"Man! The old Bellas was hot!" Cynthia Rose said as she looked at the pictures from the old Bellas with Fat Amy and Beca.

"Well, they kept it tight." Fat Amy said.

Beca stared at the pictures and thought well, Cynthia Rose wasn't all wrong, but she thought the Bellas would be a lot more attractive if they lost that flight attendant costume. A picture did catch her attention, though. It was one of the Bellas from last year, maybe. Aubrey and Chloe were standing side to side and the redhead looked so happy, her smile was wide and her eyes sparkled.

"Okay, I want sopranos in the front and altos in the back!" Aubrey snapped Beca out of her thoughts and the brunette followed the girls to take their seats.

Beca disagreed with many rules there, but nothing major, she could live with it. Until Aubrey said they needed to do cardio.

"Why cardio?" she asked.

"You should be able to sing and dance at the same time, without cardio, you won't." Aubrey said.

Beca wanted to protest, but she shut her mouth and Aubrey saw that and she was grateful.

For the first rehearsal, Beca thought Aubrey was asking for too much. The girls were running up and down the stairs, doing laps as Aubrey yelled at them to move. Beca started feeling dizzy towards the end of it and she stopped, resting her hands on her knees, feeling a headache coming and her breath became uneven.

"Beca, why did you stop?" Aubrey asked.

"I… I have to." Beca said.

"Well, I didn't ask you to stop, so please continue." Aubrey said.

"I can't, Aubrey." Beca said, looking up at the captain.

"Sure you can."

"Want to see me go to the hospital, go ahead." Beca said, standing up straight. The girls all stopped to pay attention to the argument.

"Don't be so dramatic. Just give me a sensible reason why you can't and I'll let you rest." Aubrey said.

Beca stared at Aubrey as she breathed heavily, wanting her breath to become even again and her vision to focus again. She shut her eyes tightly and sat down, the girls coming near her.

"Beca, spit, what's going on with you?" Aubrey asked.

"I have low blood pressure." Beca said. "I don't do too much exercise because, if I do, my pressure can lower and I can pass out. I'm already seeing spots here and… I'm out of breath. So I think that's a sensible reason why I should stop and rest."

Aubrey wanted to yell at her, she didn't like her attitude. But she knew the girl was telling the truth, she could see it in her. So she just groaned and walked away.

Beca rolled her eyes and then closed them, putting one hand over her eyes and she felt someone sit beside her and she opened her eyes to see Chloe there.

"Here, drink the water. I also brought you some candy bars. If you want, I can bring some salt so you can put it under your tongue?" she offered.

"No, thanks Chloe, that won't be necessary." Beca said as she sipped the water and looked at the candy bars. "What, you think I'd eat a dinosaur?"

"Well, I don't know how well you ate before you came here." Chloe shrugged.

"Alright, Chloe, I need you here!" Aubrey said.

Chloe nodded at the blonde and turned to Beca.

"Take some rest here until you feel you're back to normal. Don't overdo it." Chloe winked and went back to Aubrey's side.

Beca almost smiled at Chloe's words, but she held it back. She didn't want to open herself too much.

oO0Oo

By the end of practice, Beca grabbed her bag and a sheet of paper Chloe handed everyone about their performance at the Sigma Beta Theta frat house the following week. She was almost reaching her bag when Aubrey called her.

"What's up?" she asked as she came closer to the girl.

"You know you'll have to take those ear monstrosities out for the fall mixer."

Beca smirked.

"You really don't like me, do you?"

"I don't like your attitude." Aubrey said.

"You don't even know me." Beca said.

"I know you have a toner for Jesse."

Beca almost laughed in her face.

"A what?"

"A toner. A musical boner. I saw it, at hood night, it's distracting."

"Okay, that's not a thing and you're not the boss of me, so." Beca shot back at her.

"You took an oath." Aubrey reminded her.

"That oath cost you two girls already today, I'm pretty sure you need me more than I need you!" Beca said and Aubrey didn't have a comeback so she turned around and went over to where her bag was.

"I can see your toner through those jeans!" Aubrey said.

"That's my dick!" Beca said before walking out, smirking to herself at Aubrey's shocked expression.

