This is going to be a long night. As I got dressed, I contemplated telling them that I didn't want to go. I was the youngest of the four of us, so I usually got my way when I wanted something. They always made sure I was well protected and taken care of. I did love my family and I loved living in the Institute, but as much as I love what we do, I couldn't help but wonder what I would've been like if I could've lived a normal, mundane life. I was putting the last finishing touches on my makeup when I heard Alec walk past my room screaming for us to hurry.

"Izzy, Addi, we need to go!" He was standing in the hallway where mine and Izzy's bedroom doors were across from each other. I rolled my eyes at Alec's uptightness and got up to open the door. When I did, Alec was standing there, his arms crossed, and his usual frown set in place.

"Is Jace ready?" I asked in an expectant tone.

He sighed, hanging his head back and staring at the ceiling. "No, not yet."

"Then why have you chosen to knock on our doors and rush us rather than him?" I tilted my head and smiled up at him. Gosh, he was tall. I was the youngest of the bunch, and I was also the shortest.

Alec turned to face me completely. "I figured that three people rushing Jace to get ready would be more productive than one." I raised my eyebrows at him.

"He's not wrong, you know." Izzy had opened her door and was holding a white wig in one hand. She was wearing a white skirt and crop top, not really hiding much of her body. "Jace spends more time on his hair than you and I combined." She smirked a bit.

Alec looked at the wig in Izzy's hands. "Really?" He said, and I could tell he was trying to refrain from rolling his eyes.

"What can I say?" Izzy smiled and held up the wig. "Demons dig blondes."

"Maybe, but that's white." Alec retorted, crossing his arms again.

I chimed in and corrected him with a smirk. "Platinum."

Izzy winked at me. "Besides, they're not exactly into Shakespeare, okay, Alec?"

"I think you're plenty distracting on your own."

"So, be yourself. Is that what you're trying to say?" Izzy asked with a grin bright enough to light up the Institute.

Alec gave up at that point. "Never mind. You're both looking good, let's go."

Izzy and I both stepped out of our rooms and shut the door. We started walking down the hall to meet Jace in the war room. "Jace, we're ready," I called to him.

"You look great. Nice choice, Izzy. Demons dig blondes." He said, matter-of-factly.

Izzy grinned and turned back to Alec, shooting him a knowing look. "Told you."

Alec looked back at Jace. "It's Platinum." I giggled and fist-bumped Izzy.

"Okay," Jace said, getting everyone's attention, "so, for some reason, our vampire friends are killing mundanes and draining their blood."

"Why do they want blood? Isn't that vampire territory?" Alec asked, looking at our faces for any ideas.

Izzy furrowed her brow. "I don't know, lazy vampires?"

"There must be something special about their blood," Jace said, rubbing his chin.

I scoffed. "What could be special about mundane blood?" Mundanes were always completely ordinary. The four of us never associated with them much. Other than our job being to protect the mundane world, we didn't have anything to with mundanes.

Izzy tilted her head and smirked. "Give me a sample and I'll tell you exactly what they want."

"We'll have more answers when we find out exactly who they're working for." Jace walked over to the weapons room and handed each of us our weapons. Jace had a classic seraph blade, Alec had his bow and arrows, Izzy had her signature snake bracelet whip, and I had the pair of twin daggers embezzled with emerald stars.

"So, you don't think they're acting on their own?" I questioned Jace. He shook his head.

"They aren't exactly creative thinkers, shapeshifters," Alec commented. He slung his arrows onto his back once he was done runing them.

Jace led us back to the main room and pulled up a picture on the big screen. "This is what our target looks like."

Izzy and I both remarked at the same time. "For now." I laughed, and she grinned at me.

"Alright," Alec said. "I'll go get approval for the mission."

"Oh, come on, Alec." Jace groaned. "By the time you send that message we could have already killed six demons."

"Besides," I looked at Alec as we got ready to leave the Institute, "It's more fun to break rules than to follow them."

We were walking down the street and weaving through the mundanes in order to make it into the Pandemonium doors. We walked by old people, middle-aged people, and children. I followed Alec and Izzy until Alec realized Jace wasn't behind us anymore.

