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When he opened his eyes, the first thing he notices is how the sunlight hurts his eyes. He tries to moved, but all parts of his body aches. It is like all his bones are broke. He is trying to sit up, but his body won't let him.

"Jason, honey. You're finally awake."

Jason turned to his right and saw her. "Mom?"

Jessica DiLaurentis smiled at him and caress his hair. "How are you feeling?"

"I've been better." Jason answered, feel the pain on his body. "What happened?"

"You don't remember?"

Jason closes his eyes. "It's kind of hazy."

Jessica reached for his hand. "Aria said you guys went camping. Accidents happen. But thank God you're okay." Jessica said. "You're really scares me."

Jason turned to her again with raised eyebrows. He never heard something like that from his mom. "Sorry?" And he has to make sure.

Jessica sighed. The fact that her own son didn't believe her kind of hurt her. "I know our relationship never been easy. And since Ali died, it gets worse. But you're my son and I care about you. I love you. I can't bear the thought of losing you. You're my only child left. So please, don't scare me again like that."

Jason narrowed his eyes on her. "You know I'm not your only child left, mom." Jason said with rolling eyes.

Jessica glared at him and let go of his hand. "Enough said. Ali was my only daughter."

Jason glared back at her. "You don't want to acknowledge her; it doesn't mean that she doesn't exist."

Jessica sighed out of frustration. "Can we not talk about this? You just awake. You need to rest."

Jason closes his eyes again and suddenly reality snapped. He doesn't know what happened to the others. Aria. He tries to sat up and reach for his phone. "What are you doing? You need to rest." Jessica said.

Jason turned to her again. "I'm just gonna check on the others really quick."

Jessica smiled at him. Oddly enough, she never sees her kid like this before. "Aria only went to get some more water. She'll be back soon." Jessica said. Jason let go of his phone and sat back on the bed. "You're been out for five days. And she's been here every single day. Never leave your side. She really cares about you. She really loves you. You're really lucky, Jason."

Jason scoffed. "I know." Jason looked at his mom. "It's sort of unbelievable, right? How someone like her could choose someone like me."

Jessica stared at her son. "I don't mean it like that."

Jason sighed. "I could see it in your eyes, mom." Jason looks away from Jessica. "Don't worry about it, though. I'm used to it. It doesn't matter."

Jessica stepped closer to him. "I care about you, Jason. You're my son. I've carried you for nine months. I love you. It's just – you've been on the wrong way for a long time. I'm just grateful that Aria can still see the real you, my sweet boy." Jessica said as she caressed his hand.

Jason looked at Jessica. It is kind of hard to believe her at the moment considering that tough relationship, but he also can see the real care in her eyes. "Thank you, mom." He said quietly.

Suddenly the door opened. Aria comes in with a jar of water on her hand. She looks surprise to see Jason already opened his eyes. "Jason! You're awake." She almost dropped the jar in her hand. Thankfully Jessica immediately grabs the jar from her. "I'm sorry." She said to Jessica.

Jessica smiled at her. "You guys talk. I'm gonna make myself busy by re-refill this jar." Jessica smirked and walked out from the room.

Aria immediately run to Jason and throw her body on top of him. She hugs him tightly until Jason let out a groan. And then she realized that her boyfriend is lying on the hospital bed. She immediately pulled away. "I'm so sorry."

Jason smiled at her He really is doesn't mind to be hurt a little when his girlfriend is hugging him. "I'm okay." He said to her. He can imagine how worry she is. She looks so tired. There are black circles under her eyes. It's like she hasn't sleep for a few days.

"You've been out for five days. I'm really worried about you." Aria said. She reached for Jason's hand.

Jason nodded with an apologetic face. "I'm so sorry that I've put you through that. I promise that I'll try my best not to do it again." He smirked at her. Aria returns his smile. "So, what happened?"

Aria rolled her eyes. "Don't you remember?"

"It's kind of fuzzy." Jason said.

"It might because of the drug. They gave you painkillers." Aria said. She looked at him. "What is the last thing you remember?"

Jason tries to revisit his memory of that night. One face immediately fills his mind. "Josh Thomas. We found him. I carry him up. And then, I went back to get Spencer." And then he remembered. "Spencer! How is she?"

"I'm fine. You save me." Someone answers him. Jason looked at the door and saw Spencer walking in with the same tired eyes. There's a bandage on her forehead, and in her right arm. But other than that, she looks fine.

"Thank God you're okay." Jason said as he sighed. He exchange glances with Aria. Aria understands what he feels, but Spencer isn't. Aria looked at Jason and knows that he wants.

"I'm gonna leave you two alone to talk." Aria said and walked out the room.

Spencer looked at Jason with raised eyebrows. She is curious but also anxious what Jason wants to talk to her about. Aria even had to gives them privacy.

