Who The Hell Is Jackson Madagan?


"Who the hell is Jackson Madagan?" Hanna yelled when she read the address.

"That's the monster that Spencer is married to and we have to save her from." Aria said.

"I got it" Caleb said taking the address and settling into a seat and opening his laptop.

"Why don't Aria and I go find out what this message means while you figure out everything about that guy." Emily suggested. They all agreed and the two left. Less than ten minutes later they were on The Cavanaugh's front porch. They knocked and waited for an answer. Finally Daniel Cavanaugh came to the door.

"Emily Fields and Aria Montgomery?" he looked at them with a questioning gaze. "What are you two doing here?"

"Did you know about Toby? That he's dead, that's something his friends would have liked to know." Emily asked trying to keep her emotions in check.

"I heard what happened" he said flatly.

"How can you be so cold?" Emily yelled. It was then that he noticed the envelope in their hands.

"What is that?" he asked.

"Well the police believe that spencer is still alive, mostly because she is, me and my friends we've seen her. We keep getting these cryptic messages and whoever sent them is trying to help us find out what happened. They sent us this tonight."

He clenched his jaw as he read the message.

"What does it mean Mr. Cavanaugh" Emily asked. "It could help us."

"I was never a good father ever, not even much of a good man, I didn't support Toby and Spencer being together. When she disappeared I thought she'd just run away the way young girls sometimes do. On the day of Spencer's funeral I went I was in the back. I thought toby would be there and that if he was there he might be needing some support, but he wasn't there so I came home. When I got home he was waiting for me on the couch."

"What did he say, what did he do?" Emily encouraged.

"He blackmailed me, he knew I had done things, illegal things and said if I didn't give him the money he was going to go to the police and tell them everything. And he said if I gave him the money that I would never hear from him again."

"How much did he want?" Aria asked.

"$250,000" he said

"And you never heard from him again?" Emily asked sadly.

"No" he said. Emily and Aria excused themselves and left after that. They returned to Hanna's to see what Caleb had found. Caleb and Hanna were hunkered down around Caleb's laptop.

"What did you find?" Aria asked when they came in. Caleb sighed. "It's not pretty. He's got priors for domestic violence and assault. He owns a strip club on the outskirts of the town they live in."

Aria and Emily then relayed what Daniel Cavanaugh had said.

"What would he have needed that money for?" Hanna asked.

"For drugs?" Caleb suggested.

"For Daisy and the new baby?" Hanna ventured.

The gang called Detective Holbrook and decided to let him handle the searching for them now. He took down all the information and then thanked them and said he'd be in touch soon. They decided to head over and update the Hastings on what was going on.

"Spencer's alive" Aria told them, "I've seen her and talked to her, she's married to an awful man he's a criminal, anyway Holbrook is on the case."

"She's alive?" Veronica asked hardly believing the words.

"Yes and she has a little girl that's about 2 or 3 and she has another one on the way." Aria said.

"Oh my god I can't believe she's really alive!" Veronica screamed.

All of a sudden there was a knock on the door. Melissa let Holbrook in. He looked defeated.

"I really wanted to find your daughter and I wanted to be the one to bring her back to you" he said sadly.

"Why are you saying that like it isn't possible?" Veronica asked.

"I brought the clues that the girls had given me to my supervisor's attention and suggested we look into it. She came out of her office half an hour later and suspended me with pay until the investigation is over."

"You girls need to keep looking into this, you need to find out what happened to her. I wouldn't trust the cops, I find it odd that as soon as I have a solid lead I get suspended."

With that knowledge the girls agreed to go to the address tomorrow and try to talk some sense into Spencer and get her to come home with them.

Emily drove carefully following the GPS directions the next day. The girls were in her car and the guys were in a high tech van behind them. If Spencer couldn't see reason then they may have to kidnap her and her daughter.

"Arrived" the robotic GPS announced. The girls felt the pang of disappointment as they found themselves staring at an empty lot. They got out of their cars and looked.

"It looks like there was a trailer parked here" Caleb said.

"Spencer said if her husband had known I was here he would take her away in the middle of the night" Aria said as tears began to stream down her face "now she's gone and we have no way of getting to her."

"No" Caleb said "but we can get to her scumbag husband"

"What are you thinking?" Ezra asked.

"He owns a business here in town, they didn't just up and take off" Caleb said "I think you, Aria and Emily should scour town and see if you don't run into Spencer like before. Hanna and I will go to the strip club and see this monster"

"I don't like that plan" Emily said.

"It sounds dangerous" Aria added.

"Maybe but we don't have much of an option" Ezra said "just be careful"

Aria, Ezra, and Emily went through town passing out more posters and asking people about Spencer.

"So what's your plan Caleb" Hanna asked once they were alone.

"Well, the plan is to try and get a meet with this Jackson guy by saying you're a stripper looking for a job"

"That won't work" Hanna said to him rolling her eyes "why wouldn't I just go in myself?"

"Because I'm going to tell him I have an agency full of girls I could offer to him" Caleb said.

