AN/ Hey guys so decided to move this story from Wattpad to here! Basically it's a PLL and TID crossover. All rights for the characters go to Cassandra Clare. And half of the plot goes to whoever wrote PLL I can't remember! The other half is all mine mwhahaha! I own Skye Gray who will be mentioned throughout the story! Do I have to do a disclaimer every chapter... Here's the prologue into Chapter 1!
Prologue
The phone emitted a shrill quacking sound. Jem sighed as Will jumped at the noise.
"Can't you be civil for once?" Asked Sophie hastily before seeing the look on her friend Tessa's face.
Her face had gone pale. The colour one might see a ghost sporting. Her large grey eyes had gone wide and her mouth shaped a small O.
Tessa gasped a small breathless gasp as she finished reading the so called text. She threw the infernal device on the table and closed her eyes.
The boys hopped into action. Jem grabbed the phone as he was nearest. He brought it over to Will and they read it together. They paled just as pale as Tessa had gone. Jem had gone even paler than usual. Sophie sighed inwardly. Something horrid or scary enough to make the boys that pale was surely something other than good.
Sophie held her hand out as Jem held out the phone. On the screen read a message from an unknown source.
"You can run, you can hide in your little institute but you'll never get away from me because I'm back Bitches and I'm stronger than ever. - A"
Chapter 1: Hustle and Bustle
The hustle and bustle of the New York Institute for the Highly Talented was something Tessa was dying to get away from. Of course she had friends, the Carstairs being some of them, but in reality she longed to go back to London even though it wasn't her home. She longed to get away from the memories New York held. The death of Skye. Her aunt Harriet. It was all too much to think about.
Her life had been all about hustle and bustle, never about quiet and calm. Except for that summer she had spent in London. Tessa pushed that thought to the back of her mind. "No" she told herself. "I'm not going back for Will." Tessa told herself it was for the good of her health. Her sisters memory still haunted the place she called home. It shook her up but a little part of her brain told her differently.
The memories arose again. Stinging the back of her mind were the bittersweet memories of their Summer romance. Strolls along beaches, reading in the London Institute's gigantic library and most of all the way they had kissed. Passionate and sweet. Their love had shattered as most things do when one 'falls' in love. It scattered and was thrown into the wind that brought her boat back to her homeland. Back to America. And here she was now returning to the place that held so many memories for her. She thought time healed but after three years it still pained her.
"HOOOONNKKK" Tessa jumped as the captain blew his horn. She climbed aboard the steamer heading for Britain, the wind pulling her hair out of its carefully pinned updo. On her right arm lay a large bag filled with her possessions and on her left arm was a man. No Tessa didn't have a suitor he was simply her friend.
"Mr Carstairs." Tessa said aloud. "You don't need to help me up here I can do it perfectly fine by myself."
"I am simply being a gentleman." He replied in a more hushed tone.
Mr Carstairs, more commonly known as James or even Jem smiled brightly. He was the life of the institute. Always smiling and always willing. He also happened to be Tessa's very best friend. His silver hair rustled in the wind, leaving a small part of it right in front of his silver Iris. His left hand lifted up and brushed the strand away. He did the same to the hair escaping Tessa's up do, fixing the stray strands with his musicians fingers causing Tessa to blush. The blush showed immensely on Tessa's pale face.
"And I wish you'd just call me Jem" Jem added eyeing Tessa, her face still puce with the blush.
"Jem you know it is the height of improperty to speak your Christian name in public let alone at home." Tessa sighed heavily and collapsed ungracefully onto a nearby bench facing the edge of the boat.
"Speaking of improperty" Jem pointed at the crumpled flowers on her dress and the way it had tucked itself under her legs showing off quite too much leg for an 18 year old.
Tessa blushed scarlet and pulled the dress down crumpling even more flowers in the hasty movement.
Jem smiled sweetly at Tessa as Tessa began pulling out books from her bag. A Tale of Two Cities fell onto the deck.
Reading aloud, Jem stood up to pick up the books. "A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. But you've read this." Jem remarked and handed the book back to Tessa "did you fill that bag full of books?" He enquired further as Tessa pulled out a quarter of a dozen more books."There's bound to be a library where we're going."
Tessa ignored his later remark and answered with a simple "sometimes I like to revisit my old friends. How would you feel if I talked to you once and left for good?" Then she buried her head between the pages of the book.
"I-I Tessa that's being really trying of course I'd detest it but-but that's just a book!" He exclaimed stuttering a bit in parts.
"It was a rhetorical question, James" she said, her voice slightly muffled from the close proximity to the book.
Jem sighed and sat back down again mumbling something in mandarin about ladies and confusing. Tessa was at her favourite bit in the book "You have been the last dream of my soul" she read "a dream, all a dream that ends in nothing. Think now and then that there is a man who would give up his life to keep a life you love beside you."
Tessa sighed and clutched the book to her chest. If only a boy would say something as wonderful to her, a boy with black hair with dark, dark blue eyes perhaps, a boy by the name of W-... No! She scolded herself through her thoughts. She shouldn't speak like that. Will was nothing and she'd never see him again so that was that.
The trip passed in a whirl wind of colours and movement. Jem had gotten sea sick twice but Tessa had been fine. There were dances on board the ship in the evenings and five course meals. It was ever so extravagant.
Jem and Tessa had danced. Jem could feel the music as if it were himself and was in perfect time to the beat, moving and swaying rhythmically. Tessa wasn't quite so lucky. Her long skirts kept catching on Jem's shoes and Tessa stood on his foot at least three times. Her face, she thought, would be permanently scarlet.
Tessa thought that Jem must have been having an awful time but no he wasn't. A young gentleman by the name of Gabriel Lightwood had made a snarky remark about Tessa being to clumsy for a lady fit for Mr Carstairs. Tessa blushed redder still but Jem had stepped away from Tessa muttering an apology and had slapped Gabriel across the face.
A large red hand shaped mark appeared on Gabriel's cheek. He stormed away, his green eyes glaring menacingly. Jem had then returned to Tessa and spoke no more of it. They had continued to dance.
When they arrived at London it was evening tide. The city was lit up like hundreds of stars. Tessa gasped from the banks of the river Thames. It was so beautiful. Jem's eyes lit up just like the lights. This was his home although he did consider himself an American.
A carriage pulled up on front of them. It sported the fairy wings of the Fairchild family. A man stepped out of the carriage. Tessa couldn't see his face. He had a hat on which covered most of his face but you could see the hint of a smile underneath.
Jem looked up at the stranger. A weird look passed over his face as he advanced towards the man.
"Will?" He asked "Will is that you?" The man ,who actually turned out to be a boy no more than 18, took off his hat revealing a think head of black curly hair and dark, dark blue eyes.
"It's a pleasure to see you again Jem! And to meet your accomplice...-" he trailed off when he saw Tessa.
Tessa looked up and gasped. No it couldn't be Will, it had to be- it had to be...- she thought as the world turned black
AN/ so this story is AU (all Human) and there will be no characters from PLL
I will update every Sunday and Wednesday! Hopefully! I have the second chapter pre written so if I get maybe 5 reviews I will continue this story! I'll post it tomorrow. Basically Will is cursed in this and Jem is on Yin Fein too but for a different reason. To be later revealed! Tessa had gone to visit Nate in London a duplex of summers before the start of this chapter and that's how she met Will. Tessa is studying English Litterature at the Institute! Skye is Tessas sister and yeah don't question the phones I'll come to that later!
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14th June 2015