You Saved Me (Emison Fanfic)

Ch. 12 - An Old Friend

Hours later and Ali and Caleb found themselves outside of Mona's house, eventually convincing Mona to let them in.

"Mona, I don't think either one of us would be here if I didn't really need your help."

Ali tried desperately to get Mona to tell her anything she knew.

"Look Ali, I want to help, but like I said, I was under a lot of medication when I was in Radley, I don't even know what I can say was real and what was a-"

"Bullshit!" Caleb had been quiet while the awkward interaction between Ali and Mona commenced. He stood back and felt the tension between the two grow until he couldn't take it anymore. They talked in circles and Caleb had enough.

"Mona," he grumbled in a low voice, "that is bullshit and you know it."

"What?" Mona gasped and was shocked at the sudden outburst.

"Look, you were once Hanna's friend and I know you seriously can't stand there and say you don't know anything about Alison's alleged other brother and not say anything."

Mona shook her head, "look I told the cops-"

"We're not the cops Mona!" Caleb walked closer to the short brunette and looked her square in the eye. "Do you know? Do you know about the plane crash! Do you dammit!"

Mona's eyes watered and she shook her head subtly, looking at the floor.

"Then help us, please," Ali pleaded softly, "if not us, then help Hanna, she didn't deserve- please Mona, you're our last hope at finding who did this to us, you're included in this too you know, just help me understand if the lies about my childhood were actually real, if there's an even bigger secret about my family. I'm- I'm begging."

Mona managed a smirk, "wow the great Alison DiLaurentis begging loser Mona for help, this moment should be put in the books for the whole-"

Ali didn't hear much, she lunged forward and went for Mona's shoulder, successfully wrapping her fingers around them before Caleb could stop her and pinned Mona to the nearest wall.

"Fuck you Mona, I apologized, I know what I did, but I'm not that person anymore, I wouldn't be here if I was still the old me."

"Still, I don't see why you care, you weren't even-"

"Why I care! You don't know a god damn thing do you?! You have no fucking clue!"

Mona was genuinely confused when an expression crossed Ali's face, an expression she had yet to see: fear.

Alison dropped her hands but there was still barely an inch separately her body from Mona's.

"I went to find -A myself Mona, that's why I left. -A made me an offer and I thought I was a step ahead for once, I was going to do what he wanted and catch the sonofabitch. But I had to lie to the girls, even Em about everything I was going to do, I made Emily promise to not follow me, to give me some time. That time came and gone and -A knew something was up, I was kept in a hole in the ground and I thought I was going to die in there, I faked a break up with Em to keep her safe but when I didn't call when I was supposed to she knew-"

"Why are you-"

"Shutup and listen!"

Ali continued without wasting another second, the grit in her voice making her words come from someplace dark, "Em came, I don't know how, but she found me, she tracked me down and she was stupid because she didn't tell anyone, I think she thought it would be okay, that -A wouldn't be there, because he usually never is, only the smoke and mirrors, that's how close we get.