Synopsis: it's been 5 years since the events took place with Charlotte and Aria's graduation and she left town with a big secret. Now the court systems have tracked her down as part of Victim's Voice to speak at Charlotte's parole hearing, will her secret be discovered?

Character: Aria Montgomery aka A.M. Marié, Jason DiLaurentis, Spencer Hastings, Alison DiLaurentis, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields, Byron Montgomery, Ella Montgomery, Mike Montgomery, Cece Drake, Veronica Hastings, Melissa Hastings, Mona Vanderwaal, Toby Cavanaugh, Caleb Rivers, Lucas Gottesman, Holden Strauss, Ezra Fitz(gerald), Maggie Cutler(-Fitz), Lorenzo Calderon, Elliot Rollins, Ashley Marin, Pam Fields, Yvonne Phillips and last but not least A and the A-team

Characters mentioned: Malcolm Cutler(-Fitz), Nicole Gordon, Ian , Garrett Reynolds, Thomas, Jake, Meredith, (mentioned only), Peter Hasting, Ken DiLaurentis, Jessica DiLaurentis, Mary Drake, Maya St Germain, Noel Kahn, Shana Fring, Jenna Marshall, Paige McCullers, Sara Harvey

Main Original Characters: AJ Montgomery

Original Characters-Rosewood/Philadelphia: Kurt Griffin, Bill, Jenny,

Original Characters only mentioned: Baby Cutler-Fitz, Jessica Smith, Cami,

Original Characters - Saint Louis Characters: Mateo Martinez, Sophia Martinez, Enrico Salvatore, Jae Sun Chang, Stacey Sun Chang, Marianne Sun Chang, Dre Owens, Rochelle Owens, Rosario Garcia, Lance Livingston, Travis Coleman. Tiana Coleman Jasper Coleman, Amber Davis-Smith, Wendy Davis-Smith, Thom Carrington, Danny (mentioned only),

Pairings: Aria/Jason, Byron/ Ella, Alison/ Lorenzo, Spencer/Kurt (OC), Hanna/Lucas, Toby/Yvonne, Mateo(OC)/Enrico(OC), Jae(OC) /Stacey(OC), Dre(OC) /Rochelle(OC), Travis(OC)/Tiana(OC), Amber(OC)/Wendy(OC), Lance(OC)/Rosario(OC) (speculation),

Paring mentioned only: Aria/Jason, Aria/Jake, Jason/Ashley, Jason/Cece, Jason/Nicole, Jason/Cami (OC), Byron/Meredith, Ella/Zack, Alison/Emily, Alison/Noel, Spencer/Toby, Spencer/Caleb, Emily/Maya, Emily/Paige, Emily/Toby, Hanna/Caleb, Hanna/Jordan, Peter/Veronica, Peter/Jessica, Peter/Mary, Ken/Jessica. Ken/Mary, Cece/Elliot Mike/Mona, Jenna/Shana, Lucas/OC, Mateo (OC)/unnamed ex(OC), Mateo(OC)/Danny(OC), Mateo(OC)/Thom(OC)

Note: More characters and pairings may be added later as I continue writing this.

Disclaimer: I don't own any part of the Pretty Little Liars Tv or book series. This is for entertainment purposes only

Notes: The characters might seem OOC, but this is based on an original story I started jotting down, but I decided to put a Jaria and PLL twist to it because I thought it could be twisted to fit in with Cece and the A thing (my original story isn't quite as dramatic as a transgender sister locked in an asylum for the criminally insane, but you get the picture. Someday I will probably post my original version I have completed so far. I am WARNING you this is still very much a rough draft like I had been working on it every time inspiration hits, in many places I literally just changed names and physical descriptions of the original rough draft as well (I rarely get past the rough draft (free flow) stage unless something is due for a grade and even then, I procrastinate until the last minute.)

