It was dark all around, no light came from the near street lamps but two people were standing by a building. One had a halo of gold above their head the other a river of red. They looked at each other being able to see in the faint light left by the stars. It was Jace and Clary on a mission together.

Jace looked over to Clary "You sure this is the place?" looking up and down the building. Clary nodded and spoke in a bare whisper "Yes, it is the place Maryse said. It was the top floor". Clary stretched her hand out for the door handle and flinched at the odd coolness of it during the mid-summer evening. Jace's eyes widened but he knew Clary was strong and if it was anything bad she would have said. Clary slowly pushed the door open and looked inside.

There was nothing besides a corridor that seemed to go on into the darkness and never end. Clary looked to Jace who was looking at her. Jace spoke "Ladies first then?" with a small smile. Clary let out an airy laugh "Since when were you such a gentlemen?" Jace looked mildly amused but that was not before a look of pain and sadness as he replied "Oh, I thought that all the time I was gentlemanly maybe I need to change my A game" and then moved into the corridor.

Slowly they walked deeper into the thick darkness. There was a little thud from Clary's shoes hitting the bottom steps. In a matter of seconds she raced up her red hair leaving a faint red light in the darkness for Jace to chase. They reached the top of the stairs to see an open door. Behind the door they could hear voices as distinct as a mouse squeak but faint to their ears. Both Clary and Jace pushed themselves against the wall flattening their bodies straining their ears to hear.

The voices were louder and clearer now "One person! You brought back one person between the pair of you for us all to feed on!" and then a sound of a slap came though the room. Clary tensed feeling Jace moving her breath was shallow but then a second voice came through "How are we meant to snag another person when the Clave are already on us? I am not putting my life in that much danger, one is enough for tonight" then there was an eerie silence.

Jace and Clary knew what was happening behind that door. They looked at each other and Jace nodded, Clary took a breath and then nodded back. She made the first sprint, kicking the door down as she entered the room and whispered "Gabriel" as her seraph blade burst into light. Jace was just behind her with his blade shining too.

The vampires looked from their dinner at the two intruders, eyes quickly adjusting to the light of the blades in the pitch darkness of the room. They all backed away slowly towards the wall, blood dripping down their mouth leaving a red mark. Their fangs were showing as they glared at the two shadow hunters.

Jace moved forward "Interrupting dinner are we?" The reply he got was three small hisses "Well it looks like you got enough of the poor child's blood" and now a smirk emerged on Jace's face as he threw his seraph blade at one of the vampires but it moved with its heightened speed. The first vampire lurched for Jace but Clary was there already slicing at the vampire in one clean movement of her arm right across its chest. The vampire screamed in pain and reared back towards the wall, Jace was there and grabbed hold of him. The other two vampires split now, one made a frantic dash for Jace fangs out ready to bite his neck, the other rushed to Clary who ran towards the opposite wall. Clary flipped off the wall landing behind the vampire which as it turned noticed the gleam in her eyes as her blade slid across the vampire's neck. The vampire fell to the ground and Clary whirled around.

Jace swung his body around still holding the first vampire; the second vampire's fangs sank into his kin. Jace released the first and kicked him with all his force, the vampires landed in a muddle against the wall. Jace made for a run to his seraph blade to notice it was flying towards him. He grabbed it smoothly and began to run to the vampires, Clary was not too far behind. The vampire's rose to their feet just as Jace and Clary arrived, simultaneously they both stabbed the vampires in the chest and the vampires fell to the ground.

Jace looked at Clary "You have improved, I'm impressed." Clary looked shocked but gave a small smile back "How impressed?" Jace was smiling now, his hair was a mess at that moment but all he was doing was looking at Clary like a little child who had just made a friend "Oh you know, only a little. You could have taken my head off with throwing my seraph blade!" Chuckling Clary turned to face Jace "I did not though did I?" Jace now laughed and a grin spread across his face, he wiped the sweat from his head as he spoke "No but it sorely upset me, my love of my life endangering my life by throwing a seraph blade. Wait till we tell everyone that story" they both laughed as they grabbed their weapons from the vampires bodies. Slowly they turned and interlocked hands as they began towards the door.

Jace tensed and Clary knew why. Outside there was a searching of break from a car, two bangs of doors being shut and then another one. Clary and Jace glanced at each other and Jace moved his lips but did not say any words. They broke apart and hid in dark corners of the room.

What felt like an hour but must have only been minutes Clary felt she had been standing in the darkness waiting for more vampires to come up. She heard it then the rustle of boots and clothes. Slowly entering the room were two men.

The men walked in, Jace and Clary watched them both knowing they are not vampires. The men looked around overlooking Clary and Jace due to their glamour's. Their faces turned into shock as they saw the dead vampire bodies lying on the ground and the little girl who had her blood sucked by the vampires.

Jace and Clary joined each other behind the two men, removing their glamour's they coughed to make there presence aware. The two men turned. BANG, BANG, BANG. The two met shot their guns each shot hitting Clary and Jace but causing them no harm and leaving white marks on their black shadow hunter gear.

The men dropped their guns and drew a knife each and smirked at each other. The men ran towards Jace and Clary with their weapons held high ready to cut them across the neck. As Jace's opponest arrived Jace with a swift movement of his arm hit the man in the chest winding him and then with an equaly angelic movement he moved his arm, grabbing the other man's and flipped him over his back. The man swore under his breath as his blade fell out of his hand, Jace kicked it well out of the mans reach who backed up against the wall.

Clary fought off the other man simply by knocking the blade out of his hand, flying into the air. She then fell to the ground avoiding a rushed attempt of a grab and she swung her legs across knocking the man off his feet. She then caught the blade and threw it out of the window. The second man also backed against the wall. Clary went and stood by Jace.

The two men whispered to each other "Sammy, did you just get screwed by a girl vamp?" with a slight laugh but the Sam replied "Oh yea, because it went oh so well for you Dean" then they both turned to face the two strangers.

Jace spoke first with a pretend fierce voice "You think we are vampires?" The two men nodded then Dean replied "Which is odd, you seemed to have killed your own family" at this Clary laughed. She pointed at the vampires "They are not our family and we know you are not of our kind. Who are you two and what are you doing here?" Sam went to rise to his feet but Clary kicked his leg not too lightly. Dean spat at Clary then spoke in a gruff voice "We are hunters, people who kill things such as vampires, werewolf's and other creatures of the night. Some are fiercer than these. What do you mean 'we are not of your kind'?" Jace had a smirk run across his face, almost cracking into laughter "You hunt these? How do you even kill them, you have no weaponry with runes on them. And we are not the same because we are Nephilem, part Angel and part human." At this the two men laughed and Sam replied "Part Angel? Sorry but that is the worst thing we have heard all our lives and we have heard some fucked up shit. Our parents both got killed by demons, we hunt them and most angel we have met are not exactly nice either and I have to say, you two being half angel live up to that standards we have of them." Jace put a hand out and Clary followed his action as Jace said "You two are coming with us, the Clave will be most intrested in you two."