Alice sighed, "she knows you’re new connection is with Bette."

"What!? How?" I cried, worry filling my entire body.

"She has her damn ways," Alice said, "I just need you to know because she will be aiming for Bette. She may fight the whole line up until she reaches you, but if she feels l;ike she’s losing she’s not above forgetting all about honor and killing Bette when she’s not expecting it. She knows it’s the sure way to kill you."

"And if she kills you," Dana gulped, "the rest of us are screwed because we’re connected to you."

I felt anger and fear. That’s all I felt. I couldn’t lose Bette. It would destroy me.

"Dana," I said softly, "you have to sever you’re connection to me."

"What?!" Dana cried.

"Carmen is connected to you, and you’re connected to me, and Shane is connected to Carmen since I told Carmen to sever the connection between me and Shane," I explained, "if you have another vampire bite you to sever your connection to me, you’re freeing them too. That means only Bette would be connected to me."

"Look I know you’re doing it as means of precaution," Dana said, "but the only person who I can connect to that isn’t my creator, or in this case my savior, is the person who has the scent for me."

I looked at Alice who automiatically understood what that meant. Her eyes filled with tears as she said, "if I stay as a witch we will never be able to be together."

"If you convert into a vampire your own sisters will hunt you down," Dana argued.

"If you defeat Helena and they know I’m in your group they’ll leave me in peace," Alice said.

"And if we fail? Helena herself will kill you," Dana said.

"And if Helena kills you, she might as well will have," Alice countered.

I listened to the argument and said, "ultimately it’s your decision, but you know that all of you connected to me is just too risky."

I walked into the cabin to let the frustrated lovers come to a decision. Shane and Carmen were already snuggled together in bed, and Bette was lying down on ours staring up into the ceiling.