"Damnit, Jem I thought you said you didn't play cards!" Will spat, handing over another six pounds.
"Who told you that?" Jem laughed, his smooth voice carring along the air of the sanctuary. Jem's thin fingers danced along the table awaiting Will's next move.
"Ah…" Will sighed. "I give. You win, you little Hustler you."
"Don't worry william, it's going to a good cause."
"What cause?"
"The cause that doesn't involve you drinking your life away."
"Bah!"
"What's with all the noise?" Tessa remarked walking from behind the shelves. Instantaneously, Will stood up and abruptly left that side of the room, leaving his cards on the table.
"But William, you could've beaten me that round!" Jem called after him, but Will was too far away.
"Have a seat, Tessa. You'll have to excuse Will… We don't know what's come over him lately." The brown haired girl took a seat across from him. She looked up at him and immediately her mind flashed to the night before.
"Tessa! Where in the Angel's name are you?"He cried out in the blackness of the Institute. He lit the witchlight and hugged the side of the wall prowling the seemingly endless corridors before tripping over a large somethingin the way. "What the-.." he shined the witchlight onto what he tripped over and he saw a pair of eyes, as turbulent gray as the London sky. "Tessa?" He took the girl into his arms and gently shook her, "Ms. Gray are you-.." A heavy object collided with the back of Jem's head and he fell forward onto Tessa's lap. A thin stream of blood ran from his head, staining his silver hair scarlet. Tessa caught her breath and the witchlight douse, enveloping her in darkness once again.
", my love where are you?" Mortimain's deep voice rang through the stale death stained air of the building. "You might as well reveal your location, I've taken out all your precious Nephillim, and Your brother is hot on your trail." She could hear the distant sound of grinding metal.
Tessa the sound seemed to call. Ms. Theresa Gray…
Tessa shook the memory from her head.
"Is that a no?"
"Huh? Dearest Apologies, Jem I wasn't paying you any attention."
"Thinking about last night?" She solemnly nodded. "Don't worry. Charlotte and Henry are on their way now to scope the damage… Until then everyone will be safe in here."
Jessamine's deafning scream drowned the room.
"What, Jess?"
"It's Will…"