Science. {Jason DiLaurentis}

A is for Answers

SCIENCE— CHAPTER ONE.
S4:E24

      
A is for answers and the liars are desperate for them. After finding a clue as towards where Alison might be hiding, Emily made contact with her. Alison DiLaurentis tells the liars to meet her in New York so that she can explain everything. Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily travel venture into the city for answers but they leave knowing more than they could have ever imagined.

Sienna Sinclair— the sixth liar— is alive. Unlike her counterpart, Sienna did not return to Rosewood during the time of her disappearance. Instead, she stayed in the shadows—hidden from everyone, even A.

It is no small feat that Sienna managed to keep her secret for so long. She is loyal, loving. It weighted on her heavily to remain away from the people she loved, especially as they fell apart due to circumstances that surrounded them. Though sometimes, the biggest danger is yourself, and that's how Sienna viewed herself— as a danger, a threat to everyone she held close to her heart.

The four pretty little liars are guided into a room by Noel Kahn as they await the return of their long lost friend. Anticipation and confusion coursing through the girls veins as they try to process the events that lay before them, each of them failing to understand why Alison would trust Noel Kahn with her secret. It intrigued them to know how long he had known the truth— how long he had been playing in their faces.

Though, Noel doesn't even know the full truth. Only Alison and Sienna are privy to the details of their disappearance. Sienna didn't want anyone else to know. She wanted to disappear. She needed to disappear— no matter how much it cost her in the process.

When Noel first reunited with Sienna, he was shocked to say the least. With a gaping mouth, he was wordless, emotionless on the outside as his insides threatened to explode. Once, Sienna had been his closest friend. Then they distanced from each other and eventually, she died. And Noel Kahn became a different person in Sienna's absence.

"I cannot believe we let Noel bring us here," Aria dispels once Noel finally exits the room. The liars each exhaling in exasperation as their lungs struggle for oxygen, each of them lost in their own heads as they cluster in the small space.

They were nervous. Not only were the liars trusting someone who they didn't trust, but they were also going to reunite with Alison once and for all. Each of the harsh truths that they'd faced in her absence swarmed inside their heads. They'd mourned Alison. They'd been relieved and saddened by her death. But now, she was back in their lives again. Only this time, they weren't the same girls they once were. 

"Do we think she's even coming?" Hanna fidgets, hands thrown up in the air as she gestures. As much of a lover as she is, she doesn't expect Alison to come— it's easier that way. She'd learned not to count on people to show up. It's the only way to ease dissatisfaction and disappointment.

"I don't know, when I saw it was him instead of Ali I thought for sure this was a trap." Spencer processes, posture tight as if she were on guard.

"Probably is and we're just sitting here like geese." Hanna quips.

"Ducks."

"What?"

"You sit like laying ducks, not geese." Spencer further corrects Hanna's statement, her intelligence automatically entering into the conversation.

"Okay, well whatever. They both quack." Hanna brushes off, annoyance brushing at the end of her words.

"Geese honk." Spencer finishes, her tone lightly lifting with the correction.