Hey Guys! I'm so sorry for taking so long but so much has been happening with work and my best friend was beaten by her ex and was in hospital then we had a huge fight and now she's back with the douchebag, and to top it off, I am sick and have lost my voice so please forgive me. I did just finish this chapter and I made it a tiny bit longer for you all.
Enjoy!
10 Days Before: Israel
Beca's eyes blink awake slowly and she spots a nurse checking her vitals.
"Where…Where am I?" Beca croaks out, her throat dry and the nurse looks toward her.
"You're in the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital. You were brought here from Tze'elim where you were found nearly dead. You had died when they brought you in, we revived you." The nurse replies. Beca attempts to sit up but the nurse stops her.
"Woah there love, you suffered through a lot, we practically had to stitch you back together. You've just woken up from a medically induced coma. Do you remember anything that happened to you?" She says and Beca registers what was said.
"No. Wait, I was in a coma, for how long?" Beca asks and the nurse sits down beside the young brunette, a small smile on her face, she reaches over and takes a hold of Beca's chart.
"About a week and a half. You suffered several stabs wounds that were stitched up, seven broken ribs, one punctured your lung, we had to remove one of your kidneys, you had several lacerations on your back and abdomen which we stitched up also. You had severe head trauma as well but the biggest thing you need to worry about is your right hand." The nurse replies, listing off Beca's injuries from her chart but Beca glances down at her hand to find it is wrapped heavily in bandaged. She uses her left hand to pull down her hospital gown top to show the stitched up wound just above her heart, her broken heart as she remembers back to what happened, to having to murder her sister.
"Your hand had a rather large cut on the palm but before we could get the infection out, it had started to spread so it required some surgery, you have quite a bit of severe scarring there now and some included nerve damage." The nurse continues and Beca looks at her right arm properly.
"We noticed that you didn't have an emergency contact so we wanted to wait until you woke up to ask if you wanted to partake in any rehabilitation to repair the hand. If you refuse then you won't have full movement and function of it so I do suggest you take the rehab option." The nurse offers and Beca looks down at the bandaged arm before glancing back to the nurse.
"I'm sorry but I need to get back to Atlanta, I have someone special waiting for me there." Beca replies and the nurse smiles before writing some things down on her sheet.
"I understand but without the rehab, you will only have about 50% mobility and strength in that hand." The nurse questions with a small smile and Beca returns the small smile.
"No I'm sorry, I really do have to get back to Atlanta. As soon as possible" Beca replies urgently, she adds another small smile to the end and the nurse gets up to leave but it fades as the nurse walks out of the room, the thought of Hailee's lifeless body printed in her mind.
Present Time : Barden
"I had to stay for an extra week to make sure I was okay then as soon as I got out, I went to the airport and met with Alek to get here as soon as possible." Beca finishes the story and all of the girls are still in shock that she is standing in front of them, very much alive. She takes off the glove and shows the girls the scarred hand. The Bellas all observe the scarring that wraps around Beca's hand like a python, starting at the base of her palm and working it's way between her index finger and thumb before wrapping around and coming back through between her pinky finger and ring finger.
"Beca I'm so sorry." Aubrey comments and Beca allows a small smile to cross her face before nodding.
"I missed you guys, I just knew I had to do anything to get back here and see you all again." Beca confesses and all of the girls collectively awe before moving into a group hug with the former assassin, Chloe however stays out of the hug, still in shock at the fact that Beca was there, right in front of her after she thought she was gone. After the group hug, Beca moves over to the redhead.
"Take a walk with me?" Beca asks and Chloe looks to Aubrey and the other Bellas whom are all nodding their heads rapidly, she turns back to Beca and smiles before nodding and the two leave the rehearsal space to go for a walk and have a much needed talk.
Chloe and Beca make their way through the courtyard, heading towards Baker Hall.
"I know you probably have a lot of questions and I wouldn't be surprised if you hated me right now." Beca finally speaks up and Chloe stops in her tracks, making Beca stop and turn back to her.
"Becs, I would never hate you. I thought I lost you forever. I… Alek translated that letter and it was your goodbye Beca, reading that broke my heart into a million pieces, I was in love with you." Chloe answers and Beca cringes at the last part, the fact that Chloe had said 'was' and not 'am' made Beca's chest ache.
