Aria sat on a couch staring at Noel. The creepy serial killer guy had left. Her arms and legs were still bound but he'd given her a cup of coffee.

"Noel?! What's going on?!" She asked in a rushed whisper. "How are you involved in all of this?"

"Calm down Montgomery" he said smiling.

"I don't want to calm down and I won't until I know what the hell is going on here!" She yelled.

"Ok" he said and poked her with a needle as things went black again.

Aria woke later to someone caressing her cheek. She slowly opened her eyes. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. She focused her eyes multiple times before finally coming to the realization that what she saw in front of her was real.

"Alison?" She asked incredulously.

"Hello, Aria" she said simply.

"You're...alive?" She asked realizing it was a stupid question, of course she was alive she was right here.

"Do I look dead to you?" She asked in that magical way.

Her wrists and ankles were still bound.

"Ali will you get me out of these" she asked straining against them.

"I'm afraid I can't" she said with a sad smile "you might see something you aren't supposed to and then we won't be able to let you leave"

"Why?" She asked getting angry.

"I can't tell you" Ali said.

"Look, Ali, no offense but I came here looking for Spencer, I need answers from her, we all do!"

"Nobody cared this much to find me!" She huffed.

"That's because we thought you were dead, there was a body and it was identified as yours and don't even tell me how that happened because I won't even be able to wrap my mind around it right now"

"Aria..." Ali started but Aria cut her off. She could only deal with one fake dead friend at a time.

"Where is Spencer?! I want to see Spencer!" She fumed.

"Fine!" She said with a cool clear gaze. Aria was only barely aware of the prick in her arm that indicated she was being drugged again.

*Meanwhile*

"Aria is gone!" Ezra fumed. "We have to do something!" With nothing else to do they had driven back to the Hastings house. The Hastings weren't home at the moment.

"You heard what that text said!" Hanna yelled. "If we want her back we can't tell anyone what happened, these are the people that took Spencer so I trust what they say"

Just then the Hastings entered. They told them the truth for the most part. They said they'd gone back to the town and Aria stayed behind doing research. They were all getting ready to go to their houses when there was a knock on the door. Mrs. Hastings opened it letting Detective Holbrook in.

"Good evening" he said nodding at them all.

"Now you all said that Spencer told you that Toby broke it off with her before she disappeared?"

"Yeah" Melissa piped up "she said he met someone else, she was devastated up until the time she disappeared"

Holbrook opened his laptop.

"Someone sent this to the Rosewood PD anonymously" he said showing the group a video.

It was Spencer curled up in her bed. Melissa came in.

"Mom, Dad and I are going out to dinner, do you want to come?" She asked in a chipper tone.

"I'd rather stick a grenade in my mouth" Spencer said crankily.

"I'll take that as a no" she said leaving the room.

"That's the night before Spencer went missing" Melissa said.

"Just watch" Holbrook said. He fast forwarded the video until they saw someone enter her room. It was Toby! Spencer jumped from the bed into his waiting arms. They started kissing fervently whimpering "I love yous" in between kisses. Toby managed to undo his belt and pants while still holding Spencer in his arms as she attacked his neck with kisses.

"God I missed you" he moaned as the two of them pulled his shirt off. The rest of the clothes came off quickly as they got into her bed.

"This goes on awhile" Holbrook said fast forwarding the video. Emily wondered how many cops had seen this and how many times they'd watched it. Holbrook stopped it as Toby was getting dressed again.

"I wish you didn't have to go" Spencer whined. Toby pulled her into a hug, she was still naked under the covers.

"After tonight we'll never be apart again" Toby said as he put one last kiss to her lips.

"Clearly, they planned to meet up the night she went missing" Holbrook said. "So now we have to determine what happened after that and how your friend ended up dead."

"You said you thought she was alive" Hanna yelled.

"I do" Holbrook said "but until I find her I can't prove it so we will assume she's deceased."

Holbrook left and everyone decided to go over to Hanna's where they could talk in private.

"What do we do about Aria?" Ezra asked in a panic.

"Aria will be fine, we didn't talk" Hanna said getting annoyed.

"Spencer wouldn't let them do anything to Aria." Emily assured.

"The Spencer we know wouldn't" Hanna said. "The Spencer we don't? I'm not so sure"

Aria slowly came out of her drugged state. She was mid stretch when she realized that she was no longer bound. She opened her eyes. She must have been moved because she was in a different room. She quickly sat up surveying her surroundings. She was sitting on a couch. It was a living room but there wasn't any pictures around. Aria saw some mail and she reached for it.

