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“I’m really glad your stepmom’s cousin let us use his cabin.” Chloe said as the Bellas sat around a campfire in the middle of the woods of northern Washington state.  “This time alone is what we need to recharge.”

“Things have been hectic.” Beca agreed, watching the fire burn. “I’m just glad we could all make it.”

“You know, it’s not really fair.” Amy chimed in “Your significant others are here but none of my boyfriends could come.”

“They’re not Bellas.” Stacie pointed out, kissing Beca’s cheek as she held Aubrey’s hand. “You could date Flo or….what are you going by now?”

“Lily’s back in control.” Lily said as she glanced at the sky as if she were seeing something none of the others did. “Which will make things a lot easier.”

“Do we even want to know?” Emily asked, glancing around. “Should we be scared?”

“Depends on who it is.” Lily said with a shrug. “If it’s Lorgalathon, no, he’s harmless, a big softie. If it’s Randy, then yeah, he can be overzealous.”

“Randy?” Aubrey asked, eyes narrowing at Lily. “what are you even talking about.”

“You didn’t see them?” Lily asked, looking up at the sky. “Oh, wait, you’re all human so you wouldn’t know what to look for.”

“Um, what?” Beca asked. Her eyes immediately darted towards the tree line along with everyone else’s as they heard rustling. “It’s….it’s…..Bigfoot?”

“I have a name you know.” Bigfoot said as he came up to the fire. “How’s it going Lilyvargatha, didn’t know you were on Earth now.”

“Yeah been here for awhile now Lorgalathon.” Lily said, turning her attention to the others “Relax, it’s ok. He’s cool.”

“So, Sasquatch..is an alien?” Emily asked, piecing things together

“Again, my name is Lorgalathon, I am a Sasquatch.” He explained. “You’ve seen the movie E.T.? It’s actually based on us, we visit every so often to check on your development and your wildlife.”

“What about Harry and the Hendersons?” C.R. asked, just going with it.

“Good movie, but pure fiction.” Lorgalathon explained.

“Are you going to wipe our memories or something?” Stacie asked nervously.

“Are you going to take my picture?” Lorgalathon asked “Or can you be cool and keep a secret?”

“We can keep secrets.” Jessica said

“Then no memory wipe necessary.” Lorgalathon smiled. “By the way, Beca, love your music. You’ve got a bigger following than you realize.”

“Ok, so, Bigfoot’s real, an alien, and he likes my music.” Beca recapped. “Did we do mushrooms? Amy did you drug us”

“Would I do something like that?” Amy asked defensively

“Yes!” the others said in near unison “You’re a bigger agent of chaos than…Lilyvargatha?”

“That’s correct” Lily confirmed.

“No, this is really happening.” Lorgalathon confirmed. “Now excuse me, I have things to do.” He added, before turning to Lily “Before I forget, Helkazori said she’s going to be coming down to check out the water next month if you’re going to be in Scotland or Vermont.”

“And Helkazori is….” Aubrey started

“You’d call her the Loch Ness Monster or Champ.” Lorgalathon confirmed.

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The morning after her 22^nd Birthday Beca woke in one of her favorite places, curled up between Stacie and Chloe. However, she hadn’t expected the purring. And not just from one cat. She couldn’t begin to count how many were scattered around the room. Callicos, Tabbies, Maine Coons, Abyssinians, American Shorthairs were just the few that she could identify.

“Is this some kind of prank?” Beca asked, sitting up and looking around the room. “Chloe, sweetie, did you maybe liberate these from a lab or something?”

“I was right here with you three all night.” Chloe answered, snuggling into Aubrey. “Stacie, did you do something?”

“Nope.” Stacie said, sitting up and reaching for her clothes. “I don’t think they’re just in here though.” She added as she listened at the door.

“WHAT IS GOING ON!?” she heard Amy call out from the hallway “Oi, Legacy, you do something?”

Stacie threw the door open as Beca, Chloe, and Aubrey got dressed, only to find the hallway was also filled with cats of all kinds.

“Maybe those good for nothing Treblemakers?” Aubrey suggested as she assessed the situation.

“Jesse doesn’t know what we’re talking about so I doubt it.” Beca said reading the response to the text she sent him. She headed for the stairs to the first floor. “Might as well check the rest of the house.”

As she made her way around all the cats in the hall and on the stairs, she froze when the living room came into site. There was a cheetah, a jaguar, a cougar, a lion, all in front of Lily on the couch.

“So I take it this was you?” Beca asked, finally piecing things together.

“Your wish was granted.” Lily said, petting the lion’s head.

