Sorry for the long wait, been extremely busy with exams, I'll try to update more frequently. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Six
Two more weeks have passed and Seraphina is relieved that she hasn't been visited by
that unknown Shadowhunter again. She can already feel herself becoming stronger.
With her scar completely healed and her body becoming more adapted to the
vigorous combat lessons that Jace has persuaded her to endure, she is starting to feel
as if she has a purpose or finding one at least. And even though she swore to herself
that she would never go through the excruciating pain of having a rune placed on her
again, Seraphina dismisses her thoughts and has asked for one more. Anything to
make me stronger, better.
Seraphina takes deep and steady breaths as she braces herself for Jace to draw another
rune. She displays the area she wishes Jace to draw on and he raises his eyebrows
slightly. " Over the heart?" Jace seems sceptical and Seraphina tilts her head to the
side slightly.
" I imagine that placing a rune over the heart would make it stronger." Seraphina
replies and Jace shakes his head a smile creeping to his lips as he takes hold of the
stele. " Wouldn't it?"
" Only for runes associated with love or any other strong bond that involves another
person, a union rune for example, though most Shadowhunters tend to use that rune
on the back of the hands to bind them together for eternity." Jace explains to
Seraphina, knowing that she's watching him as he speaks so he looks up at her, the
corners of his lips curving up more. " The effect of the rune you've chosen will have
no different effect no matter which part of your skin its placed on."
Seraphina considers his words for a moment and then narrows her eyes at him with
her own smile showing. " Well I at least want it close to my heart. This rune is
practically meant for me and it might help me get my angelic powers back." Jace taps
the right side of her chest, opposite from the heart, with the stele and she nods,
knowing that that's as close to her heart that Jace will let her go with the rune.
" Are you sure about this?" Jace asks her, his serious face trying to detect her
emotions.
" Will it hurt like last time?" Seraphina replies, knowing that the answer to this
question won't even change her mind, she's made her decision and she'll take any
means necessary to attempt to get the powers that gave her strength back. But I will
never truly be an angel again, that part of my life is over. But I can and will follow a
new destiny, I can become a Shadowhunter. If I get my powers back then that'll be a
very nice bonus.
" Last time you were weak and injured. Now you're fully healed and your strength
has progressed so much since you've came here. So maybe it'll hurt less, but don't
take my word on it." Jace tells her and she accepts his words.
She moves her hair away from her chest and nods. " Do it. I'm sure this is the rune
I want…I need." Seraphina tells him and Jace starts his artwork on her skin, his hand
steady and gripping the stele with concentration. She cries out slightly as a shot of hot
pain runs through her body, but it's less excessive then last time, she can handle it.
" You know Jace, distracting me from the pain would help." Jace keeps his attention
on the movement of the stele yet he shows a smirk. Seraphina would've hit him
slightly if he hadn't had the stele pierced to her skin. " Not in that way, don't be
cheeky."
" Ok then, how's training going with Hodge?" Jace asks her, a distraction indeed.
" He's trying to help me contact my old powers, grasp them back through angelic
activities like meditation. Though he's tried hypnotism once, but I find that meditation
helps more." Seraphina replies and Jace makes an interested sound as if indicating for
her to carry on. " I swear I felt something yesterday, a flicker of my angelic powers.
They're still there I know they are, they're just locked in a vault and my mind is
hiding the key but I just can't seem to find it." Seraphina winces again as another
sting of pain hits her, yet it's less intense. She then feels the pain subside and Jace
places the stele back in it's sheath.
" Done, an angelic rune. I guess it fits, seeing as you used to be one." Jace then
notices that he had turned onto a touchy subject. " I…"
Seraphina shrugs it off, she's accepted the fact that she was an angel and now she
might never return to her previous being. I am fallen. Seraphina forgets the thought
and then smiles at Jace. " Now, now we wouldn't want to hear Jace Wayland
apologise now would we? I'd think I've been placed in an alternate dimension." She
jokes and Jace breathes a laugh as he stands up, grabbing her hands and pulling
Seraphina up to her feet.
