Finally: - Chapter 5

"What?! Is this a joke?" Ali said frantically trying to hold back her tears.

"I'm afraid it is not, a car hit the driver side of Miss Fields' car at a very high speed. She is currently in surgery."

"I'll be at the hospital as soon as I can." Ali hung up the phone and drove to the hospital. She was pretty sure she broke a hundred of speed limits but she did not care at all.

She ran into the hospital straight to the receptionist.

"I'm looking for Emily Fields." She said straight away.

"Are you Miss Alison DiLaurentis?" The now familiar voice said.

"Yes." Ali said showing her ID.

"She currently in surgery, please sit down and a doctor will come speak to you as soon as she it out."

Alison sat down and broke down. The stream of tears coming from her eyes seemed to be never ending, Emily couldn't die. Emily meant everything to Alison; she kept her balanced, she made sure she was okay when no one else cared, she always believed in her, she always saw the good side of her and most of all she made her feel happiness that she had never felt before. She never knew a person could be so happy, even when they were silent just her presence made her smile. Ali loved her beyond words and could not let her leave her.

Alison decided not to contact anyone apart from Emily's mum Pam, she didn't want to worry them. Spencer had the election and already had enough on her plate, Aria was pregnant and Hanna was having enough trouble with Caleb. She thought it'd be better to tell them was she knew Emily was okay.

Time seemed to have stopped, two hours seemed like forever but eventually a doctor approached her.

"Miss DiLaurentis?"

"Yes." Ali said as she shot up from her chair. "Is Emily okay? Please tell me she is fine." Ali begged.

"Miss Fields is stable, we stopped the internal bleeding, fixed her broken ribs and put her shoulder back in place. She should wake up soon, she'll be in lots of pain but we'll make sure to make it minimal."

"Thank you so, so much doctor."

"Just doing my job." He said with a smile. "You can go to her room and wait for her to wake up. Its room 203." Ali gave the doctor a grateful smile and rushed to Emily's room.

She walked into see a very pale and unconscious Emily lying in a plain hospital room. She had a bruise on her forehead and plenty of cuts on her face and arms. Her left arm was in a sling and from what she could see she had a large bandage wrapped around her stomach. Ali pulled over a chair to her bed and held her hand. Quietly she sat and waited for Emily to wake up, she thought about how this should never had happened but each time her thoughts were interrupted by the beeping machines all connected to Emily. God, she hated this; seeing Emily like this hurt her more than words could express. It should have been me, I should be lying in this bed; not Emily. She continued to think to herself.

It took about half an hour for Emily to wake up. The bright white room seemed to blind her as she opened her eyes. She slowly tried to sit up but Ali quickly acted.

"Hey, hey don't move. You'll hurt yourself." Ali said touching Emily's arm, without any energy to argue Emily stopped moving.

"Where am I?" Emily asked with a raspy voice as she looked around.

"Here." The blonde said as she gave Emily a drink. "You're in the hospital, you were in a car accident."

"Yeah, I remember. A car hit me from the side."

"Yeah, you were then rushed to the hospital and straight into surgery."

"That explains why I'm so sore."

"Yeah, you had a dislocated shoulder and internal bleeding with a few broken ribs. You'll be fine though. They stopped the bleeding, put your shoulder back in place and your ribs should heal soon." Ali said.

"I'm sorry." Emily said after a few moments of silence.

"For what?"

"I shouldn't have left like that, I should have believed you when you said you were lying to protect me. I know you've changed and wouldn't have lied without a reason but I still got mad and I'm sorry."

"It's okay. I should have told you about the texts, I'm sorry."

"No, no you shouldn't have because I would have ended up here sooner." Emily said quickly.

"It's all my fault, I'm so sorry." Ali said as she looked down on the ground.

"Ali, look at me. This isn't your fault, you tried your best to protect me. It's neither of our fault; it's the persons who decided to torment us and hit me." Ali nodded and decided to leave the subject.

"Where did you go after we argued?" The blonde asked a few minutes later.

"Paige's." Emily said feeling a bit guilty.

"Why?" Ali whispered just loud enough for Emily to hear. The brunette could tell that the fact Emily went straight to Paige her hurt her which caused the guilty feeling to rise inside of her.

"Honestly, I was trying to go somewhere you wouldn't find me. I also thought that Paige's apology was sincere and that this way I could begin to become friends again."

"I need to tell you something." Ali said hesitantly, the brunette nodded for her to go on.

"It's Paige." Emily's face turned to one filled with confusion.

"When she took me over to the side at The Brew after she apologised she said that her apology was an act and that she thought you believed her which made her think that her plan on getting you back was working. She then told me not to tell you about the conversation or she would hurt you, I said to her that it was an empty threat but then she reminded me that she nearly drowned you once and that's when I knew I couldn't risk telling you." Ali said

Emily couldn't believe what she was hearing, Paige would never hurt her. She did not think she would anyway; what happened years ago, with Paige trying to drown Emily, was in the past; they got over it. There was no way that Paige would do such a thing but why would Ali lie even more after what just happened? Emily thought to herself. Alison could see the confusion and disbelief in Emily's eyes.

"I swear I'm telling the truth, Em. I don't know if she was the one that hit you but it's definitely her sending the threatening texts; I know that for sure after that conversation." Emily nodded, but she knew she needed time to process this.

Paige had always been good to Emily, whenever something bad happened they worked it out and things were good again. She would never hurt Emily which was what confused Emily the most; why would she do it now? Emily thought to herself as silence filled the room. Yes, their relationship ended on a bad note and yes, Emily moved on quickly and that hurt Paige but if she really cared about Emily she would never hurt her; not even try to. Maybe she never cared? Emily thought. Maybe she only needed me because she couldn't be alone? Did she love me? Was it just an obsession? Emily continued.

"Babe, hey." Ali said as put her hand on the brunette's arm sucking her out of her thoughts.

"You need to stop overthinking this, it's not good for; especially right now. Please get some rest." Ali said as she rubbed her thumb against Emily's soft skin. The brunette nodded and closed her eyes. She didn't even realise how much pain she was in until she stopped thinking but she quickly drifted off to sleep with Ali still holding her hand.