“My wish?” Beca thought, then her eyes went wide “I…. wished to be surrounded by pussy.”

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“I can’t believe your grandparents turned this whole farm over to you.” Chloe said as she and Aubrey walked the land that now belonged to them. “It’s so beautiful, I can’t imagine ever wanting to leave.”

“It just got to be a lot of work for them, and they found a nice little place in Arizona.” Aubrey explained. “They knew with you, Beca, and Stacie we’d be able to manage everything including the staff. And they knew I loved spending summers here.”

“I can certainly see why.” Chloe agreed as they neared the small pond that marked the center of the farm, a forest of ancient trees lay beyond it.

“This is the furthest I’ve ever been.” Aubrey said, walking up to the edge of the pond. “I was always so scared I’d get lost.”

“Ok, now we HAVE to go exploring.” Chloe said excitedly “When Beca and Stacie get here, we’re going camping.”

“That does sound fun actually.” The blonde agreed, scanning the other side of the pond. It was then she noticed something coming out of the woods to get a drink at the pond. She narrowed her eyes, uncertain if she was seeing what she was seeing. “Is that…..”

“A baby unicorn!” Chloe called out excitedly.”You see it too!?”

“I do.” Aubrey nodded running things over in her mind. She pulled out her phone, thankful to have service and placed a call to her grandmother.

“Hey Sweetheart, is everything ok?” Aubrey’s grandma greeted as the line connected.

“All those times when you said the farm’s a magical place…” Aubrey said, eyes trained on the unicorn.

“You finally went beyond the pond didn’t you?” Aubrey could hear the pride in her grandma’s voice. “You’ll have to have a talk with Rhianon, she’ll fill you in on everything. Long story short, long ago, our family was entrusted to look after The Sanctuary. When you finally go into the woods, you’ll see, you’re now the caretaker of all the wonders the world thinks are nothing but myths.”

“You….couldn’t have given me a heads up?” Aubrey asked, eyes going wide as a griffin lands next to the unicorn.

“You never asked, and it’s more fun this way.” Aubrey’s grandmother chuckled. “You’ll be fine, we wouldn’t have moved down here if we thought you couldn’t handle it.”

“We’ll make you proud.” Chloe said, squeezing Aubrey’s hand. “I can’t wait to see Beca and Stacie’s reactions.”

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To most, the town of Barden, Georgia is just an unassuming college town, and by and large that is in fact the case. What most don’t know though is not everyone is as they seem. When nurse Chloe Beale got to the local clinic to start her day, she was shocked to find her boss, Dr. Sam Hodges, as much a father figure to her as her own father, dead at his desk, his throat slit.

In desperate need for a doctor, Sheriff Cynthia Rose Adams and deputy Patricia “Fat Amy” Hobart reached out to the only other doctor in the area Dr. Harry Vanderspeegle, an infectious disease expert from New York who owns a cabin outside of town, to fill in for him. At least that’s who they THOUGHT they were asking. What they didn’t know is Dr. Vanderseegle himself has been dead for months.
~~~Three Months Ago~~~

A small craft flies through a storm above Barden. But this is no airplane, it’s an alien spacecraft whose occupant has been given a clear mission: deploy the device entrusted to him to kill all humans. Despite the ability to travel faster than the speed of light, in planetary atmosphere it’s still susceptible to ordinary lightning. Thus, his craft crashed, and the device lost before it can be activated. The pilot survived however, and came across a cabin, killing its occupant and assuming his form. That of Dr. Harry Vanderspeegle.

~~~Present~~~

“Doc, we’re in a jam.” Sheriff Adams asked “We could really use your help, somebody’s got to take over the clinic, and of couse someone has to examine Dr. Hodges’ body.”

“I am being asked why?” ‘Harry’ asked as he exited his rowboat.

“Just till we can find someone full time.” CR explained “You’re here, who knows how long it will take to find someone full time. Mayor Posen’s working on that don’t worry.”

