"Luke, Jesse it was Luke."
For the past two months Beca's life has consisted of two things; drinking her pain away and finding out where Luke was. It seems she is only succeeding in one, and not the one we all hope. It was another lonely night for Beca, she again was sitting on the balcony with a bottle, this time Tequila.
2 months, 1 week, 4 days, 6 hours, and 43 minutes.
That's how long Beca has been utterly lost. That's how long it has been since she got the call from Chloe saying she was leaving. Every second her mind has been on that bubbly redhead. Each of the 4,838,400 of them.
I can't believe she left. I can't believe she hasn't called.
Suddenly Beca gets pulled from her thoughts when he hears her phone ringing. Hoping its the one person she really needs right now Beca rushes towards the table. Her face falls when she sees a local number on her caller id.
"Hello?"
"Hi, is this Beca Mitchell?"
"Yes, and this is?"
"It's James Montgomery, the private detective you have hired."
"Oh. Great so you have information?" Beca asks hopefully.
"I do. I have an address for you. 122 West 38th Street."
"Thank you, is that it?"
"That's it. I got your last payment yesterday.I hope this helps you."
"Me too."Beca sighs, "Me too."
With that the call ended and Beca immediately went back to the took a few swigs before calling Jesse to follow up the plan.
Within 30 minutes Beca has dressed and drank a bit more and was now in a taxi on her way to pick up Jesse from the cafe down the street from his house.
Once Jesse gets in the car he turns to his best friend and is hit with the smell of alcohol.
"Beccs are you okay?"
"Yeah Jesse I am fine. I got an address for Luke's and I will make him pay for what he did to Chloe."
"I don't think this is a good idea, you have been drinking and you aren't thinking straight Beccs." Jesse concerns.
"I am fine Jesse! He raped Chloe, he took advantage of me in college and no he raped my wife, I will not let him get away with this!"
Jesse can see the fire in her eyes and he knows something bad is going to come from this. "So where exactly are we going?"
"122 West 38th Street."
With that Jesse texts Aubrey " Hey, something bad is going to happen, call 911 and send them to 122 West 38th Street. Don't ask questions I will tell you everything later babe. I love you!XX"
Once the car pulls up and the two get out Beca goes to the door and begins ringing in to all the apartments. Finally after five tries someone lets her in. She was on a mission and ran to the stairs. Just before heading up she calls back to Jesse, "Just wait here, I will be fine. If i don't come down in 20 minutes then come up, but no earlier."
Jesse didn't like this but he knew he couldn't do anything to stop her.
After running up 3 flights of stairs Beca gets to the floor she wants. She walks down the hall waiting outside of the door marked 359. She lifts her hand to knock on the door when she decides against it. Instead she decides to try the doorknob. She quietly tries and lets out a sigh of relief when she hears the click. No noise has ever sounded so sweet. She slowly opens the door trying to make as little noise as possible. She is is the entryway when she hears the television on in the back room. She begins to head towards the noise when suddenly she feels a pain in her side. She instantly sucks in her breath at the stinging in her gut.
"Well, well, well. That took longer than I thought Becky. I figured you would have been smart enough to put two and two together last month. But then again you do like to throw yourself in the bottle when things don't go your way." That voice she once enjoyed it now, that was before everything that happened freshman year, now it brought so many nightmares and so much anger with it.
"Why would you do this?" Beca says as she tries to get up. She is quickly kicked back down as Luke presses his foot down on the bleeding wound in her side.
"Why? WHY? I will tell you why. Because you were mine, We were supposed to be together."
"Luke, I am gay. There is no way in hell I would have gotten together with you."
Luke didn't like that answer he instantly kicked Beca in the gut, hard. This action is the one that finally brought the tears out of Beca's eyes.
"Luke but why did you hurt her? Why not just take me? And why now,why would you do this when I am finally happy." Beca says crying.
Luke doesn't answer, instead he picks her up by her hair and pushes her into the giant chair. She tries to fight which doesn't sit well with Luke. He take the knife he used in her side and sticks it up to her throat. "Try anything and I will end I will fly down to St. Cloud and pay a little redhead a visit. Got it?"
"Mhmm" Beca chokes out.
"Now as I was saying, I was there that night in the park. The night you proposed to that slut." He spits out.
