"You can not seriously be angry at me still." I whined to my sister who stood beside me arms crossed angrily. "Come on Alice I apologized."
The elevator dinged the door opening, Alice stomped out to her room throwing her weapons on the bed and jacket revealing her marks. "You said we wouldn't be getting into any fights, just a conversation with the night children."
I rolled my eyes. " Not my fault that bloodsucker provoked me."
"She provoked you? As I recall you're the one that was making out with her boyfriend." My sister stated matter-of-factly.
"For the record I had no idea he was her boyfriend-"
"Of course not you where to busy shoving your tongue down his throat to ask. What will Layla say about you having an affair with a downworlder?" Layla was our care taker she also ran the institute with her spouse Stefan.
"You're not going to tell are you?"
Alice sighed shaking her head bouncing her black curls. "Of course not she would kill you."
I smirked. "Always looking out for me."
"You don't exactly make it easy on me, now we better get cleaned up before Damon or Bella come up and see the blood, they'd have a fit that we didn't take them." I laughed but didn't argue as I jumped in the shower watching the blood flow down the drain.
I walked down the hall slowing my pace hearing voices coming from the library.
"He's very dangerous and powerful, sending them in would be suicide!" Stefan roared.
"We need someone to investigate the murders and like it or not those children are our best bet." Layla replied calmly not letting her husbands harsh tone frighten her.
I leaned in to hear better when my stele slipped from my belt. Both Stefan and Layla heads snapped in my direction.
"Stupid, stupid.." I mumbled to myself picking the equipment up.
"Katherine, might as well come out now." The man called. "What were you doing eavesdropping?"
"Eavesdropping? I like to think of it as stumbling across two people having an interesting conversation that spiked my attention."
"You still listened in." He countered, fine he wins this argument. "How much did you hear?"
"Not much just the part about us kicking some dangerous guys ass." Both Layla and Stefan shared a look. "So who is this powerful man?"
"None of your concern-"
"He's a warlock that has been going against the Clave, killing mundanes." Layla cut off Stefan leaving me amused.
"Why hasn't anybody done anything?"
"Because no shadowhunter has witnessed these murders actually occurring."
"How did you guys find out than?"
"A snitch informed us of his plans, but considering she's not a reliable source we can't be foolish and attack blindly."
"Which is why you want to send us in, to witness one of the murders. Sounds like a plan." I smirked liking whenever we got an assignment.
"He's a very powerful warlock, any sign of you guys being shadow hunters he will blame the Clave and our alliance will be broken."
"Whose the warlock anyways?"
"A man named Adrian Malphas."
Stefan informed the rest of our group about Adrian who apparently was a very respectable man his abilities were quite impressive he also has been alive for a very very long time. As Stefan went into detail I zoned out until hearing the word party.
"Whoa, whoa party? Will there be drinks at this party?" Everyone at the table gave me an annoyed look besides Damon whose blue eyes always held amusement.
"Yes, but you can't drink anything." Alice reminded me about the special drinks warlocks tend to serve at their parties. "Remember last time what happened to Bella?"
Bella's face scrunched up her brown eyes narrowed at me. "You dared me to chug that horrifying blue drink-"
"Ah yes but you had so much fun! Running around wild" I exclaimed.
"I got turned into a fucking rat!"
"I honestly think it was an improvement." I replied way to cheery waiting for her to respond.
"Enough! If you guys can't work together I'll just send Damon and Alice." We stopped bickering listening to the plan.
Once the meeting was disbanded I headed to my room covering my marks with special kind of make-up Layla had invented that covered our marks perfectly making us seem human. My chocolate brown hair was curled to perfection.
I wore a tight dark shade of red strapless dress that may be shorter than necessary along with long leather boots where I hid a dagger just to be safe.
"Nice dress." Damon leaned on the arch of my door his dark black hair really bringing out his crystal blue eyes. He smirked looking me up and down with pure lust
"Must say you clean up good." I smiled back grabbing a leather jacket. "Shall we go kick some warlock ass?"
"We shall." Damon locked arms with me walking down the stairs where Bella and Alice waited impatiently.
Bella mumbled something under her breath about my outfit, glaring at Damon who didn't seem to notice.
The party was at a small loft that surprisingly held a lot of people, mostly downworlders. The walls were a splatter of color and the strobe lights didn't make it any easier to see.
Music was blasting, bodies moving everywhere.
"Where do yo suppose this guy is?" Damon asked eyes scanning his surroundings.
I spotted a man with dark blue hair and almost black eyes, "There." I refrained from pointing not wanting to cause any suspicion.
"Me and Alice will check for any evidence of the murders, you and Bella ask around see if anyone will talk." They nodded as we headed our separate directions. Me and my sister danced not losing sight of Adrian until he went upstairs along with another male.
A hand rested on my waist pulling me close to a cold and very muscular body. "You look like a tasty little thing."
"Want a bite?" Alice shot me a warning glance. His lips brushed against my neck but I pulled away. "Not here perhaps some place more private." I grabbed the vampires hand leading him upstairs tossing him on a chair, his eyes wondered licking his lips. I sat on his lap than reached for my dagger placing it across his throat. "Say a word and I slice your throat, understand?"
"You can't kill me it's not your law." He hissed. I pressed the blade closer breaking skin.
"I have a few questions. Such like why is Adrian killing mundanes?"
" Little shadowhunter you're out of line." A deep voice called from behind me. "Accusing me of breaking the law that is a big assumption."
I mentally cursed having been snuck up on. "Am I wrong?"
An evil smile crept on the warlock face. "No, since you seem so eager to know my plans how about I just show you."
"What are you-" He moved past me grabbing a vile of blood.
"Time travel my dear child."
"Isn't that a little I don't know Star Treky?" I smirked.
"You can joke all you want this will be the greatest spell ever done, this could change history put us downworlders in power...But I need to test it first, which I guess is good you showed by." He knew what crossing the clave meant and from the looks of it he didn't give a rats ass.
"That's not happening, Abrariel!" I shouted the angels name my blade instantly sprung to life glowing and getting sharper.
I tried to charge but before I knew it everything begun to blur my knees buckling. I tried to focus on Adrian ,who was mixing the blood in a bowl chanting some foreign language, but he kept zoning in and out. The walls around me begun to change to what seemed like some kind of forest.
"What the-?" I got cut off short blacking out feeling the soft grass brush against my bare skin.