Hello! CemeteryIsTheAnswer here! So, this is my third story, as some of you may or may no know. This story isn't really an AU. Keep in mind that the main shadowhunters are still shadowhunters. Maybe look at this as the beginning of Mortal Instruments except written completely differently and won't follow the same story line.

Anyways, moving on. For some reason, when I was writing this story I started doubting myself and was thinking that I probably shouldn't post this, but in the end I decided to give it a shot, so let me know what you think and if I should continue.

And one last thing, I'd like to give a little shout out to my friend MajesticStallion! She's the one that pushed me into posting this on fanfiction, saying that it was actually good. And for those Malec fans (Magnus and Alec), you should definitely go and check out her on going story 'Final Chance'. It's absolutely amazing and I promise you won't regret if you go and check it out!

Alright, now on with the story~

Disclaimer: Do not own any of the Mortal Instruments! It'd be great if I did, but I don't...

It was really dark here. I had been trying to find my way out for what seemed to be hours. Trying to find an inkling of light or maybe even a door that could get me out of here. Anything would do at this point.

"Clary," I heard someone say.

I whipped my whole body around to find the source of the voice. What, or more like who, I saw was absolutely breath taking. He was a tall man with golden hair and piercing golden eyes to match. He was wearing a tight white shirt that did good things for his muscles. But the most amazing of it all were the wings that were spread out behind him; just like an angel's.

He reached his tanned hand out towards me with an angelic smile, "Clary."

My legs melted under me as he said my name.

"Clary." His features started changing; his eyebrows scrunching and clenching his fists, seeming a little angry.

"Clary! If I have to say your name one more time I will choke you with your own pillow!"

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I got up with a start, breathing heavily. Only to see my brother, Sebastian, standing at the foot of my bed with his arms crossed and glaring at me.

I had always despised my brother with a passion. He was always in my business, going to any extent just to find a way to piss me off to no end.

"Thank you, Sebastian," I said through gritted teeth. I pointed to my open door roughly, "Now get out."

With a smug grin on his face, he left me alone so I could go on with my usual routine. Instead I simply sighed and let myself fall back on my bed.

I probably should be getting ready for school, that would be the logical thing to do, but the only thing that was on my mind at that very moment was that guy, that angel, that had appeared in my dreams. I don't usually dream about boys. I never really cared for someone so deeply to consider them a 'love interest'.

My finger started itching. A familiar itch that only came along when I wanted, or had some sort of inspiration, to draw. Knowing I had to get up and get ready, I decided to put the urge aside and draw later.

I got up and went on with my morning routine; getting dressed, brushing my hair, brushing my teeth and so on. When I was ready, I made my way downstairs in our kitchen, where my mom was eating at the table with my brother, an extra plate sitting on the table for me.

I sat down and started eating my buttered toasts.

"So after school I'm going to go and see a movie with Angelina," Sebastian declared, taking a bite out of his own toast.

"What happened to Sarah?" My mom asked, since last update we heard from his relationship status, his girlfriend was Sarah.

He shrugged, "Didn't work out between us."

"Ooh, how long was that, a whole two days of you two dating? That almost beats your three day record," I said over enthusiastically, mocking him. If anyone knew Sebastian, even remotely, they all knew that he was probably the biggest player on earth.

He scoffed, "Whatever, at least I can get into a relationship," he told me, taking another bite. Before anything else could be said, the door bell rang.

"That's probably Simon," I said and got up, finishing my breakfast, putting my plate in the sink, and then heading for the door.

I opened it up to see my best friend standing there, with his usual somewhat spiky black hair and his glasses that keep sliding down his nose.

"Hey Clary, you ready to go?" he asked, yawning. He was never really a morning person.

I nodded and grabbed my bag. "Bye mom!" I said before closing the door and heading to school with Simon.

"So, did you hear?" he started, a tinge of excitement in his voice.

"What?"

"We have new students coming to school. Three of them."

I looked at him from the corner of my eyes, "And?"

A goofish smile spread across his lips. "Apparently the girl is pretty hot."

I punched him in the arm playfully, a small smile on my face, "Idiot." I chuckled.

