A/N-I love TID so I thought, why not write something? Well I was clueless as of what to write then it hit me! 'What if Jem had a sister?' So bam! This popped out :) Enjoy 3 Also in this Jem is born with his hair and eyes silver, and he doesn't need the medicine cause what are the odds of both Jem and his sister needing it?
Disclaimer- I don't own TID if I did it would be Jessa from the start whole time
Silver Girl
Of Jems and Jades
Chapter One- Do you remember me?
Jem was walking the hallways of the London Institute when he remembered something for his childhood, a girlish giggle, one of a child no older than a young him. Then he heard it, it came from a deep place in his mind, a voice, his father's,
"Come Ke Yu Xuapan, let's go find Ke Jian Ming, I think he might be hiding in the training room."
The memory brought him to his knees in the hallway, how could he forget? His own sister, his twin, the two of them should have a stronger bond than him and William. Tears came to his eyes, he was so selfish, his sister was probably dead along with his parents and he didn't even realize.
"Jem, are you okay? James, can you hear me?" His head shot up and he saw the blue eyes of William, his parabatai. "James, answer me."
Jem looked back down at his hands, and knotted them together, "Ke Yu Xuapan, I forgot her there, I left her with my parents. I completely forgot about her and I just realized it,"
He lifted his head up and, Will saw tears threatening to spill over," Am I a bad person for forgetting her Will? I should have thought of her first, but I left her. I left her William!" Jem broke down in tears after he said it, large sobs escaping his mouth. Will had never seen his parabatai like this, but he knew he had to do something before James destroyed himself. He sat down next to him and pulled Jem's head to his chest, "It's okay James, you were scared and little, anyone would have done the same thing in your position."
He held Jem tighter had his sobs grew louder, clutching him to his chest. He was desperate to calm him, and he saw Tessa walking down the hall, looking worried, "What happened is Jem okay?" She knelt down in front of the parabatai, her dress flooding around her. She placed her delicate hand on Jem and his head shot up. "Tessa.", his voice was hoarse and his eyes were puffy and red. She had never seen him like this, "Jem, come here." He slowly leaned over to her, and she wrapped her small arms tightly around him. Jem collapsed as Will and Tessa both held him.
His sobs slowly stopped, turned into whimpers, and then stopped all together. All the while, Tessa and Will never let him go. The hall was silent and Jem let out a small, "Thank you." Tessa kissed his head and Will only hugged him tighter. This side of Jem scared both Tessa and Will, they'd never seen it before, "What caused all this James?" Jem sighed and leaned back against the wall, Tessa and Will copying him, all of their legs stretched out.
"I was going to go to the training room and I got a memory of my childhood in Shanghai, before Yanluo. My father and sister were looking for me and I was hiding behind the curtain next to them. We were playing a game, my father was trying to find her and I. I-I forgot about her, I left her there. I just-how could I forget her, she and I had a stronger bond than the two of us William, and I left her." Tessa laid her head on Jem's shoulder,and he laid his on hers,
"You were young Jem and you were dying, it's okay."
Jem looked up at the clock on the wall with guilt in his eyes, "Let's go, it's almost time for supper, if we miss it Sophie and Charlotte will have our heads." Will jumped up and Jem reached down and held his hand out for Tessa," I think all of us could use some food after this." His smile was samll, but at least he was smiling.
Ke Yu Xuapan was walking the streets of East London when she felt it, a small tug in her chest. It wasn't painful, more like it was leading her somewhere. Slowly she moved across the large city, going where the tug was more forceful, when it was almost painful she stopped, a large church stood in front of her. 'It's so beautiful' she thought. Her footsteps echoed on the cobblestone as she walking to the door, the wood felt smooth on her hand as she softly knocked. She didn't know what, but she was drawn to this place. The door opened and her eyes snapped to the two people in the doorway, shock was the only way she felt, that boy she knew him, he looked like her. Just as their eyes locked she felt the world spinning and she fell forwards, the dark haired one rushing to catch her.
"James, don't just stand there help me damnit!", was what she would of heard if she hadn't fainted, and the name the silver boy whispered, Yu Xuapan should has registered as hers and everything would have clicked as to who he was.
In the infirmary Jem was pacing the floor his silver eyes darting to the body of Yu Xuapan every few seconds. "What if she doesn't wake up William? I can't lose her again! What was she even doing here in the first place?" Will rolled his eyes and pulled Jem into the chair in between him and Tessa, "She'll be fine Jem; Magnus did everything he could to try to get her to wake up, remember?"
Tessa had her small hands holding one of Jem's and it seemed to calm him, but not by much. "Jem, look at me she will be fine, the only thing that happened was she fainted from shock, after nine years of not seeing you and then she finds you on the other side of a mysterious door? That would cause anyone to be shocked." Tessa told him gently.
Jem leaned forward and put his head in his hands," She has to be okay, she has to."
"Where am I? Why am I in this bed?" a small groggy voice interrupted what Will was about to say to Jem, and Jem's head shot up, his silver eyes wide with happiness. He slowly walked over to the side of the bed, "Yu Xuapan? Do you remember me?" She looked at Jem with calculating eyes, taking her time scanning his face and finally they landed on his eyes and a look of astonishment went across her face," Jian Ming, *Ni qu nalile, wo yizhi zai daochu zhao ni! Wo zai nail Tamen shi shui?" Jem could see the confused looks on Will and Tessa's faces from the corner of his eye and gave them a bright smile one not even Will had seen before,"*Ni zai Lundun Xueyuan. Wo yijing zaizheli zhule, iyn wei lai fu laizi Shanghai. Hei toufa de nanhai shi Weilian Herondale, ta shi wo de parabatai, he nuhai tai sha gelei, ta shi wo de weihunfu. Tamen, n, bu zhidao putinghua, yexu women yinggai shuo yingyu, shi tamen nenggoul ijie women ma?" A bright blush decorate her pale cheeks as she nodded, Jem sat next to her and held her hand tightly," Hello, um I'm, uh Jade." Tessa was the first to react, she stood and hugged Jade,"I'm glad you could join us here. Jem has been worried sick about you."
Jade seemed hesitant but wrapped her small arms around Tessa,"Thank you, I haven't really had a permanent home since Shanghai." Tessa stepped back a smiled,"I should go and tell Sophie to have another plate set out for breakfast tomorrow. It was nice meeting you." Jade watched as Tessa quickly kissed Jem on the cheek and walked out.
"Well I should be off too, I need my beauty sleep. Goodnight James," Jade looked up as he took her small hand in his large one," Goodnight to you too, Jade." and he quickly leaned down and kissed her hand. Jem shook his head as his parabatai left the room," Don't worry about that, he's like that to every girl he sees. Come with me, I can take you to your room." As they left the room, they didn't notice the shadow in the window, nor the way its red eyes brightened at the sight of Jade.
Here's the translations for the Mandarin that they spoke:
*James, I've been looking everywhere for you! Where am I, who are they?
*You're in the London Institute; I've lived here since the Clave took me away. The dark haired one is William Herondale, he's my parabatai, the girl is Tessa Gray, and she's my fiancée. They, um, don't know Mandarin; maybe we should speak English so they can understand us?
Thanks for reading, hopefully I'll have time to work more on the second chapter tomorrow when I take my road trip. Reviews give me motivation :)
Be Dauntless,
ThoseDamDemigods
