This is just something that came into my mind after I watched the trailer for the Halloween episode. It has Spoby, of course (maybe I'm a little too obsessed with them, but how couldn't I be?) and the other girls are in it as well. This isn't a spoiler or anything, just a crazy idea that I had ad I felt like sharing with you guys. As usual, reviews are appreciated and I hope that you enjoy reading this one-shot as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Spencer, Hanna, Aria and Emily approached the cemetery slowly, not wanting to get to the party. They felt as if they were in a trap, even though –A was nowhere in sight. The sight of the black, giant gates to the graveyard in front of them gave them goose bumps and made them want to turn around and go back to Rosewood. Rosewood wasn't the happiest place on earth, it was actually where all hell that the girls had been through happened, but it was somehow better than this town.
Ravenswood was weird to say the least. Everything in the town was black, white or gray, even the people. And the most strange thing: The party that the girls were going, with the objective of finding re coat (or Ali, if she was alive) and finding the real –A, was going to be held at a graveyard. If this wasn't enough to send the girls back to Rosewood, nothing was. They were feeling anxious and scared, their hearts beating a million times per minute. The only thing that kept them walking towards their possible death was the thought of ending all of the torture, the threats and finally have a happy ending.
They had been through so much in less than three years and it felt like they would never get peace. Today, they had gone to Ravenswood to get some of their questions answered only to receive more questions. Was Ali really alive, after all this time? Who was the real –a, then? Was Cece the real –A? They feared that they would never get this questions answered, but they hoped that they would tonight.
As they faced the graveyard, Spencer's phone started ringing in her pocket. The other girls looked at her with fear, thinking that it may be –A. However, when her face turned from fear to relief, they knew that it wasn't –A.
"Hey." She answered with a smile and they already knew who it was. Only one person could make Spencer smile like that and it was Toby.
"Hey, Spence. Why aren't you back at Rosewood yet?" Toby answered, far away from where they were.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot to warn you. So, we found out that Alison may be really alive and we're at a party in Ravenswood's cemetery so we can try to find her."
"How do you know that she is alive?"
"Mrs. Grunwald decided to talk." She replied. "Anyways, I have to disconnect right now because we are already here."
"Okay. I'm going there right now, okay?" He asked. There was no doubt that he'd go there to protect his girl. He had already lost her many times, he wouldn't risk losing her again.
"Okay. I love you. Bye."
"I love you too." Then they disconnected and Spencer turned around to look at her friends, who held smiles on their faces but she could also see tiredness and anxiety.
They went back to staring at the gate, as if it would open by itself and they would go in, against their wills. Being the bravest, Spencer took a step forward and opened the gate slowly. It made a sound like in horror movies, which made them feel even more scared. The feeling of being watched came back and Hanna and Emily looked around, but there was no one in sight. They started walking In the graveyard, feeling like they would be walking back. Every noise they heard made them search for the enemy, but still they were the only people there. As they walked closer to the party, they could hear loud music and people screaming, which made them relieved.
They saw a small passage in the middle of the graveyard and supposed that it was the right way to the party. Again, Spencer was the first to move and she walked down the four steps to stop in front of a wooden door. She looked back at the three scared looking girls behind her and they didn't say anything, so she opened the door. Looking inside, she saw nothing, only darkness.
"I think that this is the way to the party." She said and Hanna, Aria and Emily suddenly moved as is they were paralyzed before and joined her in front of the door.
"This smells like a trap to me." Hanna said as she looked inside the passage and Emily nodded her head, agreeing.
"Well, there's only one way to find out." Spencer replied and she entered the passage. She walked a few steps and the sound of her foot tapping the floor was the only sound they heard. As she reached around her pocked for her phone so she could illuminate the passage, the door closed around her with a hard BUMP and she slowly turned around. She walked back to the door, but it didn't open, as if someone had locked it.
"Hanna?" She asked and she sighed in relief when she heard her friend's worried voice from the other side.
