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"Usually it's exactly what it looks like," the words bounce around Emily's head as she stands in the darkness of their kitchen. Too stunned to reply the brunette can only stare, stare into the spot that Alison is standing in only inches away from her.
A single tear escapes Ali's eyes and it seems to break the seal that she's managed to control and soon more tears are running down her cheeks. After another few seconds Emily still hasn't replied to her and Alison feels like there's a knife being twisted in her stomach. "Well I guess that answers all my questions then," she claims before she walks past Emily, their shoulders bumping against each other as she moves.
It's all so surreal until she hears their bedroom door slam shut and it jolts her back into reality, turning on her heels she quickly heads towards the stairs. Taking them two at a time Emily is soon standing in the middle of their bedroom, her attention being drawn towards the bathroom door where she sees the light underneath. Pushing down on the handle she's not really surprised to find that Ali has locked it.
"Ali it's not what it looks like I promise you, you need to trust me on this. I love you I wasn't with her like that at all it wasn't what it looked like," Emily speaks as she rests her head against the bathroom door. She hears Alison sigh before there's a gentle tap on the door and she reckons the blonde has her head back against the door too.
"Please, I just want to be alone right now...just leave me alone, I can't talk about this so just go," Alison replies and Emily has to swallow back the tears that are forming in her eyes. When Alison opens the door ten minutes later she's not surprised to find Emily gone.
- x -
"Hanna!" Emily shouts as she pounds on Hanna's front door with her first and she doesn't care that a few of Hanna's neighbours now have their lights on to see what the commotion is. "Hanna!" she shouts again and this time there's finally a response from within the house as their hallway light is switched on and she can see the blonde through the glass in the door.
"Jesus Emily what the hell are you doing? Have you seen the time it's like one in the morning," the blonde answers and it's clear that she has just rolled out of bed.
"I don't care what time it is Hanna," Emily argues as she pushes her way past Hanna and into her and Caleb's house. "Ali saw me tonight at the restaurant with Sara," and Hanna finally looks awake, her eyes widening, "no no that's not the worst part, the worst part is that Ali thinks I'm having some sort of affair with her," the brunette adds and her voice is still raised.
"Shit." Hanna answers as she runs her hand through her blonde hair that is still messy from sleep.
"I told you the surprise baby shower was a bad idea," Emily huffs as she collapses onto Hanna's couch and the blonde is now flanked by Aria and Spencer while Ezra and Caleb stay in the kitchen knowing it's not wise to enter the potential war zone.
"It wasn't a bad idea she just wasn't supposed to find out like this," Aria replies and Emily can only raise her head to glare at her friend.
"You think?" she replies sarcastically.
"I thought Sara's memory book thing would be the perfect gift for you to give her," Hanna reasons and while Emily agrees that it is a great gift she had told Hanna a few days ago that Hanna should just give Sara the photos and things she wanted included because this is exactly the type of thing she didn't want to happen.
"Sneaking around always turns into a fuck up, I told you I didn't want to do it," Emily argues.
"I know I'm sorry I just thought meeting Sara would be a good way for you to explain exactly what you wanted in the book and how you wanted it, it would be your own," Hanna replies and she looks over at Emily, sorry written all over her face.
"It's a fuck up, a complete fuck up I should have just told her the truth this is why I don't do surprises," the brunette mutters as she rests her head in her hands.
"We will fix this." Spencer states and Emily looks up because she needs Spencer to be right.
- x -
As she tosses her cell phone between her hands she's torn between whether she should call Emily or not. Even when they argue or when Emily does something wrong she always calls and the fact that she hasn't has Alison a little weary. But when she thinks about where Emily might be her mind wanders back to the woman in the restaurant and she pushes it to the back of her mind because she can't think about that right now.
It's too much and it causes a dull ache in her chest. She pads downstairs and into the living room where she throws her phone onto the coffee table and waits for Emily to get in touch with her.
"I've got it," Spencer states as she stands, it's the first any of them have spoken in just over an hour and her voice brings Emily out of her sleepy haze. "We do the baby shower today, Hanna has most of the stuff here anyway so instead of surprising her at the weekend we do it today," and Emily's pretty sure that Spencer is joking with her until she hears Aria agreeing.
"A baby shower on a Tuesday afternoon? You must be joking me," Emily replies.
"No it's brilliant," Hanna answers, "then she can see nothing was going on between you and Sara and that really you were just trying to do something nice for her," the blonde adds as she looks over in Emily's direction.
