When I'm Missing You

Chapter 2

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It was weeks until I saw her again. It was February, a few days before Valentine's Day and I was in the shopping centre, buying roses and chocolates for Clary. She always loved Valentine's Day, although I never really understood it. Nowadays, it was just a way for the big companies to scam money out of you. Stupid and useless. I can show her love any day of the year. What made the 14th of February so special?

The shop I was in was packed with people rushing to buy presents for their loved ones. It was as I was leaving that I saw her from the corner of my eye, pushing elegantly through the throngs of people. Her black hair was in a messy bun, and her shirt and pants were black, and deliciously figure-hugging. Her shoes were high enough to kill, and her eyes were determined. I turned completely and began to follow her, shoving and pushing my way through the crowds, suddenly overcome by the need to see her, and talk to her. Ask her name, learn her story.

Find out the secrets hidden in her eyes.

I was close, separated only by a few people. She stopped suddenly, and whipped around, her eyes widening when she saw me. I stopped too, allowing the crowds to bustle and shove past me without a care.

And then her eyes slid past me, narrowing once again into determination. I took a step forward, hand extended, not really sure what I intended to do.

But then there was a flash and a sudden surge of people and she was gone.

Just…gone.

O.o

I was in a mundane shopping centre, gliding through the suffocating crowds as if immune to their sweaty, harassed atmosphere. I didn't want to be here, of course, but there had been some demon activity here recently and I had to draw whatever stinking filth was in here out into the alley where Alec was waiting. A tingly a sensation had gone up my spine, the kind you get when you know you're being watched and even worse when you know you're being followed.

I whipped around, my hand moving to rest on my weapons belt, prepared to knock any unwanted company senseless –

When I saw him. The golden boy from across the street. His hair was tousled, a bunch of red roses in one hand, a box of chocolates in the other. He stopped walking when I did, his gold lion's eyes wide with surprise and recognition.

But that was not possible.

A sudden, alien movement caught my eyes, forcing me to look away from the golden boy. There, in the corner between one stall and another stood a demon. In human form, obviously. I shoved my surprise and uneasiness away, settling back into Shadowhunter mode. I ignored him when I saw the golden boy start forward and instead pulled a seraph blade from my belt, although it was not my weapon of choice. Muttering its name, I escaped in the bright flash of angelic white light that exploded from the awakened blade.

I disappeared.

Because he was just a mundane.

And I had demons to kill.

Ta da! chapter two is up (obviously) hope you enjoy :D

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