Chapter Seven

After almost two hours in emergency passed, waiting in the cold dead silent room for the next available doctor Emily felt that any moment she would explode from the combination of impatience and pain.
Her shoulder was beyond the state of soreness where any movement at all, even an intake of air, would be excoriating.
After another half an hour of Spencer, Hanna and Aria walking to the desk asking how much longer they would be waiting Emily's name was finally called.
Several heads looked up from the mindless activities when they realised that Emily Fields was the girl from all the newspaper articles, people that were in couples or groups began whispering while the few that were alone just stared curiously.

"Hello Miss Fields, my name is Jessica, apologises for the wait it's been a busy day." The doctor was older than Emily was expecting, she would have been in her mid fifties and her tone was borderline bored as she walked Emily and her friends through the halls of the emergency room.

"That's okay." Emily winced as she took a deep breath before limping around the corner with Jessica, Hanna at her side while Spencer and Aria tagged along close behind.

"Do they all need to be here?" Jessica's tone was almost rude but not quite enough for Hanna to say something offending back.

"Yes. We're her friends." Spencer beat Hanna to the punch as she opened her arm out to invite Emily into the room, ignoring Jessica's displeased look.

"It would be more practical if there was just one of you."

"We will go," Aria began before Spencer could lose her tempt. "Hanna you stay, we will go find the boys."

Seconds later Aria was pulling Spencer out the door giving Jessica an apologetic looking.

"She's a feisty one." Jessica chuckled, feeling slightly relaxed after such a funny display of friendship.

"She wants to be a lawyer." Emily smiled when she sensed Jessica's change in mood.

"Well, she made a good career choice. Take a seat." Emily and Hanna laughed softly before sitting on the available chairs and watched as Jessica opened up a small folder that they both assumed to be Emily's fills she had filled out about two hours earlier.

"So, you were playing soccer and you got pushed?"

"Basically." Emily mumbled, holding her shoulder and arm in the most comfortable position she could manage.

"Just by looking at it I can tell it is dislocated but with that bruising I'm definitely going to be needing an X-ray. As for the pain I will start you on some Oxycodone and maybe Morphine, are you driving?"

"No."

"Good, well I will send you to get that done immediately. It won't take too long as this is somewhat urgent."

Jessica turned to the laptop on her desk and began typing aggressively, moments later a form was printed from the printer and she was sending them down the hall and towards another waiting room.
They waited for less than ten minutes when Emily was called, Hanna was told to wait outside to her displeasure.

"Hi Emily, my name is Justin and I'll be doing your X-rays. Now I have a few questions before we get start, are you pregnant?"

"No." Emily answered honestly with a soft chuckle, she knew it was a question asked with every woman patient and with all the "Are you pregnant?" signs on the wall she didn't find it out of the ordinary. She smiled slightly at the thought, considering there would be no chance she could actually get pregnant.

"It's not funny, is it a possibility?" Justin was almost offended, like Emily was laughing at him and not the question.

"No, I can assure you it's not possible."

"Are you sexually active?" Justin was being unnecessarily pushy as he began preparing the X-ray machine.

"Um, I don't see how that is necessary information to you." Emily creased her eyebrows and watched as Justin awkwardly straightened himself up.

"It's just if you are pregnant-"

"I'm not that way inclined." She interrupted and instantly he closed his mouth. Looking down at the paper work he realised her name and let out an awkward, "Oh".
Without apologising he continued the process of setting up the machine and began telling Emily where to stand and where to move. Within five minutes they were done and Emily was heading back out to where they had left Hanna.

"How did it go?" Hanna smiled encouragingly.

"Let's just get out of here." Emily didn't wait for Hanna as she stormed passed in a limping rage. Hanna looked back to Justin who was holding onto Emily's referral sheet. Walking over Hanna snatched it from him and turned to catch up with the brunette.

"Hey wait up." She called, wondering what had happened in the ten minutes Emily was getting her scans done.
After several questions going unanswered Hanna decided to give up in her endeavour to find out and instead moved her focus onto getting Emily into see Jessica again.
Some time had passed before they could see her but with almost another hour of silent but patient waiting Emily was back in the room waiting for Jessica to tell her what was wrong.

