Hi, in this chapter we will start in the present and then, the italic will show you what happened in the past, previous at the actual present. Hope it's clear
New city, same evils part 2
"So, tell me. How was your first weeks as a cop... I mean detective...?"
No reply, complete silence on the line...
"Spence... are you there?" And, while Spencer's friend is trying to reach her with words, Spencer's mind is very far away... recalling the events of the past couple of days...
Some days ago...
(At AD's nightclub)
"Do you know each other...?" Mike asks when Spencer and Alison stand face to face once again, after 5 years...
Five years of feeling guilty for being a liar and a bad friend. 5 years of painful remorse for how Alison ended -A's chapter. The memories of that horrible night still haunt Spencer more than once. Because Alison killed herself that night! Her friend chose death, and, she blames herself for it.
If they wouldn't have betrayed her... if they wouldn't have settled Alison's heart to be crushed... maybe Alison wouldn't have shot herself. That's what Spencer has always thought, that's her fault, that she and her friends left no choice to Alison than end her life that night because of the stab in the back she got from Spencer and the other girls... or at least that's what she thought because as painful as it was, to bury Alison for a second time back then, it's even more painful to find out she's alive... she's been alive all this time...
"You're alive..." Spencer says with a bitter voice. She should be happy to find out Alison is still alive; more than once she wished to have a chance to redeem herself, to have a second chance to compensate her wrongs but that seemed impossible with Alison dead.
The guilt was so strong in her heart, that Spencer didn't find another way to keep living than trying to solve the problems of others. That's why she decided to become a detective. To save someone's life, to stop horrors like the ones they lived under the hand of -A... but, when she stares at Alison in the eyes... all her guilt, all her pain... it turns into anger...
"You're alive?! You let us feel guilty all these years about your death when..."
"Shut up, Spencer. Like if you could really feel bad about what happens to me..." AD cuts her off, she has no intention to hear out what Spencer has to say. And, the brunette wants to protest, because, yes! She felt guilty, she still feels guilty by how Alison 's life allegedly ended... even if the blonde finds that hard to believe...
"I don't know what is happening here, newbie! But, we're here for our case! Okay?" Mike says to his new partner, and then, he turns his head towards AD, and, says '"I don't care what happened between the two of you in the past. All I want is to find who killed..."
"Who killed Rebekah Mikaelson..." Alison finishes his sentence, and, the detectives seem shocked to see that Alison knows about the murder, already...
"Don't be so surprised, detectives. I'm AD; the ruler of the underground, I have eyes and ears everywhere. I know all the bad that happens in this city before it happens..."
"If what you're saying it's true. Then, do you know who killed her?" Spencer asks with sarcasm in her voice because she finds hard to believe Alison's words, and, the blonde angrily pouts, because no, she doesn't know who dared to kill her dear Rebekah...
Spencer smirks when Alison shut down her pretentious mouth. Mike is right, she cannot get distracted by Alison's presence. She need to focus on the case... on being a good detective... she will deal with Alison later...
'Do you want me to eat them...?' Alison deviously smirks when she hears the proposition of Venom in her mind. And, as tempting as it's to kill one of the girls who's responsible for putting so much pain in her life, she cannot let Venom kill Spencer... at least not yet because like the detective Torres said. Finding out who killed Rebekah is the priority now...
Face to face once again. Is this Karma? Fate? Whatever, it's the reason to bring them together, it looks like destiny likes to play twisted games. Nothing good can get out of this, that's what Alison thinks... but you never know how this will end... right?
"AD. We've some questions for you..." The detective Torres says, trying not to look scared to face her. Alison smirks, she laughs. It's this the man who will solve the case of her dear Rebekah? Please, the man is almost peeing himself, just because he's in front of her...
It's clear to Alison that she cannot put her hopes in the police, to solve this case and find the real culprit of the murder, but, at least, to keep the appearances, she's willing to play the game and cooperate...
