Thank you for all of the reviews! Sorry for taking so long to post this, but school is crazy right now! I don't own Pretty Little Liars, unfortunately. I am using some of the story lines, but moving them around or changing them up a little bit.
"Well she didn't! I wanna hear all about it! Start from the beginning." Aria demanded as she sat down next to Hanna, leaving Emily a seat right next to her girlfriend.
"Only if my girlfriend will come sit next to me and help me out with the story." She said, looking at Emily's gorgeous face, waiting to see if her quiet mouth would turn into a bright smile.
"Of course." She answered almost immediately as she sat down and then grabbed one of Spencer's hands and squeezed it.
"Okay, as I was saying, I was so nervous when I went to pick her up-"
An hour later, Hanna and Aria decided to leave Spencer and Emily alone so they could be together without any interruptions.
"Shit." Spencer whispered as she shifted slightly in her hospital bed.
"Are you alright?" Emily jumped up as soon as she heard Spencer's pained voice.
"I think my pain meds are wearing off, I'm fine though."
"No you're not. Almost the whole left side of your body is broken. You're anything but okay. I'm going to go get a nurse for you."
"That is a rather large exaggeration, Em. I only have a few broken bones." Spencer said calmly.
"Really? I don't think it is. You have a broken arm, leg, nose, and a few broken ribs. Not to mention the fact that you also have a brain injury. So I'm getting the nurse." Emily said angrily as Spencer sat there and watched her girlfriend's face transform from smiling and happy to pissed off.
"Em." Spencer said gently, but was immediately cut off by Emily's voice.
"I'm getting the nurse, Spencer. And that's final." And with that, Emily stormed out of Spencer's room straight to the Nurse's station.
5 minutes later, the nurse was exiting the room after having just refilled all of Spencer's pain medications. As soon as the nurse left, Spencer turned towards Emily who was sitting in a chair in the corner of the room, avoiding all eye contact with her injured girlfriend.
"Emily, I'm sorry that I upset you. I didn't mean to, I promise. I just thought that if I downplayed everything then you wouldn't worry as much."
Spencer continued to look at her girlfriend, but she quickly realized that Emily wasn't going to look back, so she continued talking.
"Emily. Em, please. Can you just look at me? I know you're pissed at me, but I've barely seen that gorgeous face of yours in the past week. You know that I am still so madly in love with you, even when you're ignoring me, right?" Spencer added with her typical breathtaking grin.
She noticed Emily's posture change and then she finally saw exactly what she wanted to see, a smile break out across Emily's beautiful, tan face.
"I love you, too." She added quietly, still trying her hardest to not give in to Spencer's charms and forgive her completely.
"See, I knew I'd get you. I really am sorry about earlier though, Em."
"I know you are, but you shouldn't be. I'm sorry. It wasn't a big deal that you were trying to pretend you weren't in pain, I expected that from you." She smiled at her girlfriend, while Spencer just grinned guiltily. "I just haven't gotten any sleep in a week and I've been worried all the time. Plus, it doesn't help that I know exactly how bad all of your injuries are." Emily dragged the chair right up to the side of Spencer's bed and sat there, staring at the brunette.
Spencer's left arm and leg were both still in casts and her nose was getting better, it looked like the swelling was almost gone and the double black eyes were fading. Emily was glad that Spencer's body had had time to heal a little bit before the brunette was woken up from her coma, because it meant less pain for her.
"Did you talk to the doctors about me or something?"
"I was with you in that ambulance, Spencer." Emily's eyes started to fill with tears.
"What? Honey. How were you in the ambulance with me? I already dropped you off at home."
"I got a weird text from 'A' after you dropped me off, so when you didn't pick up I called Hanna and I heard her yelling at the paramedics in the background, so I grabbed my keys and rushed over to where you were. I got there right as they were loading you into the ambulance and I begged the paramedics to let me ride with you."
"Emily, you didn't have to ride with me, you could've just met me at the hospital." Spencer said gently.
