This one's kind of short. Life's been at me recently.

Chloe insists that Beca sleep while she drives on the way back to Barden. Beca tries to argue, but Chloe says that she's awake right now and will wake Beca when she starts to feel tired because she knows that Beca won't wake her, and would drive the entire way by herself if Chloe let her and that it would make Chloe feel better knowing Beca had slept when she decides to turn over the wheel. Beca eventually complies and Chloe smiles softly as she glances across the car at her sleeping girlfriend.

The drive back to Barden is longer than the drive from Ohio to New York, but Chloe doesn't mind. They'll drive straight through, and even with one of them sleeping, the company couldn't be better.

Chloe's been driving for three and a half hours listening to the same fifteen songs on the radio when she decides she doesn't want to listen to them anymore, for now anyway. She flips the radio off and starts humming quietly to herself. She stops for gas, and grabs some snacks and drinks for her and Beca. She's hungry and she's sure Beca will be when she wakes up.

Chloe's been driving for nearly six hours when she starts singing quietly.

"When the days are cold and the cards all fold and the saints we see are all made of gold; When you dreams all fail and the ones we hail are the worst of all and the bloods run stale. I wanna hide the truth, I wanna shelter you, but with the beast inside there's nowhere we can hide. No matter what we breed we still are made of greed. This is my kingdom come, this is my kingdom come."

Chloe smiles when she hears Beca's voice harmonize with hers. It's beautiful even still laced with sleep, it's one of Chloe's favorite things. It's made even more special by the fact that Beca almost never sings.

"When you feel my heat look into my eyes, it's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide. Don't get too close, it's dark inside. It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide."

Beca stops singing until the chorus comes up again, but it's still like magic in Chloe's ears. She's grinning ear to ear, and when at last the song ends, Chloe glances over at Beca who's looking at her, baring her soul, demons and all, through her stormy blue eyes.

Chloe can't let her eyes linger on Beca like she wants to, she needs to keep her eyes on the road, but she reaches her hand over and takes Beca's hand in her own, squeezing it lightly.

"So I was thinking," Beca says after a few minutes.

Chloe glances over at Beca a few times before Beca continues.

"I think you should go back to the Bellas," Beca says.

Chloe starts to protest, but Beca silences her. "You love to sing," Beca says. "And I know it'll be an issue with your nodes and all, but I'll make you tea and stuff. I know you miss them, and not just Aubrey, all of them. I know you miss being a Bella. And I think it'll do you good."

It's hard for Chloe to know how to react without being able to take a good look at Beca. The pitfalls of driving, she supposes. Her instincts and Beca's tone of voice tell her that Beca's completely serious. Chloe doesn't know what to say. Sure, everything Beca said is true. She does love to sing. The nodes are an issue. She does miss all the Bellas and being one of them. Could she really do it? She's only got the one more semester, she could probably bear that. And she's got Beca's support. She knows she wouldn't be able to go back without it. And she and Aubrey are on better terms now.

"I'll think about it," Chloe says. And she will, extensively.

"Jessica told me they made it to the semi-finals," Beca says.

Chloe lets it drop. She eyes the gas gauge. There's a little over a quarter of a tank left, and she's getting kind of tired. She can hold out until they need to stop for gas and then she'll hand the wheel over to Beca.

Chloe reaches into the back seat and grabs a bag of beef jerky she'd gotten the last time she stopped. She throws it at Beca.

"Oh my God, you're the best," Beca says as she tears into the bag. Beca literally stuffs her face with beef jerky and in a matter of minutes it's all gone.

"Thanks Chlo," Beca says. "I was starving."

Chloe chuckles. "I thought you would be," she says. "We'll get some real food when we stop."

When Chloe said 'real food' she hadn't meant McDonalds, but as soon as Beca had seen those golden arches, she started begging Chloe to go there. It didn't take very long for Chloe to cave.

As Beca devours her food, Chloe drives over to the gas station. It's huge and she finds herself glad that she didn't get anything at McDonalds because their made-to-order taco salad looks absolutely delicious. So she orders herself one of those and goes outside to pump the gas in the meantime.

