Tessa woke to a girl staring down at her, with brown eyes and hair.

"Hi, I'm Sophie Collins. Welcome to The Institute."

"Tessa Gray. Did you bring me here?"

"Oh, Havens no." Sophie laughed. "And even if I did managed to get passed the wall I would have been brought right back here. No human would even try to levee, it's forbidden."

"What exactly am I doing here?"

"Well from what I herd Miss Cecily and master James talking about, you are to be a gift to master William. He just woke from a 400 year sleeping spell."

"I'm not going to be someone's slave if that's what you think."

"Tessa, you do not really have a chose. You have to or they will kill you."

"Then let them kill me. I am not going to let someone control me!"

"It's really not that bad when-"

Sophie was cut off by the door to the room opening. In came a lady charring a chest looking box. It looked way to big to carry it by your self.

"That's plenty out of both of you. Sophie get the things out of the chest and get miss. Gray ready for the meting."

"Yes, Mistress." Sophie said obediently.

She went to unpacking the things from the chest. In it was a dress and shoes that looked like they would cut off blood flow from your toes to your heels. Sophie laced out everything on the bed. Tessa's attention was taken away from the other girl, when who she guessed was Cecily stared to move her head to side to side and up and down. She also messed with Tessa's hair.

"I do not know what I am going to do with your hair, but I can figurer something out."

"If I may ask, what do you plan to do with me?"

"Well, I have no doubt that Sophie told you every thing you need to know for right now."

Cecily turned around and went to talk to Sophie. Something about she was going to go check on the others and for Sophie to get me ready as soon as possible. And that she would take care of my hair in the Great room, before William gets there. Cecily left and Sophie did as she was told. She put me in a dress that was long and made out of white silk. When she was done, Sophie led Tessa into the hallway that was lighted by candles. And there were paintings and tapestries hanging on the wall, one in particular caught Tessa's eye. It was of an angel rising out of a lake, and he was holding a golden cup and a golden sword.

"That's the angel Rizal with the Mortal Instruments." Cecily said walking around the corner.

"What are you people?" Tessa asked really confused.

"I'm a warlock, but both my brothers are vampires."

Tessa sucked in a breath at the words vampires and warlock. She had been kidnaped by creatures that were only from books and movies.

"Then what's with this tapestry. When you here vampires and warlocks you don't think of angels you think of blood and cruses."

"You are in no position to ask questions Miss Gray. Now come you need not be late meeting my brother."

They continued to walk down the hall. Then stopped at a set of large double oak doors with gold handles. Cecily motion for Sophie to open them, when she did all three woman went in. This was the Great Room Tessa guessed, there was three throne looking chairs on a platform in the front of the big room. Two were taken and one was left. Tessa guessed that was were she meant to set. Cecily came up to her and said, "Miss. Gray, you are to set up on the platform with the rest of the girls and you are to say nothing, do you understand?"

"Yes, but will you please tell me what I am to do when around your brother? I have no idea how to act."

"I will inform all of you on what to do, but Will might tell you something deferent so be ready for that."

Tessa nodded and walked over to the three "thrones" and sat down in the last one. She looked over to the other two seats and took in the to girls that sat there. The one closets to Tessa had sandy blonde hair and green eyes, the other had red hair and shockingly black eyes. Not to mention she was beautiful, more beautiful then Tessa and the other girl.

"What's your name, I'm Tessa."

For a minute she thought she was not going to answer, but then she said, "I'm Tatianna, do you know what they are going to do. They won't tell us anything."

"All I know is that we are gifts to someone. That's all I know."

"All of us are going to get into big trouble if you two don't shut the hell up!"

"That's Ravenna by the way. She is a little much."

"Yea, I gathered that." Tessa said, just as a load clap rang out in the room. Cecily stood in the middle of the room, with everyone's eyes on her. Tessa couldn't help but wonder what the rest of the occupants on this island was.

"Everyone listen up my brother will be here in-" Cecily stared but got cut off by another voice in the crowd that voice said,

"Now, he will be here now." The voice belonged to a boy who looked no more then 17, but if this was Will, like Tessa suspected, he was over 400.

"Will, oh how I have missed you!" She went to hug him gut he stooped her. That seemed strange, if what Sophie had told her was true they hadn't seen one another in 400 years. Why did he not want to hug his sister? Cecily looked up at him in confusion, then she fooled his gaze to where it had landed. And it landed on me.