We now get to one of my absolute favorite characters.
As Jace walked up to get in line to drop his and Izzy's luggage, he was approached by two guys. Honestly, he didn't really care about them since both his shoulders were aching because Cammy had deposited Izzy's other bag on his other shoulder.
"That's a lot of luggage for one guy," one of them stated.
"Huh?" Jace said intelligently. "What? Oh, this is-"
The other cut him off. "It's okay man. No discrimination here."
"Yeah, we know what it's like. We're cool with it," the first added.
"Wait," Jace said, shaking his head. "What? I'm not. . ." But the two guys had already walked away. Jace sighed. By now, it was his turn to drop off the luggage. Which he did.
Izzy flounced up to him and dropped of her luggage. "What did those two guys want?"
Jace closed his eyes like he was in pain. "Nothing."
Isabelle looked at him oddly for a moment, then shrugged and wandered off to go find Chamomile, who was probably either chatting up a guy or eating like a pig. Either one would not be surprising.
When Izzy found Cammy, the blonde seemed to be both chatting up a guy, and eating like a pig. She walked up to the table that Chamomile and a black-haired male person were sitting at in the small, dimly lit café in the airport.
"Hey, Izzy," Cammy said brightly, looking up from her slice of apple pie and vanilla cappuccino. Her light emerald eyes flicked over to the boy as he turned to look at Izzy.
"Sebastian," he supplied as his coal-black eyes met Isabelle's dark brown ones. He stood and held out his hand to her.
"Isabelle," the dark-haired girl returned, taking Sebastian's hand. There was something about him... Something about his hair that didn't go with the rest of him, but Izzy couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was.
Isabelle felt the cold of metal on her hand and glanced down at Sebastian's hand. She saw the glint of a ring, but he pulled back before Izzy could recognize the design.
Sebastian sat back down. "Join us?" he offered motioning at the final seat at the table. Isabelle nodded and sat down.
Suddenly, light flared up in the small room as one of the waiters threw open the window curtains on the far wall. The trio blinked in surprise and waited for their eyes to adjust.
"So where are you heading?" Sebastian asked Isabelle.
"Huh?" Izzy responded. She turned away from the window to look at Sebastian. It was then she realized that his skin shimmered.
Well, sort of.
The faint silver markings of runes decorated the black-haired boy's skin. "You're a Shadowhunter!" Izzy exclaimed a little too loudly.
A few people in the café glanced at Isabelle like she was crazy - including Sebastian - while Chamomile nearly choked on her cappuccino at Izzy's outburst.
"I-I mean," Izzy tried to cover, "I thought no one else around here played that game." She had spoken just loud enough for the other people in the room to hear. Isabelle slumped in her chair in embarrassment.
"I thought you knew," Sebastian said quietly as Izzy buried her face in her hands and let out a partly relieved sigh. The other part consisted of something along the lines of, 'Izzy you moron.'
"Your friend recognized it almost as soon as she saw me," he went on, meaning Cammy.
"I didn't notice," Izzy mumbled as she dropped her hands onto the table. "And California, in response to your previous question."
"Really?" Sebastian said, sounding genuinely interested. "That's where I'm headed. What part?"
Isabelle thought for a moment, glad of the subject change, before responding, "Anahimi or something like that."
"Anaheim?" Sebastian offered.
"Yeah, that's the place!" Izzy responded. "How'd you know?"
"It's where the California Institute is. Well, the main one. There's a smaller one up north, but I figured, since your visiting, you'd want to go to Disneyland, too."
"Izzy!" Jace called from somewhere near the entrance of the café. She heard his footsteps as he approached their table. "And Cammy. I found you both. . . And competition, apparently," Jace went on.
Isabelle groaned, while Chamomile tried (quite successfully) to hide her laugh.
Sebastian grinned. "Competition? Are either of these beautiful ladies your girlfriend? Or both perhaps?"
"Wife, actually," Jace responded, placing his hand on Izzy's shoulder as he kept up with his ruse from earlier. "It's our honeymoon. After that, I'm going to start working on the warlock."
"I will kick you," Cammy replied immediately, as if she said it automatically and didn't even process what Jace had said.
Sebastian had a wide smirk on his face as he watched Jace. "Sorry, but you might be to late to start on this one." He pointed at Cammy. "I might just take her. We could get a real contest going on here."
Jace grinned his customary grin and said, "Sounds like a plan."
Cammy raised her eyebrows at Sebastian, then blushed. "Anyway," she said. "You guys have to go right? I'll see you all off."
"Right," Isabelle replied, once again glad of a subject change. "Let's go get in line."
Then the trio of Shadowhunters and tag-a-long warlock made their way towards the boarding area.
