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It was late at night when you walked through the streets of New York. On your way home, you suddenly stopped at the entrance of a back alley. You could here loud noises, like someone was fighting. The reasonable thing to do, would have been to keep walking but something drew you in. You walked through the alley until it opened into a wider area.
You saw a girl with red flaming hair and a blond boy. They were up against some kind of monstrous thing. The boy stabbed it in the head and it crumpled before vanishing into thin air.
You just stood there, staring at them not able to move from the sight. They finally noticed you and turned in your direction.
“There’s a girl staring at us, Jace.” She said to the boy next to her.
“She’s a mundane, probably looking at something else. We have to move Clary. Where’s Raphael?”
“Right here.” Another voice said.
A pale boy with black hair came into view. He looked at you for a moment, before returning his attention back to the others, ignoring you like the rest.
“I can hear you perfectly, you know. Don’t pretend I’m invisible.” You finally said, getting fed up with their attitude.
All 3 heads spun around in shock, like they really noticed you for the first time.
“I do think she can see us.” The girl said.
“Just kill her then.”
“We don’t kill mundanes, Raphael. It’s against the law.”
Getting killed wasn’t very high on your list of things you wanted to do tonight, so you slowly moved away, keeping your eyes on them while they argued.
Your back suddenly hit something and at first you thought you had moved into a wall. But then someone was holding you by the wrist and kept you in place, unable to move. You turned your head around looking into the eyes of the boy, who only seconds ago had been standing in front of you with the others.
“Let go of me!” You yelled, struggling against his grip on you but he was too strong.
His had came a little closer to your neck and he took a deep breath, “And stop smelling me you creep.”
He laughed a little at your remark and just said, “Sorry, I hadn’t had dinner yet.”
You heard a growl, coming from somewhere behind you. Clary and Jace, you had picked up their names earlier, ran towards you.
“Get her out of here!” Jace yelled.
The boy next to you groaned but pulled you by the arm with him and started running. Around the next corner he stopped and frowned at you.
“Can you be any slower, mundane?” He said annoyed.
“Well excuse me, Flash.”
He raised and eyebrow at you but decided it wasn’t worth his time and just threw you over his shoulder, running away so quickly you couldn’t follow his movements.
When he let you down, you stood in front of an old, closed hotel. You took in your surroundings. The area looked familiar and you roughly knew which part of New York this was.
“You don’t look too distressed by what’s going on.” Raphael said.
“It’s nothing I haven’t seen before.”
He watched you, a bit curious when you had answered.
“How long have you been able to see the shadow world?”
You looked sceptical at the term ’shadow world’ but you knew what he meant.
“Ever since I was a kid but I quickly learned that telling your parents the nice cashier lady is changing into a horrible monster or the neighbour kid is a big dog is not a good idea.”
“You probably shouldn’t refer to them as ‘dogs’ they don’t like that. I can tell you from experience.”
“I’ll keep that in mind. So anyway, how old are you vampire?” You asked him. He looked like a boy but you were pretty certain that’s not what he really was.
“Oh? Quite observant.”
“You smelled me earlier, so you’re either a vampire or a cannibal and I really hope you just like my blood and not everything else as well.” You waited a moment before saying, “You didn’t gave me an answer.”
“I’m probably older than you are.” He simply said.
“Well, that’s an accurate answer.”
“It’s the answer you get and now shut up you’re damn annoying.”
After you stood in silence for a while, Clary and Jace finnaly showed up.
“Did you kill the demon?” Raphael asked.
“No he got away.”
“Great, here take your mundane. I helped you but now I’m out.” Raphael said and shoved you towards the other two.
“We have to go back to the institute, we can’t take her there.”
They did it again. Talking like you weren’t even there or just some toy you hand around as you please.
“Perfect, if he doesn’t want me and you don’t either I’m just gonna go back home now. I was definitely not a pleasure to meet you.” You told them.
“You can’t, the demon saw you, you might be in danger.” Jace said and looked at Raphael.
“No. I know what you’re implying. She’s not staying here.” He said in a pissed tone.
“She has to stay somewhere safe.”
“And you think letting her stay with a bunch of vampires is the best place for a mundane?” Raphael asked, “Even I think that’s a terrible idea.”
In the end the two went back alone and you were left alone with a furious looking vampire. He went to the door and opened it.
“Welcome to the Hotel Dumort.”