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Friendship

"You killed a demon?" Alec repeated for possibly the fifteenth time in that past hour. She had gone back into the restaurant after her encounter with Magnus Bane, barely remembering to put the glamour rune around her wrist.

"No. I didn't kill it." She answered. "I had help."

"B-but you killed it."

"No. The warlock did."

"He's a downworlder." The boy waved inattentively. "But you killed a demon and only at the age of eleven. Mom is never letting you leave." He was looking at her in complete awe and Amelie looked away uncomfortable with the praise.

"I really did nothing." She mumbled quietly under her breath.

Their food had arrived and she looked at Sonia for help. The boy who had been quiet and aloof ever since they had met had completely changed his demeanor in the past fifteen minutes.

After the incident with the demon behind the restaurant, Amelie had walked back in with ichor dripping down her right arm. Isabelle had started blasting her with questions as she had begun wiping the ichor off her arms with the bubblegum pink napkins.

She had laid some napkins down on the seat and sat down, peeling off her cardigan and tossing it in the trash all the while ignoring Alec and Isabelle's questions on what had happened.

"Look, can we just eat? I don't want to talk about it anymore." She glared at the two Lightwoods who had started to get on her nerves.

"Fine, but we'll have to write a report about it once we get home."

"A report?"

"They have to write a report of every possible demonic activity." Sonia explained before either of the siblings could open their mouths to explain.

"Write a report? What is it… like an essay?" She rolled her eyes, first she was attacked by a demon, then covered in disgusting demon ooze, and now to top it all off she had to write an essay. Her first day in New York was not turning out to be the way she had hoped when they had finally released her from Idris.

"No, it not that bad. You just fill out a form and kind of describe what you saw. Its your first time so Hodge will probably just do it after asking you a few questions." Isabelle waved off her worry. "But tell us, what was it like?"

"Hey, can we just eat and stop bothering Amelie with all of this." Sonia said abruptly dropping her utensils on her plate with a loud clank. She had opted to eat her burger with a knife and fork, something even Amelie thought was incredibly strange but the girl had pointed out that it made a less of a mess.

The Lightwoods kid shut up immediately, Alec throwing a glare at Sonia and Isabelle just shrugging and going back to the milkshake in front of her.

"We are allowed to still talk right?" Isabelle asked snarkily and Sonia just rolled her eyes.

"Only if you're not being annoying." Amelie gave her cousin a grateful smile, her hands drifting to the pocket in her jacket that held the card the warlock had given her. She wouldn't really have minded all the questions; Amelie usually was pretty social. The only problem was that she didn't want to have to lie to them if they strayed to the topic of why she was out there in the first place. Or the conversation she had had with the warlock in the alleyway. Could the silver runes be a warlock mark? But how could her body withstand marks if she was supposed to be a downworlder. Demon blood and Angel blood couldn't exist on the same body; she had been taught that much at least.

They ate the rest of their food in silence, the Lightwood kids looking at them awkwardly from time to time, especially at Amelie. Even after they had paid for their food and had started to head back to the institute. The Lightwoods had said it would be nearly impossible to get a cab at this hour, and there would be no point because 7PM traffic would take three times longer for them to get home than if they just walked.

"Okay, just ask your questions. Even your silence is getting annoying." Amelie groaned out as they waited at a red light.

"Sorry…" Alec mumbled but Isabelle grinned widely rambling off a series of questions.

"What did it look like? Was it like really big? I've never seen one before and they come in all shapes and sizes. They can look like people or even look like big gooey monsters its like completely random!"

"It was a big kinda scaly one." She replied. "I don't know, I really didn't do much but stand there as the warlock killed it."

"But you came back with so much ichor all over you!"

"Yeah, well he killed it and all the goo fell on me. I really didn't do anything." She insisted for the fifth time that day.

"You're just being humble."

"Oh my god!" Sonia exploded next to her. "She's literally said this a hundred times, she's not being humble honestly you two are so annoying."

"You don't have to be rude." Alec mumbled, "I believe you. If you say you didn't do it then you didn't." Amelie looked at him grateful but also incredibly confused. Just a few minutes ago at the diner he had been so insistent that the warlock couldn't have killed it but now he was saying he believed her.

"You're very inconsistent Alec." She pointed out.

"Why?" The boy asked, looking genuinely confused by her remark.

"You just told me that there was no way a warlock killed the demon, and now you believe me?"

"I realized I was wrong." He replied simply, and Amelie just looked at him surprised by the honesty in his reply.

"Well good, because you were wrong." She said as they climbed up the stairs to the institute. "Why did we take a cab before? We didn't walk that far."

"We wanted to show you what a New York cab was like." Isabelle piped out.

"I didn't think you guys really cared that we were visiting." The words came out of Amelie's mouth before she could stop herself and she looked at the two kids embarrassed by her rudeness.

"We don't really get to see too many other kids." Alec admitted. "We were actually kind of excited when we heard you were visiting."

