Hello,
Everything in bold italic it'll be the character's narrative, like an internal dialogue, And the last narrative, it will bring us back on the night Alison fell from the cliff, you'll have your answers till the end of the chapter ^^.I hope it's clear.
Thank you so much for your reviews, I love to read them and to answer some of your questions:
- You will see what happened with Alison at the end of the chapter.
- Yes, what happened to Jason was like 7x19 and yes sadly Toby died...
Chapter 69 – No one knows
*** Enzo's narrative ***
No one knows when a hero will be needed. We all have heroes. People we look up to. People we aspire to be, who teach us how to be greater than we are because they're greater than we are…
(Inside the DiLaurentis-Fields house)
Emily pushes the hoodie, she pulls off the hoodie from the person and Emily makes some steps back as she can't believe who's in front of her…
Emily. – "Paige?! You were in the hospital… how…?"
Being discovered wasn't part of the plan, the girl, still resenting her previous wounds of their last encounter, she tries to scape but Emily doesn't let her go so easy.
Paige. – "Let me go!"
Emily. – "No! You're not leaving without giving me some answers…"
They keep struggling and Paige grabs the night lamp of the kids and crashes it in Emily's head.
The boys scream with concern. – "Mommy!"
The brunette gets down in the floor and gets disoriented with the hit. It took her just some seconds to get it right, but it was time enough for Paige to run away…
Emily sighs and hits the floor with her fist – "Damn it… she left…"
She looks up at the boys and a smile appears in her face. She rushes towards her boys and hugs them.
The boys cry and curl on her. – "Mommy!"
Emily hugs them and kisses them, she hugs them tight, trying to make them feel safe…
Emily. – "Sssshhh… it's ok… it's ok…. I'm here… I'm here…"
(That same night… In Spencer's barn)
With the TV on, Spencer was with the look settle far away; tears were falling from her eyes as she was rubbing her belly. Another brunette sits her side and wipes Spencer's tears with her thumbs…
Blair.- "Hey, it'll be okay…"
Spencer slowly turns her head towards Blair; she sadly smiles when their eyes meet. It took her some seconds to find the courage to do it but eventually, Spencer leans towards the girl and kisses her in the lips. At the 1st contact, Blair pulls back and she gulps when she notices the broken face of Spencer…
Blair. – "Spencer… you're very vulnerable right now…"
Spencer. – "That's not why… I promise…"
Blair hesitates but when Spencer leans towards her and kisses her again, she doesn't pulls back, in the contrary, she softly caresses Spencer's cheek and deepens the kiss when her tongue gets inside Spencer's mouth. Spencer lets out a little moan and they break the kiss as they feel a chill of pleasure hitting their bodies. They were looking at each other into the eyes, not sure of what to say when they heard something outside….
Spencer. – "It's that sirens?!"
Blair stands up from the sofa and says. – "Yes, I think… I'll check it…"
The brunette doctor starts walking but she stops as someone grips on her hand…
Blair. – "Spencer…"
Spencer. – "No… stay here… it's not safe outside…"
Blair kisses Spencer's front-head and says. – "It'll be ok… I'll be ok…"
Spencer says with a broken voice. – "I can't lose you too…"
Blair cups Spencer's cheeks with her hands, forcing the girl to look at her into the eyes and she says as they're looking at each other…
Blair. – "You're not gonna lose me, no now… no ever… I love you and I'll never leave your side… I promise…"
Spencer puts her hand above her stomach and says. – "Even if I decide to keep it… even if I decide to keep this baby…?"
Blair smiles. – "I'll love your baby as much as I love you…"
Spencer smiles
Blair kisses her front-head and says. – "Stay here, I'll just see what's coming on…"
Spencer nods and the other girl gets outside the barn. As soon as Blair gets out, Spencer receives a text in her phone…
AD text: Careful S. Queen B is gone and your dear doctor can be the next. Put distance with her or she'll be my next prey…
Spencer read the text over and over and she drops the phone very far as she cries and curls on her sofa, alone…
(In the Fields-DiLaurentis house at night)
Hanna and Caleb run inside the house full of cops. They were thinking the worse but when they got upstairs and see Emily hugging her kids, a big smile appeared in their faces…
Hanna smiles. – "Em…"
Emily looks up at her and she smiles. She doesn't approach to them since, right now, her little boys need her…
Enzo sobs as he curls on Emily. – "Mommy!"
Emily. – "Ssshh… it's ok… I'm here… I'm here…"
Hanna & Caleb approach towards the other person who was standing there in the room
Caleb. – "What the hell happened?!"
Blair. – "It looks like Paige tried to do something to the kids…"
Hanna.- "What?! Paige?!"
Emily nods. – "Yeah… wasn't she in the hospital?"
