Welcome to my first book, hopefully you enjoy. It's mainly a Clace book, but there will be Malec and Sizzy.
This is a story about Clary coming to the New York institute and meeting everyone as a shadow hunter, with her mother, many problems arise will Clary be able to handle everything?
Clary's point of view.
The shadow world didn't really approve of art outside of class, but my Mum Jocelyn and I would always sneak off to her room and open her secret stash of art supplies for when I had been good, or got best in my class.
When my Father died a few months ago she had become to busy, and we never seemed to do any art since he passed. Today we moved into the New York institute, I am 17 and this year will be my final year of training. And I hated to have to leave my friends I had made, but my Mum had a new job there, after the Robert and Maryse Lightwood were moved to Idris to work with the clave.
Though I was moving to the New York institute I had never met anyone there, I didn't know anyone, except for photos and names.
I had just got there this morning with my mother, she went off to introduce herself, to god knows who. So after she left and I had finished unpacking, I grabbed a small art book, and some grey leads. I snuck my way around the institute till I found the door to the backyard, which was more like a small forest, most likely used for training.
I found a tree, and since I had no classes, I brought an apple so I could stay up there for as long as I wanted, once I found a stable branch in a high enough tree to keep hidden, I sat, taking in the surroundings.
I placed my sketch pad and grey leads, in my lap and begun to draw a bird that was brown and white, with a blue back and a orangy stomach.
I finished the bird and begun drawing the tree leaves and stem around the bird, the vibrant green of the tree would have came out beautiful if I could have found my colored pencils.
I was satisfied with the drawing and changed the page for inspiration for my next drawing, I begun eating my apple until only the core left, and carefully placed it on the branch near my feet.
I begun to draw the back of the beautiful institute, that could have been a mansion in the 1800's. I begun to hear yells and laughter and light cracks and bangs when I saw three kids around my age, the first I saw was a young girl with dark hair, she must be Isabelle Lightwood, and the only girl my age here, she was more stunning, more then the pictures betrayed her as, she had an interesting snake bracelet, that I had seen in my Fathers shop in Idris as a kid, it was a whip, the only one of its kind, with ruby eyes.
Next was who I presumed to be Alec, her older brother, he was quite handsome and 1 year older, he had beautiful blue eyes, but with I have only seen them in pictures, and I was to far away to get a glimpse of them from here. He was tall and masculine. He had dark hair.
Next was the blonde, who could only be Jace, his one of the most talked about people in Idris, though he was only 17, he was like a legend, a great shadow hunter, all girls dreamed of marriage union with him, and all boys dreamed of sparring with him and winning. Though he was as handsome as the photos, I don't know how girls could like someone they didn't even know.
They had made their way under me and continued fighting with their fake wooden seraph blades, while Izzy was encouraging her brother Alec, who'd I thought would rather work with bow and arrow.
They were both great, though when one of them nearly looked up, I quickly stood to move higher where I knew they couldn't see me, when my foot moved I forgot about the apple core I had placed next to my foot, and I went to grab it but I fell down after it.
I quickly pulled myself together, and did a quick flip so I could land on my feet. Though when I landed I was right between Alec's and Jace's spar, I looked up to see Jace. I finally could see what the girls at home were all flustered about, he had beautiful golden locks, that the sun could hit off and send sparks, his golden tan, and these golden eyes that I had never seen on anyone in my life. He was quite masculine and made me feel short, which in his defense probably wasn't abnormal.
After 1 or 2 seconds I reach my hand out, "Hi, you must be Jace? My names Clarissa Fairchild, you can call me Clary." He seemed to shocked to shake my hand so I shrugged and put my hand by my side.
Once I turned around I saw Isabelle almost squealed, she raced over and squeezed me. "You must be the new girl, finally a girl! You don't know how impossible these boys can be. I love the hair, real?" She said almost without a breath.
I let out a small laugh, "It's real, and I could only imagine, you must be Isabelle?"
"Please call me Izzy." She replied quickly, "And this is Alec's."
I shook his hand, he had the most beautiful deep blue eyes they almost reminded me of my best friend Simon, who was still at the other institute in Idris but hopefully later this year will be moving here as well.
"Sorry I interrupted your game." I turned to Jace who still hadn't said a word.
" Well you only stopped the inevitable." Jace said for the first time, giving me time to admire his perfect jawline, it was hard to find a fault in his otherwise perfection.
"And what exactly is that?" I asked him.
"Me winning." I tried to hold in a laugh at the sound of that, not yet understanding whether that was a joke or not.
"And how could you be so sure of that?" He simply smiled and replied.
"I'm just simply the best." And in that sentence I found his one fault, his cockiness.
