Irene • 26 • she/her • mainly talking about Julie and the Phantoms and The Shadowhunter Chronicles
• also obsessing over the Six of Crows duology/Shadow and Bone
Alex ran over to the training room, only to find it empty. He’d desperately wished he’d find Carrie there, just punching her frustrations away like she tended to do. Because that, Alex knew how to deal with. It was anger, it was rage and he could talk her down. But Carrie wasn’t there.
So, if she wasn’t in her room, wasn’t in the infirmary, wasn’t in the training room, was it now the right time to freak out?
This actually paired up nicely with an anon request I'd gotten about the series a little while ago:
was re-reading life is a risk, and chapter 8 has this line “Luke - who once had a fever of 103 and was still attached to that guitar not willing to let go just because he was delirious…” so i thought a shot about that time would be fun haha
I couldn't figure out where to put it in the main series, so it's right here😅
Bobby was a Shadowhunter. He was fifteen years old and he’d recently officially started killing demons for a living. And he was doing so well.
What he wasn’t doing so well with, was being stuck as the babysitter and when Alex and Reggie were back, they were definitely going to hear all about it.
And what was even more infuriating was that Luke just wouldn’t stay still. You’d think a fever of 103 and the fact that he was pretty much delirious by this point would be enough to keep him in bed, but Bobby had been running after him all around the Institute, trying to get him to sleep.
Luke on the other hand had different plans and he’d decided that this was the perfect time for him to finish a song he’d started writing a few days ago. Bobby had been trying to take his guitar away, but trying to get Luke to give up on music was a lost battle and there was no point really in even going for it.
Julie woke up with a start. The dream was already fading away and she could barely remember what had scared her so much in the first place, but she couldn’t shake the sense of dread overtaking her.
She reached next to her, blindly searching for Luke in the dark room, but was instead met with empty space. She blinked her eyes more rapidly, trying to adjust to the darkness and figure out where Luke was, only to realize she was indeed laying there alone.
It only made that ugly feeling in the pit of her stomach grow stronger. He should have been back from patrol by now, shouldn’t he?
Luke had exactly one second to realize there was a tail coming his way, which was one second too slow. He didn’t have time to react and was suddenly flung back towards a wall, hitting it head first.
His vision blacked out for a moment and when it came back he was on the ground, his head on something soft. He looked up through blurry eyes, trying to make out what was in front of him, only to find Alex standing over him. No, sitting next to him? Wait, his head was on his knees. He had probably been out for more than just a moment.
“Hey!” Alex said, relieved to see him awake. “Are you alright? You hit your head pretty hard.”
Luke was about to answer, but the words didn’t seem to come as easy to him. It was enough for Alex’s worried expression to return.
Alex was pretty used to killing demons by now. He’d been doing it for years to the point where he didn’t really think about it anymore. Oh, did he run into a demon on the way back home? Sure. Did he hear something suspicious while picking up dinner? Okay.
But did his date get interrupted once again when they were already scarce with how both he and Willie had crazy schedules lately? Oh fuck no!
Thank the Angel he was always prepared and he actually knew how to handle them. As far as he was concerned, he could just slay the monsters and then go back to their date like nothing had happened because there was always something going on, they could pretend this was normal. Which, to be honest, it kind of was for them.
He’d just passed his seraph blade through a demon, watching it go up in flames and its light go out when he turned back around to face Willie. He’d definitely say their relationship had progressed a lot during these past few years. Five years ago Willie would be freaking out over him getting hurt. Now…
“You know, I don’t appreciate demons ruining our dates,” he said, stepping over a dissolving demon on the ground. “But you’re really hot when you go into Shadowhunter mode. So I don’t complain.”
Reggie saw it all happen in slow motion. He wasn’t fond of heights on a good day and yes, he realized the irony everyone pointed out that he was an archer and that involved him climbing up on tall buildings.
His friends also had no regard for their personal safety as they climbed and jumped off tall buildings like it was nothing. Luke had jumped off the Institute roof once for no good reason. Reggie didn’t speak to him for an hour. He just couldn’t handle the fall, sue him. It was one of the main reasons why he was so thankful about portals. He doubted he ever wanted to get into a plane.
What he also was usually, was surprisingly calm and put together when it came to injuries. Because that was what you were supposed to be on the battlefield. Assess the situation and make sure you didn’t freak out and let everything go to hell.
So yeah, fighting demons on top of a random LA roof was not the first thing on Reggie’s list. You could probably say it wasn’t even the second one. But when he watched Carrie fall off? Well, that was a million times worse.
Julie prided herself in being pretty perceptive. Still, if you asked her right now, she doubted she'd be able to explain how exactly they got there. Last thing she was certain about, they were actually having fun on the beach and now they were suddenly fighting demons on top of the rocks and Julie was pretty sure her ice cream would have melted by the time they were done.
Luke and Reggie were higher up, while she and Flynn were handling the middle ground. Carrie and Alex were over the other side and Julie could mostly hear rather than see them, but no one was screaming, so she was willing to bet everything was fine.
Luke stepped back as the demon went up in flames, panting hard. He and Julie had come up a nest and even though they’d called for reinforcements, everyone else seemed to be a bit too far, so they were doing everything they could while they waited.
He could hear Julie’s whip lashing through the air somewhere around him and that was reassuring enough that she was doing okay, but he didn’t know how long they could actually keep this up for. He swiftly moved through the alley, avoiding a tail that came out of nowhere and kicking a smaller demon away.
He’d started getting tired. It was already too late and those weren’t their first demons for the night. The city would occasionally see random surges in demon activity that would exhaust them and they’d just have to hope they weren’t foreshadowing some bigger threat. Luke wouldn’t consider himself a lucky person all together, but it’d be nice if it started right about now.
And then right on cue, an arrow came flying through the air, hitting one of the demons getting closer to him and Luke could finally breathe again. They could finally be done with this and go back home.
Somehow he still found his way back to Julie through everything now that he knew Reggie had his back and he could hear more and more of their friends joining the fight. Julie hadn’t slowed down for a second either, but her reaction times were getting slower and slower and she eventually fell back into Luke when the place started to clear and the others handled the rest of the mess.
Willie had smelled the blood before hearing the noise. Which said a lot because his ears were really accustomed to the area around him. Some naive part might have thought it had nothing to do with them, but it’d been years and Willie was smarter than that.
He was already walking to the door when he heard a thud against it and opened it right up. Only for Alex to practically fall into him right after leaning against said door.
“Oh, hi,” Alex said breathlessly, like he hadn’t just collapsed into him, covered in injuries and seriously hurt. “Could you give me a hand?”
“What happened?” Willie all but shouted, supporting all of Alex’s weight on him as he pulled him inside and closed the door behind them.
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