Isabel POV

When Angela had mentioned that her niece and nephew had both been kidnapped, I thought it was strange. It seemed like something was off about all of that, so I called Jake and told him to meet up at my place, because I had a plan.

"Did you always know what I was?" I asked Angela, both of us getting out of the car. I felt another creature near by and looked over into the west end of the yard. Seeing the barest movement, it was one of the La Push Pack. "Come on out, she's an Other." I didn't feel the need to specify what kind. Most people tried to avoid being too informative about their species, none of us really trusted anyone, but could you blame us?

Then Jake and Jared trotted out happily, as if coming to a party. I chuckled slightly, and just moved into the house, finding everyone else talking in the living room. Sounded like theorizing to me.

"Alright, find out where Burkov's daughter is, were going to use her to track down her father, maybe use her to trade for the others," my response was met with silence.

Everyone kind of just stared at me for a moment. "Seriously? You want to start kidnapping humans now?" Brandon asked a little uneasily.

"Why not, there kidnapping supernaturals and I doubt if the council is about to jump off their high horse just to help on principle," I said frowning, why was this an issue again?

"She's the daughter of a Russian military scientist, her face will be all over their news feeds, and possibly even on ours. We'll need to take precautions, now what's with the girl?" Gwen asked, nodding her head at Angela's, not in an entirely friendly way either.

"Play nice," Adam said in a bemused tone from beside her, bumping her shoulder with his.

"She's from our world, Jake, do you have new shifters?" I asked, when they'd finally trekked in wearing their usual post shifting clothes.

"Um, a little boy, we haven't been able to get him to change back yet, why?"

"His name Casson! Where is he? Take me to him," Angela said instantly, getting right up in front of Jake.

"What? Who are you?" Jake blurted out, taken by surprise with her sudden onslaught.

"Angela, she's a friend of mine, Casson and Cassandra, the wolves that shifted, they're her niece and nephew," I explained.

"Great, well Sam's talking to Michael and Marabeth now. We agreed it's probably best to leave out Cassie's current predicament. They wont get to see them until they've shifted back anyways. Some take longer than others."

"But he's okay?" she pressed on, just as intensely.

"Yes Angela, he's okay, can we move along?" I snapped.

"Would you calm down, your going to get everyone worked up," Cole said irritably.

"Fine," I snapped, again, I took a deep breath, "alright. Back to the point. Let's kidnap the guys daughter, agreed?"

"I'll track her down," Brandon said standing and exiting the room without another word.

"Where's your car?" Jake asked suddenly.

"It blew up," I mumbled, still bummed out about the whole ordeal. I changed the subject, "Once we take the girl, they're going to come to Forks to find us."

"What do you suggest?" Adam asked eyebrows raised.

"We clearly can't stay hear anymore, the Council may know where we are, it's time we've moved on," I said slowly, as to gage every ones reaction. No one looked surprised, even a little relieved.

"What does that mean, move on?" Jake asked uneasily.

I sighed, going to sit down on the couch, taking Brandon's seat. Everyone else made space, realizing Jake and Angela were staying. "We can't stay here Jake, there are too many people looking for us. Human or not."

"What about Edward?" he asked frowning, the unspoken 'and me' hanging in the air.

"Edward already knew it was getting more and more dangerous sticking around. Maybe, one all this is over, we can come back. But right now it's just not an option," I said honestly.

Luna knew we couldn't stay, as well as our family, despite having not been brought up yet. I'd already discussed our plans with Edward the evening of our return to Forks and he understood, also agreed without hesitance that he would join us. It's not like his family would miss me much now that they know who I am anyways. Maybe Esme and Carlisle would a bit, but I doubt if the others would.

"Where are you going to go?" he asked, trying not to look so wounded. I felt bad, I did. I liked Jake, he was always so good to me.

"Were going to split up for a while, I can't give you the details," I said shrugging apologetically. If the Council came looking, they'd go straight to the La Push pack for answers, I could put the rest of us in danger that way. We were going to split up into small pairs of groups of three and track down the rest of the pack members. Re-group every night to make sure were all still in one piece. What we hadn't talked about was whether or not Luna and I would be splitting up at all, I hoped not. I wouldn't be able to focus much is Luna wasn't around.

"Maybe," Jake hesitated, long enough for everyone to give him a weird look. "Maybe I can come?"

"Would you really want to? What about your dad?" I countered, unsure of how to take this suggestion. I would love it if Jake came with us, he was my best friend, well as close to a best friend as you could get outside of the pack. The kind of best friend Angela was to me.

"He's been hinting for me to make something for myself for weeks now. Let me help you," he said with a little more confidence in his voice. I bit my lip, glancing at my pack, each of whom had resigned themselves to blank expressions, thanks guys I thought rolling my eyes mentally. After a silent moment he added, "I want to learn things. The elders don't know a whole lot and Sam and the rest of us know even less."

"You'd be expelled from your pack," Adam said after another moment of silence.

"What does that mean?" Jake asked, surprised and a little wary of the answer.

"It means, you wont belong to the La Push pack, you'd belong to ours. Not that were much of a pack anymore," Connor explained, snorting slightly at the end comment.

"And you'd have to submit to our pack leader," Cole said a heartbeat after his twin had spoken.

"Our non-existent pack leader," I said sighing and leaning back. I was tired, but I wouldn't be able to sleep by the time my sister was back.

"You don't have a pack leader?" Angela asked, mildly surprised.

"Joshua was killed off during the war and we all went into hiding before another pack master could be elected. For us to choose another pack leader, all of the living members would need to be present," Zack said next, not looking up from the channel flipping he'd been doing since the moment Brandon had left the room.

