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A/N: Just a heads up its like 3:30 in the morning, I'm tired and I didn't edit as well as I should have so I apolgize in advonce for the mistkes beacuse I'm sure they'll be some just like always. I hope you still enjoy the chapter.

Spencer POV

"LAPD open up! We know your in there! We could here you yelling from down the hall!"

"What we do?'' Hanna asks nervously but rather loudly considering

"You've got 10 seconds to open this door before we knock it down!" I hear Detective Lane's voice boom

"Spencer!" I hear my husband's voice

Toby? I think to myself

"Uh-oh. If Toby's with them, its means there's-" Emily starts

"Gonna be hell to pay if we don't open that damn door." I finish for her, while actually openning the door

"Tobes! Hey!" Emily says with fake enthusim

"Save it Emily. Its not gonna help." Alison whispers

"Dt. Lane, Lt. Cavanaugh, how can we help you?" I ask trying to hide my nervousness

"Where is he?" A female detective asks

"Where is who? And who are you?" We all ask

"I'm Dt. Erin Lindsay, Lane's partner. Where is Rydar Laykins?" She asks, frantically searching the room with her eyes

"Mr. Laykins was fired 6 months ago." Aria informs her

"Why?" Hanna adds

"Because he killed Mr. Austin. We stopped by his house and his wife said that he was here, at work." Dt. Lindsay replies

"Like Mrs. DiLaurentis told you, he was fired 6 months ago. We have the documents to prove it." Maya says

"Show us." Toby says

I walk over to my file cabinet, open the third drawer from the bottom on the left side, and rummage through the files.

"Em, can you spell his last name for me?" I ask

"L-A-Y-K-I-N-S." she spells out slowly

I start looking through the "L's'' again until I find it.

"Rydar Laykins, here ya go." I say handing the file over to Dt. Lane

He briefly skims over the file before opening his mouth.

"Says here he was fired 6 months ago after being arrested in NYC on misdemenor charges the the night before Mr. Austin was killed. Also says that he boarded a company plane home an hour and a half after he murdered Shane. He had the oppurtunity, he the means since we found his prints on the gun the killed Mr. Austin and the gun was hidden in one of his wife's shoes boxes. We also know he had the motive because Austin was blackmailing him because he knew that Laykins was cheating on his wife with one of the employees of the NYC office. Looks like we've found our killer's identity. Now we have to figure out where he went." Lane sighs

"Does that mean your done with us?" Hanna asks hopefully

"Unfortunately no. We need to find Laykins. We have to talk to anyone and everyone who might know who is mistress was and where he could be right now. That means we need to interview everyone who works in this office, the New York office, and possibly some people from the Rosewood office. Hanna I wish that this investigation was over just as much as you do. Do you think I like having to work against my wife and best friends, because I don't. This case has been my worst nightmare. I had to put all my personal feelings aside so I could do my job effeicentlly which is not easy when my wife is doing everything she can to compromise my case all to protect her friends and her precious company." Toby rants

"Well don't hold anything back!" I cry sarcastically

"Spencer you spent all those years in law school only to get a degree in business and start this stupid company with Emily! You said you didn't want to be a lawyer because you didn't want to be like your parents and put your job before your family! Thats exactly what your doing! S&E is your freaking baby! Ironically the baby you had with your lesbian best friend, Emily! This company is everything to you and you were willing to put it before your family all so you and your friends could have jobs together! Normal people don't do this! You and your friends don't need the same career! You work together, spend your free time together, and you practically live together! Where the hell do your familes fit in there! You spend two days a week with me and the kids and you always have at least one of the girls there too and you can't stop talking about work! When are me and the kids gonna get a wife and a mother instead of this!" Toby exclaims hysterically

"Toby you said you were joining the force so we'd have someone on our side. All you ever do is work against us. Your job is your first priority. You think just because your a cop, your better then the rest of us. Well I have news for you Husband, your not. Stop acting like it." I say trying to hold back tears

"Spencer." Toby says through gritted teeth

"Save it!" I cry and run out the room

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After the big blow up between me and my husband, I feel like I'm sufficating. I immediately run of the room and to the nearest exit of the first floor. I run out the door and stop just at the end of the side walk and begin gasping for air. I fall to my knees clutching tighly to my chest.

"Oh my gosh Spencer!" I hear a voice scream and rush towards me

"Call 911!" someone else says

"She doesn't need 911 she just needs to breathe." another voice says

"Spencer just breathe. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale." The first voice says trying to get me to breathe with them

I do as they say, slowly inhaling and exhaling, until I can finally breathe steadily again.

