For Your Sake

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Do you honestly think if I owned this show, I would be writing FanFic for it? No, I didn't think so. So no, I don't own S.O.N, Tom Lynch does. I love that guy!

Summary: Spencer tried to forget Ashley, for her parents' sake. But Ashley refused to accept that. Her desperate efforts to get Spencer back in her life.

A/N: I'm sorry in advance. Really, really sorry but I didn't know how to end this, so this is the second to last chapter, probably, maybe, I dunno yet. It depends on how long this turns out. Again, I'm sorry! (Bows repeatedly)

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The next day, in school…

"Hey Spencer, Ashley, have you two seen Lily today?" Aiden asked, plopping down at the girls' lunch table and looking at them desperately.

"No, why?" Ashley asked, chancing a glance around the morning crowd.

Aiden sighed, "Well, I called her last night, cuz her away message on her IM sounded really depressing and I called to see if she was ok. No answer, house or cell. I'm kinda worried that she's not in school today…"

"What was the away message?" Spencer asked, now she was worried too.

"It read something like 'Um, hey, it's Lily, I'm not gonna be around for a while so I wouldn't bother with a message if I were you…' or something weird like that." Aiden shrugged, "I didn't really care about the message."

"Do you think she's ok?" Ashley asked, sharing a look with Spencer. Spencer reached over and gave Ashley's hand a squeeze.

"Honestly? I don't know." Aiden whispered, "Do you wanna ditch?"

"Yeah." Ashley stood and they began to walk to her car, "Let's go."

At Lily's apartment…

"Looks like she's home…That's a good sign right?" Ashley asked nervously.

The group headed up the stairs to her apartment and Aiden knocked loudly, "Lily? Are you there?"

No answer. Not even a bark from Kai.

"This doesn't look good." Spencer whispered, clutching to Ashley's arm in fear of what they might find behind that door.

"Ash, you don't happen to have a key do you?" Aiden asked, face scrunching up, it was time to be a man, dammit.

"No…Why?" Ashley asked, looking at him oddly. "What are you -?"

"Move out of the way!" Aiden ordered, slamming his side into the door. Spencer shrieked and Ashley hurried her away from the door. It resulted in an awful crunching-wham sound. Sounded like it hurt, but Aiden just grunted and slammed into it again.

This time the door gave way and Aiden fell into the doorway.

"Ow…" Aiden moaned, clutching his shoulder.

"Aid! Are you ok?" Ashley knelt down beside the big basketball player and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Probably gonna bruise but otherwise ok." Aiden grimaced as the girls helped him up. "Where is she?" He gave the living room the once-over, no sign of the purple haired girl.

"No idea…" Spencer looked over in the kitchen, then checked the spare bedroom.

"What about her room?" Ashley asked, pointing up. (A/N: Lily's apartment is like a loft, upstairs is her bedroom and a bathroom)

"You wanna check?" Spencer asked, her voice breaking. "Wait…Where's Kai and Demon?"

"I don't know…" Ashley checked behind the living room cushions for the cat, like the first time she saw him, but the black cat wasn't there.

"Kai!" Spencer called, "Kai, come here baby! It's Spencer!"

No bark of recognition.

"Oh god…" Aiden whispered. While the girls had been talking and too scared to go upstairs, Aiden had made his way up to Lily's room. "Ashley! Spencer! Come up here…NOW!"

The girls stumbled up the stairs, nearly slamming into the bed when they saw it.

Lily lay on her bed, body limp, like she had been sitting up but fell over; her eyes, which were normally shining mysteriously, were glazed over with a light grey hue. Her cheeks, which had always been pale, were even closer to a shade of white. Her lips had lost their reddish tone and were parted slightly. At her feet lay Kai, and up near her head, Demon seemed to be a pillow or a stuffed animal. Neither animal moved but Demon let out a growl, he didn't want them near his master.

"Oh god…" Spencer whispered, grabbing the shaking brunette and pulling her into a hug, eyes shut tight to block out the sight.

