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His face suddenly became expressionless as he pushed open the door…
…Jocelyn had been right earlier to think that the window in the apartment was an illusion. Looking out this door what confronted her was a giant forest, that stretched as far as the eye could see, yet strangely was totally devoid of leaves. The sun, which had so tormented her, was not high in the sky but in fact setting leaving a burnt orange light on everything it touched. It was like the world had been doused in wild fire. Shock numbed her brain as it failed to process what she was seeing, because surely this was too good to be true. Resting on an abandoned tree stump, not far away, was a head. Not just any head. The blue eyes she knew so well had split pupils. And fangs were halfway out the dead blue lips. Midway through transformation the cold factual part of her brain mentioned unnecessarily. Luke. That was Luke's head. Blood, dark black and congealed, was splattered over the stump and the ground around it. It was the kind of clean cut only a shadowhunter could produce. The meaning of what she was seeing finally sank in. for the first time in the last five minutes, that had lasted a millennia, she remembered the man standing next her, and looked up into his blank eyes.
Valentine looked at his wife her hair in this light looked like the brightest of flames. The bright green eyes met his uncompromising black ones and he felt confusion rocket through all his senses. He had been waiting patiently for her reaction would it be fear, hatred, betrayal or grief. But no what he could see was…was…relief? What the hell was going on? he thought to himself. He must be seeing wrong. But no she was defiantly seeing a smile start and if he was not very much mistaken he had heard a sigh of relief. I've gone insane he thought of course your insane you've been for years another voice in his head yelled then your asleep another argued or dead a rather sinister one whispered. Shaking his head to try and dispel the voices, he summarised that she must be acting, but this to was wrong, he had seen his wife act for months on end when she was planning to sabotage him and this look was genuine. And anyway what would she gain even if she was?
She could practically hear his brain whirling trying to work out her reaction. Jocelyn knew she should be keeping a straight face, but she just couldn't stop the smile that was spreading across her face. The relief that was spreading through her body was too strong.
"Thank you" she said quietly.
He blinked a few times and shook his head. Open and closed his mouth twice, then finally said a little too loudly "What!?"
"I said thank you"
He just continued to stare "Yes, that's what I thought you said" his tone was low as if talking to himself more than her. He looked around distractedly, then glanced once more at her.
"Ok" he swallowed and started again "Ok, we are going to eat, and then you're going to explain that reaction" his voice had got slowly more forceful and by the end he was practically barking the words. He slammed the door shut, the frame began to vibrate.
She just nodded slowly and said in a surprisingly normal steady tone "It would be my pleasure"