Authors Note (A/N) ZAK194: *peeks out from behind a shield* So...A lot of you were upset with the last Chapter... and if you have left us then I bid you adieu and the best of luck on the next adventure you decide to read on this site...for those who have stayed, Thank you and I hope you enjoy what's to come...
Chapter 19: Hospitals and Asylums
*ER- Rosewood Memorial*
Mona and Aria arrived at the hospital seconds after the ambulance. The two girls dashed out of the vehicle as the Paramedics and ER doctors were un-loading a hysterical Hanna. The pregnant blonde's screams of pain filled the air and Mona and Aria knew that the girl's heartache was the culprit of her severe labour pain. It was as though the universe was distracting Hanna from the loss of her lover by exaggerating the arrival of her child.
Paramedics and EMTs updated the doctors on Hanna's condition when Mona and Aria had now found themselves beside Hanna. A Nurse had gone off to page Dr Cochran and notify Mrs Marin while the two girls stayed within the blonde's line of vision as the doctors wheeled her into an examination room. Hanna had quickly grasped Aria's hand and begged
Hanna: "Aria! Ar...where's Spencer?"
Aria exchanged a helpless glance with Mona, begging the short Hawaiian to intervene
Mona cleared her throat, choked back a sob and nodded at Aria before addressing the pregnant blonde
Mona: "Han...Hanna...Spencer is on her way okay? But you need to do everything the doctor tells you until she gets here...you know how mad Spencer will be if you don't listen to your doctors right?"
Aria burst into a fit of sobs, the loss of their friend was still fresh and the charade of Spencer being alive was too much for Aria to handle, but the artistic brunette quickly pulled herself together and found some shards of inner strength to help her through this situation. Aria knew that Hanna needed her in that moment, and Spencer would have wanted nothing more than for Aria to be there for Hanna. So she kissed the top of Hanna's forehead and spoke to the clearly panicking blonde
Aria: "Han, Hanna...You're doing fine okay...but you need to calm down...it's not good for the baby..."
Hanna openly began crying as she addressed both Mona and Aria
Hanna: "I need Spencer! I won't calm down until I see her...she promised me she'd be here...SHE PROMISED!"
Mona: "Han..."
But before Mona could continue, Dr Cochran had entered the examination room. The young doctor had already been informed of Spencer's passing and her heart broke for the terrified blonde on the bed before her.
Dr Cochran: "Hanna... sweetie... I'm going to need you to control your breathing okay?"
The blonde nodded slowly at the doctor's words, causing Aria and Mona to address the doctor
Aria: "Doctor is she going to be okay?"
Mona: "She's not due for another week!"
Dr Cochran stared at both girls beside her patient and quickly responded to them
Dr Cochran: "Hanna will be fine... She's in shock and I believe her emotional distress is what triggered the labour...but this is progressing faster than I anticipated...she's already dilated at 7 cm and if this keeps up, she's going to have to start pushing within the next hour..."
Upon hearing this Hanna became more agitated
Hanna: "NO! We have to wait!"
Dr Cochran glanced at her patient and attempted to soothe the girl
Dr Cochran: "Hanna...it's not up to us..."
Hanna: "We need to wait...Spencer's not here yet! I can't have this baby without Spencer!"
In that moment Dr Cochran's heart broke for her patient as she recalled Spencer's words to her during the first Sonogram
Spencer: "I'm not going anywhere doc..."
Spencer's words floated around the doctor's subconscious as she made a silent plea to the heavens
'she needs you Spencer...come back for her...don't let her do this alone...'
Hanna's voice interrupted her thoughts as the blonde addressed her friends
Hanna: "Mona! Aria! Go find Spencer! Call her...text her...Do anything! Just get her over here! I need her here...I can't have this baby until she gets here!"
As soon as the words left the blonde's lips, the door to the examination room opened slightly causing Hanna to glance outside.
Hanna: "Spencer?"
Aria, Mona and Dr Cochran briefly turned to the entrance, expecting a miracle but instantly deflated when Ashley Marin's face emerged.
Ashley: "Han! I saw Spencer's car outside..."
But Hanna didn't let her mother finish, the blonde immediately began questioning the redhead
Hanna: "Is she with you? Is Spencer with you?"
