AN: Okay like I promised Jace is in this chapter. I was going to make this chapter a little longer and put in what happens in the cab ride home at the end but I decided to break it up so all of that will be at the beginning of the next chapter. Thank you for reading and reviewing guys I really appreciate it!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Mortal Instruments Series… obviously.


Jace threw the knife and hit the target perfectly. He threw three more right after and they all hit dead center. All of a sudden, someone whistled from behind him. "Someone's being a bit of a show off today." Clary said. Jace smiled cockily as he turned to face her. "Red, I'm always a show off, you know that better than anyone." He said with a wink causing her to roll her eyes. "As if, Blondie. And by the way, your sexual innuendos are getting less clever and more desperate to be funny. You should've just quit while you were ahead." She said walking up to Jace confidently. "Please, you know you love my sex jokes." He replied smoothly, trying to stay confident but the closer that Clary got to him the less he could think straight. He didn't know why she affected him this way but he really couldn't complain. The short red head walked closely next to him and grabbed a knife from the table. "Don't you ever tire of hearing your own voice Jace? I know I tire of hearing it." She replied, throwing the knife with perfect form and hitting the target where he had hit it earlier. And with the simple easiness that she threw the knife with, he had decided he was kind of turned on by it.

Clary turned and gave him a cocky smirk having hit the target again and Jace was pretty sure he'd never been more attracted to a girl in his life. He had always had a little bit of a thing for Clary but recently, with the whole Sebastian thing happening he had become more territorial and a lot more aware of all things Clary. "Are you just going to stand there in awe about how fantastic I look when I throw knives?" She asked. Jace laughed as he grabbed another knife. "Well, you do look fantastic when you throw knives." He threw the knife as Clary laughed. The knife stuck center and he turned to look at her. "But I look better." He smiled widely. Clary started to laugh hysterically. "Of course you do. Blondes do it better." She replied. "Truer words have never been spoken." He said seriously.

"Anyways, all jokes aside, for the real reason that I'm here, tonight Sebastian and I are going to some new club with his friends and Izzy and Simon can't back me up tonight because they have to go through footage so I asked Alec if I could steal him from you and he said it was okay as long as you were okay with it." She said throwing another knife. "Yeah no problem, I don't have anything mission related planned for tonight so I won't need Alec's help. He's all yours." Jace replied throwing a knife rather roughly. He didn't like talking about Sebastian, it just made him angry. He liked him as a person, he thought that he and Sebastian could be great friends but the fact that Clary and him were together, even if it was just for a mission, didn't sit well with Jace. "Perfect. Thank you, I owe you and Alec one." She said throwing another knife.


"I need your help. I need your help. I need your help." Izzy said quickly as she rushed into Clary's office and slammed the door behind her. "Let me guess, you need my help." Clary asked sarcastically. "Yes, desperately. I've got…. Boy problems." Izzy said unsure. Clary was taken aback, Izzy never had boy problems, the only problems she had was which boy she was going to let take her to dinner that night. "I'm all ears." She replied stopping everything she was doing to give Izzy her full attention. "So uh, there's this guy…" Izzy started unsurely, as if she had no idea how to go about this. "He was never really on my radar and then I started to spend more and more time with him and he's really dorky and adorable and I don't know I really like him. The only problem is that he has a girlfriend but they might break up and I don't know if that even matters because I have no idea if he's even into me at all. I mean he always acts so awkward around me but he's kind of always awkward around everybody which surprisingly I find completely endearing." Izzy rambled on. "Okay I'm confused. What exactly are you asking me?" Clary asked. "What do I do?" Izzy asked hopelessly.

