The Shadowhunter Academy discussion

Here downworlder and shadowhunter alike can get a meal. Taki's offers a diverse range of meals from, Locusts and honey, raw meat, bat sandwich, and animal blood on tap to coffee and coconut pancakes and burgers.

Rose walked into Taki's, in a pair of leggings with a tight leather jacket, her usual shadowhunting attire. Outside of the academy she was always ready for the worst. She took the usual booth, the one in which her and Lissa were always siting and continued to wait for her arrival.

Lissa swept into Taki's, graceful, elegant - as always - yet still always with the same fierceness and fire that hung around her like a spotlight. She spotted Rose and sank into a chair in front of her, grateful to see she was in Shadowhunter attire as well. As she sat she felt her weapons - a whip wound around her arm, seraph blades down her hips, knives concealed in her boots - move against her. "Hey," she said, looking at Rose.

Rose grinned as Lissa entered, she too was tightly clad in shadowhunter attire, ready as always. "Hey Liss." She said, gesturing a waiter over. She ordered a cheese burger and a smoothie, then turned to Lissa gesturing her to order. "so, life been treating you well?" She asked.

Lissa smiled at the waiter. "I'll have a weak latte with two shots of caramel and a chicken salad, please," she turned to Rose. "I wonder, I mean, you of all people should know what I've been doing," she said, laughing, "you do follow me everywhere." she added with a small smile.

Rose grinned at Lissa, "My friend, I'm just making sure you don't run into another nut job like that Alven guy." Rose said shaking her head. "I ran into him the other day cutting himself, not for emotional reasons but for fun." She said in a dissaporving tone. "Someone's gotta just say no between us. Your too nice." She grinned again.

Lissa took a sip of her latte. "Rose, I can deal with these types of people by myself," she said, giving a serious and disapproving look, "and I know when it's time for me to fight or flee." She took hold of a knife and fork and delicately nibbled on her salad, looking regal as ever. "And, thank you very much, I can say no just as well as you."

"I was joking Liss." Rose said, her smile diminishing at what Lissa was saying. "I of all people know your a perfectly capable women. I trained with you, I've watched you for years." She shook her head, "I just need to watch watch I say, I say the first thing that comes to mind you know that." She took a bite into the burger, until then not realising how hungry she was,

Lissa melted. "I know, I'm sorry, I'm just being too serious," she said, looking down wistfully as she stirred her latte over and over again. "I'm sorry," she said, attempting to mumble, yet it still came out clear as crystal. She pushed her glass away. Her latte had gone cold, she had been stirring it consciously since it had arrived.

"I feel like such an idiot lately." Rose said. "Continuously I have been hurting you, doing foolish rubbish that I am very capable of avoiding. I wish I was able to think things through like you, but it's just not the way I work." She shook her head. "I'm the one who should be sorry." She drank some of her smoothie, trying to calm her guilt down.

Lissa reached over and placed a hand on Rose's shoulder. "No, no, please don't," she pleaded, looking into her eyes, "let's just forget about it, alright?" She revived herself almost instantly, her hair tossed back, the look of wistfulness washed off, a brand new smile plastered on. It hurt to think that Rose was beating herself up for these types of things, and Lissa felt the need to fix it.

"No... Don't tell me it's not my fault because it is. I'm not going to beat myself up about it if that's what you think. No point beating up your true self." She shrugged. "So let's pretend I haven't been training with you all week long. Lissa how's training been?" She grinned.

Lissa was still unsure, there was an itch that wouldn't go away. Still, wanting to go along with Rose, she pushed that feeling away until she wanted to deal with it properly. "Uh, training has paid off I guess," she said, grinning, "since now I know that I'm better than you."

"Excuse me." Rose grinned. "I could take you down any day, since when are you better then me?" She ate more of her burger, a glint of humour in her eyes as she stared Lissa down. "You know I can't wait until we are doing real life things, forget school I want the real world."

Lissa grinned back at her. "Oh really, is that so, Rosie dear?" she challenged playfully, "No, school first. You know how important study is, Rose. This is the real world for now." She said, looking back at her.

"What's made you so full of yourself?" Rose grinned. "Study, study, study it's all I hear. I know what I need to know. Demons are bad, we kill them, Tada!" She shook her head, "Anyway, new topic." She said, finishing off her burger.

Lissa nodded. "Alright, so what has been going on lately," she said, changing topic, "beside the things that I do with you," she added. She took the last piece of salad and popped it into her mouth, surprising full after such a small meal.

"Let's see, I tried to study the other day but then there was this amazingly interesting fly in the wall, so that went down that drain." She laughed. "A had a fight with That Alven guy on the weapons room the other day, that was right." Rose grinned. "Pretty good if you ask me. How about you? What have you been doing?"

"Well, I trained a little bit with my whip and a new weapon I pretty like - an electrum fan," Lissa said, brandishing a black fan with razor-sharp blades on the end that smiled cruelly in the light. "And, hm, oh yeah, I studied the other day in the Library. With some guy," she said sheepishly.

Rose grinned, leaning back in her chair and crossing her arms. "Some guy hey?" She asked smirking. "I did some studying with some guy too." She was curious to hear more. This conversation was proving to ber very interesting.

