~*ONE WEEK LATER - SPENCER'S LIVING ROOM, 9 AM*~

"Spence?" Hanna said from the table in the kitchen.

"Yeah?" Spencer turned around from the couch.

"Check this out."

Spencer got up to look at what Hanna had found on her computer.

"Whoa! Radley sure looked like a different place back then."

Hanna was on a website that was showing the history of Radley Sanitarium. It showed a picture of the facility looking more like a school than a mental institution. In front of the gates were a couple of employees standing with grim looks on their faces as several children stood in front of them, their expressions just as vague.

"It's certainly easy to forget all the horrors when you look at this picture," Hanna said softly. She clicked out of the webpage. She turned to Spencer who was standing while she continued to sit on the stool.

"Okay. Let's recap what we know so far. Mary Drake is Jessica Dilaurentis' twin. And according to..."

Hanna paused. She didn't want to say his name.

"Well, based on what we know, it looks as though Rollins and Charlotte may have had something going on. Which means Rollins is probably the last person Ali needs to be with right now. God, why did they release her from that place? She was so safe in there."

"Emily won't let anything happen to her. And besides, she only got out yesterday."

Hanna breathed in deeply.

"God I hope you're right, Spence."

~*THE NEXT DAY - ALI'S HOUSE, 10 AM *~

"So how are you feeling?" Hanna asked Alison as she handed her a cup of coffee.

All the girls noticed that the light in her eyes had faded.

They called it, "The dollhouse look."

"Terrible...confused...lost..." she managed to mumble out as she took a sip from her cup.

They were all sitting in the couches of her home. Ever since Charlotte's death, the girls all felt as though there was something much bigger in play there. Almost like an invisible force that was tying them down to Rosewood.

"Ali..." Spencer sighed and put her hands in her lap carefully. She glanced over at the others who nodded, and she pressed on.

"Ali, we want to ask you something. How...How well do you know your husband?"

Alison narrowed her eyes in confusion.

"I...know him pretty well Spence. Why do you ask?"

"Well, we just wanted to know because of your time at the hospital. Did Elliot ever visit you?"

"I think he did...but I hardly remember anything from my time in there."

The girls looked at each other nervously. This was going to be harder than they originally thought. Emily, who was sitting closest to Ali, turned to her and carefully took her hands in hers gently.

"Ali," she began softly, "We think your husband might be hurting you."

Alison's face fell even more. "Em, what are you talking about?"

"Holbrook...that detective that you were...involved with during our senior year...he told us that Rollins and Charlotte might have had some sort of weird connection going on," Hanna told her gravely.

"Holbrook? He's here?"

Hanna shook her head carefully. Ali's expression didn't change at the sound of hearing his name.

"Yes Ali, he's here. And against our better judgement, we're choosing to consider his input because Hanna trusts him," Aria cut in.

"Well...that is...interesting. But you guys are wrong about Elliot. What did Holbrook say about him and my sister exactly?"

"He has a theory," Hanna began carefully. "He thinks that they had something romantic going on way back."

Alison looked at the expression on all of the girls faces. She could tell that they were serious, but she didn't want to believe a single word of it.

"No. No, there has to be another explanation for it. I mean, I know that he and Charlotte were close, but that's only because she was his patient. And I think I would have known if there was something going on between him and my sister." Alison grabbed the armrest of the couch for support and got herself up.

"Now, if you guys don't mind...I'd like to get some rest."

~*FIVE MINUTES LATER - IN HANNA'S CAR*~

"Guys, we need to find evidence and prove to Ali that Rollins isn't who he says he is," Aria told them as she sat next to Hanna (who was trying to focus on the road ahead).

"Ali loves him...she's not gonna want to believe that he's capable of something like this," Spencer replied to her from behind.

"Which is why we're gonna follow Aria's advice and get that evidence," Hanna told everyone as she continued to look ahead of her.

"What did you have in mind, Han?" Emily asked from the back.

Hanna smiled.

"First stop, Radley."

~*30 MINUTES LATER- RADLEY HOTEL ROOM*~

"Hanna, are you sure it's okay for us to be in here?" Emily asked her as they all walked through the door of a vacant hotel room.

"Yeah, Em it's fine. I swiped the card off my mom's desk two minutes ago."

"Won't she notice that it's missing?"

"I thought we were here to save Ali's life, not worry about the rules."

Emily rolled her eyes as Hanna smiled. Aria and Spencer were feeling around for something in the walls until they found what they were looking for.

"Guys!" Aria called out to them. Hanna and Emily turned around.

"We found the way down to the basement. Come on!" Spencer gestured for them to come over.

~*TEN MINUTES LATER-RADLEY BASEMENT*~

"Okay guys, we need to find anything that could help connect Mary to Rollins, or Rollins to Charlotte. And we need to move fast before someone catches us down here."

The girls nodded in understanding as Spencer told them her game plan.

"Okay, good. Let's split up. Hanna's with me, Aria you go with Emily."

Emily and Aria walked off in another direction while Spencer stayed behind with Hanna.

"So should we go into that room with the tubs, or should we go into another room this time?" Hanna asked her.

"Let's go in this room," Spencer pointed to an unassuming door that was caked in dust and spider webs.

Hanna opened the door for both of them and they went inside, turning on their flashlights as they did so.

Hanna almost fainted at the smell of the room.

"Oh god! What is that?!"

Spencer kept her cool and pointed her flashlight in the corner of the room where they could see an old-fashioned fire place.

"Relax, Hanna. I'm sure we'll get used to it."

"Oh, is that all?" She replied sarcastically.

They continued to walk through the room until they found what they were looking for: a file cabinet.

Hanna smiled, raced over to it, and crouched down.

"Jackpot! Now let's get these files out so we can show Ali that Rollins is a" she stopped. The cabinet wouldn't open.

"Really?" Hanna asked the cabinet as if it would answer back. "Wait...I have an idea." She took a bobby pin from out of her hair.

"Um, Hanna...?"

"Yeah?"

"What are you doing?"

"I'm getting these files out of here."

"That's not gonna work. That only works in movies and to very lucky people. Last time I checked, that wasn't us."

"Well we can at least try. There's no harm in trying."

Spencer crossed her arms as she stood watching Hanna. She heard tiny clicking noises as she began to glance all around the room, but then the clicking stopped.

"Hey, Spencer."

Spencer glanced back at her.

"Yeah?"

"You were right. We do need a key." Hanna held out her left hand which was holding a key.

"Where did you find that?"

"I was using the bobby pin when I noticed it right here on the floor. Who says we don't have luck on our side?" Hanna told her with a smile and a wink.

Spencer smiled back and crouched down next to her to watch her put the key in the lock.

Click.

It worked!

Hanna nearly pulled the cabinet off its hinges with the force in which she pulled it out.

Spencer thumbed through the files until they found what they were looking for. It was in the back of all the files, tucked away like an afterthought.

DRAKE, MARY.

Hanna combed through the files some more until she found another familiar name.

ROLLINS, ELLIOT.

Hanna and Spencer smiled at each other.

They were going to make Rollins and Mary pay for everything.


A/N: Yeah I know. It's kind of a short chapter. Don't worry it's almost getting there. So think of this as a mini update. Also, I'm still massively uninspired but whatever.