A/N: Will is kind of OOC from here on out. I tried to write him as he would be after the revelation of the fake curse, and this is how I thought he would act.

Chapter Two: Your Guardian Angel

Song Companion: Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

The girl slowly opened her eyes. She slowly sat up and looked at the mysterious place around her curiously. Where was she? What was this place? It was so grand, like nothing she had ever seen! The floors were made of some sort of dark wood; the walls were all white, as was the furniture around her. And the bed she was laying on was so comfortable, like sleeping on a cloud. She shivered and looked down to see she was wearing no clothes, but that didn't bother her too much.

"About time you woke up." An irritable voice said. The girl gasped and whirled around, her eyes wide. She saw a tall boy, about seventeen, like her. He had pitch black hair that covered his forehead and the tops of his ears, and his eyes… She gazed into the startling blue orbs. This boy…he looked like an angel… maybe a guardian angel?

She slowly nodded and continued to stare at him. He smirked at her. "Like what you see?" he asked cockily. She nodded. He raised a brow at her. Well, she seems awfully honest, he thought. She frowned when she saw something black on the base of his neck. She gasped and started grinning when she realized that the boy was covered in runes. She pointed to her neck and then at his. He touched it and nodded. "Yes…I have tattoos." He said strangely. The girl huffed in frustration and shook her head. How could she convey what she meant?

She looked down on the floor and saw a shadow. She grinned and pointed to it excitedly. He raised a brow. "Yes, you found a shadow, well done." He said sarcastically. She shook her head and acted like she was stabbing the shadow. The boy tried to keep the smile from spreading but he couldn't help it, this girl was making a total fool of herself and she didn't seem to care. He had to admit, it was kind of cute… he shook those thoughts from his head and watched her. He was a little shocked when he realized that she was trying to say Shadowhunter.

He nodded slowly. "Yes…Yes, I am a Shadowhunter." He said warily. She grinned and nodded, then pointed to herself ecstatically as though she were saying 'Me too!'. He raised a brow at her. "Then where are your runes?" he asked her. She smiled proudly and held up her left wrist, pointing at it. He stared at the pale skin there. "There's nothing there." He said bluntly, crossing his arms over his chest. The girl froze and looked at her wrist, confused. She tried rubbing it, as thought that would make a rune appear. She looked up and him and then flung herself off the bed, revealing her whole body to him.

She grabbed his wrist and pointed at it. He looked to see her pointing at his parabatai rune. He stared at her. "You have a parabatai?" he asked, surprised. She nodded. The boy was silent and he stared at the girl before him, careful not to look below her face. She looked at his neck and gingerly touched the rune there. The boy shivered, she was still so cold. The girl quickly started unbuttoning his shirt. The boy just sat there, shocked, not sure of what to do. A girl had never come onto him in this manner before. She pushed his shirt off his shoulders and down his arms, revealing his torso. She let out a small gasp as she stared at his chest. She touched more of his runes and traced them with her finger, marveling at them as though they were a priceless piece of art.

"You act as though you haven't seen a rune before." He said, shivering as her hands roamed his torso. He looked at her to see her shaking her head no. She pointed at the inside of her wrist and then pretended she was shooting a bow. "Your arrows had runes? That makes much more sense now…" he mused as she nodded. He stared at her. "Those are the only runes you ever used?" he asked her, shocked. She nodded and walked behind him, touching and tracing the runes on his back and up his shoulders. He shivered once again, but not because he was cold. Her gentle touch was setting his nerve endings on fire. He bit his lip to suppress a moan and then turned around and caught her by the wrists.

The girl stared at him, shocked. She flushed when she realized she shouldn't have been touching him like that. She gave him an apologetic look. He sighed and slowly released her wrists when he heard her stomach growl. He picked up his shirt and tossed it to her. "Please put that on…sorry we don't have anything else." He muttered. She nodded and slipped her arms into the sleeves of the shirt. She tried buttoning the shirt but let out a whine of frustration. Will couldn't help it. He chuckled softly and helped her button up the shirt. He took her arms and rolled the sleeves back to her wrists so she could use her hands. She smiled up at him and went to the door.

She grabbed the handle but couldn't open it. Will watched her in amusement before he walked over and placed his hand on top of hers on the door knob. The girl took in a sharp breath, overwhelmed by him. He was surrounding her, his body a mere few centimeters from her back. She blushed and was thankful that he couldn't see her doing it. He twisted their hands on the knob and pushed, opening the door. She stared at it and then walked out into the corridor, looking around in amazement.

He stared at her for a long time. She was like a child in the body of a seventeen year old girl, almost a woman. She turned her bright green eyes to his bright blue ones. They were sparkling in excitement. She ran towards him, took his hand, and started running down the corridor, pulling the boy along behind her. When they passed the open doors of the training room, she gasped and pointed excitedly. Will smirked.

"Go ahead, I'll be back with some food." She nodded and raced off into the room. Will smiled and walked down the corridor towards the dining room where breakfast would be awaiting him. He stopped when he realized that he was actually smiling. He hadn't really smiled like this is a long time. Not since he was cursed or the occasional smile that Jem and Tessa would get out of him. But this girl…she had got him to be smiling all morning. Perhaps it was the childish nature she held? He thought idly as he walked into the dining room. Jem raised a brow at him when he came in.