"That's…" Beca adjusts her position and lets the heavy breath out from her lungs.
"That's understandable. I honestly thought I wasn't going to make it out of there alive and I wanted to make sure that you and the others were safe. I wanted to tell you everything that I wrote in that letter in person when we got out of there but I knew that they would never stop coming after me, after all of you because of what we knew and that I went against them, I had to end it to make sure you were all safe. I know that saying sorry won't fix anything, I hurt you but Chloe, all I want to do now is be with you and escape that past life I had. I want to start my new life over with you and the Bellas, I want to be here in Barden and be apart of this family, the Bellas family. I want to do it all with you and if I have to apologise for the rest of my life to be with you then I will because I am so so sorry for lying to you and I am eternally sorry for leaving you back in Israel and making you think I had passed on to the next life and believe me I thought I did but you kept me anchored here, to you. Chloe, you are my soulmate, it's a certainty now. You are my Hael, my inspiration and the light in my dark life, Chloe I am in love with you." Beca lets out, her full confession now out in the open making her feel more vulnerable than ever. Chloe didn't speak throughout Beca's whole speech, she was in too much of a shock as to what Beca was saying to actually speak, it was like hearing Beca say what she did, stole the words that formed in the redhead's throat leaving her speechless.
"Chloe?" The redhead snaps out of her thoughts, realising she had left a loud silence between the two of them for two minutes.
"I'm sorry, I just… I had to learn to deal with you being gone and now you're back and don't get me wrong I'm relieved, excited even, ecstatic but it's just a shock to the system." Chloe replies and Beca takes a step back, sadness blanketing her face, Chloe immediately realises that Beca believes that she isn't going to forgive her and the redhead steps forward.
"No, I'm still in shock and it may take a bit but I'm not letting you get away again. Beca I love you and you aren't going anywhere. You will stay here like you want and start your life over without the shadows of death and torture behind you. You will be a part of the Bellas until you graduate and you will be my girlfriend okay?" Chloe smiles and Beca stops dead, looking up into Chloe's eyes. A small smirk appears on the assassin's face.
"Girlfriend? You want us to be together? After everything I've done in the past?" Beca asks and Chloe steps forward, taking Beca's scarred hand in her own.
"Nothing you say will make me change my mind. I don't care about what you did in the past because that wasn't who I fell in love with. I fell in love with this girl standing right in front of me, not the assassin you once were. Yes I want us to be together." Chloe answers before leaning forward and putting her lips to Beca's. The brunette taking in the kiss, still in shock that Chloe was still talking to her let alone kissing her and asking her to be her girlfriend. Eventually though, Beca finds the confidence and responds to the redhead, deepening the kiss even more.
Later that night, after the Bellas rehearsal, Beca had spoken with Aubrey and agreed to stay back extra time for the last week of rehearsals to catch up but the Bellas had a new problem, the Treblemakers had the Bellas set list and therefore they had to start over and get a new set ready in a week. Beca was working overtime on her other talent beside being a killer, mixing and was trying to put something together over night for the Bellas to start rehearsing the next day. She continues to work on the mix as her phone rings, she looks at the phone and sees Chloe's name, she then looks to the time and sees it is 12:17am.
"Chloe? What's wrong? Are you okay?" Beca asks as soon as she answers the phone. She receives a female talking rapidly on the other end of the phone before Chloe starts to speak.
"Yeah I'm fine love, it's just Aubrey is freaking out because of what happened today with the Trebles which explains the yelling in the background. We don't know what to do about nationals, we are all freaking out." Chloe answers and Beca sighs into the phone.
"Okay did you want me to come over?" Beca asks and Chloe replies with a quick decline.
"No, no it's okay I just really wanted to hear your voice and not Aubrey's freaking out. I miss you." Chloe adds and the comment brings a smile to Beca's face.
"I miss you too and if it helps I might have something to help with the set. Call the Bellas and meet at the pool in 15 minutes?" Beca replies as she smiles at her computer, finally getting something working that could help the Bellas.
"Yeah no problems. I'll get it done. See you soon." Chloe answers, Beca practically hearing the smile on her face. They hang up the phone and Beca gets to work before going to meet the Bellas at the pool.
