Hanna was currently sitting on a bed in a room at The Lost Woods Resort. Caleb, Aria and Ezra, just left to set their plan of revealing AD in motion. Hanna felt like they were finally one step ahead of AD and that things were finally going their way. But she couldn't have been more wrong; barely a minute after Caleb, Aria and Ezra left, all the lights in the room went out.
"Hello? Caleb? Is that you?" Hanna asked nervously. She couldn't see more than a foot in front of her. Panic started rising in her chest. Hanna's questions were answered with a hard push to the floor. She could feel her lip bleeding and her mind starting to get fuzzy. Before she could even register what was going on, she was pushed again, but this time she fell through the floor and darkness welcomed her with open arms.
When Hanna came to, she found that most of her clothes were missing. She was barefoot and all she was wearing were her undergarments and a gray tank top. She had no idea what happened or where she was. Before Hanna could think of the possibilities, she heard what sounded like a car driving away. She got up off the floor and ran to the wall closest to where she thought the noise was coming from.
"Is there somebody out there? No! Please! Please open the door! You can't leave me in here! I'm begging you! Please!" she yelled hysterically as she banged on the wall, desperate to get someone's attention. When her cries fell on deaf ears, Hanna slowly slid herself down to a sitting position while leaning against the wall and she eventually fell asleep.
She was hoping that all of this was just a nightmare she was having and that she would wake up on the bed in The Lost Woods Resort. But as Spencer would say, "hope breeds eternal misery". When Hanna awoke, she did not find herself back in The Lost Woods Resort, she was still lying on the floor in what she came to realize was a barn. But this time, she wasn't alone. She heard footsteps and immediately stood up and backed herself into the corner so whoever it was couldn't sneak up on her. Suddenly, a bright light flashed in Hanna's face, like someone was taking a picture. Before she could even say anything, the person left. Hanna assumed it was AD, using the picture of her to coerce her friends into finding her and to give AD something in return.
Hanna didn't know what to do, so she tried falling back asleep. This time she decided to sleep more towards the center of the room. She got into a fetal position and closed her eyes. She didn't know how long she had been asleep before she woke up to water running underneath her feet. She immediately stood up and backed towards the corner of the room again. She looked around the room to see where the water might be coming from but it was still pitch black. Hanna was then greeted to a spray of freezing cold water. Whoever was on the end of the hose sprayed her until her back was to the wall.
"Please! Stop! Stop! Please! Please, stop," she cried out. It was already cold in the barn, mostly due to her lack of clothes, but now she was freezing. Within a minute, the person stopped spraying her. As Hanna tried to catch her breath, she heard a weird beeping sound. Being in the dark, literally and figuratively, Hanna didn't know what to expect. Her eyes went wide as (who she assumed to be) AD approached her with the object that was making the beeping noise.
"No! No! No! Please! Stop! Please! Stop! Stop!" she cried in agony as the person continued to zap her with the beeping object. After what felt like an eternity, the person stopped. They left Hanna alone and the pain of it all knocked her out.
The next time Hanna awoke, she found herself surrounded in a fog. Hanna didn't know it but she was breathing in Flunitrazepam. She was becoming dizzy and confused. Once they saw the effect the drug was having on their prey, someone stepped out of the shadows. They walked over to Hanna and laid her down flat on her back. Hanna was so out of it, she didn't say or do anything in response. The person proceeded to pull down Hanna's underwear and then lowered his pants and boxers.
The man lowered himself over Hanna's body and proceeded to enter her from down below. He continued to thrust in and out of Hanna without her consent or her objection. After a few minutes, the man hit his climax and emptied himself into Hanna. He pulled out and began to pull his boxers and pants back up. Hanna started to stir so the man put her underwear back on and left the room as if nothing happened.
Hanna was lying on her side with her hand holding her face. She had no recollection of the night before.
"Hanna," whispered a female voice that awakened Hanna. She looked up to find her best friend, Spencer Hastings, standing above her.
Spencer crouched down so she was on Hanna's level. Hanna stared at her, trying to make sure that she wasn't still dreaming. Spencer smiled at her in response and Hanna immediately sat up to hug her.
"Spencer!" Hanna cried out.
"You've got this, Hanna," Spencer said while Hanna was still in her embrace. "You're gonna be okay," she assured her.
"I think I'm going to die in here," Hanna said as they broke off the hug.
"No, I won't let that happen," Spencer said as she pushed a lock of Hanna's hair behind her ear.
"But this is a dream; you can't help me; you're not real, Spence," Hanna said dejectedly.
"Something real is actually existing as thing or occurring in fact," Spencer said as she sat down next to her broken friend.
"I don't know what you're saying, but I'm glad that you're here," Hanna said as she leaned into Spencer.
Spencer chuckled. "A dream is an experience and an experience is real. Do you understand?" she asked cryptically.
"Maybe… No," answered Hanna. "I should've listened to you," she said as she removed her head from Spencer's shoulder. "Spence, I think this 'A' is a lot smarter than the others."
"You told them the truth, right?" Spencer asked, questionably.
"Maybe it's a good thing we don't know who killed Charlotte… because I'd tell if I did," Hanna answered, honestly. "I'm scared, Spence," she said while resuming her place on Spencer's shoulder.
"I know. I know," Spencer said, comfortingly.
"There's no way out," Hanna said as she lifted her head to look around the room.
"No. If AD can come in and out of here, then you can too. Think about it, Hanna," Spencer said as she turned to face her friend. "If there is a way in, there is a way out. Right?"
"Yeah. I guess so," Hanna answered, half-heartedly.
"Say it," commanded Spencer.
Hanna was now full on crying. "If there's a way in, there's a way out," she answered as the tears fell from her eyes.
"You're gonna need your strength for tomorrow," Spencer said as she pushed Hanna's hair behind her ear again. "Get some sleep."
"Will you stay with me?" Hanna practically begged. She didn't want to be alone.
"Always," answered Spencer, whole-heartedly.
Hanna smiled and laid her head on Spencer's lap. Spencer proceeded to sing Hanna a lullaby as she continued to brush the hair out of her face. And with the help of her best friend, Hanna managed to fall asleep.
Hanna woke up in the same position she was in when Spencer woke her up. Except this time, Spencer was nowhere to be found. Hanna assumed that it was just a dream. As she started to sit up, she was greeted with a cool breeze. Remembering what Spencer told her in her dream, Hanna repeated it aloud to herself: "If there's a way in, there's a way out". She got onto her feet and wondered around until she found where the breeze was coming from; a vent. She managed to open the vent and shimmy herself out of it. She was finally free.
As soon as Hanna got out of the barn, she started to run; faster than she had ever run before in her entire life. She didn't care about the pain in her feet as she ran barefoot over the forest floor. She just wanted to be as far away from that barn as she could. She tripped over a tree root but she immediately got up and started running again. She didn't know where the hell she was going until she saw a pair of headlights in the distance.
"Help! She yelled as she ran towards the car. "Help!" she yelled again as the car continued to drive by. "Please! Help me!" she shouted even after the car drove past her. Hanna was now in the middle of the street. She put her hands to her temple in frustration. She looked behind her to see if any other cars were passing by; there weren't. She didn't know what to do or where to go. All of a sudden, a car came racing down the street towards Hanna.
"Help!" Hanna shouted again, this time moving her arms in a waving motion. "Help! Please! Stop! Stop! Please…" she said as the car came to an abrupt stop right in front of her. Relief washed over Hanna. But it didn't last long when she saw who was driving the car; Alison's dead mother, or someone who looked a lot like Alison's mother… Hanna wondered if she was still dreaming.
