A/N: Hey guys, just a short AN before the chapter:
I am so so so sooo sorry for my lack of updating. I just couldn't get any inspiration to finish this chapter and the next chapter until Monday! (:D)
Secondly... How CRAZY was the finale? And how AMAZING and KICKASS was the Spoby kiss in the end? But poor Maya... As a tribute to her I will probably-maybe-not-maybe-will kill her off in my stories! Haha, I'm pretty much messing with you there... But she will stay alive in my future fic 'cause I'd still like to explore her character a bit.
Disclaimer: If I owned PLL, the Spoby scene at the end of Monday's episode would've happened WAY sooner and the finale would just be Spoby kissing... For the entire hour :)
Spencer POV
"Caleb!" She shrieked in terror. After Wren had swung the first time with the hunter's knife, the boy had realized that this situation just got more serious. He was fighting for his life.
"What the fuck, Wren?" He shouted, trying to pause the aimed blows. "Why are you doing this?"
"What do you think?" Wren snarled as he brought the knife down again, and Caleb dodged, panting heavily. "You were in the plan to die anyway, so I'm just speeding up the process!"
"Get away from him!" Spencer screamed, not sure exactly who she was shrieking to. Caleb looked at her in surprise, and that was when Wren's knife finally hit its mark.
Caleb doubled over in pain.
Spencer's eyes frantically swept the alley for something that could be used as a weapon. She noticed that a board from the side building was loose and hanging off, and she decided it was her best bet. Sprinting as fast as she could without crying over the sounds of the fighting, she reached the board in a half crouch and wedged her thin left hand into the gap.
"Shit!" She exclaimed in pain as she felt a splinter dig into her palm. The white-painted board was creaking under her efforts, and shards of wood were flying in every direction. Finally the plank ripped away from its place on the building and into her battered hands. Turning the wood around in both hands, she saw that, protruding from the part she had to rip off was an old, bent, and rusty nail. Standing with it she turned to see Wren's unprotected back facing her, and without thinking, drove her weapon between his shoulder blades.
Wren cried out as he went down, striking the pavement headfirst. The bloody knife clattered out of his limp hands and Caleb couldn't seem to stop staring at it. She reached the wood up to deliver a second blow when her buzzing ears registered two voices screaming her name.
One of them was Toby.
"Spencer!" He panted when he was close enough to her. "Stop!"
She let the wood drop onto Wren's back with a whimper. She swung towards her boy with blue eyes and wrapped her arms around him as she shook. He murmured nonsense to her as he tried to calm her down.
"What's Caleb doing here?" A frazzled and horrified Aria asked from behind Toby, brushing hair away from her face. She was shivering violently in her thin pajamas. "What happened here?"
"Wren at-attacked him." Spencer got out, even with her teeth chattering a million miles a minute. She couldn't believe that she had actually thought the British man was a good person, when he'd just assaulted her best friend's boyfriend with a knife.
Suddenly a light, malevolent giggle winded down to them around the twisted metal stairs of somewhere on the third floor of the abandoned apartment complex next to them.
Toby spoke for all of them when he said, "Let's find Hanna and Emily, and fast."
All four of them-(including Caleb, he was trying to walk on his own, but Spencer was trying to support him), tried to find an entrance to the building. A broken-in door soon answered their desperate search but soon they were enveloped in darkness.
"Doesn't anyone have a flash light?" Aria hissed quietly, running into yet another cobweb. In the moonlight Spencer could see Aria batting the white sticky strands away furiously.
"It's in my bag," Spencer answered, "but it's still outside. And so is Wren."
She felt Caleb shudder against her shoulder, and they pushed on. His weight was jarring sharply against her, and she knew she probably couldn't last much longer like this.
"Toby?"
"Yes Spencer?" He answered, coughing slightly.
"I don't know if I can hold Caleb's weight for much longer, could you-"
"Guys! I found a stairwell!"
Spencer's request was cut short by Aria's shout from ahead. Looking up, she saw (dimly) that the petite girl was waving frantically. Behind her, the hallway seemed to drop off. That was the stairwell,- she realized, and her pace sped up. But then she remembered the boy leaning on her shoulder, and thought of the possibility that Caleb wouldn't make it up the stairs with his wound.
"Caleb," she started gently, "I don't think you should come."
He coughed weakly into the crook of his elbow. "No. I need to find Hann-" he hacked out another cough painfully.
"Stay here. We'll come back for you, I promise." Toby insisted to agree with Spencer while Aria watched on, confused as to why they weren't joining her.
Caleb looked like he wanted to argue, but then he hung his head in defeat. "Fine."
Spencer gently lowered him to the floor, careful not to provoke his stomach to bleed. Caleb grunted in pain as he hit the floor though, and she winced.
"Let's go." She said firmly, trying to keep the tremor out of her voice. Toby squeezed her shoulder comfortingly.
Together with Aria in front and Spencer bringing up the rear, they slowly started to creep up the stairs, every move of their feet calculated. Aria's feet nearly crashed through the wooden steps twice but Toby pulled her back just in time. Spencer watched apprehensively, which was why she wasn't watching where she placed her foot.
Her left foot plunged into a hole made by Aria's foot earlier, twisting her ankle. She let out a breathy shriek as she fell, unable to grab onto anything. Toby whirled around and grabbed ahold of her right hand before her head hit the stairwell. Carefully, he eased her sore foot out of the hole. Both of them panted heavily from the leftover panic. They felt relieved, until Aria let loose a bloodcurdling scream that could've drowned Spencer's.
Standing above them in the staircase was a slight girl with long blonde hair curling softly down to her ribcage. She was wearing a floral printed shirt and pants, but on her face was a strange white mask. The eyes behind the bleached plastic slowly blinked and the moonlight glinted off them.
And smeared around the fake mouth was dripping blood. A lot of it.
Spencer's scream joined Aria's as her gaze fell upon the figure. Scrambling backwards and sideways, she hit a wall and remembered they were still inside the stairwell. She also remembered that they were there to save Hanna and Emily, but the sudden apparition triggered the primal instinct in her to run.
Mentally pushing herself past the pain in her foot, she careened down the stairs at a breakneck pace. A human-sized thump echoed behind her, and another muffled feminine screech but she ignored it in her haste. She forgot anything but escaping the horror. Reaching the alleyway, she fumbled for her bag on the ground, her heart thumping loudly in her ears, and sprinted towards the bushes framing the town square.
A rustling followed her and she tensed, ready to swing her heavy bag with all her strength at the intruder, but Toby appeared from the moving leaves. His blue eyes were wide, his brown hair completely messed up, and his brown leather jacket was missing.
"What the hell happened in there?" He asked in shock, breathing heavily.
"I don't know," she answered, "Alison, I think."
They crept back towards the darkened alley they fled from, the air around them eerily quiet. In the light, Spencer saw that Wren's previously unmoving body was missing and so was the knife. The building entrance was black with no movement. They watched it carefully for a couple minutes, but no one came out. Not even the old floorboards inside creaked.
"Oh my God, Toby..." Spencer whimpered painfully, sharply recalling the thump and scream. "Aria..."
"And Caleb..." He confirmed, his blue eyes troubled.
"We're the last ones left."
A/N: Dun, dun, dunnnnnnnn... What did ya think? Drop a review on your way out to tell me!
Oh and if I get enough reviews, I'll update the next chapter tomorrow... Even more reviews and I'll update it later today!
Hint: Its the detailed Spoby sex scene! Review for it! :D
