Jesse sat at the window, reading one of her books and not seeing a single word.

In one month, she, Petra, Olivia, and Axel had had lots of adventures, if their new treasure room was any indication. Seriously, some of the new treasures were amazing, like the Ghast tears, and okay, the weird puffer-fish thingy was pretty cool, too.

She hadn't seen Lukas after their fight. Everyone knew that they'd had a bit of a falling out, but they didn't know why. Jesse didn't plan on dragging it back up.

After all, they didn't need Lukas. He was a great asset to the team, but without him, the team functioned just as well. Jesse certainly didn't mind not having him around.

She was trying really hard to believe it, too.

The truth was, Jesse was really, really sorry that she'd shouted. At the time her emotions had been going on a wild roller coaster that went up, down, left, right, upside down, and she did know that Lukas was NOT the most eloquent speaker. His writing? Well, from what she remembered, he'd been pretty good when they were kids, but he sometimes messed up what he was trying to say.

He'd probably meant it well. But of course Jesse had been in a bad mood at the time, and who was the whipping girl (or, well, boy) had been the nearest person at the time. Which, of course, had been Lukas.

She wanted to apologize, but Lukas had disappeared for a time and hadn't actually showed up since.

Jesse looked down at her book, still trying to read it and having no luck, and trying to think of a distraction besides what she was going to say to Lukas when he came back. She'd gone through several options: hugging the blonde ocelot hybrid, begging for forgiveness, just saying 'sorry' and leaving it at that, or spilling out a cascade of words that involved some form of apologizing.

She'd also gone through throwing up on the carpet, although she decided since that was probably not a good way to say sorry.

She looked at the pages, praying for that distraction to come.

Thankfully- or perhaps, not so thankfully- that distraction came in the form of an explosion.

Jesse set down her book, saving the page (although there wasn't much point, she'd really just been staring at the pages and turning them occasionally) and trotted downstairs to smell something burning and to see Ellegaard yelling at Magnus at the top of her lungs, Axel and said former-Order-of-the-Stone member roaring on the floor with laughter, Olivia pinching the bridge of her nose with an amused grin, Petra and Gabriel in stitches as they tittered, and Soren trying very, very, very hard not to laugh.

Ivor was probably in the basement working on another potion. Jesse was no longer sure which place had more explosions: the basement, or the living room.

"What in the name of Notch were you doing?!" Ellegaard was demanding, although an observant bystander could see the way she smirked as she yelled, "I think the whole HOUSE shook!"

"Forget the house, I'm pretty sure the whole town felt that one," Jesse said with a wry smile, her friends turning and grinning when they saw her.

Gabriel managed through his giggles, "I think Magnus was trying to teach Axel how to use fireworks destructively." And he put his hand on his knee, still laughing helplessly.

"Well, you certainly succeeded," Jesse responded, drily looking at the remains of what was probably the coffee table, since said item was missing from the room and there was instead a charred pile of ashes and wood.

Petra was in stitches and couldn't stop, tears pouring down her cheeks. Jesse couldn't help but let the slightest relieved smile sneak over her face. It was hard to believe that only a month before Petra had been turning gray, dying of Wither Sickness, and radiated such intense cold that Jesse could feel it from twenty feet away. Petra's Wither Sickness had disappeared almost immediately after they'd defeated the Witherstorm.

Had it really only been one month since then? It felt like millenia.

Another explosion shook Jesse out of her thoughts, this one rattling a couple of glassware off the table. Jesse didn't even look in the glass's direction and used her lower arms to catch them before they hit the ground, putting them back on the table.

Ivor came upstairs a second later, face covered in soot and robes shaking them off in a little trail as he stomped up the steps. He pointed accusingly at Magnus and Axel. "You need to test your explosions somewhere else. I dropped in the wrong amount of Blaze Rod powder and the whole thing nearly blew up in my face."

"You keep doing that by yourself," Soren murmured, a faint smile fixed on his face.

Ivor scowled a bit playfully at the ginger, but his scowl softened when Jesse asked, a bit more sympathetically, "Need help cleaning up?"

"No, it's alright. By the way, I found something you four should probably be interested in. In this old text, I spotted a mention of an old temple and possible treasure in it," Ivor noted, dusting some of the soot off his face.

Petra stopped laughing gradually, wiping her face a bit as she grinned at the potionologist. "Really? Where is it?" she asked, interested now. Petra was pretty interested in the treasure, as much as she liked adventure.

Ivor pulled out a scroll and handed it to Jesse, who opened it, recognizing the greens and blues of the map they'd been working on for a month. Ivor peered at the map, dark blue eyes squinting at the image. "Now, let's see, the text said that it was between..."

A/N: This is a bit of a prologue to Episode 5. Get ready for the next chapter soon!

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RapidSammi: Yep. Hurricane Jesse is coming, people!

Toni42: Lukas is better at expressing himself through writing (like yours truly), so what he really meant to say was probably lost to his fumbling the whole thing.

angelwings: Hehe xD

NoItsBecky: Jesse's just emotionally torn up right now, so that's the reason she was so pissed off. And lol, really? I didn't know that xD

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