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Chapter 75 – Playtime
*** AD's narrative ***
The true author of the sick game has been revealed. And the author's name is one everyone recognized. Call me superstitious, but I've got a feeling this could be my last game. Let's face it, I've been at this a long time. But the question is, in what game the girls will pawn in, now that I have nothing to hide? Time breeds wisdom. And this is what I know: it's playtime and the best is yet to come…
*** Music background: Bleachless by Elizabeth Grace ***
Everything was black, everything hurt till a nice smell appears and the noisy coffee machine makes sounds; Spencer wakes up, opening her eyes slowly, sitting in a big bed; the brunette rubs her eyes trying to figure out where she's…
Spencer mumbles. – "What… how… is this my home?"
Still trying to figure out how the preview events brought her to this point, two girls bringing breakfast to bed, made everything harder to understand…
A little girl says very loud. – "Mommy! You're up!"
Spencer looks in shock. – "What the HELL?!"
Blair. – "Hey! Language…" (With her eye brows she points out towards the little girl who's crawling into bed) "Her mind is like a sponge, we don't want her to learn those kind of words… I wonder from who she got so good brain…"
The little girl crawls into the bed; she jumps and throws herself into the arms of Spencer…
The little girl. – "Good morning mommy…"
Spencer chuckles with tears in her eyes, it felt like she was still dreaming and maybe she was, but even if she was, she had no intention of waking up from this dream…
Spencer hugs her tight and says. – "H… hi…"
Blair smiles. – "We made breakfast…"
The little girl smiles. – "I decorated the pancakes! Look! They're smiling! They're happy pancakes!"
Spencer chuckles, looking at the pancakes with a smile made with blue berries. – "Yeah… it's beautiful…"
The little girl giggles and Spencer smiles looking at the happy face of the little girl; she takes her time to look at the little girl, she caresses her soft face and then, entranced into her eyes, she realizes something…
Spencer mumbles. – "OMG, you got his eyes…"
The little girl smiles. – "Daddy's eyes?"
Blair nods. – "Yeah, you've your daddy's eyes and his huge heart…" (She softly kisses the head of the little girl and says) "You should be proud of that…"
The little girl giggles and she curls beside Spencer. Blair sits in bed too beside Spencer; she pecks Spencer's lips with a lovely kiss that melts Spencer's heart…
Blair smiles. – "I love you…"
Spencer smiles… she blushes… she looks at Blair and at the little girl, she looks at this moment, at this perfect moment and this feels so unreal and so real at the same time; Spencer's face is in blank with such beautiful scenario…
Blair asks. – "Something wrong…?"
Spencer looks at the young doctor, she has no words to explain what she feels or what she thinks, she just shakes her head and smiles as she eats breakfast with the two of them…
*** Spencer's narrative ***
You ever have that dream? The miracle dream, you roll over in bed, and there she was, there they were…. So real…. So beautiful… so perfect… so damn perfect till you'd wake up….
(Noises of nurses and voices around her)
Spencer opens her eyes again, but this time for real, and a tear fall from her eyes since she's no longer into her dream…
A nurse. – "You're awake… I'll call the doctor…"
The nurse leaves and Spencer stays alone, contemplating the emptiness in the room… in her heart; she's back to a reality which feels more like a nightmare. Spacing out with a sad look, someone emerges into the room and Spencer jumps sitting in the hospital's bed, she looks up, hopping it was Blair but off course it wasn't her…
Hanna. – "Hi… how you're feeling…?"
Spencer gulps, she doesn't reply, she just leans back into the bed and stares at the ceiling. Hanna slowly approaches and sits beside her; she softly puts her hand on Spencer's stomach and says…
Hanna. – "Why you didn't tell us?"
Spencer gulps. – "I wasn't ready… I'm not ready…"
Hanna nods. – "Ok… but can I ask? It's… it's…"
Spencer looks at her and she knows what it's the question Hanna doesn't dare to ask…
Spencer nods. – "Yeah… I've a little Cavanaugh growing inside me…"
Hanna smiles and hugs Spencer with a lot of tenderness; Spencer's wasn't a hug person but in moments like now, a hug like this, it's always welcome…
Spencer mumbles. – "I don't want to do this alone…"
Hanna. – "You'll never be alone… I'm here, we're here… we will always be here…"
Spencer. – "I know… I know but…" (Watery eyes) "But it's not you, who I need at my side…"
Hanna sighs and nods. – "I know… and I'll bring her back to you…"
Spencer says with determination. – "We… we will bring her back…"
They were smiling at each other when someone emerges into the room…
Hanna. – "Mona…? Did you find Aria?"