"There is something that I've been meaning to tell you." Jason said. "I realized how short life is now. Anything could happen. We can easily die over there. You have to put your life on the line because I won't tell you what I know." Spencer raised her eyebrows. She knows that Jason is about to tell her what he's been hiding about. "I was wrong." Jason said to her. "I was trying to keep my sister's secret. I was trying so hard to protect her privacy. But she's dead. And she isn't coming back." Jason looked at her with an apologetic expression. "I never meant to do you any harm. I never thought that my silence will bring danger to all of you."

"Is this had anything to do why you're willing to sacrifice your own life to save me?" Spencer bluntly asks.

Jason raised his eyebrows. "What do you know?" He never thought that she knows something.

"I have my suspicion." Actually she's been thinking about this few times, but she never sure how to make sense the situation. But lately the signs are more clearly than ever. Jason was just about to sacrifice his own life for her. What is she to him? She is sure that Jason has no such feeling toward her. She knows how much he loves Aria. Spencer looked at Jason. "You and my dad keep fighting around. He tells me to stay away from you. And I know about the will."

"How do you know?" Jason asked.

"I overhear my parents talking about the will. And Ali asked some weird questions to Hanna's grandmother. I can put two and two together. I just didn't realize it until now. The more obvious is how my dad reacted when they finally found Ali's body. She was supposed to be just the girl next door." Spencer scoffed. "I can believe that I didn't realize it sooner with that many clues." Spencer braces herself and looked at Jason. "Was she – was Ali also my dad's daughter? Was she my sister?"

"Yes, she was." Jason said.

Spencer feels like she was hyperventilating. She can't breathe. "Oh my God!" And then she remembered. "And she's dead."

Jason immediately understands what's going on her mind. He reached for her hand. "Hey, you've been the best sister she could ever have. Even after she died, you still try to figure out who killed her. There's no regret, She was already your sister whether you know that you have the same dad or not. I supposed somehow it's meant to be. You two become best friend; even you don't know that you're related."

Spencer looked at Jason. She knows he is right. There is nothing that she could do more even if she knows about this. Alison DiLaurentis already her sister whether they're related or not. "Thank you."

"And there is another thing that I want to tell you." Jason said. But suddenly Jason closed his eyes. That makes Spencer panic. She immediately run outside and shouts for the doctors. Aria heard Spencer and starts to panic too. The doctor immediately comes to check on him.

"He's just falling asleep. He isn't well enough. He still needs plenty of rest." The doctor said to them. Both of them let out a sigh of relief.

The girls regroup at Spencer's house. Spencer told them about what Jason told her. "I can't believe that Alison is your real sister." Emily commented.

"Maybe that's why you're the only one that always challenges her. You two are coming from the same person." Hanna also commented.

Spencer nodded. "Yeah, we're always talked that we're sisters. But it feels weird when you're actually related." Spencer turned to Aria. "And you know about this, right?"

Spencer notice Aria's straight face when she's telling them about the news. And considering her relationship with Jason, Spencer knows that she already know about this. Aria looked at her with an apologetic face. "I'm sorry that I never told you about this."

Spencer shook her head. "No. I got it. This isn't your secret to share. And it's big. I wouldn't tell me too if I am you." Spencer sighed. "It's just – too much to take it all in once."

The others are just about to try to comfort her, but suddenly Spencer's phone rings. Spencer took out her phone and stared at it. "Who is it?" Aria asked when she saw the looks on Spencer's face.

"I don't know. The number is blocked." Spencer said. The others shifted closer to her. Their bodies immediately tense. That is their reaction to a blocked number nowadays.

"Answer it." Hanna said.

Spencer slides her phone and answers it. "Hello?"

"Spencer?" Spencer recognizes the voice but she doesn't quite put the face with the voice.

"Yeah. Who is this?" Spencer asked.

"Oh, sorry." He said again with an apologetic tone. "The number must've been blocked. Hospital policy. I'm Josh Thomas."

"Oh hey, how are you?" Spencer let out a sigh of relief. They all are thinks that it could be A who is calling.

"Alive. Thanks to you." He answers with a chuckle.

Spencer scoffed when she remembered what happened. "I barely did anything. If Jason wasn't there to help us, we won't have a chance to have this conversation." Spencer said.

"Yeah, about that Jason. I call the hospital to get some news about how is he doing. He is sort of my savior after all. They told me his name is Jason DiLaurentis?"

Spencer rolled her eyes out of confusion. "Yeah. What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing. It just, we have a patient here with the same DiLaurentis' name." Josh said again.

"What?"

"Yeah, Courtney." Josh confirmed. "And my co-worker told me that you come here looking for me? They said you know my cousin Ian. Is this had anything to do with Ian and Courtney? Because I swear that is has nothing to do with me. I didn't know."

