I KNOW I KNOW! I'm so sorry guys! I've been working like crazy, to the point where I am actually sick, have been for the past 3 days! However I am striving to get this finished for all of you!
So now you all know that Hailee is alive, what do you think Beca is going to do? I can tell you now that this chapter is incredibly sad and I actually cried while writing it because I see a part of my 16 year old sister in Hailee's character. In fact, I wrote Hailee for my sister.
But anyways let's get on with it, and please have tissues at the ready!
Chloe turns around a corner and spots the exit door behind three assassins. She pulls out her gun and opens fire, mowing down the assassins and heading for the door. She drops the gun and rips her jacket off, leaving her in just a black tank top. She runs out the door and spots the Bellas van, sprinting over and opening the door, she jumps into the van and sits down in her original seat behind Fat Amy.
"Drive." Chloe states and the Bellas all look back toward the entrance to the assassin's hideout, expecting to spot Beca running out as well but she doesn't.
"Chlo? Where's Bec-?" Aubrey goes to ask but is interrupted by Chloe.
"JUST…Just drive Amy." Chloe yells out before sadness laces her words. She turns away from all the staring Bellas and gazes out the window as Fat Amy starts to drive away. The Bellas look back, hoping to see Beca run out of the doors and chase the van down but they feel sadder the further they get away when they don't see Beca emerge. They all automatically assume that because Chloe was upset and Beca was nowhere to be seen, that the assassin met her fate. Tears brim the eyes of them all, especially Stacie whom was already in tears, even Aubrey was starting to cry as they left the hideout, driving down the main road and past the crashed original van the Bellas tried to escape in, the van that they all thought Beca had died in. Stacie looks over to Chloe whom is still gazing out of the window, she leans towards the redhead.
"What happened?" Stacie asks and Chloe jumps at the questions obviously trapped in her own thoughts, replaying what had happened in the League.
"The assassin that attacked us just before we were taken. The name of this assassin was Afriel. It was Beca's sister, Hailee." Chloe says in almost a whisper, however the bus was silent so everyone heard her.
"Wait, it was Beca's sister? I thought she was killed." Aubrey speaks up and Chloe doesn't take her eyes away from the window as she answers her best friend.
"The League tricked Beca into believing Hailee was dead, like she did with Stacie. I was going to shoot Beca's sister, the person who she still has nightmares about, in the head but Beca stood between us and told me to get out. She told me she loved me and that she was sorry. I heard her saying she wasn't going to fight Hailee and Hailee was more brainwashed than Beca so Beca let her own sister kill her." Chloe answers, tears streaming down her face. Stacie and the other Bellas take in the new information, tears that they had been holding onto starting to fall.
Beca sits on her knees, the stab wound in her side, bleeding rapidly. She knew by her blurred vision and shaky hands that she was going to die from the wounds she had sustained from both the van crashing, Michael and her sister. She knew that in order to survive and make it back to Chloe and the others that she was going to have to do the one thing that she couldn't do. In order to escape, she had to kill her sister. The thought of finally being reunited with Hailee to have to take her away again broke Beca's heart, this was her family, Hailee was everything to her. The League was her family yeah sure, but Hailee was her blood, her real family and having to kill her meant having to re-live that heartache that she felt almost twelve years ago when she lost everything. Afriel stands over her sister watching as the blood slowly seeps out of the wound she had delivered to her older sister. Beca gazes up to the younger girl.
"I'm not fighting you Hailee. So you do whatever you need to." Beca says outright and Afriel takes it as an invitation so she pulls out the famous Sword of Azrael from Beca's shoulder straps, she watches as Beca bows her head and raises the sword above her head.
"You are going to die by your own sword than your friends and your beloved Chloe are going to meet the same fate." Afriel says and Beca feels her anger rise, for her to die would be acceptable especially at the hands of her sister but for Chloe and the Bellas to die for being in Beca's life was wrong and Beca knew it. As Afriel swings the sword, Beca moves herself back, rolling back and onto her feet.
"Hailee, please… Please don't do this. Don't make me fight you, if you need to kill me than do it but leave Chloe and my friends out of this. They didn't know anything and they won't tell anyone about this just please… leave them alone." Beca begs and Afriel watches her sister as she drops down onto her knees again, begging for the lives of people she barely knew.