"Spencer are you ok? What happened?" Someone ask sympathically

I slowly stand up with someone's help and turn around to see Aria, Hanna, Emily, Alison, and Maya standing behind me. They all have confused, yet smypathetic looks on their faces.

"I-I'm f-fine." I choke out

"Obviuosly not if you got so upset that you couldn't breathe." Alison argues

"W-whats your worst nightmare?" I ask

They all stare at me like I'm crazy so I ask them again, but more slowly this time.

"What. Is. Your. Worst. Nightmare."

"-A taking away you guys and my husband and kids." Aria answers after a few moments of slience

"Same." the other girls agree, while we stand on the sidewalk out side the buildind where we work

"Everytime me and Toby fight, I start to worry that I'm gonna lose him and the kids. That, what just happened in there, he's never been like. If he ever wanted to leave me, now would be the time that he would. Maybe -A wouldn't be taking away my family, but them leaving is an even scarier thought in my book." I explain to my friends

"Spencer, he's not gonna leave you. He loves you too much." Aria says putting a hand on my shoulder

"Does he? Sounds like he hates me." I argue and take a step back

"Spencer, he misses you! He jealous because we spend more time with each other then we do with our familes! How can you blame him? If anybody's spouse is gonna leave them, its mine." Ali argues

"Why would Andrew want to leave you Ali?" Maya asks

"Because when I was 16 I had a baby girl and I gave her up for adoption! Ezra was her father! Last month she showed up at Ezra's place. I can't keep it from my husband forever!" Alison exclaims

"Wait what?! You had a kid with my husband and you never thought to tell me. What if we had never divorced and she showed up at our house? Then what would you have done? I can garentee you that I'd be much more pissed if Ezra was still my husband." Aria questions

"Look, I'm sorry ok. I wanted to tell you after you guys got married, but I wanted you guys to enjoy it a little bit before I ruined everything for you. Then you found out you were pregant. You guys to deserved to enjoy that do without finding out that I had Ezra's love child. Then you lost the baby, then there was the affair, then you made up, then you were pregnant again, then turns out it was my brothers baby! There was never a good time Aria! After you guys divorced, and before he left town, I told him. I knew there was always the possibility she would come looking one day and I didn't want him to be surprised when the daughter he never knew he had showed up at his doorstep." Ali says

"Ali, 16 years and you never told me? You didn't even tell me when you found I was dating Ezra, or not even after we broke up. You knew for 16 years and never told me? How could you, I loved Ezra?" Aria questions with all kinds of hurt hidden in her eyes

"Ari, I'm so sorry. I wanted to tell you but I was always so afraid that I'd lose you because of it. I was hoping you'd never have to find out. I understand if you hate me. You have every right to hate me." Ali cries

"Alison, I'm pissed, but I don't hate you. Your my best friend and I love you. No matter how much I may want to kill one of you, I could never hate any of you." Aria says rolling her eyes and pulling us all in for a much needed group hug

"So whats the name of your and Ezra's love child and when do we get to meet her?" Emily asks when we all pull away

"Can we please talk about this inside one of our office's?" Ali asks

"I could really use the fresh air." I say

"Fine." Ali sighs "Can we at least sit down?"

We all sit down on the curb sliently for a few seconds.

"Ehm." I clear my throat

"Her name is Caitlyn and she's 16." Ali says

"Please continue. She's technically my niece since I married your brother and she's like my ex-step-daughter if thats even a thing. Tell us more then just her name and age." Aria says with a small laugh

"Her parents kicked out because they didn't want anything to do with her if she was gonna be involved with us so now she's staying with Ezra. She loves art and literture just like her father. She used to be the 'Queen Bee' and 'It-Girl' at her old school ironically. Her brother, he's a 22 year old med student now, but in high he used to play lacrosse, which is pretty much the guy version of field hockey, so that's what she played. She was really good because she was the team captian even though she was only a sophmore. She's got blue eyes course, but their not anything like mine or Ezra's. Their light blue with this garyish color mixed in, their really pretty. She has long, dark brown hair, but the tips are a lighter color, but naturally, she's a blonde. Its about the length of Emily's hair and she's about Hanna's height maybe an inch or so taller." Ali describes her daughter

"Ali your 2 inches taller then me, how much shorter then you is she?" Hanna asks

"2 inches, so she is your height." Ali asnwers

"What is she like? We wanna know everything." I ask

"Ok um, she's funny, kinda nerdy although you wouldn't think it. Most people don't know about her love for reading or her love for art, thats her nerdy side, no offense Aria and Maya. She's kinda cocky and arrogant, very competetive, very driven, I guess thats what made her such a good athlete. She tends to overcomplicates everything and makes everything too serious. She's a lot like Spencer. She's also really sweet. She loves chocolate, hates ice cream. She's a bit of a heath nut at times. She used to be vegan like Aria, gross." Ali says, geeting lost in her thoughts

