So there's a bit of everything in this chapter, BeChloe, Mitchsen, Staubrey.
Let's see what happens.
Stacie and Beca stand outside Chloe and Aubrey's and suddenly Beca regrets thinking of this. She wasn't sure that facing Chloe after she had killed her parents hours before. Before Beca can tell Stacie that this was a mistake, Stacie reaches out and knocks on the door.
"Stace, I can't do this." Beca says quickly and Stacie turns to her friend.
"Becs, you were the one to suggest this. Come on Chloe need everyone right now. Chloe needs you right now." Stacie asks, placing her hands gently on Beca's shoulder, Beca feeling like Stacie is trying to keep her in place, suddenly feeling suffocated.
"No Stacie, I can't do this. I can't face her after what I said at Semis, I can't face any of you to be honest. Just let me go!" Beca pulls away from Stacie's hold just as the door opens and behind it stands Aubrey.
"Stacie, Beca." Aubrey greets them. Beca shakes her head, looking to the ground and biting back all the tears she could possibly let out in a few short seconds.
"She's in her room Beca. You should go see her." Aubrey finally says after a couple of minutes of silence. Beca shakes her head.
"I can't." The assassin replies. Beca turns and starts to walk away. Aubrey turns to Stacie.
"Let me talk to her. You go see Chloe." The blonde says and Stacie nods, giving Aubrey a hug.
"Be gentle on her, she feels terrible about Semis." Stacie whispers into Aubrey's ear and she feels Aubrey nod.
"We all do." Aubrey replies before breaking the hug and taking off after Beca.
"Beca, wait!" Aubrey yells as she chases down the brunette, or well Beca has stopped finally. Aubrey catches up to Beca, catching her breath at the same time. Aubrey was surprised, Beca wasn't even breathing heavily, she must have been really fit if that were the case.
"Aubrey, please just leave me alone." Beca says and Aubrey crosses her arms over her chest.
"Beca, can we just talk please?" Aubrey asks, noticing only for the first time in the ambient light of the street lights that Beca had dark, almost black rings under her eyes and she was even tinier around her waist than when she last saw her, except her muscles around her shoulders and biceps seemed larger. Aubrey knew that Beca hadn't been eating or sleeping and she felt partly responsible. Beca remained quiet, not saying yes to Aubrey's request but also not saying no.
"Beca, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for what I said to you at Semis. I was just pissed off and under a lot of pressure from my father. Yes, you were right that day when you said that I was trying to impress him because I am. I'm not trying to justify what I said because I know it was so wrong of me. You were a pain in my ass but I guess in a good way, and what you said, it made me realize how passionate you were about this, the music and winning, this team, this weird demented family in a way. When I said that you weren't a Bella, I practically said that you weren't apart of this family and after hearing about your past. I'm just so sorry I made you feel like that again, that you were alone. You're more of a Bella than all of us, you will always be apart of this family, like a protective older sister." Aubrey confesses, allowing herself to cry as she tells Beca everything that has been weighing on her for the past couple of days.
"I just needed you to hear that but right now, one of the members of our Bellas family just lost everything she loved, her mom, her dad, and you. If there is… and I say this in the nicest possible way. If there is anyone who knows about to cope with losing so much, it's you. Chloe needs you Beca. She needs the strength that you carry everyday as you continue to live with everything you have gone through. So please, let's just go and see her, protect her like you promised me." Aubrey adds, reaching out her hand toward Beca, but Beca hesitates making Aubrey wonder what was going through the head of the smaller girl.
"Please Beca." Aubrey asks again softly. Beca drops her head and thinks about killing people that Aubrey and Chloe cared about, Denise, Chloe's parents and now she had to leave which was going to hurt Chloe even more but she figured now would be a good time for goodbye. So Beca takes Aubrey's hand which makes Aubrey smile slightly. It only turns to shock when Beca reaches out and wraps her arms around Aubrey's waist.
"I'm sorry about Semis too but I was just trying to help." Beca mumbles and Aubrey wraps her arms around the brunette in comfort.
"I know you were. Come on, let's go help Chloe. Stacie probably thinks we've killed each other." Aubrey jokes and Beca chuckles softly.
Aubrey and Beca arrive back at the apartment and head into the living room where Stacie is sat on the couch.
"She's in her room. I went in a bit ago. She might be asleep now." Stacie says, flipping her magazine to the next page. Aubrey looks to Beca and nods slightly before letting her go and moving to the couch to sit with Stacie. Beca makes her way to Chloe's room, glancing at all the pictures as she heads down the hallway, photos of Chloe with the Bellas, Chloe with her parents, Chloe and Aubrey together. When Beca arrives at the door, she knocks gently before opening the door and walking in to find Chloe curdled up in her bed, her shoulder shaking rapidly as she cries. Beca takes a deep breath before moving over and sitting down on the bed next to Chloe. She reaches out and running soothing circles into Chloe's back. Chloe slowly turns over to meet Beca's storm blue eyes.
"Hi." Is all Beca can say. Chloe sits up and Beca notices tears in Chloe's eyes. Beca just opens herself up and envelopes Chloe in a hug as the redhead cries into her shoulder.
"I'm sorry." Beca whispers after holding Chloe quietly for 5 minutes. Chloe pulls out of Beca's hold.
"I'm so sorry, about how I've treated you, about Semis, about your parents. Everything in your life has turned to shit since I've shown up. All of your suffering right now, it's my fault and if I could take it back I would." Beca explains and Chloe stares deep into Beca's guilty eyes.
"I'm will always be there for you Chloe, until the day I die, but I'm here to say goodbye as well." Beca continues and Chloe sits back in shock.