Mona. – "No… but I found something else… and, I've an idea…"
***Spencer's narrative***
At some point we accept the dream is not our reality, but the strongest of us, the most determined of us, we hold in to the dream, against all odds, against all discouragement, we hold in to the dream, feeling hopeful that someday, we will wake up to find ourselves, living the dream…
(In the Dilareuntis-Fields house)
Being the big spoon with Emily, it's a pleasant fact that makes Alison smile. The blonde is slowly opening her eyes and she puts soft kisses on the tanned back of her beloved, Emily is still sleeping, but her body reacts with the contact and the brunette's breathing changes when Alison roams her tongue all along Emily's spine, from the bottom to up, Alison leaves a path of saliva…
Alison mumbles. – "You like that…?"
Emily is awake now, she slowly rolls in bed and she smile, she brightly smiles when she stares those beautiful blue eyes she loves so much…
Emily smiles. – "I love you…"
Alison smiles. – "I love you too…"
They keep gazing at each other, for what felt like an eternity; not wanting to break the perfect moment, they just slowly approach their front-heads together without breaking eye-contact; they share some skimo kisses, caressing their faces with love, so much love…
Emily mumbles. – "I have been missing this so much, waking up like this… with you at my side…"
Alison blushes. – "Me too…"
The blonde stares Emily's sweet lips and she feels compelled to kiss them; Alison slowly approaches her lips to Emily, and both girls feel a palpitation between their legs, by just brushing their lips. What was supposed to be just a peck on the lips, became a very passionate kiss.
Alison kisses Emily with passion, with love; and while she's sucking Emily's mouth, the blonde roams Emily's naked body with her hands. They roll on bed and Alison gets on top. The kiss keeps going and the blonde keeps exploring Emily's body with her hands; Alison's right hand slowly moves south and when the brunette feels Alison's fingers going south, Emily eagerly opens her legs…
Alison teases. – "Uhmmm, mermaid… so, easily are you inviting me in?"
Emily bites her lips and blushes, and Alison's lust increases since, for Alison, there's nothing sexier than a shy Emily. Seeing how eager Emily is for her; Alison decides to don't tease. The blonde does something with her tongue which makes Emily moan, and the brunette's eyes get bigger when Alison's fingers slide inside…
Emily moans. – "Oh God!"
The brunette arches, she shakes, she sweats, she feels in fire while Alison pumps her without stop…
Emily moans loudly. – "Ahmm… Ali… Ali… yes, yes…"
Alison mumbles. – "Ssshhh…. Em… you'll wake up the boys…"
Emily tries to control her moans, but she can't; she's feeling so much pleasure and, even if Alison loves how vocal Emily's; she doesn't want to get caught in the act if one of the boys wakes up and walks into the room. Alison seals Emily's mouth with a kiss and keeps Emily quiet, till the brunette's orgasm arrives. An explosion of pleasure is what Emily feels when Alison makes her cum.
Alison says with erratic breathing. – "That was intense…"
Emily chuckles, and nods, she's still not able to talk, since she's over high with that orgasm…
Alison mumbles with a sexy voice. – "You're very wet… let me fix it…"
Emily. – "Huh? What do you mean…?"
With a cocky smirk in her lips, Alison gets under the sheets and goes down on the brunette, Emily just shuts her eyes down and arches when she feels Alison's tongue in her folds. The blonde was doing wonderful things to Emily and, Emily just buries her face with the pillows, gripping hard on those pillows, trying so hard to don't be so loud. For the second time in a row, Emily cum, and Alison takes her time to suck every sweetness that gets out of Emily...
Alison gets out of the sheets and says while licking her lips. – "That was delicious…"
Emily giggles and blushes
Alison kisses Emily's red cheek and smiles. – "I love shy Emily… she's so sexy…"
The blonde was delighted with how things were going that morning but, something interrupted her happy perfect moment. They hear noises downstairs…
Emily. – "What is that?!"
