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Heavy panting, gasping for air could be heard coming from a young girls mouth as she ran across a forest near a lake. She quickly entered the forest and climbed up a tree. As she waited she saw the people following her passing by her tree. She waited until she was sure that they were gone and then she lowered back down on earth. She slowly started running in the opposite direction of the two men only to find herself colliding against someone's broad chest and arms. She gave a frightened yell...
Olivia woke up gasping for air as she felt terrified by her nightmares. They had started long before her dad's murder and Caleb and Miranda's arrival in Ravenswood. She slowly got up and went downstairs to get herself some water, knowing that she wouldn't be able to fall asleep for a long long time after one of her nightmares.
She slowly lowered herself in a chair silently thinking of how strange the past 24 hours had turned out to be for her. Olivia felt like the biggest headache known to man kind had just settled inside her head. As she slowly finished her glass of water she stopped to think about something that Mr. Collins had let them known while arguing Abbadon. "He needs her alive so that he can out all of you. You all need to die together. That's the only way to fulfill the pact." She slowly wondered whether the Pact could really be broken by simply having Caleb walking away and not being there with them. She decided then to go out to the collins Manor in the morning and talk things over with Raymond Collins.
As she made her way back to her bed Olivia's mind went to Miranda. She was concerned for how her friend had been handling Hanna's visit to Ravenswood. It had been clear to all of them that Caleb and Hanna might have been separated for a while now, but that they still loved each other very much. While it pained Olivia to see Miranda get hurt she was also happy for Caleb. She had noted ever since he broke out with Hanna that there was something lacking in his eyes. He was breathing but she wouldn't call him being alive, with out Hanna Caleb had become a shell, and after meeting her Olivia understood just why.
As she finally fell asleep a second time that night Olivia slowly wondered why it was that Hanna's face had seemed so familiar. It felt as if she knew her for a very long time. And yet they had never met before, had they? Those thoughts slowly slipped her mind as she finally fell asleep.
Things weren't as easy for Caleb. After watching him enter the Matheson house for dinner Miranda had quickly concluded that the Caleb capable of touching her was also the one that had died more nearly 100 years ago. She managed to get him back to the collins manor where they waited for Caleb to come back home. As she waited impatiently for the man whose room she had been standing in for the past few weeks, Miranda admitted for the first time to herself that she wasn't so much in love with him as she loved the idea of being in love and having a companion with her at all times. And yet when the original Caleb touched her she had had flashes of saying her wows to love him for eternity. Miranda slowly concluded that their bizarre lives must have gotten another joke on them. She slowly remembered glimpses of her past life as the Original Miranda, flashes from before the wedding, memories of er childhood, of her family, of her and Caleb, they were all going through her stopped herself from frowning when she noticed that the current Caleb entered his room.
-"Finally I was beginning to think you wouldn't be coming back tonight,,, or that you were avoiding me. How are things between you and Hanna? Did you manage to sort everything out? Does she believe you about me?" Caleb didn't even get the chance to get inside his loft before he was literally bombarded by Miranda's questions. He didn't manage to asnwer a single one of them as his eyes fell on the ghost of the Original Caleb sitting on his couch.
-"Nevermind me and Hanna... What?" Caleb slowly gestured back and forth between them before Miranda turned to watch them amusement clearly written on her face.
-"Yeah about that... We need to talk. Caleb Rivers meet ... Caleb Rivers. And things just got complicated. Not that they weren't before but now?" Miranda started talking fast, knowing she only did that when she was nervous about something.
-"Can someone please tell me what's going on here?" The original Caleb's voice sounded different from Caleb's, he spoke in a way that sounded fitting for the early 1900. However while the voice tone sounded calm and restrained, one could definitely tell that the Original Caleb was anything but calm.
Before either Caleb or Miranda were able to answer a loud knocking came at Caleb's door. Scaring the living hell out of two of the three persons in the room at the moment. As Caleb quickly glanced the clock on his wall he noticed it was well past mid night. As he made his way to open the door he was completely silenced by the person standing in front of him. He silently stepped aside letting her come in deciding that someone had probably attached a "let's surprise Caleb" sign to his forehead, that he knew nothing about.
As the other Caleb and Miranda watched the person walked in the middle of the room before slowly turning herself to face Caleb unaware of the fact that in the room there were two ghosts that were witnessing this scene.
-"Hello Caleb. I'm convinced that introductions are no longer necessary between us given that you've dated one of my closest friends for a year now. I've come to ask for your help. Hanna and the girls are in danger."
Caleb silently made his way to the coffee machine and filled two cups, as he was there he slowly whispered to Miranda and the other Caleb to please leave him alone with the person in his room. As Miranda and his ancestor made literally popped out of the room Caleb turned his head to his guest.
-"I heard a lot of things about you, from a lot of different persons. Most of them made you come back as being some sort of devilish bitch who did nothing but torture people around her just for fun. The way I see it the if girls need protection it's to keep you away from them."
He however gave her a cup of coffee and extended his arm inviting his guest to sit down. She did so wordlessly waiting for him to finish what he had to say. "The girls have been to a continous hell back and forth from the moment you've disappeared until you finally decided to tell them that you've been actually alive all this time? Do you have any idea of what they've been through because of you? Because they are your friends? And not just them, their families, their friends, their loved ones. And now you come here to ask me to do what exactly?"