"Hey, I'm sure the guys aren't bad either! Then again, who could compare to this?" he said, pointing to himself. I hit him again.

"Another comment and next one is going to your face."

Simon made a hissing sound, "Someone's a little edgy today."

I shook my head, trying to hold in a laugh. He always knew how to brighten up my day, no matter how bad Sebastian had made it earlier.

We finally got to school and walked to class, taking our respective seats. I took out my sketch book and my number two pencil and started drawing; trying to remember exactly how he looked: his hair, his eyes, his skin color, his wings... I had been drawing for almost half of the class until the teacher brought everyone's attention to the front.

"Okay! Everyone listen up!"

I dropped my pencil and looked up to listen to what she had to say.

"We have two new students today," she declared.

Just then two people, a boy and a girl, walked in. The girl, or more like the woman I'd say, had long black hair that fell down to the small of her back. She wore a black skirt that stopped mid-thigh and a tank top with intricate patterns on it.

I stole a glance towards Simon and saw that hi mouth was slightly open in, what I believed was, awe. And as I looked around I saw the same reaction from all the guys.

"My name's Isabelle Lightwood," she introduced herself, flashing everyone a dazzling smile.

"Jace," the guy said.

I heard a girl beside me say, "Oh. My. God." I looked at Jace to see what she was fussing about. He had golden hair short hair and tanned skin. He was wearing dark jeans that hugged his hips and a loose t-shirt. Although it didn't hide any of the muscles in his arms.

"Thank you. Now go and have a seat that hasn't been taken yet," our teacher said, and with that I went back to my drawing.

"Is this seat taken?" I heard a male voice ask. I looked up to see Jace and it took me a moment to process what he had just asked.

What was actually going through my mind was that he seemed familiar somehow. Extremely familiar.

I slowly shook my head, signaling that could sit in the seat beside me, and then looked back down to my drawing. I sucked in my breath in surprise, not believing what I was seeing. I looked back at the new student, then back down at my sketch pad. They looked exactly the same!

"Something wrong?" he asked with a raised eyebrow and what I could detect as a smirk on his face.

I stared, knowing very well that I probably looked pretty stupid just staring at him right now. I cleared my throat,

"Um, yeah, it's just that you, uh... seem familiar," I stuttered, lowering my voice so that the teacher wouldn't hear us. His smirk didn't leave his face for a second.

"Oh really? Am I, by any chance, the man of your dreams?"

You don't even know the half of it... I glared at him, trying to hide the little blush creeping up my face.

"For a new guy, you're pretty confident," I told him, raising an eyebrow. He looked around with a dumb look on his face, passing his eyes over all the girls watching him at that very moment. He looked back at me,

"I don't know, when all the girls in the class are gawking at you, it seems like a pretty good reason to be confident, don't you think?" he answered smugly.

"You're also pretty arrogant," I added under my breath. Either he didn't hear me or decided to ignore me, but he didn't respond. And nothing more was said for the rest of the class. I closed my sketch pad and tried to catch up with what I had ignored since class had started.

When the bell rang I started to put my thing in my bag.

"Clary."

Until someone distracted me. I looked back to see Simon coming towards my desk.

"Isabelle at beside me," he said, giving me a wink. I hadn't even noticed Isabelle after I had started talking to Jace. I was about to make a joke that he was falling too hard and too fast, but I was interrupted by the very person we were speaking of,

"Simon, what do you have next?" she asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.

I saw his eyes quickly glance down at her hand before looking her in the eyes, "I have math," he answered, smiling.

I scoffed; never would it of crossed my mind that Simon, my childhood best friend, would look like one of those lovestruck idiots that we always made fun of.

"Me too! Did you wanna walk with me to class?" she asked, obviously flirting.

Already disgusted by the scene happening before me, I grabbed my bad and left.

The rest of the day went by pretty fast. I was now heading to my last class: Gym.

I walked out of the girls changing room, first one out as always. First thing I realized when I walked out was that there was someone else already there. Second thing I realized was that it was a guy. And the last thing was that it was Jace.

He looked up and gave his trade mark smirk. "Aren't I lucky? I have you in two of my classes," he said, and I swear I heard a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

I gave him a tight smile, "Yeah, lucky you," I answered bitter sweetly. He took a few steps closer to me.

