Around 2 in the morning Spencer heard a sharp cry that woke her up from her sleep and had her bolt upright in bed, trying to catch her own breath. Turning to look at her girlfriend, the tall brunette found her to be thrashing around in the bed with hot tears streaming down the smaller girl's face. Whimpers, cries and muffled sobs escaped her petit lips and her arms were waving around wildly.
"Aria? Aria sweetie wake up, you're dreaming!" Spencer shouted.
It was no use, Aria continued to toss and turn and cry, reaching out to fight off thin air. Slowly, Spencer leaned forward and wrapped her arms around the terrorized girl in an effort to calm her down.
"No please! Please let me go! I'll do anything; please I'm begging you Ezra! Just stop!" Aria cried out, openly sobbing now.
The taller girl immediately let go of her traumatized girlfriend and turned the lights on in her room.
Spencer was trying to fight off her own tears now seeing and hearing her girlfriend cry and beg for someone to not rape her again. This was literally the hardest thing the older girl had ever had to watch in her life. Spencer could feel her heart breaking in her own chest and it was excruciating.
"Aria, sweetie it's me." Spencer promised softly. She gently reached out and shook the girl in her sleep, forcing her to wake up.
Aria woke up with beads of sweat on her forehead and her breathing was erratic, as if she's just run a marathon. Confused and terrified, she looked for Spencer to provide some logic and comfort for the situation.
"Are you okay Ar?" Spencer asked carefully.
Aria gulped, the dream was vividly coming back to her and suddenly the short girl's entire body tensed. She sat up straight and edged away from Spencer.
'Y-yeah." Aria gulped, barley able to form thoughts, much less words.
"Aria you're shaking." Spencer pointed out, clearly getting scared by her girlfriend's condition.
"I-I had a nightmare." Aria whispered, drawing her knees up into her chest.
"Yeah, I kinda gathered that Hun." Spencer teased, trying to lighten the mood. Or get Aria to smile, either one worked for her.
Aria gave her girlfriend a weak smile and pushed the comforter off of her, feeling trapped by it. The small girl got up and began to pace to room back and forth. Spencer sat down on her bed and watched Aria, assuming that this was a breathing technique of some kind that was used to calm the girl down during these panic attacks and nightmares. Aria continued to pace for close to 5 minutes straight without saying a word.
"Okay that's enough Ar, talk to me." Spencer the pleaded, reaching out to intertwined her fingers through the younger girl's.
A flash of hurt crossed Spencer's face before she could stop it at the way Aria had flinched away from her simple innocent touch so violently.
"Sorry." Aria mumbled.
Tears filled the short brunette's eyes; she didn't want to be afraid, especially not of Spencer.
"It's fine." Spencer assured.
"I'm still sorry." Aria whispered.
"What was your dream about?" Spencer asked carefully, changing the subject.
Aria took a deep calming breath, suddenly Emily's words came back to her, about how she needed to open up to Spencer more and trust that her girlfriend truly was only trying to help her and could in fact help her feel better about the nightmare.
Aria let out a deep sigh.
"I dreamed that I went to the police about E-Ezra and they laughed. Garrett was there and he led back into a dark room and Ez-he was back there and he d-did it again. Y-you weren't there, you'd stayed in the car. You'd left m-me." Aria explained, biting her lip so hard she thought it was going to start bleeding in a failed attempt to keep her tears at bay.
"Oh sweetie, that'll never happen. Ezra will never come near you again, and if he even thinks about looking at you, I will kick his ass." Spencer threatened.
Aria giggled and a watery smile appeared on her tear-streaked face. Just thinking about Spencer kicking Ezra's ass was funny.
Spencer finally let herself relax at seeing the smile on her beautiful girlfriend's face.
"And another that'll never happen? Me leaving you. Not in a million years." Spencer said seriously, pressing a soft kiss to Aria's temple.
"Are you okay now?" Spencer asked cautiously.
"I am now, you made everything better. You always do." Aria said, her tone was so innocent and childlike that it made Spencer smile.
"I love you Aria." Spencer stated.
"I love you too Spencer, more than you'll ever know." Aria replied, turning to face Spencer.
Their eyes locked and Aria closed the distance between herself and the love of her life. Pressing her lips on Spencer's soft ones, she leaned forward. Spencer was shocked by the sudden need for contact from Aria but complied, wrapping her arms cautiously around her fragile girlfriend's small waist. The shorter girl was ecstatic that her girlfriend hadn't pushed her away and gingerly tangled her fingers through Spencer's long, luscious chocolate colored locks. Spencer tentatively pulled Aria into her lap, diminishing any space between them. Aria slowly pushed Spencer on her back and hovered on top of her, (putting strain on her still recovering body, but it was worth it to be able to smell the amazing scent of mint, strawberry and berries that radiated off of Spencer) The couple continued to kiss until Spencer slowly flipped them over and Aria was underneath her. The older girl had been trying to take the strain off of her still partially injured girlfriend. Immediately every muscle in Aria's body tensed. Spencer immediately sat up, pushing Aria off of her and looked into her girlfriend's scared chocolate eyes, trying to read the girl.
"What happened, did you get a flashback?" Spencer asked, worried.
