AN: Alright… I'm just going to warn you now that this chapter is going to be crazy!
The perspectives are going to be all over the place because something humongous is happening and I want you to know how everyone feels about it.
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And on with the chapter!
Boom!
Rose perked her body up and turned her head towards the sound of the noise.
"What was that?" She asked Nick.
He had a confused look on his face too. "I don't know." He answered. He got up from the log that the two were sitting on and faced the direction of the sound. "It came from where Zak and the others are."
Rose said up so fast that she got whiplash. "So that wasn't part of the plan?"
Nick shook his head. "No."
Rose turned towards the sound and started to march towards it.
"Where are you going?" Nick asked from behind her.
"To the sound, obviously." Rose said as she turned to face Nick.
"Zak didn't send the signal."
Boom…boom…boom!
Rose pinched her eyes shut at the sounds. She noticed that they were slightly different than the first boom. "Screw the damn signal!" She said with gritted teeth. "Obviously something is wrong!"
Nick stared at Rose with a sympathetic look. "My only job is to keep you safe while Zak deals with A and gets the girls back. Once everything is taken care off, he'll give me the signal and I can take you to him and your family."
Rose lifted her shoulders up. "Looks like there may be a slight tear in the plan."
Nick blinked slowly as he reached for the bag on his back. He pulled it off and reached inside it.
"Stay behind me, and if I tell you to stop, you have to stop." He directed as he pulled the item out of the bag.
Rose took a step back when she saw it.
"Why do you have that?" She asked with a shaky voice as she pointed at the gun.
"I thought something like this might happen so I came prepared." Nick said as he tucked the gun in his waistband.
Rose took a deep breath and looked at Nick. "What are you going to do with it?"
"Hopefully I don't have to use it, but if I have too, I will shoot A."
Rose nodded. "I'll have your back." She promised.
"Thanks."
Nick then started walking towards the sound and Rose followed close behind.
She heard Boom after Boom, and each time the sound got louder and louder, signaling that they were getting closer.
Rose tried her best to stay calm, but she could feel her heartbeat in her throat. She was scared, but she couldn't give up now.
She was so close to freedom, and she wasn't going to let her fear get in the way.
Boom!
Alison's body reacted immediately to the sound. She grabbed Emily's hand and ran to the nearest cover, which was someone's car.
The air began to fill with a white haze, and Alison suddenly couldn't see what was in front of her.
"What the hell was that?" Emily screamed into Alison's ear.
Alison shook her head forgetting that Emily couldn't see her. "I don't know." Alison replied. "It might have been a frag grenade."
"What's that?" Emily yelled again.
Alison felt her hands shaking. "It's a grenade that leaks gas out to block someone's vision. Normally there is some gas in it to kill us but it seems like A forgot that part."
Alison heard Emily open her mouth to respond, but before she could say anything, more booms sounded.
Boom…boom…boom!
Except, these booms were different. They sounded like gunshots.
"Oh my god, A is shooting at us." Alison said in a shaky tone.
Emily didn't respond. She just squeezed Alison's hand.
The smoke began to clear up and Alison stupidly stood up and looked over the car.
A had their gun pointed at someone, she couldn't see who, but when A saw Alison's head, they turned towards her and shot.
She shot down just in time. She felt the wind from the bullet blow a strand of hair in her face. Alison felt her heart skip a beat.
"What are we going to do?" Emily called in a high pitched tone.
"I don't know." Alison said.
Not long after she said that, she heard someone yell.
"Fuck you, bitch!" Hanna yelled. She heard her grunt and a loud thunk.
Alison looked through the window of the car and saw that Hanna had thrown a rock at A, and it seemed to have hit them in the shoulder.
It distracted them for a second and they stopped firing.
Then someone ran at A.
Caleb had no idea what the hell he was doing, it was more like an instinct, but it seemed to work.
He and Hanna were scrunched behind a large rock when Hanna found the rock. They didn't really come up with a plan, but they somehow knew what to do.
So Hanna threw the rock, and while A was distracted, Caleb ran at them.
