Wilden Conundrum

Episode Seven

Aria looks at her father, Byron, who she can't imagine with someone else other than her mother - and right then she hears a knock on the door.

Hair muddled to her side, Jenna looks adjacent to her once again - only to see the driver's seat was empty.

"You can answer it," Byron permitted, sipping his coffee and setting it down on a canister - to which Aria shook her head in compliance.

Veronica walks back in to her house, not noticing the graffiti ravishing the wall - and right then she saw Melissa sat at the bottom of the steps.

Jessica scrambled out side of the house, then felt her anxiety skyrocketing when she realized she did not yet know where her daughter was.

Aria walked to her front door. She opened it, and saw that Mike was scratching the back of his neck nervously. Right then, Byron entered the room.

Lucas peers at Hanna through the window. He begun stalking her due to the fact he was dumped. Moments later the doorbell rings.

Immersed in panic, Jessica turned around, sweat glistening atop her skinny forehead. "Ali, please; get out of that house!"

"Oh, hey, dad..." Mike trailed off, crossing his arms. "I... I was out getting doughnuts."

Byron shook his head. "I know everything," he said, to which Mike shot Aria a dirty look.

"Dad, please," Aria pleaded.

"Honey, stay out of this," he demanded. Aria left the room, to go clean up the kitchen - all the whilst continuing to listen in to the discussion in the front room.

Emily begins to cry at the sight of her mother convulsing rapidly on the ground. This makes her feel curious. "M-Mom..." She stutters; her mother raises her dampened head. "What's... What's wrong?" She repeated.

"I needn't tell you this..." She cryptically replied. "I needn't..." She repeated, continuing to convulse.

Right then Emily awoke from her nightmare and saw her mother's body swaddled within the covers.

"H-Honey," Veronica asked, curiosity pulsating through her veins. Melissa raised her head. She had this puzzled expression, almost as if she couldn't retain the knowledge she once thought she knew. "I understand what you're going through..." She begins.

Melissa raises her hand in defiance - then utters a few choice words and says that nobody can ever understand what she's gone through.

Someone else knocks on Aria's door. Byron finishes telling Mike that he is going to report him for what he has done, then answers the door and displays an expression of shock once she sees who's at the door.

Hanna answers the door and is befuddled to see Caleb. "How'd you get released?" She asks. Out of the corner of her eyes she sees Lucas scurrying down the road, and then she sighs a sigh of relief, then proceeds to allow Caleb in side her life once more.

"M-Meredith?" Byron asks. He hadn't saw her in a long time, and now that he's going through a divorce the timing couldn't have been any better.

Meredith's expression was vague in its nature. "I've come to assist you," she informed her ex boyfriend, then allowed her self within the premises.

Jessica watches in horror as the house blows up. A piece of shrapnel punctures her shoulder, but it's not the physical pain she feels...

Aria walks back in to the front room. "Oh, Meredith," she smiles a dark smile. "I wasn't expecting your presence."

"There's a lot of things you don't expect, but you have to except them as fact..." Meredith trails off, leaning in to Byron and kissing him.

"I was released because there wasn't much wrong with me - just some minor contusions..." Caleb trailed off, realizing that there's a vague smell in the house. "What's that smell?" He asked, crinkling and contorting his nose in genuine disgust.

"I... I don't know; I've never smelled it before..." Hanna trailed, walking around the house to waft the smell.

Jenna looks in front of her to see a homeless man. She beeps the horn, and he raises his head in shock - to which Jenna reaches in to her pocket and pulls out a twenty dollar bill.

"It... It smells like... fire..." Caleb trailed, only continuing to walk around the house. "Did you light a candle or something, because it smells recent..."

Hanna's eyes bulge. Caleb backs in to the smoke.

The homeless man walks over to her right side window and knocks on it. She rolls down the window and commands that he enter the driver's side seat and drive her to Rosewood Pennyslvania.

Mike taps Meredith on the back. She turns around, and he punches her in the face, to which Byron grabs the phone and calls the police. This all occurred whilst Aria was in the restroom text messaging her secret boyfriend.

Jenna arrives back in Rosewood. She kisses the homeless man so as to express her gratefulness.

Meanwhile, from afar, a woman can be seen spying on her and taking out her phone and calling someone.

Emily watched as her mother awoke. Her eyes were moderately glassy, but nothing new compared to how she was first presented to her.

"So, mom. What happened?" She made the conversation, but her mother wasn't willing to continue with it, so she just dropped the subject.

That same woman that was spying on Jenna is shown getting in to her car. She hangs up the phone, and the caller ID reads...

A/N

Thanks to all who have tuned in to read this fan fiction over the days! I really appreciate ALL your support! There will be around 15 or so chapters, or as many chapters as I can make without running out of ideas; however, I do not prefer to title any of my episodes as a midseason finale.

I utilized my first shocker that will be continued in the next chapter. Keep tuned in to find out who the woman is, and not to mention who she was calling.