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"We're driving you to school today." Henry told the kids when they were all down for breakfast the next morning.

"But you never drive us to school." Daphne pointed out.

"Yes, however, we will be at school." Granny replied, slipping some pancakes on her plate. "I'm leaving Baba Yaga and Elvis behind to guard the house, and Sabrina- I'll need you to shield the cars, as the parking lot and street are not neutral, and everyone knows what my car looks like. I don't want it trashed."

"Can't get much worse than it already is." Puck muttered.

Sabrina, trying not to laugh, choked on her milk. She coughed several times, and, as Granny was asking her if she was alright, she nodded and said, "Fine, just got something in my throat. I'll try it on the cars, but I haven't really done much recently, 'cause of school and all, so it may not last."

"That's fine, as long as you try." Granny said.

"Question." Bella said. "Will we all fit in the cars?"

"There are twelve seats and nine of us." Granny said. "We should be fine."

"Can we give someone a ride or something?" Daphne said. "It seems like a bit of a waste of seats."

"True." Granny said. "Who would you like to invite?"

"Renee?" Bella asked. "She takes the bus."

"But she's off our route." Red said quietly. "It would be going completely out of our way. I think Peter Pan and his friends would work."

"Could we take all of them, though?" Jake asked.

"We couldn't do it today, anyway, though." Sabrina said. "They'll be gone by the time we drive past them."

"Speaking of which, it's time to go!" Granny said, glancing at the clock. "Com one, lieblings, you can talk about it at school today!"

They all piled into the cars, Henry, Veronica, and all the kids squeezing into the minivan while Granny and Uncle Jake took the Jalopy.

"Seems like the minivan is more popular." Veronica said dryly. "Now, I wonder why that could be..."

"Well, at least Jake's car is quiet when he drives it." Henry said.

They drove to school, laughing, and Sabrina, Puck, and Daphne headed for their first ever World History class.

"Welcome"! Hamlin said cheerfully. "This class is run differently than your other history class, so don't expect the same thing. Take any unoccupied seat, and I'll explain things to you after the rest of the class gets started."

The three took a set of seats near the back of the room and sat impatiently, waiting for the rest of the class to arrive and get set up. Once all the students were going, Mr. Hamlin called them up to the front.

"You'll each get a country to research." He told them once they reached the front, handing each of them a textbook. "This class is mostly older kids, so it's more of an independent study program. What you do is take your assigned country, research it, and write any information you think is important on the timeline around the wall."

He gestured to the walls, which were covered in a large series of even, multicolored stripes, on which some of the students were already writing.

"So, like, you give us the country, and we just write down what important happened when?" Sabrina asked.

"Yes." Mr. Hamlin said. "However, before you can be done with the class, you need to get up to the present day, which puts you behind somewhat."

"That's fine." Puck said breezily.

Sabrina rolled her eyes at him. "I'm sure we'll manage, Mr. Hamlin. What will the final be?"

"You read the wall, and I will formulate questions from what I think is the most important of the information written there, as well as information I'll tell you about countries that haven't been handed out yet."

"So what are our assignments?" Sabrina asked.

"Sabrina, you can have Israel. Puck, I'll give you Canada. Bella, you have Sri Lanka."

"Right." Sabrina said. "Do you have a Bible?"

"Yes, actually." Mr. Hamlin said, pulling one out from under his desk. "I'm not talking about the nation, though, but the location."

"Well, I can fill in the rest of the information later, right?" Sabrina asked. "This will make a good start. Is Jesus important?"

"From a religious standpoint, yes." Mr. Hamlin said. "I believe you could put that there around year one. I'd prefer things like wars, who the government was, the rulers, natural disasters, and other things like that."

"All right." Sabrina said. "The Bible's still a good starting point. There's no homework for this class?"

"No." Mr. Hamlin said. "Simply find more facts about the country. I recommend writing them down and then coming to school and rewriting them on the wall. Now, get to work."

Sabrina went off to work, leaving Puck and Bella to ask more questions, filling in facts about her country. She decided that she liked this class a lot more than her other history class, even if it was a little uncomfortable to be in with the older teenagers. They were talking with each other, sharing information they'd found or just conversing, and Sabrina found the atmosphere fun, but a little unnerving.

"Hey." Someone said from behind her.

Sabrina turned around to see a tall girl, obviously a fairy, with blond hair and green eyes, holding a sharpie and a book on India.

"Hi..." She said nervously. "You are...?"