"Yeah all great in theory but there is a thing called work and there wont be many people able to go," Emily replies.
"We can call all take the day off, Toby can call in for you and I'm sure there's a few of our other friends who will be available and then there's our Moms," Spencer answers.
"Plus I can call Sara first thing to tell her to get a move on with your book and maybe she can come over and show Ali what you guys were talking about," Hanna adds and Emily knows she's trying her hardest to make this better and she finds herself nodding in agreement with them because she needs Ali to see that she would never do anything like that to hurt the blonde, especially not with another woman.
- x -
She's not completely sure what wakes her but when she opens her eyes it's light outside and she knows that she's probably late for work so when she leans over to grab her phone and the time reads ten twenty five she knows she's really late for work, not that she feels like going in anyway but still.
"Ali?" a voice calls from outside and Ali is pretty sure that it's Aria and she's probably just here to make sure that she's okay.
"Just a minute," she calls back before she hauls herself off the couch and towards the door.
"Get dressed," Aria states as she walks into the house and Ali's heart slams against her ribs because what if something has happened to Emily but she quickly shakes that off because she would probably be the first to know.
"I'm not really in the mood Aria it's been a long night," she replies as she walks into the living room, the brunette following her.
"We know about last night and we've been with Emily all night but we need to show you something so hurry and get dressed please," Aria replies and Ali would be lying if she said she isn't intrigued so she lets out a long breath before making her way slowly upstairs to get dressed.
She's not sure where they're going until they take the next right at the lights and then she's pretty sure that they are heading for Hanna's house. "Why are we going to Hanna's?" Ali asks and she watches as Aria quickly smiles over at her before turning her attention back onto the road.
"You'll see." Is all she says and Ali can't help but wonder because if Aria really knew what happened last night and seen what she'd seen then she's pretty sure that the brunette wouldn't be smiling.
It's only when they get closer to Hanna's house that she sees the numerous balloons and there's more than a few of them. All baby pink and white and they are attached to pretty much every surface; Hanna's fence, the front door and then that's when she sees Emily standing at the door with her own balloon in her hand.
"You seriously didn't think Emily was cheating on you with that woman did you?" Aria asks before she smiles, cuts the engine and then hops out of the car.
"She's all yours," Aria speaks to Emily before the shorter brunette makes her way into Hanna's house.
"What is this Em?" Alison asks as she walks towards her wife while taking in all the balloons.
"I…I know you've been having a hard time with the kicking and stuff so when I told Hanna she suggested we throw you a surprise shower to save you from organising it all," and Alison can see no deceit in the brunette's eyes, if anything there's fear, fear that Alison might not believe her.
"Last night the woman I met was Sara she's doing this memory book for us that's why I've had the photos out it's basically a book of all our time together and there's a page at the back especially for Isla's photos," Emily adds as she finally stretches her hand out to the blonde and Alison can't help but laugh when Emily hands her the balloon.
"I'm not or never have been cheating on you Ali, it took me long enough to get you I will never mess that up," the brunette adds and she can see Alison's face begin to soften while she looks at the pink balloon that she's holding.
"I'm the one eh?" Alison asks and there's a hint of humour behind her voice as she looks at Emily, taking a few steps forward as she speaks.
"You've always been the one Alison and I just wanted to do something nice for you for us even," Emily answers as she throws her thumb in the direction of the house.
"I'm sorry I doubted you," Ali speaks as she finally reaches Emily and her hands find the brunette's waist.
"I can understand it, but this time it really wasn't what it looked like," Emily replies sincerely.
"No it wasn't," Alison answers before she leans up to press her lips against Emily's and even though it's been less than twelve hours since she's seen her wife she's missed her and she's annoyed at herself for even thinking Emily could do that to her and Isla but as the brunette kisses her back her thoughts fade into nothing because there's nothing quite like kissing Emily Fields. Her wife.
"You could have told me this was happening today Emily," Pam states sternly as she enters Hanna's house, two of her friends with her.
"I really didn't know Mom it was a surprise," Emily shrugs in reply as she guides her Mom and her two friends into the living room where there are more people than she had imagined.
And for a second she loses Ali in amongst the guests because the blonde is the center of attention today and there was a time when Alison would thrive on this type of occasion, where everyone was focused on her but Emily thinks she looks a bit flustered today. Uncomfortable even. "How are you holding up?" she asks as she reaches Ali on the other side of the room.
