So I had this unfinished thing in my documents and I finished it, it's longer than usual but that won't hurt anybody, I hope. Please enjoy the mash of my obsessions over Spiderman and Pitch Perfect.

15. It's your friendly neighbour Spiderwoman

The Barden Bella's are on a fieldtrip to celebrate their win in the national championships, for the second time. Last year they went to LA and partied for a week but they left with massive hangovers so this year they are going camping. The week is supposed to be a lot of fun but these girls have never put up a tent in their lives so that is challenge number 1. They hired 3 tents and after having to put up all of those tents, they were tired so after a quick meal they went to sleep. Beca and Chloe shared a tent,

"goodnight Chlo"

"you're going to sleep already? Come on let's have some fun" Chloe pulls Beca up "let's play 21 questions, I go first"

Beca groans, "why don't we divide the questions over the week, that way we can sleep earlier" she bites her lip "so it'll be 3 questions every evening"

"ugh, fine. Ever had a boyfriend?"

Beca rolls her eyes, this is gonna be a long week "yeah, you know that. What was your first memory"

"wait let me think, oh! Yeah, I know. It was in preschool and this kid stole my apple and I started to cry. That's my first memory" Chloe lays down and Beca uses her stomach as a pillow, it looks really cute "how come you always have scratched knuckles and so many bruises"

"you don't know that? I do kickboxing, although that doesn't explain the knuckles thing, I have a history with punching walls. They don't fight back and are always around so it's an easy target"

"You're so weird" Chloe is playing with the brunettes hair "try not to punch any more wall please"

"I'll try, what are you gonna do after graduation?"

Chloe bites her lip, she does that when she's thinking. "I honestly don't know, I'd like to teach kids how to play instruments but I really don't know where I'll end up" the redhead moves a bit to get comfortable "tell me something I don't know about you, I mean I know you so this better be good and if I do know it you have come up with something again"

"that's difficult, you know a lot about me. I play the piano, you don't know that right"

"how come you never told any of us that, or showed off"

"it doesn't exactly fit in with my badass persona so I kept it on the low, I think only Amy know because she walked in on me playing. Besides, I'm in an a cappella group so it's not really useful"

"no but it is cool, I've always wanted to play the piano but I never had the patience to learn all the keys so I just stuck with playing guitar"

Beca yawns "I think I'll save my last question for tomorrow, goodnight Chlo" and she cuddles closer to the redhead.

the next day is just a little bit of this and a little bit of that, they really didn't do anything besides sunbathing and eating. It was lovely, just what they needed after all the shit that happened at the finals. Beca goes for a hike, not asking anyone to go with her, she needs some alone time so she puts on her headphones and walks around for a bit. Her foot gets hooked on a branch and she falls forward, rolling down a steep hill. Something hit her head as she rolled down and she lost consciousness. Her shirt is ripped and she's covered in scratches and bruises, there's a little spider crawling down her neck. It's red and blue, for one reason or another, and it bites the brunette. Luckily she's out or she'd be screaming right now, the spider was not a normal spider. It's venom is now coursing through Beca's blood, breaking down parts of her DNA and replacing it with its own DNA. Because of this her muscles instantly get bigger and her senses are ten times better, it's a weird thing to happen to a human.

It's getting dark and back at camp Chloe starts to worry about her friend so she takes Stacy, Fat Amy and Flo with her and starts looking for the brunette. It's Stacie who spots Beca at the bottom of the hill, they carefully get down and try to stay calm. It looks like they're friend is dead

"Beca!" Chloe is trying to wake the brunette up and somehow her voice pulls her back, she opens her eyes.

"hey Chlo, what happened" she tries to get up and succeeds somehow, then she sees what she looks like. "oh" she looks at the hill and at her friends "I fell"

"are you okay?" it's Flo that talks

"yeah, apart from all the blood, I think it looks way worse than it actually is" she up the hill "don't know if I can make it up there. It looks very steep… I think I'm gonna fai-" and she slips away again. Her friends catch her and lift her up

"let's just get her back and then we'll see what to do"

They did just that, back at the camp Beca is put in her tent and soon after she wakes up again. She looks better and since Chloe has seen her naked already she helps clean all the blood off. Beca was wrong, without the blood it still looks terrible. Chloe does the best she can but they need to go to a doctor to get it all cleaned out, not that that is really possible at this hour, so they decide to go in the morning. Beca falls asleep but she's sweating like crazy and it looks like she has a fever, it's the spider venom that's working. She'll be fine tomorrow but they don't know that, so they call an ambulance and it takes Beca to the hospital. Chloe is with her.

