Waiting can't heal wounds

Chapter 10

After Hanna's mom went to see her, she was really tired, she lost a lot of blood and the confrontations with Jordan and her mom, it was all too much for her so she fainted.

The girls were so angry they couldn't see her, they were actually willing to kill someone.

They decided they won't-no, they can't go back to their homes until they saw her, but since Hanna was being released from the hospital in three hours, they decided they should make a quick stop at home, take a shower, get something to eat and maybe take a nap and they would meet up at the hospital and see Hanna when she heads home.

Aria and Ezra went to Ezra's apartment.

Aria wanted to go home and see Alex, he would probably be up by now, last night he went to bed on his bedtime and now it's morning so he should be up, but she decided not to because Liam probably wouldn't let her go out again.

Ezra went to take a shower while Aria got to the kitchen to make some food for them.

While she was heading to the kitchen, she spotted a few photo albums on his shelves. She peeked towards the bathroom to make sure Ezra isn't coming back and took one.

She started flipping through it and found a lot of toddler or baby Ezra pictures. There were pictures of him playing or at the beach, birthday parties, and of course as every baby photo album, a few naked baby Ezra pictures. Aria couldn't help but notice how similar he looked to another person she knew, she smiled. She found a family picture. He and his brother were sitting on chairs next to each other, grinning at the camera and his parents were standing behind them, their mother behind Ezra and their father behind Wes. They looked happy, but you could clearly see Mrs. Fitzgerald wasn't amused, she had that cold and distant look in her eyes like she didn't care about the things around her, she only cared about work. Or, well, money. Then she looked at Mr. Fitzgerald. He was a man with curly brown hair and warm brown eyes, he was smiling at the camera, he seemed very happy, unlike his wife. Aria could see a bit of Ezra and Wes in their father. They looked alike, they looked alike with their mother too, but it was different. When Aria met Mrs. Fitzgerald, she couldn't see Ezra's nor Wes' personality in her, they must've gotten that from their father.

She heard the shower being turned off and quickly put back the photo album and went to the kitchen, she got out some bread, eggs and poured water in two glasses, putting them on the table. She started frying the eggs and set the four pieces of bread in two plates, two pieces each.

When Ezra got out of the shower it seemed like Aria was there all along.

"How's the breakfast going?" he asked.

"Well considering this is the only thing I could find in your fridge, I have to say pretty good." she said "I just hope the eggs aren't bad."

She served an egg in each plate. She sat down at the table and started eating while Ezra was changing in his room.

He got out a few minutes later and Aria was already finished eating.

"Wow you eat fast." he said "I wonder how can so much food fit in a small person like you." he joked.

She playfully rolled her eyes and changed the subject, ignoring his comment "You could really use some grocery shopping."

"I know." he said, sitting down at the table "I've just been so distracted lately, what was it?-Oh yeah, I'm writing a book!" he said "With a week deadline!"

Aria put her hands up in surrender "OK, no need to attack me with sarcasm!"

She walked over to his couch and sat down, taking the laptop from his coffee-table and unlocking it.

"Really, your password is still the same?" she asked.

"Hey, what are you doing with my laptop!" he went towards her to take the laptop.

"I'm just trying to help!" she moved it out of his reach "Now get back there and finish your breakfast, you haven't eaten anything in more than 12 hours!" he opened his mouth to protest but she cut him off "I saw you at the party, you couldn't eat a thing! You were just staring at…" she lowered her voice with every word until she whispered to herself "me."

He lazily went back to the table "Parenting did good for you." he joked.

She just rolled her eyes and went back to trying to help him with his book.

…..

Emily and Paige went straight to the 'Brew'.

They sat down in a booth and ordered coffee and breakfast.

They just parted ways with Toby who went upstairs to his apartment above the 'Brew' to check on Claire and Yvonne. He and Spencer decided he'd go to his place to tell Yvonne in person that he'll be home late and then they'd go to Spencer's so she can change, take a shower and most importantly, get some coffee. They said they'd go together because they all made an unspoken agreement not to split up and stay in pairs.