"Peaseblossom." The blond girl said. "You're Sabrina, right? Puck's friend?"

"Yeah." Sabrina said. "You're his big sister? The one who married that other guy? Moth's brother?"

"The one exactly." Peaseblossom said dryly. "And I can't unmarry him or there will be a war, and I'll be alienated from all the people I've known for the last several thousand years."

"Don't you like being married to him, then?" Sabrina asked.

Peaseblossom made a face. "Well, it's all right, I guess, but it was an arranged marriage, and I was physically fifteen, and I didn't love him, and... it's not the best basis for a relationship. Especially since I'd never met him before."

Sabrina shuddered. "That sounds awful!"

Peaseblossom shrugged. "I make the best of it. Hey, I came over here because I wanted to meet the girl who could make my little brother grow up."

Sabrina shrugged. "It was his idea, not mine. Everyone makes a big deal out of it, but we're just friends." much as I wish we weren't.

Peaseblossom grinned. "Well, it'll be nice to get to know you anyway. I prefer you to Renee already."

Sabrina blushed. "Don't say that! She's a nice enough girl. And you know Mustardseed has an enormous crush on her."

"I didn't, actually." Peaseblossom said sadly. "I haven't seen much of him since Puck refused to marry Moth, not that I blame him. Mab decided that until Moth was engaged, the treaty was not fulfilled, and I wasn't allowed back home."

Sabrina stared at her. "That's awful!"

Peaseblossom shrugged. "It was all right. Time seems different when you're an everafter, even a kid everafter. Waiting gets easier the longer you live."

Sabrina thought about that. Would she be like that, in a hundred years? Time seemed different already, but waiting didn't seem easier.

"'Course, you won't have to worry about that, so..." Peaseblossom smiled. "Come on, we ought to get to work."

Sabrina nodded, and sat back down at her desk to begin studying while Peaseblossom went to write her facts on the wall.

At the end of class, Sabrina called out, "Peaseblossom!"

Peaseblossom, who had been entering the hallway, turned. "Wassup?" She asked.

"You want to come to our study group after school?" Sabrina asked. "We're meeting in the library today after school. We do most days, actually. Or at my house, or Wendell's, or-"

"I'm not sure if I should do that." Peaseblossom said sadly. "I'll get in trouble with my mother in law."

"Please?" Sabrina wheedled. "It'll be at school, and we could really use someone who's been through more school. I know I need help with a lot."

"We-ll..." Peaseblossom though for a minute. "Fine, I guess one time couldn't hurt."

Sabrina smiled at Peaseblossom as she left, and when she was gone, hissed, "Yes!"

"What's so great?" Puck asked as they walked to gym.

"I met your sister today." Sabrina told him. "And she's coming to the study group."

"I thought she didn't want to hang out with me or Mustardseed anymore." Puck said. "I haven't seen her in forever, and neither has Mustardseed."

"I get the feeling Mab doesn't approve." Sabrina said. "And if Mab doesn't approve-"

"Then you don't do it." Puck finished. "Kind of like my mom in Faerie."

"Exactly." Sabrina pushed open the door of the gym and stopped. "Where do we go today?"

"Seats, I guess." Bella said. "That's where everyone else is."

"Morning, chickadees!" The Beast called. "We start gym today, and I expect you to have gym clothes by tomorrow! Today we play the games you better have gotten right! Tomorrow we'll try the ones most of you got right, and after that we'll work our way down. Boys against girls. Softball. Boys at bat. Play until I say stop."

No one moved.

"WELL?" He roared. "What are you waiting for? GET GOING!"

The class scrambled. They played softball, baseball, various forms of tag, hide and go seek, kickball, and dodgeball as well as several other basic games while the Beast graded papers.

On the way out, the Beast called after them, "Hope you enjoyed today, because we're never playing those games again! Bring your gym clothes tomorrow!"

After school, the usual crowd had met in the library when Peaseblossom showed up and it all went quiet.

"Who are you?" Daphne asked finally.

"This is Peaseblossom." Sabrina jumped in, rescuing her. "She's Puck and Mustardseed's older sister. She's going to be joining us today because I thought we could use an upperclassman to help."

Red came up to Peaseblossom first, with a tentative smile on her face. "Hi." She said quietly. "Can you help me with science? Bella's good at it, but she's not patient, and she yells, and other people need science help, too."

Peaseblossom relaxed visibly. "Sure." She smiled. "What do you need help with?"

Sabrina turned away, satisfied that Peaseblossom would be all right now, and went to bug Mustardseed for facts about Israeli history.

