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Emma Carstairs has been haunted by the same nightmare since she was twelve years old. It always starts off with her on the beach. The one that backs onto The Los Angeles institute, where she lives with the Blackthorns. She has lived with the Blackthorns ever since she became orphaned in the dark war. Sebastian Morgenstern turned shadowhunters dark and used them to attack the shadowhunters. The fairies and demons helped Sebastian with his assault against the clave, many shadowhunters died during the war many who Emma had known including Julians dad. Clary Herondale, Jace Herondale and their friends fought Sebastian in the demon realm and won the war.
Emma stared at the ocean looking for something but not knowing what, just knowing that it was something bad, and then she sees them. Her parents floating in the water their faces a sickly white, their skin wrinkled and their eyes wide open filled with terror.
"EMMA. EMMA PLEASE HELP US!" They both scream.
Emma frantically try's to stay calm but an overwhelming amount of terror enfolds her. She dived into the water. The cold water surrounds her, taking her breath away, gasping for air Emma started to swim towards them.
"MOM, DAD HOLD ON IM COMING!" Emma shouted breathlessly, coughing up salty water as she swam to them.
It didnt matter how fast she swam, her parents just kept drifting further and further away from her, she cried out as they drifted further out to sea. Emma felt something wrap around her ankle and start to pull her under the water, she tried to scream but all she could manage was a gurgling noise as she sunk. Whatever had hold of Emma's ankle was like a anchor making her sink deeper and deeper into the dark ocean. Emma tried to swim back to the surface but the anchor around her ankle, just kept pulling her back down. She opened her mouth to scream, the water rushed into her nose and throat, taking the remaining air out of her lungs.
Emma woke up screaming, she jumped out of bed so fast her sleepy limbs gave out and she fell to her knees on the rug beside her bed. She took a shaky breath in and let it out, "calm down." she thought to herself "I have fought scarier demons before." But she knew better, she wasnt afraid of fighting demons but she was afraid of the ocean. "how stupid," she thought "I'm scared of the ocean and I live right next to one." Emma heard a floor board creak, looking up she saw her parabatai and best friend Julian standing in her doorway. Emma jumped up and lept into his waiting arms, she held on to his waist as he rubbed her back reassuringly. He pushed her back far enough, so he could look into her eyes as he spoke.
"Its okay Em, you're safe, it was only a dream." he told her softly.
"I know Jules, it just felt so real this time." she said, shivering as she remembered the feeling of the water going down her throat.
Emma pulled away and looked at him for the first time since he entered the room. His eyes were a beautiful blue-green colour, (the same colour of nearly all the Blackthorn children). His hair tousled with sleep, was dark brown. He was shirtless and Emma could see the little white scars scattered all over his tanned chest. He had broad shoulders, a mucular chest. "he is gorgeous." she thought. With that thought Emma pulled away from Julian with a sigh, they were parabatai they could never be together. Julian came and sat on the bed with Emma, he was looking at her with worry in his eyes.
"Im fine Jules, I am just being dramatic like always." she said rolling her eyes trying to convince him she was fine, even though she was still shaken.
But Julian knew better. "Yeah right Emma, you are the least dramatic person in my life. Remember that time I took Tys bees away, after I found out he was keeping them under his bed?" he asked.
"Of course I remember, I didnt know Ty had that good of a knife throwing arm." she said laughing.
Julian rubbed a scar on his left bicep and laughed with her. Julian always knew how to make Emma feel better, if she was angry he would find away to calm her down without being killed in the process and if she was upset he always finds a way to make her feel better.
They sat there for awhile in the dark, Julian took her wrist and wrote with his index finger. Do-You-Want-Me-To-Stay on the inside of her arm, Emma nodded, they started to communicate like this when they were very young. Emma pulled the covers back and got in, she turned onto her side and watched Julian walk to the other side of the bed and pull the cover back, he noticed her watching and raised his eyebrows. She looked away her face getting hot. Julian often comes in and stays in her bed or her in his, they have done that ever since they were little, he got in and rolled over so that he was facing her.
"Goodnight Em." he said quitley.
she wrote on his arm with her pinky finger. Night-Jules, he smiled at her his eyes gleaming in the dim light. He rolled onto his back and quickly fell asleep, Emma lay there listening to Julians breathing, until she drifted into a dreamless sleep.