"Well I looked at your X-rays and it is indeed a broken collarbone." Jessica said matter-of-factly as she pulled out a large envelope that Emily recognised as an X-ray file. Taking out the very dark blue sheets of plastic-like scans she moved it over to a board on the wall that switched on with a bright light.
As the light illuminated Emily's shoulder blade the numerous breaks in her bone was very noticeable. Right in the centre of right collarbone was a sharp and jaggered snap that went through the whole bone. Essentially her collarbone was snap into two pieces while at the end there was a large crack and several small fractures.

"It isn't an ideal break," Hanna went to interject about it being a break and it wasn't going to be ideal in any situation but Emily nudged her with her uninjured arm knowing the blonde was going to say something with an attitude. "And since your shoulder is dislocated we're going to have to put it back in before the bone can even think about healing."

"How long will the bone take to heal?" Emily sighed at the thought of the hours of pain yet to come but tried to focus on the present.

"For such an injury, at least ten weeks but I'm think at your age, twelve or more. Not including the sixteen weeks of feeling for the dislocation."

"Her age? She's still young." Hanna blurted out, frustration clear in her tone.

"Hanna." Emily groaned.

"Yes,' Jessica mumbled, laughing slightly at Hanna's constant need to stand up for her friend. "You are young but you've also stopped growing. This is a serious break Miss Fields. Usually a broken Clavicle will be treated with a sling and standard treatment but I want you to see a specialist for this. I am a general practitioner and usually in situations like this I would give you pain medication and a sling but professional speaking I don't think that will be enough."

"I thought a broken shoulder was something that healed fairly easily." Emily rubbed the side of her head that had a small cut and bruise from when she had fallen on it. Hanna made a comment about it matching the fading bruise on her eye when a nurse in the emergency room was treating it.

"It's not broken in one spot Miss Fields; that crack is another fracture and there as several parts of the bone that have detached. Surgery is required less than ten percent of the time but I don't want you let it heal over incorrectly. I'd rather you get it checked by a specialist now rather than later. We will put your shoulder into place and sling it today but if you are in an unnecessary pain at home I want you to come back here."

"So what about the specialist?"

"I'd like you to make an appointment to see one as soon as possible."

"And the dislocated part?" Hanna swallowed almost scared of what Jessica's answer was going to be.

"If you don't have a strong stomach then I'd strongly suggest you leaving while I get a nurse and some pain medicine."

"Em, I love you but I don't think I can watch that." Hanna swallowed deeply again after Jessica left the room.
Emily wiped away some sweat that had developed across her forehead before looking at her very limp arm and shoulder that was causing her so much pain. She no longer cared about how the injury was going to heal she just wanted it to go back in; she would worry about the bone itself later.

"Its fine, Han."

"I'll get Spencer she can handle this stuff. She has to being the lawyer." Giving Emily a quick kiss on the head Hanna almost ran from the room and was replaced with Spencer within two minutes, not giving Emily any time to think.

"Hey." She said supportively as she sat next to Emily, letting the brunette's head rest on her shoulder.

"Thanks for staying with me. I think Hanna was going to scream more then I'm about to." Spencer laughed but she knew Emily was only repressing her pain with humour.

"That tall muscle dude is in the waiting room. He was talking to Toby about cars. I would have found it somewhat adorable if I had some sort of clue as to who the man actually was."

"He's Alison's body guard."

"Well, shouldn't he be... with her?" Spencer raised her eyebrows at Emily using only Alison's first name.

"I suppose but she's stubborn and he does what she says."

"Em... what's going on with you and her? We're all kind of worried about you. With the media reports and you disappearing after work and now this, we're in the dark and you know how much we hate it."

Spencer wasn't being bossy or intrusive but she was being a worried friend that did care about the person she cared about wellbeing.

"Spence I know, trust me I know. But... I can't tell you." Emily paused and stuttered through her entire sentence before luckily being interrupted by Jessica and the same young male nurse that had helped dressed the wound on her head.

The next twenty minutes were unbearable for both Emily and Spencer.
Spencer had to watch as Jessica drugged Emily up to a point where she was drowsy and almost loopy. Laying her down they spent several long minutes pushing and pulling at Emily's arm, and Spencer could tell that she was trying with all her might not to cry and scream even after all the medication.
Successfully putting her shoulder back in Jessica handed Spencer a prescription form for everything Emily would need to stay out of as much pain as possibly, she also provided her a name of a specialist that she would like Emily see.
After another half an hour Emily had finally gotten to a state where she could walk, but she was still very loopy, Spencer would have found it hilarious if she hadn't just seen the leading up to it.

