I do not own The Mortal Instruments characters but the plot is mine.

Chapter: One

Clary:

I was walking to the Institute. I have been sick for the past two weeks so my mom took me to the doctor today. They had me take a pregnancy test and it came back positive. Jocelyn is not happy about it. I do not care if she is not happy though because I am happy and I hope Jace will be too. I put my hand on my stomach while I turned the corner to see the Institute. I hope Jace will be happy, I think again. When I got to the Institute, I make my way up to Jace's room.

"Jace what if Clary comes in?" A female voice says from inside Jace's room. I stop outside the door to listen.

"She's been sick. She will not bother us. Now come here." Jace says and the girl squeals.

Not realizing tears have been streaming down my face I threw the door open. Jace was lying on top of a topless girl kissing her. The girl shrieked and rolled out from under Jace to grab her shirt that was on the floor. She glared at me when she was covered. Jace spun around his face went instantly white from seeing me in the doorway.

"Clary" Jace mumbled. He got to his feet and reached for me. "Clary" he said again.

I slapped his hand that reached out for me. "No! Don't touch me! Stay away from me Jace Herondale! I never want to see you again! Stay away from me!" I yelled. Before he could say anything else, I turned and ran down the corridor. I could hear Jace's feet behind me. I could hear him yelling my name and telling me to come back or let him explain. I reached the elevator and hit the button. I could hear Jace getting closer. Hurry up! I think. Answering my prayer, the doors to the elevator opened. I stepped in and hit another button. I could see Jace running to catch the doors but he was too late. The doors closed between us. When the doors opened, again I ran out the institute doors. I could hear Jace coming out the doors when I started running down the street. I could see him behind me. I kept running but he was catching up. A cross walk was up ahead I ran to catch it. I got across just in time but Jace didn't. He slowed to a stop on the other side of the road. I ran further down the street then got into a cab.

A few minutes later, I got home. I went inside the whole house was dark and quiet. I walked in, closed the front door, and locked it back. My mom and Luke must have left. There was a note on the kitchen table.

Dear Clary,

Luke and I went out to dinner. We should be back around 8 p.m.

Love,

Your Mother

I looked at the clock it said 6:51 p.m. I went to my room. I paced the room thinking of what to do. Jace didn't want me no more. I won't let him hurt my baby. I went to my closet and got out a duffle bag from the top shelf. I started putting things I would need in it. I put three short-sleeved shirts, two long sleeved shirts, 4 pairs of pants, my sketchbook, and colored pencils into the bag. I ran to my parent's room and dragged out from under their bed a safe. It held our emergency money. Luke told me the combination just in case Jocelyn or Luke wasn't there to open it. I stuff a few hundred dollars in the bag and threw the bag over my shoulder, grabbed my stele and headed for the kitchen. I took out a piece of paper and a pencil and wrote a letter to my mom and Luke.

Dear Mom and Luke,

I'm sorry I left. I can't stay. I caught Jace cheating on me today so I'm leaving. I'll keep in contact and visit twice a month but I won't tell you were I am, not yet. He doesn't know. I don't want him to know either so please don't tell him if he comes looking for me at the house. I love you.

Love,

Clary

I put the note on the kitchen table next to the note my mom left. I looked at the clock it was 7:30 they will be seeing it in a half hour. They will realize I'm gone. I grabbed my stele from where I sat it down and went into the living room. I started to draw a portal when a knock came from the front door. In the window, I could see Jace standing there. I turned to the drawling on the wall and finished the portal rune. The portal opened. "Clary" I turned Jace was looking through the window. He was wide eyed and pressed against the glass. He was watching me open a portal that will take me away from him. He tried to open the door but I had locked the front door. I turned back to the portal and stepped through not looking back.

I landed on my feet when the portal dropped me. I had my duffle bag over my shoulder and my stele in my hand still. I took in my new surroundings. I landed on a beach with beautiful blue water and sparkling white sand. There was kids running up and down the cost or swimming in the deep blue ocean while parents and teens tan in the burning sun. I walked towards a dock that was further down the cost. When I got to the dock I found a road past it's parking lot. I walked down the street. I didn't know where I was going but I knew I had to find an Institute or some place to stay until I did.

I heard a beeping noise from my back pocket. My phone was ringing I had forgot I still had it. I pulled out my phone to see the call was from Jace multiple calls where. I had 10 miss calls from him. I ended the call. I looked around and saw a gutter. I walked over it led to the sewers below. I place the phone over the gutter, it started to ring again in my hand, and I dropped it. It bounced on a bar before it slipped between two bars and landed with a splash in the sewer water.

I kept on walking until I came to an Institute. It was big bigger than the one in New York. I rang the doorbell and waited for someone to answer. The door swung open Emma was standing in the doorway in front of me. I hadn't seen here since the last time I was Idris.

"I need a place to stay, please." I said with much pleading in my voice.

Emma smiled with realization and opened the door wider to let me into the Institute. Emma led me up the stairs and through the corridors to a small room with a man in it. The man was sitting behind a desk pilled with papers. He didn't seem to have notice Emma and I where even here. I cleared my throat. The man looked up from the papers he was looking at. He put them down and took off some reading glasses he had been wearing.

"I'm Arthur Blackthorn. Have a seat. What can I help you with?" Arthur said. I recognized him from Idris too he was the new L.A. Institute leader since Andrew blackthorn his brother was turned to one of Sebastian's endarken army. I sat in a seat that was in front of the desk but Emma sat on a couch next to a fireplace.

