Chapter 5

Here I am again! I'm so sad! I watched the season premiere and I cried tgen I watched episode 2 and I cried again! (Why did Booth have to sing the Lime in the Coconut!)

Ok, enough of that.

(BTW Sebastian is the real Sebastian Verlac! Not Jonathan!)

Clary was examining the remains when a laughing Simon and Sebastian came up to the platform. She sighed, and leaned in to get a better look at the rib cage. "I don't understand how you two are still laughing." She said picking at some of the algae that was stuck to the ribs. "It really wasn't that funny, and I was there." She exclaimed looking up at the two. "Simon, take some samples of the algae and any particulates you find. Sebastian, you help him and when he's done you can clean the remains so I can get a proper examination."

With that she walked off the platform, leaving the two to do their work. She turned around quickly and yelled. "Be careful with the skull! The mandible is the only part intact! I'll put the rest together after my lunch break!" Then she turned and left.

Simon turned to Sebastian. "Seb, she totally abuses your brain." Sebastian looked at him. "No," he said. "She acknowledges the fact that I have a higher IQ

At about 8:00, Jace came in with two coffees. He walked over and set the coffee down. He smiled. This would be cute if there wasn't a human skull on the table. He thought. He ruffled her messy bun trying to wake her. "Clary... wake up sleepy head..." he whispered. She then jumped up and punched him in the nose.

"Ow!" He yelled almost spilling his coffee. "Again with the iron hand, geeze!" He grabbed his nose and hissed in pain. Clary stood up and ran around the table towards Jace.

"Oh my god I'm so sorry Jace!" She exclaimed walking over and removing his hand from his nose. "Let me see," she said examining his reddening nose.

He hissed in pain again and Clary sighed. "There will be a little bruising, but nothing too bad. Sorry about punching you." She said leaning back on the table. "But may I ask, why are you here?"

Jace smiled. "Well, I was at the bureau and Isabelle stopped by after work and she told me you were gonna be here all night so this morning I got you some coffee!" Clary blushed.

"Sorry." She said, grabbing her coffee. "Thanks for the coffee." She then took a sip and held her hand to her mouth. Jace smirked. "Has my awesomeness made it too sweet for you Clary?" She coughed. "If anything you would make it too bitter." She mumbled. He looked at her. "What was that?" He asked tilting his head to the side.

"Nothing! Its just hot." She said biting her lips. Jace rolled his eyes. "So, whats going on at the Institute today?" He asked. She shrugged. "I think we were going to get Iz to do a facial reconstruction, and me and Sebastian were going to try to determin the murder weapon."

Jace looked over at the skull. "I found it!" He yelled. "She was shot!" Clary sighed. "Yes, but, see these hair-line fractures on the frontal bone?" She asked, pointing at the webwork of cracks along the skull. "Her face was smashed."

"Why would the killer smash her face in if she was already dead from the shot?" He asked. Clary leaned on the table and took another sip of her coffee. "Why would he burn her fingertips off?" She asked. He snapped his finger. "So she couldn't be identified." He said.

Clary smiled. "Good job Jace!" She said, her voice dripping with sarcasum. "You can have a gold star!" Jace smirked, sipping his own coffee. "I'm not in kingergarden." He stated and Clary put her mouth to her cup. "Maybe you should be." She mumbled taking another sip.

Jace looked up at her. "What was that?" He asked, moving his nearly enpty cup away from his mouth. Clary held back a laugh and put the cup to her mouth and turned towards Isabelle's Office. Jace soon followed.

"Wait a minute, what did you say?" Clary kept walking faster. "Clary? Ok, hold on a second..."

Jace followed Clary into Isabelle's Office where, well, everyone was waiting. Simon chickled under his breath as Jace entered the room. Jace threw his hands in the air. "Come on man, really?" Simon just smiled and looked back over at Isabelle. Clary turned to Sebastian. "Sebastian, would you mind grabbing the victum's skull for Isabelle? It already has the tissue markers on it." Sebastian nodded and walked out of the room.

"So," Jace asked, slipping his hands in his pockets. "How is this stuff going to help identify the victum?" Clary pointed to Simon, who pointed to Isabelle who threw her hands in the air.

"Well then!" She she dais dropping her hands to her sides. "This is a computer program I designed," Simon glared at her. "Fine, Simon helped me design that Simon likes to call Sizzy-tron." Jace held back a laugh and Simon glared at him. "Watch it Duck boy." Jace coughed. "Sorry, but where did, Sizzy come from?" He asked.

Clary pointed att Isabelle who pointed at Simon who pointed back at Isabelle. "Fine! Since everyone else aperantly lost thier voice," she said, stopping what she was doing on the computer. "We were bored and I sujested we make a ship name, you know, like people do for books?" Jace looked even more confused than before. Izzy sighed. "Anyway, thats when we came up with Sizzy."

Jace laughed. "I'm sorry but thats terrible!" Clary elbowed him in the ribs and he jumped in surprise, rubbing his side. "Ah, Clary! Are you completely made of iron?!" Clary shook her head. "Thats getting really old Jace." She implied. Izzy smiled. "Aw! You guys gave each other nicknames! You guys are such a cute couple!" Clary and Jace then looked at each other and awkwardly stepped away from each other, both blushing.

"What no," "We don't even like each other," "Thats ridiculous!" "He's so full of himself!" "She never has any fun!" "I could never like him!" "Not ever!" "I mean he is funny," "She's kinda cute," "But he doesn't like me," "She doesn't like me at all," "His jokes are kinda funny," "Its cute how smart she is," "But he's the FBI and they don't like us," "But you guys don't like the FBI," "Its never going to happen."

Isabelle held her hands up. "Ok I give up!" Then Sebastian walked in with the skull and placed it on the turntable and Isabelle activated the Sizzy-tron, which she would preferably call her Photographical Facial Recognition Program, but Simon likes calling it Sizzy-tron, so she calls it that to make him happy.

She activated the program and the turntable spun, blue lasers inserting the data from the skull and displaying the complete facial reconstruction on the screen. Clary squinted. "Does she look familiar to anyone?" Simon nodded. "Yeah, kinda."

Jace tilted his head. "Yeah, I've seen her somewhere before." he said. Clary turned to Isabelle. "Run the reconstruction through missing persons database and see if we get any matches." she said then turning to leave. Jace followed her.

"Where are you going?" he asked as Clary grabbed her gloves and walked into the bone room. "I'm going to try and determine anything that could be helpful to the case or her identity." Jace nodded. "So I'll see you later?" he said. Clary turned to face him. "Ya, I guess I'll see you later." Jace smiled, then turned to leave. Clary sighed. This boy is going to be the death of me.

It took me a LONG time to write this! I wanted to make it longer but I had a bunch of stuff going on this week so it took way longer than I would have liked! Thank you for your Follows, Favorits, and Reviews! You guys make my day! You can all have Cupcakes! (IDK why but I have an obsession with cupcakes for some reason...)

Till next time!

-TBBG