A/N: NEW STORY TIME! Yeah, that's right. It's The Mortal Instruments fanfic. (: And I know this may seem weird but let me explain first. First off, Sebastian will be alive in this mainly because he's something that I need in this story and mainly because I just love the little devil. Second off, this is right after the third book, so Valentine is dead, just not Sebastian. Okay? Also, I'm sorry to say this isn't Twilight. I am working on those too, so don't worry. And if you came here to read Twilight and you haven't read The Mortal Instruments series then again, I'm sorry. You should read those! They're made of win. :D Enjoy! Oh, and of course. These characters are not mine.
"It's good to be home," Isabelle sighed as she brushed through her long black hair with the silver brush in her hand. She sighed contently before laying it down on the dresser, and then grabbed her foundation. "I missed having the feeling of comfort while sitting in my room."
Clary nodded her head then, but wasn't really paying any attention. She was sitting on Izzy's window seat while looking out of it, staring down at the two boys. One of them was Jace, so of course she couldn't look away. The other was Simon. They were both in a fighting stance, but Jace's stance topped Simon's by a lot in Clary's eyes.
"And what's the best way to celebrate being back?" Isabelle continued without hesitation. "A party at Magnus's apartment! That's what! I'm so excited!"
"Yeah, me too," Clary said to fill in the silence. She heard Isabelle's chair turn, making her drop her attention on the two boys so she could look at Isabelle. Isabelle had her hands on her hips while scowling at her.
"What?" Clary asked, completely oblivious to the obvious of the situation.
Isabelle sighed. "What's with you? I've been talking with you for over an hour, but all I get out of you is a couple head shakes and a few words."
"Nothing, Izzy," Clary replied while dropping her gaze to the floor. "I just was distracted by something..."
Isabelle giggled while spinning back around so she was facing the mirror. "Staring at Jace again. I see."
Clary nodded, knowing that she could be seen in Isabelle's mirror. She turned her head back towards the window, hoping not to have missed anything in the fighting lesson between Jace and Simon. But when she looked down out of the window, she couldn't see her best friend or the boy who she happened to have fallen in love with. Instead, all she could see was the grass below.
"Damn it," she whispered.
"What was that?" Isabelle asked while turning her head slightly so she could see Clary in the side of her eye.
Clary sighed. "Nothing."
Isabelle hesitated before turning back to the mirror once more and went back to applying her make-up. Clary dared one last look out the window, but she could only see the ground and no people. She decided she would go look for Jace herself, so she got up and waved goodbye to Isabelle before walking out into the large hallway. She walked down it towards Jace's room, but stopped when she heard voices coming from the library.
"You're a good fighter, Simon," she heard Jace say. "I'll give you that. And now that Clary's mother is fully awakened she should be okay to go back to living normally while having you and her mother to protect her."
"What about you?" Simon asked. "Aren't you going to be around to protect her?"
Protect me? Clary asked herself in a thought. From what?
Clary heard a sigh and she immediately knew that Jace was the one who sighed. It was the kind of sigh he would always use with her when they weren't on good terms.
"I will be around, Simon," Jace replied. "I just can't always be with her. I have other people - family - to protect also. They need me just as much as I need them, so I have to balance things out between my family and Clary."
"I see, Jace..." Simon said quietly, almost enough to make it unable to be heard by Clary's ears. "You do what's best for you, I'll watch Clary."
Clary couldn't stand just listening anymore. She pushed the door to the library open with a look of pure hatred on her face. The two boys turned to face her, looking completely surprised by her actions. Clary took two steps into the room before glaring at them.
"Just who do you think you two are?" she asked through clenched teeth. Her hands were slowly clenching into fists at her sides as the anger inside of her began to grow. "Well?"
Jace took a step towards her while keeping his eyes on her's. "Clary, what's wrong?"
Clary let out the breath she was holding, letting it come out in a hiss. She made herself drop her gaze from Jace's eyes to the floor. Staring at him made all the anger inside her disappear, and that's something she didn't want to happen at this moment.
"I can protect myself," she growled in a whisper. "I don't need you two or my mother to protect me. I'm just as strong as any of you."
