AN
I do not own Shadowhunters, all rights go to the show's creators.
And before anyone says anything, this story is NOT an Alec/OC story, my OC is a female and since Alec is gay, I can't have the two endgame.
Just saying, since I have this same story on wattpad and people keep on shipping the OC and Alec.
ALSO. This is a slow burn.
"I'll miss you, Ellen." Claire told Ellen as she stood in front of the bus station. She had two bags on her, one bag was over her shoulder and then other she was holding in her right hand.
"I'll miss you too, shortie" Ellen smiled at her, and Claire sighed at the annoying nickname.
"C'mon, I'm not that short!" She said, huffing. Ellen only laughed, making Claire herself start laughing along with her as well.
"Alright, come on. One last hug." Claire said, dropping the bag she was holding to the floor and rushing over to Ellen and giving her a hug.
"Be safe, okay?" Ellen said to the young girl she thought of as a daughter.
"I will. I got my weapons and everything in my bag, I'll be fine." She promised, smiling softly.
"I know, I'm just worried. What something attacks you on the way? What if your cousin isn't home and you have to search hours for a place to stay?" Ellen panicked, staring at Claire with wide eyes.
"It's gonna be fine! I'll be back in a few months anyway!" She assured, putting her hands on Ellen's shoulders. "I can protect myself, remember?"
Ellen calmed down and nodded, hugging Claire one last time.
The two heard a loud 'honk' causing them to break away from the hug and look towards where the sound came from. The bus.
"Well, that's my cue. Bye, Ellen!" Claire waved at Ellen as she got on the bus. Ellen waved right back at her, smiling sadly.
She watched as the bus drove away, leaving her standing alone at the bus stop.
Claire spent the first two hours of the bus ride listening to music, such as AC/DC, Halsey and The Arctic Monkeys. She had a weird music taste. The other hour she spent reading The Maze Runner: Death Cure.
When the bus finally came to a stop, Claire was the first to stand up, grab her bags and rush out. She was late to the meeting she was supposed to be having with her cousin Clary and her friend Simon. Clary decided her cousin needed to have some fun in her life so she invited her to hang out. Claire was familiar to Brooklyn, she's been there before. So she knew exactly where to go.
This was the city her mother was born in after all.
It wasn't easy for Claire to run with the two bags she was carrying. Only because one of them was full of lethal weapons. As a hunter, you can never be too sure when you might need them.
Claire ran as fast as she could to the so called club that Clary invited her to, she couldn't remember what it was called, Pande- something?
After running into a lot of people and apologizing to every single one of them, Claire finally made it to the place she was supposed to meet Clary and her friends.
"Claire! Over here!" Claire perked up at the familiar voice of her cousin and looked around, before finally spotting her cousin along with a nerdy-cute looking guy and a pretty looking girl with dark hair and a really cute outfit.
"Hey!" Claire waved at her cousin. She quickly approached them and greeted Clary with a hug and Simon and the girl with a wave.
"Oh my god, Claire! I haven't seen you in so long!" Clary grinned. Claire and Clary used to be pretty close. But stopped talking after Claire had to move away with her mother.
"Same goes for you!" Claire politely replied, she really didn't feel like being nice, but this was her cousin, her normal, unaware of the supernatural cousin. She glanced at Simon and the girl, Clary noticed the glance and her eyes widened when she realized she hasn't introduced Claire to her friends yet.
"Oh- these are my friends Simon and Maureen. Guys, this is my cousin Claire Winter." Clary introduced, and they all shared their 'hello's' and Clary was about to start another conversation but stopped when she saw Claire let her hair down from her bun and start reapplying her make up.
"What- what are you doing?" Simon asked, staring at Claire confusedly.
"My mission for today was to have fun." Claire replied, fixing her hair.
Clary raised her eyebrow, waiting for the girl to continue.
"And I'm planning on completing this mission." Was the only thing she said as she put on her leather jacket and sneakily grabbed two daggers from her bag and hid them in her jacket.
"What do you mean?" Maureen asked her, speaking up for the first time.
Claire ignored the group's calls and strutted into to the club she saw was called Pandemonium.
The second she stepped into the club she was hit with the smell of alcohol and sweat.
Lights were flashing and people were dancing, drinking, dancing while drinking, also a couple was making out in the back.
