I'm so sorry that it's been a week. Half term's over so I had to do a bunch of last minute projects and homeworks.

Again, I'm do sorry.

Anyway, here's chapter 7!


Chapter 7: Interrogation

"Why are you hanging around with her?" Sarah asked once she thought Clary couldn't hear. Little did she know that Clary had amazing hearing and could still listen in.

"She's helping me find my parents."

"How can a tiny girl like that help you find your missing parents?"

Clary scoffed, she folded her arms across her chest and leaned on the wall outside the building.

"You'd be surprised of what she can do, Sarah."

Then they started arguing about how Jace shouldn't and couldn't trust Clary and He just defended her.

"Hey there Little Red, you single?" Asked a brown haired boy with dull green eyes. He was probably her age.

"Do you want to lose that hand of yours?" Clary asked sharply.

"Feisty. I like it." He leaned in closer.

When he got too close Clary put a hand on his neck and pushed him against the wall. The guy grunted.

"I may be small but I'm not weak." She let go of him. "Leave."

He had a shocked expression and scurried away.

"Well, if it isn't the infamous Clarissa Morgenstern." Said a deep voice that she could recognize anywhere. "You haven't changed a bit."

She turned to face the person speaking and wasn't surprised by who she saw.

Sebastian Verlac of the Paris Institute.

"Sebastian!" She jumped into his arms.

"What are you doing outside an apartment in Brooklyn?" He asked, pulling away.

"A teenage boy. His parents were kidnapped."

"So?" Sebastian failed to see why she even cared.

"He's a Herondale."

"Oh." He said slowly, slightly understanding.

"He wasn't raised like us though. He was raised as a mundane and never knew he had Nephilim blood until now."

"Shadowhunters raised as mundanes… What's happening to the world?"

Clary rolled her eyes. "Anyway, what are you doing in New York?"

"Came here to have a taste of NYC life and my fave redhead." He smirked.

Clary made a face.

"I'm serious. I missed you, Iz and Alec. You guys are good friends."

"Well thank you. We've missed you too." She kissed his cheek and whispered into his ear, "There's something I think I should tell you about Alec, though." She drew back.

He looked alarmed and worried. Only Clary can bring that look out of him. "Did he do something to you?" He said seriously.

She nodded.

"Which was what?" He demanded.

"He… kissed me."

Sebastian just stood there for a moment, stunned.

"Who kissed you?" A voice from behind Clary said.

Sebastian's eye's widened.

Clary turned around.

Jace was standing with his annoying mundie companion.

"Who. Kissed. You?" He repeated.

Clary opened her mouth to answer but Sebastian beat her to it. "Alec did. Why? Do you know him?"

"That dude with the black hair?"

"Yeah, him." Clary said.

"That son of a –"

"Who's Alec?" The annoying girl chimed in.

"–Biscuit." Jace finished.

"Alec is none of your concern, mundie." Sebastian said.

"I'm not a mundane." Jace said.

"Not you. Her." Sebastian jerked his chin towards Sarah.

"What's a mundane?"

"Someone from the human world." Clary said.

"But you're all human."

"Yes. But we're not like you." Sebastian spat.

Jace didn't say anything in Sarah's defense. He didn't know what to say.

"We should go back to the Institute." Clary said.

"The what?"

"A place you needn't know about, mundane."

Jace sighed. "Let's just go."

"Go where?" Sarah insisted.

"You can't come with us." Clary and Sebastian said together.

"Why not?"

"You aren't allowed. The Institute offers sanctuary to Shadowhunters not mundanes." Clary replies.

"I'm not going without her." Jace said.

Clary huffed. "By the angel–"

"Just let them go, Rissa." Sebastian interrupted.

"Fine! If Hodge tells me off, I'm blaming you Sebastian."

"Whatever."

"Follow me." Clary walked towards the nearest alleyway.

She put her stele to the wall and drew a blossoming flower.

"Since when could you do that?" Sebastian asked.

"Since always." She shrugged.

"And you never told me?"

"You never asked.

"What exactly is it?" Sarah asked.

"It's a port –" Clary clapped a hand over Sebastian's mouth.

"Sei pazzo? Non si può raccontare una Mundie questo, per noi tutti sappiamo che qualcuno rapirla e scoprire che ho questa capacità." Clary hissed in a different language that Jace and Sarah couldn't understand. She removed her hand.

"Unpo 'drammatico, non credi, Rissa?"

Clary rolled her eyes.

"What language is that?" Jace asked.

"Is it Hungarian?" Sarah asked.

That made Clary want to slap the dim mundane. "How the hell does Italian sound Hungarian? You're a little thick, aren't you?" She snapped.

"Woah. Down, girl." Sebastian said.

"That's enough." Jace said.

Clary jumped through the portal, asoulutely pissed.


Clary was walking in the Institute to calm down with Sebastian "Je ne peux croire que nous laissons un peu mundie dans I'Institut. Je ne pensais pas que vous seriez d'accord avec cela."

"Ecoutez, je sais que vous êtes contrarié à ce sujet, mais nous ne pouvons pas vraiment faire quelque chose à ce sujet. Vous devez avoir Jace ici, n'est-ce pas ?"

Clary nodded.

"Well, suck it up."

"But I don't want to," She whined. "I really hate her."

Sebastian sighed. As they were walking Isabelle waltzed in.

