"I can feel you staring at me and it's weird." Chloe said her voice husky.
"Remember when I came home a couple months ago and you told me you were pregnant?" Beca whispered as she reached up to push a strand of hair behind Chloe's ear. "I forgot that I had something to tell you too. Do you remember?"
The redhead's eyes opened quickly. "Now I do"
"Well I forgot because of everything else going on." Beca explained.
"So tell me." Chloe demanded.
Beca rolled away from her 3 month pregnant wife and reached for her nightstand. She unplugged her phone and rolled back. Chloe waited patiently as Beca scrolled through her photos before pushing the screen a little too close to Chloe's face.
Chloe pulled her head back and adjusted her eyes. "What's this?"
"This is 20/20 Records." Beca said quickly.
Chloe quickly searched her memory. She couldn't remember hearing Beca say that name before. Beca smiled at the cute but confused look on her wife's face.
"20/20 Records is the label that Quinn planned on starting with me." She explained.
"What?" Chloe asked pushing herself up to a sitting position resting against the headboard of the bed. She grabbed Beca's phone from her hand and flipped through the pictures Beca took of the run down building.
Beca mimicked Chloe's position. "Yeah. After I gave Mr. George the adoption papers he brought me there. Q left it to Fin and now it's ours."
"Oh my God Beca the outside of the building is pretty awesome. It needs some work but the mural is perfect. Where is this?" Chloe asked as she used her fingers on the screen to make the picture bigger.
"Culver City" Beca replied casually.
"I've took some meetings with Sony Pictures there. It's not that far from Quinn and Emma's." Chloe said examining the photos closely. "I love this staircase."
"I'm not sure what to do." Beca admitted.
"What do you mean?"
"She never said anything to me about starting our own label. We were just about to start working on our first real album and she was excited for that but she said nothing of going out on our own." Beca said as she stared off into space.
"Well it's obvious from the looks of this building that it needs a lot of work so I don't think it was going to be something that you guys just jumped right into Becs. It was going to take some time. Take some work. You know how Quinn was, she was always looking ahead, always making plans for everyone. So I'm not shocked that she wanted to do something like this with you babe. She loved you. You were her best friend in the world. I could totally see you guys here. Making music without anyone telling you what to do. Something that was completely your own. She would have loved that." Chloe said as she handed the phone back to Beca.
"She would have and I think I would have loved it too." Beca smirked. "Eventually."
"So let's do it." Chloe smiled. "Me and you. Let's do it."
Beca's head whipped around in her directions. "Me and you?" Beca asked.
"I know you don't think you can make something of that mess of a building without me Becs." Chloe teased as she tossed the covers off her legs and got out of bed. Beca admired her wife, braless in her black tank that was raised up slightly over her tiny baby bump and her black bikini panties. "You're gonna need me." She tossed over her shoulder.
"I do need you" Beca admitted jumping out of bed and grabbing Chloe by the wrist pulling her back before she could leave the room. Beca wrapped her arms around the redhead and immediately attached her lips to Chloe's neck.
"Fin's gonna be up soon." Chloe moaned as she tilted her head to give Beca more space to work. Beca's hands slip from Chloe's back to her ass dipping beneath her panties.
"Mmhmm" Beca acknowledged. "We better be quick."
Chloe rolled her eyes and leaned back as Beca's lips and tongue worked down her chest. Beca removed her left hand from the redhead's ass and pushed the black tank up over her chest.
"God your boobs are amazing." Beca moaned as she attached her lips the Chloe's nipple.
"Okay Mitchell" Chloe said having enough of the foreplay. "That's enough teasing." She pushed them both backwards toward the bed. "Hurry up before your daughter runs in here." Chloe said as she pushed her panties down and pulled her tank over her head.
"Yes Ma'am" Beca teased as she reached for Chloe's waist.
XxXxXx
Chloe watched through the screen of her laptop as Aubrey held up swatch colors.
"I know you guys said you're waiting to find out but I still need you to pick a color Chloe" Aubrey demanded. "We need a theme and the color is essential."
