Clary POV
I woke up laying down in a room that kind of felt like it used to be a training room. As I sat up, I quickly looked around to find where I was, but before I could do anything the door open and in came Brandon. "What did you do to me? Is this how you treat all of your guests? Why am I in here?" I was so confused and was trying to think of why this was happening when he spoke up. "Selena, you are in here because I need to test your loyalty. No one just comes and lives here, they work for me. I do not know you, so how can I trust that you won't betray me? You never know when there are spies for the clave or when they are with you…so you test people. You do what must be done to protect your work, so until you are broken in to follow our rules you will remain in here." Before I was able to respond, I felt his fist connect with my face and next thing I know I am laying on the ground. As I start to stand up, he runs over and repeatedly kicks me in the gut, making me roll over. He picks me up by my hair and before he can hurt me I throw a punch and can feel it connect. He seemed shocked that I fought back, what…did he want me to just let him beat the shit out of me? "You bitch!" He yells as he charges at me "Who do you think you are? You are in my house and you will follow my rules!" He yells as he throws me at the wall, me standing up again not letting the pain take me. "You can do whatever you want to me, I do what I want and if I have to kill you to leave this place I will. I get that you have been betrayed by people before, but you are such an idiot for thinking I would do that. I have nowhere else to go, no family, no friends, no nothing. Why would I risk the one thing that I do have?!." I say as I glare at him. He walks over to me with a grin on his face "Because " he says "women must be trained before they can be trusted. How do I know that I can believe you?" As he says that, I feel pain in my abdomen and as I look down, I see that I am bleeding. He stabbed me to make me pay for doing nothing to him. While looking down at my hand covered in my blood, I failed to see the bat flying at my head…making me pass out only thinking about the headache I would have afterwards.
I wake up to an insane headache and I hear the door open. Looking over, Brandon walks in with a plate of food and some water. "Are you insane?" I ask him "You just tried to kill me and now you want to feed me food? How do I know that this isn't poisoned?" I say as I look at l look at him like he is crazy. "Selena, trust is very hard to gain, but so easy to lose. If you cannot trust me then how can I trust you?" He says as he walks out of the room. 'Trust? You just tried to kill me and yet you want me to trust you. Damn Californians are strange. Just gotta find them, just gotta save them and then I can leave' I think to myself. Looking at the food suspiciously, I decide to eat it. If I die from this, then someone else will have to save these people. But if I do not eat this then I will either die from my wounds or from starvation.
After I eat the food and drink the water, the door opens again and in comes Brandon with what looks like a first aid kit. Wait…what? "You trust me" he says "You ate my food and drank my water, now you let me clean your wounds and bandage you up. Then you can prove your loyalty to me. "he says bending down to bandage my arm only to move on to my stomach and everything else that he caused. As much as I want to be wary, I need him to believe that I trust him so I just let him do it. I don't flinch or anything except look at him, watching everything he is doing. When he goes to wrap my stomach, he helps me to stand up and moves very gently as if he is afraid to hurt me again which is throwing me off completely.
2 weeks later
Jace POV
Damn it! It has been two weeks and no one knows where the hell Clary is! She isn't answering her phone, her family won't tell me and the clave just says that it doesn't involve me. I want to kill them! Doesn't involve me? The girl that I am going to marry just suddenly disappears and I am not supposed to know where she is!? I pick up a vase and chuck it at the wall just as Izzy comes in. "Woah! Calm down Jace. Look we all want to find her, but you breaking shit isn't helping. Look, Alec went to see if he could convince the Clave to tell him while we have Maggie here trying to help us track her. We need you to come and help us…now." As much as I don't want to, I know that the longer I refuse to do anything with her the longer Clary is probably dead or about to be. Without Clary, I have nothing. Everyone knows that she is my everything and I will not lose her. Not now, not ever. No. I won't let her die. I can't. I refuse to.