Lissa raised an eyebrow. "Uh huh. Studying. You studied. With a guy." She smirked, crossing her arms like Rose. "I don't think so. What exactly did you do?" She said, voice teasing and accusing. "And, some guy is called Andrew. We experimented. With weapons."

"I actually did study with a guy, Christian Rosales." She said. She started smirking when Lissa asked what exactly did she do. "Then we may have gone to the greenhouse and you put it together. Rose Goldwell and Christian Rosales." She listen intently to Lissa talking about Andrew. "You boring person, you were in the weapons room experimenting with weapons with a perfectly hot guy for that matter. Haven't I taught you anything." She grinned. "I don't believe you."

"Oh my Raziel. You made out with a guy you just met," Lissa said, putting on a pretentious baffled face. She looked down shyly at what Rose commented, twirling a finger in her hair. "Uhm, well we started off in the library. We talked. I threw a weapon in the library. We moved to the training room. Experimented with weapons. Gave myself a haircut accidentally." Her voice then dropped to a soft whisper. "Then we kissed."

"Oh come on Lissa, it's Christian Rosales. He is not just some guy." She said. "Haha, that's my bad girl." She smirked. "You almost sound ashamed of yourself Lis, It's a hot guy and obviously nice." She put an arm around her parabatai. "Is it possible to love you anymore." She laughed.

Lissa stared at her. "You made out with Christian Rosales." She shook her head. "Andrew... Andrew's nice. Caring." She said slowly, not knowng how to explain. "We talked. Told eachother everything about ourselves, you know? Got to know each other."

"Geez Lissa, your acting like I just made out with the devil. His an amazing guy, with a killer body of course," she smirked thinking back to it. "It's a good life Lissa." She nodded to what Lissa said about Andrew, not that she cared too much about that part, "So, what was it like kissing him?" She said, cutting her off.

Lissa rolled her eyes. "You never know, for all you know, he could be," she grinned mischievously. She stopped awkwardly when Rose cut her off. "Uhm, what was it like kissing him?" She echoed. "I don't know, it was really sweet. He tasted like peppermint." She said, laughing.

"Christian is a great guy, not the devil. His been through a lot, just like us. If anything he has had a heck of a worse time than us. His very much like.... Me." She said. Rose raised an eyebrow at Lissa, "Your serious right." She laughed. "He tasted like peppermint!" She was laughing hysterically now.

Lissa suddenly understood, and Jada is rolling her eyes at her. "Oh, that's what you mean. Kissing him.....it's like the world and time stops going just so that we could kiss softly and passionately. Is that what you meant?" She asked, sighing a little. She put on a serious face at her comment. "I don't know, Rose. He may have been through a lot, but for all you know he could be a heart breaker," she explained her worry, conscious that they'd met three days before.

Rose grinned as Lissa explained the kiss. She hugged her, "look at Lissa, kissing guys." She teased. "I'm so happy for you Lis." Rose raised her eyebrows at Lissa's seriousness. "Trust me, I can look after myself Lissa, this is me we are talking about, I can handle guys. I've been doing it for how long." She smirked. "Anyway, look whose talking Lis, were you not just kissing Andrew the very day you met him?" She laughed.

Lissa jaw dropped open. "I-I....i-it's not like.......w-we..," she tried to argue, but then realised she couldn't win and hung her head. "Oh my Raziel, Rose, what have you done to me?" She joked, but gave her a look all the same. "Anyway, Andrew isn't like that. We just kissed, then talked. About ourselves. That's all."

Rose laughed at Lissa's reaction, a smirk on her lips. "I've taught you to embrace life my friend." She laughed. "Boys are in the natural flow of things, just go with it." She said grinning. "You just kissed... Just kissed." She teased. "Lissa, normal people who aren't me don't kiss until after a few weeks."

"No! It's not like that!" Lissa protested, uneasy that she was doing what Rose did. "We know a lot about each other. And, he asked me out. This weekend. So I'm ditching you." She said with a playful grin. "And fine, it was an amazing kiss." She gave in, huffing and crossing her arms around her chest.

"It's very much like that Lissa honey." She laughed, pulling her into a playful hug. She she put on a mock pout when she said she was ditching her, before laughing. "I'd be ditching you anyway parabatai, I'm going out with Christian, the amazing guy, who isn't the devil." She smirked. She threw her arms up grinning, "finally a sufficient response. Come on Lissa your happy right, you like him...like you know, love like him. That's better than what I would have done, your not completely like me yet."

"Well, just in case he is a devil, aka a demon, make sure you bring extra blades and knives," Lissa said, somewhat solemnly. "Fine, fine, I like him. Happy?" She grumbled, yet still hugged her back as a hug from her parabatai was a hug she'd take any day. Her sudden grumbling was not in fact random, she wasn't exactly comfortable talking about these topics. It wasn't in her to be all over boys, she was more focused on study and training.

"I could say the same to you parabatai," she smirked. "We have no proof that this amazing guy that's managed to capture my Lissa's heart isn't the devil do we?" She laughed. "Ah Lis, your words just made my day. I shall remember this moment forever. The time where Lissa admits her love for a guy. No less than a very hot guy." Rose grinned, chuckling at how uncomfortable she looked.

"Well, we were in the Training Room," Lissa pointed out, skeptical as usual, "and I always have my whip with me, sooo..." She trailed off. "And it isn't love, it's.... erm, attraction?" She said awkwardly, laughing at herself afterwards.