"I don't want it to be pink or blue Bree. That's too traditional and I don't even know if it's a boy or a girl. So you need other choices." Chloe argued and she rested her hand on her chin.
"For serious Chloe. This is not even pink. It's blush and this" Aubrey held up the other swatch, Rhine River."
"Those are just different names for shades of pink and blue Bree." Chloe said with an eye roll.
"You really don't know?" Aubrey asked giving up on trying to figure out if Chloe secretly knew the sex of their baby.
"I really don't know Bree. Beca and I agreed to wait and that's exactly what we're going to do." Chloe answered.
"Fine. Green and Yellow then. And we need a theme so? What about zoo animals?" Aubrey asked.
"That's cute. But really Bree. The shower doesn't need a theme. I don't even really need a baby shower." Chloe argued.
"Yeah right Chlo. You're mom and I want to do this. It's your first child." Aubrey argued back quickly.
"It's my second child" Chloe reminded her best friend.
"It's the first child you're going to squeeze out of your body and trust me, everyone deserves a nice party for doing something like that." Aubrey teased, "And you knew exactly what I meant. Speaking of, where is that cutie pie?"
"She and Beca are on their weekly date." Chloe answered as she looked up at the clock. "They should actually be back fairly soon."
"I can't wait to see you guys" Aubrey gushed, "I miss my best friend."
"Aww, I miss you too Bree."
"How did your last appointment go? Was the doctor concerned at all about the 11 hour flight?" Aubrey asked.
"I just had my 20 week scan and Dr. Winslow said everything looks good. Baby looks healthy and perfect. And she said it was fine to fly. She didn't recommend travel after 24 weeks so this trip will come just in time. And then mom said she and dad will come closer to my due date." Chloe explained as the front door opened suddenly.
"And me too." Aubrey added quickly, "I have to see that sweet little baby for myself and not in pictures or on Skype."
Chloe smiled and nodded in agreement with her best friend. Finley's body rounding the corner quickly caught Chloe's eye. "I gotta go Bree. I'll see you next week." Chloe watched as her daughter drug two new plush whales behind her in her search for Marco Polo.
"Okay. See you soon. Love you." Aubrey said quickly.
"Love you too." Chloe said right before she disconnect the video call.
"Hey" Beca greeted as she entered the living room. She walked over to Chloe, kissed her and then moved to plop down on the couch. "I'm tired" she whined, "she drug me all over the aquarium. Again."
"Babe" Chloe said warningly as she pushed herself from the table and moved to sit next to her wife. "I thought we talked about not buying her anymore stuffed whales from the aquarium or any other animals for that matter."
"But she wanted them." Beca whined.
"And she only has like 100 of them babe. I've bought them for her, you've bought them every time we take her which is at least 3 times a month babe and now you're buying them in two's. There is no more space to put them Beca. Her room is filled with whales." Chloe argued. "We said we weren't going to do it anymore."
"You said you weren't." Beca argued back.
"And you agreed. We discussed this Beca. You have to be able to tell her no."
"I tried. I did" Beca said with a pout, "but then she said the big one was you and the little one was her and I couldn't say no."
"That is pretty cute" Chloe smiled and then shook it away quickly, "but we discussed it and made a decision." Chloe leaned in and kissed the brunette's lips softly. She pulled back and poked Beca in the chest with her finger, "And we will follow through with what we said we are going to do. And by we, I mean me" she poked Beca a little harder, "and especially you."
"Ouch" Beca whispered with a scowl as she rubbed her chest.
XxXxXx
"Holy shit. Shut up" Beca snapped.
The blonde's head popped up from where she was sitting and humming.
"Sorry." Beca apologized quickly. "I can't concentrate. I want to go home but I can't go home until I get this track done."
"It can actually wait B." Kelsey said softly. "Till you get back from the states."
"I told them I'd have it completed by the 13th and we don't fly back till the 15th. So it can't actually wait." Beca argued.
"Then just take it with you." Kelsey said offering a solution.
"I don't want to. I just want to spend time with my wife and kid and our friends. I don't want to have to work."
