"Listen Emily. When all is said and done, Paige is your girl."

"What do you mean?"

"I see the way you look at her when you think nobody's watching. I don't think she's ever looked at me the same way. No matter how much I want her, it's you she loves."

"Spencer, I can't do this with you right now."

"I know. And you don't have to. This has gone on long enough. When we finish up at the cabin, you should go visit her and tell her you love her again and that you have my blessing."

"I can't..."

"Yes, you can. You love each other. You should go be happy."

"I've hurt her Spence... I've hurt her too much. She should be with someone like you. Someone who protects her and takes care of her and treats her as good as she deserves. I've never been good enough for her. I don't deserve to be with her. You should be with her, Spence, not I. I'm dumb and I keep making mistakes and breaking her heart and she's an absolute angel who forgives me, everytime, even when I don't deserve it."

"Because she loves you"

"And that's exactly why I have to let her go."

"What are you saying?"

"I love her too. Too much to keep doing this to her. Something always comes up and ruins things for us and I am so sick of doing that to her. I am so sick of watching her heart break because of me. So you should be with her. You've never hurt her before."

"That's because we've been so lucky. We've had no 'A' or anything even close to that. The biggest fights we've had were over what to have for dinner! Em, you survived THREE A's together. You've been committed for YEARS! If it wasn't for the babies, Paige wouldn't have even looked at me twice."

"But I did have the babies and I can't ask her to stand by me and help me raise them. Not when they look so much like Alison. I can't even imagine how painful that would be for her."

"More painful than living without you? Look, you don't have to decide now, just know, if it does happen...if you two get back together? I wont hold it against you. I wont be mad at you. I understand. I am releasing her."

"Spence" Emily sighed exasperated, but she didn't get to finish her sentence. They just turned into the the driveway leading up to Noel's cabin and Spencer switched the car off to give them the element of surprise. If anyone was up there, they wouldn't be able to get around the car on the narrow dirt road, and they'd have to try to go on foot if they were startled, which would give Spencer and Emily a better chance of capturing them.

Sure enough, up the driveway was a car. It wasn't Alison's car. Emily didn't recognize it. It was dark blue and covered in scratches and dirt as if the owner had been off-roading. She glanced in the backseat and saw a duffel bag, and a couple of storybooks littering the seats. The trunk was open and another bag was stowed away there. The girls heard movement and immediately dashed and hid behind the house where they watched somebody in a black hoodie lug another two duffel bags out the cabin and into the back of the car. Emily was about to pounce but Spencer held her back. She noticed he was squishing the bags down, as if he had more to stash back there which gave Spencer an idea. She dragged the bags around to the other side and hid them behind the wheels so no one could see them as they came out, and then she ducked into the trunk of the car. Emily waited by the cabin door and then tailed the hooded gimp all the way to the car where Spencer kicked the trunk door into his face and Emily bashed him over the back of the head with a branch, knocking him out.

They didn't have time to check in on him as they heard footsteps coming from inside the house. They dragged him to the other side of the building and dumped him in the woods and watched as Alison came out to check on the progress of the hooded man. She only went as far as the car, checking the trunk and finding it empty to her dismay. She yelled at her companion to hurry up and stormed back into the house to yell at the toddlers to shut up. The noise was getting on her nerves and she still had another phone call to make.

Emily and Spencer crept in through the side and front door. They made a beeline around Alison, hiding around corners and behind walls until they reached the living room with the kids. Each one grabbed a child and shushed them before lifting them up and silently carrying them away. Alison didn't even notice them come in and out. A few minutes later, she reclined in the kitchen, stirring her coffee and smirking, thinking proudly of how brilliant she was and how she managed to get away, and even got the kids to shut up by yelling at them -which was something Emily never let her do- and while she was patting herself on the back on a job well-done, she failed to notice the smoke bomb the swat team threw in through the open kitchen window.