The next day they take the bus back to the camp, nothing was wrong with Beca but is was still good that they cleaned all the cuts and put bandages on it. Everyone was worried sick but Beca never felt better, it's weird.

Beca insisted on keeping the vacation going, and they did. It was fun but in the end they had to go back, classes started again and they had loads of homework. Just like every day after her last class, Beca sat down at her tree working on a mix. There was a fly buzzing around her head and it annoyed her like crazy, she tried to wave it away when suddenly something shoots from her wrist. It is something white and lands a few meters away, her first thought is what the fuck. She tries to do it again, whatever it is that she did and it must look idiotic to say the least. Her flicking her wrist in weird ways just to see if she can shoot the white goo again, after numerous tries she finds it. Just as she's about to test it again, Chloe sits down next to her.

"hey Chlo" she takes her headphones off "what's up"

"I just wanted to see how you're doing, you've been distant lately"

"I have? I'm sorry I didn't mean to be" truth be told, Beca had been exploring the newfound abilities she has since the day she fell down that hill a few weeks ago. The Brunette is a lot stronger than before, can stick to walls and ceilings, run abnormally fast and jump really far and high. Not to speak of what she just found out, the white shit. Beca also took some more boxing lessons, if she's gonna be using these abilities to fight crime or something then she better learn how to fight properly. That's what she'd been doing while she should've been at Bella rehearsals or just chilling with her friends.

"what have you been doing? We haven't seen you in ages" Chloe doesn't believe Beca's earlier answer "you're gone before breakfast and come home deep in the night, we barely see you"

"I'm sorry Chlo" she says with a sigh "I just haven't been feeling the same since that night in the woods, so I started running every day. It helps keeping my mind at ease and I'm sorry that I didn't tell you before, it's just that I didn't want to bother you with my problems"

The redhead sits closer and cuddles in Beca's side "you'd never bother me, just know you can tell me everything" and they just sit there, for like an hour or so when Beca's Spidey senses tell her somethings shooting towards them. She sees a soccer ball heading right for Chloe's head, but quickly puts her arms around the redheads head so the ball bounces off her arms instead of Chloe's face. It's only after it happens that Chloe realises what happened, she turns to Beca "how did you know that was coming"

"I saw it, seemed more efficient to protect you than say something" Beca looks at her phone, it's time for her boxing lesson "sorry Chloe, I have to go. I promise I'll be back before supper" and she's gone before Chloe can even ask her where she's going.

Beca tried to go home right away after practice was over, she really did. And she succeeded, but her head was killing her so she ate really fast and sprinted out the door right after, leaving her friends behind clueless again. Beca ran and ran and it helped a bit, she got into a dark alley and climbed to the roof of a building. Once up there she leaped from roof to roof, she then shot a web at the building next to her and used it as a rope so she could swing herself forward. Shooting webs left and right to keep the momentum going, it felt like she was flying and she couldn't help but cheer as she swung herself forward, only stopping as she reached the tallest building in new York. The world trade centre, Beca found herself standing on top of the flagpole. The view is beautiful up there and the brunette knows that she found her favourite spot in the city, it is this moment that she decides what to do with her powers. She thinks about what her uncle said to her once 'with great power comes great responsibility', she needs to do good.

Chloe is calling, Beca takes a deep breath before she answers "hey"

"oh my god Beca where are you!? We're all worried sick, you can't just run out like that"

"I'm sorry, my head was exploding, I couldn't take it anymore"

A sigh comes out of the phone, Chlo is not happy, that's for sure "where are you"

"uhm, world trade centre"

"Jesus, all the way over there. I'm picking you up, you better stay where you are"

"okay"

And the line goes dead, Beca enjoys the silence up here for a few more minutes, then she gets down. She gets herself a sketchbook and a pencil, sits on a bench and starts writing down her ideas and plans for the suit and what she wants to be. It takes another 20 minutes for Chloe to get there and when she does Beca quickly puts the book in her pocket, she can see that the redhead has tears in her eyes and she feels incredibly guilty, it breaks her heart to know that she was the cause of those tears.

