Chapter 1: Angel Boy

Chapter Summary:

Jonathan and Clary are given an assignment from Valentine to fetch the Mortal Cup for him and have to pretend to be totally different people to gain the New York institutes trust. Jonathan soon tells Clary about Jace at the institute, but Jace has no idea what they're talking about.

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My mother, Jocelyn, and my father, Valentine, had gone on a trip a week ago to have a meeting for the Circle and wouldn't be back until later this afternoon. So it was just me and Jonathan. I had never liked staying with Valentine or Jonathan. Both of them were always harsh on me and my mother. Jonathan tried being nice to me, but never my mother, not after she ran away from Valentine and him while she was pregnant with me. Yes, Jonathan could be harsh because of his demon blood, but he's still my brother and he saved my life once.

I was 7 and Jonathan was 9. Valentine had sent us in the woods of the back of the house, separating Idris and our home and since we weren't actually in the city demons lurked around. Jonathan and I had went our separate ways to find demons to fight with, but in mine and Jonathan's case, play with. We could kill mostly any demon without even getting a scratch on us, but that was before I found a Agreas demon. 'Sounds like angry ass demon,' I had thought with a smile. An Agreas demon makes those who run stand still. I stood behind a tree hoping it couldn't hear my heart pounding against my chest. I slowly peered around the wide trunk of the oak tree, but the Agreas demon was no longer there.

I let out a deep sigh and turned back around, I met gazes with, the Agreas demon. I wanted to charge at, but I couldn't. I gulped as it lashed it's teeth out ready to pounce at me. The demon made its way closer to me staring deep in my eyes. For some reason I couldn't look away. The demon finally charged and knocked me to the ground. It scratched my face with is freakishly long nails and I could feel the blood trickle down my face. The demon licked my blood putting it's acid in my body. I gritted my teeth in pain, but dealt with it. Not that I really had a choice.

It opened it's mouth widely and let out an evil laugh. It glided it's long freak nails over my throat allowing blood to slide down my throat into my brightly colored hair. "Clarissssa," it hissed. "Morgenstern. Today…you will die, and your brother, nor father, or mother, can save you."

It shone it's sharp teeth and sharp bloody nails. "Jonathan!" I screamed as loud as I could.

"Silly Clarisssa. No one will here you. Plus, your brother wouldn't bother to save you." I knew that Jonathan had demon blood in him, but he wouldn't just let me die. Next thing I know the demon was knocked off of me and Jonathan wrapped his arm around my waist pulling me up to him. "Thank you, Jonny," I said throwing my arms around his neck hugging him. He hugged me back than gently pulled away. He swung his blade at the demon before it could protest. He stabbed the demon in it's back and his blade came out the other side of the demon in his heart.

Jonathan quickly jerked the blade out of the demon and watched it fold itself up disappearing back to it's dimension. "Come on, we need to get you home, that acid's going through your veins and we need to get it out," Jonathan breathed as he through me in his arms.

It was there, in my mind, like he had just happened. Jonathan walked into the room and sat next to me. "We're going demon hunting. Go get ready," he said with a quick smile and got up, heading to the weapons room. I stood up and jogged upstairs to my room. I hurriedly grabbed my black tank top and through on a black lace tee. I put a pair of black leather pants that hugged my legs and grabbed my black boots that reached the top of my ankle. I ran downstairs to the coat rack and rush into my leather jacket. I went into the weapons room and Jonathan handed me a seraph blade and a stele. I tucked the stele in my boot and the blade in the pocket on the back of my leather jacket.

I began to walk out of the room with Jonathan on my heals. We almost get to the front door and Jonathan quickly slides past me to the door and holds it open for me to walk out. I nod to him saying thank you and he smiles. We make our way to the woods and he walks to the front of me. Ever since I got attacked by that Agreas demon he doesn't let us split up anymore, but I want too. "Jonathan, can we please split up. It's been 9 years," I begged him tugging on his sleeve. "Clarissa. No. I don't care if it's been 9 years. Your, not, leaving my side," he answered sternly.

I stuck my tongue out at him and he pulled me by him and messed my hair all up. "Jonathan!" I yelled laughing. He let go of me finally and I tried fixing my hair. He laughed and pointed his finger out at me. "Come here. I'll fix your hair if it's that important." I walked towards Jonathan and allowed him to fix my hair. He finished and I thanked him. We finally got into the woods and instantly saw two demons. Both were Ravengers and it looked like they were eating on…a shadowhunter. Jonathan and I both lunged at the demons. I took the smaller Ravenger and Jonathan took the bigger one.

