Disclaimer: I think we'd all know if I owned Underworld. I only own the original characters in this story. The structure of the Lukoi, or wolf pack, is courtesy of L.K. Hamilton, and is only being borrowed by me.

Silveni: With such a lovely review, what else can an author do but try to meet your wishes, and try to write this as quickly as she can? I have to admit Lucian is very cool, I mean who wouldn't fall in love with him?

I feel flattered that I have managed to write an OC that you like. The angel side of Morganna is I suppose freaky by our terms, but I think its more she was an angel, who was very cold and aloof, and a brilliant fighter. Now she's an okay fighter, but doesn't like to get into close combat, and she has empathy, and can feel. As to your last comment, I'm afraid you're going to have to wait a little longer for that to happen, but it will happen at some point, I promise.

Chapter 13

Morganna shifted restlessly in her plane seat. She had been trying to get to sleep for the best part of the time they had been on the plane. It was not that she was uncomfortable; the plane they were on was full of little luxuries. She had to admit she was surprised when Lucian managed to find a rather accommodating company that would get the small group to America at night. Morganna thought it was ironic that they should start their new life in the dark, instead of stepping off the plane into bright sunshine with birds singing as so often happened in the movies.

Morganna looked over at her companions, who were all sleeping, including Selene. It seemed strange that a vampire would sleep in the night, but then again the events of the past few days may have exhausted her. The angel did not begrudge her rest, she just was not comfortable with the fact that she alone was awake, even when she would much rather be asleep. Her mind was racing, even after she closed her eyes, which would soon force her to open them again.

She hated to admit it to anyone, including herself, but she was worried. Unclipping her belt the angel stood, stretching her legs. She paced the cabin for a while, trying to relax. Once she had gotten a little of the energy that was fizzing around her system out she sat back down again in her chair, and reclined it, closing her eyes, willing to try and give sleep another go. She tried relaxing each and every muscle in her body, as she had once been taught, but it did not work, and soon she was sitting up in her chair again.

She looked around her at the others, all passed out asleep. Somehow Selene had managed to fall asleep on Michael's shoulder, a fact that touched the angel, and she smiled as she looked at them. Jonathan was sprawled across his seat, his mouth half open, the blanket they had each been given tangled around his legs. Tenderly Morganna stood and untangled the blanket from around Jonathan's legs before gently placing it over his legs and lap.

Turning around she saw Lucian watching her strangely. She had thought that Lucian had been sleeping, but obviously he hadn't been. He seemed surprised by the small action that she had done. The angel thought she would find it difficult to explain to him how she felt strangely protective of Jason. Perhaps it was that she was hundreds of years older than him, and he was still a relatively new lycan. Or perhaps it was simply because he needed someone to look after him, as it seemed that Lucian was too busy to mentor Jonathan.

"I think this might just work," Lucian mused as Morganna sat down.

"What might work?" Morganna asked.

"Well I was wondering how to explain you to the other Lukoi."

"Please don't tell me that's another name for lycans, which brings with it a whole lot of other complicated problems."

"I won't then."

"Okay well I guess we better hear this plan of yours."

"The others need to hear it too."

"What now?"

"There might not be another time."

"But they're sleeping, leave them be."

"Morgan," Lucian gently admonished.

Morganna looked expectantly at Lucian, and folded her arms, almost as if she were expecting him to say something else. She was tempted to say that even though they could not sleep it didn't seem fair that they should wake up everyone else when they were sleeping. The staring match carried on for a while, until Lucian sighed and shook his head. Morganna smiled as it meant she had won a small victory. However that victory was soon proved to be futile.

"There are now only two hours until we arrive in America," the captain's voice shot through the room.

Selene jumped up at even that anomaly. She looked as if she would reach for her guns, which to appease the captain she had had to leave in the cargo hold. Morganna had relinquished hers quickly enough, although she had hidden a couple of knives in the boots she was wearing. The angel figured that what the captain did not know would not harm him, and besides Morganna was the one who needed weapons the most, she could not shift, nor could she rip out someone's throat if she chose to.