She ignored it all and walked straight onto the dance floor, taking some strangers bottle of beer along the way and taking one long gulp before shoving into some random persons chest.
She smirked as she pushed past the crowd, trying to find a good spot so she could get a good look at everyone dancing and a find a drinking or a dancing buddy that didn't just look pathetic.
Her happy mood almost instantly disappeared when someone bumped into her and didn't even apologize, she was standing further away from the dance floor and in a dark corner sipping a glass of some random drink she didn't know the name of.
"Watch where you're going!" She yelled at the guy, she couldn't see his face, but she could see his back. Black leather jacket and dark hair.
The guy stopped and turned around, shocked. He obviously didn't expect someone to be able to see him.
"How the hell?" He whispered to himself and was about to approach the girl and probably threaten her but stopped when he heard his name being called.
Claire watched curiously as the man who bumped into her hurried off, heading for the back of the club. She also noticed a girl with a seemingly white wig and another guy with light hair heading that way as well.
Claire, instantly becoming suspicious quietly followed followed after the guy, already reaching for the daggers she hid in her jacket.
She held one in one hand and the other in the other hand and silently followed the guy, not taking her eyes off of him even for a second.
Just as she was about to enter the back room that the leather jacket guy went into a hand on her shoulder stopped her, she jumped and let out a little scream. Stupid, she thought to herself, you're a trained hunter, you should've known someone was following you!
Alec, who heard her little shriek stopped and turned his head slightly so he could see what was going on. He was still suspicious and a little curious about the girl that could somehow see him.
The man that had gripped her shoulder was wearing a gray suit. Overall he looked like a security guard. "You're not allowed to go there." He scowled.
Claire only glared in reply. "Too bad." She said before raising her fist and punching him in the face, hard, successfully knocking him out.
Claire didn't spare the man knocked out on the floor another glance as she turned around to continue following the guy only to see him standing in front of her, arms crossed as he stared at her with a suspicious look on his face.
"Who are you?" He demanded, subtly looking her up and down. She looked like one of them, a shadowhunter, with the leather jacket and dark clothes, and obviously the daggers in her hands. But she couldn't have been a shadowhunter. He would have at least recognized her. And she would have had runes, which the girl in front of him didn't have.
"Who are you?" Claire shot back, raising and eyebrow at him.
"I asked you first."
"I asked you second."
Alec sighed and rolled his eyes, making Claire smirk.
"Alec."
Claire continued to stare at him with both eyebrows raised.
"I'm not telling you my last name."
"Fine." Claire finally said after a moment of silence. "Claire." She told him her name.
"Pleasure to meet you Claire. Now if you would kindly-" Alec started, but stopped himself when he heard fighting going on in the room behind them. He wasted no time in turning around and rushing into the room to help his friends.
Claire, who also heard the fighting quickly followed after him, daggers in hand, ready for a fight.
When Claire walked into the room her eyes widened at the sight in front of her. Well, mostly at the sight of her cousin Clary pushing a- something onto the couch that was somehow, right there, then getting pushed back by the guy that was standing beside her that had a glowing sword.
"Seriously?" She quietly muttered to herself. Just when she thought she got away from the supernatural, they pulled her back in.
Claire must have spoke too loud since one of those things snapped their head towards her and started to approach her with hungry eyes.
The thing was fast, but Claire was faster, and before the creature even blinked, she had punched it in the face and stabbed it's head with a dagger making him almost instantly stop moving and fall to the ground, dead. Claire made sure to take the dagger out and stab it again, to make sure it was actually dead, but before she could the thing disappeared, only leaving behind bright orange particles.
When she looked up she saw everyone staring at her with wide eyes full of shock.
"Claire?" Clary asked quietly, shocked that her cousin was a part of this.
"What are you waiting for?" Claire yelled out to all of them, ignoring Clary.
Everybody got back into action.
Another one of the demons started heading towards Claire, she swiftly turned around and threw the dagger, hitting it directly in the demon's face. A perfect shot. She kneeled down and grabbed her dagger, which was now stained with dark scarlet red blood, though it didn't bother her, she was used to it. She looked around to see if anyone needed any help and noticed that a girl with a pretty white dress was struggling a little. She looked familiar, though Claire couldn't remember why.