"I can't believe how many people are here," she laughs, "and Hanna let it spill that you were going to surprise me at the weekend with this so thank you," she adds as she presses a light kiss on the brunette's cheek.
"I love that by the way," she states as she looks over at the door and there's a small rope that looks like a washing line and there's four tiny baby grows hanging on it with wooden pegs and each of them have a pale pink letter on it spelling out Isla's name.
"I done that I thought it was very cute if I say so myself," Emily admits as she looks over at it and her arms find Ali's waist as her chin rests on the blonde's shoulder.
"Are we okay then?" Emily asks and she feels the blonde stir in her arms before she turns around, the bump causing them to part a little.
"Yeah we are more than okay I can't believe you have done this for me and I'm sorry for thinking that of you," Ali replies and as she looks around again she knows that she's more than lucky. More than lucky that she's married to Emily, more than lucky that she's having Emily's baby and more than lucky that the people around her are her friends.
"Yeah well I know how tired you've been with Isla kicking and we all wanted to help out," Emily replies with a smile.
"Speak of the devil," Alison answers as she reaches out for Emily's hand and as she places it on her stomach Emily can feel Isla kick against her palm. When Emily looks back up at Alison the blonde is smiling her dimple smile and Emily knows that they are just fine.
The sound of the doorbell breaks them from their moment and when Emily answers the door she's more than surprised to see Toby and six of her colleagues standing in front of her. "We know it's a women's thing but we know it's not really an orthodox baby shower anyway so we wanted to come a long," Toby explains and Emily can only smile because Toby is like her older brother.
"Thank you Toby," she replies as she throws her arms around his neck and gives him a hug.
"What about me Fields? Where's my hug?" Pete calls from the back and Emily can only shake her head.
"Never in a hundred years Pete," she answers with a smirk before she invites them all inside and she hears the whistles when the men enter the living room.
"We know we're crashing but we got Em and Alison something for Isla and we wanted to give you guys it, we got it specially made," Toby says as a hushed silence falls around the room and he hands them over a paper bag.
"Thank you Toby you didn't have to." Alison replies as she reaches out for the bag and puts her hand inside.
Pulling out a white baby grow she unfolds it until she can read the writing on it. On the front there's pink writing that reads 'Property of Rosewood PD' and on the left hand side there's a tiny pink police badge. "Oh Toby I love it," Emily exclaims as she draws him in for another hug and then it's Ali's turn and although they aren't as close the hug is still full of gratitude.
"There's more," he states as he pulls away.
And Alison's hand digs back into the bag before she pulls out a blanket, it's a pale yellow colour with letters of the alphabet scattered around it. "My Mom love's to make they kind of things," Pete says and Emily is reconsidering her hundred years hug statement because the blanket is absolutely adorable.
"Thank you guys so much, all of you," and Emily pulls them all into a hug because for being guys they have actually bought sensibly and she's glad she's part of the Rosewood Police Department family.
"Maybe the Rosewood Police Department isn't that bad after all," Alison teases before she gives them all a hug too.
"One more thing Em," Toby speaks as everyone else goes back to their conversations. He quickly makes his way over to Spencer before returning with a small square package.
"What's this?" Emily asks and there's a grin on Toby's face.
"Open it and see," he replies and Emily wastes no time in opening it.
It's a silver picture frame with hers, Alison's and Isla's name inscribed onto the front of it and as she turns it over she sees the message on the back from Toby and Spencer. 'To Emily, Ali & Isla. Love always Spencer, Toby & TJ'.
"We thought maybe you'd want a picture of the three of you for your desk," Toby explains and Emily has to blink back the tears because it's absolutely beautiful and she can't wait to have it sitting on her desk for everyone to see.
"I love it," she mumbles and this time it's Toby who pulls her into a hug.
Emily folds into the couch as her Mom finally leaves and she's the last to go. "I am exhausted," she states as Ali sits next to her, her arm around the blonde's shoulder.
"Me too but probably not as much as you since you were up all night doing this," Ali replies as she settles her head in the crook of Emily's neck.
"It was all worth it though," the brunette replies as she presses a kiss onto Ali's head.
"I love you Em," Alison states as she looks up at the brunette through long eyelashes.
"I love you too Alison" Emily replies before she leans down to kiss the blonde and just as her hand settles on Ali's bump she feel's Isla kick.
"We love you too baby," Emily soothes as her hand pats Alison's stomach. "
We do indeed." Alison adds as her hand finds Emily's.