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Lily PoV:

When I woke, sunlight was streaming through the windows. My hand laid on Will's bare chest. I sighed as his arm tightened around my shoulders.

"Good morning, Lily."

"Good morning." I sighed.

"Charlotte had already called you down, to look at your ribs again."

I knew that while my ribs had healed, I still had bad bruising.

"Right." I muttered.

I turned over and reached for my robe as Will slid off the bed and pulled his trousers on. I tucked the robe around me and slid out of bed. I walked to my armoire and pulled out a dark blue dress. I went behind the changing screen and slid in on. I reached around to do my laces.

"Let me." Will said. "You would get yourself tangled up."

I scowled, but let him.

I brushed my hair and put it up in an up do. After Will had dressed, we walked downstairs. I sat in Charlotte's office.

"Oh, good morning." Charlotte said as she came in.

"Morning, Charlotte."

"How are you feeling?" She asked.

"I'm fine. There's still some bruising, but I'm okay."

"Are you sure?"

"Just fine." I smiled.

"Okay." Charlotte smiled.

Later:

Will, Jem, and I were the only ones at the Institute, everyone else had gone to the Consul's home. The Lightwoods would be there and we all thought it best that Will and I stay here, Jem also insisted he stay as well.

I ran my brush through my horse's mane and he ate oats. My head started to pound, but I dismissed it as my head injuries.

"Lily! Are you out here?" Jem called.

"Yes, James! I'll be in in a moment."

"Hurry!"

I walked away from the stables, my head spinning. I took a deep breath, trying to stop the world from tumbling. I didn't know what was wrong. I coughed and blood splattered on the green grass. The blood was a bright red…not like normal blood. I fell forward onto the stone steps on the institute, my heart pounding. Black lines clouded my vision. I crawled up and drug myself up and could hardly open the door.

The wall crashed into me, or I crashed into it. I stumbled down the hall, trying to get to the stairs. My breath was shallow. I crawled up the stairs on my hands and knees, one at a time. I brought myself up, standing and tried to walk to Will's room. It resulted in me crashing into the door. I leaned against the door frame and tried to pound on the door. It opened to reveal a smiling Will. His demeanor instantly changed as he saw me. My skin was clammy. "Lily?" I fell forward into him and he laid me down onto the wooden floor. My throat was dry.

I clutched at Will's lapels. "Magnus. Take me to Magnus." I tried to say.

Will brushed sweat from my face. "Magnus?"

I couldn't respond. It felt as if my body was being pulled down, pulled away. "Lily!"

My vision blurred at the edges until the only thing in focus was Will. "Jem! Get in here! James!" Will yelled.

"Will?" Jem appeared behind Will. "Oh God, what's wrong?" My brother said collapsing to the ground beside me.

He held my hands, and pulled me onto his lap. "I'll get the carriage ready." Will said and then he was gone.

Jem cradled me in his arms and then walked carefully downstairs.

The sun shone in my face when we got outside. "Her breathing's getting shallower." Jem informed Will, who sat in the driver's seat.

Will opened the door and Jem had hardly sat down before we started to move. My brother held me in his lap. "I'm sorry." I said in a quiet voice.

I started cough and I felt something wet in my mouth. Blood. "Oh God." James said.

His handkerchief wiped away a small trickle that had started to run out of my mouth. From what I could see it, the blood, was a vivid red. My vision faded in and out. "James." I tried to say.

"Lily. Don't go. Please." My eyes closed.

Third Person PoV:

The carriage came to a stop in front of the Warlocks home, Will Herondale jumped down and opened the door of the carriage, only to find horror. James was clutching at his sister's body.

"Will, she…"

Will reached for her, her eyes were closed, as if she was asleep. Her body though was not warm, or cold. Jem climbed out and ran to the door, knocking loudly. Magnus let them in after they had explained. "Lay her there." The warlock pointed to a couch.

While Magnus inspected Lily, Jem and Will spoke in hushed tones in a corner. "Will, what happened?" Jem questioned his parabati.

"She knocked at my door and then collapsed, she had been at the barn, with her horse. She was feverish, and pale." Will told him.

The two boys stood eye to eye for a long time. Both cared about Lily, both would die for her. "William?" Magnus had strode over to the two boys.

They both looked at Magnus expectantly. "It's almost ten, go home. I'll send someone if anything happens."

"Will Lily be okay?" Jem asked.

Magnus nodded. "She will see the sky again."

The boys cast one long glance at the girl who lay on the couch. Her eyes were still closed, her long lashes casting shadows against her cheeks. Her pink lips were open just slightly, and her chest rose and fell quickly, shallowly. "We'll come back in the morning."

Magnus showed the boys out and then sighed as he went back to see the girl.

"I had to lie to your brother and William, don't be too angry with me. When I said you'll see the sky again, I meant only the night sky. You'll never be able to go outside again, unless you become a Daylighter. By this time tomorrow night, you will be a vampire." Magnus said, knowing the girl couldn't hear him.