Quickly, she sneaked behind one of the demons, "Get your sword ready!" She yelled to Isabelle, the girl quickly pointed the glowing sword in front of her and Claire hit the demon's back with her leg making him stumble directly into the sword.
"Thank you." Isabelle breathed out, looking at the girl in awe.
"You're welcome." She sent her a wink before rushing off to help Alec.
Claire got there almost exactly when one of the demons kicked Alec's sword out of his hands and started walking towards him.
"Catch!" She yelled out to Alec, making him turn to look at her and see her throwing one of her daggers towards him. He easily caught it and twisted it around before stabbing the demon in the chest. He watched as the demon disappeared, leaving behind bright orange particles again.
Alec turned to look at her in awe and something else she couldn't describe.
"No thank you?" She joked, smiling.
"Thanks." He said, smiling ever so slightly.
"Here," She said, picking up his sword and examining it for a few seconds before tossing it back to Alec. "Cool sword." She commented.
"Cool daggers." He replied, giving her her daggers.
This is the start of a great friendship, Claire thought.
They were both pulled out of their thoughts when they heard a scream. They quickly turned around to see demon trying to choke Jace and Clary looking terrified. Alec quickly rushed to help Jace and Claire ran up to Clary, asking her if she was okay, to which she replied with a 'I'm fine'.
Clary turned towards her cousin with tears visible in her eyes, "What's going on, Claire?" She asked.
Claire didn't reply, she didn't know how. "I don't-"
"I'm scared. I am so scared!" Her shaky voice said.
"Hey, hey. It's going to be okay. I'll bring you home after this is over!" She assured, turning towards where Alec and Jace were fighting. They were good at teamwork, Claire could tell that much. She watched as they both swung their swords at the last demon, killing him instantly. She let out a sigh of relief.
"Okay, Clary-" Claire started, but stopped when she didn't see Clary anywhere. She looked around, trying to find the girl, until her eyes finally landed on Clary running away from them, she was about to run after her but a hand on her shoulder stopped her,
"She'll be fine." Isabelle assured, smiling slightly. She didn't know Claire that well. Hell, she didn't even know her name, but she helped her, she helped all of them.
Claire sighed and nodded. Picking up her daggers she dropped on the ground and wiping the blood off of them with her jacket.
"So who are you?" Jace asked right away, putting his sword away.
"My name is Claire." She answered him. He continued to stare at her. "What?"
"Last name?"
Of course, Claire thought. She sighed before answering.
"Winter. Claire Winter, is my full name."
"Claire Winter, huh?" Alec grinned at her.
She rolled her eyes, but then stopped and pointed a finger at him. "I still don't know your last name, Alec."
It was his turn to roll his eyes and answer, "Lightwood."
"Huh- Alec Lightwood suits you." She nodded to herself.
Isabelle and Jace continued to stare at them, they were obviously confused.
"Did we miss something here?" Isabelle asked, smirking slightly as she looked between Claire and Alec.
"Not at all."
"Yes! Of course."
They both answered at the same time. Alec turned to look at her with a 'what the hell?' look and Claire was looking at him with a 'play along!' look.
"Yeah!" Claire cheerfully said. "We're friends! Besties actually," She said, putting her arm around his neck.
"Y-yeah, totally." Alec played along, trying to keep in his laughter.
Isabelle was trying to hide her laugh, and Jace was trying his hardest not to smile.
"Right." Jace said after a second, using his serious 'no emotion' face once again.
"What are you?"
"I'm a hunter, duh. What are you guys?" Claire rolled her eyes, obviously thinking that they're hunters. She's seen them fight, and they fought like professional hunters.
"We are shadowhunters."
"You're what?" Claire asked, confusion clear on her face.
"Shadowhunters." Jace repeated slowly, as if talking to a child. "You don't know what shadowhunters are?" He asked, surprised she didn't know.
"Uh- no, not really." Claire replied, still confused. She looked between all three of them to see Isabelle staring down at the floor as if she was in deep thought, Alec rubbing his head and Jace sighing with an annoyed look on his face.
"How do you know that girl? The one with the orange hair I mean." Alec asked from beside her.
"Clary? Oh, she's my cousin." Claire informed them.
"Seriously? Another one?" Jace muttered to himself quietly, though the others still heard him.
