They've Found Us!

Ugh, my Sister takes such a long time to do the shopping. I used to go in with her and help but one time she spent forty five minutes choosing between flavors of those noodle side dish things. That was where I drew the line. Now, I just sit on the bench looking like a moron while trying to play it cool.

Finally, I see her emerge from the store with her cart. Jammed full with stuff we probably don't need. I wave, so she sees me and walk towards her as she's heading to the car. I just got my license last summer, so that we can run errands more easily and also to have a getaway car when we need one.

"Took you long enough, what were you waiting for; their closing out sale?" I tease her.

"Har, har, smarty pants. I'd like to have seen you do any better. There were so many people shopping today, it wasn't even funny and their aisles are so skinny that every time someone else wanted to come down one, I had to pull my cart off to the side. I am telling you, they either need bigger aisles in there or smaller carts because that place is hazardous!" She huffs, furiously throwing groceries into the trunk.

"Well, if you hated it so much, why are you trying to break the eggs and make me send you back in there then?" I grin, loving the way her nose scrunches up when she gets angry.

"Oh you!" She exhales, calming down a bit.

"When we get home, I'll put the groceries away for you, since you had such a shitty time at the store." I smile, trying to cheer her up.

"Oh yeah and what do you expect in return?" She hedges.

"Nothing at all of course, but if you do decide you want to kiss me senseless, I really won't object!" I laugh and she swats at me for being so overt.

"Not happening unless you get me drunk first." She intimates.

"Well I'm afraid it will have to wait then. I'm taking you out to dinner later, so we can't drink until we get home from that, okay?" I grin.

"It's more than okay! I'd love to go out to dinner with you Nathe, thank you!" She says hugging the life out of me.

"Meh, you can thank me later." I smirk with a wink. "Now get in, so we can get these groceries home." I say, giving her bum a sharp little spank and making her jump a bit. She squeals in the most delicious way and we head home to put away the perishables.


"I just need to shower first." Addie says as I finish putting away the groceries. "Then I'll get myself ready and we can head out, okay?"

"Sure, Sweet Thang." I laugh knowing that her idea of 'get myself ready' involves about an hour and a half of primping and deliberation over clothing. It's enough to stress out any male but after living with her for our whole lives and then being on the run these last three years, I suppose I've gotten used to it. I still love to tease her though. "Just remember we want to be eating dinner before it's time for them to start serving breakfast." I grin.

"Yeah, yeah, I won't be long, Nathe." She chuckles.

"That's what you said the last time!" I smirk, remembering two weeks ago when I tried to take her out for dinner and we ended up staying in because I got so hungry while I was waiting for her to be ready that I ended up making something to tide us over and after that we were too full to go out. We don't go out much anyway for fear of being to conspicuous. The last thing I want to do is take her out somewhere and be found by The Circle or even the Clave. I don't think they'd find us because Addie's glamour runes are stronger than regular glamours and she has another rune as well that prevents them from tracking us. Still, we always play it safe.

I turn on the television and flip to a sports station to watch until Addie is ready. Since I may be waiting a while, I also text our only friend Simon to pass the time, he's a mundane and a huge part of our cover. Without ever saying too much, we've told him that some people may eventually come looking for us and that if anyone starts asking questions he's supposed to say that he's known us our whole lives. That way no one will know we're really Shadowhunters.

You might assume our runes give us away, but on top of the glamour that alters our appearance, we double rune ourselves. Addie invented an invisible rune that can also turn other runes invisible when it's applied over them. It means that none of our runes can be seen except by the wearer and the one who draws them.

We also change our appearance a bit. I keep my hair cropped short and always wear ball caps. Addie wanted to dye hers but I love her red hair, so we compromised and she straightens it and wears it in a ponytail. I'll admit to loving the ponytail thing because it's so damned fun to tug on when we're having sex. In fact, I'm hoping Addie will drink with me tonight so that she'll let me do just that. It's not that I don't understand her qualms about adultery and incest; it's just that when you've lived with one person for three years and your lifestyle is too risky to let anyone else in. That person sort of becomes your world and it's hard (at least for me) to worry too much about what everyone else would think.

I've sent Simon a text that says 'What's up dude?'

'Not much, u?' he replies.

'Taking Addie out to dinner. If she ever gets ready! :-P' I snicker to myself.

'Sweet where?' he asks.

'Barbecue SOS' I type.

