Chapter 10: Message

A/N: I know it takes 100 years for me to update this story, this chapter probably won't even make up a fraction for the waiting I've put you though (I'm not even sure someone is even reading this story anymore) I just hope you'll find this chapter ok.

A/N2: Thank you to Me A Genius for always beeing so supportive and helping me with my stories.

Emily's Pov-

I had kept quiet about the text A had sent me because I didn't want to worry my friends.

I couldn't imagine what it would feel like losing one of them forever.

"Emily, focus!" Hanna said as she slammed the grimoire on the table in front of me.

"Sorry Han, I'm just worried about A… I guess I spaced out." I answered.

"Well, focus. I didn't invite you over to study." Hanna said.

"I understood that when Spencer wasn't here." I joked.

"Shut up." Hanna said annoyed and opened my grimoire that I had brought from home and pointed to a location spell.

"Do you think you can use that to find A?" She asked.

"I don't really know, I need a personal item from A and since we don't have those there really is nothing I can do." I answered seeing Hanna's disappointed face.

"Ok, well… oh crap!" Hanna gasped and I jumped as well.

"What is it?" I asked expecting that Hanna had seen the worse.

"It's Caleb, he is on his way in." Hanna said as I looked out the window to see that Hanna was right.

"Hanna what's wrong?" I asked almost laughing over how much Hanna is overreacting.

"I haven't put on any makeup and I'm in sweats Em, he can't see me like this." Hanna said as she undid her messy hair bun and tried to adjust her hair.

"Hanna, you're overreacting." I said trying to calm her down.

"No, Caleb haven't seen me long enough to see me like this." Hanna said as she heard the door open.

"Tell Caleb I'm in the bathroom." She whispered to me as she almost dived behind the couch, squatting behind it so Caleb wouldn't see her.

And then Caleb walked in, he took a quick look at me and said. "Hi, I'm not breaking in, I'm a friend of Hanna's." He was calm.

"She is in her bathroom." I lied.

"Ok, I just wanted to leave this." Caleb said and handed me a jacket he was holding, I was at first confused to why but then I noticed it was one of Hanna's jackets.

"Did she forget it at your place?" I asked.

"No, she forgot it in my car." Caleb said and my mind instantly figured out several reasons to why Hanna would have forgotten her jacket there.

"Well, thank you. I'll make sure Hanna knows that you left it." I said and then I placed the jacked on Hanna's chair.

"Ok and when she comes back can you tell her one thing from me?" Caleb asked.

"Sure." I said and Caleb walked past me.

"You can tell Hanna she doesn't have to hide behind the couch!" Caleb said very loudly and a very red faced Hanna slowly looked up from behind her hiding spot.

"I… I wasn't hiding… I erm… found a coin." Hanna said.

That must have been the worse excuse I had ever heard her use.

"Ok." Caleb said slightly confused and Hanna kept smiling sheepishly.

"Well, it was nice of you to drop by, but Hanna and I really need to work on this assignment, we really need to raise our grades." I lied because I knew that neither Hanna nor Caleb was going to do anything else other than to stare into each other's eyes.

"You're right Em." Hanna said and looked back to Caleb. "I'm sorry but it's important." She continued.

"No, it's fine." Caleb said sounding like he had snapped out of a dream and then he very awkwardly walked out the door and Hanna walked up to me and she started to look through my grimoire.

"You found 'a coin' under the couch?" I asked teasingly.

"Shut up." Hanna said as she blushed slightly.

"You really like him?" I asked.

Hanna smiled as she said "He is not like anyone I've ever dated. When I'm with him I'm always having a great time and I even forget… you know." Hanna said and her smiled faded away.

"A." I said and nodded as I saw a look of fear spread over Hanna's face.

"I'm also worried about A and so is Aria and especially Spencer." I said to let Hanna know she wasn't the only one worried about A.

"I just wish that bitch never got into our lives." Hanna said. "You know, we met A and we can't even tell if A was a boy or a girl." She continued.

She was right, A was under all our skins and we still didn't knew anything about A other than that he or she was a vampire.

"I know what you mean, sometimes it feel like I have to sleep with one eye open." I said.

Hanna then looked at her cellphone and I moved up next to her and saw it was a selfie of her and Caleb. They were standing in front of a lake smiling widely. She looked really happy.