Hanna looked over her mother's shoulder and caught sight of the Hastings' family. Peter, Veronica and Melissa stood behind Ashley, just outside the door which caused Hanna to desperately shout her questions at them
Hanna: "Is Spencer with you? Is she here?"
The Hastings all exchanged curious glances, each one had clearly been under the impression that the youngest Hastings had already arrived at the hospital.
Hanna immediately turned to her family and sobbed
Hanna: "Mum...Mum please go find Spencer! Mr Hastings, Melissa...call her...she needs to be here! Mrs Hastings...she'll listen to you...bring her here...I need here...please...she promised she'd be here!"
Ashley stared at her daughter curiously as Aria stepped away from Hanna.
Hanna: "Mum...mum...she's missing it...she promised she'd be here but she's missing the birth of our child..."
Aria quickly turned to Mona and nodded, the two girls coming to the realisation that no one had informed the Hastings or Ashley Marin of Spencer's passing. Aria moved towards Ashley Marin and stood beside the woman as she addressed Hanna and Mona
Aria: "Han...Hanna, I'm going to go outside with your mum and Spencer's family, and we're going to try and get a hold of Spencer okay? Err...Mona...Mona, could you stay with Hanna? until Spencer gets here?"
Mona smiled up at Hanna with every ounce of faux cheer she could muster
Mona: "Of Course!"
Aria cast one more glance at Hanna before leading Ashley Marin out of the examination room and closing the door behind her.
*Same Time- Radley Sanatorium*
Paige and Emily had arrived at the dreary gates of Radley. The swimmer watched through the glass of the windscreen as Alison was un-loaded from the back of a squad car and taken into the facility in hand cuffs.
The two girls made their way out of the car and joined Officer Gary as they entered the reception area of the sanatorium. Alison was nowhere to be found, Paige had caught sight of the officer that had 'arrested' Alison and immediately began walking towards him, Emily and the accompanying officer hot on her heels. Once they had reached the man, Emily immediately began questioning him
Emily: "Where is she?"
The cop glanced at his colleague and responded
Officer 2: "Miss Dialurentis is being processed..."
Emily quickly moved past the officer and began speaking with the nurse behind the reception desk
Emily: "The patient that just came here...Alison Dilaurentis...I need to speak with her!"
The nurse sighed softly and began parroting the rule of the facility
Nurse: "I'm sorry Ma'am patients are not allowed visitors within 24 hours of their admittance..."
Paige could clearly see the anger and frustration radiating off of Emily and was confident that had two police officials not been present, Emily would have climbed over the reception desk and punched the nurse so, ever the voice of reason, Paige spoke up
Paige: "err...Has Alison been admitted yet?"
The nurse turned to Paige and responded
Nurse: "No...she's currently being examined by Doctor Poots...she can only be admitted after 12 hours..."
A door opened along the corridor and a doctor wearing a white coat emerged, she made her way towards the reception desk and Paige thanked the heavens when she caught sight of the name 'Poots' on the woman's name tag.
Dr Poots: "Nurse the new patient in room three is un responsive...has her family arrived yet?"
Seizing the opportunity presented to them, Paige hastily began dialling the Dilaurentis family while Emily quickly cleared her throat and spoke
Emily: "I'm Emily, her Fiancée..."
Dr Poots then turned to Emily and Spoke
Dr Poots: "Well Emily... maybe you can get her to speak, I can't treat her unless I know what's wrong...Are here parents coming?"
Paige had just clicked her phone off and turned to face the doctor
Paige: "Her mother is on her way...her dad had another family emergency to attend to..."
Dr Poots: "Fine...follow me..."
Emily cast a smug look at the nurse before grasping Paige's hand and together they followed the Doctor to exam room three.
Dr Poots: "You guys have 5 minutes...if she doesn't respond I'm putting her on a mandatory 36 hour hold..."
The doctor turned on her heel and left, but was careful to leave the door to the examination room open. Once the woman was gone, Alison immediately looked up and smiled when she had caught sight of Emily and Paige.
Alison's smile was different, it was no longer the sly beautifully mischievous smile that Emily had fallen in love with. No...the smile was now tainted, it was the smile of a person Emily no longer recognised, deranged, desperate and scarily obsessive...attributes that Emily never associated with Alison before.
