(THE EXPEDITION)
The carriage is long and bumpy. Jessamine reaches out and tries to talk to Jem. "So what was it like living in Shang-hi?"
Surprised by Jessamine's question, Jem takes a moment to respond. "Well, I remember the streets being very crowded, most even more crowded than the streets in London. My mom was worried she would loose me in the crowd, so she always kept a tight hold on my hand, and told me that it was very important that I not let go."
"She was just worried about you."
"I know. I miss her so much. Not a day goes by that I don't think about my parents. I am really nervous about going back. I don't really know what it will be like to go back and them not be there. I have not been in the Institute since they passed..."
Jessamine could relate to Jem's feelings. She missed her parents to. They were in almost every thought she had, All she wanted to do was live up to the expectations they had for her and to not let them down. She found herself beginning to trust Jem. Something she thought she would never be able to do. Jem was a Shadowhunter and she was not supposed to trust Shadowhunters. They were nothing but a life of death and destruction. All her life she had just wanted to live normal, anything but the Shadowhunter life. Still Jem was not all that bad, he was nice and sweet and caring. Tessa was lucky to have him.
Over the next week the two of them started opening up too each other. They would talk about their parents, and their old lives, but they would also talk about things like hobbies and interests. They began to understand each other, and against all odds a strange connection began to spark between them that neither one of them could understand. They found that they understood each other in ways that nobody else did.