Author's note: Hello all! I just went and saw the smurfs 2 today. Awesome movie! Warning: spoilers. Enjoy!

Months and months later, there I was. Scars on my leg, ribbon tied around my wrist, smoke from a burning breakfast in my lungs. It'd been nine months since I had had any contact with the smurfs, and I was super excited when- in the midst of my choking -Ray called.

"Yello?" I said, still choking on Donnie's breakfast smoke.

"Jackie, you gotta get over here. It's important." Ray said, he sounded urgent, "It's the Smurfs. You gotta hurry, though, or Trish is gonna freak and try to whine her way into the position."

I rolled my eyes, "Well then it's a good thing you're her superior then, huh?"

"Yeah, not many people listen to me..."

"She'll listen to me." I laughed, "I'll be there in fifteen minutes, tops."

*LINE*

Fifteen minutes is such an overestimation. It probably took me a minute and forty-five seconds. And that's only because I had to drag out my favorite board- the one that the smurfs and Donnie gave me for Christmas. All I had to do was make a portal, get through security, and ride my way to Eliza's office. Lucile knew I was coming, she greeted me with her usual hello, how's life, that's great routine- then gave me my blue moon portal.

I rode through the portal with mounting excitement. It had been seven whole months since I'd seen the smurfs, and I missed them like no other. I was also really excited to meet the new guys. I saw the movie the week before, and was immediately taken with Hackus and Vexy. Couldn't wait to meet them. It'd be great to have another girl besides Smurfette around, and Hackus seemed fun. I hadn't the slightest idea why Ray had told me to bring the smurfs back, but I was fine with the idea. I'd love to have them over.

I rode out of the portal, pulling the board out from under me and landing on my feet. Right next to, I might add, the very startled Grouchy. "Hey, man watch it!" he shouted, jumping aside.

"Sorry." I said, laughing a bit, "Hey what happened to positive smurf?"

"He died." Grouchy answered. Just the look on his face made me laugh.

"Where's the rest of the fam?" I asked, looking around.

Grouchy motioned for me to follow him. "Papa's mushroom." he answered. Grouchy, ironically had me struggling to keep up with him. It always did puzzle me how Smurfs managed to be so fast. Must be their big feet...

I swear, the second I got in the general area of Papa's mushroom, all the Smurfs came flooding out of Papa's mushroom, and the surrounding ones. All of them spoke at once, and in the confusion I fell flat on my behind. I laughed and hugged all the smurfs that were within arm's length. All the smurfs that were around me that I weren't squishing hugged me as well. From one of the surrounding mushrooms, Hackus ran out- in all his little blue glory. He shouted, "New friend! New friend!" flailing his arms around and jumping as he ran. A normal person would've asked if he needed a doctor. Me, I asked his name. Of course, I already knew his name, but it seemed polite and less creepy just to ask.

"Hackus!" Hackus answered, shaking my hand- well, my index finger -vigorously.

"Hi, Hackus, I'm Jackie." I said, smiling. "Where's your sisters?"

"Vexy and Smurfette having girl time." Hackus answered, smiling back brightly.

Just then, somesmurf came running through the crowd. I noticed the red scarf first thing. "Jackie!" Bashful said, louder than I'd ever heard him say anything- yet still pretty quietly, "Jackie it's great to see you!" he said coming up and hugging me.

I grinned ear-to-ear. I had missed this little smurf. "Excuse me, Smurf, you don't need to shout." I said with an Australian accent. Something told me none of them would get the reference, but it was funny to me. "Oh, it's great to see you guys again." I said, "Now I gotta see my girls."

"Hackus go get them, Hackus go!" Hackus announced, running off.

"Huh, couldn't get him to talk for nothin', then you come along." Hefty joked, gesturing to Bashful.

I laughed again, "Hey muscles, how ya been?" I asked, referring to Hefty.

Hefty looked around for a second, like he had no idea who I was talking to. "Oh, I'm Muscles?" he asked.

This provoked laughter from everyone. In the time it had taken us to have the smallest conversation, Hackus had returned with Vexy and Smurfette. "Jackie!" Smurfette shouted, running up to give me yet another hug. "It's been so long!" she added.

"Yeah it has." I answered. Then I looked at Vexy, "Hey girl, what's happening?" I asked.

Vexy shrugged. This made me laugh, because she was a lot shyer than I'd thought she would be. "I'm Vexy." she added.

I smiled, "I'm Jackie." I answered.