"Clary what is a mundane doing with Goldie in the foyer?" She asked. Upon seeing Clary and Sebastian her eyes widened. "Sebastian!" In her high heels she ran with her arms out wide.

"Hey Iz." She hugged him. They all hadn't seen each other in four years.

"It's been a while." Izzy said as she pulled back. "So, about the mundane. What is she doing here?"

"Jace forced us to let her come." Clary said.

"Does Isabelle know about Alec?" Sebastian whispered into Clary's ear.

"No –"

"What about Alec?"

"Noth –"

"He forced himself upon Clary."

Isabelle's eyes widened in disbelief. "Why, by the angel, didn't you tell me?"

"I had to go to Jace's apartment."

"Let's all go to the drawing room and have a little chat." Isabelle demanded, walking off.

Clary and Sebastian knew there was no point in arguing since Isabelle was sure to win even against two people so they followed her to the foyer to get Jace and Sarah. Then they sought out for Alec.


They were all in the drawing room. All sitting down except for Sebastian who was walking back and forth.

"Alexander, it's nice of you to join us today." Sebastian said.

Jace was glaring at Alec. He had a murderous look on his face; one Clary would never have associated with mundanes. Then again, Jace wasn't a mundane.

"Why exactly am I here?" Alec stood up.

"You're here to be interrogated." Sebastian said matter-of-factly.

"What?!"

"Yes. Please, tell us what. What it was that you did to Clary?"

Jace's murderous glare turned into a look of pure hatred.

"I didn't –" Sebastian wrapped his hand around Alec's neck and pushed him to the wall. Alec grunted.

"Sebastian!" Isabelle shouted. Everyone stood up.

"I kissed her. Why? Jealous?" Alec hissed.

"Clary could have sworn she saw his blue eyes become all black, even the whites.

Sebastian punched Alec. The force of the punch was so strong that Alec fell to the floor.

"Sebastian!" Isabelle took a step forward but Clary stopped her.

"Isabelle."

"What? He just punched my brother!"

Clary swiped Isabelle's whip that was coiled around her wrist. Clary and Isabelle were the only one who had access to the whip, though Isabelle had stronger access to it because it belonged to her and Clary could use it because she was Isabelle's parabatai.

"Hey!" Isabelle yelled in protest.

"Sebastian. Move." Clary said firmly.

Sebastian looked back at Clary and moved out of the way.

Clary whipped Alec twice.

Isabelle screamed. "What the hell, Clarissa!" She advanced towards Alec but Sebastian stepped into her way. "Move out of my way!"

Clary wrapped the extended electrum whip around Alec.

"Isabelle." Sebastian said, putting an arm in front of her to make sure she doesn't move forward.

"That's my brother." She spat.

"We'll see about that." Clary walked over to a shelf and pulled out a bottle.

"What's that?" Jace asked.

"A potion that exposes Eidolon demons when they're in human form. I got a warlock to work on it." She poured the contents onto her hand and splashed it on Alec.

The human skin began to somehow evaporate and disappear in midair.

"Well, well. If it isn't a Prince of Hell." Clary said.

"Where's my brother, Eidolon?" Isabelle walked over to the demon and unsheathed a seraph blade.

"The Lady has him. She ordered me to take his place here."

"Is he still alive?" Isabelle asked.

"Yes. He is her only leverage right now."

"Where is Alec? Who's The Lady?" Clary questioned, standing by Izzy.

"Valentine's daughter. Why, hello. I never thought I'd get the pleasure to actually speak to you, princess." He reached out and placed a stinging 'kiss' on the back of her hand. She wasn't even sure if that would be a kiss…

Clary hissed in pain and yanked her hand back. "Who's The Lady?" She repeated.

"The Mother of all.

The first and strongest,

They all answer to her call.

The one that's lived the longest."

They all just stood there, confused as the demon recited a passage. Oh great, a riddle. Clary thought.

"You've met her, Valentine's daughter. Seen her. She adored you. Didn't want to corrupt you. Couldn't corrupt you. You were too pure that she couldn't taint your perfect feathers. She didn't want to and was not able to anyway." Then the Eidolon demon took Isabelle's blade and plunged it into his own heart.


Who liked the riddle? I thought of it myself! ;)

Who can work it out?

Here are the translations:

Italian

1st phrase:

Sei pazzo? Non si può raccontare una Mundie questo, per noi tutti sappiamo che qualcuno rapirla e scoprire che ho questa capacità.

Are you crazy? You can't tell a Mundie this, for we all know that someone would kidnap her and discover that I have this ability.

2nd Phrase:

Unpo 'drammatico, non credi, Rissa?

A little dramatic, don't you think, Rissa?

French

3rd Phrase:

Je ne peux croire que nous laissons un peu mundie dans I'Institut. Je ne pensais pas que vous seriez d'accord avec cela.

I can't believe we let a little mundie into the Institute. I didn't think you'd agree with that.

4th Phrase:

Ecoutez, je sais que vous êtes contrarié à ce sujet, mais nous ne pouvons pas vraiment faire quelque chose à ce sujet. Vous devez avoir Jace ici, n'est-ce pas?

Listen, I know you're upset about it, but we can't really do anything about it. You need to have Jace here, don't you?

I really hope these translations are correct... I study German not Italian and French. :)

Please review.

See you soon ~ Liz Ashley xxx