"So basically you're pimping me out?" Hanna asked "yeah sort of"

"If we make it out of this wacky plan of yours alive I'll be surprised" she said.

*Later that night*

"My feet are killing me!" Aria complained.

"Mine too and I'm in flats" Emily replied

"It's a consensus" Ezra said. "Let's find a place to sit and get something to eat."

"Where do you want to go to eat?" Aria asked.

"Doesn't matter" he said. "You know what's weird I noticed it the other day, they have six bakeries in this town and not one of them sells pie"

"Pie?!" Aria yelled. Without explanation she darted into a bakery that was close by.

"Where can I get the best pie in town?" She asked the lady rearranging pastries in the case.

"Piggly Wiggly Pies" she said "Drive straight through town going like you're going to get back on the highway and it's on the right."

"It's a bakery?" Aria asked.

"It's a diner" she corrected "but if you're looking for the best pies in town that's your place"

"Thank you" Aria said and pulled out a crumpled $10 bill.

"Come on let's get to the car" Aria said.

"How do you know that she'll be there?" Emily asked.

"I don't but I hope that she will be" Aria said. "When I was at her place she had a bunch of pie in the fridge and she said it was the best pie in town so I'm just hoping against hope that maybe she will be there."

They pulled into the gravel lot. It was pretty empty which wasn't surprising since it was almost 9:00 at night. They went in and sat at a small table. A hostess came by and handed them all menus.

They looked them over and quickly decided what they were ordering. Aria ordered a grilled cheese sandwich, Ezra ordered a chicken sandwich and fries, and Emily ordered a turkey sandwich.

Emily was playing with her crumpled up straw wrapper when she saw Spencer out of the corner of her eye. At least she thought it was spencer. She shot a look at Aria and Ezra motioning her head towards the woman. They turned as subtly as they could.

"Can I get you anything else sweetie?" she asked a little girl who was sitting a couple booths down with her dad.

"Can we get one of those chocolate cream pies to go?" the dad said.

"Of course, excellent choice" she said with a smile.

She eyed their table when she turned to go back in the kitchen. They turned around and looked down into their drinks. Aria could tell when a waitress with an extended stomach came over she knew it was spencer. They all slowly looked up.

"You guys need to leave!" she said in a hushed whisper.

"Spencer, we need to talk to you" Emily said.

"We want to help you" Aria added. She walked back into the kitchen and came back a few minutes later with take-out boxes.

"You want to help me? Take your food, pay your bill and leave, don't come back." She said turning away.

Aria texted Hanna that they had found Spencer, working in a diner and that she still apparently wanted nothing to do with them.

*Meanwhile*

"You really think we can pull this off?" Hanna asked. She was wearing short shorts and a halter top.

"Well, I think that you look hot" Caleb said. Hanna shook out her hands and nodded at Caleb that she was ready to get this crazy plan out of the way.

He wrapped an arm around her and led her to the door.

"We're here for a meeting about a job for my girl here." He said pointing his thumb at Hanna. The bouncer opened the door and let them in.

"Tell the girl at the bar" he said gruffly. "She'll tell the boss"

"Thanks" Caleb said curtly. They sat at a table and sipped on sodas. The girl at the bar came over.

"The boss will see you now" she said. She led them into the office. "The boss" had a half-naked blonde on his lap.

"Go back to work" he said smacking her ass as she left.

"So you want a job?" he said gruffly.

"I'm Diesel" Caleb said. "This is my girl, Amber" he said pointing to Hanna

He looked Hanna up and down.

"Are you Jackson?" Hanna blurted out before she could stop herself.

"No, What do you want with him?" he asked.

"We want to deal with the boss, not some chump." Caleb said firmly. He glared at them and Hanna was worried they might be in over their heads. His eyes narrowed.

"Ok" he said finally. He led them down a hall and then knocked on the door. He stuck his head in.

"They insisted on speaking with you" he said.

He ushered them in.

They walked in and saw the back of an office chair.

"Leave us" Jackson said.

"You couldn't just leave it alone could you?" he said as the chair turned around. They both gasped.

"Toby?" Hanna asked. There was no need to ask even under the extensive facial hair there was no denying it was toby.

"You two need to leave" he said coldly.

"We can't" Hanna shrieked. "We need answers!"

He reached into his desk and pulled out a gun pointing it at them.

"I said you two need to leave now!" he said loudly.

Then another door opened.

"I told you they were gonna be trouble" Wilden said.

Toby fired the gun at the wall between them.

"Next time I won't miss" he said.

"Come on" Caleb said "We're leaving"

He grabbed Hanna's hand and walked out as quickly as he could.

"He pointed a gun at us! And fired it!" Hanna yelled when they got in the car.

"That may be toby but that isn't any toby we've ever known" Caleb said.

*Meanwhile*

Aria, Ezra, and Emily were getting ready to leave when a guy Aria recognized walked in.

"That's the serial killer guy!" Aria said. He walked over to Spencer and grabbed her arm.

"You're leaving" he said to her. "Skylar and Rosalie are already in the car"

She looked over to their table.

"What did you do?" She said as he pulled her out of the diner.

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