"Okay, I'm going to need some help. My brother, Jonathon Morgenstern is after the Mortal Cup. Magnus has it, but he doesn't know that. I live in Sunhill Care Home when I' m a mundane, he's taken my friends hostage there until I give him the cup"
The others stare at me.
"Why should we help?" Alec asks. Izzy gives him a look.
"You don't have to, but I don't want to have blood on my hands, not when I can prevent it"
"So how can we help?" Jace asks.
"I can use this rune so that…."
Jonathon's POV (Rewind back a bit)
I sniff and look at the dull building. This? This is where my little sister lives? What a dump! I walk straight up to the building unglamoured. I smell the air, werewolf ! I open the door and survey my surroundings. It looks fairly simple and I can hear children laughing in the rooms. A little girl around the age of five or something comes bounding up to me. She reminds me of my own sister…
"Excwoose me mister! But you have the same black marks as Clawee does!" She exclaims, looking up at me with big round eyes.
"Lucy who's that at the do-" A werewolf walks into the room and stops when he see me. Quick as a flash I whip out a dagger, grab the girl and position the dagger above her throat.
"Stand back or I kill her, filthy Downworlder!" I snarl at him.
"What do you want?" He asks carefully.
"The Mortal Cup… and Clarissa"
"Okay…well, both of those things aren't here. We can…erm…negotiate someplace else, but leave the girl out of it"
"No" I say, the little girl starts crying and I have to resist the urge to strangle the weakling.
"Simon!" The werewolf yells and a gangly mundane comes running into the room.
"Get the others out of here!" He orders him.
"You're Clarissa's friend aren't you? Where is she?" I ask him, I recognised him from that mundane school.
"What do you want with her!?" He asks.
"That is none of your business, mundane"
"We – we don't have the cup" He says, surprising me.
"Oh really? Who told you to say that?" The boy is about to say something when the werewolf cuts him off.
"Simon. Go. Now" He commands and the boy runs off. I study the werewolf.
"You're Lucian Graymark!" I announce, recognising him. My father had told me about him before.
"Yes I am. You are….Jonathon Morgenstern. Of course you are"
"Indeed, now I think Clarissa's going to need a bit of encouragement isn't she?" I say, not waiting for Lucian to answer before I stride into the kitchen, shoving the girl in front of me. There are no other children around but the Simon kid who appears to be on the phone. I sneak up behind him and whack him on the head. His phone tumbles out of his hands, I pick it up and talk to her, for she is inevitably on the other side of the call.
I feel the energy of a portal being opened nearby, I grin maliciously. Sister is here for me…
"Stop it! Let her go!" I hear her shout from upstairs, she runs down to stand before me.
"Ah, Clarissa." She moves forward.
"Ah, ah, ah, stay right there or my hand might just slip" I say looking down at the pathetic mundane.
"I don't have the Mortal Cup" She says.
"No?" I ask, not in the least bit surprised.
"No."
"But, I know you know where it is. You come with me or she dies"
"Okay..."
I wait until she is close enough, before letting the brat go. The girl runs away in tears. Suddenly Clarissa makes a run for it out of the door and onto the front lawn, I jog and easily catch up with her. She smiles and points, confusing me. I turn cautiously to see Clarissa standing behind me. I frown, but she's still in my grasp.
"Which one is the real one?" The Clarissa in my grip says before kicking me in the manly parts. I gasp in pain and let her go. I recover fast and spin around. There are three of them! Three! I could always capture them all…I'm still thinking when I feel a thump on the back of my head. I slump, feeling the darkness start to swallow me up. Just before I collapse I twist my ring, transporting me back to Valentine…
Clary
I watch in defeat as Jonathon dissolves into thin air, we were so close! Ah well, at least Lucy is safe…
"Well, that was fun!" Izzy says. She had been the one that Jonathon thought was me, whilst Jace went to help Simon and the others, Alec and I stayed hidden until the last minute when we confused him.
"Seriously? Fun? I am getting you a dictionary for Christmas so you can look up the word fun!" Jace says.
"Stop raining on my parade…anyway your brother is really creepy!" She exclaims. I grimace.
"Yeah I know"
Simon comes charging out of the house.
"Did you get the bad guy?" He asks Jace. I clear my throat and he turns to me, the real Clary.
"Nope" I reply.
"Where'd he go?"
"He probably went back to Valentine"
"Hey Simon" Izzy greets him.
"Hi, this is really weird seeing four Clary's"
"Yeah, I'm sick of looking like you" The Alec/Clary says. I huff and de-rune them all.
"We should get going…" Jace says.
"I'll draw a portal"
"No. I don't want to travel that way again. It makes me feel sick" Alec argues.
"Fine, then we walk"
I say a reluctant goodbye to Simon and hurry off after the others. I end-up walking with Jace at the back.
"Yunno, at first I thought it was weird, the most mundane girl I've ever met turning out to be a Shadowhunter. But now, it kinda suits you. It's weird though, it's like you're two different people" Jace says.