"What do you mean?" Isabelle asked him. But he only shook his head and replied with a 'nothing'.
There was a long silence, before Claire finally decided to speak up and ask the question that she wanted to ask the whole time.
"So." She started, making the three shadowhunters turn their heads towards her.
"What the hell is a shadowhunter?"
After explaining everything to Claire, the three shadowhunters decided to bring her back to the institute, so she would explain her hunter story to them. Expect for Jace. He told the three he had to go somewhere and left without another word. Alec said he was going to train for a little bit, so it was just the two girls left.
"It's kind of a long story." Claire said, as she and Isabelle sat down at a table at the institute in Isabelle's room.
"We've got time." Isabelle shrugged, genuinely interested in the young hunter's backstory.
"Well, my family, the Winters, are a long line of hunters. Hunters of the supernatural to be exact. Ever since I was thirteen years old, my mother and father trained me to become a hunter. A leader. When I was sixteen, I killed my first vampire, I almost died, but it was worth it. The son of a bitch killed one of my friends." She laughed humorlessly.
Isabelle was listening quietly, waiting for her to continue.
"Then for some reason my father left us. Me and my mother. I don't know why, he just packed up his bags and left. But me and my mom didn't let that bother us. We continued to hunt. On my 20th birthday which was only a few months ago, my mom died. A werewolf killed her." Claire continued, wanting to cry, but she didn't.
"You don't have to-" Isabelle started to say quietly, but Claire cut her off.
"It's okay, really." Claire smiled at her, receiving a small smile from Isabelle in return.
"Since then, I have been living with Ellen, she is an old friend of my mother. But she decided I needed a break from the supernatural and should move here for a while." Claire smiled slightly, "But I guess once you're involved with the supernatural, you can never really run away from it."
"Not for long, anyway." She whispered the past part.
"Well," Claire said cheerfully, clapping her hands and trying to change the sad mood. "That was my story!"
"Now we just have to find out how the hell me and my cousin are able see you guys."
Isabelle was about say something but was cut off by Jace rushing into the room with an unconscious Clary in his arms. Claire immediately stood up.
"What happened?" She asked Jace worriedly. Jace didn't answer her, only put Clary down on Isabelle's bed.
"Jace, what happened?" Claire asked again, voice more stern this time.
"She was attacked." He answered shortly.
"By what?"
Jace was about to answer but before he could Isabelle rushed over to them and started talking.
"It scratched her didn't it?" Isabelle asked Jace, even though she already knew the answer.
"Yeah." Jace answered, not looking away from Clary.
"She's not gonna be able to survive that."
Claire was looking between them both, scared for her cousin, she wanted to help Clary. She just didn't know how.
"What do you mean? She has to survive!" Claire exclaimed, panicked.
"And she will survive." Jace said, making both girls snap their heads towards him. But Isabelle was the one to speak.
"What? She can't survive this unless-" Isabelle started to say, but cut herself off when she saw Jace shake his head.
"Runes."
"No," Isabelle said slowly, "It doesn't work on humans! It's gonna kill her!"
Claire was now more scared than before.
"It'll work on her." Jace said, he seemed very confident about his answer and eventually Isabelle agreed, and Claire still had no idea what was going on.
"What the hell are you gonna do?" Claire raised her voice.
"Do you trust me?" He asked, turning to look at her.
"What? Of course not! I just met you!"
"Just- Izzy, take care of her." Was the last thing he said.
Isabelle took Claire's hand and led her out the room. "Where are we going, Izzy?" Claire asked, confused.
Isabelle put her hands on Claire's shoulders. "You are going to explore this place while me and Jace take care of Clary."
"What- why? Clary's my cousin, I have to be there!"
"She'll be fine, Claire."
Claire sighed but nodded nonetheless. Isabelle smiled before walking back to her room where Clary and Jace where, leaving Claire alone.
"I don't even know where to go." Claire muttered to herself quietly. She sighed and started walking through the hallway. The place was pretty, better than what it looked like on the outside at least. There were a lot of doors, and a lot of people. Some stared at her with curious looks but didn't say anything.
While she was walking, she started to really look around the place. The wallpaper, the doors, the windows. And just as she was looking around a door opened. Right in front of her.
Yep, Claire just walked into a door.
"Ow! What the hell dude?" She yelled out in pain, holding her nose.
