When Mona got locked up at Hospital no one wanted to visit and their reasons were all perfectly valid. Out of the four friends, the one that most had expected to break first and go and visit her was Hanna. She was the sweetest, happiest and most forgiving of the four, and it also had a lot to do with Mona being her best friend. The girls had risen in popularity together and Hanna couldn't just let go without the closure she needed.

Mona was sitting quietly on her bed watching the empty chair opposite her when her first visitor had arrived. Spencer sat on the chair opposite Mona, her haughty posture remaining as she glared right through Mona.

"You don't deserve to be sitting there. Some people might believe that you're insane, that you have a problem, but I know the truth. Inside your laughing at us, thinking you won but this is by no means over," Spencer said in a cool voice that allowed no emotion to crack through.

Mona didn't move an inch and in no way showed any sign that she had heard what Spencer had just said. Spencer got up, annoyed with the lack of response before getting up and leaving.

Spencer didn't know why she went back the next week or the one after that but there was something drawing her back to Mona. The first few times she went back she ranted at Mona for a while, before leaving when she had fully vented her thoughts. Sometimes the venting didn't even regard Mona.

Around her second week of visiting she had walked in only to find a completely lucid Mona playing cards with some of the other patients.

"Spencer!" Mona gushed when she spotted the other girl. The same girl, who not too long ago had tried to kill her.

"What happened to you?" Spencer asked rooted to her spot by the door.

Spencer was shocked to see Mona acting like a normal person and doing basic activities opposed to her previous trance like state.

"Turned out I was on the wrong meds, but they changed it and now I'm almost as good as new," Mona said cheerfully before continuing. "Thanks for the visits, I may not have been able to communicate but I heard all you had to say and I must say it was rather… enlightening."

After the first visit when Spencer had returned she assumed that Mona was catatonic and used her to vent all her feelings especially those regarding Aria, Hanna and Emily not to mention all those regarding Melissa. If she had known Mona could hear her she would never have said any of the things she had.

After Mona finished her sentence Spencer promptly turned on her heal and quickly left the building without a second look at the now grinning Mona.

Spencer had been trying to recreate A's lair while her friends had been running around digging their own graves even deeper, causing Spencer's already hefty stack of work to soar through the roof. Out of her three friends, Emily was the one being annoying for a change. Her drinking and attitude were really starting to piss Spencer off. God, they all got it, she was sad but there was nothing they could do. After another crazy day trying to fix the new A's disaster she found herself back at the hospital and back with Mona.

"You know, you were the first to visit me. My family is too ashamed to care and Hanna only visits because she feels entitled to know why it all happened. At first you came to blame me but now I don't know what you want," Mona said breaking the long silence between them, her words soft and thoughtful.

"Why did you want me to be part of the A team, why make that offer solely to me?" Spencer asked, she didn't know where the question had come from but know that it was out she was curious to hear the response.

"Well that's easy, Emily's the athlete, Aria's the artist, Hanna's the perfect friend and you are the brains behind it all. Could you honestly say that your friends would have been able to combat A so well if it wasn't for you. Don't be so naïve, they need you," Mona said through gritted teeth as if it pained her to admit it.

"If I'm so smart then why is A still after us?" Spencer asked, annoyed by how well Mona seemed to grasp the dynamic between her and her friends.

"Well Spencer, you may be smart but obviously you've forgotten who your main competition was in Junior High. I was the top student prior to dumbing down to fit at the top of the social ladder a little better. It was easier for Hanna; she was never that smart to begin with. I mean just last week she forgave me for everything I've done to her," Mona said chuckling to herself about how easy it was to manipulate Hanna.

"Wasn't that the whole point of this, to get Hanna back as your best friend?" Spencer asked looking disgusted at Mona's laughing form.

"Of course not, this is more about how your little precious group treated people like me. You thought you could step on us and we would just stay down? Well you were wrong. But out of the five of you, you were the exception. You had potential to be better than them, they're holding you back. With me you could do so much more, I know you hated Ali just as much as I did," Mona said, her face had turned serious and her grin was long gone.

Shortly after that Spencer left, she wasn't sure how to reply to Mona because for once she had spoken the truth. Aria, Emily and Hanna didn't stand a chance without her, her potential was too great to be stuck with all their baggage for life and she really did hate Ali. All in all she seemed to have a lot more in common with Mona than she had initially thought.