A/N: Right, this chapter is fairly short by my standards. Literally just over 3,000 words which is my minimum limit as I may have said before. But you get quite a long flashback and it just seemed the right place to end it. So I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think. I think I may have found where that song is going to go. I actually bought it on itunes and now it's going round in my head a lot.

Disclaimer: (cause it just seems to pop into my head right at this point, it's trained itself) I do not own Pitch Perfect or the characters etc.

So on with the next chapter...

Chapter 12

Again Beca woke practically lying on top of Jesse. For a moment she couldn't remember where she was. This used to happen regularly at the end of her first year and her second year at of college. It took a while to remember she was no longer in college, then to remember the last 7 years, then the last week, then last night. As the last thought hit her she let out a contented sigh as a smile spread across her face and she snuggled into his chest. His arms subconsciously tightened around her.

The sound of movement and voices from the other side of her door brought her completely back to reality. Now a grin spread across her face. Well, her plan had still worked, whether it was because he had allowed it or not. She moved slightly and whispered in his ear,

"Hey nerd, wake up." He only grunted. A little louder she called "Fine, I'll let you get out the Bella house alone," as she started to get up. Suddenly the arms tightened around her waist again and this time pulled her firmly back into the bed pinned underneath him.

"Don't you dare!" He said in a fake threatening voice. She fought off the urge to succumb to him and instead came back with,

"Then you better get up or I'm leaving you to fend them off for yourself. Besides if I'm late they may come to see if I'm still alive." At that he groaned and let her get up before following suit.

Once they were dressed and ready to leave Beca mimicked his movements from that morning in the Treble house and peeped through the door before closing it again and reporting the corridor to be clear. She then put one hand on the door handle and took his with the other. Before she opened the door she turned to him.

"Did I tell you all the Bellas wait for me at the end of the corridor in the foyer to tell me what we're doing for the day?" she asked then before he could register what she had said and what that meant she dragged him out of the room. When it suddenly clicked she felt him stop and pull her to stop with him.

"You forgot to mention that leaving with you guarantees I get mobbed by all the angry Bellas in this house?"

"Okay, maybe not so much forgot as neglected to tell you about." She said as innocently as possible, the mischievous grin giving her away a little.

"Oh really? So your real plan was to get me back for getting you in the Treble house."

"Maybe, come on or we'll be late, or are you too chicken and what to run from a fight?" She teased.

"Fine, but don't think this is over."

"Oh believe me, it's just getting started." She said as they rounded the corner to come face to face with nearly 30 Bellas, over 20 of which hated the Trebles passionately. The look on all of their faces as they saw Beca and Jesse stood there in front of them was enough that both Beca and Jesse had to fight back a laugh. The emotions ran clearly across their faces. Shock then confusion then betrayal then finally anger pointed at Jesse.

"So, what's on today's schedule?" Beca asked as though it was a normal day and Jesse wasn't stood beside her in enemy territory.

"What's he doing here?" One of the younger Bellas asked, venom in the voice.

"Okay, that didn't answer my question. I'm hungry, I want to get breakfast. I can't do that until you tell me what's happening today. So I'm not answering any questions until you tell me and neither is he." She stated firmly.

"Fine, no one knows what is happening. They didn't tell us, we find it out after breakfast this morning." The same Bella said her tone the same. "Now what's he doing here?"

Beca looked at Jesse, trying to decide on her response. It wasn't like he had come to her rescue in the Treble house, but then again they hadn't really talked properly and they weren't on good terms so he couldn't really be expected to. Still, they were on good terms now so he would probably forgive her anyway...

"Don't even think about it." He warned. She smirked. Okay now he had practically dared her to do it.

"He's all yours ladies, I'm going for breakfast." She said as she turned back to the Bellas and gave Jesse a little shove towards them. Almost immediately they swarmed around him like angry bees or wasps. She saw him watching her and knew he would be getting her back for this later but it was still worth it. "What's wrong honey?" She shouted sweetly to him over the noise. Fat Amy, Lily and Stacie entered the Bellas house to see what was taking so long and immediately located the reason. Fat Amy approached Beca.

"You might want to get him out if you want to keep him fully functioning." She suggested as she reached Beca. Beca nodded.

"Just one more minute then I'll help him."

"I'd help but I've got kids to think about, I don't want them to lose their mummy."

"I'm sure it's not that bad."

"You keep telling yourself that but the longer you wait..."

"Alright, alright, I'm going." She sighed as she approached the edge of the crowd. "Hey, guys, stop!" She shouted at them to no avail. She tried a different tactic. "Look, more Trebles walking through the door!" Every Bella stopped and turned to the empty door way. Beca quickly grabbed Jesse's hand and dragged him out of the crowd before the Bellas could realise that there were in fact no Trebles trying to intrude. As they noticed this they all turned back to Beca who now stood closer to the door hand in hand with Jesse. "What? I wanted my boyfriend in one piece." She said in answer to their questioning/accusing looks. The shocked looks were back but this time from everyone. Fat Amy, Lily, Stacie, Chloe, Aubrey and all her friends included. Jesse squeezed her hand in response before leaning over and whispering,

"I suggest we get out of here before they get over it and everyone goes after us both, your friend included, for answers. And punishment."