Aria shook herself out of terrified memory and could only nod.
"I'm so sorry; I should've stopped it before it got that far. I-"Spencer began to apologize.
"Don't apologize Spence, I wanted that." Aria said, out of breath.
"I'm the one who should apologize; I was really enjoying that too." Aria grumbled jokingly.
"Yeah, you and me both." Spencer replied honestly.
Aria smiled and pushed a lock of Spencer's messy hair behind her ear lovingly.
"What triggered it?" Spencer asked quietly.
"When we flipped over. Suddenly it wasn't you on top of me being gentle, it was him and he was hurting me." Aria answered honestly, not meeting Spencer's watchful gaze.
"Thank you for being honest with me. Now I know not to do that." Spencer muttered, ashamed that she made Aria feel that way.
"Spence, I was happy. I like kissing you and I love you. We need to keep pushing me and having more physical stuff like that so I can figure out my triggers and avoid them." Aria argued.
"Aria, it's late. We have a stressful day tomorrow. Or I guess today." Spencer joked half-heartedly. "Get some sleep; we'll talk about this tomorrow okay?"
"Promise?" Aria asked innocently.
Spencer laughed at how adorable her girlfriend was
"I promise."
Hanna and Emily were in the same bed again, Ashley had to work late and went straight to bed when she got home. Hanna had her arm around her tan girlfriend's thin waist and the swimmer had her arms around Hanna's middle, pulling the blonde beauty closer to her. Hanna was tossing and turning in their bed and Emily knew the girl wasn't sleeping. She'd pretended not to notice but this was getting a little worrying. It seemed like Hanna hadn't been sleeping well for the past couple of days, now that Emily thought about it.
"Han what's wrong?" Emily asked, her lips littering the blonde's collar bone with soft, gentle kisses.
"Nothing Em, sorry I woke you." Hanna said quickly, subconsciously tightening her grip on her girlfriend.
"Han, I can read you like a book." Emily pushed gently.
Silence.
"Tell me what's wrong." The swimmer asked.
Hanna sighed. "I just…I think about how easily it could've been you. Do you remember when you finally told us the real reason you broke it off with your jerk of a boyfriend Ben?"
"Yeah, of course I remember. If the girls and I hadn't stopped you, you would've tried to beat him up." Emily answered cautiously.
"Well what happened to Aria almost happened to you and that terrifies me that I could lose you like that. I can only imagine what Spencer is feeling right now. And tomorrow, they're reporting him? It's just so much to deal with for them and it scares me, how easily that could have been us." Hanna confessed.
Hot, wet tears slowly leaked out of Hanna's eyes and Emily gently kissed each one away lovingly.
"Baby you can't think like that. I'm here, you're here and we're both safe. Nothing is going to happen to us and Aria is going to be fine. I'm really proud of her for doing this and you, Spencer and I will be with her every step of the way. I'm glad she's finally getting justice for what the bastard did to her." Emily comforted, getting angry towards the end.
"You're right Em. You always know what to say." Hanna said, smiling for no reason except Emily.
"I try." Emily teased.
"Emily I love you. I know we haven't been officially together for that long but I love you and I'm sure of it. I've been in love with you for a long time, as long as I can remember. I guess I was so obsessed with Sean when I was younger because I thought he would get my mind off of you. I want to be with you forever." Hanna confessed nervously, searching Emily's eyes.
"I love you too Han. I love how funny you are and sweet. You have a heart of gold, but it takes some work to earn your trust and get to it. I love that you sing, even though you have a terrible voice but you look like a pop star so it's okay. I love you how brave you are and strong for your friends. I love how you're so beautiful and you don't even know it. God, there is so much more than that too. I want to be with you forever and ever too.
Hanna leaned over and kissed her tan girlfriend, eliminating any space between the two girls. Hanna's tongue begged for entrance into the raven-haired girl's mouth. Eagerly granting access, the two girls battled for dominance. Emily emerged victorious and hovered above Hanna on the bed, not breaking the kiss. Hanna moaned, slipping her hands under Emily's shirt she felt the girl's tight stomach and abs muscles.
"Damn Em, you got a hot body." Hanna panted, breaking their kiss.
"Thank you." Emily smirked, breathless.
"Well damn, now I'm not getting any sleep tonight." Hanna groaned.
"And why's that?" Emily questioned playfully, absently playing with a piece of Hanna's hair.
"Because I can't stop thinking about you." Hanna whispered, her sexy voice in Emily's ear, making the taller girl shiver.
"Great, now I'm not either." Emily moaned.
"But it was so worth it." Hanna smirked.
The two girls shared a look before laughing quietly, happily together.
Hey guys! I wanted to add a little bit of fluff/comfort in there so that's why this chapter is in here. Next chapter I will be introducing –A to the story and you'll find out what happens when Aria reports Ezra to the police. Well, Spence and Aria are trying to be more fluffy, a lot of people are requesting more intimacy between these two, but understand it's only been a little more than a week since Aria got raped so this is really hard for her, but we're getting there. What did you like/would like to see? Any requests? How was the Hannily amount? Please review and tell me. Thank you for reading my story, you guys are why I love writing, so thanks