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Note 1: In Italics, the storyteller speaking (moi ^^)
Note 2: This chapter will start immediately after the last part of last chapter
Note 3: In the next chapter, there will be revealed more detail about what happen with Mary, what will happen with –A, etc…
Chapter 31 – Dark Ali
(In the Bunker at night)
Alison smirked. – "So… Shanna… what will be the menu of today?!"
Shanna didn't answer; she just fed Alison's with a soup as she was told to do.
Alison glanced. – "Do you also feed your precious Jenna in the mouth or that privilege is only mine?"
Shanna gave her a confused look.
Alison. – "Come on Shanna, we all know that you're hot for that bitch…" (She approached and whispered to her) "But does she feels the same?!" (Mocking smiles)
Shanna. – "Off course she does!"
Alison glanced. – "Oh really… what proofs do you have to be so certain…? Has she told you 'I love you'… I can bet that she has never leaved you to touch her…. Isn't it?"
Shanna. – "We're taking it slow…"
Alison laughed. – "Ha... yeah… It's funny to say that she's taking it slow as she continues bagging Noel…"
Shanna. – "You're liying!"
Alison. – "Oh… really?! And why should I do that…? … I mean… I don't complaint by all the moans that I heard from here… that's better that the silence…" (Mocking smiles)
Shanna. – "No! It's not truth!"
Alison smirked. – "Oh Shanna… like you told me once… love is blind and you… you're so blind that you're enable to see the truth!"
Shanna got really angry and pushed Alison to the wall… both girls were so close that Alison could steal Shanna's pocket knife without Shanna being aware of it.
Alison smirked. – "Uyy… did I say something that I shouldn't?!"
Shanna looked her in the eyes and Alison held her gaze.
Alison smirked. – "Why don't you confront her? Or better yet… why you don't just follow them and see it with your own eyes?!"
Shanna gulped and pulled away, she left the room without a word.
(In Emily's house at night)
Since Sarah dropped her in her house; her mom changed her clothes and left the girls sleeping in her room. Emily wasted started to smile as she was having a nice dream…
*** Emily's dream – Music background: Next by The Weekend***
Emily was laying in her bed and when she opened her eyes, she smiled immediately as she found Alison in bed with her; the blonde looked at her with warm eyes and she started to caress Emily's face with her hand; Emily grabbed her hand in her cheek and squeezed it as she refused to let her go.
Emily whispered. – "I miss you…"
Alison. – "Is that the reason why you continue drinking?"
Emily. – "I'm just able to see you in my dreams or when I drank too much… I… I just really want to see you…"
Alison. – "But I'm not real Em… this is not real… I'm not here… you need to let me go… you have to go…"
Emily cried. – "Stop asking me that! I can't let you go!"
Alison smiled, approached and kissed the bottom lip of the brunette; Emily immediately took the upper lip of the blonde in her mouth and their open kiss produced a sensation of electricity all over Emily's body. The blonde was the first to break the kiss as Emily cupped Alison's cheeks in her hands. They laid their front-heads together.
Alison whispered. – "You have to go…"
Emily. – "Go where? Tell me where?!"
The blonde grabbed Emily's hand and they looked each other in the eyes.
Alison smiled. – "There is not right answer Em… we must only do what we want to do… so the question is: what do you wanna do? Where do you wanna go?"
Emily looked deeply to those blue eyes and hungry for contact; she hugged her tight and kissed her without stop until both needed some air. Emily continued having Alison in her arms, one arm holding Alison's back and her other hand squeezing Alison's hand.
Alison whispered. – "Have you made your mind where you need to go….?"
Emily. – "Yeah…"
Alison whispered. – "Where?"
Emily said as she looked to those blue eyes. – "I'm going for you…"
Alison smiled and they kissed again.
*** End of Emily's dream***
(The next day at the Brew)
That Saturday, Sarah Harvey went for a coffee and Emily served her kindly.
Sarah. – "It's nice to see you in a nice mood…"
Emily smiled. – "Well, you know I just feel that today will be great… and it just started good because I could see your beautiful face again…"
Sarah smiled
Emily. – "By the way, I haven't had the opportunity to thank you for yesterday…"
Sarah. – "It's ok… it's no big deal…"
Emily. – "I would like to pay back the favor… let me invite you out this afternoon…"
Sarah raised an eyebrow. – "Are you using that excuse to ask me out?"
