Third Person P.O.V.
Beca stares at the door. In her mind, she's trying to figure out what to say to calm everyone down. Come on, Bec, think! Everyone's freaking out! Think! Beca opens and closes her mouth a couple of times, unable to come up with a coherent thought.
Stacie seems to sense Beca's struggle, and pipes up with the questions everyone is wondering. "Is that scratching or shuffling?"
Okay, maybe not the exact question everyone is wondering, but it's the closest version of 'Do they know we are in here?' anyone will ever ask.
It takes Beca a couple of minutes to realize who was speaking, because someone, predictably Lilly, turned the lantern off at the first sound of whatever it is that is at the door.
"I dunno, Stace." Beca mutters back.
Seriously, Bec? That's the best you can do? Grow some balls! The Bellas sit there for what feels like hours before Beca makes the decision to find out more about what's going on outside of the door. She feels around the ground for something small and her hand taps the edge of the water bottle she had been sipping out of the night before while she had her heart-to heart conversation with Stacie. She smiles fondly at the memory as she picks up the water bottle. After weighing it in her hand, she determines that there is about a quarter of water left in the bottle.
"Babe, hold this for a sec." Beca asks Chloe as she unscrews the cap, and hands the bottle to Chloe.
"What are you doing?" Chloe whispers to her girlfriend.
God, even her whisper is angelic. Wait, no! Focus, Beca! Beca composed her thoughts before she replies, "I have to check something. Everyone stay seated, I don't want to run into any of you."
Beca whispers just loud enough for everyone to hear her. She assumes everyone had heard her and is still sitting, until she feels a hand blindly taps her back then shoulder. She twists her body around and grabs the stranger's hand, instantly feeling the well manicured nails.
"Stace?"
Stacie bends down to whisper into Beca's ear. "You're not doing whatever it is you're doing alone." Stacie continues to hold Beca's hand, as she waits for her response.
Beca smiles, even though Stacie can't see it, and tightens her grip on Stacie's hand as she allows herself to be pulled up. "Okay but I need a small source of light."
"I have a lighter." Someone whispers from the left of the room. Judging from the volume of m the whisper, Beca and Stacie assume that it's Lilly.
"Why do you... Never mind, I don't wanna know." Stacie whispers more to herself than anyone else in the room.
Lilly throws the lighter at the two girls, and Beca feels a small thump on her bicep, and then she hears a small clatter on the ground. She bends down, and feels around for the lighter until her fingertips brush the lighter and she picks it up. Beca flicks the lighter on, making sure it still worked, and almost the whole storage freezer lights up. Beca looks towards the door, and then back and Stacie, rocking her head as if to say 'follow me' before turning the lighter back off.
Beca reached out for Stacie, and grips her hand as the two Bellas make their way towards the door, Beca keeps her hand out until it runs into the wall next to the door. Beca brings Stacie up along side of her, and puts the light in her hand. Beca taps Stacie's fingers and then the lighter, indicating that she wants it on. Stacie flicks the switch and the room is illuminated again.
The small brunette bends down to get a look at the bottom of the door so she can check for a crack. She cant seem to find on because of the shadows due to the lighter, so she takes the cap to the water bottle and nudges the cap under the door, since there is no way she's going to stick her finger under there. She keeps nudging the cap under the door until it disappears. Beca stands up abruptly and pulls Stacie back towards the Bellas so fast that the flame goes out and the two stumble over each other.
"Well, fuck." Beca groans on the ground as she tries to untangle herself from her friend. "Turn on the lantern, please."
The room is lit up and Beca and Stacie finally untangle themselves. Beca crawls towards Chloe and puts her head in her hands, massaging her temples. She continues to massage her temples as she thinks about how they are all going to get out of the freezer.
Since there's a crack at the door, the deadies can most likely smell them, so they aren't going to leave anytime soon. Sure, they have lots of food, but its not going to last, and there are a lot of kitchen utensils the girls can use as weapons.
Chloe reaches out to Beca and puts a hand on her leg. "Bec?"
The younger girl slowly removes her hands frombher face and puts her hand on Chloe's before standing up to address the Bellas.
"Okay, look, there's a crack under the door which means they can probably smell us, so it doesn't matter if they hear us or see the light. That being said, we can all actually talk now." Beca is quiet for a moment as the Bellas absorb the new information.
"Now, knowing that they aren't going to leave anytime soon, we are going to have to fight our way out at some point, and sooner is better than later." She takes a pause as all of the Bellas tense up at the word 'fight'. She takes a breath before continuing on with her idea.