"Sure... go ahead detective. Ask me whatever you need to know... if you've the guts to do it..." The detective Torres gulps hard when Alison deviously challenges him.
He doesn't know if he's more intimidated by her gorgeous look, or, by the lethal gaze of Alison. He has heard so many things about the blonde, some of them seem so unreal, but, to sum it up, everyone labels her as the Devil. And, that's so fucking scary...
Contrary to Mike, Spencer is familiar with that look and that intimidating posing. All those years of being close to a cruel Queen Bee, it made her tough. Alison will need more than a lethal gaze to send shivers up to Spencer's spine. And, maybe that's why the brunette feels the impulse to step forwards and, start the interrogation because her partner seems too scared to talk...
"What is your connexion with the victim: Rebekah Mikaelson...?" Spencer starts making the questions, and, a scared Mike doesn't dare to stop her. Alison just smirks, she must admit, Spencer has guts to even dare to talk to her like this...
"I made a question, Ali-..."
"AD. You'll call me AD; or, I'll show you why your partner is so scared of me..." Spencer gulps hard, leave it to Alison DiLaurentis, to make people fearful to Death, with just words. Geez! Somehow, Spencer feels like a nerdy teenage girl again, in front of the feared Queen Bee. Spencer doesn't know why Alison adopted a new alias, but, maybe it's linked with pretending to be dead. Anyway, that's not important right now, Spencer needs information from her, so, she decides not to try her luck and accepts the terms of the blonde...
"Fine. AD. What was your relationship with Rebekah Mikaelson...?"
"She worked here as a waitress, years ago. Then, she became a singer, last year. Her debut album was a hit. And, even if she became famous, she kept coming to sing from time to time..."
Spencer takes note of everything. Why would Rebekah continue coming to sing here? It's the first question that Spencer asks herself, she stares at Alison in the eyes, and, the dear detective is convinced there's something more in there... she can tell. And, that's why her next question is...
"Did you sleep with her...?"
"Yes... more than once..." Spencer seems a little shocked at how easily Alison admitted that she was having sex with the singer. The blonde has nothing to hide concerning her sex appeal, and, her good taste. She's not the kind of girl to kiss and tell, but, she's not also going to deny what she does, and, with whom she does it...
"So... you were a couple...?"
"Hell, no!" Alison laughs, mocking about the idea that she and Rebekah, they were something more than fucking buddies.
It's a bitter laugh because when Alison thinks about it, she stays very quiet after denying any kind of relationship with the victim. And, she wasn't lying, Rebekah and her, they weren't a couple, girlfriends or anything. But, that doesn't mean she didn't care for the girl...
""We were good in bed. That's all..." Spencer can sense a little of painful regret in Alison's voice when those words are spoken. They might not be a 'thing', but, it's obvious that Alison felt something for the victim, even if she will always deny it...
Exploring Alison's feelings for the dead girl is not the goal here, that's why, the young Hastings changes the course of her interrogation...
"Do you know about anyone who would want to see her dead?"
"No..." And, the blonde wasn't lying, she can't imagine who could want her dead. Let's be real, Rebekah wasn't a bad person. Yeah, she was using it, but, what artist is not on drugs these days? It's that reason enough to kill her?
"Do you know if she was in problems; or something like?"
"No..." Besides her drug problem, the girl seemed to be fine. Or, was she hiding something? Alison wonders now. Did she miss out something? Did Rebekah have been in stress and she failed to see it? To help her?
"Do you've any idea where she was last night after midnight?"
"No, she left the club at 10 PM. Wait, why you ask where she was at midnight? It's that her time of death?" Spencer gulps, she might be telling more of what she should be saying...
"I'm the one doing the questions here, AD..." Alison hums, not happy with the reply. But, she decides to let it there. Spencer keeps making questions and, Alison rolls her eyes, looking annoyed by each one of them till...
"Her manager. We cannot reach him. Do you have any idea why?" Alison smirks, she says nothing, but, looking at that smirk, Spencer knows she's hiding something...
