My name is Esme and I'm the oldest of triplets, the second oldest is Aria and the youngest is Ezra our brother.

We run along the tops of buildings tracking down demons. Black ink twining up and down our arms. The my siblings following behind me. The Shax demon trying to get away with its most recent pray. A human girl that's unconscious and unaware that this demon wants to lay eggs in her blood. Landing behind it -without making a sound because of the soundless runes we have on our forearms- , we approach it seraph blades ready. The Shax still not noticing us I lift the blade,

"Ithuriel", I whisper.

The blade exploded into light catching the demon's attention, to late to noticing me and my siblings, I lunge for the demon stabbing my seraph blade into his back. My electrum whip wrapping around its neck. Ezra grabs the girl and Aria circles in front of the demon,

"Nakir" she cries and lunges toward the demon stabbing in through the heart.

"This girls name is Emma", Ezra told us looking at her wallet,"Should we bring her back to the institute"?

"I think we should, mom and dad won't mind, they've told us so many stories of when they were teenagers about mundies coming into the institute", I say remembering the stories well.

"I'll carry her,", Ezra said, "Were only a couple blocks away anyway".

We walked into the institute, Ezra heading for the infirmary and Aria and I walking to the library to find our parents. As we walked into the library, sounds of the grand piano being played floated to my ears. Our dad was playing the piano and our mom was sitting next to him with her head on his shoulder.

"Hey, we took care of that Shax demon but the girl was still unconscious so Ezra carried her here and brought her to the infirmary", I said, "We didn't think a mundie hospital would be a good place for her"

My parents just looked at me, My mom and dad were young to us in their thirties, because they looked as if they were still teenagers. My mom's green eyes staring into my golden ones. My eyes were my dad's and my hair my mother's which was bright red and currently contained into one braid that ran down my right shoulder and to my waist. My father had golden blond hair, and Ezra had mom's hair and eyes. Aria had blond hair and green eyes.

"Whats her name?", My mom said

"Her name is Emma", Aria told her leaning against the door frame playing with her hair.

"Well I'm going to make her a Tisane", said my mother turning away and walking towards her desk, "Jace you should go and check on her with Aria, Esme come here I wanna talk to you".

"Ok, Aria come on let's go check on this sleeping beauty of ours", He looked at his wife, Clary to see if she caught the joke but she didn't look up from her Tisane. He shrugged and pushed Aria out of the room and closed the door behind them.

"I'm not going to yell at you for bringing that girl Emma here if that's what you're worried about", Clary said amused, "I just wanted to tell you that Magnus, Alec, Isabelle and Simon are coming back from Idris and I wanted it to be a surprise for your brother and sister".

"Whew, good I thought you were going to hang me for a second there", I said exhaling relief.

"Nope now let's go make sure your dad isn't trying to make this Sleeping Beauty of ours pass out again with his looks", Clary laughed showing that she had heard Jace's comment.

Walking to my room, I pass multiple empty rooms in the residential wing of the institute. I stop at my door taking off my weapons belt as I walk into my room and set it down on my bed side table. I turn around, taking off my gear and walk towards my closet setting my gear inside it. Then walked to my bathroom finding out that it isn't empty but, a boy with jet black hair and glasses was just getting out of the shower.

"Gabriel!", I screamed, "What the hell are you doing in my bathroom when you have your own damn room?"

Surprised and not expecting me to be there he jumped and tripped on his own feet stumbling forward and knocking me back so we lay half in my room and half in the bathroom, Gabriel laying on top of me.

"Hey, sorry I wasn't expecting you to be here this soon", Gabriel said as he got up and reached out his hands to help me up.

"Clearly", I said, "What were you doing in my bathroom?, You have your own"

"I was waiting for you to get back and needed to take a shower so I used yours'", He told me turning away to grab his shirt

Seeing this made I looked down at myself, I was only wearing a black tanktop and black leggings. The runes she had worn were now gone since they had been used. The mnemosyne rune still on my collarbone, the angelic rune on my left hand and the voyance rune on my right. And the parabatai rune that Gabriel and I both shared still on my forearm. Gabriel and I had been parabatai since they were twelve, Having been friends since they were born. Parabatai was a gift most people never got, A parabatai was a shadowhunter that you tied yourself to but still had free will. A fighting pair that had more strength and power then two ordinary shadowhunters. Esme snapped out of her reverie by Gabriel pushing past her to get into her room. Following him, after turning off the bathroom lights. They sat together on her the edge of her bed.

"So how was the hunt" Gabriel asked, "Was it fun?"

"Yeah I guess you could say that", I replied, "The Shax demon didn't really put up a fight, he had to focus on getting away".

"The girl it had, her name was Emma", I told him, "Ezra carried her back here, She's in the infirmary right now but, I wanna go to bed so you should go to your own room", I said, pushing him towards the door.

"Ok whatever", He said giving up and walking the rest of the way out of Esme's room, "Bye, see you in the morning".

"Yup, goodnight", I yawned, waving and shutting the door.

He was finally gone, she thought. Now I can finally sleep.

After getting kicked out of Esme's room Gabriel walked across the hall to his own room. Once inside he looked around. His room was boring compared to Esme's. All his walls an egg shell white and his bed just a mix of blue, white, black sheets and blankets. He walked over to his bed laid down and looked at his ceiling which was covered in glow-in-the-dark stars, his room did have posters in it of animes he liked like, Bleach and Claymore. He thought about breakfast of all things and the lessons he would study tomorrow with Esme. Thinking these things he slid into sleep letting the rain sounds filter in through his open window.