"I wasn't about to leave you alone in that ambulance." Emily's face practically turned to stone when she said that, she was starting to get angry again.
"I would've been fine. You didn't need to see anything that they were doing to me in the back of that ambulance."
"Would you just stop trying to protect me!" Emily yelled, frustrated that Spencer was always trying to protect her. "We are in a relationship now, Spencer. I'm pretty sure 'in sickness and in health' applies to this situation even though we aren't married yet."
"Well I'm sorry for wanting to try to take care of you and protect you from things that you don't need to see." Spencer shouted back, finally getting annoyed with how Emily was acting.
"Do you want to know the real reason why I begged to be in that ambulance?"
"Yeah. I do."
"I thought you were going to die." Emily's voice started to waver as she got to the end of the sentence, but she continued talking and pacing the room. "I hopped in that ambulance because I didn't even think you were going to make it to the hospital, Spencer." Emily stopped to wipe the tears off of her face and then looked at Spencer, who now had tears in her eyes.
"Emily, I-" Spencer started.
"No. Let me finish saying this. I thought you were going to die right in front of my eyes. I could see the bone coming out of your arm, and all of the blood, cuts, and bruises that were already starting to form. There was so much blood. Everywhere. The car. The street. Your clothes. Everywhere." She paused to blink back tears and take a deep breath before she continued.
"Then I heard the paramedics talking about your heartbeat and blood pressure and it wasn't good. I was actually sitting there thinking 'this is the love of my life, and she is dying in front of me. And she doesn't even know how much I love her.' That is why I was with you in that ambulance. I really thought that was going to be the end of your life and I know how morbid that sounds, but I wanted to be there with you, holding your hand and just loving you in case your heart stopped and they couldn't bring you back to me. "
By the time Emily finished talking, both she and Spencer had tears streaming down their faces. Emily was leaning on her knees on the floor in the middle of the room, covering her face with her hands and it was breaking Spencer's heart.
"Emily." She managed to barely squeak out since she was crying so much. "Come here."
"You looked so bad, Spencer. I still see your broken body every time I close my eyes."
"I'm going to be perfectly fine, I promise you. Now get over here and hug me." Spencer demanded, trying to do whatever she could to get Emily off of the floor and into her arms.
Emily slowly got up and started to wipe the tears off of her face as she walked over to Spencer's outstretched right hand. As soon as Spencer's hand closed around hers, she started pulling Emily closer to her.
"Lay down with me? Please." Spencer asked as she continued to pull Emily closer to her.
Emily slightly nodded and then crawled onto Spencer's bed. She lay on her side, with her head resting on Spencer's uninjured shoulder, that way she wouldn't hurt any of her ribs or broken bones. Spencer's arm reached around and rested on Emily's hip, making her feel more content than she had felt the whole week.
"I'm still mad at you though." Emily added quietly as she took a deep breath in, loving that she was curled up with her girlfriend, even if they were in a hospital bed.
"Why are you mad at me?" Spencer asked obliviously.
"Because you almost died and left me alone."
"Emily." Spencer said compassionately, her heart starting to break again, especially when she began to feel her girlfriend's tears soak into her hospital gown.
"I would never leave you, I promise."
"You don't have any control over it though, that's the problem. What is 'A' tries to do this again?"
"We will figure out how to stop him/her before she/he can do this to anyone else."
"Yeah, we better." Emily sat up and looked at Spencer angrily. "All I know is that I'm going to kill this bitch for hurting you."
"No you're not."
"Fine, but at the very least that bitch is going to have a broken nose. Or ribs, or something painful."
"Go for the ribs. That's what hurts the most." Spencer said both knowingly and jokingly.
"I'm so sorry, Spence."
"Hey, don't be. It's not your fault." Spencer said strongly.
After Emily sat there looking at Spencer and calming down a little bit, she laid back down.
