A/N- I own nothing. Pretty Little Liars belongs to Marlene King and ABCFamily.
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The television was on and the family was sitting in the living room watching the news after dinner. Paige had gone home a couple hours ago to have dinner with her family because her dad was actually home right now. Emily's dad was on leave as well and she wanted to spend as much time with him as she could since she started being the assistant coach and spending her afternoons at the school pool again. A 'Breaking News' alert came on and the news anchors started to show video of someone who had been kidnapped recently. It was unusual for a kidnapper to show live video so this was a big deal. That was when everyone in the room sat bolt up and couldn't breathe.
On the television was Paige gagged and bound with what looked like zip ties from the angle the camera was at. The black hood stood just behind her with a fist in her hair and a knife to her throat. You could see the tears falling from Paige's eyes even as she tried her best to look strong. A sign on an easel read "Paige McCullers has 24 hours to live.-A"
Emily's hand went to cover her mouth as she gasped and stood quickly. Her mother almost just as fast joined by her father as well. Every thought in her mind was hoping this could end with finding Paige before anything happened. That's when they heard an altered voice recording from the tv.
"You have 24 hours. Game on Liars." was all it said as the family watched the knife being pulled away from Paige's neck only to have her punched in the face with the handle. You could see the blood starting to leak from the gash below her right eye. Emily let out a small cry as she turned her head unable to watch but the news cut away saying that the feed was cut off. Pulling out her phone as messages from her friends came in. No message from A like she thought she would get.
Making a group message Emily sent 'SOS' to everyone and within ten minutes the girls were all in Emily's room to discuss what they had just seen.
Hanna couldn't even sit. As soon as she saw Emily her arms opened and she grabbed her best friend in the tightest hug she'd ever given. Emily was there when Caleb got shot and now Hanna was going to return the favor. As soon as Hanna's arms wrapped around her Emily could feel the tears escaping her eyes as they were shut. The feeling of more arms being wrapped around her as well as Spencer and Aria joined in the hug.
"We need to nail A once and for all. This has gone too far now." Spencer voiced into Emily's ear just before she pulled out of the hug and went and sat at Emily's desk.
Aria let go as well and took a seat on the bed, "I agree. It's one thing to come after us but it's another thing to go after our other halves. How are you doing right now, Em?" She told the group.
Letting go of Hanna with a thank you and sitting down on her window seat Emily looked at the spot where her and Paige first kissed in her room. A sad smile came to her face before answering Aria, "I'm not okay. A has Paige somewhere and is doing who knows what to her. I am not okay." Emily was almost yelling by the end and she was standing as she looked at her three best friends. That was when her phone beeped and her heart stopped. Pulling it out to read the message she had just received.
Game on Emily. Let's see if you can find me before I take your little girlfriend away from you forever. -A
Emily read it out loud to her friends and they all jumped when a knock came on the bedroom door. "Yeah?" Emily raised her voice to let whoever it was in.
Wayne Fields poked his head in, "Emmy, I just wanted to see if everything was alright up here. I wanted to talk to you when you have a minute."
"Okay. I'll be down in a few minutes." Emily told her father. He nodded to her and shut the door again. "Can Caleb try to track where the video came from, Hanna?"
Hanna turned to look at Emily before she pulled her phone out to check something. "He's already on it. He called me when I was on my way over here. He agrees that we need to get on this quickly. He is having Toby meet him somewhere so they can work on things together." Hanna informed everyone.
"Yeah, Toby called me and said that he may or may not have access to the program that Mona used and he's going to let Caleb borrow it so they can find where Paige is being kept." Spencer chimed in.
Emily nodded but couldn't really form a thought anymore. The boys were on it but ,really, what would happen if they couldn't find Paige in time? Emily didn't want to think about that. Sitting back down with her head in her hands between her knees hoping she wasn't going to be sick at the thought of never seeing her love again. Hanna, being the only one still standing at the time, went over and started to rub Emily's back and try to tell her that they would find Paige before anything else happened to her. They heard the doorbell ring and everyone stood and filed out the bedroom door to look down the stairs at the open front door. There stood Paige's parents along with two uniformed officers.
Emily walked down a few stairs so she could hear what was being asked.
"Ma'am, when did Paige McCullers leave your house this evening?" The taller of the two officers asked Pam Fields.
Pam looked to her husband before looking back at the cops, "She went home about six thirty this evening." She was now playing absentmindedly with the necklace she was wearing.
The officer's looked at each other and one wrote something on a pad he had out. "Was she driving her own car or did someone take her home?" The second officer asked Emily's parents.
"She had her own car as far as I knew. I mean, Emily didn't need to take her home." Wayne spoke up as Pam nodded her head to agree.
Again, something was written in the little pad. "So Ms. McCullers was alone when she left your house?"
"Yes." Emily walked down a few more steps and answered the question herself. She could hear the girls following her as she hit the bottom of the stairs and stood behind her parents.
"You're Emily? The girlfriend?" One of the officers looked to Emily.
A purse of her lips to show her slight anger at this question. "I am. Is there something wrong with that?" She answered in a tone that almost dared them to say something about it.
With another couple notes in the little pad one of the officers shook his head. "No ma'am. We just need to get a picture of everything that went on today and who Ms. McCullers was with before her disappearance. Can you tell us anything you did before Paige left your house this evening?"
Emily turned to check her father's reaction to them asking her questions. He nodded his okay so she thought a second before answering. "We had swim practice and she came over so we could hang out for a while. We were mostly upstairs doing our homework and talking. Than she went home and I helped my mom with dinner." Emily told them with a flat voice.
The cop with the little pad wrote something down and closed it. "Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Fields. Emily. I think this is all we needed for now. If you have anymore information or can think of anywhere Paige would have stopped or a different route she would have gone home, please call and let us know." He pulled a card carrier out of his top uniform pocket and handed Wayne a card with his contact information on it. "You folks have a good night."
The two uniformed cops turned away and started to walk away to their cruiser but Paige's parents stayed.
"Come on in." Pam told Nick and Angela before stepping aside to let them in.
Angela took Emily into her arms and gave her a tight hug. "I don't know what's going to happen." She had tears in her voice and her eyes.
Emily and Angela had a good relationship after Paige and Emily started seeing each other the second time. After that night in Paige's pool with them swimming, Angela took a liking to Emily quickly. Not only because she was also on the swim team and could keep Paige in line with that but because Emily had a passion for life. Angela loved that about her and found it infectious. She had even started taking Paige on trips once a month to just 'have fun' as Paige would say. "We will find her. Don't cry." Emily felt her voice break but knew it was from tears forming and not because she was worried about not finding Paige. If anyone could find Paige it would be Caleb and Toby so the girls could get to her in time. "The girls and I have to go out for little while. We are going over to Spencer's house. I'll be back in a little while Mom, okay?" Emily asked her mom.
Pam gave a worried look from Emily and than to the girls standing around her. She understood perfectly. "Okay. Call if you are going to be later than midnight. I love you."
Emily nodded and they all grabbed their coats and walked out past Nick McCullers through the still open door.