A/N Ello!

Previously: She got everything together and walked out the front door. In less than 48 hours she was going to have answers, no matter the cost.

Rosewood, PA

"I'm still a little confused." Pam was serving breakfast to the girls. "You all are going to get on a train in Melbourne for a Halloween party, get off the train somewhere else, and also make it home by 12:30? And this is all tonight?" They all nodded in unison.

"Toby has to work so he can't come but the train has a stop about an hour from him so he agreed to pick us up and bring us back here."

"I guess that's alright. And Emily you're sure you really want to go?" All eyes turned to her and she gave a thumb up of approval. "I have been so focused lately I need a night off." Pam agreed and left them in the kitchen as she went upstairs.

"I am so excited, the fantastic four finally at it again!"

"Really Hannah, the fantastic four?" Aria shook her head.

"What? We can't be called the fab five anymore."

"You both are ridiculous" Spencer added, "Emily, are you sure you want to come, we can totally eat Ben and Jerry's and watch Titanic if you want."

"No, tonight will be great. I will put on that costume and for one freaking night I am going to pretend to be a normal teenager. No swimming, or drama, or psychopathic killers. And you know what?" She paused for a response. "Umm what?"

"I am going to have fun with somebody else. Not that you guys aren't great. But I am going to meet a complete stranger and have loads of guilt free fun." Her last word was punctuated by the sound of metal meeting plate as she stabbed her piece of egg. The other girls stopped eating and just looked at her. "Em are you sure you want to go that far?"

"What do you mean that far? I love Paige and I miss her but she's not here and no matter how much I want her back she obviously doesn't want me right now. So for the next 24 hours I am going to find someone who wants me." Silence filled the room as they finished eating their food.

"Good for you," Hanna jumped out of her seat and hugged Emily, "now let's go get ready we only have a few hours till we have to leave!"

OUT IN THE COUNTRY

"Aunt Jess are you even listening?" Paige waved her hand in front of her face. Jess swatted her hand away and walked behind the counter to flip the pancakes. "Paige, I've been listening to every word of the rant you just gave me for last 5 minutes. Tonight I am dropping you off at that train party thing in Melbourne you are going to get off at the station up the road and I am going to pick you up at 11:00. If your mother calls I'm going to tell her you're in the shower, and if she calls again I won't answer and tell her tomorrow we went to dinner. Was I close?"

Paige rolled her eyes and drank her coffee. "I am so nervous and excited all at the same time. I'm finally going to get this mess sorted out." Jess put the pancakes on a plate and brought them to the table. "Have you thought about what's going to happen if she's there?"

Paige shoved a bite of pancake in her mouth and looked confused, "When who's there?"

"Emily." Paige spit the bite of food she had out and began coughing. She took a quick drink and began calming back down. "How did you even…why should I care if she's there? I can't even remember…" Paige began to tear up and hyperventilate. Her aunt rushed over and started rubbing circles into her back. "All I keep thinking about is how she probably is going to show up with some new girl and not even remember me. But I have no right to complain because I can't even remember her except in my freaking dreams. It's like when my brain goes to sleep my heart remembers this whole world where I was actually happy, not some prisoner to that stupid lake house. I'm tired of hiding, so tonight I'm going to figure all of this crap out once and for all."

"Baby girl you'll remember I promise. If not tonight, then maybe tomorrow, or a week from now but you will get them back, you will get her back, I promise."

Paige nuzzled into her chest. "I love you."

"I love you too, now let's get that outfit put together and get you on your way, you have a big night ahead of you."

MELBOURNE TRAIN STATION

Paige had got there late because her aunt got lost on the back road "short cut" she had taken. She saw a guy with a name tag and grabbed his arm. "Excuse me sir do you know where I can get a ticket." He pointed over towards a large booth and she moved in that direction and patiently waited in line.

"OH MY GOSH, I am so excited." Hanna had her arm linked in between Emily and Aria and was jumping up and down. They had spent the last few hours making their costumes perfect. They each played to their strengths and came up with the perfect combination of sexy and iconic.

"Have you guys bought your tickets yet?" The ticket master was walking around for a last call. "Where would we be getting those tickets?" He pointed the way and Hanna broke herself away from the group. "I'll go a get them all and you guys wait here in line." She rushed over to the ticket station and there was only one other person in front of her.

The person turned around and slammed into Hanna. They were both taken aback and they issued quick apologies. "I'm so sorry, I didn't even see you there." Paige looked up and right into the eyes of Hanna Marin a girl from her school. She was dressed in a short blue skirt, black high heels, a blue and black striped top, and pig tails. Across her chest was an emblem that said "bubbles".

"It's ok, I might not have seen me either with that mask on." Hanna smiled and looked at Paige with a sense of familiarity. Paige tried nodding and walking away but Hanna grabbed her arm, "Do I know you?" Paige shook her head no. "are you sure we didn't have like math or something together because you look like somebody I just can't put my finger on it?"

"Hanna are you getting the tickets or chatting?" Spencer yelled over from their place in line. Paige used this distraction to slip away. She got in line behind a twilight vampire and shaggy, hiding between their conversation.

Hanna turned back around to talk to the girl again but she had disappeared. She shrugged her shoulders and bought her tickets. By the time she got back to the line, the masses of people slowly dwindled down to a few small groups. She handed out the tickets one by one and they got them punched by the ticket master. "Hey who were you talking to over there?" Emily had noticed the girl but she didn't seem entirely familiar. "I honestly don't know, I accidently ran into her. I think I had math with her or something, why did you find your special someone of the evening?" Hanna started poking at Emily's sides making her wiggle around.

