"What are you doing here?"

Spencer resists the urge to simply let the door close again and leave him standing behind it. As if she could pretend that she had never seen him and as if she could prevent him from talking to Aria.

"Spence?" With a pounding heart, Jason had walked up the steps to her apartment. He had arranged the words he wanted to say to her. But he didn't expect to find his sister here.

Aria is still lying tiredly and powerless in her bed. She had asked Spencer to open the door when it rang. She didn't expect a visit and almost didn't care who would like to visit her. But she didn't want to be rude, so she sent her friend to open the door.

"What are you doing here?" Jason asks, just as surprised. As much as he is always happy to see his sister, it would have been easier for him, if she wasn't standing in front of him at the moment. He knows that she won't be pleased with how his life has developed in the last few hours.

And he also knows that she isn't thrilled that he is standing in front of Aria's door. Spencer had been incredibly happy when Jason told her about his wedding plans with Lauren. And even though Lauren is Spencer's friend, he knows there was more than one reason, why Spencer was so happy that there was finally a woman in his life.

Spencer was his greatest help when he returned from San Francisco and knew she was back with Ezra. He stood in front of the shards of his hopes. He had felt completed with her. He thought that he had finally found the love of his life in Aria. No, actually, he was absolutely sure that no other woman could replace her for him.

But suddenly he was sitting in front of the glass filled with whiskey. Suddenly tears flew down his cheeks and suddenly everything felt so worthless again.

Spencer saw him at one of his hardest days and he can't blame her for not being thrilled that he's standing in front of Aria's door. He knows that she is worried about him and he is grateful that there is someone who does that.

"I happen to work in the city and visit Aria", Spencer explains. Deliberately, she doesn't talk about the hours she had to comfort and cheer Aria up because she ended her relationship with Ezra. If she wants to stop Jason from getting involved with Aria, then she can't tell him that.

"What are you doing here?" Spencer asks repeatedly, especially emphasizing the you. Because this isn't about her. It's about why he is back at her door.

Jason lowers his head. All the words he just put together, have disappeared out of his head. He doesn't even need to answer her anymore. Spencer suspects what happened when she sees his shamed look anyway.

"No", she says suddenly. "No, no, no! You can't be serious!" With sparkling eyes she looks at him. She picked up the pieces! She also helped him to find his happiness! How could he do that?

"May I come in?" Jason asks carefully. Slowly, he thinks it is uncomfortable to discuss his love life in the hallway. Spencer pulls him into the apartment by his arm and shuts the door of the kitchen behind them so Aria can't hear his voice.

"You won't marry her, will you?", Spencer's voice sounds reproachful and accusatory and he can't even blame her.

Jason shakes his head silently but his eyes ask her to understand him, even if it's hard for her.

"We decided together that it's ... the fairest if we won't get married and if we break up", he adds after a pause.

Shaking her head, Spencer looks at him. "Lauren was so in love with you. She was so looking forward to this wedding. How could you? Why are you hurting her so much? She's such an amazing woman", Spencer says and no spark of understanding can be heard in her voice.

"I know", Jason says, his voice so loud and so desperate that Spencer fears that Aria has become aware of him. "Lauren is an amazing woman. She is warmhearted and intelligent and loyal and beautiful..."

"And why did you break up with her?" Spencer interrupts him angrily. "You were happy with her. You wanted to marry her!" Meanwhile, Spencer no longer tries to be quiet anymore.

"Because she deserves a man who appreciates her. She deserves a man for whom there is no other woman and I am not that man!" Breathlessly, Jason stares at his sister.

"I'm constantly thinking of another woman. Even while I'm with Lauren. She doesn't deserve to be treated like that!" Desperately, Jason hides his face behind his hands.

"Lauren noticed that I've changed. She has noticed that something is wrong. I wanted to change her mind and promised her to stop thinking about Aria, but she's right. She shouldn't have to compete with another woman. I feel like I owe it not just me but also her that I'm talking to Aria. Our relationship can't have failed because of my feelings for Aria, without clarifying those feelings for me with Aria."

Spencer doesn't know what to say. Part of her knows that he is right and that she might even be relieved for Lauren that he realized before the wedding that she wasn't the right person for him. But Spencer worries so much about her brother that she can't be happy for him.

"She's your friend, Spence", Jason says softly and Spencer knows right away that he doesn't mean Lauren, but Aria. He wants to make her understand that she really has no reason to be so worried, after all, Aria isn't her friend without a reason.

"I know", Spencer says sighing. "But she hurt you so much and even if she's my friend. I didn't forgive her."

Jason smiles sympathetically at her. Never would he have thought a few years ago that Spencer would be at his side at that moment. He walks up to her and puts his arms around her.

"You have no idea how thankful I am that you're my sister, but that's my decision and I'm ready to forgive Aria. So, you should consider whether you might be able to forgive her, too", he murmurs so silently that even Aria can't hear them as she is standing in the doorway and watches them.

I changed my mind a bit. I always wanted the writers of pll to give us more Jason and Spencer sibling moments. So I wrote it myself. Hope you like it :)