You honestly didn't think I was going to leave you guys in the dark for a while with the most vital chapters coming up.
This chapter and the next are the turning point for both the story and for Beca's character.
Will she complete her mission or not?
Beca arrives at the front gate of the manor that the Presidential Ball is to be held in.
"Name?" The security guard asks. Beca whom was dressed up as a caterer, looks up at him with a small smile.
"I'm with the catering, I was told to be here at this time." Beca answers, looking at her watch. The security guard glanced up and down at her dress.
"ID?" He asks and Beca hands over her ID. The security guard takes down her details from her ID before giving it back to her.
"Head on through, around the corner and to the right, you'll find the back entry for the caterers." The security guard points in the direction Beca has to go. Beca smiles before heading in the direction the security guard mentioned.
Beca enters in the back way and slips into the kitchen, occasionally helping to keep her cover under wraps. When everyone leaves to go serve, Beca slips out and heads up the emergency service elevator to the third floor where no one except security were. Beca rounds the corner and opens up the air duct before reaching in and grabbing her assassin's gear from the backpack she placed there the day before. She closes the duct again before heading into the bathrooms on that floor and gearing up.
Beca exits the bathroom with her hair let down in loose waves, in her pocket she bears a syringe. Her assassin's brace under her catering shirt, containing a hidden blade that ejects out. She sneaks back downstairs and into the main hall, walking to the bar and taking a tray of drinks, nodding to the bartender with a small smile. She starts to make her way around the room, searching for her target but knowing in the back of her mind that Chloe will be there and needs to be avoided at all costs.
"Chloe, you look absolutely beautiful and Aubrey, I was told that Chloe's friend Beca would be joining her, not to be rude but why are you here?" James Beale asks, watching Chloe flinch at the mention of Beca.
"Nice to see you again James and Beca was unfortunately unable to make it. I agreed to come instead. I hope that's okay with you." Aubrey replies with a small smile. James cracks a wide grin, knowing that Aubrey was almost like a second daughter to him.
"Are you kidding me? I couldn't ask for better. Now come here." James stretches his arms out and gives Aubrey a hug. Chloe looks away, secretly wishing that Beca was there with her, meeting her parents but with everything that happened at Semis, she wouldn't be surprised if Beca never talked to her again. She looks up into the crowd and finds a brunette caterer and she has to adjust her eyes when she sees Beca's stormy blue eyes look back at her. Chloe looks away then back up to see another brunette girl in a catering uniform and Chloe gets upset because she is still hurt by what Beca said.
Beca slowly makes her way through the crowd, allowing people to take drinks off the plater. When the plater was empty, she returned to the bar and refilled it, keeping an eye out for James Beale. 'Patience is the key to everything Azrael.' Michael's voice says in her head as she starts to get impatient. It is on the eighth round that she finally spots James Beale and his wife talking to none other than the President himself. She starts to remember what Chloe had told her about her Father trying to help talk down the President from starting a war with Israel and the Middle East.
"Why do you want Beale dead when if he is trying to save us Michael?" Beca whispers to herself. She pushes it to the back of her mind as she walks toward her target, offering him and the President a drink before leaving again. There was no way she was going to get James Beale alone with his wife. She knew that this changed things a bit, she would have to do this in a bit more of an old fashioned way which also meant there was more of a chance of getting caught. Beca leaves the tray at the bar and makes her way through the crowd toward the stairs, bumping into a blonde.
"Hey, watch it!" Aubrey calls out as she turns to face the person who bumped her, she notices a small brunette girl dressed in a catering outfit walking away and toward the stairs.
"Beca?" She decides to follow her.
Beca makes her way back into the bathroom where she kept her stuff, aware that she was being followed, she grabs a two small darts from her bag and slowly injects the contents of the syringe into them. She feels someone right outside the door and grabs her things, running into the stall and closing the door. She locks the door and unlocks her phone, pretending to speak Chinese, acting as if well, she wasn't Beca.
"Beca?" Beca hears Aubrey as the blonde enters the bathroom. Beca continues to speak Chinese when Aubrey starts checking all of the stalls. When Aubrey knocks on Beca's stall, Beca calls out in Chinese and Aubrey apologizes before leaving and Beca stops, taking a deep breath. She loads the darts into her bracer and buttons up the sleeve again before grabbing her things and leaving the bathroom, tossing her stuff out the window she planned to and heading back downstairs.
"Where were you? You left to get us drinks 20 minutes ago?" Chloe asks as she finds Aubrey, looking dumbfounded.
"Yeah I just, I got distracted, thought I saw someone. Sorry here." Aubrey replies, handing Chloe a drink. Her mind drifts, how could she have thought that Beca would have been there? What would she have even done if Beca did manage to get into a high security party?
"Are you okay?" Chloe asks, her hand brushing up Aubrey arm making Aubrey jump.
"Yeah… Yeah, I just need some air, come with me?" Aubrey asks, Chloe agrees, jumping away to let her father know where she was going before leaving with Aubrey, the whole scene being watched by Beca from the third floor. This was it.
Beca makes her way downstairs and heads back to the bar, grabbing a tray again and filling it with drinks, her eyes continue to stay on James Beale as she makes her way through the crowd. She waits until the tray is empty apart from two glasses before she starts to make her way toward the bar, taking a slight detour past her targets, making sure no one steals the two glasses.
As she reaches them, James is about to finish a conversation with another minister, his wife standing next to him. Beca waits till the other minister leaves before she heads to them.
"Sir, Ma'am another drink?" Beca says politely and James smiles before taking both the glasses, handing one to his wife.