"Jace," Alec called for him. When he didn't answer I looked behind us and saw Jace walking toward me with wide eyes, like he'd just seen a ghost.

"Woah, Jace, what's up?" I asked, concerned for my friend.

"Addi, this is gonna sound strange, but I bumped into a mundane, and she could see me," he said. I gave him a look.

"Yeah," I replied, confused. "That's pretty strange."

"No, that's not even the weirdest part." He stared at my face, studying my features. "She looked exactly like you."

I was taken aback. "Huh?"

"Yeah, I know, it sounds weird. Listen, you could've been twins. Same red hair, same green eyes, same height." He was listing off what he saw now. I was still confused. A mundane that looked just like me could see Jace.

"Okay, this is freaking me out." I shook my head. "Should we tell Alec and Izzy?"

"Yeah," Jace paused, contemplating. "Let's wait until after the mission when we're back at the Institute so they aren't distracted."

I nodded my head, agreeing. "Yeah, okay, good plan."

The two of us stood there awkwardly nodding our heads until Jace reached up and rubbed the back of his neck. "Hey, Addi, did you still want to talk about the thing that happened last night?"

"The thing?" He nodded. "Right, the thing. Um, well, I don't know, Jace. We've talked ourselves through this a hundred times."

"And you still don't think it would work?" He asked, his eyes blazing.

I sighed and shook my head. "No, I never said that. I just said that I didn't want to risk it."

"Risk what?" He demanded. "Risk the chance of finally letting yourself get close enough to me have a real relationship?"

"I don't want to risk ruining what we already have!" I exclaimed. "Look, I know that it sounds cliché, but you, me, Alec and Izzy are a team. We are the best team. We're balanced, and we fit, the four of us. We grew up together and we trained side by side. What happens if we try this and you or I mess up? Nothing would ever be the same, and we wouldn't just have hurt each other, we would end up hurting Alec and Izzy, too."

Jace let out a deep breath and looked down. "So, you're telling me that last night meant nothing to you?" He asked, voiced braced for whatever response I had.

"Jace, last night was confusing for me. It didn't feel right in the sense that I don't think we fit together like that. You're my best friend. You were with me when I killed my first demon, you were the one who showed me my new life when I got to the Institute, and you're the one who taught me everything about being a Shadowhunter over and over again so that I wouldn't forget who I really am and who I'm meant to be." I finished, and for just a moment, we stood there in total silence.

Jace looked up at me with a blank expression on his face. "We should get back to the others." He walked away without another word. I watched him leave and closed my eyes, taking a deep breath before I followed my friends.

Inside Pandemonium, the four of us made our way through the crowd before we walked into the back sections and the guards let down the curtain to separate the people in here from everyone out there. Jace looked at Izzy before gesturing to the group of demons lounging on the couches. Izzy grinned and strutted toward them, stepping onto the table before shedding her long black coat. She revealed her barely-there outfit and pulled off the wig, letting her hair down and shaking it out while she danced for them. I smirked at her. Oh, how she loved being the distraction.

Jace walked up behind our target- a demon disguised as a woman in her early twenties wearing a short pink dress. "I hear you've been peddling mundane blood." He said in a menacing tone, his mouth right at her ear.

Her expression never changed. "Why? You lookin' to score?"

"I'm not." Jace turned her around to face him. "But you're gonna tell me who is."

"Well, you're outnumbered here." She retorted. I raised my eyebrows and saw Alec standing a few feet away, watching them.

Jace smiled in a way that would make any opponent fear him. "Oh, I like our odds." Now he stopped smiling, baring his teeth slightly. "Last chance."

His Seraph blade shot out of the hilt. Just then, I heard another voice. A voice that sounded very similar to my own screamed, "Watch out!" I looked over to the source and I saw someone who looked exactly like me knock the demon out of the way before he could do anything.