"Wait a minute." All eyes return to Beca. "I can tell that there aren't too many out there in the store. It would be way louder and things would be falling and breaking all the time. Some of them could have moved on to easier targets, or there could have been another noise or distraction. We have a bunch of weapons in here from all of the kitchen utensils we brought in. We can do this, guys."
Beca's eyes scanned through the other hopeful pairs of eyes until she landed on Cynthia Rose. "Shit." Everyone's eyes follow Beca's.
"I'll carry her." All eyes turn to the voice and they all see Fat Amy slightly holding her hand up. "It's the least I could do after I ditched you guys for chocolate... And Fun Dip."
Stacie decides to speak up. "But didn't you wrestle crocodiles and dingoes simultaneously? We need you to help us."
"I'm strong enough to carry her by myself." Fat Amy begins to argue with Stacie.
"Excuse me, but don't I have some input?" Everyone goes silent and all heads turn to Cynthia Rose. "I have crutches, guys. No one needs to carry me. I know how to work crutches."
Everyone is silent for awhile as they contemplate Cynthia Rose's words. Beca furrows her brows before making a decision. "Okay, then how about Fat Amy escorts you so you don't fall too far behind? We'll giver her the tire iron."
Cynthia Rose weighs her possibilities before sighing and deciding that Beca's option would be best for everyone. "Alright, fine, but if we get too far behind, you," Cynthia Rose turns to Fat Amy, "have to leave me behind, and catch up to them." She points to the rest of the Bellas.
Fat Amy nods once and looks back to Beca. "How long until we go?"
"Well, I'd like to leave during the daylight, but there's no telling what time it is." Beca mumbles the last part to herself, leaving everyone else straining to hear her words.
"It's 7:18pm. On Thursday. May 10th." All heads whip to Lilly.
"Uhm, what?" Stacie speaks up, dumbfounded.
Lilly points to her head. "I've been counting."
All eyes go wide at her statement. The Bellas are quiet for a long time, until the young DJ speaks up, recovering from the shock.
"Well, that's good to know. We have time for a plan. Okay, who has a problem killing deadies?" No one says anything so Beca asks, "Okay, who wants to be behind me?" Stacie's hand shoots up and Beca nods at her. "Stacie is second, then. Who's next?
Chloe and Aubrey look at each other until Chloe raises her hand, followed by Aubrey. Beca hesitates slightly before stating that Chloe is third and Aubrey is fourth, leaving Cynthia Rose as fifth and Fat Amy for last.
Beca nods at the order of the line, and says, "Okay, go find something as a weapon."
Everyone, save for Fat Amy, who had the tire iron, and Cynthia Rose, stood up and headed for the kitchen items that were brought in. Lilly was the first the get her weapon, simply walking over to the meat tenderizer, picking it up and walking back to her spot to sit down. Aubrey and Chloe moved over to the pots and pans. Aubrey started weighing the pots in her hands, and Chloe was picking out a nice set of pans to use.
Beca naturally gravitated towards the knives, with Stacie right behind her. It wasn't hard for Beca to get a bunch of small knives for throwing, and two steak knives, tucking them into her belt. Stacie found two meat cleavers, and Beca almost flinched at the fire in her eyes as she picked them up.
"Okay, Stace, bring it down a bit until we open the door." Beca chuckles as Stacie twirls the cleavers, looking like a teenager impersonating a kung fu master. "Lilly, what time is it?"
"7:42pm"
"Is there a way for you to wake us up at 9:00am?"
Lilly nods and closes her eyes for a moment and opens then back up. "The alarm is installed in my brain."
Beca flinches at the sight that enters her mind, and quickly nods a 'thanks' to Lilly before briskly walking over to Chloe. As Beca reaches the red head, she sees her girlfriend second guessing her choice in pans.
"Frying pans, babe?" The brunettes chuckles to herself and she wraps her arms around Chloe from behind. "That's not a bad choice." Beca rests her chin on Chloe's shoulder and smiles.
Chloe giggles silently. "Well, I saw it in a video game and it seemed to work well for them."
The young girl lets out a loud laugh at Chloe's explanation, knowing exactly what video game Chloe was referring to, receiving a glare from her girlfriend.
"No, no, it's just cute!" Beca says, trying to defend herself. "Okay, look," Beca moves her hands up Chloe's sides and down her arms, reaching the pans Chloe is holding. "You'll have to twist these so you can use the edges of the pans." The smaller girl twists the pans in the older girl's grip so the edges are exposed for some serious head bashing. "Now, you have blunt force, and the edges for slicing."
