*AN: I hope I'm not losing any of you with the story line, I promise the pieces will start to fall into place, but for the sake of my vision, it will take time. I have no clue how long I want this story to go, but hopefully the pace will pick up soon.

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"And?"

The realization of what was happening hit Alison full force and it felt like the air was knocked from her lungs.

He said Rm 13, Rm 13…that was Emily's room!

Alison sat up in the bed, her heart pounding so forcefully in her chest she winced from just taking a breath. She knew that she wouldn't have enough strength to stand, but her Emily was in trouble and she needed to go to her.

Ali managed to stand, placing most of her weight on her good foot, ignoring the pain from her casted one. She hobbled to her door and opened it wide, gripping with all her might to the door frame.

"Miss, DiLaurentis, what are you doing? You should be in the wheelchair, the doctor has orders-"

"Fuck the doctor's orders!" Alison pushed past the young nurse who was trying to get Alison back into her room and practically ran down the hall to her right, went through the double doors, banked a left and another and…

Firm arms wrapped around her waist before she could push the door open.

"LET ME GO! LET ME GO!"

There were grunts from behind her as Ali was lifted from the floor, her feet kicking at anything it could make contact with.

"Oh shit, she's strong."

Alison beat her hands down at the arms holding her a vice, trying desperately not to get dragged further from Emily than she already was.

Once she was in the open, back through the double doors, the arms loosened from behind her, as if she was about to be let go.

In her ear she could hear a voice, "calm down Ali. Calm down."

Ali? No one in this hospital except Emily knew her nickname.

Alison stopped cold and turned her head around to look at who had had their arms around her.

"Caleb?"

Caleb smiled weakly and set Alison down on the ground, careful not to let her press any weight on her bad leg. Once Ali was set down, she looked around and seen Toby pushing a wheelchair towards her and Ezra with his arms crossed, talking to a nurse at the desk, trying to calm her down.

Ali's eyes flooded and she grabbed Caleb's shoulders, bringing him into a hug. She pulled away quickly when all Caleb could say was "uuuh."

Ali nodded at Toby and let him help her into the chair. She fixed the messy strands from her face and looked up at the tanned boy, "I-I'm sorry, I just- it's good to see someone...you know, from home."

Caleb nodded and Ali wanted to look away from the now three men standing in front of her, but she couldn't. Neither one of them met her gaze, but Ali zeroed in on their faces, taking in the bags, the way their posture was, the wrinkled clothes, the mussed hair…they looked just as about tired as she felt.

Caleb ran his hands through his hair and finally looked at Ali, "yeah, no, I get it, I'm sorry, I know this is uh all hard-"

"No, please, don't say you're sorry, I should be the one apologizing, if I had never gotten the girls so involved in my life-"

"Alison, stop." It was the first time Ali heard Ezra speak in a long time and she found herself closing her mouth.

"Alison, no one is blaming you for what happened," he got choked up and both Toby and Caleb gripped his shoulders, "to the girls. No one is apologizing for that. It was a bad call made by the airlines and a freak storm."

He spoke very matter of factly and Ali had a hard time thinking of anything else to say.

After the initial shock of the three of them being there wore off, she had a difficult time concentrating on anything but Emily.

"Oh my god, Em." She brought her hands down and tried to spin the wheels, but the boys grabbed out and stopped her, "Ali, you can't."

"What do you mean I can't? Get the fuck off, I need to see if Emily is okay."

Alison shot her best death glare in their direction but they had all seen it enough to know that now, they were just empty threats.

"The doctors are going to do what they can, you can't do anything to help right now."

Those words sharpened themselves and found a way to Alison's chest, burying themselves in her heart. It was true, no matter what was happening in that room, Ali wouldn't be able to do anything. That was her problem, that was what got Emily and her friends and now their boyfriends into this whole mess: Alison couldn't protect Emily. She had tried and this is where it had gotten her, and everyone that mattered to her.

Alison choked back and sob and the three boys had trouble internally decided what they should do. They exchanged silent glances at one another and the blonde, who had her head in her hands before Caleb sighed and stepped forward, kneeling down so he was closer to eye level with the blonde.

He took a deep breath and struggled with decided what to do. He finally decided to just talk to her. He placed his hand awkwardly on her knee, "Alison, we didn't mean to say anything to hurt you, it's just that, you know, even if they let you in there…you don't know what Em…how she…" he trailed off, not knowing what else to say.

Alison nodded, "I know, it's okay."

"It's not Ali, it's not, with everything that was happening, you shouldn't have gone at it alone."

"What was I supposed to do? The girls," she took a deep breath, "they did so much for me, and now," Ali shook her head at the pain, "and now, I'll never be able to thank them."

Toby swallowed and his blue eyes fought tears of their own, he couldn't look at Ali and he could only remember the fight he had with Spencer about dropping everything again to get on that flight, he was ridden with guilt but he knew Spencer wouldn't want him to beat himself up so hard.

"Alison," the former cop said, "you want to know what Spencer said about you before she left?"

Ali looked up, not surprised that the crack in his voice mirrored the brokenness in his eyes.

Alison couldn't answer.

"I was upset that she was going to drop everything and run to you guys again, after everything that had happened, after we all thought that it was over. You lied again and now she and Hanna and Aria were all willing to come to your side again."

Alison didn't know when Toby was going to get to the part with Spencer already, but she remained silent. She knew that there would be a lot of hurt to get through before she could talk to them normally, with less emotion.

"We argued for a while but she said to me, that you deserve to know that someone loves you, not just Emily, but her too. Spencer said it, and I know Hanna and Aria felt the same way. They loved you Ali, they would be here right now instead of us, helping you…and Emily, you have to know that."

Alison let more tears roll down her face.

"Is this way you came? Just to tell me how great my friends were? I know that! Did you come just to make me feel bad about having the greatest friends ever, and then losing them! If you did, save your breath, I fucking know that!"

Alison turned her head to the side and reached for the sides of the wheelchair, "now let me go, so I can see my girlfriend."

This time, no one stopped Alison as she turned the chair around and made an effort towards the double doors. She had barely wheeled the chair a few feet before a very distraught man came from those doors, stopping right in front of the blonde.

"Dr. Pearson, what is it, tell me, is Emily okay?"

Alison looked up into his eyes, imagining just this once that they were hers, "tell me that Emily is ok."

He took a deep breath and nodded, letting Alison let out the biggest breath she didn't know she was holding.

"Can I see her? Is she still sleeping? Please, say something!"

Dr. Pearson looked up, acknowledging the three men standing before him.

"It's okay, they're uh, friends, they'd want to know about Emily too, please, don't keep me waiting."

"Ok Alison, Emily is okay, she going to be okay, she was experiencing some increased levels of brain activity that alerted the monitors and then she went into shock, almost causing severe brain hemorrhaging, but we were able to keep her stable."

Alison nodded hurriedly, "you said she was going to be fine, then why do I feel like there's a 'but' coming."

"Not a but Alison, an 'and'."

"And? And what? And what! I deserve to know." Alison was growing impatient, the pulse in her veins quickening until her chest was heaving greatly and she couldn't even hear her own voice.

Dr. Pearson looked uneasy and for the first time, Alison seen him play with his fingers in front of himself.

"You're scaring me doc. Tell me what it is." Alison braced herself for the worst, maybe he was lying to her.

Dr. Pearson dropped his hands and met storming blue eyes, "Alison, Emily is awake."

Suuuuuper short I know, but my finals are fast approaching, I need to stay focused, and this is where I thought I could leave it….please let me know what you think about this story: the loves? The hates? And comment what you want to see happen next.

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