"Can't we just call her?" Clary asked. She was feeling very nervous about seeing Ralph's mother again. They were sitting outside of the house parked across the street. "Tell me again why are we doing this?"
"To get answers, remember. Besides, we are already here. Look Clary, I know you're nervous but don't be." he said as he took her hand in his larger one. "Come on. I will be right there with you."
"Fine. Lets gets this over with." She sighed and stepped out of the car. They both walked up to the house. It was a small one story brick house. Clary noticed that the yard looked different than she remembered. There were toys in the yard and a swing set. Jordan knocked on the door and a woman opened it. She had a baby on her hip. She had brown hair that was in a messy bun and had bags under her eyes from lack of sleep. Her blue eyes were looking at them with annoyance.
"Look, whatever you're selling, I'm not buying." she said. She goes to close the door but Jordan stops her.
"We were looking for the owner of the home. Mrs. Santiago. Is she here?" Jordan asked.
"Mrs. Who? Look, we bought this house months ago." the woman said.
"What?" Clary said in shock. Mrs. Santiago lived there her whole life. She would never move. Ralph offered to get her a nicer place that he was going to pay for, but she refused. She said 'This is my home. I was born here and I will die here.'
"Did she leave a forwarding address or something?" Jordan asked. He had the same look of shock on his face.
"If you're talking about the previous owner…I'm sorry to have tell you this, but the person who lived here before we moved in was found murdered about a few months ago...I think. It was tragic from what the realtor told me. She was murdered in the house and they never found out who it was." she said and then closed the door, leaving both Clary and Jordan standing there in shock. They slowly walked back to the car and got in and just sat there. Clary had tears in her eyes. She couldn't believe it. Ralph's mother was murdered months ago and she didn't even know.
"What are we going to do now?" Clary said breaking the silence.
"I don't know." Jordan said quietly. He was in deep thought. "I think we need to talk to the police. Maybe they can tell us what happened to her. File a missing persons report too." Jordan said rubbing his palms over his eyes.
"Wait. I've got an idea. Izzy's brother is a cop. I'm sure I can get him to find out." Clary said.
"That would be great, but it's late. Maybe we should talk to him tomorrow." Jordan said as he turned on the car took off into the night.
"Well, this is it." Clary said as he pulled up near the dorm building.
"I know. I picked you up, remember?" Jordan said and let out a little laugh. "You want me to walk you to your door?" he said as he opened the door for her.
"No. I'll be fine." Clary said as she stepped out.
"You're sure?" he asked, locking eyes with her with a look of concern.
"Yeah, I'm sure." she said breaking the eye contact with him to grab her purse. "Thank you, Jordan. So...what time tomorrow do you want to go?"
"How about after lunch?" he says walking her to the front door of the building.
"Okay. That's fine. See you then." she said and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She walks away from him and goes inside and heads for the stairs. She just got to the first step when she noticed someone was there and almost screamed from shock. Sitting on the steps, looking at her with angry black eyes, was Sebastian.
"Sebastian…what…how?" she stuttered, not being able to make a complete sentence.
"I thought you said you were going out with that girl for a girls night?" he says standing up and towering over her. "Who was that? Because he didn't look like that girl you were with earlier." he said with venom. Clary could see the rage behind his eyes. He was shaking with anger and it looked like he had a hard time controlling his breathing.
"I was with Izzy. But then she wanted to got out with this guy and made me tag along. That guy I was with is just my friend." Then she thinks 'why the hell am I explaining myself to him?' "Look, it doesn't matter. We are not together. I never agreed to a relationship with you and..." She doesn't get to finish what she was saying as he backs her to the wall while still standing on the stairs. He has her pinned like he did that morning. Each of his hands are on either side of her head. His face right at hers. She could feel his breath on her cheek. His dark eyes were looking into her scared green ones. He looked crazed. Like he was looking at his prey that he was ready to consume.
"Didn't you though?" he said while trailing his nose up her jawline. "The moment you decided to have me inside of you. My seed is still inside of you, is it not?" he says in a husky lust filled voice.
"No, I did not. It was only sex." she said trying to push him away but he didn't budge. She realized he was really strong. "How the hell did you find out where I live anyways? I didn't want you to know for a reason." she said glaring at him. He moved his mouth close to her ear.
"I will always find you, my love." he said and she could feel his hot breath on her blowing in her ear. His mouth was so close that she could feel his lips move as he talked, sending shivers down her spine."Let me make myself very clear...You. Are. Mine." he says, taking one hand off the wall to trail it down her body; grabbing her waist possessively. He pulls back to look at her shocked face. He evilly smirks at her and takes his other hand grabs a piece of her hair and plays with it; smelling it and then tucks it behind her ear.
"Now that we have that cleared that up, what time should I pick you up tomorrow night for our date?" he asks as he releases her, looking normal again like nothing just happened. She snaps out of her shocked state and glares at him.
"How about never o'clock." she says spitting the words at him and pushing him away to get up the stairs. She makes it to the top and he is right behind her. She walks calmly, not letting him see how freaked out she was.
"So, I will pick you up 8 then. Be ready and dress nice." he says ignoring what she said and walks up next to her.
