Rebekah
"No." That can't be true. "My mother told me my fathers name was Johnathan." But looking at this photo.
"What happened to your father?" Jace asked. Walking towards the table I placed the book down before turning to face him.
"My mom said it was a car accident." I sighed. "Told me he had a heart attack while driving, it was one of the reasons I wanted to become a doctor."
"You wanted to be a doctor?" Hodge asked
"I was in my second year of medical school." He gave a nod.
"I'm sorry your mother lied to you. But your mother, Luke and Valen-"
Hodge stopped as he grabbed his neck in pain. The circle on his neck seemed to flair a little.
"Oh my god are you ok?" He couldn't seem to talk so Jace did it for him.
"Hodge is a former circle member, after the uprising, Hodge repented."
"And I was cursed and sent here to live, work and to make amends."
"Cursed?"
"I cannot leave this Institute. It's my punishment, also as you have seen." He placed his hand back on the circle on his neck. "If I speak of the monster." He shrugged his shoulders as a few seconds ago showed what can happen.
"I can't let you suffer like that." I looked around the room. "This is a library filled with books don't they have any answers to the questions that's are rolling around in my head?"
"Becks, since the revolt we've been forbidden to ever speak about the circle."
"But it's your history, So you can't tell me anything?" I glanced between the two. "Nothing?"
Hodge looked at me for for a few seconds before saying. "Let me speak to Rebekah alone Jace." Jace looked at me his eyes asking if I want him to stay.
"No, he can stay." Jace moved to sit on the couch behind us. "Jace is the only one I trust right now." Hodge sighed but let it go.
"Well.." But before Hodge can say anything Isabelle storms into the room.
"Jace! I ran tests on that bottle you gave me." She quickly walked over handing the papers to him.
Flipping through the papers. "You found nothing, there's nothing here."
"I know, which means whoever made this for your mother, planned to leave no traces." She told me before looking at Hodge. "When I was on my way over Raj stopped me, he told me Warlocks are panicking and going into hiding."
"That would mean that Valentine is probably looking for the Warlock that gave the bottle of potion to your mother." Hodge told us.
"Do you know any Warlocks Becks?" I shook my head.
"I didn't know I was a Shadowhunter till yesterday." I told him.
Suddenly we all pause as ringing filled the air. Jace raised his eyebrow before walking towards a stone slab with what looked like runes on it when he lift it there laid a phone. Jace picked it up.
"Hello?" He asked in his usual sarcastic way. "What do you want with her." He glanced at me before nodding his head. "Uh, yea, mhm, right, ok bye." After hanging up he turns to me. "Do you know anyone name Amara?"
"Amara? My crazy neighbor Amara?"
"She called asking to see you, how she got the Shadowhunter hotline is beyond me." He shrugged his shoulders. I rolled my eyes.
"Well did she happen to tell you what she wanted?"
"Yea." And we all looked at him waiting for him to say finish. "Oh, she wanted to see you."
"Annd did she say why?" Shrugging again he moved to leave before I ran after and grabbed his arm. "Jace?"
"She wanted to talk to you, about your mother." I started moving towards the door before he grabbed me.
"What are you doing?" I started to struggle but he pushed me on the couch. "Jace! That should've been the first thing out of your mouth. I want to go, maybe she knows something."
"If you think I'm going to let you, an untrained Shadowhunter with the whole Shadow World out looking for you, then your not as smart as I thought you were."
"Why do you care?" I questioned.
"Because your one of us." He lowered himself till we were eye to eye. "And I know what it feels like to have no one." He sighed. "I never knew my mother, and Valentine and his people killed my father."
"I'm so sorry." I grabbed his hand. "Is this why your helping me, why your doing this? To get revenge for your father?"
He didn't say anything for a few minutes. "Becks I promise to protect you, and I'll help you get your mother back." He got up and walked towards the door. "Are you coming? Or are you just going to sit there?"
I gave him a smile which he returned before following him. Isabelle closed the door.
"I'll let Alec and your friends know." Isabelle told us as Jace let out a groan.
"Your bringing the mundanes?" I slapped his shoulder.
"Hey! If it wasn't for those mundanes, I wouldn't have made it out of my apartment alive." He scoffed.
"You were the one that battled the Raverner Demon while they hid themselves"
"If they didn't pull me out of the way, it would've been a bite instead of a scratch."
He hummed before we continued to make our way to weapon room. It seems Isabelle acted quickly, Alec and Isabelle were gearing up while Karla and Simon looked nervous, scared. Jace went towards his family to gear up and I made my way to Simon and Karla.
"Hey you guys ok?" They both nodded staring at the three Shadowhunters putting weapons upon weapons on their body.
"Are you?" Karla asked. I shook my head no.
"Guys I have to tell you something." They both gave me a 'what is it look'. "My mom is married to Valentine."
"What?!"
"And?" Karla asked grabbing my arm. Which I hissed, because her grip happened to be very strong.
