Spencer's SUV was packed. Spencer was driving with Aria in the passenger sit. The next roll of seats had Hanna, Emily and Paige. In the back, me and Mona was checking over the equipment. The sound of guns getting cocked was the only noise being made in the car. It was a silent ride. I look up and see Mona looking at me. Thoughts of what happened just an hour ago enter my mind.

"Hello...Mona." My tone was icy, a bit more than I wanted to be.

"Hello Samantha. Just like old times." Mona says without skipping a bit.

"Thought I told Spencer to tell you to meet us there. Why are you here?"

"Sam...I know you didn't want to drag them into this. I am shocked you got Paige some equipment as fast as you did."

"How did you…"

"Come on Sammy. This is me after all. Think I wouldn't keep an eye on you? Believe it or not, I still care about ya. Anyway, I thought…" It was my turn to cut her off. I grab her by collar and slam her against the wall.

"Care about me?! You had a funny way of showing it!" I tighten my grip on her. "Care enough about me to almost let me get killed by Red Coat?!"

"What?" Paige speaks up. "You said you killed Red Coat."

"I did but Mona…" I slam her against the wall when I say her name, "wanted to study it. Even if that meant my death."

"I wanted to know how Red Coat was a part of A. If you just let me capture it, I could have known more about A." Mona simply replies and places a hand on my left hand. "Look. I don't blame you for being upset with me. Hell, I don't blame you for hating me but I am here to help."

I feel a hand on my shoulder. "I don't know the history between you two to tell you how to feel but you did ask me to call her. If you was willing to let her be a part of it, it must mean you have forgiven her a long time ago or you don't have a choice. So let her help us." Spencer calmly says.

I look at Spencer then back at Mona, her face pleading with me to trust her. I sigh and let her go. "It's a bit of both." I walk away from them and sit on the couch, placing my face in my hands.

"Thanks Spencer. Can you and the girls grab the stuff out my car? I need to have a private word with Sam." I hear footsteps going out the door before I can feel a shift on the couch. "Sam. I couldn't tell you what I am about to tell you in front of them." Mona whispers. "I know how A got here in the first place."

I look at Mona and narrow my eyes. "What you mean how it got here? It's an evil entity."

"True but it's not from this world or I should say universe."

"What?"

"Remember when we first went after A? Remember what happened a week prior?" I do remember. There was a huge surge of spiritual activities happening all over the place. "The girls had something to do with it."

"What? How do you know that?" Mona pulls out her phone and shows me a video. In the video, there is a young girl laying in the bed, bandages wrapping her eyes. "Who is this?"

"Miss Jenna Marshall?" A voice within the video answer my question. It was a young doctor with an English accent. He appears at her bedside.

"Yes? Who are you? Where am I?" Jenna asks with panic in her voice. She touches her face then the bandages. "Why can't I see? Why can't I see?!" She starts to thrash in the bed.

"Please Miss Marshall. Remain calm." The young doctor replies calmly. When Jenna shows no sign of calming down, the doctor removes a syringe from his lab coat and injects Jenna with something. Jenna thrashing comes to a slow end and the video comes to an end.

"Why…" Mona cuts me off by putting a finger to her lips and the next video starts up. It's Jenna and the young doctor again.

"Miss Marshall?" The young doctor calmly states.

"Yes? Who are you?" Jenna barely whispers.

"I am Dr. Kingston. I have been assigned to you." Kingston replies, checking over a chart.

"Doctor? Where am I?"

"You are a hospital of sorts."

"Of sorts?"

"Yes. You are at Radley Sanitarium."

"Wh..wha...wha…" Jenna could barely get out words. "Why am I here? I'm not crazy!"

"Please Miss Marshall. Remain calm."

Jenna touches her face then bandages. "Why can't I see? Take these off."

"I'm afraid I can't do that." Kingston calmly replies.

"Fuck it. I do it myself." Jenna grabs for the bandages.

"No. You don't want to do that." Kingston grabs for Jenna hands, holding them. "Trust me. You don't want to do that just yet."

"Get off me." Jenna voice was coming back in full strength. She somehow pushes Kingston away and pull down the bandages. "What? What's is this?" She feels her face. "I took them off so why can't I see?" Her eyes were wide open but something was off about them. There was a weird green tint to them. "Why can't I see?!" Jenna screams and stumbles about, knocking over the camera and the video ends. The next video starts up with Kingston and Marshall sitting across each other at a table.

"I'm blind…" Jenna voice cracks and she starts to sob a bit. Kingston pulls out a handkerchief, places in it her right hand and leads that hand to her eyes. She wipes them. "Thank you Dr. Kingston."

"Please call me Wren. We will be spending a lot time together so no need to be formal." Kingston smiles and as Jenna sees the smile, returns it but it falters.

"I'm blind...but why am I here? Why was I sent to Radley? Shouldn't I be at a hospital?"

"You don't recall how you became blind?"