Emily smiled. – "Well that depends… is it working?"
Sarah smirked. – "Maybe… where are you planning to invite me?"
Emily smiled. – "It's a surprise… you're gonna like it; trust me…"
Sarah. – "Mmm… I don't know…."
Emily glanced as she grabbed her hand and rubbed her thumb on Sarah's hand. – "Come on, what do you have to lose?"
Sarah hesitated but she accepted at the end.
Emily smiled. – "Great, it's a date…"
(In the bunker)
Alison was whistling when Noel came in the room.
Alison said with enthusiasm. – "Time of my cocktail!"
Noel crossed his arms and studied the body language of the blonde. – "Something changed on you…? What is it…?"
Alison smirked. – "I don't know… you tell me….?!"
Noel didn't reply he just started to prepare the syringe with the cocktail of drugs.
Noel. – "I'm sorry…"
Alison. – "Why you keep saying that every time that you came here?"
Noel. – "Because… all this situation really sucks!"
Noel approached with the syringe and he stopped for a moment as he saw Allison's eyes fixed on him.
Noel. – "Do you hate me?"
Alison. – "No…"
Noel. – "Why not?"
Alison. – "Well… you're just the drug dealer here… the guy who prepare my cocktails… you haven't put a hand on me or torture me so…"
Noel laughed
Alison. – "Why haven't you?"
Noel. – "What? Torture you? Hit you? … I don't want to… I just I don't want to…"
Alison smirked. – "Cece must have something really big on you… isn't it?"
Noel. – "Why do you say that?"
Alison. – "We know each other enough to know our motivations to act… if it's not blackmailing… it's money… so what is it?"
Noel laughed. – "You know me well…"
Alison. – "So… what is it… between the two options?"
Noel. – "Both…"
Alison. – "I see… but you know… with enough money and power you can secure everything else…"
Noel. – "Yeah… but I don't have enough money or power so…"
Alison. – "But I do…"
Noel said with an ironic tone. – "You?! The girl who's hostage?!"
Alison smirked. – "My Dad died… Jason is in a coma… I'm actually the only heir to all the DiLaurentis' empire…"
Noel stood quiet a moment as he was thinking
Alison. – "You have always known how to bet on the right horse…"
Noel shook her head and he was under the point to nail the syringe in Alison's arm when the girl caught again his attention.
Alison said as she looked Noel in the eyes with a devious look. – "We both know that I will get out of here and when I do…"
Noel. – "What? Are you going to kill everybody?!"
Alison smirked and glanced. – "Oh Honey… if you think that death is the worst thing that I can do… you don't know me at all…"
Noel gulped as he saw a devious look on Alison
Alison smirked. – "You're still on time to bet on the right horse… the question here is: are you ready to make a deal?"
Alison stood Noel's gaze and both smirked at the same time.
(In Emily's house)
Emily picked up Sarah and then they went to Emily's house. Sarah entered first and behind her, it was Emily closing the door.
Sarah said as she was giving the back to Emily. – "So we're going to hang out here?"
Sarah entered to the living room and when she didn't hear a reply from Emily, she turned towards the brunette, when she did it, her eyes got bigger of shock when she saw the glass vase coming towards her face; as soon as Emily crashed the glass vase in Sarah's head, the blonde fell on the ground unconscious. Emily looked to the girl with a lost look as she remembered her earlier encounter with Blair.
*** Flashback***
The next morning of the warehouse's explosion; Blair was drowning her guilt with alcohol, she was crushed by the guilt because she felt responsible of falling in Cece's trap. As she was sitting in her sofa drinking, someone knocked her door. She opened it and for her surprise it was Emily. She invited the other brunette to get in.
Blair. – "Can I offer you a drink?"
Emily. – "I would prefer another thing from you…"
Blair. – "What?"
Emily. – "I need your help to hack a phone…"
Blair. – "No! I'm done doing that kind of stuffs… didn't you hear what happen with Alison's parents?"
Emily gulped. – "Yeah… I heard…"
Blair sighed. – "Well… It's my fault… I tried to hack the videos and without thinking I sent them to that trap... I'm responsible of what happen to them… It's my fault…"
Emily. – "No it's not… It's –A's fault…. You were just trying to help…"
Blair satin her sofa and was serving herself another drink when Emily stopped her; both brunettes looked themselves in the eyes.
Emily. – "I need your help on this… you and I… we're all she has right now! Now it's on us to save her!"
