Isabel POV
Dr. Burkov's daughter was Alexia Burkov, she was a blonde, with grey eyes, about 5' 6" and she was relatively pretty in my opinion. She was sitting with two other girls and I had spent the last twenty minutes following them out of sight on campus. I wasn't worried about being noticed, there were no cameras around here, but she'd looked kind of uneasy and her heart had started to race.
I was posing as a student for the next little while, until I could get her alone. Then I overheard her tell her friend she was meeting up with someone. I kind of stuck out, considering all I had on was a thick sweater. I would get too hot wearing a big wool coat or something.
She split up with her friend, both of them hugging and bidding one another goodbye. I eyed her suspiciously, when she just stood there, watching her friend walk away. Maybe she was gay. "Are you really going to just follow me around all evening?" she asked over her shoulder. I froze, taken by surprise, until her words registered in my mind and still, I said nothing. This was getting weird.
When I said nothing, she turned to face me, looking as nervous as I was confused. "Well if your hear for nefarious means, you might as well by me a coffee first," then she strolled into the store next to her, not bothering to say another word to me.
What the hell?
After another second of stunned confusion I went in, looking around to see if she'd bailed and ran out the back door or something. That was not the case, she was sitting in the back of the room in a booth, two coffee's sitting in front of her. She looked uneasy, but otherwise calm.
I sat down across from her, neither of us knowing what to say. She just pushed a coffee in front of me, and I raised it, inhaling deeply to make sure it wasn't poisoned before drinking. She just looked a little amused, and surprised, before taking a sip of her own.
"I'm sure you know my name," she said after a moment of us just staring at one another. Her voice had a slight Russian accent, so I got the feeling she hadn't spent her entire life speaking Russian, that and how fluent she was in English.
"Alexia Burkov," I kept my voice cool and open, unsure of what I was getting into.
"Everyone calls me Alex," she retorted, relaxing at my tone, "I guess this is about my father."
"You guessed right, do you know what he's doing?"
She eyed me a moment, considering something internally. "I get the feeling he has someone you care about. But before you start jumping the gun and thinking he's just gone mad. He has his reasons."
I narrowed my eyes at her, then it clicked in, why she'd sensed me, and how she'd known I was hear about her father. I was really rusty on all of this. "Your not human," I let my Sight flare up after a moment of deep concentration, realizing she had a deep, almost black purple around her. The Arizona pack, and I'm betting all of the other werewolves in the world were light purple. "Your a werewolf."
She looked a little sad now, and then just nodded once, "where's your pack?" none of us sensed a werewolf pack when we got into Moscow.
"I don't have one, none will take me," her eyes watered a little and she shook her head, clearing her throat and than took another long drink.
"Why?" I asked incredulously.
"Because my mother, and her mother and so on and so on. Were like the first few generations," I cringed, yeah, I got why a pack wouldn't take her now. They were bloodthirsty and ate humans continuously during the full moon. They were vicious and uncontrollable during those few days. Once we'd started to learning to control our baser instincts, we'd started blending in with the humans. So if one stepped out of line, it started a 'witch hunt', and if you couldn't get control yourself, your were shunned by your pack. It didn't happen to often, but some legacies could never re-gain control and eventually died out being hunted by everyone, Council included.
It also explained why her aura was so dark, so different from others like her. Which made me wonder, if the darker the aura is, the closer it is to the base of what we are, was Luna? I doubted it, but then again, I still had no idea what exactly she was.
"My father, he was trying authorized to study it by someone high up in the government, from the Council, I think. But it's just a theory. He thought he'd found a cure for me, to make me human, it only made things worse. When the military found out, they ordered him to focus on his recent discovery, to see what else he could alter within the non-human species."
"Wow," was my brilliant response. I'd never met anyone like her before. She didn't seem so crazy or wild, just scared.
Turns out the Council is the reason her ancestors are dead, and they'd warned her that if she couldn't find some form of control they'd kill her too. All she'd learned to do is bury and cover her tracks better. They killed her mother when she was six, and she hadn't forgotten the warning ever since. I couldn't believe the Council had signed on off our experiments. I knew it was a far fetched idea, but that was just messed up.
