aubrey demands and Stacie falls in line with the others, all the Bellas continuing on with their rehearsal however before they start, Aubrey looks back to the door and all the Bellas jump as Aubrey reacts quickly to the person walking through the door.
"You! You are not allowed here, you are no longer a Bella. Get the hell out of my rehearsal space!" Aubrey yells as Beca steps down and looks around, clearly ignoring Aubrey's words. Her eyes fall on Chloe and for once, she is relieved to not feel anything or go through an internal struggle with her emotional switch.
"Did you not hear me! Get out!" Aubrey repeats and Beca finally lets her eyes fall on the blonde captain and lets out one of her signature smirks.
"Oh I heard you. I'm just not listening. You're not the boss of me. I was just here because Stacie left this in my room." Beca replies, holding up Stacie's jacket and winking in the leggy brunette's direction. All the Bellas, including the two captains gape at both Stacie and Beca.
"Oh Stace, didn't you tell them about our amazing night? When was it? Oh yeah, the SBT party, the night before your mother found your father dead in their bed." Beca pushes and watches as Stacie starts to shake in rage.
"Shut up." Stacie states firmly, her eyes turning black with anger. She doesn't dare look to the other Bellas for their reactions.
"Get out of this space now Beca!" Aubrey jumps in, avoiding Stacie at the same time. She watches as Beca simply scoffs, clicking her tongue to one side of her mouth in a cocky fashion and drops her head. Aubrey thinks she is going to leave when Beca steps closer and gets right in Aubrey's face.
"Oh Aubrey, you are so controlling. Maybe you should drink more, I know you loosen up a lot as soon as you smell alcohol. I mean your kiss on my lips was pretty sloppy but nowhere as sloppy as you and Jesse which I helped you out with I might add but that's fine, make me the bad guy. I was actually away for personal reasons. My best friend died and I was going to the funeral so I apologise for interrupting your rehearsal." Beca turns to walk away and the Bellas realise that Beca didn't leave to get away, she actually had business to attend too. All the Bellas start to feel bad as they watch Beca leave. Chloe and Aubrey included, maybe they were wrong about everything and Beca is grieving about everything which explained her strange behaviour. Maybe they jumped the gun too fast. Aubrey glances at Chloe and they share a look of guilt before Chloe runs out the space after Beca.
"Wait! Beca Stop!" Beca hears Chloe's voice behind her. Beca stops and turns around to face the redhead.
"Well look who it is. Hi Red. Didn't even think you noticed me. Your shoes looked more interesting from what I saw." Beca scoffs and Chloe is a little taken aback by Beca's choice of words, trying to remember that Beca is grieving obviously. So instead of replying, Chloe just steps forward and wraps her arms around the brunette.
"I'm sorry about your friend." Chloe whispers into Beca's ear before pulling away and noticing that Beca's features are unchanged. She would have thought Beca would have broken down that defensive badass wall she put up and well break down but she didn't which was weird to Chloe.
"Yeah I'm sorry too." Beca adds before turning and walking away and Chloe furrows her eyebrows, watching the girl she was crushing on walk away.
Beca works out in her room with the weights when she feels a presence at the door.
"Aubrey, you are the last person I expected to be at my door." Beca says as she drops the weights and turns to the blonde captain standing in the door way.
"Trust me, I didn't expect to find myself here either but when all of the group is asking to let you back in. I can't exactly say no. I'm sorry I was hard on you earlier. Chloe told me what happened between you two and I thought you had left to escape without facing what you did. I didn't even consider that something may have actually happened." Aubrey replies as she steps into the room. Beca moves over to her bed and takes a seat, Aubrey sitting down in the chair opposite her.
"I'm sorry about your friend. It's hard having to deal with something like that on your own but the Bellas, especially Stacie and Chloe are worried about you. She really cares about you, you know, Chloe I mean. She likes you and wants to be more than friends with you. I tried so hard to not like you that I did everything I could to make you look bad for Chloe but the truth is, you are a good person Beca and I'm sorry I tried so hard to make you look bad." Aubrey adds and Beca scoffs before nodding her head.
"What?" Aubrey asks, in reply to Beca's scoff.