'She never loved me...it was Spencer...it was always Spencer...'
Alison eerily smiled up at Emily and spoke
Alison: "Is Spencer ok?"
Hearing the concerned adoration in Alison's tone when she spoke the name of their deceased friend caused Emily's blood to boil in anger as she recalled the horrific events surrounding the death of the tall brunette. Emily pushed down the bile rising in her throat, ignored Alison's question and bit out
Emily: "Did you ever love me?"
But it seemed as though Alison only cared about the wellbeing of a certain brunette because she asked once again, and pressed harder for an answer when she held Emily's hand and begged
Alison: "Please tell me Em...Is Spencer okay?"
Paige watched helplessly from the corner of the room as Emily snatched her hand away from Alison and began yelling at the blonde. The swimmer was furious, her anger driving her into a frenzy as she spoke. Paige almost felt sorry for Alison in that moment, the blonde looked so lost and broken that all Paige wanted to do was comfort the girl but the moment she remembered what Alison had done those feelings evaporated.
Emily: "You Never loved me! You only cared about Spencer! That's why you stalked her for years...that's why you put up those cameras...but Spencer never loved you back! She loved Hanna and what? You thought you could make Spencer jealous if you were dating me? Huh? Bet that backfired spectacularly when she gave us her blessing! Is that why you tried to kill Hanna? because you wanted Spencer for yourself? What were you going to do afterwards huh? Were you going to kill me and then you and Spencer could run off into the sunset?"
Paige held Emily's shoulder soothingly, it was evident that the swimmer was mourning the loss of her friend while nursing her own heartbreak so Paige has tried to calm the swimmer down but Emily was having none of it. She shrugged Paige's hand off and grabbed Alison by her forearms
Emily: "You bitch...You unbelievable bitch Alison! You deserve this! You had everything and then you destroyed it! I would have done anything for you! But no...you didn't want me..you wanted Spencer...you wanted what wasn't yours and now thanks to you Spencer's dead!"
Emily's last few words earned a reaction from Alison, the blonde's eyes widened in shock but her expression only served to anger Emily further. Paige decided to step in before the situation spun out of control
Paige: "Em...Emily please..."
Emily: "No Paige...this bitch killed Spencer...Hanna's child is going to grow up without their parent all because Alison here was selfish! You Killed Spencer Ali and now that innocent child has to suffer!"
Emily's words hung in the air for a few seconds before all hell broke loose. Alison began hysterically screaming and trashing around, scratching at Emily who had since been pulled to safety by Paige. A group of orderlies rushed into the room alongside Doctor Poots and each of them had begun working on subduing Alison.
Dr Poots turned to the two girls and harshly spoke
Dr Poots: "What Happened?"
Paige gathered a sobbing Emily into her arms and lied
Paige: "I don't know...she just lost it and started attacking Emily..."
The doctor was satisfied with the answer and moved to sedate Alison. The sedation had no effect as the blonde trashed around more violently. Slowly Paige pulled Emily out of the room and began taking the girl towards the reception.
The two girls made their way into reception when they caught sight of a distraught Jessica Dilaurentis
Emily pulled herself out of Paige's hold and moved to speak with the woman
Jessica: "OH Emily! Thank God! Kenneth's not here...Jason's been arrested and Paige told me that Ali.."
Emily cut the woman off with a stern look
Emily: "Ali killed Spencer...She's with the doctors right now"
Emily pushed past Jessica and made her way outside leaving Paige to cast an apologetic look at Jessica Dilaurentis before rushing after the girl. Once outside, Paige had found Emily sobbing against the car and quietly she moved to comfort the broken girl.
Paige held Emily in her arms as the other girl completely broke down
Emily: "Was I not enough? If she didn't love me she should have just told me! I would have understood...She wanted Spencer...she took Spencer away from Hanna...away from me...I hate her Paige...I hate her..."
Paige pulled Emily tighter into her embrace and soothed the girl as Emily softly cried.
'I'm sorry Emily...I'm soo sorry...but I'm here...I'll be here for you...I made a promise to Spencer to be there for you and I have every intention to keep that promise...'