"Lily?" Aiden croaked out, hand reaching out for the girl, "Lily? Please…Please Lily…Wake up…Wake up!" He fell on the side of the bed, gripping the red stained sheets. He didn't realize how much she did affect him and how much she meant to him until he saw her like this.

In Lily's left hand was a note, a blood stained piece of paper, the other held a razor, the obvious source of her unconsciousness.

"What…Why…Spence, what do we do?" Ashley asked, "I don't…Help…"

"I'm gonna call my mom…" Spencer muttered, already dialing her mom's cell, "Yeah, mom? I…I need your help…It's Lily…She, mom, she slit her wrist! Please come quickly!" She hurriedly gave her mother the information on where Lily's lived and hung up.

"Well?" Ashley asked, somehow maintaining her composure and being strong for her friends.

"She and the ambulance will be here soon." Spencer reported. She looked Ashley in the eye, tears silently falling on both of their faces, and threw her arms around the girl, crying freely as her girlfriend held her tight.

Minutes later…

Paula Carlin and an ambulance team arrived, running through the broken front door and rushing up the stairs to meet the girls.

"Spencer!" Paula cried, running to her daughter and pulling her from Ashley's comforting hold. "Oh god, Spencer, what happened?"

"I don't know, she just wasn't in school today and we got worried and we came to check up on her and we found her like this!" Spencer explained in a rush, giving her mother a tight hug before returning (much to Paula's dislike) to Ashley's arms. "Oh god, it happened so fast! We didn't even know…"

"It's ok, Spence, I'm here, I've got you." Ashley cooed into Spencer's golden hair, holding back her tears as Aiden gave the paramedics the information about what happened. "I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere…"

The paramedics moved Lily from her position on the bed to a stretcher and took her out of the apartment, taking her out to the ambulance and rushing her to the emergency room at the hospital, where for once, Spencer and Ashley were glad to see Paula and Ben together.

"Spencer, I promise we'll do everything we can to save her." Paula vowed, giving Spencer one last hug before rushing into the ER. Ben nodded his agreement and followed her.

Spencer, Ashley and Aiden all collapsed from exhaustion in the waiting room, Ashley filling out Lily's forms and Spencer crying on her shoulder.

An hour later…

"Its been an hour…What's taking so long?" Ashley demanded, looking toward the room that nurses and doctors kept disappearing into.

"I don't know, Ash, I really don't know." Aiden sighed and looked at Spencer, who had long since fallen asleep with her head in Ashley's lap.

"You never know why it takes so long, kids, all you can do is pray." Arthur and the rest of the Carlin family had shown up about 45 minutes ago to support their friend.

Clay nodded and gave his view, "The longer the better right? I mean, that means she's fighting, doesn't it?"

"Clay makes a good point." Glenn finally spoke up, "If they weren't taking this long, that would mean that she's dead already." Leave it to Glenn to be morbidly blunt in a time like this.

"Gee that makes us feel really great Glenn." Spencer grumbled, glaring at her oldest brother. "Really encouraging."

"Sorry." Glenn muttered, looking away from the assembled group.

"You're awake. I'm sorry, I told them to keep their voices down." Ashley whispered, stroking the blonde's hair lovingly.

"It's ok, I wasn't really sleeping, I was kinda just closing my eyes." Spencer explained, sitting up slightly, "That's really sweet though, Ash." She kissed Ashley lightly on the lips, her first public display of affection with Ashley in front of her family. It made Ashley blush, despite the situation.

"I try." Ashley smiled weakly, a quick glance at Mr. Carlin said that being with his daughter was ok. She nodded to him and pulled Spencer into a hug. "And right now, I'm trying really hard to be strong for us."

"I know, thank you, but you don't have to be. It's ok to cry." Spencer consoled Ashley, whispering in her ear that she loved her. And that's all it took, Ashley felt the sting of unshed tears brimming her eyes and she finally cried.

"Excuse me…" A cautious voice broke the heavy tension of the group; Ashley, Spencer and Aiden jumping to their feet, "But I'm afraid I have some bad news…"

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