A/N: If you've read the first part you know what you're in for.
Emily, Spencer, Aria and Hanna stood around the Hastings kitchen table.
"I just don't think I can get them to be friends," Emily said, mournfully.
"Em, sometimes things just don't work out," Hanna said.
"Maybe you're right," Emily replied.
"You tried," Aria said. "Like I tried with Jake, but it just didn't work."
"You've broken up with Jake?" Emily asked.
"Yeah, well, he was pretty boring," Aria replied.
Spencer and Hanna nodded.
"What about Ezra?" Emily asked. "Any plans to get back together with him?"
"Not right now," Aria replied. "I just want to be single for a while. I don't want to turn into one of those girls who can't go a week without a boyfriend."
"You loved him though," Emily said.
"Ezra's great," Aria said, "and it's sweet that he still keeps an eye out for me. I mean, he watches over all of us really. The thing is I don't need a man, though. I just want to be myself."
There was a knock at the door.
Paige jumped up and ran to the door with excitement. Before she opened it, however, she remembered the need for caution, so she checked the surveillance cameras. It was the delivery man. Excellent!
She opened the door.
"Delivery for Paige McCullers," he said.
"That's me!" she replied, barely containing her excitement.
"Sign here please," he said, handing her a piece of paper, which she promptly signed.
"Have a nice day," he said, then walked away, leaving a large wooden crate on her doorstep.
Paige rubbed her hands with delight.
She quickly grabbed a trolly, and took the crate around to her back yard. There she undid the ties holding it together, letting one side fall to the ground. There it was. And it was beautiful.
She found the instruction booklet.
"Congratulations on your purchase of the Acme AMX-2000 Mobile Missile Launcher. This product is the ideal choice for both your surface-to-air and surface-to-surface strategic attack capabilities."
Paige was so excited.
"Paige!"
Paige span around. Emily was walking across the backyard towards her. Act natural McCullers, she thought to herself.
"What have you got there?" Emily asked.
"It's a present," Paige replied. "For my nephew."
"It looks like a missile launcher," Emily observed.
"It's a nerf missile launcher," Paige explained. "It fires nerf missiles. I'm getting his sister a nerf air defense system."
"Wow, toys are so realistic these days," Emily said.
"Yeah," Paige responded.
"Look, I just wanted to talk to you again about Alison," Emily said. "You guys can't go on like this."
"Don't worry Em," Paige said. "That will all be over soon."
"Good," Emily said. "Because I want you to go over there and talk to her and work it all out."
"I don't think that…" Paige protested.
"Today," Emily insisted.
"OK," Paige said.
"Great," said Emily, then quickly kissed Paige and left.
Paige got back to her new toy. She unpacked all the parts and assembled the device on her back lawn. Just as she was reading up on how to program the weapon, she heard a buzzing sound.
She looked up. It was a drone.
She quickly pointed her missile launcher at the drone which was scanning the yard with its camera. She frantically searched for the manual launch button.
The drone was turning to face her now, lining up its guns.
She hit the button.
A single missile shot out of its bay, slamming into the drone, which burst into a ball of flame. Chunks of burning metal fell from the sky, and Paige smiled with satisfaction.
That was fun, and she still had 23 missiles left.
She started entering the coordinates of the DiLaurentis house. She imagined the terror Alison would feel in those last moments, as death and destruction rained down on her from above.
But even as she did, she knew that what she was doing was wrong. She couldn't do it. She pictured the look of fear on Alison's face as she realised her fate. The awful carnage as she left this Earth. The terrible scene of desolation afterwards.
But that was all Paige could do. She wouldn't actually be there to witness Alison's demise. Heck, after this lot hit her there wouldn't even be a body to identify.
No, it was wrong. Alison deserved something more personal. And Paige wanted to deliver it to her.
Paige looked around the back yard, then she saw it. Her trusty shovel. Ah yes. It was perfect.
Paige would do what Emily had asked her. She would go and visit Alison today, and work it all out.
Alison was waiting for her.
"DiLaurentis," Paige sneered.
"McCullers," Alison scoffed.
Alison held up her hockey stick, ready for combat. Paige just smirked and held up her shovel.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" they both cried, charging at each other.
Paige swung her shovel at Alison's head, but Ali ducked under the blow and swept Paige's legs from under her with the hockey stick. Paige rolled back, just avoiding Alison's follow up attack.
Paige was prone now, however, and Alison swung at her again. Paige raised her shovel to block the attack, but Alison neatly turned her hockey stick so the toe was around the shaft of the shovel and tried to pull the shovel from Paige's hands.
Paige responded by twisting the shovel to try to disarm Alison, but both parties held on, temporarily in stalemate.
"Emily doesn't need a psycho like you!" Alison shouted.
"Do you really think she could love a heartless beast like you?" Paige responded.
Paige span around, releasing her shovel from the hockey stick and jumping to her feet. The two of them now faced each other.
"You made my life hell!" Paige shouted at Alison. "I just wanted to be with Emily."