He had no idea what he would do when he got to A, but it didn't matter. As long as the gun was out of A's hand, then the group would have the advantage.
Caleb reached his arms out and tacked A. He flung his body at A and tugged them to the ground.
He pinned them down and stared at the masked face.
A started to fling their arms around widely, but Caleb's body weight was pinning them down pretty well.
Caleb looked and saw that the gun was just out of A's reach.
"Toby!" Caleb yelled. "Get the gun!"
Toby ran from behind his car and launched for the gun. He snatched it up quickly and pointed it at A.
Caleb looked back at A with a smirk.
"Now what are you going to do?" Caleb asked confidently.
A went still for a second, and Caleb grew confused.
A was completely still, they were even holding their breath. Caleb stared at their face and tried to catch movement, but he didn't see any.
"What the-?"
A whipped their feet out and kicked Toby in the shin. Toby cried out in pain and surprise and dropped the gun.
And to add to all the fun, the sudden shift in A's body caused Caleb to lose his balance, and he fell off of A.
A lunged for the gun, and before anyone could do anything, they grabbed it and pointed it at both Caleb and Toby on the ground.
Caleb heard A snicker from under the mask.
He closed his eyes and waited for the gunshot.
Kara stared down at the scene with teary eyes.
She couldn't really see much, because the boom caused a white haze, but it was starting to clear up now.
When it was fully clear, Kara saw that A was standing out in the open with a gun now in hand.
Boom…boom…boom!
They shot at a car. Kara recognized it as her parents Subaru.
"Kara, what's happening?" Zoe called from behind her.
"A has a gun." She whispered.
"A gun?" Anna and Zoe said at the same time.
Kara nodded her head.
She knew that the parents were screwed, and she had to do something, and then Kara remembered her plan. She could still do it.
She looked around for something that could break her chain, and she saw a pointy rock by Zoe's foot.
"Hand me that rock, Zoe!" Kara yelled.
"Why?"
"Just give me the rock!"
Zoe bent down and grabbed the rock and stood back up with wobbly legs. She handed the rock to Anna and Anna handed the rock to Kara.
Kara knelt down and placed the rock on the ground with the pointy side up.
She looked back up at the scene in front of her and saw Alison's head pop up behind Mr. and Mrs. Fitz's Honda.
A pointed the gun at her head and pulled the trigger and Alison's head quickly disappeared.
Kara gasped loudly as she felt her heart drop.
"What?" Zoe asked frantically behind her.
Kara opened her mouth but words were unable to come out.
Kara felt her heart beat fast as she saw Alison's blond hair flash through the car window.
Good. A didn't blow her brains out.
"Nothing." Kara said as she stared back at the rock.
She began to rub her chain on the rock and a cringe worthy squeaking sound emitted from it.
"What are you doing?" Anna asked.
"Trying to get out, obviously." Kara said as she continued to rub. She was getting nowhere.
"That won't work. Its metal, Kara." Anna said.
Kara ignored her and continued to cut at the metal.
"Fuck you, bitch!"
Kara lifted her head as she heard her mother's voice. She looked up in time to see Hanna throw a rock at A and it successfully hit A in the shoulder and they stopped firing.
Her father than ran at A and tackled them.
"Oh my god." Kara murmured as she changed from rubbing the chain on the rock to slamming the chain down on the rock and hoping that the chain would snap in half.
"This is crazy." Anna said in a low voice.
Kara kept slamming, and she began to see the chain develop a crack.
She looked up again and saw that Toby was now running at Caleb and A and he reached for the gun that A had dropped.
Kara slammed the chain as she looked at what was going on.
Toby pointed the gun at A, but before he could really do anything, A kicked from under Kara's dad and knocked both Caleb and Toby off their feet. They snatched up the gun and pointed it at Caleb and Toby.
"Shit!" Kara yelled as she slammed the chain harder than any time before.
To her surprise, the chain snapped in half and she now had her chain disconnected from the chain line.