Chapter synopsis: in this chapter, this is my version of why Charlotte became A and her obsession with her family including Spencer who she has recently found out about thanks to a file left anonymously in her cell at Welby

~~~~~ Chapter 1 - Another DiLaurentis/Hasting's Family Secret ~~~~

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Jason and Alison DiLaurentis arrived at Welby Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane to visit with their sister Charlotte. Jason had been five years old when his brother, Charlie, was taken away, thereafter when he would bring up Charlie's name his parents would tell him that Charlie was a figment of his imagination, that he was a big boy now and much too old for an imaginary brother that had never existed: ironically, he never really had. He had missed Charlie when he first disappeared, but eventually his parents convinced him he'd made him up. Once started school and met Ian and Garret who would remain his best friends throughout school he forgotten about Charlie until Charlotte became A and took over the game. Jason didn't have many memories of his brother but, looking back on those Jason did have of him, Charles had always been Charlotte.

He still didn't completely understand why Charlotte had done most of the things she had when she came back into his life... like dating him for example, if she would have told him the truth from the beginning it could have saved some of the heartache that keeping the secret had ultimately causes. Instead she chose to play the part of the high maintenance, scheming girlfriend. It still made Jason nauseous knowing that he made out with his sister and was grateful that she had stopped in at that, although at the time in his ignorance if who Cece Drake really was, he had not been as happy about it.

Even after explaining her actions he still didn't understand but decided to let it go and forgive her. Letting go of the past, had healed his relationship with her and Alison. And even if he didn't fully understand choices she had made, he was now at least able to see his sister for who she had always been. It was sad Ken hadn't been able to except her for who she was, things could have been better his sister, him, the whole family. Charlotte wouldn't have been taken away at seven to grow up in an insane asylum without her family without the love and support she needed.

Charlotte DiLaurentis was nervously pacing the day room when she was told her family arrived calming down for the first time since waking up. She was always anxious on visitation days until Alison and Jason if he wasn't somewhere trying to help bring a clean water source to areas where they didn't have access to it. Often, Spencer would come along whenever she was in Rosewood. After her arrest the first doctor assigned to her case helped her realize that she had become obsessed with Ali and Jason. She hadn't wanted to share them with anyone, not even Jason's half-sister Spencer. She still dealt with that obsession.

She bright smile graced her lips, when she was led into the visitation room and seen Jason and Alison, but her smile dimmed some when she noticed that Spencer was not with them. Charlotte had a secret and now she was fighting an obsession with Spencer as well as Jason and Alison. A file had found its way into her room a couple months earlier and after reading the contents the attachment to Spencer grew. Because of the file, she knew that Spencer was her sister. So far, she kept this to herself, she hadn't even told Elliot, her main doctor and the man she loved.

Before her game began unraveling, she convinced herself that she was trying to protect her brother and sister, she loved them she had never wanted to hurt them. She thought she was protecting them and that she was the only one who truly cared about them. She just wanted her family safe and happy and she had believed she was the only one who could do that. She had thought she would give everything they could want, and no one would hurt them again. She had never meant for Jason or Alison to get hurt, but they had been hurt...along with the sister she hadn't known at the time she had.

She almost lost Alison twice, once when she attacked her thinking she was Bethany, only to get her back and again when Alison was convicted of killing Mona because of her botched attempt to separate her baby sister from her friends. Alison wasn't supposed to go down for that, her friends were. She only allowed police to see that Mona was still alive to protect Alison, once she made sure the other girls were arrested and collected them for her doll house.

She never really wanted to hurt them either. In her own way she loved them too, they were her little dolls. She had even planned on sharing them with her siblings, she had even tried to get Aria to put the pink streak in her hair Jason had liked so much. She would be her brother's special doll; she would never leave him or choose that teacher or anyone else over him again. However, her dolls had run away, she had to punish them for abandoning her.

