Hello guys! Um...the next few chapter won't really have Jonathan in them, but yeah. I'm on summer break, so I've been writing every other day! Get ready for updates every single week!
~Sara
He promised.
Clary stopped struggling in Brother Zachariach's arms and he let go. Perhaps he thought that she needed time to mourn. But she couldn't give up hope. Jonathan was in fact a purely good spirit now, and nothing could hurt him. She wouldn't let anything hurt him. I will find you. She thought to herself.
A sudden, bloodcurdling scream stopped her from doing anything else. She heard several voices. "Another infected?" "Another?" "More of the virus?"
Clary looked over to see who the new infected was, and saw her very own mother.
"MOM!" Clary screamed in shock, rushing towards her. She nodded at the two men by her side and helped them gently place her on a stretcher. "Follow me." Clary said, trying to keep her cool. Every. single. time. That she tried to have a good time, something went wrong. Nothing was ever going to change. How could she possibly think about living a life as a shadowhunter? They were so cruel.
Once she and her mother got into their home, and her mother was safely in bed, a medic arrived. "Dr. Rush, is there anything that I can do to help?" She cried. Jocelyn then shook off the covers and pointed at Clary wildly.
"Get her out!" Her mom mumbled, picking up a book and tossing it towards her. "Out!"
Dr. Rush sighed. "She doesn't want you to get sick." But Clary stayed, watching from the corner of the room.
"She is too far in the disease to go any other way. She needs to be bled to get the demon's poison out of her system!" Dr. Rush said, taking out his tele. "You don't have to watch if you don't want to." As Clary watched ounces and ounces of black blood pouring out of her mother's veins, her vision blackened.
When she opened her eyes, Dr. Rush was in front of her. "I have discussed with your mother. You are to be sent to a Shadowhunter training camp in England where there is no epidemic. Your mother wishes for you not to be sick." He explained.
"NO! You can't ship me off to some place that I've never been to just because my mother is sick."
"You don't understand, Clarissa. If you get infected, your mother will lose hope and surely die. The only way I can successfully try and heal her is by keeping you safe and using the proper treatments."
Clary sighed in defeat. Her mother needed to get better.
"By the way, we have Lucian Greymark to come with you, if that makes you feel any safer."
Clary let out a huge breath of relief and said, "Are you sure that you'll take good care of her?"
"Of course, of course." Dr. Rush said.
"Someone left these for you." Dr. Rush gestured at an envelope.
Clary~I write to you in haste. My thoughts are racing uncontrollably. This is the Morgenstern necklace. Wear it at all times, and it will protect you. Take care, Clary. I don't want you to get sick. With the fever everywhere, I have had a chance to go hide. I'm going to be gone for a while, but hey, I promised. We'll watch for the sunset together again as soon as this plague has passed.
~Jon
Morning came to soon and it was already time to leave home.
"Clary!" Luke cried and pulled Clary in for a hug. "The carriage is ready."
"I thought we were going by portal."
"It's too dangerous right now. The plague is everywhere, and warlocks are too scared to come out."
"But I can-
"No." Luke said.
With the bad road conditions, it took them about an hour to be clear of the city line. The mosquitos were everywhere. Clary smacked her arms and legs until her skin stung. Luke wiped sweat off his face and neck. Clary waved away a mosquito that was buzzing in her ear.
"It's the smell of the driver," Clary exclaimed. He's so smelly that he's attracting every single bug around here!"
Luke laughed. The laughter caught in his throat and made him cough. Clary watched in alarm as his face reddened. She pounded his back until he raised his arm in protest.
"I'm fine, Clary, I'm fine. No need to beat me senseless."
The driver turned around in his seat and glared at them. "He isn't sick, is he? I won't have any plague victims in my carriage."
"Oh! Watch the road! You're about to kill us all! We're fine back here." Clary snapped.
Luke raised an eyebrow. "You sound like your mother, ordering people around like that."
"Some people need to be ordered around."
"That's true." He straightened his legs. "And now I'm going to get some sleep before we get to that dreadful place."
Clary settled in next to him so her head rested on his chest. The rhythmic noise of the wheels and the hum of the insects turned into a lullaby.
Clary woke up when the wheels stopped turning. She had to shield her eyes from the sun.
"Why are we stopping?" I asked. The driver just pointed up the road.
Four shadowhunters armed with longswords block our way.
One of the men stopped and said, "Don't be afraid. We don't mean any harm."
Clary's hand stayed on her stele. "You're entering England," said a second man. "Are you three planning on staying here?"
"Just passing through." said the driver. "I'm taking those two to London, and I'm heading for York."
"We've been authorized by the city council to keep out fever victims. I have to ask you to step down so our doctor here can have a look at you."
The driver jumped down. Clary shook Luke to wake him. The doctor examined the driver, peering under his eyelids and looking at his veins. Clary shook Luke harder.
"Wake up," she exclaimed. "There's a doctor here to see us!"
He didn't move. Something inside her twisted. She pinched his nose.
"Luke," she said, her voice even louder. "Please wake up."
"Is there a problem, miss?" The doctor walked to the side of the carriage. He opened Luke's eyes, and Luke woke up with a start.
"What in the name of the angel!" Luke broke off into a coughing fit. "Water," he croaked.
I looked back at the other men. "Can he please have some water? We've been traveling all day in the sun!"
The doctor stepped back and covered his mouth with his hand. "Take this man back to wherever he came from!" He commanded. "He is infected with disease."
So, I'm not going to shoutout today because I don't have much time(I'm moving into my new house). Review, favorite follow! Did you guys like it? Yes or no?