Kara stood up and ran at A with no hesitation. She thought that she would never have the opportunity to do her plan, but now was the perfect time.
"Kara, come back!" Anna yelled as Kara ran down the hill towards A and her parents.
"AHHHH!" Kara yelled as she jumped at A. While in the air, Kara formed her chain into a loop and wrapped it around A's neck.
She landed back on the ground with the chain successfully around A's neck, and she yanked as tight as she could.
A was yanked back, and they grabbed for the chain, but Kara was so full of adrenaline right now, that there was no way that A would get Kara to let go of the chain.
She heard her mother sob. "Kara!" She yelled.
She felt all the parent's eyes on her, but she didn't look away from A. She wouldn't let go until the bitch was dead.
"Oh my god!" Caleb called, but still, Kara didn't let go.
"Get the gun!" Kara yelled as she pulled tighter.
Nobody moved.
"Get the dam gun!" Kara yelled.
Caleb jerked up from the ground and grabbed the gun out of A's hand.
Kara felt A start to go limp, and they fell to their knees. A strange gurgling sound was coming out of A's mouth.
A's body went fully limp, and the only thing that was keeping them upright was Kara's lock on A's neck.
Hanna ran up to Kara and stared at her with an emotion that Kara couldn't quite explain.
"Let go, honey." Hanna said in the sweetest voice.
Tears began to fill her eyes. "No!" She yelled.
"Kara, you'll kill them." Caleb said as he took a few steps closer to Kara.
She pulled tighter. "That's the point!"
A has done so many bad things to Kara and her friends, and now she finally had leverage against them. She could get rid of this whole A problem entirely, and she was confident that she could do it.
Hanna walked up to Kara and gently put her hand on Kara's shoulders.
She felt her body start to limp at her mother's touch. It had been so long since she felt it, and she had forgotten how influencing her touch was. She slowly started to let go of the chains.
"Let go." Hanna said calmly.
Hanna let go and A's body fell forwards, a pile of leaves flew up from the impact of their body.
As soon as she let go, she looked up at her parents with teary eyes. She sobbed as she looked at them.
Hanna reached a hand out and grabbed Kara's bony cheek.
Kara couldn't stand it any longer and she lunged into her mother's arms. Hanna wrapped her arms around Kara and cried into the top of her head. Not long after, Caleb's arms were around her too.
They stayed like that for what felt like forever, and she wished that it would never end.
She opened her eyes and looked over her parent's shoulder. She saw that Toby was leaning over A's body and he put handcuffs on A's hands.
Kara closed her eyes again and continue to sob into her parent's body.
"Kara?" Spencer called carefully.
She lifted her head up and looked at Spencer.
"Where is Anna and Zoe?"
Kara sniffled in and looked back up at the hill. From down here, it looked like they were just big rock.
Kara pointed a finger up at the hill. "Up there."
Spencer looked at Toby, Emily and Alison and the four of them darted up the hill.
"Where's Rose?" Ezra asked, his voice low.
Kara looked at his and Aria's faces. She didn't want to see the heartbreak on them.
"I don't know." She said. She saw despair wash over their faces. "I'm sorry."
They didn't say anything. They just looked at the ground with wet eyes.
"I'm going to call the police." Caleb said as he broke from the hug. Hanna and Kara nodded.
Kara leaned back into her mother and embraced the warmth.
She had never felt anything as warm as her mother, and she was almost positive that she would never find anything warmer.
Mona stumbled through the woods, cursing herself out in her head.
She was supposed to stay behind the girls while A moved them, but she lost them as her heart broke in half.
She was right.
Mona was right, and she hated it.
Earlier that day, Mona had told Hanna, Spencer, Aria, Emily and Alison that she had a suspicion on who A was, and she lied that she had called the police while she was gone.
She actually had called her suspicion and calmly said that if they moved the girls; she would stay close behind and make sure nothing happened. A was suspicious at first, but then Mona had apologized again and again for what she had done, and the desperate A accepted her offer.
And it was at that moment that Mona knew, and her heart was broken.
