Simon a vampire, yes..quite odd to think about. Skylar knew this entire time how bad this would go, why? Well what person would want to be brought back and be something that is impulsive and different for a mundane. You cannot stand in the sun unless you wish to burn into ashes, you must drink to stay alive or you will die, some cannot control thirst around others...killing and blood. It was just-unbelievably hard to transition from being normal to a supernatural creature that no one but certain others believe it. Simon had made a run for it, Skylar, Jace and Clary had chased after the scared and shock new vampire away but did not find him. Raphael told them, that it was best to leave him be and wait until he came to terms about his new lifestyle.
Jace shook his head as Clary went on and on about how she had to help him and she was right. She needed to help her bestfriend as quickly as possible but that mission did not last long. Jace had called Alec, but Isabelle had responded instead explaining what had happened. "Clary, we need to go back." Skylar said when Jace had ended the phone call with Izzy and sighed. The two exchanged looks before hurrying up, and wanted to go back to check on everyone.
"No! What about Simon?!" Clary asked, squeezing in between the two and looked at them with eyes filled with nothing but panic and worry.
"Clary-" Skylar stopped walking, grabbing her sister's shoulder and looked at her straight into her eyes. "Isabelle and I are parabatai, we are one, and if I had to choose between her and Simon..I will always choose Isabelle because if she dies..half of me dies along and I won't recover. And the fact that the Institute has been attacked, and luckily no one was killed only injured it a miracle but my parabatai needs me. You go to Luke, speak to him and ask for help..he'll do it for you." The redhead nodded slowly before taking a few steps back, mouthing the words 'Sorry' before running off to go find Luke.
"Now that was a very heartfelt speech." Jace said, before chuckling and earned himself a playful glare from Skylar. "Let's go."
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Skylar and Jace had arrived, but before they went to go check on the others. They had separating ways to go get changed or do what they had to do. "Hey, You all right?" Jace asked as he approaching Alexander and Isabelle Lightwood who were speaking to one another before being interrupted.
"I'm fine." Alec replied bluntly, he looked down at where he was all bandaged up and glanced at his parabatai for a second before returning to what he was doing. Skylar had walked over with her hair up in a high ponytail, she smiled over at Isabelle..the two whispered a few things to another making sure that everything was alright.
"I just spoke to Robert and Maryse. They're being sent back to Idris." Jace said with his arms crossed over his chest, Isabelle told Skylar about a few things that seemed to annoy the blonde quite quickly causing her to frown and shake her head. See the two blondes hadn't met Lydia Branwell yet, and from what she has been told..well they weren't going to get along.
"Another "order" from Lydia?" Isabelle asked, she had rolled her eyes and felt Alec give her a certain look for the tone and the way she had spoke about Lydia that was unnecessary.
"Who's Lydia?" Jace asked, he was very very out of the loop here and had missed out a lot when dealing with Clary and Simon. She's in charge of the Institute.
"Apparently she is in charge of the Insitutue temporarily." Skylar said and shook her head, things were going to hell.
"And now she's convinced the Clave that Mom and Dad aren't doing their job?"
"Well, maybe they aren't. Mom and Dad were members of the Circle. They made a deal with the Clave prior to the Uprising. In exchange for their cooperation, they were pardoned." Alec explained, what he was told and what he had learned.
"You're questioning their loyalty?" Skylar asked, how did that make her feel? Well what if they started to question her or Clary..or Luke even? This wasn't something she wanted nor needed from them, she has done nothing but help them capture Valentine.
"Valentine is back. The Circle is rising, they're under suspicion." Alec said, he stopped and turned around to face them all.
"Robert and Maryse took me in. They raised me as one of their own. I know what kind of people they are." said Jace, this was difficult to believe every word that was leaving Alec's lips.
"Are you sure? They lied to us. Well, they're the ones who tarnished it. They're hypocrites." Alec said but fell silent when Lydia Branwell walked over, looking at Jace then at Skylar.
"You must be Jace Wayland and you must be Skylnn Morgenstern. I'm Lydia Branwell. Jace, you're quite the legend back in Idris." Lydia said, she held out her hand for either of them to shake but Skylar and Jace both exchanged looks, then looked down at the hand. "Don't believe everything you hear." Jace mumbled, clearly very very upset at what he had recently learned.
"Did you tell them?" Lydia asked, she stood beside Alec and looked up at him before looking at the three, all looked seriously confused.
"Tell us what?" Isabelle asked
"Lydia and I are engaged. We're getting married." Alec broke the news, Skye's eyes widened slightly and shook her head. What.The.Hell.Happened.With.Magnus. Yes that was the only thing going through her mind as we currently move on from this news. The blonde turned around and left without saying a word, she must have been in the wrong world here.
"You were supposed to tell them "no." It's your life to ruin." Isabelle said in a cold tone with a disappointing look in her brown eyes, she wished that her older brother would have listened to what she said instead of doing something completely insane.
"Not sure what to say." Jace said honestly, with a shrug as Alec stared at him, hoping that there was something else to say then just that. He shook his head, before speaking.
"How about, "None of this matters"? We have to stop Valentine." Alexander suggested, Jace gave him a look.
Finally, something we agree on." Jace Wayland said, he turned around...walking away from the two. How did he feel about this? He didn't like it other, and the fact that he had no knowledge about this was even worse for him. They were parabatai, brothers and family but recently they have a strained relationship.