"Spence? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Just… keep going without me."
"No way!" Aria said, not believing the words leaving Spencer's mouth.
"This has to get somewhere, Aria." Spencer replied. "I'll just keep walking and I'll meet you at the party." The other girls weren't so sure about that, but they decided that it was best if they kept walking. They had important things to do tonight, there was no time for indecision. So they walked away from their friend and towards the worst night in their lives or the best. They didn't know what was gonna happen and they surely weren't prepared to what they were going to find out.
Spencer kept walking around the passage with her phone lightening a path for her, but she was feeling terrified. She had no idea where this was getting at and she was worried about something happening to her friends and she wouldn't be able to do anything about it. As she kept walking, she noticed that there were more tunnels appearing, but she kept going straight, hoping that this was the right way to the party. She walked for a long time, but she was feeling really tired so she decided to make a stop. As she laid her head on the wooden wall, she heard footsteps coming closer and closer to her. Feeling suddenly scared, she put her phone back in her pocket and made as minimum sound as possible, hoping that whoever was there wouldn't find her. However, as she hadn't had any luck in a long time, the footsteps stopped right in front of her. A voice that she hadn't heard in almost three years was heard and her eyes widened in shock.
"Spencer?" It was Alison's voice. Alison, her once best friend, now a stranger. She couldn't believe that she was really hearing Alison's voice, that Alison was really alive.
"Ali?" She asked and her voice sounded weak even to her ears.
"I'm not here to hurt you, okay? I wanna help you." Light hit the dark tunnel as Alison held her face near her face, so Spencer could see her. In her eyes there was comfort and trust, but Spencer still distrusted her. She had had a lot of experiences with betrayal and she wasn't ready to go through all the pain and sadness again. Alison must have sensed that Spencer didn't trust her because she sighed.
"I know, Spence. I know that you don't wanna trust me, I know that you are afraid. But I beg you to follow me now because I know the right way to the party." Spencer considered her words. She looked at the tunnel where she could see three ways and back at Alison. Should she follow Alison and risk her life or should she keep walking on her own and risk getting lost? Her heart told her to trust her old friend and, for once, she decided to follow it instead of her mind. She nodded at Alison and a big smile appeared on the other girl's face. What she failed to see was the guilt behind the smile, the guilt that Alison felt about what she was about to do.
They walked through the tunnels for what seemed like hours, with Spencer following Alison dutifully. When finally they reached a small room, Spencer was confused. Weren't they supposed to get to the party? She felt scared now as she looked at the old room full of dust. A small stair was placed in the opposite corner of the room and Alison picket it up and placed it in the middle of the room. She walked up the stairs and started touching the ceiling, looking for something and Spencer realized that there must be a trapdoor. Her thought was proven right when Alison opened the trapdoor and climbed it.
'You coming?" She asked Spencer and there was no need or the question as Spencer climbed the stairs quickly and joined Alison in another room. As she looked around, she realized that she was in a house, but there was no once in sight. That's when she realized her mistake. This was a trap and she had no way to get out of here. She looked back at Alison, who was looking at the window. As soon as the other girl noticed her look, her face turned into guilt instead of evil like Spencer was expecting. Now she was really confused.
"Our journey ends here." Alison said and her voice sounded creepy and her face was expressionless. "But I want to say this first. I'm sorry, Spence." A second after she said that, Spencer felt a hand being placed at her mouth and she tried to fight, but she suddenly felt too weak. A needle was placed on her arm and her fighting was reduced as she felt herself falling into darkness. She looked at Alison one last time to see the guilt in the other girl's face. Then, the darkness engulfed her and she was gone.
Meanwhile, with the girls…
Hanna, Aria and Emily walked and walked and walked. It seemed like they would be getting nowhere and the freezing wind didn't help much. As they grew tired and tired, the only good thing was the music getting louder and louder as they approached the party. Finally, they reached a big, brown house with white flowers on the windows and red flowers on vases in the porch.