Simon sighed before walking swiftly over to his best friend. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders before hugging her tightly without causing her any pain from his vampire strength.
"You shouldn't have heard all that," he said quietly to her. "That was just business between Jace and I. Nothing important for your ears."
"What's coming after me, Simon?" Clary asked while moving away from him. She wanted to know, no matter how bad it seemed.
Simon looked over to Jace, making Clary's eyes follow his. Jace looked completely shocked, but then grew back his normal composure over himself. He met eyes with Simon before shaking his head no, then he looked over to Clary with his golden eyes. He started to walk towards her, but stopped a few feet away.
"Clary, I can't explain what's going on right now," Jace said without looking away from Clary's face. "You're just going to have to trust me on this, understood?"
That wasn't going to work for her. She hated not knowing, and normally Jace would have told her straight forward what was coming. Unless he wanted to just keep her out of it all.
"No, Jace," Clary said. "Tell me what's going on. If you don't I will just go ask Alec or Izzy."
"I will just have to stop you from doing that," he replied while moving closer to her, pinning her against the wall. He placed his hands on the wall beside her body, caging her inside that spot. "Won't I?"
Simon cleared his throat before he turned to exit from the library. Clary watched him leave, feeling like he should have stayed. But she knew that whenever Jace gets like this with her Simon feels out of place. She felt bad for making him feel like that, but it was out of her control.
"Jace..." Clary whispered while locking her gaze with his. "He-"
"Don't worry about Simon," Jace interrupted her while moving closer to her. "He knows what he has to do, and that was all I needed to say to him. He was free to leave."
Clary sighed. "What's going on?"
"This really isn't the best time to tell you, Clary," Jace replied. His hands fell from the wall and landed softly on her hips as he took that final step to just being inches away from her. "I promise you that once everything is fine, I will tell you. Is that all right?"
Her breath came out in a rush as his lips brushed against hers. He stopped, waiting for her answer. Clary knew this routine well.
"Fine," she said against his lips. "But you have until tomorrow night to tell me."
"Deal," Jace replied before kissing her.
The kiss started off slowly, but became faster as time flew by. Clary's hands were pulling slightly on Jace's strands of hair while his hands were rubbing up and down her back. It seemed like hours had past while they just stood there, kissing each other. But in reality, it was only ten minutes.
"Excuse me!" Isabelle called from the doorway. Clary and Jace separated, but his arms remained securely around her.
"What is it, Izzy?" Jace asked while looking over his shoulder towards her.
She rolled her eyes while placing her hands on her hips. "Like you don't know!"
Clary smiled slightly, realizing their mistake. She kissed Jace on the cheek before unwinding his arms away from her. Jace looked at her with confusion clear in his golden eyes.
"The party," she whispered to him. "I have to get ready, and so do you."
"That's right!" Isabelle exclaimed. "So, if you don't mind, Jace. I need to get Clary all pretty."
Jace nodded his head. "I need to go talk to Alec. Don't torture her too much, Izzy. I still want to be able to recognize her."
Clary laughed while Isabelle just glared at him. Then, she grabbed onto Clary's hand and pulled her out of the library, leaving Jace all alone.
"Geeze, Izzy!" Clary gasped from the strength of Isabelle's hand. "Loosen up, that's my drawing hand!"
Isabelle let go of her hand and turned to walk into her bedroom. Clary followed in behind her before going over to the mirror and taking a seat. Isabelle went straight to work on her hair, curling and pinning it up wherever she thought needed to be. After she was done with Clary's hair, Isabelle went straight to doing Clary's make-up. After all that was finished
Isabelle handed Clary a simple, little black dress to wear, and then left to find Alec and Jace.
Clary changed out of her tank top and sweat pants before pulling on the dress without messing up her hair or make-up. She slid on the silver flats Isabelle gave her to wear before walking back over to the mirror. She checked to see if everything look perfect on her before taking in a deep breath, and then releasing it slowly.
"You're going to be fine," she told herself. "You have Jace, Izzy, Alec, Magnus, and Simon going with you. Nothing can hurt you."
