Chapter 15: Growing Suspicions
As Lily grew, so did her beauty. By the age of 4, her mint green hair was waist length, it was decorated with white and lilac lilies, and she was 3ft tall. Magnus and Alec saw no harm in letting her wear the mysterious bracelet that she had since they had gotten her, if only they knew.
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Meanwhile the Seelie Queen was pacing around her private quarters, when she was interrupted by Meliorn at the door, looking more pissed off than normal. "My queen, why don't you just go over there and get your daughter, our princess, back?" He said with concern in his voice.
"Because it would be against the deal, and would only mean war between us and the shadow hunters. No I will wait for the child to come to me!" the queen said while still pacing, Meliorn following her with his eyes which made him rather sea sick.
"But my queen, how will she find you? How do you know that she will even try?"
"It is destiny! Now leave me!" And with that Meliorn left, not wanting to upset his queen any further.
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After 4 years Magnus and Alec thought they could handle everything life threw at them while they had Lily with them, but when the problem was Lily, they didn't know what to do because they didn't want to turn Lily against them because they were really happy when Lily was with them, but just recently Lily seemed to be getting into a lot of trouble.
It started off with her first word.
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Lily was 18 months old. Everyone one was sat in the living room and Lily was on the floor, playing with her favourite toy, Chairman Meow. Magnus and Alec were snuggled up on the couch, which had changed once again, along with the rest of the furniture, to a pastel lilac colour. Then all of a sudden Lily stopped playing and sat up, looked around and hissed "Demon" and then went right back to playing with Chairman Meow as if nothing had happened. Alec and Magnus were left gobsmacked as they sat on the couch staring wide eyed at Lily, who was now wiggling her finger in front of the cat's nose.
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Then came her first steps.
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Alec was in the kitchen, sipping his coffee, which was in his favourite mug, Magnus had taken Lily to Paint-Your-Own and she made Alec a mug with splotches of different coloured paint around it but Alec liked it any way because it was made with love. Magnus and Lily were in the living room, then Alec heard Magnus take a sharp breath, Alec put the mug on the table and went to the door on looking the living room and saw it, Lily walking towards the kitchen. Alec crouched down so that Lily could walk into his arms but she went straight passed him and to the table, where Alec's half empty mug was and she drank it then plopped down on her bum and pretended nothing happened.
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Now weirder things were happening, Lily was constantly shouting "Demon." And running around the apartment and to be truthful Magnus and Alec were worried about her, although Maryse kept trying to convince them that it was just a faze and she would get over it, it still didn't stop them from worrying. Then on her fifth birthday she didn't something unthinkable.
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It was Lily's fifth birthday, the living room was all decorated in purples and pinks, lilac balloons covered the floor and all the guests had arrived, all wearing party hats, someone, and Magnus suspected Jace, had even put a party hat on Chairman Meow, so he was going round trying to knock it off and of course everyone found this very entertaining. Magnus had dressed Lily up in her favourite party dress, the white one with little hearts stitched on it and he had styled her hair with lilies in it and waves flowing down her back. Now it was time to open up her presents, Magnus and Alec got her lots of things but her favourite was a delicate silver necklace with her name on it surrounded by hearts and flowers. Maryse had got her new clothes to add to her collection of many. Isabelle had got Lily her very first set of makeup ("your never too young to learn how to doll yourself up." Was her reply to the narrowed looks she received) Jace had got her a doll and Clary had gotten her a book, Do penguins wear suits?
For some reason Lily didn't like Clary very much and as soon as she received her present Lily looked at it with disgust plain on her face for all to see and then she held it in her hands very tight and all of a sudden the book had burst into flames. Everyone panicked but Lily just sat there staring at the book and laughing at the remains, then she hissed "Demon".
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By this time Magnus was getting suspicious, maybe it was the Seelie Queen messing with Lily, but then he sat down and thought about it. Warlocks are half demon and half human and faeries are half angel and half demon, which would make Lily, ¼ human, ¼ angel and 2/4 demon.