"Sorry!" A familiar voice yelled back at her. Alec.
Claire's face immediately turned into a glare.
"Now, my nose hurts because of you!" Claire yelled at him. People were staring, but the two somehow didn't notice.
"It's not my fault you weren't watching where you were going!"
"Can you not like open doors a little bit more carefully?!"
"So what, I'm supposed to slowly and quietly open doors all the time now?"
"Yes!"
Only when some random guy coughed did they realize that other shadowhunters were watching and staring at them with amused and confused looks.
"Crap." Claire whispered, covering her face with her hands while Alec awkwardly scratched his neck.
"Sorry." Claire told the crowd before grabbing Alec's hand and running away.
"What the hell was that?" He whisper yelled to Claire when they were away from other the other hunters.
"I don't know! Why were you yelling?" Claire whisper yelled back at him.
"Because you were yelling!"
"Well you shouldn't have yelled back!"
"You started it!"
"No I didn't! You're the one who hit me with a door!"
"I didn't hit you with a door! You ran into the door I was walking out!"
"I hate you!"
"I hate you too!"
They were still whisper yelling, for some reason. Which is why they didn't realize Isabelle was standing in front of them with an an amused look on her face.
"Guys! Come on!" She said, making them both jump and Claire squeal a little. Isabelle laughed at the two and walked away, knowing they would follow.
"Did you just squeal?" Alec asked her, as they followed after Isabelle.
"Shut up."
The first thing Claire noticed when she walked in was her cousin. Awake.
She opened her mouth to say something but Alec cut her off.
"Mundane shouldn't even be here."
Claire crossed her arms and turned her head to glare at him. "Why are you so grumpy?"
"Why are you so annoying?" He shot back, glaring as well.
"Where is here exactly?" Clary asked, ignoring the glare off Alec and Claire were having.
"She's not a mundane, Alec." Jace said, replying to what he said when he first walked in.
"How do you know that?"
"Because the seraph blade lit up when she touched it," Jace answered, gesturing towards Clary with his hand.
"Isabelle, can you-" Jace cut himself off when Isabelle stood up from her seat on the bed next to Clary and let Jace sit there.
He let out a sigh before speaking. "I'm Jace Wayland."
"I'm uh-" Clary was about to say, but Jace cut her off. "Clary Fray. We know who you are." He said, which probably scared Clary even more. They knew her, but she had no idea who they were.
"Am I the only one who finds this unusual?" Alec spoke up, arms crossed, and a grumpy look on his face.
"You find everything unusual, Alec." Surprisingly, Claire was the one to say that. Alec turned towards Claire, who was standing beside him.
"How do you even know? We only met a few hours ago."
"And I spent the past few hours with you and Isabelle, who told me a lot about you actually." Claire smirked at him, to which he rolled his eyes.
"We have to report this to the cl-" He started to say. But was cut off by Jace. "You know what? Dial it down a notch."
Jace seems to cut off everyone these days.
"My brother doesn't have a dial. I love you Alec, but you have to switch that's always on." Isabelle said, looking at her brother.
"I love you too. But this-"
"You know what? Give me a minute." Jace cut him off, again.
Clary was extremely confused and Claire didn't know if her cousin had noticed her or not, but if she did, she was probably ignoring her. For all Clary knew, her cousin could be one of them.
Claire walked over to where Isabelle was sitting and sat down beside her.
"Are they always like this?" She whispered.
"Yeah, pretty much. Arguing about small things." Isabelle answered her, whispering also.
Claire nodded and started paying attention to scene in front of her again.
"What is with you?" Alec asked him, raising his hand a little, "No, really. What is with him?" He asked, turning towards where his sister and Claire were sitting.
Isabelle started getting up from the chair, pulling Claire along with her. Claire didn't say anything but look at Isabelle with a confused look.
"Why do I have to go?" She muttered quietly to herself.
"Walk with us, big brother." She said, pulling him along with her.
They started walking somewhere, though Claire had no idea where. She just let Isabelle and Alec lead the way.
"I'll explain it to you." Isabelle said to her grumpy older brother.
"We don't know this girl. There's no such thing as new shadowhunters." Alec said.
"What about Claire?" Isabelle asked him curiously, making Claire look towards him, interested in what he was going to say.
