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❝ 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟! 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘! Have either of you seen my bag?! ❞ Sadie rushes down the stairs, doing her best not to trip and hurt her casted arm that was also in a a sling to help her keep it elevated. "I need to get to Hanna's!"

"Uh, Sadie." Will's voice calls out from the kitchen, "Come here for a second."

"What? I need to—," Sadie pauses as she walks around the corner, freezing as she takes in the two new figures standing on the opposite side of the counter that both her brothers were standing on, "Mom? Dad?"

"Oh, my baby." Alice holds her arms out as she moves closer to where her daughter is standing.

"I wish you would." Sadie holds her hand up, stopping her mother in her tracks. "I wish you would put your arms around me and try to hug me."

"Sadie." Jesse sternly, shaking his head.

"We came to talk to you." Dylan spoke to his daughter, "About taking you with us to Spain until you graduate."

Sadie says nothing, only turning around on the heel of her feet to walk out before pausing and walking back to the kitchen and only looking at her brothers, "I have a broken arm and I'm not allowed to drive until it's taken off...can one of you drive me to Hanna's?"

"Yeah, come on." Jesse walks away from his parents to wrap his arm around his little sister's shoulders, "I can take you."

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❝ 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐄 you taking that off? ❞ Aria carries Hanna's crutches as the girl walked into the house, Spencer and Emily carrying her other things from the hospital since Sadie couldn't carry much.

"I'm not." Hanna presses the sticker down on her cast, hoping to keep it on so that she didn't have to see A's message, "I'm trying to keep it on. Believe me, I don't want to see the autograph that's under it."

"Well we can get you another sticker." Spencer tells her as Sadie and Aria sit at the kitchen Island.

"Yeah, this time why don't you try something mellower like "save the planet?" Aria tells the Hastings girl.

"Hey, there were not a lot of choices, okay?" Spencer crossed her arms, "It was either "Humpty Dumpty" or "Jesus is coming. Look busy"."

Hanna peels the sticker back, "Oh, God, it's still there."

"Hanna, Hanna, don't, okay?" Spencer crouches down next to her, hand over the sticker, "Don't look at that. Just look around you, 'cause you're safe, you're home and you're alive." She looks over at Sadie, "Both of you."

"No, I thought I was safe in my hospital room, too." Hanna sighed, "You know, what's going on with Noel Kahn? Is he A? Have you talked to him?"

"No, I avoid him. I keep telling him I'm busy." Aria denied, "Busy freaking out every time I look at him."

"Yeah, well, try being run over by him." Hanna says, trailing off.

Sadie sighed as she picked at the nail polish on her nails, "My parents are here. They want to take me to Spain to finish High school."

"What?"

"They can't do that!"

"You're emancipated!"

"Are you serious?"

"They don't know that." Sadie brushed her hair out of her face, "They still think that Will and Jesse share custody over me. They don't even know that I left and stayed with the DiLaurentis'. They don't care about me, they care about their family image and I'm sure while they were in Spain, they bragged about their three kids. About how one is a cop and another is a doctor, while their seventeen year old is going to go to college for whatever it is they made up in their minds."

"Anyone else starving or is it just me?" Hanna asked her friends.

"No, your mom said she left a special dinner for you in the fridge." Spencer tells her as Aria stands up and makes her way over to the silver refrigerator.

"Mmm. Pass." Hanna shakes her head, "No, I want a pop-tart."

"That sounds so good." Sadie sighed.

"What? I've been on hospital food for three weeks. I wanna eat something that doesn't look like it's already been chewed."

"Okay, well, why don't you eat while we go get the rest of your stuff." Aria touches Hanna on the shoulder, three of the four other girls leaving.

"Okay, which cabinet are the pop-tarts?" Sadie stands up from her chair, moving towards the one that Hanna points out to her. "Shit, the only thing I hate about not being too short, but not being too tall."

"Here. Use this." Hanna holds out the crutch so the Beaumont girl can knock the box down.

"I didn't mean to knock everything down." Sadie sighed, getting on her knees to pick it up, "Uh, Hanna....,"

"What? What is it?"

Sadie hands over the box of lasagna noodles, though they were filled with stacks of cash. "What is all of this?"

"I have no idea."

"Hanna?" Aria calls out as both Hanna and Sadie move to hide the money back into the boxes, "Hey, so, if you're gonna stay down here tonight we were, um...,"

"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Down here's good." Hanna tells them.

"What happened?" Spencer asked them.

"Nothing. Sadie just knocked a few boxes down when she was trying to get the pop-tarts for me."

"A broken arm just means that I'm clumsy."

