The Shadow Witch [Shadowhunters]

Prologue

Prologue

It all started when a young 20-something shadowhunter met a seemingly nice guy at a bar in London while on a mission. What the shadowhunter had failed to notice was that the guy had slipped something in her drink, something that made it possible for a shadowhunter to carry a demon's child.

As you might have figured out by now the guy was a demon, but not just any demon, it was Asmodeus himself glamoured to look like some random guy. He wanted a powerful being that he could raise and control. Fortunately his plan failed as a team of shadowhunters managed to send him back to hell, though unfortunately, they were just a couple days too late and his one-night-stand had already fallen pregnant.

The young shadowhunter, named Lavinia Whitelaw after her great grandmother, had recently joined the circle which was still just a small movement located in Idris. Their goal was to protect mundanes from demons and downworlders all over the world and their seemingly great ideology is what made them grow at such a rapid pace.

Lavinia still had no idea that the one-night-stand from now almost 3 months ago had been the demon Asmodeus, but she did however suspect that it had gotten her pregnant. She decided to end her deployment in London and went back to Idris so she could be more involved with the circle and tend to the pregnancy.

Even after she had given birth to her beautiful baby-girl on June 6th 1989, Lavinia never revealed who the father was. Mostly because she herself could barely remember, but also because she was still pretty sure it had been a mundane and that was unacceptable as it was important to keep the shadowhunter bloodline pure.

The name her daughter got was Amelia Whitelaw and it was them against the world as Lavinia climbed in rank within the circle. It wasn't until Amelia turned five that she started showing signs of magic. By that time the circle had started to get more radical and Lavinia knew that they couldn't stay, as they would want to kill her daughter for her impurities, if they ever found out what she was. So in 1994, Lavinia and her daughter fled from the circle and hid in San Francisco, USA.

After faking a backstory and creating new last names it was actually pretty easy to hide as the years went by. Especially since not many people even knew that Lavinia had a daughter. The only people that knew were Lavinia's parents and her closest friends, Maryse and Robert Lightwood. As a matter of fact, Lavinia and Maryse had been parabatai since they were 18. It had broken The Lightwoods hearts to learn that Lavinia had left, but even though the couple didn't know exactly why she left, they knew it was for a good reason.

From the beginning they had always had a plan for if anything were to happen, anything that would leave Amelia on her own, and unfortunately that came into use just about two and a half months after Amelia's 16th birthday.

While the daughter had been in school, a team of circle members had managed to find where Lavinia had been hiding all these years. She knew that there wasn't enough time to cover their tracks and escape, so she chose to do the thing that would give her daughter the best chance of survival.

Lavinia dosed as much of the apartment as she could in gasoline, knowing that almost all of their neighbours were out of the building. She got out her seraph blade and lit a match, dropping it in the gasoline just as the circle members burst through the door. Lavinia fought them off for as long as she could, so that the fire would have time to cover the tracks of her daughter's existence, and even though she managed to erase all the evidence, it came with the price of Lavinia's life.

5 Hours later, when Amelia got home, she saw the burnt down apartment and knew what had happened. Her mother had told her that it might come to this, and she had given Amelia very precise instructions on what to do in the event of a situation like it.

While going into a state of numbness, Amelia left the building without a second glance. She managed to get the money that her mother had stashed in a safety box across town and then she went straight to San Francisco International airport. Amelia got the first ticket to New York using some of the money she got from the stash. All she knew now is that there was one person she had to find, and that was Magnus Bane.

It wasn't hard to find him once Amelia landed in New york. All she needed to do was look for any random downworlder and ask, it's easy when you know what to look for. The hardest part was to try and explain to Magnus exactly who she was and what had happened.

After explaining that Asmodeus was most likely her father and showing Magnus her warlock mark, he agreed to take her in. He taught Amelia magic and helped her train to be a shadowhunter, even though she planned to never get involved in their business. Lavinia had never kept Amelia's heritage a secret from her, although she was more about suppressing the child's power rather than learning to control it.

Most shadowhunters were prejudiced when it came to downworlders so Amelia wanted to stay away from shadowhunters as much as possible. Partly because she didn't agree with their values, but also because the shadowhunter and warlock hybrid was afraid of what would happen if people found out what she was.

4 Years after meeting Magnus, he introduces Amelia to Dot and they quickly become good friends. Sometimes Dot would take her to the antique store where she worked. There Amelia got to meet Jocelyn and her daughter Clary. She and Clary became pretty good friends as well, even though there was an 8 year age gap.

All of this is what brings us to now, 2015. My name is Amelia Whitelaw and this is how my story began.