"You're leaving." Chloe whimpers, it was the first time she had spoken in fourteen hours, her voice raspy and scratched. It hurt her to speak, what hurt more was her heart breaking at Beca's words.
"I can't be your anchor anymore Chloe. Kunt min mmalak alnnur, ya hayil. 'Ana eizarayiyl, wamilk almawti. Alzzalam yattabie li 'aynama dhahabt. (You're an Angel of the Light, my Hael. I'm Azrael, the Angel of Death. Darkness follows me wherever I go.)" Beca speaks in Arabic and Chloe drops her head, shaking it, trying to understand what Beca had said.
"What does that mean?" Chloe asks shyly, finally wanting to understand what Beca was saying when she spoke different languages, Chloe had this feeling that Beca spoke poetic from her heart when she spoke in different languages, but disguises it so no one understands that she does have feelings and she is more than her sarcasm and robotic lifestyle. Beca lifts her head up, attempting to blink back tears but one escapes and Chloe sees it. Beca stands up and walks to the door.
"You asked me once if I loved you back, I don't know if you remember my answer but I said I did and it scared me because I didn't know what love was, now I do. What I said before was I'm in love with you Chloe but I don't deserve you. You are an Angel of Light and Darkness follows me wherever I go." Beca confesses and leans back against the doorframe.
"Listen I'm a bad person, I've done terrible things. You are perfect, and by God, he put you on this earth. Me, I am death. I bring darkness over the world. I don't know why God made our paths cross and I'm still trying to figure it out but I'm dangerous to you and I don't want my darkness to cloud your light." Beca adds and Chloe allows Beca's confessions to sink in, going into shock at the fact Beca had just admitted more to her in 5 minutes then she had in the 2 months they knew each other. Beca pushes off the doorframe, standing up straight and turning to leave when Chloe's voice stops her.
"The Angel of Death is still an Angel." Chloe says and Beca stops dead in her tracks. She turns back to the hysterical redhead.
"What?" Beca asks.
"Remember in class, the Angel of Death, Azrael I think it was, is still an angel. So if you refer to yourself as death then that means that there is light and an angel somewhere in you too." Chloe replies and Beca doesn't even let the words sink in before rushing back to Chloe and crashing their lips together. Chloe immediately responds, allowing the kiss to wash away her grief and be indulged in the desire of having Beca kiss her again but when she was caught up in the moment, Beca pulls away.
"Azrael also allowed the darkness to take over and poison everyone, I won't let it poison you. I won't let it kill your light." Beca sits up from the bed and makes her way to the door.
"Goodbye Chloe." Beca says as she leaves, listening to Chloe's heart break in her chest as she makes her way out of the apartment, walking past Aubrey and Stacie whom sit in shock as Beca walks out without a word.
"Beca wait!" Chloe calls out, following Beca out her room.
Two minutes before:
"I hope Chloe is okay. I really do." Stacie says, sat on the couch next to Aubrey.
"She will be. Yes she will be like this for a while. I mean she lost the people who have loved her since the day she was conceived, but Chloe is a fighter, she will get through this, especially with Beca's help. I hate to admit it, but Beca makes Chloe happier." Aubrey replies. Stacie sits up and glances at the blonde.
"What about you? How are you going? I know you and Chloe were close so I'm guessing with your family being hard on you that you got close to Chloe's so how are you doing with everything?" Stacie asks. Aubrey drops what she is reading and takes a deep breath, leaning forward and putting her head in her hands. Stacie moves over and wraps a comforting arm around her, allowing Aubrey to move herself into Stacie's grasp. Stacie pulls Aubrey's head up and both girls stare into each other's eyes.
"Chloe may be strong but you are too. You will get through this and I'll always be there to catch you when you fall." Stacie comforts and out of weakness and vulnerability, Aubrey leans in and gently places her lips on Stacie's. Aubrey responding immediately, surging further into the kiss, wrapping her arms around Stacie's neck. The two jump apart when they hear Chloe call out.
"Beca wait!" They hear Chloe followed by footsteps and watch as Beca leaves the apartment.
"What the hell was that?" Aubrey asks. Stacie shakes her head and jumps up to run after Beca when Chloe slowly walks out into the room.
"Chloe? What happened?" Aubrey asks, noticing that Chloe's face had depressed further than before.
"She's gone." Chloe simply whispers before collapsing to the ground in tears. Stacie and Aubrey look to each other before helping Chloe.
Beca arrives back at her room, and continues to pack the rest of her things when she feels a presence in the room.
"Gabe. Good to see you brother. What can I do for you?" Beca asks as she turns around to face the third in charge, under Michael and Raphael, Uriel and Azrael followed, the 4 being Michael's generals, the enforcers.
"I'm here to repay my debt to you for saving my life Azrael. The Rogue is here and after you. I have no idea who it is and what they look like but keep an eye out until you reach Tse'elim. You're the closest thing I have left to family and I can't lose you too." Gabriel confesses. Beca steps forward and wraps her arms around Gabriel.
"I'm not going anywhere. You can't just be here to warn me. Why else are you here?" Beca asks. Gabriel stares deep into Beca's eyes.
"Michael sent me here to keep an eye on you. Make sure his most valuable assassin gets back. This Rogue, the way they kill. It's inhumane, they torture for information than kill." Gabriel lies.
"Thankyou brother. I will see you back home." Beca states and Gabriel leaves, allowing Beca to continue packing.
Please don't kill me. It will get better eventually. It will get worse first but I promise it will get a lot better.
Basically, I'm asking for you all to trust in me.