"Ezra, how did you get me out of there?" Aria said suddenly, this thought only now coming to mind. "I mean, what did you do? You couldn't of just turned up here, and been all like "Let her go." It wouldn't happen. What did you do?" Now, Ezra had two options here. One, was to tell the truth, the other was to save her the nightmare of discovering that the person that practically ruined her life wasn't dead at all.
"You're welcome." A voice came from behind them, both of them spinning around to see Wesley being guided past them. Ezra let out a sigh, whilst Aria felt every bone in her body freeze. She felt weak at the knees, completely taken aback by all of this. Her lips began to move, but no words came out, just small whimpers or terror, this was her worst nightmare. How could he be alive? It was then that Aria wanted to turn around and go straight back into the prison as quickly as possible, locking herself away for the rest of her life.
"No, no, no, no." Aria repeated over and over again, pushing Ezra away whenever he would try and get close to her. She wasn't going to allow this. "Ezra, please tell me I'm imagining this, please tell me that you can't see him too." She would rather be insane than actually be seeing this.
"Calm down." Ezra whispered out quietly, pulling Aria into his chest. She buried herself in it, taking a look over his shoulder just to double check Wesley had gone.
Not a chance.
He had been stopped, ordered to take off his jacket and remove his belongings.
"Why isn't he dead?"
"You tell me. I hunted him down, trying to get him to come forward and help you." Aria's gaze shot up then, his words causing her to intake a gasp.
"You knew that he was alive?! And you didn't tell me?! Ezra!" Ezra shook his head quickly, placing a finger to her lips to silence her from rambling on at him any longer. It wasn't needed.
"He called me, I kind of guessed that you can't get signal six feet under." With a frustrated groan, Aria slapped Ezra's arm forcefully, shoving against his chest. He grasped her hands, shaking his head once more. "Stop it." She stopped instantly, tears welling in her eyes as sudden realization kicked in.
"Why didn't you tell me?" She whimpered out almost inaudibly, taking another glance over her shoulder at Wesley. This time, he waved.
"Because you would've done this. Now, I need you to listen to what he's going to say, alright." Aria went to refuse and say no, but Ezra gave her a stern look, and she immediately nodded, with a small sigh.
"I want to go home."
"You can. Just, in a minute okay? We'll pick up some food and go home." Aria reluctantly nodded once more, clinging tightly to Ezra's hand, as he began pulling her towards the man she hated most in the world, Wesley's smile growing slightly at the sight of Aria. He had missed her, an awful lot. "Hey, eyes away." Wesley's eyes instantly moved towards Ezra. "You have thirty seconds, go."
Wesley scoffed at how much his brother had changed, shaking his head in disgust. "It cost a lot of money, I'll tell you that now."
"What did?" Aria said through narrowed eyes, squeezing Ezra's hand so tightly that he thought it'd fall off.
"Faking my own death. It took a long time to plan. I had to get away, I just couldn't take it anymore."
Ezra's brows furrowed, even he hadn't heard this part before. "Couldn't take what anymore? You told me that you felt guilty about what you did to Aria, that's why you left." Aria felt herself become flushed, her eyes shooting down to the floor in embarrassment. She didn't really want to talk about this, especially to the man who caused it upon her.
"Oh please, no. I've been receiving death threats. Letters, notes, knives and other weapons in my room. I even received a tape, of me and Aria. I had to get away from it all, before I went insane."
He couldn't speak any longer, the guard had already began to tug him away from the newly reunited couple. "I told them everything."
Aria froze, before approaching the younger Fitz, her hand striking his left cheek with full force.
"And that's for what you did." She said with an innocent smile, backing away from him to join her boyfriend, clinging tightly to his hand once more. "Now we go home?"
Ezra only nodded, proud of Aria for what she had done. "Now we go home."