"Spence... I feel weird." Emily slurred as she and Spencer made their way back to the emergency room where their friends were waiting.
Spencer had her hands full of X-rays and forms and a drugged up Emily, again something she would've laughed at if she wasn't feeling slightly sick from how roughly the nurse and doctor were with Emily.

"I know."

"Hey! You're a lawyer." Emily giggled as she limped and wobbled against the struggling Spencer.

"Not quite yet, but what's your question?"

"Would you sign a Non Disclosure Agreement?"

Spencer's head spot up and faced Emily who had put her finger over her lips in a "shush" motion but before she could question any further Hanna and Aria had made their way over to the struggling pair.

"Come on Emmy, let's get you home." Aria said softly as Emily let go of Spencer and almost leapt into the petite brunette's arms.
Everyone walked back to their cars talking about the weather and making random conversation but Spencer dangled behind, her thoughts distracted with Emily's words and as her eyes fell upon the pitch black Ranger Rover not far from their own she quickly looked to Mason who was shaking Toby's hand, over hearing Toby say thank you for helping with Emily.
As Mason walked away Spencer followed him, completely ignoring Toby as she went, which confused him but he saw her investigating eyes and he wasn't going to interrupt that.

"What is Alison DiLaurentis making Emily hide?" Spencer mumbled as she caught up with Mason, causing him to turn in surprise.

"I'm sorry?"

"If I find out Emily is hiding something just to protect that woman's reputation, I won't be happy."

"What makes you think she's hiding something?" Mason turns fully and crosses his arms curiously.

"Please, everyone's got something to hide."

"Mason? What's going on?" A soft but dominating voice breaks the silence from behind them. Moving to get a view of who the stranger was Spencer was met with the bright blue eyes of Alison DiLaurentis, over her head was her black hoodie, covering her identity.

"Ma'am, you can't be out here."

"I've been stuck inside that car for four hours; I'm coming to see Emily." Alison eyes didn't leave Spencer's in a Mexican standoff, one waiting for the other to break so they could strike but neither did.

"Alison?" Emily's voice travelled across the parking lot when she realised Spencer wasn't around, in her drugged up state she did forget how to control herself and it was obvious to Alison.
Looking at the brunette and her arm in a sling made guilt and anger course through her, she shouldn't have let Emily play today, and she knew that what had happened was her fault.

"Hey isn't that Alison DiLaurentis?" A stranger screamed from somewhere out of view and within seconds Mason had grabbed Alison and pulled her into the car.
Not giving Emily nor Spencer a second chance to say anything he turned the car on and drove away, there was no way Alison would be put in danger.

"Get her in the car." Spencer commanded when a few random people starting making their way into parking lot with their camera's and phones at the ready, trying to look for the superstar.

"Hey I think she went that way." Hanna lied as she pointed in a random direction and instantly the crowd evaporated. "See Spencer, it wasn't that hard."

"What happened?" Emily asked disappointed with a pouted expression as Spencer got into the passenger seat next to Hanna. Aria was in the back trying to put the brunette's seat belt before putting her own on.

"She had to go Em." Spencer mumbled as she rubbed her head in frustration.

"I wanted to see her." Emily elongated her words in a whinging tone as Aria delicately moved her supported arm out from under the bindings of the seat belt.

"Don't worry about it, you'll see her soon, there were just a lot of people around and she can't be seen otherwise she might get hurt." Aria looked towards the front at Spencer giving her a don't-be-so-judgemental look before rubbing Emily's head softly when it collapsed on her shoulder in exhaustion.

"Oh yeah, I don't want her hurt cause she's too special."

"Her body guard is taking care of her." Aria smiled when she noticed Emily's eyes shut. It was obvious whatever medication she was on was taking a toll.

"What was that look for earlier?" Spencer mumbled from the front about half way through the trip home when she was sure Emily was asleep.

"I think you forget that Alison DiLaurentis is quite famous Spencer. She can't just be walking around; you were acting like she was doing this to Emily on purpose."

