Matei ran out of the taxi and towards the Kafe just as the sun was beginning to rise and the birds outside were starting to chirp loudly. His rucksack was heavy and he threw it down gladly on the doorstep before knocking three times.

They had come up with the knocking code since returning a few days before. The wild pack had decided to postpone the wedding until after their trip to Rome, and had also decided to move to a more rural location that they hadn't used in years. Meinir had decided to go back to Stoneybridge to avoid anyone becoming suspicious about her absence from work and college, but Aran had agreed to join her.

The door of the Kafe opened to reveal a tired looking Jana. She gave him a small smile before they dashed across the alley way to the land-rover parked a few yards away. They heard the doors unlock and seconds later jumped inside, slamming the doors just before Imara sped away.

"Were you seen?" she asked in a panicked tone but the cubs just shook their heads.

"I can't wait for this to all be over," Jana said with a sigh, feeling the weight of her falsified passport in her pocket, "No more being awake at all hours waiting for danger, no more fake IDs."

"They should trust us again if we come forward," Matei added, taking Jana's hand in his, "They want us really. If we give them that... Then they'll leave the others alone."

Imara nodded, "Just be careful ok."

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Jana looked out of the narrow window of the plane, squinting as the sun blinded her.

They were going to take off in a few minutes, and were just travelling towards the run way. She felt sick, and held onto Matei's hand tightly. Jana had never been good with plane- it was the turning that got her, and the turbulence that was just awful too. But Matei, he had flown hundreds of times, in fact he was excited because they were travelling in one of the largest aeroplanes ever invented.

The journey to the airport had been a nightmare. They couldn't fly out of Newcastle because too many people would recognise them. So they'd had to travel all the way to Glasgow and wait until the following day to fly. It would give them a grand total of five hours to get from the airport to the conference. But it was all that they could do... They couldn't risk being discovered before hand.

Jana felt the engines rev below her as the captain turned them on to full power and let out a small whimper.

Matei leaned over to put a reassuring arm around her shoulders, and she rested her head on his chest just as the aeroplane began to race down the runway. She let out a frightened gasp as it left the ground before climbing quickly. When they made a sharp turn to the left, Jana grabbed onto Matei's jacket until her fingers were white.

Matei smiled, "It's all ok Jana. The journey's going to be fine."

Jana nodded, daring to take a quick look out of the window and then regretting it as the wing came up quickly.

"It's normal," Matei said, "It's nothing to worry about. You should try to sleep. You've been taking too many night shifts. I can keep guard for a while."

Jana nodded, snuggling closer to her boyfriend, and murmuring something that sounded like, that's a good idea.

Matei looked out of the window at the clouds above and below him, and began to apprehensively count down the hours until they'd been facing the people who wanted them dead.

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"We apologize for the slight turbulence on today's flight," the captain said over the tannoy, "This is caused by a cold front moving from west to east. Our expected time of arrival will be fifteen minutes later than usual. Please do not worry, the plane is more the capable of handling this weather."

Jana let out a small scream as they feel through another 'air pocket' and Matei rubbed the small of her back.

"I've been on planes in much worse weather," he told her, "We'll be ok. Just another forty minutes and we'll be there."

Jana let out a sigh, "So long! You should sleep too."

"I think it might be ok for us both to sleep," Matei said.

Jana nodded, "Just this once."

The snuggled closely, sharing a blanket and tried to relax.

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There was a loud boom, causing Matei and Jana to jump a little in their seats.

"That wasn't turbulence," Jana said with a horrified voice, "I think.. I think..."

"It might just be an engine or something," Matei said, as calmly as he could, although horror was seeping into his voice, "They deal with that kind of thing all the time."

Jana nodded, trying to reassure herself.

"Dear passengers," the captain began over the tannoy, "Please remain calm we will be diverting to Grenoble Airport where we will be making an emergency landing."

Jana looked up at Matei with panicked eyes.

"Everything will be ok," Matei said, "Just follow what the crew says and you'll be fine. I'm right here, right here."

Jana nodded, before hugging Matei tightly, tears soaking his shirt.

Suddenly there was a strange sound from below them and the aeroplane seemed to rock slightly before dipping sharply to the left.

