arsenic trioxide - pretty little liars [ON HOLD]

004 | graVe situation

(warning: multiple mentions of cancer)

ROSEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA
SEPTEMBER 3RD 2010
15:52

BEATRICE HATED NOT KNOWING. It didn't matter if it was not knowing an answer to a simple maths equation or not knowing an answer to an age-old philosophical question. If Bea didn't know the answer - she hated it.

Beatrice also loved her mother. She was the only consistent feature in Bea's life for the first eight years. While everything else was changing rapidly and moving on, Bea and her mother always stayed the same.

So, not knowing what was happening to her mother worried her to no end.

She had been searching for flights back to Brighton on Spencer's laptop for over half an hour when Spencer arrived back home. Bea was then calmed down by Spencer when she gave her phone back and Beatrice went to call her mother.

For the first five calls, no one picked up the phone. But on the sixth call she was finally answered - but not by her mother.

"Hello?"

"Beatrice, where the hell have you been?"

Jackson.

"I had to go to America. Did my mother not tell you?" Of course, she didn't tell him, Bea would have never been able to leave the country without him knowing. Jackson would have stopped at nothing to prevent her from getting on that plane.

"No, she didn't tell me." He sounded mad. Very mad. "Why didn't I have a say in whether you could go? Am I not a part of this family anymore?"

You never were.

"Jackson, of course, you're part of this family!" If Beatrice had learnt one thing about herself in her time in America, it would be that she lies way too much. "You were busy when I needed to leave and I had to make a quick choice. I'm sorry."

"Sorry doesn't mean shit anymore, Beatrice. You need to come home. Now."

"I can't, Jackson." Beatrice could tell he was becoming more annoyed by the second. "My flight back isn't for five more days and I don't have the money to book one any sooner."

"You're useless." Jackson insulted. "Your mother is in hospital, you know? You left her and this happened. You're ruining her life."

"She's in the hospital?" Bea started to panic again. "Why is she in the hospital?"

He didn't answer.

"Jackson, why is she in the hospital?"

"She wasn't taking all the tablets she had been given since her last visit." Jackson sighed. "They said something about 'Trisenox', whatever that means."

Trisenox? That's-

"Arsenic trioxide?" Beatrice stressed. "Why the hell was she meant to be taking Arsenic trioxide?"

"I don't know!" Jackson claimed. "You're meant to be the smart one."

"I can't know everything, Jackson! Especially when I'm not even in the country!"