"Don't be like that, I know deep down you love me."

My stare turned suspiciously towards him, "Once again, why so cocky?"

He kept talking as if I hadn't said anything, "I know you think about me. I'm always on your mind, even in your dreams," he said knowingly.

My eyes widened in horror which quickly turned into frustration. I ran across the space that was left between us and swung my arm to land a hit on that pretty little face of his. Before any impact could be made, his hand grabbed my fist firmly and he stared at me, astonished.

"That was actually going for my face," he said, flabbergasted.

"That's what you get for making assumptions," I said, pulling my hand back, but he wouldn't let go. I glared at him.

"It would be nice if you'd let go of me," I suggested, raising an eyebrow.

He chuckled, "I'm sorry, my arrogance just won't allow me," he said, smiling tauntingly. So he had heard.

I took a deep breath, closing my eyes for a moment. Next thing I knew I felt him pull on my hand and I stumbled forward. When I opened my eyes he was too close for comfort.

"If you didn't want me to know, maybe you shouldn't leave your sketch pad laying around class."

I pulled back abruptly, not wanting to believe what he had just said. I hadn't even realized I had forgotten it in class! It must have been when Simon had started talking to me and I had left it on my desk without putting it in my back. And the worst person to find is the one who picked it up and, of course, he looked through my sketch pad.

I was about to tell him that he had no right to do such things, but everyone else had started piling in to the gym. Our teacher came out and declared that we were playing with the twelfth graders today. And I was very well away of who was in that class: my brother.

"Hey, Jace!" someone called out his name.

I glanced in Jace's direction to see two guys making their way towards him. One had long-ish dark hair and was very well built. The other one had short blonde hair, almost white. His hands were shoved were shoved in his pockets and I recognized him instantly.

"Hey Sebastian, fancy meeting you here," I said sarcastically, walking towards them.

"You know Sebastian?" Jace asked skeptically.

I snorted, "Unfortunately."

Changing the subject, I turned myself to look at the new face in the class.

"And you are...?"

He held out his hand, "Alec," I shook his hand, "Sebastian's friend and Jace's brother."

"Oh really?" I asked, looking between Alec and Jace, not seeing any resemblance whatsoever.

"Adopted... brother," Jace clarified, obviously seeing my confusion. I nodded, not wanting to say anything stupid or offensive.

"So how do you two know each other?" Alec asked, pointing back and forth between my brother and I. We both stayed silent, not really answering. Not wanting to answer. Before we could be questioned any further, our gym teacher called us out,

"Alright everyone! Come over here and we'll start playing some dodge ball!" he screamed out, making sure everyone heard him.

After class was done, I decided to relax a little and sat down one the bench in front of the school while I waited for Simon. Different thoughts were running through my head; mostly about the events of the day. The first event was Simon falling for that girl, Isabelle. Not that I disliked her or anything. She looked perfectly fine, but I was afraid that I might be losing my best friend... Then it went on with Jace's arrogance in class and how he thought he had every girl wrapped around his finger. Which, now that I think about it, might be true. And how he had the guts to take my sketch pad! Where in hell did he find the nerves to, not only steal my sketch pad, but look through it too!? That little bastard...

I was getting so carried in my thoughts that I hadn't realized Simon was sitting beside andh ad been talking to me.

"Clary, I'm a cross dresser and have been sleeping with your mother these past two weeks," is what I last heard him saw when I snapped back to reality.

My mouth fell open in horror, "What did you just say?"

"And she's alive!" he said over dramatically. "What were you thinking about, anyway? You were glaring so hard that I thought you would burn a hole through the ground."

I laughed, glad that, once again, I could count on Simon to brighten up my mood.

"I was just thinking about the new kid," I said, and then something crossed my mind. I got up and started looking around somewhat frantically. "Speaking of which where is that damned guy?"

"Miss me already, Clarisa?" I heard his aggravating voice behind me. I disregarded the fact that he called me by my real name, and disregarded the fact that he knew my real name, as both me and Simon turned around. We saw Jace, Alec, Isabelle all together with... Sebastian!?