I through myself at the demon elbowing it's back. I cut the legs on the right side of it's body and then it's head. It's blood splattered all over my face and in my hair. I stood up from it and watched as is folded itself back to it's dimension. I let out a deep breathe and turned to where Jonathan had been, but he wasn't there. I began to panic. "Jonathan…" I said loudly. "Where are you?" I looked around the area, but he wasn't there. Even the demon was gone that he was fighting. I heard a noise come from behind me. I turned around…Lady Midday stood before me. Lady Midday will ask you a series of tough questions until you get on wrong, and when you get one wrong she beheads you and can also give people insanity of heat sickness.

My heart beat began to race. This was the first time I've ever encountered Lady Midday without Jonathan helping me take her down. I took a deep breathe. She opened her mouth to ask me something, but I never gave her the chance. I slammed her down with my body. I lashed my blade out. "Nakir," I whispered into it and watched it glow activating the blade. I held the blade against her throat. I could see she gulped, 'She knows I'm going to kill her,' I thought. "Valentine's daughter," she snarled. I felt a sharp knife creep along my neck. I forgot she had a scythe. She slowly dug the scythe into my neck and I gritted in pain, like I did when that Agreas demon sliced my throat with it's freak of a nail, which mad me shiver.

I felt the blood trickle down the back of my throat. I shoved my blade into hers and she sucked in her breathe. I shoved the blade in even more as she did the same to me. I quickly thrust the blade down in the rest of her throat. She lost her breathe and dropped the scythe.

As she dropped the blade it cut me and left a gash in my neck. I began breathing slowly trying to calm down from the giant gash. It burnt like hell.

I was surprised she didn't put up more of a fight. My phone began to vibrate. I took the phone out of my pocket and saw it was Jonathan. "Clarissa?! Where are you!? I told you to come back to the house when you fought off the Ravenger," Jonathan yelled nervously. "Mom and dad will be home in the next 5 minutes!"

"Alright, I'll be there in a minute," I answered him before shutting the phone. I got up quickly and ran to the house. I pulled my jacket up to the gash and deep cut along the back of my neck trying to force it to no longer bleed. As the jacket rubbed against my neck it stung each time. I couldn't stand it anymore and took the jacket off showing a bloody mess all over the back of the inside. I finally made it to the house and Mom and Valentine weren't back yet. I sighed with relief and ran into the house. Jonathan stood in the doorway with his arms crossed. "What took so long Clarissa?" he questioned me.

"I ran into Lady Midday," I said sternly showing him the gash on the back of my neck, which made him wince. "Give me your stele." I handed Jonathan my stele and turned around so he could give me an iratze. He pulled the right lacey sleeve down and marked me quickly. "Now, go change, quickly. Father said he has a new assignment for us," Jonathan stated gesturing to the upstairs. I nodded and ran upstairs to my bedroom and slammed the dark wooded door behind me. I pulled a pair of dark blue skinny jeans from my drawer and a dark purple v-neck shirt from my closet. I went into my bathroom and took a quick 5 minute shower then changed into my outfit.

I pulled my black ankle-high converse on with white laces and ran downstairs expecting my parents to be down there waiting for me, but they weren't. "They'll be in in the next couple of minutes," Jonathan said without looking at me, but at the wall ahead of him. I took a seat by Jonathan and waited for our mother and Valentine to walk in the door. After about 4 minutes they finally did. Valentine walked straight towards me and Jonathan. "As you both know, I have a new assignment for you," he started with pulling his hands behind his back.

Jonathan and I both nodded to him. "Well, this particular assignment is in New York. You two will be, best friends, and you will tell them that your parents died from being killed by Lilith. Now, I'm giving you this, because they know where the Mortal Cup is. Both of you will need to change your appearance and tell them a different name. Jonathan, your name is Sebastian Velarc, and Clarissa, your name will be Sephina Fairchild. For your appearance, just die your hair, or something like that. Now, go get ready. I'm sending you tonight." Both Jonathan and I nodded in agreement. We both ran upstairs into our rooms and pulled out the die we always kept because we knew this would happen sometime.

I rushed to my bathroom and quickly died my hair. I used dark brown. It was the next hair color I looked best in besides my bright, fiery, red hair. I then reached for all my makeup from my cabinet under the sink. I put on eyeliner and used grey to make a smoky eye then I put on a thick coat of mascara. I put a clear gloss over my smooth lips and a light, light pink blush on my cheekbones. I walked our of my room and saw Jonathan. He had dark brown colored hair and black eyebrows. "Ready?" he asked putting out his arm. I nodded and took his arm. We walked together downstairs and Valentine asked me to create a portal to the front of the institute. I nodded in agreement and drew the portal.