"Well, she saved our lives. She knows how to use weapons. And she said she was a hunter. And she can see us. She's basically a shadowhunter. Clary however, has no skills, and doesn't know anything about anything." Was his answer.
Claire nodded, seemingly agreeing with him, before stopping, making Isabelle and Alec stop walkng as well.
"Hey! That's my cousin you're talking about. And she knows some stuff!" Claire said, trying to make a point, but Alec only stared at her with eyebrows raised.
"Okay, she doesn't know a lot of stuff. But she knows some stuff! Like your names! And- that's about it." Claire sighed, making Alec smirk in satisfaction and Isabelle chuckle.
"Okay, whatever! Let's keep walking." Claire said. And so they continued on walking.
Where? Claire still didn't know.
"You don't find that strange?" Alec continued their previous conversation.
"What I find strange," Isabelle slowly stopped walking, making Alec and Claire stop as well.
"Is that you're so upset. Maybe you're upset by the way Jace is looking at her." Isabelle half smirked, half smiled. If that's even possible.
Claire thought about it for a second, before answering the question that wasn't meant for her.
"Well, I was in his place, I wouldn't exactly be upset, but I would be highly suspicious of why my friend has taken such a sudden interest in somebody they just met. I'd probably think they're a secret spy sent by our enemy or something." Claire said, shrugging innocently.
"She gets it!" Alec exclaimed, gesturing towards Claire.
Isabelle only laughed, "You know, you should be happy that Jace is interested in someone other than himself."
Claire chuckled quietly, remembering someone from her past who was exactly like Jace.
The Lightwood siblings ignored Claire's laughing and continued on talking.
"Maybe I'm pissed that she's ruining the mission." Alec said, making Isabelle's smile drop a bit.
"We never found out who was buying the blood. It was our one job." He continued. That made Isabelle's smile completely disappear. Alec glanced at Claire one last time before walking away somewhere.
Isabelle turned to face Claire, who looked confused more than anything.
"I'll explain." Isabelle sighed, making Claire smile at her softly and nod.
"I'm not interested in being a part of your supernatural fight club." Clary said to Jace. He was explaining the supernatural world to her. Or at least, trying to.
"What about your cousin, Claire?" Jace asked the girl, making her stare at him, confused.
"What about her?"
"Believe it or not, she's a part of our 'supernatural fight club'." Jace informed her, using the same words Clary had said.
The girl couldn't say anything for a few seconds. She didn't know what to say. But eventually, she spoke up.
"Claire can do whatever she wants. If she's apart of whatever you people are, then fine. I don't care." Clary said, shrugging, trying to act like she didn't care. But it was obvious she did.
"The rest of it- whatever it is, I don't care. All I care about is finding my mother." Clary said, her voice shaking ever so slightly.
"Please." She added quietly. Jace didn't say anything. "Please help me find her."
"I'm the best chance you've got." Jace said.
And if you looked really closely, you could almost see the smile he was trying to hide.
"I don't even know you." Clary whispered so quietly, Jace wouldn't be able to hear her if they weren't so close to each other.
Before any of them could say any other words, Clary's phone ringed, making her jump slightly. She grabbed her phone, letting out a sigh of relief when she saw who was calling.
"Simon."
She answered the call, almost instantly hearing the disapproving voice of her best friend.
"How come you haven't answered your phone in two days?!" He questioned her.
"Things are- all ripped apart." Clary hesitantly answered.
"Where are you? 'Find my friend' says you're phone is an abandoned church. I'm outside. And where's your cousin? She hasn't been answering her phone ether."
"Oh- she's uh- she's with her boyfriend." Clary answered him quickly. Jace raised his eyebrows and smiled in amusement.
"Her boyfriend? She has a boyfriend?"
"Y-yeah. Her boyfriend, Alec." Clary answered him, making Jace start laughing. He was trying to cover up his laugh, but he was failing. Miserably.
Clary wasn't sure why she said that. She just needed an excuse as to why her cousin was gone as well. She remembered her saying his name when she first woke up, which mostly the only reason why she said that he was her boyfriend.
"Okay," Simon slowly said, "I'm outside." He said, making Clary walk towards the window, and peek outside.
"I see you." Clary said, and smiled in relief even though he couldn't see her.
"I don't see you!"
"Uh- give me 5 minutes I have to get dressed."