Aubrey looked at Beca as she left and glared at the back of her head.

"You shouldn't have been so hard on her." Chloe said.

"Me? The girl had something to add to everything I said!" Aubrey said. "That girl is trouble and she is not Bella material."

"Aubrey, calm down. I can see Beca is stubborn, but she's a good singer and you can't have her quit now, we need those girls." Chloe said. "Could you please try to keep it inside?"

Aubrey let out a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"Everything okay?" Chloe asked as Aubrey didn't speak.

"We better have our shit together for SBT." Aubrey said.

"I'm not worried, I think we're going to be a-ca-awesome." Chloe said.

Aubrey gave her a look, already used to Chloe's unusual optimism.

oO0Oo

Beca was working on her mixes again in her bedroom, happy to have the room to herself since Kimmy Jin was out. She didn't care where the Asian was, she was alone and she was happy about that.

Her father decided now would be a good time to end her happiness, because he chose this moment to show up, without knocking.

"Hey." He said and went on, since he knew she wouldn't say 'hey' back. She didn't when she was working on a mix. "How did it go at the doctor?"

"Everything's the same." Beca said without looking up.

"That's good, then, right?" Dr. Mitchell asked.

"I guess." Beca said.

"Beca, why do you act like you don't care?" he asked her and finally made her stop what she was doing and look up at him.

"I do care." Beca said.

"It doesn't seem like that to me."

"If I acted on my emotions, I'd be curled up in my bed feeling sorry for myself." Beca said.

"That's not true, Bec. And not acting on your emotions is not healthy."

"You're not my therapist and it works for me." Beca shrugged. "Now can you leave?"

Dr. Mitchell frowned at her.

"Why are you so angry? Is everything truly okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, everything's fine, I just… I joined the Bellas and the captain's a real uptight bitch. My blood pressure lowered during cardio and she gave me a hard time." Beca said.

"You talked to Dr. Storo about this?"

"Yeah, she said I should be more careful next time, eat properly before rehearsal and don't exercise as much. I'm sure Ms. I-have-a-stick-up-my-ass won't let me rest." Beca said.

"You should tell her, Beca." Dr. Mitchell said. "She might be uptight, but I'm sure she'll understand."

"I don't think so." Beca said. "And telling people is out of the question, dad."

Dr. Mitchell sighed.

"I see." He nodded. "Have you talked to your mom yet?"

"Yeah." Beca sighed. "Now dad can you please go, I'm tired. And don't ask if I told this to Dr. Storo, I did and she said it's normal."

"Okay then." Dr. Mitchell said. "Please, remember to eat."

"I will, I'm not anorexic, dad." Beca rolled her eyes.

"Well. You have your pills for your migraine?"

"Yeah, they're next to the computer on the desk." Beca said and Dr. Mitchell smiled when he saw two boxes of the medication there.

"Okay, I'm gonna go then." Dr. Mitchell nodded.

Beca gave him a short smile and he left. She then put her laptop on the desk and lied down, happy to take some rest.

oO0Oo

Beca woke up by someone poking her waist and she groaned, sitting up.

"Dad, what do you want now?" she rubbed her eyes and saw Chloe and Fat Amy there. "Chloe? Fat Amy? What the heck are you two doing here?" she asked. She knew they didn't have the key and the only person who came in without knocking was Dr. Mitchell.

"Your roommate let us in." Chloe said, pointing Kimmy Jin behind her.

"We were worried about you, Pocket Size. We wanted to come and see if you wanted to go out with us for dinner?" Fat Amy asked.

Beca eyed them carefully.

"What's the catch?"

"No catch." Chloe said.

"We don't want our hobbit to faint next time on rehearsals so we came here to take you out to make sure you had a proper dinner." Fat Amy said.

"If my dad told you guys to monitor me you can tell him I don't need a babysitter." Beca said.

"You look like you do need one, though, Pocket Size." Fat Amy said.

"Your dad didn't send us." Chloe said. "He doesn't even know us, we came on our own. We don't want you to feel like we're babysitting you, we just want to take you out. We'll understand if you don't want to."