Soon after he sent a message to Camille about needing one of her human subjugates for a ritual. Another lie. The boy came right over and Magnus simply waved his hand and made a shovel appear. After telling the boy to dig a hole big enough for Lilian, he sat beside the girl. "I'm sorry." He told her. No one like her deserved her fate.

Back at the institute Will and Jem told the others that had returned about Lily. "And you just left her there?!" Charlotte said in an incredulous tone.

"I trust Magnus completely." Will said.

"As do I. If you want, Charlotte, you may go with us tomorrow morning to see her." Jem countered.

Charlotte made a flustered noise. "Yes. Well, I shall take a dress over so when she gets well she can have something."

"I'll go get one." Will announced.

Jem decided to go with him. When they got into the room the two stood there, taking in her room. It was a mess. Dresses were throw across the changing screen, books scattered across the unmade bed. The sheets were balled up, curled around a spot. Her other things were scattered across the room.

The dresses they chose were her favorites. A deep blue one that had thin straps that fell of her shoulders, with a thick white sash around the waist. The next one was Lily's dark green one with long sleeves and a high neck line. Will and Jem tried to put the room back into some order. Soon both stood at the foot of the bed, worried out of their minds for their Lily. Needless to say that when Charlotte told them to go to bed they both curled up at opposite ends of Lily's bed, trying to keep her as close as possible.

Magnus shut the door behind Charlotte Branwell, James Carstairs, and William Herondale as they left his home. It was an hour before eight at night. He laid the dresses they had given him over a chair and took up residence in the chair that was beside the couch Lily hadn't left. She hadn't even moved. Her breathing was slow. She was dying, and Magnus knew it. The human Camille had sent over stood in the corner, silent. A few minutes later her breathing stopped. She was dead. Magnus silently picked her up and ordered the human to go outside with him, into the back yard.

Magnus laid Lilian in the hole that had been dug, it was shallow but it would do. The human covered her and stepped back. "Now what, Mr. Bane?"

Magnus clutched his hands in front of him and got a firm footing. "Now we wait." He said in a grave tone.

Half an hour later the dirt was peeled away, Lilian Carstairs rose, as a vampire. Magnus could tell the difference immediately. Her skin had become a milky white, she looked thinner then she had been, if it was possible. Her curls had become fuller, longer, and were tangled. And her facial features had become prettier, she had been given the gift of beauty to lure her pray in. There were shadows under her black eyes. Her once blue dress was covered with dirt, the skirt ripped. She was a vampire.

Lily PoV:

My eyes adjusted quickly. I found Magnus and a boy. My eyes narrowed as I found the blood pulsing in the boy's neck. I darted out, sending him and I to the ground. My teeth, no my fangs, sunk into his neck and the warm blood slipped into my mouth. It was amazing. I didn't know what I was doing. It was an instinct. I drank, then released my hold and stood up. As I stared down at the boy I realized his eyes were glazed over, his sin pale, dead. I had killed a boy.

I stumbled backwards, crying out in horror. Yelping as I realized what I had done. What had I become? What was I?

"Lily, you are okay." My head wiped around to find Magnus Bane with his arms out in front of him.

My hands found the forearms of the other one, as if I was trying to clutch the life out of myself. I felt hot tears coming out of my eyes. "I've killed him. I've killed him! I've done murder." I said, almost screaming.

"Lily, calm down. You will be okay." Magnus tried to coax me.

"How can you say that? I just killed a boy!" Then I realized my heart wasn't beating. I connected everything. I was a va…a vamp…a vampire.

I fell to the ground, sobbing. "I'm a disgrace. If I was a better Shadowhunter I wouldn't be like this. I'm a killer. I'm a murderer!" I said, weeping.

"Lily, I will help you. I want to help you." I met Magnus' eyes. "Really?" I asked, a quiver in my voice.

"Yes. I do. I want to. Now, first, you need more blood. Here, I had Camille bring some over."

He held out a bottle full of a red liquid, blood. I took it and drank it, drank another, three bottles. Magnus held out a handkerchief and I wiped blood from the corners of my mouth. "Next, I need to teach you how to act like a vampire, if you want to be even be a little bit accepted in the vampire community."

I sucked in the cool night air and stopped my tears. "Okay, okay. First though, before you teach me, I need to tell my brother, only my brother."

He seemed confused at that. "What about William?"

I shook my head. "I can count on Jem not to attack me." That made both of us smile.

"Okay, Lily, I'll send for him in the morning, now let's get inside. It's freezing."

We did go inside and thankfully Magnus had done away with the body with a flick of his wrist. I looked down at my tattered dress. "Uh, may I change?"

Magnus gestured to a room at the end of his hall. "That is your room. You can stay here for as long as you need."

I darted forward and gave him a hug. "Thank you." I said before I grabbed the dresses I saw and darted down the hall.

I changed into the blue one. I found Magnus standing in the parlor, looking at his bookshelf. "Magnus?"

He had pulled three books off the shelfs. "First, your posture. It would make the queen cry. Chin up, shoulders back."