"Did you not hear.." she tries to yell at him but he cuts her off by pressing his lips to hers and pushing his body as close as possible to hers. He cups the back of her head with his hand while the other is on her butt, squeezing it. At first, she tries stop the kiss but then she melts into it. 'His lips just always feel so good'she thought to herself. She lets his tongue in her mouth, letting him dominate the kiss. He growls and his lips moves fervently over hers in a bruising force. He sucks on her lip and tongue and then pulls back and smiles triumphantly at her. "Until tomorrow, my love." he says then walks away leaving Clary standing in the hall of the dorm with red swollen lips and a shocked face. 'What the hell is wrong with me?'she thought to herself.
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"I'm looking for Officer Lightwood please." Clary says to the woman at the front desk at NYPD head quarters.
"What is your name?" the woman asked.
"Clary Garroway." she replies.
"Take a seat and he will be with you momentarily." the woman says. Jordan and Clary turn and look around. The place looks like a mad house filled with crazy looking drugies, rapists, and murders. There is not one seat open. Her and Jordan stand over by the wall next to a little old lady with red hair that looks harmless. She is siting in a chair knitting something and looked sad.
"Mrs. Birmingham. You're next." the lady at the desk shouts. The little old lady puts her stuff in her bag and walks over to the desk.
"What were you coming to report?" the woman asked as she typed on her computer.
"My granddaughter has been missing a month." the woman said with an Irish accent. "Please. No one will help. They say she ran off but I know her…she is a good lass. She'd never do that." The old woman starts to sniffle. "She just turned 18."
"Have you filed a missing persons report?" the lady asked while still typing away at the computer. Clary and Jordan couldn't help but overhear. Clary felt so bad for her.
"Eye. But they do nothing." she cries. She takes out a picture of her and shows the woman. "Please help." she pleads with her. The woman at the desk face softens at her. You could see pity in her eyes.
"I will see what I can do. But for now, we will post a missing person poster up and I will take more information from you. Okay?" she says.
"Thank you! Thank you so much." the old woman says.
"CLARY!" a male voice calls. Clary looks up and she sees Alec Lightwood dressed in a cop uniform, heading toward her with a worried look in his blue eyes. "What's wrong? Is it Izzy? Where is she?" he asks very fast.
"Slow down. Izzy's fine." Clary says to him. "We came to ask you something." Clary looks around at all the people pointedly. "Maybe somewhere more private." she says.
"Who's this?" Alec says questioningly to Jordan.
"Hello. I'm Jordan Kyle. A friend of Clary's." he says and offers his hand to him. Alec shakes it.
"I'm Officer Alec Lightwood, Isabell's brother. And Clary is well…I guess you can say I'm the brother that she never had." he smiles at Clary. She then play punches him in the arm.
"But you know I'm your favorite." she says playfully.
"Don't let Izzy hear you say that." he says with a laugh. "Come follow me." he says. Before Clary moves, she sees the woman at the front desk posting the picture of the girl that was missing. She had the same color of hair as Clary's and green eyes. She looked alot like her. It was a little creepy. Then Clary looked at the rest of the missing photos. She noticed about 10 girls on the posters had red hair and green eyes. Aged from 14-20.
"Hey. Are you coming?" Jordan says and Clary quickly follows behind them and into an office. Alec shuts the door and tells them to sit down.
"So what is so important?" Alec asks curiously.
"We wanted to know if you can tell us about a murder that happened." Clary says to him.
"A murder? Who's murder." Alec asked confused.
"Mrs. Santiago. Raphael's mother." Clary says. She watched as shock formed on his face.
"What? She was murdered?" he asks sounding shocked.
"Yes. a few months ago. We just found out yesterday when we went to her house." Clary explained.
"What were you doing at her house? Please tell me you are not getting back together with that jerk that broke your heart. Because if you are, I'm going to.." he didn't get to finish his sentence.
"The reason why doesn't matter. And, no. I still don't know where or what happened to him which is another reason why we are here. To file a missing persons report on him." she said angrily at him. "And we came to find out about Mrs. Santiago's case. Now can you help us or not?"
"I'm not a murder detective." Alec says. "But I do know one. He's a rookie; the youngest ever to be made a detective. He might can help but..." he said pausing, "I doubt he will do it for me, even if we have become good friends." Alec says and Clary sighs, putting her hands on her face in frustration. "But he might do it for you." he said suddenly. Clary looked up at him like he was crazy.
"What? Why would he?" Clary says confused.
"Well, he has a weakness for sexy red heads. Plus, you have the whole innocent look but you're also like a fireball when you're mad." he laughs. "All you have to do is flirt a little and he will be putty in your hands."
"Really?" Clary asked unbelieving at him.
"He might have seen a picture of you and Izzy. He had this "Awe" look on his face like this..." Alec changed his face looking at Clary with this weird look while his mouth parted and his eyes opened wide. "You should have seen it. It was so funny." he laughs loudly.
"Oh God. He's probably a gross perv." Clary says with a disgusted look on her face.
"You just wait till you see him." Alec laughs knowingly.
"Jordan, do me a favor." Clary says and looks over at him. He had been quietly laughing at Alec the whole time.
"What?" he asked.
"When we meet him, please…please...pretend that you're my boyfriend." she says pleading with him.
"Okay, but you owe me." he says and smiles at her and gives her a wink.
"So, what is this guys name?" Clary asks.
"Detective Jace Harondale." Alec replies.
Author's note
SO Yeah Finally Jace is coming in the next Chapter...So I'm going to give you guys a spoiler everything that is happening is linked like a Puzzle and it has something to do with Clary's Past but what happen in her past? Well we will soon find out. There is a Killer and it's not who you think it is or is it? By the end of this story the body count will be high, Lives will be on the line, n secrets will be revealed.
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