“If there is nobody else.” Harry agreed.

~~~~Kung Kung~~~

“This man was not murdered.” Harry concluded as he looked over the body “It is clear he committed suicide, you can tell by the angle of the wound.”

“Why would Sam want to kill himself?” Chloe asked

“I can’t tell you that, even if I could read his mind he’s clearly dead.” Harry answered

“I think the question was rhetorical, Doc.” CR said.

“Rhetorical, yes.” Harry accepted.

“Right, we’ll take care of things from here, you’ve got patients to see to.” Fat Amy said as they set about moving Dr. Hodges body.

“You going to be ok, Red?” Sheriff Adams asked

“Yeah, our next patient is my niece.” Chloe perked up as she went out to call Bella Posen back. She wasn’t prepared for the scream of fear Bella let out upon seeing Dr. Vanderspeegle. Meanwhile, if she could read Harry’s mind she’d have heard “This is some bullshit.”

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“Remind me what’s so special about this place?” Chloe asked as Beca drove

“It’s the place Warren Zevon was living when he died.” Beca explained,

“And who is he again?” Chloe asked, watching the streets of West Hollywood go by.

“You’d know him as the guy who did Werewolves of London.” Beca explained. “Obviously he did so much more than that, but that’s generally the one that everyone knows. He died of cancer in 2003.”

“Oh, that’s sad.” Chloe replied

“The logical part of me can’t quite grasp that we’re looking to buy a house because you can see ghosts and you’re actually hoping to meet a specific one.” Stacie said. “But I also love it at the same time.”

“I know not everyone knows Warren, but he was cool.” Beca explained. “Bree, you know Linda Ronstadt’s Poor Poor Pitiful Me? He wrote and originally recorded it..”

“I actually know who he is.” Aubrey joined the conversation. “We’re almost there, you see him?”

“Not yet, he’s probably inside or something.” Beca said as she pulled into the driveway, followed shortly by the real estate agent. As they got out of the car, Beca noticed a Native woman walk through the garage door.

“Four attractive women, nice.” The ghost said, causing Beca to chuckle “Can…can you see me? PADRE! WARREN! GET OUT HERE!”

“Something funny?” The real estate agent asked as she approached them.

“Oh, just thought of something we were talking about earlier” Beca replied to mask a nod to the ghost.

“Ah, well, let’s start the tour shall we? As you’re aware from conversation, this was Warren Zevon’s home, and he died here.” The real estate agent explained as she headed towards the front door.

“I’m well aware.” Beca said as she locked eyes with Warren

“Holy shit she can see us.” Warren said.

“I’d heard stories during my days as an initiate, but I didn’t ever believe it.” A third ghost, dressed in the habit of a Spanish Missionary joined in the conversation.

“I don’t even think that cute roamer Joan’s ever seen anything like this.” The native woman said as they followed the Bellas on their tour. “I hope they buy it, and not just because they’re hot.”

“I have to make a call, I’ll be right back, continue to look around and I’ll answer your questions when I get back.” The real estate agent said, heading for the backyard.

“Now that we’re alone, yes, I can see you.” Beca addressed the ghosts. “I almost drowned in France, but I didn’t and now I see ghosts. Nice to meet you Mr. Zevon, big fan.”

“Warren, please.” Warren said. “This is Matala of the Chumash, and this is Father Domingo Jimenez.”

“We call him Padre.” Matala explained.

“I’m Beca, this is Chloe, Aubrey, and Stacie.” Beca indicated each of them “We’ll talk more when we don’t have to worry about normies finding out things they aren’t supposed to know. But I look forward to getting to know you three.”

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“What are the Bellas up to this weekend?” Jesse asked Beca as they started their shift at the radio station.

“Aubrey and Chloe are having us over to their apartment for some kind of game night” Beca explained as she grabbed the first crate.

“Are they….together?” Jesse asked, making his way to the shelves to help

“You mean are they a couple? Yes.” Beca informed.

“That’s a shame, Aubrey’s hot.” Jesse answered dejectedly

“She is, and she likes girls every bit as much if not more than you do.” Beca agreed. “So what are the Trebles up to? Causing mischief on the full moon.”

“Believe it or not, the Trebles lie low on the full moon.” Jesse said as he helped to empty the crate Beca was working on.

“Really? I’d expect them to try to pull some kind of ridiculous prank.” Beca replied

“Nope, we’ve go to keep everyone safe.” Jesse explained. “I mean, um, forget I said anything.”

“Wait, what?” Beca  asked, catching up to the conversation.

“About half the Trebles are werewolves.” Luke explained as he brought another crate over to them. “You’ll learn once you’ve been around here long enough.”

“Wait, seriously?” Beca asked, trying to figure out if he was pranking her or not.

“Seriously.” Luke confirms. “Trust me, you don’t want to know what’s up with Harmonics”

“What are they, vampires or something?” Beca asked, raising an eyebrow.

“No, you’ve seen them out during the day.” Luke pointed out. “Myconoids, mushroom people, they’re one big hive mind.”