"You thinking I'm a good person. You had every right to see me as the bad guy because that is what I am." Beca replies unemotionally as she stands up and walks to the door. Aubrey stands up too, seeing Beca at the door holding it and staring at Aubrey as a sign that it was time for her to leave. The captain makes her way past Beca and into the hallway before turning back as Beca was about to shut the door.
"You're not a bad person. A bad person would have left me to deal with Jesse but you helped and I never fully thanked you for that so thank you. If you would like, you are back in the Bellas. Rehearsals are at 2pm tomorrow." Aubrey says before finally walking away. Beca shutting the door and continuing with her weights. Flashes of plunging the knife into Amitiel's back sitting in her memory.
"A bad person kills someone they care about though." She whispers to herself before pushing the thoughts to the back of her mind and continuing with her workout.
Shortly after Aubrey's visit, Beca had spent time thinking about her mission. She had decided it would be best for her to rejoin the Bellas in order to complete the mission at hand. She had been so deep in thought that she didn't feel the all too familiar presence entering her room.
"Chloe, what are you doing here?" Beca asks as she looks up to find the redhead standing at the door, watching Beca in thought.
"I just wanted to see if you were okay." Chloe replies as she steps into the room. Beca moves off of her bed and leans on her bench press as Chloe steps closer to the shorter brunette.
"I'm fine Chloe. Aubrey came by earlier and apologised and I decided I'm going to come back so I guess I will see you tomorrow." Beca says as she lies down on the bench press and goes to lift the bar off the rungs holding it when Chloe steps behind Beca's head.
"What are you doing Red?" Beca smirks as she starts bench pressing the weight above her. Chloe holds her hands out and acts a spotter for Beca.
"All bench pressers need a spotter." Chloe laughs and Beca shakes her head before continuing with her workout. Chloe watching carefully as the shorter girls stomach tenses and tightens with every lift, listening carefully to Beca's strained breath. When Beca puts the bar back on the hooks, Chloe moves around and smiles.
"My turn." She jokes and Beca shakes her head again before sitting up and moving off the machine so Chloe could lie down. Beca took some of the weight off and watched as Chloe started to bench press.
"Do you always work out in your spare time?" Chloe asks and Beca nods.
"Yeah it's my way of spacing out from the world around me." Beca answers as Chloe lifts the bar back onto the hooks but the bar slips off one of the hooks.
"Chloe look out!" Beca calls out as she reaches forward to catch the bar when it crushes her wrist, Beca hearing and feeling the snap in her wrist but refusing to feel the pain. Chloe sits up and helps Beca get the bar off her deformed wrist.
"Beca, you need to go to the hospital. Come on I'll take you." Chloe worriedly says as she starts to walk to the door.
"Chloe I'm fine." Beca jokes and Chloe looks to Beca seriously.
"Beca, your wrist is broken. You need to get a cast on it so it sets again properly. Come on." Chloe replies, her tone almost making submit. Beca realized then that her health was important to Chloe and might help with her task so she nods her head before following Chloe out the door.
"Beca Mitchell?" A doctor calls out, turning the head of the redhead. She stands up and walks over to the doctor that had taken Beca as they entered the hospital.
"I'm her friend, I helped bring her in." Chloe explains. The doctor nods.
"You did the right thing, the bone in Beca's wrist has been shattered completely. We had to get her in for surgery to get a rod and screws put in so it will heal properly. However, I feel the need to tell you that she is completely fine, almost in disbelief of what's happened." He says. Chloe nodding along with the doctors explanation, she turns to go back to her seat when the doctor speaks up again.
"Nothing like her previous injuries." The doctor adds making Chloe look at him confused.
"What do you mean previous injuries?" Chloe asks, looking between the doctor and the door that she couldn't go through to see Beca knowing that Beca was superhuman enough to probably hear this conversation.
"Your friend has large scarring over her whole body, I would say about 40% of her body is scars, the last time I saw something similar was a war veteran. Has your friend served by any chance?" He asks and Chloe shakes her head.
"Well then your friend, has gone through something quite traumatic in her past." The doctor claims and Chloe nods her head.
"Can I see her?" Chloe asks and the doctor nods his head before leading Chloe to Beca's room. Chloe unable to think of something that could cause so much trauma to Beca's body. She needed to see these scars for herself.