'Cool, what time will you be back?' that's weird, I wonder if he's planning to come by later?

'Should be home by 8. Y?' I ask.

'Just wondering, no biggie, g2g, ttyl man!' Hmm, maybe he wants to surprise us later by dropping over? Simon's not usually cryptic though so it's tres bizarre. I set my phone down and zone out to the sports channel while Addie finishes beautifying herself. She's always absolutely beautiful of course and when she takes extra time getting ready like this… man, she could probably give a eunuch an erection!

"Hot damn, beautiful woman!" I grin, sizing her up. She has on this sparkly silver number that brings out the green of her eyes and her hair is up in that loose ponytail style where its intentionally messy and yes somehow looks flawless, it's bizarre the things girls can do with themselves.

"You likey?" She says spinning around in a slow circle.

"What do you think? I ask, pointing down at Jonathan Jr. who is very happy to see her.

"Well, I don't just mean that way, is it good for going out in?" She always looks so mature in what she wears but it makes sense because of the things she's been though in her life. And it works out alright because she also doesn't look fourteen. I mean, I'm sixteen and can barely pass for eighteen when I try, but she easily looks twenty. So in our fake ID's she's actually older then I am instead of the other way around.

"Yeah, you should be fine. If anybody hits on you, I'll punch his lights out." I say and she raises an eyebrow at that.

"Oh yeah, and what if it's a woman?" She smirks.

"Oh, that's easy… then, I'd watch!" I laugh as she throws a shoe at my head. Then I offer her my arm and we walk down the stairs from our loft, which is quite the feat in those damn shoes she's wearing, and make our way out through the front doors.


Dinner was fantastic and we both had a few drinks, so we're both a bit anxious to get back to the apartment. Gotta love persuasion runes, we never get ID'd when we go out on a date. When we get back and walk inside we are barely through the door when I start taking her clothes off.

She's always so different with a few drinks in her, kissing me, telling me that she loves me, guiding me inside of her. When she's sober it's all… 'No! We can't' whereas when she's drinking it's all… 'Oh please take me Nathe!' I just don't get it.

We're lying together afterwards and she turns to me and says, "I wish you weren't my brother sometimes." And I say "Oh yeah, well I wish you weren't married sometimes. More like all the time." And we both laugh at the crappiness of our situation.

BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Oh shit!

"Jonathan, Adele! You have exactly one minute to come out here and if you do we will be lenient, if not, we are coming in!" Our father yells.

"Okay Ads, Baby, do you remember what to do?" I ask her frantically. She nods and runs to put a most powerful locking rune on the bedroom door while I grab our survival bags from the closet. Then we both dress in gear which takes us about 30 seconds cuz we've practised it so many times. And we open the trap door for the fire pole that leads from our bedroom to our garage.

"Does it look clear?" She asks. The garage is underground and the long driveway out of it actually surfaces half a block down. You can't actually tell from out in front of this place that there is a garage. There is a door to it from the entry way but we keep a label on it that says 'Cleaning Supplies'.

"Yeah Baby, but I'm going down first. If I don't signal you the all clear, you Portal out of here like we've talked about and don't look back, okay?" I say and she nods, so I kiss her once and slide down the fire poll. Thankfully the garage is actually clear so I motion for her to come down and I catch her at the bottom. We get into the car and drive off, just as the idiot crew bust into our bedroom above. Thankfully they didn't catch us leaving as Addie pulled the trap door down and put a silence rune on it before she left.

"Damn it Nathe! That was close." She cries, visibly shook up.

"Yeah, and I loved that loft." I sigh, trying to make light of this.

"I was really scared, Jonathan." She says which tells me she's really upset. She never calls me Jonathan anymore.

"Me too, Baby girl. Me too." I shake my head to clear it as we drive.

"Do you think he was there?" She frowns.

"I don't know Sweety. I know you miss him, I'm sorry. I sometimes do too. And I miss Mom sometimes. But I don't miss Satan, that's for sure." I laugh.

"You mean our father? No, me neither. That's the one good thing about running away… we don't have to deal with him." She says, biting her nails.

"That's the only good thing is it?" I mutter, just to be difficult because I know that's not what she meant.

"I don't have the patience for your insecurities right now, Nathe." She grumbles.

"You're right, I'm sorry Sweetheart." I sigh.

"It's fine. Where will we go now?" She asks, looking worried.

"You'll just have to wait and see." I grin.