Blair took a deep breath and when she saw the determination on Emily's eyes, she replied.
Blair. – "Ok… so what's your plan…?"
Emily smiled
*** End of the flashback***
The sound of her phone brought her to reality; Emily saw the sms of Blair saying that she was in her way to Emily's place. Emily read the message and took Sarah's unconscious body to her basement.
Once in the basement, Emily tied Sarah in a chair. The brunette was in front of her with the arm crossed when Sarah opened her eyes again.
***Music background: Up in Flames by Ruelle***
Emily. – "Good, you're awakening…"
Sarah. – "Where are we… what….?"
Emily. – "Last night, you kissed me… I might be drunk but I don't think that I hallucinated it… I heard the sound of a flash… you took pictures of us… why?"
Sarah smirked. – "Who you want to intimidate Emily… I'm not afraid of you…"
Emily smirked. – "Your only option is to give me answers…"
Sarah. – "And what if I don't?"
Emily smirked and approached, she put her hands over Sarah's hands when she said as she looked her into the eyes with a crazy look.
Emily said with a bitter tone. – "You're working with –A… where is Alison?"
Sarah mocked without replying; Emily was squeezing Sarah's hand and her action started to hurt Sarah.
Sarah. – "Ouch! You're hurting me!"
Emily. – "Where is Cece keeping her? Where is Alison?!"
Sarah didn't reply and Emily squeezed Sarah's hand until she broke one finger.
Sarah screamed. – "You broke my finger!"
Emily yelled. – "Yes! And after that there is 9 more so tell me what I want to know! Where is Alison!"
Sarah looked up to Emily's eyes with fear when she saw the determination of the brunette to make her suffer.
Emily said as she was staring. - "Start talking!"
Sarah said with a shaky voice. – "I don't know! Cece doesn't tell me! I just receive sms from her telling me what to do…"
Emily. – "Fine! I will believe you for now but if I found out that you're lying to me…" (She approached very close to her face and gave her an frighten look) "I swear that I will personally put a bullet through your skull!"
Sarah swallowed hard and once again she fell unconscious when Emily hit her in the head.
(In the bunker)
***Music background: Gangsta by Kehlani***
Alison was mumbling a melody with the eyes closed when someone enter into the room. It was Mona.
Mona smirked. – "Look at you! The Queen Bee! Ha! You're not more than a joke! …. I feel generous today so let's do a deal Alison… Admit that I win and I will give you a free pass for our session of today! You will have a chance to take a break… just for today…."
Alison smirked. – "Fine, you won, now leave!"
Mona mocked. – "Mmm… no… I change my mind…"
Alison smirked. – "Ahh… that was evocative, I could see how you would pick that… You know Mona went I first knew about –A, I picture a hooded figure in all black tall muscular maybe carrying an axe but you know what I didn't picture… Mona… what nobody pictures… YOU… you think that you won, you think that you haven't what everyone else sees…"
Mona. – "What do you mean… with everyone else sees?
Alison. – "Everyone who ever bullied you, me included… I hurt; the little you, I thought that you were weak, worthless and small and you know what Mona…" (Mocking smiles) "I was right!"
Mona said with anger. – "No you weren't! I'm not any of those things!"
Alison smirked. – "Yes you're a lot of them and worse!"
Mona yelled. – "I'm what you made me!"
Alison. – "You were born this way or your mommy made you… but I didn't break you… you were already broken… I only sensed what you were and what you were about to become… so you know what?! In a way my bullying wasn't enough!"
Mona.- "How you can say that to me?! I'm the victim here!"
Alison mocked. – "And you always gonna be a victim; do you think that hiding behind an username as –A and torturing people is going to change that?! That won't get you respect! You're always gonna be the same pathetic, LOSER and …!"
Mona yelled. – "I'm not a LOSER!"
Alison mocked. – "Yes you're! You know… when you abducted me, do you know what I was telling to myself? I was thinking: 'I'm being Punk'd here?!"
Mona. – "Believe me you didn't!"
Alison. – "I see you as a joke!"
Mona. – "No! You're afraid! You're terrified!"
Alison laughed. – "I'm laughing right now about YOU! In your face!"
Mona. – "Well not for long!"
Alison mocked. – "Uyyy…. Really?! So what are you gonna do?! The only way to stop my mockery is killing me! And we both know that right now you don't make the call on my life! You're not the master mind here! You're just one of Cece's puppets…!"
