Shadowhunter Stories

Chapter 6

Leksi felt quite awkward in the silver dress. It reminded her of Annabeth. She and Annabeth both bought this dress but never actually wore it besides in their rooms in the institute. Leksi was glad that the dress still fit but felt a little uncomfortable, since the fabric was really tight. It showed off her slim figure and small hips. When she left her room she already saw Elijah waiting in front of the stairs. He was wearing a v-neck shirt and a jacket with wide shoulders and golden buttons in the front. He looked at Leksi surprised and speechless. 
„Is that fancy enough?", she asked and blushed when she looked into his eyes.
He only nodded. He had never seen her this pretty and until now he thought there wasn't even a way she could look even better than before. 
They headed down the stairs and towards the door.
„Where are you two going?", interrupted them a voice. Elijah's mom stood in the kitchens doorframe and watched them.
„You don't have to care.", Elijah said and opened the front door. He waved with his hand so Leksi went outside. 
„Just walk!", he said and pushed Leksi forward. He gave Leksi her coat and put his own on. 
„Isn't she coming after us?", Leksi wanted to know. It was really cold outside. The house of the Blackthorn's lay a little outside the city. No lights lighted the surroundings. It was so dark that Leksi could barely see the street. 
„No she won't.", Elijah said. He didn't seem to be in a good mood. 
„Where are we going now?", Leksi then asked. They headed the street upwards.

The sun vanished in the distance. The view over the city was mind-blowing. Leksi even stopped and starred at the little gleaming light points. 
„We're just going a little farther from the house so I can open a portal.", Elijah said, waiting for Leksi to move on. He ripped her out of her overpowering: „Open what?", she gasped. 
„Open a portal, so we can leave.", he said as if it was nothing strange about that.
„How can you do that? Nobody can open a portal.", Leksi determined. 
Elijah smiled at her and denoted to continue walking. 
„Since it was quite hard to get out and most particularly into Alicante the Council let Warlocks come up with some kind of spell that allowed steles create portals. You know the entire existing of portals we owe warlocks.", he explained.
„Are you serious about this?", Leksi asked. She couldn't believe what he just said and had never heard of anything like that.
„Indeed. The steles of the Council were marked so they could open a temporarily portal. It made the communication between the institute heads much easier." Elijah had shoved his hands inside his pockets wandering up the street.
„Well, if it's true what you say, then how come you have a stele like that?" 
„It's my fathers stele.", he said. His voice became softer. He looked down on the road. „When he died...", he began another sentence. Then took a deep breath as if he was about to start crying and swallowed down the tears. „A friend of mine took his stele. He told the Council he couldn't find it and...", he abruptly stopped talking. 
Leksi heard her own footsteps on the street. The night was so quietly. The sun had already set but because of the snow she was still able to see everything. After a long pause Elijah continued: „Well, he kept the stele and gave it to me on my eighteenth birthday."
„And the Council doesn't notice you using it?", she wanted to know. She decided not to talk too much about the dead father subject since she noticed how hard it was for Elijah to even speak about him. She was wondering if anybody knew that Elijah's dad had died. It was mostly known in the shadowhunters world when someone died. Even though you won't recognize any of the names. But on an academy with lots of students, somebody must have noticed the relation. 
„Traveling with a spelled portal doesn't affect the shields.", he said. „Here we are."
Elijah stopped in front of a brick wall. It seemed to be an old ruin of a huge house that must have been there. 
„You ready?", he asked and had his smile back on his face.
„Always. Show me some magic!", Leksi laughed. 
Elijah pulled his stele out his pocket and began to draw a rune onto the rock. Leksi stepped back when the rune began to shimmer in an awkward light. It started to swirl in itself and a watery whole appeared on the wall.
„This is so weird.", she said still not believing what she was seeing.
„It won't be open for long so we have to go.", he said.
„Is that save?", she asked and rose her eyebrows. 
„Just try and think of nothing.", Elijah said. He took her hand and pulled her towards the portal.
„You're hand is freezing.", he determined. 
„Sorry.", Leksi answered but couldn't concentrate on anything else but the swirling something in front of her.
„When we jump through the portal you have to hold my hand. Don't let go. No matter what happens don't let go.", he said.
„Why?", Leksi wanted to know.
„Because you don't know the place I'am taking us and it would probably rip us apart.", he said and tried to sound as calm as possible.
„Just admit this is just another way to be close to me.", Leksi grinned at him.