"You know where is him, isn't it? Tell me, what happened to him?!"
'Tell them...' Venom says inside Alison's mind. And, Alison smirks, feeling no remorse of what Venom did. The man was human garbage, he's the one who initiated Rebekah's drug addiction problems. He was the drug dealer who might have put her life in danger. And, the only regret Alison has, it's letting him be the manager of the singer, and, not dealing with him, the first second she knew he was giving drugs to Rebekah...
"He might know what happened to her..." Spencer says, she's sure that she can get some kind of a clue if she gets to talk to the man, but...
"He knows nothing. That's a dead end..." Alison says, so sure about her words that Spencer is sure about something...
"You have talked with him, isn't?" Alison doesn't reply, her devious smirk just gets bigger, sending shiver's to Spencer's spine. What have you done with the man? What have you become? It's this why everyone is afraid of you, Ali? Spencer wonders, but, she seems hesitant to say out loud those questions...
"Are you feeling afraid of me, Spencer...?" Alison deviously asks when she sees how Spencer hesitates on what question to do next.
"Why should I be afraid of you...?" The detective says, trying to look serene. But, Alison doesn't buy it, even if the brunette doesn't dare to admit it right now, she's a little scared of her, and, Alison feels happy about it. Maybe that's why, she has a change of heart, and, decides to drop something at Spencer's feet, as a dog-bone...
"Noel, bring him..." Noel seems shocked by Alison's order, but he follows her request and bring the manager of the singer. He drops the scared man at the feet of Spencer. And, the first impulse of the detective it's to check up the man...
"OMG! What the hell did you do to him?!"
"Relax, Spencer. We just had a little talk. Isn't that right, Jimmy?" The manager nods non-stop, shaking. He's so afraid of what he saw, of what he lived under Venom's interrogation that it's more than obvious that his fragile mind has been broken...
"You can go to jail for this, AD..." Spencer says. She's convinced that the tortured man has all the elements to fill a complaint against Alison. But, even if he has all the rights to do it, he doesn't have the guts to do it...
"I-I-It's ooookkkkaaayyy... I... I've no complaint against AD..." Spencer drops her jaw open when the scared man mumbles those words...
"You see, detective. You don't need to make a big deal about this. He's okay with our 'little chat'..."
"Whatever you did to him. It's wrong..."
"I just made him talk. And, he said nothing relevant to be honest..."
"You're not a detective..."
"I'm not. But, I'll do whatever is needed to solve this case..." This is personal for Alison, even if Spencer doesn't care...
"Threaten someone's life, it's against the law..." Alison just smirks, not looking scared at all about the consequences of her actions. And, Spencer would love to erase that damn smirk from her face, but, she can't...
Especially since the manager isn't going to fill a case against Alison, Spencer decides to stop this meeting for now. And, bring the manager under the police custody for interrogation and, definitely a medical check-up...
"We're done for now, AD. But, I'll be back..." Spencer says before leaving. And, to that, Alison just smirks when she replies...
"Looking forwards, to it..." Spencer turns around and with the help of Mike she brings the manager of the singer with them...
"You let him live...?" Noel asks once the detectives are gone...
'He didn't taste yummy...' Venom says, and, Alison just replies in her mind mind 'so picky...'. Even if Venom didn't eat him, Alison doesn't feel scared about what the manager could say about what he saw. Let's face it, who would ever believe him? And, she wasn't wrong because back at the police station...
(At the Police station)
"She's the Devil! She has a demon inside her!"
"He's useless, newbie..." Mike says while they stare at the mad man who can't stop talking crazy things. "I know what you're thinking, but, if I was you, I would not try to make a case against, AD..."
"She broke him, Mike, she..."
"She's a necessary evil in this city..."
"What?! What are you talking about...?" Mike doesn't reply, he just knows that since AD arrived to the city, the bad things that happen in the underground of this city have a limit now. The number of murders, of kidnapping has decreased. And, that's because any hitman is afraid of AD... bad people think it twice before doing something bad because of the blonde...
