Angels • Alec Lightwood (DISCONTINUED)

Eleven

I've been searching city streets,
Trying to find the missing piece, like you said.

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D A I S Y

The taxi wasn't a taxi.

I stared at the carriage waiting outside the Institute and wondered just what I had been thinking.

You're crazy, I thought. The city of bones. Really? Of all the crazy things you've done, this is by far the worst. You're not a Shadowhunter.

'Daisy?' Maryse said quietly, walking up behind me. 'Are you feeling okay? You can still leave, you know.'

For a second I considered it- just walking away, leaving this world and these people behind. But I couldn't. There was something keeping me here- or, perhaps, someone.

'I'm-' My throat stuck on the word fine. 'I'm going. I have to go.'

Maryse placed a hand on my shoulder and gripped it- as close as she came to a hug. 'Good luck, Jane.'

I didn't remind her to call me Daisy, or do anything but think this woman is so different from the girl I met years ago. She's changed- and so have I. We're different now. Stronger.

****

'Daisy,' someone called just as I started to move towards the carriage. 'Daisy, wait!'

I turned around. 'Alec?'

There he was, breathing hard. 'I thought I missed you,' he said. 'I just wanted to say... Good luck.'

'Thanks,' I replied quietly. 'I'll-' I'll what? 'Yeah. Thanks.'

He opened his mouth as if to say more, and then paused. 'I know we've just met,' he said. 'But I... I don't know. I hope everything goes okay.'

I blinked. 'Thanks. I hope stuff goes okay with you, too. I'll be back soon.'

I hope stuff goes okay with you? Really, Daisy? Of all the stupid things to say, 'I hope stuff goes okay with you, too' is so the worst. You're actually crazy, Daisy. He's just a boy. A gay boy. Or bisexual. Whatever. Bro code. Or girl code. He's Magnus'. Back off.

But when he hugged me, slowly and slightly hesitantly, like he was afraid of what I would do or say, I couldn't help but hug back. I couldn't help the nervous feelings in my stomach that made me want to smile and run away all at once.

*****

Aurora, the first Silent Brother said. I shivered.

I was standing in the dungeons of the City of Bones, facing the Silent Brothers and seriously regretting my decision. God, Daisy, you're crazy. This will never work. Ever. You're going to die. And you're going to die a violent death, not a nice peaceful one like you wanted. You're going to die painfully, Daisy. Why did you agree to this, again?

I took a deep breath. It didn't matter what I wanted anymore. It mattered what I needed, and what I needed was to know what I was. What I could be.

Stand here, a Silent Brother said, gesturing to a circle drawn on the floor in chalk. The room was covered in similar circles, and I couldn't help but feel apprehensive. It felt like the Brothers were trying to summon Satan or something creepy like that, and needed me for a human (well, ish) sacrifice.

Close your eyes, Aurora. Close your eyes and breathe.

I closed my eyes, and I breathed, and the world fell away.

I was young. Only six or seven, tiny toddler hands trailing in the pond next to me.

I was in a small park, with a pond covered in dark green slime. Nearby there's a wooden swing, with blue rope trailing from it. It's small and dark, with clouds covering the sky, and drizzle making young me's hair frizz. 'Mama,' young me said. 'Mama. Where's Mama, Daddy?'

I felt fear shoot through me. There was a man next to me, a man in a dark coat with light hair and sad blue eyes. 'Mama isn't coming back,' he said sadly. 'Mama's family were cross with her. Listen to me, Rory. Listen to me. Your mama's sister will be coming to look after you. She's going to take you and look after you, and for a while you're going to have to be very quiet and hide, but then after a few years, you can come out again and live with your Aunty.'

'My Aunty?' Young me repeated. 'Who's my Aunty?'

The man- my father- looked up at the gathering storm clouds, and then shook his head. 'She'll make you forget anyway,' he whispers. He moved his head down and touches young me's cheek, and I saw the swirling pattern of a rune peeking out from under his collar. 'Your Aunty, Queen of Faerie. She's going to look after you, darling. I don't want you anywhere near her, but I have no choice. She won't hurt you, even if she hurt- I can't tell you this. And I'm going to go and give myself to the Shadowhunters, like they want. It's forbidden for us to be with faeries, you see, and I'm half-faerie already. They hate Downworlders. They don't like me, and they forbade me to have children, but they let me risk my life for them anyway.'

He closed his eyes. 'I shouldn't be telling you this, Rory. Just know I love you, and this is for the best... Mama can't come back, but we both loved you, and we both loved each other.'

A tear trickles down his cheek, and I feel ice spreading through my body. Is this what I think it is? Is he saying what I think he is?

'Just know Mama will always be with you,' he said. 'In your heart. And from up there.'

He rested one hand on young me's chest and the other on my shoulder. 'She loved you, and I'll love you until the day I die.'

'Daddy, I don't understand,' young me cried. 'What's going on? Why am I living with a queen?'

But I understand. The Queen is my aunt. My mother was her sister. My father left me with the faeries because the Shadowhunters were hunting him.

My father was killed by the Shadowhunters. And my mother....

Mama's family were cross with her. The Queen won't hurt you, even if she hurt...

Even if the Queen hurt my mother.

The Queen of Faerie killed her sister. My mother.

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