Hello everybody! This is a new story called Unforeseen Circumstances. It's a collaboration with Boris Yielten, who came up with the idea. Be sure to check their stories too.

We've been working on this for a while now, so we hope you enjoy!

She can't open her eyes. She can't do it. If she does, she's afraid her eyes will be met with the interior of the horrid bell tower, where Ian left her to die. Only she's not dead. Yet. And what's that beeping sound?

The next thing she registers after the irritating beeping is pain. There's pain all through her body, although for some reason it's not as bad as moments before. Or was it longer? She's not sure.

Finally, she musters up what's left of her courage and opens her heavy eyes to be met with a blinding light. She quickly shuts them. She is dying, isn't she? Why else would there be a light?

But then she hears voices. Despite the pain through her body her chest flutters at the sound of his voice. Toby's voice. She can't make out the words, but what matters is that he's here. With her. Before she goes.

But how did he know she was here? There were only two people in the bell tower, and she highly doubts Ian sent a search party for her. But then she notices others' voices. She can hear Hanna's voice, and then another male's voice, maybe Caleb. She's not sure. Something isn't right here.

Well, nothing was really right to begin with. Her brother in law just did unspeakable things to her and left her in the darkness of the bell tower. But it wasn't how it was moments ago when she let her eyes close.

Finally, she slowly opens her eyes and although the light is still blinding, she can see the ceiling. She is definitely not in the bell tower anymore. She looks around, and finds her boyfriend sitting in a char to her right. She doesn't care how she got here anymore, she's just glad that both she and Toby are safe.

Toby gently reaches out and takes her slender hand into his. He gives her a soft smile and with his free hand, brushes loose strands of hair from her pale face.

"Hey," He whispers, smiling.

"Hey," Spencer croaked. After a moment, she asks the golden question. "How did I get here?"

Toby's smile falters, but he keeps his hand in hers. "So I suppose you... remember?"

Spencer gives a small nod.

He clears his throat. "Well, after – you know – the girls were worried because you weren't back yet. Aria came and found you."

For the first time since she realized she was in the hospital, she looks around the room. Right now it's just him, Hanna and Aria. Where's Emily?

As if he read her mind, Toby told her, "Emily is waiting with Caleb, while trying to assure your parents that it was Ian who did this."

Spencer felt like a weight was removed from her body. "My parents... they know? About everything Ian's done?"

Hanna spoke up for the first time. "Yeah, and they're furious."

Aria took Hanna's hand. "C'mon, we should go let Spencer's parents know she's awake." She said and got up, Hanna following her.

"Aria?" Spencer called softly before the shorter girl could leave. Aria turned around.

"Thank you," Spencer said. Not much else had to be said. Aria knew what she meant. She gave her a small smile. "What did you think I was going to do? Leave you there?" She teased, and Spencer smiled back.

Moments after her friends left, her parents stormed into the room. "Oh, my Spencer," Mrs. Hastings gushed, hurrying to her youngest daughter's left side. "I promise, when Ian is found, we'll make sure he never leaves prison."

"Yeah, Spencer, your parents won't stop until his dirty ass is in a cell for life," Hanna said from the doorway. Everybody gave her the 'Really, Hanna?' look.

"Damn right, we won't," Mr. Hastings bellowed. "To think we let that scumbag in our house."

Spencer had to stop herself from smiling. She grateful her parents were such hardcore lawyers.

Mrs. Hastings cleared her throat. "Well, I have a few calls to make. Including the police."

"The police?" Spencer asked. "I thought they were already looking for Ian?" Everybody in the room looked at each other before Mr Hastings spoke. "We know about A."

Spencer wasn't sure if she should be relieved or not. A could do unspeakable things, much like Ian. Wait a minute. How did everybody know it was Ian who did this to her?

"How do you guys know that Ian did it?" Spencer thought out loud. Everybody looked at her. "I mean, it was Ian," She reassured quickly, "But, how did you know?"

Mrs. Hastings shared a look with her husband. "They did some tests while you were unconscious," She told her. "They found Ian's fingerprints on your body." She paused. "And something else."

"Wait, the doctors where checking me while I was unconscious?" Spencer sputtered. Her mother nodded.

"I'm sorry sweetie, but they had to. They had to make sure he didn't, well, hurt you in other ways." Spencer knew exactly what that meant. She knew everything Ian had done to her, including the rape.

She swallowed. "So, how long was I unconscious?"

"Aria found you eight hours ago." Mrs. Hastings replied. "Now if you'll excuse us, we have to go and notify the police of a nameless monster." She said and stalked out of the room, followed by Spencer's father.

As soon as they were gone, Spencer asked, "Who told them?"

There was a pause before Aria spoke up. "I did. I thought it might have been –A because your parents didn't get the results back yet. We couldn't lie our way out of this one."

Spencer shook her head. "No, no, I'm glad you told them. At least the police will be able to do something."

At that moment, Emily, Caleb, and Ezra came in the room. "Hey, Spence," Emily spoke softly. "How are you feeling?"

"I've had better days," Spencer replied dryly. "But I'm okay now, I guess."

"Aw," Hanna gushed, "The whole squad is here!"

"Wow," Spencer said. "I never thought I'd be in a 'squad' with my English teacher," Then she added quickly, "Nothing personal, Mr. Fitz."

"Trust me, I never thought I'd be part of a 'squad' with my students, but what's normal in Rosewood?" He said. "Oh, and I guess all of you can call me Ezra at this point, since we're... squad buddies, or whatever," He said, looking at Hanna.

"Oh, yeah, sorry Spence," Aria told the taller girl, "I didn't know what to do when I found you so after I called 911 I called him."

Spencer rolled her eyes good naturedly. "Of course you did. Um, do my parents know he's here?"

Aria widened her eyes and looked down at the floor. "Hopefully not."

"Well," Toby spoke, "It's getting kind of late, so Spencer should probably get some sleep," he said, hoping the others would take a hint.

"Oh, right," Hanna said. She then sat down on a vacant chair and everybody looked at her. "What?" She asked. "He said she should sleep,"

Caleb rolled his eyes and took his girlfriend's hand. "Feel better soon, Spence," He said before dragging his oblivious girlfriend out the door.

"Yeah, feel better Spencer," Emily said, and she too left.

Aria leaned down to hug her friend. "Don't worry," She told her. "They're going to catch that bastard."

Spencer let out a small laugh. "Goodnight Aria. Thank you for everything."

Aria smiled and left along with Ezra.

"Did you just want them to leave?" Spencer asked her caring boyfriend. He shrugged.

"You do need some sleep," He told her.

"Fine," She replied. "Sleep with me?"

Toby smiled and carefully crawled into the bed with Spencer. She basically slept on top of him, but he didn't care. He held her tight. There was no way anybody was going to hurt her again.