Pitch Perfect

Attention!: I want to apologise for pissing my readers off in the last chapter. Yes, I did intend for that to happen (not pissing off my readers, I mean Chloe dying.) But I assure you, this fic will have a happy ending. So please keep reading!

Chapter 9-

It had been three weeks since Chloe's death, and they had still been unable to get a reaction from Beca to anything they tried. It was as if she was an empty shell. They had even had to put a tube down her throat just to feed her and let her drink. She never blinked, so they had to close her eyes, she never did anything. She never even cried. She had become completely comatose. Knowing how much Beca meant to Chloe, everyone, even her parents, wanted to wait until Beca was awake before having the funeral, but they couldn't wait much longer. Jesse spent every second at Beca's side. He slept on the cold, hard ground beside her, he took her and bathed her every morning. He emptied and cleaned her bed pan once every three or four hours, and he even refused to let any of the doctors come near her. In his mind, it was their fault she was like this, they hadn't taken good enough care of her after the wreck, and he wasn'tgoing to let them make her worse.

Really, the only people he would allow to see Beca were her parents (biological, no step-monster) and the Bellas. Of course, Aubrey refused to visit her, which baffled everyone. She never told anyone what had happened at Chloe's parents' mansion in Pottsboro, but that was mainly to protect Chloe's memory. She didn't want anyone thinking that she was some lesbian girlfriend-stealing tramp, though that was what Aubrey called Beca, not to anyone's face, but in her mind.

Jesse was literally going insane, seeing Beca as she was. He had begun to talk to her, and himself as if they were three friends just hanging out. He even carried out arguments between the three of them, and the doctors and nurses were very concerned.

"Hey, Beca. You won't believe what Benji told me."

"What?"

"He said he finally asked Aubrey out, and she said yes."

"Really?"

"Yeah! It's a miracle! I never thought that those two would end up together, did you?"

Benji and Donald stood outside of Beca's room, watching and listening to Jesse talk to Beca, and hw he actually heard he talking back. It wasn't like a little kid who does the voices for their imaginary friends when he or she played with them, Jesse wasn't talking for Beca, he was just listening and responding to what he imagined she'd say. The scary part was that he was actually pretty accurate. Then again, they were dating, and he knew her pretty well.

"Tell me why he's making you a part of his delusion?" Donald asked Benji.

"I don't know."

"Do you even like that blonde girl?"

"Yeah, I like her. I told him that a while back, before the accident. But I never asked her out, and she wouldn't say yes, even if I did."

"Well, you never know, now that that ginger's out of the way."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Blondie was into Red. I mean, really into Red. Anyone with eyes and a brain could see that. Even Bumper could see that. He even insulted the Bellas two years ago, calling attention to it, but subtly. He did that whole "girl power, sisters before misters" bit, and made Aubrey blush."

"Huh."

"Yeah. Well, maybe once she's done grieving over Chloe, you might be able to cet her to go out with you or something."

"Maybe. But that's gonna take a while."

"Yeah. Honestly, though, I'm wondering what the Bellas are gonna do without Beca. She's their lead girl, the brains behind the operation. I mean, she totally kicked our asses last year, but now what're they gonna do? She hasn't even had a chance to adjust to Chloe being gone yet, she just slipped back into a coma."

"Yeah. Honestly, I'm not sure I'm even feeling it this year, either."

"Me neither. I actually like Chloe. She was cool. She and I slept together a couple times. She never got caught, which is why she stayed in the Bellas all the way through. I always thought that that oath they took is a bit ridiculous."

"What oath?"

"Well, it's kind of a secret. She told me about it after she joined up. It's something about Bellas not being allowed to sleep with Treblemakers, or else they'll get their throats ripped out by wolves. Something like that."

"Harsh."

"Yeah. Well, the guys are waiting for us, we'd better get going."

"You go on ahead. I'm gonna see if he needs anything." Donald nodded as Benji opened the door to Beca's room. He left as Benji closed the door behind him.

"Hey, Jesse."

"Benji! How'd your date with Aubrey go?"

"It went fine, thanks for asking." Benji played along.

"So? What happened? Beca's been wanting to know. She hasn't shut up about it."

"Well, um, Beca... We went out for Chinese-"

Jesse stopped him, then looked at him expectantly.

"What?"

"Beca just said she thought Aubrey hated Chinese."

"Oh. Did I say Chinese? I meant Mexican. We went out to..." Benji paused, trying to think of a Mexican restaurant. "The Jalapeño Tree! We went to the Jalapeño Tree. She actually loves Mexican food. We ate, and we talked a bit, then we went to see a late night movie, but Aubrey had to leave in the middle because a redheaded character reminded her of Chloe. I found her on the sidewalk outside, crying, and I took her home." Luckily, Benji had had lots of practice describing fake dates.

"Sweet." Jesse said with a smile.

"Yeah. I really enjoyed it." Benji smiled back as he imagined what it would be like to actually go on that date with Aubrey.

"Well, Beca's feeling kind of tired right now, so I'm gonna let her rest. Let's go. I'm hungry." Benji sighed in relief as he and Jesse left Beca alone and headed down to the cafeteria. Benji nodded to a nurse just outside Beca's room, and she and three other nurses bolted inside to take care of Beca. The plan to separate Beca from her guard dog had worked.

Hopefully, once Beca was awake, Jesse would snap out of his state of mind, and back to normal.

Beca hurt. Her head hurt, her eyes were on fire, her arms and legs felt like they hadn't moved in weeks, her throat felt like it was full of Jesse's-

"Mmmh?" Beca moaned as she opened her eyes. Her vision was very blurry, and she was blinded by the white walls all around her, and the sunlight streaming into the room from outside.