The demon turned back around and showed it's real, truly vile face. "Careful!" Jace tried to warn the girl and he pushed her out of the way, knocking her to the floor. The look on his face was like he'd seen a ghost came back. I couldn't move, all I could do was stare at this clone of myself get in the way of what we were supposed to be doing here.

I saw Jace kill a demon with his blade and Izzy choked another with her whip. She looked at me while the demon was struggling and then looked at the girl on the floor. She looked back up at me and saw the two demons running toward me. "Addi! Move it!"

I snapped out of it and took my daggers in my hands. Two demons were running to either side of me, so I jumped out of the way and let them run into each other. Then, I landed beside them and stabbed both in the sides before they disintegrated. I looked over to see Jace helping the girl up off the floor before he dropped his Seraph blade on one of the couches and went to fight another demon hand-to-hand. The girl picked up the hilt and the blade shot out of it again. I tilted my head and she met my eyes as her own widened. Before she had a chance to look away, a demon ran into the blade and burned to ash. She gasped in horror.

I looked away from her and saw Alec killing a demon with his blade while Jace hadn't noticed the girl using his. When Alec got a free arm and Jace got stuck he looked at his parabatai for help. "Alec!" Jace called and Alec tossed the blade to Jace, so he could kill the demon on top of him. When there was only one demon left, Jace reached for his blade in the girl's hands and at the same time, he and Alec killed the last demon.

I looked away from him to see the girl running through the curtain.

"What the hell?" Izzy exclaimed.

I shook my head, turning back around the face her. "I don't know." I looked at Jace next. "Safe to assume that that's the mundane you saw on the street?"

He nodded in silence. Alec spoke up. "Addi, that mundane looked exactly like you."

"I can see that, Alec." I stuck the daggers in my hip holsters. "The question is, what do we do about it now?"

"I say we question her," Jace said, looking at the curtain,

I shook my head. "You question her all you want, this is just too weird for me."

"No one is doing anything about this until I can report it to the Clave," Alec said with authority in his voice.

"Do you really think this is a Clave issue?" Izzy asked. "She is just a mundane."

"Just a mundane can't see us and they definitely can't use a Seraph blade."

"Do what you want," I said in a tired voice. "I'm going home."

I ran through the curtain and bumped into a man with glitter in his hair and dark makeup around his eyes. He looked at me with barely disguised recognition. I stumbled past him muttering a quick, "Sorry."

When I got the outside of the club I caught a cab. It stopped, and I climbed in. "Drive," I ordered him. We moved, and I gave him directions to the Institute. Once I got there, I shed my gear and went straight to bed.

I saw her, the girl who looked just like me. She was in what looked like a classic Brooklyn loft with another woman whom she resembled. There was someone else there, too.

The girl spoke in a frantic voice to the older woman. "What's happening?

"I got a very powerful person angry." The woman said, rushing around the room. I saw her looking through boxes and compartments.

"What did you do?" The girl asked. She had tears streaming down her face.

"I stole something from him and his followers." She said quickly.

The girl was confused. "Followers? Why can't you just call the police?"

"The policeman you need to be calling is Luke." She said, spinning the girl around to fasten the necklace around her neck. "Keep this with you and think of me when you wear it."

The girl got frustrated with her answers not making any sense. "This is not the time for more birthday gifts, what the hell is happening?" The girl yelled.

The other woman came up to the first one and pushed a bottle of green liquid into the first woman's hand. "Only if you need it." She warned.

"Trust your instincts. You're more powerful than you know." The first woman said to the girl, gripping her shoulders.

The girl looked at the woman. "Mom, I need to know what's-" and before the girl could finish, her mother stepped back by the other woman and exclaimed, "Dot, open it!"

The woman- Dot- held out her hand and as it glowed purple, she seemed to open a portal for them. The girl's mother started to drag the girl toward the portal. "Everything I've done, every mistake I made I did because I love the two of you more than words."

"The two of us? Mom, what are you doing?"

"Luke will explain everything to the both of you. He'll help you."

"Help me?" The girl sounded desperate.

"He'll help you two hide from the circle. Luke and Adrienne are the only two people you can trust. Trust no one else."

