Disclaimer: I don't own Pretty Little Liars.
Warnings: Child Abuse, Foul Language, Violence, Death, Mental Illness, Sex Scenes...
"They're not dolls, they're people, you sick fucks," Caleb cried.
"Mr Rivers," Bethany snapped sharply. "You really should watch your language, there are children present."
"You are a psycho lady and we've seen all your faces," Caleb yelled pointing at each of the A Team. "You really think you're going to get away with this. We know who you are!"
The A Team didn't budge and Bethany's smirk grew.
"We're not getting out of here alive are we," Alison stated solemnly looking to Bethany.
"Very good, Alison."
The A Team smirked menacingly at Alison and the men.
"She let you see her too, you idiots," Alison barked at them. "You're not getting out either. Ever heard the term canon fodder."
The A Team members shifted uneasily, looking at each other for answers unsure of who they believed.
Bethany threw back her head and cackled.
"They really do underestimate you, Alison," Bethany breathed through her laughter, she grinned wickedly. "But I never did."
"Thats my favourite part, really that you became this, the person that all these people will destroy themselves and each other for just a chance to wreck," Bethany cackled again.
"And I, I made you into that, made you see how terrible you really are, made it so your last breaths would be surrounded by your own creations. That is immorality, my darling," Bethany sighed.
Alison felt sick but she needed more time, needed a plan, some leverage, anything to get out of here. Bethany liked to talk, she was a fan of a captive audience that much was certain, she'd obviously been waiting for this day for a while. Alison edged closer to Toby and tried to get Bethany to keep talking.
"Just please tell me what happened that night, explain it to me because I don't understand why it happened," Alison begged.
Bethany seemed to consider it for a moment.
"Only because you asked so nicely," she grinned down at Alison. "So Mommy Dearest bought me a yellow top, she was always buying me gifts ever since I was little, there was this horrible yellow dress one year. But Andrew and I hatched a plan. If Mommy Dearest can't play nicely with the little Ali doll then she doesn't deserve to play with Ali at all."
That explained the yellow dresses, it was for Bethany and Alison's mother didn't want her husband to know cause she'd made a promise to have nothing to do with her crazy niece and nephew. Alison wondered briefly if her father knew the truth, knew what Jessica had really done and just convinced himself it was Bethany because it was easier.
"We were going to kill you that night, and Sara, Andrew drugged her up and got her in the yellow top she was going to me," Bethany sighed. "We were going to set it up so it looked like your mother killed you and 'Bethany' and then Aunt Jessie was going to rot in prison and all her dirty secrets would be revealed."
Alison could see the plan, could see how the siblings thought it would bring them revenge against the Aunt and cousin who betrayed them.
"It was perfect but you," Bethany spat viciously. "Were running around looking for answers and someone didn't give Sara enough to knock her out completely."
"I said I was sorry," Andrew grumbled. "You hit Alison way too early anyway!"
Bethany shook her head at her brother, but nodded.
"I was coming down from my medication when I saw you, Alison, strutting back to you're house like you were queen of the world," Bethany bitterly recalled. "I just picked up that rock and bashed you over the head, you never saw it coming."
Alison felt her gut twist painfully. This coward had whacked her over the head for something that happened when she was five years old. Bethany was insane.
"But Mommy Dearest saw everything and she was screaming and crying, she was hysterical and it made me think of that day with my mom," Bethany sniffled a bit. "Andrew had to drag me away as your mother buried you."
"I wanted to kill her," Andrew spat. "And I was going to but she told us to go, said she wouldn't say anything if we just left and I had to protect Bethany."
"We left to find Sara but she'd wandered off and we didn't have time to look for her. We left and sometime later Ali was pulled out and Sara was thrown in," Andrew finished.
"That doesn't work Melissa you said you buried her wasn't that straight after my argument with Spencer," Alison argued.
"It was a long time ago and-"
"You don't bury someone alive and forget about it, Melissa," Bethany snapped.
"I went to find Ian," Melissa confessed. "I didn't know where he had slipped off to and when I couldn't find him I came back to Ali- Sara's body."
"Did you really think Spencer did it?" Alison asked.
"Or Ian," Melissa softly confessed. "It didn't matter who did it, I thought you-she was dead."
"So thats how you got Melissa and Paige onside, Lucas started his own vendetta, Mona found Alison's diaries and decided to torture the girls, why?" Ezra questioned.
"Something to do," Mona shrugged and then cackled.
"So you stole the game from Mona when she went to Radley," Alison looked to Bethany.
"When we figured out you weren't as dead as we'd hoped," Bethany titled her head studying Alison. "You know if you never came back for Emily in that barn we probably never would have figured it out."
"So we made Redcoat, Mona was so out of it she thought Bethany was Alison, we put Wren in Radley to keep an eye on Mona and throw off your stupid little friends, he also figured out what Eddie knew," Andrew smiled at Wren. "So that little problem had to be taken care of."
