Melanie-Jane POV

When I was done and bathed I got on another stupid dress that made me wanna drive my own seraph blade through my heart. They insisted to do my hair in braids but, I refused I left my hair in its natural state. Curly and waving free around me. The servant girl had showed me out just as Queen Cersi had walked through the door. "Good your ready, dinner is awaiting us."

When we arrived in tot he dining room everyone was sat around a large table. "Please, Lady Herondale sit next to my mother, Cersi." I gently and awkwardly smiled at him and nodded. Cersi and I took our seats. "This is my grandfather, Uncle Tyrian you know of course. My Uncle Jamie, my sister, Marcella, and my brother, Tommen." I nodded and replied," nice meeting you all."

"Yes, yes now tell us more about your family, your people and what is your situation that got you here?" Said Joffreys grandfather. "Are you a witch?" Gasped Tommen. I nervously laughed. "No I'm not a which although we do have witches and warlocks as well as vampires and werewolf's and fairy's. We call all those downworlders. We are shadowhunters. We are half human, half angel we protect the humans from rogue demons and downworlders. The clave is our government and there was a thing called a dark shadowhunter created by my mothers demonic brother. Jonathan was born from my two shadowhunter grandparents who ran the circle, an uprising against the clave, valentine tainted Jonathan's blood with demons blood when he was in the womb as well he did so with my mother and my father before they were born. Once Valentine had died Jonathan created the dark shadowhunters by having them drink from the infernal cup much like our mortal cup that was used to create the first shadowhunters."

Joffrey propped his head on his head fascinated by what I had said. "So he is trying to..?" Asked Tyrion. " Take over my world and burn the mundane world to the ground. Our world is even separate from the mundane world where I live. It's hidden on land with a glamour only the shadow world can see and enter. It's called Idris."

"A down right psychopath." Laughed Jamie everyone laughed along. "Yes, but a very strong, intelligent, powerful, and manipulative psychopath that has all the realms of hell and the 2nd oldest and most powerful Greater demon there is on his side. Some how my parents and the clave army have managed to hold them off for 25 years."

"Interesting.." Trailed Joffrey. "Tell me about your family, my lady."

"I am the youngest child of 12 children. I'm also the only daughter in my family. My dads adopted brother, Alec, is married to my uncle Magnus, the most powerful and oldest warlock, his adopted sister, Isabel, married my mothers best friend, Simon, and they had 2 sons ,Max and Jaden. My 4 oldest brothers are 24 they are quadruplets, that would be Ethan, Carson, Randel, and Ron. Then the triples are 22 and their names are Andrew, William, and James. The twins are Gabriel and Jason they're 18 and then there's me I'm 15." At this point Cersi had stopped sipping her wine and her eyes wide as well as everyone else at the table. "Big family." Joffrey laughed. "How did your mother endure the birth of 12 children and more than one each time other than you." I shrugged.

Everyone all say in silence for a few moments till Cersi asked me the most disturbing question, " have you bleed?" What the actual hell?!

Joffrey groaned. "Mother seriously?" He asked.

These people are even weirder than my family..

"What, It was just a question." Joffrey and Cersi started arguing. Damn this was annoying, more annoying than my own family arguments.

Since I was done I excused myself out of the dinning hall and tried to find my room on my own.

Great I was lost. When I rounded the next corner I ran into a girl with red hair similar to my mothers. "Sorry." I said. She smiled and asked, "are you new in the palace?" I nodded. "I'm actually new to this land." She chuckled. "I'm Sansa Stark."

I smiled and replied, "I'm Melanie-Jane Herondale."

Joffrey POV

So many questions. I grew board of hearing about where she's from. To admit though some of it was fascinating. She has 11 damn brothers. It's going to be hard to please her family so I can make a deal to have her as mine. I can tell our children will be very powerful and very good looking.

When I notice she was no longer in the dinning room, that she excused herself I did the same to look for her. Damn girl probably got lost.

When I found her she was in the gardens with Sansa. Damnit that bitch will ruin my image with Melanie-Jane.

"Ah Lady Sansa, I see you have met our guest, Lady Melanie-Jane." Sansa looked scared good. "Your grace, just call me Melanie if u wish, my first name is kinda like." She giggles a bit and smiles. "Alright, Lady Melanie." I said trying it out.

"Well, I best be going.. Is that alright my king?" Sansa asked lightly. "Yes, yes go." I said smoothly. Sansa curtsied and left. Finally I was really alone with Melanie. "So my Lady, so you like the gardens?" She shrugged. "Yes they're beautiful, back at the New York Institute where my family live we have a in house garden in a green house. There's these flowers there that only bloom at midnight." Fascinating.

"Well that's quite interesting, sounds beautiful." She nods. "Yes they very much are. Quick personal question." I nodded giving her the ok to ask. "Where's your dad?"

"He died on a hunting trip a while ago, not that he was much of a father to me. He just was always drinking to to busy with whores." She looked at my sadly. It didn't phase me what I said about my father. It wasn't exactly unknown or a lie. "Where's your father?" I asked her.

She looked at her hands sadly. "He and my oldest brother Ethan were captured by Jonathan 2 months ago. The night I got portled here I snuck out of the institute away from my family and left to find them on my own. It was my fault they got captured. They were protecting me.."

I put my arm around her. "I'm sure anyone of your brothers or family would've done the same and you would have for them." She nodded yes.

"We're your parents in love when they married?" She asked randomly. "No it was an arranged marriage when my father, Robert, became king after a war. Here most don't marry for love, they marry for love, power, and money. Where yours?" She smiled. "Yes, it's funny how they met and fell in love very unique."

"Well tell me." I said trying to act interested. "My mom was hidden from seeing the world inside of the mundane world. Her mind block was coming off and she saw my dad kill a demon in a mans form. On her birthday he took her to that garden I told you about and had their first kiss. Then my moms dad, Valentine, told them they were siblings only to find that they weren't and her real brother was an evil asshat so it was okay for them to be together."

Her family is even more fucked up than mine. "That's very odd." She nodded. "Ya well, at least her actual brother hasn't gotten her. Now he wants her like a brother shouldn't, but he's nuts anyway." Oh my god I don't know if it's safe to marry into this girls family I might me killed or raped or something.

"Please don't think of my family as crazy or something. I mean they are, but they're good people who protect the innocent and they're loving. So it's not all bad it's mainly really good with them." She smiled and laid her head on my shoulder.

Man really listening to a woman talk really pays off.

Melanie-Jane's POV-

Talking with Joffrey was nice. He was nice I have yet to see the side of him that Sansa had described to me. Yet she doesn't seem like the girl to lie or deceive someone, but you never know. Though the is quite nice I'm going to have to keep my eye open for the way Joffrey acts that she described. I feel like I have to keep my guard up not only or demon or Jonathan, but for the people I'm around something with the Queen when I'm around her doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling..

"Lady Melanie.?" Asked Joffrey. "Oh yes, sorry I zoned out."

"I asked you if you would like escorting back to your chambers." Chambers..ohh my room. "Yes please, I got lost earlier and that's how I met Sansa."

He nodded and stood up pulling me with him. He had put my hand on his arm so ours were locked as we walked.

He walked me to my room and leaned in for a kiss. Ah hell no he was moving to fast. I gently pulled back slightly. "I guess this is good night." I said and rushed into my room and closed the door. "Phew." I whispered relieved.

I took the wretched dress and corset off. I felt so free!

I was wearing a dress to bed and it was so damn hot so I slipped in bed naked. Hehe.