Hey everyone. Thank you so much for your support. I hope you enjoyed the last chapter. Have fun getting into the minds of our Liars and my new and improved Melissa. Enjoy.
HANNA'S P.O.V.
I was walking home after Caleb dropped me off near the Brew. I hadn't told him about what Zach said to me. I did, however, tell Aria. She's my best friend, but she didn't want to believe that Zach would do that. She thought I was drunk and misinterpreted what he was saying. It was then that I realized I left my stuff in Caleb's car. I started walking to his house. When I reached his house, his car wasn't there. I was about to turn around when I felt an arm wrap around my waist.
Of course, I thought it was Caleb, being flirty. I tried to turn around, but the grip tightened. After a few seconds of struggle, another hand and a piece of fabric was placed over my mouth. I started to scream, kick, and bite. I started to get sleepier and sleepier. I fought it as long as I could but I knew I would have to give into the darkness that was seeping into my vision.
As my body gave out, I felt my hands being tied and a blindfold was placed over my eyes. I could tell I was being dragged. Before I passed out, I heard a car being unlocked. I never got to feel the car seats or even my kidnapper lift me up, for I was too far into the darkness.
I woke up to the blindfold gone, and a blinding light in my eyes. There was a flash and I was surrounded by playing cards. This was about the fifth picture that was taken this week. Behind the flash, there was a figure dressed in black and I immediately know that it's A. It was the first time I was actually able to identify as a person. I tried to scream but there was a piece of cloth stuffed into my mouth again. When my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I was able to make out the face of my captor.
Ian Thomas wore a sickening smirk as he stared at me. He was about to shut the door when the shrill ring of his cellphone interrupted.
"It's Melissa. Make any noise and I kill you and your little friends," he threatened. When he turned around, I worked the gag off of my face until I was free. He could've kill me for all I cared, but if he really loved Melissa, he wouldn't lay a hand on Spencer or the rest of my friends. He was about to hang up when I screamed.
"MELISSA! HELP!" I cried. I could hear her panicked voice on the other line before Ian hung up.
"I told you to shut up, you worthless bitch!" He shouted. His hands went to my throat and he squeezed it shut. I couldn't claw them away because my hands were tied behind my back. My vision started to get cloudy and every sound around me started to get muffled. Before I slipped back into the black, his hands left my neck.
"Now that won't happen again, Hanna. Will it?" His creepy little beady eyes bore into mine. I nodded, slowly, unsure of what he would do to me if I said no. He held the cloth to my face again as the sweet smell of chloroform took me under again.
MELISSA'S P.O.V.
I hadn't seen Ian for a few days before Spencer and the girls got the A message about Hanna. When Spencer saw the picture, she went into hysterics and no one could calm her down. Maya and Emily silently cried with each other. Aria just went blank, like the life was sucked out of her. Apparently, she and Hanna were in a big fight but she was gone before Aria could apologize. Alison looked pissed beyond belief and was muttering something about life being a bitch. Mona was the one who notice the letter. Reading it sent all the girls into a shocked state. Caleb was the only one who seemed to really process the dire situation at hand.
He raced out of the house and drove off. All I know is that he wouldn't go to the police. Someone just ends up more hurt if you involve the police with A. We have all had to deal with the A crap before and going to the police just made everything worse.
I started to worry that Ian had something to do with this. He and Garret were in the N.A.T. club together. I picked my phone up, out of my purse and dialed his number. He picked up after three or four rings. I told him about what was going on and he sounded genuinely concerned. I thought I heard struggling in the background. After we said goodbye, when I was about to hang up, I heard a scream.
Hanna shrieked for my help and my heart shattered. I tried to get Ian's attention and find out if I was just hearing things. Sadly I wasn't. The man I loved most in the world had kidnapped my baby sister's best friend. I knew he had problems with Alison, but who didn't? How could he stoop so low as to kidnap that sweet, innocent girl. Spencer and her friends had been through too much in those past two years. Once I connected the dots, I realized that he was the one tormenting my little sister. The thought was sickening.
I realized that he had not hung up the phone. I quickly set my phone to record the conversation.
"I told you to shut up, you worthless bitch," was muffled but I knew it was Ian talking to Hanna. I heard a loud gasp and the sound of someone choking. Tears made their way through my already ruined make up. Spencer looked up at the very moment when the gagging stopped and there was more muffled talking that I couldn't make out.
"Melissa? What's wrong now?" I could hear the tears in her voice. I hung up the phone as a sob escaped my mouth. I opened my recordings and played the end of the phone call. The girls all listened intently and shock registered on their features when they heard the gagging. I informed then that the man was Ian and the person gagging was their missing friend.
"We have to go to the police. They'll know what to do. We know who A is. They'll be able to track his phone and car," Ezra suggested.
"You really have no clue how A works, do you?" Noel backfired. "Did Aria really not tell you. A has people everywhere. Any of us go to the police and A... Or Ian... will know. He will kill Hanna on site and frame one or all of the girls. We can't risk that."
Ezra was taken aback by Noel's bluntness and it caused a whole new round of tears to emerge from all the girls, including Alison. We all knew he was right, no matter how much we wished he was wrong. No one could know that Hanna was missing.
If we told anyone...she would pay the price.
ARIA'S P.O.V.
This was all my fault. If I just believed Han when she told me about Zach, then she would have been safe, staying at one of our houses. Not stuck with A/Ian threatening her with every move she made. He choked her while he was on the phone with his wife. He was one sick son of a bitch. I will never stop blaming what happened to Hanna.
All I was thinking about when Melissa was showing us the phone call with Ian was that if Zach had called five minutes earlier, then Caleb would have brought Hanna to my house to explain it all and she would've stayed at my house. If that would have happened, she would have been in Rosewood instead of God knows where.
I wished I would have just believed her. I knew Ian had friends on the police force so we couldn't go there. There was always the Philadelphia police. After Noel's outburst to Ezra, I brought this up and everyone agreed. We grabbed the picture, letter, and all our bags. Melissa saved the recording and made a copy, just so we wouldn't lose it.
We all called our parents and said that Melissa was taking us up to Philly for the weekend, considering it was Friday night. They all consented but we completely forgot about Caleb. Toby, Ezra, and even Noel tried to contact him. When Spencer called, he finally picked up. He was crying. Caleb, the big, strong, bad boy who was the computer genius of our group was crying. It was then when all of us realized the depth of his devotion to our Hanna.
We told him about Philadelphia and he said he would meet us at the train in twenty minutes. We piled into the cars and drove to the station. We paid for the tickets just as Caleb pulled up. We boarded the late night train and the girls and I slept the majority of the way there. That was the longest sleep we would have for a while. When we pulled into the station, we check to make sure we had everything.
The minute we stepped off the train, thing really became real. We really knew who A was. We were going to catch him. It was a minuscule victory since he had Hanna and was kind of related to Spencer, but finally this torture would end, one way or another. I was terrified. Terrified to come face to face with the monster who made my life a living hell for the past two years. Terrified of what he would do to Hanna. I was just completely freaked out in general.
We got to the police station, but the sight in front of us stopped me and all my friends in our tracks.
Ian Thomas was sitting in the precinct...in handcuffs.
Hope ya'll liked it. The new chapter will be up before midnight. Anyway, ttyl.
~Hanna
