DISCLAIMER: "Pitch Perfect" and "Pitch Perfect 2" are the property of Golden Circle Films. The author of this fan fiction does not profit, in any way, from the story and that all creative rights to the characters and titles belong to their original creator(s).

AUTHOR'S NOTES: More "Pitch Perfect" goodness for my girlfriend. After finding several errors (which I corrected) in the first chapter, I made the decision all future chapters need to go through my beta before posting. So no more "surprise" chapters for her.

Fighting for Love

During the remainder of the school day, Amy wondered if this town was out of her league. She considered asking her father to find a different town for her training. All day, she was torn. She really liked Beca and Chloe, but after seeing Beca's skill level, she knew she had a LONG way to catch up. She was preoccupied with her self-doubts while she made her way down the hall towards her locker.

"Amy?"

Amy continued walking, mumbling to herself.

"Amy!"

Amy looked up into concerned smiling eyes.

"Chloe."

"Are you okay?"

Amy nodded her head and looked at the girl standing next to Chloe. She half-expected to see Beca, but to her surprise, it was the "stick in the mud" blonde.

"How are you enjoying Bella High School?" Aubrey asked.

"If her voice had any more sugar, I'd have cavities," Amy thought and chuckled.

"Something amusing…?" Aubrey asked, this time with an edge to her voice.

"Nope," Amy lied.

"I hope you like Bella High School, because it's the best!" Chloe chimed in.

Amy and Aubrey turned and stared at Chloe.

"What? I think it is," Chloe huffed.

"Aubrey, I understand you have a powerful secret weapon," Amy inquired.

Aubrey glared at Chloe. The redhead just sheepishly smiled.

"And who told you about it?" Aubrey demanded.

Before Amy could answer, Chloe piped in, "I did."

Amy shot Chloe an incredulous look, which Aubrey caught.

"It was that damn Beca Mitchell, wasn't it?" Aubrey growled.

Chloe smiled and started backing away. Aubrey swiftly grabbed her arm and held her in place.

"Answer me," Aubrey menacingly stated.

As Aubrey stared down Chloe for an answer, Beca rounded the corner and started walking up behind the group. She silently asked Amy what was going on between her two friends. Amy shrugged, but covertly motioned for Beca to back away. She was just about to make a clean escape when Aubrey's "Beca-sense" went off and she immediately looked towards the girl slowly backing away.

"Beca Mitchell, you get over here right now!" Aubrey commanded.

Beca was doing a stellar impression of a deer caught in headlights, but Amy could see the conflict in Beca's eyes. At that precise moment, Amy knew why her father brought her to this town.

"I GOT IT!" Amy exclaimed and grabbed Chloe's hands.

A joyous Amy pulled a surprised Chloe into an impromptu bouncing dance. This distracted Aubrey enough for Beca to make her escape.

"Amy? What did you get?" Chloe yelled.

Amy stopped abruptly and answered Chloe, "Now I know why my father brought me to this town! This town amps up my natural ability to read between the lines!"

"Oh," Chloe smiled, truly happy for her new friend.

Beca spent the remainder of the school day avoiding Aubrey. Unfortunately, this also meant avoiding her best friend Chloe, because since becoming the Student Council Vice-President, she and Aubrey had become inseparable at school.

After Beca got home from school, she immediately texted Chloe to see if the redhead was home yet, since mobile phones were not allowed on campus. Sometimes she wished she had the natural telepathy ability her sworn enemies had. While she waited for Chloe's response, she re-read tonight's patrol schedule. As soon as she received the response text from Chloe, she grabbed an apple from the fruit basket on the kitchen counter and headed next door.

Beca was poised to ring the doorbell, when the front door burst open and Chloe stood in the doorway with a very bright grin on her face. Beca thought her friend looked like the cat that ate the canary.

"What's with…?" Beca motioned to Chloe's face.

"Come see what my dad installed," Chloe gushed and pulled Beca behind her.

Beca stood staring open-mouthed at the state-of-the-art video surveillance system taking up an entire wall in the den.

"Now we can monitor trouble spots and with these…," Chloe handed Beca a small video camera, "…dad can see everything we do on patrols," Chloe beamed with pride.

Beca stared at the small video camera in her hand. She was not too sure she wanted any of her elders watching what she does on patrols, especially since some situations required her to break more than a few rules. Seeing Beca's apprehension immediately deflated Chloe's enthusiasm.

"Chloe, these are great, but you know…," Beca let her inflection finish her sentence.

"Well, you're just going to have to start towing the line," Chloe stated, channeling Aubrey.

"Shit, you've been hanging around Aubrey too much," Beca grumbled.

Chloe smugly smiled.

Beca swiftly wiped Chloe's self-satisfied look off the redhead's face by doing something completely out of character. She turned the tables on Chloe and deliberately invaded her friend's personal space.

In her best seductive voice, Beca asked, "Do you remember what I caught you and Tom doing in the woods that moonlit night while I was on patrol?"

Chloe's ashen face answered Beca's question. She quickly found her shoes rather interesting. Beca's victory was short-lived when she saw tears falling on Chloe's shoes.

"Chloe? I'm sorry," Beca wrapped her arms around her friend.

"Beca, I told you exactly what happened that night, so why did you bring it up?" Chloe sniffled.