Beca eyed them and, for the first time, she shrugged her shoulders and decided she'd go, instead of listening to the voice inside her head that told her not to do. Maybe this would be good.

"Okay, I'll go. But you have to stop those Pin Size jokes." Beca pointed at Fat Amy.

"Actually, it's Pocket Size, but that's good too!" Fat Amy said and Beca rolled her eyes while Chloe laughed.

"Alright, let's go." Chloe said.

Beca grabbed her phone and followed the two out of the dorm.

"What are we eating?" Beca asked.

"We haven't landed on a definite answer. We were thinking about either Chinese or Italian. I know a place that has some killer lasagna, pasta and they have pizza." Chloe said.

"Ooh, I'm in the mood for Italian!" Beca said, suddenly realizing how hungry she was.

"Me too. Back in Tasmania my friends and I went to this Italian restaurant and we had a contest to see who ate the most. I almost always won." Fat Amy said.

"Didn't you guys throw up afterwards?" Beca asked.

"All over the street. But it was worth it." Fat Amy said.

Beca and Chloe laughed as they made their way to the restaurant. It looked pretty good, there were many people inside. They took a seat in a booth in the back and looked at the menu.

"Everything in here looks delicious. I think I want a pizza." Beca voiced her thoughts.

"You said you were in the mood for pasta." Chloe pointed out.

"Oh yeah, I'll eat pasta." Beca said. "Don't notice, I eat like an elephant."

"Welcome to the club, Pocket Size." Fat Amy said, looking at her own menu.

They ordered lasagna, a pizza and Fat Amy and Beca ordered pasta with red sauce. Chloe was impressed by how much the two girls ate, each ate half of the pizza, which wasn't big, but still, they had a small piece of the lasagna and ate their pasta.

After Beca had finished, she put the knife and fork down and leaned back with a satisfied sigh and a smile and Chloe and Fat Amy laughed.

"What?" Beca asked, seeing the two were laughing at her.

"You have red sauce all over your face." Fat Amy said.

Beca grabbed a napkin and cleaned it all up then took a sip of her water.

"That's some good food." Beca said.

"It is." Fat Amy agreed.

"Told you." Chloe said with a smug look on her face.

"That's a proper meal you had there, hobbit." Fat Amy said.

"Yeah. I'll eat breakfast in the morning, I don't think my pressure's gonna bother me again." Beca said.

"For how long have you had low blood pressure?" Chloe asked, curious.

"Since I can remember. That's why when I was younger I didn't exercise." Beca said.

Chloe nodded.

They paid the bill and walked out of the restaurant and started making their way back to their dorms, when Beca stopped and grabbed her head.

"Oh no." she said, shutting her eyes tightly.

"What is it? Are you okay?" Chloe asked.

"Yeah, it's just… I have migraine with aura and… whenever I see the aura it means I'm gonna have a migraine…" Beca said. "Crap, I need to get to my dorm. I'll say up all night."

"Want us to stay with you?" Fat Amy asked.

"You guys don't need to ruin your nights." Beca said. "I've dealt with it before."

"We won't ruin our nights, it's fine." Chloe said.

"Beca, I'd really like to help you, but I have to study, so I have to be heading back now." Fat Amy said.

"That's fine, Fat Amy." Beca said and waved at the Aussie as she walked off.

"I'll stay with you." Chloe said.

"You don't have to do that." Beca said.

"I know. I want to." Chloe said. Beca's head sot up and she stared at her with confusion in her eyes.

"I just want to go back to my dorm and grab my medication." Beca said. "I also want to grab something for the nausea that I know it's coming."

"You have nausea too?"

"Because of the pain. I'm gonna be going back and forth from the bathroom all night long." Beca said and groaned as Chloe helped her walk back to her dorm. "Kimmy Jin is gonna hate me even more."

"How about this: we go and get your pills then go back to the apartment I share with Aubrey? It's better than a dorm, you'll be closer to the bathroom." Chloe said.

No, go back to your dorm and deal with your pain there. Don't let the redhead help you, she'll walk away the moment she has the chance!

"Okay…" Beca said.

Chloe smiled and helped the brunette back to her dorm.