Chapter six of the story, and they actually do go to the party in this one, just like I promised!

Disclaimer- Sadly the only thing I own is the creepy kid Denzel.

"ALEC!" Isabelle screamed, running towards the unconscious body of her older brother. He had three deep cuts running down his left cheek, each one dripping with blood. His grey waistcoat had been ripped to shreds. His black hair was matted with his own blood, it was still warm. A tear streamed down Isabelle's makeup covered face, causing her mascara to run. She didn't care. All that mattered was that her brother was wounded. Sure, it was nothing compared to what they ended up looking like after some Demon fights, but a wound is a wound. At least those times they'd been together.

It's my fault, she thought to herself. Why didn't she volunteer to go into the house? Why had she let Alec go in on his own? Yes he was almost nineteen now, he shouldn't need his little sister looking after him, but she should still look out for him, right? She had already let one brother die, she couldn't bear to be the cause of another brother's death. Alec probably wasn't going to die, his injuries didn't look too bad, but his wounds could have been prevented.

"Alec, how could I let this happen?" She sobbed.

"Isabelle," Simon sympathized, putting his hand on her shoulder, "it's not your fault. None of us knew that Alec was going to get attacked."

"Yeah, Isabelle. Alec volunteered, it was his own decision. And Alec's a battler, he's been through much worse than this." Jace said kindly. He didn't even know what had happened to Alec, due to his blindfold but he could guess that it was bad.

"But I still let him go in…I could have prevented this," Isabelle cried, looking up at her friends.

"Iz, Alec's nearly nineteen, he'll be moving out soon. You won't always be able to be there to look after him."

"I know, but after Max, I just can't…" Isabelle was cut off by the flow of her own tears. It was the first time she'd said her deceased brother's name in two months. She couldn't even think his name without turning on the waterworks.

"Isabelle, what happened to Max was not your fault. It was Jonathon's. But Jonathon's dead now. So, are we going to stand here and cry or are we going to go and kill the Demon or whatever it was that did this to Alec?" For a few seconds, Isabelle stopped sobbing and looked up at her golden haired adoptive brother. "Because I think, we should stop sobbing and we should kill the Demon! After all, it's our job to kill Demons isn't it?"

"Yeah, I can't let someone hurt Alec and get away with it! Let's KILL THE DEMON!" Isabelle no longer looked sad, but feisty and angry, like she was about to kill the first creature that moved.

"Wait, we don't have any weapons!" Clary gasped.

"Clary, a Shadowhunter is always prepared!" Isabelle rummaged around in her purple shoulder bag and pulled out her whip, a stele and a Seraph blade. "You never know when you're going to come across a Demon. I had a feeling you'd forget to bring anything so here," Isabelle handed Clary the Seraph blade.

"Thanks, I guess I have a lot to learn haven't I?"

"Yes, you do! But luckily for you, you have an excellent teacher," Jace said, pulling out his own Seraph blade.

"I'm going to interrupt this conversation before it gets intimate, shall we go and find the Demon now?" Isabelle said, folding her arm.

"Yes, yes we should. But shouldn't someone stay here with Alec, just in case any come back?" Simon asked.

"Good idea, I will!" Isabelle said.

"No, Isabelle you should go and find the Demon, it would be a shame to waste your anger on sitting here with Alec! I'll stay here." Clary said.

"No, Clary, you need to go and find the Demon as well, you need to get used to Demon battles. After all, you're going to be in a lot of them now." Jace said. "And I definitely have to go, because I am the best Shadowhunter out of all of us."

"I'd have thought you'd say 'Oh Clary, you have to stay here, I couldn't bear it if you got hurt' but obviously, I was wrong." Clary said with false hurt,

"How wrong you were, and you can't be a Shadowhunter if you never battle!"

"Anyway, I'll stay here with Alec, you guys are all more experienced at battling Demons than I am." Simon shrugged.

"Ok then Si, remember if anything comes, just scream and we'll come back, don't try and fight it, you won't know what you're doing." Isabelle laughed.

"Iz, I was in the fight in Alicante."

"That lasted ten minutes."

"Yes and there was a good few million Demons there. Anyway, I'll be fine, don't worry about me, it should be me worrying about you!"

"I can take care of myself, thank you very much!" Isabelle walked off with Jace and Clary. Simon smiled, just a few minutes ago Isabelle was crying her eyes out and now she was in fighter mode when nothing stood in her way.

"For the record Jace, you are so not the best Shadowhunter!" Isabelle said.

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Magnus was getting worried, the party was going to start in fifteen minutes and still no sign of them. Sure, he knew they weren't likely to turn up before the party had even started, that would just mess up their cool image. But still he had hoped for a text from Alec or a call saying that they will be there soon. More and more people were turning up now, there were now six werewolves, three warlocks, two faeries and the stalker Shadowhunter Denzel.

"Maaaaagnuuuuus?" the annoying Nephilim shouted in his ear.

"What?" Magnus groaned, the boy did not know how annoying he was. He reminded him of a previous boyfriend's brother. He would go and visit him and we would be there, and him and his boyfriend couldn't get any privacy because his brother kept butting him. Luckily, Jace and Isabelle weren't that bad, in fact they were the quietest people in the world compared to some people he'd met over his abundance of years.

"When will Jace be here?"

"Like I said thirty seconds ago, I DON'T KNOW!"

"But they are coming, right?"

"Yes."

"Because I want them all to sign my stele."

