Sorry this took so long. I'm going to start setting dates when I'll update and if I don't update by then feel free to pester me about it.

I keep forgetting to say that this is set in between CP1 and CP2, and I don't own TID. Also, I need ideas! The next four or five chapters are basically just filler chapters. If you have any ideas for me, please tell me!


Everyone at the Institute was looking for Will, but, out of all of them, Jem was looking the most. He would be out all day, leaving before dawn and coming back just after dusk. Charlotte worried that he wasn't sleeping and eating enough, so one day she locked the doors and forced him to stay in bed for the day while he fidgeted and stared out the window. The next day, he was out again.

Tessa would sometimes join him on his searches, either to keep him company or help him look. She wanted to find Will as much as he did. It was hard to walk into the library and not have Will there.

Cecily took it the worst. When she heard that Will was missing, she collapsed in the middle of the study, screaming. Tessa had helped her up and taken her to her room, where she sobbed until midnight when she fell asleep. She didn't come out at all after that. Sophie would serve meals to the rest of the Shadowhunters, then bring Cecily's meal upstairs after many failed attempts to get her to come out.

Two weeks passed with no sign of Will. Even Jessamine was starting to get worried. The Silent Brothers tried multiple different runes, and none of them worked. The Institute seemed deathly silent without Will there.

Every day, it got harder and harder to go out and look. The list of places he could be got shorter every day, and so did the lists of people they could ask and people who could have taken him.

One day, as Jem and Tessa were getting ready to go look for Will, there was a sound in the doorway and they turned to see Cecily standing in the doorway, already wearing her gear. Jem saw Tessa's eyes widen in surprise and felt the same. Cecily hadn't left her room since they told her Will was missing.

"I'm coming with you," she said. "I want to help you look. I want to find my brother."


Jem, Tessa, and Cecily walked out of the seventh bar that day, after questioning the bartender and getting no answers. Tessa could tell that Cecily was trying to hold in tears. She wrapped her arms around Cecily and waited patiently while Cecily sobbed into her chest.

"I want to find him," Cecily whispered. "I came here to bring him home and now he's gone."

"We'll find him," Tessa said, rubbing Cecily's back. "I promise we'll find him."


The blade that Jem threw landed right in the center of the target. He turned to see what Will thought of it and found himself alone in the training room. Even after two weeks, his mind wouldn't process that Will was gone. He'd turn around to talk to Will and he wouldn't be there. The library would be empty when he went in. He'd put his hand up to knock on Will's door and then remember.


That night, Jem had a dream where they found Will dead in a warehouse by the river. He woke up gasping and covered in sweat and immediately went to Tessa's room. She sat next to him on the bed and they talked about Will for hours, until Tessa fell asleep and Jem went back to him room. It was the first night in many years that he cried himself to sleep.


Okay, I'll have this updated by next Monday. If I don't, feel free to PM me and pester me about it until I do.