Chapter 4: Sick

A/N I should mention, I apologize for my ridiculous last chapter! I just re-read it, and my reaction was: What the hell was I thinking? I have absolutely no excuse to be writing like that. Uhg. For now on I promise to make sure that my chapters are good quality, which may also mean it'll take even longer for these chapters to come up. Be patient, I promise you better chapters.

New York: 6:30 pm

Ariana pulled up in front of the institute.

"Here we are," she said, sighing and leaning back.

"This is your institute?" Jem acquired.

"It seems a bit-" Will commented as Ariana butted in.

"Open? Breakable? Yea, apparently all this glass is bullet proof, but how is that supposed to protect us from demons? Now it looks like an office building…" Will nodded in agreement.

Ariana stepped out of the car and tossed her keys to Santana. "San! Go inside and tell the crew we've got extra visitors, we'll stay here and wait for Magnus."

Santana nodded, smirked, caught the keys, and walked off in a single smooth motion.

"She's good," Tessa muttered quietly.

Ariana let out a little snort, "Don't let her hear that, trust me, she knows." Ariana went around the car, opening a back seat door so Will, Jem, and Tessa could file out.

"Welcome to New York!" A voice shouted out jollily. The group turned around to find Magnus walking towards the car.

"Magnus! Finally, you're here!" Santana yelled, pushing open the doors to the outside. Ariana noticed that she had changed into dark denim shorts and a navy tank top with a black hoodie.

"San…" Ariana said slowly, "How on Earth did you change and know Magnus was here within 5 minutes?"

Santana smirked back at Ariana as she took Magnus by the arm and began to head inside once again.

"Ariana, my darling best friend. I have a built in gaydar, I know whenever a fellow gay is within 20 feet of me! And for the clothes part, well, that's for me to know and you to never figure out!"

Ariana rolled her eyes and followed her best friend, while dragging Tessa, whom had a hold on Jem, whom had a hold on Will, inside.

On the way inside, she could hear, "What the Angel is a gaydar?"

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As they stepped inside the building, a fiery red-head came dashing down the stairs. A look of relief and wonder passed in her face as she saw the group of people in the Institute. She smiled at them.

"Ariana! Magnus! People I don't know! You're here, thank Angel! Magnus as soon as Isabelle is ready, we need to LEAVE. I'm pretty sure Sebastian already killed like, 20 people!" she said, turning to Magnus.

Magnus and Will raised an eyebrow at the petite girl. Then, a tattooed arm wrapped around the girl's waist and a legitimate gold boy walked up.

"Clary, calm yourself. It's fine. Besides, Sebastian plans to attack at 8:30, not 8:00," he drawled out, smirking lazily at the group in front of him.

"I'm ready!" Isabelle yelled, running down the stairs. She stopped to survey the group around her. She raised an eyebrow at Jem and Will.

"This is Isabelle," the blonde boy said, pointing at the raven haired girl, "This is Clary," he continued, hugging the bright red-headed girl closer, "And I'm Jace."

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It came suddenly and unexpectedly. A sudden wash of dizziness. A unexpected cough so strong that Ariana had to double over. Then she heard screaming. She looked up slightly, to see no one screaming. Then a throb came to her chest, that made her collapse onto the ground. The room was silent and Ariana felt Santana and Clary pink her up and half carry her to the bathroom.

"Ari, you can breath, right?" she heard Clary ask.

"Of course she can breath! Doesn't coughing mean breathing in between coughs or whatever?" Santana snapped back.

They continued to argue in the background as they dragged her to the bathroom. Finally they set her down on the closed toilet seat.

"Clary, get some Advil or Tylenol or something Shadowhuntery medicine shit, and make it fast!" Santana said as they settled Ariana down. Ariana heard Clary run off.

"AND A GLASS OF WATER!" Santana yelled after the running girl.

Ariana felt movement and heard water running. Then she felt something cool on her face. A wet towel.

"Ari? How you doing?" Santana asked softly.

Ariana coughed again.

"I got it!" Clary yelled, coming back to the bathroom with a steaming cup of something that Santana hadn't ever seen before.

"The fuck is this?" Santana screamed.

Clary widened her green eyes, "Magnus not to give her any human medicine and gave me this instead to stop the pain and screaming!"

"If you haven't noticed, she stopped screaming," Santana muttered, trying to tilt Ariana's head up and failing miserably.

"Ariana, you gotta lift up your head," Santana said softly. Ariana moaned in response.

"Come on Ari, open your eyes and drink this magical shit! Magnus said you have to!"

Ariana coughed again.

She lifted her head and slowly opened her eyes.

Santana screamed.

"What, what?" Clary asked, kneeling besides Santana.

"Her eyes!" Santana choked out, before running out of the room and yelling for everybody to get their asses up.