You Saved Me (Emison Fanfic)

Ch. 13 - Fall Together

***Sorry for my little hiatus, I had college business to sort out...but my laptop is 100% fixed, school is in order and updates for all my emison stories are on their way.

"They're alive." Alison's voice was dead, the shock making her lightheaded, the air in her lungs getting trapped and she slumped to the ground light slipping from around her until it was gone altogether.

Hours later and the initial shock subsided into a controlled frenzy. Ali woke up feeling like she could empty her stomach into a bin until she was nothing but a convulsing heap. It wouldn't have worked though; she couldn't even remember the last time she ate. Her head was pounding from her mini blackout but she was atop Mona's bed, assuming her and Caleb helped her up.

Caleb was quiet; he sat in the corner of the room, next to the open window, trying to breathe in as much air as he possibly could. The pain in his chest, the soreness, was still there but his mind stayed in Hanna and how he was supposed to find her, how he could save her.

Mona was the calmest of them all, the gears in her head spinning, trying to fit all the pieces she had into a cohesive puzzle.

"Ali," Mona's voice was quieted, not even knowing what hour into the night it was, she fought her sleep and asked, "what are we going to do?"

Alison almost didn't even hear the other girl, her head slowly lifting, the blue eyes abandoned their sparkle, "what," she croaked.

Mona swallowed, knowing that she had the least to lose, Hanna hadn't really talked to her much since the dollhouse, and that was months ago.

"What's the plan, I mean, you have to have something up your sleeve...right?"

Ali stood from the edge of the bed, walking slowly towards Mona, she fought the urge to yell, to let the swarm of emotions overtake her and instead spoke evenly and low, a tone that Mona feared more than the tone she had expected, "I-I, I don't know, I don't know, I have no fucking clue!" Her voice rose steadily until she was fighting tears again, "I don't know, I don't know," spilling from her lips like she was breathing them, "I don't know." It was a final plea for help, but help from who, no one had a clue.

Caleb lifted his head from where it sat on top of his knees and cleared his throat, "we-we have to find out where they were- where they were last." His voice hoarse and broken, his skin dawned a red tint and the light reflected in the trails of drying tears on his face.

Mona got up from her desk and walked towards her closet, holding a black case the size of a small suitcase in her hands when she returned. She placed it on her desk and walked over to Caleb, "I have an idea, but I need your help." Mona was almost sure that what she had in mind she could do on her own, but for Caleb's sake... "please, Caleb."

Caleb met her eyes, jaw set and nodded, there was no more time to wait and sit and cry, Hanna was out there, -A was putting her through only god knows what and he was going to find her.

Ali stood beside Mona and watched as she pulled a thick black laptop with plastic protective casing around it and start it up.

"This," Mona started, "will help us track where the girls and Emily's parents were last. I can hack into virtually anything and track them through credit card usage, security cameras, I can pinpoint their location from the history on their phones GPS and if we can't follow a trail straight back to -A then at least we can find where they were last before they were taken."

Ali sat on the edge of the bed, behind Mona and made it her job to think of places -A would take them. She left the tech side of things to Caleb and Mona.

"What are you going to need?"

"Um I can find out all of their personal info by filtering through these databases and phone numbers, but Ali, if you can think of anything that can narrow the search let us know."