"Ok vegan food is not gross!" Aria cries

"If she's as much like me as you say she is then I can't wait to meet her. Chloe and Abigail are a lot like their father and Brandon is more of a combination of us both but still more like Toby. Its freaking annoying." I laugh

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"Toby! Kids! I'm home!" I call, dropping my bag next the door and taking off my coat

"Mama! Mama!" Abby cries

"Hi pumpkin! Mama missed you so much!" I coo, picking her up and holding her tightly

"Mommy!" The twins exclaim running into the room

"Hey guys! I missed you!" I cry kissing the tops of their heads

"We missed you too!" They say hugging me tightly

"How was school?" I ask

"Daddy didn't tell you?" Chloe asks nervously

"No, what happened?" I ask

"We got suspended." Brandon answers

"What! You got suspended? Why?" I ask

"Some kids were picking on Ty because of Auntie Maya and Auntie Em. They called him a bunch of mean names and he started crying so me and Sissy beat them up." Brandon says rather proudly

"I'm proud of you for standing up for Ty. What those kids did was wrong, but you had not right to beat them up. Violence is never the answer. Ty and Sophie are a little younger then the other kids in you class and school is hard enough for them because of that. Ty gets picked because he has three moms and Sophie gets picked on because she has a small learning disability, which means she can't learn as easy as other kids her age. Kids are gonna pick on them, and I'm glad that you two stand up for them. Your such good kids, but if you want to help them, don't beat someone else up." I lecture them

I hear Toby's heavy footsteps walking into the kitchen and I open the fridge.

"Toby stop dragging your feet around, you know I hate that!" I call out

"Oh, so you finally decided to come home for once." He says coldly,dragging his feet into the living room, and taking a sip of beer

"Why didn't you tell me the twins got suspended today?" I ask, ignoring his comment

"Because the prinicpal said that we have to sign some kind of form giving consent and I refused to sign it. Then they said that the other kids parents could go to the cops and press charges and I said that they couldn't. Those other kids were bullying my nephew and my kids were just defending him. I run a precinct, I could just have the case thrown out and anyone would do it because everyone respects me. Normally you have to be a Captian to run an entire precinct but the only reason they let me is because they didn't have anyone else avaliable." Toby argues

"Toby your a Luetinent, not God! You can't win at everything!" I argue back

"Can we not talk about this right now. Its almost their bedtime and the kids still haven't had dinner or taken their baths. Might wanna get on that, Mom." Toby spits

"What is wrong with you? I'm actually here tonight, I'm trying to make an effort!" I yell

"You shoulda done that a long time ago!" he yells back

"Kids, go upstairs, and give Abby her bath. I'll be up there soon." I tell my kids, trying to get them out of the room

"But Mommy-" Brandon starts

"Lets just go Bubba." Chloe says with Abby holding on to one hand and pulling on her brother with the other

Me and Toby wait until the kids have disappeared up the stairs and down the hall before we starting screaming again.

''What do want from me Toby! Huh? What do you want! Do I need to quit my job or ditch my friends! Do I need to spend more time at home! What do you want me to do!" I cry

"Your not gonna quit for job or ditch your friends, thats all you even care about." he says with tears in his eyes

"Toby I love my job, and I love my friends. The girls are like my sisters and they have been for nearly my entire my life, but you and our kids are what most important to me. I love you four more then anything in this world." I whisper with tears streaming down my face

"Then act like it!" he yells, his voice like venom

"I will, I promise. Please don't leave me." I beg

"Spencer, I could never leave you, I love you too much." he says, his voice much softer this time

He sits his nearly full bottle of beer down on the coffee table and slowly walks closer towards me.

"The last thing I ever want to do it have to live with out. I love you Spencer Jill Hastings." he whispers then wraps his arms around my waist and kisses my passionately

He slowly begins to back us towards the couch, throws me down and starts placing soft kisses on my neck. I left out a soft moan but then push him away.

"Toby the twins are upstairs giving the baby and bath, they haven't taken a bath yet, or eaten. I'm sorry but this is gonna have to wait until later." I say sypatetically

"Spencer, for the past couple of months, I barely get a peck on the lips each day." he argues

"Just let me kids the kids feed and ready for bed." I say

"Then what?"