"No, no, no." Hanna stops them from picking the boxes up, "You don't have to clean. Uh, you can go. Seriously, my mom's gonna be here soon. So..,"

"Wait. So now you want us to leave?" Aria asked, sharing a look with the other girls.

"You don't have to put on a brave face for us, okay, we get it." Spencer crossed her arms, "If being alone is freaking you out we can absolutely, stay—,"

"No, no, no. I'm just...I'm fuzzy." Hanna tells them, "And I think it's from this pain medication. Yeah, I need a nap."

"Okay. Can we help you to the couch?" Emily asked her.

"No, you've done enough. Seriously, you guys, go."

"Okay, call me?"

"Yeah, me too. Anytime."

"Can someone give me a ride home?" Sadie asked, "Actually, can I stay with one of you?"

"You can stay with me." Aria tells her as they walk out, "Mike's been worried and didn't want crowd you in the hospital."

"Thanks."

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𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 the kitchen as Sadie sat across from her parents, Will and Jesse sitting on either side of their little sister.

"I'm gonna be late for school." Sadie mumbled, crossing her arms over her chest. "Can I leave?"

"No." Alice shakes her head, "As your parents, we're not giving you a choice. You will be moving with us to Spain to finish this year and your Senior year."

"I don't have a choice?"

"No, you don't have a choice." Dylan cleared his throat, "We decided as your mother and fat—,"

"Don't even go there." Jesse shakes his head, "You are not her parents. Will and I, we raised her because the two of you were too busy traveling for work and going on your fancy ass vacations!"

"We are her parents!"

"No! No, Jesse's right. We took care of her, we made sure she had a better childhood than the two of us ever did." Will stands up from his chair, palms flat on the table, "What's her favorite flower? What's her favorite color? What's she allergic to? Which one of the girls is she closer to? How many times did you wake up in the middle of the night to help her with nightmares?!"

"Who went to her middle school graduation? Hm? Who taught her how to swim? Or her bike? Who taught her how to drive?" Jesse continued to fire questions at their parents, "When's her birthday?"

"We know when her birthday is and she's not allergic to anything." Alice scoffed, "What are you trying to prove?"

"When's her birthday?"

"January 12th." Dylan answered.

"February 3rd." Sadie's voice cracks, "My birthday is February 3rd."

"Okay, I got her birthday wrong, that doesn't mean anything." Alice shrugged, "I'm still her mother and your father is still your father."

"Her favorite flowers are tulips. Her favorite color is red. She's always wearing something red." Will stares his parents down, who shifted her gaze over to Sadie to find her wearing a red leather jacket that was gifted to her a few years ago.

"She's allergic to peanuts and wasps. She's closest to Spencer because they just get each other. Me and Will, we took turns calming her down from the nightmares that she had because neither of you were here." Jesse says. "We were the only ones there when she graduated from middle school, Will taught her how to swim, we both taught her how to ride her bike, and I taught her how to drive."

"Sadie." Will doesn't take his eyes off of his parents, "Go to school. Jesse's gonna drive you, get Ezra to bring you home. I'll text him."

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❝ 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋, 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋, look what the cat dragged in. ❞ Sadie crosses her arms as she steps out of the school doors, eyes spotting Spencer talking to Alex, "My good friend Antonio."

Alex smirks as he turns his head to look at the blonde, Spencer laughing at the interaction between her two friends. "Nice cast, Samara."

"Thank you for the flowers and the get well card." Sadie smiles at him, "I'll leave the two of you alone. I have to get Mr. Fitz to drive me back home where my mom and dad are at. Trying to drag me to Spain. Against my will."

"Call me if you need a place to crash tonight." Spencer tells her best friend.

"Yeah, well, I hope the conversation goes in my favor and they're back on the first flight to Spain with tears and broken hearts."

"Good luck with that, Sabrina."

"Thanks, Andrew!"

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𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 her food around on her plate as she sat at the dining table where she sat with her parents, brothers and Cassie who Will had invited with the hopes of keeping the rest of the night at peace.

She just really hoped that Jason was sitting next to her and holding her hand through it all. With the summer quickly getting closer, she couldn't wait to get out of Rosewood to calm her nerves down.

"So, Cassie, what do you do?" Dylan broke the silence, wanting to get to know his son's girlfriend. "Are you from here?"

"Oh, I'm a nurse at the hospital." Cassie answers, "I went to high school with Will and Jesse actually. I was friends with Melissa."

"Was friends with Melissa?"

"We just...we stopped talking after high school, that's all."

"Hmm, Sadie have you given more thought to what you want to do when we get to Spain?" Alice questioned, looking over to her daughter."

"I'm not going to Spain!" Sadie slammed her fork down, standing up from her chair, "I'm not going, and you can't make me go!"