Mike doesn't share this information with the newbie, he wants Spencer to focus just in the case. So, he just walks away because it's obvious that the manager is a dead end, just like Alison predicted. They need a new root of causes for their case, and, if they're smart enough to figure it out, they will get to the same conclusion than a devious girl...
(At an abandoned building)
"Where is the boss?"
A gang of dangerous men wonders where is the head of the organization that smuggle weapons. And, to reply to that question, someone drops the head of whom, they'are looking for...
"Oh! Shit!" The men freak out when they see just the head of their leader. Opening the boxes of the shipment they just brought today, each one of them takes a gun.
"Who's out there...?" They ask, but, no one reply. There's just darkness around them.
No matter how glamorous, fancy, sparking this city can be... no one is save in the dark... no one... not even the worst evils that could exist...
"DIE!" Without knowing who's the real enemy, they blindly shoot, randomly in the dark. The gunfire doesn't stop, till there's no bullets to drop. No one could have survived such gunfire, no one except the demon who rules the underworld of this city: AD...
"HAHHH!" One by one, the men scream when something drags them into the darkness. Some of them keep shooting, but, their guns are torn a part by a black shape...
"What is that?!" A man says and, to answer her question, A powerful black figure appears in front of him, eating the head of the boss...
"I'm Venom" The man gets scared by this big monster that appears in front of him, that calls himself Venom. The smuggler empties his gun against him, but, the bullets are just absorbed by Venom, without hurting him. The devious creature laughs at the fool attempt of the man to hurt him. "You, homo sapiens and your guns..." Venom mocks before opening his mouth, and, eating him...
"Oh! Jesus Christ!" Says the last man standing when he sees how Venom devours his team, one by one. "Please! Let me live!" The man kneels, he pleads for mercy. But, Venom doesn't know the word 'mercy', he wants to eat him. But, before he can do it, Alison needs to get something from him...
For the moment, they don't know why or who killed the singer, but, Alison is pretty sure that someone might have targeted the girl because she was close to her, AD. And, if she's right, then Alison needs to find out who the hell wants to get under her skin. That's why after the visit of Spencer and MIke, AD decides to play 'the detective' by herself...
Alison checked the crime scene, looking at the calibre of the bullet holes, this is army stuffs. In one of the holes, there's still a piece of the bullet, the bullet is very specific, you cannot get this kind of weapon in a store. And, there's just one gang in the city who supplies that kind of stuffs.
The blonde decided to play a visit to the gang who might have provided the murder weapon. And, even if the head of the organization didn't dare to talk, she's sure that the man, who's begging for his life right now, has plenty to say...
"Please! Don't kill me!" The scared man says when Venom threatens his life. Venom drops the bullet sample, and, requests the list of customers. It's when the man was printing the list when Venom can hear the sirens of the police approaching...
"Damn it..." Alison mumbles to herself. AD ponders under the idea of leaving without the list, but, Alison refuses to leave, empty handed. So, she quickly types into the keyboard of the computer. So focused on the screen, she ignores the smuggler who takes this opportunity to run away...
The man gets out of the building without being followed by AD, he looks happy, he escaped death, but, he didn't scape jail...
"Raise your hands!"
"Craps..." Ths smuggler says when he sees he's surrounded by cops.
Mike and Spencer get into the building with a team of cops. They find the big arsenal of weapons, they see the holes in the walls, the bullet casings on the ground, dozens of them...
"What happened here?" Spencer wonders when she looks at what seems to be a war scene... but, without a single body?
"Sorry, Spencer. I'm a step ahead of you..." Alison smirks from the roof of the closest building, watching from afar how the police take possession of the perimeters...
'She's smart and bossy...' Venom says about Spencer, as they watch her giving orders to the rest of the cops. It's obvious that if the police is here, it's because of her. Alison is not surprised about it, Spencer was the brain in the group of liars, back in Rosewood. So, if Alison wants to catch and punish Rebekah's killer, she needs to act fast, before the other girl win this hand...