Kelsey laughed. "We both know that whether you finish this track today or not, you're going to be doing some type of work when you're gone. You don't just turn music off Becs."
Beca's typical sarcastic reply was abruptly cut off by her phone ringing and Chloe's smiling face lighting up the screen. She reached for the device and accepted the call. "Hey."
"I'm so pissed right now." Chloe said quickly.
"What's wrong?" Beca asked.
"I just had to drag our daughter out of the aquarium Beca." Chloe shouted. "Do you know why?"
Beca sank in her chair. "No?" she said in a small voice.
"She threw the biggest fucking temper tantrum because I wouldn't buy her any more whales Beca. Like embarrassing screaming and crying temper tantrum." Chloe took a breath and then continued. "I knew this was going to happen. You always say yes and I'm always the bad guy who says no and then she's crying in public and all the other parents are looking at me like I'm the worst parent on the planet. This is your fault." Chloe yelled in the phone. She disconnected the call.
Beca heard the line go dead. She looked at the screen to confirm the call was ended.
"It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife." Kelsey said trying to lighten the mood.
"Huh?" Beca asked.
"It's meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife." Kelsey deadpanned.
"Fucking seriously Kelse?" Beca asked annoyed again with the blonde.
"She was yelling about Fin having a temper tantrum while she was in the midst of one herself." Kelsey giggled. "Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?"
"Yeah, I got it." Beca said turning back to the switchboard.
XxXxXx
"Go get your shoes bug" Chloe said softly to Finley.
The dark haired toddler ran out of the room and towards the direction of her own bedroom with the little dog following her.
Beca sighed as she entered the master bedroom right after her daughter left. Chloe made eye contact with her wife but then turned to continue packing her suitcase.
"It's been two days Chloe. Please just talk to me." Beca begged.
Chloe heard her but chose not to acknowledge her wife.
"Fine, whatever" Beca mumbled just as Finley and the dog ran back into the room.
"Powllwo gowing to gwandma's wiff us?" Finley asked as she held her shoes up to the redhead.
"No baby. He's going to stay with Kelsey while we are gone." Chloe explained slowly. She pushed the shoes onto Finley's feet one by one and then tied the laces on the black high top chucks.
"No. Powllow go on pwane wiff me." Finley huffed.
Chloe could see the temper tantrum building. "I'm sorry Finley but Polo is not going on the plane with us. He is staying here and we will see him when we get back."
"No!" Finley shouted at her redheaded mother. "I want Powllow to go wiff me!" She screamed.
This was just like the tantrum at the aquarium but at least this time it was in the privacy of their own home. The toddler marched over to Beca. "Mommy?" She looked up at the brunette with her dark brown eyes. "Powllow go on pwane wiff me?"
Beca looked at Chloe who arched her eyebrow waiting for her wife's response to their child. Beca swallowed. "I don't know munchkin. I don't think she can come. Mama said no."
Chloe cleared her throat loudly.
"I said no" Beca corrected herself although not very convincingly.
"Fupping Powllow go wiff me!" Finley yelled at the top of her lungs before stomping over to the dog and bending down to pick him up.
Polo yelped when the toddler grabbed him awkwardly squeezing him too hard around his middle.
"Beca!" Chloe scolded.
"What?" Beca asked as Finley dropped the scared dog quickly. "What do you want me to do?"
"I want you to discipline her. She can't keep doing this when she doesn't get her way and I'm the only one who tells her no or disciplines her. I want you to handle this." Chloe said quickly as the child continued to cry.
"You want me to spank her?" Beca asked timidly knowing she wouldn't be able to bring herself to do that.
"I didn't say spank her Beca. Find a different way to discipline her. I don't care, but this can't continue." Chloe said as she gestured toward the toddler.
"Fine" Beca huffed. She dropped the clothes she was pulling out of her dresser down on the bed.
"And the cursing has to stop too." Chloe reprimanded.
"Okay" Beca whined as she approached the child and bent down to pick up Finley's limp body from the floor.
"Nnnnnoooooooooooooooo" Finley screamed as she cried.
