Chapter 46: In The Darkest Night

A/n: Sorry for the long wait, here is the next chapter and I hope you guys will enjoy it, let me know what you think about this chapter.

A/n2: Thank you to Me A Genious your suggestions were very helpful.

Emily's Pov-

It had been almost three month since the last time I spoke with Paige. The plane had exploded and what was left off the plane was somewhere on the bottom of the ocean. After that night it went from bad to worse, A took over the entire town after she had imported military grade firearms, Caleb stopped being Robin, Ezra made a serum to prevent his powers and the bat cave went into total lockdown. Paige was our last hope and now she was gone.

Every night I had the same nightmare, Paige struggling to get out of the plane as the time slowly ticks to zero. Paige tries to get the cockpit door open, but she never does.

Since Paige never got a funeral I'd always walk to and abandoned dock and put some flowers in the water then just watch them float away.

"Paige… I miss you." I didn't knew what else to say, I loved her and I lost her, all I got is a hole in my life where Paige used to be. The sadness and pain is too much for me to handle, I went down on my knees and started to cry, I remembered all the happy times I had with Paige, all our fight, the first time I saw her, the first time I kissed her and now I had nothing just hurtful memories.

I crouched down and my tears began to fall down my cheeks. "Oh Paige ..." I said between my tears, I wished that all this was only a dream and that I would soon wake up and see that Paige was next to me where she should be.

I cried longer than I though, because when I looked up I saw that the sun was setting.

"Oh, crap." I said as I quickly got up and started to run home. Ever since A took over the town there was a curfew, anyone spotted outside after dark would be shot on the spot. A was very clear about that, we were allowed to live our normal lives as long as we followed A's rules. Asides from the curfew we were not allowed to leave town, all firearms were confiscated and if anyone broke one of those rules there entire family would be killed. The only reason A let us live was to use us as hostages in case the army would try something.

I kept running as fast as I could trying to get to my house before it was too late and A's men would start patrolling the street firing at everything that moved.

I made kept sprinting pushing myself past my limits to get to the safety off my home. Just a few more blocks than I'd be safe.

I kept running the streets until I finally saw my house, the lights were lit so I could see it clearly. I pushed myself probably past my breaking point entering the house just in time.

"You know I hate it when you're out so late." My mom said.

"I'm sorry I lost track of time." I answered.

"Sweetheart, I know you're missing Paige, but you can still try to call her." My mom said.

We had all lied and told everyone that Paige had moved to California, Aria even forged a note to her aunt and another one to Miss DiLaurentis. That lie was the hardest one I had told anyone. My girlfriend was dead and I had to pretend that she was still alive.

"I know mom, but talking to her is different from actually seeing her." I answered in tears so my mom just walked up and hugged me.

"I know you're missing her but one day this will all be over and then you might be able to see her again." Mom said.

I never liked lying to my mom, but all my previous lies where nothing in comparison to this lie sine I knew Paige wasn't going to get back. I didn't knew how much longer I could keep this lie going.

The next morning I woke up feeling empty, I got dressed, walked up to the mirror and took three deep breaths. "Ok Emily, it's Showtime." I said before fake smiling like I've done for a very long time. I thought it'd get easier with time, I was wrong, for every day it was harder and harder to keep up with this charade.

I went downstairs to see my mom standing by the refrigerator. Ever since A took over the city she's not had much to do other than house choirs.

"God morning dear." Mom said as I sat down at the table.

"Morning." I said and took a sip of coffee.

I ate the breakfast wearing a fake smile like I've done for months, once I was finished I left for school. My schoolwork had suffered since Paige's death, Spencer had even thought about making some off my tests so I wouldn't have to repeat a grade but I had refused, like life wasn't hard enough and with A closing off the entire town repeating a grade would be the least of my problems.

I wasn't using my car since there was impossible to get any gas these days, now when A's men would usually empty the entire gas station so I would be surprised if there actually was any gas there.

Once I was halfway to the school I bumped into Hanna, she was really getting a stomach now.

"Hi Hanna, how are you?" I asked.

"I'm ok, I guess." Hanna said then she sigh and said "This pregnancy thing sucks, I had to buy new clothes and it feels like I'm getting bigger and bigger for every day, I might carry quadruplets." She sounded very worried.

"Hanna, there is no way you're carrying quadruplets." I said in an attempt to calm her down.

"Are you absolutely sure about that Em? Sometimes it feels like I'm peeing for five persons." Hanna said ignoring what I said.

"Yesterday I had to go to the bathroom like twenty times." Hanna continued.

We kept walking and I resumed my attempts to calm Hanna down but it was no use she was in a world of her own.

After a while we met up with Aria and Spencer.

"So Han, how do you do?" Aria asked. Aria you have no idea what you just got yourself into.

We continued to walk to school and Hanna then started staring at my shirt.

"What?" I asked.

"I've never seen that shirt before, is it new?" Hanna asked.

