Authors Note:

Hello my lovely readers! So, I've been itching to write another story since I plan on finishing 3 stories within the next month. This story will come a lot slower than my other ones because I still don't have all the details thought out, but I wanted to get it started because it's been stuck in my head for a couple weeks now, and I had to start it or I was going to start going crazy! I have always wanted to do a story that was along the lines of "The Giver", "The Hunger Games", "Divergent" and so many others that focus around the rebuilding of a society, and I finally grabbed onto a concept that I felt like I could work with and so far I like where my imagination is taking me, and I hope you all do as well! Dystopian societies have always fascinated me because they literally have no rules. They can be completely outlandish, but still work because who knows what the future looks like after the fall of society. This is my take on what it looks like through the beautiful, and well developed characters that Cassandra Clare so graciously created for people like me to write about. Some of the characters might get a little OOC, and this will most likely me an AU, but I hope you like it regardless because I think it has potential to be a great story!

Disclaimer - I know I already said it, but I'll say it again. These characters belong to Cassandra Clare and I am merely borrowing them to create something of my own, but without her, I wouldn't be writing, so props to CC for giving me this opportunity to write a story that I hope you all enjoy!

Please enjoy "Breathing Inferno" and let me know what you all think! (I have no idea when I'll have chapter 1 up, but bare with me, I will try my hardest to update all my stories as soon as I can!)

Prologue

No One's POV:

Society was destroyed 500 years ago. The government crashed, and the world went into chaos. Slowly a group of people started to take action and rebuild what everyone thought was lost. They called themselves "The Circle", and they were the government. It took them 20 years to figure out how their new society was going to work but eventually it was all figured out and they were able to live again. They wanted to create a society that was efficient and structured and that's exactly what they did.

The new rules went like this:

· Everyone has a soulmate

· When both parties turn 18, they will meet, and begin their journey

· Each pair is picked specifically on a character flaw, or skill they don't have that their soulmate posses

· After one year, they will be married to their soulmate whether they love them or not

· Age 24 is when they start having kids

· Each couple is required to have at least 1 kid

· 3 kids is the max

· Gender doesn't play a role in this society

· If 2 guys are a match, or 2 girls are a match, they will be paired together

· Those couples will be given kids from "The Downworlders"

· "The Downworlders" is the orphanage where the children who don't have parents stay. More often than not, the mother died during childbirth, and the father was sent into exile

· The parentless children can only stay at the orphanage until they are 3, if they aren't placed in a home by than, they will be exiled as well

· When the child turns 3, the parents are required to find their character flaw

· Once the character flaw is discovered, report to "The Circle" and your child will be placed in the database to find their soulmate

This is the way the society works, and as worked for over a hundred years. It worked. The society was running smoothly, and it was populating enough to keep it sustained.

Authors Note:

I wanted to add another note here because I want to clarify something. This society is well into the future. They have technology that can find soulmates, and they are pretty advanced. Since the society has been this way for so long, the government system is sort of like the monarchy. It's passed down from father to father, and it stays in that "royal" blood line. Nobody questions it because it's worked so well, and the government is powerful, and hard to ever try and change. I was going to wait until the first chapter to explain this, but I felt like you all should have an understanding because I know that if you don't get it, you aren't going to read, and I think this story has potential! Don't let the shitty prologue fool you, I promise the first chapter will be better, and I will make sure this story isn't shit! :)