Hi guys! Another chapter, hope you enjoy it, the plot should start moving faster now. Yay!
I don't own Shadowhunters... *cries*
(J) Unable to sleep, Jace looked out the window of his "quarters" (for Raziel's sake Sebastian, they weren't in the Middle Ages! he thought) into the night. Gazing at the apparent black void, he was considering trying to sleep again when sudden brightness lit up the dark. Alert, he stared intently across the plain at the light's source. Was that... was Sebastian summoning Lillith?
That was it. Something big was happening, and Sebastian had neglected to inform any of them. If action was needed at any time, it was now.
Before he could stop himself, his awakened subconscious had propelled him to his doorway, where he stopped for a moment to think. Who could he go to? Who was he least resigned, least attached? Who could help Jace work out a plan?
(L) Luke heard the knock. It drew him out of a half-asleep reverie, leaning against the wall of his windowless room. Sebastian hasn't really bothered making an impression on him, a fact about which Luke was pretty glad. It meant he was inconspicuous.
He got up and pulled the door open slowly, peering curiously around it, and saw Jace in the corridor.
"Jace? What are you doing here at this time?"
The boy's voice was urgent as he replied. "I saw it out of the window. Bright light. A pentagram. Sebastian's summoning Lillith. It can't be anything good, and we've been here for too long already. I think we need to make a plan. I don't know how yet, but we need to get out of here."
Luke looked at Jace measuredly. "Yes, I see. If it's true that Sebastian is talking to Lillith, it sounds like time for action." He smiled, a rare occurrence usually, but the thought of actually doing something to help their situation was exhilarating.
(C) Clary woke ridiculously early with an equally ridiculous urge to go and train. It was about three in the morning, yet for some reason she was craving the feel of Heosphoros in her hands. So, being the Shadowhunter she was, Clary got up, got dressed in training gear and headed down to the training room.
The room was Sebastian's addition to the Dark Gard. It was huge, with a high ceiling, ropes hanging down, ladders up the walls, racks of weapons. Stepping into the almost cavernous space, Clary drank in the look of all the knives, swords and bows, but as always, Heosphoros was the one she unsheathed.
This training dummy was in for it.
Half an hour later, the dummy had been decapitated, de-limbed, stabbed, kicked and otherwise injured several times over. She was partway through shimmying up one of the ropes to drop into its head when a voice said, "You're up early to be training."
Clary looked down, and saw Jace standing below. Gracefully, she slid down the rope, landing next to him. By the Angel, she hadn't talked to him in ages. Probably for good reason: ever since she and Sebastian had reigned... or whatever it was... Jace had been distant. She couldn't really blame him, but that didn't make it any less awkward.
"So are you. Did any of us sleep?" Clary had noticed Sebastian's rituals but she didn't want to mention it in case Jace hadn't. It turned out this caution was pointless, however. "I certainly didn't with the racket your brother was making." The word brother was pronounced with something between sarcasm and a sneer prominent in Jace's voice. Clary glared.
"Yes, he was. And yes, he's my brother. I thought we cleared that up approximately eighteen days ago. Before that, even." Her voice was acid: Sebastian could be downright weird at times, but she didn't regret her choice. And for Raziel's sake, she wanted to yell at Jace, she loved him. She loved Jace too, but differently. It was hard to explain but it was how it was. Life was pretty much hell, but that was life.
Out loud, she said stiffly: "Were you going to train?"
"Why else would I be here exactly?"
Ever the picture of politeness.
Clary rolled her eyes and jabbed Heosphoros at the sword racks on the wall behind them. "Grab one of those. We can spar."
Thanks for reading! Please leave any comments or opinions in a review, doesn't have to be much! Looking forward to seeing some character development between Clary and Jace! Yay- and when will Sebastian start preparing Clary for Portalling to Pandemonium? I know I know I'm evil.
