Ok so I think this fic might finally be coming to an end soon, so if anyone has something they would like to see or suggestions let me know!

It had been two years since Kit had last seen Ty, and two years since he came to the Academy to train to become a Centurion. A thought he still hadn't quite rationalized. He had written to Ty a few times, but not as often as he probably should have. But what was he supposed to say that would interest him? He doubted he would care about how many pushups he did or how many miles he ran. Ty would always respond with an equally short letter, though Kit thought that was probably just how Ty wrote, short and to the point. When he graduated he only wrote two letters one to Ty, and one to Jace. He didn't really want to write the latter but he knew Jace would find out eventually, and probably show up at the Academy in an annoyingly showy fashion just to embarrass Kit for not telling him. So with that in mind he penned a letter to the only relative he had, and sometimes wished he didn't have.

The letter he had received back from Ty was even shorter than any of his previous ones but what it said made him re-read it several times over the past few weeks:

Ok, I'll be there in a few weeks. I'll let you know when I know more, Julian is being difficult.

-Tiberius Blackthorn

Kit had always planned on seeing Ty again, that was the whole point of going to this stupid school to begin with, so they could join the Scholomance together. Yet somehow after so long the idea of him being here seemed too real. Kit's hands always got sweaty when he read the letter, and now that he was arriving today Kit couldn't get his heart to calm down. He had hoped that over time maybe the distance would lessen his feelings for Ty somehow, even just a little bit. But judging how his heart was trying to leap out of his chest as he looked at the time, that didn't seem to happen.

It was almost time, Kit took a deep breath, this was supposed to be a fresh start for them he told himself. Without any other reason to stick around Kit finally left his room heading to the staircase that lead to the first floor of the academy. Kit started to take the first steps down the staircase when he looked up from his feet and stopped. Tiberius Blackthorn was standing in the lobby of the institute just a few feet from the bottom of the stairs. He looked older, Ty was always handsome but now the maturity that could be found in his face was guaranteed to get him a few stares. His grey eyes and dark brows framed his expression giving him an attractive mysterious distance about himself. His hair was combed and brushed back, a few dark strands falling loose, making him look like a Victorian gentleman. A few girls who had been passing in the hallway stopped to stare, undoubtedly wondering who the handsome stranger was, if he was here to stay and of course more importantly, does he have a girlfriend?

Ty was well dressed, in a dark button up shirt, dress pants, and a pinstriped vest, no doubt Julian's doing. He was holding a suitcase that Kit knew was full of his hoodies and sweaters and would bet he would be back in his usual attire by tomorrow. Kit swallowed, what should he do now? Kit felt himself freeze, should he say something or just walk up to him? Kit hadn't thought that far ahead of what he would do when he actually saw Ty again. Kit didn't have too long to consider this however, because Ty noticed him there as if he could sense him, and looked up at him. Ty glanced over Kit, a look of surprise registering on his face as he saw the changes in Kit that the last two years had brought him, looked away and smiled widely. Kit smiled in return and descended the stairs towards him, feeling the familiarity return to matter how many years had passed it was still Ty afterall.

"I still can't believe Julian let you come." Kit said grinning stupidly, he couldn't seem to stop now and his cheeks were starting to hurt as a result.

"He almost didn't." Ty answered smiling back, the happiness between the two was infectious and Kit was sure that anyone looking at them could see it.

"I know." Kit laughed holding up a letter for Ty to read from Julian he had received. Ty's eyes narrowed as he read the contents:

Kit,

I'm letting Ty go, but consider this your formal warning that if you get him in any trouble not even Ty will be able to identify your body.

I'm trusting you,

Except not really,

-Julian

P.S. Congrats on graduating.

Ty was still staring at the letter concerned but Kit just laughed it off.

"I think he just didn't know how to congratulate me." He said waving for Ty to follow him up the stairs. " Come on let's find a room for you, I think there's an empty one next to mine if you want it."

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Ty decided to take the room next to Kit, to his delight, and Ty began to unpack immediately while Kit lounged on the bed watching him. The urge to pull Ty on top of him and press him tightly to him was almost overwhelming, Kit felt his muscles twitch whenever Ty moved closer with the desire to reach for him. The voice that was the incarnation of his grief for Livvy had now been replaced with a new voice. A voice that urged him to go for it and to damn the consequences, a voice Kit tried to tuck a way to the back of his mind. There was no point in listening to it, at least for now, he thought. Ty looked up from his suitcase and studied the room with a thoughtful expression.

