Don't worry I'm still working on my other story which I'll update relatively soon :) I just had to get this out of my system. It's only one of the versions I have in my head about the fallout of 5x03. I have a couple more scenes in my head so I'm thinking this a two or three shot. It might be a little harsh from Paige's side but Em has been so cold with her, so I decided to switch roles bc it's just not fair to Paige to be barked at all the time. That's just my opinion though. :)

Paige POV

"Hey Paige." Hanna greets sweetly as she sits next to the swimmer seated at a table in the courtyard of Rosewood High, typing on on her laptop.

Paige takes her eyes off of the screen long enough to shoot the fashionable blonde a smile, "Hey Hanna."

"Whatchya got there?" Hanna poses curiously.

Paige sighs, "10 page research paper for History class."

Hanna quirks her face, "Gross."

The toned swimmer chuckles, "Tell me about it…so what's up?"

"I was wondering if you knew where Emily is? None of us can seem to reach her…" Hanna asks.

The tall brunette scoffs as she transfers her attention back to her laptop, "I never knew where she was when we were together, what makes you think I'll know where she is now?"

Hanna feeling guilty, decides to try to cheer up the swimmer, "Paige…I'm not supposed to be telling you this, and if someone asks you about it, this conversation never happened…"

The intrigued swimmer flits her attention back on the blonde coaxing her to continue.

Hanna sighs, "Emily puts on a good front but she's literally miserable without you…you just need to chase after her a little bit longer and I really do believe that you'll get her back."

Paige digests the information, her facial expression tranquil, as she takes a breath. She calmly explains, boring into the blonde's piercing blue eyes, "I'm tired of chasing her Hanna… every time that I do, my heart just shatters into even smaller pieces because all she does is push me further away. I'm tired of fighting to be with her. I've never been able to just BE with her. Whether it was Maya or Samara…Nate, and now Alison. A person will only chase someone for so long while knowing that person won't chase them back. She's the one who broke us up… so if she wants us back together, that's on her…because I'm done."

Hanna's heart fell at the swimmer's admission. She only ever heard Emily's side of the story and has only ever thought about how Emily was feeling. She never realized how much pain Paige was going through and that realization made her insides wrench with guilt.

"Paige, at the end of the day you could fight the entire world off, but ultimately it's her choice whether she stays or goes." Hanna tries to cheer up the girl only for her not to have thought it through, having it completely backfire.

"You're right. And she's not here right now is she?" Paige asks rhetorically before returning her eyes back to the screen.

Hanna sighs frustrated by Paige's foreign demeanor. She explains hoping the swimmer was still listening, "Look, all I know is that she's crazy about you. Whatever she decides to do with that is up to her. But I just need you to know that she has always loved you and she always will. Remember that."

The blue-eyed beauty stands up, only to walk away as she understood that Paige was indeed done talking.

Emily POV

Emily spots her favorite swimmer seated on the bench in the locker room slipping on her combat boots as she was finishing changing from winning her races at the swim meet today.

"Hey." Emily chirps shyly.

Paige looks over her shoulder to see none other than Emily Fields. She turns her attention back to putting on her boots before responding coldly, "Hey."

"Sydney did great out there. I guess we really do make a great team." Emily hopefully smiles only for Paige not to respond.

"She told me that you had told her something before the race that relaxed her…"

Paige chimes aloofly, keeping her back to Emily, "I told her what you told me a while ago…to just swim for yourself…no one else."

The bronzed beauty hesitantly walks over to straddle the bench so she could completely face Paige, "You remembered that?"

She tries again as she received no response, "Paige-"

The swimmer finally meets Emily's pleading gaze, "Emily, I really don't feel like talking right now." She chirps as politely as she could, despite the resentment she felt towards the girl.

"Paige I'm trying to build a friendship here and you're not helping." Emily asserts in frustration.

Paige flits her gaze onto her ex-girlfriend, "We can never just be friends Emily and you know that." She swiftly stands up, closes her locker and grabs her duffle bag, only to leave the locker room before Emily could respond.

P.S. – I'd love to know your thoughts! Thanks for reading!

P.S.S.- (Regarding 5x03)- My poor broken Paily heart. :(((( …I hated how Emily didn't even shed a damn tear! Sigh…all I'm saying is we deserve a steamy make up/sex scene after everything we've been through am I right or am I right? lol… My peeps with twitter accounts let's get that motion to the writers! :D