The Parabatai Child

Chapter 2

   Julian Blackthron thought that the day was going to be the best one ever, but it turned out to be the worst day in all of his life. Julian was driving back from a meal with his family, which was meant to possibly be the last one. He took his brothers and sisters and Kit so they could be kids, even if it was not even for an hour. Kit and Livvy sat and looked at the water off of the peir. Mark, Dru, and Tavvy wanted to ride the ferris wheel. Ty and Julian went to look for a place to sit and eat the food even though everyone was doing their own thing. All Julian was thinking of was Emma. His Emma who he would hope would say yes and they would run away tonight. But as Ty was picking at his nacho's, Julian realized how much he should miss his siblings, but he didn't feel like he was going to. After 15 minutes, everyone to go back to the institute. Kit saw a duck and was pretty shooken up about that. Tavvy realized that he was afraid of heights (Dru promised that she would work with him on that because a shadowhunter could not be afraid of heights).  Livvy cut her foot on a sea shell (nothing an iratze couldn't fix). And everyone was just tired, so Julian started to drive everyone home. He realized that the institute should invest into a bigger car since Ty, Kit, and Livvy were all in the back seat, Mark and Tavvy were sharing the seat in the front seat and poor Dru had to sit in between the passenger seat and the drivers seat. It was probably a good idea to glamour the car so none of the mudane police would question why a five person car was holding seven people. About ten minutes into the drive, Julian texted Emma at a stop light that they would be back in about 20 minutes if traffic wasn't to terrible.
    As Julian was driving down the road that the institute was on, he looked up and saw Emma's window and smiled. Then something felt wrong with his parabatai rune, like he was missing something, no like he was missing two somethings. He didn't even notice the blue flash from Emma's room. He parked the car and everyone went inside, Julian was going into the kitchen to get an apple while everyone else went up to their rooms. It was weird that Emma didn't run to the door to greet them, maybe she was sleeping since she wasn't feeling good. He wanted an answer though, he wanted to hear in Emma's voice "Yes Julian, I want to leave everything to go with you. I want to get a nice house and spend the rest of our lives loving each other." But he could understand if she was feeling sick, he just wanted an answer. Everyone suddenly burst into the kitchen. They were all holding paper with their names written on it. Julian recognized the handwriting almost immediately. Why did everyone have their names in Emma's handwriting?
"Julian," Ty started. "Have you checked your room yet?" Julian saw the hurt in everyone's eyes. Except for Kit's. He looked as he was processing something and it seemed like he wanted to tell everyone, but he knew he couldn't.
   Julian sprinted to his room and threw the door open and his heart dropped. Because on his bed, was his name written in Emma's hand writing. He grabbed the note then he bolted to Emma's room and if he thought his heart dropped before, this felt like his heart was slowly being ripped out of his chest. He ran over to her dresser. Empty. He went over to check her nightstand where she keeps spare daggers, over to her used-to-be wall-of-crazy where she now hid her sereph blade and Cortana, he check under her bed for suit cases. Everything was empty. He sat on her bed and decided to open up the letter. Tears came down like waterfalls down his face. Emma's door opened and in came Christina, with a worried look on her face. How is she not falling apart? Julian thought. Christina came and sat down next to him and rubbed his back like his mom used to do when he woke up from nightmares. "Pinch yourself in your dream if it turns bad" she would say, but he already pinched himself over a hundred times since he realized that Emma left. Julian leaned on Christina's shoulder and cried until is eyes were swollen and he'd fallen asleep. Before he passed out, all of Julian's siblings (except Helen since she was still exiled) came in Emma's room and watched with terrified looks on their faces. Julian was the brother who held everything together, who would never break. But they now realized that Julian was broken and the only thing that would put him back together, was Emma and she made it pretty clear that she wasn't going to come back for a while. As soon as Julian passed out, Mark picked up his little brother and carried him off to his room with all of the Blackthorn children following behind. That night, Julian cried the whole night away in his sleep.

   Kit was petting the cat that was called Church as he understood. He came around every once in a while, but then would leave again. While Kit was petting the cat, he found a ring on his coller with a note. Put this on your finger and turn it when you need to talk with me or Tessa or Emma but do NOT tell anyone of this. -Jem. Kit knew about these types of rings. He believed that his father got a hold of one once and made a lot of money from selling it. Kit immediately put on the ring and turned it ad Jem suddenly appeared in Kit's room.
"Church! Come here kitty kitty." said Jem. The cat happily ran and leaped into Jem's arms. "Hello Christopher, what brings you to summoning me?" Asked Jem. Kit was quick to reply. "I want to talk to Emma face to face."
"Okay then Kit, come with me. But I suggest you write down that you are going out. I doubt that the Blackthorns would want you going out and get into a fight with six-fingered Nigel."
"Wait, what's a six-fingered Nigel" asked Kit. Jem silently laughed to himself and just said "It's a Herondale thing you wouldn't understand. Now lets go." And then, they somehow ended up in front of a house. Kit looked around and had no idea where they ended up. He didn't even see a portal form, but Jem did grab his hand before they came to this place.
"Where are we exactly? It was 8:15 at night when we left and now its 4:15 in the morning the next day!" Said Kit while looking at his phone. He just remembered to text someone, so he texted Livvy.
"Well Kit," said Jem. "Welcome to London.