Their protective mode turns on, and they quickly dress; they grab the 1st thing they find like a weapon and, go downstairs. They get to the source of the noise and it's the game… in their dinner table…
Emily. – "How did it get here?"
They look at the game and in the center of the game board; there's a phone, repeating over and over a video of Alison when she was younger, saying: "We're out of time… we're out of time…"
Emily chills. – "Someone put this into our house… I'll check on the boys…"
The brunette rushes to check if their boys are ok and, staying there alone, with the game board, Alison notices how the phone starts ringing; the blonde takes the call…
(Phone call)
Alison. – "Calling me so early, so much for diplomacy, what I owe the honor…?"
AD smirks. – "Rise and shine, my dear Queen Bee, welcome back… did you sleep well? I hope you did 'cause it's time to play…"
Alison. – "Drop the act, I know who you're…"
AD smirks. – "Really? Mmm… I don't think you really know who you're dealing with…"
Alison. – "You're the detective Marco Fury, I don't know why you're doing this, but this stops now!"
AD laughs very loud, he's amused by the fact that Alison ignores his true identity; he's in reality Ian, but the QB doesn't know that…
AD smirks. – "You know nothing at all…"
Alison. – "What do you mean?"
AD smirks. – "I'm taking this game very seriously… you should do the same…"
Alison tenses up and says. – "You're done…"
AD says with a devious smirk. - "You may think I'm done but I'm not… the best is yet to come…"
Alison smirks. – "You call that an intimidation? Please… let's face it, I've been at this kind of situations a long time to know, I'll win… because I always win…"
AD smirks. - "Looks like someone's getting dressed to kill but watch out QB, you've no idea of what I'm up for, and blood is a lot harder to clean up when it spills… specially when it's from someone you care…"
Alison says angry. – "You don't dare to put a finger on my family!"
AD doesn't reply, he just smirks and, ends the call. Alison stares at the phone, she senses a bad feeling about this; and the blonde is staring at the phone when Emily emerges with the boys at her side…
Emily. – "Ali…?"
Alison looks at Emily into the eyes and she was planning to say something when a gas gets out of the board game…
Emily. – "What is that?!"
Being the closer to the game, Alison breaths the gas 1st, the blonde starts feeling dizzy; trying to protect her family, she waves her hands, saying her to walk away…
Alison coughs. – "Don't come closer, Emily! Don't…"
The blonde passes out and seeing her family with fear it's the last thing she remembers before everything comes black…
Did our Queen Bee thought she could waltz home and things would be just like they were? Better think it twice, QB; word is that AD's with quite an appetite for destruction… Clock is ticking… the preparations for the last game are done, and you better get ready QB, we have a feeling this one's to the death…
(In the core of Rosewood Forest)
They say blood is thicker than anything else but, maybe it's not blood bonds that make us family. Perhaps it's the people that know us and love us anyway. So, we can finally be ourselves…
Aria sighs. – "Fuck, I'm lost…"
The little brunette was lost and the constant fear of what could happen next was putting her over the edge…
(A noise of branches getting broken)
Aria says with fear. – "Who's there?!" (With shaking hands, she looks for something inside her purse and says with a shaky voice) "I've pepper-spray and I'm not scared of using it!"
Noel smirks. – "Really, Aria? Pepper-spray?!" (Smirks and sarcastic voice) "OMG! I'm so afraid of you!"
Aria. – "Noel?! What are you doing here?!"
Noel. – "I could ask you the same… what are you doing here, in the middle of the forest?" (He looks around and says) "This is not safe, come on… you shouldn't be here…"
He tries to drag Aria with him but the little brunette pulls back…
Aria. – "I'm not going anywhere with you till you tell me what are you doing here? Are you… are you working with them?! With AD?!"
Noel. – "What?!"
Aria says with a serious tone and showing the pepper-spray. – "I'm serious Noel! Don't lie to me or I'll use this against you!"
Noel rolls his eyes, he pulls down Aria's hand with the pepper-spray while saying. – "Put that down… I'm not working with AD, I'm working with Alison…"
Aria gulps. – "What?!"
Noel sighs and puts his hands on the pocket of his jacket. – "It's a long story, but to put it short-words, for some reason I don't get, I always find her in a deathly position and I end saving her ass…"
Aria mutters. – "She's alive…" (She says with a little of anger) "She faked her death again! She let us believe she was dead! She…"
Noel cuts her off. – "She did nothing! She was in a coma, you can't blame her for anything… it was me, the one who requested Emily to pretend her death… it was our decision, not her…"
Aria. – "Why?!"