"After everything with Paige, I'm not going to let anyone treat Emily the way she was treated. Just because she's famous doesn't mean she's not trouble. Look at the state Em is in."

"That wasn't her fault though." Aria didn't really know why she was defending Alison DiLaurentis because she didn't know her at all. In fact that was the first time she had ever seen the blonde in person.

"When they put her shoulder in, they told me they may have caused more breakage because of the force but they needed to put it back."

Spencer watched as Aria's eyebrows rose in horror before lowering again when Hanna stopped the car down the road from Emily's apartment. Outside was a large crowd of several news crews and different reporters.

"Shit." Hanna mumbled and began turning her car around before anyone in the crowd realised they were there.

"What are we going to-" Spencer began but was interrupted by the dial tone of Hanna's mobile through the wireless setting in her car stereo.
An unknown number popped up on the small screen causing Hanna's eyebrows to rise before answering.

"Uh, hello?" Hanna paused as she continued to drive along the main road of Rosewood.

"Meet me on the corner of the road to the lake." Alison DiLaurentis' voice broke through the car speakers, surprisingly not waking Emily.

"How did you get this number?" Spencer questioned, though she knew she wouldn't get an answer.

"She can't stay there, don't be late."

The line went dead and all three girls had very raised eyebrows, surprised by the bossiness of Alison DiLaurentis.
Looking at Spencer and then to Aria Hanna shrugged her shoulders and decided to make her way to the lake.
It had been years since she had been there but she still knew the way, it was where she went with her friends every summer.

"How do we know she's not tricking us?" Spencer crossed her arms and frowned childishly.

"Why would she trick us? Aria rolled her eyes at Spencer's suggestion but she couldn't help but somewhat agree with the tall brunette.
They drove in silence for the rest of the drive, all thinking of what was in store for them, was it all really happening?
Emily would occasionally stir in her slumber but never awoke.
Eventually Hanna took the turn off the highway and onto the road to the lake, following it she waited for any sign of Alison DiLaurentis.
Sure enough they were met with two dark cars park not far down the road, one she recognised as the Range Rover and the other looked like some sort of sports car. She didn't know the type but she wasn't really into that kind of stuff.

"She owns a Ferrari? Geez, that's clique." Spencer muttered when she made eye contact with the car. Hanna rolled her eyes before stopping the car not far behind the others and turned off the engine.

"Will you please cool your jets? You don't even know her; maybe the Ferrari is the body guard's car?" Hanna said as she took off her seatbelt. Spencer looked away from Hanna and towards the tinted windows of the cars; she supposed it was a possibility.

"I'm going to wait here, we can't leave her alone." Aria whispered from the back, Emily's head still securely on her shoulder.
Spencer and Hanna nodded in unison before exiting the warm confinements of the vehicle. Shutting the doors they walked around to meet at the front, standing still they were afraid to move towards the mysterious black speed machines.
The door to the Ferrari opened and Alison elegantly pulled her body from inside, proving to Hanna that Spencer was right, causing the brunette to give her an I-told-you-so look while pursing her lips.
Alison walked towards Spencer and Hanna confidently, the hood however was still over her head and she now had on dark reflective sunglasses.

"Miss Hastings, Miss Marin." Alison nodded her head as she spoke before looking behind them to investigate further.

"Why are we here?" Spencer asked first, completely ignoring Alison's pleasantries.

"Emily can't stay in town, not with everything that's going on. She's not safe."

"And she's safe with you?" Spencer crossed her arms and had already managed to develop her bad attitude, Alison smiled at her confidence but found she wasn't in the mood; she just wanted to see Emily.

"What did I say about cooling your jets?" Hanna mumbled while rolling her eyes.

"I'm making sure Em doesn't get hurt again."

"Well what do you think she's offering?"

Alison watched as the two squabbled like four year olds, waiting patiently she looked back over at Hanna's car where she knew Emily was probably asleep from exhaustion.

"She will be safe with me." Alison interrupted when she became tired of listening to their banter.

"How can we trust you?" Hanna was the one to speak this time; she however didn't express the bad attitude Spencer did.

"Did she tell you Paige showed up at her apartment yesterday?" Alison quirked her eyebrow knowingly and watched Hanna and Spencer exchange a displeased look.

