PlAying for Keeps

Summary: Jenna returns to Rosewood with an agenda. The Liars think they lost one of their own to the A Team and Spencer is in for the shock of her life when she comes face to face with Red Coat. SPOILERS for the Season 3 Finale

A/N: I thought that finale was a mess. So here's my idea on what would've been a better finale for Season 3. I skipped the Ezaria parts, because I don't really care about them and their storyline has nothing to do with the show.

Ch 2

Toby Cavanaugh walked into the diner and walked to the counter. The waitress that told him he had pretty eyes again and told him to seat himself. He glanced around until he saw the black hoodie at one of the tables. Mona had texted him and told him to meet her here. Jenna told him to go and that she'd be listening in to their conversation. He walked over to the table and sat down. "Hanna got the job"

"I know" the hooded figure said.

Toby's eyes widened and he heard Jenna's gasp from his ear piece. They both recognized the smoky voice of Spencer Hastings. She lifted her head up and looked at him. "Spencer" he said in shock.

She looked into his blue eyes trying to hide the myriad of emotions she was feeling. "When I was in Radley, Mona told me you were alive. I wanted to believe her until now." She said to him. "Back in the woods. Was that you? Were you a part of it?" she asked with her voice breaking.

He swallowed. "Mona told me after" he said to her after Jenna told him to say that.

"You let me believe you were dead" she said as the tears she had been trying to hold back started falling.

Toby looked at Spencer. "Everything I did was so I could protect you"

"I want to believe that" she said to him unable to look him in the eyes.

"Let me take you somewhere safe" He told her. Jenna was telling him to bring her back to their motel room. He asked the question before Jenna told him too. "Does Mona know you're here?"

"No" she replied. "She told me you would be there Friday. That you would be my reward for delivering the girls"

He had to control himself with Jenna stating the obvious in his ear piece. Spencer joined the A Team. "How'd you find me?"

"She left me alone in her lair. I kidnapped a seven year old. I'm the reason Aria and Ezra broke up. So I've earned her trust." Spencer told him.

Jenna was again in his ear telling him to get Spencer to the motel room. This was an unexpected turn of events but one they could use. "It's not safe for you to be here" he told her.

"I've stopped worrying about me a long time ago" She replied darkly.

"What we had was real" he said to her. He wished Jenna wasn't listening but he couldn't turn the piece off without Spencer noticing. So she'd just have to listen. "I've been pretending to work with Mona so I could keep you safe" he said breathlessly. "I need you to believe me" Jenna was in his ear telling him to tone it down and just get her to go with him. "And I need you to follow me"

She looked at him and he could see she wanted to believe him. Jenna told him her ears had been her eyes for over a year, she was confident Spencer would follow him if he got up and left. So he did.

Emily Fields was taking a nighttime jog when Hanna called her to tell her Malcolm didn't identify Mona. But he was a kid and he probably wasn't paying much attention to the person's face. She ran past the Cavanaugh house when she heard voices coming from inside. "Hanna I gotta call you back" she told her and looked at the newspapers and trash that littered their walkway. It didn't look like anyone was home, so why did she hear voices? She crept closer to the window and peered inside.

Through the half closed curtain she saw Jenna talking to someone. Emily tried to see who it was but she couldn't from this angle. So she moved to the next window and had to hide her gasp as she saw Caleb sitting at a desk on a computer. She watched in horror as Jenna handed him a coffee mug. He took it and smiled at her.

Toby turned the ear piece off when they arrived at the motel. He didn't want Jenna listening to everything and he was sure she had other things to get ready for. He could get Spencer to trust him again on his own. Jenna had changed the plan slightly, now Spencer was a integral part. And Jenna still didn't trust him enough to tell him why. But he supposed she never really did. Jenna kept a lot to herself.

Spencer looked at him. She wanted to believe him; she wanted him to be the guy she thought he was. But after everything, she couldn't believe that if he really wanted to protect her that he'd let her torture herself over him, thinking he was dead. She told him as much and saw him bow his head. When he looked up again tears glistened in his eyes.

"You don't understand" he told her. "This started out so differently. Then things changed and I was already too caught up in it." He said as the tears fell. "I didn't know you. I thought you were like her"

Alison Spencer said in her head. Everything always led back to her. She was the reason all of this was happening to them. She was the reason all these people hated them.

"And you're not" Toby continued. "I was so angry" he said swallowing back his tears. "I made a mistake. I wish I could go back…" Spencer looked at him. She did understand. She understood what Alison did to people. She did the same things to her own friends.

Hanna looked at the box of generic Oreos and knew why she was fat. She tossed the box down and went to get the peanut butter and frosting in a can.

"Alison's right here" Malcolm said suddenly. She turned towards him and walked over. He held the phone out so she could see the picture that just popped up. It was a picture of Alison and Spencer. "That can't be who you saw" She told him.

"That's Aria's friend Alison" he told her. "I remember her with her pretty hair. That's her in the blue shirt"

Caleb's fingers flew across the keyboard as he sat in Jenna's house. "What happened?" he asked her.

"He disconnected" Jenna told him removing her ear piece. And that was probably a good thing. She really didn't need to hear anything else. She knew what Toby was hoping for with Spencer. He was a teenage boy and she knew his appetite better than anyone.

"Can you hand me the flash drive" Caleb asked turning back to the computer. He was tracking Mona's movements and he wanted to be able to do it on his laptop. They were going to some cabin for Spencer's party or something. They were all going to be there, so he was going to be there too.

Jenna walked over to the table and had to grab onto it to catch herself. Her head started pounding again. She closed her eyes and opened them everything was blurry. She rubbed her eyes and opened them again. It was like she was looking through shattered glass.

Paige noticed Jenna stumple, so she walked over to her. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine" she replied.

Paige watched as Jenna placed her hand on the table, her eyes were facing towards the table but slid her hand across it until her fingers hit something solid. She picked it up and felt around the edges to figure out what it was. "Jenna?" she asked.

Jenna turned slowly to look at her. She could see the bleary figure of Paige standing next to her. "Is there something wrong with your vision?" Paige asked her. She held out the flash drive to her. "Can you give this to Caleb"

Paige took it from her hand and looked at her as she stood still with her eyes closed. She walked past her and handed the drive to Caleb who also was looking at Jenna now. They looked back at each other unsure what to do.

"The doctors warned me that it might not last. That eventually I'd go blind again. I just thought it wouldn't be happening this soon" she told them. Her vision was starting to clear up again so she walked over to join them at the computer.

Paige looked at her concerned. "Jenna, I'm sorry" she told her.

"Well, at least learning to read Braille won't be a waste" she replied with a weak smile. Her vision had returned as the headache subsided. She sighed and walked to the window. Tomorrow was a big day, hopefully she'd be able to see it.

Tbc…