A/N: R&R if you so desire.

I do not own Twilight, I just play with the characters.

BELLA

Jen wants to see me. This could be bad. She did pull me out of my last class for our chat. I hurry down the hall and show up at her door as quickly as I can. I don't even knock. I just barge in. Mary Beth is sitting there and Dakota is there too. Uh, definitely not a good sign. They both smile at me. I smile back but still have a concerned look on my face.

"You are not wrong. There is a matter of concern that brings me here, I am sad to say," Mary Beth informs me. I sit down in another chair and both Jen and I look at our friend the oracle.

"Well?" Jen asks when she gets a little impatient.

"I wanted you both here because it concerns your team…" the oracle starts.

"But our team is retired so that we could all teach here," Dakota interrupts.

"Not exactly, you see, the team can still be activated in time of emergency or great need. This mission is of particular interest to you all, but especially Jen. The witch community has discovered a bit of a loop hole in the curse that Jen's mother laid upon them with Jen's birth. It would seem that they caught wise to two options to rectify the situation," Mary Beth begins again.

"It sure took them long enough to get to this point," Jen comments somewhat bitterly.

"Wait, wait, wait. You knew there was a chance that that could have been changed and you didn't mention anything about it?" I ask. I can't believe she never mentioned anything. We have talked about children and all three of us would like to have kids someday, even though it was not possible.

"She knew, but she could not say anything. Both of the actual options for the so called removing of the curse are unsavory. There is the possibility of going back in time and stopping the actions that lead up to the curse from happening. Now that one could mean a few things, but the most likely is that Jen's mom will not survive or possibly even be born…" the oracle explains.

"Which would mean that Jen would not be born and things would be very different than what they are now," I say.

"In a very bad way," Dakota adds.

"Thanks guys, but that is not the biggest problem. That problem would be that the Witch community would be in power over the immortal world. Then they would take over the human world. It would be one giant pile of shit," Jen explains.

"What's the other option?" I don't really want to know, but I had to ask.

"The other one involves the death of the family line. Since Jen is a witch by blood her power is not just hers, it is her family's power too. That means that that kind of witch is more powerful because they have access to more power. With Jen's mom going rogue and Jen being Jen, those kind of witches tone down their antics to keep from drawing unwanted attention personally and reaping the consequences of their actions. If Jen and her mother, the two with the will to keep the curse in place, were to meet their end and the part of the family magic that they accessed purged from the rest, then the curse would be lifted," Mary Beth answered.

"Which brings us back to the end of civilization as we know it," Jen adds.

"Fantastic," I can't help but say.

"The real question is, what are we going to do about it?" Dakota asks what we were all thinking.

"It needs to be handled in a way that your team does well, discreetly. The council does not want the entire witch community to catch wind and try to unite. As of now, only a couple of families are looking into the matter still. Your team comes with a reputation that makes those you go against not look for help or not get any help. The thing is, you might need a large group, like last time, because you really need to make it look like you are still just teachers here," Mary Beth informs us.

"We need to do that in order to keep our cover, I take it. Well, Elliot is always up for helping us. Sarah's group will probably be in too…" Jen starts listing.

"Let's not forget the Cullen family," I add.

"And the pack and a bunch of others," Dakota adds her own input.

"If enough of us end up agreeing to this, then we can rotate and have pairs or small groups go. But we would have to be very careful to not send the same pair or group twice," Jen goes right into strategy.

"I knew that you would jump right into this," Mary Beth comments.

"Like it would take your powers to know that," Jen rolls her eyes.

"I have to be off, but I will see you soon," Mary Beth says as she leaves.

The three of us sit around and talk about what we need to plan and how we will keep organized to the point of being ridiculous. Then we tackle the subject of asking the others. We figured that it would be best to ask them in small groups and not at once. Alice alone would break the sound barrier. After what seemed like moments, a knock came at Jen's office door. We all start and then laugh at our reaction to the unexpected sound. We all go to the door together because we know who is on the other side. And of course, everyone that we worked with when we finished off the Volturi, to include that bouncy little Sara, is looking at us like we were trying to sneak off.

"We want in," Emmett blurts out. I love Emmett for his lack of control, I mean who doesn't?

"You don't know what we were talking about," Jen points out with a grin.

"It doesn't matter, we want in," Jake adds his voice.

"Why are you even here? Don't you have a meeting today?" I ask him.

"Alice called everyone that was not in the Academy because she saw you running here," he is just a little smug about having a completely plausible answer. I did go past the room she was teaching in.

"It could be dangerous," Dakota says.

"It could be trivial," Jen adds.

"It could be embarrassing," I tell them. They all just look at us like that is going to make us spill.