"Dressed? What are you doing undressed in an abandoned church? Clary- is there a meth problem we have to talk about?"
"Simon just give me five minutes, okay?"
"Why is it taking them so long?" Claire complained to Alec and Isabelle, as she sat on one of the comfortable, white chairs the institute had.
"He's explaining the shadowhunter world to her, it takes some time." Isabelle answered, shrugging.
It was silent for a few seconds before Claire spoke up, eyes wide. "I have an idea!"
Alec groaned, "Well that's definitely not a good thing."
Isabelle chuckled and Claire just ignored him and continued talking. "Let's play a game."
Isabelle smiled, "I love games."
"Good." Claire winked and smirked at her, making both Alec and Isabelle curious as to what game the huntress was thinking of.
She stood up and grabbed the daggers she still had from last night from her jacket.
"Who's the best at throwing daggers at targets here?"
"That's actually not a bad idea." Isabelle said, impressed.
After a few minutes of playing Claire's 'dagger throwing' game, she noticed Jace and Clary were back. And so was Simon.
"Seriously?" She sighed. Isabelle and Alec took notice of that and turned towards her with a questioning look. Claire only motioned towards where Clary, Simon and Jace were standing with her head.
Alec, obviously annoyed, immediately stood up and walked over to them, Isabelle and Claire following behind.
"What is going on? Why is there a mundane in the institute?" He asked, glaring at Simon.
Jace let out a sigh before answering, "A circle member followed him to get to Clary."
Claire was about to ask what they wanted with Clary but was cut off by the girl herself. "Circle member, just like the ones that took my mother."
"What exactly is a circle member and why are they trying to kill us?" Simon asked them, still processing all of the information.
"Why is Simon here?" Claire quietly asked, but was ignored.
"I don't know who he is, but he's cute." Isabelle whispered to her, suddenly appearing next to Claire and successfully scaring her, the brunette nodded and agreed with her anyway.
"But how is that even possible? It's your history." Claire heard the confused voice of her cousin.
"I think we missed something important." She whispered to Isabelle. Both were confused.
"Probably."
Jace scoffed at Clary's question. "Says the girl who didn't know she was a shadowhunter."
"Yeah. Yeah you're right." Clary replied, recovering from the shock she felt before.
"Stuff is about to go down." Claire muttered under her breath, the only ones that heard her were Isabelle and Alec, who both let out a little chuckle.
"And I'm the only person who knows the truth is missing. So, I don't care about your rules or what's forbidden I'm- There's gotta be someone out there that can tell us why they've taken my mother."
"There is. You coming?" Jace said as he walked past Clary.
Nobody said anything, but followed after him nonetheless. Before they could walk anywhere, Jace turned around and put a hand on Simon's shoulder, stopping him. "No, no. Not you."
"Hey we're a package deal!" Clary defended her best friend. Claire let out a sigh. She was annoyed by the girl's neediness to have everything her way.
"There are runes, all over the training room floor, that could kill your mundane boyfriend." Jace said as he gestured towards the runes with his hand.
"He's not my-"
"I'm not her-" The two started at the same time, but cut themselves off when they realized they did.
"We're uh- just friends." Simon seemed like he was in actual pain when he said those words. Though he probably was in pain. Emotional pain.
Someone has a crush, Claire thought to herself and smirked slightly.
"Best friends." Clary clarified. Simon turned his head towards her and smiled. "Yeah. And I'm tough." He stated with newfound confidence. "I can handle runes. Bring on the runes!" The boy exclaimed, playfully hitting Jace's arm.
"What exactly are runes?"
"Fucking hell." Claire groaned. She was really starting to get annoyed.
"They give shadowhunters our demon fighting powers." Isabelle answered, showing off her runes with the stele. The three turned around and Simon basically looked like he was in love.
Well, that crush disappeared soon, Claire thought.
"So hot." Simon quietly said.
Jace coughed loudly, his over protective older brother mode activating.
"The rune!" Simon was quick to defend himself.
"Right. So are we going or not? I'm tired of standing around here." Claire sighed, rolling her eyes."
"Don't worry Clary. I'll take care of your best friend." Isabelle laughed and smirked, walking towards Simon.
