"W-we spoke to him! You-"
"Relax, little sister," Rogue chuckled. "They surrendered, but there's a pack to the east. Quite a large pack, bad morals however. I believe one of your pack members used to belong to that pack, before he was kicked out."
Indiana frowned. "What are you talking about? Who was kicked out of a pack?"
"That doesn't matter," Rogue said dismissively. "What does matter is that I want that pack next. And your pack is going to do that for me."
"We're not going to hurt anyone," Indianna said.
"Oh really? I heard Greyson had a liking for torture," Rogue said and shrugged his shoulders, smirking when Indianna frowned.
"What?"
"Your pack didn't get its reputation by being friendly," Rogue said. "Your mate was quite an ass."
"We're not hurting anyone."
Rogue raised his eyebrows. "Be prepared to be of assistance, sister. I shall let you know when I need you."
"Is that all? Can I go?" Indianna asked and stood up.
"No. One more thing, Stacy wanted to invite you to dinner. So come round next Thursday. We'll have a nice family dinner."
Indianna wanted to say no. "Stacy wanted to?"
Rogue nodded.
"Okay."
Rogue's eyes lit up in a way Indianna had never seen before and she frowned as an idea came to her.
"Perfect," Rogue said and clapped his hands.
Indianna decided to test something out. "I guess I should be making more of an effort," she said. "She is my sister-in-law after all. We're family."
Rogue looked at Indianna with an expression she had never seen before.
Indianna was sure it was happiness.
"Goodbye, Jason."
"Goodbye, sister."
Indianna rushed out of the house and broke many speed limits to get back to the pack house quickly.
"You're not Doctor Who! You can't just vanish and don't think people will realise!" Kal yelled as she walked through the front door.
"I have a plan," Indianna blurted. "Well... half of one."
*
"I don't see how that will do anything," Harry said once Indianna had explained.
"You didn't see his face when I mentioned about Stacy being family," Indianna said. "He seemed happy. Genuinely happy. He's gone his whole life without a family, without someone by his side. I think that's what he craves. He wants a family and he wants control, something that has been ripped from him when he was younger."
"So you want to suck up to him and be the perfect sister he wants?" Harry said.
"You want to give him what he craves," Ace said and nodded. "It makes sense. We'll trick him into a false sense of security."
"For the past few months we've been fighting Rogue and his control as much as we could, but now you just want us to stop?" Kal questioned.
"We play along, really commit to it and pretend. Give Rogue everything he wants and be submissive. Soon his guard will drop. I'll play the perfect sister and make best friends with Stacy and get him to lower his guard and then somehow we'll take him down."
"How are we going to do that?"
Indianna smiled sheepishly. "That's the part I haven't figured out yet."
The plan was simple.
Do everything Rogue wanted.
Don't fight him.
Follow his every word.
"We will be able to take him down," Indianna said to the whole pack the next morning. It was the first time she was speaking to them as a whole. The last time she stood in front of her pack Greyson was by her side. "It's not going to happen instantaneously, we need to be patience. We'll get through this."
Indianna stopped talking and the whole pack slowly bowed their heads. Indianna shifted awkwardly on her feet and nodded.
"That's all," she said and soon the pack were making their way out of the room.
The usual group remained in the large room that was used when the whole pack gathered.
"You mentioned something about Rogue wanting us to do something him," Oscar said. "Do you know what?"
"He wants us to take control of a pack to the east," Indianna sighed. "I don't know the specifics, and I don't know when he wants us to do it. All I know is that one of our pack members used to belong to that pack- they were kicked out."
"Tale control how?" Brooke wondered. She had only been awake twenty minutes and you could tell she had a rough, sleepless night. Everyone in the pack house heard her scream at least once.
"I said we won't hurt anyone."
"But if he wants us too then we're going to have too," she gulped and her eyes went wide. "Oh, crap, sorry guys I think I'm going to be sick-" Brooke pulled away from Harry and rushed out of the room.
"She had a bad night," Harry explained. "She's just run down."
"Go, I've said everything I need to say," Indianna said.
"Indie, can I talk to you?" Oscar called. "I need to tell you something."
"Sure," Indianna nodded and her and Oscar walked off to the side. "What is it?"
"You said Rogue spoke about a pack member who used to belong to the pack he wants us to take down?" Oscar said.
"Yes, but I haven't a clue who the pack member is-"
"It's me."
Indianna raised her eyebrows. "You? But how? What happened?"
"I was a lone wolf for a long time. About two years ago I moved to this town, and then I left to travel. I returned around the same time Brooke moved here and I made it onto Greyson's radar- well technically Harry's, but then that leads to Greyson. I got mixed up with a problem of Harry and Brooke's, I guess you could say I helped out, and then Greyson invited me to join the pack," Oscar explained.
"Oh wow, why were you a lone wolf in the first place? Why did you get kicked out?" Indianna asked and frowned, Oscar didn't seem like the type to do anything wrong.
Oscar sighed and ran his fingers through his short dark hair. "My old pack is barbaric, they're very traditional, stuck in olden ways. I was banished from the pack when they found out about my sexuality."