"I am your mother and I'll make you do what I damn well please!" Alice stands up, finger pointed in her daughter's face.

"No, mom, you can't. Because according to the city of Philadelphia, I'm a legal emancipated adult!"

Dylan's head snapped towards his sons, "You let your little sister get emancipated?! Are the two of you crazy!?"

"Don't turn this around on them." Sadie snaps at her father, "It's done and over with, I'm legally an adult and married!"

"Married?!" Alice exclaimed angrily, "Are you out of your mind?! You're sixteen years old, Sadie! This is not what God wou—,"

"Oh, don't pull that righteous bullshit with me! The only reason you're actually following dad around while he works is because of the affair that he had on you! Guess you didn't clue him in on the one that you had, or are you still having it?" Sadie yelled at her mother before everyone grew quiet, "Yeah, you didn't tell him about that did you?"

"What affair, Alice?" Dylan turns to his wife, his hand tightening around the fork in his hand. "What affair?!"

"She doesn't know what she's talking about." Alice clears her throat, sitting back down in her seat and wipes the imaginary dirt from her dress.

"I don't know what I'm talking about? You paid me to keep quiet!" Sadie scoffed before she turned to look at her father, "Mom's been sleeping with your brother, yeah the uncle we haven't seen in eight years? She's seen him plenty. I caught the two of them, she paid me to keep quiet and then started following you around after you had your own affair."

"This is sooo much better than hospital gossip." Cassie mumbles under her breath, Jesse biting down on his lip and covering his mouth to stop from laughing at his brother's girlfriend.

"Don't come here and expect me to go anywhere with the two of you, because I'm not. I'm perfectly fine staying where I am, where my friends are, when Alison is buried. You have no control over me anymore, either of you." Sadie's eyes danced between her mother and father as she spoke, "None of us need you here, so do us all a favor and crawl back into the same pits of hell that you crawled out of."

Alice stares at her daughter in shock as Dylan looks down at the table below.

"Sadie. Don't you have a party for Hanna to get to?" Will questioned, his eyes never leaving either of this parents.

"Yeah. I have to change first." The blonde mumbled before turning around and making her way up the stairs as her phone dinged.

❛ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴊᴏʙ ᴇxᴘᴏꜱɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏᴍ'ꜱ ᴀꜰꜰᴀɪʀ
ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ɪ ʜᴀᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜᴀɴᴄᴇ. ᴘꜱ, ᴡᴇ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ
ᴘʟᴀʏ ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ɪɴ ꜱᴘᴀɪɴ, ᴋɪꜱꜱᴇꜱ, ꜱᴀᴅᴇꜱ. ❜
── ᴀ

"Ugh, stupid bitch."

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𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐒 out of her car, looking up at Hanna's house that was lit up as she lets out a sigh not actually wanting to be at the party that Mona was throwing for Hanna.

"Hey, you're not supposed to be driving." Spencer walks up to her with her arms crossed over her chest. "Are you crazy? What if you wrecked?"

"Then it would be the highlight of my night." She sighed, falling back against the driver's door of her car, "My parents are still here and insisting that I go with them to Spain. Oh, and I outed my mother's affair with my uncle before whoever this A bitch is could do it for me before I told them that they could crawl back into hell where they came from."

"Guess A got to both of us tonight." Spencer sighed before showing the blonde her phone screen.

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𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒 Spencer's phone in her hand as she sits next to Spencer on Hanna's stairs, Sadie sitting on the step above them, "You need to call Alex."

"And tell him what?" Spencer asked, "I can't undo this without telling him about A. Unless you think I should go into the kitchen and ask A to put down the piece of pizza and call Alex himself."

"Stop. We don't know that Noel is that person."

Sadie scoffed, "Right, and you're not sleeping with our English teacher."

"And besides," Aria sends a sharp glare to Sadie, "I'm not even sure what A wants anymore. Are either of you?"

"You know what happens when you stick four lobsters in a tank and cut off their food supply?"

"They start to eat each other."

Noel appears in front of the three girls, "Can I get to the bathroom? Is there a magic password?"

Aria moves her legs and leans to the side as Sadie stands up so that he's able to get by them before sitting back down.

"Okay, if we find out that he is who we think he is, then what are we prepared to do about it?"

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❝ 𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐄! ❞ Jesse calls out for his little sister as he stands at the bottom of the stairs, "Can you come here for a second?!"

"What's up?" Sadie stands at the top of the stairs as she looks down at her brother.

"Uh, I got a call from an old friend at the Police station. They got a positive match for blood on Toby's sweater. It was Alison's." Jesse watches as the blonde's face drops and she moves to sit on the top step, leaning her head against the banister.

"Toby's never going to catch a break with this."