Clary believed her own words, but only to an extent. The only thing she didn't believe was if they all were going to be there to protect her. She didn't know if whatever was coming would distract them so much, making her left out in the open, waiting to be killed. And that scared her.
There was a soft knock on the door before Clary went over to open it for whoever wanted in. When the door was fully opened all Clary could see was black pants, a white v-neck, and a jacket. When she looked up she met those golden eyes that only Jace could have. He smiled at her while taking in her appearance.
"You look perfect," he said while walking into the room.
Clary blushed. "Thank you."
Suddenly, Isabelle and Alec came running down the hallway. Alec looked like he was in shock seeing as how Isabelle had his hand in hers, pulling him from room to room. Isabelle looked like... Well, normal.
"Are you two ready to leave yet?" Isabelle asked while releasing Alec's hand. "It's almost eleven, and I promised Simon that we would be there before eleven thirty."
Jace smirked. "He's got Maia. He should be fine. And you two can go on ahead of us."
Isabelle glared at him before latching onto his arm with her whip. She tugged on it slightly, just enough to make Jace stumble on his feet.
"No," she said. "We're going together. There is no two separate parties going to Magnus's party. Understood?"
Clary giggled before helping Jace up. "We're coming, Izzy."
"Good," she replied. She turned her back on them, grabbed Alec's hand again, and then marched right out of the room without even looking back.
"She's going to pay for that," Jace growled as he intertwined his fingers with Clary's. "No body pulls me down to the ground. Especially not her."
"Calm down," Clary replied with a smile. "She was just trying to make sure we were going to be at Magnus's on time. There's nothing wrong with that. You should know that."
Jace sighed as the two of them began to walk down the long hallway. Clary could see Alec and Isabelle waiting by the elevator, looking somewhat annoyed about having to wait. Once Jace and Clary were close enough to them, Alec turned his body slightly and pushed a button on the wall before the elevator's doors opened. They all stepped in and waited in silence before they were in the church's lobby. They walked outside into the night and started to head towards Magnus's place.
"It's kind of cold," Clary whispered to Jace as they turned a corner. Jace shrugged off his jacket and handed it to her with a smile. "Thanks."
"You're welcome," he replied.
They turned down a final corner before they were in the alley where Magnus's front door was. Alec rang the bell and then opened the door with a key Magnus had given him. The rest of them followed in behind him, sticking close together until they found Magnus.
"Alec!" Magnus called from besides the bar. "Come over here!"
Alec smiled and nodded as his feet began to take him towards Magnus. Isabelle rolled her eyes at him before walking towards the dance floor to find Simon and Maia. Clary watched her leave, but stayed standing still with Jace.
"Something feels off," Jace whispered into her ear.
"What do you mean?" Clary asked.
Jace looked around before pulling her towards a door. He opened it, pulled them through it, before closing it behind them and locking it. Jace let go of Clary's hand before he began to pace. Clary walked over to him and rested her hand on his arm, causing Jace to look at her and stop his pacing.
"Jace," she whispered. "What's wrong?"
Jace opened his mouth to answer, but he was cut off by the sound of something exploding. Jace looked over to the locked door with a look of confusion. He began to walk slowly towards it but then stopped to look back at Clary.
"Stay here," he whispered. She nodded her head in reply as she watched him move out of the door swiftly.
There was another sound made, but it was the sound of something exploding. It sounded almost like someone had busted a door down. Clary walked over to the door and laid her ear against it, hoping she could hear something from the other side of the door. But all she heard was silence.
The silence she couldn't stand. She backed away from the door before unlocking it and opening it. She stepped into the room where the party was, but instead of seeing dancing bodies she saw Jace holding two seraph blades, looking lethal.
"I thought I got rid of you," Jace growled while glaring at someone standing in the doorway.
"You wish, Jace," the boy standing in the doorway replied. Clary knew that voice. She knew it all too well.
It was the voice of Sebastian.
A/N: BIG TWIST ALREADY!? Yes. (:
This is going to be AWESOME! Reviews would be loverly!