"Then you can do whatever you want to me." I whisper seductively and place a soft kiss on his lips

I run upstairs and into the kid's bathroom to find Abby in the tub, half the water on the floor, and the twins nowhere to be seen.

"Brandon! Chloe!" I yell

I hear the small feet running into the bathroom and their jaws drop to the floor when the see the mess their little sister made.

"Sorry Mommy. I went to go get her towel but I couldn't find so Bubba went to help." Chloe says

"You can't leave her alone in here guys. I'll handle it from here. You two get your pajamas and go to Mommy and Daddys' bathroom. Chloe its your turn to use the shower so thats means you have to take a bath B. Go quickly because need to eat soemthing. Its already past your bedtime now so if you only get one story tonight. Abby gets to pick." I explain

"Yes M'am." they say and run about the room

"What did you do to all the water?" I sigh, turning back around to face my three year old

Abby shurgs her shoulder and says "I dunno."

I can't help but smile at how cute and innocent she looks. Abby's my baby. Its impossible to stay mad at her.

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"The kids have been bathed, feed, had a story read to them and are asleep. Now its my turn to have you." Toby whispers, pulling his shirt off and rolling over on top of me

"Toby." I whisper, breathlessly "I can't do this."

"What do mean you can't do this?" he asks, rolling over to his side of the bed

"I gave up my career in law so I could start S&E with Emily. She lost her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer, so I gave up mine of being a lawyer. Aria gave up on being a writer, and Hanna and Ali gave up their careers in Fashion. We all gave up what we loved after Emily lost what she loved. After giving up what we loved, we all realised that we didn't care what we did as long as we had each other and our families. Thats why I love my job so much. Thats why I'm so career driven. I'm promise I'm gonna be there to send my kids off to school each day, and pick them up. I'll be there to eat dinner with them and read them bedtime stories. They will be my number one priorties one the weekends. They will be my number one priorities everyday, but you have to understand, I will always be with my friends because they are my family. They were my family before you and the kids. I won't make work so important if you promise to be more understanding of why I love it so much, but I won't stop spending time with my friends." I tell him seriously

"Ok. And I promise to stop acting like just because I'm a police officer ranked Luetinent, that I'm more important than you." he agrees

"Even as close as me and the girls are. We're still afraid to tell each other some things because we're afraid that they'll hate us and stop being friends with us. As close as we are we still think there's a posibitly of losing one another."

"Spencer, even I know that would never happen."

"I know. Believe it or not, we need all that time together to make our relationship stronger."

"Spencer, less talking, more kissing." Toby says before crashing his lips into mine

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Its Friday morning, last day of the work week and I couldn't be more excited. After work, the girls and I are going out for drinks then out to dinner with our spouses and children. On Saturday its just gonna me, my husband, and our children, and on Sunday, Hanna'a stepdad, Ted, is having a church picnic. Even though we aren't exactly religious people and probably won't attend the service, Ted asked us all to be there. Apparently something big is happening for Ricky, Hanna's new little brother. Ricky is 16 now and was recently adopted by the Marin-Wilson's. He was their foster kid for about a year then he was taken away for a few months before returning for another year and then they decided they wanted to adopt him. I don't know if its something religious, or something about his adoption actually being final, but Sunday is supposed to be a big day for him. This weekend finally doesn't have to be about S&E or that stupid murder investigation. It finally gets to be about my family.

"Hey! Morning Spence!" Maya greets me, handing me a cup of Starbucks

"Hey! Thanks for this. I got almost no sleep last night." I saying after taking a long sip of coffee

"I can tell. Make up only hides so much." Maya laughs

"Gee, thanks My. Good to know I'm still flawless even if my make up is crappy." I say sarcastically

"Ok fine. You look hawt, like I wanna do right now, on this floor!" Maya laughs even harder this time

"Alright, but we can't tell Em or Tobes." I joke with her

"Can't tell Em or Tobes what?" Emily asks walking up behind us

"Well your wife called me ugly, I got mad, then she told me I was hot and that we should do it on the floor!" I tease

"No! Go find another girl to hump!" Emily exclaims

"Ok she did not just seriously say 'hump' did she?" Maya asks

"I think she did. And she's your wife." I say sympathetically

"Shut up Spencer. You've said worse." Emily whines

"Oh, have I?" I ask

"Yeah. One time back in high school, Aria told me you guys were talking about her and Ezra and you said, and I quote 'Everytime you baby squirel Ezra, your taking away his nuts.' Yeah I remember things for situations like this one." Emily says matter-of-a-factly

"You did not seriously say that, did you?" Maya asks

"I did, but I don't think I meant to." I reply, thinking back to that day

Maya begins laughing hysterically.