"What is it?" Jonathan asked as he glared across blearily at Morganna.

"They're awake now," Lucian looked pointedly at Morganna.

"If I didn't know any better I'd say you planned that," Morganna replied with a smile.

"What are you two on about?" Jonathan asked, shaking his head.

"Werewolf politics," Morganna answered quickly, hiding whatever else she was about to say beneath a cough.

"So what about lycan politics?" Selene asked almost disdainfully causing Lucian to bridle and growl.

In answer Selene hissed, and her vampire fangs came out. Her eyes glowed the unearthly blue that signified she was a vampire. Lucian also started to change in retaliation. Jonathan seemed to be trying to make himself as small as possible, to avoid whatever was about to happen. Michael seemed unsure of what was happening, and what to do about it. So Morganna realised she was the one who was going to have to do something about the situation.

"Lucian," She gently called to the lycan as she stepped in front of him and Selene.

"Lucian," Morganna tried again, gently laying a hand on his arm.

At that his eyes snapped to her. She stood transfixed almost in fear of the feral beast that was shining in the ice blue orbs of the leader. Calming herself Morganna smiled reassuringly at Lucian, trying to hold his attention to her. Glancing quickly over her shoulder she saw Michael was now trying to talk to Selene, to calm her down. The angel knew Jonathan was at her shoulder, waiting to see what new developments there would be in this already interesting situation.

"Michael, take Selene out of here for a while, until I come and talk to her," Morganna commanded the hybrid.

"Do it!" Jonathan snapped when it seemed like Michael was about to protest.

Morganna sighed with relief as she heard a door close. Now it was her and Jonathan, who had to try and keep Lucian from changing. That would involve calming him down, a task which Morganna alone knew she would have to do. Jonathan would need to be there in case anything went wrong, like Lucian shifted on her and tried to attack her, which could be fatal in a situation like this, where there was no space to run. It might even end in the plane crashing, which was potentially very, very dangerous.

"Lucian calm down, you're completely overreacting," Morganna tried to reason with the lycan leader.

"Ummmm…Morganna, it doesn't seem to be working," Jonathan replied after a while.

"Jonathan shut up!" Morganna commanded.

Throughout all of this she held the stare of Lucian. Her eyes were burning with the need for her to blink, and yet she didn't want to take her eyes of the lycan leader for a second. She had a funny feeling that if she lost eye contact with him for a second he might loose control completely. Now she was not afraid, she was trusted that Lucian would not loose control completely now that the source of his aggravation had been removed. She could not think of why the lycan would be this quick to anger.

"Lucian, calm down, it's really not worth it, you could end up killing us all, do you want that?" Morganna asked trying to reason with him.

Suddenly the lycan tore his gaze from hers and broke away from her hand that was still placed lightly on his arm. He fell to pacing the floor of the cabin. Eventually he looked at Morganna and she smiled to see it was Lucian again. She walked across to him, and placed her hand again lightly on his arm. She was surprised when he would not meet her eyes. Gently she lifted his chin with her free hand, and she was surprised to see shame in his eyes.

"What is it Lucian?" Morganna asked concerned.

"I completely overreacted," Lucian explained.

"Well we know that," Morganna joked, smiling slightly.

"Its near to a full moon, maybe he lost control, I sometimes do," Jonathan tried to think up excuses.

"Its not that though, is it Lucian?" Morganna answered holding Lucian's gaze, "She reminds you of Sonja, and yet she acts so differently."

Lucian nodded. Morganna knew he was still grieving for his Sonja. It hurt the angel to see him like this, he needed to be strong not vulnerable. However the way Selene had been so dismissive must have hurt Lucian, almost as if the words had come out of Sonja's mouth. Jonathan's point did still stand, but it did not explain completely why Lucian came so close to shifting, unless it was something incredibly annoying to him.

