Becoming a Shadowhunter
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot and Chloe.
I know I haven't posted for a while but here is chapter 4. As I say every time, please review.
Chapter 4: Runes
Clary and Simon sat in awkward silence for a few moments just listening to the clock ticking. Then Clary broke the silence.
"You know the Clave will kill you now."
"Well they won't kill me but if by 'kill' you meant 'throw me in prison, possibly forever', then yes I know." Simon exhaled deeply. "What am I going to do?"
"Did you say that the others wanted to be turned?" Clary inquired hopefully.
"Eric hinted at wanting to be a vampire but he never outright said it. But the others did."
"Well, the only person you can be punished for turning is Eric." Clary said with a tinge of joy to her voice.
"But I can still be punished." Simon said it as a matter of fact. Clary paused and sighed.
"Yes."
.o.O.o.
Isabelle Lightwood sat at the desk in her pink and black bedroom studying the page of inky squiggles in front of her. She hoped Clary was a fast learner because not even her, Alec or Jace knew every single one and Clary didn't know any. The runes seemed to float off the page and she couldn't concentrate on anything. Well not since Alec had told her about the Clave finding out his secret. She couldn't believe he had been caught with Magnus. Why was he not thinking of the consequences? He knew the result of being caught. He is such an idiot.
"Who is?" A familiar voice drifted from the doorway. Izzy realised that she had spoken aloud.
"You." She turned to face Alec standing in the doorway, leaning against the doorframe. She flicked her ink black hair around and stood up to her full height. She was tall for a girl and towered above most boys. She walked over to him.
"What were you thinking?"
"Do you really want me to answer that?" Izzy thought about it, then realised what he meant.
"No. But how did you manage to get caught?" Alec couldn't make sense of it himself. All he had been doing was kissing and he was in Magnus' house. For someone to have found out they must have been spying.
"I don't know." Izzy raised her eyebrows at him. "I really don't."
After receiving the letter from the Clave about what had happened that night, Alec had been as confused as everyone else. He knew what would happen if he was caught. Even though it wasn't against the law to be gay, it was frowned upon by those in a higher position than him. He didn't want to be looked down on for something like that. He looked at Izzy.
"What am I going to do?"
.o.O.o.
Jace lay in his bed with the covers around his waist. His mind kept wondering to the moments in the training room where he had held Clary so close. She was so small and fragile yet she still wanted to follow the path of being a shadowhunter. He had undressed her and felt the curves of her body. He had done it even though he had a girlfriend. Chloe was nothing like Clary. Chloe was tall and brunette but Clary was small and red-headed. Chloe was a fully trained shadowhunter but Clary wasn't. Jace couldn't help but ask himself: who was better?
Chloe stepped out of the en-suite bathroom with only her underwear on and crawled into bed with Jace. His bedroom was very plain and simple. It was also very neat and tidy; he didn't have much stuff.
"Hope you didn't miss me while I was gone." she whispered into his ear. She kissed down his neck and down his bare chest. Jace thought about his own question.
"It felt like a part of me had left." She smiled at him and brought her lips down on his. He kissed her back but he didn't put any feeling in it. She tried to kiss him deeply but he couldn't return the gesture. She ran her thin hands down his chest and stomach. It reminded him of Clary and he started to kiss her harder. Chloe started to feel the muscles in his body he tensed them and his whole body shivered. Then he realised who he was kissing.
.o.O.o.
The bookshelves surrounded the library walls and Clary looked around the enormity of the room. Isabelle was stood by the statue of the angel Raziel looking up muttering to herself. Clary wished that she could escape from this world just for a day. Her best friend has turned the whole of his band, she kissed someone with a girlfriend and one of the people she is living with has been found out to be gay. So all in all, it's very confusing. She now understood why her mother ran from it all.
"Right Clary, you have a lot to learn so here's some paper with the runes on. Read them, learn what they mean, memorise them then draw them from memory." Clary stared at the black swirls in front of her and got to work. She stared at the first one. The Angelic Rune. She tried to visualise drawing it. Then taking the sketch book she put pen to paper and started to draw. Clary loved drawing; she could draw anything around her, from cups and plates to people and buildings. This was no different. She could draw the rune with ease and continued to the next one on the sheet. Strength. She could draw this one as well as the last. Isabelle interrupted her drawing with:
"Hmm. You seem to have a natural flair for rune drawing. Next time we go into a battle with someone I know who to call on for my marks." Clary smiled and looked up at Izzy.
"I didn't think they were that hard really." Clary's eyes shifted back to what she was drawing. She had finished the next rune without even looking. Isabelle's smile morphed and she looked impressed.
"You didn't even look that time." Then she looked concerned. "What's that?" Clary's eyes followed Isabelle's gaze and landed on the page and the last rune that she had drawn.
"A rune?" Then she looked at the page she should have been drawing from and realised why Izzy was so worried.
It wasn't on there. And Clary had never seen it before in her entire life.
"You girls look like you've seen a demon hanging outside the window with Alec." Nobody laughed. Izzy was deadly serious.
"Jace, come and look at this." Clary felt incredibly awkward as Jace strode over to where they were sat. Jace's smirk was wiped off his face as soon as he glanced at what Isabelle was pointing at.
"I've never seen this rune before."
"Wow. That must be a shock to the system." Clary muttered. "Something you didn't know." She could feel the heat radiating off him and flashed back to the moment in the training room where Chloe had walked in. Izzy and Jace were muttering something about the rune not being in the Grey Book and how maybe it wasn't a rune at all. Their silent conversation ended with Izzy leaving saying she was going to find her mother.
"So, how's Chloe." Clary said with as much venom as she could inject into the sentence. Jace looked at her.
"She's fine."
"Good, at least someone is happy in this situation." Clary couldn't face him. "So why did you do it?"
"Because it felt right."
"But you have a girlfriend!" Clary felt the anger rise inside her. "Leave me alone. I don't want to be near you." And she left the library, leaving Jace on his own.
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