" I don't know you were a bit predictable." I simply replied, he opened his mouth and then closed it again, obviously never been given critique before. "I'll see you around." I nodded and left, and went back to my room, sketch book and pencils in hand.
Jace's point of view
I watched her walk away, her red fiery hair flowing in the wind, she was short but could speak her mind unlike most people I know, she had these stunning hypnotizing eyes, she was beautiful, but unlike any girl I had ever met. When she first fell out the tree I though she was an angel if it hadn't been for her black uniform, she talked and for the first time in my life I was stars truck and was unable to move or talk.
Isabelle and Alec were both starring at me, both of them had their eyebrows up and looking stunned.
"What? You guys see a duck or something?" I replied.
"What was that Jace?" Alec replied sternly.
"What was what?"I looked between the two of them, playing dumb hoping they weren't talking about Clary.
"By the Angel, you like her don't you? Does Jacey have a little crush?" Izzy teased.
"No I don't get crushes, we don't even know her." I was trying to think of excuses, but the truth is there is no way I could like her, I mean I don't even know her, and I don't just have crushes on girls... Do I?
"Yes you do!" Izzy kept teasing.
"No I don't," and in that moment Maryse and Robert yelled out to us and I have never been more happy to hear their voices.
We started to walk off, when Izzy came to my side, "I expect you to tell me the truth when your ready, or Alec's at least." Then she walked off to catch up with Alec's who was already in front of us.
" I saw that you've already met Clarissa, try to make her feel welcomed. And we'll be back next month with Max to check in. Be good and listen to Hodge and Jocelyn, try not to break the accords." Maryse stated almost in monotone the whole time.
"Yes mum." Alec's and Izzy said in unison. I simply nodded, my head was in a different place.
We quickly said our goodbyes and they left with Max to Idris.
We walked down to the kitchen to grab a snack before Izzy had a chance to cook, I quickly grabbed a mango and a knife a started slicing it up, when Izzy and Alec's walked into the kitchen.
"Oh Jace I was about to make lunch." Izzy said after seeing me eating my mango.
"Ooooo I'm sorry, but I'm sure Alec's will have some of your poison, I mean food." I smiled at her glare, and Alec's just said thanks and rolled his eyes, when I finished I went back down stairs to start practicing my punches when I realized some another person was in their, most especially it was A short red head.
She was pounding the punching bag. She had great form I had never seen a girl able to hit as well as she could. She was playing music some song by thunderstruck ACDC which I was surprised to hear, I didn't know many other people who liked ACDC. Not many shadow hunters listened to music especially from the mundane world.
I snuck up behind her to scare her, I put my had on her shoulder and next thing I knew I was on the floor getting held down. Her hair made an almost curtain around us.
Her eyes quickly widened and she jumped off of me.
She extended her arm to help me up I ignored it and I stood up by myself, trying to show that she hadn't hurt me.
"I'm so so sorry, I was kind of focused, I didn't see you there." She turned around and turned the music off.
"Don't say sorry that was my fault. Shouldn't have snuck up behind you." I smiled trying to act confident to make up for earlier today.
She smiled and gave out a cute giggle, "Yeah, maybe don't do that."
" I was just going to say I like the music, didn't know many other people have listened to mundane music."
"O, I just put it on a random radio Chanel each time I'm boxing, I like the thought of mundanes, they make me laugh. Have you ever heard a mundane upset before?"
"No I don't think I have." I replied, "why?"
She sat down on a chair and grabbed her bottle of water. I kept standing.
"They get upset about breaking up with a boyfriend, or they lost an earring, and then some don't have a care in the world, they dance with whoever, meet new people without a worry in the world." She stared off at the floor, reminiscing on an old memory, she had a slight smirk on her face, "I don't know sometimes I like to think about what my life would be like if I was a mundane. Don't you?" Looking up to make eye contact with me.
I didn't know what to say, I'd never thought about it, or ever even payed attention to anything but the mission before. She begun to shake her hand, and quickly picked up her jacket and put over her tank top, and grabbed her hand tape and her drink bottle. " I'm sorry, you probably don't care."
She quickly left right before I could say anything. But I couldn't get it out my head after she said it, I had never thought about it before. She was different then most shadow hunters, we never thought about things like that. And I liked that about her all I could think about while I was training was her laugh and smile, and how I wanted to make her smile, and how I wanted to make her smile because of me.
Clary's point of view
By the angel I'm so stupid, there's only three people my age here, and one of them must already think I'm stupid, I shouldn't of told Jace that, shadow hunters aren't meant to be like that, were meant to not show emotions and be strong. He probably thinks I'm crazy. I didn't look forward to dinner, I'll probably walk in there and have everyone laughing at me. I stopped worrying and decided to have a shower before dinner was up.
