(This takes place after a day with the girls and their bed buddies ;) Just go with it haha this is gonna be good!)
Searching and wandering eyes for only each other; sweaty palms, shaking thighs. These are the feelings they each felt. These are the feelings Spencer felt, and Toby felt. With her dress skin tight, she felt butterflies flutter in her stomach, threatening to make her pass out. She knew they had danced before, and she knew this dance certainly would not be their last. In fact, this was probably just nothing. But to her, it felt like everything. Her friends had already found their dates, Aria found Ezra in a black suit, Caleb in a gray, and Emily went to dance with Paige, who wore a long gray/white dress that hung loose over her hips. Spencer stood alone for a few seconds after Emily found Paige. Sure, it had only been seconds, but with the loud music pounding in her ears, and the vibration of the party going straight to her already shaking knees, she felt like it had been years of her standing alone.
But then, from the corner of her eye, she caught him.
There, standing under the shimmering white lights from above, where snow stuck to the cold brick walls. There he was, smiling a goofy smile, his clear blue eyes defying the envious stars that could shine so bright. Spencer felt her heart flutter, and she could feel her cheeks grow hot, blushing. His smile grew after she caught his eye, and he looked down, and she could tell he laughed quietly.
He began to slowly walk over to the stairs, where she stood on the top of the staircase, shaking violently in her silver heels. Toby wore a simple white tux, with a light solver tie, to match with Spencer's dress. It fit him well; he seemed like a modernized gentleman. Spencer's smile grew as he got closer to her. She began to walk down the stairs when he stopped below her. She looked down as she walked down the stairs, making sure not to fall. She was on the last step, until she felt Toby kiss her cheek gently. "You're so beautiful."
Spencer felt her palms grow hot, her cheeks certainly blushing hot red now. "All for you."
Toby smiled, and he bowed, making Spencer laugh gently. He grabbed her hand with one of his as he stood back up, and he gently planted a kiss to the top of her hand. "Spencer Hastings, may I please have this dance?"
His eyes searched hers, the dancing lights from a huge chandelier glistering off the side of Toby's face, bringing out a gentle look. Spencer felt flustered, nervous, even a little like throwing up, but, as soon as his eyes reached hers as he asked that question, she felt like the world drained away, all the loud music, other gazing eyes, all gone. It was just him and her. "Yes."
As soon as she replied back, the music changed. It slowed down, and she recognized the song immediately. "No way." Spencer gasped, as she took a step next to Toby. Toby allowed Spencer to slide her arm through his, so he could lead her towards the center of the dance. He smiled down at her, looking at her, asking, "What?"
Spencer smiled. "Iris, it's the song that's playing." Toby laughed, kissing her forehead. "Well, if you know the rhythm so well, you'll have to lead me through, because I have two left feet." Toby joked.
Spencer looked at him as they walked. "Seriously?" Spencer smiled at her poor boyfriend. Toby hugged her side. "Don't worry, I won't let you fall. Not ever." His reply made her calm down a little, and he finally reached his arm around her waist as they reached the dance floor, the rhythm of the music more intense, guitars and violins. With Toby's arm around her waist, she felt a chill go up her spine, not from fear, but from excitement. She breathed out, as Toby took her hand in his, her hand grasping on to his for dear life. Toby took a step to the left, and Spencer followed. They took a step back, and then the music guided them both. Toby never took his eyes off his beautiful girlfriend. Spencer had her eyes set on his, and they both smiled gently at each other, moving with the music softly. Spencer began to grow more and more comfortable, she even began to lip sing the music playing as Toby watched her with passionate eyes.
"And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am."
She caught Toby looking and she looked down shyly. Toby saw, and he touched her chin gently, leaning her head up to look into his eyes. A pause in the world, a break, as Toby's eyes lingered in hers, and she could feel his breath on hers. Then, he gently leaned down, kissing her lips gently, his arms going slowly behind her back. Spencer leaned in, her arms going around his neck.
"I just want you to know who I am…
I just want you to know who I am…
I just want you to know who I am."
Slow movements, beating hearts, lips together. She couldn't have asked for anything more from that night. She slowly let herself sink into him, losing track of time, track of the rhythm of the music, she could only concentrate on the feeling of their hearts beating as one. She finally parted, because she felt heat intensify, between them, and from curious glances from her friends, who were certainly giggling amongst themselves. Toby glanced over at Emily, and Emily winked at him. Toby smiled in return, before turning back to his girlfriend. Spencer continued to dance with him, until she caught eyes with familiar blue ones. Cold eyes, daggering her soul. Alison.
Spencer froze while they were dancing. Toby frowned, and slowly grazed her back with his fingertips. "What is it?" Spencer kept her eyes on the dark Alison Dilaurentis, her dress tight and a very dark silver, thick straps on her shoulders, her face light, but her eyes far too dark. A group of girls stood behind her, all wearing masks, each dress different, going from blue, to green, to some black. Her army. The army Spencer feared would show up that night. And there it was.