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Beca woke with a start, the dream she'd just had was very disturbing and felt very real. It felt like she lived many lifetimes all at once, and the very end, just be she woke up, was the end of all of them simultaneously. Most of them very traumatic, by what she'd guess to be vampires. One that stuck out was of an African American woman fighting someone in a subway that looked like a Billy Idol wannabe. Another was of a blonde, drowning in some subterranean place. There was another African American girl in what looked like a high school library whose throat was slashed by a dark haired Englishwoman wearing red. The last was of a Brazilian girl somewhere in a rundown part of Sao Paulo, mauled by what had to be a werewolf.

She grabbed for her phone and glanced at the clock, it was 3 AM. She'd only been asleep for a couple hours. The night before hadn't been a fun one, truth be told. It was another night of confusion. She spent most of Bella practice like she spent so many so far, trying to figure out if Aubrey and Chloe were together. She was near certain Aubrey was gay, her gaydar had yet to let her down, and there was just something in the way they interacted. It just seemed like they were together, but if they were, why had Chloe been showering with that douchewaffle? And why was Chloe so flirtatious with her? It was perplexing. What complicated things even more was the pull Beca seemed to have towards Aubrey, and the fact that Aubrey had a hard time keeping her eyes off Stacie. She settled back in her bed, hoping processing the situation would help her fall back to sleep. Weird thing was, she found she wasn't overly tired. And her senses seemed heightened.

Los Angeles, California, the following morning.

"I just got off the phone with Tara." Dawn said, plopping down on the couch next to Vi and throwing an arm around her shoulder. "Pedrina, one of the girls in Sao Paulo, was killed by a werewolf last night."

"She one of Kennedy's squad?" Vi asked.

"No, Kennedy's been in Manaus lately." Dawn explained.

"Ah, I hadn't heard." Vi said, curling into the brunette. "Anybody we know called?"

"No, apparently an undiscovered potential was." Dawn explained, absently playing with a lock of Vi's hair.

"So, where we headed?" Vi asked.

"A college town in Georgia called Barden." Dawn said.

"Do you want me to wake up Faith?" Vi asked

"I think it'd be better if it were me." Dawn answered. "We've gotta start packing, our flight leaves in four hours."

"Hey Becs, what're you up to now?" Chloe asked as she walked up to the petite DJ after Bella practice ended.

"I don't know, I've been kinda pumped lately, it's weird." Beca said, shaking it off. "Like, I can't even describe that's how energetic I feel."

"Well, Aubrey and I are headed back to our apartment, order some dinner, and just chill, we thought you and Stacie might like to join us." Chloe offered. Beca internally sighed at the mixed signals as she glanced towards Stacie who was engrossed in what appeared to be an intense conversation with Aubrey. This was the first she'd really seen the taller brunette since the strange dream, and she couldn't help but notice there was a certain etherealness to her that she hadn't ever picked up on. In that moment, Stacie looked at Beca as if she were seeing her in a new light too. It distracted Beca enough to the point Chloe had to comment on it. "Earth to Beca, everything ok?"

"Yeah, everything's fine." Beca replied, snapping out of it.

"Great, so you'll come?" Chloe asked hopefully.

"Yeah, I'm quite hungry actually." Beca agreed "Sounds like fun, just if you three decide to watch a movie don't get offended if I tune it out."

As the four of them headed for Aubrey and Chloe's apartment, they filled the time with idle chit chat. It wasn't long before they were interrupted by Jesse calling out to them from a heavily shadowed area.

"If it's not my future wife and her friends." Jesse called out, approaching them. The more Beca thought about it, it was the first she'd seen Jesse in awhile. And in an opposite reaction as she'd had to Stacie, Beca felt a certain danger emanating from him.

"For at least the 47th time, I'm gay, Jesse." Beca explained. Out of her peripheral, she noticed Stacie pulling something from her bag "Now kindly go fuck off."

"Nah, I don't think so." Jesse said, his face contorting, revealing fangs in his mouth. He started towards her. "I think it's time I take matters into my own hand."

"Beca, catch." Stacie called out, tossing a wooden stake at her, which Beca caught with ease. Acting instinctually, Beca plunged it into his heart, which caused him to turn to dust at her feet.

"What the FUCK just happened? Was Jesse a..." Beca asked, not taking her eyes off the dust. She trailed off, not wanting to believe what just happened.

"Vampire? Yes." Dawn added as she, Vi, and Faith walked up to them. Dawn spun around and examined the new comers. She didn't sense a threat from them, she actually felt a kinship to the shorter brunette and the redhead.

"Ok." Beca said simply, deciding to just accept things as they came. Understanding was a thing Future Beca would do. Turning to Stacie. "And what the fuck are you?"