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Skylar had left the Institute, she did not want to be around Lydia and she was having trouble understanding why Alec made a choice of marrying someone he did not love. She could never go through that nor would she plan to ever! She had approached, where Simon, Clary and Luke were. Clary and Simon spoke to one another, and it was good to see them together, and getting along as well especially everything that had happened before. "How are you doing, Skye?" Luke asked, with a raised eyebrow at her. She nodded slowly and smiled faintly.
"Alright, I guess. I learned that my parabatai's brother is going to marry someone who may ruin their family. Oh, also he isn't really being himself. And the guy I liked and kiss, hasn't said much about what happened between us at all."
"Oh...uh I never imagined we would be at this point..where you want to speak to me about boys." Luke said honestly, rubbing the back of his neck before clearing his throat. "Just wait till everything dials down, alright?" He nudged her gently in a fatherly way and smiled down at her, she nodded slowly before feeling her phone vibrating. She pulled it out from her back pocket and seeing it was Jace, she glanced at Clary who was drawing a rune on herself.
"We have an issue, The Clave is looking for you both." Jace said through the phone, Skye's heart dropped a little bit knowing this was very very bad. "They think that you're working for Valentine, you need to find somewhere safe to stay at until this all blows over."
"Alright, uh thanks for the warning." Skye said, glancing at Luke who watched her with a raised eyebrow. "Jace, we need to talk about you know-"
"And we will, just stay alive for me..and we will talk. I gotta go, but don't worry I'll watch over the cup." Was the last thing that Jace had said before hanging up quickly, Skye couldn't help but smile to herself faintly.
"We need to go find somewhere we can hide for a while." Clary said, walking over with Simon behind her. He kept his distance, looking down most of the time and gulping. "I have a plan, follow me." And that was what they did, well before they did..Skylar had walked over to Simon. Placing a hand on his shoulder, though the two may have not always spoken..she would never wished this upon anyone.
"Everything will be alright, okay?" She ressured him, Simon looked into her eyes for a second and nodded before they all headed to Hotel Dumort.
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"Let me get this straight. You need Alec's stele to open the safe, and you want me to steal it from him?" Magnus Bane said repeating the words that were said to him, he was kind of surprised when being summoned here like that..just for this. He thought it was something important but no.
"We prefer the word "borrow." " Jace corrected
"Without his knowledge." Isabelle added, the two were up against Lydia and Alec now, which meant they needed to work together not only to protect the cup but to protect the girls from being accused of something that is not true.
"No. No can do, not happening." Magnus said, looking at the two..the glint of his eyes made him wonder what was going on here. Magnus turned away to leave but was stopped quickly by Jace.
"Magnus, ever since Alec found out our parents were in the Circle, he's been messed up. He can't see the big picture." said Jace
"If the Clave is willing to subject Meliorn to the Silent Brothers, if they're willing to go this far what do you think will happen if they get the Cup? This affects everyone...Magnus...Skylnn needs this." Isabelle said, yes she was well aware of what card that she had played here. The little girl who had his heart from the beginning, not in that way but in the fatherly way.
"Help us get into that safe, help us stop this."
"You're both going to owe me. I'm talking 14th century. Gold, rubies definitely diamonds and Alec can never know." Magnus said as he moved back away from Jace, his gaze going at them both. The only reason he agreed to this was because of what Isabelle said and managed to convinced him.
"That's a given." Jace mumbled.
"If we're going to do this there's no turning back." Magnus pointed out, he did not want to do something that they weren't ready for nor wanted to.
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What Skylar had to endure was complete awkwardness, seeing Simon and Clary bond very very well which she couldn't say that it was awful but it was great that things were slowly going back to normal. She had sat in the far corner, listening to them and not saying a word. Being imprisoned today, was not apart of the plan.
Being saved, was the best thing for her. She and Jace shared a nice moment when they hugged, and it was sweet but uh they had other things to do which was going to help Isabelle saved Meliorn. What Alec was doing, was wrong and he needed to see that even if they had to force him to see it.
The mission had gone well, saved Meliorn and in doing so it was learned that Alec refused to join Jace. It broke the blondes heart, his own parabatai refused to join his side against this..and will still be against one another. No one liked this, Isabelle did not like to see her brother's separated by this...even she was forced against him today. In the end, the plan was still to help Alec and they would not give up on him.
Returning to the hotel, Clary had to saw her goodbye to Simon..the redhead planned on going back to the Insisute with Isabelle. When Meliorn watched the two girls leave, he looked at Skylar then at Jace. "Isabelle told me it was your idea to rally the Downworlders, that you spearheaded my rescue." He spoke.
Skylar did not like that, everyone helped on this idea..all three of the girls had figured this out..and of course with the help of Jace. "It wasn't me, it was three of us-I mean all four of us." She had corrected herself, glancing at Jace..who gave her a small smile. "Without Isabelle, I don't think any of this would have happened. She really saved you, and you are a lucky man."
"I've been surprised by more than one Shadowhunter tonight, you all risked everything to unite us." Meliorn said with a nod, he was grateful that he was not sent to the City Of Bones to where the Silent Brothers were located. He knew just like everyone else did that they would have killed him in there. "I'm offering you a gift for your sacrifice." Skylar raised an eyebrow, with a confused look in her bright blue eyes as she waited to hear more about this. "If you're ready I can help you find your father." He added, her heart stopped...he knew where her father was...this would lead her to somewhere. She could find him, and end this entire thing before it escalated too much.