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Nora entered the Faerie's room warily. The whole room looked like it did before, peach-colored walls, wide windows with red curtains, and the bed seemed untouched. On the armchair though, the one in the corner, sat the fairy doppelganger. His hair was a bit ruffled, his lip's corner was cut. He didn't look like a psychotic murderer that tried to kill her friends - on the contrary, he seemed so innocent, so broken.

"You're that bloodsucker."

Aaand the pity's gone.

"Uh huh. And you're that crazie."

"I'm not crazy."

"That's not for you to decide." Nora crossed the room. She sat on the bed, facing the fairy. "My name's Nora."

"I know who you are." his eyes never left hers. "I was planning to take you after the attack."

"But why?" Nora leaned forward. "Why all of this? What will you achieve from killing us? I mean, I don't like that I'm in this mess either, but they are my friends, my family, and I don't go around murdering them."

"You won't understand, as you are a petty copy of my sister."

"Your sister? The other female doppelganger, that escaped?" Nora narrowed her eyes. "You consider her your sister, but we are your targets?" she leaned forward. "Were you dropped as a baby?"

The fairy said nothing.

Nora leaned back, though she was plainly irritated by his lack of cooperation.

"You're not leaving this room until you talk to me. Help me understand you. Help me help you. Your sister..." Nora looked away. "She fled. She's not coming back. She's not saving you. So you can either rot here... or talk to me."

"She didn't leave me." he said fiercely. "She saved herself so she could come back the other time."

"If she truly cared for you as a brother... she would've stayed to the very end. It doesn't matter what end it is, you don't leave your siblings behind." Nora's eyes met his. "But we... we never abandon our own."

The fairy looked as if he was having mixed thoughts. Nora noticed how he would look away, at the ceiling for example, and frown. He would also seemed to have a habit of scratching his arms, as if he was cold. But he wasn't, Mercer's place was like a sauna.

The fairy seemed very much so broken emotionally and psychologically.

"What do you want of me?" he finally whispered.

"Your name." Nora smiled. "Let's start with the name."

"Fall." he gulped. "Fall from Seelie Court."

"Okay. Fall. What about your sister?"

"Faye. Also Seelie Court."

"Good. See, we're talking."Nora said as if Fall was a child. "Can I see your right hand?"

Fall visibly stiffened.

"Relax, I won't hurt you. You have my word."

He reluctantly gave her his hand. Nora gently pushed back his sleeve. There, around his wrist, was a pattern of stars.

"It's a Morgenstern symbol. Did you know that?" Fall nodded. "Then why do you have it?"

"He wanted to mark his warriors."

Nora looked surprised.

"But you are a fairy. Why are you working with a Shadowhunter? And out of all of them, the guy that wants to burn down the world?"

"I want gone. We both want gone." Fall started rocking back and forth. "He can give us that. Only he."

"Gone? So you want to die?" Nora almost fell bad for interrogating him. He was so broken.

"Not just that. Gone. No copies."

"Doppelgangers." Nora took a deep breath. "You want to destroy us all. But why? We will keep reborning. You can't stop it, and I don't see the reason behind it."

"The Circle!" Fall cried out. He looked like he was having trouble realizing what was happening around him. He looked like he was starting to have a seizure. "Broken. Gone. No copies." he stood up, and Nora followed. "I need..."

He fell to the ground. Nora managed to catch him.

Fall was whimpering, and muttering strange words.

Nora gently stroked his hair out of his face.

"What happened to you, Fall?"

"Are you smelling my shirt?"

"Yeah. What kind of perfume is this?" Mercer said lifting his head from a blue T-Shirt.

Alec watched Sebastian and Mercer with an incredulous expression.

While they both started arguing, Alec tilted his head. Just... what was that sound? As if a stick was making patterns on paper. Alec turned to the window and slowly turned the curtain. He didn't see anything out of the ordinary in the street.

Then he saw it.

The bit of red, red like blood, and red like... Endarkened.

"GET DOWN NOW!" Alec shouted.

The room suddenly exploded to bits and pieces. The window shattered glass flying everywhere, the door becoming a pile of toothpicks.

Alec saw Sebastian draw something from behind the closet. Two Seraph Blades.

Sebastian threw one to Alec just in time, because the Endarkened had already started to pouring into the room.

The fight broke in.