Matei looked at Jana with a concerned look as a loud creaking noise sounded from below them, he grabbed her hand with a look of confusion and utter fear as he gaze out of the window and he saw a large sheet of metal falling from the aircraft and tumbling towards the ground.

An aircrash- this was the worst thing that any wolfblood could experience. In Matei's mind he saw it all- everything that was going to happen next and pulled Jana towards him, kissing her desperately, tears streaming down in his face as she cried loudly. He couldn't cope with his own fear, let alone with Jana's either.

Emilia, he thought. What would happen to her?

He tried his best not to think about it, but he couldn't help wondering what the world would be like once they were gone. He felt his heart explode with fear at the idea- no this couldn't be it, this couldn't, they had so much more to live for, so much more to do.

He felt the nose of the plane dip until it was going straight down, he heard the yells of the other passengers around him.

Jana grabbed at him, "MATEI!"

"It's going to be ok, Jana," Matei tried to reassure her, but it was a stupid thing to say, he knew enough about planes to know that they weren't going to be walking out of this.

And what could have caused it? Matei thought to himself, as the ground outside appeared closer and closer, What did it matter? It would be all over soon.

"BRACE!" one of the attendant yelled repetitively and Matei did just that, helping Jana as well as she was too distraught to think clearly.

He grabbed for her hand below the seat and she held onto his hand desperately in return.

"Please," Jana begged, "Please don't leave me, fy enaid cymar alffa. I love you, I love you..."

"Jana," Matei said in a desperate whispered, "Stay with me, fy enaid cymar alffa. I love you, don't ever leave me."

Jana sobbed loudly, trembling as Matei took a deep breath, counting down the seconds to impact.

Then it hit.

A massive thud that shook everything. The metal of the plane's body sheared clean off and flying into the forest area around them, Matei and Jana were flung forwards crashing into the chairs in front of them with incredible force and knocking Jana unconscious. Then their chairs came unstuck from the floor with the force and were thrown out of the main body of the aeroplane, a good ten or so feet away from it.

Matei, who had closed his eyes on impact, opened them now. His heart was racing fast as he saw the large fireball coming from the tail end of the plane. He struggled to breath as the air became toxic with the fumes of the petrol. Fumbling with his seat belt he managed to free himself, before looking at Jana. No, no, she couldn't be!

"JANA!" He yelled in shock, as he placed a hand along her neck to try and find a pulse, "You said your weren't ever going to leave me, fy enaid cymar alffa! Jana, I need you, I can't survive without you."

Matei looked back as a loud boom signalled an explosion. Fortunately it was only small, but he knew they needed to get away from there. His fear was building with every second that he was near the fire, every instinct of his wolfblood self telling him that he was in grave danger, the worst kind of danger a wolfblood could ever experience.

He grabbed Jana out of her seat and carefully pulled her into his arms before running at full wolf speed away from the burning wreckage. He used his scarf as a sort of filter to try to stop himself from breathing in the toxic fumes and tried to cover Jana's face with it too to offer some protection- because he had to hope that she was still breathing, that she was still alive.

When he was good few miles away from the wreckage, but still close enough to see the tower of blackened smoke rising from it, he placed Jana carefully down on the ground and allowed himself to survey the damage. He for the most part was ok, his head was bleeding, and quite badly, but scalp wounds always did and he knew it wasn't a severe cut. He could that his ankle was broken too, from the way that his left foot throbbed painfully. He suspected he had some broken ribs too because it hurt to breath. But none of that mattered to him at all, he would heal, he would live.

Jana on the other hand...

There were cuts all over her from where the glass and metal had shattered, her head wasn't bleeding but he could already see a massive bump forming on her forehead and it was beginning to look angry and purple. That was a good sign he thought, if blood was flowing to the area then that meant the body's immune response was still working, and that meant that Jana had to still be alive.

He listened carefully for her heartbeat and placed a hand carefully on her chest. It was as it should be, if a little fast from the inevitable shock. Her breathing was fast, too fast however and she was pale too. He didn't want to, but he was forced to understand just how bad Jana's situation was. She clearly in shock, and not just the emotional kind, and there was probably some internal bleeding.

Matei let out a loud howl. Jana would die if they weren't found soon, and things weren't looking too good for him either. He had been to hopeful in his self-diagnosis it appeared, he'd just been in a rush to make sure that Jana was going to be ok.