Amelie was surprised to hear that, given the reaction Alec had had when he had first met her. She opened her mouth to point it out, but slammed it shut as a thought came into her head. Izzy had always seemed excited to see them; it had just been Alec that had been rude in the beginning. Maybe it was just difficult for him to warm up to people, she knew about the Lightwood kids. Their parents had been exiled from Idris and they didn't get to see many shadowhunters much less shadowhunters their own age.

Sonia however, didn't seemed to have come to the same realization as Ame had as she quickly began to respond to Alec's comment.

"Well if that was so then why-"

Ame elbowed her hard, "I'm quite exhausted from everything today, would it be alright if I went to bed early?" She interrupted as Sonia shot her an annoyed look.

"Uh… okay you don't need to ask permission to sleep." Alec responded seeming confused. "I can do the report of the demon for you too, I'm not tired."

Amelie had forgotten completely about the report on her way back and she suddenly felt guilty. "Oh no, it's fine! Just let me know how I can fill it out and I'll do it." She amended.

"It doesn't take that long really." Alec seemed to insist.

"I can do it." She didn't want to be a burden, especially now that she was beginning to feel a little more comfortable around him.

"Oh Raziel, why don't you just teach her how to do it Alec?" Sophie sighed sounding exasperated by their conversation.

"Yeah, you don't know how it looked or anything, you'll need my help." Amelie insisted and Alec led her down the hall defeated.

It took them a little over an hour to fill out the report. Of course, it would probably have taken half that amount of time if Amelie had just let Alec fill it out but she had insisted on learning how to do it herself.

While he was still quiet and a little broody she was beginning to realize that it just took him a while to open up. She could relate to that, especially since other than Sonia and occasionally Aline she probably came off cool and aloof to all the other Shadowhunters she had met. He had been very patient while teaching her how the reports worked and how they got processed.

"Have you ever had to fill out one of these?" She asked as they got to the third stack of papers.

"Mom and Dad usually sit me down and fill them out with me. The ones we fill out for a normal patrol are less annoying since they are just a formality. I usually fill them out, but Izzy and I are not allowed to go on patrol yet so."

"When are you allowed to start patrolling?"

"Fourteen maybe? It really depends on our parents."

"Is that what most shadowhunters do?" She didn't think she would actually want to fight the demon that she had seen today. Magnus was a grown up wizard, she couldn't imagine what it would have done to her if she had been there alone.

"I don't know. We don't really get to meet many shadowhunters."

"You've met Aline though right?" Alec nodded.

"Jia Penhallow is a close friend of our parents, and we see her only when we have to be in Idris for some big thing."

"I haven't met that many either. I've met some of my aunt's relatives, the Monteclaires and the Verlacs." She signed the last paper that Alec had handed her, closing the demon book that had a rough drawing of what looked like the demon she was reporting.

"Ah we're finally done!" Alec said stacking up the papers and stretching out his arms. "I hate doing reports!"

"I don't understand why you need so many different papers for one demon."

"Mmm… what time is it?" He asked, getting up from the seat he was in and looking to the giant grandfather clock on the other side of the library. "Oh wow its already nine. I wonder where Hodge is."

"Hodge Starkweather?" She asked, she was actually pretty glad they hadn't seen him yet. He was not someone she was looking forward to have to lie to. Of course, they had already rehearsed the lie many times. Her father was a Starkweather, his parents had lived in the country side of Idris and when he was young he had gone to the San Francisco institute to train. The lie worked because everyone that had been in that institute had died in during the time of the Circle. Her mother was a mundane that had ascended, and her parents didn't really like to talk much about it. That was her rehearsed lie, and she repeated it in her mind again as Alec continued talking to her about what it was like to live in the institute.

"Are your parents away often?" She asked trying to deflect the conversation from coming towards her.

"They leave for important meetings, usually they're here though. We aren't in Idris often."

"Ahh… do they let you go demon hunting?"

Alec gave her a strange look and Amelie felt heat rising to her face afraid that she had exposed herself somehow.

"No, we're not old enough yet. Izzy isn't even allowed to train technically."

"Technically?"

"Well, mom said Izzy could start training this year, even though usually young shadowhunters start training at ten." He explained.

"I've been training for over two years already." Amelie told him. "And I just turned eleven. I think Sonia started even earlier."

"That's probably why you were able to kill that demon." His comment irritated her and she raised her head to tell him off but he was grinning sheepishly at her.

"Yeah, yeah I know, it was the warlock." He gestured, waving his hand and rolling his eyes.

"Well it was. I knew him too." She said and immediately shut her mouth hoping he wouldn't catch what she had said.

"Knew him? How did you know a warlock?" It didn't work.

"Uh… He opened a portal for us once when I was going back to Idris from France." She said, the response was close enough to the truth that she doubted he would inquire more.

She was wrong. "Oh you've been to France? How is it?" He asked.

"Its nice." She responded realizing she would probably have to find a way to end her conversation with Alec before she accidentally spilled more about herself. "You know, I'm feeling a little tired."

"Oh, okay." The boy looked noticeably disappointed. "I can walk you up if you want."

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