"Because not helping you wouldn't put this genie back in the bottle," Natasha says honestly enough. Delivering Alex's head on a platter to Islington might make her friends there, but it wouldn't bring Millicent back, it wouldn't stabilize the nest, and chances were it wouldn't stop other retributions against the werewolves. And whatever favor it garnered her in the vampire community, it wouldn't make her friends in East End. "And maybe I don't exactly have the moral high ground here."

She smiles slightly then, too, raising an eyebrow.

"Are you sure you really want me to encourage me to reconsider?"