"Because you'd try and change it. And you can't," Isabel replied. "I wasn't happy when it happened. I was pissed, just like you were. But the thing is? Them knowing? Changed things. It was easier in some ways. And they watched our backs. Hell, we would have been dead two years ago if it wasn't for them."

Of course things were already changed by Michael being in Fandom. But Isabel wasn't willing to risk it. He'd go home at some point and she couldn't take a chance that he'd keep Max away from the Crashdown.