protector or destroyer. (shadow hunter fanfic)

explanation

Ria gets up and goes to her bathroom. When she comes out the blood is gone, and she has replaced her top with a green one. Sebastian was pacing around the room. She turned her eyes towards Jace as she spoke. I can only tell you what happened if you swear you won't tell anyone. Not your parabatai and definitely not Clary. Ok?" he stayed silent but nodded. "ok. Like I have told you, I'm a hybrid. Which in a better explanation means I am a mixture of warlock, fairie, werewolf and vampire." She looked up to Jace, but he hadn't moved from the floor still sitting in the pool of her blood. "you ok?" silence. She touched him and he flinched away. "sorry."

"no, it's ok. just a lot to take in." he said standing up and sitting on her chest at the end of the bed, rubbing his head with his hands smearing blood onto his face.

"you have got a little- oh never mind." She waved her hand and a bowl of water and a cloth arrived into her hands she sat down next to Jace. She took the cloth and wiped the blood off his face.

"so, you have been lying this whole time." He says once she is finished.

"well I prefer the term withholding the truth. But yeah." She stood up and took a black hydro flask out the fridge and began to drink it.

"how are you able to be in the institute? And how are our alarms not going off?"

"well I have enough angelic blood in me that your machines don't pick me up. The other downworlders blood limits the others."

"what do you mean?"

"um... I can lie unlike fairies but still have pointed ears and still connected to nature," she pulls her hair back showing her pointed ears. "I don't turn at full moon unlike werewolves but still have to turn at least once a month. Uh... I have magic like warlocks, and I go into sunlight unlike vampires but if I stay out too long, I do burn quicker and I still have to drink blood, just not as much." She says holding her bottle up. "does that make sense?"

"uh yes, surprisingly yes."

"do you have any more questions?"

"how old are you?"

"older than magnus."

"that's not an answer."

"old enough I have lost count. Anything else?"

"no, not just now."

"you can't tell anyone."

"what!"

"I can't keep this to myself."

"you have too. I have just taken a great risk telling you."

"I can't lie."

"it's not lies if they don't ask the specific questions." He stands up and walks towards the door.

"yeah just like you are a watcher." Sebastian murmured with a smile.

"you sound just like a fairie."

"I will take that as a compliment." She smiled up at Sebastian who stuck out his tongue in return. "please Jace."

"ok. ok. why did you say those things? You sounded like my brother." she looked towards Sebastian who was now staring at her and Jace expectedly.

"I wasn't doing anything. I didn't say anything. And who the hell is your brother." she lied.

"don't lie to me."

She kicked his legs into each other, twisting him around grabbed his blade from his belt and landed on him holding his knife up. She looks down at him. "I'm not." 

She tried her hardest to look unsure or have no idea who his brother was as he looked into her eyes finding his answer. "you really don't know."

"Jace, for the past twenty years I have been living in a very deserted forest with a pack of wolves."

"ok. ok."

"so. you'll keep my secret, or do I need to make you forget."

"yes, I will, if..."

"what?!"

"you teach me how you did that."

"deal. Now?

"now."