{𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 16}
FOREVER

"IT'S NOT MY FAULT I HAVE
MY FATHER'S EYES..."

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CHRISTINA HASN'T talked to Alec in a couple of days. She just couldn't believe he lied to her about Valentine, it was bigger than just her perfection but that of Iris's. Chris was scared for her baby. Valentine wanted to kill her baby and would kill her first to do it. Sure she had not one but two institutes behind her but would that be enough? Valentine knew so much already, the only question was how?

She laid in her bed with Iris in her arms, she's been hiding in Los Angeles to avoid Alec but that's kinda hard when he's the father of your child and fiancé. There was a knock at the door taking her mind away from everything angering and worrying her.

"Hey Chrissy, can I come in? " Chris heard Izzy's voice from behind the door. "Yea..." she hesitated.

Izzy entered in her mission suit, sitting at Christina's bedside. "Jeez, she's getting big."

"Yea..and her hair, so long already. " Chris agrees.

Izzy smiles. "You know...he misses you guys." She adds touching Iris's small round nose. "Iz, I don't want to talk about Alec."

"I know..I just...I hate seeing you two apart, especially now..with Iris and all."

"Any news on Valentine?" Chris questions, placing Iris in their nursery. "No..last they heard he was in London." Izzy replies.

"He's planning something...I know it."

"Can you guys just talk?" Izzy questions, referring back to Alec.

"I think there's a rat." Christina states, ignoring Izzy's remark. "A rat? In the institute?"

"Yes, Its the only way Valentine could have known about Iris." He has guys on the inside. "Izzys silent for a second.

"Well, I guess it's possible." She adds, "We need to tell my brother."

"You can." Chris states, nonchalantly.

"Come on..Chris you guys need to talk and you know how he dives into work when he's hurting." What about me? Chris thought, what Alec did pissed her off but their time apart reminded her of when Alec had told her he was engaged. She acted using her heart not her head, one of her fathers colder life lessons was that acting on emotions can get you killed in their line of work.

  
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The duo and Iris walk through a portal set for the New York institute. Once they stepped through like once before there was Alec surrounded by other shadowhunters giving orders.

"Valentine is still at large and we will be doing everything in our power to capture and bring him back here ALIVE, myself and the clave will deal with him." Alec's heard sternly.

Once the group broke Chris and Isabel walked over to Alec who was with his parabatai. Is whole body shifte when he laid eyes on Chris; relief and a hint of joy spread across his face in a matter of pure seconds.

"Chris."

"Alec..."

"I'm so sor— " he started but was cut off.

"I'm not here to talk about that..us."

."...well what's wrong is it Iris?" He asked, concern forming.

"No..no she's fine it's about Valentine."

"What about him?" Jace questions.

"We think there's a rat in the institute." Izzy stated.
"A rat? Impossible." Jace shrugged off.

"Impossible? Hudge." Chris stated.

"Fair point."

"I don't believe it." Alec stated walking towards his office.

"You don't believe it? Chris questions trailing after him. Well how else did he know Iris was going to be a girl? We had just only had the gender reveal. " He was stumped, he didn't know the answer to that Chris had a point.

"I just think that a rat in the institute is highly unlikely."

"Oh..come on think about it or at least look into it. " She stated, about to walk out, only to be swung around to face Alec. "Chris...please talk to me..not about hunting."

"What? What do you want me to say?" "You lied to me for 3 weeks. You proposed to cover it up." She stated in anger.

"I PROPOSED BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH VALENTINE!" Ale shouted passionately. "If you won't hear anything I say, just know that."

Christina fell silent looking into her lover's eyes, remembering the days where their love felt hopeless. Was this one of those times? Will this moment of passion and heartache become a memory in the future, one to look back on to see how far they've come? She wondered.

"Well." She stated walking out of his office.

"Where's Iris?" He muttered. His words stopping her in her tracks.

"She with my mother and Roslyn at a safe house, with Valentine out there I thought that would be best. Considering..if you disagree—"

"I don't, I would've suggested it as well."

"Have a good night Alec." Chris states with a faint smile leaving the room.

"Yea..you too."

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It was times like this where Christina really missed her father, his advice. She loves Alec; he was the first person she ever loved. He came into her life during a hard time.

She walked out of the New York institute, on the streets of New york. She wanted to clear her head. Wandering through Central Park, she soon felt a presence. Turning around only to be stabbed in her lower abdomen by a seraph blade by an unknown figure.

Her eyes filled with blacks spots, slowly falling unconscious. Only hearing;

"Missed me, Christina?"

She woke in what looked like a lab with her feet and hands tied to a chair. Looking down, she was bleeding from her wound, blood dripping to the floor keeping her weak. Eyes still trying to focus soon seeing a figure come out of the shadows.

"Christina BlackThorn...a beauty." The voice said. You look just like him, you know? As her eyes focused as the figure revealed himself, it was Valentine holding his infamous blade.

"You have his eyes...and you share the fear he had in his last moments." Valentine venomously spat, with a grin. "My father didn't fear you, nor do I."