Chloe chuckles and twists her head to peck her girlfriend on the lips. "Thanks for the great description, babe."
Beca smiles and leans in to peck Chloe back. "No problem." Peck. "It's getting late, and we have a long day ahead of us. We need energy."
Chloe nodded and walked to the cans of soup they had collected and picked out Spaghetti O's for herself, and then searched for ravioli for Beca. She walked back over to Beca and popped the lids before handing Beca the ravioli.
"Come on everyone eat up!"
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Meanwhile Lilly had just set her 'internal alarm' when Stacie walked over to Aubrey. "These meat cleavers make me look like a hot zombie killer." Aubrey spun around, obviously not expecting her girlfriend to be behind her, and crossed her arms. "You are so vulgar."
Stacie set the meat cleavers down next to Aubrey's pots, and ran her hands up Aubrey's crossed arms. "Mmm, yeah, but you know you love it." Aubrey blushed, as Stacie smirked. "Told you so."
Aubrey glanced at Stacie's weapon of choice. "Meat cleavers, huh?" Aubrey decides to change the topic, not wanting to be so 'vulgar' in her opinion.
Stacie wrapped her arms around Aubrey's waist,bcausing her to uncross her arms and wrap them around Stacie's neck. "Yep." Stacie responds, popping the 'p'. "I'ma slice their head open. 'Cause, y'know, I'm a hunter."
Aubrey quirks a brow at Stacie's comment and replies before thinking. "Oh? I thought he was a hunter." Aubrey motions towards her girlfriend's crotch, and immediately blushes and turns away.
Stacie smiles at how cute her blonde is being before she shrugs. "Oh he is, but it runs in the family." Stacie took the chance of Aubrey looking away, and dove in for Aubrey's neck, nipping and sucking, sure to leave a mark later. Aubrey gasped and turned her head to meet Stacie's lips with her own. The tall brunette ran her tongue across her girlfriend's lips and the blonde's mouth easily gave Stacie's tongue access.
At some point they had to come back for air, but before Stacie could go back in, Aubrey stops her. "Wait, I can't."
Panic struck Stacie's features and Aubrey noticed, saying. "No, babe, not like that." Aubrey looked down, blushing before she came back to meet her girlfriend's eyes. "I mean, if we keep going, I won't be able to stop."
Relief flooded through Stacie, and she smirked. "You're so uptight, you really need to get laid."
"Oh, I plan to." Aubrey's instant reply threw both of them off, but before either of them could respond, they heard Chloe calling for everyone to eat. "Let's go find something to eat."
Stacie smiles, picked up their weapons, and leads Aubrey to where the food is.
Stacie bent down to pick up some chicken noodle soup, while Aubrey chose some Spaghetti-O's like Chloe had. "Oh my god, you're a child on the inside."
Aubrey shot her a glare, before popping open the lid, dipping her finger in the tomato sauce and running her finger down Stacie's nose. Stacie laughed and ran her own finger down her nose, and sucking off the sauce, then turning around a sauntering over to her and Aubrey's bed to eat. Well that backfired Aubrey thought, as she followed her girlfriend and plopped down next to her.
As soon as everyone was done eating their soup of choice, the Bellas settled into their spots and slowly drifted off to sleep.
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"Wake up." A voice faintly whispered. There was no response. Beca feels a pressure right underneath her nose and she bolts upright, feeling wide awake. She looks around and notices Lilly crouching next to her.
"How'd you do that?" Beca asks, rubbing the place Lilly pressed on.
"Pressure point. It's 9:00am."
Beca nods, and Lilly goes behind her and presses a point on Beca's mid back. All of the sudden, Beca's vision is sharper and her hearing is that of a hawk. She feels so... Rejuvenated. "Hey, go do that to everyone else." Lilly nods and goes around the room waking everyone else up.
As soon as everyone is wide awake, Beca instructs them to pack up as much food and water as they can, and to include dental hygiene, because 'I don't want to have to yank someone's tooth out.' All of the Bellas packed up and ate two protein bars each before grabbing their weapons of choice.
The Bellas all stand around the room weighing their weapons. "Ready?" Beca asks the room. She gets a bunch of affirmative noises and a few nods. "Okay get in line." The girls get into their designated order. "I'm keeping the key, we might end up coming back here for a supply run." The group nods, and Beca turns around to face the door, putting her hand on the handle.
"One... Two... Three."
The door opens and they all slowly walk into the store.