Mates

2. Auditions and Aca-Initiation Night

It's been two months since everyone met and Beca's pack arrived at Barden. Staubrey and Bechloe or as Fat Amy likes to call them, Bloe have officially happened and neither couple could be happier. Aubrey and Beca have come up with a smooth co-alpha schedule and since Aubrey is older, she leads the pack on hunts through the week and Beca on the weekends. The brunette alpha has yet to see her father, but she knows she'll have to soon if she wants to blend her pack in with the humans better. Both she and Aubrey and even Lilly have all spotted the rogue vampire lurking around campus.

He has yet to find them, but just barely. Beca knows if she doesn't go to meet with her father soon, she and her pack will be found any day now. Dr. Adam Mitchell seems to know how to help them blend in more and right now, that's what they need.

It's the day of auditions and everyone is excited except Beca though she's excited to spend time with her girlfriend/mate all day everyday. Aubrey and Chloe are sitting in front of the stage and watching as everyone auditions singing 16 bars of Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone.

Beca was late and Tommy was starting to close the auditions when Chloe spotted her. "Oh, wait! There's one more. Hi!" She said pointing in the direction of the stage door entrance.

Everyone looked at her as Chloe waived her out further. "Hello. Umm... I didn't know we had to prepare that song."

"Oh! That's ok. Sing anything you want."

"Uh, may I?" Beca asked sitting on her knees and bending forward to take the yellow cup.

"Oh." Chloe said gesturing to go ahead.

Beca dumped the pens and sat the cup upside down in front of her and started a beat and singing.

After Beca finished her audition, Tommy officially closed them and Beca met her pack outside the building. "Hey, Babe!" Chloe said walking up to Beca and pecking her lips.

"Hey. Sorry I was so late."

"It's fine. Your little improv. was aca-awesome! And I think I speak for everyone here that watched it."

Everyone including Aubrey nodded in agreement. "It was certainly interesting." The blonde captain said. "I never heard anything like that before."

The brunette shrugged like it was no big deal. "It was something my grandma taught me when I was really little before she was killed in an enemy pack battle."

"Oh. I'm so sorry."

Beca shrugged again. "It's fine. I'm long over it. It's in the past. It's about lunch time. Want to hunt or go for a pizza?" She asked changing the subject.

"Pizza!" Everyone yelled in unison.

The small alpha nodded and led everyone to the nearby pizza shop.

Later that night, everyone as far as the ladies of the pack and two human recruits were 'kidnapped' and dragged to The Bellas rehearsal room. Aubrey started the initiation and the new recruits repeated. Afterwards, she and Chloe led them to the amphitheater.

"Ladies, WELCOME to aca-initiation night!" Aubrey said. "Prepare to soften the beach."

Everyone except Chloe looked confused, but shrugged it off and went their separate ways. Stacie went with Aubrey to get a drink and Chloe stayed behind to talk to Beca. "You ok, Becs?"

The tiny brunette looked at her and nodded. "Yeah. I'm just not much of a party-er. You should go have fun. Don't mind me, Babe."

"No. It's ok. I'd rather hang out with you. But this ginger could really use some jiggle juice. I'm gonna go get a drink. Want one?"

"Yeah. Ok. That sounds good."

"Alright. I'll be right back." The redhead replied and kissed her cheek.

*God, what am I to do with her? She's so stubborn when it comes to me.* The brunette thought.

Five minutes later, Chloe returned with two drinks in hand and handed the freshman one. "Sorry it took so long. The line was about three people in front of me and the first one was filling up so many cups, it looked like he was serving a large group all at once."

Beca looked at the co-captain and her second beta raising her eyebrows amused. "Was he really? Or was it for himself?"

"For himself. Dude, he filled like twenty cups. Ok. That was slightly exaggerated. But he had enough to be drunk in no time at all."

"Jeeze!" She replied taking a sip of her beer.

Over to the left of the couple and a few rows down, Aubrey was watching for Treble trouble while Stacie talked to her about her childhood. "...and then my dad said he tackled him like a football player. Jack profusely apologized after that because he was so drunk, he was embarrassed afterwards."

Aubrey looked at her amused and let slip a slight giggle. "And you met Beca shortly after that?"

"Yeah. I mean, my pack was great and all, but Beca was totally different. She understood me completely and that's how we became best friends and I joined her pack."

"I understand. When I met Chloe and found out about why she was exiled, I totally understood her. I lost my mother when I was just three in an accident during a hunt. I was totes devastated at the time because she really understood me compared to my dad and Chloe was a year older when her mom got killed by a stray bear. She was there when it happened, but her mother was just protecting her cub. When her father found her and her mother dead, he blamed her exiling her right away."

"Oh my! Poor Chloe."

"Yeah. My pack found her by herself while hunting one day and my dad temporarily took her in until we became of age and my brother beat me in battle for next leadership. That's how we became best friends. When I lost the battle and was exiled, Chloe came with me. It was just us for a while until you, Beca, and The rest of The Bellas came."

Stacie hugged her and kissed her cheek. "I'm so sorry."

"It's fine. It's in the past."

Stacie smiled and the rest of the night went by in a blur.