The Parabatai Child

Chapter 10

"I thought we agreed not to do this!" Julian was standing in the middle of a London institute bedroom, while Emma was unpacking a bag. Clary and Jace were kind enough to get Emma's things out of Jem and Tessa's house. Emma knew that she should talk to Jem and Tessa and tell them everything, but she was processing everything herself. Emma's hair was down, the pale strands curling around her shoulders. A strand of her hair was in front of her eyes. She blew it out of her face. "Well," Emma started. "I specifically remember you stateing very clearly that you didn't want me to go. I however, did not agree to that." Julian crossed his arms. He changed into a plain green shirt that made his eyes look bright blue-green and a pair of blue jeans. When he crossed his arms, his shirt lifted up a bit and Emma saw the curve of his hip bones. That mixed with his tussled hair and her pregnancy hormones, she wanted to pounce on him.
By the angel this is torture. Emma thought.
"It's not like she would hurt me, it would just get her into even more heat with the Clave." Emma said.
"Yeah but I'm not sure it would be best to get involved with the same woman who helped murder shadowhunters and break the accords and rip apart families-" Julian broke off. How could I be so stupid? Emma thought. It's because of his dad.
"At least talk to Tessa about it." Julian said finally. Emma raised an eyebrow. "You just want someone else on your side. You know for a fact that Tessa and Jem oppose insane ideas."
"So you admit it's an insane idea."
"We've been through a lot. What's the worse that could happen?" Emma asked. Julian chuckled to himself
"'Take courage my heart. You have been through worse than this.'" Julian quoted. Emma smiled to herself. She loved it when Julian would quote things back to her. She remembered when they watched a few 80's movies on the TV one summer when they were 14. Then one day when Diana was teaching them a lesson, Ty got up to get something to eat. Julian then whispered in her ear "'If he gets up, we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy!'" And Emma busted out laughing.
"That's not the whole quote." Emma said. Julian tilted his head to the side a bit. "Really?"
"Really. The entire quote is 'Take courage my heart. You have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.'" Emma resumed unpacking as Julian stood, looking surprised.
"I'm going Julian. You don't have to, but it's not a good idea to get on the queen' s bad side. Especially considering the situation we're in." Julian ran his fingers through his hair and looked down. He went over to Emma and put his hands on her stomach and kissed her on the forehead. "I will never leave you and these two alone ever again." he whispered into her ear. At that moment, she felt guilty. She was the one who left him. She took away those first six months of her pregnancy from him. All the times she felt them kick, punch flip, she turned to see if Julian wanted to try. But he was never there.
"I'm going to go make everyone breakfast and ask someone to watch the kids." Julian said finally. "I have been asking too much of Alec and Magnus." Emma nodded and she kissed him fast. She caught a quick glimpse of a smile. She sometimes forgot that he was still a teenage boy. Emma went into the bathroom connecting to the bedroom. The London institute got remodeled after someone claimed that a spirit was telling them that the institute was 'to dreadfull' and they listened. Probably because they were scared, but that wasn't the point. She looked at herself in the mirror, which she was doing a lot of lately. She was looking better today though. Probably because Julian was around and she wasn't suffering as much. But she was still suffering. Suffering at the agonizing thought of her children being ripped out of her arms, and possibly being murdered. Suffering at the thought of Julian being tore out of his family. The thought of Julian and her, being taken away from everything and everyone they knew. She didn't care what happened to her, as long as everything was fine with the people she cared about. She had a list of things she would recite in her head. Find who killed mom and dad, make sure Julian and the kids are alright, worry about the clave, worry about me. Since she found that Malcom killed he parents and she got pregnant, that list changed to: Make sure my babies and Julian are alright, Blackthorn kids are alright, worry about me, worry about the Clave.
Emma herd a knock on her door. When she opened the door, there was little Tavvy in the doorway cluching a wooden spoon. "Memma?" he asked in his small voice. Tavvy only said Memma when he was really scared. It reminded her and Julian that they haven't quite saved the little two year old boy, trying to shield him from all the dead bodies and blood in Idris. Emma keeled on the ground and motioned for Tavvy to come twords her. He threw his arms round her neck. He started to sob in her ear. Emma started to rub the boys back, her fingers sliping over the nubs of his spine. "Tavs, what is it?" Emma asked. "Tell me please." Tavvy kept on crying in her ear. "Octaven." Emma sighed. "Please." Tavvy pushed himself off of Emma and looked her in the eyes. "I thought that y-you died." Emma's heart shattered when he said this. "I knew that you were okay when you first left us because you left me this." Tavvy reached into his pocket, and pulled out the letter that she wrote to him. Emma softly took it out of his hands and opened it. "Hunny," Emma started. "what makes you think that I died?"
"Well I saw you laying on the floor while everyoneelse was screaming at each other. Dru was telling me that everything was fine, that you were fine. But I knew that everything wasent fine because I could tell that she didn't know. Then I got this letter this morning. Saying that in the occasion of your death, that I was to go to this address in Cornwall-Polperro to be exact. I was going to go this morning and ask Dru to come with me. I was looking for her, then I saw Julian coming out of this room and I was curious." Emma's eyebrows crinkled together. The only note she ever written to Tavvy that was important, was the one she wrote before she left to go live with Jem and Tessa. "Tavvy, do you have that letter?" Emma asked. Tavvy nodded and pulled it out of his pocket and handed it to Emma. Emma flipped open the letter and imeaditly recognized the hand writing. "Tavvy, go find your siblings and Kit and stay with them." Emma got up and started out the door.

Emma was sprinting down the halls trying to find the kitchen. Finally, she found it. Julian was at the stove making pancakes for every kid. Livvy and Kit liked Chocolate chip, Dru and Tavvy loved blueberry, Ty liked his plain but would put toppings on his later. Julian looked up and smiled at Emma. "No one can resist my pancakes." Julian smirked. Emma shoved the letter to Julian. Julian put the pancakes on a plate and took the letter. His joyful expression quickly changed to a protective one. "Is this-?" Julian asked. "Malcolm's handwritting." Emma inturupted. "He told Tavvy to go alone to this place in Polperro. He came into my room looking for Dru and showed me the letter." Julian nodded, this was a sign that he was coming up with a plan. "Breakfast!" he shouted. He turned to Emma and took her by the shoulders. "I'm going to find Magnus and ask him to put up wards. You find Christina, Jace, Clary, and Alec and ask them to watch the kids closely." Julian kissed Emma on her forehead and started on his mission as Emma started on her own. She ran out of the kitchen just as Dru came out of her hiding place in a cabinet.

"So how long have you had this plan in effect?" Cameron asked. They were in a furnished cave. Cameron was loungining on a couch eating takeout chinese while Malcolm was sitting at a table, eating his takeout. "I always had a plan to take down the Blackthorn's. What better way than to take out the oldest and his parabatai? The plan is just better when I found out that Carstairs was expecting." Cameron chuckled. "I personally love my part of the plan. It's gonna be fun."