sorry this took so long. moving week. anyway hope you enjoy -


Sib's POV Chapter 29

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt

I braced us up agent the cabinets and then I felt her fingers lifting my tee shirt just a bit her fingers coming to rest low on my hips I gave a little shutter that I am sure she felt as her grip tighten a scuffing sound came from behind us but I did my best to ignore this as her tongue brushed the roof of my mouth

"Oh woops" said James behind us. The kiss broke and I turned my head to see him grinning and backing out the door. I gave him the best death stair I could muster although right at that moment, I could care less if he saw as long as he left witch he was already doing.

"Fuck" I sighted realizing that the moment had been lost; I dropped my head to her shoulder. Bee didn't really seem to care that we had been Interrupted she removed her hands from my belt loops; instead she wrapped them around my neck. Pulling me down a bit then gave me several quick kisses down my neck leaving my skin tingling. My hand had come to rest on her collar I could feel her heart under my palm, it took me a second to realize that exactly how fast her heart was beating, which was really fast it felt as if her hear was a trapped humming bird. I raised my head

"Your heart is beating crazy fast" I said

"umhu" she said I should be really worried about this but it was really hard when her fingers were running through my hair.

"No like you should be having a heart attack or something" I said

"I feel fine" I decided to count but I kept missing beats

"It's beating so fast I can't count it" I said my point seemed to be come across now and she gently pushed me back a few inches frowning slightly I took one of her hands and placed it over my hear then pressed her other one right next to mine her frown depend then she shut her eyes and I felt her whole body relax her heart gave a little stutter then started to slow gradually coming down to a normal speed and then the beet changed slightly and I relisted that her hear was aligning with mine she opened her eyes looking at me as both out hears started to beat in time

"Wow" I said she smiled

"We should do something about lunch" she said and started to push past me I gave a little winey moan

"Do we have to?" her answer to that was to grab my hand and pull me after her we were almost at the door when she stopped,

"Should we make a list? Would that be easer?" she asked and then dropping my hand when to go look for a note pad I decided to help pulling open cabinets and drawers. After we had been thought the whole kitchen once with no sign of a notepad she gave a sigh her hand slowly pushing the last drawer closed.

"Are you sure you feel ok?" I asked her hand had been shaking as she opened the drawer she turned to keeping her hands behind her back

"Yah I'm fine, in fact I feel really great" she said I wasn't sure if I believed her

"Magnus brought back some really bad stuff, but I do feel better I know some stuff I needed to know and I am feeling really good now" she said she walked past me leading in and giving me a light kiss on my cheek

"We could just go back home now just let it go" I said

"That's not really an option" she said

"I know but it's nice to think it is" I said

"Look Sib, I'm sorry about all that earlier I don't really know what happened" she said growing quieter as she spoke, I felt a little prick of anger was she trying to apologize for kissing me just now

"Oh just never mind" she said then she stepped around me and out the door. I stood there for a second

"Fuck" I said now to the empty kitchen.

When I came out of the kitchen music was playing, a second set of couches had appeared from nowhere and the girls had arrived. Leila was in a very technical sounding conversation with Alce who was sitting next to Manus who was completely ignoring him and was talking to Isabel. I caught the word Prada and turned my attention to Jace and clary but they were doing the still lovely dovey thing and looking into each other's eyes passionately or whatever. I wandered over to James and Will who were sitting on either side of Bee on a couch. Bee was completely ignoring them mumbling to herself as she made a list James was fooling with an IPod. Will was sitting staring at his phone with a little smile on his face, when I approached he snapped the phone shut, rearranged his features and slipped the phone away. Interesting what was he hiding? My brother and I had never been close but I know him better then he thought I did, it was my job. If it was hiding something then it probably wasn't relevant, then that meant it was probably personal, my brother with a personal life imagine that. He looked up at me as a circled the couch

"If it's all the same to you, I think I'm going to take a walk, find some coffee" he said I nodded and he slipped off the couch.

"Fine, just make sure you're here for lunch" I said

"Text me" he said and walked towards the door. There were a few interesting things about my brother one was that he was kind, I don't mean kind to cats or always willing to give you a hand up. In fact in day to day life he could be quit mean and petty. No kind in the since of justice, everyone in his view deserved to be treated fairly and spared pain, it hurt him to see people no matter what to be threatened unfairly. The second interesting thing was that he was above all a survivor, in a fight his priority was to make it through with the minimum amount of injury and life indicted, and that meant beading the other guy so bad that he did not get up, this was somehow very different from going into the fight to prove yourself, of to give the basted a good kicking or even that this is your job and you were born for this. The Third interesting thing is that he does everything he can alone, it's not really unusual but that means he's the odd one out witch can be just a bit lonely. A phone rang somewhere above our heads Alce got up and excused himself jogging up the stairs to answer It.