Spencer can heard fear in Josh's voice. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows that Josh can give them some answer. "Wait, slow down. I think we have to talk about this in person so no one misunderstand anything." The others are just looking at Spencer. They are curious and confused.

"Fine. When do you want to meet?"

"We'll be there in three hours." Spencer said. She hangs up and looked at Aria. "Who the hell is Courtney?"

Aria raised her eyebrows. "How should I know?"

"She is a DiLaurentis. She is gonna be your in laws or something." Spencer said.

Aria glared at her. "Are you kidding me? Jason and I practically just had been together for about two weeks."

"It seems like you've been together forever, though." Hanna said too.

Spencer glared at Aria. "Anything? Courtney? Do you ever hear about her?"

Aria shook her head. "I don't even know someone named Courtney."

Spencer sighed. She sat up and grabs her car key. "Come on. We gotta go to Hicksville."

They are arrived at Hicksville less than three hours. Spencer already fills in the girls on the way. As soon as Spencer turns off the car, they walked into the hospital to the nurse station. The nurse who is on call is the same nurse when Spencer went there a week ago.

"You came back." She said to Spencer.

"And still looking for Josh Thomas." Spencer said to her.

"Hold on." She picked up the phone.

A minute later, Josh walked to them. "Let's talk outside." Josh walked outside, to the backyard of the hospital. "Okay. What do you need from me?"

Spencer turned to him. "Honestly, we have no idea what are you talking about. We go to you for answer." Josh rolled his eyes. He didn't even know these girls. What answer that he could possibly give to them? "There is something that I have to tell you." Spencer said to him. Spencer's expression looks so serious. That makes him cautious. "Ian is dead. I'm so sorry for your loss."

Josh gasped while he covers his mouth. "Oh my God. What happened? I was worried about him, because it's been a while since he returned any of my calls or mails."

The girls are looking at each other. They looked at Josh who looks so shocked, so they think it wasn't the right time to tell him about Ian. "We don't really know. The police are still investigating."

Josh shook his head. "I can't believe that he is gone." Josh looked at the girls. "We're both orphans. It's just the two of us. We're only have each other. He is the only family that I have. And otherwise."

Spencer rolled her eyes. "Ian was married to my sister."

Josh widened his eyes. "What? He was married?" Josh asked. They all are nodded. "No way. What about Courtney? I know that he really loved her."

The girls are looking at each other. "This Courtney, what can you tells us about her?" Spencer asked.

Josh looks so uncomfortable when they asked her about Courtney. "I really don't want to involve in this."

"Please." Spencer looked at him. "My sister is pregnant right now, with Ian's child. We need some answers."

Josh sighed. He looked at the girls. The last thing he wanted to do is involved himself in this situation. But when he looked at the girls, all he can sees are the persons who save his life. "Ian came to see me when the first time I worked here. That's how he met Courtney."

"And when is that?" Hanna asked.

"About three years ago. They have been together ever since, I think." Josh said. The girls are looking at each other. "I promise I don't know her age at the time. She wasn't my patient. If I know that she is underage, I won't let Ian anywhere near her."

"How old is she exactly?" Aria asked.

Josh looked at the girls. "She is the same age as you; I think, give or take." Josh said.

"Is she still here? Can we meet her?" Spencer asked.

Josh shook his head. "That's the thing. She runaway."

"When this happened?" Spencer asked again.

"A few months."

Spencer is remembering her last visit to this place, with Jason. She could make some sense now about Jason's weird behavior at that time. The weird hospital chief, she knows there is something about their meeting. Jason must've been talking about Courtney's escapement.

Spencer is just about to tell the girls about that when Josh talk again. "I think I have some pictures of her and Ian on my phone." Josh said. He could see their interest in Courtney DiLaurentis. He scrolls some pictures in his phone until he found one picture of Courtney and Ian. He handed out his phone to Spencer.

The girls shifted closer to each other so they can see the picture on Josh's phone. They immediately widened their eyes when they see the picture. "This is Ali." Spencer said to Josh.

"Ali is her sister. Well, twin sister." Josh said as he pointed to the picture of girl that looks like Ali. "You know Alison too?"

The girls are speechless. They can only look at each other with a surprise face. "Ali had a twin?" Spencer is the one that found her voice sooner than the others. She has another sister.

Josh nodded. "How long she had been living here?" Aria asked.

Josh shrugged. "She's been here even before I started to work here. They said she's been here since she is little."

Hanna suddenly gasped. She is remembering about a story that she heard from Ali. The girls immediately looked at her. "What?"

But Hanna looked at Josh. "Why is she here?"