From that night forward she tries to connect to her friends again, she tries to be there for them. Her mind is always somewhere else though, it's in her book. She always carried it around, when she'd normally be making music or sleeping, she'd now draw costumes she could wear. She spend a lot of time thinking of who she wanted to become and what she wanted to be seen as, and she came up with a spider. She hadn't seen what bit her but the wall climbing and web shooting said enough, she also came up with a name; Spiderwoman. That was easy, now the suit was a different story. She needs a mask to hide her identity, she needs it to be easy to move in, she needs it to allow her to shoot webs and she needs to be able to be one with it. Colours? Maybe, black is prettier and less visible but it might scare people off. Red? Hides blood, looks great, will do. Red with black? Worth a try, maybe some blue in there.

This is what happens in Becca's mind 24/7, she doesn't sleep much and when she does nightmares hunt her dreams. Nightmares of the day she fell down the hill, it makes her restless to even think about it. She feels like she needs to make this a success so she can finally put her mind at ease, so she can finally rest. So she keeps going until she collapses, in her room, on the floor. It is a long weekend and most of the girls are at home with their families, so nobody notices that Beca hasn't left her room the entire weekend. The brunette is out cold and it does her good, she wakes up in sweat with a growling stomach and a clear vision of herself. She quickly showers and goes down to the kitchen to grab some food, she starts drawing while she eats it. The spider on her back, the webs all over the red and blue on the sides, this is it. Beca grabs her laptop and starts ordering shit she needs to actually make this come true, she's lucky she can work with a needle because she'll be making this whole thing herself.

Stacie walks through the door "hey Becs"

"hey Stace, was it fun at your parents' house"

"meh, it was fine, nice to see them all again" she shrugs and takes place opposite of Beca "what about you, you do anything?"

"not much no, mostly slept" she closes her laptop and looks Stacie in the eye "just what I needed though, you want some coffee? I was just gonna make some"

"yes please. Didn't you have family you wanted to go to?"

"nobody asked and I kinda passed out on Saturday morning, only waking up 2 hours ago"

"Jesus, you okay?"

Beca smiles at her friend "yeah I feel better now. I am hungry though, you mind ordering a pizza for me?"

"no of course not" Beca puts a mug in front of her as Stacie orders her a big peperoni pizza "you do realize it's only 11"

Beca decides she can trust Stacie, she decides to not do anything when Stacie picks up her sketchbook. Maybe she needs to have someone to talk to about it, so that it won't all pile up in her mind and make her go crazy.

"what's this" she looks up from the book "can I"

Beca nods "that's me" she watches Stacie flip through the pages, reading every bit of text and taking it all in. Beca is practically letting someone read her diary, everything is in there, all she can do and how she does it.

"wow, this is true?" Beca nods "prove it" so Beca looks around, gets up from her chair, walks up to the wall and climbs up onto the ceiling back to the table. There she sticks a web above her and lets herself dangle from it. So now she hanging from the ceiling upside down "believe me now?" she smirks.

"fuck me"

Beca sits back down

"this is why you've been so distant lately, shit man, must be hard to do this shit on your own. I'm the first to know aren't I"

"yeah, I figured it'd be good to have someone to talk to about all this shit, so you in?"

"hell yeah I'm in! need help making the suit? I'm quite good with that sort of stuff"

Beca opens her laptop and sits down next to Stacie, they talk about what is the best material and Beca's design. Stacie has some smart improvements and together they put it all on paper, so they can order all the stuff.

A week later they start cutting the pieces and sowing it together, then they need to put all the thin pieces of metal. It takes ages and they burned their hands so many times that Beca almost gave up, when the last pieces were on there and they went downstairs to grab some water when Chloe saw the burned hands. She demanded them to tell her how they got there, so they lied. Said they were trying to fix a broken lighter but it didn't work out and they got burned really bad so they decided to throw it away and just buy a new one. Chloe shook her head at their stupidity but did put bandages on their burns.