"I'm pretty sure what I said to you is the exact same thing I said to her as a matter of a fact." I add

"What are we talking about?" Hanna, Aria, and Alison ask, now walking with the three of us

"We well it all started when Emily got jealous of her wife wanting to 'hump' me and then we started talking about how Aria used to try and take away Ezra's nuts when she baby squireled him." I explain

"Ok you guys are weird, and I don't even want to know what any of that crap means." Hanna says

"I'm with her on that one." Alison agrees

"Even though I think I know what your talking about, I'd rather not think about my ex right now." Aria says

"Why, what happened?" We all ask

"After Ali told Jason about Caitlyn, he accused me of knowing and keeping it from him. He was pretty pissed, but lets not talk about that. We got a big staff meeting this morning and I need to be focused." Aria sighs

"What is this meeting even about?" Hanna asks

"We have to set some new rules and guidelines about how we handle our clients. After what happened with Rydar and Shane, this is something we really need to do." Ali explains

"Right. Got it." Hanna says

"Hey, Spencer, you never told me why your so tired. Another fight with Toby?" Maya asks

The six of us turn the corner and walk towards the elevators. I'm the first one there and I push the arrow pointing up.

"Well we were at first but then we worked things out. We even made an agreement about the balance between work, family, and friends." I say just as the elevator doors begin to open

We all squeeze inside the already crowded elevator. Everyone is making their way up to the main confrence room. Its the only one big enough to fit everyone into and its on the top floor of this 12 story building. S&E is a huge company. This office is huge, its full of different departments to make the business run smoothly. Our offices are on the first floor although we don't spend much time in them. Its a constant back a forth from one floor to the next, from one department to the next. We don't even have phones in our personal offices because its impossible to reach us that way. We have one personal phone and one work phone. My personal phone is always shut offf and locked in my desk while my work phone is always in my hand. I talk using a bluetooth. We don't even have computers on our desk, we have laptops that we can take home with us. We also have tablets we can carry around so we can easily access anything we need. The last few weeks we've been stuck in our offices, the cops kinda put our businees on hold due to the murder investigation. Two days ago we all gave our final statements to the cops, even though the investigation is still ongoing, and now we have to hold a meeting on how we deal with clients. A 12 story building and we have to cram half the people in this building into one room. The elevator ride is slow on account of us stopping at every floor for someone else to squeeze their way in. The six girls and I decide to put our conversation on hold. We'd rather not air our dirty laundry to everyone in the building.

Once the elevator finally comes to a stop, we wait for everyone else to clear out before leaving ourselves.

"What happened with you and Toby if you guys weren't fighting all night?" Maya asks once everyone is out of hearing distance

"We had sex." I say as I begin walking towards the confrence room

"All night?" Hanna asks in shock

"Oh please. Its not like any of you have never stayed up all night for that reason!" I laugh

"Not since I had kids." Aria says

"Maybe thats because Hadley sleeps in your bed!" I exclaim

"What about the rest of you? What's your excuse?" I add

"Avery's a light sleeper." Alison answers

"Sophie's going through a phase where she has a hard time sleeping which is weird because she usually sleeps better then Brooke, which says a lot because even as a baby Brooke slept more then I did" Hanna says

"When we have the kids, Ty sometimes likes to sleep in our bed and Lily is a light sleeper." Emily sighs

"But when we don't have the kids, we're grateful to actually have the bed to ourselves. Sometimes we sleep. Sometimes we do other things." Maya smirks

"Maya!" Emily cries

"What, its not like they don't know or don't do it either!" Maya argues

"I know but we're at work, and even though they work for us, there are some people who have some opinions that aren't exactly polite to say to your boss." Emily argues back

"Alright you have a point." Maya sighs

"Ok we can talk about this stuff after work when we go for drinks. Lets just get this nightmare over with." I say

Ok maybe not the best chapter I've ever written but I needed to move the case forward and give some time in there for Spoby since its Spencer POV. For now on the POV's are gonna go in a specific order. It'll go Spencer, Aria, Hanna, Alison, and Emily. I'm not sure if Maya will have a chapter written from her POV or not. She's kinda one of the liars in this story but she's also Emily's wife. Anyways. the cops found their killer but now he's on the run and Alison has a secret 16 year old love child with her ex-boyfriend/Aria's ex-husband Ezra Fitz. Next time will be Aria POV and we can see how Jason reacts to his little sister having a 16 year old daughter with his wife's ex-husband. Until next time. ~Stay Weird