While on the phone with her, Mona tried to listen to the way that A talked. She wanted to see if she could hear any guilt in their voice, but she heard none.
A had no remorse, and Mona was pretty sure she knew why.
It was these thoughts exactly that got Mona separated from the girls. Her head was pounding and she told herself that she would only stop for a few minutes, but she lost track of time and she completely lost A and the girl's trail.
Boom!
Mona turned her head towards the sound. Her heart pounded as it echoed through the woods.
They definitely weren't gun shots, Mona knew what those sounded like. It sounded more like an explosion.
Mona quickly ran towards the sound. She knew that whatever it was, A was involved.
It didn't sound that far off, so that meant that A hadn't traveled that far from Mona in the first place.
She was about halfway to the sound when she heard grunting coming from behind her.
Mona hid behind a cluster of bushes as she listened to the sound some more.
"Come on, Nick! I think we're almost there."
It was Rose's voice.
Mona felt her heart drop as she heard footsteps approaching quickly.
"What's your plan when we get there?" It was a male voice, one that she hadn't heard before. It was most likely this Nick character that Rose mentioned.
"You're the one with the gun." Rose said. It sounded as if she was right in front of Mona. "You come up with something!"
Mona rolled her eyes. Great, she though. This kid has a gun on him.
Mona took a deep breath as she called out, "Don't shoot!"
She heard the footsteps stop and the air suddenly went still.
"I'm behind the bushes and I'm here to help, don't shoot!" She said again as she started to move away from the bushes.
Mona stepped away from the bush and looked at Rose and Nick's faces.
She saw Rose's face change from fear to relief. Her tense body also loosened up.
"Aunt Mona?" She said in a small voice.
Mona nodded slightly. She held back her tears as she slowly approached Rose.
"Who?" The boy asked.
Rose ignored him as she ran at Mona. Rose opened her arms out and wrapped them around Mona's little body.
Mona immediately wrapped her arms around Rose also, and she took in her small body.
She could feel her bones and she had little muscle. Plus, Rose's face was smaller than usual and she didn't have her usually pudgy cheeks, but Mona ignored that for now. The only thing that mattered was that she now had Rose.
Rose cried into Mona, and all Mona could do was hold her tight.
"Are you okay?" Mona asked when Rose's cries started to die down a little.
Rose nodded. "Are you?"
Mona laughed. "After everything that's happened to you, you ask if I'm okay?"
Rose chuckled. "Do you know where Zoe, Anna and Kara are?"
"Zak does." Mona answered. "And he's with everyone right now fighting to get them back."
Rose backed away from Mona and wiped away her tears. "Is that what the boom came from?"
Mona nodded. "I'm guessing."
The boy, Nick, stepped forwards. "Zak is with the parents?"
Mona looked at him and nodded. "Are you his brother?" Now that Mona got a clear look at him, he looked a lot like Zak.
Nick nodded his head. "Is everything going along with his plan?"
Mona shook her head. "I don't know. I separated from him when we all left Rosewood."
Rose looked at Mona with a questioning look. "Why did you leave them?"
Mona's fear kept her silent. "And why were you creeping along in the woods?" Rose added.
Mona's body kept still. There was no way Mona was going to tell Rose and Nick the truth, but she had to tell them something.
"I thought it would be best if I came from behind. A will be too focused on everyone else and they won't be suspecting me. It was a miracle that I ran into you."
Shots rang through the sky and Mona's heart was beating so fast, that she was scared it would fly out of her chest.
"We have to go now." Mona said as she reached out and grabbed Rose's hand.
Nick grabbed Rose's other hand. "Rose isn't going anywhere near that."
Mona looked at Nick and glared at him. "Since when did you become in charge of Rose?"
"It's part of Zak's plan, that I'm sure he told you."
Mona swallowed. "Look, I'm Rose's aunt and I was the original A, and I know how this new one thinks, and I think I know what is best for Rose."
"You speak as if being A is a good thing." Nick said in an angry tone. "If you would have just kept your cool like everybody else does when they're being bullied and not have turned into a psycho and stalked a bunch of girls, then none of this chain of other A's would have started."