"Yeah, I agree." She nodded as she felt him pull her towards the door and out towards the other house. Right now she actually craved the neutral ground. While her plan had brought amusement to her it had also caused quite the scene she realised. As they made their way to no-man's land she thought back to how she started the whole war. How she turned the Bellas against the Trebles, perhaps her biggest regret. Definitely among them anyway.

Second Year at Barden

Although everyone knew Beca and Jesse had broken up, they knew for certain it was truly over when they noticed he walked away during the Bella's performance. It had gone largely unnoticed by the crowd, only the Bellas and Trebles seeing it. Still, it had made a statement; one that the Trebles already knew about. They knew the story. Benji had announced it in a fury when he had confronted Jesse, and it hadn't taken long to realise Beca hadn't believed him, at least not to start with. They had watched her use Luke to make Jesse jealous when they had popped by to collect Jesse for practice, they couldn't practice without their leader, and they had been there when she had come to apologise after she had realised she was wrong, they had heard the fight through the thin walls and had seen Beca leave in tears. They had known then that it was over. The Bellas had not known what had happened but had realised when he walked away that it was beyond repair.

On top of this Beca found out she would not even get the pleasure of kicking Carly out of the Bellas. Once they got off stage after their performance Carly had announced to the group that she wouldn't be going back to Barden with them because she was moving and leaving Barden. She had already finished the transfer and just waited for the finals so now she would be leaving Barden and so the Bellas. This meant that she, like any Bella who graduated, would always be a Bella. With that announcement she said her goodbye with hugs and excused herself cause she" had a plane to catch". Now Beca couldn't even kicked her out because she had left first. Beca had a feeling it had something to do with Carly knowing that Beca had only waited for finals to be over and then planned on telling the other Bellas and kicking her out.

Jesse had returned after the Bellas had finished their performance and the winners were announced. It came down to second place between the Bellas and the Trebles. Both groups waited with bated breath. Apart from Beca, her world was already crumbling and she wasn't sure that she could withstand the final brick coming away if the results did not come out in her favour; if she would be buried under the rubble if it did.

"And the winners of the 2013 ICCA finals are The Barden..." The announcer paused for Dramatic effect, it seemed to last forever, the silence stretching on for eternity, their anticipation almost killing them, they couldn't wait. Finally the pause seemed to come to an end, "Treblemakers!" Beca felt herself crumble. It was true, it was all over. All their joking comments about having no chance without Chloe suddenly didn't seem like jokes anymore. She heard the commentator, 'John' she thought his name was, say something about not having the range to pull it off despite the set list through her racing mind. She could hear her heart beating loudly in her head, hear blurred voices speaking all around her, her vision was also blurred. Everything had just fallen apart and now she was lost. She felt herself moving with everyone else to collect their second place reward. She couldn't breathe. Someone was talking to her but she couldn't make out what they were saying. She managed to match the muffled sound of the voice to the blurred person in front of her as Fat Amy. Soon they were being ushered off stage for the Treblemakers again and someone was calling for a bus to take the Bellas back. Everyone seemed to had gathered they wouldn't be sharing the Treble bus for the ride home. As they all got outside the fresh, cool night air helped wake Beca up from her haze. Her breathing slowed and she managed to calm herself. It the midst of everything no one had really noticed apart from Fat Amy that something was going on with Beca.

"I'm fine." She said as she could finally speak.

"Yeah, right. I've been asking you if you're okay for the last half hour and you didn't answer. You looked like you were about to pass out so forgive me for not believing you now." Fat Amy responded, her voice letting Beca know she wasn't buying it.

"It was just a little hot and crowded in there, I'm fine now." She protested. Now everyone was staring at her.

"You looked like you were having a panic attack or something in there. And you had no problem last year and it was exactly the same." Fat Amy argued back. Before anyone had a chance to say anything back their hire bus arrived and they all piled in. Beca took the back seat and everyone turned to her for an explanation. This was it. No she had to tell them what had happened. With Carly and Jesse and the break up. 'How do I explain this to them without them hating me?' she thought. Before she realised what she was saying she started to speak.

"Carly's been spying on us for the Trebles and Jesse knew about it!" She blurted out. She was shocked at what had just come out of her mouth. She didn't even know where it had come from. She look on their faces told her it was too late to take back the lie but she could try to do damage control. She opened her mouth to speak again, "They enlisted her before auditions. All of them planned it. And the song at the semi finals. It was all part of their plan. They stopped at the finals when they realised we couldn't win without Chloe's voice. They were right. They were trying to get close to us. To get information." She wasn't sure whose brain was controlling her mouth because it didn't seem to be hers but she just couldn't stop it. The lies just kept flowing out regardless of her desire to stop. "That's why Carly left. Before she could be kicked out. I found out she was a part of it right before the performance. That's why Jesse and I broke up, their spying. When he walked away it meant he picked them. They were going to continue with it instead of stopping so we could get over it and get back together." She let out a deep breath as she finally managed to stop herself.