"I don't really like being a Shadowhunter, I've always hated killing things, even if they were demons. When I was ten I decided that being a mundane was more fun, so I learnt how to live like one. Although sometimes I an't stay away, like the time you saw me defeat Abbadon. So effectively there's two versions of me, the Shadowhunter and the mundane"
"I personally prefer the mundane version of you"
"Yeah me too"
"But, the Shadowhunter you is really hot as well"
I blush
"Thanks" I mumble.
When we finally arrive at the Institute, Jace announces that we'll meet back at the training room. Izzy shows me a spare room and I get showered and change into the training clothes laid out for me. They consist of a black tank-top and black leggings. I re-draw the basic runes and join the others in the training room. Alec is using the bow and arrows, he's pretty good but he misses a few targets. Izzy and Jace are engaged in full seraph blade combat. I watch as Jace knocks the blade out of Izzy's hand. She looks at me in defeat.
"You can give him a go, I wanna see who wins" She says, handing me the blade.
"You sure you're ready?" I ask Jace, walking to up to face him.
"I'm more than ready" He says taking the first swing, I quickly assume the position and parry his blade. He swings at my legs and I jump over the blade. We fight hard and fast, I end up trapped between a training bar and Jace. As he comes towards me I back flip over it, so that it comes between us. He surprises me and swings himself up and onto the bar overhead. He leaps at me, tackling me to the ground, knocking my blade to the floor. He leans forward on top of me and slips his blade underneath my chin.
"You're okay at fighting" He says, hopping off me and offering me a hand.
"She's awesome!" Izzy yells, giving me a high five.
"You want to have a whip fight?" I ask Izzy as I noticed she had a talent for it.
"You bet!"
I grab a whip and face her. She's very fast and soon has me on my backside. Before she can celebrate, I kick out and stand up. I wrap my whip around her ankle and pull so she hits the floor.
"Always stay focused" I advise her, helping her to her feet.
"Which weapons can you use?" Jace asks me.
"Pretty much all of them. I prefer archery, but I can use seraph blades, throwing knifes, whips, hammers, axes, daggers, hand to hand, spears and even some oriental weapons a Chinese master once taught me to use."
"Impressive" Jace says and without warning throws a knife at me, I duck instinctively before I can register what happened.
"Even more impressive" He broods.
I eye the archery equipment in the corner and make my way over to it. Alec is still training, I notice his left leg is slightly too straight causing him problems.
"You're doing great, but your left leg is too straight" I correct Alec. He glares at me.
"You think you can do better?"
"I can try" I say picking out a bow and some arrows. I set the targets to move or pop-up at random times and take a position in the middle. I notch an arrow and let it go as I hit the first target. Another one pops up and I take that one out. I methodically hit each target in the centre, only using one arrow per target. Everyone but Alec applauds when I'm done, what is his problem with me?
Later on that night, I'm sitting on my bed drawing Jace as an angel. It sounds really cheesy, but he reminds me a lot of the Angel Raziel I'd see in the Shadowhunter books. A knock on the door interrupts my thoughts and I answer it to find Jace outside my door.
"Hello?" I greet him.
"Hey, I was wondering if you'd like to go on a walk with me"
I glance at my watch, it reads: 11:45
"It's a little late"
"That's the point, it's prettier at night"
He takes my hand and I let him lead me to the greenhouse.
"It's beautiful" I exclaim, looking at all the flowers. I run along and check out the view of New York, it looks beautiful from up here.
"Here" Jace says lighting one singular candle in an apple. "It's not a cake, but it's the best I could do it the short amount of time I had"
"Well, I wasn't expecting anything so this is great"
"Happy Birthday!" He says as I blow out the candlea.
"How did you know anyway?"
"I was searching up your files and it had your birth date on it"
"Stalker much?"
He smiles sheepishly and presents me with some witch light.
"I don't know if you already have one, but every girl should have her big rock" He says, giving it to me.
"I don't actually have one so thanks!" I say taking it.
"The flowers bloom at midnight, so I was wondering if the lady would like a dance in the meantime?"
"We may as well put those lessons to good use" I say, taking his hand and dancing with him. It feels more comfortable, no secrets needing to be kept between us.
"Look" He says, leading me up some steps so we can sit and admire the view of the flowers blooming as the clock strikes twelve.
"It's so…beau" I say, resorting to my French vocabulary.
"It is" He says, but he's not looking at he flowers, he's looking at me. He stands and I get-up with him, walking down the steps until he gives me a little tug and I fall against him. I gasp and then suddenly his lips are on mine. I lose any coherent thought as I get lost inside our kiss. Suddenly I feel cold water drizzle down my back, I cringe against Jace, who eventually pulls away.
"We should definitely go!" He says, then we leave and he pulls me down the endless corridors to my room.
"Goodnight Clary"
"Goodnight Jace!"
He gives me one last kiss and we break away into our separate rooms. I sigh and flop down unto my bed, tomorrow is going to be a very long day…