The study group passed its time as usual, accepting Peaseblossom into their midst with no waves after Red's acceptance, and Sabrina, flying home with Puck discussing his bedroom, was suddenly struck by a realization.

"Say that again?" She said softly.

"Huh?" Puck said, "Say what?"

"That part about your room being- what? Built on an existing...?" Sabrina rolled her hands over each other, flapping a little harder to keep up with Puck.

"Built on an existing alternate dimension?" Puck asked. "Yeah, it's pretty awesome. For some reason someone had a portal to a shadow world by the back door, and the Three and the pigs just built around it and made it the main access, instead of needing a spell to get to."

"I think I understood that." Sabrina houted over the wind. "You mean they found it, right?"

"Yeah." Puck said in a way that suggested he thought Sabrina was a little slow. "Your grandma had a portal in her backyard, and my bedroom door is now that portal. My room is an alternate dim- where are you going?"

"I need to check something!" Sabrina shouted back. "I think I may have just solved a mystery!"

Puck rolled his eyes, but flew faster, following her home.

Once they arrived at the house, Sabrina ran for the bookshelf where Anastasia Grimm's journal was, and picked up where she'd left off, an entry where Anastasia had been mentioning a problem with the sword, a guardian or something wanting it back because of 'misuse.' She skipped forward until she saw the word sword again, and read.

The sword will be placed in a pocket of space which can be reached if we need it, but the guardian insists we don't attempt to find it again because we've been depending on it in peace time, and the power is not meant to be used for this purpose. I will miss it, but I suppose we do need to be able to function without it.

"I figured it out!" Sabrina shouted.

"Figured what out?" Daphne asked, coming through the door and shedding her bags.

"The sword that Anastasia's been mentioning through this whole journal! I know why it's gone, and I know where it is!" Sabrina called, putting the book back and running for Puck's room.

"So are we going to look for it?" Bella asked, following Sabrina's headlong run at a slower pace with Puck, Daphne, Red and Wendell, who had come home with them.

Sabrina shrugged, pulling Puck's door open. "You can stay if you want, but I have to find this thing!"

Puck rolled his eyes and followed after her. "Grimm, this is not a good idea!"

"I don't care!" Sabrina replied. "I've been trying to figure this out for ages!"

"Do you even know where we're going?" Wendell panted.

"I'll know it when I see it!" Sabrina called, heading for the woods. "Puck, what was here when you first got the room?"

Puck, who had caught up to Sabrina easily and was pacing her, said, "The woods. I've never seen whatever it is you're looking for. Want my pixies looking, too?"

"Yeah." Sabrina said. "Where haven't you been?"

"That way." Puck pointed to their left. "A long way that way. It'll be faster if we fly."

Sabrina nodded. "Right." She pulled out her wings and shook them a bit to loosen them up. In response to Wendell's dumbfounded look, she said, "Don't tell. It's kind of a secret."

She grabbed Daphne and Red by the hands as Puck picked up Bella and Wendell, and the group flew off. They finally reached a cave with a group of pixies hovering in front of it. Sabrina touched down.

"This is it!" She called. "I can feel it!"

"Right." Daphne said. "Let's go."

"I dunno, Daph..." Sabrina said. "I'm not sure you should come."

"No." Daphne said, heading for the entrance. "I'm going."

Sabrina rolled her eyes. "Fine." She said. "Be that way." She followed Daphne into the cave entrance, blinking at the sudden darkness.

"Uhhh... Grimm?" Puck asked. "I don't think you should be in there."

"How come?" Sabrina asked. She could feel something pulling at her, drawing her to the back of the cave.

"We can't get in." Bella said.

Sabrina suddenly saw that they were pushing against a barrier, that, now that she thought of it, she could see, a gently pulsing glow at the entrance of the cave.

"Oops." She said. "I guess I should have noticed that."

"Yeah." Puck said. "And it's probably there for a reason, so you should get out before you get yourself in trouble. Or at least get us in."

Wendell looked at them quizzically.

"I'll explain it later." Bella whispered.

Sabrina nodded. "Right." She concentrated on the barrier. It resisted shattering, or even changing. "I don't think I should break it." She said. "I could try to get you through, but it would take time. I'll just go get Daphne and we'll be right back, I promise."

"Grimm..." Puck gave her a look.

Before Sabrina could respond, she heard a a scream, and her head whipped around. Daphne.

She took off running before anyone could say anything more.