Now Spencer was waiting in the 'Brew', she would've joined Paige and Emily, but she decided it's best if she left them alone.

Emily was bluntly staring down at her breakfast with Paige looking at her with concern.

"Eat!" she said "You need food!"

"I know…" said Emily.

"Em," Paige put her hand on top of Emily's "they already told us that she is fine! And in an hour or two, we'll see her!"

"I know." smiled Emily, but her smile quickly faded "I'm just scared that…what if A's really back, and not like the cops said that that was a prank." she said "Do you think 'A' caused the…accident."

"No!" said Paige quickly "Don't think like that, OK?" she said "Hanna and Caleb are fine, the accident was probably just a drunk driver that got scared and left before the cops showed up." she said "Don't think about that, think of the good things, not the bad ones."

"Thanks." Emily smiled, squeezing Paige's hand.

They kept eating their breakfast and saw Spencer and Toby exit the 'Brew' and head to Spencer's.

"How would you feel if we get our own place one day, and maybe get married and…have kids?" said Emily.

"I'd love that." said Paige "That'd be wonderful." she grinned "In fact, why don't we start today?" Emily looked at her confused "My uncle works in a real-estate agency and he's been offering me an apartment here in Rosewood. Maybe you'd like to move in with me?"

"That's amazing!" said Emily "Yes, yes of course!"

….

Spencer was sitting in the 'Brew', waiting for Toby to go and talk to his girlfriend.

She was still confused, how could she be his girlfriend? They have a kid together!

Everything about them was confusing, but Spencer learned long ago that she should keep her nose out of other people's business.

She saw him get down the stairs in different clothes. He walked up to her "Are we going?"

She nodded and stood up.

"So we're going to your place so you can shower and get a coffee?" he asked.

"Uh-uh." she nodded.

They were about to exit the 'Brew' when she turned left and went to the barista.

Toby confusedly stared at her "What are you doing?"

"Getting myself a coffee." she said, paying the barista and heading to Toby, towards the exit.

"Good idea, how didn't I think of that?" he said "I can't stand to deal with no caffeine Spencer." he said as they got out.

"Oh please, I'm not that bad!" she said.

"Yeah, sure." he said "Remember the road trip to New York?"

"Ugh, don't remind me!" she rolled her eyes, a smile forming on her lips.

"You had m bring you fifteen cups of coffee!" he said.

"You know I can't last for two hours without coffee!" she said.

"It's two hours Spence!" he said "Well, it was supposed to be."

They chuckled, looking back to that road trip "The car wouldn't start first, and then after a thirty-minute drive, I managed to drink five cups of my coffee because I was so nervous it won't turn out right!"

"You were nervous?" asked Toby, she nodded.

"It was our first road trip!" she said.

"Well, you shouldn't have been, that cost you peeing in the bushes and cost me a half an hour waiting for you to find the proper bush!" he said.

"It was only half an hour!" said Spencer, chuckling.

"It happened twice!" he said "I drank one of your coffee cups while waiting for you!"

Spencer's cheek reddened but she was laughing as well "So it was you who drank that?! I thought you bought an empty cup!" she said, laughing "And at least no one saw me when I was peeing!" she said "Though I did water that person's lawn."

They were both laughing "Yeah well your peeing took us an extra hour…and I wasted all the fuel since I forgot to get more on the beginning."

She chuckled "And then we were stuck on the road for a whole night because of your forgetfulness!" she said "Thank God that guy stopped to help us!"

"Well he did help us…even though I sort of didn't have the money to pay him for the rest of the way and that's why he left us on the road…again." he said sheepishly.

"You tell me that now!?" she said "I spent all these years praying that guys gets stuck in the middle of the road with no food, or water!" she said "Or coffee."

He laughed "That's nothing compared to our two days car camping!"

"True." she said "Though we probably should've gotten water first, remember we were dehydrated when we walked to that hotel."

"Well at least the hotel stay was nice." he said "…until they kicked us out."