"I don't know Iz. You like him right?" Clary asked. Izzy just nodded. "But he has a girlfriend and you don't even know if he likes you?" Again Izzy nodded. "And you're asking me what to do about all of this?" Izzy nodded. "You are asking a lot of me you know that?" Clary replied. "I know and I'm sorry but I'm just so confused about it all." Izzy said suddenly exhausted. "You're confused about a boy and you decide to come to me, someone who is also confused about a boy! It's like the blind leading the blind!" Clary shouted without thinking. "Wait, you're confused about a boy? Why is this the first time I'm hearing about this? Which boy?" Izzy asked curiously. "What? I'm not telling you." Clary replied. "We're best friends Clary, doesn't that mean anything to you." Izzy said trying to guilt trip her. "Whatever, don't try to pull that one on me. You didn't tell me which boy you're confused about either. Consider us even." Clary said. "Fine, we'll say at the same time. Okay?" Izzy suggested. "Okay. One, two, three." Clary replied. "Simon." Izzy said at the same time as Clary said, "Jace." "Shut up! Jace! When?!" Izzy asked excitedly. "Recently. But Simon? Really? I so did not see that one coming!" Clary said happily. "Although, you guys would make a really cute couple." She said as an afterthought. "I know right?" Izzy agreed. "Now Jace. Spill." She commanded.

"Well, I always thought Jace was attractive but he was always such an ass and way too full of himself. But this whole mission, though, has brought us closer together and he's actually really funny and even though he might say egotistical things about himself they make me laugh. And I'm starting to like him even more but you know Jace, he literally flirts with everybody so I have no clue what's actually between us and what's just him flirting with me because he's bored." Clary said, rambling on. "I don't know how to help you." Izzy said helplessly. "And I don't know how to help you either." Clary said. "Like I said, the blind leading the blind." She said hopelessly. Izzy just nodded.


Clary and Sebastian walked arm and arm into the new night club called 'Pandemonium'. The music was blaring loudly through the speakers, the lights were bright and moving rhythmically, and the sweaty bodies of young 20-something year olds were pressed so tightly together that Clary felt that if a single person left that the whole crowd would come tumbling down. As she felt the hum of excitement go through her, Clary knew that this was definitely a place she could love. She was dressed in her favorite little black dress, a tight dress with a low back, and she had on her silver heels. The look she was going for was slightly slutty yet not too slutty and she kind of freaking nailed it. Next to her, Sebastian looked cute in his blue button up and jeans as he searched the crowd for his friends. "They're over there, come on." He said leading her over to a table in the back of the club. Clary put on her most charming smile, sure she's met Sebastian's friends before but she needed to always be sure that they liked her, for the sake of the mission. "Hey guys." Sebastian said as they approached the seated group, who were all focused on one particular seated individual, Jace Herondale. Clary was absolutely shocked to see him sitting there and let alone all of Sebastian's friends wrapped around every word that he had to say and laughing obnoxiously at his stupid stories. Jace was like an infestation, he was everywhere. "Hey Jace, I didn't know you were coming." Sebastian said excitedly as he sat down at the table. Clary just smiled as she sat down next to him. "Oh yeah, my friend Alec couldn't hang out tonight and Ben mentioned something about a fancy new night club and you know how much I love clubs." Jace said with a smile pointed at Clary. Clary smiled back at him as she planned all the ways she was going to kill him.

"I'm happy you could make it." Sebastian said with a smile as he turned to Clary. "Do you want a drink?" He asked. "Scotch on the rocks, please." Clary replied, she needed to get drunk to survive tonight. After finally admitting that she had feelings for Jace out loud and to another person, she felt uneasy with him sitting across from her and her 'boyfriend'. She could barely look up and acknowledge him because she had this illegitimate fear that he would be able to see that she had a crush on him if they made eye contact. "Are you sure you don't want something a little less strong? Maybe like a fruity drink or something?" Sebastian asked worriedly. Clary was about to tell him how she could handle her liquor and that she might be a girl but she didn't want some stupid fruity drink when Jace interrupted. "Don't worry, Clary is perfectly capable to handle herself." He said as he eyed her. "Okay a scotch it is." Sebastian said standing up to get the drinks. "Actually, I'll go get them." Clary offered. "Are you sure?" Sebastian asked uneasily. "Yeah, you haven't seen your friends in a while so sit and hang out I'll go get them." She replied standing up out of her chair. However, he still looked unsure. Sebastian was very gentlemanly and had this weird thing about girls doing things for themselves. "Jace can help me." Clary said turning to look at Jace who was currently making eye contact with her ass. "What?" He asked being shaken out of his thoughts. "Come on dumb ass, we're going to get the drinks." Clary said giving Jace an evil look and walking towards the bar. When she turned to look if he was actually following her Clary saw that he was and that he was enjoying the view. She rolled her eyes on the outside but on the inside her heart started pounding hard.