Toby followed her gaze, and his eyes furrowed at the sight of Alison. He was pissed.
Spencer touched his chest with her hand, and shook off the thoughts. "Let's just forget about her, it's fine"—
But as Spencer was talking, she heard a cold voice over the music call, "Spencer!"
Shit. Spencer thought. Spencer felt Toby's arms tighten around her waist, his eyes looking towards Alison, but Spencer kept her eyes on Toby's face, not wanting to let go of her hold on him, tightly bond fingers around his neck. She breathed slowly, but she felt her pulse rise as she heard high heels cat walking closer and closer to them both. Suddenly, the heels stopped, and Toby had a full on menacing look.
"Eh hem?!" Alison cleared her throat, a bitchy tone Spencer always hated. Toby tightened his grip around Spencer's waist, but Spencer whispered to him, "It's alright." But Toby was determined to show the bitch to leave her alone. Her alpha male boyfriend indeed.
Toby let Spencer go, but not so Spencer could talk to Alison. So he could tell her off, like. This.
"What do you want, Alison?" Toby asked, crossing his arms, and standing in front of Spencer, and facing Alison. Alison cocked her head, and she crossed her arms as well. "Is it not my right to talk to my friend?" Her tone showed sass, and Toby was getting agitated.
"Oh, according to you, a friend? Alison, I don't know if you've been paying attention lately, but last time I checked, you were the one framing Spencer for murder." Toby hissed down at Alison, and Alison looked scared for a second, but that look was gone as soon as it appeared.
"You think I framed Spencer? Get a grip Toby." Alison hissed, her eyes daggers. Toby laughed, and leaned over her, much taller. "I can tell you're lying, your lips are moving." Alison gasped at him, and rolled her eyes. "You think you're so much smarter than me Toby Cavanaugh. But I have played you like a fool before. Do you not remember? Or should I remind you of your little secret?" Toby was breathing fire by now, and his fists clenched. Spencer was angrier though.
She pushed out from behind Toby, and she stepped right in front of Alison, Spencer felt heat rush through her veins, adrenaline. "Back off Alison. You're no friend of mine, never was then, never was now. You come over her again and I swear to god"—
"Swear you'll do what? Kill me? Haha, sorry Spencer, but the police already believe you killed someone, remember? Or did that also slip past your mind like back in the old days? You know, form your special little pills?!"
Spencer snapped, and she couldn't help but do this. She hissed out, "I know you killed Bethany you bitch!" And she slapped Alison hard across the face, and then suddenly, as she did feel the impact of her hand on her cold face, all the lights went out. Just like that.
The music stopped playing and Spencer felt her bones go cold as an evil song played.
"You better get up out the way
Tomorrow there's a fight so we'll fight today,
You know, I don't give a shit about what you say
Cause we're gonna all die anyways!"
Spencer stood in the dark, and she heard the uprising of scared teens. "Toby?!" Spencer called out, but there was nothing. Suddenly, she saw a speck of blonde hair go into a dark tunnel. It was Alison. Spencer didn't hesitate to follow. She came to a snow entrance, the sign read,
"Ice Maze" Spencer rolled her eyes, and followed after Alison. There were tunnels of cold brick and snow was everywhere, and she could only see every foot in front of her.
"Alison?!" Spencer yelled out. She heard a light cold air of laughter, and Spencer turned to her right where it came from. There was tunnel going to the right, and Spencer followed it. Another dark tunnel came, and Spencer stopped, feeling the air grow still. Her breathing came uneasily as the laughter seemed to come from all around her. Suddenly, a huge slab of rock fell down from the entrance she just came from, and she was looked in a small room of cold snow. Spencer saw her breath come from her mouth, and she felt her heart beating out of her chest. She felt like she was losing her mind. She was growing dizzy, and it was easily around 35 degrees in the room.
"Someone help me!" She screamed, but her voice was already dried out. She fell to the ground, the air growing thicker and thicker. She looked up, and saw the chandelier above her head. Maybe someone could hear her. "Help! Please!" Spencer cried out. But the loud blast of metal music was still playing. She felt sick, her stomach churned, and Spencer leaned over, and threw up all over the frozen ground. This caused her to cry harder. She was surely having a panic attack. The walls seemed to be getting closer and closer around her. Suddenly, the huge slab of rock from in front of her grunted, and she heard groans of people behind it. "I'm in here!" Spencer weakly called. Snow started falling on her forehead. The slab of rock rolled to the side, and she saw a dark haired person run inside, and grab Spencer's hand. "Spence?! Oh my God, you're freezing! Come on, it's just me, come on Spencer." It was Emily. Spencer slowly got up, her nose cold. Emily led her out, the lights still out.