Spencer laughed "Yeah, my dad couldn't pay for one more day!"

"I know!" he said "And we were so close to having a full one week road trip to New York." he said "But your dad had to get us after the second day in the hotel."

"At least we're alive now! For all I know, if we didn't feel like looking for a hotel we would've died!" she said.

"Hey lesson learned, never go on a road trip with Spencer Hastings cuz something always goes wrong!" they were laughing.

"That's not true!" said Spencer between laughs, playfully slapping his hand.

They were already at Spencer's and were all red in their faces from laughing and still couldn't stop laughing.

Spencer heard something from inside the house and instantly turned around

"Wh-" she put her hand on Toby's mouth before he could finish his question.

She put a finger on her mouth, removed her hand from his mouth and gestured him to quietly follow.

They slowly walked to the front door and Spencer leaned on the door with her ear to listen to the sounds she heard from inside.

In a few moments she sighed and abruptly opened the door and entered the house.

Toby awkwardly entered after her.

"Hey Mel." she said casually as she passed Melissa-who was sitting on the couch, talking with Wren-on the way to the kitchen

"Spencer!" Melissa jolted up from her seat and rushed towards Spencer "Where have you been?! Why didn't you answer my calls or texts!?"

Spencer started making the coffee while trying to think of a lie to tell Melissa. But it was no use lying, she'd eventually find out Hanna was at the hospital like everyone else would, so she should probably tell her that part and skip the whole 'A' part. She was honestly hoping to go past her unnoticed but she forgot Melissa actually cared about her now.

"Hanna and Caleb got in a car accident." she said bluntly.

Melissa's face expression turned into shock "Oh my God, you must feel terrible!" she said "I am so sorry!"

"It's okay Melissa, really. I just came here to get some coffee and take a shower." she said, pouring the already finished coffee in a cup.

"Spencer" Melissa grasped her shoulders and turned her around to face her "your friend is in the hospital after a car crash, you can't really be okay about this!"

Spencer just bluntly stared at her "Okay fine, I'm not!" she said "I can't stand not being able to see her! We've been in the hospital the whole night and all we know is that Caleb is alright and Hanna had an operation! We don't even know if she's alive and that's eating me alive!" she collapsed is Melissa's arms, crying.

Melissa hugged her while she cried.

After a while, Spencer got out of her embrace and wiped her tears.

She took her cup of coffee and went to the living room.

She sat down on the armchair "Hi Wren."

"Hello Spencer!" he said "You seem a bit sad, are you alright?"

"Yes I'm fine." she said.

Toby was sitting on the armchair in front of her "Emily just texted me, she and Paige went back to the hospital." he said.

"Any news?" she asked.

He shook his head "They're still waiting."

Spencer nodded.

She drank the rest of her coffee in one sip and stood up from the armchair and headed upstairs.

"I'll go take a shower, I'll be back in a few minutes, you can get a coffee or something if you'd like." she told Toby and went upstairs to her old room.

…..

Emily, Paige, Spencer, Toby and Mrs. Marin and Ted were already at the hospital, still waiting.

Aria and Ezra rushed in the hall "Sorry we're late." panted Aria, they were running all the way to the hospital.

"Are there any news?" panted Ezra.

The others sadly shook their heads.

A nurse showed up.

"What are you all doing here?" she asked.

"We're waiting for you to let us see Hanna Marin." said Emily calmly.

"Hanna Marin has been released from the hospital one hour ago." she said and walked away leaving everyone in shock.

Author's note

Well, this is chapter 10!

I am really glad from the reaction I got on the last chapter and I know it sounds weird, but I really can't believe I got to 37 reviews-and yeah, sure, it's not a lot, but it's a pretty big number for me! So thank you everyone so, so much, for reviewing, reading, following and favoriting!

I posted a one-shot two days ago, I hope you like that too.

Well, this chapter was a bit more relaxed but the end was pretty intense. What do you think happened? Why is Hanna not in the hospital?

Read, review, follow and favorite!

Thanks for reading!