"Great." Magnus tried to walk away, but Denzel grabbed his arm.

"I hope Jace likes my stele. I wonder what Jace's stele looks like! Have you seen Jace's stele? What does it look like? Is it anything like mine?" Denzel got out his stele and showed it to him.

"Okay, 1, Jace won't give a damn about your stele, 2, yes, I have seen Jace's stele, 3, it's nothing out of the ordinary and 4, no it's nothing like yours. Now please leave me alone, I have to put my costume on!"

"THERE'S NO NEED TO BE SO MEAN!" Denzel burst into tears and ran off.

"Thank God he's gone." Magnus muttered to himself as he went upstairs to his bedroom. He hoped Alec would turn up soon. There were some perfecty logical explanations of why he hadn't called. He could have forgotten his phone. Or he could still be out trick or treating and not have had time to call. He could be on his way now and was wanting to surprise him. Or he could have went into an abandoned house and gotten attacked by some Demons, but what are the chances of that?

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They didn't have to look for long. They literally had to walk into the next room and the Demon was there. They couldn't even see it properly, but they could hear it. And smell it.

"Well, looks like we found the Demon." Jace chuckled.

"How would you know, you still have your blindfold on!" Clary quizzed.

"Yes but I can still hear, and smell. Now are we going to stand here and talk about my senses or are we going to fight? I don't know about you, but I want to fight."

"Yes, yes we should. And Jace?"

"Yes?"

"You aren't taking off the blindfold."

"I don't need to, are you implying that I couldn't take on a Demon blindfolded?"

"Yes."

"Well I could."

"Guys, I don't know if you noticed but there's a DEMON OVER THERE!" Isabelle raged.

"I know" Jace said

"Well shouldn't we go fight it?"

"No, we were just going to sit here and have a tea party."

Isabelle didn't even bother to respond, she just ran forward at the Demon, whip in hand. She lunged forward and swung her gold tipped weapon at the creature, cutting its arm off. The creature writhed in pain.

"Nice shot, Iz" Jace said, "but this is better." Jace called out his blade's name and sliced off the creature's head.

"How could you do that with a blindfold on?"

"Because I have skills."

The Demon disappeared, it was dead.

"You can thank me later!" Jace said smugly. But he felt a tap on the back. He turned around and there was another Demon. He screamed. The Demon opened it's mouth wide and threw itself at Jace. Clary ran forward and stabbed the creature in the back. It fell to the ground and Jace jumped back.

"Not very hard to kill are they?" Clary laughed.

"No, these are pretty basic Demons. It's lucky they weren't Greater Demons or we'd have been in trouble!" Isabelle laughed as the Demon disappeared.

"I could have handled it!" Jace said.

"Says the boy who just screamed when he came face to face with a Demon." Clary giggled.

"I did not scream!"

"Oh yes you did!" Isabelle and Clary burst into fits of giggles.

"I did no such thing!" Jace sulked.

"Let's see what Simon thinks!" Clary laughed. They walked into the room that Alec and Simon were in and found Simon sitting up next to Alec, who had woken up.

"Simon, did you hear Jace scream?" Clary asked.

"Yes I did, it was so loud it even woke Alec up!" Simon laughed.

"You must have been hearing things!" Jace said defensively.

"You know what this means, right? YOU HAVE TO WEAR MAGNUS' CLOTHES FOR A WEEK!"

"Um, has nobody noticed that I'm awake?" Alec asked. Isabelle flung herself at Alec and gave him a hug. "I spoke too soon!"

"Alec, I'm so glad you're okay!" Isabelle smiled, hugging him tighter.

"Ouch! Watch the back!" He turned around and his back was covered in blood.

"Alec! What happened?"

"A Demon came up and attacked me, I didn't have any weapons on me but I managed to take him down by smashing that window and piercing it with the broken glass. But then another one snuck it behind me and well, attacked me. That's all I can remember" Alec shrugged. He saw the horrified look on his sister's face. "Don't worry, I drew an Iratze, I should be fine soon!"

"As long as you're going to be okay! Now, who says we get to the party?" Isabelle grinned.

"Yeah, let's get out of this place!" Alec got up, with a hand from Isabelle and Simon. They walked out of the room, down the stairs and out of the house. They sure were glad to be out of there.

Magnus' apartment wasn't too far away, but they got a taxi there, for Alec's sake. Their attire raised the taxi driver's eyebrows, but he didn't say anything. Neither did they, the driver was a mundane and they couldn't risk letting anything slip.

Ten minutes later, they arrived.

"So, we are here." Clary said.

"I am so going to win!" Jace boasted.

"No way!" Isabelle shook her head.

"I don't really care if I win." Alec shrugged.

"Neither do I really. The prize will probably just be glitter or something." Simon said.

"So? A prize is a prize! And Simon?" Jace said. Simon smiled, it was one of the rare occasions that Jace called him by his name. When they first met he was 'mundie' and now it was 'bloodsucker' or 'vampire'.

"Yes?"

"Don't get turned into a rat this time, I don't really fancy another Hotel Dumort trip. But if you do, I'm not rescuing you."

"Wasn't planning on it."

Alec rang the doorbell and they waited for the door to open. They had no idea what events this night would bring.

So, they've finally reached the party. But if they think it's going to be ordinary, they're in for a shock! I kept to my word.

I'm actually not entirely sure what will happen, like other chapters I'll just go wherever the pen takes me! Well, keyboard, but you know what I mean!

Reviews are loved!