"What are you doing here?" I asked tiredly, already knowing that this was not a good sign.

"I thought you wanted to see me?: Jace asked sarcastically, putting a hand on his chest and looking hurt.

I shook my head, "I wasn't talking to you," I said more to myself than actually at him. "But that's besides the point. What did you do with my sketch pad?"

He took it out from his backpack and handed it over to me, a small smile creeping on his face. I looked at him suspiciously as I grabbed it.

"Anyways, we're all heading to my house, so did you want to come along?" he asked, almost sounding hopeful. Although that could just be my imagination.

"Who's we?"

"Me, Alec, Isabelle, Sebastian and Simon," he answered, "and possibly you if you're joining us."

"Simon?" I said in bewilderment. I looked back at him with questioning eyes. He slowly nodded in response. I let out a sigh suddenly feeling very tired.

"Sure, why not. I'd love to go and hang out with my brother's friend and my best friend's love interest... What can go wrong?" I said, glancing at my brother' half expecting him to reject the suggestion. Though nothing came out of him. What did come out was Simon's booming voice,

"Clary!" he chastised me. That's when I realized what I had just said in the heat of the moment.

Isabelle raised an eyebrow, "Were you talking about me?"

I subtly rolled my eyes, "No, I was talking about Alec actually."

Alec shook his head, "Wait, Sebastian's your brother?" he said, changing from one subject another. Then I realized what else I slipped out in the heat of the moment.

Two for two today, I am on fire... I said to myself, wanting nothing more but to crawl up in a little whole so I couldn't let anything else slip out.

I nodded, answering Alec's question, "Yes, unfortunately," I said, repeating myself from gym class.

"Love you too, sis," he spat out, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, we thought he was your ex-boyfriend or something," Isabelle added, seeming to have forgotten what I had said about Simon earlier.

Sebastian and I looked at each other, are lips twitching for a split second before we both burst out laughing at the same time, not being able to stop.

Everyone was staring oddly at us. Even Simon seemed hesitant on what to think. When our little laughing fit finally finished, we started making our way to the Lightwood's house.

Once arrived we settled down in, who I believed was, Isabelle's room; what with the frilly bed sheets and a shelf full of Tampax. I could see Sebastian's and Simon's eyes trying to look anywhere but there.

I never really understood boys' embarrassment when it came to talking about our periods and what not.

"So, where are you guys from?" I started, trying to move on from this awkward silence.

"Manhattan," Alec answered rather quickly, as if he had been waiting for that very question to pop up. I caught Jace and Isabelle a quick glance. Before anything else could be said or asked, a little boy nurst into the room, yelling,

"What did you do with my book!?" The little black haired boy, resembling Alec in a way, said. He puffed his cheeks and crossed his arms, looking straight at his sister, who had a big smile on her face.

"What do you mean, Max?" she asked innocently. I could see Jace and Alec hiding a smile, like there was an inside joke going on between them.

Max pointed straight at Isabelle, "Don't lie to me! You always take my book!"

I let out a little chuckle, not being able to help myself, enjoying this little scenery before me. Everyone just joking around, but not being nasty to one another; something I always wished would happen between my brother and I.

Max's gaze turned towards me, "Oh, who are you?" he asked, taken aback, apparently not having seen us before now.

"Now you realize they're here?" Isabelle asked, rolling her eyes in disbelief. She got up and went into one of her drawers and took out a Naruto manga book.

"Hey! You're reading that manga!" Simon blurted out, his eyes lighting up.

Max's own eyes did as well and he nodded, "I started, yeah."

Isabelle gave him the book and pointed at her door, "There, now go read and don't bother us," she said, cutting his and Simon's conversation's short.

He seemed to hesitate for a second but left almost immediately after.

"Sorry about that. It's a little prank we like to pull on our little brother," she explained, smiling sheepishly.

"That's fine," I said, "he was really adorable."

"And he can actually take a joke, unlike my sister," Sebastian added, giving me a mocking smirk. I clenched my teeth and looked away, holding myself from exploding.

"Oh? Do you to fight often?" Jace asked, seeming interested.

"Well, I joke around. But she whines, scratches, screams... I could go on but I'll just stop there," he explained, that cocky smile still on his face. I was about ready to wipe it off with my fists.

