A/N: Okay guys... I've gone back over the previous chapters and I have edited them because I realized my dates were really wrong... (Thank you to AJ Granger for bringing this to my attention! When I saw your review, I immediately grabbed my copy of CoHF and mentally kicked myself like, a million times when I realized I'd messed up the dates!) I realized that, again, thanks to AJ Granger's review, if Clary had somehow fallen pregnant during that night in the demon realm, she would be about ready to give birth now... sorry for messing that up!
Anyway, it isn't exactly necessary for you to read over the previous chapters but you can if you want to. Basically, I have edited them so that Clary fell pregnant in late April after she and Jace got carried away after one of Magnus's parties and they forgot to use protection. Also... last chapter was set in July... not August... I totally forgot about July... oops...
Anyway... that's enough of my authors note... on with the next chapter!
Chapter 7
Clary's phone was beeping on her dresser, notifying her that she had a text waiting to be read but she was currently focusing on Jace who was talking to her stomach – well, the baby in her stomach.
Clary laughed lightly as Jace mumbled things about the shadow world and how much he loved their baby and Clary.
"I'll teach you how to fight and everything... it will be so much fun," Jace said, leaning down, pushing Clary's shirt up slightly and placing a kiss on her stomach.
Clary simply ran a hand through Jace's blonde hair and smiled. "I know it's early on in my pregnancy, but what do you hope the gender will be?" Clary asked Jace after a moment, still ignoring her phone.
Jace sat up and looked down at Clary. "I don't mind," Jace said. "A little boy would be nice, but so would a little girl," he continued.
Clary smiled and then looked over at her dresser, now annoyed by her phone.
With a sigh, she rolled off the bed and walked over to her dresser to grab her phone.
She picked it up and froze when she saw who had sent her a text.
Alec.
"Clary?" Jace asked after a moment, his voice bringing Clary back to reality.
She quickly opened the text and read it.
Fey. Help.
Clary sucked in a breath and whirled around, almost smacking into Jace who had moved off the bed and was now standing right behind her.
"What is it?" he asked, his gold eyes searching her face, trying to make sure Clary was alright.
Clary simply turned her phone around and showed Jace the text.
"Fey. Help." Jace read aloud. He then looked up at who had sent the text. "Alec... no wonder the faeries attacked when Isabelle and I went to talk to the Seelie Queen when Alec first went missing," Jace said as he turned and took off out the door.
-o-O-o-
Jace quickly walked down the hall towards Isabelle's room and once he reached the closed door, he banged on it. "Isabelle! Get changed. We're going to get Alec," Jace said before turning and walking down the hall towards his room so he could change into his gear.
He heard Isabelle's door open and her voice rang out down the hall. "What?" she asked.
"I'll explain later. Just get changed into your gear and get your weapons," Jace said before he walked into his room.
As usual, it was incredibly tidy and he immediately went to grab his gear and then he changed.
"Jace... I want to help," Clary said from the bed.
Jace sighed and turned around before he walked over and sat on the edge of the bed beside Clary.
"You can't. Not out there anyway," Jace said, shaking his head.
"Jace... I'm not heavily pregnant. I can still help," Clary said.
Jace shook his head again. "You're pregnant. I don't want you out there..." he said.
Clary gave a frustrated sigh and Jace took her face in his hands. "Clary... I don't want to risk you getting hurt... or our baby. You need to stay here where it's safe. I'll be back soon okay?"
Clary sighed again although this time, it wasn't a frustrated sigh. "You better come back or else I'm going to tell this baby that you got your ass kicked because you didn't let me come and protect you," Clary said.
Jace chuckled and leaned in to place a brief kiss on Clary's lips before he stood up and headed off to get his weapons.
-o-O-o-
Isabelle moved quickly to get dressed in her gear and as she walked out of her room, she almost ran into Jace.
"Do you really know where Alec is?" Isabelle asked as they headed towards the elevator.
"Yes. I'm fairly certain I do. Clary got a text from Alec... Alec's phone anyway... and it said 'Fey. Help.' So I'm assuming he is somewhere in the Seelie Court. I mean, it would explain why the faeries attacked us when we went to see the Seelie Queen," Jace explained before he pulled out his phone to call Magnus.
"What do you want?" Magnus asked when he picked up the phone.
"We need you to make a portal. I think I know where Alec is. Basically, Clary got a text from Alec's phone saying 'Fey. Help.' And I think he's in the Seelie Court somewhere," Jace said before hanging up, not even giving Magnus a chance to reply.
Isabelle and Jace reached the ground floor of the institute and they were waiting there for a few minutes before Magnus finally arrived.
"Took you long enough," Jace said.
Magnus just narrowed his eyes slightly at Jace and then got to work on opening a portal.
"Do you want me to come and help?" he asked.
"No-" Jace started but Isabelle cut him off.
"I think that might be a good idea," she said.
"We don't-" Jace started again.
"Jace. We may not have time to call him to get a portal opened if this one closes. Just shut up and get through the portal."
Jace rolled his eyes but turned and stepped through the portal, followed by Isabelle and Magnus.
-o-O-o-
The tunnels leading to the throne room were the same as usual – covered in moss with tree roots dangling from the ceiling.
Jace, Isabelle and Magnus crept quietly along the tunnel, watching their steps and keeping an eye out for any signs of the faeries.
Jace's hand hovered over the hilt of one of his seraph blades and as the entrance to the throne room came into view, he closed his fingers around the handle and he drew the blade out of its sheath.
Jace, Isabelle and Magnus came to a stop outside the throne room and pressed themselves up against the wall, listening to what was going on inside.