"What did you do to Eddie Lamb!" Toby shrieked at Andrew.
"That was unfortunate," Bethany admitted sadly before she grinned wickedly. "Lets just the say soup of the day is gonna be Lamb."
Bethany cackled to herself and some notable members of the A Team shifted uneasily at the implications, Paige, Cindy, Mindy and Sydney all looked uneasy. Everyone else was neutral, evil or in Maya's case beaming like a loon.
"Cindy, Mindy and Sydney are late additions," Bethany noted. "Mona brought in the twins and Jenna brought her pit-bull."
"Do I even need to ask why you joined the craziness of this?" Alison glared at Jenna.
"First I did it for those tapes," Jenna looked to Toby briefly before she glared at Alison. "Then after New York I had to avenge Shana."
"You dragged Shana into this!" Alison screamed at her, still bitter that her childhood friend had fallen for Jenna's manipulative games.
"No Alison you put Shana in Rosewood, right in the middle of all of this," Andrew smiled. "I was surprised she had the balls to actually try to kill you off, pity how that played out."
"You were in New York," Alison accused.
"Shana wasn't on the rooftop and Shana didn't shoot Ezra here," Andrew easily admitted.
"What about Wilden?"
"Oh god Wilden was so easy," Bethany waved it off like the man's death was nothing. "We knew about the Radley cover up and once Mona started peeping in everyones windows we also knew about Ashley Marin, wasn't hard to get him to do anything really."
"So Cece didn't kill him," Alison hedged.
"Oh no, no," Bethany cackled. "Blondie still shot the bastard, but we sent him to take care of her, when we found out she was still talking to you and she wasn't really as bitter as she claimed about being kicked out of UPenn."
Cece hadn't turned on her, Alison knew in her heart it was true but she still breathed a little easier to have it confirmed.
"So why did the coroner still identify Sara as me?" Alison queried. "If you changed the records why not just change it to you, since you wanted to disappear."
Bethany scowled.
"We did," Andrew intoned dangerously. "Someone changed them to your records after I switched them to Bethany's dental records."
"Guilty," Mona smiled, raising her hand.
"Its amazing how this town works really," Bethany mused. "Andrew and I didn't really have to do anything, everyone was out to save themselves or someone they loved and as long as they could say 'A made me do it', that suddenly made the unthinkable ok."
"But they still all have that pesky moral compass, that you and I don't have to worry about, Alison," Bethany nodded to herself. "We're above such trivial things."
"I'm nothing like you," Alison spat.
"Aren't you Alison, the only reason I was able to do all this is because of what you created," Bethany gestured around them. "These people you broke, daily."
"That doesn't explain why you tortured the girls what did they ever do to you?" Ezra questioned his steely gaze fixed on Andrew.
"For a while we thought they killed Sara, we were so convinced Spencer had in fact," Bethany mused. "But then it became a good way to lure out Alison, once we knew she was alive, she couldn't stand to see them get hurt and really if you had have walked away you would have saved yourself so much trouble Ali boo."
Alison clenched her fists.
"Did we answer all your questions?" Bethany asked as though it were a press conference.
No one said anything.
"Excellent," Bethany replied as though they had politely thanked her for her time.
"We have some party favours though," Andrew reminded his sister.
"Yes of course," Bethany clapped excitedly. "A Team you'll find some great little gifts on the table over there near the punch.
No one made a move towards the table.
"You can look at them later," Bethany nodded, she checked her watch. "Looks like we're out of time."
Alison didn't like the sound of that at all.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow," Bethany soothed as she took Andrew's hand. "But you'll all have each other for company remember to play nice."
The A Team didn't move.
"Do something you morons?" Alison shouted at them but they just stared as Bethany and Andrew started further up the stairs.
"What about the girls!" Toby shouted.
"Shoot I knew we forgot something," Andrew spun back snapping his fingers, Bethany drew a remote from her tuxedo jacket and clicked at it.
Four large screens clicked on over the dance floor, as the images flickered dread filled Alison. Each screen showed one of the girls trapped in a box of some kind, Spencer's was rapidly filling with dirt and Spencer was slumped against the side. Unconscious.
Hanna was pounding on the lid of the box she was in trying to get out she swayed a little, there was nothing in the box but Alison had no doubt it was some kind of gas filling the cramped space. Aria's box was being repeatedly stabbed by razor sharp points and she was narrowly avoiding the three skewers that kept rotating around the box.
And then Alison caught sight of Emily's trap, it was see through unlike the others and filling with water, Emily kept surfacing to catch her breath and then diving to try and plug the hole at the bottom where the water was pouring in.
"Good luck with that," Bethany cackled. "You'll need more than the four of you to save them."