"For the longest time I thought she didn't deserve you. She never really loved you, not like I did. That night in the shower she was there with a man. I know I heard. She could never give you what I can." Luke was now crying as he claimed his love for Beca. "I heard what you said, you said you loved our baby, no matter how it came to be you loved our baby. You loved our baby and I loved you. I always thought she was a slut and never cared for you. But that night changed my thoughts, I realised it was the other way around. I mean you let our baby die!" Shouted Luke with such disgust and hurt.
"It wasn't that she didn't deserve you, you didn't deserve her. So I decided to take her away from you like you took our baby away from me."
"I didn't hurt our baby Luke, you did, you brought those men and you let them do those things to me." Cried Beca she instantly shut her mouth when she felt a sharp pain under her chin.
It felt like hours since she had been up there but it couldn't have been since Jesse hasn't been up yet. Luke began yelling again but Beca didn't pay any attention she was crying afraid of what was going to happen next. Her breathing began to slow but Luke didn't notice. he continued to scream at Beca about how worthless she was and how she didn't deserve to have anyone to love her, and how he showed Chloe and that is why she left. All the things he was saying began mixing with her emotions and her drunken mind, and she started to believe them.
It wasn't long before Beca was hating herself as much as Luke did and soon she let his word drown out and finally she sucummed to the blackness.
…
It had been twenty minutes and Beca hasn't come down yet and Jesse was getting worried. Just as he begins toward the stairs a cop car and ambulance pull up. Detective Wilcox comes rushing in and is instantly meet with Jesse's familiar face.
"What's going on here?"
"Beca knew the guy in the picture you showed her a few months back. She didn't recognize him at first but then it hit her. His name is Luke henson he used to go to school with us. He took advantage of Beca our freshman year. When she remembered she called me and I had my fiance call you. She went to talk to him but she said if she wasn't down in twenty minutes to come up and help her. It has been 23 minutes."
"Okay. you stay here I will send up help."
"NO. She is my best friend I am not going to let her get hurt. Her wife left two months ago and hasn't called she is already alone, I won't let her be alone any longer." And with that Jesse ran upstairs with the paramedics.
He never expected to see what he did. Beca's body on the chair barely breathing and Luke nowhere to be seen.
"Beca, come on Beccs, wake up!" cried Jesse as he ran toward his best friend. He was so concerned with Beca that he didn't hear or see luke coming around the corner with the same knife he used on Beca.
Luke lunged forward and the knife sliced through Jesse's arm hitting the bone.
"Ahhhhh!" Jesse screamed in pain that was soon forgotten when he realised what happened. He immediately tackled Luke knocking the knife out of his hands as they wrestled around Luke managed to get ahold of the knife once more. He tries to push his way towards Jesse but he is too slow. Jesse sees him coming this time and quickly grabs Luke's hand, not before the knife enters his stomach though. Stumbling back Jesse begins to cough,Luke figures Jesse won't expect this attack, but he is wrong. Jesse grabs Luke's hand once more and turns his wrist just as Luke runs forward, the knife entering his chest.
…
Bright lights are what meet Beca when she finally wakes up. She looks around as her eyes adjust, realising she is in a hospital, Beca begins to recount the last memories she has before her blackout.
"Hey there shorty!"
"Hi"
"How are you?"
"I'm okay, Amy. What happened?"
"Umm, I am not sure exactly. Bree just went to get some coffee and to check on Jesse's surgery b-"
"What, what happened to Jesse is he okay. God I can't believe it. This is all my fault." Cried Beca.
"No, no no no. Jesse is fine, Luke went after him and got him in the stomach, but nothing major, just stitches. He also got him in the arm, that is why he is in surgery the blade hit bone and broke something, they are just setting it back up." Amy hurries out in hopes to calm her short little friend.
"What about Luke, is he in custody?"
"Not exactly."
"What do you me-" Beca is cut off when the door opens and Aubrey rushes in once seeing Beca is awake. She runs toward the small brunette and engulfs her in a hug. The smaller woman instantly winces in pain as she moves.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."
"It's okay Bree, I just moved to fast. Now what happened to Luke, Amy said he wasn't in custody?"
"I didn't say that exactly"Amy interjects.