When I got out from my shower I looked at the time it was only 5:30pm and dinner wasn't for another hour, I would have gone for a walk but I didn't want to walk into Jace. So I stayed in my room and just went through some of the runes, even though I knew them all. I was putting on a awareness rune, after not realizing Jace was there I defiantly needed it. I used the mirror to help put it on my back shoulder.
I heard a knock at the door, "One second!" I yelled, quickly putting a jacket over my singlet.
I got to the door to finally see my mum, I gave her a quick hug.
"How was your first day at the new job treating you?" I asked
"It's been good, but I came here to check on you, have you met the other three people you'll be training with yet?"
"I have." I replied.
"And? How were they?"
"They seem nice, their all close, Izzy seems sweet, but not quite Simon, but I think it'll be good." I smiled trying to seem as happy as possible.
"I know, but hopefully he'll be able to come here soon, but try to get to know them before you have to be on a mission with them. Please."
I knew what she meant, you spend your life with a group of people, learning how to fight together, gaining someone that doesn't know how to fight as the team does, throws a spanner in the mix. "I know and I will."
"Well dinner is nearly ready, I have to do some scheduling but I think it's just going to be the four of you, I'll have to meet them later." She gave me a quick kiss on my temple and left.
I placed my healed boots, and walked downstairs.
When I got to the dining room, I sat down in the middle as no one else was there, I smelt food from the kitchen, apparently Izzy cooks, my mother had told me. I hadn't had a real meal in a few days so I hope it's good.
Soon Alec and Jace arrived together, laughing about some joke they had just shared, they automatically stopped laughing when they saw me.
"Hi, am I in your spot?" I asked them.
"No your not." And Alec sat down diagonally to me. And Jace sat down in front of me hardly looking at me, he must really think I'm crazy, stupid Clary, stupid, stupid,stupid.
I turned to Alec, who wasn't staring at anything particular.
"Hey Alec why don't you tell me a bit about yourself, I don't really know anything about anyone here." I tried to smile, he looked at me sternly.
"I'm Alec, I live here, I don't think there's much to it." He said without changing his face from a stern almost scary gaze.
"No dreams, no cool stories or battles, I heard there was this one great fight were you killed this," before I could finish Izzy came through and I couldn't help but feel relief.
She was holding this massive pot, when she put it on the table, and realized I was there.
"Welcome Clary, your first official meal at your new home."
"And probably your last." Jace said, Alec begun to smile for the first time in what seemed like forever, and Izzy just gave them a death stare.
I was confused whether or not they were threatening me, until izzy spoke "My cooking is not that bad, I'd like to see you do better."
Then she lifted the lid and a smell I had never smelt before, came out, she filled my bowl with some sort of soup.
"Looks great izzy." I said lying through my teeth, it looked like half eaten food, spat back out.
Once everyone got there meal, I saw Izzy started to eat, and then Jace and Alec just staring at me with the same smirks on their face.
I raised my eyebrows, and continued to bring the spoon to my mouth, I almost spat it back up and begun to cough. The boys begun to laugh and Izzy turned to me with puppy eyes. "Don't you like it?" I saw how upset she was and decided to keep lying.
"No I just wasn't expecting it to be hot," I continued with nervous laughter. "Burnt my tongue."
The boys continued to laugh. "Yeah sure you did." Izzy and me gave them a death stare.
"Sorry." Jace said to Izzy, putting his arms up in surrender.
I swallowed the soup as fast as I could, so I didn't have to taste it as much, but even the texture was off.
I finished first, and they all seemed shocked. "Would you like seconds?" Izzy said with a smile on her face.
"No I'm full," I said rubbing my stomach."but it was delicious," the boys begun to hold back laughter, letting a few giggles escape. "But I think Jace didn't get quite enough, " I said, before he could disagree I dumped a big spoonful in his bowl. "And it's bad manners not to finish." I gave him a quick wink and smile, and Alec begun to laugh until he saw the wink, and went back stern.
But Izzy didn't get the joke, but was still happy I had finished.
"I'm going to put my dish away, but thank you that was lovely Izzy."
I walked to the kitchen washed my dish and looked for something to get rid of the horrible taste that was left in my mouth, I saw a mango, I grabbed one out of the bowl, Alec and Izzy walked in.
"I would put that back exactly where and how you got it." Izzy said, I raised an eyebrow but put it back.
"Is that exactly how you got it?" Alec asked,
"Yeah I think so why?" I asked
But the door opened, and Izzy started to talk "Hahahahaha, so you have to tell me about all your friends up their."