Alison made a backup of the list on a no traceable server. She has the list of customers, of logistics, but, looking into those who purchased the kind of weapon to be used with that specific calibre, it doesn't show the real killer... the names of the list have no connection with the victim...
(At the nightclub, at night)
"Damn it! What a waste of time!" Alison says when she drops her hands over the bar table.
The place is full of people, like always, but, Alison couldn't feel more lonely. The blonde finishes her drink in one shot. And, she was requesting another drink when someone says...
"Make it two, please..." Alison raises an eyebrow when she looks at her right, and, sees the brunette who's sitting beside her...
"What the hell are you doing here, Spence. I'm not in the mood to deal with you..."
"You're in a bad mood. It's because the data you got from the gang this afternoon, it brought you to nowhere?"
"I don't know what you're talking about..." Spencer is not surprised that Alison denies what she's saying. Spencer has no proofs to link Alison with what happened with the gang. But, her guts are telling her that just Alison had enough motives to go after them, looking for information... and, she wasn't wrong... even if at the end, Alison got not valuable information at all...
Spencer drops a file over the bar table. Alison wonders about what it's. And, it's Spencer's file about the case...
"Why are you showing me, this...?" Alison says while she turns over the pages
"Because two heads are better than one..." Spencer says, when their drinks arrives, she dispatches them, one for Alison, the other for her...
"I'm not working with you... we're not friends! I don't trust you!" The blonde says. Anger, pain, they are reflected in her voice. And, Spencer knows she should solve this case with Mike's help. But...
"This isn't about us. This is about the dead girl who was 'someone' for you. The victim, Rebekah... you might want to deny it. But, you need closure. And, I believe solving this case, it can grant you that closure you so desperately need..."
'Oh, she's good reading you...' Venom says in Alison's mind. The blonde just mentally replies a 'shut up' to her inner partner.
"So, what do you say, AD? Are you up to the challenge?" Spencer says with a sassy voice when she drinks her glass. And, Alison angrily pouts, she doesn't say a word, she just grabs the file and leads them upstairs, where she lives...
(At AD's loft)
No one is free of guilt... no one is perfect. And, no one is as a bad loser as Spencer Hastings...
"C'mon! You've to be kidding me!" The brunette exaggeratedly drops her cards when once again, Alison wins the hand...
It's the 5th time in a row that Alison wins. And, Spencer is not an expert in poker, but, she's smart, she should be able to win at least once! But, till now, she hasn't done it...
"Do you want to lose again?" The blonde smirks, teasing the brunette to play another round. And, as much as Spencer wants to kick Alison's ass in the card game, they need to resume their brainstorming about the case...
"Let's order something to eat, and, we will see..." The detective says and they order Chinese. Eating from the boxes, they overview the possible scenarios that could have caused the death of the singer. Looking for a root of causes, Spencer thinks they need to explore more about the victim's past...
"What do you know about her family?"
"Nothing, really..."
"You had sex with her, in a regular basis. And, you know nothing about the girl?"
"What do you want me to tell you? I never asked! It was just sex... just sex..." Spencer doesn't believe it. If it was just sex why Alison is so invested on finding the responsible of Rebekah's death?
"I don't talk about my past... A long time ago, I decided to leave the past behind, and, never bring it back to my present. So, how can I dare to ask someone about their past when I don't even dare to re-open some chapters of my life...?"
Alison admits that more than once, she got tempted to really get to know Rebekah. But, she didn't dare to look for a further, deeper connexion when, she's not open to talk about her own history. More than once, Rebekah tried to get a peek about Alison's life, but, every time, the blonde shut down, not sharing anything about her past...
"I don't ask for something I cannot give too, in return..." If Alison wasn't willing to open up and to talk about her past, she wasn't going to ask the other half to open about it, either. Something that seems very reasonable for Alison, but, very new to hear, for Spencer...