A rage burned through Mona and she got the strong urge to smack this kid across his face, but she stayed put.
"And you act as if you're so smart, but you seem just as clueless as everyone else and you have no experience at all and think that Rose is better off in the hands of a child than with her own aunt." Mona said back. "And the fact that you haven't figured out that A is…" Mona shut her mouth quickly before she could say her name.
Rose quickly let go of Mona's hand and glared at her. "What did you just say?"
Mona took a step back. "Look, I can't get into it right now. Your parents are in trouble and we need to get to them as soon as possible."
Rose and Nick stayed put.
Mona shot a hand out and grabbed Rose's arm. "I'll explain later, I promise, but your parents really need me."
Rose took a deep breath and walked closer to Mona. "Fine. But you have to tell me when this is all over."
Mona nodded her head. "I promise."
Rose looked Mona up and down and turned to Nick. "Let's go."
"I don't know if I trust her." Nick said.
Mona rolled her eyes. "Fine, stay here then. You'll just slow us down."
Nick looked offended, and when Mona and Rose started to walk off, he quickly ran after them.
"Wait!" He called.
Mona and Rose stopped. "So you want to come along now?"
Nick glared at Mona. "I still don't trust you, but I can't let Rose out of my sight."
Mona looked at him respectively. So he did have morals.
"Fine." She said in monotone. "But you have to listen to every word I say."
He nodded. "Okay."
Mona looked down and saw the gun peeking out from under his waistband.
"First you have to give me the gun." Mona said as she looked at it.
Nick put a protective hand on the gun. "No way."
Mona gave him an annoyed glare. "Did you forget what I just said?"
"I know what you said, but I'm sorry. I can't give you the gun."
"Have you ever even shot a gun before?" Mona asked.
Nick's eyes grew wide. "No."
Mona reached out and snatched the gun from under his hand. "Well, I have."
Rose started at Mona with a look of fear and admiration.
Mona winked at Rose and turned towards the shooting sounds. After a few steps, Mona noticed that they stopped.
She began to sweat as she realized that that could be a good thing or a bad thing.
"They stopped shooting." Rose squeaked.
"I know." Mona said. "Hopefully that means they got the gun away from A."
"Hopefully." Rose mumbled.
Mona kept her eyes open and looked straight ahead of her.
A was a pretty good shot, and she knew that. She knew that A had had tons of training.
But the girls and their husbands have been around guns so may times and survived, so hopefully luck was on their side again.
It needed to be, because Mona wasn't so sure that she could handle Rose on her own.
Especially if she sees her parents dead.
"Kara, come back!" Anna yelled as she saw Kara running down the hill.
Miraculously, Kara was able to cut her chains with the rock, but she seemed to have forgotten about Anna and Zoe and ran off without them.
Anna watched as Kara's body sprinted off and disappeared into the crowd below her.
Anna looked down at her chains. "Dammit!" She yelled as she tried to get her hands out, but that obviously didn't work.
Zoe started to pant behind Anna.
"What the hell is going on?" She whimpered to herself.
Anna looked back up at the scene when she heard an eerie silence. She couldn't see through the darkness.
"I don't know." Anna answered. "But tonight could either end really good, or really bad."
Anna heard Zoe gulp.
She looked back down at her chains and then she looked back at the rock. Anna bent down at reached for it. It was just in her reach, and she grabbed it and stared at it.
"If Kara was able to get out, than so can we." Anna said as she put the rock down and lifted her chains up. She lifted her hands up and then slammed them down. The chains clanked against the rock but they didn't crack what-so-ever.
Anna heard Zoe bounce up and down behind her. "Hurry." She urged.
"I'm trying!" Anna yelled as she brought the chain down again. There was the sound of connection, but there still wasn't any progress.
She brought the chain up and down and up and down but nothing happened.
It took Kara few tries, so why was it taking Anna so long?
