Spoilers are in this chapter :) do not read unless you've read COG

She was halfway down the stairs, her stele in hand, when she sensed that something was wrong. The living room was empty. Max and Sebastian were nowhere to be seen. There was a half-finished protection mark on one of the logs Sebastian had nailed over the broken window. The hammer he'd used was gone.

Her stomach tightened. "Max!" she shouted, turning in a circle. "Sebastian! Where are you?"

Sebastian's voice answered her from the kitchen. "Isabelle- in here."

Relief washed over her, leaving her light-headed. "Sebastian, that's not funny," she said, marching into the kitchen. "I thought you were-"

She let the door fall shut behind her. It was dark in the kitchen, darker than it had been in the living room. She strained her eyes to see Sebastian and Max and saw nothing but shadows.

"Sebastian?" Uncertainty crept into her voice. "Sebastian, what are you doing in here? Where's Max?"

"Isabelle." She thought she saw something move, a shadow dark against lighter shadows. His voice was soft, kind, almost lovely. She hadn't realized before now hat a beautiful voice he had "Isabelle, I'm sorry."

"Sebastian, you're acting weird. Stop it."

"I'm sorry it's you," he said. "See, out of all of them, I liked you the best."

"Sebastian-"

"Out of all of them," he said again, in the same low voice, "I thought you were the most like me."

He brought his fist down then, with the hammer in it.

He had already taken out his stele. "I'll work on warding the house with Marks."

"Thanks." Alec was already halfway to the door; he turned and looked at his siblings, Isabelle only meeting Alec's gaze for a split second and Max staring at his sister's arm. Then the oldest Lightwood was gone.

"Isabelle." It was Max, his small voice low. "Your wrist is bleeding."

Isabelle glanced down. She looked surprised to see the bloody stain on the sleeve of her white jacket. She got to her feet whilst Sebastian started drawing a protection Mark on one of the logs he had just nailed to the broken window. "I'm going to get my stele. I'll be right back and help you with the runes, Sebastian." Isabelle announced as she slowly made her way towards the door.

He nodded. "I could use some help. These aren't my speciality." Runes, in fact, were not his speciality; He preferred the area in which he gets to severe demon's heads from their bodies. He also did need Isabelle's help, of course she didn't realize that helping him was her getting out of the room.

As soon as the footsteps on the stairs had gone, he left the half drawn rune, turned towards Max and put on a friendly face. "Hey, Max?" He called in a soft tone. Max looked over to him, regarding the older boy with curious eyes, "You hungry kid? I have a special seed in the kitchen that'll stop the hunger." The reply received was a shake of the head, but his stomach betrayed him with a low growl. After forcing a short laugh, Sebastian continued to persuade the boy. "If you eat the seed, we won't have to worry about cooking you anything, and then," Sebastian looked at the rune on the log and brushed his fingers across the outlines "we can focus more on protecting our families." He finished his sentence in a whisper that he knew would reach the boy's ears.

Sebastian noticed the way Max's head perked up at the last sentence and he had to hold back the smile that tried to break through his façade. He smiled at Max and walked past him towards the kitchen, not forgetting to pick up the hammer to the left of the doorway.

Nawh =( I apologise for the crappy first chapter, just trust in me a little =) I needed to put in the repeat of this section from the book in to show how everything happened plus with the different point of view.

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