"Will, is there a reason why you are shirtless?" Charlotte asked him warily as she watched him piling food on a plate. "And why are you getting so much food?" He sighed and sat the plate down on his usual seat next to Jem and sat. "You didn't tell Charlotte?" Will asked him. Jem took a sip of his tea and shook his head. "No, I was just about to actually." Jem replied smoothly.

"Tell me what?" Charlotte asked. Will and Jem were about to fill Charlotte in on the mystery girl they picked up last night during their watch when they heard yelling down the hall. "You stupid, girl! Come back here!" Gabriel was shouting. Will was confused…that was until said mystery girl came running into the room, her bow and arrows in her arms. She yelped as she tripped and landed on her face, but jumped right back up as Gabriel entered the room, followed by the worn out Sophie and Tessa. Gabriel lunged for the girl but she jumped out of the way. She looked up to see her Guardian Angel staring at her in shock. She gasped and hopped onto the table and ran towards him as the scary boy chased her and yelled at her to get off the table.

The girl jumped onto Will and wrapped her legs around his waist and buried her head in the crook of his neck, looking for safety. Will shuttered when she used the hand that wasn't clutching her weapons close to her chest to wrap around Will's bare shoulders. The girl felt him move beneath her. "Gabriel, what did you do to her?" he asked protectively. The other boy, Gabriel, was too angry to notice the other boy's protectiveness of the girl.

"What did I do? I did nothing! This girl, who I've never seen before might I add, pounced on me when I was giving these girls a lesson and she took my bow and all the arrows!" Gabriel shouted. The girl whipped her head around and glared and shook her head at the boy. She pointed to the arrows, and then to herself. "She's right." Jem said. Gabriel turned to Jem. "What was that, Carstairs?" he spat. "She's right. Those are her belongings. I put them in the training room last night when we brought her in."

Charlotte sighed. "Is this what you two were about to tell me about?" she asked warily. Will nodded. Charlotte sighed. "We really can't keep her here…not after everything that's happened with Nathaniel and Mortmain." She sighed. The girl's grip on Will tightened. She looked up at him, fear in her eyes. She didn't want to leave this boy, the boy who must have been her guardian angel. She sat up and held out her wrist to him and then pointed at the woman who said that as though to say "Tell her I'm one of you! She has to let me stay!"

"Charlotte, she's a shadowhunter." Will said. The girl turned to Charlotte and nodded. Charlotte looked surprised. "But she doesn't have any runes." She said. The girl clumsily got up from Will and hurriedly showed Charlotte her bow and arrows that were adorned with battle runes. Charlotte frowned and looked at her. "What's your name?" She asked. The girl bit her lip. "Charlotte, she's mute." Will said. The girl nodded. Charlotte frowned. "Can you write?" she nodded enthusiastically. "Will, go get her something to write with."

The girl turned to see her Angel, who she now knew as Will, get up. Her eyes widened in fear. He looked at her and smiled softly. "You can't get rid of me that easily." He pointed at his seat. "Sit here by Jem, he'll keep that jackass away from you." He said with a wink. The girl nodded and bounced to sit on his seat. She turned to Jem and her mouth formed a little o. He turned slightly pink at her curious and entranced stare. She crawled onto his lap and started playing with his silver hair, curiously. She could tell he was Chinese, but she couldn't figure out how he got his hair to be that color. Jem froze underneath her, shocked and not sure as what to do. She saw runes on his wrist and took it, pushing his sleeve back. She grinned when she saw his parabatai rune.

Jem watched as she looked up at him and pointed at his wrist excitedly and then towards the direction Will had gone. He nodded slowly, still uncomfortable—especially since his fiancé was in the room. "Yes, Will and I are parabatai." He said. She smiled and looked down at his wrist. She seemed to stare off in space and rubbed her own wrist as well. Soon Will walked in. He paused for a moment when he saw the girl sitting on his best friend's lap, staring at his wrist while she rubbed her own.

He quickly walked to the table, threw the parchment and quill and ink onto the table, and picked the girl up off of Jem's lap. "Sorry about that, she's very…physical." He said, staring at the girl who was looking up at him, smiling. He rolled his eyes at her but couldn't help the small smile from coming to his face. Tessa saw this and smiled, happy that the real Will Herondale was coming out. Will put the girl on her feet and then sat in his own chair. She took the parchment, ink, and the quill and sat on Will's lap. She pushed her sleeves back and pulled her hair out of her face before dipping the quill into the ink and writing. Once she had finished she gave it to Will with a smile. He smiled back and looked at it. He felt his brows shoot up in surprise.

"What is it?" Tessa asked curiously. Will looked up at the girl. "Can you not write in English?" he asked her, looking back at the Latin script. She tilted her head back and forth as though to say "Somewhat." He shook his head and looked back at the paper.

"Her name is Helena…Helena Shadowhunter."