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Over time, Clary had done her fair share of portal travelling. But she knew she would never get used to the uncomfortable feeling that went with it. Still she was grateful it was an ability she had, or she would have never gotten away from the institute. Now she was being rushed through space, tumbling around, much disorientated, but also focusing intensely on where she wanted to end up.

She landed smack in the middle of the pandemonium club, where all kinds of people were dancing, sweating and laughing. They hadn't at all noticed her appearing out of thin air, which suited her just fine. Clary didn't know why she had gone here. She had panicked in the moment in the institute and thought of the first thing that popped into her mind. Now she was here, in the middle of the blinking neon light and the loud thumbing music and for a moment she could almost imagine things as they used to be; simpler times, when Simon had been a human and she had just been her. When her biggest problems had been getting home from the club in time, or getting Simon a girlfriend.

She pushed the feelings away as quickly as they had come; if it hadn't changed she wouldn't have had Jace. She was a shadowhunter now and she had to deal with the problems that came her way. That was just how her life was.

She began pushing her way through the crowd of people, moving towards the exit as she didn't want to linger in the club mixed with mortals and supernatural beings. She never even noticed the fairy that had been watching her, as she abandoned the night club in favor for the dark streets of the city.

As she walked, she tried to remember what she had learned from the ring, dividing it all into facts.

Fact one: Sebastian wanted a certain book, and with the book Clary knew they would not stand a chance against him.

Fact two: The book was with the angel. Clary knew that the angel would be where Sebastian was, but she still couldn't grasp that Sebastian thought he didn't have the book. Did he know the angel had it? Or was he unable to retrieve it from the angel? If that was the case, Clary knew she would be walking directly into a trap, if it wasn't in dangerous enough in the first place.

Fact 3: The ring had some kind of connection with another mind which sometimes meant Clary hearing thoughts that belonged to someone else's head. This was the source of all the information she had. Which also meant Sebastian was working with somebody.

Finally fact 4: The ring was extremely dangerous. She knew she had to get rid of it as soon as she had used it for her purpose. How she would do this she didn't know.

In the middle of thinking through all this, in one split of a second, Clary could have sworn she saw a glimpse of something polished baby pink. But she quickly concluded it had been nothing.

She stopped abruptly on the street. She had thought things threw, and she knew what she needed to do. She would never be ready to do it, so there was just no point in delaying it further. She had to do it even if it meant her not getting out again. Even if it meant being stuck with Sebastian.. She grabbed her cell-phone from her pocket and called Jace. It was only fair that he knew what she was going to do.

He picked up on the first ring.

"Clary? CLARY!"

He sounded upset and Clary immediately felt awful.

"Yeah it's me."

"Come. Home. Now! Are you insane? I will find you and drag you back if I have to!"

She ignored his threats.

"Jace I'm calling you to explain what I'm going to do"

Then he fell silent.

"Tell me."

Then Clary told him everything about the book, the ring, the angel and everything else.

"CLARY! You can't be seriously considering walking straight into the arms of Sebastian! You can't do that! No! We don't even know where he is!"

"Jace, you know as well as I do that I have to do this. The ring can take me there. I'm sorry but I have this feeling about it, and this book could mean either everything or nothing. And trust me, we need it to mean nothing. "

"I know I said I wouldn't be too protective anymore but that's a promise I'm going to break. I'm going to find you Clary, and I'm going to drag you back here where you can't be hurt. Trust me on that!"

Clary didn't reply. She understood where he was coming from. She would have been furious to. She hung up, and closed her eyes and concentrated on the voice of the angel that was always in her head. Then she was blinded into a familiar state of darkness, with only the cries of the poor broken angel to follow.


Jace was blinded with anger, and didn't know who to channel it out on because the truth was that it was nobody's fault except his own.

They all sat around Isabelle's bed. They had already called Jocelyn to explain to her what had happened.

She had reacted extremely calm to the news, and wouldn't be coming back. They were after all looking for Sebastian. And where Sebastian was, Clary would also be. Jocelyn had informed everyone on the council of this new piece in the puzzle, and new way of finding Sebastian had become an option.

A simple tracking spell. Not on Sebastian but on Clary.

Maybe that was why she was acting so calm about it. Jocelyn had to feel confident that they would get her back.

Maybe Clary's idea of going to Sebastian's lair hadn't been too bad after all. Still Jace wasn't sure he would ever let her out of sight if he got her back again. No, when he got her back again. When.

Either way they had all been told to search for Clary despite of the fact that Jace knew they would not find her anywhere else but in the near of Sebastian. The thought made him shudder.

Then Jace noticed Izzy staring at him from her bed. Jace had to admit, she had healed remarkably well and he knew she would be up again soon. Which is how he also knew she would be back to nagging him now.

"Jace she will be fine. You have to relax now or you're going to blind everyone in the room."

Jace looked at his hands, and noticed he was glowing fiercely. He started to contain it until it was a mere sparkle.

He didn't realize he had been holding his breath until he finally began breathing again.

"This angel forsaken fire is getting to me, I swear!"

The room went quiet, and they were all staring at him.

"Never mind."

Jeez.

Then Simon got up from the side of Izzy's bed.

"Well we can try to find Clary or we can sit here and be a bunch of the histories saddest supernatural beings. I think I'm going with the first!"

Alec stood up from his chair as well.

"Simon is right. We can do this for the angel's sake! We have to do this!"

Jace fully agreed.

They were going to find Clary no matter what. They had to.


The room was dark and the air was heavy. It was near pitch black and all you could see was the outlines of shadows, one silhouette raised above the others.

The little patch of moonlight was the only light there was.

Then a high ringing voice spoke echoing through the damp cavern.

"We need the boy. The dark haired boy. Retrieve him tonight."

The figures bowed for the highest shadow and then shuffled hastily away into the unknown darkness.


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