Caleb. – "She was… but that was some weeks ago… but yesterday, the cops informed us she just vanished from the hospital…"
Emily. – "WHAT?!"
Blair. – "Are you okay…?"
Emily sighs. – "I guess…"
Caleb smiles. – "I'm so happy to see you again…"
Emily.- "I've always been here…"
Hanna. – "No, you weren't… you were gone Emily…" (She rushes towards the brunette and hugs her tight) "But you're back! You're back!"
Emily gulps hard, still not believing how quickly time had slipped since she had been keeping herself locked in her mind, refusing to get back into reality till now. Emily hugs Hanna and they keep hugging as if they haven't seen each other in ages.
Blair, Hanna and Caleb stay with Emily till the cops leave and the Fields get back. Emily just says one part of the truth; she says she saw Paige inside her house, trying to get her hands into her boys, she doesn't mention nothing about being a black hoodie or about AD…
Detective Marco. – "Is there something else you want to tell me?"
Emily. – "No…"
The detective decides to don't push further; he just gives her his professional card and leaves with the rest of the cops. Sooner than later, her friends leave too. Emily asks her parents to stay with Jason at the hospital and keep an eye on him…
Pam. – "Are you sure Emy? Don't you want, at least me, to stay here with you?"
Emily. – "Someone needs to stay with him…"
Pam. – "Emy, you're still fragile and…"
Emily cuts her off and pleads with watery eyes. – "Please Mom! I can't lose another DiLaurentis… he's Ali's brother…"
Pam notices how broken Emily is and she just nods and puts a soft kiss.
Pam.- "Ok… it'll be okay…"
The Fields go to the hospital and Emily stays at home with her boys. She put the boys in her bed. For the 1st time in a long time, the boys fall asleep with a happy smile, as her mommy is the one who puts them in bed. In the middle of the night, Enzo wakes up, he looks around and he gets worried when he doesn't see his hero… his precious hero around.
The little boy gets out of bed and he slowly goes downstairs as he sees lights on. Emily was sitting in the floor, resting her back against her sofa as she was passing the pages of the family's photo album. Looking at all the memories, at all the pictures of the blonde… she cries as she maps Alison's face with her fingers. She's crying when a little boy approaches her…
Enzo. – "Mommy?"
Emily looks up and she stares at the little blond, she smiles with sadness as those blue eyes, that blond hair and that porcelain skin, it's just a reminder of Alison…
Emily. – "Sorry I just…" (Tears and a heart-broken voice) "I miss her so much!"
Bursting into tears, Emily keeps crying for losing the love of her life, she cries in front of her little kid…
*** Enzo's narrative ***
Yes, heroes are great if we don't look too closely because if we get too close, we realize heroes are just people… human… fragile humans. Our heroes are just people… they're like us. They're just trying to survive… to do better… be better… feel better.
But even then… even if a hero… my hero is only human… when it matters, she has the power & courageous, to get it right, to don't give up, to keep going, to stand tall and fight! She always shows up to save the day and that means everything… that's why she's my hero… and now, it's time for me to be hers…
Emily was crying until she felt tiny arms around her. She looks by the corner of her eyes and she smiles with sadness as she notices her little boy hugging her.
Enzo bables as he hugs her. - "No... cry... no cry mommy..."
She hugs him too and she hold him into her arms and the tears just stop…
'The next day… *** Music background: Sorry by Halsey ***)
Spencer was getting out of her barn and she jumps as she finds someone standing there at her door…
Spencer. – "You scared me!"
Blair. – "And you scare me more! Why are you doing this?!" (She shows her phone and says) "You sent me a text telling me to stay away?! Why?! Wh-…?!"
Spencer tries to dodge her, she tries to leave without saying a word but the other brunette doesn't let her…
Blair grabs Spencer's arm. – "Spencer!"
Spencer pushes her back and yells. – "Look, you were right ok! I was feeling vulnerable and I made you believe something that's not… I'm sorry but I just don't… I just don't…"
Blair makes some steps forwards and they stay face to face, looking at each other into the eyes…
Blair. – "You can't say it… you can't say it because you feel something for me too… you…"
Spencer cuts her off. – "You're nothing to me, I feel nothing for you and I want you out of my life… forever…"
Saying those words hurt her but it hurts her more to see the broken facial expression of Blair after hearing those words.
