What lengths will she go to for her?

Jealousy.

Flirt with her.

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Edit: Spencer and Aria are not together, they're just super close because Team Sparia, you know?

Step three: Jealousy.

"Are you on your way back to Rosewood?"

"Well, hello to you too Hanna." Spencer stated dryly in response to Hanna's greeting. "What can we do for you?"

"Is Aria there?" Hanna sighed, shifting slightly to hold her phone against her ear with her shoulder so she could remove the lid from the carton of juice she was holding. She poured some into a glass and looked briefly towards the door to make sure Emily wasn't approaching. "This is her phone."

"I'm here." Aria herself answered. "We're in the car so you're on speaker."

"Are you on your way back to Rosewood?" Hanna repeated.

"Yeah, we'll be there in about an hour." Spencer answered loudly.

"More like an hour and a half." Aria corrected. There was a beat of silence before she spoke up again. "What? I'm just saying that we have to stick to the speed limits this time."

"We didn't even go ov…"

"Great!" Hanna exclaimed loudly in an attempt to avoid having to listen to them bickering. "You guys have to come over to my house tonight to watch a movie okay? You can stay over too."

"Okay?" Aria sounded slightly confused. "Why is it so important that we come over tonight?"

"You're part of step three of my test." Hanna answered, grabbing her glass of juice and moving to take a seat at the table.

"Oh no." Aria replied quickly. "No, no, no. I want no part in this."

"What's step three?" Spencer asked curiously.

"It's okay." Hanna ignored Spencer's question in favour of answering Aria. "I'll just use Spencer."

"Good." Aria breathed an audible sigh of relief.

"What is step three?!" Spencer stressed. "If I'm going to be 'used' for it, I deserve to know what it entails."

"Jealousy." Hanna and Aria answered in unison. Hanna took a quick drink of her juice before continuing. "I have to see if she gets jealous…that's where you come in Spence. You're part one of the test."

Spencer released a long suffering sigh. "Is this really necessary?"

"Yeah!" Hanna answered immediately. "How else am I supposed to find out if she likes me in that way."

"Oh, I don't know…by asking her?"

"That would never work, I already told you why." Hanna said with a roll of her eyes. "Are you coming over tonight or not?"

"We'll be there by seven." Spencer answered, though she didn't sound too pleased about it.

"Great, I'll fill you in on the plan when you get here."

"Great." Spencer echoed back sarcastically.

"What about the first tests?" Aria cut in quickly before Hanna could hang up. "How did she do?"

"She passed." Hanna grinned to herself at the thought, "With floating colors."

"I think you mean flying colors." Spencer corrected.

"Yeah wha…"

"Who passed what?"

Hanna startled in alarm as Emily walked into the room. "Uh…Aria. Passed Spencer's…practice test?"

"Wow, you're a worse liar than I remember."

"You've only been gone for three days!" Hanna exclaimed. "I have to go guys. I'll see you when you get back. Bye!" without waiting for a reply she ended the call and put her phone on the table.

"Spencer and Aria are coming back?" Emily asked as she moved to put away the carton of juice Hanna had left on the counter.

"They said they'll be back in a couple of hours." Hanna nodded, watching Emily approach her. "They're coming over for a movie night tonight, you don't mind right?"

"Of course not, why would I mind?"

"No reason." Hanna answered shiftily. "I just thought I would ask. This is basically your house too right now."

Emily smiled softly and took a seat at the table. She moved her hand briefly atop Hanna's and gave a light squeeze. "Thanks Hanna."

Hanna grinned back at Emily and shrugged as if it were nothing.

XXX

"So run us through this one more time." Spencer ordered, leaning against the counter. "I want to make sure we've got this right."

Hanna rolled her eyes at Spencer's need to be completely informed of the details of a situation but she answered nonetheless. She wanted the evening to go as smoothly as possible and if she had to explain herself more than once to get what she wanted that's what she would do. "Okay, I'm going to use you to make Emily jealous. Basically I'm not going to stay with you for the entire night and I'm going to be really touchy feely…so don't freak out about that, okay? You have to pretend that I'm not acting weird."

"Okay, got it." Spencer nodded resolutely. "As long as you don't kiss me, it's fine."

Hanna rolled her eyes at the statement. "Of course I'm not going to kiss you. That would probably ruin any chance I might have with Emily."

"I'm just saying." Spencer shrugged. "You get kind of extreme when you really want something."

Hanna opened her mouth to make a retort but changed her mind upon remembering something. "Oh, you're sleeping in my bed tonight Spencer."

"What?" both Spencer and Aria exclaimed in unison.

"You're sleeping with me tonight." Hanna said slowly. "Why is that so hard to understand?"

"Whenever we have sleepovers Spencer and I always share a bed." Aria spoke up purposefully. "And so do you and Emily, even when she's living with you. Isn't changing that taking things too far? Emily will know that something is wrong."

"You're just saying that because you'll miss Spencer spooning you." Hanna argued with a shake of her head. "Sorry Aria, we're doing this. I have to know for sure."

"Fine." Aria sighed, looking thoroughly disappointed by the revelation.

Spencer reached out and gave Aria's shoulder a comforting rub.

"Okay." Hanna glanced quickly towards the kitchen door. She could already hear Emily running back down the stairs. "Aria you remember that you're my backup observer right?"

"Right," Aria nodded. "Though I'm not entirely sure why."

