Title: Elements Lead to Love CH1
Pairing: Beca/Chloe
Disclaimer: Don't own any of the Pitch Perfect Characters just having a little fun playing with them.
Rating: T
Summary: Beca was born with the power to control the elements, but keeps her gifts hidden from the world. She attends Barden at the urging of her mother and the father who abandoned her as a child. Beca falls for a certain redhead, but believes the girl can never love her in return. Could Chloe possibly feel the same? Will Beca ever reveal her powers to anyone outside her family? Read on to find out.

A/N: This story came about from an email from jeanjacq151. She requested a Bechloe story involving Beca controlling the elements and at some point saving her love. I just came up with this and wrote most of it in a very short time in one sitting. I will release it a chapter at a time as I catch as many of the typos and things as I can before I post it. This is my first attempt at writing from a request such as this and I am still wrangling with an idea for a good Steca story someone else requested.

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Chapter 1

"Mom, I really don't want to go to Barden. Why can't I stay here with you and keep taking online courses as I can afford them?" The tiny brunette that barely reached five feet in her sock feet when she stretched kicked off her converse as she flopped down onto the couch in the small 2 bedroom house she had shared with her mom since she was six shortly after her father left them and they could no longer afford the big house they had lived in.

"Beca sweety, a degree from a prestigious university like Barden will open more doors for you than one from various online courses and it will be paid for. You won't have to take only one or two classes at a time while you work at the record store, the bookstore, and the drug store to get enough hours to pay for your online courses and help out here with the bills." Faith, the girl's mother, moved behind the sofa kissing the top of her daughter's head. "Besides old man Sumner is selling this place soon so he can move to Corpus Christi, Texas to be near his grandchildren and get away from the New England winters and we will be out of a cheap place to stay and I will be out of a job. Most of our furniture are dime store specials so there won't be much for me to pack-up and take to Florida to live with my sister, her husband, and two young boys. I can stay with them until I find a job and can get an apartment of my own. You don't want to have to campout on their sofa and have two little boys bugging you all the time. We both know they wouldn't stay away from your music stuff or your laptop. You would be miserable sweetheart."

"Maybe we could find another place around here and you could find a new job. Maybe we could go to California together and I could start paying my dues and someday become a DJ or music producer." The seventeen year old turned her dark stormy blue gaze up towards her mother with a pleading look on her face.

"Beca you need an education. You graduated from that online high school two years ago and have been taking a few courses at a time since then and working so you can pay for them, as well as pay for your music, and you have only accumulated enough college credits to start Barden as a sophomore when you could be a junior." Faith sighed praying her daughter would see reason. "If your father would have been able to offer you this help when you first graduated you would be a junior at Barden by now, but he only recently received tenure that allowed his children to go for free if they could get accepted and keep their grades up." The taller woman moved around to sit next to the stubborn girl. "You my brilliant little bumblebee were easily accepted and I know you will be able to keep your grades up. It would do you good to have a more normal college experience and LA will take an educated music producer more seriously than an uneducated one."

"Mom, there is a reason I have never had a normal school experience before, it's the same reason dad abandoned us in the first place. I'm a freak of nature." The aspiring DJ's voice rose.

"Rebecca Jazmin you are not a freak of nature. You are a lovely talented young woman who was blessed with gifts few others in the world have been given. Your father and I were having problems way before your gifts began growing in power and became erratic. He only blamed his leaving on your powers and my ancestors because he didn't want to admit his own failings in our marriage. He had been seeing someone else for a while before he actually left. We were high school sweethearts who married because I became pregnant shortly after graduation. We thought we were doing the right thing and that we loved each other enough to make it work. Our separation and divorce wasn't your fault at all, it was ours."

"Whatever, but that still leaves the reason why I didn't go to normal school." The girl rubbed her ear careful of the many rings along the rim of it.

"You inherited your abilities to control the elements from your great grandfather. It is a family legacy and only the strongest of our bloodline receives the gifts and becomes a Guardian Knight. Your power and control was erratic as you grew and could have caused lots of problems, but you have amazing control now. Meditation, martial arts, free running, and even your music have all helped you to learn control and discipline. I have seen the amazing things you can do now. You have full control now and it will be a great time for you to go out and experience college life like any other girl your age would." The mother continued to argue her case.

"Besides your dad wants to make amends for his lack of presence in your life thus far. We've talked and he knows you have full control of your gifts and he knows how intelligent you are. I know you won't be 18 until winter break, but that's not that much younger than the freshmen on campus and no one will know your younger than the average sophomore if you don't tell them. Isn't that one of the reasons you snuck out and got the tattoos, and why you have so many piercings in your ears, and why you wear your make-up the way you do, all in an effort to look older?"

Beca slumped down further on the couch. "Did you tell him I don't like boys?"

"We did have a brief conversation about that when he suggested I take you to get you on some kind of birth control before you started college, because he wasn't ready to be a grandfather yet. He wanted you to be safe. I explained you were already on birth control because of other female reasons and that he didn't have to worry about you getting knocked up by accident like we did because last time I checked girls couldn't get each other pregnant without the help of a doctor."

The girl rolled her eyes chuckling. "How did he take that?"

"Pretty well actually. He said that was one less thing to worry about and he mentioned his wife Sheila's younger brother was gay. I honestly think he wants to make an effort Beca. He wants you to use his last name while there, that has to mean something doesn't it? Come on baby, go and give it a shot. I won't be far away from Atlanta. Tampa, Florida is less than seven hours away from Barden by car; that is a lot closer than Vermont. We will be able to see each other more often." The mother squeezed her girl's shoulder.

"Hell you might meet some interesting college girls to date and I might find some sexy tan men to date because dear our dating pool around here is sorely lacking." The mother teased.

"Now I know why you want to go to Florida. You want to hang out on the beach and ogle men." The daughter teased leaning into her mom. "I'll go to Barden and see how I like it. I still have nearly four months before fall term starts to get used to the idea. I can work and save up my money and help you pack up the house. If I can work some extra shifts since I won't be taking classes I might could help you out some financially and you can get your own apartment sooner. You already have several places interested in you because of Aunt Cathy and Uncle Jake's recommendations not to mention the ones' from the snow birds from here that spend the winters down south. You'll probably be making way more money in Florida than you ever did here managing old man Sumner's affairs and taking care of him and his house."

"Maybe, but I don't want you working too hard this summer. I want some time with my baby girl before she goes off to college and begins a life of her own."

The two women hugged savoring the moment both knowing such moments would be fewer and farther between once the summer was over and they each took that next step down the adventurous road called life, but for the first time since Beca's birth they would be taking different paths down that road.

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What do you think? Would love to hear from. Please drop me a line in the little review box below. This story is probably going to be fairly short probably around 15,000 words when all is said and done. I am also going to start posting chapters of stories I have been working on in a huge stack of notebooks I have that I write my fanfic in most of the time. I figured I might as well share them and post when I write a bit on them instead of simply keeping the stories and their updates to myself.

Thanks for reading! Until Next Time…Holly