(DISCLAIMER: I do not own TMI that is all Cassandra Clare)

Blood Is Thicker Than Darkness

Chapter 5

The Unthinkable

(Clary's POV)

"What the hell!?", whispers Jace.

"You have got to be kidding me!", Isabelle screams.

"How is that even possible!?", Alec questions.

Everyone seemed to have bounced back pretty quickly from the shock everyone but me that is; all I seem to be able to do is stare. Because this just didn't make sense how could she look like me?

Everything was the same but the hair and the height, bright emerald green eyes, pale creamy skin with freckles, and the same exact bone structure. But there's where the similarities stop, she had to be at least 5'8" with waist length dark brown hair, wavy not curly like mine and even though she wasn't moving there was a lithe grace about her like a jungle cat.

But it all comes back to the eyes because its then I realize she has been staring back at me the whole time and the room has gone completely silent, and in my scrutiny I completely forgot about her brother.

He's standing a little back and to the side of his sister, looking around the room taking in his surroundings and probably cataloguing all exits and ways to escape if necessary. He has broad shoulders and pale skin, had to be about 6'2", with shaggy dark brown hair that curled up around his ears and the base of his neck. And at that moment as if he could sense my staring he stopped looking around the room and his gaze landed on me, but what really shocked me is after a few minutes he broke out into a huge happy smile. But the really strange thing is somewhere inside me I felt this need bubble up to smile back.

All of the quite scrutiny of each other seemed to take hours when in reality it was only minutes and I realized the others were still shouting questions, and Magnus was trying to calm them down.

My gaze went back to Haley and I noticed that she was still staring at me with an expectant look on her face like she knew what I was going to do and only waiting for it to happen.

So with our gazes still locked I stood up from the couch and walked over to where she stood and everyone went silent, I'm not sure what they expected me to do exactly maybe they thought I might run screaming from the room or something else equally ridiculous. But I wasn't running, not this time not ever again so staring at the girl in front of me I only said one word, "How?"

Then Haley smirked at me and I knew I did exactly what she expected me to do.

(Magnus's POV)

I should have known this was going to happen this was an absolutely horrible idea, we should have waited I should have insisted upon it. But no we jumped in head first and now I have three shadowhunters shouting questions at me and one who might be in shock.

I knew I should have stayed in bed today or at least suggested we have a family day making fun of some horrid reality TV show snuggled on the couch together with Chairman Meow. Instead here I am trying to make sure a mini riot doesn't break out while Haley, Blaine, and Clary stare at each other waiting for the other to make the first move. And then Clary stands up from the couch gaze locked with Haley's and crosses the room to her, and the others go quite like they're all holding their breath waiting to see what happens. Then Clary says "How?", and I sigh with relief that this might still be salvageable if she was willing to listen.

(Haley's POV)

After me and Blaine pulled our hoods back it was complete chaos, but I suppose I really shouldn't have expected anything else from this bunch. Magnus wasn't lying when he said this could go badly, but I couldn't worry about the others shouting questions across the room I had to make sure Clary understood and that's all that mattered. So I stood there waiting as she took it all in the similarities and the differences and then her gaze shifted from me to Blaine, and I knew the exact moment he noticed, because like the big dope he was he started smiling like a lunatic, which made Clary's lips twitch like she wanted to smile back. And that right there is what gave me hope that maybe just maybe she wouldn't run away, that she would believe. Because some days I still didn't believe it was possible and I was living proof, then Clay looked back at me and I knew without a shadow of a doubt what she was going to do. I could see it in the stubborn set to her jaw and the steely glint in her eye that she was going to demand answers; we were so alike it gave me chills. And so Clary stood up staring me straight in the eye, and crossed the room to me and said "How?", and I smirked because finally I got to tell our story and hopefully she believed me.

"Well you see when a man and a women- ", but I stop because Blaine rewards me with a sharp elbow to my ribs and Magnus gives me a stern look and says "Haley, be serious.", and how could I not listen to them right? (Pfft, as if!)

"Alright, alright sorry no one can take a joke these days huh? Well anyway I guess we should really introduce ourselves before I get to explaining anything. I'm Haley and that's Blaine" he smirks and does one of those head nod thing guys do (like what in the hell is up with that anyway?).

"Well I guess I'll just jump write in then, please hold all questions till the end" , and I look around the room and all I get are blank stares except from Mags who smiles and shakes his head. "Gosh tough room, alright well um I guess I'll start from the beginning. We were born in Idris if you can really call it being born but that's not important right now. Our father raised us in a small manor in the middle of nowhere and he was to say the least was extremely unorthodox. Since the day we started walking he was teaching us to be shadowhunters, when we hit about four years of age we were training day in and day out until we were practically unbeatable. We were ruthless when we needed to be and showed mercy when necessary, even though that never worked in our favor with dear old dad." At this point I glanced over at Blaine to see if he wanted to take over and he shrugged and nodded his head. Blaine taking over meant I could watch Clary and see what her reaction was because he was about to drop a bomb on this whole situation and I only hope it wouldn't blow up in our faces.

Blaine begins to speak and his gravelly voice calms me down and I settle in to wait "As we got older dad got stricter and more aggressive with our training, day in and day out it seemed like we hardly ever slept. But there were stretches of time when we would be left alone with only the maid to watch after us and it was a nice reprieve to be out from under his thumb. But then dear old dad would come back and be more ruthless and vindictive than ever with our training, like where ever he went only made him more determined to make us the perfect fighters." At this point I see recognition bloom in Jace and Clary's eyes and Alec and Isabelle weren't too far behind.

"We were about ten when Haley started showing a certain gift for art and from that our father discovered her ability to create runes. At this point he started locking himself in his study and only came out to yell at us and go on one of his trips. One day he was getting ready to leave and gave us explicit orders to train every day until he came back. So we did as we were told and at the beginning the maid was there to take care of us and eventually she just stopped coming and we were alone. We had to fend for ourselves and learned to scavenge for food and when we were old enough we rode our horses to Alicante for supplies. It wasn't till years later, a week after our twentieth birthday actually that he came back. Of course we were wary he was always hard on us and never showed us any kind of affection, it took all my strength to restrain that little devil" Blaine says pointing at me and chuckling with brotherly affection, to which I smirk in remembrance of that moment. "She nearly ripped my arms off trying to get to him, but any way that was the day that we completely lost our father. He came home and told us that we had two other siblings and that our brother was going to help lead a demon army to The Glass City and that we were to join him. We refused and fled to the city and took part in the battle against the demons and our father, and then we heard the stories of what happened and knew we had to find you Clary. Because you see if you haven't figured it out yet Valentine Morgenstern is our father and Jonathan is our brother, which makes you our sister Clary." Blaine says with a small hesitant smile and that's when I think I should jump back into this party before everyone starts yelling again,

"So that's how we ended up here we found Magnus told him our story and we've been living with him ever since. We were all kinda hesitant to just show up and drop this on you but it just couldn't wait any longer because," Then I look up directly into Clary's eyes and I know she knew what I'm about to say and in unison we both say "Jonathan is back."

Well there it is Chapter 5 I'm sorry it took a little while but I hope you enjoy it none the less! I'm going to try and get chapter 6 up this week, if you have any questions about what is going on in the story feel free to PM me. But as always please read and review and let me know what you think! (: