Okay so I had a quick chance to get this one up.
This chapter focuses mainly on flashbacks and Chloe. Next chapter you will both love and hate me for. Let's just say what has to happen will happen.
"Oh what about her?" Chloe points out. Aubrey follows the direction of Chloe's finger and notices a short, maybe five foot three inches tall. This girl had brown hair, deep blue eyes and an alternative clothing choice. Aubrey's thoughts immediately jumped to emo or rock chick and she didn't like her immediately. She also noticed how the girl was arguing with a Korean group.
"Uh no, she looks a little too alternative for the group." She states outright and in a rude manner. Chloe looks at her, eyes open wide before glancing back at the mysterious brunette. She felt an instant spark in the pit of her stomach. An attraction growing for her and she is yet to know her name. Chloe takes guesses at what her name could be. Aubrey watching her best friend closely as she gazes at the alternative emo girl.
"How do I look?" She hastily says, realising the small brunette is heading in their direction. She turns back around as Aubrey says "Fine."
"Hi, would you be interested in joining our Acapella group?" Chloe asks Beca as she hands her a flyer.
"Oh, right this is like a thing now huh?" Beca replies, realising she probably just completely compromised the mission, she was supposed to get closer to Chloe not push her away but she watched as Chloe bit her bottom lip and Beca smirks a little.
"Oh totes, we sing covers of songs without any instruments, it's all from our mouths." Chloe says nervously. The shorter girl smiles awkwardly, not knowing how to interact with normal people, she hadn't interacted with someone outside of the League in eleven years. Aubrey glances down at the brunette's muscular tone, her biceps showing in the tank she was wearing, along with the outline of what looked like a ripped six pack. She also noticed that he girl was very skinny and had a couple of tattoos. She looks at Chloe and realises that the redhead had a thing for the brunette already.
"Yikes." Beca says. Aubrey smiles as Chloe explains the groups on campus.
"They're four groups on campus, the Bella's, that's us, we're the tits. The BU Harmonics, they sing a lot of Madonna. The High Notes, they're not particularly motivated." Chloe and Aubrey look over their shoulders and Beca notices the High Notes are called that because they were all stoned off their faces.
"And then there's… Hmm." The girls both say as Beca looks to the other side of the quad and sees a group of guys dancing around singing 'Let it Whip' and judging by the Blonde and Redhead's reaction, they definitely don't like them, in fact Beca guessed that they were rivals.
"So are you interested?" Chloe asks Beca and her mouth speaks before she realises what she says. Something about this girl gave Beca no filter whatsoever.
"Sorry, I just think it's pretty lame." Beca replies, trying to be honest but struggling to be nice about it, if anyone had judged Beca's reaction, they would have thought she had a mental disorder or she was possibly Aspergers which how emotionless her answers were.
"Aca-scuse me, synchronised lady dancing to a Mariah Carey chart-topper is not lame." Aubrey pipes in, defending her love for Acapella.
"We sing all over the world and compete in national championships." Chloe intrudes over Aubrey. "On purpose." Beca replies sarcastic and unemotionally again, noticing the red rise in Aubrey's face as her anger begins to grow.
"We play the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, you bitch." Aubrey argues, aiming to sound offensive and it did, Beca just didn't care, she already knew the redhead was attracted to her, she could tell from her facial expression and body language. Chloe's legs were crossed which meant she was aroused, she was biting her bottom lip occasionally which meant she was nervous, her eyes would occasionally dart down Beca's body, checking her out which confused Beca and her hand were shaking which added to the idea that she was nervous.
"What Aubrey means to say is that we are a close nit talented group of ladies whose dream is to return to the national finals at Lincoln Centre this year. Help us turn our dreams into a reality." Chloe adds, giving Aubrey a glare for being mean to the girl. Chloe notices the brunette start to pull away. "Sorry I don't even sing but it was nice meeting you guys." Beca says quickly, walking away in the process.
"Beca." Chloe murmurs as she wakes up from her dream. She watches all the girls cower to the back of their cages and notices that the door is opening. She moves to the back of her cage also when Azrael walks in with Raziel and Haniel. Azrael walks to Stacie's cage and points to her. Raziel and Haniel open her cage and pull her out which makes Aubrey arc up. She moves to the front of her cage and starts to cry out.
"Stacie! No Beca please! God Stacie!" Aubrey cries, bursting into tears. Chloe watches as her best friend cries and it snaps her into a flashback.
"Please just tell me what is going on? I know there is something you are not telling me. Please, Beca I have fallen so hard in love with you that I can't stop, even after what you said at Semis, I still love you. Whatever it is, I will still love you no matter what so please, please talk to me. Tell me the truth about you." The redhead begs, her hands on Beca's cheeks, wiping away the tears that were running down the brunette's cheeks. Beca drops her head again, unable to stop the tears from falling. She wanted to tell Chloe the truth but she knew the consequences if the League was discovered.
"I can't. I can't or I'm going to lose you. You don't get it, I'm a monster. Please just let me go." Beca cries and Chloe understands the pleading in her voice. She takes a deep breath before leaning in and placing her lips on Beca's. Beca and Chloe both knowing it was a kiss goodbye. Beca uses the opportunity to deepen the kiss before pulling away.
"I'm in love with you too. I have been since the first time I laid eyes on you Hael. But I need to keep you safe. I promise that I will be back for you when all of this is over. I promise." Beca says and the promise brings Chloe to tears, Beca had finally admitted she loved Chloe and it felt like a weight had been lifted off the assassin's chest.