Mona. – "I'm not the puppet of anyone!"
Alison smirked. – "Oh really?! Prove it! Kill me! You know that you want it! So do it!"
Mona stood Alison's gaze and she left the room very fast… she went to the armory room where Cece was doing an inventory. Cece looked Mona entered and took a gun.
Cece. – "Where are you going with that?"
Mona didn't reply so Cece followed her. They both entered again in Alison's room and Mona pointed out the gun towards Alison's head.
Cece yelled. – "Put that gun down Mona!"
Alison mocked. – "Uy… It seems that your master is not happy with you Mona… someone will be grounded"
Mona felt her blood boiling and she took off the lock of the gun and charged it. Cece got angry and approached very close to Mona; she had a syringe with drugs in her pocket so she just approached enough to have a good angle of Mona's neck.
Cece. – "Mona! I say: put that gun down now!"
Mona hesitated but she pulled down the gun.
Alison mocked. – "You see… Pathetic!"
Mona was going to move towards Alison but Cece grabbed her from behind and nailed the syringe in her neck; Mona fell unconscious immediately. Alison laughed and Cece approached to Alison.
Cece glanced. – "What were you thinking?!"
Alison laughed. – "Come on Cece… it was fun… isn't it...?"
Cece glanced. – "You're fucked up…!"
Alison smirked. – "What I can say… I'm built for all the abuse…"
The blonde continued laughing and then she did motions with her finger in order to ask Cece to approach. Cece approached and Alison said to her ear.
Alison whispered. – "Can you keep a secret?"
Cece laughed and nodded.
Alison. – "My freakiness is on the loose…"
Cece. – "Oh really?"
Alison whispered. – "Yeah… and I've got another confession to make… I know your secret…"
Cece confused. – "What secret?"
Alison smirked. – " That you really don't want to share me… aren't you?"
Cece laughed and she was starting to drag Mona out when Alison said to her.
Alison yelled. – "Why you don't tell to those minions to suck it?! Just ditch them and let's go for a face to face… you and I… what do you say Cece! Are you up for that?!"
Cece didn't reply, she just laughed and left with Mona unconscious. When she left, Shanna entered to the room with red eyes.
Alison said as she saw Shanna's eyes. – "That bitchy Jenna broke your heart isn't it?"
Shanna nodded and said. – "I feel kinda stuck in this pattern of messing stuff up and I don't know how to fix it…"
Alison. – "You just wanna feel better… Isn't it?"
Shanna nodded
Alison smirked. – "Well… she betrayed you… I say… you should reciprocate her in the same way… and I just know a way to do that…"
Shanna. – "I'm listening…"
Alison smirked.
(In Emily's house)
Blair installed her equipment in Emily's house as she was hacking Sarah's phone.
Blair. – "You're doing again… the growling…"
Emily. – "Well you aren't hacking fast enough!"
Blair sighed. – "That doesn't help… the growling…"
Emily sighed as she ran a hand through her hair. – "Sorry… I just want Ali back, safe and unharmed… she's been gone for too long… and we still don't have any idea where she's… this may be our last shot to find her…"
Blair smirked. – "Well, maybe if you stop acting like a research slave driver…" (Sighs) "Emily, everything that can be done is being done…"
Emily. – "Don't tell me that; they took her, I need to do something…"
Blair. – "I'm working on her phone; I think that we can trace the location of her last call…"
Emily. – "Ok, since you're doing that I will move Sarah to another location…"
Blair. - "So you can do what to her?"
They both stared to each other in silence for a moment
Blair. - "I was watching you Emily, hurting her will not give us anything!"
Emily. - "She knows Cece, she has been playing us all this time; I'm sure that she knows where they took Alison!"
Blair. - "Well, she's never going to give them up, wherever she might know, she's definitely more afraid of Cece than you…"
Emily huffed. - "Fine, we will try another angle, for now…"
Suddenly an alarm in the laptop of Blair sounded.
Blair. – "I have a location… it's far… in the forest…"
Emily. – "I'm calling Toby, we can trust him… let's go!"
(In the bunker: In the room where Alison was hostage)
***Music background: Muddy Waters by LP***
Noel was pretending adjusting Alison's chains to a chair as Cece entered in the room with several syringes.
