;;Your Shadow;:1x1-Gras&&Hunter::

[Actually.A.Herondale]

Nico followed her. "No one would willing risk their life for me. You seem to forget that I have no friends, and no family."

[Mardigraskit]

"Well if you try and gain a friend maybe someone will. You'll never know. If you just opened up a little bit, you'd be surprised how friendly people can be. Every time I try being friendly to you for example, you could return the kindness. Smile ? Come on, you know how to smile, don't you ?" Caroline suggested.
Ding, second floor.
The elevator kept moving.

[Actually.A.Herondale]

"I have no reason to smile." Nico said. "I haven't actually smiled since Bianca died."

[Mardigraskit]

Ding. Third floor.
Whoever was left in the elevator left aside from those two, sensing the tension rising.
Caroline sighed. "Bianca was your sister, right ? I'm going to.. leave that subject alone. Well have you ever tried socializing before ? Put on a fake smile. Try to sound like you enjoy someone's prescence. You'll be surprised. If you showed just a bit of kindness, you'd have a reason to smile."
Ding. Fourth floor.
Exciting the elevator, she locked her eyes on the doors.
"My dad used to tell me with each smile a friendship is formed, with each friendship you open a door, with door a new path awaits. Atleast, he used to. Before Natalia had those three idiots to take care of." The sound of the woman's name sounded like a hiss. Apparently a touchy subject.

[Actually.A.Herondale]

Nico walked out of the elevator. "I don't care what your dad told you. I gave up on being friendly a while ago."

[Mardigraskit]

"Bianca would want you to and you know it." Caroline said over her shoulder, continuing down the hall. She, when they reached the room, opened the door and stepped inside. There were two beds, a TV, multiple things you'd find in a standard hotel room of the Mariott franchise.

[Actually.A.Herondale]

"If she wanted me to be happy, she wouldn't have joined the Hunters, and wouldn't have gone for a second life." Nico said, his voice cracking a little. He pushed past her and over to one of the beds.

[Mardigraskit]

"She thought she knew what was best for you. She wanted you to be safe. You know that, don't you ? Anyway. I'm going to shower. Don't go into the bathroom." Tossing her bookbag onto the bed she claimed as hers, Caroline started over to the bathroom. She closed the door and locked it behind her, turning on the first sink and washing her face.
I know I'm right. Can't say I didn't try to help you, She thought.

[Actually.A.Herondale]

"No she didn't." Nico muttered, laying down and pulling the blankets over him. "She knew this would only make things worse."

[Mardigraskit]

After her shower, Caroline slid on her undergarments and tanktop, turning around with her back to the mirror. She eyed her shoulder, which the blood had been cleaned off, but there was a curved cut from the Dracaena nearly two days before. She didn't feel the need to bandage it- she'd have it covered. Slipping on her jeans and camp shirt, she turned back towards the mirror, washing her face once more of the mud and blood. She, once checking that she had cleaned herself the best she could, turned off the light and entered the room once more.
"Don't think your still awake. Oh well. You know I'm right." Caroline mumbeled under her breath as she passed. She tossed her hair-ponytail-band onto the ground, laying on her back to where she could look at the cieling. It wasn't long before she seemingly dozzed off.