That was odd but I went along with it, "Yeah of course."
"Who did it?" Jace said looking at Izzy and Alec sternly,
"Did what?" I asked.
"Who touched my mango?" He said sternly
"That would have been me, and is that why?" I said turning to Alec and Izzy who both nodded their head.
"Oh okay." Was all Jace had to say, Alec and Izzy's eyebrows begun to borrow.
"Is it alright if I have one?" I asked not knowing what the big deal was, and how he even noticed.
"Yeah, sure." That was odd but I shrugged and grabbed a mango and bowl and a small knife and left, Izzy and Alec's seemed to be in shock, but I kept walking until I reached my room. I ate my mango and attempted to fall asleep as best I could.
Jaces point of view.
"What the hell just happened?" Izzy said her mouth slightly opened.
I shrugged "what you mean?"
"The mangos, you let Clary have one, you never let anyone even have a piece." Alec said, as they put their dishes in the sink.
"I guess that I realized it was childish."
"Okay so I can have one." Izzy said going to grab a mango.
"No! I mean there's only two left, there was a spare, but now I have none to spare."
She begun to laugh, "Yeah sure, that's why I can't have one and she could." she was smiling from ear to ear. "You have a crush on Clary."
"No I don't!"
Alec just shrugged, "Whatever, I'm going to bed, your turn to do dishes Jace." With that Izzy and Alec's, finally left me alone, it was only 7:30pm but we had early training tomorrow.
I washed the dishes, and went to my room I couldn't help but toss and turn I couldn't get Clary out of my head for some reason, which then brought me thinking to what it would be like if I was mundane, would I have met her was the first thing that came to my head.
I looked at the clock, it was 12:06 am I decided I wasn't getting any sleep, I chucked some trousers on and an unzipped jacket, not bother to grab a t-shirt.
I went down stairs and grabbed the milk and a glass, I put some in a cup, and put the milk back in the fridge and when I turned around I saw a tired clary rubbing her eyes as she walked towards the kitchen, in her short pj bottoms and tank top. She moved her hands from her eyes, and jumped at the sight of me.
"What are you doing up?" She asked.
"I could ask the same about you." I saw her eyes quickly look at my abs, what can I say the are pretty good. She wouldn't be the first girl. But first to look away quickly,
"Couldn't sleep?"
"You either?"
"Nah." She walked over to the fridge and grabbed a glass of milk and sat on the other side of the island bench.
"You enjoying the institute." I said leaning on the bench.
"Egh, I miss my friends, and my tutor. And" she stopped and looked a bit upset.
"And your boyfriend?" I asked hoping she didn't have one, but why should I care anyway, God Jace.
She met out a quite and sad laughter, but didn't smile. "No, no, don't worry about it, I should probably get to bed. "
I don't know why but I wanted to know. She walked past me after putting her glass in the sink. I quickly grabbed her wrist, and she turned to me, I could finally really admire the details in her face. "You can tell me it's alright."
"You probably don't want to know it doesn't matter." I tried to search her eyes for some sort of sign, but I couldn't find one.
"Of course I do." I replied as sympathetically as I could.
"My father Valentine, was killed by a demon two months ago, moving here feels like I left him." A tear made her way down her cheek, I moved my hand to her small and fragile face, and wiped away the tear with my thumb, and left my hand cupping her face. I don't know why but I hated seeing her hurt, and I hardly even knew her.
"It's alright I understand completely, my Mum and Dad passed away when I was young."
"By the angel I'm so sorry, I completely forgot. You don't need to listen to my problems." She said as she stepped away, I let go of her hand and face and dropped my hand by my side, she frantically rubbed her face with her hands to make sure there was no tears left on her face. And ran off.
God I'm so stupid, I shouldn't have done that I should of known she didn't want to tell me, I should put have made her feel uncomfortable, and I should have ran after her made sure she was okay.
I went back to my room knowing it was way too late.
Clarys point of view
As soon as I reached my room I buried my head into my pillow I'm such an idiot Jace probably thinks I'm the weakest shadow hunter to live, the craziest one, and thoughtless I should have known not to talk about that stuff, but as soon as he touched my hand I felt this tingle surge through me, and he cupped my face and and I felt like I was on cloud 9. I should know better then to like someone, Jace is just some guy that all the girls like, he makes out with a different girl everyday when his in Idris, why would he even like a girl like me, and I should be showing emotion, my Dad always said it was a weakness, all shadow hunters do.
I have to be a shadow hunter, not some girl who cries or that thinks about the mundane world.
Maybe I would be a better mundane with that thought I fell asleep