Cece. – "Ali, I asked Noel to prepare us a round of an experimental substance… a roller coaster of sorts… you can only take so many rounds of it before your hear explodes…" (She took a syringe and a little of the liquid got out when she started to push the plunger) "So let's see how many rounds, you can hold on…" (Mocking smiles) "Shall we begin…?!"
Noel winked at Alison before leaving the room and Alison smirked.
Alison. – "Nothing would please me more…"
Once both were alone, they looked themselves in the eyes in silence for a moment. Alison was sitting and chained in a chair when she said.
Alison smirked. – "How you feel if we started getting real…"
Cece. – "I'm almost glad that you said that… I'm not going to be soft today…"
Alison smirked. – "You're really Satan, do you know that right? If Satan would take a physical appearance it will be you all the time…"
Cece laughed. – "I'm not Satan… you know, you're going to forgive me eventually… you know… it was a time where you thought of me as your best friend…"
Alison. – "There was a time where I thought you were a sister for me… but things change…."
Cece. – "Well, we have all the time in the world my dear Ali…" (She approached and caressed Alison's hair as she said) "You have to know that despite the situation, I admire you… I always had Barbie… you're so very rare… unique… so extraordinary… you've survived the pain, the torture and you refuse to die…" (She caressed Alison's face and showed a scalpel in her hand as she said) "Mmm… it's a crime what I'm gonna to do to you today… to this lovely face… but what can we do?" (Mocking smiles) "You know I'm fascinating by the 'faces'… they are the mask that we present towards the world…" (Mocking smiles)
Alison mocked. – "And you know what is telling me your 'mask'… I mean… your face?"
Cece. – "What?!"
Alison smirked. – "That you're scared of me… even with all these chains on me… you're so scared of me that you had a group of losers as your human barrier but you know what? … Trust is overrated!"
***Music background: St. Anger by Metallica***
Alison started to laugh very loud and before Cece could see it coming; Alison hit her in the face and put a scare in her face with the pocket knife that she stole from Shanna. Cece fell to the ground and Alison stood up as she wasn't actually chained because Noel just pretended to chain her.
Cece said as she was putting her hands in her face. – "What the hell?! Your chains?!"
Alison smirked. – "You still have the scalpel in your hand… and I have this knife… I call that a fair fight…"
Cece said angry. – "Oh you will regret this…"
Alison smirked. – "Let's play! I'm only getting started…"
Emily was arriving to the place with Blair, Toby and other cops which were friends of Toby and they could trust on them. Toby asked to the girls to stay behind them but as soon as they opened the gate of the bunker, Emily was the 1st to get in; she just heard from behind how Toby was saying her name when she started to follow a shadow in the hallway of the bunker; she couldn't distinguished who was the person but she ran after her and tackled her; she was on top of her when she noticed that the girl below her was wearing a silicone mask of herself as 'Emily', the girl was the person who had been pretending to be Emily in order to torture the blonde and Emily couldn't feel more angry.
Emily yelled as she punched the other girl. – "What have you done! What have you done!"
After several punch, one part of the mask broke and Emily could see who was behind that mask.
Emily. – "Melissa!"
Melissa mocked. – "She didn't crack on the 1st beating… she made me work for it…"
Emily felt her blood boiling of anger and she just launched a last punch in Melissa face to knock her out. Toby approached and proceeded to handcuff Melissa. They continued walking on the hallway and in the armory room they found Mona and Jenna tied. That was done by Noel and Shanna who tied them up before leaving the place. They continued walking and they opened a door, as they entered inside the room; Emily's heart raced at the sight of Alison in front of her. Alison didn't pay attention to them, she was focus on Cece; Alison was over a beating Cece which was laying on the floor; Alison raised her arm with the knife in her hand and she was going to kill Cece with it when Emily stopped her.
Emily. – "Ali… Ali… stop… please! She's not worth it!"
Emily tried to hug her tight but Alison was with so much adrenaline in her body that she wasn't thinking; she just wanted to end Cece once and for all; Alison pushed Emily away and when Emily hit the wall; Toby and the other cops intervened; they needed 3 cops to control the savage Alison.
That night, it was released on all the news that Cece, Mona, Jenna and Sarah were arrested and Alison rescued. Time passed, Alison's testimony and the evidence that were found on the bunker put a solid case against the other girls in order to put them in jail. Alison excluded Noel and Shanna on her testimony, that was part of the deal with them and even if for the police was not convinced that Alison tied up Mona and Jenna, there were no evidence to prove that Noel and Shanna were involved.