The next thing they both knew, they were getting woken up by one of Spencer's nurses who had to do a check up on her.
Emily shot the nurse an embarrassed smile and hopped off of Spencer's bed so she could make sure that Spencer looked okay.
Emily pulled out her phone and noticed that it was already 8pm and she had 3 voicemails from her mom, telling her to get home.
As soon as Spencer's nurse left, Emily looked over at her girlfriend and smiled sadly.
"What's the matter, Em?"
"My mom wants me to get home."
"Some things never change, huh? It's fine, I'll be okay and I'll see you tomorrow."
"I know, it just sucks. I haven't gotten to spend any time with you in the past week. Well I have, but you weren't awake for any of that. I don't know why it's so important that I get home."
"I know, Em, but I also want you to be able to come back. So please just go home and you can text me or call me or whatever. And I'll spend all day with you tomorrow, if you want."
"Of course I want that! But do you even have your phone?"
"Oh, right. No, it was ruined in the accident, so I have to get a new one."
Emily stood next to Spencer's bed, getting misty eyed again as Spencer looked at her sadly.
"Emily, I will be fine, alright? I promise. Now get your beautiful self on home, that way you don't get grounded or something."
"Fine. I'm leaving. Call me from the hospital phone if you need anything, okay? Anything at all."
"Okay. Thanks, Em. I love you."
"I love you too." Emily walked over to Spencer and planted a soft kiss on the brunette's lips, gave her one last smile and then walked out of the door.
The next morning Emily woke up around eight, had a shower and slipped on her favorite pair of jeans, a cute white top and a cardigan. Once she slipped into her well-worn black vans, she grabbed her purse and car keys and then headed for the door.
"Hey, Em!" Spencer said happily as she watched her girlfriend walk into the room.
"Hi, honey. How are you feeling today?" She asked as she walked over to Spencer and kissed her forehead.
"I feel fine."
"I was going to grab you something for breakfast, but I wasn't sure if you were allowed to eat non hospital food. I can go out and grab you something though."
"Do you mind grabbing me a bagel and some coffee from the cafeteria?"
"Of course not. I'll go get you that bagel, but you're going to have to wait on the caffeine until you are out of the hospital."
"Emily! That's not fair!" Spencer started to pout as she glared at her girlfriend.
"I'm sorry, Spence. But you do not need any caffeine while lying in a hospital bed. I'll go get you that bagel."
"Okay, fine. Thanks, Em."
"No problem. I'll grab you some orange juice too."
"Sounds good."
Right as Emily was about to walk out the door, Spencer noticed what Emily was wearing and called out to her.
"Hey Em!" She called out, getting Emily to turn around and look at her.
"You look really beautiful today. And I must say that you're looking hot in that cardigan."
"Why thank you, Miss Hastings." Emily and Spencer both chuckled. "You left it in my car a while ago and I just never gave it back."
"Keep it, it looks great on you. I have to say, I love it when you wear my clothes."
Emily smiled as Spencer said that and then walked over to her girlfriend and leaned down to whisper something in her ear.
"Well just wait until the next sleepover we have. You better believe that I'll be wearing all of your clothes afterwards." Emily whispered into Spencer's ear, smiling as she saw Spencer shiver a little bit.
Emily kissed behind Spencer's ear and down her neck until she abruptly got up and walked out of the room to the cafeteria, leaving a very disappointed Spencer.
About 10 minutes later, Emily was walking back in to Spencer's room with a bagel and some orange juice for her girlfriend.
"Thanks, Em." Spencer said as Emily handed her the food. "So was your mom pissed when you got home last night?
"No, but now I am." Emily said sadly.
"Why? What's wrong?"
"Well my dad is coming back-"
"Em! That's great news!"
"It is, really. But he's coming home for a month and then he's getting transferred to Texas."
"Em, I'm sorry. That really sucks."
"That's not even the part that sucks."
"What do you mean?"
"My mom told me that we are moving to Texas with him."