" Don't get your hopes up angel." Jace tells her and then realises that he's made the
conversation falter.
" I don't like pet names Jace, unless you want me to give you one." The awkwardness
lifts as soon as Seraphina makes a joke of it. " That's the first time you've called me
angel, it's not very befitting at this point in time." Jace and Seraphina head up the
stairs to come out of the library and she nudges Jace lightly.
" Maybe I should call you Shadowhunter from now on. You're certainly becoming
one." Jace replies his tone light and his smile welcoming. Seraphina doesn't know
what to think about his statement. She has always told herself that if she weren't to
become an angel again then she'd have to become someone else, have another
destiny.
" How about I just call you Jace, and you keep calling me Seraphina?" She says to
him and she sees him smile more and then he nods. " Where are we going anyway?"
Seraphina asks him, not remembering ever going down this place in the Institution.
She's always just kept herself mainly to her room, the library and any other places
where Jace, Isabelle or Hodge would be and seeing as Alec doesn't really like her,
she's made sure that she's kept out of his sight when she's walking alone.
" I'm taking you to the place I promised to take to after I gave you the healing rune."
Jace tells her placing grabbing her hand and leading her the way. She grins as she
Recognises where she's going.
" You're taking me to the greenhouse?" She asks him excitedly and he nods, smiling
at her grin. " Is it even midnight?"
" Close to it, you ready?" Jace asks her and she nods, taking a deep breath as Jace
leads her out into the night and into the greenhouse. " A few seconds…now."
Midnight. The extravagant and magical scene before her leaves her speechless.
Flowers break out into bloom and fireflies burst into the air, light and beauty
overwhelms her as does the smell of the sweet scent coming from the eruption of life.
Unable to contain her amazement she laughs, sending a squeeze to Jace's hand and
she feels him squeeze back as they both stand back and watch in awe as the magic
unfolds. " Jace it's beautiful." My words can't describe the beauty, the colour, the
unrealness of this all.
Seraphina then takes her eyes off the mesmerising scene and turns to Jace, noticing
that he's been watching her all the time. " You're beautiful Seraphina, this place, this
magic pales in comparison to you." Jace's voice turns to an adoring whisper, the
feeling of closeness between them becoming incomprehensible.
Seraphina is now so close to Jace that she can feel the sweetness of air breathing out
from him. " Let me guess, you take all your girlfriends here, show them all of this and
then kiss them under the stars?" Seraphina whispers, her voice and her smile teasing
yet still enticed by the enigmatic connection that is pulling them together.
" Only the ones I really care about, which is a marvel considering that I barely let
myself care about anyone." Jace replies to Seraphina, both of their voices still in a
whisper and their faces becoming closer every second.
" Love won't make you weak Jace. It keeps you alive." The moment Seraphina
finishes speaking, the intensity of the connection between them heightens as soon as
their lips touch. Eager, blissful, wanting and love. Unfathomable feelings between
them start to show as their bodies embrace. Jace brings his hands to her face and grips
it gently and the passion of the kiss grows. Seraphina curls her fingers, affectionately
gripping the softness of Jace's blonde hair. The kiss is accelerating for her, she feels
as if she's been truly awakened, as if she's become an angelic being again.
Not wanting to stop or let go from the embrace, they both open their eyes as their lips
disconnect, both Jace and Seraphina breathing intensely from the excitement. His
hands still cup her face and her hands still run through his hair. Seraphina then starts
to see something else, a glow around Jace's body. " Jace, you're bright pink."
Seraphina exclaims to him as she takes a step back, her hands moving to hold his.
" Well I did just have one of the most amazing kisses I've ever experienced." Jace
winks at Seraphina and she shakes her head, her gaze concentrating, noticing the
bright pink glow around Jace's body gleam like a light in the dark.
" No it's not that it's…" Sensitive, affection, romance, love. Recognition suddenly hits
Seraphina like a ton of bricks being held over her, threatening to drop. " Your aura."
Jace's eyes open, recognising exactly what Seraphina is thinking. " Seraphina..."
" Jace, my powers are coming back."