Spencer tries to retain her tears and says. – "Leave me alone, I'm done with you! With having you around me like a little puppy begging for love…"
Blair shakes her head with tears. – "No… I'm not leaving you alone… I love you and…"
Spencer gulps hard and takes a deep breath as she says. – "And it's disgusting, I feel disgusting by your feelings towards me…"
Blair gulps hard as the tears keep falling from her eyes. She can't talk, she doesn't know what to say. She looks down and she takes a deep breath and she slowly stretches her hand and gives a bag to Spencer without being able to see her into the eyes…
Blair. – "I brought you some vitamins and calcium, your appointment with the doctor is at 4pm, don't forget it…"
The brunette starts walking back at her car and she just says before leaving…
Blair. – "I'm sorry if I made you feel disgusting… it'll never happen again…"
The brunette leaves and when her car is out of sight, Spencer sits on the ground and cries as she grips into the tiny bag of medicine, she presses it against her chest and keeps crying…
(In Erza's apartment)
Erza smiles as he helps the girl to get inside the apartment.
Aria smiles. – "It's nice to be at home again…"
Erza kisses her and says. – "I'm so happy you're ok… I don't know what I would do if something happens to you too…"
Aria gulps hard and tears start falling from her eyes as she just remembered she's part responsible of what happened with her friends…
Erza leaves the door open and rushes to hug her
Erza. – "Hey, hey, it's ok… everything will be okay…"
Aria cries. – "No! Nothing is okay! Nothing! It's my fault! It's all my fault!"
Era says with concern. – "Ar, I know you loved your friends but you can't blame yourself for what happened to them…"
*** Aria's narrative ***
No harm… easier said than done. Harm happens and then guilt happens. And there's no oath for how to deal with that… guilt never goes anywhere on its own and it just rears its ugly head. So what to do with that guilt? Do you let the guilt eat you alive or do you learn from the guilt and do your best to move on…?
Aria breaks the hug and she looks up and gulps hard when she locks her look into Erza's eyes…
Erza. – "Ar… is there something wrong?" (The little brunette doesn't reply, she just shows fear in her eyes and Erza gets more concerned) "Ar…wh-…"
Aria cuts him off and decides to reveal a dark secret which is eating her alive…
Aria. – "We need to talk…"
Erza nods and they sit in the sofa of the apartment; Aria takes some deep breaths before finding the courage to speak…
Erza. – "What's coming on?"
Aria. – "I've been working for AD…"
Erza stays in silence and hears everything from Aria; the little brunette keeps going without stop, she can't handle anymore wit this guilt, she needed to confide her dirty secrets with someone. She confesses everything; starting from the file she wrote about him, till how she was a black hoodie the night they lost their friends. She felt a big relief telling the truth but that feeling of relief disappeared the moment her friends storm inside the apartment; with the door open, the girls heard it, everything…
Erza gulps. – "Girls, what are you-…"
Emily snaps. – "You shut up!" (She looks at Aria with a lot of anger and pain as she says to the girl) "How could you?! How could you do this to us?!"
Aria pleads. – "Em… I… I can explain…"
Hanna. – "Aria what are you going to explain?! We literally caught you confessing to be a black hoodie!"
Aria. – "Please, you need to understand! With that file, Erza could have gone to jail!"
Spencer. – "So what?! It was no brainer for you to pick Erza over us?!"
Aria. – "Guys! I didn't know what to do!"
Emily. – "You could have talked with us! OK! We were friends! We were sisters!"
Aria says with tears. – "Were…?"
Emily says with a bitter voice. – "Yes… WERE… because like hell, I'll keep being friends with one of the culprits of Alison's disappearance!"
Aria pleads with tears. – "Please girls, you need to understand! A… AD… they had been forcing us to do horrible choices…" (She looks at Spencer and says) "You Spencer, you kidnapped Erza's child to get to Toby…"
Spencer. – "I didn't end hurting anybody! Because of you, Toby and Alison are gone!"
Emily says with tears. – "You've ruined everything that I ever had!"
Aria gulps hard looking at the broken facial expression of her friend…
Aria. – "I'm sorry… I'm really sorry, I never meant to…"
Emily cuts her off. – "To What?! To break my heart?! To make me a widow?! To rip my heart from my chest?! To leave my kids without a mother?!"
Aria can't speak, she just starts crying and Erza stands up for her…
Erza. – "Hey! Don't put all the guilt on her! Yes, she screwed it up, she got scared and made a mistake but there's not a person in this room who hasn't made a big mistake and has to live with it!"
(Awkward silence)
Erza. – "Do you know what makes AD so dangerous? AD can't forgive, that's the only edge any of you ever had over AD, don't lose that…"
There was an awkward silence until one of the girls decides to talk…
Emily shakes her head. – "No!" (She looks at Aria and says) "We're done! I'm done with you! And I'm out…"
The brunette walks away and the other two girls follow her. Aria starts crying and she curls in the sofa as Erza was trying to calm her down.