"Oh, thank god. We thought we'd never wake you up in time. Your boyfriend will be back soon." One of the nurses smiled at her.

"Chloe?" Beca mumbled. She looked around for a glimpse of red hair, or the sound of Chloe's voice.

"Who's Chloe?" The nurse asked.

"Chloe's the one who was in the car with her." The nurses turned around to see Aubrey standing in the doorway, arms crossed.

"Oh." The nurse replied.

"Can I have a moment alone with her?" Aubrey asked, but it was clear that it wasn't a question.

The nurses shuffled out of the room and Aubrey closed the door behind her.

"Aubrey?" Beca's thoughts were still incoherent.

"Yeah. It's me." Aubrey's tone was cold. "Chloe's dead." She said bluntly, and Beca snapped awake.

"What?"

"She's dead, Beca. Some drunk kid ran the two of you off the road during that storm a few weeks ago. You woke up three days later, found out Chloe died, then you went into a coma. Everyone thinks the doctors overlooked something about your condition, but I know why you really went comatose."

It all came back to Beca. The accident, the mix they'd been listening to, Chloe's death, and the feeling that Beca was fading away.

Beca wanted nothing more than to slip back into that coma, and never leave again, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't figure out how.

The tears finally came for her. They came quickly, and Beca didn't make a noise as the anger, the grief, and the pain she'd been keeping away for three weeks came roaring out.

"Don't think I'm here to comfort you, Beca. I'm only here because the Bellas begged me to try and get Jesse away from you so the nurses could revive you. Then, I come and see that Benji has already done that, and you're awake. So, I decided to give you a piece of my mind."

Beca nodded, knowing this was coming. She figured she might as well get it all over with now.

"Before you do-"

"No, you are not going to try and stop me."

"No. I'm not trying to. I just want you to know everything. It'll make you even angrier, but it's no less than I deserve."

Aubrey was silent. She blamed Beca for Chloe's death, but she knew that that was irrational. How could Beca blame herself?

"Chloe and I slept together."

"I kind of figured that. You two were less than silent."

"Oh. Well, then yell away."

Aubrey thought for a minute.

"No." She said.

"No?"

"No. It's obvious that you actually want me to yell at you. It'd probably just make you feel better. Well, I'm not going to give you the satisfaction. Goodbye, Beca. Good luck at Regionals." Aubrey turned and walked away.

Ten minutes later, Jesse walked back into Beca's room.

"Beca?" Jesse asked, seeing she was actually awake, and he snapped out of his daze.

"Hey, Jesse."

He ran over and hugged her, a little too tightly, but Beca didn't say anything.

"I'm sorry, Beca." He knew tht she was disoriented, and was probably just now remembering what had happened to Chloe.

Her body was shaking. She hadn't noticed it until Jesse wrapped his arms around her, but she was actually almost vibrating.

Her voice was a whimper, her words a jumbled mess as it finally hit her. She cried into Jesse's shirt until she passed out.

Jesse wa dumbfouded. He hadn't understood much of what Beca said, and what he did hear, he wasn't sure if he heard her correctly, or if he even wanted to know.

It had sounded like she said "I slept with Chloe."

He stepped outside the hospital for some fresh air. He needed to process everything, including what he remembered about his state of mind before Beca woke up again. After ten minutes or so, he called everyone in the Bellas and Beca's family to let them know she was awake. They didn't take him seriously until he proved to each of them that he wasn't insane.

Another hour, and everyone was crowded into Beca's room as she woke back up.

Three months later

The bellas hadn't even made it past regionals. Beca scrapped the routine they had been working on, deciding it was no good, and tried to build another one instead, but it wasn't nearly good enough. The Bellas were silent on the matter, knowing she was still grieving over Chloe. They had been close. Since the hospital, Beca hadn't told anyone about her and Chloe. She needed to keep that to herself for now.

The plans for the funeral were made. Chloe's parents insisted that the Bellas sing Amazing Grace at the funeral, because they had meant so much to her, but half of them broke down crying halfway through the song. Beca didn't even make it that far. Finally, Aubrey stepped up to finish the song.

"Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound

that saved a wretch like me.

I once was lost, but now am found.

Was blind, but now I see."

Jesse was walking Beca home one night, when she stopped.

"What is it?" Jesse asked.

"There's something I have to tell you. I've put it off for three months, but I need to tell you now."

"Okay."

She took a deep breath.

"I had sex with Chloe. Before she died, I mean."

"Okay."

Beca was confused. "What?"

"Okay."

"Okay? What do you mean okay? I just told you I cheated on you."

"I know."

"So what? You're not mad? You don't care?"

"No, that's not what I'm saying. But you told me about it back at the hospital. I wasn't sure that's what you said, but it still got me prepared for whenever you did tell me about it. I was mad, I was hurt. What am I saying? I am hurt. But that's behind us. I love you, Beca. I've already forgiven you for it, there's no need to apologize. I'm not mad about it anymore. In fact, I've jst been waiting for you to tell me about it. To trust me enough to tell me."

"Waiting for what?" Beca asked carefully.

"This." Jesse smiled as he walked towards her, then got down on one knee. "Beca Mitchell, it's obvious we trust each other completely now, and I'm deeply in love with you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you, so, if you'll have me, I would love for you to become my wife. Will you marry me?" Jesse asked her hopefully as he pulled out a velvet case and opened it up. It was a simple ring, but it still brought tears to her eyes as she gasped.

"What?" She asked, the beat herself up for asking.

"I said: Will you marry me?"

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