"Ok I think that's it" said Bee standing up and passing the list on to Magnus who scanned it

"One bag of pasta or two?" he asked

"Oh two definitely two" she said in response

"Ok" he said handing the list back to her she stood there for a second awkward

"So…um when I will get it?" she asked Alce's voice came from above

"Magnus there's someone on the phone going on about something about green hair"

"Ah yes" he said and stood up "It's all in the kitchen Bee" he said as he moved up the stairs everyone got up and floated into the kitchen after Bee a large pile of food was now spared out on the island in the kitchen

"That is so cool" she said. She started to sort thru the stuff, setting it into piles the pasta by the stove the bread on the other side and stacking some things next to the sink and some she just left on the counter. She dragged out a huge pot lugging it over to the sink and filling it with water. We spread ourselves around the counter, pulling out bar stools, pulling up chairs to the kitchen table, James leaned himself up against the fridge. I chose a stool on the edge of the counter. She turned off the water and tried to lift the pot out of the sink James pushed off the fridge and took it from her. Lifting it onto the stove she nodded in thanks Isabel seemed to have gotten over her auger of moments before and with the little iPod that James had been playing with earlier she turned on some music. Chatter and buzz filled the kitchen as Bee moved around, I got sucked into a conversation with Alce, Isabel and Leila about weather of not technology in the shadow hunter society could be a good thing. When I looked back to Bee she was chopping carrots and humming to the song looking happy, I realized that even though we have been around each other for the past few days in all kind of circumstance this was the first time I had seen her so happy and comfortable she seemed to fit in this modern kitchen with people everywhere. Her hair had fallen in her face and she had put it in a quick bun at the nape of her neck but several strands had escaped and were hanging loose around her face. The water started to boil and she turned to dump the pasta in turning back with her face flushed from the steam. Manus sweated into the room coming to stand behind Alce's chair

"Should I start talking or should we wait for food?" he asked to the room in general

"Go ahead" said Bee leaning over to dump the chopped carrots into a really big boul.

"Fine I'll get started" he sat down and tried to pull Alce into his lap halfheartedly Alce restated and he gave up quickly, giving a frustrated sigh.

"Ok well let's start with the basics, as you all know from Gabriel, Bee is half human and half fairy her blood is only about a fourth fairy and the rest human. However her magic is more like half in half, she also sees lifelitght's the first persons I have met in about 200-250 years who had the sight" I had turned to face Magnus as he talked but now I turned back to Bee watching her face as she moved around

"So if she is only a fourth fairy then why does she have so much magic?" asked James pushing off the fridge to take a seat at the table beside Jace and clary

"Well, um, from a check into her memories I found that"

"Wait you when inside her head and looked at her memories?" I asked angrily

"It's find I let him" she said behind me

"Do you know that's such an invasion of privacy?"

"calm down Oh concerned one she gave her permission and we needed to find answers how else were we to get them" he said I glowered at him it was a serious offence in our society to dive into a person's memories, for one it was usually left to the brothers. It was the ultimate invasion of privacy. It could also be dangerous for the person who was undergoing the process.

"Sib its fine, can you drain the pasta for me?" she asked and I got off my stool and lifted the huge pot form the stove, she had stretched a colander over the sink and I poured the pasta and hot water thought it setting the pot back on the stove turning to face her she ignored me first turning on the sink to cool the pasta and then shaking the colander back and forth to get out any trapped water before carrying the whole thing over to the large bowl and dumping it in and mixing it around with everything else in there then she handed me the bowl

"Go sit down and take this with you" she said

"Bee" I said

"Go now, we will talk later" she said quietly and gave me a push towards the table. They had kept talking wall I had been with Bee and now magus was saying

"The magic transfuses thought a process called life syncing, magic is energy right? So when it finds it has no way to discharge it will jump from one person to a second, it was just lucky for Bee that when this happened with her mother she was able to absorbed the magic with little to no side effects because she already had the blood that would support the magic. If this had happened to a normal human they would have died instantly" I set the bowl on the table and Bee came over with plates and forks out of all that cooking she had made a ton of tasty looking pasta salad she took a seat across the table from me between Alce and Leila

"oh my god this food looks delicious" said Jace swiping the big spoon and making a huge pile onto his plate Bee thanked him and we were all quiet for a while as we all served ourselves and took the first bites, it was really good and we all eat in contented silence for a few minutes.