Three days later and Beca is wearing the suit for the first time, I have to say that it was damn impressive what they put together. Just like the drawings Beca made, the suit had the logo on the back and the webs covering all the red, with the mask and the boots it just looks amazing. That same night they go to the forest and test it out, Beca swings from tree to tree and does some flips. She also uses a tree as a punch bag, the suit holds and is actually really comfortable. It's now around midnight and they should probably head back but Beca just wants to show Stacie her appreciation, they walk back to the city and when they're reaching the buildings tall enough to swing from Beca –as Spidey- lifts her friend up and tells her to hold on. Together they swing from building to building until Beca gets tired, only then they go back. Stacie is flabbergasted but in a good way, that's what she says. Well, actually all she said was Wow and she said that like ten times so yeah, I think she liked it.

That's how it all begun, Spiderwoman was born and Beca needed to divide her time better. She loved saving people and stopping crime but her social life went back. Stacie and Amy had switched rooms so now Stacie was always close, they became really best friends over time and were now in fact inseparable. Nobody really expected it to happen but nobody questioned it either.

The green goblin was the first real enemy Spidey had to face, it was tough but in the end she won, Beca had some serious injuries but Stacie took care of her and told everyone else she had a fever. They are a good team together.

Almost a year has passed and a lot has happened to the Bellas, Amy showed her pussy to the president which got them out of the national competition and made it so that they couldn't do auditions this year. Which basically means that after this year the Bellas would stop existing, Chloe is panicking and they came up with the worlds. So if they win the world championship of a cappella they are allowed to have their titles back, but one way or the other, the Bellas are over next year. Then this a cappella legacy came to them and they let her in the group, she can sing but she's really annoying sometimes. Together they did some more fucked up performances and made a fool of themselves in front of DSM, their main competitor. So the Bellas came to the conclusion that they lost their sound and Chloe found the perfect solution, a camp, so that's where they're going now. This is a terrible idea, Beca has so much stuff to do and now she's stuck here and she has to be honest, since the last camping trip she's not been a fan of them. she didn't bring her Spidey suit, Beca wanted to but Stacie convinced her to not take it. She also tried to get the small brunette excited, but that didn't work out. As if shit couldn't get any worse, Aubrey is the one that'll guide the Bellas to finding their sound again. Aubrey style, so a lot of shouting and useless group activities that are not challenging for Spidey, they still fail because Beca can't carry the whole team. It is to frustrating for her to know what she could be doing and what she is doing, this pisses her off to a whole new level and at one point she can't take it anymore.

"What are we doing here" her voice is already irritated

Chloe answers "we're finding our sound again"

"are we? Because to me this feel really useless, I got more important things to do!" they're full on shouting now

"what could be more important than this?!"

Stacie stands behind Beca "Beca here has been working on a record she can show to a legit music producer" Beca silently thanks Stacie for coming up with this bullshit story, she's still angry though so she finishes Stacie's statement "and god forbid that I actually have something going on outside this"

Chloe looks shocked "why didn't you tell us"

"because you're obsessed! You all are. I'm the only one thinking about life after the Bellas"

"this has been my family for 7 years" Chloe looks like she could start crying

"that's because you're too afraid to leave, sack up dude! Ya know what, you better start convincing me that this is not a complete waste of my time because I'm ready to walk out of here and never look back"

Chloe is silent for a sec "so now you just wanna leave" she's found her anger again

"we all have to eventually Chloe, might as well be now"

Stacie whispers in Beca's ear "I have a valid reason, leaving now means never seeing Chloe again and we both know you like her" Beca thinks about it for a bit

"you know what, you're right that is a valid reason. Okay, I'm good. Someone wants to shout at me for being a pig, now is your chance" Beca looks around, daring anyone to speak up. Amy does, of course

"you shouldn't fight, you're Beca and Chloe, together you're blowy. And everybody loves a good blowy" now as weird as that may sound, she's right. Beca and Chloe are a good team but right now they're not working together and that's messing up the whole group. That's exactly what Aubrey says she meant for it to be positive but neither Beca and Chloe take it that way

"so you're saying this is our fault?!" Beca is shouting again, Chloe turns to Beca

"I'm not the one keeping secrets" that's a nasty response

"Now it's my fault, why am I even surprised. It's always my fault when something goes wrong, then when we do something great we all helped but when it goes bad you all look for a person to blame and since Chloe is our captain but she always crashes, there's me left. Yes! Blame the girl with the thick eyeliner and the I don't give a fuck attitude, she can handle it." A single tear rolls down Beca's cheek, only Stacie knows about where all this is coming from, she knows about all the frustration and she knows what's going on in Beca's mind. The rest of the Bellas, including Aubrey are shocked. They did not see this coming, how could they, Beca never talked to them. She doesn't do feelings, they always thought she could take everything but it turns out she had to put a shield around them all the time and now it broke. These are Beca's friends, and they don't know half of the shit that's going on in her life. It's not like she can tell them that.