Silence still filled the air and Anna was starting to get worried. Plus, it was kind of annoying her that she wasn't part of the action. She had no idea what was going on and there was no way that she could find out because she was chained to a damn tree.
A tear ran down her face as she slammed the chain down again. She still made no progress and it was really making her upset.
Freedom, her parents, were just down the hill and they had no idea that she was up on the hill in front of them, and who knows why all the sounds stopped. Perhaps A had won and gotten rid of all the threats, and it was silent because they were cleaning up their mess.
Another tear fell down her face as she pictured A dragging her parents bodies through the woods and disposing of them.
Her vision blurred as she blinked the tears away.
"Come on!" Anna yelled as she slammed the chain down one last time.
She heard a crack and I smile erupted on Anna's face. She thought that she had succeeded but she then felt a white hot pain run through her left knuckle.
Anna 's vision cleared and she looked down at her knuckle. Blood poured from it and her middle finger was bent out of place. The pain took over her body and she let out quiet scream.
Anna looked down at her now broken left middle finger and her already broken right ring finger. Great, now she had two broken fingers.
Tears of pain ran down Anna's cheeks as she turned to look at Zoe for assistance, but Anna's heart dropped when she saw Zoe lying down face first into the grass
Anna took a deep breath. "Zoe?" She called.
No answer.
Anna shook her vigorously. "Zoe!" She yelled louder.
Still no answer.
Anna looked at her back and saw that her wounds were definitely infected and then Anna touched her body, it was burning hot.
Anna shook her head. "Now is not the best time, Zoe!" Anna said as she slapped Zoe's cheeks, but Zoe's face remained motionless.
Anna grunted as she tried to push Zoe's body over so she was face up, but she happened to put preasure on her newly broken middle finger and the pain shot through her again.
"Anna!"
She turned her neck at the sound. It was definitely her mom's voice.
"Mom?" She croaked back.
She heard a loud sob and then loud footsteps.
Anna looked at Zoe one last time and then stood up and waited for her mom to come into sight.
She saw four figures run at her. Her vision blurred from tears again but she quickly wiped them away.
"Mom!" She called again. "Dad! I'm over here!" She yelled as she jumped up and down.
She saw her parent's faces come into view and she felt like she could faint. They were here. They were really here.
They saw Anna and a look of relief fell over their faces.
When they finally reached Anna they both wrapped their arms around her and tears flowed from all of their eyes.
"Oh my god." Spencer cried.
Anna laughed/sobbed. She forgot what it felt like to be in her mother and father's arms. She missed it so much.
The weight of the three of the together because overbearing and the three slowly lowered to the ground and Anna found herself in a ball of warmth.
"Zoe!" Anna heard Emily's voice call.
Anna poked her head out of the ball and saw that Emily and Alison were the other two figures that ran up the hill with her parents. They were both looking at Zoe's body in horror. They both ran to Zoe and crouched down next to her. They both wrapped their bodies around her.
"She needs to see a doctor fast!" Anna said as she backed away from her parents. She looked at Zoe's body again. "She has terrible wounds on her back that are defiantly infected. I'm pretty sure that's why she passed out. That and hunger, but she's okay."
Emily and Alison looked at her with wet cheeks but they nodded.
"Mona had said that the police would meet us here, but where are they?" Toby said.
Spencer looked at him. "I don't know."
"Caleb had said that he called the police so they should be here soon." Emily said with her arms crossed over her body. She had taken her jacket off and wrapped it around Zoe.
A gust of wind then blew past Anna and she shivered. She didn't realize how cold it was until now.
Anna looked down at her chains. "I'm still tied up." She said.
Spencer and Toby looked down at the chains with red eyes. They then noticed her busted up fingers.
"What happened to your fingers?" Spencer cried in horror.
Anna looked at her ring finger. "A broke this one when I had to decide between hurting me or the others," She then looked at her pinky finger, "and I broke this one a few minutes ago when I was trying to break the chains against a rock."
Everyone looked at her with sorrow.
"Oh my god, what did you guys go through?" Alison said in a scratchy voice.