"The rooms are quite nice here, I heard the Academy was still in a state of disrepair." He said, making Kit snort.

"That's because you haven't seen the dregs bedrooms, I swear there's a slime demon down there and the smell is God awful." Ty's head whipped around in excitement, a familiar gleam in his eyes.

"There's a slime demon in the Academy? Should we go find it?" Kit figured he should tell Ty that he was joking and that there was no way there was an actual demon in the Academy, but if Ty wanted to hunt down an imaginary demon then that was what they were gonna do.

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Ty was standing on a small end table in the corner of the room as he examined some green mold that was growing on the ceiling in dark spots. Kit watched as Ty plucked a few pieces of mold from the ceiling as he examined it, crumbling it between his fingers. Ty's face broke into a brilliant smile as he let the mold fall to the floor.

"It's definitely a demon." He said straightening up, a confident smirk placed on his face as it did when he solved a mystery no one else had.

"I'm sorry what?" Kit said caught off guard. "You think there's actually a demon here?"

"Yes, or I wouldn't have said that there was a demon." Ty said defensively.

"No, I mean- but how is there a demon in the Shadowhunter Academy without anyone knowing?" Kit said quickly. Ty hopped off the table and looked back up at the ceiling analyzing the mold.

"It's a sort of fungal demon, it can split itself into as many parts as it wants and disguise itself as mold. Their not that common so it's easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for." He explained. "But why hasn't anyone else been looking for it." He wondered out loud.

"They don't seem to really care about the students down here, and even if they did, not many people are as smart as you." Kit took a step closer to some of the mold on the ground. He had never even heard of fungal demons and he had been studying non stop the last two years. Ty turned his face away at Kit's words trying to hide the flush that was creeping into his skin.

"So, how are we gonna catch it?" Kit turned to look over at Ty, a mischievous smile tugging at the corners of his lips.

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Kit laid down the last slice of bread they had stolen from the kitchen completing their bread trail that lead all the way down one of the Academy's empty wings. Ty and Kit scrambled around a corner and crouched behind the wall peering over the side watching their bread trail.

"Do you think this will work?" Kit asked staring out at the empty hallway.

" This area has a high concentration of mold, it's likely that the main body is somewhere here, and if it is it should be attracted to the bread." Ty looked thoughtfully around at the massive clumps of slimy mold. The two sat there in silence for a time watching the hallway expectantly but nothing happend.

"But it is a demon, maybe it needs more motivation than just bread to come out of hiding." Kit said finally. Ty's eyebrows shot up and the corners of his mouth turned down as he thought.

"Hmm, it acts like a fungus, that's why I thought of the bread…" He trailed off.

"Because it decomposes and feeds off it.." Kit finished his sentence keeping pace.

"...But some demons feed off humanity, absorbing their happiness.." Ty nodded his head in Kit's direction.

"Like the dregs...everyone down there is miserable...what if.. What if it's because of more than just the crappy living conditions!" Kit realized looking over at Ty excitedly, his heart jumping when he saw Ty smiling at him pleased with his conclusion. " So what do we need to do then?"

" We need to be happy, happier anyways so it cant resist trying to attack." Ty answered, both of them staring at each other unsure of what they should do next, a long moment of silence spreading out between them.

"You've changed you know." Ty said looking Kit up and down.

"That tends to happen over time." Kit gave him a wry smile.

" I just hope not too much." Ty said quietly looking down at the floor. Something in his voice caught Kit's attention and he reached out grabbing Ty's wrist.

"Ty I'm glad you're here...I.." Kit struggled to find the right words. " All of this wouldn't mean anything If I couldn't see you again. If you weren't here with me." Ty's face was turned down his hair falling loose, his eyes peering up at Kit shyly.

"You didn't do all of this just for me, did you?" He asked as if he was afraid of what Kit might say.

