Hello, everyone! This is a prompt from StephanieandMichelle4life.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pretty Little Liars or its characters in any way, shape, or form. The character Sasha Di Laurentis was an idea given to me by StephanieandMichelle4life.
In terms of appearance, Sasha Di Laurentis looked exactly like her older sister, Alison, with curly blonde hair grown just past her shoulders, an athletic figure (although she wasn't competitive enough to participate in too many sports), and crystal blue eyes. Basically, she looked like a younger, shorter version of Alison; from the back, you couldn't even tell them apart unless you took the height difference into account, but Sasha was rapidly approaching a growth spurt, so that difference would probably fade within a year. Yes, in terms of appearance, Sasha looked almost exactly like her older sister.
But in terms of personality, Alison and Sasha couldn't have been more different if they tried.
Alison was mean, cold, and sometimes downright cruel. Overall, she was a horrible person. If Sasha didn't remember the few times Alison kissed her on the forehead or read her a bedtime story or placed Band-Aids on her scraped knees when she was younger, she would've joined the test of Rosewood in thinking that Alison Di Laurentis didn't even know how to love.
On the other hand, Sasha was the sweetest, kindest girl you'll ever meet. She was innocent and pure, qualities so rarely found in today's world. She was an angel sent from Heaven (which was kind of funny because that was her middle name, Angel) and wore her heart on her sleeve. She might have been naïve, but the people that knew her wouldn't have it any other way because every time they saw Sasha, they were reminded that there were still good people in the world.
Sasha crept into the church in search of Spencer. She knew about the whole A situation (she'd even received a few texts herself, but not nearly as many or as bad as Emily, Aria, Spencer, and Hanna), but the girls had tried to keep her out of the plan with Ian. Sasha had been waiting at the hospital with Spencer's sister, Melissa, but when Spencer didn't return after an oddly long time, Sasha went to find her.
The church was dead silent, and Sasha was just staring to think that Spencer might have left when she noticed something blue on the ground.
It was a thumb drive. The spare drive they'd stored Ian's 'home videos,' as the others has so delicately put it, on.
Spencer wouldn't have just thrown that away…
"NO! NO! PLEASE!"
The second Spencer screamed, Sasha was on her feet and sprinting up the stairs to the Bell Tower.
She could see Spencer dangling over the ledge at the very top, the railing having been broken, the splintered remains littering the ground far below. Her eyes landed on Ian as he fought to unlatch Spencer's hand from where she clung to his jacket, as it was her only lifeline. If she let go of Ian… it was a long fall to the ground.
Sasha didn't know what to do. She didn't see very many options that would stop Ian and save Spencer. If she pulled Ian away from the ledge, he could still drop her. But if she pushed him…
Sasha's hands hit Ian's back before she could even register the fact that she was in motion, and Ian somer-saulted off of the platform and got tangled up in the ropes. As his weight abruptly dragged the ropes down, the bell tolled, and a rope was tied around his neck like a noose. He wasn't moving, and Sasha didn't think he was breathing.
Sasha expected guilt, fear, horror, but she didn't expect the laugh that came bubbling up and out for her throat, a shrill cackle that terribly reminded her of the one Bellatrix Lestrange gave in the Harry Potter movies.
Sasha didn't have time to ponder it before the laugh halted, and the guilt and fear and horror set in as she pulled Spencer- who had been too terrified to hear Sasha laugh- onto the platform and clung to the girl she thought of as a big sister.
Sasha stared at her ceiling, lying on her bed with Spencer sitting to her left and Emily and Aria to her right. Hanna had seated herself at the end of the bed beside Sasha's feet.
Sasha had never felt more guilty, but then again, she'd never come close to killing someone before (because Ian had been alive and escaped the ropes. Either that, or someone had moved the body).
"Sasha, you didn't have any other choice. If Ian did kill Alison, chances are, he wouldn't have stopped at Alison and Spencer. He would've come after me, Aria, Hanna… maybe even you," Emily pointed out. "I'm not going to say it was the right thing, but in this situation, there was no right decision. There weren't even any good decisions. You took a life to save lives, and it wasn't right, but in this case, you didn't have any better options."
"Yeah," Hanna agreed. "When you live in a town where all of the cops are either corrupt or complete and total idiots, you quickly run out of choices when there's no justice."
"Hanna and Emily are right," Aria stated. "Besides, Ian might still be alive and he'll hopefully be arrested, and this whole A stuff will stop."
"What if he comes after me?" Sasha asked.
Spencer shrugged. "You saved me, Sasha. We will protect you with everything we have. Understand?"
Sasha nodded, but she couldn't tear her mind away from the way she'd started laughing after pushing Ian off of the bell tower.
It scared her. A lot.
"If you have a secret, never tell anyone and don't write it down," Alison used to tell her.
Sasha didn't write about that laugh or anything about that horrible day in her diary or anywhere else, and she didn't tell anyone. Not Aria. Not Spencer. Not Hanna. Not Emily. She didn't even speak of it aloud and avoided it like the plague in her thoughts. Weeks went by, and A didn't mention it in any messages or texts. Sasha had hidden this secret so deep in her mind, even A couldn't find a way to get to it.
That laugh, that feeling after she pushed Ian… that was a secret she wanted to keep to herself, and she was determined to take that secret to her grave.
She didn't want anyone to know that she might be becoming like Alison, the very person she vowed to never become, no matter what. She didn't want anyone to know that she might be becoming… that she might be turning into something even worse than Alison.
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