Chapter 2.
"Imogen Christine Fairchild!" Imogen stopped her 'drawing' and spun around as she heard her mother's voice.
"What have you done?!" Emelina looked in shock at the make-up covered wall. "Where did you get this?" She asked glaring down at her daughter while holding up the red lipstick.
Imogen put her head down and pouted, "Imogen, look at me! Where did you get this?"
"Izzy's room." She said shyly.
"Does she know you have this?"
She stayed quiet.
"Imogen."
She slightly shook her head.
"Naughty corner!"
"But-"
"Imogen Christine Fairchild, naughty corner! Now!"
Imogen groaned as he mother grabbed her hand and stormed her down the hall and into the library to the little seat in the corner, she turned it around so it was facing the wall.
"Sit here and think about what you've done."
Imogen pouted and slumped down in the seat.
…
As Emelina scrubbed at the wall Clary came up behind her, "What happened here?!"
"Uh… yeah… Imogen got into Izzy's make-up and decided to do some art on the walls." She sighed and went back to scrubbing.
"Let me guess, naughty corner?"
"Naughty corner." She groaned.
"Do you want some help?"
"No, I'll be fine – AHH! Why does Isabelle's make-up have to be so god-damn hard to get off!"
Clary slightly chuckled and picked up a wet rag, getting down on her knees and started helping. As she reached one of the side 'paintings' she noticed something weird. A rune? She knew it wasn't a Shadowhunter rune but where else would Imogen see these? Then it hit her; she quickly got up and rushed off.
"Where are you going?!" Emelina shouted after her.
"I just remembered I really needed to talk to Magnus!"
Emelina shrugged and went back to scrubbing.
…
"I'm really sorry about your make-up Iz, I'll buy you some new ones to replace the stuff Imogen used." Emelina apologized for the five-hundredth time.
"It's fine, she only got into the cheap stuff, kid's do these sort of things, it happens."
"But-"
"Emelina. It's fine. Now come on, Jace and Alec want to meet us at Taki's for dinner."
"Ok, I'll go get Imogen ready."
"Meet at the elevator in half an hour?"
"Sure."
With that they went their separate ways.
Emelina gently shook her sleeping daughter, waking her from her nap, "Imogen, sweetie, time to get up."
Imogen sleepily opened her eyes and instinctively help her arms out for her Emelina to pick her up.
She picked her up and carried her into the joining room, Emelina's room, and put her down on her feet and went and got her some clothes.
Imogen started to finally wake up as her mother pulled the shirt from over her head and replaced it with a white one and a lilac jumper, she slipped her out of her small track pants and pulled on a pair of polka-dot tights and a pair of white flowery shoes.
Emelina quickly changed her top and they were ready to leave.
They soon met Izzy at the elevator and they all headed down.
Just as they were about to open the door Emelina realized, "I forgot my purse! You go ahead, I'll catch up."
Isabelle shrugged and took Imogen's hand in hers and headed out.
…
"Hey guys." Isabelle said before slipping into the booth next to Alec. Emelina grabbed a highchair and placed it at the end of the table, quickly picked up Imogen and sat her in it before sliding in next to Jace, across from Izzy.
"Does anyone know where Clary is, I tried calling her but she left her phone in my room?" Jace asked worrydly
"She said she needed to go talk to Magnus about something last I heard." Em said as she opened her menu.
"Ok, I'll call Magnus later and see if she's there but right now I need food."
"You always 'need' food." Alec said rolling his eyes.
Jace just shrugged and gave a 'what you see is what you get' kind of look.
The door soon opened and in came Simon and Jordon.
"Hey babe." He said as he gave Isabelle a kiss on the cheek and slid into the booth next to her.
"Sup, Maia can't make it, she's in bed sick." Jordon said before sliding in next to Simon, fully filling that side of the booth. "Hey Imogen, do you like me yet?"
Imogen just folded her arms and tossed her head to the side.
"What about me Im?" Simon said in a hopeful voice.
"No!" She said trying to turn as far away from them as possible.
"See it's not just me, she just doesn't like males!" Jace interjected.
"She likes me." Alec interjected.
"I'm not totally sure about that… Hey Mog, do you like Alec?"
Imogen curiously turned to face Alex, tilting her head to the side as she looked at him, slightly squinting her eyes before spinning back around with crossed arms, "No."
Isabelle shrugged, "She likes Magnus."
"Yeah but have you seen Magnus' wardrobe, she probably doesn't realize he's a dude and I wouldn't be surprised if her did 'accidently' get turned into a girl at one point."
Emelina they all slightly laughed as Alec choked on his water because of Jace's comment.
"Hey, sorry I'm late, I got caught up." Clary said while sliding in next to Emelina.
"So what are-"
"Are you ready to order?" The waitress interrupted.
"Regular for me." Jace said.
"Same as him." Alec and Clary said.
"But no pickles with mine." Added Clary.
"Put her pickles on my plate." He said while grinning at her from the other side of Emelina.
"I'll have the chicken burger." Isabelle said while closing up her menu.
"Blood hot-chocolate."
"Steak, raw with a side of chips." Put in Jordon.
"Can I get spagetti bolinaise but am I able to get a extra small bowl for my daughter."
"Sure." The waitress said as she slightly gave her a dirty look before walking off.