They started running towards the house, but stopped when Aria suddenly screamed. As Hanna and Emily looked at her, she was lying on the ground holding her right foot. As she moved a little, they could see a hand coming out of the ground and understood that Aria must have tripped on it. Emily kneeled near her and helped her stand up. As soon as she stood up, she used Emily for support as her legs almost gave out.
"Are you okay?" Emily asked.
"Yeah, but I think that I sprained my foot." Aria replied and she sat back down, touching her injured foot. They could see that it was purple and a little swollen as Aria wasn't wearing anything over her golden sandals.
"What are we going to do?" Hanna asked, already getting desperate. They couldn't leave Aria there alone, but they also couldn't take her with them to the house because she'd be forcing her foot too much and it could get worse. Before anyone could answer, they heard two male voices calling them. They looked back to see Toby and Caleb walking with worried expressions on their faces. They approached the girls and Caleb kneeled down near Hanna. She immediately hugged him and they shared a sweet, small kiss before his attention turned back to the other girls.
"What's going on?" Caleb asked and Toby joined the group on the floor. He was already feeling worried because Spencer was nowhere in sight and he couldn't bear the thought of something happening to her.
"Aria tripped on something and she sprained her foot." Emily answered and she turned back to her friend, who was getting paler as she was in pain.
"Where is Spencer?" Toby asked, changing the subject. He knew that there was something wrong when he noticed that the three girls changed worried glances. "Where is she?" he asked again, since no one answered the first time.
"She… there was a passage to get here and Spencer got kind of stuck in there." Emily said with a small voice, so small that he almost didn't hear her. His face turned white at her words and worry filled his heart as well as fear. Spencer, his Spencer, was stuck in some kind of scary passage alone and there was nothing that he could do to help her.
Silence filled the five friends as they imagined what could happen to Spencer while she was alone, but they tried to shook it off and concentrate in the problem in hand.
"Okay, now we need to form a plan." Emily said, being the first to break the silence.
"Yes. Why don't Caleb and I go look for Ali while you, Toby and Aria go look for –A?" Hanna asked and they looked at each other, nodding in agreement.
"There's only one problem, I can't properly walk." Aria reminded everyone.
"I can carry you." Toby said awkwardly. He and Aria weren't very close, he had barely exchanged two words with her and right now he was offering to carry her around like he'd do to Spencer.
The group decided that it was best ad Toby picked Aria up and he carried her as him and Emily walked to the house. Carrying Aria was far from a problem or obstacle to him, she was as light as a feather and he was really strong. He only wished that he was carrying Spencer, that she was lying in the comfort of his arms, where she'd be safe. As they walked around the house, they found many people (unknown), but not the people they were looking for. They decided to get out and look around the cemetery as they didn't find Alison/red coat or –A anywhere inside the house.
As they were walking around the cemetery, they noticed a strange house in the middle of the graves. Normal people would run if they found a house in a cemetery, but they weren't normal people. As they approached the house, they could feel the air getting colder and the music getting lower. When they stopped in front of the house, they couldn't hear or see anything that looked human. Emily moved towards the door and she picked the nock, ready to open it.
"Wait!" Toby whispered/yelled. "I better go in first." Emily rolled her eyes at his masculinity, but let him get in first. He opened the door slowly and it made the same sound of the gates. Now Emily and Aria were practically shaking with both cold and fear. As they walked up the stairs, they heard voices. When they approached the first room, they saw two figures with their backs to them. But the figures weren't what called their attention. There, lying in a wooden bed, was Spencer Hastings. Her face was pale and her mouth was kind of blue. Her eyes were closed and she seemed to be sleeping, but her slow breaths alerted them that something was wrong. They stopped looking at her to listen to the figure's conversation.