"Hey that's not fair you know I'm way too ticklish. And I don't know she looked dark and mysterious which probably means she is either so weirdo from the science club or a deranged murderer who wants to kill us. So no, I don't have my hopes up for Sherlock." They began walking up the steps to the back of the train holding on to the rails for the sake of their heels. "Do you think she could be A?" Hanna, Aria, and Emily all stopped and stared at Spencer. Ari a was the first to speak, "I could literally slap you right now. If you weren't dressed up like a slutty nun I would straight up bitch slap you."

"What? I was just saying we should all be aware." She tried to make them move again. "Shut up Spencer" all three girls said in unison. Hanna was the first one to enter the train cart and she couldn't believe how amazing it looked. Everything looked like it was pulled from the 1920's but in a creepy rustic kind of way. It was dimly lit and had two sections. The far end had carriages where people could actually sit and the part closest to them had refreshments and tables. Another door connected the room to another cart where you could see lights flashing through the window and music playing loudly. A man dressed like the grim reaper approached them and gave them a two minute spiel on the origin of the train. They all zoned out until he got to the end. "There are 12 carts connected to each other through door compartments. Each location has a different theme and some form of refreshments and music. The first two carts are however off limits except to staff and absolute emergency. Please enjoy your trip and remember darkness can be your greatest enemy or your closest friend." He gave a blood curdling laugh and walked on to another group of passengers.

"Ok so this is going to be amazing! So let's say we split up have fun and meet back here in about two hours?"

"We're not going together Han?" Emily looked petrified at the thought of being alone.

"Well you need to find your groove, aria and spencer are going to mope around without their boys, and Caleb just texted me that he snuck on to compartment 3, so I know where I'm going." Before Emily could protest, they all went their separate ways and she was left standing by the drink station. "Well so much for the fantastic four."

Paige POV

Paige was able to get on cart number 7, still following the pretty boy and stoner. The room was completely filled with medieval weaponry. There was a stretcher in one corner with a fake body on it and noises coming out. Across from it, was a masked man swinging an axe back and forth. As she kept walking, a man jumped out from behind one of the tables and began swinging a knife around his head. Paige instantly reacted and started to run at him. Before she got there, the guy dropped the knife and put his hands in front of his face, "Woah, dude I'm just a paid actor, chill out." Paige came to a halt and noticed people were looking at her. Her side slowly began to hurt like a resonance pain. She looked for an escape and saw a door leading to a dance room and quickly made her way over to it. Once through the door, she slmmed her back against the wall and tried to control her breathing, "you're ok, you're ok, this was your idea and you can't stop now." She kept repeating that mantra to herself until she found the strength to get this over with and go home.

She scanned the room and looked for anyone she might closely recognize. She found an old yearbook at home and tried memorizing some of the faces that would have been juniors and senior this year. She saw two brawny guys in the corner and recognized them from one of the sports teams. She slinked over to them and tried to start up a conversation.

"Hey." They both nodded in her direction but one look at what she was wearing they deemed her as unslutty and brushed her off. "Hey I'm sorry to bother you but can I ask you a quick question?" They still didn't seem interested. "It's about Emily Fields and what happened a while back." As soon as she mentioned Emily's name she had their attention.

"Oh man Fields, that chick is majorly hot, to bad she bats for the other team, if you know what I mean." The blonde and brunette laughed together before Paige got them back on track, "So you know what happened with her and that guy, and…" before she could finish they both started talking a mile a minute. "Yeah and her girlfriend, or I guess like ex-girlfriend. I don't know what happened to that chick. I know something majorly weird went down up at some cabin but that's about it." Blondie picked up where his buddy left on, "No that girl she was with…um…what was it Paige something, I had econ with her and she just never came back to school. One of the swim guys said she got stabbed by that creepy kid, Nate and then that stoner kid caleb shot him. I'm not all together sure but every time I see Emily she looks like someone killed her favorite puppy." The other guy nodded in agreement. "Thank you so much."

She left them while they were still talking and caught a glimpse of something in the crowed but shrugged it off. She got out a notebook from her back pocket and a pen. She wrote down everything they said and went on to find one of the swimmers because they obviously knew more than anyone else. Before she could make a move a voice whispered in her ear, "are you my angel?"

Emily POV

Emily was left where she was standing and had no idea what to do with herself. She found the grim reaper from earlier and grabbed his arm. "Excuse me sir, what cart are we in?" He pointed to the sign on the door and walked away. CART 5. She had just under two hours until she had to come back and she was determined to have fun, or something. She made her way towards the music and lights and went through the back door to Cart 6. It was loud and slightly uncomfortable because so many people were slammed into only a little bit of space, but the darkness made it much easier to be whoever you wanted to be.

Emily scanned the room to find someone when her eyes caught the back of the girl from earlier. She only recognized that they were the same because of the very unique mask she was wearing. Based on her costume choice, the girl was obviously gay or extremely comfortable with her sexuality. In a split second Emily decided this was going to be her fling of the evening. For a moment, her heart hurt because this really wasn't fair to Paige, but as she thought about it this would really test her feelings. Emily started to doubt her thinking when she noticed that the girl was in an intense conversation with two of the most notorious athletes at her school. Something she had said, had made the boys laugh uncontrollably which made Emily feel less and less confident about her decision to approach her. Maybe this girl was straight and the outfit was just a way for the guys to be caught off guard. As Emily was mulling over her decision, the girl had ended her conversation with the jocks and had turned in her direction. The girl was turned right in her direction so Emily slunk behind two overly dressed vampires. She slowly peeked around them and realized she was in the clear. The girl had turned around and was now writing in some journal. "Ok Emily now or never, right?" Out loud thinking usually helped her but right now she was way too nervous.

Her mind was flip flopping but she couldn't stop her feet from walking closer to the girl. She was only a few feet away when she decided to hell with it. She came within breathing distance and lowered her mouth to the back of the girl's ear and whispered softly, "are you my angel?"