At that precise moment, Beca wanted to find the nearest pit and crawl in it. The memory of that night surged back and made Beca shudder.

"Chloe! What the hell are you doing?" Beca angrily asked, "Especially in these woods!"

Chloe suddenly stopped what she was doing and looked up at her extremely angry best friend.

"Beca…? What?" Chloe disjointedly asked.

Beca instantly knew something was wrong with her best friend and pulled Chloe to her feet. She reached in her pocket, pulled out a tissue, and wiped Chloe's mouth. Beca was seething and seriously wanted to hurt Chloe's boyfriend, who was sitting on the ground with his pants around his ankles, but she needed to get Chloe to safety first. After she got Chloe home and was certain her best friend was okay, she went looking for Tom, because he had some explaining to do.

She figured he would not still be in the woods, but she checked anyway, in case she overestimated his common sense. Every single citizen in Bella knew to stay out of the woods at night. Beca ended her patrol early, so she could search for Tom. She finally found him back at the fraternity. When he and his fraternity brothers saw Beca, the fear in the room was palatable.

"Tom, we need to talk…NOW!" Beca growled.

Every single fraternity brother ran out of the room like rats from a sinking ship. Beca grabbed Tom by the front of his shirt and dragged him outside. Tom was a well-built young man, but he did not stand a chance against Beca and instantly went limp.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Beca demanded, "Doing that in the woods…AT NIGHT…with Chloe?"

Tom remained silent, because he knew if he told Beca he slipped Chloe a "Roofie" in order to win a fraternity bet, the beating would be a whole lot worse.

"I swear if this was some stupid frat stunt, I'm going to beat you within an inch of your life!" Beca threatened.

Tom did everything in his power to keep his face neutral, but Beca saw right through it.

"FUCK! You endangered my best friend for a stupid frat stunt?" Beca yelled.

The next day, Chloe, who thankfully did not remember the events in the woods, went to visit Tom in the Intensive Care Unit. Unfortunately for Chloe, Tom decided to unburden his guilt and confessed everything to his now ex-girlfriend. After running out of the hospital crying, Chloe found Beca and repeated everything Tom told her.

Later that night, reports of a combative person, followed by an emergency appendage retrieval lit up the hospital, keeping both the hospital staff and local police extremely busy all night.

Beca held her best friend in her arms and murmured apologies. They stayed like this until the sound of throat clearing interrupted them.

"Mr. Beale," Beca smiled.

"Beca," Mr. Beale cautiously replied.

Chloe looked up at her father and smiled. When her father saw his daughter's red puffy eyes, he voiced his concern, "Chloe, is everything alright?"

She wiped her eyes and put on her smiling brave face, "Yes! I was showing Beca the new system."

Mr. Beale was quite familiar with that face and did not want to open old wounds, so he pressed forward, "What do you think Beca?"

"It's awesome Mr. Beale, but will they show up on video?" Beca asked.

"Good question Beca. We shall find out tonight," Mr. Beale smiled.

That night, Beca and Chloe sported new body cams on their body armor as they patrolled. Somewhere in the middle of their patrol, they began arguing about an incident that happened at school, earlier that day.

"Beca! It wasn't like that!" Chloe argued.

"Well, it sure looked like it when I walked into the Student Council Room!" Beca countered.

"This is not the time or place to be having this argument," Chloe said.

"Fine, I'm out of here," Beca stormed off alone.

They both knew the strict rule about staying in pairs while on patrol, but their emotions and pride bested their common sense.

Beca strode into the woods with purpose, mumbling to herself. She was angry and hurt. Chloe's denials flummoxed her. When she entered the Student Council Room, Aubrey had Chloe pinned against a wall, leaning in for a kiss. Beca stopped walking and shook her head.

"Why? What on earth was she thinking?" Beca asked herself.

"I don't know. What do you think she was thinking?"

Beca looked up into deep blue eyes…deep blue evil eyes.

"SHIT!" Beca yelled and took off running.

Beca ran as fast as she could, but deep down, she knew she could never outrun this enemy. She decided to stand and fight. If she was going to die tonight, she was going to die fighting. Judging by the sound behind her, the enemy was close on her heels, so she would not have a lot of time to attack. As she ran, she pulled one of the two modified Sais from her belt. She suddenly stopped and spun around, thrusting it out in front of her. When she felt the Sai drive home, she knew luck was on her side tonight. The impact knocked her on her backside and she felt something hit her face. She did not know how long she sat there before Chloe found her.

"BECA!" Chloe fell to her knees next to her best friend, "Are you okay?"

Beca nodded, still in shock.

"Don't ever storm off like that again!"

Chloe finally noticed Beca's stunned demeanor and then saw the enemy remains on the ground.

"BECA! Did you get…"

Beca shook her head.

"Thank goodness," Chloe threw her arms around Beca and kissed her best friend on the lips.

Beca's eyes grew to the size of saucers. When Chloe saw Beca's shocked reaction, she immediately pulled away.

"Beca, I'm sorry. I was just so happy you weren't hurt."

Beca did not say anything. The walk back to the command post was tensely quiet. They checked out early for the evening, citing they needed to "see the doctor." Whenever a patrolling team stated they needed to "see the doctor," everyone knew it meant one or both team members physically engaged the enemy.