Chapter 1:
Clary POV
It's crazy how easily you can forget how unsafe our world really is, but you learn to live with it.
Walking home from the institute I'm definitely sore from how hard Jace worked me. On top of that I can only expect my mother's lecture on how I'm past my curfew, how I shouldn't have been introduced to this world, blah blah blah. Don't get me wrong I love my mother but she just likes to test how far that unconditional love stretches on nights like these.
Walking up the steps to my house I can already tell something is off. The door is cracked open and I can hear a mumbling voice on the other side, not to mention my sensor going off in my pocket. I consider calling Jace but if it's something superficial it wouldn't be worth the call this late at night, I decide against it.
With a seraph blade in hand I walk up the step and stop as I'm right outside the door.
"Sanvi" I whisper to my blade, the energy immediately coursing through my body as it lights up.
I kick the door open with probably way too much force and take immediately drop my blade as I take in the scene before me.
In the middle of my living room lies my mother bleeding profusely from her chest, her dull green eyes are staring blankly at nothing in particular. At the sight I feel my heart contract painfully and a small whimper escapes my lips.
Luke looks up from where he is kneeling over my mom, he look distraught and grief stricken and angry. His eyes are blazing and there are trails of tears flowing down his cheeks, his ears are furry as though he is trying to stop himself from turning werewolf.
I run over to my fallen mother until what feels like a boulder shove me into the wall.
Stupid Clary. You forgot to scan the room.
I have no time to react to the pain in my side before I see the demon that knocked me into the wall strike it's spiky hand down. I roll, narrowly missing being impaled and grab my seraph blade as it comes barreling toward me right into my weapon.
As the thing screams in agony it alerts two more who were lurking inside of my kitchen. I don't have time to take out my seraph blade from the demon folding in on itself so I instead jump onto my kitchen counter and grab the first thing my hands latch onto, a spoon, great.
I throw the spoon at the other demon, which only seems to anger it more, it swipes blindly at me, catching my arm once with its long nails. Both demons grab angrily at me and with Luke being no help at the moment I leap onto the counter across from me to reach a kitchen knife and use it to impale the first demon through the top of the head. It screams before knocking into the second demon, which gives me a chance to turn on the stove and push the second demon into the flame.
As both demons disappear I breathe heavily from the battle and scan for anymore. When the coast is clear I scramble to find my phone in the living room where I left Luke and my mother.
"Luke." I say, tears in my eyes "What happened?"
He looks up at me, his eyes hysterical, before letting out an inhuman howl that finishes his transformation into a wolf. When he looks at me through his wolf eyes he snarls, not recognizing who I am for the first time, I feel my heart breaking once again.
"Leave!" I yell at him, having to fight my stepfather is the last thing I want to do right now.
He cocks his head at me, bearing his teeth; Luke must've been so distraught over my mom that this caused him to change.
"GO!" I scream, throwing my knife at him with deathly accuracy. When he gets out of the way from it, he runs through our glass back door to god knows where.
When I'm alone with my mom I've never felt so scared or vulnerable in my life. She's death- pale but I don't have the heart to admit to myself that she's gone.
With shaky hands I touch her cheek and trail my fingers down her neck, when I don't feel a pulse I feel myself going into hysteria. My breathing is becoming shallow and if anything else comes in to fight me I knows that's a battle I'll lose.
"Mommy." I whisper to her with grief and sadness thick in my voice. Silent cries are coming from my mouth as I close her lifeless eyes and set her head on my lap.
I reach for my phone next to me and look for Jace's number with blurry eyes.
"Hey you left not half an hour ago and you're already missing all this." I hear Jace's joking voice on the other side of the line.
"Jace?" I say, my voice shaking so much it's scaring me, "Please I need you right now. I don't know what happened I got home and there were demons, big ones and I fought them and Luke and my mommy's dead."
My voice gets progressively louder and sadder as I ramble through the events that have just occurred.
"Clary what are you talking about? Are you okay?" He asks, his voice filled with concern now.
"No Jace," I answer honestly, "Please I'm so scared."
" I'll be right there Clary, I promise. Are you okay with me hanging up?" He asks, I hear him shuffling in his room
I whimper a yes.
"Clary I'll be right there okay baby? I love you and please stay safe until I get there." His voice sounds rushed.
"Oh she'll be just fine with me." I hear a voice bellow behind me causing a short scream to escape me.
Sebastian.
"Clary? Clary. What's wrong? Who is that?" Jace says on the other side of the line.
"Just her loving brother." Sebastian says over my shoulder this time so Jace can hear him loud and clear.
"Sebastian I swear to god if you lay a finger on her I'll show you there are things worse than death." Jace says in a deathly calm voice.
"It's a shame Herondale, because you're already too late."
As Sebastian speaks I feel a sharp pain in the back of my neck, I scream bloody murder as something fills my veins.
"CLARY!" I hear Jace yell, his voice is fuzzy now and the world is out of focus.
"I'll be waiting for you pretty boy." Sebastian says before he hangs up my phone.
"Sorry sis." Sebastian says to me, his face is out of focus from whatever he gave me, "It's so hard to get good help these days. Those demons almost killed you! Shame on them." His voice is condescending.
I want to say something but I only cough and lay my head on the ground.
"Don't worry. It'll all be okay. In fact, you wont even remember today, or that whore mother of yours."
A fresh stab of pain enters my heart.
"Don't you see Clarissa? We can finally be a family, we get to start over, I get to start over."
What does he mean by that? My thoughts are jumbled and the world is fading from my eyes, I think I'm unconscious for a while until I here the door slam open.
My eyes open sluggishly to see the most beautiful person I think I've ever laid my eyes on. If I had my sketchbook right now I would draw his gorgeous golden eyes and hair, but I'm just so tired. I feel my memory tugging at me every time I look at this boy. Do I know him? Should I?
"Glad you could make it Jace." I hear my brother's voice behind me.
He's looking down at me with pained eyes, it's then I notice I'm still lying on the ground.
"What the hell did you do to her?" He asks angrily.
"I'm giving her an opportunity she never would've chosen for herself. To start over."
"She doesn't need to though! And definitely not with you." Jace spits.
My eyes are drooping again, even when they're closed I can feel Jace's eyes on me.
"Well it's a little late for that." I hear Sebastian say.
There's a hand still on the need in back of my neck that yanks it out making another whimper escape me.
" Well I think it's time we leave. Wouldn't want Lucian's mutt gang to complicate everything. Toodles Jace." I hear Sebastian say and he picks me up bridal style.
"Put her down!" Jace roars, making my eyes pop open to see his livid face. Sebastian still seems calm.
"No." is all my brother says, a chuckle in his voice.
And then nothing.
AN: Hey guys kind of a short chapter but I hope you all liked it! I would love to continue writing this story so Comment what you think about it! You all are amazing!
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Erin