I turned to her. 'And', what does she mean and? She seems to be jittery with a crazed look in her eye. Ever since we met two years ago she's always been watching, thinking that I don't see her studying both me and my mom. She didn't seem to like Luke either, but she was at least civil and talked to him when he spoke to her. What I also noticed, well what I pretend not to notice at the time Simon, had a crush on me since the third grade. Suddenly Karla showed up in our lives and that crush was like it never happened. Not that I'm complaining I always feel horrible as if I've been stringing him along, now I know how my mom feels about Luke.
"What?" She asked as I been just staring at her.
"Nothing, in the library, which is beautiful by the way. There's a picture of when my mom was younger. The picture was of my mom, Luke and Valentine."
"So Johnathan was what your step- father?" I shook my head.
" I don't know maybe, she never really talked about Johnathan. I always thought that it was because talking about him hurt too much."
A set of footsteps moved towards us letting us know the three Shadowhunters were finish as we made our way out of the front doors of institute. We all stood on the front steps Simon's van catching their attention, as it was parked by the curb .
"You know your transportation looks like a giant banana on wheels." Simon glared at Jace
"Shut up!" Simon looked back at his van shoulders slumped. "Let's just go."
With a smirking Jace we all pile into the van that was tagged with Champagne Enema and Rock Solid Panda. Simon and Karla up front, with me in the back seat with the three Shadowhunters. After five minutes of riding Alec spoke.
"Was that all she told you?" Alec asked while picking at a string hanging from his long sleeve shirt?"
"Sums it up." I was watching Alec.
"I wonder what she needs to talk to me about and what it has to do with my mom?" I ran my fingers through my hair and jumped, when Jace took my hand that was stuck in the knots in my hair.
"Well I hope it's about the Mortal Cup."
"Why is everybody so obsessed with this cup?" I sighed watching the scenery outside. "What makes it so special?" Jace pulled the hand that I didn't know he was still holding till I was sitting next to him.
"As the story tells it Johnathan Shadowhunter summoned the angel Raziel, Johnathan begged the angel for help as the mundane were being killed by the demons. Johnathan asked Raziel to mix his and the angel blood to create a new type of species, half human, half angel to help get rid of the demonkind. The angel seeing that Johathan wish was pure granted his wish making Shadowhunters."
"Wow, was that how you all were created, by drinking the cup?" Jace smirked.
"No Becks, us angels had other ways that we enjoyed doing with others a lot."
"What?"
"He means sex Beckah." Karla told me and he laughed at the look on my face and the red of my cheeks.
"Right." Everybody was laughing while I turned back to the window. "But that explains why you guys want the cup, Valentine bad. Why would he want it."
"Valentine wants the cup because it can control demons." Isabelle said.
"And nobody wants that." Said Alec in his bored tone, whether because it's me who asked or just the conversation in general.
"We are a dying race." Jace spoke. "We can't just go up to any mundane on the street. Sometimes when mundanes that drink from the cup it kills them."
"Well shit." He just chuckled at my response. After a few seconds I said. "I won't let Valentine have the cup." Jace just winked at me and went back to twirling his stele with his fingers.
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Amara Home
Rebekah
Twenty minutes later we arrived at Park Slope parked at the corner. Right now we are waiting for our Shadowhunter friends to come back. When we parked I was ready to cross the street to Amara's building when Jace stopped me, demanding that I stay by the van till they're done patrolling the area. I raised my eyebrow at the little device all three of them pulled out. 'Tracks left over demon energy', Jace tells me and they all split up. I was watching the alley way leading to the little shop of Dot's that Isabelle have went down till I heard my name being called. Looking up Jace is waving us over.
Crossing the street I pause as I look up at my apartment. It was only a day ago that I found out that not only was my mother kidnapped, that my mother was lying to me for eighteen years of my life. Luke never cared about us, he probably got tired of my mother never returning his affections, deciding to dump us. And the biggest bomb yet, I am a Shadowhunter, half human, half angel. Sighing I catch up with Karla and Simon who hung back waiting for me.
"You ok?" Simon asked me.
"Yea, just still trying to wrap my head around all of this this." They nodded.
Two doors down from my apartment is Amara's. Amara is known as the town crazy. She's known for stopping people walking pass her home. Amara will stick her head out her window or stand in her front door yelling at you about nonsense. The six of us are walking up the stairs when we all were thrown back by a force.
"Ow! What the hell." I'm sitting there on my ass looking up at the building.
Jace moves to help me up. "You ok?"
"Yea."
We all stand there waiting for the Shadowhunters move. Jace scowls at the building before picking up a rock and throwing it only for it to bounce back and hit Simon who just happened to be in his way.
"You jerk." Simon grunted.
"Those are some protection spells." Alec monotone voice states.
"So does that means she's a Warlock or a Witch?" Isabelle ask her bother.
Alec shrugs as we hear a slam as if something was opened and there sticking her head out the window is Amara.
"Hello dearies." Her glasses were falling off her nose. " Only those with good intentions can enter my home."
"We have not come here to harm you." I promised her.