"Look at you Azrael, the most feared and successful of all the League of Angels assassins and you are on your knees begging me to spare the lives of a few people that you barely know but also know the secret of the League. You know the creed Azrael and we must protect it. You and your friends need to die." Afriel replies and Beca feels her heart break, she knew what she had to do but she couldn't do it. She couldn't kill her sister. As Afriel attempts to swing the sword at her sister again, Beca dodges and jumps back up to her feet, pain radiating through her body from the wounds she had sustained, she checks her side to find it is still slowly bleeding. She feels her head start to spin as the extent of her injuries finally starts to take their toll on her. She knew that if she died than Hailee would kill Chloe and the Bellas so Beca sucks in a deep breath, finally making up her mind on what she had to do, this girl in front of her was not Hailee Mitchell. Afriel swings and Beca blocks it, finally deciding to fight back.
Aubrey moves to the front of the bus, sitting next to Chloe. The redhead hadn't spoken or moved since they left, her face had not looked away from the window. Aubrey takes a deep breath before wrapping an arm around her best friend's shoulders.
"I'm sorry." The blonde whispers to Chloe, the redhead however doesn't respond, instead shrugging Aubrey's arm off of her shoulder. Aubrey watches as her best friend shatters inside and it ruins her to watch it happen. Although Beca was a pain in Aubrey's ass, the small brunette did grow on her and it broke her heart to hear of her demise as well. She already missed the brunette watching out for them and making sure they got back home safely.
"Chloe, I honestly don't know how to make you feel any better, I know Beca meant everything to you. I know I didn't treat her right at the start but she always cared about all of us and I promise you that she will live on through all of us. Beca impacted all of us, she impacted me, she made me realise to not judge someone by what they look like or who they are as a person. I saw her as some alternative emo but I didn't think she would be so kind, so caring and so protective. She changed my perspective about everything, about everyone. Chloe, Beca changed who I am in the short amount of time I knew her and if she did that for me, than she did so much more for you and I'm so sorry you're hurting. I just want to be there for you, you're my best friend and I love you." Aubrey confesses and the Bella's van is silent, all of them listening to Aubrey. Stacie reaches forward from the seat behind the two captains and places a hand on Chloe's shoulder.
"Beca was probably my best friend and knowing now that she is gone, I don't know it feels like my whole life has just gone dark. Aubrey is right, Beca taught us all to accept others for who they are. Do you honestly think I would have expressed my true feelings for Aubrey on my own? No Beca pushed me to do it. We are all your friends and we are all going to hurt with you and be there for each other. Like a family, the family that Beca always wanted. We have to keep living and being here for each other, being a family, for Beca." Stacie adds and Chloe finally allows the tears to fall from her eyes. Aubrey spots the streams of tears down her best friend's face and reaches out, wiping them from Chloe's soft but hot cheeks.
"Chlo, you're burning up." Aubrey mentions and Stacie reaches out, putting a hand to Chloe's cheek. She steals a quick glance from Aubrey, shaking her head slightly.
"She has a fever." Stacie answers. Aubrey reaches out and pulls Chloe in for a hug while Stacie pulls up Chloe's tank top to reveal the reddened skin around Chloe's wounds from her lashing by Beca. The wounds were definitely infected but now it was a fight to get Chloe the right medications before things got worse.
Afriel swings the sword and Beca moves in close, blocking the younger girls arm and using her other hand to punch Afriel in the nose, tears instantly forming in the eyes of the younger assassin, blurring her vision and giving Beca an advantage. The girls had been fighting for nearly half an hour and they were both tired, Beca having been through fights worse and longer but unsure if the same had gone for her sister. Afriel swings wildly again and Beca ducks down, spinning around and swinging her leg out to kick Afriel in the leg, tripping her over. Beca grabs her last knife out of her belt and looks down and meets her sister's eyes, hesitating to thrust the knife down and end it. Afriel uses the hesitation and grips the sword, reaching up and attempting to stab Beca in the heart but the older girl spins out of the way and brings her knife down into her sister's chest. Beca shuffles away, realising what she had done, the knife embedded in Afriel's chest, in her sister's chest. Afriel's breathing begins to labour and the young girl struggles to breathe.
