So this is the beginning of my new story! I just read Lady Midnight and I liked it very much, but I thought it was really sad that Emma and Julian couldn't be together. So I imagined what would have happened if they really could be together. This starts about a year before the events of Lady Midnight and it will follow Emma and the others through the things happening in the book as well. But the difference is that Emma and Julian aren't parabatai. So what do you think will happen if they could be together? I would be happy if you tell me your ideas about this and if I should go on writing. It will take a few chapters before it really starts and I hope you aren't mad about that, but somehow, I have to introduce the events of the previous years to you.
I dont own the characters or places in this story!
Prologue
Emma
When Emma woke up, she felt strange. It was still dark in her little room in the Academy and a look at the clock told her that it was five in the morning. Fragments of her dreams were still in Emma's head and when she closed her eyes again, she saw Julian and the ocean. However, Julian didn't look like four years ago, when they had been separated after the Dark War. He looked older. More grown up.
Emma turned on the light and looked at the picture of the Blackthorns they had sent her a few weeks ago. They were sitting on the beach, looking happy together. Julian stood in the back, while Tavvy and Dru were lying on the ground. Ty and Livvy had wrapped their arms around each other's shoulders and smiled happily. They looked like a real family. Four years previously, Emma would have been on that picture as well, standing next to Julian. Maybe even as his parabatai…
She forced herself to look away, the nervous feeling returning. Today, she would leave the Academy and return to Los Angeles… She would see Julian again. Julian and the other Blackthorns. And she would meet Diana, the new tutor of them Julian had written so much about. She would return home.
But would it really be her home again? Or wouldn't the others accept her, now that she had been at the Academy for years?
Emma shook her head. Or course they would be happy to have her back! The last letters of Julian and the others told her how happy they were to finally get her back.
How happy Jules was…
Jules. Her Julian. Who had nearly become her parabatai, which would have made her stay at Los Angeles with the Blackthorns. Then she would have become a member of their family… But Julian hadn't wanted to be her parabatai. And back then, Emma didn't blame him for that decision. Because when the question was asked again, she hadn't been so sure anymore. Of course having a parabatai was something wonderful. He was at your side all the time and you took care of each other. But wasn't there something else about Julian? This strange feeling in her stomach, like butterflies. Should you feel like that when you looked at your parabatai?
So Emma hadn't tried to convince Julian when he had said that it wasn't a good idea.
Their parting had been very sad and tearful and over the years, Julian had visited her as often as possible. And every time he was there, Emma couldn't deny that there was something between them. Something more. She couldn't explain it, but Julian still made the butterflies in her stomach fly.
Looking at the clock again, Emma sighed. Half past six. In half an hour, the other Shadowhunters at the Academy would get up to start their day. Normally, there was a training lesson before breakfast. But this wouldn't take place today. After all, it was a special day.
Emma would leave the Academy as its best student so far.
She would leave her friends here behind.
And finally return home.