"is that really how you feel?" Chloe wipes the tear from Beca's cheek and pulls her in for a hug "I'm so sorry" they stand there for what feels like ages and then they finally let go, it felt so nice just to hold Chloe in her arms, Beca would give up everything for Chloe to be hers. (except maybe Spiderwoman)

When in doubt, hug it out. They talk about it and everything is good again, they seem to have found their sound.

A few weeks later they need to go to Copenhagen and it's hard for Spidey to leave her city, but it's all for a good cause because they need to win this thing. This is so important, they worked so hard on it, if this doesn't work out… Beca doesn't even want to think about it.

The Barden Bellas are the last act to perform and most of them are getting ready, Beca however is looking at the competition from the ceiling of the tent that is placed over the stage. She told Stacie where she was going but that was about it, not like she could tell the other girls 'oh yeah, I'm going to watch the other acts from above them by somehow being able to climb the wall and stick to it. Oh and I'm Spiderwoman' nah, not gonna happen. Beca has thought about sabotaging DSM's performance but it wouldn't be a fair win and even though the Bellas deserve the win, she doesn't want it to happen by cheating. So she crawls back down and goes back to where the Bellas are preparing,

"hey Becs, I got you something" Stacie comes walking to her, the small brunette looks surprised

"you know you didn't have to"

"oh shut up, you don't even know what it is yet" and she hands Beca a little black box, as she open it she sees earrings. In the shape of a spider web "I thought you might like them" she's smiling

"ohmygod Stacie, thank you so much" she hugs the taller girl, when she pulls back she looks at the ground shyly "I have nothing to give you though"

Stacie laughs "listen up you dwarf, you gave me your trust and your friendship and I'm grateful for that. now let's put in these new ear monstrosities" and so they do

Chloe had been watching the interaction from a distance and she couldn't help but feel jealous, she knows that they're only friends but she want to be the one that puts a smile on Beca's face. Stacy obviously knows something none of them know and it is bothering her, the redhead makes it her mission to find the small brunettes secrets. But for now she needs to put it aside, they have a trophy to win so distraction is not a option.

While they're singing on stage the small brunette is so happy for those few minutes, she forgets about Spiderwoman, she forgets about her family and she forgets about her ongoing crush on Chloe. Although that last thing snaps right back into her mind the second she looks into those bright blue orbs and is reminded of the fact that she has never seen anything prettier than that.

Now I see you questioning why, why doesn't Beca just tell her that she loves her. Multiple reasons, the first is that she's scared that Chloe doesn't like her back, so she chooses to just not fuck up their friendship and wait till the moment she finally gets over the redhead. The second reason is that if they got together it would be impossible to keep her being the spider, a secret. And she doesn't want Chloe to know that because she doesn't want to worry her, Stacie alone worries enough for 2 people so she makes sure that Spidey is always taken care off.

They win, they almost can't believe it but the won. They are now the best a cappella group in the world and nobody can take that away from them. This is also the year that most of the Bellas are graduating, only Legacy is left. Beca is going to do a 3 year study in photography in New York, this has always been a secret passion of hers and she want to pursue it. Stacie and her talked about it and decided to move in together, maybe they'd ask someone to move in with them but that would make things considerably harder. Stacie wants to do get a better degree in science and New York has a fine school, and she wanted to stay as close to her best friend as possible. Things after the worlds go fast, they all graduate and say goodbye to Emily (Legacy), the house, the Bellas and each other. The Bellas are spreading out all over the country, and Beca's dad helps them find and pay for a decent 3 bedroom apartment. He's just happy Beca made other career choices and got her college degree, so he is glad to help them out with the money. Beca doesn't say no.