Once she got to the bar, she gave the bartender the drink orders and turned abruptly as Jace approached. "What are you doing here? You're going to ruin everything!" Clary whisper yelled. "Alec told me he couldn't come tonight to back you up so I came instead." Jace replied with a shrug. He put his hands in his pockets as he leaned against the bar. Where Sebastian looked cute tonight, Jace looked absolutely fuckable in his black shirt and dark jeans. His hair was a perfect mess and he looked like some kind of movie bad boy. Clary had to consciously start breathing again. At the same time, the bartender came and put the drinks on the bar in front of them. "Besides, I'm doing my job and helping you with yours in the process." Jace said taking a drink. "You standing here and ogling me is not 'helping me'." She said putting air quotes over 'helping me'. Jace rolled his eyes. "I was not ogling you." He said. "You weren't?" She asked, trying to stay confident but couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. She'd never wanted to be looked at like a piece of meat by a boy before but with Jace dressed like that she honestly wouldn't mind. "Okay, fine. I was. But you really can't blame me. With you dressed like that, it's hard not to ogle you." He said with a cocky smile that caused butterflies in Clary's stomach. She gave him a cocky smile of her own. "That's not a very good excuse." She replied. He laughed. "I never said it was." He took another sip from his drink as Clary took one from her own.

"Hey, what'd I miss?" Sebastian asked walking up to them. Clary turned from Jace and looked at Sebastian with a flirty smile. "Just Jace being an ass." She said with an eye roll. "So I didn't miss anything." Sebastian said taking his drink. "Nothing new, that is." He said with a laugh. Jace punched him in the arm and laughed. "Anyways, everyone's going to the dance floor so I came over here to ask my beautiful girlfriend if she would like to dance?" Sebastian said as he put his hand out to her. Clary smiled. "I would love to." She said as she grabbed his hand and he walked them over to the dance floor.

They danced closely and Clary couldn't lie, she was having a great time. They all danced practically the whole night until Sebastian got a call from his mom and they had to leave. "She said that she really needed me to come by the house, she wouldn't say why. So I'll just take you home and then I'll go by and see what's up." Sebastian said as he flagged down a taxi. "You don't need to do that. Your parent's house is right around the corner and I live on the other side of town, it'd be ridiculous for you to go all the way over there just to come back over here. I'm fine, I'm not that drunk, and I can go home on my own." Clary protested. "No, I would be the worst person in the world if I let you go home by yourself at this time of night." Sebastian said as he looked over his shoulder at his group of friends that stood by the door. "Hey Jace." He called causing Jace to turn and look in their direction. Sebastian waved him over and Jace, almost reluctantly, walked over to them. "Hey man, could you take Clary home for me? I doesn't feel right letting her go alone." He asked. Clary tried to read Jace's facial expression but got nothing, it was like he refused to look at her. Now that she was thinking about it, it felt like Jace was kind of avoiding her all night, ever since she went to the dance floor with Sebastian. "Yeah, sure." Was all Jace said after hesitating for a while. "Thanks man, I owe you." Sebastian said as Jace got into the back of the taxi. "I'll call you tomorrow." Sebastian said as he placed a kiss on her forehead and Clary followed Jace into the cab. Sebastian closed the door behind them, Clary gave the cab driver directions to her apartment which was a 40 minute ride with traffic and there was a lot of traffic tonight, and then they were off.