Magnus Bane's Daughter | Completed

2. Aspen Quin... Bane?

Here's Chapter 2! Hope you guys enjoy.

“W-What in angels name is that!” Jace shrieks. I roll my eyes, “Obviously she's a vampire Jace” Aspen laughs, while Jace glares at me. “I can see that! What I can't figure out is how does she have fangs like a vampire but magic like a warlock?!”

Aspen holds her hand up by her face, mocking a shy school girl. “I can answer that one” She laughs before continuing. “My mother was a vampire and my father was a warlock. Mommy dearest liked doing experiments and I was the only one whom survived. Sad really. There was 12 of us. Most had ghastly looking birth defects. I seemed to be the only normal looking one. So I got to hide out in the mundane world and learn the ways of both shadow and mundane worlds without anyone knowing”

Jace looked more surprised than me. Aspen just shrugged, “I guess that's my queue to leave” Then she started to walk away. I panicked, remembering my mother told me to not let Jace mess this up, that Aspen was important. “Wait. How does.. How do you… Um--” I realized I had no idea where I was going with this, I just couldn't let her go tell my mother that Jace and I let her leave.

“How do I eat, you mean?” Aspen asked with a chuckle. Sure, let's go with that.

“Yeah.. Haha uh that's what I meant”

Aspen laughed and shook her head.

Jace

“You're so funny” I groaned in annoyance, Aspen and Alec have been laughing and talking for hours. I didn't even think Alec was into girls.

He showed her around the institute and now they're in the library which is on the other side of my room, where I'm currently trying to sleep. It's like 1 in the morning!

“Alright.. We really should get some sleep now” Alec says with a laugh. Finally!

“Okay. You go, I'm going to do some…. Reading” Well that sounded suspicious.

“Okay. Goodnight” Seriously Alec? You're not even gonna question her odd behavior?

“Night” Aspen called out before Alec's door shuts loudly. I instantly get up and slide out my door and into the shadows, watching Aspen.

“You're going to have to do better than that, Shadowhunter” Aspen speaks up. I look around, thinking she taking too herself. Since she is reading a book.

“Oh please, I can hear your heart beating” I then realize my mistake and she laughs. “Never to sneak up on one of the night children”

Night children? Magnus used to call them the same thing.

“You and your parabatai think of him often don't you?”Aspen asks as I stand from my crouching position and walk towards her. She puts the book down and turns to me.

“How did you--” I go to ask how she read my thoughts but she interrupts.

“Perks of being a double downworlder. Heightened senses. I most usually ignore them, it gets quite annoying. Hearing the things men think about you, women most usually aren't as overbearing with their thoughts. But it does have it's perks, especially in battle. You can hear your opponent's strategy even before they make a move…” Aspen’s voice trails off and I think about what she says. Then it clicks.

“That's how you--” She starts laughing again. “Oh dear, Alec was right. You don't usually catch onto mundane things as quickly as you do shadow things in battle”

“Why do you talk about magnus so much?” I decide to ignore her last statement.

She smiles fondly and says “Well, I am proud of my family, what can I say”

I eyed her oddly. What does that have to do with--

“Magnus… He's my father.”

“You're- kidding… Right?” Aspen laughs and shakes her head.

“I do wish that were true.. But no, I'm serious. Of course he has no idea, because as soon as I was ready to tell him.. He disappeared” Aspen suddenly went quiet and looked down at her feet.

“Hey--” I walk over and wrap an arm around her and try to console her the best I know how. “It's alright.. We can find him” Aspen wiped the one tear that slipped out and then she laughed. “No offence, Shadowhunter but he's the High Warlock of Brooklyn. If he doesn't want to be found, then even I cannot find him”

I sighed and dropped my arm from around her. She's right, we've tired fire messages and everything else. It's like he just disappeared.

“You should get some sleep” I turn and leave, going to bed. Although I don't get much sleep, as I haven't slept very well at all lately. About 5am I hear someone sneaking around so I grab my seraph blade and go on the hunt of whatever made the sound. I groan in annoyance when I see that it's Clary sneaking into her room.

“Try to be a little more quiet next time okay? We have a guest” I hiss in annoyance. Clary jumps and spins around at the sound of my voice. “Sorry, and who's the guest?” I roll my eyes before going back to bed without even answering her.