I don't own city of bones, I'm only rewriting it with Ash in it, I own Ash and nobody else-imadivergentshadowhunter
Chapter 2: Burns and Blood
***********************Ash's P.O.V**************************
The fire jumped from puddle to puddle, only coming closer. Her eyes now burned from the heat of the fire, she couldn't move, she tried to run; but it was as if she were paralyzed. Ash felt two hands close on her arms; it seemed that was all she needed, she stumbled back a few feet, then ran, and ran, and kept on running, and she didn't look back.
************************Isabelle's P.O.V********************** lsabelle pulled the handle of the fire-extinguisher one more time, sending another spray of white powder over the shattered remains of the oil lamp,
"I think that's enough, Izzy." Said Alec
"Yeah, I guess," agreed Isabelle, nodding "Anyway, what's wrong with Ash?"
"I don't know," said Alec, "she ran when I tried to pull her away from the fire."
"We better go find her though," said Jace, "I've never seen her like that, she was scared, and the funny thing was that she was showing it."
"We'd also better clean up that glass and oil, before someone steps in it." Said Isabelle, pulling a dustpan out of the closet along with a bucket and mop.
"How are we gonna clean up the oil," said Alec, "Because we can't just mop it up."
Ash would have said "thank you Captain Obvious" Thought Isabelle.
"I don't know, but I'll get the glass." Said Isabelle, getting onto her knees and starting to pick up the bigger chunks of glass and putting them in the bucket.
"You said she was showing emotions." Asked Alec.
"Yes, I did." Replied Jace.
"Ash was showing emotions!"Said Alec, with a slight laugh in his voice.
"You know," said Isabelle, "what if we put a fireproofing rune on a cloth, than we could probably use it to sop up the oil."
"Are you sure that was Ash?"Asked Alec, who clearly wasn't paying attention to Isabelle.
"Guys!"
"What do you think?" Replied Jace (Who wasn't paying any attention either) "I mean, we've only known each other for seven years, Alec; I guess it is possible I could mistake her for Church."
"GUYS!" Isabelle shouted
"WHAT!" Jace shouted back, "BECAUSE APEARANTLY WE'RE ALL SHOUTING NOW!"
"If we put a fireproofing rune on a cloth, than we can use that to sop up the oil!"
"Ok, who's gonna do that?"
"I figure you can do that, Jace." She said, throwing a towel at him
"It's already marked." She told him, as he started to reach for his stele.
"I'll go find Ash…" said Alec, slowly heading to the door.
"Oh no you aren't! You are going to help me clean up this mess!" said Isabelle, getting to her feet.
"Ok…I guess I'll do that then…" he said, coming back into the room.
"I'll go; I'm done anyway." Said Jace
"Good luck, she's so small she could hide in a mouse hole." Alec said
"I'll remember to ask Church to check the mouse holes, but he might campout at the first one with a real mouse instead of look for her." said Jace.
************************Ash's P.O.V*************************
The Swiss army knife was now warm from her constant touch. As she rolled it back and forth in her palms, she relived the worst day of her life over and over again in her mind; she could remember the feeling of the smoke in her lungs and eyes, the feeling of the fire as it caught up to her and burned the backs of her legs, and how the pain in her heart was so great she felt nothing. Glass had cut into her legs after the windows exploded from the heat, she hadn't felt that either, nor had she felt the blood; slowly trickling down the sides of her legs.
Her parents died that day. The fire was too hot, to fast, for even them. The grass had been to dry, the fire had spread to fast for her to out run it, she'd seen the charred skeleton of the house after expecting to come home from the market, she'd seen the burned skeletons of her mom and dad and ran, she knew that was what they would have wanted, not for her to risk her life for their bodies.
It had been a demonic fire, no other fire could have burned so hot or so fast.
"Ash, You in here?" came Jace's voice from behind a flowering bush.
"Yeah, I'm here." She said, now whittling a thick vine into a mini-kayak. "How'd you find me?"
"You're practically my sister, Ash; I know you." He said, "And besides, you always come up here."
They were in the greenhouse, far up above the rest of the institute.
"Not in summer I don't; unless it's to see the Elenyia flower bloom, I guess… No one else comes up here ever anyway; it's a good place to go if you ever want to be alone, there are some flowers that bloom at midnight to; they're pretty, and they glow to."
She was now whittling a little person to hold the paddle and sit in the kayak.
"Well, Isabelle put the fire out. Anyway, what got into you?"
And she launched into an explanation of how her parents died and the fire and how she'd been scared of uncontrolled fires ever since,
"And that's how I got these." She showed him the warped skin on the back of her legs, "The fire caught up to me. I didn't feel it though; I only felt pain and loss. After that I ran to the institute."
"Wow," he was looking at the warped skin on the backs of her legs, "So that's why you showed up. Maryse told us your parents had died; she didn't say anything else though.
"I asked her not to; I knew you guys would find out eventually, but I didn't want you to know yet."
"I get that, I only told Isabelle and Alec about how my father died two years after it happened."
"We'd better go down soon." She said
"Yeah we probably should."
And they walked back to the infirmary.
"But you always seemed so interested in fire; I never would have guessed you were scared of it." He said.
"I am interested in it; I'm just scared of out of control fires."
"But the one in the infirmary was tiny! This big!" he said, pinching his fingers together so they were only about a half inch apart.
"Ok, I seriously doubt it was that small!" She said laughing
"Ok, fine, maybe it was a little bigger than that."
"Hell yeah it was! And you mean a lot bigger!
She bumped her fist into his shoulder.
"OW!" he said "Ash!"
"Oh come on, Jace; I did not punch you that hard!"
************************Alec's P.O.V************************
Jace and Ash walked in, Jace was rubbing his shoulder and Ash was laughing; she laughed a lot, lots of times she would burst out in fits of laughter at random times for no reason. Jace smacked her on the back of the head ("Ow." She said) making her head drop forward and forcing her to stop laughing for a few seconds (After which she resumed laughing)
Alec started towards Jace, "What happe-"
"She," Jace said, pointing towards Ash, "Punched me!"
"Oh come on! Alec," she said turning towards him, "it was more like this."
She punched him hard on the left arm,
"Oww!" he said
"Exactly what I said!" said Jace
"Ok, fine, maybe I did punch you a little hard."
Hi everybody! I will post another new chapter ASAP, hope you like this one, the next will probably be better, thanks for reading. Bye!