I ended up writing two chapters today (yay!), and you guys have been so lovely with your reviews, so I thought I'd share the next chapter while I'm at it. Enjoy and don't forget to review.

Also, sidenote: you will find out the motivations of all the A-Team members at some point. Maybe things aren't exactly what they seem...

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That night Emily dreams. She'd fallen asleep thinking about Toby and his offer to help her find Paige, so her dream starts out with her talking to him. Then it changes. She's standing alone on the side of the road, around where they'd stopped that night Paige had broken down after being kidnapped. She looks around, but she can't see anything but darkness and shadows.

Then there's a sound like a twig cracking, and without thinking she sprints into the woods that suddenly appear to her left. As she stumbles through the trees, which seem to get taller and thicker and closer together, she catches glimpses of a figure up ahead. They're too far away to make out any details, but Emily knows by the tugging of her heart that it's Paige. Nobody else could make her feel like that.

The trees come to an end as a major highway appears out of nowhere. Paige is halfway across it when Emily catches up to her, which she can only do by jumping for her. They tumble to the ground, rolling over each other, until they come to a stop on the other side of the road and Emily looks down into the face of the person below her. To her surprise it's not Paige. She can't tell who it is – the shadows obscure any features – but she knows with complete certainty that it's not Paige.

As she opens her mouth to ask who it is, she wakes up. She feels cold and clammy, and as she raises a hand to wipe away some of the cold sweat stuck to her forehead she glances at the clock and groans. She only has half an hour until she has to be up anyway, so she gets out of bed and pads softly to the bathroom. She splashes her face with cold water, trying to get rid of some of the fear and confusion that the dream had given her, but it doesn't work.

So she takes her clothes off and steps into the shower, letting the water flow over her, hoping that worries will wash away like dirt. They don't, even though she stays in the shower for over half an hour. She's running late now, and her mother's already gone to work. That's good for her, because otherwise she would have had to explain why she was back home after supposedly staying at Aria's last night.

When she gets to school she's met with seas of sympathy, and she surfs those for as long as she can to avoid anyone actually asking how she is – or listening to her answer. She can't tell her friends where she was last night, and she can't even tell them that Toby is alive. Keeping that from Aria and Hanna is relatively easy, because they were never that close. But not being able to tell Spencer feels horrible. She'd brought it up last night, asking him if she knew he was alive.

He'd shaken his head so violently she was worried he'd get whiplash, and then he'd made her promise not to tell her. "It's better if Spencer doesn't know for now," he'd told her firmly. "And don't tell the others either. You can't tell them that you're on the A-Team, or that I'm alive, or anything else of what you know. I know it's tough, but you have to keep it to yourself for now. At least until we know more about what's happening, okay?"

He'd wrung the promise out of her, and now she was grateful for it. It was hard enough to deal with Hanna and Aria constantly checking up on her and making sure she wasn't overdoing herself. If they knew how much she really had on her plate right now, there was no way they'd let her out of their sight.

After that first night of being on the A-Team, nothing much happens. She doesn't receive any texts from Mona, and she doesn't hear from Toby. Days go by and there's still no word; he'd told her to sit tight while he looked into it, so there was nothing she could do yet.

Spencer is still in Radley, and Aria and Hanna have visited her a couple of times. Emily keeps making excuses as to why she can't go, but the real reason is that she couldn't bear to be in the same room as her and not be able to tell her about Toby. Spencer was confident that he was dead, and Emily couldn't stand to sit there and not tell her the truth.

Finally, about a week after that first meeting, Toby calls Emily after school. She's just said goodbye to the girls, politely declining their offer to go to Aria's to study, and she's walking over to her car.

"Hello?" she answers, unlocking the door and sliding into the front seat.

"Emily." Toby's voice is tense, which makes her feel on edge at once. "I've found something."

"Really? What is it?"

He pauses for an unbearably long period of time. "I think I know where Paige is," he says at last, but he doesn't sound happy about it.

"What's wrong?" Emily grips the steering wheel as hard as she can to stop herself from screaming. "Where is she?"

"I think it's best if we do this in person. Can you meet me?"

She wants to shout at him, to force him to tell her, but she knows how stubborn he can be.

"Fine," she says. "Where?"

She writes down the address and then hangs up without saying goodbye. Her mind in a mess, she starts up the car and turns onto the main road. Of all the mysteries she's had to deal with this past year, like Ian's and Garrett's deaths, this one is definitely being solved the quickest. Unless, she reminds herself, Toby isn't telling the truth. Although she desperately wants to believe him, he has lied to her before; there's an outside chance this is a setup, that he's really loyal to the A-Team, and that she's walking into a trap. But if there's a chance it will lead her to Paige, she's willing to try it.

She comes to a stop outside the address, and then frowns. This can't be right. She's outside an elementary school. Why did Toby want to meet here? As she reaches over for her phone, she catches sight of someone walking quickly across the playground. There's something furtive in the way he walks, and it sparks her curiosity. Then he turns around and she suppresses a gasp as she realises who it is.

She jumps out of the car, slams the door, and races after him.

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Something BIG is going to happen next chapter, so stay tuned! (And feel free to leave a review letting me know what you think it could be - I'm interested about where you guys think this story is going.)