Alison stared at the screens in horror as the door at the top of the stairs slammed shut.
"Where are they?" Alison flew across the room grappling for Mona.
The A Team grabbed for her but Alison held tight to Mona's neck, the little freak just smirked as Alison strangled her.
"Where!" Alison shouted shaking the crazed copy of herself.
An explosion rocked the room and Alison let go of Mona as everyone screamed and ducked for cover. As the vibrations eased everyone slowly uncurled themselves. Caleb jumped up the stairs to find the top layer gone and an impossible gap between the door Bethany and Andrew had escaped from and the scaffold landing.
"We're trapped," Sydney wailed.
And the room descended into panic. Screaming, shoving, yelling.
"We came in another way," Ezra shouted.
But no one would listen as the A Team turned on each other.
Alison ignored them and looked to the screens, her girls were running out of time.
"Shut up!" she screamed but no one paid her any attention.
"Jenna listen," Toby tried but Jenna shoved him.
"You have no idea what you've done you moron!"
"You tried to kill my friends!" Toby screamed at her.
"Lucas," Caleb tried but the angry boy dragged him into the fight easily with a well placed slight at Hanna.
"Paige listen to me," Ezra tried reaching for her shoulder.
"Don't touch me you pervert," Paige yelled at him.
"You betrayed us all," Ezra roared at her. "I stood beside you in my underwear!"
Alison didn't want to know what that was about, but this was getting out of hand. She slipped up to Toby in all the chaos and stuck a hand into his pocket finding what she was looking for she moved away from the angry group.
She lit the firecracker quickly and threw it into the air, it exploded and everyone ducked in fear.
"Listen up, Idiots!" Alison commanded now holding their attention.
Everyone looked to her expectantly and now that she had their gaze Alison found she wasn't sure what she wanted to do with it.
"We need to save the girls," Alison started.
Several of them went back to screaming at the others and it was apparent not everyone was here for the girls safety. Alison stomped her foot and jumped up and down.
"STOP IT!" She bellowed.
Slower this time they all fell silent and Alison gave them all her harshest glare. She was in charge now and they had to know that.
"Look we all have our own agendas here," Alison admitted. "But there is one thing that unites everyone in this room, you all at one time or another wanted me dead."
Alison tried to appear unflappable as the A Team stared at her quizzically, she definitely had them interested now.
"Help me find the girls," Alison choked and coughed to clear her throat. "Help me and when we all get out of this alive. You can have what you've always wanted."
"Alison no-"
"That's ridi-"
"Emily wil-"
Alison silenced Ezra, Caleb and Toby with a hand. If they wanted the girls safe they had to make deals with the devil.
"We'll do it Julius Caesar style, I've always wanted to go out in a big way," Alison flashed a smile as though it were a grand performance and it was, she told herself. "I'll turn my back and anyone can take a stab. Do we have a deal?"
The A Team looked to each other uneasily.
"How do we know we can trust you?" Mona spoke for them.
"You can't," Alison smirked. " But I'm also the only one who knows the way out and I'm not showing anyone until the girls are safe."
The A Team grumbled and crossed their arms. Mona looked them all over.
"Fine we accept your deal," Mona nodded.
"Excellent," Alison snarled. "Where are they, Mona?"
Mona looked to the screens for a moment.
"One level down," Mona turned to Alison. "They don't have much time."
"Lets go then," Melissa pushed forward.
"We'll have to split up, their separated down there," Mona told Alison.
"Alright," Alison pointed to Caleb. "You get Hanna take Mona with you."
"Ezra you've got Aria. Toby-"
"Spencer," Toby nodded.
"I'm coming with you," Melissa moved over to Toby.
"Me too," Wren followed Melissa.
"I'll get Emily," Maya bounded forward.
"I don't trust you," Paige was not even a full step behind Maya.
Alison was with Paige, Maya was too exited by all of this, a completely inappropriate reaction to everything that was happening around them.
"Alright, Paige and Maya are with me," Alison glared at both of them daring them to argue.
Paige crossed her arms but didn't speak and Maya happily nodded like they were going on a picnic.
"Me too," Sydney pushed forward.
"I'll help with Aria," Jenna muttered, wandering over to Ezra's side.
"You'll need some brains to save Hanna," Lucas mumbled.
Caleb looked ready to protest but Mona put a hand to his shoulder. He shook her off violently but didn't argue when Lucas joined his side.
"We'll help with Aria," the twins said in sync.
Everyone was in a group now and they all shuffled for a moment looking to Ali for direction.
"Well don't just stand there lets go, Mona lead the way," Alison yelled.
Mona glared at her but headed off into the shadows behind the staircase where another hallway opened up and they headed through it.
Alison pulled Caleb to her as they walked quickly.
"Keep an eye on Mona," she whispered in his ear. "I don't trust her."
"You and me both," Caleb agreed.