Jace could hear a female laugh and he listened carefully, trying to pick out voices.
"You're a silly boy, aren't you?" Jace heard and he immediately recognized the voice as the Seelie Queen's.
"You won't get away with this... they'll find me..."
It was Alec's voice that spoke next, raspy and tired. Jace's seraph blade was blazing in front of him a second later and he hurtled through the thorny curtain, an angry expression on his face.
Isabelle and Magnus were right behind Jace.
"Step away from him before I hurt you," Jace growled, holding out his blade as he spoke to the Seelie Queen.
She spun around, slightly shocked, before a wicked looking grin appeared on her face.
"Well... I didn't believe you would actually turn up here but since you are..." the Seelie Queen started, her wicked smirk growing.
Jace kept his eyes on the Seelie Queen, waiting for her to continue. She didn't speak again though.
"Uh... Jace," Isabelle said.
"What?" Jace asked, his eyes flickering between the Seelie Queen and his Parabatai.
"Look," Isabelle said, her voice shaking slightly.
Jace turned his head only to see a group of faeries standing in the entry to the throne room, many wearing armour and bearing weapons.
"Ever since the Dark War, we've been ready for an attack and this, Nephilim, is considered an attack. You are in your gear and you are bearing weapons. You have made a threat and therefore, you better be prepared," the Seelie Queen said just as the crowd of faeries surged forward into the room.
Jace, Isabelle and Magnus spun to face the crowd of faeries and soon, the room was filled with the sounds of a battle.
Occasionally, over the sounds of weapons clanging together or people crying out because of an injury, Jace could hear Alec speaking to the Seelie Queen, threatening her and talking about how he would be rescued.
Jace swung his seraph blade at one of the faeries that approached him with a blade of his own and the clang echoed throughout the throne room. "If you don't give up now, you'll die," he said as he pushed against the faerie.
The faerie simply chuckled in response, pulled his sword back and spun out of the way before swinging at Jace again, his blade swiping across Jace's cheek.
Jace hissed and then swung his own blade, making the faerie warrior back up.
As Jace approached the faerie warrior, he noticed that quite a few were fleeing the throne room as they watched fellow faeries fall.
He swung his blade again and it sliced through the faerie's weak armour and the faerie stumbled backwards into the wall.
By this point, the room was fairly empty. Jace, Isabelle, Magnus, Alec and the Seelie Queen were now the only people in the throne room, apart from the dozen dead faeries that lay on the ground and the few injured faeries that were trying desperately to get away.
Jace turned around slowly and walked towards the Seelie Queen and Alec.
His breathing was steady and his eyes were focused as he got closer. All of a sudden though, the Seelie Queen had moved and picked up the blade of a dead faerie warrior and she was holding it between herself and Jace.
"I may not be much of a fighter myself, but I will use this if I have to," she said, pointing the blade at Jace.
"And I'm not scared of you," Jace replied. "I am here to get Alec, now let him go or I will be forced to take action.
The Seelie Queen just chuckled. "He is going to die. He killed Meliorn so I will kill him," she said, turning the blade so it was pointed at Alec, merely centimetres from Alec's chest.
The Seelie Queen then pushed the blade forward and Jace lunged forward, colliding with her side.
Jace heard Alec groan and he whipped his head around, hoping nothing serious had happened.
His eyes scanned over Alec and luckily, there was no wound near his chest. There was, however, a cut along his shoulder.
If Jace had tackled the Seelie Queen any later, Alec may not be breathing anymore.
Jace then turned his attention back to the Seelie Queen who was lying underneath him on the ground, half propped against the wall; the blade she had been using lying a fair distance from her hand.
Jace then stood up and put one foot on the Seelie Queen and an attempt to keep her where she was. He then held his blade out, the tip of it at her throat.
"You have caused a lot of trouble for the Nephilim... and therefore you have caused a lot of trouble for my family. You almost killed my Parabatai just now... give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you," Jace growled, his gold eyes blazing.
"If you kill me, you'll have a lot more trouble," the Seelie Queen said.
"We face demons constantly... yes, you've caused a lot of trouble but no trouble is worse than the trouble demons cause," Jace said. "Promise me now that you will leave us alone or this will be the end of you," he continued.
The Seelie Queen didn't respond.
"Last chance," Jace said. "I'm growing impatient and I have a pregnant girlfriend waiting for me back at the institute. Promise me you will leave us alone or I will kill you."
The Seelie Queen smirked up at Jace. "Go ahead Nephilim. I dare you to," she said.
"I never back out of a dare," Jace said. "Goodbye."
With that, he thrust the blade forward, into the Seelie Queen's throat.
He pulled his blade back out, stared down at the Seelie Queen and then turned to go help Isabelle and Magnus with Alec.
Isabelle was cutting away the vines that held Alec's hands and ankles together and Magnus was attempting to remove some of the thorns that had embedded themselves in Alec's skin.
Jace dropped down beside his Parabatai and a look of relief washed over him as he pulled out his stele so he could draw an iratze on Alec.
"It sure took you long enough to find me..." Alec said tiredly, his eyelids drooping closed every now and again.
"Well... we couldn't track you... it wasn't until you sent that text to Clary that we knew exactly where you were. We've been searching ever since you went missing," Jace said, finishing off the iratze.
"And we would've found you earlier... but we were attacked... the night you went missing, we came here to ask the Seelie Queen if she knew anything but we couldn't get through..." Isabelle added.
Alec just sighed. "Well... she can't cause any more trouble now..." he said, glancing over at the Seelie Queen's unmoving body.
Jace and Isabelle nodded in agreement.
"Come on... let's get you back to the institute," Magnus said, reaching down to help Alec up.
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