"No, not exactly." And Kit was surprised to find that it was the truth. Ty had been his main motivation for joining the Academy, and the reason he believed that Shadowhunters could be good people. So in a sense he was here because of him, but he was also doing this for himself.

" You were right when you said it was in my blood, it just feels right, and after feeling that I can't ignore it. So if I was going to be a Shadowhunter then I wanted to do it right, if that makes sense." Kit tried to explain as he watched as Ty took in the information relaxing a little bit. " But I also want to be a Shadowhunter with you." He added softly, moving his hand down to take Ty's hand squeezing it the way he remembered Ty found comforting. Ty turned over Kit's hand feeling the grooves of his hands and tracing the lines.

"Do you promise to stay by my side?" He said. If Kit had thought about it he would have realized how strange this question was coming from Ty. He should have realized something was wrong, but he was too preoccupied with reassuring him to think about it and quickly answered him.

"Of course." He said feeling his heartache for the other boy at the question.

"No matter what?"

"No matter what." Kit returned fiercely, knowing nothing could convince him to give Ty up now that he finally got him back. Ty let out a sigh of relief and closed his eyes laying back against the wall, Kit following suit. Ty took the headphones that were wrapped around his neck and placed an earbud into his ear and offered one to Kit. Kit took the earpiece placing it in his ear and was immediately surprised that he recognized the song that Ty was playing.

"...This is The Sound of Winter?" Kit said surprised, knowing that Ty listened to classical music almost exclusively, finding it less distracting than music with lyrics.

" I downloaded it after you left, I listened to it a lot since then. It reminded me of you." Ty said smiling to himself like he had a secret he had not yet let Kit in on. Kit felt himself turn red as he remembered that night he had sang this song to Ty on the beach. He had no idea if it was a good idea at the time, he was just desperate to help him trying frantically think of something he could do. The idea that Ty had downloaded this song to listen to when he missed him made Kit feel ridiculously happy. Kit leaned his head back closing his eyes listening to the song, feeling Ty's hand in his. He was sure he was grinning like an idiot but he didn't care. This moment was perfect, he doubted anything in his life could be so perfect again. Nothing could ruin this.

Except maybe a slime demon.

Kit suddenly felt himself grow cold, a sense of dread overtaking him, but it was Ty who reacted first springing to his feet with Kit following soon afterwards. The mold was dropping from the ceiling pooling together, coagulating to form a disgusting giant blob of slime. It was like something out of cartoon Kit had watched but the result was less intimidating or comical and just...gross. Ty turned to look over at Kit, a small smile playing on his lips.

"Let's see what you can do."

Kit smirked, he wasn't going to miss an opportunity to impress Ty now. Kit drew out his throwing knives from his weapons belt and flung four of them at the creature, each one of them hitting the target. The knives stuck, ichor leaking from its body, then suddenly the knives were sucked inwards and then propelled outwards flying in all directions. Kit and Ty ducked, Kit charging forward brandishing two seraph blades.

" Nekir, Adriel." He said as he propelled himself in the air. The blades blazing to life as he twisted them downwards landing on top of the demon sinking the blades into the slime. The creature exploded apart dousing Kit in burning ichor and slime as it spread apart into pieces. Suddenly Kit was splashed with another liquid as he turned to look at Ty who had in his hand a now empty bottle of holy water Kit didn't know he had. The remains of the demon squalled in a high pitch tone as it writhed and sizzled into nonexistence from the holy water that now soaked the ground underneath them.

"What the hell is this?" An all too familiar voice said, Kit's teeth grinded together at the sound.

"Herondale what the hell is going on here?" Scarsbury said bewildered, looking around at the slime and weapon brandishing teens. Kit felt his eye twitch at the sound of his last name.

" It's a demon, I imagine you've heard of them?" Kit said irritably, there goes his good mood. Ty was looking from Scarsbury to Kit with sharp focus, probably trying to decipher Kit's sudden change in tone.

" A demon...in the Academy?" He sputtered looking astonished.

" It was a fungal demon, it's been disguising itself as mold, we just needed to lure it out." Ty explained, walking to stand next to Kit. Scarsbury now looked at Ty as if noticing him for the first time.