Allison Di Laurentiss raised her eyes to meet Caleb's cold stare before she slowly sighed. She then gave him a soft smile. "I had always hoped that Hanna would find someone special who would see that her beauty comes from inside. I know now that she did. I won't argue anything of what you said to me right now, because it's all true, however the way I see it, while I'm the one to get her into trouble you're the one that left her to face it alone. So at the end of the day were both a bad influence in her life... Rosewood is as dangerous place to live in as Ravenswood, minus the supernatural factors that is..."
Caleb put his cup of coffee on the table in front of him as he slowly wondered just how much did Allison Di Laurentiss knew about what was going on in Ravenswood and just why she had come to him.
She chuckled darkly at him. "I know about the Pact, Caleb, but I don't plan on ever telling anything about it to Hanna. I may not be a very good friend to her however I'll never allow anyone to risk her life by telling her the truth. As for the reason why I'm here. Ezra Fitz is he person who owned the lair I showed the girls when they came here to Ravenswood. But he's not A. And unfortunately they have figured this thing about him. No matter what way he's involved in this whole mess it will destroy Aria and it will also lead them all into a potentially dangerous destructive pact. That's why I'm here to ask you to go back home and protect them."
Caleb froze as he listened to the person in front of him, to hat said person was telling him actually. He remembered a time when he had promised to protect Hanna by helping her finding out who A was. He was halfway determined to go back home to Rosewood from the moment he got on the bus and he had met Miranda, but as he considered things he realized he just couldn't just simply walk away from Ravenswood. Not unless he was sure there would be no repercussions fir Hanna brought on by his choice, as he considered his options and what his best course of action would be he noticed Allison get up and get ready to leave. Upon seeing the look on his face he slowly realized that while he had been on the run for the most part of his life because of the way he grew up, Allison had been on the run for years now, never stoping because she could end up dead at any moment's notice.
Despite of all the anger she felt for the girl in front of him, he also knew she probably hadn't had a decent night of sleep in a good while, he also realized that if he truly wanted for things to get better between him and Hanna on the long run there was really one thing for him to do right now.
-"Look Allison, it's already late. Stay the night here. Get some decent rest. You'll be safe. And you really look as if you could use a moment of peace."
Allison slowly turned her head to watch him, quietly wondering what she should do now. If she spent the night she was taking a big risk of being discovered by A. However as Caleb pointed out she could use a good night's sleep somewhere that didn't involve sleezy hotels, abandoned motels and warehouses, cold benches in bus stations."Why would you lend me your hand? So far I've brought nothing but misery into your life".
-"A year ago I was the one on the run, who had no one to turn around to. Granted I still think you're a bitch, however I'm merely extending an invitation to one of Hanna's friends, because I know how it felt for me to get such an invitation after growing up in foster care. I'm doing this because she taught me how to become a better person by loving her."
Allison slowly smiled towards him and gently let her bag drop on the floor in front of the door. "Hanna's a lucky girl to have you in her life. And while I'm sure you are not together right now due to certain reasons I'm sure that you'll find your way back to each other sooner or later." She then made her way towards his couch. "Can I borrow a blanket as well? I haven't been able to get a decent night's sleep for a while now." Caleb slowly made his way towards the linen closet, from which he brought her one.
-"Feel free to use the shower as well. I'll take a look in the fridge and see what I can get you to eat." As Allison made her way to the bathroom Caleb rubbed his neck wondering just what exactly had he gotten himself into now.. He poured himself a glass of juice and then his phone started ringing, slowly cursing he removed it from his pants only to see that ot was Hanna. He answered the phone, worrying that she might be in trouble.
-"Hey, Han. What's up?" He slowly sat down on his chair waiting for her answer.
-"Nothing much. I just made ot back to Rosewood safely and I wanted to let you know that I'm alright so that you wouldn't worry about me." Caleb listened to her voice before he slowly surprised her with his question
-"If you made it back to Rosewood safely why are crying?" Caleb didn't have to be a psychic t kn ow she was probably standing outside her house in her car crying. He heard her softly chuckling before she answered,
-"Because I want you to be here with me. I want to be in your arms, to hold you, to kiss you. Because I want to make love to you and walk barefoot across your kitchen" Caleb sighed as he listened to Hanna's words, because after the day he had had he was just as eager to get in his car and drive back to Rosewood and lock himself with Hanna in her bedroom for a whole month. He rubbed his temple to ease the headache he had and then he asked her the last thing either of them expected,
-"How about I just make res. For the Apple Grille for this weekend? I'll come there and we can talk things through with out any other surprises." He mentally kicked himself for not being able to let go of her, the one person who ha been his most single every good thing in his life.
-"Do you mean it?" Hanna's voice was barely audible over the phone.
-" Hanna. I still love only you. That hasn't changed at all. We'll talk about it next week - end ok? Now go back inside your house and go get some sleep it's been a long day. I'll see you soon". Caleb ended his call after a quick goodnight from only to turn himself and find a bemused Allison in the bathroom door.
-"You are so in love with her it's actually making me jealous, but then again if there's someone who deserves happiness that's Hanna." She then made her way back to the couch where she grabbed the blanket and the pillow. As Caleb watched bemused himself no sooner did Allison put her head on the pillow that she fell asleep.