A/N: Thanks guys for the feedback :) Sorry about the long wait for this part, but I had problems trying to write Isabel's POV while tying it in with the information that Larek would be given them. It's a short part but hopefully you'll like it.

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The light was dim in the Crashdown Café as four people sat around a booth, and three of those people were engrossed in what the fourth had to say. Isabel Evans sat beside Larek, the alien life form who at the moment possessed the body of Brody Davies, while her brother and his former girlfriend sat on the other side of the table, all of them were listening intently to what the alien had to say.

"The reason your friends were taken was probably because they were linked to you, you do realise that don't you?" he was asking looking at both her and Max.

"We figured that out," Max said quietly.

Isabel felt a pang of guilt knowing that from just knowing them Alex and the others had been taken against their will, just because they happened to know the royal four.

"Why?" she asked him. "Is this just a sick way to get to us?"

Larek shook his head. "No. I think it's more important than that. They needed them for a reason, but what reason that is I don't know yet."

"If they five were taken because of their link to Max, Isabel, Michael and Tess, then why…" Liz shared a look with Max before returning her gaze to Larek. "…wasn't I taken?"

Isabel looked at the older alien. She had considered this question and wondered why Liz was left behind yet someone like Sean DeLuca who wasn't close to them was taken.

"On our planets we are advanced enough to be able to track humans that we choose at random," Larek began to explain. "That's how we are able to identify humans who are suitable to be used as hosts like I'm using this body now. But whenever a human has been changed somehow by alien cells like this body has, then it can no longer be tracked except by the person who will use that body."

Max frowned. "Brody has alien cells in him?"

"Yes."

"So he has powers now?" Isabel was curious to know.

"No," Larek told her. "But he only has enough alien cells so he can be tracked by me. We're able to track humans by their biological makeup rather than an internal device as we've found it more effective."

Liz clasped her hands together on the table. "So what you're saying is that I have alien cells in me now?"

Isabel noticed Max look at Liz, but she continued to look ahead at Larek. Isabel wondered if she was deliberately refusing to face her brother.

"When Max healed you, he did also change some of your cells from human to alien. And since then those cells have been changing more of your human cells to alien ones. So now you are off our radar so to speak."

Liz nodded understandably but Isabel noted the fear of the unknown that was etched in her features. It was a look she had seen a quite a bit of today. Max put his hand over both of hers and Liz allowed it to stay there. Isabel turned back to Larek in a bid to no longer invade the intimate moment.

"So you can't track anyone with alien cells unless you're going to use that body?"

"That's correct," Larek nodded. "That is why the skins had a hard time finding you four, and why even your protector couldn't track you after you were left wherever it was he hid you."

"And if no one could track us, then that means they couldn't track Alex, Maria, Sean, Kyle and Laurie after they were changed," Liz stated.

"That's correct," Larek nodded. "That's why they had been programmed to send out a signal to let whoever took them know that they were now all together for the first time since their abduction."

Max looked concerned. "Programmed?"

"It wasn't a coincidence that they stood in a formation that would send out a signal to another planet. In their self-consciousness they were probably instructed to do so once they had come in contact again. Here in Roswell."

Isabel gave a sideway glance at the others. "What else could they have been programmed to do?"

"Whatever it was they were taken for. Their purpose isn't known to me yet. They were taken for a reason."

"Could that reason be to harm Max, Isabel, Michael or Tess?" Liz asked grimly. Isabel could tell that she noted her look of disgust at such a notion that Alex and the others would ever harm them. "No, hear me out," Liz defended herself. "Like Larek said it's not a coincidence that it's five people who know you guys that were taken by someone… or something. There must be a reason for that. It must have something to do with you."

Isabel felt anger build up inside of her at such a thought. Alex wouldn't harm her. A memory from long ago of them sitting in a booth only further down from where she was now came to mind. Alex had promised to protect her, and she had believed him. Even now that they were only friends she still believed in that promise.

And she was about to state that fact when Larek spoke. "She's right," he said grimly. "They could be a threat to you. You can't trust them."

Isabel felt her stomach sink to the floor. She felt sick at the thought of Alex and the others being used as pawns in a war that they had nothing to do with. And it was by knowing them they were brought into it.

All of them turned when they heard a soft knock on the doors to the Crashdown. Alex stood and gave an anxious smile waiting to be let in. He looked so lost. So harmless. And now she was being told that he wasn't to be trusted.

At that moment Isabel Evans hated the royal blood that was running through her veins and all the pain that being Vilandra brought to the people of Roswell, New Mexico.