(Simon POV)
"How are we gonna do it?"
"Simon, like I said already we have rented a basement. We just need the gunpowder."
"Iz I meant what do I need to do?"
"Help smuggle in the barrels."
"Oh. What will Magnus do?"
"Light the fuse."
"And Jace?"
"Pay for everything."
"Alec?"
"He will distract the guards."
(Izzy POV)
Me and Simon are getting the barrels in.
"What're in these ba'rells then?" demands a guard.
"Turnips." replies Simon.
'Smooth Simon, real smooth,' I think to myself.
"These barrels are too fine a quality for turnips. They look like they would contain mead or maybe… gunpowder." says the other guard
"Th-"
"High quality turnips. For my special vegetable stew."
"I'd like to try some of this stew when you're finished with it."
"Sure Sir."
We roll the barrels down the narrow, twisted stairs. We get to the bottom and I can't help but kiss Simon.
"Eugh"
"Max! What're you doing here?"
"Mummy said I could see your new house."
"Well Mummy was wrong," I snap, scooping him up in my arms. "Shoo."
He hops out of my arms and scurries away.
(34 barrels later)
"Come on Si, let's get out before Magnus gets here."
"Mkay."
We walk up the steps, our hands intertwined.
(Magnus POV)
I am about to light the fuse. I can do this. I'll be a hero. Come on Magnus. Deep breath. 3…2…1… and light it. Lit. Now get out. I run up the stairs, slap bang into a guard. "Caught in action! You lad, sta'p out the fuse! Youse be comin' wiv me son. No one be blowin' up kin' Valentine on ma watch."
(5 days later)
I scream as they slowly wrench my arms out of my sockets.
"Shut it skimpy!" yells a guard. "You're meeting with the king today. And you'd better answer his questions. And don't give him no funny answers. His son died recently. Poison. So he's in a bad mood. Unluckily for you."
I am dragged away, into the room where I am to meet with the king.
(Valentine POV)
I sit on the chair in the interrogation chamber. I am to meet with a prisoner who tried to blow up parliament.
Two guards enter, bow and another two enter dragging a prisoner, they bow and a final two guards enter and bow. Two stand next to me, and four point their weapons at the prisoner.
"Name?"
"Magnus."
"Magnus…?"
"Bane."
"How ironic. You failed to be the bane of my destruction. Now, did you poison my son?"
"Answer me!"
He turns his scarred and bloody face towards me.
"No."
"But you know who did, don't you."
"Yes."
"Well who was it then? I'm dying to know."
He shakes his head.
I stride towards him. "Answer me!"
"No."
I puch him in the face and blood spurts from his nose.
(Clary POV)
I hear voices in the interrogation chamber, and walk in. I see Magnus kneeling on the floor, his face covered in blood, and run to him.
"Magnus oh my God are you okay?"
"C-Clary get out of here."
"Father how could you!"
"You know him?"
"Yes and I knew all about the plot as well."
"And you didn't tell me."
"Why would I?"
"Guards! Take them both back to the torture chamber."
(Some time later, Magnus POV)
Me and Clary are dangling from the ceiling, chained up.
"M-M-Magnus." she gasps, spitting out blood.
"Ssh, save your breath."
She shakes her head
"A-Alec said he l-loves you
a-and never wants to lose
y-you."
"Thank you Clary."
She's silent, choking on her blood.
She dies later that night.
(Jace POV)
They've taken Clary. Valentine's going to kill his own bloody daughter. And Magnus. Their execution is at two. I'm going to kill him if he touches a hair on Clary's head. I swear it on the angel.
(Magnus POV)
"Psst Magnus."
"Yes?"
"I have orders to take you and Clary to the square. But I'm not gonna. We're going to run for it."
"Alexander we can't."
"Yes we can."
"Clary's dead."
"Oh. My. God."
"We should run, and take Clary's body to Jace."
He grabs me and Clary's body, dragging us away.
"Magnus. They're waiting for us. We'll meet them and then run."
"Where to?"
"A safe place."
I open my mouth, and close it again, at the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs. Alexander beckons me with his hand. He drags me out, looks around, and sprints towards everyone. They join us as we run. We stop in a pub. Jace notices Clary's body for the first time. "I'll kill him. I swear I'll kill him."
The sound of shattering glass makes me look up. We're surrounded. In the space of two minutes. As if they are one we are all grabbed roughly. They take us to the square. Jace, refusing to come quietly, elbows a guard in the face. Three surround him and in his struggle he is stabbed. "Jace!" screams Alec, frantically twisting away from his captator.
"Alec I wish tha-" Jace's words die in his throat.
Alec tries once more to get to Jace. "Ave atque vale!"
The one who was holding Jace slings his lifeless body over one shoulder, as if it were a sack of potatoes.
I pass Alec and kiss him, gently. "Goodbye little raven. I love you and I always will."
"In this life or the next." he promises. "I will always find you, fix your problems and love you." We finished together.
(Valentine POV)
I watch as they are strung up. Simon, Izzy, Alec and Magnus. Jace and Clary's dead bodies are dumped in a heap on the floor. Magnus grabs Alec's hand and Alec does the same to Izzy, and Izzy to Simon. They raise their hands as they die a painful death, of being hung, drawn and quartered.
I hate bonfire night. Always have, always will. My phone pings; a text from Izzy, asking if I'm okay. I tap out a reply saying that I'm fine. I'm so busy on my phone that I walk into someone. "S-sorry" I stutter, unable to talk properly in his presence. He has black hair with coloured streaks in it. He's wearing a hoodie with the words Save Magnus Bane emblazoned on it. But what really catches my attention are his yellow cat-like eyes. He grins at me. "It's alright little raven."
I sit on a nearby bench and he sits next to me. We hear a cheer as a dummy of Magnus Bane is thrown on the bonfire. "And that's my cue to leave." He walks away and then comes back to hand me a piece of paper. He leaves again then. I unfold the piece of paper. It has a phone number on it. I smile to myself.Maybe bonfire night isn't so bad after all.