Avenge the Shadows (I)

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CHARLOTTE'S POV

When I was in New York, Mama Lightwood would always spend Mother's Day at the institute and tried to keep Jace and I as busy as she could get us just for us to not think in our mothers. As Jace missed the fact that he never really spent a day like this with his mother, I felt bad for not knowing mine enough to know she was bad news. Since the moment I was born, I was loved and we as a family liked to believe that we were always honest with each other, but turned out that the only one honest in that family was me. I swore by the Angel that I worshipped how cool my parents were that up until now, I felt hurt for leaving me. In those days, I felt like the pity work of the family and I would usually stay in bed all day. I missed my mom. It was not something I paid too much attention, but on Mother's Day you were supposed to think on your mom. Even if she was stupid enough to follow the one guy that had lost on his previous revolution.

Evelyn saw that I was not myself, so she immediately took me off duty and as Cath looked at me after that, I just opened a portal to the cemetery back in New York. As my parents had died following Valentine's last revolt, they were not allowed to be buried on the City of Bones. Both of my parents were there like mundanes and I just laid down, imagining that they were holding me, that mom was caressing my hair as my dad was holding my hand. Their mistake never made me love them less, but I just missed them a lot. "I knew I'd find you here." Maryse said from a tree nearby and walked towards me. "Who told you I was here?" I groaned; I really was looking forward to be alone. "This is the most obvious place you could have chosen, Charlie. You wanted to be found." I stayed quiet after that because her words were logical. "I just came here to tell you that I'm proud of you and that no matter what you do, I will always love you."

She dismissed my question and I went to hug her and just stayed there as she caressed my hair, just like my mom did at some point. We stayed like that for the longest time and once I felt better, I sighed. "Are you going to be okay?" She asked and I nodded, all I needed was her motherly love and caress. She left after that and I left a few minutes later back to London. "Dude." Catherine said and I just nodded. "I know, I'm sorry." She just sighed and we both walked to the Greenhouse. "My mom was the best." I started and Catherine just looked at me. "Her cooking was amazing and we always watched movies and sang mundane music. She tried to give me the best of both words and I appreciate that, because all that made me the woman I am now." Catherine nodded and we both looked at the sky. It was getting darker and the first stars were shining, I liked to pretend my parents were shining on me, but I knew they were not.

"I don't remember my parents or anything about my family to be honest, but a part of me wants to find out and the other begs me to leave it like that." Her words made me realize that I was being selfish and I did not know how to apologize for that. "I'm such an idiot!" I said and Catherine just frowned. "I've been acting miserable because I miss my mom and you are going through so much worse!" Catherine smiled and just bumped her shoulder with mine. "I'm okay. I've always been motherless or better said, family-less." The fact that she could joke about it made me feel even worse. "That's the thing though." I started after a little bit. "You're not alone. Now you have me." Catherine sighed and cuddled closer to me. "We have a ring to prove it." We both laughed at that and just kept joking about this day, it was way better to laugh it off than be sad and cry about it. So, we looked at the silver lining of our day. The following day we sneaked out and portaled to Paris.

Adele was having a concert and we both were kind of obsessed with her voice and lyrics. None of us had been really in love, but the songs made you feel the pain and take it as your own. Leon was so confused and he just tried to babysit us. We still had the imminent threat of us being taken by the Clave, so Leon was pretty much with us at every single second of the day.

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