The engine's quiet purr beneath me created a buffer between my brooding thoughts and the clamor of the surrounding city.

ONLY Jace could have come up with such a horrendous plan… Why on earth he decided to throw Magnus AND Simon a birthday party, I will probably never know… even worse, why he chose to combine them has become even more of a mystery….

First and foremost, I should probably tell you this, Simon is turning 21, Magnus somewhere around 652, but he's never told us the truth… still he's claiming it's also his 21st birthday. So when Jace, always avalible to offer his "event coordination" services, figured out that their birthdays were the same weekend he decided rent out a place for the party. Not a down-worlder club as we had all expected, No he chose to rent… a renaissance re-enactment castle for a week. He decided that it would be "fun" for everyone, myself included, to dress up in Elizabethan era clothing and parade around a fake castle "living" the roles we had been assigned. This would have been fine,abeit not fun, had he not insisted on having the roles we would be assigned randomized.

Second, I should mention that he invited everyone. For one week a mix of about a dozen shadow hunters, a vampire, a warlock, a couple of werewolves, AND a cat would be confined to a beautiful castle, only allowed to do things permitted by our roles.

My life, for the next week, is going to be living hell.

AN: Well, that concludes the prelude. Please tell me what you think! Oh, and I am using a random list generator to decide what happens to who, and when. It will be up to our favorite characters to make grape juice out of lemons… No, there will be no story lemons for you dirty minded people… -.-

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