Hey guys! Sorry for the late post but here is another chapter!
Bit of excitement, bit of drama, bit of Azrael!
Stacie, Chloe and Aubrey's heads all raise when they hear a knock at the door. Stacie is the first to stand up.
"Beca must have realized that she forgot her phone. This guy, Michael, keeps trying to call her." Stacie says as she pulls Beca's phone out of her pocket and opens the door only to be sprayed in the face with something. Stacie backs up, trying to rub the substance out of her eyes. Aubrey immediately pulls out her phone when a person dressed in all black, with a mask steps into the room, attempting to dial 911 when the attacker sprays her in the face too. She looks to where she last saw Stacie to see that she has collapsed to the ground. The blonde realizing it is knock out gas that she was just sprayed with. Aubrey watches as the attacker sprays Chloe also, fighting to stay awake as long as possible but is taken over by the darkness.
"Hey!" Is the last thing she hears from a familiar voice before passing out.
5 minutes before:
"You've made yourself quite at home here Azrael." Gabriel asks, swinging a weak elbow into the punching bag. He continues to watch as Beca packs until her head pops up without warning.
"You feel that?" Beca asks. Gabriel closes his eyes but doesn't understand what his sister in arms is asking.
"No. What is it?" Gabriel asks in return and Beca stands up.
"Something's not right. I feel a shift. You said the Rogue was here in Barden?" Beca replies and Gabriel nods, watching Beca close her eyes and her head shift awkwardly.
"They're here." Beca whispers as she runs out the door, grabbing her full knife belt as she heads out. Gabriel watching as his fellow assassin takes off.
Beca sprints toward Chloe's and Aubrey's apartment, dodging between college students. Her legs burn but her will allows her to continue running. As she arrives, she bursts through the door to find an assassin of the League of Angels kneeling down over an unconscious Aubrey. She glances around the room to find Chloe and Stacie also unconscious. She turns back to the assassin.
"Hey!" She calls out and the assassin turns around, knife in their hand.
"Let them go Rogue. You're quarrel is with me and the League." Beca grits between her teeth, pulling one of her knives out, twirling it in her hand. The Rogue puts their weapon on the ground and stands back up, turning to face Beca.
"Who are you?" Beca asks but receives no response. Beca takes a step closer.
"I said who are you? Take off your mask!" Beca demands. The assassin responds by reaching behind their head to pull off their mask when they suddenly pull out two knives and throw them together in the right hand. Beca catches the one aiming for her face, the other however, hits her in her side. She curses out as she rips the knife out of her, she turns to face her assailant when she finds that they're gone.
"Shit!" She calls out as she holsters the weapons and runs to Stacie first, assessing her friend for injuries and finding that she had just been knocked out. Beca moves on to Aubrey then to Chloe finding the same. Beca breathes a deep sigh of relief that none of her friends are injured. She sits down on the couch, watching over the three girls.
"Azrael." Gabriel says as he appears in the apartment, finding Beca sat on the couch, knife in hand, protecting the unconscious girls. He leans down next to Stacie and checks her vitals.
"They've just been hit with the knock out gas, they'll be fine." Gabriel states and Beca nods her head. Gabriel notices Beca's arm over her abdomen.
"I know Gabriel. It was the Rogue. They got me." Beca replies, lifting up her arm to reveal the stab wound. Gabriel moves over next to the assassin and sits down, taking a look at her wound.
"They threw two knives at once with perfect aim. I haven't seen anyone else who could do that besides us 4 generals and Michael. You don't think that..." Beca asks before Gabriel interrupts her.
"No Azrael, it wasn't. It must have been someone who had been trained by one of us. What I want to know is how did you feel it from two miles away? I haven't heard of anyone who can do it from so far, the furthest I've heard of is a couple of rooms down. Michael always said your abilities were unmeasurable but this is truly incredible." Gabriel states and Beca takes in what her League brother has to say, Gabriel catches Beca gazing at the unconscious redhead on the couch, both their head turn when Stacie starts to stir. Beca turns to Gabriel.
"You need to go. If they see you, they'll ask questions." Beca explains, Gabriel nods his head, agreeing with Beca before turning to leave.
"Gabe? If I need you or find out anything else about this Rogue, I'll call you. Also could you run these back to my room for me." Beca states, holding out her knife belt full of knives except for one that remained in her pocket. Gabriel turns to his sister in arms with a small smile.
"Sure thing but do me a favor as well. Keep an eye on your abilities. I'm starting to see why Michael chose you to secede him." Gabriel replies before leaving. Beca carefully stands up, being careful of her wound. She moves over to Stacie whom starts to wake up, before sitting up hastily, almost hitting Beca's head with her own.
"Hey, you're okay. It's okay. They're gone." Beca calls out. Stacie stares at Beca with wide, fear-filled eyes.
"Wh-What happened?" The taller brunette asks, her eyes wide in shock.
"Someone tried to attack you guys. It's okay, they're gone." Beca replies as she checks Stacie over for any side effects or marks of abuse.
"Did you kill them?" Stacie asks quietly, afraid of what Beca's answer was going to be. Beca stares straight into Stacie's eyes.
"No, they got away. It was a Rogue assassin from the League." Beca answers honestly as she helps Stacie to stand up again. Beca heads over to Aubrey and Chloe to check on them as Stacie goes to the kitchen to get a glass of water. She returns to find Beca, carrying Aubrey to the couch and placing her next to Chloe. Stacie also notices Beca's face cringe as she walks around, she decides to ignore it and sits down opposite the couch. Beca moves over to the window and keeps watch, her hand resting in her pocket, fingers wrapped gently around the knife she had pulled out of herself.