"Mom, I trust him but who's-" She didn't get to finish the question.

Her mother shouted. "Where's Luke now?"

"The police station!" The girl screamed.

"Remember, I love you both!" She yelled at the girl as tears streamed down her face right before she was sucked into the portal.

"Mom! Mom!"

I woke up in a cold sweat with one word on my lips.

"Clary!" I screamed, shooting up from my bed. It wasn't the kind of dream that disappeared when you woke up. It was burned in my memory. She'd told that girl to trust Adrienne. I know her name.

I got dressed and grabbed my gear. Then I went downstairs to see the girl from Pandemonium lying on a cot. Izzy was sitting next to her on the bed looking at her until she noticed me. "Hey, Addi. Where've you been?"

I was staring at the girl. "Sleeping." I looked at Izzy now. "Iz, you're not going to believe this, but I had a dream. I saw her."

"What do you mean?"

"She was in a room with two other women, one was her mother and I think the other was a warlock. Her mother was trying to get her to leave because someone was coming for her." I explained.

Izzy looked back at her. "I believe you. Jace carried her in two days ago and he said she told him that her mother had been kidnapped. I guess he saved her from a Ravenor demon, but she got bit." Izzy chuckled and shook her head. "To be honest, I thought she was you when he came in until I noticed the lack of runes."

"Wait, did you say two days? I've been sleeping for two days?" I asked in disbelief.

She frowned. "Alec said that we should let you be alone because of what happened at Pandemonium. Which we can all understand. It doesn't make sense. How do the two of you look so identical?" She mused, studying the girl more closely.

Suddenly the girl sat up so quickly that she head-butted Izzy.

"Um, ow," Izzy said, closing her eyes.

She looked at Izzy, and then glanced over at me, her eyes widening even more so. I crossed my arms and leaned back against the wall, watching her. Then she made a move to get away from Izzy. "I don't know who you-"

"I'm Isabelle. That's Adrienne." She said, gesturing to me. The girl looked at me again.

"Wait, you're Adrienne?" I raised my eyebrows in as if to say 'yeah, so?' I knew why she'd asked though. The woman in my dream had said there were only two people she could trust, and she gave her my name. I didn't know why but I sure as hell didn't trust her.

"You know, I've never seen Jace so curious about a mundane, or distracted. Like you saw earlier distractions are dangerous in our line of work." Izzy said, smiling at her.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Who's Jace?" She turned her eyes to me. "Who are you? Why do you look like me?"

"Why do you look like me?" I retorted. That was a stupid question and if she didn't know, why did she think that I would? Mundanes.

"I don't know." She whispered to herself.

"You really don't know much, do you?" Izzy asked, shaking her head.

The girl frowned. "All I know is that some psychos took my mother and now you people have taken me." I rolled my eyes and Izzy chuckled before replying.

"And by 'taken' I assume you mean saved your life." The girl didn't have time to say anything else before Alec and Jace walked in.

"The mundane shouldn't even be here," Alec stated.

I spoke up at that point. "I agree with Alec." I raised my hand as I said it and Alec nodded at me.

The girl got their attention. "Where is 'here' exactly?"

"She's not a mundane." Jace countered.

"How do you know that?" Alec was getting frustrated.

"The Seraph blade lit up when she touched it," Jace explained, "look, Isabelle, can you-?" Isabelle caught on to his meaning and stood up, so he could take her place next to the girl. "I'm Jace Wayland."

"I'm, uh," the girl stuttered, and I got impatient.

"Clary. Your name is Clary." I said her name for the second time since I'd woken up from that dream. Jace looked from me to Clary.

"Clary Fray. We know who you are." Jace said.

"Am I the only one who finds this unusual?" Alec asked the three of us. I rolled my eyes for what felt like the millionth time today.

Jace rolled his own eyes before looking at the Lightwood. "You find everything unusual, Alec."

I narrowed my eyes at Jace and walked over to stand in front of him and Clary. "Um, I think he has good reason to find this unusual. A mundane girl that can use a Seraph bade, survive a rune and see all of us? Not to mention the tiny little detail of her looking just like me." I dropped my hands to my sides. "Yeah, I'd say it's a little unusual."