"I need a place to stay." I said with the same amount of pleading in my voice as I gave Emma at the door.

Arthur Blackthorn got out a blank sheet of paper and asked, "What's your name and age? Where did you live before? Why did you leave?"

"Clary Fairchild, 16, I lived in the New York Institute, and…" I hesitated before answering the last question. "My boyfriend cheated on me so I left. I needed to get away."

Arthur looked up at me with sad eyes. "Well we will be glad to have you here with us. There is quite a few of us. Now is there anything I should know before I show you to your room?"

"I'm pregnant," I said softly.

Arthur stood up, came around his desk, and gave me a big hug out of sympathy.

We broke apart. "Okay, well I'll show you to your room. Emma" he turned to Emma. "Would you gather everyone up in the dining room in 10 minutes to meet our new guessed?"

Emma stood from the couch, "I don't mind, Arthur. Glad to have you Clary." With that, she left the room to find the others.

Arthur leads me down the corridor to an empty room. There was a naked bed, stripped of its sheets and blankets. It had one white flat pillow lying at the end of it. The bed was against the wall. Next to it was a medium sized dresser with a window sitting on top that had the view of the mountains with their snowy white peaks. Across from the bed was a door that was to a bathroom. I sat my duffle bag on the bed and looked back at Arthur Blackthorn that was still standing in the doorway.

"Thank you." I said in a low quiet voice.

"My Pleaser, I hope you can feel at home here." He said not moving seeming to be deciding something. "Does he know? Do you think he will come looking for you?"

I knew exactly who "he" was and I didn't want to talk about him. "No. He doesn't know I was going to tell him but that's when I caught him. I don't know if he'll come looking for me but if he does I won't go back, not with him, not after what he did." I told the truth anyway. They would have to know sometime.

"Well let's go meet the others shall we?" He said gesturing for her to go out the door in front of him.

We walked back down the hall to a big room with a long table, many chairs, a fireplace, and a door that swung both ways that must have lead to the kitchen. There were many kids in the dining room though not many adults. Everyone was sitting in a chair at the table. Emma was sitting with Julian. They haven't changed much though I only seen them a few months ago. The rest of the Blackthorns were there too. Arthur sat at the head of the table. I stood in the doorway quietly. Everyone was engaged in other conversations. After a few minutes, the room became quite and everyone seemed to be looking at me.

Arthur turned in his seat and gestured to a set next to him "have a seat. Don't be shy. Come join us. Come meet everyone." I walked slowly over to the chair that was next to him.

"Everyone this is Clary Fairchild she will be living with us from now on." Arthur said to everyone at the table. "Clary this is Julian Blackthorn and Emma Carstairs." He pointed to the two 12 year olds that sat across from me. I already knew them.

"This is Olivia but we call her Livvy and Tiberius we call him Ty Blackthorn. They're twins." He pointed to the two 10 year olds that sat further down. Livvy and Ty didn't look much alike. Ty had black hair when Livvy and all the other Blackthorns had brown. Livvy gave me a smile and Ty gave a small waved.

"That is Drusilla or Dru and Octavius or Tavvy Blackthorn," Arthur said pointing at too others. Dru looked nine years old and Tavvy was still a baby about two maybe. Dru had his nose in a book but he looked up to nod in acknowledgment of me before disappearing into the book again. Tavvy was playing with a baby toy in a high chair on the other end of the table.

"Then last are Victoria and her brother Carter Bloodrose." Arthur gestured to the two sitting next to me. Carter was sitting right next to me. He had short dark brown almost black hair with lovely chocolate colored eye. He looked almost 18. His sister, Victoria had jet-black hair with dark brown eyes. She also had many piercings. She had one in the right side of her nose, one on both sides of her bottom lip; she had more than I could count on her ear. As I looked at them both I didn't realize her brother, Carter had been asking me something.

I snapped out of my daze "I'm sorry what?" I said looking up at him. He was tall even sitting down.

He gave a little chuckle. "I asked where you're from." He said with a big smile.

"Oh, I'm from New York." I said quietly.

"Why'd you leave?" He asked. I kept looking at him and told the whole story. No one seemed to want to say anything after I was finished not even Arthur or Emma that knew a little of the story. Carter looked mad for some reason. He looked as if he could rip someone's head right off their body and walk away like nothing happened.

After the dinner, I went to my room and started unpacked. There was a small knock on the door.

"Come in." I said not looking up from my duffle bag. The door opened, Carter and Victoria walked in. Victoria jumps down on the bed next to my bag.

"My name's Vic, Arthur's never around much so he doesn't know much." Vic said. I kept folding my clothes and putting them in drawers only glancing at Vic.

When I didn't say anything Vic went on. "Arthur is supposed to be the head of this institute but he goes off a lot of the time and we get stuck running it." Vic said gesturing to her and Carter that was now sitting next to her. "Okay enough with the crap." Vic yanked the shirt I was folding from my hands and put it on the bed next to her.

"Hey! I'm unpacking," I said trying to take the shirt back but Vic put her hand down.

"We came in here to say that we are here for you and want to help you through this." I stopped trying to get the shirt back and listened. It was the first thing Carter said since he walked in.

When I don't speak he continues "That guy shouldn't have done that to you."

"Yeah and you're not alone with this kid. We are here for you when you need us." Vic said and lifted her hand off the shirt. At that moment, I wanted to cry to burst into tears. I thought I would be alone in raising this baby. I grabbed Vic, hugged her tightly, and started to cry. I broke away to do the same to Carter.