Hi, guys, so intense last chapter and this will not be the exception ^^.So about this chapter, it will follow immediately after last one, when Jason showed up for Alison… also, remember that one of the many nicknames of Emily is 'Killer' and some parts of this chapter will be very similar of the episode 'tick tock bitches' 7x01…

Chapter 57 – Killer

(At Welby)

Jason was walking behind the doctor on the hallway of the hospital; he looked at him with a serious look; something 'smell wrong in this doctor' that was the constant thought of Jason. As soon as Elliot opened the door of the room, Jason ran towards his sister...

Jason said with a breaking voice. - "Ali! What happened to you?!"

Jason was with watery-eyes as he stared at his little sis, lying down in a bed, completely doped, with a lost look that showed red eyes of so much crying. His broken facial expression started to flip on anger as he noticed the marks on her neck and some blood stains in her hospital clothes...

Jason said with a lot of anger. - "What are you doing to my sister!"

Jason took Elliot from the collar of his neck and threw him against the wall; Jason was showing a killer face as he stared at him, his face reflected a lot of anger and it didn't change until he heard someone talking to him...

Alison. - "Jason?!"

Jason quickly turned in her direction and sat at her side in bed; he liberated her from the ties that where keeping her wrists glued to that bed; he grabbed her in his arms and put a lot of kisses on her head as he caressed the back of her head...

Jason said between the kisses. - "It's ok Ali... I'm here..."

Alison was still dizzy for all the drugs but she was sure that she wasn't hallucinating; she just cried, pressing her face against Jason's chest; for a moment everything looked brighter like if everything would be ok...

Jason groaned of pain as he rubbed his neck. - "What a h-...?!"

Elliot smirked as he was keeping a syringe in his hand, the same syringe that he just nailed in Jason's neck a few moments ago...

Elliot. - "I hope you enjoyed the family reunion 'cause probably it will be the last one..."

Jason said as he punched him into the face. - "You bastard!"

Elliot noticed that the dose that he gave him, it wasn't enough to put him down and he quickly started to prepare another one...

Jason. - "No! I'm not letting you!"

Both started to struggle...

(In the police station)

Toby was doing his paper work on his desk; between all his cases, he found the file that Blair gave him about Dr. Rollins; the memory of seeing Rollins with Spencer came to his mind and that was the little push that he needed to check on the file; he started to check on his data all that he could find about Dr. Rollins and for his surprise, he did find something about the clever doctor…

Toby (gasps). – "Oh Nooo!"

(At Welby)

Blair was in the waiting room with Wayne; they were waiting for Jason and Blair started to look concerned…

Blair. – "It's taking too long… something is off…" (Her phone rang and she noticed that she received an e-mail) "Great! Finally! The chemical analysis report of Ali's pills…" (Her eyes got bigger of shock as she started to read the attachment document and she said with anger) "Fucking Poker face! I will kill you!"

Blair started running on the hallways and some persons of the staff of the hospital tried to stop her, but Mr. Fields covert her back as he tackled the guards for her; as she was running, she started to dial Jason's number and the sound of his ringing, it guided her towards him. For her shock, she found him completely passed out with a syringe nailed in his neck.

Blair said with concern as she noticed the bed empty without Alison in it. – "Fuck… Ali…"

(Outside the police station)

Hanna yelled as she stretched. - "Finally! Free at least!"

Everybody chuckled. The girls started walking away from the police station; they stopped and turned around, looking confused as they saw a lot of cops running as a stampede towards their cars...

Spencer. - "Something is happening..."

Emily yelled. - "Toby!" (She said once Toby was close) "What is coming on Toby?"

Toby gulped hard; he was pale and the girls got more worried just by looking at his face...

Spencer. - "Please Toby... tell us..."

Toby locked his look in Emily and then Emily raised an eye brow, feeling the gaze on herself...

Emily. - "Why are you looking at me like that...?"

Hanna. - "Come on Toby just talk!"

Emily said as she put a hand on his shoulder. - "Tob-..."

Toby said as he looked Emily into the eyes. - "Something bad happened at Welby hospital... something happened to Ali..."

Emily dropped her hand from his shoulder and looked pale as she made some shaky back-steps; the other girls as well, they showed a pale face in shock…

(At Welby, in Alison's room)

Emily fought her way inside the room and with watery-eyes she sat in an empty bed, she gripped the sheets and she bared her teeth as she noticed the blood stains in the sheets…

Toby. – "I'm so sorry Em… we will find her…"

Emily said with a bitter voice. – "How is this possible Toby?! How?! How he could be just pretending all these years to be a doctor! And no one noticed it?!"

Toby sighed. – "He did a really good job hiding his tracks Em… adopting the ID of someone that died a long time ago and without anyone doing questions…" (Sighs) "Until now…"

Emily. – "Do you know who he really is?"

Toby shook his head. – "Not yet… but I will find him… I promise…."

Emily sighed deeply. – "Can you give me a moment please…?"