"In case I don't notice…Emily!" Hanna exclaimed loudly as Emily herself walked into the kitchen.

Emily faltered, shooting Hanna an unsure smile. "Am I interrupting?"

"When are you ever interrupting?" Spencer asked rhetorically. "Are you all set for movie night?"

"Of course," Emily held up the three DVD's she was holding. "I brought the movies. It took me a while to find them because our room is such a mess." She glared pointedly in Hanna's direction.

"What?" Hanna asked innocently, trying to supress a grin at Emily referring to her room as 'theirs'. "It's not messy, it's just organized the way I like it."

"So it is messy?" Aria smirked before brushing past Hanna with Spencer. They walked into the living room and Aria almost plopped down on the couch next to Spencer until she remembered the plan. With a sigh she situated herself at the other end of the couch, receiving a regretful look from Spencer.

Hanna and Emily walked in a moment later and Emily moved to insert the first movie while Hanna took a seat on the small couch between Aria and Spencer.

"Why do I get the feeling that this is a terrible idea?" Spencer murmured as Hanna shifted unusually close to her.

"Shh!" Hanna gave Spencer a firm prod to the leg.

"I'm just saying." Spencer grumbled just before Emily turned around.

Emily faltered slightly, her brow furrowing in confusion at the sight of Hanna sitting on the couch with Spencer and Aria. She didn't say anything however, merely moving to sit in the armchair a short distance away from the couch.

Hanna bit her lip, feeling slightly guilty for leaving Emily to sit by herself. Whenever they watched movies, especially scary movies like the one they were about to watch, Hanna would always squeeze into the armchair next to Emily and use her as her own personal teddy bear.

The movie started slowly and Hanna leaned into Spencer's side slightly, keeping a close eye on Emily. A couple of minutes passed before she noticed Emily glance over only to quickly look away again.

Hanna looped her arm through Spencer's and curled slightly more into her, resting her head lightly on her shoulder. Emily glanced in their direction and Hanna noticed her sigh softly. Emily picked the cushion lying next to her up and hugged it to her chest, narrowing her eyes at the movie.

Hanna looked away, Emily's lonely action hitting her like a punch to the gut. She looked at Aria and lightly kicked her to get her attention.

Aria glanced in Hanna's direction, raising a questioning eyebrow.

Hanna tilted her head in Emily's direction and widened her eyes slightly, silently telling Aria to go over there.

Aria shook her head in confusion, clearly unaware of what Hanna was telling her to do.

'Go!' Hanna mouthed.

Aria finally caught on to what Hanna was trying to tell her and she nodded in response. She waited until Hanna looked away before speaking up. "Hanna, would you please stop kicking me?"

"What?" Hanna looked at her in confusion. "I'm n…" she trailed off, realizing what Aria was doing. "No, if you don't like it you should move."

"Fine, I'll sit next to Emily." Aria huffed, standing up from the couch. She moved over to the armchair and Emily made room for her to squeeze into it next to her. Thanks to Aria's small stature it proved to be less of a tight fit than when Hanna and Emily shared the seat.

The room fell into silence again as the four of them refocused on the movie they were watching. Out of the corner or her eye Hanna noticed Emily glance forlornly in her direction. Unable to stop herself she turned her head slightly to meet Emily's gaze only for her to quickly look away when she realised she was caught.

"It looks like step three is a success so far." Spencer whispered, leaning close to Hanna's ear.

Hanna nodded silently, slightly distracted by the way Emily was obviously trying and failing not to look at her.

XXX

"I don't want to do this."

"I don't care." Hanna said as she slipped into the bed. She looked up at Spencer expectantly. "Now get in before Emily gets back."

"Don't you think you're taking this a bit too far Han?" Aria asked from her position on Emily's bed. "Maybe you should just ask her."

Hanna sighed and rolled her eyes skyward. "We don't have time for this. Spencer get into this bed right now."

"Fine, I'm coming." Spencer grumbled, moving over to the other side of the bed. She quickly got in next to Hanna, though she didn't do anything to hide the fact that she wasn't happy about the situation. "I just don't want to upset her, that's all."

"She's upset?" Hanna looked past Spencer to Aria with a worried look on her face. "Emily is upset?"

Aria shrugged. "I don't know."

Hanna opened her mouth to reply but she was silenced by the door opening. She glanced quickly in that direction to see Emily walk into the room, clad in typically short shorts and a thin grey t-shirt.

"I bet you regret not sleeping with her now." Spencer muttered teasingly, making sure to keep her voice at a volume only Hanna would be able to hear.

Hanna nudged Spencer firmly in the ribs, eliciting a grunt of pain from her.

Emily turned around, her eyes riveting momentarily to Hanna's bed. She paused for a moment, a slightly wounded look appearing on her face before she walked over to her own bed, offering Aria a weak smile.

"I guess we're bunking together tonight then."

"Yeah, I guess so." Aria offered Emily an overenthusiastic grin. As soon as Emily moved to get into the bed, Aria's grin dropped and she shot Hanna a look.

"Why is she glaring at me right now?" Hanna asked Spencer as Aria climbed into the bed with Emily. Receiving no answer she lay down next to her. "Spencer?"

"Just go to sleep." Spencer mumbled, turning away from Hanna. "I'll tell you tomorrow."

Hanna sighed and glanced in the direction of Emily's bed.

TBC.