Shaking her head. "One of are not who they say they are!" Jace body twitches.
"No." Jace shook his head. "That's no possible we all have angel blood, Raziel blood. Except for the two mundanes." He glanced at them and scoffed. " And I don't think the both of them can hurt a thing without hurting themselves."
"Well thanks." Karla glared at him.
"Jace lets just all walk together." He was glaring at Amara. "We need to stop Valentine and find my mother, we are wasting time standing her glaring at each other."
He growled before giving me a nod. The four Shadowhunters and two mundanes we're preparing to walk through when Karla phone rang.
"Shit it's my foster dad." She walked off.
"Karla?" She placed her hand over the speaker.
"I'll wait by the van for you guys, Rebekah get the answers we need so you can find your mom." I nodded.
I watched as she walked back to Simon's van. Crossing over the protection spell a cold feeling washed over all of us. And standing on the other said was Amara with her front door open. Entering her house the room looks more bigger than it ought to look for a apartment. The air was hazy but I guess it was for the several inses that Amara is burning. She has a bookshelves which held multiple, what looks like herbs. Skulls across her fireplace mantle and dead animals hanging from her ceiling with rope.
"Stay close and if anything happens you take Simon and leave." Jace whispered in my ear.
I gave him a nod and I slowly moved to the chair that was on the other end of the small table Amara was sitting at. She smiled at me before taking out a deck of tarot cards. Amara spread them out and leaned back in her chair.
"You called the Institute asking for me." I started since the silence in the room was starting to bug me.
"Which I would like to know, how you were able to." Jace was glaring at the women.
Amara paid him no mind and took my hand. "I knew your mother Jocelyn, was moving to New York before the events that lead her to make that decision." She fixed her glasses that was once falling off her nose. "Don't be angry with your mother, the poor thing married a horrible man and she was only trying to protect you. Her husband wasn't always so cruel. He actually argued very passionately might I add to use the cup to make more of you." She glanced between the three Shadowhunters.
"If what your saying is true, what changed? What did he do that was so horrible that she ran from him, that made her cover her tracks by erasing my memories?"
" His father, your grandfather dear was killed by a werewolf." I gasped. "His anger and grief turned him into someone your mother couldn't recognize, someone who was once all for protecting not only the humans as you Shadowhunters were taught, but wanted to protect DownWorlders too, so Valentine and his followers formed a group called the Circle. And those members were Lucian Greymark, Hodge Starkweather, Stephen and Celine Herondale, Maryse and Robert Lightwood.."
"Wait our mother was apart of the Circle!?" Alec face was filled with disbelief.
"Of course so was Jocelyn and Valentine Morgenstern."
"My mom was apart of the Cirlce!?"
"The Circle dear was created like I said to extend protection to the Downworlders. After your mother husband father was killed, his view of them changed. It got to the point your mother had to run, taking the Mortal Cup with her."
"How do you know this?" I asked her.
"Because I'm a witch." She started playing with her bangles that were on her wrist. "Before your mother moved I felt a change in the air for months, and as soon as your mother decided to leave Alicante."
"Alicante?"
"Idris." Jace answered.
"Oh." So that means. "So if she lived in Idris, then she's a Shadowhunter."
Amara nodded. Before turning her attention to the cards. "She was and a very good one at that. Your mother always distance herself from the Circle and even more when Valentine started to turn darker. Your mother than and now always believe in protecting the human kind."
She took the hand I was holding and moved them above the cards she fanned out on the table.
"Now Rebekah Fairchild pick a card."
"Just any?"
At her nod I ran my hand over the cards slowly back and forth. After the fourth time I thought nothing would happen till suddenly, one of the tarot card stuck itself to my hand. Turning it over.
Three people behind me gasped. Jace pointed at the card.
"This just looks like the cup. Why does the card look like one of three holy instruments of my people?"
"I don't know does it?" Amara asked.
"Do you know something witch?"
She shook her head. "One day as I was collecting my mail they were in there."
"Who gave them to you?"
"Easy Jace." Warned Isabelle.
"As I said the cards were in my mail box with a note that 'I will know what to do when the time comes'. And today I had a strong urge to speak to you dear." She was looking at me.
"Don't look at me guys I don't know." I ran my hand over the card. "Remember my mom took any memories that had to do with the cup"
"So your mind is blocked? There is a way for you to get them back." And Amara was looking at Jace, Alec and Isabelle.
"No." Isabelle. "The Silent Brothers? You want Rebekah to go to the Silent Brothers?"
"It's possible they can get her memories back, unless Rebekah knows who took them form her, the Brothers are the only solution."
"Then let's go." I got up to move to the door when Jace stepped in my way.
"You don't even know what your asking Bekah. The Silent Brothers are not to be demanded and the Brothers trying to remove the block from your brain can get you killed."
"If this is the only way to get my mother back and stop Valentine from getting the Mortal Cup, then I'm doing this."
"You guys heard her, lets go and pay a visit to the Silent Brothers." Jace said with that cocky smirk of his.