"Good luck children. I expect this mission to be a success, like all of the others," Valentine nodded with a smirk. Jonathan and I nodded back saying it'll be accomplished. I stepped through the portal and Jonathan stepped in after me. I landed and on my feet and moved over to the side so Jonathan didn't land on top of me. We walked up to the gigantic doors of the institute and Jonathan knocked. A dark hair woman answered. She looked about 40-45 years of age. "May I help you?" she asked with a puzzled look.

"I'm Sebastian Velarc and this is Sephina Fairchild. Our parents were…murdered by, Lilith, and we have nowhere to stay," Sebastian smoothly said with no stuttering, like he had done this many times before. "Well, than come on in. I'm sure we can get you a room. Isabelle, Alec, Jace, Max! By the way, I'm Maryse Lightwood." She put her hand out and Jonathan shook it, than I shook her hand. I heard footsteps run down the stairs. I looked over to them and saw a tall, long dark haired girl, a boy behind her who had the same dark hair and bright blue eyes, a smaller boy with dark shaggy hair that fell in his eyes, and he had dull blue eyes. 'They all must be related, but didn't she call four names?'

"Isabelle where's Jace?" Ms. Lightwood asked…Isabelle. "He wouldn't come out of his room," she shrugged to Ms. Lightwood. Ms. Lightwood turned back to me and Jonathan. "Well, you can meet, almost, everybody. This is Alec, the eldest. Isabelle, the second eldest, and Max, the youngest.

Isabelle, Alec, Max, meet Sebastian Velarc and Sephina Fairchild," she said gesturing to us. "Alec, can you please lead them to their rooms." Alec nodded to Ms. Lightwood and looked at me with disgust. 'What was that for?! I've been here for not even 5 minutes and all the sudden he doesn't like me?!

I shrugged it off and followed him to the rooms he was introducing us too. He showed me and Jonathan our rooms. He gave us rooms across from each other and said something about Jace being next to Jonathan's room and how he can be in a mood sometimes. 'Now, I know he definitely doesn't like me,' I thought with a little sass.

We watched Alec walk away from us, "Wanna go train?" I asked Jonathan pointing to the training room. I noticed it when we were walking by to our rooms. Jonathan nodded and we made our way into the training room. It was a decent size, not as big as ours, but good enough. "Fighting position," Jonathan said. I ran to the mat and did as told. Jonathan got in a fighting position across from me. "Ready?"

I nodded. Jonathan and I lunged at each other. He punched my face and I kicked his side. He came at me and I dunk so he fell on the mat. I straddled his hips and pinned his arms down, but Jonathan had always been stronger than me. He swung me off him and pinned me on my back with a smirk. Jonathan moved his hand to the back of my neck and I winced. He removed his hand and showed me the blood. "When Lady Midday cut you, what did she use?" Jonathan asked questioned. "Her scythe," I answered worriedly.

"Then that's why an iratze didn't heal it," he said calmly standing up. "Come on we need to patch that up." Jonathan held his hand out to me. I took his and allowed him to pull me up. He unclasped my hand and took my hair in his hand holding it out of the blood smeared on my neck. We began walking down the hall and I heard someone say 'I don't know. There's something I don't like about her.' I saw Maryse walking with a gorgeous boy. He had golden locks and beautiful golden eyes. Jonathan nudged me towards Maryse and I walked to her.

"Ms. Lightwood, can you help us with something?" Jonathan asked. "Sure, Sebastian. What is it?" she questioned with a surprised look. Jonathan turned me around still holding my hair up trying not to get my strands anymore of a bloody mess. I could hear Maryse and someone else gasp; probably that kid she was talking to. "Wow…that's gross," a voice said from behind me. "Shut up Jace," Jonathan stammered. 'So that's Jace,' I thought. I heard footsteps come to the front of me and I looked up meeting Jace's gaze.

"I'm Jace. You must be Sephina?" he asked holding his hand out.

"Yeahh," I replied annoyed shaking his hand. I felt someone touch my neck and I twitched. "I'll be back. Stay here," I heard Maryse say from behind me. Jonathan looked at me and saw I had met Jace. Jonathan leaned into my ear and whispered, "Don't go near him Clarissa. He's a player and remember that Angel boy father talks about once in a while?" I nodded slowly. "That's him." I straightened my head in shock with my jaw dropped. "How do you know?" I asked questioned. He leaned back into my ear. "Father told me and showed me a picture." Jonathan pulled away from my ear, but wasn't done speaking. "He said that he got rid of him at like, 3, and he never introduced us to him because he'd figure out, yeah you know, and would soon tell the Clave about it. So he never met us, but he knew that boy was alive. Here."

"And your just now telling me?!" I stammered loudly.

"He didn't want me to tell you until we got here." I heard Maryse come behind me and put my chin back down and looked up at Jace. He gave me the 'what-are-you-talking-about' look. All I could do was give him a sly smile.