A/N: hello! Shelby again! Does anybody even read this? I get no reviews to tell me how I'm doing, and I'm not sure if this is even interesting... help... Also, I'm sorry for not wriring, I had writers block. anyways, if you are reading this, enjoy it and thanks!

She awoke feeling weary and tired. Her clock read 10:15 am. When she stood, her limbs felt like jelly. She could really use an energy rune, as well as one for strength.

Stumbling around the room, Elise felt like a zombie and probably looked like one while looking for her stele. After tearing apart everything, she could no longer find the stele.

This happened very fluently. Apparently she'd gotten it from Jace, or so her mother said. "Mom!" she called, opening her door wide. All of the sudden, Clary appeared right in the front of her with baby Michael. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?" she demanded. "Is it coming during daylight now?" Elise knew her mother was referring it to the heavenly fire. That was Clary's worst fear, and everyone knew it. Elise's ability coming on at any time, never stopping.

"Everything is fine," Elise assured her mother. "I just lost my stele."

Clary's shoulders relaxed and she rolled her eyes, just like every time and said her favorite line. "If you lost it, I guess you didn't care about it very much." Clary shrugged and walked off.

Elise scowled and shut the door. "Well you've lost me in the grocery store before so..."

She went to the training room and grabbed a new stele. This one was an orange color, where her last one was lime green. Elise shrugged and pasted on the runes she needed. Almost immediately, she felt a drastic change. Sighing, she went back into her room and got dressed into something other than her pajamas.

When she appeared in the living room, Alison got up and gave her a look. "We had to eat my mom's breakfast," she said harshly. "We all knew it was going to happen eventually. I mean, she looked like she was going to strangle me when she saw me cooking, so even if I tried, it wouldn't work," Elise said warmly. Ali shrugged. "Yeah.

Devin sitting in one of the chairs, Jonathan was laying on a couch, and Brendan as always, was leaning against the fireplace with his arms crossed. Elise looked very little like her brothers. They all had their father's golden hair and their mother's green eyes. But Clary and Jace's one daughter had a mix of gold and green and red. When Elise was younger, she had dark red hair, like Clary. In fact, there was a picture of her on Jace's shoulders when she was five, with little red pigtails. As she got older, the red turned more golden, but the red still remained in her under layers. Her whole life, Elise had gold specks in her green eyes.

Alison and Devin looked alike, being twins. They both had dark brown hair, but even darker eyes, black. A mix, people would say. But Elise was the true mix.

Jonathan was reading his book. He'd been on that one for a few days, and was almost finished it. Elise ruffled his hair and he sat up, making room for her, not looking up from the bound pages.

They had a light conversation about what they were going to order for dinner and which demons they were going to kill that day. Normal small talk for the Shadowhunters who resided in the New York Institute. Jace had sneaked in.

"Just got a call. Major Shax demon in Manhattan, terrorizing tourists. You guys gotta go take care of it," he said smoothly while observing how his fingernails looked, mimicking his parabatai's sister, which he did a lot.

Elise sighed with relief, thanking Raziel that Jace hadn't come to tell her that the parents would be gone for an hour or two. She nodded and watched him walkm off.

It used to be that Jace hated any idea of his or any of the other kids went off to deal with the demons. Nobody knew why. Only recently, had Jace actually let them go by themselves.

Shax demons were large and hard to kill, so the Shadowhunters went to grab Alexa and Logan from their house outside the Institute once they'd put their gear on and loaded up in weapons.

Just as they were about to leave, Jonathan bounced up and asked a terrifying question. "Can I go too?"

Elise was shocked. Honestly, she didn't like the idea of her little ten-year-old brother out facing demons. He'd only just started training. Elise sat beside him on the soft grass. "Maybe when you're older," she smiled and ruffled his hair again. This was her favorite brother and it would be her fault if he died... Jonathan looked sad, but nodded.

Elise got up and headed down over to the rest of the group. They started heading toward their destination.

Alright! I'm really sorry if that was bad...Aw. Could I please get a few reviews? At least one or two? I really hoped you liked it a lot. I'll try to do better, I promise. And yeah. If you have any suggestions, just say em below! Thanks again!

-Shelby