Emelina slightly slumped in her seat, her hand on her chest where her angel sat underneath her shirt.
"Don't let her get to you, she's a judgemently…" Clary thought for a moment considering Imogen was there, "B. I. T. C. H. She judged me when I first came here."
"Yeah but that's the difference, I've been coming here for the last month or two and she still judges me."
Clary offered a consoling pat on the back before Jace said, "So Clary, why do you think Imogen over here doesn't like people of the male gender."
…
Just before the food came out Emelina said, "You know what guys, I think I've caught what Maia's got. I think I'm just gonna go home and go to sleep."
"But the food hasn't even come out yet." Jace added.
"Um… could you guys feed Im, I'm just really not up to it at the moment. Here's my part of the bill." She said while putting twenty dollars on the table, "I'll see you at home?" She said as Clary slid out and then she slid out. Clary slid back in as she leaned down and gave Imogen a kiss on the cheek, "Mummy isn't feeling well, so I'm gonna go home are you going to be ok with Izzy and Clary?"
She nodded before wrapping her arms around her mum's neck in a small cuddle.
Emelina stood up, "I'll see you at home, bye guys." With that she left. As she rounded the first corner she slumped against the wall, slowly sliding down it as tears started to fall, her hand on her angel. 'no, not here, not now!' She stood up on her shaky legs and quickly rushed back to the institute.
'Stop crying! There's no point in crying! Stop crying!' She mentally screamed at herself as she slid down her bedroom wall, tears falling freely, cries escaping effortlessly.
After a while she was finally able to calm down long enough to get changed and crawl into bed slowly falling into a restless sleep.
'She sensed him waking, she sleepily nuzzled into him, her golden hair tickled his neck. A little moan of joy escaped him; she smiled at this, her head still nuzzled into him. They stayed like this for a few minutes; Christopher was watching the sun slowly rise through the cracks.
He sighed in disappointment, "I have to go home before my father notices I'm gone."
She groaned and lifted her head so they were looking at each other, those eyes, those lips, everything about him made her body tingle but then everything started to go dark, his eyes pitch black. Bruises started to appear on his face, his soft smile fall from his lips as he collapsed back against the bed, blood pooling around him, "No… no… NO! NO! NOT AGAIN! NO!"
"Emelina! Wake-Up! Emelina!" Izzy shouted as she pinned the girl's arms to her side so she would stop thrashing around.
Emelina's eyes darted open, her breath hitched heart racing.
"W-What…"
"You had a nightmare, Imogen was scared about you so she came and got me."
"Imogen? Where is she? Is she ok?"
"She's fine, she'd fine, I sent her back to bed… are you ok?"
Emelina thought for a moment, he lips slightly started to tremble but she stopped it and put on a soft smile, "Yeah, I'm fine, just a nightmare."
There was a moment of silence, "You sure you're ok?" Isabelle asked questionably.
"I'm sure."
"Ok…" She answered, only half convince, "I'm gonna go back to bed now, you sure you'll be ok?"
"Go, I'll be fine."
"Ok… good night." Isabelle said over her shoulder as she shut the door behind her.
Emelina curled up on her side, a few more tears started to fall before she heard the small, soft, concerned voice, "Mummy?"
She quickly rolled over to see Imogen standing at the edge of the bed, small blue eyes full of concern as she hugged her teddy close to her chest. Emelina smiled softly as she looked over the raggedy small blue lamb that her daughter was holding so close to her chest, she had bought it for her two days before she was born, it was her first teddy and it's also the only thing that can get her to go to sleep.
"Hey sweetie." She said softly before sitting up and picking her daughter up before laying back down again, putting her daughter next to so that they were facing each other.
"Mummy, why are you sad?"
"I… I was thinking about your daddy and how much I miss him and how much I love him." She answered softly.
"… You have me."
Emelina smiled at her daughter and brought her into a cuddle, as she kissed the top of her head, "I know, I love you, I'll always love you."
"I love you too mummy."
"Do you wanna sleep in here tonight?"
"Yes please." She answered with a grin.
"Ok. Good night sunshine."
"Good night mummy."
"So what have you got on them?" Sebastian asked as he sat back in the chair at the head of the table.
"Well we know that it's the daughter who is a shadowhunter, not the mother, she's a mundane apparently the father died before the daughter was born. Their not from America but we haven't found where they are from, it's been narrowed down to Europe or Australia."
"What about what they look like?"
"Blonde hair… we were only able to get a photo of the daughter with the Lightwood Daughter. Here." He said passing a picture of the two girls across the table.
He looked down at the photo and he furrowed his eyes, 'she looks familiar…' He shook off the weird feeling and slid the photo back across the table. "Anything else? Names? Date of birth? Age even?"
"Uhh… we're pretty sure the little girl is probably about four and the mother is early twenties, most likely a teen mum or something… aside from that… no, nothing else."
"Well, I'm intrigued, I want to find out more so hurry up and find out more!"
"Yes sir."
"Leave. Now!"
With that he scurried out of the room. As the door closed behind him Sebastian sighed and ran his fingers through his hair as he reached over and picked up the photo. He looked down at it and then she flashed across his mind. He quickly pushed it away and ripped up the photo and chucked it to the side. He hated remembering her so he always pushed it down, deep down.
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