"why did you never tell Chloe how you feel?" Stacie asks when they sit in their new place, taking a break from unpacking. "she was so obviously into you too"

"I know but she's in LA and we're in New York, I didn't want her to not follow her dreams because I'm here and I'm not moving away from this amazing city" Beca has enough on her mind, she feels. It's vacation and Beca spends her time either flying through the city as Spiderwoman, working out or texting Chloe. Beca used to hate working out but now that she actually has the abs and can do something she likes it. Beca often sat at the top of the World Trade centre, she was absolutely mesmerized by the view and from there she could sense everything that happened down on the streets. Spiderwoman doesn't kill, she just puts everyone behind bars. She's happy, sorta.

A year passes and guess who run into each other on the streets, well, again, sort of. Spiderwoman runs into a robbery and Chloe is there with a gun against her head. Spidey makes quick work of it and everyone is save, she really wants to talk to the redhead but as long as she's in her suit she knows she can't. they still text and call like they promised but it wasn't as often as it used to be and it wasn't as heartfelt as it used to be. Having to listen and being around the redhead only made Beca fall harder for her. Knowing she can never be with the woman she loves is killing her and Chloe would be the only reason Beca would ever put down the mask. But she leaves and goes back home, only to receive a call from Chloe moments later.

"hey Chlo"

"hi! Are you home?"

"yeah, why?"

"oh no reason, you sound weird, are you alright"

A deep breath is taken "I'm fine" it doesn't sound very convincing, and Beca knows Chloe doesn't believe her so she just gives up trying to hide everything, if she ever wants to be together with the redhead she needs to tell her the truth "no I'm not, but that's not something that can be helped right now so I'll talk to you later, bye Chlo" and she hangs up the phone, not wanting to spill such a big thing over the phone. Not even a second later the doorbell rings, knowing it's Chloe, Beca gets up and walks to the door. She's not fast enough apparently because now there's knocking on the door as well.

"Jesus, calm down" she shouts as she grabs her keys and unlocks the door, only to open it and see the gorgeous beautiful blue eyed redhead standing in front of it.

"Rebecca Mitchell, you did not just hang up on me!" then she sees the tears in Beca's eyes and quickly pulls her in for a hug "hey what's wrong?" she leads them to the couch and sits down with the smaller girl practically on her lap, neither of them mind though.

"I can't do this anymore, I can't lie to you anymore, I want you to know that I love you, I'm in love with you, have been for years now. but before you say anything I need you to know something else and this may sound very fucking stupid but I need you to keep an open mind and not expect me to be bat shit crazy." A pause right here "I'm Spiderwoman"

Throughout this whole speech Chloe has experienced more emotions than should be possible in that short amount of time, at first she was worried, then she was incredibly happy, then she was worried again and right now she's shocked. It's not that she doesn't believe Beca but this is all a lot to take in. she nudges Beca to tell her to keep explaining

"I was bitten by something when we were on that camping trip with the Bella's, all those years ago, when I fell down that hill remember? That's when the weird shit started happening, I grew stronger without ever going to the gym, I could walk up walls and shoot webs from my wrist. My reflexes were also a lot better, do you remember that day that you sat by me at our tree at Barden and the soccer ball went right for your head, I didn't see it, I felt it coming and my first instinct was to protect you. I started testing what I could do and that was the time that I was barely home at all, I didn't sleep, I'd have these crazy nightmares when I did so I'd rather not sleep at all. Until one weekend when all the Bella's were out of the house and I collapsed, I only woke up the next day and that's when Stacie got back. She ordered me some food and was there so I showed her my notebook, which was filled with drawings and ideas of what I wanted to do with my abilities. Together we made it happen and even though I never told you, I always wanted to. You're my best friend and my first real love so please don't be angry with me"

It takes a few moments for Chloe to say something, yes she's a bit hurt that the other girl hadn't trusted her with this big part of her life but she wasn't mad at her, she was ecstatic really. For the fact that Beca loves her and she's happy that the smaller girl tells her this now. she really doesn't know what to say so she says the first thing that comes to mind "I love you too" and slowly leans in to kiss Beca, who eagerly responds as if she's afraid Chloe will disappear. When the brake apart Chloe speaks up once more "I'm not mad, I'm not going anywhere and I'm most certainly not leaving you. We'll figure this out"

Beca nods, because she knows the redhead is right.