"You made my life hell!" Alison shouted back. "I just wanted her to stay with me."
Paige looked at her enemy. After all these years, the beast who had nearly destroyed her was back, and now Paige had the upper hand. She could finally destroy her nemesis.
"I was terrified," Paige said.
"I was so scared," Alison replied.
There she was. The evil monster of Paige's nightmares. Standing there. She was afraid now, Paige could see it in her face. Afraid. Vulnerable. Scared.
Paige looked at Alison, and she saw it. She finally saw it. Alison was just a girl, not a monster. A scared girl, now a young woman. One with hopes and fears like any other. One who could love and care like any other.
Paige dropped the shovel.
Alison dropped her hockey stick.
Paige could finally see the humanity in Alison's face. That lovely, heart-shaped face. With those crystal blue eyes. Those beautiful cheekbones. Those full, red lips. That glorious, flowing, golden hair…
They rushed at each other again, this time meeting with eager, ready lips. Paige grabbed Alison forcefully yet tenderly, and as their mouths met she felt a charge going through her body, powered by all the years of anger, now turned to desire.
As they kissed yet more passionately, Alison pulled Paige in closer, and all the hatred, all the fear, all the rage melted away.
Paige had never felt so alive.
Emily was sitting with Spencer in the Hastings kitchen, absent-mindedly stabbing at a piece cake with her fork, breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces.
"Emily, are you actually going to eat that?" Spencer asked.
"I'm sorry," Emily said. "I want to go over there. I know I can't but knowing they're both there, just next door… I mean we saw Paige's car parked outside. I want to know how they're going."
"I should have come around to your house instead," Spencer said. "You just need to let them talk."
"I know I just…" Emily began, but just then she heard a sound.
"Ahhhh!" came a cry from outside.
"Did you hear that?" she asked Spencer.
Spencer nodded
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" came the cry again.
"It's coming from Ali's house!" Emily exclaimed.
They both got up and ran outside.
"Oh my God, Paige!" came the voice, now clearly Alison.
"Paige is murdering Alison," Emily said. "Again. We've got to rescue her!"
Emily and Spencer charged to the front door of the DiLaurentis house, but it was locked. They tried to force it open, but the door remained steadfast.
"There's another door around the side," Spencer said.
Emily followed Spencer and, sure enough, the side door was open. They raced inside.
"How do you like that?" came Paige's voice from upstairs.
"Paige is tormenting Ali," Emily said, getting more and more distraught.
"What are you going to do to me?" came Alison's reply.
Emily and Spencer ran up the stairs. There was a trail of clothes leading up the stairs to Alison's room, but Emily didn't have time to think about that. She had to stop Paige from killing Alison.
"Oh God, Paige… yes!" came Alison's cries. "Fuck me! Fuck me!"
What?
Emily and Spencer burst into the room.
It took Emily a while to process what was happening, though not as long as it took them to stop. They were both naked, on Alison's bed, Paige on top of Alison, their bodies intertwined.
Spencer tried to cover Emily's eyes, but it didn't matter. The room around her was fading to black anyway as she collapsed into Spencer's arms.
"Paige… and Ali!" Emily said.
She had regained consciousness now, and was sitting up in Spencer's bed, with Spencer, Hanna and Aria surrounding her.
"I know Em, I was there," Spencer said.
"Paige… and Ali!" Emily repeated.
"So you heard some screams and found… what?" Aria asked.
"Alison and Paige have apparently made up," Spencer replied.
"Paige… and Ali!" Emily said again.
"So what were they doing?' Aria asked.
"Each other by the sounds of it," Hanna said.
Emily leaned forward and nodded her head vigorously.
"Paige… and Ali!" she said once more.
"Oh," said Aria.
For a moment they sat in silence, trying to comfort Emily. Hanna hugged Emily's arm, while Aria took Emily's other hand in her own and Spencer gently stroked Emily's forehead.
As they did so, however, they all exchanged questioning looks. Spencer nodded.
"You know Em," said Hanna. "This doesn't have to be so bad."
Emily looked at her, eyes wide and mouth hanging open.
"We've all had breakups recently," Aria said. "Like we said, sometimes things just don't work out."
"But we've still got each other," Spencer added. "Just the four of us."
Emily looked from face to face in complete bewilderment.
"What… do you mean?" she asked, her voice shaking.
"Just that… maybe you don't need them," Spencer replied, delicately sweeping the hair away from Emily's face.
"You've got us," Aria added, gently caressing Emily's hand.
"And we can make you as happy as they ever could," Hanna said, snuggling up closer to Emily.
"I don't under…" Emily began, but Aria lightly placed her finger on Emily lips.
"Shhh," she said. "It's all OK."
"We're here for you, Em," Hanna whispered in Emily's ear, before gently nuzzling her neck.
Spencer leaned in against Emily, embracing her as she did.
"For anything you need," she said.
"Anything," Aria added, and as she did their lips met.
Emily was so glad she had her friends. They always knew how to make her feel better.