Hi Guys so this might be my last chapter for a little bit, hopefully only a couple of weeks but work is picking up and I have a huge Australia Day DJ gig coming up so please don't hate me!
"Mitchell, your bail has been posted." The officer calls out as she opens the cell. Beca makes her way out and is handed her things before walking out the front door to find Chloe waiting for her.
"Hey. Are you okay? Did you get into any prison fights?" She jokes around as she pretends to throw a couple of punches. Beca smiles, pretending to block the punches.
"I didn't actually but I will remember that for next time." She replies as they start to walk away from the police station, Beca looks at her phone and realizes it is 1:11am.
"Damn, prison changed you. One minute you knock out Bumper and punch Jesse and now you're perfectly content." Chloe replies and Beca breaks out into genuine laughter, something she hadn't done in a while.
"Thanks for bailing me out." She states as she looks around to see if she could pick Chloe's car out. Chloe suddenly stops behind her.
"Well I didn't." She says quickly and Beca turns around when she hears a car door opening, watching as Aubrey Posen gets out of her BMW. Beca suddenly stops dead in her tracks. She knew that she was going to cop a yelling at from Aubrey. It almost made Beca want to be at the lashing post again back at Tse-elim.
"Dude you called Aubrey." She says and Chloe picks up on how annoyed Beca is when she speaks, however thinking that she was only annoyed because she was going to get into trouble.
"I know, I know but they were putting you in handcuffs Becs, it looked pretty serious." Chloe replies and Beca crosses her arms over her chest.
"That doesn't mean you call the person who hates me the most. I could have called my uncle but I trusted you." Beca replies and Chloe flinches at the harsh words.
"Who else was I going to call? Aubrey's family had the money to get you out. Why are you yelling at me? I am the only one here." She replies, slightly hurt as she watches the brunette's mood shift to almost unrecognizable again, that robotic Beca coming back out.
"I didn't ask you to be." Beca argues back as she starts to turn around.
"I was just trying to help. I wanted to see you and make sure you were okay. I feel horrible because we all just stood there when you got arrested, Fat Amy even ran." Chloe admits, her voice quiet but Beca kept the internal filter switched off.
"I don't need your help. You're not my girlfriend and you never will be." Beca said before turning back around and walking toward the blonde captain. Chloe drops her head before following Beca to the car as Aubrey had given her a ride.
"Look Aubrey, I can explain. I was just trying to help." Beca starts to explain but Aubrey just raises her hand up and Beca shuts her mouth.
"I don't want to hear it Beca, you fucked up. You're lucky that the centre didn't file charges against you and the Bellas." Aubrey grits through her teeth. Beca decides not to argue and just gets in the car.
"Aubrey. Aubrey! What did you expect me to do?" Beca finally asks, the three girls were walking up the steps to the apartment. Aubrey turns around hastily and the look on her face scared Beca more than Michael ever did.
"Nothing Beca! I expected you to do nothing. It was not our business to get involved! If you hadn't of gotten involved then that policeman would have seen the fight and broken it up, probably take Jesse and Bumper in to the cells instead too. That's just it Beca, you don't think about the repercussions of your actions, you just do it and bring everyone else down in the process!" Aubrey yells back and Chloe stands back in shock, knowing she should stand up for Beca but she remembered what Beca said back at the station about not needing her help so she didn't say anything but she is just as shocked when Beca speaks up again.
"You really think I didn't think about the repercussions. Aubrey I don't care that I got thrown in a cell. Those Tonehangers were performing, they were performing acapella and they were good. I know I enjoyed listening to them. Music has always been so close to my heart and Chloe knows my past." Beca turns to gaze into Chloe's eyes, a small smile crossing her face before continuing.
"I may have had some people help me physically and mentally but emotionally, music is what helped me. Music will always be a big deal for me. My Mom was the one who taught me how to sing, she was teaching my sister too before they died. Music is the only connection I have left to them anymore and those fucking Trebles, they not only interrupted the Tonehangers performance but they attacked music which struck a nerve with me. When Jesse and Bumper were beating up that guy, knowing that he was receiving it only because he was trying to make people happy like music has done for me, there was no way I was just going to stand by and watch that happen. I was not doing nothing and to be honest I thought you would have been right there next to me because I know you love music and acapella more than I do." Beca finishes and both Chloe and Aubrey stand silent, unwilling to speak any form of words. Aubrey knew that Beca was right and she should have done something too. She knew that the Trebles had attacked something she loved and in secret she was ashamed for not helping.
"Beca I'm sorry. I didn't-." Aubrey starts to apologise when this time Beca raises her hand up to stop Aubrey.
"I don't want to hear it Aubrey. I'll see you guys tomorrow at rehearsal. Thanks for getting me out Aubrey." Beca replies before turning around and giving Chloe a quick peck on the cheek before walking back to her dorm.
Beca sat in her History class, a yawning Chloe was right next to her. After she had gotten back to her dorm last night, she had received a text from the redhead stating how sorry she was. Beca felt bad for what she said too so she decided to call Chloe. The two spoke on the phone until the sun rose and sorted everything out.
"Okay so we spoke about Azrael a couple of weeks ago and the four major players in the myth that is the League of Angels. But what about those that leave? The ones that go rogue." Dr. Matthews starts his lecture and Beca well and truly already knew the answer to this one.