"What the hell have you done?" One of them said and Toby recognized his voice immediately. It was Wren Kingston. He was sure that he had never felt as much hate for someone as he felt for Wren right now. If he wasn't holding Aria and Emily wasn't placing her hand on his shoulder, warning him not to do anything stupid, he was sure that he would run into the room and kill Wren with his own bare hands. He didn't ever realize that the other person had spoken, but Aria's gasp brought him back to reality.
"I just gave her the sedative, like you told me to do." This time, it was someone that he was not expecting. The voice belonged to Ezra Fitz, Aria's ex-boyfriend and his old English teacher. The figures seemed to be alarmed by Aria's gasp and Toby hid behind the open door as he sensed that Ezra and Wren had checked for anybody spying on them. When they didn't find anything, they went back to arguing and Toby listened to every word carefully. Aria was the only one who wasn't paying attention, as her body cracked with her quiet sobs. Toby suddenly felt pity of her and he understood how Spencer had felt when she found out that he was –A. He tried to comfort her, failing miserably as the tears kept cascading down her cheeks.
"It's okay, Aria. It's gonna be okay." After a few more minutes of Aria crying and him trying to comfort her, she closed her eyes and he noticed that her breaths became slower as she fell asleep.
At the same time, Emily was paying attention at Ezra and Wren and her mind was filled with fear and anger at every word that escaped their mouths.
"You're an idiot!" Wren exclaimed. "You gave her too much sedative and now she's overdosing. If we don't take her to the hospital, she's going to die."
"You say it like I care. What difference is one girl gonna make?"
"It might not make to you, but it makes to me." Wren replied with anger in his voice. Emily's eyes widened at Ezra's harsh words, her never having heard him talk like that.
"Oh, sorry. I forgot that you're in love with her." Ezra replied somewhat evilly and Emily felt goose bumps. Who was this person so evil and heartless? Was it possible that Ezra Fitz, their teacher and friend, could be so different from what they thought he was?
"Can you shut up? Discussing with me won't make anything better. What we need to do is find Alison before they find her."
"We already found Alison, in case you've forgotten, Wren."
"Yes, but we let her escape. Why did we let her escape?"
"Because you were too busy looking at Spencer to watch her and I was searching for the other girls." Ezra replied and his voice sounded threatening. Wren sighed.
"Okay then. Now why don't you look for Alison while I search for the girls?" they left the room minutes later and Toby and Emily took that as an opportunity to get in. He immediately approached Spencer and Emily touched her cheek, since his hands were occupied carrying Aria.
"She's so cold." Emily said and she put her head on Spencer's chest. "She isn't breathing normally too. We should take her to the hospital like Wren said." Toby just nodded. Emily then extended his arms and he handed Aria to her while he picked Spencer up.
The next few minutes were almost a blur as Emily called Hanna to warn her of what was going on and Hanna promised to meet them at the hospital later. They got out of the hospital quickly and Toby and Emily placed the two sleeping girls on the back sit of his truck (since Caleb had come by bus and the girls had come on Spencer's car, they found it better to take the truck) while him and Emily got into the front sit. He drove them rapidly to the hospital, passing many red signs in the process. They were lucky that they didn't get into an accident.
Less than an hour later, they were passing the "You're now entering Rosewood" sign and they got to the hospital ten minutes later. Toby parked the truck on the luckily empty parking and he picked up Spencer before running towards the double doors with Emily by his side. They decided that it was better to leave Aria at the car and they could get her later.
"Help! Someone help us!" Emily screamed and she got the attention of a tall, blonde doctor that walked towards them.
"Are you okay, miss?" He asked worriedly.
"Yes, but my friend is hurt." She nodded towards Spencer and the doctor looked at her.
"Follow me." He simply said and started walking in the halls. Emily and Toby followed him until they got into a small, empty hospital room.
"Put her on the bed." The doctor ordered and Toby gently lay Spencer on the bed. The doctor sat next to her and started searching for signs of what was wrong with her.
"Somebody kidnapped her and they gave her too much sedative." Toby said, noticing the doctor's research.