Spencer could hear Emily's heels on the cold ground, as she led Spencer out. But then, Spencer felt a sickening urge again, and stopped. Emily turned back towards her, and leaned over next to Spencer. "Spencer?" Spencer was about to reply, but she threw up again, hardly missing her shoes. Emily's eyes grew sad. "Spencer, what's wrong?" Spencer started to cry again, a few small snow flacks landing on her hands which held her up as she was crouched over in the snow.
"I… don't know." Spencer answered honestly. Emily grabbed her hand again, and pulled her up. "Come on, Toby's probably worried sick. You need to get some heat in your body, I'll go grab you hot chocolate from the stands." Emily and her finally reached outside of the maze, and the lights came back on, the music stopped playing, and everyone stared in confusion at each other.
Aria and Hanna spotted Spencer and Emily from across the room, and Aria and Hanna gasped, and ran over to Spencer from across the room. Ezra and Caleb followed, their tuxes matching their dates. Spencer looked across the room, and she saw Toby near the security guard. Caleb turned around from across the room, and ran over to Toby, and pointed at Spencer. Toby saw her, and his eyes grew worried at her sickly look. Spencer felt so sick, and she had no idea why. She looked at her hands, they were blue and shaking like crazy. Aria reached Spencer first before Hanna and the guys. "Spencer, what happened? You're so cold." Aria touched Spencer's hand, and Aria's hand was burning to Spencer.
"How… how long was I gone?" Spencer asked. She couldn't remember how long it had been. Aria looked at Emily, and Emily nodded. "Spencer… you were missing for two hours."
Spencer grew confused. "What? Two full hours?" Spencer looked around, and noticed that most kids were gone, and cops were walking around, and Toby, being a cop, ran over to Spencer. Caleb and Ezra seemed concerned too. Paige ran next to Emily, and she worriedly asked Emily what was wrong. Toby threw his arms around his ice cold girlfriend. He held her close, and he gasped at her touch. "Spence, you're freezing!" Toby looked at her, and he placed his hands on the side of her face. She shivered, and she couldn't stop. Toby took off his coat, and placed it around Spencer, then pulling her into his side.
"Dude, she looks like she's about to pass out." Caleb commented, looking back from Toby to Spencer. Toby then lifted her gently, and she curled against his chest, as he carried her over to a table, and sat down, holding her against him. "Can you tell me what happened?"
Spencer looked over to Emily, who was running over to a booth and grabbing hot chocolate. Spencer looked back up to Toby. "I was locked in a freezing room, and I guess I had a panic attack… Ugh." Spencer felt sick. Deathly sick. Like her insides were burning up, but her skin was frozen, and she couldn't balance out the temperatures. Toby rubbed his hands on Spencer's back, and then he began to breathe lightly on her forehead, warmth to her. But she couldn't shake off the sick feeling. "Alison, I saw her go into the maze, I followed her, but… she was gone."
Toby kissed her forehead. "I won't let her do that to you ever again, god, I was looking everywhere for you, I thought… God, Spence, I'm so sorry." Toby placed his forehead onto hers, closing his eyes. "It's not… it's not your fault." Her teeth chattered as she spoke. It seemed to hurt Toby even more. Spencer grabbed his shirt, and clenched her fists closed onto him. Emily walked over to them, gently handing Toby the hot cocoa. "Here, she probably needs it." Toby nodded, and reached out to take it. Her brought it over Spencer's stomach, and looked at her.
"Here, try to drink some of it Spence." Spencer took it gently in her hands, the cup burning her palms. She couldn't, it was too hot. "I can't, it's too hot." Spencer let out, and Toby held the cup instead. His eyes were worried, and he set the cup on the table, and brought her closer to him. He placed his arm around her waist, half his arm resting across her stomach.
Slowly, she gained back her strength, and the cops didn't really bother to ask her questions, cause Toby already basically had gotten the answers they needed. Toby carried Spencer back to his truck, and even though they had had plans to go on a sleigh ride, they couldn't now, it was too late. Spencer frowned as Toby gently set Spencer onto the seat in the truck. He noticed as he came around the truck, and sat next to her, starting up the truck the put on the AC to warm her up. "What's wrong?" Toby asked. Spencer shook her head. "I was so stupid, I shouldn't have followed Alison, god, I ruined our night, I'm sorry."
She looked down. But Toby pulled her to him, his arms around her again. "Spencer, don't you ever apologize to me about something that was out of your control. You did not ruin our night. We can still make it great, okay? I promise, we are going to have the best Christmas together, okay? Do you trust me with that?" Spencer looked at him, and nodded. "I always trust you."
Toby smiled slightly. "Now, how about some eggnog at my place, huh?" Spencer smiled gently at him, and nodded. "Sure. That sounds nice." Toby kissed her forehead. And Spencer leaned back over to her side of the truck, putting on her seat belt, as Toby began to drive back to the loft. Sure, this night hadn't been perfect, but she was sure she'd make it up to him, somehow. And she knew he would try to cheer her up, to whatever cost it was. But what he did when they got back was something that would definitely warm her up.