"No. She didn't."

"It's not my story to tell, but if my bodyguard Mason, and I hadn't gotten there..." Alison's thoughts trailed away to when she had found Emily, it was scary and she was still frightened for her and both Hanna and Spencer saw it in her eyes.
Spencer wanted to confront Alison about what Emily had told her, about the Non Disclosure Agreement but not with Hanna around.

"I need to see her." Even Alison could hear the desperation in her voice but she wasn't ashamed to show it.
When neither Hanna nor Spencer spoke Alison went to walk around them but Spencer moved in front of her defensively, causing tension to rise between them.

"Spence..." Hanna took Spencer's arm in a friendly manner before pulling her gently to the side, allowing Alison to pass.
Not looking back Alison quickly made her way towards the vehicle, opening the door softly she was met with who she assumed to be Aria looking at her with surprised eyes.

"Miss Montgomery."Alison whispered but her eyes quickly fell on the sleeping Emily. She looked so peaceful, even with the amount of pain she would be experiencing.
Uncontrollably Alison felt her hands move to her, she wanted to hold her and make everything bad that had happened today disappear, though the anger still lingered seeing the brunette safe was all that seemed to matter in that moment.

"Hey Em." Alison whispered and sighed together as she felt Emily's warm skin against her hands.

Aria watched as Alison rubbed Emily's forehead softly, she was mildly surprised to see a mega super star just somewhat casually leaning into the same car as her but as Emily began to wake up she seemed to forget about it.

"Alison?" Emily grumbled sleepily.

"Hey." Alison smiled happily.

"Are you mad at me?"

Even after almost half an hour of sleep it was still clear Emily was affected greatly by her new medication; her eyes were slightly red and looked very tired while the bruise on her head looked uncomfortably large.
Alison looked between Aria and Emily, both eyes were on her and she could hear Spencer and Hanna walking to the car, she wasn't much for telling the girls how she felt, she just wanted Emily safe.

"I'm not mad at you." It wasn't a lie, Alison wasn't really mad at Emily, she was mad at the opposition soccer team for pushing her over, mad that there were no severe consequences but mostly she was mad at herself for not being able to do anything about it.

"I know when she's lying," Emily moved her head to face Aria and she giggled slightly. "And she's not lying."

"Well that's good then." Aria chuckled at how loopy Emily was, it was rather humorous to see her so loose and relaxed.

"Ma'am we have to go," Mason's voice came from behind her, when she turned she saw him standing between Spencer and Hanna, over towering both of them greatly. "We've been out here too long."

"Emily, can you stay here for a minute? I need to talk to your friends."

"Just my friends? Why can't I come?" Emily pouted childishly while Aria shrugged her shoulders at Spencer and Hanna as she got out of the car.

"Because you're very tired and need to do the least amount of moving as you can. Can you do that for me?" Alison's voice still had that demanding and controlling tone that Emily had grown accustom to, but in her medicated state there was no real self control.

"I suppose. What do I get in return?" She wiggled her eyes playfully, causing Alison to roll her eyes, Spencer and Hanna to raise the eyebrows in surprise and Aria to giggle quietly.

"Whatever you want." Alison murmured sweetly as she leaned in to kiss Emily lightly on the forehead.

"What if I don't stay?" Emily whispered so only Alison could hear.

"I might have to find my bathrobe tie again." Alison said smoothly before kissing Emily on the cheek and quickly shutting the door so the brunette couldn't say anything too loud that might embarrass either of them.

"How do we know we can trust you to take care of her?" Spencer questioned first.
Mason took his place beside Alison and kept scanning the surrounding area. It was dead quiet on a Sunday afternoon but he was still alert.

"I give you my word; she will be safe and taken care of."

"That's not good enough." Spencer continued, Hanna and Aria looked between them and almost withered at the tension.

"If this is what Spencer is going to be like as a lawyer, make sure I don't break the law." Hanna whispered to Aria, causing the petite girl to laugh softly before drawing their attention back to Alison and Spencer.

"My house isn't far from here, I will tell you where if you let her come with me." Alison was confident with her offer but as soon as she spoke Mason quickly looked down at her and was ready to interject before she raised her hand to him, silencing him.