Noel. – "Why?! Because she was near dead… and we couldn't risk anything bad happening to her… it was the safer decision to pretend her death… it was the best for her…"
Aria looks at him, the little brunette looks deeply at Noel's gaze and she gasps when she gets something…
Aria. – "OMG! You… you've feelings for her… isn't it?!"
Noel sighs, he avoids eye contact and not reply neither deny it. There was an awkward silence between them till Noel tries to grab Aria's hand again and get her out of the forest…
Noel. – "I'm here because Ben told me that bastard of AD is hiding in the forest…"
Aria frowns. – "Ben?"
Noel realizes Aria knows nothing about Ben, trying to hurt Emily, so he tells her everything…
Aria. – "OMG! Is Emily ok?! How…"
Noel cuts her off. – "She's ok, don't worry, look, I'm not sure what will happen here but it's not safe, you should leave…"
Once again, Noel tries to take her hand but, Aria steps back and says…
Aria. – "I can't leave, someone took Erza, I saw it and…"
Noel. – "And what?! You followed them to do what exactly?! Attack them with your lethal weapon?!"
(He points out the pepper-spray in Aria's hand and he says) "Please, you'll hurt no one with that!"
Aria. – "Hey! Pepper-spray is better than no weapon at all!" (She sighs as she looks around) "They left the truck in the rode, and they dragged him into the forest… I followed them but somehow I lost them in the middle of the night…"
Noel frowns. – "Night…? Are you telling me you've been here all night?!"
Aria nods and her stomach starts making noises, revealing she's hungry. Noel sighs deeply, he searches into the pockets of his jacket and when he finds something to eat, he gives it to Aria…
Noel. – "Here, it's just a snickers, but… it's better than nothing…"
Aria presses her lips together; she hesitates but, in the end, she's too hungry and she devours the snickers very fast. The little brunette was looking all around, trying to decide what path to take when Noel puts his jacket over her…
Aria. – "What are you doing?"
Noel. – "It's cold and you're shaking…"
Aria looks at the jacket, feeling warm with it, she smiles and mumbles…
Aria. – "Thank you…"
Noel just nods, and asks – "Why are you risking your life…?"
Aria looks at him and says. – "Because they took Erza! And you… why are you risking your life?"
Noel avoids eye-contact and says. – "I don't know…"
Aria. – "I think you know… you just don't want to admit it…"
Noel keeps looking down and avoiding eye-contact and Aria says while she's looking at him…
Aria. – "I betrayed my friends, I betrayed in what I believe, in who I'm…" (Sighs) "AD has taken too much from me, he can't take Erza away from me too…"
Noel. – "You're useless, Aria, and if you think you can do something against AD and rescue your lover all by yourself, then you're just fooling yourself…"
Aria. – "Maybe… maybe I'm naïve, thinking I can amend what I did, thinking I can rescue Erza, and be a hero but… I prefer being naïve and try, than do nothing at all…" (She says with regret) "I'm a bad person, and I might deserve bad things but…"
Noel cuts her off. – "You're not a bad person, Aria…"
Aria. – "You can't say that… you've no idea of what I've done or…"
Noel cuts her off. – "We make bad decisions… but making mistakes it's what makes us human, not bad people, Aria…"
With Noel's words, Aria feels a little better and she half-smiles; then, she blushes and looks surprised while she sees Noel, holding her hand and dragging her with him…
Aria. – "Noel… stop! I'm not leaving, I can't leave without Erza!"
Noel sighs. – "I know…" (He looks at her and smirks) "You're useless by yourself but with me at your side, well… you might have a chance…"
Aria smiles. – "Really? Are you gonna help me?"
Noel. – "I'm already here, so…"
Aria smiles. – "Thank you…"
Noel smirks. – "Don't thank me, if we get in a dangerous position, I've no problem in using you as human shield and run for my life… the hell, I'll die for you…"
Aria chuckles. – "I'm shorter than you, how I could be your human shield…?!"