Anna looked down at the ground and tried to ignore the throbbing in her finger. "A lot." Was all she was able to say.
A siren blared in the distance and Anna had never heard such a beautiful sound.
Her dad turned his head towards the sound. "They'll be able to get you out. I know for a fact that Victoria mastered with mechanics at the academy."
Anna nodded. She leaned into her mother while they waited for the police to get there.
Footsteps marched along the hill and tons of police officers ran up to Anna and Zoe.
"Get a stretcher!" One of them yelled when they saw Zoe on the ground.
One ran to Anna and put a hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay, do you need an ambulance?"
Anna was going to say no, but then the pain from her knuckle ran through her body again and she felt her legs start to wobble from her weak body.
She nodded her head.
"Get the paramedics!" The cop called again.
Cops ran up and down the hill doing all kinds of certain things. Some were with German Shepard's sniffing around the ground, looking for hidden bombs that everyone might have missed, other police officers ran through the woods, probably searching for the place that A kept the girls, and paramedics with stretchers ran up the hill.
One cop ran up to Anna and cut her chain with bolt cutters. They then grabbed her wrist, they made sure to avoid her fingers, and assisted her onto the stretcher.
Three police officers grabbed Zoe carefully and loaded her onto a stretcher as well and they pushed Zoe and Anna side by side down the hill to the ambulances.
Toby, Spencer, Emily and Alison at their sides.
"Are those police lights?" Rose asked as Mona, Nick and herself walked to where Mona said everyone was.
Mona squinted her eyes and saw the lights in the distance also. She grabbed Rose's hand. "Come on!" She said as she took off.
Rose and Nick followed Mona through the woods and the red and blue flashing lights got closer and closer and Rose's heart beat faster and faster.
Rose saw a clearing, and in it she saw police cars, ambulances, police dogs, and most importantly, her parents.
"Oh my god." Mona said. She was looking at a figure on the ground. Rose followed her eyes and saw that A was slumped face first into the ground.
"They got A." Nick said from behind the girls.
Rose looked away from A and back at her parents. They were off to the side looking at the scene with teary eyes.
Rose scanned the scene and she saw both Anna and Zoe on stretchers heading towards the ambulances, and Kara was sitting on the hood of a police car with a blanket around her shoulders and her parents at her side.
Police officers pointed their guns at A and were shouting things that Rose couldn't hear.
Without thinking, Rose ran onto the scene and straight to her parents.
"What are you doing?" Mona yelled from behind her, but Rose didn't stop.
Her parents were right there and she wasn't going to go another second without being without them.
Rose ran right past Kara.
"Rose?" Kara yelled when she passed, but Rose didn't stop to say anything.
Her parents didn't see her coming, so when Rose wrapped her arms around them, their bodies were tense.
Rose didn't say anything, she just cried into their bodies.
She felt their bodies loosen and heard their gasps as they realized who it was.
"Oh my god, Rose!" Aria yelled as she wrapped her arms tighter around her.
Rose hugged tighter.
"Rose!" Ezra mumbled as he pushed her closer.
Rose still didn't say anything, she didn't want to ruin this moment.
They stayed like this for who knows how long, but at this point, the police had noticed that she was there.
"Miss. Fitz?" They were calling. "Are you okay, do you need an ambulance?"
Rose shook her head. "No!" She yelled.
"We need to escort you to the hospital and we need you to at last sit in it." They said gently.
Rose took a deep breath. "Okay, fine!" She yelled. She just wanted them to go away.
She felt her parents grip loosen a little but Rose squeezed tighter.
"Don't let go!" She yelled.
Her parents hugged her again and they looked at Rose.
They backed away and Aria knelt down and held Rose's face.
"Honey, you need to get into the ambulance." Aria said.
Rose grabbed her mother's hand on her face and nodded. She just wanted a few more seconds with them.
Rose turned her head slightly and looked at Zoe, Anna and Kara.
Kara and Anna were staring at her, Zoe was passed out. Both Anna and Kara were crying.
Rose sent a small smile towards them and they shot her one back.