I hadn't noticed, but amongst the Smurfs I'd hugged was Papa. He was in my lap with Grouchy, Gutsy, Greedy, and Passive-Aggressive Smurf. He looked up at me and said, "Thank you for coming, Jackie. I trust Ray has explained the situation?"

"No," I answered, "Ray didn't even see me today, we've not spoken yet. Why, is there something I need to know about?"

Papa nodded, "Yes, but we'll discuss it at your mushroom."

I nodded, "Alright, well, do you Smurfs wanna get going then?" I asked.

The Smurfs collectively agreed to going, and Hackus kept on saying, "Road trip, road trip!"

I opened the little blue box, thus opening the portal. "Okay, Clumsy and Bashful, in my pockets." I said, as if it were the drill, and they knew it. "Everyone else hold hands, Smurf chain!"

We got through the portal okay, though it was hard to hold a chain of Smurfs while riding a skateboard. What surprised me was, we didn't end up at the base, we ended up in my living room. That was odd, must've been a glitch in the portal system. I did a head count, just in case, and all were present and accounted for. After which, I went over the house rules with Hackus and Vexy, all of which the other smurfs already knew. Don't go off by yourself, don't leave the house, stay where I can see you, Donnie's room: off limits.

Once everyone was settled down, watching TV in the living room, I went into the kitchen with Papa to discuss with him what Ray hadn't told me. We didn't start out talking about that, though. We started out talking about Gargamel.

"I can't believe the IDCA is letting him get off Scott free, with three counts of child neglect." I brooded. Thinking of this, the pure thought of it made me angry. Just ask Donnie, in the movie theater I was crying, laughing hysterically, and at one point almost broke the cup-holder from anger. My emotions were all out of wack. "He abused those poor kids! His own children. Who he created!"

"It's tragic what happened to them, how they had to live for however long." Papa added.

"I know! What kind of a parent does that? He has no business being a father. I just hope he has the common sense not to bring anymore children into the world. I mean, Azrael could be a better parent than him! And Azrael tried to eat them on several occasions." I ranted, "And there's another thing, he doesn't feed Azrael either. Why do you think the cat's always trying to eat you guys?"

Papa nodded, then took a closer look at me, "Were your eyes blue the last time we met?" he asked.

"What? Oh, yeah." I answered, still in my haze of anger, "No they weren't. I went to see Gaylord about it, 'cause he's a doctor and everything, he didn't know why it happened. All he could determine is that I'm a ginger now." I shrugged.

Papa got a far off look in his eyes, and he stroked his beard like he was thinking. "Jackie," he said, "do you love my Smurfs?"

"Well of course I do." I said straight away, "You guys are my friends." I added.

"Hackus and Vexy too?" Papa asked.

I nodded, "Yeah. They're like family to me."

Just then, the phone rang.

I got up and walked over to the land-line, then picked it up, "Yo." I said.

"Great way to answer a phone, what happened to "yellow"?" Ray. Up to his old funny-guy routine yet again.

I shrugged, as if he could see me shrugging, "Hey are you like, not telling me something? Papa says we gotta talk about the, "situation"."

In the blink of an eye, Ray was in my kitchen.

"That was quick." Papa remarked.

"First class, that's how I roll." Ray answered, grinning.

I chuckled, "Roll," I chuckled again, "Wheelchair humor."

Ray laughed out loud, "I didn't even try to make that joke." liar.

I rolled my eyes (lol wheelchair humor) and sat down at the island with Papa. Without any help- he wouldn't have taken it, had I offered -Ray hoisted himself up into one of the tall chairs surrounding the island. "So, what's this all about?" I asked, wanting to get straight to the point.

Ray and Papa looked at each other then back at me, in a way that just told me they were in on something that I wasn't. Ray spoke first, "Do you know anything about custody fights?"

If I had been holding something glass, it would have been shattered on the floor. If I had been eating or drinking, Ray and Papa would be wearing it. But all I did was sit there with my mouth ajar, knowing instantly what this was all about. "Oh god, don't tell me..."

"It's the law, Jackie." Ray answered simply. "Universal law states that a fair trial be presented for custody of Smurfette and the naughties."

"They're smurfs, Raymon." I snapped.

"Right." Ray answered, "Smurfette, Vexy, and Hackus. There's a chance, however small, that Gargamel may get back custody of them."

I put my face in my hands and sat there for a minute, processing.

Author's note: Dun dun duuuuun! Stay tuned, it's about to get real.