Emily got into her car. She locked the doors as if that made her safe and just sat there. She bit at a nail.

She couldn't...

She shouldn't...

She sighed, here went nothing. She pushed the familiar seven digit number into her phone. She put it to her ear. She scrunched her eyes closed.

"Don't pick up, don't pick up, don't pi..."

"Emily?" She heard the soft deep voice that almost made her feel safe. Crap!

"Hi!" She yelped eyes still shut "I have to talk to you!" She blurted out.

He chuckled "yeah, that must be why you called"

She rolled her eyes at his joke "those cop skills are really coming in handy"

"Ok so what's up" Toby said.

"Uh, could we have coffee at the brew?" Emily asked hesitantly.

She heard a heavy sigh, he was going to say no.

"I'll have coffee if you can bring it to me at the loft" he said quietly

"Oh ok, I'll be there soon" Emily said.

About 15 minutes later Emily knocked on the door to Toby's loft.

"Come in!" He yelled.

Emily opened the door. Toby was crouched over his laptop.

"There's pizza on the counter, if you're hungry" he offered

Emily grabbed a piece of pizza, eyeing the garbage can full of take out containers. Emily walked around the loft, she noticed a picture of the day Toby let her ride his motorcycle, she was petrified at first but it had been so awesome. Emily pointed to the picture "Were best friends" she said almost as if it were a question.

"Don't tell me I've seen this movie. A stole your memory and now you don't know who anyone is" Toby said with a wry smile. Emily smiled.

"So, what's up? How's Emily?" Toby said.

Emily started by telling him some of the events that had been going on in her life.

"So wait she was married?!" Toby asked with wide eyes.

"Yup" Emily said nodding "and now she's not" Emily said flippantly.

"Home-wrecker" he said jokingly.

Emily's heart sunk to her stomach as Toby's computers screensaver popped up it was a slideshow Spencer had made him for his birthday.

First was a picture of Spencer and Toby with their arms wrapped around each other, the words "i love you..." Typed on the screen.

Next was a picture Emily had taken at a food festival in Philly, it was dark and fuzzy but their faces were illuminated from the red lights of the festival Spencer facing the camera, Toby had his arms around her kissing her cheek, it read "to the moon and back", it was a cute picture Emily thought, you could hardly tell they had both been drunk

The third picture came up Toby was sitting on the Hastings couch, Spencer had straddled his lap, her head on his shoulder, a blanket wrapped around them "I'm your baby" read the caption.

The next was a picture of Spencer and Toby looking into each other's eyes, foreheads and noses touching.

"You're mine too"

The next picture was a picture of Toby driving away in the truck Spencer had bought him "don't go away for too long"

Last was a picture of Spencer wearing Toby's shirt, sitting in the rocking chair Toby had made her, staring off into space "because I'll be lost without you"

Toby and Emily watched the slideshow a couple times and then Toby ran his fingers over the mouse and Spencer and Toby's smiling faces disappeared.

Emily took a deep breath, but then furrowed her eyebrows. She picked up the pillow at the end of the couch smelling it.

"When was the last time Spencer was here" she asked.

Toby blushed crimson a small smile on his face "the night Ali got arrested" he said sheepishly.

"That pillow smells like her" she said accusatorially putting it back.

Toby sighed looking away "I spray my pillows with her perfume, it's the only way I sleep at night" he said sadly.

"Awww" Emily gushed.

"You didn't come here to tell me you became some hot chefs mistress did you?" Toby asked.

"No" Emily said looking away "it's about Spencer"

Toby crossed his arms like he couldn't care less about Spencer. Emily tried to keep her cool.

"Look Toby, when I lied to you for Spencer, I did that to protect your life." Emily said holding back tears "and then you left rosewood, and she fell apart, me and the other girls barely kept her together, then you came back with Jenna by your side, and that didn't just hurt Spencer...for the record." Emily said crossing her arms.

"Em..." Toby started

"Oh I'm not even close to done!" She cut him off

"Then you joined the Ateam, and we almost lost her, you destroyed her! Dammit Toby you destroyed me too"

Emily yelled tears streaking out.

"Em..." Toby tried again

"I'm not finished!" She screamed. "Then you went back to working for A and Spencer helped you! I wouldn't have!" Em waited for Toby to interrupt, when he didn't she continued.

"And now with us STILL not knowing who A is and Ali and Hanna in jail you abandon her and..."

Em trailed off, Toby had a hand over his mouth

"Are you laughing?!" Emily demanded "stop that!" She yelled.

"Oh, I'm sorry Em it's just..." he said still laughing "you come over here all grr Spencer's upset, how dare you abandon her grr" he was still laughing, reading Emily's expression the laughter died down "its funny" he said apologetically

"Care to clue me in on the joke?" Emily asked.

Toby stood walking over to his desk "you can't tell Spencer" he said warningly

"I can't promise that" Emily said flatly

Toby opened a drawer pulling out a cellphone, it wasn't his, or at least wasn't the one he normally used. He handed it to Emily she pressed the unlock button, a picture of Spencer was the phones wallpaper.

"What's this?" Emily asked confused.

"Go through it" Toby said with an attitude.

Emily opened the message box, the messages were generic, Emily couldn't figure out who he was talking to at first

How is she

You're an ass

I know, how is she

She's scared and heartbroken

I hate being away from her

So don't

It's not that simple, I love

her and I need to protect her.

Spencer's mom is shipping

her off to London

She'll be safer there

There were more that Emily glazed over.

"Caleb told Spencer that you weren't talking to him after the storage unit thing."

"That's what I told him to tell her"

Emily gave him a disapproving look.

"Look the cops are watching you girls, ok and they're watching me because I'm the rookie cop with the potentially homicidal girlfriend, but I gotta know what's going on with my girl and Spencer doesn't know how to tell me things without telling me things.

"And Caleb does?"

Toby nodded.

Emily bit her lip "Toby she's cheating on you"

"Not serious cheating" Emily qualified "that nomad Johnny kissed her after you arrested him"

"And she went to a play with Melissa's roommate Colin and I guess he kissed her too"

"I don't even think she kissed them back she just feels guilty for letting the kisses happen"

"Well Caleb didn't tell me that" he said sadly

"My advice," Emily offered "is you go to her house, make one of your world famous epic Toby Cavanaugh speeches, and then you pull her into her arms and tell her how much you love her"

"World famous epic Toby Cavanaugh speeches?"

Emily cleared her throat mimicking Toby's deep voice

"I don't care what you can't tell me, I love you, do you hear me I love you!"

"Pretending not to love you is the hardest thing I've ever done"

"What we had was real"

"She told you about that?" Toby said starting to blush. "Don't worry she kept it pg for me" Emily said smiling.

Emily stood from the couch "please fix this Toby, I don't want to see her break again"

"I got this Em, nobody knows how to take care of Spencer the way I do" Toby said walking her to the door

Em smiled "So everything's ok?" Emily asked hesitantly.

Toby smiled "everything's fine"

Emily reached up giving Toby a hug, Toby pulled her into his arms.

"I'm glad we had this talk" Emily said smiling.

"Me too" Toby said mirroring her smile. He opened the door letting Emily walk through it before closing the door. The second the door closed his smile faded.

One thing kept blaring in his head, Emily's voice saying "she's cheating on you"

He quickly showered writing an "epic Toby speech" as Emily had called it. He was gonna handle his little woman, and he was gonna handle her right now!