Jenna rocks back and forth in her chair. Her face lost thought then suddenly she slams her hands on the table. "Them!"

"Them?" Kingston looks at a notepad. "Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, Emily Fields, Hanna Marin and Alison DiLarurentis?"

"Yes! Those bitches did this! They blinded me!" Jenna voice was raising by the second. "Where are they?!"

"Please Jenna. Calm down."

"Where are they?!" Jenna voice suddenly becomes monstrous and flips over the table. Kingston backs up as orderlies storm the room to subdue Jenna. She fights back, throwing one against the wall and slamming another one against the table she flipped over. More orderlies come into the picture and finally pin Jenna to the ground. "Where are they?! I will kill them!" Kingston moves in and injects something into Jenna neck. "What...did…" Her voice was normal again and her eyes flutter as she tries to fight off whatever Kingston. "Why…" Her eyes finally close and her head drop. Kingston eyes the camera and gives the signal to cut the video. Another video starts up. Jenna is sitting in a chair with a straitjacket on and Kingston is sitting across from her.

"What happened?" Jenna voice barely gets out of her mouth.

"You don't remember?" Kingston calmly questions. "You attacked several of the stuff."

"What? Did I hurt anyone?" Jenna tone laced with concern.

"Both have concussions. One has some broken ribs and other one has a broken arm."

"Oh God. I'm sorry. I don't remember attacking anyone." Jenna whispers and hangs her head in what I would think is in shame for her actions.

"You really don't remember?" Kingston ask and when Jenna shakes her head, he makes a note on his notepad. "It seem when I mention the five girls, you became...hostile."

She scoffs, still looking at the ground. "The girls….they did this."

"That's the matter I want to get to." Kingston pulls a file from the floor and opens it. "When you was found, you was in a ball on the ground, muttering something. Do you remember what lead to this?"

Jenna slowly lifts her head and looks in Kingston direction. "I saw them. I saw what they was doing."

Kingston looks at the file and places back on the floor. "Tell me in your own words what you saw."

"I heard noises coming from next door and went to check it out. That's when I saw the girls circling Alison. Alison was doing something weird in the middle of the circle, laughing and stuff. The others looked nervous as if they didn't want to be there then I saw Alison reach into her pocket and pull out a knife. She said something I didn't understand, maybe it was Latin then she sliced her palm. She just let the blood flow onto the ground while the other girls freaked then suddenly boom!" She says boom loudly causing Kingston to jump. "A green light comes from Alison's hand and she panics, saying she can't believe her grandmother was right. Emily hops up to cover up Alison's hand but Alison flail about, dropping to her knees at the green light started to open up the earth and that's when I heard the noises."

"Noises?" Kingston was clearly into the story and so was I. Even Mona was into it, although I know she heard this around.

"Monstrous noises. Something came from the crack. Something escape."

"What do you think escape?"

"Something evil. Something that doesn't belong here."

I can hear Kingston gulped loudly as if he is listening to a horror story. "What happened next?"

"So Alison sees me and hops up to her feet, running towards me, the girls on her tail. You didn't see anything, she says. I ask her what the hell they do. Suddenly Alison grabs me by the face with the green light hand, covering my eyes. I scream out for her to let me go and I can hear the girls pulling Alison away. At the time, I couldn't see anything...just darkness...just like now actually. But Wren...there is something I didn't say to the people that found me. Come closer."

"And that was?"

Jenna's face falls. "I was something in the darkness…" And the video ends there.

I look at the phone then Mona. "That's it?"

"That's it." Mona simply replies and puts her phone away. "You know what this means right?"

I sigh and stand up. "Yeah. It means we get answers."

"You two kiss and make up?" Paige jokes as she enters with duffle bags.

"Yeah. We was worried you two might have killed each other." Aria comes in with Spencer close behind.

"Damn Mona. How much stuff do you have?" Spencer drops the bags. "You would think we was going to war or something." She looks at us and see neither one of us laughing. "Something I said?"

I look at Mona and she looks back at me, nodding her approvement of what I am about to do. "Paige, get Emily and Hanna to come here now. You two…" I point to Aria and Spencer. "Sit down." My tone was icy.

Paige notices that. "Sam what's going on?"

"Paige. Please just do what she ask. You don't want to see her when she gets mad." Mona says, giving me a small pat on the back. Paige is about to call Emily when Emily and Hanna walk into the room. "Ah nevermind. Seems they are already here. Hello Emily. Hello Hanna." She waves to them and confusion is etched into their faces.

"Mona? What the hell are you doing here?" Emily ask, anger in her voice.

"Sit down." I say, tone getting icer by the minute. Hanna tries to approach but I point to the couch. "Both of you...now…" Hanna's face falters and she walks over to the couch. Emily looks to Paige and about to say something but I cut her off. "Emily...couch...now."

"Emily, just sit." Paige says, still confused to what's going on. Once Emily sits down, Paige looks at me. "Okay Samantha. What's this about?"

