Can two broken and guarded people find healing with each other? Will their walls be too high to conquer? *I do not own any of these characters*

Alison is an overly privileged rich woman with a large mansion and a family that holds a multi-million dollar corporation. She has never believed in love or truly cared for it or anybody but herself. the Dilaurentis family runs New York and nothing could ever take them down. Not even a street rat named Emily Fields. // Emily is a poor college graduate who is simply trying to find a way to pay her student loans from NYU and feed her family. While her struggles become mind-blowing and her artwork and drawings fail to sell, all she wants is love and respect. // To Alison, Emily is nothing but a business opportunity. Her art is nothing but work that could sell for thousands due to the exquisiteness Alison sees in it. But over time Alison realizes that the art Emily creates is not just a creation on paper. She sees that her art is beautiful. And she sees that Emily is more than art. *Note This is an original Emison fanfiction. All characters however, belong to Pretty Little Liars.

Five years have gone by since -A was caught and the girls went separate ways. Emily joined the Army in an attempt to follow in her father's footsteps. She chooses to join due to the fact that she didn't feel like she fit in at college and deployed to Afghanistan. She has not spoken to Alison at all since she left for California and doesn't intend to. She doesn't want Alison, her sick mother, or the girls to know she joined. She also doesn't wish for them to meet the monster she's become. // Alison has become a teacher at Rosewood High and takes care of her sister Charlotte on the side. She misses Emily and tries to forget about her. But after Charlotte is murdered, Alison contacts the girls to come back to Rosewood so she would have comfort while she grieved. // On the outside however, somebody wants just that. They wait for the five girls to reunite, that way they can strike and keep Alison and Emily apart forever. *Note This is an original Emison fanfiction. All characters however, belong to Pretty Little Liars.