It was a constant replay, blood blood blood, whispering of those from Hell. Skylnn knew those whispers, the things they said..it was exhausting..it was the only thing that she could even dream about most nights. That and listening to her own son babble randomly at night, yeah things have changed quite a bit.
Bright morning, the sun shining right on Skylar's face through the window but that's not woke her up. Instead the sound of something flapping together did and it bothered her..and Jace who groaned and mumbled a few things under his breath. "Skye, I thought you had your wings under control." Jace said, it was not Skylnn's wings making that noise and she knew that for a fact.
"Not me.." Skylar whispered, she fell silent until another thought popped in her mind. She quickly opened her eyes sitting up and boom there it was. She chuckled softly watching Jai Herondale running around with his little angelic wings flapping around and giggling. "By the angel, Jace..look at him." Jace forced himself up and his eyes open, almost widening when he saw what was going on here.
"Alright, I think that this is unfair. Not that I want to go through the painful transition like you did..but I'd like not to be left out." Jace said, once Jai stopped running..he stood in front of the bed and stared at his parents, blankly. "Jai, you alright there buddy?"
"Yes!" Jai said, he hopped onto the bed and crawl over to his father, hugging him tightly. Jace smiled brightly and chuckled softly. Yeah, this was the life they had now with a child. It was unexpected really, five years ago once things settled Skye learned that she was expecting and man the girl almost passed out from learning that news but Jace and her weren't necessarily upset since everything were back to normal. Little did she know that these things were simply the beginning of things that were going to change around here.
Jai's wings vanished as he pulled away from his father, sitting down across from him and smiling. "You and mommy leaving?" He asked with a curious glint in his blues eyes, Skye and Jace exchanged looks before one decided to speak.
"Only for a few hours..but don't worry. Your uncle Jonathan is coming back from France just to watch you and spend time with you." Skye said as she moved close to Jai. "You'll be fine, tell you what...I'll bring whatever you want back for you as a little gift."
"A blade!" Jai shouted, the room fell silent afterwards especially Jace did..he cleared his throat gently..he was in trouble.
"Jace, mind telling me why our son wishes to have a blade as a gift instead of..I don't know some sort of book or something a bit more friendly for his age?" Skye asked, looking at him..no glaring at him and smiling..a nice forced smile.
"I caught him with a blade the other day." Jace replied with an emotionless face, like hell he was going to admit what really happened the other day. "Must have found one of the ground."
"Jai, did you find a blade on the floor?"
"No." Jai replied honestly, he was a child and knew better than to lie. Magnus already had gotten him in trouble for that when he ate Rafael's food last time..the little boy was sure that Rafael may have cussed him out in spanish. Honestly, children learned things that their own parents didn't think they were capable of learning.
"Fine, I left it there and had no idea he was nearby!" Jace corrected, the glare from his girlfriend only gotten worse.
"Jai, did daddy really not know you weren't there?"
"No." Jai replied once again, mentally Jace cursed..why did his child have to be honest out of nowhere.
"Jai Herondale, did your father give you the blade?" The real question she wanted to ask for the start, she shifted her gaze over to Jai who nodded quickly. "Yeah, I thought so. Which your father shouldn't have done because you are too young to be holding sharp objects especially without the proper training." She paused, looking over back at Jace. "You and I are going to have a serious talk when we go to Idris."
"Damn it."
Jonathan stepped into the Institute, wondering how things were going for him? Good, he had his natural blonde hair and his green eyes, looking more like the Jonathan he was always meant to be. Surprisingly, the Clave was forgiving since he wasn't himself and there was no trace of demon blood in his system. He has begged for forgiveness to those who have hurt, has been traveling from Institute that was affected by his war, or in general asking forgiveness and it was going well.
Returning to New York meant that he was going to have to see his mother, step-father and Clary later on today or else he will never hear the end of it. He tried to stay in touch with them as much as possible, to build a relationship with his mother that he never had. "Hello?" Jonathan called out, walking the halls of the Institute..he can hear the sound of heels coming closer which meant Izzy was here.
"Jonathan! Hey, welcome back!" Isabelle said, walking towards him and pulling him into a hug. Weird. How things turned out between Isabelle and Jonathan, honestly she was one of the first people to forgive him and before you know it they became actual friends. Isabelle knew it was important for her to have a some sort of relationship with her parabatai's brother, and he was a different guy now. She pulled away from him, smiling brightly. "I hear you're gonna watch little Jai."
"Yeah, I hear that he's been a bit..out of control lately. Maybe spending time with me, will help him out a little bit." Jonathan said with a shrug and a faint smile, Izzy nodded in agreement before she led him to the kitchen where Alec and Magnus were speaking, Magnus held Max in his arms while Rafael sat in a chair eating. "Hey."
"Hello, Jonathan. I hear that you'll be alone here, and I've decided that I should stay here as well. Keep the boys together for them to all play together." Magnus said, he wasn't going to Idris for whatever that was going on that required all of the shadowhunters to handle. "Sound good?"
"Sounds great." Jonathan replied but mentally he was thinking something else. 'Oh this is going to be hell'
The entire time, heading to the meeting..Jace and Skye were bickering back and forth about the whole blade situation. Jace didn't think it was a big deal while Skye clearly did. "Unbelievable, Jace..he's not even ten or seven!" Skye mumbled softly, Jace let out a soft sigh...swallowing his pride before he replied.
"I'm sorry." Jace said, Skye blinked slowly unsure of whether or not that she heard that right.
"Uh okay." Skye replied unsure of what to say, she glanced over at Isabelle who shrugged and Alec who was grinning a bit.
"Just take it." Alec whispered, Skye nodded slowly and stayed silent as they entered Robert's office. Robert sat behind his desk, with a concerned look..and he looked slightly panicked. Isabelle picked up on her father's worried expression and wondered what was really going on.
"Everything okay, dad?" Izzy asked, Robert shook his head as he looked up from the letters in front of him. "What is it?"
"We have a major issue. Certain downworlders have reported sightings of Lilith once again..and they said there was a strange man with her. One that we didn't expect to make an appearance." Robert said, he stood up with a few pictures in his hands and handed one to Jace and Alec. "These were downworlders who we had relations with that were-"
"Ripped into pieces, and some tortured." Skylar said, she stared at the photos with a horrified look on her face. "Look at those wounds, those are deep as hell."
"Well I must say, they really have upped their techniques." Jace said, earning himself a look from Isabelle who shook her head at him. "It's true."
"They're in New York now." Robert broke the news, he thought it was suspicious that they were in the one place where two angels were, two who had angelic blood and weren't angels, and a boy that Lilith once considered her son. "Which means there is a chance that they are after you all.."