"No he isn't, there was a fight when the paramedics and Jesse got there and… well" Aubrey sighs not knowing how to say this "He's gone Beca. Jesse fought him for the knife and it ended up in his chest. He didn't even make it the way to the hospital."
With that response Beca begins crying.
Crying for relief and happiness that her nightmare is finally over. She is crying for everything he did to her and her family. She cries for what will happen to Jesse now that Luke is dead, and what that will do to Aubrey, but most importantly she cries for everything he did to Chloe.
"Chloe." Beca remembers. "Did anyone call her?"
"No. We figured you would want to do that."
"Yeah, I think I will d-"
Again Beca is interrupted by the door opening. This time is is her doctor telling her of her condition and updating them on Jesse's. Once the doctor leaves Amy stands up, "I really wish i could stay but I have to get to work. I will see you tomorrow, okay?"
"Yeah, tomorrow." Beca says sadly, her mind on her wife.
"Well I am gonna go check on Jesse now that he is awake."Just as Aubrey was leaving she turned to Beca "This may be a good time to call your wife." And with that Beca was alone, she hated being alone.
After what seems like hours of waiting Beca finally picks up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Chloe, it's me baby." Beca says roughly due to the cut on her throat.
"Beca? Why do you sound weird?"
"Something has happened. It was Luke."
"What do you mean?"
"It was Luke, he was the one that hurt you. He did it to hurt me for killing our baby." Beca cries.
"What?" Chloe chokes back a sob.
"I went to see him last night. He-"
"What why wouldn't you call the cops?"
"I couldn't I needed to do this. He, he hurt me."
"Oh God, he, did he-"
"No not like that, he stabbed me." Beca could hear Chloe crying now. "and he hurt Jesse."
Beca couldn't stand the sound of Chloe crying, "It's okay though, he's dead Chloe. That monster is dead. You can come home now." Beca rushes out in attempts to calm Chloe.
"No."
"What do you mean no?'"
"I can't come home."
"What, Chloe I am in the hospital and Jesse just got out of surgery why can't you come."
"I can't."
"Quit saying that. Quit saying you can't Chlo." Beca yells getting frustrated. "It's not that you can't its that you won't. You have been gone for two months. God I am so fucking stupid, I should have figured you aren't coming back are you?"
"Beca, I just I can't"
"You know what Chloe, you keep saying you can't but you won't tell me why. Just say it Chloe just say it." shouted Beca crying.
"I can't face you, I can't face yo-" with that Beca hung up and cried herself to sleep wishing Chloe never showed up at her room all those years ago.
…
"I can't face you, I can't face you to tell you that our baby is dead because of me." Chloe shouts into the phone not knowing Beca had hung up.
…
It had been a week since Beca and Jesse were released from the hospital. No charges were filed since it was self defense. Aubrey and Jesse offered to let Beca stay with them for a while until she healed but she didn't want to be around anyone so she declined.
If you were to enter her apartment you would find her shitfaced drunk and passed out on the couch.
Beca jumps awake at the sound of her phone ringing, she looks at the screen and recognises the number, but in her drunken stupor she isn't sure where from.
"Hello?"
"Hi Beca Mitchell it's Dr. Addison Montgomery from the IVF clinic, I tried getting ahold of Chloe to confirm the 12 week ultrasound you guys had scheduled for tomorrow."
"What? She was pregnant?"
"Yes, I'm sorry I thought she told you already, she came in to have it confirmed about 10 weeks ago. She was going to tell you that night."
Beca counts back the weeks and it suddenly dawns on her.
"Hello Beca are you there?"
"Um, yeah, Chloe is actually out of town right now so we have to cancel the appointment. Sorry."
With that Beca hangs up before getting a response and heads out the door.
…
Not expecting anyone Chloe gets up from reading and heads to answer the door. She is surprised at the face she finds on the other side of the red door.
"Jesse?" is all she can say before she sees his eyes wandering down to the book in her hand, What to Expect When You're Expecting.
A/N DUN DUN DUN! I know there isn't a lot of Chloe in this chapter sorry bout that but y'know. Anyways, like I have said before I am not a writer, so I don't know how well the fight scene and what not went. Please let me know what you think. Reviews make me happy :)
~BOO~