"You've changed..." The detective mumbles. It wasn't a question, it was more like a revelation because the Alison she knew, the Queen Bee of Rosewood that Alison was back then, she wouldn't have thought it twice before getting something from others without giving something back in return...
"I haven't changed. AD is like this. You think I've changed because you keep seeing me as Alison DiLaurentis. But, you need to understand that Alison is dead, Spencer. She died 5 years ago, back there, in that roof where Cece aka -A, died too..." Spencer gulps hard, feeling sad and guilty about what the blonde is saying. But, can she blame her? Alison got betrayed by those who were closer to her, for the girl she loved. So, it's just normal that she wants to leave the person she was back then, behind her, right?
Thinking about it, Spencer is not so different from Alison. She hasn't returned in Rosewood in years, and, she doesn't speak out about her past neither. Not even when people ask her about it... It seems they have that in common.
They might don't like to revisit their past, but, they need to look deeply into Rebekah's past. And, when they do it, to their surprise, they find a blocking point...
"There's no records of Rebekah Mikaelson before 2010. Why?" Spencer wonders why she finds nothing about the girl before that year. And, that's because...
"OMG! She changed her name?"
"What?!" Alison is even more shocked about the news than Spencer. Why would the girl have changed her identity? The blonde wonders...
"According to the police database, her name changed when she got into the program of protected witnesses..." Spencer doesn't have the clearance to see more about the case. But, when that has stopped her to continue with an investigation?
"Are you hacking your own database?" Alison might not be a nerd, but, she knows when someone is doing something illicit...
"I'm just doing what is necessary to solve the case..." Spencer says the same words that Alison used during their previous interrogation...
"It's against the law..." The blonde points out, doing the same as Spencer, because that's what the detective said the other day...
"Shut up..." Spencer mumbles. Alison smirks and closes her mouth, letting the girl work in silence...
Life is funny sometimes, no matter how much we try to bury our past, no matter how much we try to reinvent itself, the past will not let us go... no matter how much we try...
(At a photo studio, the next day)
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?! We're in the middle of a photo shoot?!" The photographer says when Spencer and Mike interrupt his photo session.
"Everyone out. Now!" Mike says when he shows up his badge. The models and the rest of the staff start to leave. The photographer tries to do the same, but, the detective stops him when he holds him by the collar of his jacket and says "Where the hell do you think you're going, Benji?"
"How do you know that name...?" The photographer mumbles, shocked to hear his real name for the fist time in years...
"We know all about you and your sister, Claire, or, should I say Rebekah Mikaelson?" The photographer gulps, revealing that he knew the alias of his sister...
"We know about the horrors the two of you lived when you were younger, when your parents got involved with a sect that went crazy 10 years ago. You and your sister were the only two survivors when the sect planned a massive, groupal suicide. And, after revealing some details of what you saw inside that sect. The police put you under protection, giving you new names... new lives..." Spencer says while Mike is holding him, making sure he couldn't scape...
"You and your sister got a new life. A new beginning and decided to go in separate ways. I guess you got really shocked when you got to see her again, after all these years, right? You saw her in here, in your photo studio, during the photo shoot of her next album, right?"
"I was happy to see her again. Doing well..." He wasn't lying about that. After all the crazy things they lived, he was happy to see that they were able to leave that in the past... or, at least that's what he thought till...
"The title of her new album was going to be 'family'. She wrote songs about your family. She was going to talk about her past... your past In the new album she was planning to launch. I guess she told you that, right? That she wrote songs about her past, your past... and, that made you snap... right?"
"We promised to never talk about it! About the horrors we lived because of that fucking sect! So, how the hell she dared to write songs about it?!" The photographer is angry, is another person. Like if he was possessed by the evil. But, in this city, there's no worse evil than the one who goes under the name of AD...
"So, you killed her just because she was planning to open up about your past?!" Spencer frowns, when she hears the question. Both detectives are taken off guard when the blonde arrives, with a killer look on her face...
"What?! I... I didn't kill her!"