"I don't want A to take Caleb away from me." Hanna said and wiped away a tear from her cheek.

"Em, be honest, do you think we can stop A?" Hanna asked and I pulled her in to hug her.

"I don't know, but I'll never give up finding a way to stop A." I answered.

I felt Hanna nod into my shoulder and I rubbed her back to let her know she was safe because at the moment she was more afraid than I was.

"Hanna?" I asked.

"Yeah." Hanna answered.

"Why were your jacket in Caleb's car?" I asked.

"We went on a hike a few days ago, I brought my jacket but it was too hot so I left it in the car and I guess I just forgot it there." Hanna answered.

"Should I tell Caleb? Should I tell him about A?" Hanna asked.

"You should be honest whit him, but these are unusual circumstances." I said.

"That's not a yes or a no." Hanna said.

"I really can't make this decision for you Han, but if you really like him you can find a way to make it work." I answered.

After the hug Hanna picked up my grimoire and we started to scroll through it.

"You should also try to make it work." Hanna said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"You and Paige, Aria, Spencer and I have seen the way you look at her." Hanna said.

"It's complicated." I answered.

"Is it because she used to be a bully?" Hanna asked.

"It's complicated because of Stefan, we saw A kill him and I want to let Paige know the truth but I can't because it might destroy her." I answered thinking just how devastated Paige was when she found out her brother was dead.

"Do you think she'll ever find out?" Hanna asked.

"If she is lucky she never will." I answered.

"If you think she's worth it you'll make it work. Besides you two would make a cute couple." Hanna said.

I smiled happy that Hanna didn't had a problem if I'd hook up with Paige.

"Hopefully we can defeat A before you and Caleb get exclusive." I said and kept my eyes focus on the grimoire tried to figure out anything that could give us any kind of advantage against A.

Hanna and I spent the entire day reading the grimoire page to page but there was not much about vampires that could help us, eventually we gave up and I decided to just go home and get a fresh start tomorrow.

As I was halfway home I swear I heard something whisper my name.

"Who's there?" I asked and turned around.

I couldn't see anything but I could hear someone whispering my name again, like they tried to get my attention.

"I'm here, what do you want me?" I cried out waiting for an answer but I got nothing, I thought about casting some spell to locate where the voice was coming from but then people might think I'm going 'Carrie' and try to burn me alive.

"Emily… why did you abandon me?" The voice said and then time I could tell where it came from, I dashed over the back of my own house where I saw some figure in a very black outfit lean against the back wall.

"Who are you?" I asked as I kept my distance. After all I didn't know if this was another one of A's messages.

"Emily, you came." The person said and turned to me.

"Don't get any closer." I said, I tried to sound tough but I was really freaking out.

"Emily?" The figure said. "Don't you recognize me?" I started to notice a slight familiarity in the voice.

The person walked towards me and stayed by a window, the light from inside my house made it possible to get a good look at her face.

"Alison." I gasped as I saw her emerge from the darkness.

"But how… you died. I saw you die." I said.

"That was just a trick to fool A, I've been pretending to be dead this whole time to keep my friends safe, to keep you safe." She walked up and she gently moved her hand over my cheek.

"I can't stay; A will find me. You must find a way to destroy her." Alison suddenly said as she started to back away from me.

"Ali, wait." I said and ran up to her, grabbing her wrist. "Please don't leave." I begged.

"I have to, it's not safe for me." She said as she looked over her shoulders like she heard something.

"Listen, there is a cave close to the spot we all used to play as kids. Inside that cave there is a full archive of secrets about supernatural creatures but the entrance is hidden with magic. Find it that's the only way to stop A." She said as she backed away further.

"Ali, let me help you." I said.

"There is only one way to do that now, find the archive… find it and I can come home." Alison said and then she ran away and before I had any chance to run after her she was gone, like she had never been here.

I don't know how she's alive but I was going to do anything I could to make sure she could get home again.

A/N3: Now don't get any ideas, I'm the furthest thing from an Emison shipper, but I'm not going to say my personal opinions about Emison, some people ship them and I respect their opinion. But I'm a 100% Paily shipper and for those who still think I got a bad explanation to why Alison suddenly shows up I just want to say that I'm not Merlene King and this won't be one of those things I'll just ignore and hope it'll go away, I got a reason to why Alison in all of a sudden back and it will be explained in a future chapter.