The next day, in the Cemetery…
Emily puts some flowers in a grave and she's standing in front of it when someone approaches towards the same grave. The girl puts her flowers beside Emily's flowers and they stand in silence, side by side for a moment until one of them breaks the silence…
Spencer. – "I don't know what to say to you…"
Emily. – "I don't know what to say to you either…"
There was an awkward silence and Spencer sits on the ground and she stars crying in silence as she maps with her fingers the name graved in stone…
Spencer mumbles. – "Toby…"
Both girls look at Toby's grave with a lot of sorrow...
Emily. – "Do you feel like time stops…?"
Spencer babbles with sadness. – "I… we weren't together and he… but…" (Tears) "But since he died I just feel like he was there and then he wasn't… like I blinked and he was gone…"
Emily mutters. – "I feel like that too… like everything around me is moving so fast and I just…" (Hard gulp and tears)
They look at each other and they share the same sad look…
Spencer. – "We're stuck in this hell now, Em… and everyone's hovering around us waiting for us to do something…"
Emily. – "And I would happily play my part, say the lines and do whatever I'm supposed to be doing if it will make everyone feel more comfortable but… but I don't know how to do this…" (Tears) "I don't know how to be this person… this person without her…"
They stay in silence and then they lock their eyes in each other as they keep talking…
Emily says with a heart-wrenching voice. – "Spence… how did this happen? How did we end up here? Why we're alone? Where's Ali?! Where's my love?!"
The brunette burst in tears and Spencer just hugs her as the brunette keeps saying over and over the same questions…
Emily cries. – "Where's is she?! Where's my love?!"
*** Alison's narrative – Music background: Where's my love by SYML ***
No one knows the key to surviving…. We pray to be the one in a million… the miracle… even if we don't believe in miracles; we fight with all our forces to make them happen…
(The night when Alison fell from the cliff)
Alison was slowly falling from the cliff, she screams as she tries to reach the hand of her beloved…
Alison screams. – "Em!"
Emily screams. – "Ali!"
Without being able to fight against gravity; the blonde keeps falling fast and she just disappears into the thundering mist of the yawning chasm, just in front of Emily's eyes...
Emily cries screaming. – "NOOOO!"
Hearing Emily's screams, seeing the fear, the huge fear and sorrow on those beautiful chocolate's eyes, it's the only thing Alison can think as she's falling to what she believes it's her inevitable death…
Alison mumbles with tears. – "I'm sorry mermaid…"
At the bottom of the emptiness of the cliff, there was a river; free falling at that height, it felt like hitting concrete when Alison touched water. Underwater, the blonde kept falling; the forceful impact was drowning her into a dark place… a place of not return. Alison could see a line… a line to cross it, only problem was, once she crossed, it would be almost impossible to go back… and even if she's disoriented by the fall, she knows it… she can feel how she's out of strength… out of energy… out of air… out of life… crossing that line looked unavoidable and the blonde was preparing herself to start walking through a dark tunnel of no return but as her soul was making the 1st step to cross the line; something happened... Alison's soul felt someone gripping on her hand and the blonde turned her head in direction of the source and she gasps with surprise as she pictures three little boys, gripping on her, looking at her with deer eyes…
Alison mumbles. – "My boys… my babies…"
You know that story where a child gets trapped under a car and their parent finds the superhuman strength to lift the car and save the child's life? I always wondered if that was real. If someday when I would be a mother… would my instincts kick in? Would I know what to do? Would I lift the car? Jump in front of the bullet? Would I be able to beat somebody senseless? Would I be able to defeat anyone…? Even, death…?
(In the bank of a river)
In the middle of the night, between all the thundering mist, a hand emerges out the water.
(Gasps of breathing)
Alison mumbles. – "Come on, do it… do it for your kids… for her… DO IT ALISON!"
The blonde kicks her own ass as she grips on life; she makes it to the bank of the river… dragging her body out of water it's all she can do. And as soon as she's in solid ground; she drops her body on the ground.
Miracles aren't always huge. That's why they can be so hard to spot but even tiny miracles are great. A little miracle's a miracle. But, it just may not be enough to save you…
(Sound of footsteps)
Before closing her eyes, Alison can see a pair of boots beside her. Without being able to see this person; she slowly moves her hand towards those boots and mumbles something as she put her hand on them…
Alison mumbles. – "Please… help…" (She closes her eyes) "Me…"
The blonde lies down unconscious; this person in boots picks her up. Carrying her bridal style; this person walks with Alison's on its arms and both of them; they disappears between the dark thundering mists of the forest…
When someone you love is in physical danger, finding the strength you need to save them is easy. But sometimes, when the threat is on you, no instincts can save you. No superhuman strength, no adrenaline rush. You can't power your way out of the crashing danger. All you can do is sit, wait and wish things turn okay...
*** Alison's narrative ends***
Next: Chapter 70 – Where's my love?