Aubrey springs awake like she had woken up from a nightmare. Stacie immediately jumps up from her seat and kneels down in front of Aubrey.
"It's okay Aubrey. You're okay." She comforts, placing her hand on Aubrey's knee. The blonde looks around to find Chloe still unconscious next to her.
"What the hell happened?" Aubrey asks and Stacie puts her head down.
"We were attacked but Beca helped." Stacie said, nodding her head behind the blonde. Aubrey turns around and sees Beca seated down next to the window, her gazed focused out the window like she was keeping watch. Aubrey turns back to Stacie.
"Are you okay? Is Chloe okay?" Aubrey asks, quickly glancing to the redhead. Stacie nods.
"Yeah we were all just hit with knock out gas. She'll wake up soon." The brunette replies and as she speaks, Chloe springs awake which catches Beca's attention also. The redhead asking the same questions as the other two girls that had been hit with the knockout gas. Stacie explains what had happened and that Beca had saved them. Chloe did just as Aubrey did and looked back to find Beca keeping watch over them, the small brunette's face extremely pale as she turns her head to meet Chloe's eyes. Stacie and Aubrey move into the kitchen while Chloe walks over toward Beca. She goes to speak when Beca speaks first.
"I only came back because you guys were in trouble. I'm not toying with your feelings. If anything I'm torturing myself not you." Beca admits and Chloe sits down on the seat opposite Beca.
"Why do you think you don't deserve me Beca? Because I like you, I really want to be with you but when you start to show the same, it's one step forward and two steps back. You keep shutting me out again. Why can't you just open up to me?" Chloe asks simply and Beca turns her gaze from Chloe to the window. She knew she should have left with Gabriel after helping the girls but she wanted to make sure that none of the side effects to the knock out gas had occurred. When it came to Chloe's question, all Beca could think about was telling Chloe the truth.
"Because I'm a bad person." Beca manages to slur out, blood continuing to pour out of the wound the Rogue had made. Chloe noticed this and Beca becoming even paler.
"Are you okay?" Chloe asks, her worrying eyes never leaving the brunette. Beca nods straight away, mumbling a small 'yes' and starts moving, standing up and starting to walk toward the kitchen. Chloe follows, pulling Beca back.
"Hey, you're not a bad person. I don't know why you can't see yourself the way I see you." Chloe suggests and Beca pulls her arm out of Chloe's grip.
"Because you don't know the whole me. You only know this mask, this act that I put up to draw people in. If you knew the whole me then you'd be terrified. You'd hate me like I hate myself." Beca confesses and Chloe takes a step back at Beca's revelation. She considers her next words carefully, knowing that Beca was starting to get riled up.
"Then show me." Chloe finally replies and Beca's head perks up, eyes burning into Chloe's. Beca considers it for a second but instead shuts down and shakes her head, lowering it.
"I can't. I can't because I can't lose you." Beca says as she turns to walk away but stumbles, realizing she still had the bleeding wound. Stars begin to dance in her vision, she feels Chloe's hands on her shoulders from behind before she sees nothing but black, collapsing to the ground before Chloe could catch her.
"Aubrey! Stacie! Beca, come on, wake up. Aubrey call 911!" Chloe yells out as she tries to wake Beca up. Stacie runs out into the living room to find an unconscious Beca in Chloe's arms.
"I don't know what happened. She just collapsed." Chloe cries. Stacie moves over and looks over Beca's body and remembers Beca was holding an arm over her abdomen so she moves Beca's arm and finds the wound to Beca's side.
"Shit. She's lost a lot of blood." Stacie comments and Chloe leans over, spying the wound and putting her hand to her mouth. Aubrey runs out, phone to her hear to the scene unfolding in front of her.
"Yes please hurry." She says into the phone before hanging up. Aubrey helps the girls prop Beca's head up and wait for the ambulance to come, Stacie keeping pressure on Beca's wound.
"Why the hell didn't she tell us about that giant gaping hole in her side?" Aubrey starts and Stacie shushes her with a quick answer.
"Because she is Beca. Remember she broke her wrist and had taken her cast off the next day, pretending nothing even happened. Plus she was keeping an eye on us." Stacie answers and Chloe listens as Stacie speaks.
"Do you know more about Beca? She kept telling me just before that she was wearing a mask and putting on an act for everyone. I just don't get why she won't open up to us, or at least me." Chloe questions and Stacie sighs.
"You wouldn't look at her the same if you knew. It took me about a week to adjust." Stacie replies and Chloe meets Stacie eyes with fire.
"So you do know something. She opened up to you but not me." Chloe answers sadly and Stacie feels bad for the redhead.
"I wish I could tell you but it's not my story to tell. Beca will open up to you when she is ready. I guessed more than anything and she filled in the blanks for me." Stacie replies and it makes Chloe feel even worse that she can't put the pieces together like Stacie did. As she goes to speak, the ambulance arrives and the girls help the paramedics answer questions before taking her away to the hospital, Chloe sitting in the ambulance with Beca while Stacie and Aubrey follow behind.
So the Rogue is after Beca, but who is it?
And Stacie knows something about Beca that Chloe doesn't, will Chloe get mad or understand?
I can tell you now that chapters 32, 33 and 34 will be exciting!
Until next time!