"So she's probably overdosing on sedative. That's pretty dangerous, but I'll try my best to make her go back to normal. I'm Doctor Scott, by the way." Toby shook his hand and Emily and him left the room to let Dr. Scott work his magic and cure Spencer. Emily went back to Toby's truck and she came back with a half-awaken Aria. The three sat together for over an hour before Caleb and Hanna joined them. Paige came not even thirty minutes later, after a worried Emily called her. The six friends sat in the waiting room, anxiety and fear filling their minds. They didn't have any updates on Spencer's condition and Toby could only imagine the worst.
As they waited, Emily explained everything that they had heard and seen, about –A and Alison. Hanna, Caleb and Paige were surprised that Ali was really alive, but they were even more surprised that Ezra, of all people, was –A. Aria started crying again as soon as Emily mentioned it and Hanna and Em hugged her, trying to comfort her. Suddenly, Spencer's doctor appeared in the hallway and Toby immediately got up.
"How is she?" He asked as soon as the doctor approached them.
"You were very lucky, I have to say. Her veins were full of sedative, but we managed to get it out and her breathing is back to normal. She's gonna be okay." Toby sighed loudly with relief and the doctor smiled at him.
"When can we see her?" He asked, anxious to see his girlfriend.
"You can go now if you want. She has already woken up and she's asked for her boyfriend." The doctor gave Toby a knowing smile and left the waiting room.
"Go. She needs you right now." Emily said and she placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. He smiled at her and followed the path to Spencer's hospital room. When he got to the room, he noticed a coincidence: The number on the door was clearly marked as 215. He smiled to himself as he remembered that night, the scrabble game and spying on Jenna. Then he thought about how long it had been since Spencer and he played scrabble or stayed together without fighting? The last time they had kissed was, he was surprised to know, when they got back from the lodge, which had been over two months ago. He couldn't believe it. He promised to himself that from now on, he'd enjoy every moment that he had with her and not concentrate on other things, not even him mother. Even though she was a very important person to him, she was dead, and finding out what happened to her wouldn't bring her back.
He opened the door slowly and noticed Spencer sitting on the bad and looking out of the window. As soon as she saw him, a big smile spread across her face and his heart melted. Even though she was still pale and looked very tired, she was the most beautiful women that he had ever seen.
"Hey." He said quietly as he approached her bed and sat on the chair near it.
"Hey." She replied shortly and extended her hand. He immediately understood the message and grabbed her hand, squeezing it tightly. They smiled at each other but didn't say anything else.
"I'm glad you're here." Spencer was the first to break the silence.
"I am too. I was so worried about you."
"I know. But you had no reason to worry, I'm a Hastings, we don't go down that easily."
"I know that, but you're not invincible, Spence. You could have died tonight."
"Yes, I could. But I didn't. Because of you. The thought of you gave me strength to survive."
"Never scare me like that again, okay? I don't know what I'd do without you, I love you so much." She saw the tears starting to fall from his eyes and her free hand moved to wipe them away. Words weren't necessary to describe what they felt for each other.
"I love you too." She shortly said after some minutes and they smiled at each other again before (finally) their lips met in a soft, sweet kiss. Toby's hands instantly wrapped around her waist and puller her closer while her arms wrapped around his neck. They couldn't be happier in that moment, but it had to end because their need for oxygen was bigger than their need for each other. They pulled apart slowly and tried to catch their breaths, both feeling a little bit dizzy. When they were feeling normal again, she patted the empty space on the bed and he lay down, pulling her on top of him. She lay her head on his chest and they stayed there, just holding each other. The future was unknown to them, many things would happen, but they knew one thing for sure: They would be together. Forever.
So… What did you think? I didn't even notice how long this was getting until I finished writing it. I hope that you guys enjoyed it and please REVIEW! Reviews make my day and they motivate me to keep writing. I plan on writing another one shot maybe similar to this one if you like it.