"Your father has my family, or at least some of them, my sister and my mate included, I'm going to kill him, you realize that don't you?"
She said nothing, just looked down at her hands for a few minutes. I waited for this to sink in, because I wasn't going to change my mind and neither would the others. Finally, she looked up and met my gaze, "he's messing with things that shouldn't be messed with. But if you kill him, you'll need to take me with you."
"Why?" I asked surprised. That's all we needed on top of the problems we had that was till growing, a man eating werewolf.
"It took a while to find me, yes?" I nodded once, slowly, unsure of what she was getting at. "I'm the only one who will be able to understand his research, and I may be the only one who will be able to reverse anything he's done to your family. You need me."
"And I'm guessing you want something in return?" I retorted, knowing full well she was right. There was no telling what he could've done to any of them. Luna would want them all dead as much as I did.
"Help me learn to control my wolf," she said, as if it were obvious.
"Alright, we have a deal."
"So what was your plan, if I hadn't confronted you?" she asked as we'd begun making our way back to the parking lot. She didn't have a car, apparently she wasn't allowed to drive, her fathers rules. She'd never driven a day in her life. She was pretty scared of her father, which ironic considering he was human.
"I was going to kidnap you," the simplicity in my voice made her pause in her steps.
"I'm pretty sure I'm stronger then you," she pointed out. If I had been a normal werewolf, she would've been right. Fortunately, the other clans can't seem to figure out that were more then just werewolves. Much more. They know were different, but thankfully, not in what way. We were already being searched for just because the Council is out to get us. The entire supernatural world would be hunting us if they thought we were some kind of new breed. New breeds meant power, and I wasn't thrilled about the prospect of being locked up in a cage for the rest of my life.
I gave her a cool amused look, "no, you aren't, but it's cute you think that."
She just rolled her eyes, and I pulled out my cell phone and called everyone back at the abandoned house. We didn't want to be tracked around the city so we were staying hidden for now.
"Hey," Adam was generally my go-to guy when it came to abnormalities. Actually he was every bodies, thanks to Luna. She had a weird way of finding the right friends, and yet finding all of the bigger problems in return.
"Change of plans, we have a willing little helper, apparently she doesn't agree with her fathers research, were on our way back. How is everything on your end?" Adam, Jared and Angela were all planning our escape. I got the feeling things might get heavy, so we'd need to leave right away. Having Alexia on our side would smooth things over a bit, but that didn't meant there still weren't huge holes in our plan. I just hoped she could fill them in a bit.
"We'll be ready in five, the boat leaves in forty five minutes, if were doing this, we need to do it now," we made a meet point once she'd given us the location of the military base.
"How often have you been there, do they have a helicopter landing strip on site?" I asked, as the anxiety began to set in. I wonder if Alice knew we were coming somehow. I know she couldn't see the wolves, but would she have any way of warning the others if she'd seen us coming?
I'd debated calling and telling the Cullen's that we were about to break out the others, but I was worried they would somehow screw everything up. We had a good plan and I really didn't want to have to worry about some kind of problem. Like them wanting to join us or something. It didn't matter, we could call on the boat. It was a huge ship that would be hitting Canada first within the next few days, from there we could fly out and get to L.A., and Alice and Rosalie could do whatever the hell they wanted. I just wanted my mate and sister back.
"They should, do any of you even know how to fly a helicopter?" she asked skeptically.
"Of course not, werewolves, we like land, we'll take someone with us on the way out. Hopefully a pilot."
"I can find the pilot, I know a few of them, we'll need to stop at my fathers office to grab all of the files, and I doubt you have a laboratory in your basement, so I might need some equipment."
"A lot?" I asked warily, we wouldn't have time for that kind of thing. Wow, that was one big whole in the plan. What if there is something wrong with them and we'd forgotten it somehow. I hadn't really thought past getting them back.