"What does Hael mean?" Chloe asks and Beca allows a small smile to cross her face.
"It's the Angel of Kindness whom inspires art, beauty and kindness in mankind. You're my Hael." Beca explains and Chloe's smile beams on her face.
"Wait!" Chloe calls out, attracting the attention of the three assassins.
"Take me, not her." The redhead adds as she stands up and moves to the front of the cage. Aubrey stops crying and turns to her best friend.
"No Chloe! No!" Aubrey says to her best friend. Chloe turns to Aubrey and shushes her, the blonde listens to Chloe figuring she had a plan. Azrael moves over to Chloe's cage and stares at her with cold, empty eyes, Chloe barely recognising her.
"Take me." Chloe says again and Azrael sees how serious she is, her eyes don't show fear like the others, they show determination. Azrael turns to Raziel and Haniel.
"Hadha wahid ladayh ruhan. Daeuna kasraha, wastahabiha. (This one has spirit. Let's break it, take her.)" Azrael says and Raziel grabs Stacie and puts her back in her cage while Haniel opens Chloe's cage and takes her out which causes all the Bellas to uproar. They watch as the assassins take Chloe away, probably to the same room where they took Beca originally.
"Chloe! They're going to torture her. Beca… She is going to torture her!" Aubrey calls out as she leans against the cage. Stacie moves over and puts her arm through the bars to Aubrey's shoulder.
"If there is any shred of Beca left in there, then she won't hurt Chloe." Stacie reassures but the Bellas are silenced when they hear Chloe scream down the hallway.
"Again." Azrael calls out and Raziel lashes Chloe with the whip again. The redhead had been stripped out of her shirt, her bra unclasped. She cries out as the end of the whip connects with her back, leaving a gash.
"Beca, please. I know you're in their somewhere. Please." Chloe whines and Azrael watches as Chloe takes deep, straining breathes. Chloe couldn't believe this was happening, she knew either two things were going to happen when she put herself in the firing line instead of Stacie. She was either going to get Beca back, her Beca back or she was going to be killed, either way she was going to find out if the Beca she still loved was in there.
"I know you feel terrible about what happened to my parents and Denise but this isn't you okay. You're Beca Mitchell, you're parents and sister died eleven years ago and you were brainwashed to kill people, you were tortured and maimed and I'm so so sorry that it happened to you Becs." Chloe tries to break Beca back out of the brainwashed person before her.
"Again." Azrael says to Raziel and again he lashes Chloe causing her to cry out again. Azrael gazes down at the wounds on Chloe's back and then down into her eyes. All Chloe can see is the emptiness behind them.
"Beca, please. You're Beca Mitchell and that's the girl I fell in love with. Beca, I forgive you for what you did. You're my Hael too." Chloe whimpers and Azrael steps back.
"Again." She says and Raziel slashes the whip down across Chloe's back making her scream out in pain again but as the whip lashes, Azrael shuts out and her vision is replaced with flashbacks, memories of Chloe's voice.
"Careful there Red." "It's Chloe. My name is Chloe."
"You can sing!"
"So it's like a pulse."
"I think we're going to be really fast friends."
"You're a good friend."
You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am Titanium
Azrael snaps out of the flashbacks to find Raziel watching her like a hawk.
"One more then take her back as a message for her friends." Azrael says and Raziel does as told, lashing Chloe one final time, as hard as he could which made Chloe scream out again to the point she passes out from the pain. Azrael whistles out and Haniel comes into the room, they share a nod and Raziel and Haniel take Chloe off the post, the very same post Beca had been lashed on countless times in the past. The two younger assassins remove Chloe from the room and Azrael walks up to the post, placing her hand on it gently, using it for support as more flashbacks rush through.
"I'll be honest, it was kind of hot watching you do that."
"Thankyou Beca, you're my knight in shining armor."
Breathe in, breathe out,
Move on and break down,
If everyone goes away
I will stay
Azrael comes back to reality again and feels a pain in her hand from gripping at the post too hard. Azrael didn't know why all of these memories were flooding back to her now but she knew she had the League, she had her family and the prisoners had to be killed.
Raziel and Haniel bring Chloe back to her cage and Aubrey automatic bursts into tears at the sight of her best friend with the gashes on her back, even Stacie had started crying and anger boils deep within her.
"What the hell is wrong with you people!" Stacie jumps up and grips the door of the cage, shaking it furiously. Azrael steps into the room and watches as Stacie loses it.
"And you! You were my best friend but now that I know who you truly are, fuck you! I hope you go to hell!" Stacie snaps and Azrael has a hit of flashbacks again, this time memories of her and Stacie.
"I'm Stacie. Stacie Conrad."
"You want to get out of here?"
"We're living the dream."
"That's not going to be easy, he's a hunter."
"I'll keep the window open for you."
"Of course we can be friends Beca."
"What are you?" "I'm an assassin."
"I really care about you so please talk to me. Don't shut everyone out again."
Azrael snaps out and watches Stacie continue shaking the cage door in pure rage and she felt a small pang in her stomach, guilt. Stacie notices even for a split second that Beca's eyes turn blank then sad. Beca whistles as she leaves the room, Raziel and Haniel following her out.
"Chloe, please wake up." Aubrey cries, Stacie and the other Bellas watching. Stacie however knew that she saw Beca Mitchell for just a split second and now she had to get her back.
Please don't hate me! :)