Both chuckle, and they get deeper and deeper inside the forest... hand by hand…
*** Music background: Bad dream by Ruelle ***
Not far from them, lying down on a frozen lake, Alison slowly opens her eyes when she hears someone calling her name… she tries to move but someone stops her…
Emily yells. – "Ali! Don't move!"
Alison. – "What?!"
The blonde looks around and her eyes get bigger of fear when she sees her dear wife and her little boys, just meters of distance from her, standing in thin ice… just like her…
Alison says with concern. – "Em!"
Emily. – "We move, and it cracks…" (She looks at her wife) "Ali… what are we gonna do?"
Alison slowly tries to move, but Emily was right, they were in thin ice… one wrong move and could mean the death for one of them…
The couple see at each other with fear, they look at the little boys who are still sleeping for the gas and they gulp hard when they see them slowly waking up…
Spotted, Emison's family standing in thin ice; looks like AD wants to drown them in cold frozen water. Have fun, dear Emison… this is your starting point in AD's last game… and it's just a matter of time before someone goes down…
(In AD's hideout)
The very worst part about pain is that the minute you think you've past it, it's starts all over again…
Blair screams with pain. – "Aggghrr!"
The young doctor was writhing in pain as the electro shocks were rushing on her body over and over…
AD says with a devious smile as he increases the voltage. – "I wonder how much you can take…"
Rolling over the floor, Blair looks up at AD, he… standing there, watching and smiling with entertainment; rage rushes over her body as she looks at his big smirk and she grips on the metal collar that AD puts in her neck…
AD. – "Stop trying to take it off, you're forcing me to just give you more electro-shocks…"
With a devious smile, he sends the signal from his remote control and once again the metal collar sends a huge quantity of electro shocks in Blair's body.
Melissa says as she looks at Blair, shaking. – "You're gonna kill her…"
AD looks at Melissa and smirks. – "Like if you care…"
Melissa looks at him and says. – "I don't care… but I'm annoyed with all her screams…"
AD smirks. – "So, don't listen at them…"
Melissa. – "And how do you wanna me to do that? I'm here, locked in the cell beside her…"
AD groans with anger and two hoodies approach…
Jenna. – "Are you done playing or do you need another minute?"
AD. – "What do you want?"
Paige. – "We have visitors…"
AD asks. – "Who…?"
*** Music background: IN THE SHADOWS by AMY STROUP ***
Between the shadows, a tiny brunette appears and says with a big smirk in her face…
Mona. – "Hello, you…"
AD says angry. – "What are you doing here, how do you…?!"
Mona cuts him off. – "How about we skip the formalities and jump out to the main point: I've a proposition for you…"
AD. – "Really, why the change of heart?! You told me you were going to end me…""
Mona smirks. – "Fear cuts deeper than a sword and I'm must say, I miss to be the one causing it… the fear… the pain… so… here I'm…"
AD. – "You're lying… what is your game here… what it's your plan here?"
Mona. – "What is my plan?! My plan it's to destroy Alison once and for all! Alison stole my life from the moment she crowned me Rosewood's biggest loser and now, it's time to crush her for good…"
AD. – "I thought you were with them… you said…"
Mona cuts him off. – "Honey, I'm a shark, I'm not made up to be a nice team player, being one of the good guys it's not my thing… whatever I do, I end up this way, so… here I'm…"
AD takes a moment to think about it and says while shaking his head…
AD. – "No… I don't trust you… you're a liar…"
Mona says nailing her finger in AD's chest. – "You can call me a lot of things, but you need me, to win and you know it… there's no one better than me to mess with those girls…"
They both look at each other and smile with a devious smile…
Spotted: Mona on the wrong side of the game. Looks like Miss Vanderwaal didn't have enough of the dark side and, some things are forever, will history repeat itself? Or maybe not…
Without being seen, Mona sent a text from her phone to someone else…
Mona's text: "I'm in…"
She quickly puts her phone in her bag and mumbles. – "Desperate times call for desperate measures…" (Sighs) "Here we go… playtime…"
The beatles sang "Living is easy with eyes closed". But even with our eyes open we all still have blind spots and the blinder spots are those hidden in the shadows. There's something in the shadows, we can't really see everything at 1st sight or maybe we're just looking in the wrong place… whatever it's, it'll be in the shadows where someone will finally surrender and put down its arms, let's just hope that everybody will survive to see it…
Next: Chapter 76 – In the shadows
