AN: Thank you to all that reviewed! It is much appreciated! By the way, since this story takes place after CoG, Clary and Jace have already been through the whole we're not siblings, we're siblings, we're not siblings ordeal. They're dating now.

Disclaimer: **Checks birth certificate** Shoot. Not Cassandra Clare, so the characters aren't mine.

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"Do you see him?" Isabelle was whispering in Clary's ear as they were dancing, waiting to spot the demon.

"Umm.. no, where is he?"

"Your 2 o'clock."

"Got him." The purple haired demon was dancing by himself, eyeing a group of pretty mundane girls. Clary looked over to Jace and Alec who were at the bar. Jace was watching them, and Alec was scanning the crowd. Seeing that she had Jace's attention, she raised both of her eyebrows and swung her head towards the demon, managing to pull it off as a dance move as she swung her hips in a similar manner. Jace smirked and nodded minutely. Clary got a glimpse of him nudging Alec before she looked away.

Isabelle and Clary danced their way over to the demon. They stopped a few yards away. The demon watched their seductive dance hungrily. When Isabelle saw that the demon was fully absorbed by their movement, she motioned for the him to follow the two girls to the back room. Swaying their hips, the girls strutted to the back room, not looking back to see if the demon was following them.

"Hi," Isabelle sounded girly and shy.

"Hey. You two look great tonight." The demon looked excited. Clary noticed Jace and Alec enter the room silently, but the demon failed to see them. He was too caught up in Isabelle and Clary.

"You know," Clary started in a low voice, walking closer to the demon, "you look quite handsome yourself." She smiled mischievously at him. She spared a glance at Jace who was a few yards behind the demon, just in time to see his eyes roll. Clary flicked her eyes to the side to glance at Isabelle. The look was so quick it would have been unnoticeable to mundane eyes. But the look told her that Isabelle was also very close to the demon, and was ready to yank the whip off her wrist.

"Which is why," Clary was only a foot away from the demon, who appeared to be almost salivating at the closeness of her and Isabelle. "It's a pity that you're going to have to go back to your home dimension."

Fast as lightening, Isabelle's whip snaked off her wrist and wrapped around the surprised demon. Clary pulled a seraph blade from her thigh sheath, but waited to call its name, as Jace already had a seraph blade pointed at the demon's chest.

"Clary," Jace said conversationally, though he never looked up from the demon, "You really think he's handsome? I guess he's okay, but he's nothing compared to me." Clary laughed, and the demon squirmed.

"You are so full of yourself," Alec told him. Jace drove the blade through the heart of the demon, who immediately started to collapse in on itself.

"But it's well deserved." Alec snorted and rolled his eyes.

"Sure it is," Clary muttered, leaning into Jace. Clary felt Jace tense, and she stepped back, to look at his face.

"Cla---" Clary felt a sharp pain at the side of her head, and was knocked to the hard cement floor. Her head was in agony. She felt her consciousness slipping...

Jace kicked the Ravener off of Clary the second they landed. He immediately stabbed his seraph blade through the thing's heart, instantly killing it. Jace knelt down beside Clary's immobile figure, and checked her heart rate. It was beating strongly, and leaning over her mouth, Jace felt her hot breath on his cheek. She was alive; completely unconscious, but alive. Jace breathed a sigh of relief. Which turned to worry. She was unconscious. Hurt.

"Clary? Clary. Wake up. Clary?" Jace repeated this mantra over and over again out loud. He was vaguely aware of Isabelle bending down next to him, and Alec scouring the room for more demons. The bigger part of Jace's brain was focused on Clary, waiting for her to move, to awaken.

Jace noticed Isabelle pick up Clary's arm and mark and iratze on the inside of her wrist. Clary stirred a moment later. Jace was so filled with relief that he barely felt like an idiot for not thinking of an iratze.

"Jace?" Clary's voice was cloudy, like it was thick with sleep. She cleared her throat. "Jace, why am I on the ground?" She tried to sit up, but Jace pinned her down.

"Ravener launched itself into you. I killed it. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Let me get up." He released her. Clary sat up quickly, and swayed slightly, putting her hand to her head.

"Ow," she mumbled quietly. Jace put her arms around her to keep her from falling backwards. Clary looked very unsteady.

"I'm fine."

"No, you're obviously not."

"I'm just a little dizzy."

"Clary--"

"Jace. I'm fine! Seriously. I'll put on an iratze, and the dizziness will go away. Relax." He handed Clary his stele. She quickly drew the healing rune on her arm, and then pushed Jace's arms off of her so she could stand.

"See? Perfectly fine." Jace eyed her warily, not entirely convinced.

He was momentarily distracted, though, when his phone rang. Jace patted himself down, searching for the tell-tale lump that his phone would create. Clary reached out easily, stuck her hand behind the torso of his gear, where there was a pocket. Her hand came out, triumphant, and handed him the phone. He smiled at her, then answered.

"Hello?"

"Is this Jace?" The voice was familiar, but Jace couldn't place it.

"The one and only."

"Jace, it's Jocelyn." Oh. That's why the voice was familiar.

"Oh. Um, hi Jocelyn." Clary raised her eyebrows at him, and he shrugged.

"Is Clary with you?"

"Yeah, we were just out hunting..."

"Can I talk to her? She didn't answer her phone.."

"I don't think she has it with her. And yes, here she is." Jace handed Clary his phone, and she gave him a confused look. He shrugged again.

"Hello?"

"Oh, hey mom."

"Umm... yeah, okay I guess, we're at Pandemonium, so I'll be there in 3 hours...?" Jace wondered what she was talking about. Be where?

"Uhhhh..." Clary got a very alarmed look on her face, and mouthed 'What time is it?'. Alec took out his phone and showed her the time. 9:52. She mouthed 'Crap.' Jace held back a laugh. "Oh. 1 hour?" Clary sighed.

"Yeah. Okay, I'll see you soon. Love you too, bye." She shut the phone and handed it back to Jace.

"Care to explain?"

"I'm going to spend the night at Luke's house tonight. My mom wants to hang out." Clary rolled her eyes.

Ever since Clary had moved into the Institute for training, after the battle at Idris, Jocelyn occasionally wanted her to stay at home to have 'girl time.' Whatever that meant.

"Ah. So do you need to go back to the Institute to get your stuff?" Clary gave him an odd look.

"You know I keep a few extra outfits and stuff at Luke's house."

"I'm quite aware of that. I just thought that you wouldn't want your mom and Luke to see you dressed for....hunting." He gestured at her skimpy outfit. She glanced down at herself and turned an embarrassed pink.

"Good call. But then we'd better go now if I want to be there in an hour." Jace turned to Alec and Isabelle.

"Do you guys want to come home, or are you going to stay?"

"Stay." was Isabelle's immediate response. Alec rolled his eyes, but confirmed that he, too, would stay. He mumbled something about Magnus meeting him there later or something.

"Okay, then. Let's go." Jace held his hand out to Clary, which she took.

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