James and Martha Firestar were well known and respected in Idris and moved to Spain to live a normal life. To everyone around them they looked like a normal and happy couple that were excited to expand their family. They thought they were finally moving on to the next step, moving away from their past, but little did they know, for Shadowhunters, that's never the case.
When little Lucinda Firestar was born, they were happy and enjoyed life. James and Martha started training her to fight when she was ready and as she was a fast learner, it didn't take long for her to pick it up. However, her life was never as easy as it sounded, at age 12 she learnt of a curse that was put on mother before she was born, passed down from parent to child, with the knowledge of how to break it unknown to most.
At 18 she left home, taking care of her Shadowhunter duty on the move and from then on, her life was turned, thrown and flipped up, down, left and right, at every possible chance. She travelled, carrying out her duties until she found herself on mission that turned particularly sticky, lying alone in a dark ally; she took her final shaky breath.
Before she had a chance to process what had happened, she heard crying from next to her and then realised she herself was also crying, unable to open her eyes fully or speak. At this point she remembered the curse, she was doomed to live again and again, with knowledge from past lives. A new family, another life.
Born, live, die, repeat. The cycle of her life.
The girl, now known as Catherine, lost her new family at aged 10 and was taken in by the Lightwoods soon after Jace. The four trained and fought together, quickly becoming best friends. They grew together, loved each other and became close. Much like Alec and Jace, Izzy and Cat were set to become parabatai but while on a mission just one week before the ceremony, Cat was fatally injured. They rushed her back to the institute, all knowing what was going to happen but none wanting to admit it.
They all stayed with her in the infirmary, not wanting to leave her side, begging her to stay with them, to not give up. The only noise that filled the room was shaky breaths and crying. She knew she was slipping but still left them with a final promise that she would always come back to them. She took one final look at the family around her, the heart broken look that filled each of their beautiful features, even from their young ages. Unable to continue fighting it, she let go, surrounded by the ones she had found her home in for the past 5 years. The ones she called family.
This time when she awoke, things were different she wasn't a baby. She was being shaken and opened her puffy red eyes to see a worried ginger girl standing above her, telling her to calm down and that it was all a dream, but she knew differently. She couldn't help but just sob. Sob for the pain. Sob for the memories. Sob for the loss she felt. Sob for her death. But most of all for her friends, her family that she left behind.
As the days passed, she forced herself to not think about the others, to move on. This was her new life and she had to accept that she couldn't change that fact. Nobody noticed that she was different so she just continued in her new life as Charlotte Fray. She learnt that she was still 15 years old and was now the younger twin to Clary Fray. She learnt they were close and shared a best friend, Simon Lewis. She enjoyed her new, normal life, yea she missed the others and thought about them a lot but this was her new life now, there was no going back.
There was only one person that knew about her past in this new life and that was Luke. They grew close after he questioned her after he had sensed a change, and he promised to keep her secret.
This was her new life as Charlotte Fray.