"I'll have to check. What's the plan exactly?" she asked frowning, I'd neglected to share the details for obvious reasons.
"They cause a distraction, we have a Seer that will be able tell when we've got everyone and then we all hop on the plane, blow up the facility and leave."
She stared at me, trying to decide if I was serious. I was. "That is a horrible plan."
"Really? I don't think so, trust me, we've done crazier things then this."
"if you say so," she said, relenting to my slightly bizarre plan. But I didn't hear anyone else complaining or brainstorming ideas. The longer we waited the worse things could get. At least now we had a guide.
We pulled up next to a white van painted with a Russian medical van. It was thick and the barrels inside contained a mixture of cleaning solution. We'd written that there was bio-hazardous waste in the containers inside. The trick was that they would crash it, start a fire and make sure the van leaked out. It would be close enough onto the property of the base that they wouldn't be able to call in police and instead would need to bring in several people and man power from the base itself.
Jared and Angela would be dressed in white body suits and as a precaution that anyone transporting toxic waste would wear, is a gas mask. So there faces would be covered. Jake and Adam would be hiding in the trees or in the shadows of the woods and pick off those on the outskirts. As soon as the signal was given, they'd make there way to the clearing about five yards to their left. Where we all planned to rendezvous once everyone was gathered and ready to go.
"We all set here?" I asked tying my hair down and putting contacts in. I began putting make up on as quickly as possible, along with a blonde wig we'd picked up. I was worried about camera feeds being transmitted by satellite elsewhere, so we'd agreed a disguise was best.
"Yeah, once we get in and if you have time get to a computer, Brandon called and said they're at the house. He said he can try and track the signal, if there is one, may even be able to get all the research downloaded once your linked up. Do you know how to do all that?" I gave Adam a scowl.
"No Adam, the last two years have made me forget everything Luna taught me about computers," he returned the irritable look and I rolled my eyes.
"In exactly five minutes we'll crash the truck," Jared said next, climbing into the drivers side, while Jake and Adam climbed onto the roof of the van. I assumed they would jump off when they time came. "Get in and out as soon as possible."
"They should all be in the holding cells on the lower level, there are three exits, we should be able to release them all within two or three minutes, if the codes haven't changed," Alexia said hesitantly, nervous around everyone else. Probably because not twelve hours ago we'd planned on kidnapping her.
"Good, because we have only twenty five minutes left to get to the boat," Adam said, and then they were pulling away from us.
I wasn't sure how Jake felt about killing humans, they were experimenting on us, and I think he agreed it was wrong. But I doubted if he was prepared to go that far. For me? I'd seen it around me daily, maybe not daily so much as weekly, and we did occasionally get a craving that could be sated with eating other animals. I also couldn't deny that humans tasted pretty good. Though I did feel guilty if I went after the wrong person, our pack rules were clear that we needed to be careful about who we killed to avoid bringing attention to what went bump in the night. So everyone generally avoided eating anyone who would be missed.
"Ready?" I asked Alexia, and she gave me a tense nod. I frowned a little, nerves getting jumbled. "Try not to shift."
"What do you mean?" she asked uneasily, as we both began the trek straight into the woods and in the direction of the base.
"When things get a little too exciting, we sometimes shift on impulse, try and stay calm and in control of yourself," she bit her lip a little, knowing I had purposefully left out the words 'or you'll hurt someone'.
As we neared the base we started to stay low, ducking whenever we heard something too close by. I felt Vierra stir a little and then nudged her with my mind, telling her to wake up for me. I might need her on this. Angela said it herself, she could help me find Luna, or Aleera, both, either, whichever, it was the same person.
"Come on Vie, we need to find our sister," I hissed at the ground, and her head shot up in my mind staring at me wide eyed. I nodded slightly, as if I were looking right at her, time to kind Aleera, she needs us, she could be hurt. She whined a little, jumping up and then began padding around in my mind.
I glanced over at Alexia's bewildered expression and shrugged, "I'll explain all this la-," something blew to our right. We both turned to see something shoot upwards a little, "here we go."