Toby nodded and left her alone; Emily ran a hand through her hair, she was so over the edge that she couldn't control the tears falling down from her brown eyes, it was in that moment when her phone rang and with a lot of anger she read the text…

AD. – "Poor E… don't you know timing is everything? Looks like someone just stepped ahead you… now you know that it's the things we walk away from that feel like they cost the most, isn't that right E?"

Emily bitter her lips with so much anger that blood started to show on her lips…

(Inside a car)

Elliot was driving into the forest of Rosewood; he just looked by the corner of his eye towards the unconscious blonde that was at his side and then he looked down on himself looking for his phone when it started to ring…

Elliot on the phone. – "Hi… yeah… no I will not bring her to you… not yet" (He looked annoyed as someone was yelling at him by the phone) "I'm not done with her! I'm getting my revenge for what happened with Cece!" (He huffed) "I'm sorry but I need to do this… bye…" (He hung out and he turned in direction of Alison and caressed her cheek) "It looks like we will need to skip some steps and get directly to the end…" (Smirks)

(In Rosewood at night)

*** Music background: You by Us baby bear bones***

Hanna. – "Em… you need to calm down…"

Emily was very emotional and anxious. – "You can't ask me that!" (Sniffles) "Oh GOD! This is my fault!" (Tears) "I don't know if I can live with this…"

Spencer. – "Em! You need to keep it together! I know that it's hard but Ali's life is on the line… we need to be in our best mind state in order to find her…"

Aria. – "Girls, we've been walking in circles all around Rosewood…" (Sighs) "Without a plan… we're just wasting time…"

Hanna. – "Spence… don't you've a plan already by now?!"

Spencer gulped. – "I… no…" (Sighs) "I can't stop thinking that it was my big mouth what brought us into this mess…" (Gulps) "I'm not opening my big mouth and putting Ali's life in danger even more…"

The four girls were just stared at each other in silence, with worried looks as they had no idea of what to do… they stood like that for a moment until all of them received a new text…

(Phones chiming)

AD text. – "They gave Cinderella until midnight and I'm doing the same… the bell tolls for your Queen, don't believe me? See for yourselves… AD"

Hanna. – "What the hell does this mean?"

The girls were trying to figurate out the meaning of the text when the bells of the tower started tolling; they gulped hard and with big eyes, they looked at the top of the tower where the bells were tolling…

Emily screamed. – "No, no, no…"

The brunette started running and her friends followed her; they ran towards the tower and as soon as Emily opened the doors, she looked up and she screamed with a lot of pain…

Emily screamed with a breaking voice. – "NO! NO!"

(Gasps)

Aria said with watery-eyes as she looked up. – "OMG! Ali!"

Emily ran to the top, she tripped on the uneven steps but she continued running, with her eyes glued into the blonde girl that was pending from the top of the towards, tangled with the cords of the bells; from the distance, it looked like it was Alison and with each step that the girls made, they could notice more and more the resemblance with their friend…

Hanna cried. – "OMG! It's Ali… and she's not moving…"

Emily said as she was stretching her arms towards the body. – "No, no, no… this isn't happening…"

Aria cried. – "She's dead…"

Spencer said with watery-eyes. – "This is my fault…"

Emily put the cold body down and she cried horrible as the face of the body it was just the perfect image of her wife; looking at that cold body, with the face of Alison, it was worse than death for Emily, it was hell; the brunette caressed the face of the body and as soon as she put her fingers on it, she noticed something…

Emily smiled. – "It's not her!"

The girls. – "What?!"

Emily smiled. – "It's a mask!" (She took off the silicon mask and reveals that the body it was just a big doll of AD) "She's not dead…"

Spencer. – "So where the hell is Ali?!"

The girls started at each other, speechless, not knowing the answer but with a weak smile as there was still a little of hope on finding Alison alive…

(The next day in Spencer barn)

It had been already 24hrs since Alison had been missing; any of the girls have really slept at all… they were tired but they were doing her best on staying awake and don't let the exhaustion win…

Hanna. – "And Spence?"

Aria. – "She went out to bring us more coffee…" (Sighs) "We need a lot of coffee, if we will get it through the day…" (She looked at Emily and asked) "Em… are you…?"

Emily snapped. – "Don't ask me if I'm ok! Because I'm NOT!"

Aria said with a shy voice. – "Sorry…"

(Phone ringing)

Hanna. – "Please tell me that it's not that fucking AD!"

Emily. – "No, it's Blair… she found something… I've to go…"

Hanna. – "Emily wait! We're into this together!"

Aria. – "We should wait for Spencer…"

Emily. – "I'm not waiting! I need to find my wife!"

Emily ran out of the place without saying anything else and the other two girls just stared at each other…

Hanna. – "Go with her… I will stay here and wait for Spence… text me wherever you go and we will meet there…"

Aria nodded and she ran out behind Emily… Hanna stood there in the barn for a moment until a pale Spencer got in…

Hanna. – "Why are you with that face?"