Beca pulled the girl up to her chest and walked out of the room.
After a few seconds, Chloe dropped what she was doing and tip toed out of their room and towards Finley's room where Beca had taken the screaming baby.
Chloe was impressed by Beca's calm voice, "Finley I'm going to count to three. IF you don't stop crying by three, you're going into timeout. Do you understand?"
Beca waited but didn't receive any acknowledged me from the 2 ½ year old. "One" Beca said slowly but Finley kept crying. "Two." Beca waited a couple of seconds for her daughter to settle down but it didn't happen. "Three." She took a deep breath. She resolved herself to have to punish the little girl whose face was beat red with tears streaming down. "Okay. Timeout it is." Beca said as she picked Finley up from her armpits and walked across the room to the small chair that she had seen Chloe use for similar timeout situations, like when Finley wouldn't stop throwing her food on the floor after being asked to discontinue that behavior. Or when she was caught stomping Marco Polo's doggie kibble into the floor by jumping on the small pieces for the second time in less than a week. Beca had laughed as Chloe tried discipline the small girl and give her a warning the first time as the girl giggled with her brunette mother.
Beca placed Finley down gently in the chair and knelt down in front of her to be at eye level. "You will stay here until you stop crying and then you will apologize to Poe for hurting him and to your mama for using bad words and screaming at her. That is not allowed young lady." Beca said as she pushed herself to a standing position and took a couple step away from the little girl who had calmed her tears even though her face remained red.
Chloe listened on the outside of the room as the sniffles died down. She stood patiently waiting but after a few minutes and no more sounds were heard from the room, she peaked around the corner to see Finley sitting in the timeout chair with her arms crossed staring at Beca who stood a few feet away looking down on the stubborn child. Chloe bit her lip to keep from laughing at the two locked in a showdown. She crept away from the room and back to her bedroom to finish packing their suitcases.
She was leaning over the bed reaching for the zipper on Beca's suitcase when she felt a tug on the bottom of her sweater. Chloe turned towards Finley who stood looking up at her.
"I'm sowwry mama" Finley said her small voice hoarse from crying.
"Oh baby, it's" Chloe said but was cut off by Beca clearing her throat loudly. The sound caught Finley's attention and she turned to face the brunette who nodded her head for her daughter to continue.
The dark haired child turned back toward Chloe. "I'm sowwry for saying bad words and for hwurting Powllow and for welling at you mama." Finley said sadly as her eyes moved from Chloe's to the floor. "Pweese fowgive me?" Finley whispered.
Chloe knelt down to the floor slowly. "Look at me bug" Chloe requested softly. When the child raised her head Chloe's breath caught. There were moments, like this one, that Finley looked so much like Quinn that it took Chloe's breath away as she used her fingers to part Finley's dark hair pulling most of it to one side and pushing the hair that she and Beca had yet to cut behind the toddler's ear. "I forgive you baby. Okay?" Chloe said soothingly. "I love you very much baby." Chloe pulled her daughter in for a tight hug. "Now let's finish getting ready to go okay?" She said as she pushed the child out of her embrace.
"Okay mama" Finley said softly. She turned back toward Beca who stood leaning against the wall with her arms crossed over her chest. Beca nodded approvingly and Finley turned and ran out of the room as fast as her little legs would carry her.
"Please forgive me?" Chloe repeated softly to Beca. "That was heartbreakingly adorable."
"I made her practice that part." Beca smirked. "That sucked Chlo."
"I know, but thank you honey." Chloe smiled.
Finley rounded through the doorway once again carrying her small bathroom stool. She sat it at Chloe's feet and took her time climbing on top. Once both feet were secure on the blue Dori stool she reached both hands up for Chloe's growing baby bump. "I'm sorry whawles. I wuv you" she said and finished with a kiss to her mama's belly.
AN: Lot's of requests for more fluff with a little bit of angst ... I'll she what I can do but right now I'm really enjoying these three. And don't worry, I promise not to do any harm to the baby. Tell me your thoughts, I love hearing them.