When Maryse was out of sight I ran to the door and shook it. It was locked. I was about turn when a glimmer of light in the corner of my eye. Looking towards it i saw it was a bobby pin . I crouched down and reached through the bars and reached for the pin. I heard a pop and a searing pain in my wrist as my bone snapped. Despite the pain I managed to reach the pin. I gritted my teeth as I straightened the pin. With my good hand I reached around through the bars and inserted the pin into the lock. Silently I was thanking my father for those lock picking lessons. Jonathon used to pick the lock at my bedroom door and pull pranks on me during the nights. So I decided to go to my father for help and he started working Jonathon to the bone and gave me lock picking lessons. I then became the one to pull the pranks on Jonathan. Finally I heard a click and smiled. I pushed the door free. I was about to go up the stairs when looking back at my cell, I realized it wouldn't take too long for so,done to come down here and sound the alarm. I ran to some of the other cells and picked the locks. Reaching inside the cells I took a couple of pillows and blankets from under the beds and ran back to my cell. I used the pillows to make a body like shape lay there. Then with the blankets I covered it up. One blanket was red and orange. I started to pull apart the threads and scattered them over the pillow. I stepped back and admired my handy work. Satisfied I ran out my cell and up the stairs. I came out at a deserted hallway. My mother used to come here for enclave meetings and sometimes she would bring me along. When she was in the meetings I would wander around the halls exploring. Because of my little explorations I had a mental map in my mind. I didn't recognize where I was, so I figured I must be on the west side. That was the only side of the institute that hadn't explored. I walked down to the left until I heard footsteps and I ducked into a doorway. At one point I ducked into a doorway that was well lit. I opened the door and stepped in. When the footsteps passed I turned and looked around me. Weapons lined the walls. There were seraph blades, long swords, bows and whips. I grabbed a couple of seraph blades and a whip. It was then that I noticed the table in the far corner. It had a bowl and computers. Walking up to it I noticed that the bowl contained steles. i grabbed one and drew an iratze on my wrist. Instantly the pain disappeared. I sighed and tucked the stele into my belt. There were two doors in the weapons room. There was the one I came in from and another. I decided to go through the second door and found myself in the entryway. I was about to walk to the door when three people came into view arguing. One had golden blond hair and the other two had jet black hair. As I watched them I saw jace glance up and in my direction. Quickly I ducked back into the shadows expecting jace to yell and run after me. I was about to go into the weapons room but heard no running feet no yelling. Confused I peeked my head around the corner and saw that the three of them hadn't even moved a fraction of an inch from where they were. They were still arguing. Maybe Jace hadn't seen me. After a couple of minutes the three dispersed. Alec and izzy went down another hallway still bickering and jace stood where he was as still as a stone. After a bit he turned his gaze from the hallway Alec and izzy took to the hallway I hid in. "Okay Clarissa you can come out now." Turns out he had seen me. I ran into the weapons room and dove under the table. I heard the door open and footsteps walk in. The footsteps walked a little ways into the room and stopped. I took out the seraph blade and named it Michael. the table cloth was lifted and I sliced out with the blade. Jace howled and straightened up his hand darting under the table and grabbing my wrist. he pulled me up with him and backed me up against the wall. When he lifted the tablecloth up I slashed out at him with the blade. with a yell he straightened up one hand holding his right hand to his face his left hand darted under the table and grabbed my wrist. he pulled me up with him and backed me up against the wall. he flipped his hair out of his face and looked at me. "do you cut every boy in the face when you meet him?" "no just you." I growled. he opened his mouth as if to say more but the door opened cutting off his answer. he leaned into me and said "if you value even a small shred of your life than you will keep your head low and pretend you enjoy this." before I could say anything else he pressed his mouth to mine kissing me. abruptly he pulled away and turned around. "oh um I'm sorry if you need to use this room we can go somewhere more private." "no I think I will come back later." the man said. the man ran out the way he came. jace turned around and grinned at me. I scowled at him and pointed the seraph blade at him. "if you ever do that again I will cut you down where you stand." jace held up his hands and said "woah woah woah. when did you become so horrid? I remember a time when we were kids and you would do anything to get me smile." "yeah and that was six years ago. I was a naïve ten year old girl. I hadn't seen what I did and I-" just as I was about to continue my stomach rumbled. looing down at me jace asked "when was the last time you ate?" "well lets see I didn't eat yesterday and I didn't eat today so I think Friday night." "WHAT you haven't eaten in two days?" "well three someone's interrupted my day yesterday and captured me. so yes I haven't eaten in two days what did you think?"

sorry this chapter is so short I kept losing what I wrote and had to rewrite it sorry. (and my sister is impatient and wants to use the computer sorry.) I hope you enjoy this chapter. I hope to have a chapter out before next Sunday. I wont be able to write for a week afterwards. bye for now and please please follow and comment. and if you have any thoughts as to what should or what you want to happen please tell me. i cant wait to hear from you.