"Thankyou." He smiles again. Beca puts the tray down, loading her bracer as she lowers the tray. As her targets turn around, she fires the two darts, one into each of the back of their necks. Beca moves around the back of James and Evelyn, removing the darts from her targets and disappearing into the crowd as they turn around, noticing Beca was gone. They look to each other than around but they can't find the waitress anywhere. It is then that Evelyn Beale collapses to the ground, followed by James. The crowds collectively gasping and running to the side of the minister and his wife. Beca makes her way upstairs as the crowd is distracted, avoiding any security that were making their way down to the main floor. She heads to the window that she threw her bag out of earlier and jumps out, landing on the roof of the awning a short distance down before heading to the edge and climbs over, grabbing the pipe running down the wall to the ground, she shimmies herself down. As her feet hit the ground, she finds her bag in a small set of bushes next to her and grabs out her assassin's jacket, slipping it on and pulling the hood up. She also grabs her mask and puts it on to protect her identity along with her knife belt and hooking it up around her waist. Beca looks around and notices Chloe and Aubrey standing out the front of the hall, watching all the guards run inside, trying to work out what is going on.
"'Ana asif kalu. (I'm sorry Chloe.)" Beca says to herself as she runs.
"Azrael, I've just seen the news. Excellent work. No-one spotted you?" Michael asks, his voice filled with joy for his student.
"No, I disappeared before they even collapsed, no one would have known it was me. Chloe was outside with her friend." Beca answers the phone, cringing at the mention of Chloe, thinking that by now the redhead knew her parents were dead. Beca killed the parents of the girl she was in love with and that ripped shreds out of her.
"Very good, I honestly didn't think you would be able to do it but I'm glad you did. Welcome back Azrael. We will need you back here as soon as possible. You have a week." Michael orders and Beca nods out of instinct before realising Michael couldn't actually see her.
"Yes Sir, I'll be back in a week's time." Beca replies before hanging up as she reaches the door of her room. She unlocks it and enters, placing her mask away in her bag and taking her jacket off. She sits on her bed and puts her head into her hands. She decides to lie back on the bed until she hears a knock at the door. Beca knew straight away who it was.
"Come in Stacie." She calls out and Stacie enters the room, the look on her face said that she was extremely mad.
"Was it you?" She asks furiously. Beca knew exactly what the taller brunette was asking but pretended to act dumb. No-one could know that she killed Chloe's parents.
"What are you talking about? What did I supposedly do? If this is about the shit from Semis then-." Beca is cut off when Stacie slaps Beca sharply across the cheek. Before shoving her phone in the assassin's face.
"What the fuck Stacie!" She calls out as she looks down at the phone, Stacie had it opened to an article about the death of Chloe's parent's, mentioning that the coroners weren't sure how they died as of yet.
"Wait, what is this? You think I did this?" Beca acts shocked at Stacie's claims.
"Stacie, this wasn't me. I've been in here all night packing. The League has called me back. I'm leaving in a week." Beca says, looking around at the half packed up room and Stacie's face lightens slightly but she is still mad.
"I've had Aubrey on the phone in hysterics saying Chloe is in shock and won't even speak. So help me god, Beca if this was you then tell me now." Stacie says and Beca moves to her desk where her laptop was set up.
"Here take a look for yourself. I've been here all night." Beca plays the security footage that she pre-recorded the night before and set up in case of this situation. The footage show Beca in the room, packing, she hits fast forward and it speeds up but still shows Beca in the room for the whole night until the current moment they were in. Stacie realises that Beca wasn't the murderer.
"Becs, I'm… I'm sorry I slapped you but I guess you wouldn't be the only assassin out here." Stacie says and Beca nods.
"There are others out here. However they were a part of the League but not anymore. We call them Rogues. I was only here to gather intel about a potential target which is why I was late to most of the Bellas rehearsals, the target was moving and I had to do my part but I have not killed anyone while I've been here. I follow my orders not go rogue." Beca lies and Stacie listens intently, more and more interested about how the League of Angels worked. The fact she had living and breathing proof that such as myth exists with their aged ways.
"But none of that matters right now, we need to go see Chloe." Beca adds and Stacie's head shoots up, her eyes looking straight into Beca's, noticing they have gone from the usual storm blue to a dusty grey, a more sadder colour. Stacie realises that Beca feels bad for Chloe and is willing to go see her even if it breaks both their hearts.
"Okay, let's go." Stacie replies with a small smile and the two girls leave to head to Aubrey's and Chloe's apartment where shit was probably going to go down when a certain small brunette turned up.
"I've been in touch with Azrael and she firmly believes she has completed her task. Time to move in. Collect them all up and we will show Azrael what it means to lose everything." Michael says before turning around to face James and Evelyn Beale.
"Yes Sir. It will be done." They reply.
"Azrael has been getting on my nerves for some time now. With her emotions switched back on, questioning my kill orders, caring for that group of girls and falling in love with Chloe Beale. She is starting to figure out what is happening, she is starting to see our true intentions. It is time to see if she is truly ready to take my place. In a week's time, Azrael will either submit herself to the League mind, body and soul or she will watch all her friends and her precious Chloe die before she joins them." Michael adds and James and Evelyn along with Haniel and Raziel all bow down to their master.
"Himayat Dawri! (Protect the League!)" Michael calls out.
"Himayat Dawri! (Protect the League!)" All the assassin's call out in response.
So all of you that guessed that Michael was a bad guy, good job!
The true intentions of the League will be revealed soon but basically, they want to start a war not stop one.
Amitiel was also right too!
So how is this going to end for Beca? League or Bellas. Will she submit or will she protect the Bellas? I'm pretty sure most of you can guess it seeing as this is a Bechloe story!
Until next time!