Finally: - Chapter 7

"We're going to put you in protection straight away, both of you." Gibson said as he rushed out the room. From that moment, everything seemed like a blur to both Emily and Alison; everything had happened so quickly and hectically neither of them knew what was going on. When they were in a police car both of them remember being told they'd be locked in Alison's house with police outside everywhere watching. A whole procedure was explained to them in case someone managed to get inside of the house but neither seemed to remember what was said.

Eventually after what seemed like years Emily and Ali were back at the blonde's house. The police did a thorough check of the house to make sure that no one was inside and then left them slamming the door shut behind them.

The blonde and brunette slowly walked upstairs to Ali's bedroom in silence. They both sat on the bed leaning against the back board.

"Why does this always have to happen to us?" Emily sighed.

"I wish I knew." The blonde replied with another sigh.

"It's all because of me." The brunette said breaking the silence that once again filled the room.

"If I hadn't left things with Paige in such a bad way all of this wouldn't have happened." She continued.

"Exactly." Ali said causing a very confused expression on Emily's face to appear.

"None of this, including us, would have happened. I'm glad you left things with Paige the way you did because it meant that after all these years we finally had the chance to get together." The blonde continued as she turned to face Emily. The brunette smiled, Ali was right; if Paige and Emily hadn't argued at The Brew then Ali would have never found out for sure that Emily still loved her, Emily would have never gone to Ali's and confessed her feelings and Emily would still be in a false relationship. Actually, it wasn't all false but Emily's feeling towards Paige definitely were.

"Why did it take us so long to get together?" Emily said as she gently brushed away a strand of blonde hair that had fallen on Ali's face.

"Because I screwed up big time?" Ali offered.

"Come on- "Emily began to argue.

"Don't even deny it, if I hadn't lied all those years ago, after I came back we would have stayed together after that night." Emily's memories drifted back to when Ali had told her that her feelings weren't just one sided and that all the kisses they shared before the blonde disappeared weren't just for practice. Emily remembered leaving her room that night not knowing what to say; she couldn't have confessed her feeling for Ali right there and then because she was still angry at her. But on the other hand she wanted to tell her so badly. Luckily, she got to stay at Ali's that night even if it was because of Mona ambushing Ali. I think we all know what happened that next but the next day the truth about Alison lying again came out and Emily was mad; she decided to comfort Ali but she couldn't let anything else happen between them, not if Ali was going to continue lying to her.

"Yeah, you did screw up." Emily said a laughing a bit.

"If I hadn't lied that day, do you think we would have properly gotten together?" Ali asked shyly.

"Yeah, I like to think that we would have." Emily said with a smile.

"You know, I still loved you so much after everything that happened. Having to get over you was one of the hardest things I had to try to do and I never managed it." The grin on Emily's face grew.

"I really don't know why I didn't try to get together with you again after everything settled, I still loved you years after that night…Even when I was with Paige." Emily admitted.

"Probably because you thought I didn't love you." Emily had to admit it did seem like it to her a lot especially when she got together with only guys.

"Yeah, I must admit you're right."

"I felt like that as well when you got together with all those girls and then back with Paige; it felt as though you had loved her all along and not me." Ali sighed as she remembered how she felt when she heard they were back together; it honestly felt as though someone had ripped her heart out of her chest and shredded it to little bits.

"Everything revolves around Paige." Emily said as she laughed a bit.

"Yeah, it definitely seems too."

"I was only trying to get over you when I got back with her." Emily finally admitted to Ali and herself. After that night Emily got back together with Paige but then Paige moved away and Emily had a few different flings over the years -with Sara and Sabrina just to name a few- until Paige came back to Rosewood about a year and a half ago. They quickly got back together and once again Alison believed she had no chance with Emily. That's what caused them to drift; Alison was too hurt seeing Emily and Paige and Emily knew she still loved Alison and so she backed away a bit as well.

"Is that why we drifted? Because I hated seeing you two together and you didn't want to mess things up?" Ali asked.

"Yeah."

Their conversation went on for hours until both of them feel asleep. They both slept on their side with Ali's arm lying protectively over the brunette. However, after about an hour of sleep the blonde suddenly woke up. She looked in front of her and found Emily still peacefully sleeping. She studied the brunette for a few minutes; her bruises were gone, her cuts were on the verge of disappearing, her arm wasn't in a sling anymore and her broken ribs seemed much better because she was finally beginning to breathe without pain. Emily was so strong and Ali always admired her for it.

After a few minutes the blonde decided to get a drink downstairs from the kitchen. She carefully left the bed and made her way downstairs. When she reached the living room she quickly moved the curtain on the windows to make sure they police officers were still outside and then she headed into the kitchen. At first, she thought her eyes were just playing a trick on her because they hadn't adjusted yet but she was wrong.

The black shadow that she saw began to move beside the window, as the moon light hit the shadow a face appeared; it was Paige. As Ali studied her closer she noticed Paige was holding a what looked to be a very, very sharp knife; Ali froze, she had no clue what to do.

"I was waiting for you to wake up." Paige said as she moved closer to the frozen blonde and grabbed her arm. She then pressed the edge of the cold knife onto Ali's neck.

"If you try to do absolutely anything to alarm Emily who is peacefully sleeping upstairs or the police officers, this blade- "Paige said gently moving the blade across Alison's skin. "Will kill you."