"You're going to regret that. You see, we will make you rue the day you thought you could mess with the A team" The words echoed through Aria's head as she finally slipped back into consciousness. Her eyes felt too heavy to open and her head was pounding.

She tried to remember what happened but the last thing she could remember was walking into the visiting room and seeing the black hoodie. She tried to identify the voice echoing around her head that belonged to A but her mind was black. She couldn't remember.

Slowly Aria decided she should try to move her aching body so she wriggled her fingers to see if she could.

"Hey, she's moving" She heard a voice say and heard footsteps walk over to near where she was.

"Aria can you hear me?" An unfamiliar voice said and she quietly groaned in response.

"Aria!" Someone exclaimed. She recognised that voice.

Slowly Aria opened her eyes to see Ezra looking down at her. As she looked up at him he smiled and said, "I'm so glad you're awake!"

"Where am I?" Aria asked looking around the unfamiliar room

"You're in the infirmary dear" The unfamiliar voice who now turned out to be a nurse answered.

"What happened?" She whispered

"Someone attacked you Aria" Ezra said his smile fading "Do you know who it was, do you remember what happened"

"No" Aria said "The last thing I remember was going into the visiting room and seeing someone in a mask and hoodie" She decided not to mention that it was A. No one except her and the other three girls knew about this A and she knew only bad things would happen if she told someone after Mona had kidnapped Dr Sullivan.

"Do you know who it could of been?" The nurse asked "Is there anyone who might have wanted to hurt you?"

"I don't know, I don't think so" Aria lied

"Ok, well I'd better go and get the doctor to come and check you over now you're awake and I think you should go now Ezra and let Aria rest" The nurse said

"Ok" Ezra said and bent down and kissed Aria's forehead. "I hope you feel better"

Ezra left and Aria closed her eyes and waited for the doctor to come and examine her.


A few days later Aria was feeling a lot better and was finally allowed out of the infirmary. However she still had no memory of what happened and the staff couldn't identify her attacker because A had used a fake ID and somehow the security cameras had been tampered with so he didn't come up on video. And since he had the mask and hoddie on as soon as he entered the visiting room Aria didn't know who he was from the bits she could remember.

However the staff had notified Aria that they had increased the amount of security they had so nothing like what happened could ever happen again.

Aria went back to her room in the hospital where she had been instructed to rest in for the next few days. She lay on her bed and though about what had happened. A had been there right in front of her. She had gotten that close to finding out who A was. And she had ruined her chance. Even though she didn't know what had happened or what she had done Aria felt frustrated at herself. And she felt frustrated that she couldn't remember it.

After a while Aria decided she'd had enough of just sitting around and thinking so, against the doctor's advice, she decided to get out and see what was going on and try and find Ezra. It was 4:00 so he would be out of lessons.

Aria walked into the hallway and headed down to the common room. As soon as she entered the room everyone went silent and stared at her. Aria suddenly felt very self conscious of the visible bruising on her face and wondered if it had been such a good idea to leave her room after all.

As she was about to turn and leave she heard a familiar voice calling her. She looked over and saw Ezra looking across the room at her smiling. Aria knew she couldn't leave the room now so she took in a deep breath and crossed the room towards Ezra. As she moved she saw the other patients look away from her and go back to what they were doing. She breathed a sigh of relief. Even though she should be used to it by now, Aria hated being the centre of attention.

"Hey how are you?" Ezra asked concerned when Aria was close enough to talk to him

"I'm a lot better thanks" Aria said sitting down next to him

"Good, I'm glad" Ezra said and hesitated before continuing, "I was really worried about you"

For a moment Aria was unsure how to respond but eventually said "You shouldn't have worried, I'm fine just a bit bruised"

"Ok" Ezra smiled seeming relieved

"So how have you been, what's been going on?"

"Not a lot really just the normal boring stuff around here. Though you gave everyone quite a bit to talk about for a few days. And I've been ok, I was really concerned about you but in general I've been feeling a lot better."

"That's really good, I'm glad" Aria said

"I think when you were attacked it made me realize how lucky I am. Though I've lost a lot I still have my health and I'm safe and not starving or anything. And I have you"

Aria blushed and said "Yeah I guess we are pretty lucky. I think I lose sight of that sometimes. I'm glad that I have my parents back and that I have you too"

Ezra took Aria's hand and said "I'm glad I didn't lose you too."

"So am I" She whispered leaning into his warm body and resting her head on his chest as he stroked her hair.

"I love you" Aria whispered

"I love you too" Ezra replied softly

Thank you for the reviews on the last chapter, I hope you like this one!