A/N: It's here again. This is another short 2,000 word chapter. It may seem like the story isn't moving that fast but it still has some relevance. I have discovered that I have 11 exams in June, 3 of which are on the same day, 2 of which are suposed to be at the same time. So basically I have a lot of work to do. So I hope you enjoy it, let me know what you think, song suggestions would be much loved.

So on with the next chapter...

Chapter 19

Once everyone was settled into the clearing someone voiced the question everyone was thinking.

"What happened?" The members of the lost groups were all sat round on logs in pairs.

"We were heading back to the bus but we got a little lost" One started. Another picked it up.

"Everywhere looks pretty much the same."

"I know the feeling" Beca mumbled, Jesse squeezed her arm. She wasn't sure what would have happened if they hadn't found her. She didn't want to think about it.

"We were all looking around for something familiar when Darcy slipped." Another one continued. Everyone looked over to the mud.

"We shouted to her but there was no answer."

"Tom went down after her."

"He said she was just waking up when he reached her."

"She's hit her head but not broken anything was far as they can tell down there." One finished. A glance around the group told Beca that these were the current generation of Bellas and Trebles. This normally meant they were the most hostile. It had been shown to be true over the week so far. The others still hated each other but it was not a fresh. It was from the past. All this made the pairings even more surprising. Each pair consisted of a Bellas and a Treble, both huddled together to keep warm. Beca wondered at this strange occurrence.

"We know the way back to the bus, how about we get you lot and Tom back to the bus and some of us will stay here and try to get Darcy out." Beca suggested. It seemed like a good plan and the entire search party agreed.

"No Way!"

"We're not leaving them!" The long lost group objected.

"I'm not coming out without her!" Shouted a muffled far away sounding voice. Beca assumed it to be Tom. This was a shock to Beca. In the space of a few hours, okay about 5, they seemed to have created a bond and stopped fighting. Something the others; the supposedly older, more mature, Bellas and Trebles had not been able to do in the years that passed since they joined. She wasn't the only one shocked by this outburst. Everyone seemed to be.

"Can you get out?" Beca asked next.

"I can but Darcy can't. Her arm and leg are pretty banged up and she's a little dizzy. And she's a little claustrophobic. We're okay down here, we have room but the gap to get out is small." Tom explained. Beca had to hop closer to hear him properly.

"Okay, It looks like we found our campsite for the trip then." She decided. She turned to the other 40 that seemed willing to move. "Some of you need to go back to the bus and get our bags. There should be tents and stuff too; all the camping stuff was packed on the bus. Some others need to gather some wood or something. We need to get a fire going, it's freezing." They all nodded and started to split into groups of who would do what. "Right does anyone know what time it is?"

After a few grunts and people looking round at each other Beca found out it was about 4pm.

"Okay, meet back here for 6pm at the latest but just come back as soon as you can." Beca said as a way of releasing them to do their tasks. They all nodded and headed off to do their jobs. Beca; who was injured, Jesse; who was helping Beca, and the, until recently, missing group stayed behind. The look on the younger ones faces give away exactly what they were thinking to Beca. She could tell they were worried about the oath and the war. Once they were alone Beca; who was now perched on an empty log with Jesse, decided to speak up.

"You're worried about the oath and the war aren't you?" She asked the group as a whole. They all looked at each other, silently discussing whether to admit it or not. Finally they seemed to reach a decision, they all turned to her and nodded. "You shouldn't you know. Just because the war happened in the past doesn't mean you need to continue it. I know." She took a deep breath. "I started it."

"We started it." Jesse piped up next to her. She looked over at him in surprise. "We pulled the first prank not you remember."

"But I turned the Bellas against you and made them break up with you lot."

"True, but if we hadn't pulled that prank it probably would have just stayed at that." She nodded. It was probably quite true, but then again, the Bellas may have started it if the Trebles hadn't. It was in the past though, no one could know what could have happened and Beca learnt years ago that running through scenarios of what could have happened but didn't never served any purpose but to remind you of how you screwed up. The group was watching their exchange with a mixture of shocked, confused and slightly amused looks on their faces.

"What are you talking about? You started the war?" Their questions weren't asked with the same told as the others had used. They sounded plain curious and perhaps a little bit hopeful.

"How about we start at the beginning." Jesse suggested. Beca nodded. She had told everyone how she started the war starting from the moment on the bus, she hadn't told them where it all came from, then it all started to make sense. When she told the other generations she would have to start at the beginning.

"Do you know how the oath was even changed in the first place? 10 years ago?" She asked, trying to get an idea of what they knew. As she found out from their blank looks and slow shaking of their heads it was nothing. "Well I guess it started for the Bellas when they first made it to finals, and Aubrey threw up on stage. It started for me when my dad forced me to go to college, I wanted to go to L.A. but my dad works at Barden so he made me come here, I was not pleased. I ended up seeing the Bellas a capella stand and thinking..." Beca told them the story of how she came to be in the Bellas and how Jesse pushed his way in and became her friend and how the Bellas weren't doing well with their old songs, how she fought with Aubrey, how she quit the Bellas and lost Jesse, how she rejoined the Bellas and changed the set list. How she sang to Jesse and got him back, the kiss at finals-at which all the Bellas said "awww" and the Trebles seemed to appreciate the moment, although for perhaps different reasons,- how the Bellas won the ICCA's for the first time. At the end of this she paused and waited for their response. There was more of the story to tell but she needed time to recover first. The finals reminded Beca of her lie then of the mole. She remembered finding out who it was.

