Disclaimer: I do not own Pretty Little Liars, nor the characters there in. If I did, the A mystery would have been solved a long time ago and the plot would be focused on Ezria.
Author's Note: This is just a little story to help keep you (and me) going until the show returns. Based off of the events in the season 4 finale.
"Don't close your eyes! Don't you dare close your eyes!" Aria Montgomery screamed as Ezra Fitz's eyes fluttered shut.
For a moment she heard the other girls. "Ezra!" "No!" "Help!" She couldn't tell who was screaming what. Soon, though, their voices faded out. She could still see them, out of the corner of her eye, jumping around and trying to decide what to do, but she couldn't hear anything. Time seemed to slow down. She couldn't think. She couldn't form any coherent thought within her mind. She lifted Ezra's head and held it to her body. She saw tears drip onto his face that she hadn't even known she was crying. And then, as quickly as it had gone away, everything came back. The sound of a siren far in the distance brought her back. "Ezra! Ezra! Please don't leave me!" She hadn't even known she was screaming but she was. The next thing she knew Emily and Alison were running down the stairs, Hanna still stood at the edge of the building screaming for help, and Spencer sat down next to Ezra, trying to take him out of Aria's grasp. "NO!" she screamed and held him tighter.
Spencer placed a hand on Aria's shoulder and with a shaking voice told her "I have to check his airway and pulse." The fear in Spencer's voice startled Aria, so she reluctantly let her friend look at him. It seemed that he was still breathing and Aria breathed a slight sigh of relief. He wasn't gone. He wasn't gone yet. The blood stain on his shirt was getting larger and larger though, and when Spencer pulled his shirt up to look at the wound it was so bad that she had to look away. Aria tried to keep herself from vomiting.
She didn't know what to do or how to help, so she picked up Ezra's limp hand and held it to her face. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for everything. I love you. I love you so much. Please don't leave me. Just please don't leave me." She listened for the ambulance but it sounded just as distant as it had before. "What is taking so long!" she screamed to no one in particular.
"He's losing a lot of blood but I don't know how to stop it. I can't make a tourniquet for his abdomen and I don't know if I should put pressure on it with something because nothing I have is clean and it could lead to infection and I don't…" Spencer tried to talk herself through a solution to the problem at hand but was coming up at nothing. Then Hanna started yelling.
"I see it! It's coming!" She jumped and pointed down the street. Then she dropped to her knees and put her arm around Aria. "How's it looking?"
"I don't know," Spencer said, only half paying attention while she was lost in thought.
Hanna gave Aria a squeeze and Aria rested her head on her shoulder. "It's gonna be okay." Hanna reassured her.
A few moments later Ali burst through the stairwell door. "They're coming! Emily's telling them where we are, but they're here. They should be on their way up." Behind Aria's back Alison signaled to Spencer. "How is he?" she mouthed, not wanting to upset Aria. Spencer just shrugged and shook her head.
What seemed like an eternity later, the ambulance pulled up at the hospital. They had originally told the girls that no one could ride with them, but after their protests Aria was allowed to sit up front with the driver. Though she asked questions for the entire drive, no one would give her any answers. As soon as they were parked Aria jumped out of the vehicle, as did the crew in the back, running Ezra's gurney into the OR. Aria tried to follow them, but a big man with a deep voice blocked her with his arm. "You can't go back there." He noticed the tears running down her face and added a little more kindly. "I'm sorry. There is a waiting room through those doors. That's where you need to be."
Aria nodded and tried to say thank you, but nothing would come out. Mercifully, there weren't many people in the waiting room, so she sat down in a corner chair and focused on not falling apart. Suddenly it hit her that Ezra had family that should know what was happening. She forced herself to get up and walk over to the desk where a kind old woman told her "There's no news about Mr. Fitz, sweetie, I'm sorry."
"Um, I was actually wondering if there was a phone book I could use… and a phone." The woman gave a soft nod and reached under the desk. A few moments later she emerged with a dusty old phone book that clearly hadn't been used in a while.
"Thank you." She took it back to her seat and flipped through it, trying to find the Fitzgeralds and panicking about how she would tell Diane the news. Thankfully, Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Alison walked through the door with phones in hand at that same time.
"How are you?" Emily was the first one to hug Aria. Spencer walked past the group and straight to the desk.
"Excuse me. Do you have any information on Ezra F…" The woman cut her off.
"I'm sorry miss. There's no news. We'll let you know when he is out of surgery." Spencer gave a weak smile and nodded as she turned back to the group. She wanted to say something, but there was nothing to say. No one else knew what to say either, so they all sat down in a circle of chairs.
"Oh!" Aria jumped up, startling the other girls. "I have to call his family! Do you have my phone?" Hanna reached into her pocket and pulled it out.
"Can you do it? One of us can call if you want," Emily offered, but Aria shook her head.
"No. It needs to be me." As she walked into the hallway her friends stared after her, admiring her strength.
Thankfully, Aria still had Wesley's number saved in her phone, so she wouldn't have to talk to Diane directly. Still, having to tell someone their brother has been shot wasn't much better.
"Aria?" He sounded surprised to see her calling and somewhere in the back of her mind she wondered if he knew about her and Ezra's breakup.
"Wesley, I have something to tell you. Are you around other people?" She was trying to brace him for the news.
"Uh… no. I'm in my room, why?" He was thrown by the serious tone the conversation had taken.
"Um, I don't know how to tell you this, so I'm just gonna say it." She took a deep breath and said her word slowly and deliberately. "Ezra got shot. He's in New York in surgery right now." She waited for a response but there was none. "Wesley?"
"You're not being serious? That's a stupid joke, Aria." She didn't know how to respond to that, but she didn't have to, because the next thing she heard was a broken cry. "What happened? Which hospital?"
She was determined to keep it together. He didn't need her crying right now too, so she kept her voice steady and sure, or, atleast as steady and sure as she could manage. "My friends and I were in the New York City and someone tried to attack us. They pulled a gun, but Ezra fought them off. He got hit in the abdomen. It's Mount Sinai Hospital."
Wesley cleared his throat, but it didn't help much. "I'm on my way."
"Wait!" she didn't want him to hang up before she was done. "I don't have your mom's number. I don't even know your dad. If you want to give me their numbers, I can call them for you." She hoped he'd say no, but felt she had to offer. Thankfully he turned her down.
"Okay, well, call me if you need directions or anything." After that, the line went dead. Aria was going to go back in with the rest of the girls, but she had one more call to make. The first time, no one answered, so she tried again. They answered on the second ring.
"Aria! I'm sorry, I tried to make it to the phone in time, but I had just gotten out of the shower, so I was run…"
"Mom…" Aria cut her off midsentence and with that, she finally fell apart.
This chapter feels a little chaotic, but that comes with this kind of content, so I hope you enjoyed it anyway. There's some really good stuff (I hope) coming up, so please keep reading. Thank you to anyone who has read so far and please, if you feel so inclined, leave a review and let me know how I'm doing. Pointers are always appreciated!