This is my first time ever writing, hopefully it will be enjoyable.

Disclaimer – I do not own TMI or any of the Characters, they all belong to Cassandra Clair.

Before

Clary rolls up on her blue Harley and parks next to her mother's car. School was over and a few weeks early no less. She rushed up the stairs to tell her mother. She reaches the second floor; her mother should be home. Her step-father, Luke, should still be at work. He'll have a nice surprise waiting when he gets home. She sees that the door is open. Clary thinks how odd that there door is open and cautiously creeps closer. She looks around noticing that everything else is normal. Another set of stairs leading to the next floor, the ugly brown carpet, and one of the neighbours' cats sitting at the foot of the stairs just like every other day. Clary shrugs and walks toward the askew door, but stops when she hears voices. She recognizes one of them is her mom. She creeps closer and sets her bag down quietly. The next voice is male and it belongs to her biological father, Valentine. Clary's eyes widen in horror. Flashbacks start to come to her; angry outbursts, threats and, two incidence in particular, of after a few years later Valentine striking her mother. It was a relief to have escaped from him. Clary's mom's best friend, Luke Garroway, found Jocelyn shortly after and they started dating quickly; Jocelyn trying to bury old bad feelings with new, good ones. Clary was four when they married. After a couple of threats from Valentine turned up, Jocelyn took a number of measures for her and her daughters safety, including having a five year old Clary start practical combat training, which she took to rather well.

Very quietly Clary creeps towards the open door, and slides her back against the wall. "Where is she Jocelyn? You can't hide her from me anymore!" screams Valentine. Clary slips her hand into her bag, she quietly moves toward the staircase that leads up and slides underneath it. She types 9-1-1 into her and hits send. Bring her phone to her ear she hear the emergency responder pick up and say "what is the situation". Clary then replies quietly "My father has broken into our apartment and is threating my mother. We live at 320 Banker Street, apartment 4 A." She waits for a second longer, just to hear from the operator that the police are on their way. She hangs up and slips her phone into her pocket. As she slips from underneath the stairs she hears her mother scream, and Valentine Yelling "Get back here you fucking bitch". Clary rushes to the door and into the apartment. In a second she takes everything in; her mom against one of the walls and Valentine in front of her with one of the kitchen knives in his hand. Just as Valentine goes to stab her, Clary screams "NO". Next thing she knows is that Valentine is pulling out a blood knife from her mother. Jocelyn slumps to the floor.

Valentine turning around with the bloody knife in his hand sees Clary. Valentine wastes no time and starts advancing on Clary. Clary only taking a second goes into fighting stance. Valentine takes a swing at Clary but she is too fast and ducks with ease. She then disarms Valentine so that he no longer has the knife.

Valentine glares at Clary and shouts "you little bitch; I will kill you, just like I killed your ungrateful mother." Stealing a quick glance at her mother, Clary turns her head back to Valentine, but a little too late. Valentine took another swing and this time it hit. Clary stumbles. But gain her stance just as fast. Wiping blood from her mouth Clary spats "you fucking piece of shit; ill make you pay for this". Valentine goes for another swing but Clary grabs his arm. Twisting his arm hard enough she was able to pull him forward, and kick him in the Chest. Valentine gasping for air falls to one knee. Clary takes no time she round house kicks him in the head, sending him to the floor unconscious. Clary then race to her mother side; holding Jocelyn's head in her lap. Jocelyn with her last breath gasps out "I'm so sorry, I Love You Clary, Always". Clary leaning against the wall with her mother head still in her lap starts to cry.

A Few minutes later the cops come storming through the door. Assessing the scene quickly they see Valentine unconscious on the floor, bloody knife next to him, as well a young girls holding a dead body on her lap. The lead officer tells one of his men to cuff the man and to take then knife into evidence. He then walks over to the young girl and says "what's your name sweetheart." Clary looks up at him from blurry eyes and says "I'm Clary Fray." The officer then replies with "how old are you and is this your mother". "I'm almost seventeen and yes this is my mother" Clary replies between sobs. As the other officers are Cuffing Valentine; he starts to stir. Once Lifted Valentine yells out "I kill you, you little bitch". The Lead officer tells the officer to get him out of here. He then turns his attention back to Clary. In warm tone he says "everything is alright now you can, let go off your mother, well take good care of her". Nodding she moves away from her. The officer grabs her and starts to lead her away from the scene. As they walk out of the building the officer picks up Clary's bag off the floor where she left it and brings her outside.

Luke pulling into their apartment parking lot sees all the cop cars. He parks quickly and jumps out. As soon as he starts to walk toward the officers, he sees Clary being brought out by an officer. Luke runs toward her yelling "Clary". Seeing Luke Clary start to race toward him. Sobbing in his chest; the officer comes over putting Cary's bag down turns and asks Luke who he is. Luke replies "I'm Clary's step-father, what happened". Looks at the man he reply's in a sad voice "I'm very sorry but your wife is dead. We found your step-daughter in the apartment with her mother's body." Luke Lets out a cry, and hug Clary tighter. He then goes on to explains that they need to talk to Clary to find out what happened.

Clary clinging to Luke tells them what happened around sobs. Luke grabs her and wraps her in his arms; they are both sobbing. The officer tries to console both of them, and recommends that they find somewhere else to stay. Luke mentions a good hotel nearby and the officer nods, adding in "I am very sorry for your loss." He walks off, and Luke leads Clary into the passenger seat of his truck.

A month later

Valentine was charged with murder and attempted murder of his ex-wife and daughter; he was sentenced to life in prison. A few weeks later Luke and Clary bury Jocelyn.

Two months later

Clary and Luke are packing everything they need from the apartment, as wells as Clary's Harley into a moving truck. Luke has decided that it would be better for them to leave. Luke having a sister in Georgia that has invited them to come live with her for while takes her offer. Luke knowing that all his friends are there explains to it to Clary. Decided it would be best, Clary agrees. Unfortunately Clary has been having nightmares that are dreadful; screaming out in her sleep, Clary hasn't slept properly in weeks.

Three months later

After moving to Georgia Clary has been better. Luke bought a house at consist of two bedrooms and two bathrooms. She now has a friend and his name is Simon. Though he doesn't actually know what happened to Clary and doesn't pyre. He's there for her whenever she needs him and Luke is very grateful for it. Once they settle in Luke signs Clary up for school and got her a part-time job as a waitress at one of his Friend diners to help her cope. Clay is only allowed to work three a week because he wants her to focus more on school.

Forth month

Clary starts school in the next few days and has found out that Simon has finally gotten together with his best friend, though she's never met the girl; Simon say that she will at school. She then thinks to herself, "this should be fun, ugh I hate being the new girl".

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