Third Year at Barden

After some digging Beca had finally discovered who the mole was. Now she felt terrible. She had potentially ruined her friendships with best friends and it was for no reason it seemed. They weren't the guilty party. Beca had quite honestly been shocked to find out who spy was. It wasn't one she had expected but it's always the quiet ones, if Jesse's movies taught her anything it's that. She then scolds herself for doing it again. He's never far from her thoughts it seems and now she's even appreciating his 'movications' what has happened to her? She prefers not to go into that one.

She had considered telling them the truth. Before she found out about the mole, who she was et cetera. They deserved to know. She knew the Bellas and Trebles would forgive each other and probably not her. That was what she had thought at least. Now though she was certain. It was too late. They had crossed the line with this one. She was certain now that she couldn't tell them the truth. They had planted someone into the Bellas and that someone had betrayed them in more ways than one. She had helped the Bellas almost lose their funding. She had sabotaged their plan at the Semi-finals, she had no doubt, albeit subtly, broken the oath. This latest thing however was really the cherry on top. In her hand Beca read over the Bellas' eviction notice. The Trebles wanted revenge for trying to get them kicked out of the competitions on admittedly false allegations. It the time Beca had been thinking maybe the Bellas had gone too far but once they failed and now this had come she changed her mind. Perhaps they hadn't gone far enough.

The notice said due to their loss at last year's finals and this year's semi-finals the university had decided as a result they could not justify devoting an entire house to the Bellas and as a result the Bellas were being evicted and the house was being converted into a regular dorm. If Beca had anything to say about this them it was not happening. She knew the Trebles and Katie were behind it. They could never have gone it without her and they had definitely done it. It was a little scary; the power the Trebles had and the influence. She was not letting them win this one. Not even for a few weeks like with the funding. This one was not happening period.

Beca had never been so happy that her dad was a professor at Barden that she was in that moment. The fact that she had never been happy that her dad worked there at all anyway, not being taken into account in that moment. She grabbed her phone and called him, praying he wasn't in class and could talk. This really couldn't wait. They were expected to be out by tomorrow and if Beca wanted to stop that happening then she had to act fast.

Beca had proceeded to kick Katie out of the Bellas after her betrayal. She had publically announced it in front of all the Bellas. At first they hadn't believed her. She couldn't really blame them for that one, but once she had shown them the evidence things had got nasty. She had decided against reporting her to the university. Things were tenuous with them at the moment and it was in thir best interests to deal with it themselves. The Bellas had, as predicted, attacked Katie. Beca had walked out and left them to it. The best punishment however had not been directly dispatched by the Bellas themselves. Once the fighting had died down Katie had left her head held high, unaffected by the Bellas. They had all watched as she proudly marched up to the Treble house and knocked on the door. The Bellas had gotten front row seats to see the Trebles sending Katie away. Telling her she had outgrown her usefulness and now they no longer wanted her. That had got to her and she had left in tears with nowhere to go. Beca had watched the whole time while Jesse had stood at the back. It was abundantly obvious that had had not being running that operation, nor did he want anything to do with it.

Beca had managed to pull herself back from her thoughts. At the sound of a voice asking her a question, and Jesse poking her to let her know someone was asking her a question.

"So you two changed the oath? Got rid of it?" One of the Bellas asked.

"Yeah, then we put it back again. But you're the ones who can choose to end the war this time." Beca encouraged. They all seemed to consider her words but not quite ready to fully understand the meaning and consequences of acting on them.

"So what happened next" Another one piped up. This was the more difficult story. Beca sighed and looked at Jesse, he nodded before he took a deep breath.

"So after finals..." He started to tell the story. When Beca thought about it nearly losing the Bella house had been the thing that changed the war, or rather the people running it. Beca had taken a step up, starting to control what the Bellas' plans were, Jesse however seemed to take a step back. It had pushed Beca to try and provoke him to act. She was no afraid even with the war she would lose him. She wondered now if he ever had that much involvement in the pranks and plans to start with. The big ones maybe but the smaller ones; probably not.

Okay, did anyone guess it was Katie? What did you think of their reactions? Were you suprised how the current generation acted? Let me know. Please. Sorry again that it is short. More should happen in the next chapter when they all return but if you want a hint at what will happen then you will have to review. They mean a lot to me. I also have two other questions. I know it isn't mentioned in here but I did say it was a running question so... What do you think happened at graduation? It is hinted at a lot, sometimes it doesn't actually say graduation just mentions an event that happened then. The I want your input question is: do you think the Bellas should find out that Beca just lied to them in the woods about her lie or do you think somethings are best left buried? I actually have yet to decide on this point so your opinions may make a difference, and that you to the one that answered that question. I know I thanked you already (And haven't mentined your name but I discussed that a few chapters ago) but still. Okay, I hope you enjoyed it, let me know what you think, song suggestions would be awesome cause some songs are coming up soon and these can't be passed off as easily as they have in the past. I need songs that can relate to people's lives. Thank you for reading. See you in the next chapter. (*smiles*)