The bus stayed silent for a while as they set off back for Barden. Everyone was still processing the information they had been given. Beca settled herself into a corner and pretended to sleep. She really didn't want to be involved when everyone finished processing what had been said and what they thought of it. It didn't take too long before all hell and some curse words broke out on the bus. Beca held to her pretending to sleep plan. It seemed safer to keep her mouth shut. She was afraid more lies might come out. By the time they arrived back at Barden most of the Bellas had a strong hate for the Trebles. Apart from their own boyfriends who each was convinced really loved them and couldn't have anything to do with it. Beca felt sick. None of them had done anything wrong but she just couldn't stop herself and now it was too late. Amongst the arguing and the Treble-hating Beca managed to sneak off the bus undetected and headed straight to her room.

As it turned out some of the Trebles who didn't feel like celebrating, in other words Jesse and Benji; who wasn't exactly the partying type, had also decided to return to Barden early while the others stayed the night as planned to stay up celebrating. Benji had seen Beca's state at the awards and after all the Bellas had returned to their rooms he went to visit Beca. The sound of her crying greeted him through the door. He knocked before going in sensing that she wouldn't respond. He found her curled up in her bed.

"It's gonna be okay Beca." He started as he sat down by her head and stroked her head.

"Not this time it isn't Benji."

"You had to know it might not have gotten him back."

"It's not just that. That was bad enough."

"What is it then Beca?" He asked suddenly more concerned.

"I think I just started a war." She said quietly before her tears took over. She had cried herself to sleep that night with Benji sat beside her, leaving only once he was sure she was asleep. He just couldn't get what she had said out of his head though. 'I think I just started a war'. Even then though he didn't quite catch the gravity of the situation. In that night the whole dynamic of the two groups changed without them even realising how much.

Beca regretted that night so much. She hadn't been able to stop or control the words coming out of her mouth. To this day she still had no idea where they came from. If she hadn't recognised her own voice she would have sworn someone else had said them. The loss had really hurt them. It had pulled back to the front all the fears she had about them not being able to hit enough note, not have the necessary range to pull it off. She had long since accepted that while the Bellas were good they would probably never keep up with the Trebles. Sure, every so many years or whatever they would get someone with the voice to pull it off, but like John the announcer had said, the reason all female a capella groups didn't typically do that well was because they couldn't hit the low notes. It was just a fact. Still, just because they didn't always win in the years since she had left Barden didn't mean they weren't always in the finals. As she thought back over that night though she got a cold feeling; when the Bellas found out about that, the whole truth, they knew bits were lies, they knew it was about Carly and Jesse not cheating, they didn't know the whole truth, she wasn't sure how they would look at her. Worse yet, she wasn't sure how Jesse would look at her when she told him. Maybe everything wouldn't be okay after all.

She felt him squeeze her hand as though he had sensed her discomfort. She turned to him and smiled then leant her head against him arm as they entered the other house, afraid that this would never happen again once he found out. And if she wanted to stop this war, everyone had to find out. As they settled in to their routine and got their breakfast an excited a Treble, obviously a current one, bounded up to them.

"Hey guys, you know what? We're going camping! Better say goodbye to your precious nails Bella." He yelled at them before bouncing off.

"Oh god, I hate camping." Beca groaned.

"And here I thought you and your amazingly scary ear spike would be in your element." Jesse teased as they sat down. 'Oh this day just keeps getting better' she thought sarcastically. 'Talk about going down hill fast! Can it get any worse?'

Okay, (Yes I'm back to that word again) Just as a warning, perhaps a late one in which case it's a potential apology but my typing is really dodgy today so any random mistypes I apologise for and as these note aren't done on Word then there is an increased chance of mistakes. No doubt at some point in the future I will go through and check like I have done in the past with the first 5/6 chapter. Okay, so I know what Beca did was pretty bad but you have to try and understand her state of mind and she's not even sure now how that came out of her mouth. If you think in those kind of situations she tends to say stuff she regrets, like she did twice to Jesse in the film. It did however start the war. So no it doesn't look like plain sailing from here on out, even I was surprised when I wrote what happened and I suddenly thought; 'huh, well this could cause all sorts of problems' but still, don't hate Beca for it. You all knew she started the war. She wasn't actually blaming herself for no reason, she actually is almost solely responsible for the start of the war, with some help from Jesse, but it did still escalate due to others. Who did you think would win the ICCA's? Let me know if you were right or not. I won't laugh it you were wrong. Also don't lose hope I have not said who won the ICCA's in the third and fourth years just that over all in the years since the Trebles have won it more often than the Bellas as is inevitable because even with the best set list in the world what commentator john said at the start of the film is true. 'The women typically cannot hit the low notes which really round out an arrangement and thrill the judges and that can really hurt them in the competition' As the Bellas still are all female they won't always get a Chloe to hit the low notes. Please don't kill me for it, I was trying to be realistic. So they are all going camping together, won't that be fun? Let me know what you think. I respond to those who review, if I can, and will give you a hint about what is to come. I love to hear from you but as promised in chapter 1 I won't ask for them. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, it's a little shorter than previous chapters but it just seemed right to end it there. Let me know what you think and see you in the next chapter. (*smiles*)