Alec was already nodding at this point. "I have to report this to the Clave."

"You know what? Dial it down a notch." Jace warned, sounding fed up with his parabatai.

Izzy laughed. "My brother doesn't have a dial." She turned to him. "I love you, Alec, but you have a switch that's always on."

Alec gave her a sarcastic smile and replied. "I love you, too, but this-" he didn't get to finish before I interrupted him.

"Why don't you?" I shot at Jace in response to his earlier statement about 'dialing it down'. He'd done nothing in the past ten minutes but piss me off. "You don't even know this girl, why are you trying to so hard to protect her? A mundane?" Then it dawned on me. "Oh, I know why. You like her because she looks just like me." I said the last three words slowly to make a point. Alec looked confused at my statement, but Izzy squinted her eyes and studied Jace's face to see if what I said struck a chord with him.

Jace looked at me for a moment and then turned back to Alec. "Hey, you know what? Give me a minute." I looked at him in disbelief because there was no way he was being serious right now. When I didn't leave he asked again. "Here's a word you'll never hear me say, please?" He gestured toward the door and I looked at him in a disappointed way before I shook my head and walked out.

I heard Alec talking to Izzy outside in the hallway, so I joined them again. "No, really, what's with him?"

She looked at me and winked. "Walk with us big brother, we'll explain."

I sighed and hooked my arm through Alec's elbow the way Izzy had hers. "I think he's going to try to replace me with her." My eyes started to well up with tears and I tried to keep them from falling so as not to get black makeup all over my pale cheeks. "Is that girl really going to come in here and undo ten years' worth of friendship?" They fell anyway. I felt weak, I never cried.

Alec saw the tears running down my cheeks first. "Oh, Addi." He put his arm around me. "That girl doesn't belong here. There isn't a person alive who can undo the bond you guys have. Before everything, we're family."

"He's right, Addi. The four of us are as close as humanly possible. Jace wouldn't do anything to ruin that." Izzy tried to comfort me.

"Unless I already did," I said. Alec furrowed his brow.

"What do you mean?"

"You know how you and Izzy went down to the training room the night before we went to Pandemonium?" He nodded in response. "Well, I wasn't asleep and neither was Jace. He said he wanted to talk to me alone that night, so we sat on my bed and talked."

Alec still looked confused while Izzy was waiting patiently to let me explain. She already knew because I tell her everything, and my one request was that she let me tell Alec.

"Okay, you talked about what?" He prompted me to continue. I sighed.

"We talked about how we should try being a couple. He said that he liked me and wanted me to like him too and then..." I trailed off and then started up again. "He kissed me, and I was in shock so I kind of just let it happen and then suddenly I was kissing him back." I looked at Alec, waiting for his response.

He stepped away from me, so he could look at me straight on. "Addi, did you and Jace...?"

I nodded silently and shut my eyes, feeling more stupid tears run down my cheeks. "Addi." I opened my eyes again. "Did you want to?"

"In the sense that it was consensual, of course. I let it happen, I never said no, and I guess I was curious to see if we could work, too. Besides, I wouldn't have let it happen if I didn't want it to and Jace is in no way the kind of person that would do that." I leaned my head back. "But outside Pandemonium he asked if we should talk about it and that was when I told him that I didn't want to risk our friendship because the four of us fit so well as friends, but Jace and I just didn't fit as a couple."

Alec took a deep breath and pulled me in for a hug. "No one knows more about not fitting together than I do."

"I'm sorry, Alec. I know how you feel about Jace." I pressed my cheek against his chest.

"It's okay." He rubbed my back. "I'll probably continue to feel that way, but it doesn't make my situation any different than before."

"Guys," A Shadowhunter who lived in the Institute got our attention, "Jace and the girl brought in another mundane."

"Oh, you've got to be kidding." Alec started toward the main room and Izzy cleaned the dark streaks off my face for me before we followed him.

These mundanes were killing me.

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