"No no no no Hailee. Oh god Hailee I'm so sorry, you didn't leave me any choice." Beca cries out as she crawls back next to her sister. She watches as Hailee takes in deep, painful breathes and it breaks her heart a little more.
"I'm so sorry Hailee, I'm so sorry." Beca wails, she hadn't wanted this. She wanted to snap her sister out of the brainwashing and be able to live the rest of their lives together as the sisters they were. Beca's anger boils as she looks over to where Michael's body lay, he had done this. This was his fault. He lied to her and lied to Hailee to pin them against each other in some kind of gladiator challenge for his amusement. As she turns back to look at the younger assassin however, she had gripped the sword and brought it up into Beca's chest, right where Amitiel had left the scar on her chest. Beca chokes on her breath for a moment, looking down to her sister.
"Now we…share the same…fate." Afriel says before taking her last breath. Beca scatters away again and pulls the sword out of her chest, attempting to put pressure on the wound and stay alive. She had to move quickly as there were still other assassin's in the building. She gets up painful and with laboured breathes, moving to the wall for both support and to knock the painting off the wall. Behind the painting was a safe. Beca remembers Michael showing her the safe as a back-up plan if the League were ever to be overrun by outside forces such as the government, military or police. Beca opens the safe surprised that Michael had kept the same code.
"Bingo." She breathes out as she finds a small but powerful bomb in the safe. The League would have been prepared to die for their cause rather than be captured and interrogated if the base was overrun so Michael set the bomb up to wipe out the entire base and everyone inside. Beca switches the bomb on and sets the timer for 3 minutes which she thinks should give her enough time to get out and far enough away from the explosion. When she activates the timer to start counting down, she takes one last quick look at her sister's lifeless body. Beca makes her way over and kneels down next to the younger Mitchell, she reaches out and shuts the girls eyes, unable to hold back the whimpers in her laboured breath.
"It wasn't supposed to happen this way. I'm so sorry Hailee. I'm sorry that I failed you as a guardian, a protector, and a sister." She whimpers before dropping her head down onto her sisters chest, breaking into uncontrollable sobs.
"May you forever rest in the peace of the light. You are no longer swallowed by the shadows of the dark. Your sword will now lay to rest and your legacy will live on, not as Afriel but Hailee Mitchell. May we meet again Hailee. I love you." Beca finally says before she stands up, stealing one last glance of her sister as she turns and struggles to run out of the room, still holding her wound on her chest.
Beca makes her way quickly through the halls, avoiding any assassins that she sees knowing that there wasn't many left but they all had to die. She makes it to the exit and pushes her way painfully out the door using the sword she grabbed off of her sister's body to lock it from the outside. She starts to run as fast as she can down the road toward freedom. Nearly tripping over her own feet because of the blood loss, her head pounding and faint. Beca knew she was going to pass out any minute but had to make sure she was clear from the blast. As she thinks this, the explosion goes off behind her and she turns to watch as her home for the past twelve years is destroyed, all of the people she called brothers and sisters, her mentors, her master and her real sister, all of them perishing in the fires of the explosion. The force of the explosion knocks Beca off her feet and she struggles to find the strength to get back up again. She knew this was her time and for once she was okay with it, the League was destroyed and the Bellas were safe, Chloe was safe. She finally felt at peace with herself.
"I'm sorry Chloe... I'll find you again... I'm coming Hailee." Beca breathes out into the cold air of the night as her vision goes black.
:'( There you have it! Is Beca dead?
This isn't the end, not yet anyway, about 5 or so chapters to go! And before you go thinking that yes Beca is alive because there is 5 or so chapters left, always remember that I can write about the Bellas getting back and competing in Nationals, doesn't mean Beca is going to be there... or does it? Keep reading and find out.
I really hated writing this whole chapter, Chloe's grief, Beca killing her sister, Beca being consumed by her grief, what Aubrey said about Beca, the prayer Beca says before she leaves Hailee (that part got me the most)
But as much as I hated writing this chapter, it sort of came from part of me therefore it is one of my favourites, a good writer should be able to summon their past emotions in order to write emotional scenes. I remembered back 4 years ago when I found out my girlfriend that I loved with all my heart had died.
Anyways, please review and I'll be sure to try and get Chapter 40 up soon!
Until next time!