"On second thought, the runes might be less lethal." Jace glared at Simon.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that. Please excuse my brother's awful manners." Isabelle started, "This is Alec," She said much more cheerfully while gesturing towards Alec behind her with her hand. "And I'm Isabelle." She held her hand out, expecting him to kiss it obviously. But Simon being the clueless idiot he was, shook her hand. "Lewis. Simon Lewis, it's two first names-"
"Can you please shut up? We're wasting time! I could have easily already went to the store and bought some food with the amount of time we're wasting here!" Claire groaned.
"Okay can you stop with the constant negativity? We already have Alec we don't need any more negativity." Jace replied to the girl's complaint to which she only glared.
"Your prince is safe and sound here." Jace turned towards Clary.
"Ugh. Alec entertain me I'm bored."
"No." Was his only reply.
"Why are you so rude?" Claire asked. No reply. "Answer me!"
"No."
"Oh come on! Pay attention to me I'm bored!"
"How am I supposed to help you with that?"
"I don't know! Talk to me or something!"
"I am talking to you and so far I hate it so I'm gonna go back to not talking to you."
"Why would you not want to talk to me? I'm freaking awesome!"
"No you're not."
"Yes I am."
"No you're not."
"Yes I am!"
"Can you guys shut up?" Isabelle cut off their childish argument
"No." The two replied at the same time. "Mind your own business, Izzy." Claire crossed her arms.
"You two are such a childish couple." Simon joined their conversation. Though he really shouldn't have.
"What?"
"We're a what?" Claire and Alec asked at the same time.
"I-I mean you're a cute couple! Yeah, a super cute couple! You know so perfect!" Simon quickly defended himself.
"Us? A couple?"
"Me and him? Together? My god you're ridiculous."
"That's so stupid!"
"I know right!"
"Like why would anyone even want to date someone like Claire?"
"Yeah- I mean what? Please, I am perfect dating material!"
"I doubt that."
"You know what? Fine. I'm done! I'm out!"
"Fine!"
The two ended their argument with an eye roll and stomped off. Isabelle and Simon were left standing there all confused.
"What just happened?" Simon was the first to speak up.
"I have no idea. But, I have something I want to show you!" Isabelle shook it off and grabbed Simon's hand, leading him to- somewhere. Not sure where, but somewhere.
"Wake up, Claire. We've got stuff do to." Claire was oh so nicely woken up by Isabelle.
"What?" Claire yawned, too tired to understand.
"Come on." Isabelle gripped Claire's hand and pulled her up from the couch the girl somehow fell asleep on.
"I'm tired." Claire groaned, Isabelle replied with a 'too bad' and continued on dragging the girl along with her.
By the time the two reached their destination Claire wasn't as tired and was now walking normally. But what really woke the girl up was the shelf of shiny weapons.
"Oh my god! Can I have one! I'd like to have the bow and arrow please!" Was the first thing she said as she rushed over to the shelf and started admiring the lethal weapons.
"Fifty bucks says he wont approve of this mission." Isabelle quietly said Jace as she saw her brother walking towards them.
"First of all, the bows and arrows are mine, don't touch them. Second, I don't approve of this mission!" The dark haired shadowhunter said.
"Well. Boo-hoo, princess." Claire said, still not taking her eyes off the weapons. She was about to touch one but Jace slapped her hand away. Claire replied with a glare.
"I spoke with the clave. They're sending seelie scouts to search for Valentine, and they made it clear the little girl does not leave the premises." Alec continued.
"Hey my name is not little girl, okay? I don't care what that clave thing or you want, I'm going to find dot!"
"Don't be so confident, Clary. You don't even know how to use a weapon, how are you so sure you can find Dot?" Claire asked, turning away from the weapons to face Clary with crossed arms.
"I'm not. But I can hope right?" The read head replied, waving her arms around slightly.
"Well, don't get your hopes up!"
"What? Like you did?" Clary shot back. "Like you did when he died?!" Clary continued harshly.
Claire's face paled. She couldn't do anything but stare at her cousin in disbelief. How could she say something like that? Claire was silent for a few moments, before she finally looked up from the ground she was staring at.
"I never get my hopes up, so I never get let down, Clary." Claire said with a shaky voice and teary eyes.
"I thought you of all people would know that."
That's when Clary realized her mistake. She was about to apologize to her cousin but the girl had already ran off.