"Yes Miss Beale." Dr Matthews points to Chloe whom had her hand raised much to Beca's surprise.
"They would be targeted by the League and killed to prevent the secrecy of the League from being exposed and putting innocent people in danger." Chloe answers and Beca is taken aback by the fact that Chloe knew the correct answer.
"You've been studying Miss Beale. Excellent, she is absolutely correct. The top priority of the League was secrecy. It was why there were never witnesses at any of their acclaimed crime scenes, they were all killed. Even Azrael was said to have killed innocent people to protect the secret of the League as much as Miss Mitchell said on her first day about Azrael not harming innocents, they have because they were ordered to." Dr Matthews adds and Beca feels that pang of guilt in her stomach from killing Denise, sweet innocent Denise.
4 Days Later:
"Beca! You're twenty minutes late!" Aubrey yells as she spots Beca walking through the doors to the rehearsal space, Chloe looking up at the shorter brunette, happy that Beca had still been coming to rehearsals considering the argument she had with. They glance at each other and nod slightly. Stacie gazes up at Beca but as Beca meets her eyes, they drop again and Beca feels bad, she should not have told Stacie. Beca slams her bag down and take out her water bottle attracting the attention of Aubrey and the other. Beca had just been on the phone with Michael discussing her final plans for the Presidential Ball in 3 days, one day after Semis.
"I'm sorry Aubrey. I'll aim to be on time in the future. I just had an important phone call." Beca replies, a small smile forming on her lips, Chloe happy to see the brunette smiling even though they hadn't spoken much, Beca was always busy, Chloe didn't know what she was doing but she felt that even though they were still friends that Beca was still avoiding her.
"That's no excuse, hurry up and get in your spot." Aubrey demands and Beca does as she is told. Beca often wondered why she ever put up with Aubrey's BS. 'Well you do put up with your dad and the League constantly beating the crap out of you so why can't you put up with a bit of bitchy comments.' Her voice comments in her head and sadly she agrees but she also loves music too much to walk away from it, even if it is acapella. When Beca said all that stuff to Aubrey a few nights before about music being her savior, her escape when things got bad, she was telling the truth. Her mother did teach her how to sing and play guitar but Beca hadn't played in years. Being in the Bellas, although helped with her mission also made her feel close to her mother again. Music was in her blood, in her skin, it pumped through her like a life source. Music was Beca's soul.
Later that night:
Beca was working out, being careful of her wrist. She had taken multiple pain killers and tried to shut out the pain but in a way, she felt she needed to feel it, that she deserved it. She pushed herself, upping the weights even when she was tired. The images of people she had killed in the past flashing through her mind, Denise, Ebony, even the guilty people. Taking the people's lives, took away pieces of Beca's soul away and now all Beca felt inside her was darkness. She felt like she was just as bad as the people she killed. With the guilty thoughts flooding through her mind, the feelings toward Chloe that had never left and Stacie ignoring her because she sees Beca as a monster and frankly, that is exactly what she felt like at that moment.
"BECA!" She hears Denise's voice screaming out in her head as she moves her to the salmon ladder, her lungs burning as she struggles to breathe. She takes a hold of the bar and pulls up, flicking the bar to the next set of rungs. She repeats the action over and over until she can't breathe. She changes the song on her phone and turns it up to highest it will go to attempt to block out the voices of the people she had killed. She takes in a couple of deep breaths before going again on the salmon ladder. She doesn't realise she has been working out for 6 hours straight until she feels someone tap on her shoulder. Beca jumps, not even feeling Chloe's presence in the room because she was so distracted with her thoughts, she turns around to meet the redhead's eyes.
"Beca, you look like you've run a hundred miles. Are you okay?" Chloe asks and Beca nods.
"Yeah I'm good just wanted to get a good workout in, lost track of time. I know I was supposed to meet you earlier and I'm sorry." Beca replies and Chloe's worried look turns upward slightly into a half smile.
"It's okay Becs. Do you mind if you keep going though?" Chloe asks with a devilish grin before leaning in close.
"It's really hot watching you. The way your shoulders flex." Chloe whispers, running her hands down Beca's biceps, Beca feeling the redhead's breath against her ear and it makes her smile.
"I can think of a few other ways to get you hot." Beca replies and Chloe bursts out laughing before stepping closer to the shorter girl, Chloe's hands resting on Beca's hips, slowly sliding up her shirt as she leans down and places her lips on Beca's. Beca starts to feel nervous as Chloe's hands start to ghost over the scars on her abs from the League, scars that she wasn't ready to tell Chloe about. So Beca decides to distract Chloe, pulling away and going back to the Salmon Ladder.
"You are such a tease." Chloe calls out as Beca starts to do her exercises on the salmon ladder, Chloe however is wondering why Beca wouldn't go any further with her, why Beca jumped away when Chloe touched her but the thoughts fade away as she watches Beca on the Salmon Ladder. She lies back on Beca's bed and ends up falling asleep. Eventually waking up to Beca sliding in next to her and putting her muscular arm around her.
There you have it! I hope I haven't left too much of a cliffhanger for you guys and I wanted to put in a cute Bechloe scene. There will be a lot more if it helps.
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Thanks for your patience guys, things are just getting a bit hectic.
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