Josh shrugged again. "I'm not sure. Like I said, she wasn't my patient. But I heard some stories about her. I don't know if they were true. But I doubt that. She looks like she really loves her. In fact, she is the only family that used to come here to see her. I never saw the rest of her family."

"What is it?" Hanna asked.

"The rumor is Courtney stabbed Alison when they were little. Alison almost died. Their parents had no other choice other than locked her in here." Josh explained.

They all are widened their eyes out of surprise, except Hanna. She heard that story before. And Josh's explanation just confirmed it. Hanna looked at Josh. "Thank you." And then she looked at the other. "I think we're done here. We should get back." They don't understand, but they trusted Hanna so they followed her back to the car.

"Are you gonna tell us what just happened?" Spencer asked her as soon as they all are inside the car.

Hanna looked at them. "Ali crashed one of my babysitting jobs once. She told some horror story to the kid that I babysit. She told him about the girl that stabbed her twin because she snatches a doll from her. Guess it wasn't just a horror story after all."

Aria looked at Hanna. "A doll?" Hanna nodded. "There is a doll in Ali's box that Jason gives to me."

They all are sighed. Lately everything is gets more confusing. They didn't just get answers, but more questions.

"You think this Courtney really stabbed Ali?" Emily asked.

Hanna shrugged. "There is only one person that can tell us this story."

Hanna looked at Aria. "The brother of these twins." Aria sighed. They have to see Jason.

The four of them has been hang around at Jason's hospital room. They even tell Jessica DiLaurentis to go home so they can have some privacy. They've been waiting for hours when Jason finally opened his eyes.

"Good. You're finally wakes up." Hanna said.

Jason looked at the girls. "What's going on" It is confusing for him to see that many people when he opened his eyes.

Spencer walked to him. "We went out to see Josh Thomas." Spencer said. And looking at Jason's expression, he already knows what happened. "He told us about Courtney."

Jason sighed. So Aria walked to him. "How long you think you can keep this secret from us?" Aria stared at him. She can't lie to herself, she feels betrayed by him.

Jason tries to sit up and reached for Aria's hand. He realized how angry she is at this moment. But Aria pulled her hand away from his reach. "Aria, please. I never meant to keep this from you." Jason looked at the others too. "From any of you."

"Alison had a twin. That's huge, Jason. You should've told us. You know how hard we're trying to look for answer, but still – you never said anything." Aria said. She doesn't shouts. But Jason knows how hurt she is.

"You owed it to us to tell us everything. We deserved the truth." Spencer stared at Jason.

"I swear that I didn't know that she is involved in this. She is supposed to be locked up in the hospital. They never told us that she is escape." Jason looked at Spencer. "Until that day when I come there with Spencer. I wanted to tell you about that. But I can't bring myself. You have to understand. Ali had been my only sister for a long time. My parents don't even let us talk about Courtney. And as the time passed, we used to thinks that she doesn't exist, until you've found out about Lindlemint Hospital. This is a disgrace in our family. They never even see her once in there."

"What happened?" Spencer asked.

"Courtney stabbed Ali when they were six. Ali almost died. Courtney is sick. So they locked her up and never talk about her anymore." Jason explains. That confirm Ali's story that Hanna heard.

"I told you thousands of times. She stabbed herself. Courtney is innocent. It's all Alison." The half naked girl who Aria saw in Jason's house suddenly walked into the room.

"This is really not the time for your accusation, Meg." Jason said to her.

Megan stared at Jason. "Like I said thousands time too, this isn't an accusation. I was there."

"What the hell happened here?" Aria asked both Megan and Jason. She is demanding an answer.

Jason looked at Aria. "The reason that I can't tell you about Megan is because she is involved with Ali and Courtney's situation. She used to babysit them both because I refused to take care of my sisters. She was there that night. Half asleep if I might add." Jason said.

"But I see clearly what happened. I was in the room, Jason. Alison stabbed herself." Megan said again.

"Why would Courtney willing to be locked up in some psychiatric hospital if she didn't do it?" Jason rolled his eyes on her.

"Because she loves Alison. She knows how much Alison needs attention. She will do anything for her." Megan said. She looked at Jason. "You know that. I'm sure deep down you know that Courtney will never hurt Alison."

Jason stared at Megan. "Ali is dead, Meg. You think that's fair? She wasn't here to defend herself."

Megan scoffed. "Clearly you already do all the defending. You already set up your mind about both of them. To be fair, Jason. Alison wasn't your only sister. Courtney is also your sister. And she is alive, alone, and probably scared by now. We still don't know where she is."

Jason let out a dry laugh. "I doubt that she is scared right now when she's been terrorized Ali's friends."

"What?" The girls catch the words that Jason used. They are confused about the fighting. But they understand the last one Jason said.

Jason looked at the girls. "Courtney is A."

to be continued...