Allright guys here we go guys, things should start heating up soon.
I lead Magnus into the kitchen to talk. He stopped by Charlie's chair and looked around the kitchen apprehensively. He sniffed and arched an eyebrow at me "This is where you have been living for the past few months?"
"It's not bad Magnus," I defended, crossing my arms over my chest, "It's been home…" I trailed of and he looked away. After a moment he pulled out Charlie's chair and sat down and gestured for me to take the seat across from him. I did and watched as he sighed and laced his fingers together on the table
"Tessa I'll get down to business," he started, "We need your help." I leaned forward, my attention captured.
"There is a case of rouge downworlders" Magnuscontinued "Warlocks, faeries, werewolves and vampires who want to over throw shadowhunters. They aren't happy with the current system with shadowhunters at the top of the hierarchy with downworlders on the bottom." He grimaced and looked down at my table, "Their stupidity hurts me. We need the shadowhunters where they are. If not for them the demons would wipe us out. We need the shadowhunters exactly where they are."
I let the information sink in for a moment before I spoke, "What are they planning on doing? How do they plan to overthrow the shadowhunters?"
Magnus's eyes looked up and at me "Death," I sat back at the severity of his tone, "This rouge downworlders won't stop until every last shadowhunter is dead and-" he paused and looked away again "They are planning on destroying the mortal instruments too." He continued to stare at me with his cat eyes, looking e in place. "We need your help, all the help we can get. These guys are bloodthirsty and won't stop unless we stop them first."
I swallowed and looked down at my hands on my lap. I owed a lot to the shadowhunters and I knew I had to do this for them. I looked up at Magnus and determinedly said "I'm in."
He nodded once but started to look uncomfortable "There is one more thing" he started and I gestured for him to continue, "When is the last time you saw Jem –Brother Zachariah?" surprised at his question I stammered "Umm right before I came to America….why?"
"You should go see him" Magnus replied simply. "Why?" I asked. I had started a new life here with Edward, I didn't want to go revisit that part of my life again.
"There is something you should see and anyway, he is expecting you. I told him you would see him at you usual date." He smirked and looked over to the calendar we had on the wall "That's in, what, 3 days?" My mouth flew open and Magnus kept up that smirk smiling at me. "Oh and relax, just tell your little vamp boy toy that you are going to see your mom or something. He is hunting anyway."
I must have looked like a fish with how my mouth kept opening and closing while Magnus kept that infuriating expression up. Finally I managed to say "How do you know about Edward?" Finally Magnus had the decency to look embarrassed and he said sheepishly "I got here about a week ago and I kinda…observed you." I stared at him in disbelief for a moment and a bit of a blush crept up Magnus' cheeks and he cleared his throat uncomfortably. Not knowing what else to say I pulled out my phone, "I guess I'll call Edward and tell him I'm going to see my mom"
I walked into the living room and started dialing Edward's number. I wasn't happy with lying to him but he would try too hard to protect me. I know he loved me but he wouldn't understand this aspect of my life, the need to fight for myself for my people. Anyway it was the best way to keep him out of danger. I wasn't worried about Alice, knowing Magnus she would have made sure that she wouldn't be able to see me or at least enough that would make her suspicious.
The phone rung twice before I heard Edward voice on the other end
"Hello? Is everything okay, love?"
"Edward everything is fine. I was thinking that since you are out hunting, I might go visit my mom. I miss her and yeah…" I trailed of and cringed inwardly at how I sounded.
"I can take you when we get back"
"No Edward, I'd like to go alone. You know spend some Mother-daughter time and anyway you won't be able to come outside that much in the sun. Please?" I begged a little at the end
"Okay" he didn't sound happy but resigned "Have fun love"
"Bye" I finished and hung up. I leaned my head against the wall for a moment before taking in a deep breath and heading back to the kitchen. Magnus was where I left him. "So what now?"
"You need to get a ticket to London. You need to see Jem before anything" he answered.