Next, she almost lost Jason in the sabotaged elevator. It was supposed to be Emily, Aria, Hanna, Spencer or she hoped Mona that was hurt, not Jason. Bogus clues had been planted in the hopes of luring the five girls to her father's office knowing Alison would keep Ken busy, but things didn't work out as she planned.

Spencer found a flash drive that Sara had accidentally left behind. Hanna called Caleb to help Spencer to figure out the password and decode the encrypted files. After decoding the first file Aria was sent to Ezra's to see if she could go through research he had gathered for the book about Alison's disappearance to see if maybe something had been missed. With Shana's death they thought the A problem was over but the soon learned she had just been a pawn used by Jenna and A because she had fallen in love with Jenna.

Alison was about ready to go out with her father keeping him busy, so Spencer and Emily could to go to Ken's office when Jason showed up looking for Aria. Spencer and Alison told Jason Aria been held up at school, they both knew their brother was insecure about his and Aria's relationship when it came to Ezra. It hadn't been that long since she had chosen her former teacher over him. She broke up with Jake, who was sweet, understanding and sexy for the guy used her to get closer to the girls to gather information about Alison's disappearance who, despite acting as if he knew nothing about Ali, had been dating her before she disappeared because she felt she owed him another chance after he was shot by Shana protecting them.

Spencer told Jason about the dropped flash drives and a clue they found that led them to Ken's office that could help them identify. Jason insisted on going to his father's office so Spencer should continue working with Caleb on the getting the files and luckily Emily refused to let Jason go alone or Cece might have lost him that night. She had been late arriving to the office and only seen Emily go in and ordered the plan carried out.

After the doll house, the girls had told him about A, but not everything. For instance, neither Jason nor Toby knew about threats made against them unless Aria and Spencer broke up with them. Spencer broke up with Toby earlier that week, two days after prom the screws loosened holding a scaffolding holding it in place and it fell with him on it. A sent a text 'Last Warning Bitch-A'. Aria was still dating Jason the night of the elevator incident and Cece used the mistake to her advantage and that night Aria ended their relationship.

And finally, there was Spencer. The sister she didn't know was not only Jason's, but hers as well. So many times, she could have lost Spencer with her schemes to have her family all to herself. Because of the file left for her, Charlotte knew that Jessica had an identical twin named Mary who had been in and out of Radley for most of her young adult life since she was seventeen. Ken DiLaurentis was her father, but her mother was Mary, not Jessica.

Mary had escaped from Radley, tracked down her sister and new husband, pretending to be Jessica she seduced Ken who never new of his wife's identical twin. By the time he found out the truth, Mary was pregnant with Charlotte. She was put back in Radley and Jessica took the baby to raise as her own. Several years later, Mary was let out of the hospital and she learned about Jessica's affair with Peter Hastings and she came up with a plan, and once again she pretended to be Jessica and seduced Peter.

Because Mary was pretending to be her sister all over town and Jessica found out about nine months later Spencer was born, also inside the walls of Radley. She was given to her father and his wife raised Spencer as her own daughter. Mary eventually escaped from Radley again and hadn't been heard from since. Charlotte planned on being the best sister Spencer could ever want if she got out of Welby. "Where's Spencer? I thought she was coming."

She fought back irrational jealousy when Ali answered, "Oh, she's helping her mom with the campaign today. She will be here tomorrow." Charlotte had work to do when it came to her family, but she was making progress.

Notes: What do you think? I know there's not a lot going on here. It is mostly background information for my version of the DiLaurentis/Hastings Family and a bit of Jaria background. Hope this all makes sense to you later. I played with the timeline for the elevator and Toby's accident for my purposes.

Yours,

GrimLi

Additional Notes: Thought I should read through the stories before doing any further updates and decided to clean up some of the wordiness and other errors and hopefully make it a bit easier to read. Sometimes the ideas come faster than fingers can type.

More notes: I am giving this a bit of a rewrite to fix things that bothered me. Hopefully chapter 1 has a better flow, makes more sense and has less mistakes.