Will sat in the dining room with the others. What was taking Tessa and Linette so long?
Just then she walked in with his mom.
"Sorry we are late everybody we had a dress malfunction."
"She tied my corset to tight and a fainted."
Zach, Jace, Alec and him were all laughing, but he saw his dad and Will grin trying to stifle their laughs.
"Be careful boys, I could still easily take you down in this dress."
He laughed "We'll see about that. Could we use your training room tonight?"
"I don't see why not. What are you good at?" Charlotte asked.
"Knife throwing." Both him and Linette say simultaneously.
"Well it's settled, we will have a knife throwing contest after dinner."
As they started dinner Will was thinking aloud, "Cecy loves a good knife throwing contest. I'll send a fire message to the Lightwoods."
Both Linette and Alec choked on their food. Alec took a quick smack on the back from Jace, and Linette looked as if she had seen a ghost.
Charlotte asked concerned, "Miss Blackwell are you alright."
Linette nodded, wiping her eyes with her napkin.
Alec tried to change the subject, "So Consul, what brings you London?"
"That was part of my conditions, that I work where I am, and I wouldn't move my family."
"So are all of you from New York?" Of course his mom asked, growing up in New York.
"I'm not, I grew up in Shanghai. I was only in New York for less than a week."
Will then asked, "So why did you leave?"
Linette was silent for a moment thinking, "The same reason anyone leaves anywhere, death."
Everyone was silent after that, once dinner was done they made there way up to the training room. "We have to wait for Cecy and Lightworm."
"I'm sorry, did you say Lightworm?" Alec questioned
"Yes, you see. Gabriel, my brother in law," Will said as he shivered as if the mear thought of him being realated to him was the world ending. "His father turned into a giant demonic worm."
Will snorted this was the most ridiculous he had ever heard, "That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, one just doesn't turn into a large, demonic worm."
"Unless you have Demon Pox."
Linette busted out laughing, "Ha! My mom always warned me about demon pox, I've just never heard about anyone stupid enough to contract it!"
His father gave her a look and she instantly stopped laughing, just then a group of people walked in.
A man with brown hair and green eyes walked in with a woman with black hair and deep blue eyes, Will's sister. She was holding a toddler with her coloring, followed by a boy about his age with brown hair and a young woman who the resemblance with Linette was uncanny.
"Cecy it's so good to see you! Lightworm." Will said with a wink.
The man just rolled his eyes, "So I heard the institute had guests, I am Gabriel Lightwood, and what ever this thing told you about is probably a lie and this is my wife–"
"I am perfectly capable of introducing myself, my name is Cecily and this is little Alexander." Alec shifted a little uncomfortable.
"I am Christopher and this is my older sister Anna."
Linette whispered to Will, "Can you see the family resemblance?"
Cecily spoke next, "So I heard there was a knife throwing contest, who's in."
Will looked around and saw it was only him, his father, and Linette, "Okay, your funeral."
"We'll see about that." Jem said with a grin.
They were all lined up facing the old painted target with knives in their hands. Cecily threw first, it landed inches outside the target, and she frowned.
Then Lin threw she got closer than Cecily but still not center.
He threw next and hit the bull's-eye, his father smiled at him, he then threw the knife and it landed right next to his.
"It's could to see you inherited my knife skills William."
"Any other contests before we close?"
"Archery." Alec and Gabriel said together, and then glared at each other.
"Be careful Mr. Lightwood, my uncle shot a knife out of the hand of a demon without hitting my grandmother, and he was over twenty feet away."
"That was twenty years ago, Linette. Who told you about it?"
"Aline did every time Jane tried to give up on archery."
"Jane?" Cecily asked.
"She was my sister, we were both adopted, but it didn't change anything." L
inette's hand moved up to what Will thought was going to be her Parabatai rune but instead it was to the jade pendant around her neck. Will stepped towards and put her arms around her waist, rubbing the small of her back with his thumb. She looked up at him and smiled, he kissed her on the forehead.
Will Herondale cleared his throat, "I am not sure what they teach you Americans but here we do not do public displays a affection. Engaged or not."
Jace spoke next, "Would this be a good time to tell you we are from the future?"