Pulling his torn coat over the both of them, he lay down next to her.

Waiting for wherever fate would take them.

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"We interrupt this broadcast to report that tragic accident has occurred," the news reporter said, "A British Airways Airbus 380 has crashed in the French Alps, and it is suspected that all on board have died. Our foreign correspondents will be arriving in the area shortly. It is unknown as to what may have caused the crash but the aviation authorities know that the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers in the area at roughly six pm local time. A search and rescue team has been deployed to the area, however reports are suggesting that from the extent of the damage there will be few if any survivors."

TJ looked up at Katrina in horror.

"Jana and Matei were flying out today," Katrina began in a scared and pained voice, "To Rome."

"Do you know what flight?" TJ asked, equally as panicked.

Katrina shook her head, "I'll go upstairs, Jana will have saved it on her email."

"I'm coming too," TJ replied, before dashing up the stairs and into the flat.

Katrina had already grabbed Jana's laptop from where it was sitting on the was sobbing loudly in utter terror.

"What... What about passwords?" Katrina asked, "I don't know any of her passwords."

"Here," TJ said, taking the computer from her, "We set them all to password, because Jana couldn't remember the ones she'd chosen. Might not be the safest but..."

"It's paid off now," Katrina answered, watching as TJ loaded the internet browser, and waited for the painstakingly slow internet in the flat to work it's magic.

"They're probably ok, Katrina," TJ tried to reassure his friend, "They should be in Rome already."

"I hope so," Katrina answered, "But I don't know when they were supposed to land, and Jana was supposed to text me to say they'd arrived safely. Even if she forgot, Matei wouldn't..."

TJ sighed, it certainly wasn't looking good.

He typed in the address for Jana's email account, knowing she had it automatically logged in and waited. A few seconds later the account opened along with two unread emails- one from Imara, wishing them a safe journey, and the other from the airline they were flying with.

'Dear Sir/Madam,

We are writing with the greatest condolences to inform that the BA123 Airbus 380 flight from Newcastle Airport to Rome has suffered an unexplained crash in the French Alps area just outside of Grenoble. We are awaiting further reports.

Please call the number below to speak to one of our advisers who are waiting on standby to assist you.

Please understand that search and rescue and emergency services personnel have been deployed to the area and that we are doing all we can to ensure the best possible outcome.'

Katrina trembled in shock, crying out in fear, "They... They..."

TJ shook his head, trying to hold back tears. Not Matei and Jana, not after everything they'd been through. Not his alphas. He tried not to think of his memories of them. The amount of times he'd yelled at Matei for reading too much, and the endless banter between them. The way that Jana would always argue with him and the way that she'd only be open around those she really trusted, and how long it had taken to earn that trust but how worth it it had been.

Katrina sobbed loudly and all TJ could do was hug her. He felt so powerless.

He heard footsteps on the stairs and saw as Kay appeared at the door, Kara just behind her.

"You've got to see this," Kay said, between exasperated breaths.

Katrina and TJ raced out of the flat and into the Kafe where the TV was still on, a small group of customers still gathered, watching it intently.

"We can now confirm that two survivors have been found," the news report continued, "And images are showing that they were found five or so miles from the main wreckage. Both of them are in a critical condition and have been moved to a nearby hospital in Grenoble where they are receiving specialist treatment for their injuries."

"There have been survivors," Kara said, "No one was supposed to walk away from this."

Katrina let out a sigh, but she couldn't let herself fall into foolish hope, she knew that more people had died in the plane crash than had escaped.

"We can confirm however that at least two hundred people have been confirmed as dead," the news reporter said gravely, "With many more suspected to also be dead or seriously injured. British Airways is in the process of contacting the families of those affected and promises that it will carry out a full investigation into how this tragic accident occurred. And... We've just been told now that one of our reporters is filming at the nearby Grenoble Hospital where the two young individuals have just arrived. And more shockingly they have been identified as two of the wolfbloods that appeared at the Newcastle press conference only a few months ago. This of course will cause many to question if this was a deliberate attack and if so why this occurred?"

"Matei and Jana!" Katrina yelled in relief, before seeing the pictures of two individuals arriving at the hospital. They both looked gravely injured and Katrina and TJ both felt their hearts drop.

TJ grabbed his phone, calling his mum, "Mum, what should we do?"