(In Spencer's House, some days after)
***Music background: So cold by Ben Cocks***
Spencer was passing by the kitchen when her mom stopped her.
Veronica. – "Spencer… where are you going?"
Spencer raised an eyebrow as she said. – "Where I'm going? I'm going to the funeral…"
Veronica. – "No!"
Spencer. – "What?! I'm not asking your permission mom! I'm going! she's my friend and…"
Veronica said as she looked Spencer in the eyes. – "No… you can't go… she doesn't want you there…"
Spencer. – "How you can say that…?!"
Veronica sighed. – "She called me this morning… Alison… she requested me to don't assist… she said that she doesn't want us there… any one of us… please Spencer… let's respect her wishes…"
Spencer swelled hard and went back to her room when she called one of her friends.
(On the phone)
Aria. – "Hi Spence…"
Spencer. – "Are you going… to the funeral…?"
Aria sighed. – "No… Alison called to the house and asked to my mom to not assist… she doesn't want us there… I talked with Hanna and she did the same to her…"
Spencer sighed. – "Do you think that she requested the same from Emily?"
Aria. – "I don't know… I don't dare to call Em and ask her…"
Spencer could hear the sighs and tears from her friend and she said.
Spencer. – "Ar… she just need time… stop blaming yourself… Ali is hurt… it's a lot to take in at once for her… we need to be patient…"
Aria. – "Do you think that she will ever forgive us…? That we will be friends again…?"
Spencer sighed. – "To be honest… I don't know… I'm not so sure…"
Both girls continued talking and comforting each other.
(In Alison's house)
Alison was in her room, looking to the mirror, to her black dress; she had a lost and empty look when someone called her. She recognized the number and took the call.
(On the phone)
Alison. – "I already made the transfer… did you receive it?"
Noel. – "Yeah…"
Alison. – "Good… do you have an update to give me on the last job that I gave you?"
Noel. – "It's all most ready… I'm taking care of it personally…"
Alison. – "Good… as soon as it's ready just let me know… you will receive the other part of the money once it's done…"
Noel smirked. – "Fine for me… I will stay close if you need me…"
Alison didn't reply; she just hung up the call. She walked downstairs and she patted her dog before opening her front door; she froze for a moment when she saw Emily in front of her. They both were looking each other in the eyes when Alison started to talk with an ironic tone in her voice.
Alison mocked. – "Look what we have here… it's my lady knight in shining armor…" (Mocking smiles)
Emily didn't say anything; she just continued to look the blue eyes of her beloved. Alison got irritated by the fixed look of Emily on her.
Alison smirked. – "Surprised to see me…?"
Emily said with a soft voice. – "I still can't believe is you…"
Alison rolled her eyes and huffed. – "Move… I need to go…"
The blonde passed away the brunette but Emily grabbed her by the arm.
***Music background: I want you here by Plumb***
Emily. – "Ali… Ali… Ali wait! Please …"
Alison said without turning back. – "Why took you so long?"
Emily. – "What…?!"
Alison turned and looked her in the eyes when she asked. – "Did you look for me?"
Emily. – "Of course we did!"
Alison smirked. – "But not hard enough…"
The blonde pulled away and started to walk towards her car but when she opened the door of the car, Emily stopped her and Alison turned towards her.
Emily. – "Ali wait! Please, you're not in this alone you know…"
Alison mocked. – "I know how much you enjoy playing Florence Nightingale but I can take care of myself…"
Emily. – "Ali, I know that you're upset and angry for everything that happen and because I didn't let you kill Cece but trust me I just stopped you from doing something you would have regretted the rest of your life…"
Alison. – "I was just protecting myself but why do I waste my words with you when I know that you will not believe me, you'd rather believe anyone else but me…"
Emily said with a soft voice. – "Ali please let me be at your side today…"
The brunette tried to grab Alison's arm but the blonde pulled away.
Alison. – "Back off Emily!"
Emily. – "Ali… right now you're not thinking clearly… you don't have to pass through this alone… let me accompany you…"
Alison yelled. – "No no no my mind has never been so clear! I have put up for too long of you taking someone else's side before of me… first the girls, then Talia and who would be next! … I realize now you just don't trust me… you never have! And you never will!"
Emily. – "Of course I trust you Ali, I trust you with my heart, I'm your girlfriend!"
Alison. – "And that's what I don't understand why the hell did you ever accept to go out with me?!
