"In the Night."
Chapter 9 "outsider"
General Pov
Clary stood outside her apartment as Jace went in and checked the area to make sure no one was in there. Jace came out and looked at Clary with a worried look on his face. "Has there always been that potent smell of dog in there?" He asked holding his nose while laughing at his own joke.
"Jesus Christ." Clary said and pushed past Jace, she looked around the apartment and sniffed it for Luke. She could sense that he was close; she could tell he had slept here last night, by the way the living room was thrown around. He had come back to get her but realized he was to late.
"Dad!" she yelled in the hall way and went into his room, she looked around a minute and sighed as she turned to leave she heard the familiar 'whoosh'.
She turned around to see Luke standing there in front of her only wearing a shirt and boxers. "Clary." He said with relief and wrapped his arms around her, Clary felt her eyes begin to burn; she sniffed as she tightened her arms around his neck. "I'm so glad your back, you don't understand how worried I was. You've been gone for three days, I can't go into the institute. I... I couldn't save you, I'm sorry." He said and pressed a kiss to her forehead; he could feel the uneasiness in Clary and feel her start to shake.
He grabbed her cheeks and looked her in the eyes and saw the answer to his unspoken question. "You shifted?" He asked she nodded her head and began to sob.
He pulled her close and rested his head on hers and felt her tremble under him, he closed his eyes and rubbed Clary's back. She pulled away and sighed as she wiped away her tears. "I'm going to train to be one of them." She whispered
"What! No Clarissa I forbid it." Luke said out of rage, Clary stepped back and watched him carefully.
"We don't have a choice, Valentine will kill you if he finds out about you, and I need to prevent them from searching here." Clary answered and looked down at her hands. "I'm going to learn how to be like them, dress like them, and even train like them." She sniffled and looked away.
"Clary you can't go back." Luke said and touched her arms lovingly.
"Actually she does, Valentine is suspicious of her and her upbringing and if she doesn't return with me. Valentine will hunt her down and most likely kill her if not worse." Jace said stepping into the door frame, Luke acted before thinking he grabbed Jace by the shoulders and pressed him up against the wall.
"Dad! Drop him, he knows about me. He was there when I shifted back." Clary said and rushed to get Jace, she pulled against Luke's arms but he wouldn't budge she could see his eyes turn to their golden state as he starred into Jace. She slapped Luke on the back and he came back by throwing her across the room, Clary stood up and howled at him, her eyes blue and her claws out.
Luke had released Jace and looked at Clary with regret in his eyes, she was still snarling at him, until she looked at Jace and instantly calmed down. Jace rubbed his shoulder and glared at Luke's back, Clary swayed where she stood and then fell to her knees.
Luke ran to her and cradled her head; Clary had blood running down her nose. Luke checked her pulse, he sighed and shook his head, and Jace looked at Luke with fear in his eyes.
"What's happening to her?" Jace said and knelt down beside them.
"Her body is confused; it can't decide whether to stay human or werewolf. When she shifted back did she faint?" Luke asked Jace, and Jace looked down at Clary's face and nodded his head.
"She looked up at the sun and then fainted." Jace said and wiped the blood off her face.
"When you first shift, you're supposed to stay a wolf for a day until the moon rises the next day. She must've only have shifted for minutes, her body is trying to shift but her mind and emotions are keeping her human." Luke said and brushed her face.
"What will happen if she doesn't shift?" Jace asked looking at Luke with concern.
"Her body will overcome her emotions and she'll break herself from the inside out." Luke said and picked Clary up and placed her on the bed.
"She can't go back with you she needs to stay and shift."Luke said and stroked Clary's cheek.
Jace watched as Luke cared over Clary, Jace looked away and shook his head trying to figure out a way to keep her there. "We can't stay here; Valentine will send Robert or my father after us. They won't hesitate to kill either of you."
"She'll lose all her emotions, she'll shift and stay rogue she won't be able to tell the difference between good and evil. She'll kill what she see's, her instinct will be hunt or be hunted." Luke said and stood up from the bed and faced Jace, Jace was watching Clary's chest raise as she took deep breaths.
"I already lost her mother to Valentine, I won't lose her to." Luke said and looked down at Jace, Jace met his stare and stepped back when he saw golden eyes staring down at him. Jace tightened his hand on his blade, but wasn't fast enough to block Luke's arm from throwing him across the room.
Luke walked over to Jace's unconscious body and hit him a few more times and even cut up his cheek making it look like he put up a fight. He walked away from Jace and picked up Clary in his arms, he carried her to the front living room where their bags were sitting.
He looked behind them to see if Jace was following, he wasn't Luke sighed with relief and took off out of the house holding Clary in his arms.
Isabelle POV
"They should be back by now; she only lived down town Brooklyn." Jonathan said as he threw a dagger at the dummy in the training room. I rolled my eyes at his impatience and threw a dagger towards him, which nicked his ear and imbedded itself into the wall behind him.
"What the hell Izzy?" Jonathan yelled putting up his fighting stance.
"Jon relax will you, this is Jace we are talking about. He's probably having sex with her right now." I said and threw another dagger at the dummy.
I watched Jon's face tighten as he thought of Jace and the girl being together, he growled which made me laugh. "Jon if you're that concerned go get your dad to end others after them." I said in response, he looked up at me and nodded his head and took off out the door.
I went back to practice my throwing stance, I heard the door creak and I positioned myself to throw dagger towards the door, I released the knife without thinking and regretted it as I saw Max standing at the door.
"MAX! By the angel what were you doing, you can't stand at the door when training is going on!" I yelled and ran towards him and fell to my knees trying to make sure I didn't hurt him.
"Izzy would you stop, you're good but your aim isn't that good." Max pushed away my hands and looked me in the eye. "I have to talk to you about that girl."
"Max don't worry about her, she's one of us." I said trying to relax his nerve about her, he just shook his head and looked behind him to make sure we were alone.
"No she's not she's different, not one mundane can split a table down the middle like she can, she ran out of the room with blood dripping down her wrists. I followed behind Jace, I know I shouldn't have but there was something about the way the talked to each other when they were in the hall way. He followed behind her and turned her around and she had bright blue eyes, like sapphire color. Izzy she's not a mundane or a shadowhunter." Max said and looked into my eyes, I knew he was telling the truth I just couldn't respond to it.
"Max, I don't know what to tell you." I said and stood up looking down at my hands. "She must have different powers then we do." I was about to kneel back down to him, but Alec ran up behind him grabbing my attention.
"We're going to get Jace and find the girl; they've been gone for too long Valentine's getting suspicious." Alec said and grabbed my arm and pulled me behind them.
I looked behind us and looked at Max, his face was sad and his eyes followed us all the way down the hallway. I turned and looked at Alec who had a concerned look in his eyes as he pulled on his jacket and handed me my jacket and a sword. "Alec something isn't right about this." I said with a whisper trying to prevent Jon from hearing me.
"I know the main thing we have to focus on is getting Jace back alive." Alec said and pulled me into a warm hug, I let go of him and nodded my head and followed behind the two boys out of the institute.