I fold my arms across my chest, looking at the girls as I pace a bit back and forth. They was getting a bit uncomfortable. "Jenna Marshall." The girls look between each other, getting even more uncomfortable.

"Jenna Marshall? I haven't heard that name in forever. She got sent down to Radley. She went crazy...so they say." Paige chimes in but when she sees that Emily won't look her in the face, Paige's face hardens. "Emily?" Emily looks down at her feet.

"What's the matter Emily? Can't tell Paige what you done?" Mona says with venom.

"It wasn't like that." Aria squeaks outs.

"We thought she was kidding, just trying to scare us." Spencer says, looking to the floor.

"No one was suppose to get hurt." Hanna adds, looking me dead in the eyes, pleading for me to believe her.

"We're suppose not to talk about it." Emily barely whispers. "Alison told us…"

"Alison told you what?!" Paige lashes out. "What the hell did you guys do?!"

Emily's face is crestfallen at this point. All their faces were. "Alison told us a story that her grandmother told her once. About how her bloodline was connect to something called the Fade." I look at Mona and mouth 'The Fade?' Mona simply shakes her head and shrugs. "One night, we made this weird circle in Spencer's backyard…"

"Stop for a second." I look around for a piece of paper and pen. When I find it, I place it in front of Emily. "Draw it." Emily takes the pen and slowly starts to draw. It only takes her a minute to draw it. When she is done, she drops the pin and shoves the paper my way, putting a hand on her mouth, on the verge of tears. I take the paper and look at it. I never seen the symbol before in my life. I show Mona and she looks just as confused.

"We sat around the circle and Alison gets in the middle of the circle and starts chanting Et sanguis meus aperiant viam ad Fade over and over again." Spencer says. "It's Latin for…"

"Let my blood open the pathway to The Fade." Both me and Mona say at the same time.

"Yeah. It was freaking us out. We told her to stop but she wouldn't. She just laughed."

"That's when she reached into her back pocket." Aria speaks up. "And pulled out the knife. It was surreal." Aria takes the piece of paper and draws out the knife. "I never seen anything like it before." I take the paper and show Mona.

"I never seen a knife like that before." Mona simply replies.

"That's when she started the Latin again. This time chanting Videlicet quia ianua Fade sanguis meus. Et sanguis meus viam vestram."

"My blood shall spill for the gateway to the Fade. May my blood be your pathway." Mona says quietly.

"She sliced her palm. Her fucking palm! She was fucking crazy!" Hanna blurts out, standing up. "She stood there and open her palm, bleeding on the ground. I fucking freaked. We all did."

"That's when the cut on Alison's palm started to glow. It was green. It was almost like a mist." Spencer speaks up.

Aria starts up the story. "Alison panics when she sees this, saying I can't believe my grandmother was right."

"I hop to my feet. trying to cover up the wound on her palm but Alison wouldn't stay still." Emily says quietly. "Alison drops to her knees…"

"That's when shit got really weird." Hanna injects. "The ground split open. Alison's hand somehow caused some kind of small quake." Hanna suddenly gets quiet. "Oh my God...it was us." She drops to the couch and looks at me. "It was us, wasn't it?"

"What was us?" Aria asks.

Spencer face has the tell she is in deep thought. "Oh my god. It was us. We are the reason it's here."

Aria face loses it color. "A is here because of that night."

Emily's face becomes more crestfallen. "That hole we saw…"

"It wasn't a quake. That was a rift. Alison created a rift. A spiritual rift." Mona says, venom laced her tone. "You bitches opened some kind of pathway."

Emily jumps up. "It wasn't us! Alison is the one that did it!"

Paige scoff, causing a hurt expression to come on Emily's face. "You don't get it, do you Em? She used you. She used all of you. I may not know as much as Mona and Sam but even I know you been used. If Alison wanted to do this by herself, she could have but she didn't. You know why? Because sounds like to me she couldn't." Paige walks away with Emily chasing after her.

"She used us to be some kind of beacon." Hanna quietly adds. Hanna was smarter than what people gave her credit for. "The bitch used us a homing beacon for whatever came out of the hole in the ground. I knew I wasn't making it up when I said I heard noises that night."

Spencer raises her hand as if she is in school. "So if we were beacons, what happened to whatever else came out that rift?"

Aria eyes widen and she covers up her mouth, looking between me and Mona. "When Alison grabbed Jenna...oh my God...Jenna." The girls hung their heads in shame and I couldn't help but shake mine.

"So where does this leave us?" Hanna asks quietly, still looking to the floor.

I look at all three of them, sitting there, completely defeated. In a way, they brought this upon themselves but I couldn't place the blame on them, not all of it. I walk over to Hanna and cup her face. "We go see a man on a train."

I am brought out my thoughts when the car comes to a stop. "We are here." Spencer calls out.

A/N: So the whole time I was writing out this chapter, I was playing only one song throughout the writing process.

Final Fantasy 8 soundtrack - A Sacrifice