"So…" Jaime started as he went to stand beside Livvy. The inquisitor, Robert Lightwood had just gone through the portal after three more from the Clave. "Will you be busy the following days too?"

Livvy greeted the Lightwood with a smile before she turned to Jaime and frowned.

"Not as much as the others, but I'll still be busy. Why?"

He shrugged. "Just wondering."

"Are you gonna miss me?" she mocked him.

"No!" he answered a little too fast. "It's just –"

"I'm the only one talking to you?"

Two more from the Clave in Idris stepped through the portal before it closed. Isabelle and Alec stood by their father. Didn't matter that they stood close to each other. By the way they were to one another they could have been miles apart. Magnus came to join them. Only to give Alec support. Robert had started to accept Alec's and Magnus' relationship, but he was still a bit uncomfortable about it.

Livvy had been watching them without paying any attention to Jaime. That's why she jumped when he touched her forearm. He stared straight ahead when she looked up at him.

"Yes", he breathed.

"What?" she asked and quirked an eyebrow. She knew very well what he talked about but she wanted to hear him say it.

He knew she understood too and rolled his eyes when she insisted. "I will miss talking to you because you are in fact the only one who's talking to me."

"I know", she said and grinned.

Robert had seemed to relax a bit by then. Patting Alec's shoulder and laughing along with his children and Magnus. Livvy couldn't help but smile at the sight. She turned to Jaime when she'd come to the point where she felt as if she was spying.

"They will be talking for a while and I won't be needed. Wanna go to a café or something?"

"Café sounds good", Jaime said with a shrug as if he didn't care. Livvy knew he was happy though. She had seen the last couple of days had worn him down as everybody pretended not to be aware of him.

Livvy had told Emma she heading out along with Jaime. She knew everybody always panicked when somebody didn't tell anybody they were heading out. Emma had given her a weird look before she nodded and told her to have fun.

"Come on." She linked arms with Jaime and lead their way out.

"Aren't the others worried about you spending all this time with me?" Jaime asked. Based on his expression Livvy might think he was worried about her.

"Why would they be? I've been out with friends before."

His expression didn't seem to become any happier about that.

They sat at the café with their coffee between them. Jaime was whirling a spoon in his coffee. Not looking up at Livvy.

"What's the matter?" she asked as she took a sip of her own coffee. He still didn't look up. He ended up spilling some of the drink on the able. In the end Livvy started snapping with her fingers in front of his face. That got his attention.

"What?"

"Why are you acting so weird?"

"I'm not weird", he defended himself.

"I didn't say you were weird just that you were acting weird. Difference."

He shook his head but a smile was playing on his lips. To hide it he took a sip of his coffee.

The cups were flowery with golden edges. Cups Livvy thought they could belong in Jem's and Tessa's house. The café was rather empty for being the typical coffee break time of the day. Two or three groups were in there and two waitresses were running out from and in to the kitchen.

When Jaime finally put down the cup on the table again he spoke.

"Will Diego and I need to go home now when the Clave is here?"

Livvy shrugged. Truly unaware of the answer. Jaime and Diego had come for another reason. Livvy didn't know what reason since she hadn't asked, but she was fairly sure they didn't just drop by to pay them a visit.

"I don't know. Why did you come here in the first place?"

When she saw his expression then she knew that was a question he didn't want to be asked.

"It's nothing special really. I just wanted to visit Cristina. Diego, Cristina and I used to be really close." Livvy rose a doubting eyebrow. "I said used to be. That changed a few years ago, but that doesn't mean she's very dear to us."

"What happened?" Livvy wondered.

He took an awfully long before he answered. When he answered he was looking out through the window and wore a sad smile. "We grew up."

Back in the Institute Livvy and Jaime had parted. Jaime going to his brother and Livvy going to Cristina and Emma. She really wanted to find out why what Jaime was keeping from her. Why Cristina no longer was a friend of him and his brother.

She found them in Cristina's room. That had been the last place she'd looked for them. At first she'd asked Jules and thought he'd even be with them. Instead he had been with Ty and Mark. Trying to get Ty's attention. Livvy could see it wore on his pride that Ty no longer went to him when wanting to talk. Ty's and Mark's bond had been really strong before Mark, well, disappeared. When he hadn't been there Jules had had to step in almost as a substitute. When Mark came back that substitute was no longer needed. That was what Jules thought at least. Livvy knew Ty needed him just as much. None of them knew that yet.

Livvy had found Cristina and Emma when she'd looked for them in every other possible room. She herself had only been in Cristina's room a few times. She thought it was weird how she'd changed so much in it during the short time she'd spent there. Livvy had had her room, shared with Ty, for 15 years. All that had changed over the years were his different kinds of bees and books about Sherlock Holmes. Livvy herself had never seen a reason to change it.

Cristina had let her into her room. It had changed since she'd been there the last time. Another poster was up and a new plant was on the windowsill. Emma sat in Cristina's bed. Cristina sat down beside her.

"Hey, how are you?" Emma asked Livvy.

"Good, I guess. I came to ask you something." When Emma opened her mouth to speak she added, "Or actually with Cristina."

Cristina smiled then. Finally it was her turn to talk. "Okay, shoot."

"What made you stop hanging out with Jaime and Diego?"

Her smile dropped. "What?"

"I said –"

Cristina stopped her. "I heard what you said. I mean why do you ask?"

"Because you really seem to despise one another. Emma too", she added.