"Don't make me sorry I cut you free" a hard cold voice said. She turned to see Spencer. It was Spencer although she barely recognized her. Her hair had been dyed black and there was and edge to her voice.

"Sorry" she said retracting her hand. Aria had to admit every bone in her body wanted to hug her but she was afraid to.

As Aria sat in silence she wondered what to say to Spencer. She had bit Ali's head off trying to get to Spencer and now she didn't know how to start. Spencer put a glass of water in front of Aria. She still sat there not knowing what to say.

"What do you want Aria?!" Spencer said in an irritated tone.

"I want to know what happened, I want to know why you left, I want to know why you did this to us" Aria said.

"Why I did this to you?!" She asked angrily. "I didn't do anything to you, I did you guys a favor, you didn't have to deal with Spencer "the burden"' Aria shook her head not believing that she was still holding onto that.

"Toby is dead!" Aria yelled "did you know that? He drove his truck off a bridge high as a kite from missing you, do you care about that?!"

Spencer looked at her with stone cold eyes.

"You don't?! You don't even care!" She yelled.

"Aria lower your voice!" She said forcefully.

Aria was about to say she was sorry she came when she heard.

"Mama mama"

Spencer walked over to a playpen Aria hadn't noticed was there before. She picked up the little girl who was now having a full blown tantrum.

"Sorry" Aria said. She watched as Spencer skillfully bounced the girl up and down, giving her a sippy cup to quiet her. Spencer pulled her close putting kisses on her face. When she went back to sleep Spencer laid her back down. Her phone vibrated on the counter she looked at it.

"That's my husband, don't say a word, he can't know you're here" Spencer warned.

"Hi baby!" She said happily.

"Rosalie is sleeping" she said with a big smile on her face.

"We're both fine" she said with a hand on her stomach. Aria realized she must be pregnant.

"You're coming home for lunch?!" She said trying not to sound panicked.

"Okay, I'll see you in a few" she said.

"You need to go!" Spencer said to Aria.

"But I still have so many questions" Aria whined.

When they heard the car pull up. Spencer pushed Aria into a closet. Aria heard the sound of the screen door open. She heard the sound of him unbuckling his belt and knew he hadn't come home for lunch.

"Turn around" the husband said gruffly as Aria heard him smack her ass. "Don't you dare scream"

Aria listened to Spencer's muffled cries and her husbands grunting. Five years of this, Aria could see why she'd become so cold.

When it was over Aria heard the sound of the fridge being opened and closed and a kiss before hearing the screen door. When Spencer opened the door to the closet Aria pulled her into a hug.

"That's so horrible, is he always like that?" She asked.

"I don't poke around your business with Fitz do I?" Spencer shot back.

"Spence, I'm sorry, I just, why did you fake your death? Was it to be with Toby? What happened to you two?"

"I didn't do it to be with Toby, he found someone else I told you that, I did it because I didn't want to be Spencer Hastings anymore. I disowned my family before they had the chance to disown me, and guess what I disowned all of you too! I want to be left alone! This is my life now."

Aria wiped away silent tears.

"Look I'm sorry, if my husband knew you were here he'd pack us up and take us away in the middle of the night. I like it here, I'm happy here. Please just go about your lives and stay out of mine."

"Ok" Aria agreed. "Could I get something to eat I'm starved"

"Yeah" Spencer said getting up to go to the fridge. She brought back to slices of pie apple for Aria and cherry for Spencer.

"The best pie in town" Spencer said

"The baby just loves pie" she said finally showing her old Spencer side. "I eat so much pie probably two to three slices a day."

*Meanwhile*

The gang was all at Hanna's trying to figure out what to do next when all their phones went off.

Don't say I never gave you anything, go look outside

Hanna went to the door and there was a large envelope on the porch. She opened it and found the Cavanaugh family portrait. They were all confused until they turned it over and read the writing on the back.

Money talks, find out how much Daniel paid to keep quiet.

Just then Ezra's phone rang.

"It's Aria!" He yelled.

"Aria where are you baby?" He breathed.

"She's at her house" he relayed. They all went over there.

"Where's Spencer? Did you see her? Did you talk to her?" They bombarded her all at once.

"She's with Ali" Aria said tiredly. Everyone got upset until Aria realized what she had said.

"No" she corrected "Alison's Alive"

Aria then relayed everything that happened on her trip to the other side.

They told her about the video and the picture and message.

"We have to save Spencer and Ali" Emily desperately

"Spencer doesn't want to be saved" Aria said

"But we're gonna save her anyway" Aria said pulling the folded up piece of mail she had stolen when Spencer went to the fridge.