NOTE: Okay, so I kind of have an idea of what I'm doing. I would like to give credit to 0InScense0 for coming up with it in the reviews, though I don't know if it's going to work out. Also, I am sorry for another late update. I have been pretty busy ever since school got back and I haven't found the time to post this. Lastly, I said this in my last chapter, but I'm going to say it again – I know that Hanna being on the A Team is unrealistic, and it probably won't ever happen, but I'm doing it anyway. Enjoy!
"I'll help you with taking Ali down, but if there is anything that involves hurting the girls, you can count me out. I'm not going to help you torture them." Ezra reached out his hands towards Hanna.
"Deal." He said. Hanna took his hand and shook it; Ezra had a very firm grip. Aria walked away and opened a closet door on the other side of the room. She grabbed something that Hanna couldn't see until Aria was right in front of her again. A black hoodie.
"I think this one should fit you." Aria said with a smile.
Hanna picked up the black hoodie and held it away from her body as if she were going to some disease from being too close to it. She slowly brought it closer to her and put it on over her head. She couldn't believe she had actually agreed to join the A Team; she pinched herself thinking maybe it was all a dream, but it wasn't. Hanna looked up to face her friend.
"Why did you become A Aria?" She tried.
"I have my reasons, and now you have your own." She replied looking into Hanna's eyes. Aria raised her eyebrows. "So, how is it?" Hanna looked at Aria with a confused look on her face.
"How is what?"
"The sweatshirt." Aria rolled her eyes. She was glad that they didn't put Hanna in charge of anything that required brain power.
"Oh, it's fine. Kind of last season but it'll work." Hanna was actually kind of disgusted by the black hoodie, but she would never admit that to Aria or Ezra. She didn't want to get into trouble. Hanna just got on their good side, she couldn't disobey them now.
"Well they weren't made to be fashionable, so you're just going to have to deal with it." Ezra said, butting in on Hanna and Aria's conversation. Ezra moved around and sat at a desk that had a small black laptop in which he slowly opened and turned on. "Now, do you want to hear the plan?" Both Aria and Hanna nodded. "Okay. But first, Hanna, we're going to need those diary pages."
Spencer had no clue where she was. She looked around, but it was pitch black.
"Em? Hanna?" She whispered.
"I'm here." Emily said back. "Hanna?" She called out, but they got no reply.
"Where do you think she is?" Spencer asked. She was worried about her friend even if she did lie to them.
"What if she's up there with . . ." Emily swallowed. "With Ezra and Aria? What if they're torturing her?"
This was what Spencer wanted to avoid. Maybe they could be hurting Hanna for knowing too much. It wouldn't be the first time.
"Well, of course she's up there with them, but maybe they aren't torturing her. Even though we're locked down here, I think we'd still be able to hear her scream – if it came to that point." Emily decided to change the subject.
"Do you believe what she did?" Emily blurted out.
Spencer sighed. "I think that if it were me, I might have kept it a secret too, just until I knew exactly what was going on."
"Well, if I had it, I would have told you guys. That's not just something you can keep a secret Spencer!"
"It's over Em! Okay? If we're going to be stuck down here together, I don't want to be fighting the whole time."
"You're right. I'm sorry." Emily said quietly. It sounded like Emily was shuffling around, Spencer was just guessing since she still couldn't see anything. "Do we trust Ali?"
"I uh, I really don't know Em. I'm still trying to process the fact that she's still alive. Anyways, we don't know where she is."
Hanna drove back to her hotel in Ravenswood in Ezra's car. Thankfully they hadn't set their check out date until the next morning or this little mission would have been for nothing. She drove up to the first empty parking space she could find and rushed up to her room. She took out the black, plastic room key and inserted it in the lock. When Hanna entered her room, it was obvious that housekeeping hadn't come. Her room was a mess. Hanna slowly walked up to her bed and grabbed one of the pillows. She carefully reached inside the pillow case and grabbed a handful of crumpled pieces of paper. She held them close to her chest and walked into the bathroom. Hanna brushed out her hair and reapplied her mascara and eyeliner. This was a mission, she had to look good.
Hanna sat on the queen bed and looked through the diary pages. She had taken only taken pages that seemed the most important and the ones that had personal stuff about her in them. She finally found the one that Ezra told her to look for. It said something about The Busy Bee Inn. Hanna googled it and found that it was no longer open, but she knew that Ali stayed there from what she put in her diary.