Turns out the taco salad really is good. Chloe almost moans at the taste of it. She definitely didn't expect something this good from a gas station. As they pull back onto the highway, Chloe sees Beca eyeing it from the corner of her eye. Chloe feeds Beca a bite and loves the way Beca's eyes light up when she does. She continues eating her food, feeding Beca another bite every once in a while.

Chloe doesn't even remember falling asleep, so when she wakes up five hours later with her head on Beca's shoulder and Beca's arm around her, she's very confused. She's comfortable, even though it doesn't seem like she should be with the armrest and the awkward position her body has contorted herself into.

It must be some sort of sense that the two of them have, to know when the other one is awake, because almost instantly, Chloe feels Beca kiss her head and whisper, "Hey, sleepyhead."

Chloe doesn't fall back asleep. She probably could have, but she wants to stay awake with Beca. Plus Beca says they've only got like an hour left. Two tops.

When they finally do get home, they don't unpack anything. Beca even leaves her laptop and mixing equipment in the car. They go straight into the house and fall into bed, both asleep before their heads hit the pillow.

Chloe feels Beca squeezing her hand tightly. They've been home for three days, and today they are at Beca's new OBGYN, waiting for the woman to come in. At the recommendation of Chloe's brother, they had switched doctors to someone who was notoriously good, and Joseph had said that they would love her.

Chloe knows Beca is nervous. Beca worries that something is wrong, that she did something wrong which will negatively affect the baby. Chloe thinks they're going to be just fine, and she's really excited to learn the sex of the baby.

There's a knock on the door, and Beca grips Chloe's hand tighter. "Come in," Chloe says.

"Hi," a blonde woman says as she enters the room. "I'm Doctor Cohen, you must be Beca Mitchell."

Beca smiles at the woman and makes pleasantries. She introduces Chloe as her girlfriend, and Chloe makes pleasantries as well.

"So I see here, you were referred here by Dr. Beale," Dr. Cohen says. "Such a wonderful guy. Why didn't he work out?"

"He's not local," Chloe says. "We didn't want to make the trek to Connecticut for appointments."

Dr. Cohen nods. "Completely understandable," she says. "So do you know how far along you are?

"About four and a half months," Beca says.

Dr. Cohen does her thing, talking through everything she's doing with Chloe and Beca, explaining what everything means. Chloe's really happy with her and she thinks Beca is too.

"Would you like to know the sex?" Dr. Cohen asks.

"Yes, please," Beca says as Chloe nods along.

"Congratulations," Dr. Cohen says. "You're having a boy!"

Beca smiles and Chloe squeals. She's secretly been hoping that Beca would have a boy.

Beca asks for multiple copies of the ultrasound. "One for each of us," she says, "and one for the father as well."

Dr. Cohen is only too happy to oblige.

Chloe wakes up to Beca's phone ringing. She looks at the clock. It's three in the morning. She looks over to her girlfriend who is still fast asleep. She momentarily contemplates what to do. She could ignore the call and go back to sleep, she could wake Beca, or she could answer the phone for Beca. In the end she decides to answer the phone.

"Beca's phone," Chloe answers with a yawn.

"Chloe?"

"This is she, may I ask who's calling?"

"This is Lieutenant Mitchell, Beca's mom."

Chloe's wide awake now. "Oh hi," Chloe says. "It's good to hear from you, how are you?"

"I'm doing well," Lieutenant Mitchell says, "Staying out of trouble. How are you?"

"I'm great," Chloe says.

Beside her, Beca starts tossing and turning in her sleep, a sign Chloe has come to know as the beginnings of her nightmares.

"Let me just wake Beca for you," Chloe says.

"Oh Chloe," Lieutenant Mitchell says, "Thank you for the Christmas presents, it means so much to me."

"I'm glad I could do that for you," Chloe says.

Beca's starting thrashing violently and mumbling softly.

"Becs, honey," Chloe says softly, "Beca wake up."

It takes a minute, but as Chloe gently rouses Beca, her body stops jerking and her eyes flitter open.

"Thanks," Beca says. "I didn't mean to wake you again."

Chloe chuckles. "You didn't, but it wouldn't be a bother if you had," Chloe says. "Your mom's on the phone."