"Okay Beca, Chloe says you have an idea for Finals and seeing as you're back with the Bellas, go ahead." Aubrey says. Chloe had gone and called all the Bellas to get them to meet at the pool. Chloe had also managed to sneak in her medication for her PTSD that she was diagnosed with but the Bellas or Beca didn't know about and she planned to keep it that way.
"Okay, Aubrey would you pick a song for me?" Beca asks Aubrey and the blonde captain nods.
"Bruno Mars, Just the Way You Are." Aubrey answers with the first song that pops into her head. Beca thinks about the song for a moment.
"Okay. Chloe, you okay to take the lead?" Beca asks, looking at the redhead whom nods in reply. The Bellas all smiling, they were all happy to see Beca and Chloe interacting again but one thing plagued all the minds of the girls, why did Beca look like she was haunted by something? What happened after the Bellas left the League hideout? Beca starts to sing a tune and one by one the Bellas join in, Chloe waiting for the right moment to step in.
Oh, her eyes, her eyes,
Make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair, falls perfectly without her trying
She's so beautiful, and I tell her every day
Chloe glances at Beca and smiles as she sings, Beca knowing full well that Chloe was singing this song for her but Beca had other plans, she was going to mash this song up and she starts to sing Just a Dream by Nelly while Chloe is still singing Just the Way You Are.
Beca: I was thinking bout her, thinkin bout me
Chloe: I know, I know
Beca: Thinkin bout us, what we gon' be
Chloe: When I compliment her she won't believe me
Beca: Open my eyes yeah, it was only Just A Dream
Chloe: It's so, it's so, sad to think that she don't see what I see
Chloe: But every time she asks me do I look ok,
Beca: It's only a dream
Chloe: I say
The Bella all love how the two songs blend together so well but also at how well they all sounded, this was the best they had all sung since they had started out as the Bellas. Beca looks over to Aubrey whom has a big grin on her face and points for her to take over with Just a Dream and the Bellas all smile when the blonde captain lets go of her anxiety and starts to sing with Beca.
Chloe: When I see your face
Beca and Aubrey: So I travelled back, down that road
Beca and Aubrey: Will she come back, no one knows
Chloe: Not a thing that I would change
Beca and Aubrey: I realize yeah, it was only Just A Dream
Chloe: Because girl you're amazing, just the way you are
Beca and Aubrey: It was only Just A Dream
Beca claps then stomps her foot twice and repeats the beat, the other Bellas join in, changing up the background noises to build the songs up. Chloe looks at Aubrey and the rest of the Bellas, amazed at how well they sounded and all they needed was a remix and a small brunette to guide them.
Chloe: When I see your face
Beca and Aubrey: So I travelled back, down that road
Beca and Aubrey: Will she come back, no one knows
Chloe: Not a thing that I would change
Beca and Aubrey: I realize yeah, it was only Just A Dream
Chloe: Because girl you're amazing, just the way you are
Beca and Aubrey: It was only Just A Dream
Chloe: When I see your face
Bellas: Face
The Bellas all fade in and look to Aubrey who is grinning wildly.
"Hands in." She says putting her hand out in front of her, all the other Bellas do the same, placing their hands on top of Aubrey's, counting to three before lifting their hands and singing, however a deep note comes out of a certain redhead.
"What was that?" Fat Amy asks Chloe.
"I don't know, I've never made that sound before. Must be because I got my nodes removed." Chloe answers looking to Beca.
"Well with your messed up vocal cords now you can hit the bass notes." Cynthia Rose says and all the Bellas agree. Aubrey notices Lily with her hand up.
"Yes Lily." Aubrey asks and Lily steps forward.
"I think I have something that can help us." Lily says at a volume where all the Bellas can hear her. Lily finally spoke normally and the Bellas were astounded.
"Excuse me bitch, no need to shout." Fat Amy jokes and all the Bellas laugh as they crowd around Beca and start working on the set list for the Finals. Beca still feeling something niggling at the back of her mind, a small voice that haunted her.
And there you go, so the next chapter will be the Finals and then there will be three more chapters after that, I decided to go to 45 chapters total cause a lot of you don't want this story to end, neither do I to be honest. Also if you guys have any ideas on what I should write about next (fanfiction wise) I am taking requests so feel free to comment your ideas in your reviews otherwise, I am looking at writing a novel.
Until next time, hopefully it won't be as long of a wait next time!