Aria looked back at her parents and she felt like she was in a dream.
She had no idea how this night was going to end, but the only important part was that it ended with her and her friends safe, and Rose in her parent's arms.
Zoe's eye's shot open and she sat up quickly, which was a mistake. Her back ached and her head was pounding, but despite that, she looked around at the scene ahead of her.
The last thing she remembered was Kara running down into the battle and Anna trying to break her chain with the rocks, and then there was darkness.
Before Zoe couldn't get a really good look at what was going on, a paramedic was in her face.
"Are you okay?" She asked. "We're going to get you to the hospital as soon as possible. You're safe, Zoe." She then shone a flashlight into Zoe's eyes. "Does this make you nauseous?"
The truth was, it did, but she swatted the flashlight away and looked at everyone around her.
Her friends were with her parents scattered around the scene, even Rose was there. Anna was next to Zoe on a stretcher, her parents gathered around her.
"Anna?" Zoe asked. "What happened?"
Anna, Toby and Spencer started at Zoe with shocked expressions.
"Were safe." Anna eventually said. "They have A tied up."
Before Zoe could say anything, she heard her mother shout from across the scene.
"Zoe!" Alison yelled.
Zoe looked at her moms as a tear ran down her face. She opened her mouth the yell back, but nothing came out.
They ran at her, and when they got to Zoe, they wrapped their arms around Zoe and pain shot through her back, but she didn't care. She was in her mothers' arms, and she was so happy.
They all three cried into eachother and they mumbled questions like, "Are you okay?" "What happened?" "How did you all get out?"
"I'm okay." Was all Zoe was able to say. Her voice was so scratchy as she answered.
Zoe opened her eyes in time to see the police jump back as A tried to get up from the ground.
"Stay down!" One of the male officers yelled.
Zoe broke apart from her mother's grasps and looked at what was going on.
She looked at Rose, Zoe and Kara and they were also staring at A on the ground as well. Horror was in all of their faces.
A lied still, face first on the ground while the police officers had guns pointed at her back.
"Don't try anything!" A officer yelled as they leaned over A. They were reaching for A's hood.
Zoe felt her stomach flip. It finally happened.
The girls had escaped from A, and the police were here and they were finally going to know who A was.
The police officer grabbed A's hood and ripped it off. Zoe saw familiar black hair tied in a ponytail fall out of the hood.
Another officer held A down while another one reached for A's mask.
Zoe looked away for a second. Was she ready for this? Did she really want to know who was behind all the tricks?
As Zoe brought her eyes back to A, she saw Mike and Mona standing off to the side, tears in Mona's eyes, and every parent held their child tight.
Emily wrapped her arms around Zoe while Alison held Zoe's hand.
Zoe took a deep breath as the officer grabbed the mask and ripped it off.
A series of simultaneous gasps sounded and Zoe felt like she was going to throw up.
"Holy crap." She said as she stared at her face.
A, the person who had been torturing her and her friends for over a year, the person who knew everyone's secrets, the person who knew just the right way to hurt someone, the person Zoe thought she could trust, someone she would have trusted her life with before tonight.
She stared at her sinister face and she made eye contact with them.
The face behind the mask…was Victoria.
AN: AHHHHHHH YOU FINALLY KNOW!
GOD I HAD NO IDEA HOW I WAS GOING TO REVEAL IT BUT I THINK I DID AN OKAY JOB!
Did any of you guys suspect it was Victoria? I know I had a few people guess but they weren't really sure, but if you had the suspicion, good job!
There were tons of clues, starting from the fourth chapter so if you re-read the story, you'll see how obvious it was.
Anyways, the girls are finally free! And I warned you that the perspectives would be confusing, but if you are still confused, just message me and I'll explain :)
And now for the sad news: The story is coming to an end.
There are only going to be a few more chapters after this one and then it will be the end.
I don't want it to end, but there simply isn't any more I can do for the girls and it has to end, but we still have a few more chapters so let's not get too sad.
Okay, I love you all and I'll see you soon.
-Jessica
