You Saved Me (Emison Fanfic)

Ch. 3 - You Know What They Say About Hope

"Em, it's the only choice I have, you guys have all done so much, and I can't risk letting -A get any closer to you...not if I have a say in it.

Emily looked down and fought the tearing welling in her eyes, "And me, Ali? What about my say? You can't just make these decisions and not expect me to be upset! I'm not letting you leave me, you know that."

Ali shook her head and dared not to meet the girl in front of her, she dare not look into the brown orbs that had captured her heart over and over, but she did. She looked up and it broke her heart when she saw that Emily, her Emily, her mermaid was trying so hard to fight back the tears in her eyes.

Emily always wore her heart on her sleeve so it pained Ali when she saw that she was trying so hard to hold her emotions back.

"Em," Ali had started but then stopped.

She thought back to just a few weeks ago when she had made things right with Emily, or so she thought. She had just gotten Emily back and now she was making plans of leaving. -A wasn't gone, Shana was dead, but she wasn't -A, the texts started again and this bitch was crazier and more psychopathic than before.

"I can't lose you. Not again." Emily finally lifted her head and met Alison's eyes.

Ali's jaw clenched and she tried to ignore that fact that her heart was cramping in her chest and if the beating in her ears wasn't so loud, she could've sworn that she heard it cracking.

Alison closed what little distance they had between them and picked Emily's chin up in her hand, and in a bare whisper, she breathed, "you won't."

Emily couldn't anything about the tears spilling onto her cheeks now, she was overwhelmed with emotion and she couldn't stop. "Then let me come with you. I know you're hiding something Ali, I can see it in your eyes."

Ali couldn't deny that, they had a stronger connection than anyone else ever would with someone and they could always tell, just from looking into each others' eyes, what the truth was. It was hard for Ali to let go of her hard exterior, to drop the act and let the façade fade, but she had, and now Em had the key into her mind through her eyes.

"It's only to protect, the less you know, the better it is."

Em was offended now, she knew Ali always won, but this was something she would fight for to win herself, "but that's not how any of this works! You told me you wanted me...you said you wanted this," Em gestured between them, "and you're doing it all wrong, we said no more lies."

Alison had no problem letting her emotions surface either, "You think this shit is easy, Emily?! I'm doing it protect you, -A almost took you from me once, and I'm not going to let them ever have that chance again. I'm sorry for doing things wrong, but there's no handbook on how this is 'supposed' to work. No one has written a book on how to deal with a psychotic bitch that blackmails and hunts people down, especially when they're the people I love! I know this is 'wrong,' to not tell you everything, but right now, doing this alone, is the only thing that feels right."

"Alone." It wasn't a question in Emily's voice, just a restatement.

"Em," Ali had started up again but stopped for fear of saying anything that might upset the brunette further.

"Ali, I just...why can't I come with you? How do you expect me to keep doing what I'm doing here, when I won't know where you are or if you're safe?"

Ali swallowed hard, realizing how much worry she would be putting Emily through for however long she would stay away.

"I'll check in with you periodically Em, I'm not going to fall of the face of the Earth."