"No one actually knows where she lives here." Hanna said to Spencer and Aria, causing Mason to squirm uncomfortably as the girls spoke. "She must be serious, if she's willing to tell us that."

"Fine. If we think Em isn't being taken care of, you will see us at your doorstep." Spencer wasn't going to go to the media, but if Emily was hurt again then at least she would have some sort of information to make sure Alison would stay in line.

"Ma'am I seriously object to this." Mason blurted out.

"I trust them." Alison said sternly, not looking away from the three girls that stood in front of her.

"Okay, as long as you take care of her, I'm not fussed." Aria broke the silence and the tension between them and received a thankful smile from Alison.

"You know the old track that breaks from this road? I live down there; if you want to see Emily just follow that."

Alison turned and opened the car door again, surprised to have Emily almost jump into her arms.

"I thought that was a dead end." Hanna whispered to Spencer and Aria, who both nodded in agreement.

"Come on. You need rest." Alison giggled when Emily kissed her neck tiredly.

The next five minutes consisted of getting the wobbly Emily into the Ferrari. Spencer, Hanna and Aria watched while Mason and Alison struggled.
They were all trying to suppress the snickers and giggles every time Emily said something inappropriate or slurred her words.

"Emily Fields, get in the car before I lose my temper." Alison laughed when Emily tried to hug her for the fourth time.

"That medication is strong." Hanna chuckled to Aria and Spencer.

"I'm kind of glad though, she's going to be in a lot of pain for a while." Spencer commented as she thought back to when they were putting the shoulder back into its socket.

"You're such a cranky pants." Emily stirred when Alison finally managed to get her in the car. Shutting the door she rolled her eyes and looked over to the other girls who all had amused expressions.

"Thank you." Alison said genuinely before getting in the car and starting the engine. Emily was quickly losing her energy from so much movement and Alison knew that the painkillers would be starting to lose their affect soon.

"Ali..." Emily mumbled from the passenger seat and she turned to face her.

"Yes?"

"Can I call you Ali?" She said, for the first time her words didn't seem tired or slurred, it was like a switch had flicked and Emily was serious again.

"Yes you can." Alison laughed before looking in the rear view mirror at Spencer, Hanna and Aria. Their arms were all crossed and waiting for Alison to go, Mason had left a few minutes before and was probably already back at her house.
Driving away she felt Emily's hand move to her leg and start playing with the fabric.

"I think my friends liked you." Emily finally spoke again when Alison pulled the car up in the garage; Mason was waiting by the Range Rover.
Alison laughed before getting out of the car and walking to him.

"Why did you tell them?" Mason's tone was angry but he was trying desperately hard to hide it.

"They were going to follow us regardless Mason, I may as well give them the location out of good faith and make honest woman out of all of us."

"And what if they go to the media?"

"That is a risk I am willing to make for Emily. They knew just as much as we did that she would be safer with me."

Before Mason could speak further the sound of Emily's door opening echoed through the garage. She tried to undo her seat belt with her good arm but was unsuccessful, causing Alison to smile and move to help her.

"I'm sorry about how stupid and silly I've been. It's the medication." She mumbled when Alison helped her out of the car.
Heading upstairs and into the house Alison guiding the limping tired Emily into the living room, sitting her on the large lounge that spread across the one wall.

"You're not any of those things. It's kind of funny to watch though."

"I'm sorry." She repeated, looking embarrassed.

"Don't be. Wait here, I'm going to get you some blankets but I've got to talk to Mason first." Emily nodded and made herself comfortable in the lounge, it was soft and warm and very soothing to sit in.
Alison smiled and walked over to Mason who still had an unimpressed look on his face.

"Thank you for today." Alison said when he handed her Emily's X-rays, forms and medication. Mason almost jumped at Alison's gratitude but he still couldn't shake the unsettling feeling in his stomach about the three girls knowing her location.

"Just doing my job."

"I do appreciate it. Now that will be all for today. Go home and see your wife."

Mason did a lot of travelling because of Alison but wherever he went his wife went too. It was hard because she did a lot of moving and meeting new people just to move again, he knew it was hard on her but it was his part of his job.

"Thank you Miss DiLaurentis." Mason turned around and left without another word. Alison smiled to herself as she walked into the hallway and to cupboard to bring out some warm duvets, walking back to the lounge room she found Emily messing around with the channels on the television trying to find something interesting to watch.