"We all loose control sometimes, its OK Lucian," Morganna reassured, before pulling away, "I need to go and see Selene."

Opening the door she walked through to the other room. Both Michael and Selene looked at her. Both of them seemed to be expecting something from her, although what it was she didn't know. She closed the door firmly behind her so that neither Lucian nor Jonathan would be able to hear or see what was about to happen. Turning to Michael Morganna indicated that he should leave. The hybrid seemed about to argue, but the angel turned a chilling glare onto him, and he left without a protest after that. Once Michael was gone Selene devoted her full attention to the woman standing before her.

"That was stupid," Morganna started, "You should not be disrespectful to your allies!"

"Until last night they were my enemies!" Selene spat back.

"That could easily happen again! We need to know about lycan politics as you put it. If we don't we're going to walk into the other pack and get slaughtered, do you want that?"

"What do you want me to do?"

"Go in there, apologise and then we listen to whatever we need to know to help us survive."

After that Morganna turned smartly on her heels and walked out of the room, leaving a very startled vampire staring at her. She walked straight back over to her seat and flopped down contentedly back into it with a small sigh. She chose to ignore the fact that every male eye in the room was on her, especially after a rather sheepish female vampire come in and apologise. Lucian kept his face neutral as he accepted the apology, but could not help but smile to think of how Morganna had seemed to cow even the death dealer.

"Now, what was it you wanted to tell us?" Morganna lightly enquired after a while as she turned to face Lucian.

Jonathan let out an audible groan as he heard the Lukoi mentioned. Lucian seemed to accept this grumbling easily enough, whilst carrying on explaining it to the other three, who seemed blissfully unaware of what it meant. Morganna had heard the term in her travels, but had not known what it meant, nor understood how damn complicated werewolf society really was. It was almost like the vampire society, which still clung to the idea of feudal overlords and serfs. Whenever she had dealt with vampires after her enforced exile Morganna always seemed to expect a knight to come running to deal with her.

"So you're Ulfric?" Michael asked Lucian after a while.

"Exactly," Lucian agreed.

"Why does he get to be leader?" Selene asked, clearly not happy with the situation.

"Because one, he's a werewolf, two, because he's the oldest werewolf, three, he killed the last Ulfric of his pack, I was there and four, he knows all about Lukoi," Morganna explained reeling off the reasons easily.

"I suppose when you put it like that…" Selene agreed grudgingly.

"Who's going to be Lupa?" Jonathan asked suddenly.

Suddenly dead silence fell over the cabin. Morganna looked to Lucian expectantly, and was not surprised when he looked straight back at her. She was also surprised that everyone else there was giving her their vote. She was puzzled, she hadn't asked for this, and after listening to what being Lupa entailed she was not exactly sure if she wanted to be it. So she decided to try and wriggle her way out of it like she so often had.

"I'm not," Morganna answered.

"You're the only female here who could be Lupa," Lucian gently reasoned.

"You never know, you could meet someone," Morganna brushed it off.

"Morgan, you have to be our Lupa," Jonathan pleaded.

"But, isn't she, the girlfriend or wife of the Ulfric?" Morganna asked, already dreading the answer.

"You only have to pretend to be together," this time it was Selene who spoke.

Morganna bit her tongue, knowing there was nothing more she could say. It seemed it had all been decided for her. Why she never had a say in the things that often turned out to have the most bearing on her life irked her a little, but sometimes things turned out for the better, and sometimes they didn't. What Morganna was really uncomfortable about however was what it would mean if she agreed.

It would mean that she would have to trust in someone else. Her life had been a lonely one for many, many years, and she was unsure if she still knew how to trust someone else apart from herself. She guessed only time would tell.

Author's note: I hope you all enjoyed, although I'm not really sure how I could have written this chapter better, even though I don't like it. Anyway, reviews are always appreciated.