Oh god no. Though I hadn't seen that face in years, I only needed seconds to recognize it.

"Hey, little princess" He said. I winced when he used the nickname he gave me when I was 2, but I held my head up high and looked him in the eye when I answered him. "Hi daddy." He didn't look away and continued talking, holding my gaze with his eyes. "It's been so long, princess. I've wanted to see you for so long." It was all I could do not to avert my gaze. "You could have not left, not kill mom, and not send demons after me to kill me. That would have helped." My voice was still steady, but inside panic and anger were building.

"But honey, I only send the demons to get you to me, not to kill you. I would never do that."

He was crazy. Absolutely one hundred percent insane. I swallowed back sickness that was bubbling up my throat. "And mom? You didn't kill her either?" he broke our eye contact and looked to the other side of the room. "I didn't have a choice. She was tuning you against me. She was completely paranoid."

Did he actually think he did me a favor by killing my mother?! I forced myself to keep on talking. I told myself that as long as we continued talking, he had no opportunity to do anything else to me. "Then why didn't you take me with you, when you took Ty. When you left? If I meant that much to you, you would have taken me, too."

He nodded, slowly. "It was too big a risk. It could have ruined everything, the whole plan. I would come back for you, to reunite our family and rise to the top of the world. But Ty destroyed that vision. He didn't understand, not like I knew you would understand. Ty was always the soft one, like your mother. But you, you have always been like me. Ambitious, strong. A true fighter.

It took all the self-control I had not to start yelling, to tell him how wrong he was. "I know, daddy" I said instead. "I always wanted to be by your side. The whole demon-killing thing was a misunderstanding, I'm sorry" God, I hated kissing ass. "Won't you share your plan with me dad?" I asked with the sweetest smile I could manage.

He, I couldn't bear to call him my father inside my head, looked doubtful for a moment before he nodded again. "Shadowhunters will be at their rightful place. No more hiding, Eva! Mundanes will admire us, thank us for protecting them. Downworlders will know their place: In the dark, where they belong. Demons will fear us. They will serve us or die. And we, my child, we will be on top."

"How? And what about all the people you hurt, all the Shadowhunters you killed? And what about Ty? Will you kill him too is he won't do as you say? And the Lightwoods? Isabelle, Alec?" Oh god, I was blowing all the trust I had been building so far. But now that I had started, I couldn't stop. "Did you know that it was a warlock, a DOWNWORLDER, who saved my life after your demons almost killed me?"

He looked disgusted. "I would rather see you dead than as a Downworlder's friend."

I looked him dead in the face "Then I guess you'll have to kill me."

He screamed and threw something he was holding through the room, against the opposite wall. A shimmering circle appeared where the object hit it. I stared at it, my head spinning with the fearful anticipation. Everything was still for maybe 30 seconds, and then someone, no something, seemed to be climbing out of the circle. I was stunned at first, but then remembered what Ty had taught me the week ago about portals. I remembered again Jace's arrival through the portal at the Institute, many years ago. But I had never heard of a, portable portal!

The thing, I could see now that it was a demon from the red eyes. My –ugh- dad told the demon something in the demonic language I still couldn't understand and it went through the rooms door.

"Princess" Dad spoke to me again. "Being around Ty has influenced you, I see that now. But I need your help" His voice was soft, pretending to care about me. "You have to tell me. Tell me what happened when the angel visited you." I couldn't help myself: I laughed. It was all so utterly ridiculous already, and now ANGELS? "I don't know what you mean. Angels don't exist, daddy" I spat the last word. My fathers face changed, his eyes looked animalistic and his lips curled away from his teeth. I saw something reflect the light of the torched, and suddenly a knife was at my throat and my father screamed, his face almost touching mine. "DON'T LIE TO ME! I SAW IT. Everything! I know everything. I know he made you his weapon and YOU ARE GOING TO TELL ME HOW!"

My breathing accelerated as the sharp knife sliced into my skin. "I swear, I don't know" I said breathlessly. "You killed the warlock who made me forget, remember"

The knife fell to the ground. "No. It was him. GOD DAMN ANGEL!" He yelled in frustration, a roaring, beastly sound. He then shouted something in the scary, demonic language and two giant demons stormed into the room, leaping to me. Closing in the distance so fast.

For a second, I thought I saw a flash of pale gold. I was probably imagining things I wanted to see in my final living seconds. The demons attacked me, and this time I was helpless, still bound against the wall. It felt as if they were avenging all of the other demons I had killed in the past, stabbing me with claws, burning me, poison stinging my skin everywhere and blurring my vision. Somewhere, while I was trying to hold on to my consciousness, I heard screams. Violent noises. I tried to focus on that instead of the pain. It seemed to help, because suddenly the pain stopped.

"Eva" That was it. I was dead and had gone to heaven. And in heaven you heard what you wanted to hear. But heaven was supposed to be peaceful and pain free. Even though the pain had stopped coming, I was still in agony.

"Eva, hold on, okay. Hold on." An amazing feeling of relief rushed over me, and I could feel tears of happiness on my face. I didn't care anymore. Jace was here, Jace saved me. I could feel him lifting me before the pain took over and knocked me out.

Note from Gibbyuke: This chapter and chapter 12 were very difficult for me to write! They took me all day, actually. I wasn't really sure which direction I wanted to take the story. Hope it's not disappointing anyone! Oh and since I'm noting, haha: Thanks for reading my story! I've never written a fanfiction about a book before, so I hope I'm doing okay Love, Gibby