"Ok well having you cook was a great idea" said Jace after he shoveled the last bit of pasta salad into his mouth

"Thank you" she said and he nodded taking another serving

"Ok so we covered how she has magic now let's talk about how she managed never to use it or was able to conceal it from everyone in Seattle" said Isabel

"It's easy to be one of the crowd in a giant crowd keep your head down be quiet and it's easy, I just faded" she said

"and she would have been using some magic but really low level she probably didn't even know she was, and the lifelitght's use some too, most of it was able to become doormat, as long as she never got really excited or upset and never called on it, the magic just never got activated." said Magnus "however it was active when she came in contact with Gabriel's magic. In fact it got charged up so fast that he had to do a extraction, which can be unpleasant…" Bee gave a small shutter "now the necklace that he gave her has been draining the magic off slowly, however she still needs to be careful, magic is dangerous warlocks and fairy's train hard, fairies since the moment they are born. It not something you just pick up, there is training tones of training, However every person has special talents things they do easily or things they do instantly" he paused for a second "can you think of anything like that?" he asked she bit her bottom lip and shook her head

"Um well" I said a bit hesitated "when she was attacked by she got really hot, like her skin was on fire, I couldn't touch her for a minuet"

"well this might sound strange, I never said anything because well it sounds a bit crazy, but with all the other crazy..." said James "well even though Sib was on point I always do a sweep too and I saw Bee at the corner before the liberty and then I didn't see her again until she was running up the hill at us from the other way, it was like she really was invisible"

"It's possible." said Magnus "it's one of though happy little powers that she might have evolved to protect herself"

"I didn't really vanish you guys were all just busy and didn't see me" said Bee

"It would be so cool if you could turn invisible, god I wish I could do that" said Jace

"I think you totally vanished!" said Isabel

"You weren't even there" said bee a bit testily

"well weather she did or not is not important right now" said Magnus "what really important is that her magic is active so it will appear more now it wants to be used some will come naturally and some will come with hard work - that includes things like controlled she is probably a little more volatile than normal but that will fade, however there will be some side effects that she will feel after large magic with time and practice these will grow less and less but for now..." I got up to fill my water glass "you should experience a bunch of stuff it's like having a huge Adeline rush." he said "you might feel a racing heart, hot flashes, a feel like a stich in your chest, trouble breathing, Hyperventilation, giddiness, numbness, and tingling, shaking, fainting, freaking out" he must have had some kind of list in his head "high pain threshold that's really kind of cool often you won't notice your heart until after, a huge surge of energy, I mean that's basically what magic is so…you get the whole increased strength and all your senses ramp up several notch's also well sometimes..." he cleared his through we were all starting at him how I set down my water glass sliding back into my seat "you might feel a bit frisky" everyone laughed Bees cheeks flushed

"So that explains" I kicked James hard in the leg "ohw!" James said but shut up

"so Alce" said Jace still lapping "is that why Magnus keeps you around so he has someone to jump" Magnus raised a finger in Jace's direction and he chocked. then he oh so coolly leaned over and grabbed Alce's shirt pulling him into a deep kiss he barley resisted. Isabel started to clap Magus broke the kiss and rolled his head to glair at Jace

"Yes baby boy, I jump your brother every chance I get, does it bother you?" he asked every so kindly Alce seemed to come out of whatever he was in, turned bright red pushed his chair back marching out of the room. Giving out waves of embarrassment and anger Magnus watched him go "I am going to pay for that but watching him go is almost as good as watching him come" we all gave low chuckles except Bee who had also gotten up and taken her plate over to the sink. Jace was still choking, although it could have been from the dirty joke or from the spell. Magnus leaned back in his chair balancing on the two back feet it was really hard to remember that he was a really old powerful warlock he just looked so young. Bee places her hand on the side of my chair and I saw that they were trembling, her leg was glittering too.

"So any suggestions on getting rid of the energy rush?" she said

"What do you normally do when you are energy?" she gave a big smile

"Who wants to go for a run?"


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