Hanna immediately packed up her bag, went downstairs, through the lobby and got into Ezra's car. She found the directions and started to drive. She was thinking about what she needed to tell Ali if or when she saw her.
"Tell her that you'll help her track down the team." Ezra had said.
"Or tell her that you found a place she could hide." Aria suggested. "We just need you to bring her here, it doesn't matter how."
Hanna was usually good about keeping a good poker face when under pressure, but this was something that she hadn't experienced before. She didn't know if anyone had ever experienced this. She was about to try and lure her friend that she thought was dead to the people who tortured her for years.
I'm definitely the first. Hanna thought to herself.
Hanna finally rounded one last corner and arrived at an old, decrepit building that had once been The Busy Bee Inn. The sign was still up, but one of the n's from "Inn" was missing and the some of the lights had gone out.
Hanna sat in her parked car for a few minutes before slowly getting out and shutting the door. She took a deep breath, but that couldn't control the butterflies she had in her stomach. If Alison was here, really here, she didn't know what she'd do. Well, she had to do what Ezra told her to.
Hanna checked the diary pages for what room she had stayed in. There had to be some kind of hint as to which one it was. She kept searching through the pages and scoffed; of course, she was in Room 1. She quietly crept up the door and knocked softly once, then again with much more force.
Don't look weak around her. Hanna reprimanded herself.
Hanna heard a lot of shuffling in the room and saw a flash of the curtains in the window on the left. She waited patiently until she heard a small click and the door slowly opened. A girl with a heart shaped face, blond hair and blue eyes poked her head out the side of the door.
Alison.
"H – Hanna?" Ali opened the door wider and stood face to face with Hanna and stared at her dumbfounded. "What are you doing here? How did you find me?"
Hanna was unsure of what to do. She pulled out the diary page that clued her in about The Busy Bee Inn and showed Alison.
"I took this when we were in A's lair." Hanna said bluntly. "I'm sorry I lied about me being kidnapped. I'm still in shock about Aria and Ezra being . . . you know."
"Where are the others? Do they know I'm here?" Ali looked around, panicked.
"No, it's just me. Aria and Ezra took us to a cabin in the woods; I escaped. I know where they are and I figured that you would want track them down, get even with them. I could even help you find the rest of the 'team' if you wanted." Hanna swallowed. She sounded dumb listening to herself saying these things, what she was saying was dumb.
Help track down the team? There was no way Ali was convinced that this was really Hanna's plan. Sometimes, she could be really bad under pressure.
"Do you really think you could do that?" Ali raised her eyebrows. "You've never been the smartest Han." Hanna just decided to give up.
"You know what Ali? I've changed. I don't care that I just found out you're alive; you're just as horrible as you've always been. If you want to keep getting tortured by A then go ahead, it's fine by me." Hanna started to walk away when she heard the door of the hotel room shut. Maybe Ali went back inside, she knew that Ezra's plan to bring Ali would have failed, but she stood up to Alison and that's all she ever wanted.
"Hanna, wait. Please." Ali called. Hanna turned around and noticed that Ali hadn't gone inside. She stood outside the door with tears rolling down her cheeks. "Please. I'm sorry. I'll come." Ali wiped the tears off of her face and her sad expression changed to one of hatred. "I want to ruin Aria and Ezra."
Hanna walked to Ezra's car with Ali trailing behind. Hanna immediately realized that they hadn't thought about this, the flaw in their plan.
"Han, this isn't your car. Why do you have Ezra's car?" That officially answered Hanna's question that kept rolling around in her head. Ali and Ezra did have a past together.
Hanna had to think fast.
"I stole the keys when Ezra wasn't looking. He probably realizes that they're missing by now, so we have to hurry." Alison seemed satisfied with her answer. Sometimes Ali could be pretty gullible. Hanna got in the driver's seat with Ali in the passenger's.
The girls buckled their seat-belts and Hanna started driving. She smiled to herself. She did it.
NOTE: So, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! It was a little bit longer than my other ones so hopefully that makes up for such a late update. Like I said, ever since school came back in, I haven't had the time to update :( So . . . review: tell me how to improve or something you want to see happen– same old same old :)