That's all it took for Beca to lunge for her phone. "Mom!" Beca says.

Beca looks apologetically at Chloe for the briefest of moments before turning into a huge grin as she talks to her mother. Chloe hears Beca telling her mom all about their Christmas, talking about the Christmas presents her mother left them, which they still haven't opened, telling her that she's having a grandson, talking excitedly about which classes she's taking this semester. Chloe just watches with a smile on her face because she loves seeing her girlfriend so happy, even if it is three in the morning. At least they're still on break, so they don't have to be anywhere in the morning.

The end of break is approaching way too quickly. Chloe has a number of assignments already assigned to be handed in on the first day of class. Beca is more fortunate, having absolutely nothing to do for her classes except get her textbooks.

There's only five days until classes start again, and Chloe decides today needs to be a relaxing day in which there is no thoughts of work or classes or anything stressful. Instead she starts planning an impromptu date to take Beca on.

Beca has been the one to plan dates thus far, and Chloe wants to change that.

Beca's currently testing out her new equipment Chloe got her for Christmas. Her headphones are on, her brow furrowed in concentration, completely oblivious to the world outside her music. Chloe thinks her passion for music is amazing.

Chloe leaves a note for Beca on top of Beca's phone, not wanting to interrupt her, and heads out to set things up for their date that Beca doesn't know about yet.

When Chloe comes back nearly three hours later, Beca's in the same position as she was when Chloe left. It doesn't look like Beca's even noticed Chloe left. Chloe picks up the note she left for Beca and tosses it in the trash. Chloe walks in front of Beca, being careful not to scare her. When Beca sees Chloe, she saves her file and removes her headphones.

"Hey," Beca says, smiling at Chloe.

"Hey," Chloe chuckles. "You get lost in there, don't you?"

Beca smiles sheepishly. "Yeah, sometimes," she says.

"Well go on and get dressed," Chloe says. "We're going out today."

"Where?" Beca asks.

"It's a surprise."

Chloe brings Beca to the Barden University Library, which in and of itself isn't really a big deal, but Chloe revels in the small gasp that Beca lets out when Chloe leads her to the roof (which they're not supposed to be on) and Beca sees what Chloe has set up.

Chloe's got an old boombox playing a CD that she'd gotten earlier that morning. It was a whole lot of shopping trying to find good music that Beca hasn't heard yet (quite the project if you ask her). She ended up finding this CD at a small little music shop on the edge of town called Records of Life. The owner, Tuck, had watched Chloe walk around frowning at CDs for almost an hour before he asked her if she needed help finding something. She told him about Beca and how she was almost a musical prodigy and she wanted to get her something awesome that she hasn't heard yet. Tuck smiled at her and went around and grabbed about ten different CDs, it only took him a minute. Chloe bought them all. The one currently playing is called 'Nights Are Only Days In Disguise' by 'Can You Hear Me Now'

Chloe had managed to sneak two lawn chairs up and had them set up on a blanket, with small wooden tables on either side, both covered with a tablecloth and all Beca's favorite foods.

Beca pulls Chloe close to her and kisses her gently. "You're too good to me," she says.

"What is this song?" Beca says as she sits down in one of the lawn chairs and pops a red grape into her mouth.

Chloe looks at the track number on the boombox and finds the corresponding number on the CD case.

"Blind to Bleeding (Out of my Head)" Chloe answers.

"It's good," Beca comments.

"That's what Tuck said," Chloe responds.

"Who's Tuck?"

"The guy who sold me the CD," Chloe says.

Beca nods and grabs a pickle.

They've been sitting and eating and talking and just enjoying each other. There's only a couple more tracks left on the CD and the one that's coming on is much slower than the rest of them. Beca notices this too and stands up, offering her arm to Chloe. Chloe takes Beca's hand and Beca pulls her close and starts swaying them to the music.

Chloe's pleased with how soft Beca's become with her. She still has her devil may care attitude with the rest of the world, but with Chloe, Beca's just Beca and Chloe loves that.

What do you think?

On another note: I've got another story going around in my head and I don't normally do this, but since I could make it work for any of these options what do you think: Mitchsen, Bechloe, or Triple Treble?