Total Eclipse of the Heart (Revised some)
Synopsis: This is kind of an AU/Re-write of Never Letting Go
better synopsis later
Warning: it is a rough draft and will probably become rated-M later on
Characters: Aria Montgomery, Spencer Hastings, Emily Fields, Hanna Marin, Jason DiLaurentis, Alex Santiago, Maya St. Germaine, Caleb Rivers, Ezra Fitz
Pairings: Ezra/Aria, Jason/Aria, Hanna/Caleb, Emily/Maya, Emily/Samara, Spencer/Alex S.
Dedicated to ILoveJaria27 thank you for the plot suggestion and the title
Disclaimer: I don't own any part of the Pretty Little Liars TV or Book series. This is for entertainment purposes only.
~~~Chapter 1~~~
Aria and the girls were in Emily's bedroom busy folding programs for the fashion show, her fingers were already growing stiff when she heard the beep alerting her of a new text. She read it quickly and her heart began racing. It wasn't from Ezra as she had suspected, even though she told the girls it was from him. It was from Jason, she had been thinking about him since Ian's funeral, longer than that if she were being perfectly honest. He had looked so alone and lost and she had wanted to take him in her arms and never let him go. But, she had been afraid to follow her baser instincts knowing that Spencer and Hanna were still in the cemetery as was Ezra, who had been talking to her parents about something that wasn't their relationship.
Aria told the girls that Ezra wanted to talk to her for a minute and went outside. Jason was waiting for her, parked a couple housed down from Emily's and she ran to his car as soon as she seen him and got in. "Hey," she said, "What's up?"
Jason looked down at the steering wheel for a minute before taking a deep breath and began "I said some things the other day that I probably shouldn't have."
"I thought you felt better now knowing that Ian..."
"I do, but what I said could be misconstrued if it got out." he told her his posture stiff as if he were nervous.
"Don't worry Jason, I won't tell anyone, beside after the way you handled things with Mike, I kind of owe you."
He nodded, but told her she didn't owe him anything, he was just glad he could help. The truth was he kind of understood Mike. He understood feeling lost and acting out in an unhealthy way, he just acted out in a different way.
Aria looked at Jason than down at her hands, she didn't want to leave Jason being with him gave her a sense of excitement that she should not be feeling. She knew she should be inside helping Spencer, Emily and Hanna fold the programs for the fashion show that she didn't really want to do. After Mona's comment about her short legs she felt kind of self-conscious and more dissatisfied about doing the show.
"I guess I should probably get back in there and help finish folding the programs." she didn't realize it, but the regret was noticeable in the tone of her voice.
"Ah, the fashion show. One last speech before Mom resigns from the board." Jason said his sexy lips that Aria couldn't help but steal glancing at stretching into a small smile as he focused on his dashboard to keep from staring at Aria.
Aria looked up from his lips a surprised look in her eyes, "I thought Jessica DiLaurentis was the board."
"Nah." Jason said forcing himself to meet Aria's eyes, "It was more Alison's thing, she loved that fashion show." Aria nodded remembering how excited Alison would get every year, this was the first time any of them had ever been asked to walk on the runway and thanks to Emily and a sense of obligation they had agreed, or rather Emily had agreed for all of them. "Are you doing it?" he asked a little surprised as he had never known Aria to be involved in it before.
Aria sighed looking out the passenger window, "Yeah, I didn't really want to, but your mom wants to do a tribute to Alison and asked if we would do it." She said with a shrug. "Oh, I was wondering if you would mind going through some photos of Alison with me tomorrow?" She had already told the girls she would do it and had told them she would ask Jason to help. Spencer was hoping it would lead to evidence that Jason had murdered Alison, since she was sure he was guilty. Aria hoped it would help him remember something so he could quit torturing himself, as positive as Spencer was of his guilt, Aria was just as positive of his innocence. She would like to know who slipped that note to him that had him doubting himself.
"Sure, I'm sorry if my mom roped you into this."
"No, I wanted to do it." she assured him, but Jason gave her a disbelieving stare. "Ok Maybe not the fashion show part, especially after rehearsals today."
"What happened at the rehearsals?" he asked her with a curious glance
Aria found herself telling him what Mona said about her short legs, "Mona and I are the same height and as far as I can tell her legs are no longer than mine, but somehow I feel like I don't measure up." Jason looked at her with a raised brow and a smirk then she noticed what she had said and she also smiled, "Bad pun not intended."
He chuckled, and used the tired and corny line "I thought it was punny." for some reason that had Aria giggling like he had said something truly witty. He smiled at her his eyes glittering as her watched her. "If it makes you feel any better I think you got great legs." and out of nowhere he imagined those legs wrapped around his waist, he looked down at the topic of conversation and decided they were plenty long enough. His eyes widened slightly at the errant thought and he gulped nervously, looking sideways at her as if she could somehow see the image that had passed through his mind. All his concerns that he was attracted to one of his sister's best friends now confirmed beyond doubt.
Aria hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary because she had been looking at his lips again and wondering what it would feel like to kiss them and she replied, "Well if it makes you feel any better I want to do it with you." Aria realized what she had said and now it was her turn to give the sideways glances, she had made it sound like she had volunteered in order to spend time with him and do things that did not involve going through pictures of his murdered sister, one of her best friends, her cheeks reddened as she realized that was exactly why she had volunteered, sure she hoped it would help jog his memory, but it was also an excuse to spend time with him. Did she like Jason? "Umm, you know, to uh, go through pictures and stuff for the tribute, together. Because I thought if we are doing it with each other it would be special and great and, uh I mean, I wasn't roped into anything, nope no ropes were involved at all, I volunteered, you know because the pictorial tribute and stuff and..." Oh, my god, she thought, just shut up Aria, you're making an ass of yourself.
Jason's eyes widened at her words when she said them since he couldn't get the image of her legs wrapped around him out of his mind. As she continued to babble he was looked at her his head tilted and an eyebrow raised slightly. When Aria was younger he had realized she had a little crush on him and he had thought it was kind of cute. He had been a little embarrassed by the feeling she had been stirring up in him now because he had thought she had outgrown her childhood crush on him.
When he moved back to Rosewood a couple months earlier she seemed nervous around him, he thought it was because of how strung out he had been and how tended to lash out in anger that summer because of it. But, could he have been wrong was Aria as attracted to him as he was to her?
Jason cupped her chin in his hand and tuned her face toward him. Aria immediately shut up and leaned into him, their lips were almost touching when Aria's phone buzzed sending both of them jerking away from each other toward opposite sides of the car.
Aria looked down at the text from Spencer.
'You need to come up for air 😉 as much as I hate to interrupt fun time with Ezra we need to get these programs finished tonight.' - Spencer
"Who is it." Jason asked barely stopping himself from cursing the person's extremely poor timing.
"Um, it's uh Spencer, they want me to get back inside so we can get the programs folded." Aria answered and now thanks to Spencer's text she felt guilty over the boyfriend she had used as a cover then completely forgotten she had. "Um you want to meet in the quad tomorrow after school?" she asked, "To um go through the pictures."
"Sure," Jason said as he ran a hand through his hair in frustration, he turned looking at her with a brooding stare, before smiling and telling her he would see her tomorrow, Aria gave a jerky nod of her head and then got out of his car, she turned and waved, but Jason didn't pull off until he made sure she made it safely inside.
Notes: requirement asked for was set during the fashion show, with the pairings Jaria, Emaya, Haleb, if possible Sparco and finally that Veronica tells Spencer and Jason that they are siblings. Requirements met so far, set during fashion show, and Haleb are together. Hope my Haleb turns out ok since I never really shipped them. Let me know what you think.
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