"Stop lying..." If there's something AD hates more in this world, it's a liar. It brings the worst of her, and, you can see it, by the way her eyes look... ready to kill...
"AD! You shouldn't be here! I told you to leave it to us!" Alison ignores Spencer's words. She's so angry with the supposed killer of Rebekah that she can't think straight, she just sees red...
'Let's kill him...' Venom says in her mind and Alison nods, her eyes become black, she's letting Venom take control of her body and do what needs to be done. So, she strongly pushes Mike away, and, drags the photographer down, against the ground...
"AD! NO!" Spencer has to stop whatever Alison has in mind. But, that's the thing, Alison is not in power right now, it's Venom who's in charge...
"You're a bad guy..." AD says with a deeper voice, licking its lips, ready to eat him. After all, the deal with Alison is that he can eat as many bad guys as he wants, so, he's doing nothing wrong, right? But, what if the photographer is not really the bad guy that they have been looking for...?
Spencer sees someone moving behind them, someone emerges from behind, with a gun in its hand. Everything happens so fast, Spencer's body moves before her brain can catch up with what is happening, and, everyone looks shocked to see how the young detective, throw herself towards AD, taking a bullet for her...
"Newbie!" Mike screams when he sees Spencer falling to the ground, and, bleeding out.
"Love, what the hell are you doing?" The photographer says to the person who's holding the gun. His partner, a soldier who just came back home after his last tour...
"No one will hurt you! No one has the right to bring you pain! Not your sister! Not them! I'll not allow it!" The soldier says, his hand shaking. It's obvious that he's not in the best mental state...
The old detective is not the only one who looks surprised by the development of the situation. AD is also shocked, not about finding out who's the real killer, but about finding out that Spencer put her life at risk, to save her...
'She took a bullet for us...' Venom says, this is the first time that someone risk its life to protect them, and, it's a new unexpected sensation for the symbiote, Venom feels something for the first time in his existence and AD's eyes become blue again. Her anger turns into concern for the detective that's lying down, on the ground...
"I don't want to die..." Spencer mumbles when Alison kneels at her side, and, puts pressure on the wound.
"I'll not let you... I promise..." AD says and, that's all that Spencer remembers before everything becomes black...
The world is far to be perfect. But, it's not perfection what we look for, at the end of the road... we just look for a way to to keep going, protecting those we love...
(At the hospital, a few hours later)
Spencer awakes when a 'bip, bip' sound is annoying enough to wake her up. The first seconds she opens her eyes, everything looks blurry, even the silhouette of the person who's beside her bed...
"Mike...?" The brunette tries to guess who's the person who hasn't left her side since she got out of surgery, but, she couldn't be more wrong...
"How you dare to confuse me with that old man?!" Spencer rolls her eyes when the blonde points out her mistake. "Are you blind?!"
"I just woke up after getting shot. Give me a break..." The detective says when she rubs her head. If the blonde is here to give her a headache, it would be better for her to leave. But, Alison is not here to make her feel any more uncomfortable of what she's already...
"It wasn't her brother who killed her. The boyfriend of the brother is the one who pulled the trigger and killed Rebekah..."
"Why?"
"It seems that he overheard a conversation between the two siblings. The photographer, his lover was really upset with what Rebekah was planning to do. The soldier tried to talk with her, make her change her mind about bringing back the past. But, Rebekah didn't change her mind, so, he used the phone of her brother, pretending to be him, he fixed a meeting with Rebekah in the docks, so, he could kill her, and, bury the past with her..."
"That seems very radical..."
"People do crazy things in the name of love..." Spencer nods, she agrees, over the years, she has seen people do the unthinkable under the excuse of love, so, she's not so surprised that 'love' was the main motive for this murder...
"Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that the case got solved. Mike managed the situation while I brought you to the hospital..."
"I thought that your main priority was to deal with the killer?" The brunette is surprised that Alison didn't try to handle the killer by herself. She let the police do it for her...
