Emma visits the mayor one night with a bottle of wine to cheer her up. Anger issues and smeared lippy ensues. WARNING: Includes a non-explicit passing reference to rape. This is my first story. A/N Jan 2015: Way back when I wrote this, no one knew anyone's back stories, so I just made up stuff. Don't be upset for canon divergence if you read it now. It wasn't canon then.

Lilly had never met anyone like Miley Stewart before - mysterious, fun, beautiful. But in the town of Crowley Corners secrets abound. Lilly is mystified by the town's odd behavior regarding her new friend, but she is determined to find the truth. LILEY

Five years later Lilly couldn't explain why she had single-handedly tried to stop the kidnapping. Five years of pain and fear and captivity later, she still knew she had done the right thing. Because Miley would not have survived on her own. Liley