"Ah, right you're Scholomance applicants. Looks like you might actually make something of yourself after all Herondale. Other than just clinging to the coattails of your name." Kit glared. He had gotten on the bad side of most of his teachers, and students. Just because he had to train to become a centurion here didn't mean he had to act like he liked any of them. Scarsbury had a reputation for being prejudice against the mundane students, Kit instantly hated him. Ty looked angry now and opened his mouth to say something before Kit cut him off. No need to let Ty get on their bad side too.

"At least my name doesn't sound like an infected wound. Seriously what is a Scarsbury supposed to be? A moldy pastry? Or some kind of congenital disease?" Scarsbury's face contorted in anger changing into a purplish color. Kit smiled.

A woman with blue skin and white hair strided onto the scene, Kit relaxed a fraction as Catarina made her way to them, stepping on the bits of demon with a sickeningly squelch. Kit had always been more comfortable around downloaders then Nephilim, and Catarina wasent as delusional about the Clave as most people here, so they had gotten along. It also helped that she seemed to have a soft spot for him, though Kit might have just been imagining that.

" I'll take care of them Delaney, you might want to inform the Dean." Catarina said waving Scarsbury away, who Kit suspected only left because he was so angry he forgot how to speak. Or how to breath, judging by the deep shades of purple he was turning.

"So I take it this is Tiberius Blackthorn come to join the Scholomance with you?" She said fixing her gaze on Ty who was not meeting her eyes, as usual for him. She seemed to consider him for a second but didn't comment. Kit was busy trying in vain to wipe off the slime from his clothes and hair.

" I think we got a good chance considering that a whole academy full of Shadowhunters didn't realize there was a demon living under the same roof except for us." Kit said.

"Except for me." Ty corrected rolling his eyes.

"Right, except for you." Kit grinned. "But I like to think I was an invaluable help."

"That's why you're Watson." Ty said grinning now too. Catarina watched the two boys smiling at each other and let out an uncomfortable cough bringing them back to reality.

"If you two are so inclined to stick together, and be a Sherlock and Watson duo (Ty's eyes lit up at the mention of Sherlock) then why not become parabatai?" She asked genuinely curious. Kit and Ty both looked up at her and then looked at each other, both of them wearing an equally pale expression at the topic they had both so carefully avoided.

"Thats not…"

" We decided not to…

"It's just…" They both tried, tripping over each other's words before Catarina motioned for them to stop.

"Alright I get it, forget I asked. You two should be headed to bed, testing for the Scholomance will begin shortly and you will want to be well rested."

"What about the demon?" Kit asked.

"I'll make sure you get credit and the Scholomance knows about it." She said, her expression softened, it looked almost sad for some reason, though Kit couldn't understand why, as they retreated from the hallway.

Kit and Ty headed back up to their rooms in silence, a question nagging in the back of their heads.

"Do you...regret that we didn't become parabatai?" Ty finally asked.

"No." Kit answered immediately. Shit, he thought realizing he answered without thinking.

"I just don't think it would be a good idea for us." Ty was looking a bit frustrated as he tried to find the right words to describe what he meant, his fingers flexing and clenching at his side. Kit wasn't sure what to say, he knew why he didn't want to be parabatai, but now wasn't the time to bring that up. Not now when he was feeling happier than he had in two years, he couldn't let the night end like this when he had been waiting for this for so long.

"Hey, do you remember what Sherlock Holmes story I was on?" Kit asked remembering the days when the two of them would lay around the institute and Ty would read out his favorite parts to Kit. Kit would get confused because Ty's favorite parts tended to be a climactic revelation to a mystery that Kit had not read So eventually Kit told Ty that he should just start reading from the beginning. Ty had been delighted by that and got to work right away on reading to him every Sherlock book he had. Kit discovered that Sherlock Holmes was actually pretty good, he had been worried he wouldn't like it in which case listening to Ty read the entire series to him would have been a nightmare. Sure it was no Lord of The Rings, but then again Kit had never finished reading that one either.

Ty's face brightened and he straightened up looking rather animated for him.

"Yes actually, I brought it with me, and the next volume just in case…" Ty started, his hands now moving in excitement rather than frustration. Excitement that was spreading to Kit.

" Well we better get started then." Kit laughed taking the lead to open up the door to Ty's room and headed inside.

He would sleep, eventually.