"Yeah, it was, but, I did promise you I wouldn't let you die, so..." Spencer smiles, maybe after all their friendship can be saved... just like her...
"I've to go... I just stayed to be sure that I didn't break my promise..."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm alive, you can go..." Spencer chuckles, but, she stops the little laughs when it's too painful for her chest. Alison stands up, ready to leave, she stands under the door frame and turns around, so, she can see in the eyes, the girl who's in a hospital bed...
"I'm glad you're not dead..."
"Me too..." Spencer says with a smile. "And, it makes me happy that we could find the real culprit of the murder of your friend..."
Alison smiles, it brings peace to her heart to close the case of Rebekah. She might haven't eaten the killer, but, she's okay with it. Even if she doesn't get why...
"This prove that nothing good comes from bringing back the past. We should leave the past in the past. You should keep that in mind..." The blonde's words before leaving, they stay in Spencer's mind for a long time, even after being released from the hospital and, back to her apartment...
Back to the present...
Spencer is finally back home, out of the hospital when her phone rings.
"Hello..." The brunette doesn't say more since she doesn't have the number registered. And, that's because the girl who's calling her, she hasn't contacted her in years...
"Hi, Spencer... it's Emily..." Spencer's eyes get bigger of shock. Of all the people she was expecting a call from, Emily wasn't one of them.
Like Spencer, Emily left Rosewood as soon as possible. The only difference, it's that the other brunette left without saying where. Emily's life has been a complete mystery for Spencer and the rest of the girls. Beside the sporadic postcards that Hanna gives them from Emily, they know nothing about her. So, why she's reaching out, now?
"Hanna told me you got shot..." Spencer rolls her eyes, of course the entire planet finds out about her life thanks to the big mouth of Hanna Marin...
"Thank you for calling. But, I'm fine, the bullet just past through. I got lucky I guess..." Spencer tries to laugh about it, but, to be honest, it was more than luck what saved her ass.
The doctors told her that it was a miracle she made it to the hospital in less than 5mn of getting shot, a few more minutes without getting treated, it could have caused her death. But, it didn't... even if Spencer hasn't been able to understand how the hell Alison brought her to the hospital in such record time. Even without traffic, the hospital was a more than 30mn by car, so, how did Alison bring her so fast to the hospital without a car? Spencer wonders when her friend tries to make a conversation with her...
"So, tell me. How was your first weeks as a cop... I mean detective...?"
No reply, complete silence on the line...
"Spence... are you there?" And, while Spencer's friend is trying to reach her with words, Spencer's mind is very far away... recalling the events of the past couple of days. Till Emily yells over the phone, bringing her back to reality...
"Sorry, sorry... I spaced out..." Spencer tries to excuse her absence of words...
"Yeah, I noticed..." Emily chuckles, she sounds joyful, Spencer thinks when she hears her voice. It makes her smile, because the last time she saw the brunette, the girl looked a lot like a zombie.
Losing Alison back then, and, the way they got played by -A, it broke Emily like you have no idea. The brunette needed space to heal, she needed time, and, she still need that because she is still healing from what they lived in Rosewood, just like the rest of them. And, Spencer understands that, she understands that all of them, they deserve to find their way to heal.
Maybe Alison is right, maybe leaving the past behind is the best. And, maybe that's why Spencer says nothing about Alison. Not to Emily, not to anyone. If Alison wants to forget about her past, if she wants to rebrands herself under the name of AD. Who's she to tear away this new life for Alison?
Between all of them, Spencer really believes that Alison is the one who deserves more than anything a new, clean slate. So, why don't let her?
Her call with Emily might end with a 'see you soon', even if they don't know if that 'see you soon' will ever really happen. In any case, Spencer feels a little bad about the omission she's doing during the call. Should she really keep Alison as a secret from Emily and the others? Or, should she reveal to the world that Alison DiLaurentis is alive?
You might wonder what this brunette detective will choose to do in the end. But, let me tell you something. Once a liar, always a liar... and, some people are liars... liar till the end...
Next: Liar till the End