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"Well that's not good."

"Magnus!" she cried again and ran over putting her arms around the warlocks waist, holding on for dear life.

Every head in the entrance hall snapped around in shock.

"Well this is interesting" Simon put in.

"What's going on?" Alec questioned looking just as confused as everyone else.

"I honestly have no idea" Magus said removing the girl from himself and bending down to her height putting his hands on her shoulders, he said very carefully "Do you know where you are, cupcake?"

She shook her head.

"Ok, well this is going to be a long day" standing up he spoke to the room at large "Come on, we may as well sit down"

They walked to the dining room, and sat down.

"Why is it every time we have a group discussion it feels like knights of the round table?" Jace asked in an offhand tone.

Nobody answered so Magnus turned to the girl and said "I think it's time you told everyone who you are, don't you think sweetheart?"

She began to shake her head violently.

"The sooner you tell us, the sooner we know how you got here, the sooner we can figure out how to get you home" he said encouragingly.

She looked down at the table and began in a small voice "My name is Lucie Herondale, I'm ten years old, my mother is Tessa Herondale, my father is William Herondale and my brother is James Herondale, I live in the London Institute"

There was a murmuring around the table but Magus silenced them with a look "What was the date when you left?"

"25th December 1886"

This time the murmuring became louder and louder.

Her small voice managed to cut everyone else "Am I in the New York Institute? That's where mother said you went Magnus."

When Magnus failed to answer Clary Said kindly "Yes, darling"

Lucie didn't look impressed by being addressed as darling by a strange girl, even if that girl had Henry's red hair. The boy who stayed close to Magnus looked remarkably like her father and the sarcastic golden boy defiantly had her brothers eyes. This is so confusing she thought.

Seeing her disorientation Alec took pity and said steadily "Do you want to know the date now?"

Her eyebrow drew down but she nodded regardless "Please"

"It's the 1st January 2013"

Her mouth fell open, her eyes going wide "How?!"

Magnus rolled his eyes at his boyfriend and addressed Lucie "I was hoping you could tell us that. Tell me what you were doing before you were here"

Taking a deep breath she started "Well obviously I was at the Christmas party, and James said we should play hide and seek. So I decided to hide in Henry's experiment room –"

She was interrupted by Magnus groaning and she said quickly "I know, I know I'm not supposed to be in there. But I thought it would be the last place James would look. Anyway I saw this weird rune on the wall, kind of like the portal rune but different like the one mother makes, you know?"

Most heads turned to Clary as she said "Make runes? Your mother can make runes too?"

"Too?" Lucie said puzzled.

Magnus raised a hand to stop Clary replying "We can get to that later, please continue"

"Um…well I touched it" then with a touch of panic "I don't know why I just did and then the portal materialised and pulled me in, but when I came out the other side nothing looked very different, apart from the fact I came out into my room you see, but it was not quite my room at the same time and then he walked in" she said indicating Jace.

"Well it is my room" Jace said brazenly.

"Not really , nobody really owns anything in an Institute as it is owned by the Clave, we are just it's keepers" Alec added unnecessarily.

Both Lucie and Jace rolled their eyes at the same time, making everyone stare.

"Let me see your hands"

Lucie presented her hands to Magnus palms up. Everyone leaned in to see that her palms had been scrapped up, dried blood congealed there.

"Ah" Magnus said as softly if this explained everything.

"I fell on the way down the stairs to the experiment room" she said defensively.

"That would explain it"

"Well I'm glad that's all sorted, now we all understand what happened, yay!" Simon said happily.

Alec gave him a disgusted look and turned to Magnus "What's happened?"

"Well" the warlock said in an animated voice "It seems that the rune Tessa created was dormant in the lab, but when Lucie's unique mixture of shadowhunter and warlock blood touched it, it reacted and woke up the power within the rune"

Ignoring the shadowhunter and warlock blood mixture comment Jace asked "What do we do now?"

"Lucie could you take us to where you can through?"

"Certainly" she said politely.

They all followed the small girl up to Jace's room when she flung open the wardrobe doors, and there was the portal.

"You never told us you had the way to Narnia" Simon said to Jace.

Clary elbowed him painfully in the ribs, and Jace laughed. The noise was cut off abruptly as the portal began to pulse.

"Someone's coming through" Alec said to no one in particular, as they all stood waiting for their next guest to come through.