"He was rude!" Emma defended herself. Cristina patted her shoulder.

"We just didn't get along. We went different directions and here we are", Cristina explained. Livvy knew that wasn't the whole truth. Frankly, that wasn't even one percent of it. She sat down on the feet of the bed.

"Please, just tell me."

"Perfect Diego is the boy Cristina's mother wants her to marry," Emma said quickly before Cristina could stop her. Cristina looked betrayed. "It's not an arranged marriage, not exactly, it's just that her mother loves him, he's a Rosales —"

"He's related to you?" Livvy asked Cristina. "Isn't that a problem? I mean, I know Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale are a famous love story, but they weren't actually brother and sister. Otherwise I think it would probably be a …"

"Less famous love story," said Emma, with a grin.

Cristina waved her hand dismissively. "The Rosaleses are a huge Shadowhunting family. I don't think he's even a cousin. My mother just thinks it would help cement the Rosales empire. She thinks he's perfect, so handsome, so smart, such a Shadowhunter, perfect perfect perfect —"

"Goody-two shoes?" Livvy suggested.

"Yeah, you could say that."

"So should I like not like Jaime or –"

"Of course you can like him", Cristina said. "You can like him how much you want."

"Not too much", Emma cut in warningly.

"Yeah, that wouldn't be a good idea. He is kind of a bad boy. Remember to be careful with him."

"Don't worry, we're just friends", Livvy assured them.

"I remember somebody else who said the same thing to me a few weeks ago", Cristina said and wiggled her eyebrows at Emma. Emma pushed her shoulder lightly and laughed.

"Are you talking about Dylan?"

"Yes!" Emma shouted at same time as Cristina said, "No."

"Okay…"

"Was there anything else you needed to ask?"

She shrugged and then remembered something. "That girl who came here yesterday. Where is she now?"

"She has her own room on the second floor", Emma answered. "We take turn guarding her. We don't know who she is yet. Right now Diana is with her. I'll be heading over there soon enough."

"Well, have fun. I need to go now", she said as she stood up. They said goodbye before she left.

She found Jaime where he'd said he'd be. With his brother. They were in Diego's room playing cards. Both of them sat on the covers of the bed with cards between them It looked so peaceful.

Okay, so she hadn't knocked. Then she hadn't seen that scene. Immediately when they saw her they shot up from the bed. Diego hit the ceiling and groaned. Jaime wasn't that tall but missed it with just an inch or so.

He jumped down from the bed and went over to her leading her in and closing the door after her. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm socializing. You should try it", she mocked and then looked at the cards. Some were still lying on the bed while some had fallen down on the floor.

"Hey!" Jaime protested. "I was with you all day."

"All day. That's why you avoided me all day?"

Jaime only shrugged him off and sat down on the bed. "So, what's up?"

"I don't know. Just had nothing to do." She sat down in a chair. Diego looked from her to Jaime and back again.

"Are you friends?"

They both looked at him as if they weren't sure whether he was serious or not.

"What?"

Jaime laughed a little. "Yeah, we're friends. We've talked every day since we came here. I think that means we're friends."

"Unbelievable. You're so annoying to be with and yet you're the one who gets friends", Diego said and shook his head.

"Well, I'm the only one trying", he replied and fell down on his back on the bed, looking up at the ceiling. Livvy snorted but didn't say anything. She was the one who practically forced him to be nice.

Livvy changed the subject to what she wanted to talk about. And being the non-discreet she was she said exactly what she wanted. "You and Cristina, Diego? Have you even tried to get her to like you?"

Jaime sat up immediately and Diego stared at her. "What?"

She was well aware of that he'd heard her. "So?"

Diego sighed. "I have tried. We were friends since we were five. It all changed when our parents decided they wanted us married. Three months after they'd told us Cristina practically vanished from the face of the earth. Then we found out she went here." Once again he sighed and sat down next to his brother in the bed. "She didn't even give me a chance."

"Do you even like her?" Livvy asked.

Jaime glanced at his brother and smiled a little. When Livvy saw him with his brother she could see he wasn't the bad boy he tried to be. He was just somebody who'd support his brother to the end of the world.

"I like her, I really do. He doesn't like me though. She knows I like her and thinks I am the one who made our parents decide this."

"Tell her that, Diego", she said. "Even if she doesn't feel the same way it's worth it. You might not end up together but hopefully you won't end up hating each other's guts."

Jaime glared at her. "How was that uplifting?"

"Who said I was trying to be?" She left and was just about to close the door when Jaime stopped her and slinked past the door. He closed the door behind him, leaving Diego alone.

He grasped her wrist and looked at her. Livvy herself looked down on her wrist before she looked up at with a questioning look.

"What?" she said.

He ran his fingers through his hair and bit his lip. As if it hurt him to say what he was about to say.

"Thank you", he said finally. "Thank you for always helping me and my brother."

"Can't help you're always so hopeless", she said.

He let out a frustrated laugh before he grabbed her other wrist. She was beginning to really wonder what was going on. "What are – ", she said but was cut off when he leaned in and kissed her. Before she got the chance to kiss him back he broke of the kiss. He was leaning his forehead against hers only for second to once again say "Thank you."

He went back into Diego's room. Left was she standing there thinking over what had just happened.

"What the –?"

The part where Cristina and Emma explained Cristina's relationship with Diego was a snippet from Cassandra Clare's tumblr.