"I have Netflix; I find I never watch actual television."

"That's because actual television consist of mostly you."

"Funny." Alison said sarcastically before grabbing the remote from Emily and throwing it to the side. Covering the brunette with a thick blanket Alison made herself comfortable before tucking the item securely around them.

"You are mad, aren't you?" Emily could feel her medication losing its affect, mainly because she hadn't taken any sense they put her shoulder back in and that was only a temporary sedative. She was supposed to take her prescriptions when the pain was becoming unbearable again.
Alison sighed, realising as well that it would soon be time for the brunette to take more pills to relax her again.

"I am mad." She sighed honestly.

"You said you weren't in the car." Emily wanted to grab Alison's hands underneath the blankets but she felt that it would upset the blonde further, considering she wasn't even looking at her.

"I'm not mad at you Em, I'm mad at that bitch that pushed you. And you can't say it was an accident because it wasn't."

"I know it wasn't." Emily mumbled shyly.

"Why did you keep playing? It was obvious she was trouble."

"I don't want to fight Alison." She rubbed her head when she felt like she was already gathering a new headache, she was feeling sore and weak and fighting with Alison was definitely something she didn't want to do.

"Look at you Emily, you are practically beaten up. I sat in that car and watched that woman push your body to the ground. I watched as you fell with that much pressure I swear I could hear your bones breaking from inside the car. And what was worse, was I couldn't do anything. I didn't know what had happened, I thought the worse."

Alison sat on the lounge looking straight ahead, feeling that her weakness would be to look at Emily and cave from the look in her beautiful eyes.

"Ali..." Emily said as she raised her uninjured hand to touch Alison's cheek, soothing the skin slightly when she made contact and making the blonde turn around to face her. "I'm safe."

She said reassuringly but Alison wasn't convinced, she knew she needed more than that. Quickly but gently she moved to straddle the startled brunette, holding her cheeks softly Alison put her forehead against Emily's and let her lips dangle close by.

"You could have been hurt so much worse Emily and it would've been my fault."

"It wasn't your fault." Emily said confidently as her left hand went to Alison's cheek.

"Emily-" Before Alison could continue Emily closed the distance between them and kissed her passionately.

"I don't care what happens Alison. I want you. That much, I know. But I can't stand the thought of you being mad at me."

"Emily, I'm not mad. It was just awful sitting there waiting. Mason had to stop me from running to you. I would have been by your side in a heartbeat."

Moving in close again they kissed, it was soft and passionate but the fire lingered deep in their stomachs when their tongues met, fighting each other for dominance but before either could continue Alison felt Emily wince when she leant too close to her supported arm.

"I think you need to take your medication." Alison stood from the lounge and collected everything that was needed before handing it to Emily and sitting back down.

"This stuff makes me loopy." Emily whinged before grabbing the glass of water Alison had gotten her.

"It is quite funny." Alison chuckled. "And you seemed to like the idea of my bathrobe string."

"Oh god." Emily rubbed her head before taking the tablets.

"I'm glad you liked it." She whispered as she leant into Emily's ear then kissed her neck.

"You don't play fair."

"Never have."

Alison smiled before making space for Emily to lay down with her head resting on her lap. Putting the television back on she flicked to a random channel and watched as Emily slowly fell asleep.
The large bruising that surrounded her shoulder looked like it had grown in size, Mason had manage to get a photo of it to show her but since then it looked like it had doubled.
Alison didn't know what was in store for Emily over the next few months but she knew that it would consist of mostly pain.
Realising Emily was now asleep she leant down and kissed her lightly on the lips before rubbing her head softly. Looking down she knew that Emily was important to her, she had only known her for just under four days and it was definitely an interesting four days. She could feel herself changing.

"What are you doing to me, Emily Fields?" She whispered when Emily slowly moved into her hold.

Hey everyone! So I got an excellent response from last chapter and that just made me feel so awesome. I am so glad everyone is enjoying it, sorry about the last little note – I just didn't know what everyone was thinking about the story.
I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who left a review – I do appreciate it.
Let me know if you have any ideas, I've already started incorporating some into the story line so for the people who have given me some suggestions don't think I've ignored them :)
Thanks guys

-Aemstar