I obeyed and he placed a book on my head. "So, we're going this route?" I asked as I adjusted to the book on my head.

"Yes, we are. No walk back and forth." I did.

I held my arms out trying to keep my balance. "Magnus, why are we doing this?"

He stood from the chair he was sitting in and stopped me. The book fell of my head and Magnus caught it.

"I know that if a Nephilim gets Changed, they are usually considered a disgrace. And I know that you are a kind girl. I want to help you try to act like another vampire, so possibly other Children of the Night don't think you're a disgrace to them. And just to be clear, I don't think you're a disgrace." He told me with a small smile.

I thought about his words. I was already a disgrace in the Shadowhunter society. I would try my hardest not to be a disgrace of a vampire.

I took the book from Magnus' hands and place it on my head. "It is going to be a long night."

I paced the parlor the next morning. Jem would be here at ten. It was nine fifty two. Ten minutes later, I froze as my new hearing picked up the sound of carriage wheels. I heard the door squeak open, then I heard foot step coming up the walk way. "Magnus, why did you only call for me?" I heard his voice.

I was facing away from the door, away from the window where brilliant light streamed in. "Lily! You're healed!" James said.

No I wasn't! I WAS A VAMPIRE! "Magnus, would you give James and I a moment alone?" I asked, carefully.

"Of course." Magus said and I heard his fading footsteps.

"Lily, aren't you going to say 'hello'?"

I took a deep breath. "James, I need you to be open minded. I need you to not jump to conclusions. I need you not to think poorly of me. I need you to stay calm. I need you to swear not to tell anyone until I'm ready." I said, still facing away from him.

He took a step closer. "Lily, you're scaring me." I looked down at my shoes.

"Swear?" I asked.

"I swear." He said.

I tucked my hair behind my ears, let my fangs out, and then, I turned to face my brother.

He gasped. His eyes filled with fear, horror. He took a step back. "Magnus! What have you done?! What have you done to my sister?!" Magnus appeared, blocking me from him.

"James, I know this is sudden but let me explain!" He begged as my brother walked backwards.

"James, please! Let us explain!" Magnus continued to beg.

This wouldn't work. I retracted my fangs, darted forward and clasped Jem by the shoulders and looked into his eyes.

"James, remember our first day in London. Remember when I was scared, and you said that they would love me no matter what. That you would. Remember? Please. Just let us explain." I whispered to him, staring into his silver eyes.

"Lily, you look as if you should be dead." He whispered.

"Well, I am." I told him back. "Let me explain." I said again. He didn't say anything so I took that as an advantage.

"When we were fighting vampires at DeQuiency's blood splashed in my mouth without my knowledge and I swallowed it. The change was slow because I was a Nephilim. I died last night." I told him about what I had done to the boy. "Forgive me. I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't want to tell Will because I thought he would attack me. And I love you the most."

I say it quickly.

Jem stood in silence. "And I love you." He pulled me to his chest and I wrapped my arms around him, not too tight though. "And you are completely wrong about Will. Please, come home. Tell them. We all miss you terribly, especially Will and I. Come home now." He said to me in quite voice.

"I can't right now." I said with a smile.

"I'll come back tonight. I promise, but I'm bringing Will. You need to explain to him, before everyone else." Jem told me, looking me in the eye.

"I'll see you both tonight then."

Nine o'clock. That's was when they were supposed to be there. I had gone through two bottles of blood that afternoon. I paced silently. "Stop pacing, you'll ruin your shoes." Magnus said. "And fix your posture."

I did. I stopped in front of the fire place, my skirts swinging slightly around my ankles. My ears perked up when I heard the wheels of a carriage pull up. I faced the door as Magnus opened it. Will stood there in his glory.

I stood froze. Jem came forward and stepped in front of me. "Will, meet Lily, the new Lily."

Will laughed. "The new Lily? What happened? Is she a vampire or something?" He said it, jokingly.

I almost sobbed. "Will, don't say things like that." Jem chastised him.

I sighed. "Will, be open minded. Don't judge me too harshly." I said in a quiet tone.

I brought out my fangs and turned around quickly. Will started back, reaching inside his jacket. Jem stepped in front of me. I stared at Will, retracting my fangs.

"Will, think rationally." Jem said.

Will brought out his sword. "Will, please!" I cried.

"Jem, why do you believe her? She is clearly someone pretending to be her! She's deceiving you." Will said.

I felt tears well up in my eyes. "Magnus, now." I said. My friend appeared out of nowhere and locked his arms around Will, making him drop is sword. I rushed to him and encircled my fingers around his wrists. I whispered in his ear.

"Will, what happened to the boy who sat in the corner of my bedroom the first few nights I was here because I was scared? Or the boy who broke the Lightworm's arms for laughing at me? Or the boy who gave me my dagger? Or the man who declared he loved me by standing on top of the dining table? Please, Will. Let us all explain. Please." I begged.

"Lily?" He asked.

I explained everything, and when I finished, I told Magnus to let him go. Then he hugged me tight. "Oh, Lily, I'm sorry."

"Don't be. I'll get through this."

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