I saw Jace looking at me, a playful smirk on his lips. I bit my lip hard and looked back at my bastard of a brother.

"Didn't you have a date tonight?" I asked tightly.

He looked at me provokingly and I knew what was coming next would be what he would like to call his big finish, "No, I thought it would be much more amusing to show everyone what a big baby you are."

That's when I felt a sting at the back of my eyes as I quickly got up and stormed out of the room, muttering "Goodbye." I heard a few voices calling my name, none of which I could recognize except for Simon's. I also heard his footsteps following close behind. I didn't stop until I was in front o the entrance and ready to leave.

Simon grabbed my wrist and spun me around so I was facing him.

"Why are you leaving?" he asked worriedly.

I sighed, "You know exactly why."

"Yes, but it never bothered you before. You used to always ignore him," he coaxed me, tugging slightly on my wrist.

I pulled out of his grip and shook my head, "I know, but it's just the fact that everyone around me found it funny and didn't say anything to stop him. I mean, he was saying some pretty nasty stuff," I explained, trying to retain myself from screaming.

To everyone else it had probably seemed like a perfectly normal sibling quarrel. But no matter how close you are, saying things like that wa just going too far and anyone with ears would be able to recognize that.

"Why didn't you just insult him back?" Simon asked, probably hoping I would calm down and decide to go back upstairs with him.

"Because I won't be stooping down to his level."

With that said I started leaving, slamming the door behind me. I heard Simon open the door again.

"It's dark outside Clary! We'll leave in a few hours, just... be patient and ignore him."

With a sudden realization I saw that, indeed, it was dark outside. I hadn't even thought that we had stayed here that long. But my anger was too great right now and I didn't care.

"I'll be fine!" I said, waving my right hand in the air and not looking back.

"At least text me when you get home!" he said finally and closed the door.

Now usually he would tell me to wait and he would come along with me. But now his feelings for Isabelle were far too great. Not that it really bothered me. Now I could just walk home in peace and take in some fresh air.

After walking for maybe five or ten minutes I realized that I had no idea where I was going. I hadn't really been paying attention when we had walked from school to the Lightwood's house.

I now had three options: One, I could call my mom and let her know where I am so she could come and pick me up. But then I would have to sit through a conversation about how I was being irresponsible and that I should of just stayed at the Lightwood's house and call her from there 'cause there are rapists and muggers and crazy killers out at night. Scratch that option.

Second one would be calling Simon, but then I would probably be disturbing him and I could just imagine what Sebastian would say after that. He would never let me live it down... So no to that, too.

Last one would be walking around until I found some place I recognized and went from there. Yep, that seemed like the best option at this point.

So I walked around for another fifteen minutes until I saw an old bar that me and Simon always pass while walking to school. A little burst of excitement went through me as I started accelerating my steps. I was abruptly stopped by four guys walking out of the bar, obviously drunk as one of them fell down.

"Heyyy!" he slurred.

His friend helped him up and I could smell the alcohol from all the way over here.

"Hey you, wittle gurrll..." another guy said, hiccuping

"Why don't you... be a nice wittle laaaady and escort us... back hooome," he said, a big grin on his face. "And spend the night."

I shook my head disgustedly and tried to make my way around them. One of them grabbed my arm in a painstakingly hard grip.

"Where are you going? We asked for a simple request!" he said, increasingly getting mad.

I pulled back, saying "Let me go!" As he did I felt a small wash of relief come over me. Though it didn't last for long as I felt a sharp pain at the side of my head from the guy standing in front of me who decided to whack a punch at the side of my head.

My vision started getting blurry as my head ached.

"Listen you little bitch! You're gonna come whether you like it or not!" another man said as he pulled me towards him, tugging at my shirt.

"No.." I muttered. They all started laughing.

"What was that?"

My head was spinning and I could barely see what was in front of me. I tried to scream it at the top of my lungs, but all I heard me screaming inside of my head, NO!

Alriiight! So this is the first chapter! Let me know if it was good, bad, and if I should continue it or not. Any feedback would be great, I am open to constructive criticism and I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter!

Next one should be coming soon!