"Fey." Stacie said simply. "Fairy, pixie, whatever you want to call me. I've heard them all."

"Let's go someplace a little more private and we can talk." Faith suggested

"So, vampires and all that are REAL?" Aubrey asked after Dawn had given them a brief rundown.

"Yes, they are." Stacie confirmed. "And like Faith and Vi here, you're a Slayer, Beca."

"You mean to tell me you three've been sleeping with a pixie and none of you have pieced it together yet?" Faith asked incredulously

"We aren't together." Beca shakes it off.

"Oh. Well, if you have feelings for each other, take my advice and go for it." Dawn suggested. "Our line of work, we've come to realize life is short, some much shorter than others if you're not careful. So to hell with convention, find love where you can. My sister Buffy is in a relationship with two women as well. So much of what keeps her going is Willow and Tara."

"For what it's worth, we had invited you here because we couldn't decide between the two of you." Aubrey rejoined the conversation.

"I KNEW you two were together." Beca cheered. "How does showerdouche factor in."

"Only just recently did I grow the ovaries to go after what I wanted." the blonde explained. "As soon as I realized Tom had dumped her, I made my move. We got to talking, and we realized, we wanted the two of you too."

"Well, we'll leave you to sort this out, we should go settle into our hotel and we'll talk more tomorrow." Dawn excused herself and her girlfriends.

"So, a pixie?" Chloe asked, turning to Stacie. "How does that work?"

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Beca sat on a tombstone, twirling a stake as she waited for the new vampire to dig his way out of the grave, thinking over the last few years. Ever since she turned Jesse to a pile of dust, she could not have predicted where her life would lead. Aubrey, Chloe, and Stacie were now her girlfriends. And to top it off, Stacie was a pixie. It should have been obvious in hindsight, as flighty as she could be, but Beca hadn't been aware of the things that go bump in the night. She was now though, and since that night, she's fought lots of them, and survived. She's helped stop her fair share of Apoca…ends of the world. She's lost friends. Dawn, Faith, Vi, Buffy, Willow, and Tara were still around, leading the new Watcher's Council. It turned out Jessica and Ashley, Beca still wasn't sure which one was which, were witches. Not as powerful as Willow or Tara, but capable in their own right. She was stirred from her thoughts when the vampire she'd been waiting for crawled from his grave. Hopping down, she made quick work of him.

"Great work as usual Becky." Luke called out as he approached her. "Night's just about over, might as well go home to your girls."

"Thanks Larry." Beca teased her watcher back. "We any closer to figuring out what's causing this uptick lately?"

"Not quite yet. Uncle Rupert rang earlier, said Dawn, Faith and Vi are going to come see if they can lend a hand." Luke explained. "They'll be here tomorrow afternoon."

"That's great." Beca said, twirling her stake. "It'd be nice to have some help."

"I'm sure." Luke agreed. "People are starting to get suspicious; we don't want Barden becoming the next Sunnydale."

"We don't think there's a hellmouth here do we?" Beca asked

"No, that's still in Cleveland." Luke shook his head as they walked.

"We'll figure it out. Now excuse me, I'm going to go devour some tacos." Beca said as she got into her car.

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"This just seems so random." Dawn said as she read through Luke and Beca's reports. "It's like, one day everything's fine, the next, boom, uptick in vamps."

"This suggests a nest, but where?" Vi asked, looking at a map of where Beca and Stacie have fought vampires. "And it's the newbies are mostly girls, suggesting either straight, bi, or pan male vampires or gay, pan, or bi female vampires."

"Don't even think about making a lesbian vampire joke Chlo." Aubrey fixed her glare on her redhead girlfriend. "Anyway, have considered frats? Wouldn't that make sense?"

"It would." Faith nodded, looking towards the door just before there was a knock. "Expecting more company?"

"Not really." Chloe shook her head, opening the door to find Amy and Bumper. Amy walked right in, leaving Bumper on the other side of the door.

"What's up Ranga?" Amy asked, noticing women she didn't recognize. "What, you get three new girlfriends?"

"No, they're just friends." Beca said, eyes narrowing at Bumper as he stood in the hall. "Haven't seen you in awhile, didn't know you were in town."

"Bumper's been staying at the Treble house since he flamed out in LA." Amy explained. "Aren't you going to come in?"

"No, I…I think I'm going to go ho..." he started, before turning into a pile of dust from the stake Faith threw into his heart.

"What just happened?" Amy asked, looking startled.

"Home boy was a vampire." Faith shrugged.

"Looks like we found our nest." Beca smirked.

"You get to take out the Trebles?" Aubrey asked, a smile spreading across her face. "Go, do. Then come home and we'll take GOOD care of you."