Spencer gulped. – "I talk with my mom…"

Hanna. – "And…?" (Without a reply, she snapped as she didn't have the patience for the long pause of the brunette) "For lord of God! Just talk the entire sentence!"

Spencer. – "We lost it all…"

Hanna looked confused and Spencer explained better when she was trying to say…

Spencer. – "Our bank accounts have been drained… all our money is gone… there is nothing…"

Hanna's eyes just got bigger of shock as she said. – "Do you think… can the supposed doctor be also involved in this?"

Spencer sighed. – "I don't know… I know nothing these days…" (Sighs) "And the others…? Where are they?"

Hanna. – "Come on… I will tell you in the road…"

Both girls just walked out of the barn and Hanna hugged Spencer from the shoulders and just trying to stay positive and optimist for her friend…

(In Archer D's apartment)

Aria. – "So… Dr. Rollins is actually Archer Dunhill?!"

Blair nodded. – "Yeah… it took me a while but when I got into the data base of UK, I found his true identity… the police is looking for him in the UK for fraud…"

Aria. – "Could he be… AD?!"

Blair raised an eye brow. – "AD?!"

Blair and Aria were talking as Emily just stormed all over the place, just trying to find any clue that could lead her towards the love of her life. The brunette opened a closet and for her surprise she found something….

Aria. – "OMG?! What is that?!"

Blair. – "It looks like silicon mask…"

Emily said with bitter tone as she squeezed to one of the mask. – "That fucking bastart! He disguised as Wilden!"

Aria. – "So… so Ali never saw dead people? So she was ok all this time?"

Blair. – "He really had it all well planned… the question is why…?"

The other two girls made it to the place; they looked at the entire place but they didn't find anything relevant… at the end, they called Toby and he continued looking into the apartment, the girls left and and they continued into their research for their friend… but nothing… there was nothing that could say where was Alison…

(In the DiLaurentis-Fields house at night)

Hanna. – "Where are your boys?"

Emily sighed. – "They're with my parents…" (Sighs) "I can't take care of them now… I need to focus on finding their mama…" (Gulps) "I need to bring their mama safe… they need her… I need her…"

Hanna. – "We will find her Em… if they're with your parents, I can drive you towards them… you should stay together…"

Emily. – "No… I can't face them right now… how I can see them into the eyes without feeling guilty? It's my job to protect my family… MY WIFE… and what I did?! I failed them! I failed ALI!"

Hanna. – "Em…"

Emily sighed. – "Please Hanna; I need to be alone…" (She got inside her empty house and said as she closed the door) "I will see you tomorrow…"

Hanna sighed. – "Ok… but if you need anything just call me ok?!"

Emily just nodded without really speak a word; with a complete shame, she walked inside her house, without Alison and the boys, the house was empty… cold… it was horrible to be there and just remembering the laughs, the smiles, the happy times… Emily sighed heavy, feeling overwhelmed by the memories and the guilt, tired of expending the entire day looking and finding nothing… she dragged her body into her bedroom…

*** Music background: Devil devil by Milck***

Emily froze with her fingers glued into the switch of the light, with big eyes she stared to the message that AD wrote in red letters in one of her walls…

AD message. – "Welcome home honey, here a peek of what you've been missing up - "

Emily gulped hard and she slowly approached to the wall where the message was, she took off the memory card that was glued to the wall and that was just beside the arrow painted in red…

With shaky moves, she opened her laptop and put the memory card on it… everything was just like a 'déjà vu'… a big sick 'déjà vu'… Emily's face showed fear, sadness, anger… a lot, a lot of anger as she stared at what was inside the memory card… it was a video of Elliot hurting Alison with a cattle prod… Emily received a text…

AD. – "We make our own fortunes and you made your choices, thinking that you knew what was best, you just abandoned and pushed your dear Queen to a deadly end…"

Emily lowered her eyebrows, squint her eyes as she started at the video of her dear wife, being torture… the brunette completely lost it when she heard the screams of the blonde asking for help and that was the moment when the killer of the Queen stood up, she threw her laptop and crashed it against the wall… Emily ran out of the house. The brunette broke into the house of her parents and she got directly where her Dad had a gun; still remember the lessons of her Dad, she loaded the gun with bullets and with an empty expression she got out of the house, just squeezing on the gun…

Has our sweet Emily really gone rogue? Or is it all just the rush of the moment? Some surprises hit you over the head like a squash racket and others sneak up on you when you're least expecting it… and sometimes the biggest surprises are the ones you spring on yourself; you get out of guard and you make mistakes… mistakes… we all make them, they usually start with the best of intentions; like protecting someone you love.

Sometimes we don't even know what mistakes we've made to get us where we're… or we figure it out just after the damage is done. But every mistake happens for a reason… to teach you a lesson you would otherwise never learn and hopefully you never make that mistake again…

Looks like a killer is out hunting… what will happen when she will find and faces her prey?

Next: Chapter 58 – An honest mistake