Emily said with watery-eyes. – "Ali please just let me go with you to the funeral and let's talk about it later?"
Alison. – "I'm not going anywhere with you!"
Emily. – "Come on Ali, we can work through this, we have done it before…"
Alison. – "I'm done making this work!" (She approached and their faces were very close when she said) "Loving you has been the biggest mistake of my life…!"
Emily contained her tears and sighed. – "Ali… please…"
Alison looked her in the eyes and said without hesitation. – "Emily! I don't wanna see you! I don't wanna be with you! … I just want you to go and leave me alone!"
Alison entered in her car and left as Emily stood there with tears.
(In the cemetery – Kenneth's Funeral)
It was raining when the funeral started; the priest was telling some words as Alison found herself with a lost look in her face and surrounded by strangers, the majority of people assisting were co-workers of Kenneth. She was getting soaked by the rain when someone suddenly approached to her in silence and opened an umbrella in order to cover her from the rain. Alison looked by the corner of her eyes and noticed that it was Blair who was standing behind her with the umbrella. She didn't say a word; she just stood there in front of the sarcophagus of her Dad.
From the distance Emily was looking to the funeral; she was under a three in order to avoid the rain; she was hugging herself and biting her lips as she was trying to control her impulse to run and be beside Alison. She did a little jump when someone put her hand on her shoulder.
Hanna. – "You shouldn't be here…"
Emily smirked. – "Neither should you…"
Hanna was leaning her head on Emily's shoulder when the other two friends approached.
Spencer. – "Is it a private reunion or we can join you?"
Emily turned and looked to the two other brunettes; Aria couldn't hold Emily's gaze and she looked down when she said.
Aria. – "Maybe we should leave…"
Hanna playfully punched Emily's arm and gave her the look; Emily rolled her eyes and said.
Emily sighed. – "Stay… both of you…"
Spencer and Aria approached and Spencer patted Hanna's back on gratitude.
Hanna sighed. – "It's over… we're free of –A… we should be happy… why I don't feel happy?"
Emily said with watery-eyes as her look was fixed in the blonde. – "Because we lost too much in the process…"
***Music background: Colour me in by Damien Rice***
As the girls were together watching over Alison from the distance; the blonde was hearing the oratory of the priest; in one point of the funeral, she closed her eyes and remembered her favorite memory of her Dad…
***Flashback***
The little Alison (6 years old) was in the park with her Dad, that day he was teaching her to ride a bike without the auxiliaries' wheels. The little girl was on her new bike as her Dad was behind her and pushing slowly the bike.
Alison. – "Dad… I want to stop!"
Kenneth. – "If you stop, you will never learn darling…"
Alison pouted. – "I don't wanna learn!"
Kenneth chucked. – "Yes you do…"
Alison pouted. – "I can't do it!"
Kenneth. – "Just pedal…"
Alison. – "I'm gonna fall off…"
Kenneth. – "I'm holding you up darling… you can't fall…"
The little blonde was pedaling and her father was behind her supporting the girl.
Alison. - "I'm scared… I want my other wheels back on…"
Kenneth. – "Darling… it's working… just keep pedaling… you can do it…"
Alison. – "Don't let go Daddy!"
Kenneth stopped pushing and guiding the bike as he saw the little Alison taking control of the bike.
Kenneth. – "I won't… not till you're ready…"
Kenneth released the bike without telling to the little one.
Alison said without noticing that she was riding the bike by herself. – "Don't let go… I'm not ready…"
Kenneth mumbled as he saw with warm eyes, her little one riding a bike by the 1st time all by herself. – "Yes, you're…."
***End of the Flashback***
Alison opened her eyes and got back to her reality when the sarcophagi started to descend underground.
Alison burst into tears as she closed her fists. – "No… I'm not ready Daddy… I'm not… Daddy don't let go… don't let me alone… don't go Daddy! Don't go!"
Alison started to lose her posture and even from far, Emily noticed it; without thinking, Emily started to run beneath the rain; Alison started to cry very loud and she collapsed of pain kneeling on the ground; at that moment, Emily arrived and hugged her; without thinking, Alison curled into Emily's warm body and she covert her face with Emily's neck; Emily was hugging her as the blonde was lamenting, shaking with sobs.
Alison lamented. – "He's gone! He's gone! He's gone!"
Emily sobbed and just continued hugging her tight and putting little kisses in her head.
Next Chapter: CH32 – Damaged