"Yes, I bought it from a second hand store a few days ago." I lied, I was actually wearing one of Paige's shirts. That was one of my secrets to move on, sometimes I can't.

I locked up and saw a zeppelin that flew over Rosewood, on its side it was a picture of an explosion, it reminded me of that night Paige died. I couldn't hold it in anymore. I started to run as my tears fell from my eyes.

"EMILY! EMILY!" I heard them shouting after me but I didn't wanted to stop I just ran as fast as I could, I didn't knew where I was going but I didn't cared I just wanted to be anywhere but here.

I ran for what felt like hours, after a while I didn't knew where I was but I kept running, I stopped running once I was too exhausted to take another step. I sat down and started to cry, at this point I didn't care who saw me I just cried.

I looked up and noticed that I was at the dock where I always go to morn Paige. God, why did it have to be here, why did I run to a place that reminds me that Paige is gone?

I turned towards the ocean and looked. "Paige, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." I said. "I've tried to get over you, I've tried for months but I can't. I just… I love you too much." I said as I looked over the horizon, a part of me wanted to swim away from here, but then A's men would notice me somehow and kill me before I was anywhere close to land like they have done to some others that tried to escape that way.

I sat down thinking about doing it, I knew I had my friends and my mom but it felt like I had lost the thing that mattered the most.

I curled into a ball and closed my eyes trying to picture that Paige was here now.

"Emily, there you are." I looked up and saw Caleb, Hanna, Toby and Spencer.

"We've been so worried about you." Hanna said.

I didn't answered I just looked down as I got back to my feet.

"Emily why did you just…" Hanna started but Spencer gave her a look that made her back off.

"Come here." Toby said and hugged me. Toby always seemed to know when a person didn't wanted to talk.

Later Spencer, Hanna and Caleb joined the hug.

"Guys, I hate to ruin the moment but we have to get indoors now." Caleb said and I looked at the time, I couldn't believe my eyes it was almost eight at night, I had literary cried the entire day away.

"Come on we must hurry the curfew." Hanna said and started to move.

"Wait… listen." Toby said. I noticed what he heard there was a van driving this way, it was defiantly one of A's.

"Everyone hide." Caleb whispered and we scattered trying to find the best places to hide.

I lost sight off the others I just froze when I heard that a van was closing in, I knew those guys would kill me and I wanted them to, then I might be with Paige again. I was just out of the van's sight when suddenly I heard a loud bang that made me focus, I realized what I was doing and started to run as the van stopped.

I hid inside a slightly opened hanger container, I tried to close the door but it was too hard to budge so instead I hid further back in it.

"Oh crap, I blew another tire." I heard a voice say.

"Well, go change it then." I recognized that voice, it was Ben Coogan a guy from school. The last time I had seen him was a year ago when he had dropped out of school.

"Relax Anarky, just because A left Joker in command and before leaving to Russia and Joker put you in charge of us it doesn't mean it'll last forever, A will be back at some point." A third voice said.

"Just change the damn tire." Ben said. "And you, check the area."

Then I heard footsteps I didn't see anything but I could hear that at least one person was standing outside the Container, I could hear him walking closer and closer.

Suddenly I saw him standing right in front of the container opening, he was about to enter it.

"HEY! No peeing in hanger container!" I heard Ben shouting.

"Fine, he said and then he unzipped his pants and turned away from the opening, it was discussing. If I wasn't gay before I sure was now.

After the longest most discussing minutes of my life the henchman finally left. The van started and drove away, once it was out of earshot I got out from my hiding spot, I looked around and saw the others, I rejoined them and told them what I had heard.

"So A is in Russia." Caleb said.

"Well it's only a matter of time before she is back." Spencer said.

"She?" Toby asked.

That's right, Toby doesn't know that Paige was Batgirl.

"Well, if Ben is in charge of the men and Joker is the commander who knows what will happened until A is back, those guys are insane." I said.

"What do we do now? It's too late to sneak home with all the patrols and we are far from our houses." Caleb said.

"Yeah, the closest place is at Toby's and it's like twelve blocks away." Spencer said.

I looked at Hanna, she was worried and Caleb was holding her tight and placed a hand on her stomach.

"I won't let anything happened to our baby." I heard him whisper to Hanna.

"So if we run the twelve blocks to Toby's place we'll get spotted and killed, if we stay here and wait for dawn it's just a matter of time before another car comes on a patrol and they'll spot us and kill us." Hanna said and everyone stared at her.

"What? I didn't say there were good options." Hanna said.

"Well we have to do and Toby's place is the closest thing we have as a sanctuary, it's a long shot but we might make it and it's our only hope." Spencer said.

"No." I said. "There is one place that's closer, we'll get there easier since it's just three blocks away." I continued.

"And where might that be." Spencer asked.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. "Paige's mansion."

Once again I'm very sorry for making you wait and I'll update the next chapter later today (or tomorrow depending on your time zone, it's 14:07 here)