Angel Child

1

JACE'S POV:

"Evelyn! Give me the blade!" I yelled at my eleven-year-old daughter.

"No!" she replied.

"Sometimes it gets annoying; the fact that you have my stubbornness," I laughed. Evelyn smirked. "That was supposed to be a guilt trip! Give me Heosphoros! That is a legendary weapon!"

"One, you clearly don't know what a guilt trip is-" 

"Don't be a smartass," I sighed. 

"And two, if I give it, can we get pizza?"

I stared at her, eyebrows raised. "You stole Heosphoros from your mother just to get pizza?" I asked, disbelief clear in my voice. I made no attempt to cover it.

"Wait what?" Clary asked, laughing, as she came up behind me and snaked her arm around my shoulders.

"Mhm. I want pizza. Or tacos. Or cake. Or-" I cut her off.

"Really Evie?"

"YES! Now, can we get pizza?" I rolled my eyes at the redhead.

"Yes," Clary sighed. "Go get Izzy and Simon and Alyssa; see what they want. But you have to give me my sword,"

"I'll give it to you after the pizza gets here," she said.

"Now, Evelyn."

"I swear on the Angel that I'll give Heosphoros back to you after the pizza gets here. But only after."

Clary rolled her eyes. "Fine!" she said, walking away. I laughed.

"You need to stop doing that!" I exclaimed.

"But I have to. Otherwise Mum won't believe me!" Evelyn said, running away with the sword still in her hand.

ISABELLE'S POV:

The first thing I saw was a blur. Then I fell into the wall, as my niece ran into me, making me shake my head. "Evelyn, we live in the same building. It's not the end of the world."

"It could be," she said with absolute sincerity, her luminous green eyes facing me. She was almost my height, at only eleven. (Although without heels.) In other words, she's tall.

"What type of pizza do you guys want?"

Simon poked his head out from around the corner. "Did I hear pizza?" he asked. I laughed.

"Alyssa!" I yelled, hoping she would hear me from wherever she was. She remained quiet.

Evelyn laughed. "I got this." She cupped her hands around her mouth. "Grey's Anatomy sucks!"

My daughter ran down the stairs not two seconds later, screaming, "WHO SAID THAT?" Evelyn just laughed.

"Now that you're down here, what type of pizza do you want?" Alyssa raised her eyebrows.

"You told me that Netflix sucked so that I'd come down to order pizza?"

"Yup," the redhead grinned.

"I think I might just have to kill you," she said.

Evelyn's eyes widened in mock fear. "Oh no! I don't have a weapon! Oh wait, yes I do!" she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm, making me laugh. She pulled Heosphoros out from behind her.

"Again? Seriously? You need to stop stealing your mother's sword," Simon said.

"That's what got the pizza, though!" Evelyn exclaimed. Simon's eyebrows shot up.