This was always a cool idea, so I decided to do it!

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Absence

She felt it, a heavy cloud hanging over her. He was gone. Worse than gone because he was actually here. With her. But it wasn't him. She felt his absence tug at her heart as she stared into his eyes that didn't hold his humour or love. Eyes that only showed indifference.

But she's stay here with her devil brother and possessed boyfriend. Because she knew absence was temporary and he'd come back to her.

She would endure what she had to if it meant that the one kissing her was actually Jace, and not someone else.

Because absence wasn't permanent.

Abaft

Tessa was facing the back of the ship. The stern her brother would say, he had an odd fascination to boats. She didn't know if he still did, she hasn't seem him in a while.

Feeling oddly disconnected with the rest of the world, she faced the way the boat was coming from. People crowded around the front of the ship, the bow, looking to get a glimpse of London. Tessa didn't know why everyone wanted to, despite her brother's claims of good weather, the sky looked grey.

So she faced the stern, her old life in New York.