I'm sure there were plenty of things we could all be doing right now. But alas, we were all waiting on Brandon to return so we could take off and go get our brothers and sisters back. Which brought up another question, who was all going? I would be going, along with Adam, probably Jake and one or two of the La Push pack. Maybe Angela would want to join us. The Cullen's would probably come too, I should fill them in on the plan. Or maybe tell them to sit tight, they would get all pacifist on my ass as soon as they realized that I'd tortured two humans and was planning on kidnapping some scientists daughter for a bargain.

"Who do you think would be the new pack leader?" Jake asked curiously, looking at me now.

"Luna will always be my first choice," was all I said. She's already proved she's powerful, she's one of our best and strongest and best fighters. We've had endless leaders in our ancestry and again, we always had some sort of plan forming. If Luna had taken the position as pack leader when she had the chance, taken down Joshua we probably never would've had to go into hiding.

There weren't a whole lot of people who would back her up, but you also couldn't deny her power and her natural ability to lead. It was just in her blood to lead us. But when I'd suggested it, she shut down the suggestion instantly, saying I was insane. Yet here we are, two years later and she's still more or less in charge. If Luna had taken her birth right as Alpha from the start, we would've won the war, I knew that without a doubt. It's convincing other people that would prove to be difficult.

"Darklings can't be alpha's," Adam pointed out, "I think you'd be a good leader."

"Luna isn't just a Darkling, she's much more then that. She'd be the perfect leader," Gwen said, siding with me, until she said, "and if not, then Brandon."

"I'd vote for Isabel or Brandon, Luna's just way to focused on Isabel," Nate said shaking his head slightly.

"Luna wouldn't want to be alpha," we all turned to stare at David. He was usually pretty quiet, just listening. He was probably just relieved we hadn't kicked him out or killed him just for being the exile. But he may come in handy and right now we needed all hands on deck.

"Why do you say that?" I asked eyebrows raised, trying to keep the coldness from leaking out into my voice. David had been part of our little circle of friends, so it had hit home hard when he'd betrayed us. Ironically enough, no one really brought it up, trying to avoid a sore subject I suppose.

"She told me," now that got everyone's attention. He'd never mentioned this before, and it made the air thick and heavy with tension. Now we were all listening and watching him very carefully. Luna had never spoken to anyone, not even me, about this. There were just some things she didn't talk about. So why would she tell David anything? Had they really been that close? It had never appeared to be that way. Was it possible he was lying? I doubted it, in his position he didn't have the luxury of even gossipy lies without getting hurt. He was on thin ice with all of us and he knew that.

He explained further, looking more and more uncomfortable as he did so, "Luna told me that you'd gone to her after Joshua had slain Tyler," I felt a low growl escape at that. I hated when people spoke about that. Especially an exile. "She said she'd never be pack leader just on principle. We all know Luna was and still is one of our greatest assets and so does she, becoming our alpha made her the biggest target in the pack. She didn't like the prospect of being killed and unable to protect you anymore."

"She worries about you too much," Jake said when no one else said anything. Darklings weren't really supposed to care about anyone. Jake didn't know really know anything about Darklings. But he'd spoken the truth, a truth that shouldn't be so strange to us. We knew she was Darkling, it was the way she was when she was born, and yet she proved time and time again that she wasn't a Darkling.

Thankfully, Brandon reappeared. "Found her. She's at the Moscow State University, how are we doing this?" he asked, sitting down next to me.

"First we need to decide how many people are going. The Cullen's will want to join us, but they will not be meeting up with us until were about to make the trade off. I'll tell them they need to leave Washington for a while," I said thoughtfully, looking from one person to the next.

"I'm coming," Angela said, mostly to me than anyone else.

"I'd been hoping you'd say that," I said giving her a small smile. If she was a Seer, she'd come in handy. They had our other psychic, but being a Seer was a little different and I was pretty sure Angela was the more powerful of the two.

"Me too," as I'd predicted, Jake is joining us, Adam just gave me a nod.

"What about the rest of us?" Nate asked eyebrows raised, again everyone looked to me for guidance. That was odd to me, but I guess it made sense. If there was some sort of line of command, I would be second to Luna.

"I want Brandon with us, the rest of you will be at another location waiting for our return. We might be taking a boat back, not a plane," I explained, having thought about this earlier as well. We'd need to board a boat, probably illegally and if we had to, seize it.

Everyone just nodded there agreement and we spent the next few hours finalizing the plans. I sent Jake out to see who else would be coming with us from the La Push pack. I'd made sure that he asked them in person and that he didn't shift at all. I didn't want the Cullen's somehow finding out and I thought it best if the plans remained only vocal. We killed the other two soldiers, they were expendable and overall couldn't tell us much of anything.

We were also planning to leave by dawn, land in Moscow sometime around sunset, and chances were we wouldn't be returning. Jake hadn't decided, and I also got the feeling Angela had something to say, but my guess was she was waiting to talk to me in private. Who knows, maybe she wanted to stay with us too. I'd waited until after Angela left to speak to her parents and pack a bag, as well as for Jake to leave before I told my pack where I was sending them.

We would all be meeting up at a house outside of Los Angeles. Luna and I had bought with cash several years ago for just in case purposes. No one knew about it, but the idea was only to use it in case of emergency. It was huge, stocked with just about the supplies needed for a freaking apocalypse and in my mind, it was exactly what we needed. It would be good to have, because once we got her, there was so much that would be happening.

First off, she had to tell us what she read. We'd need to finish tracking down the rest of the pack, figure out why the Council has gone bat shit crazy. How to get our pack energy back and a long list of other things. Now, what to do first was the hard question because everything was equally as important.

One thing I did know for sure, by this time tomorrow, I would have both my sister and my mate back, and if anyone got in my way, they were as good as dead. In fact, I was going to burn that whole goddamn place to the ground on my way out just for thinking they could fuck with me and mine.