Differently from Shadowhunters, Mercer didn't fight. His hands flashed blue, he started chanting. He was creating a portal.

"They'll just follow us through!" Alec shouted.

"No, only we can pass!" Mercer retorted, irritated.

Alec was fighting two Endarkened at once. Johnathan maybe wanted them alive, but it doesn't matter they can't injure them severely.

Even though in the middle of the fight, Alec couldn't help, but feel more alive then ever. He had missed the rush of the battle, the Seraph Blade in his hands, slashing, blocking. He remembered his training with Jace and Isabelle, how they all planned different battle strategies, helped each other learn. Alec defeated both Endarkend and turned to help Sebastian.

Even though he was having everything under control.

Sebastian was obviously well-trained. He used not only his Seraph Blade as a weapon, but also his surroundings. He literally threw a lamp at one Endarkened, and he fell to the ground, not moving.

Mercer finally finished, just when more Endarkened poured into the small room.

"Come, NOW!"

Three Doppelgangers ran through the portal, and it vanished.

Clary watched Jace pacing around the Institute library. She already had a headache, and he wasn't helping.

"Would you just stop? Just call him and be done with it." Clary told him, annoyed.

Thankfully he stopped pacing.

"What about Jordan? Did Simon call you? What did he say?"

"I already told you." Clary rolled her eyes. "Jordan's working on it. Meanwhile, all you do is just pacing around, ignoring me."

Jace stood in front of her, with closed eyes and took a deep breath.

"You're right. I just... we were never parted like this before. Doesn't he feel it? We're parabatai. We mustn't be parted. This whole thing is ridiculous."

"I know." she took his hands. "I know, but it's not forever. You'll see him again. And-" she gasped and clutched her head.

"Clary? Clary!" Jace was kneeling in front of her.

"I-" she slowly put her hands down. "It happened again."

"What happened? Tell me, what's happening."

"It's just... a rune. Somehow, I keep seeing this one rune, yet I can't say what it does. What's it for... I just don't know."

"How does it look like?"

"It's like... a sword. With wings. I'm not sure." Clary sighed. "It doesn't matter now. What matters, is Alec. We need to find him before the Clave decides we need to go to Idris. What's up with that, anyway?"

"The Clave thinks, that Sebastian is creating an army. Then he'll attack. They want all Nephilim in Idris in two weeks. But... I'm not going anywhere. Not without Alec."

"I know." Clary smiled gently. "That's why you will call him, tell him what you've found out, and talk to him."

"You know I love you, right?"

"Well, duh." she laughed.

Jace joined in, and the whole atmosphere in the Institute seemed to lighten up a bit.

Sean, Caroline and Nora saw three identical men fall from the portal in the middle of the living room. One of them was an idiotic warlock, another was a Cemetery Flag, and the other was Sebastian Verlac with his pale white hair.

Mercer got up groaning.

"Did you had to fall right on top of me?"

"There were a bunch of fast, strong, crazy assholes behind us, I wasn't exactly looking." Sebastian retorted.

And coughed. He seemed to have a coughing fit, and Alec tried to steady him.

"Seriously? Could you at least try to miss the carpet?" Mercer said looking at the blood.

Sebastian just glared at him.

"Sebastian... your hair" Alec said, staring.

"Yeah, yeah it's God's gift to mankind."

"No, I mean... it's totally white."

Sebastian glanced at the mirror on the wall.

"Oh well. I'm still hotter then you."

Mercer snorted and turned to three doppelgangers that were watching this exchange with wide eyes.

"What the hell happened to you?" Sean asked.

"Meh, Morgenstern wanted a piece of us, and he got some." Mercer grinned.

"Johnathan attacked you?" Nora asked with an unreadable expression.

"Well actually a bunch of his redwines, but it doesn't matter. We totally kicked their ass." Sebastian responded with a cat-like smirk. "I'm Sebastian."

"Oh huh, whatever. Mercer, what the-" Nora dismissed Sebastian's presence and followed Mercer out of the room. They could hear them arguing about something.

"Oh-kay..." said Alec looking slightly awkward. "And this is Sean and Caroline."

"Nice to meet you, but I gotta go." said Sean looking at his watch. "I've got to get Maggie from Sarah now, or she'll kill me."

"Which one?" Caroline asked with a smirk.

"Both." Sean flashed a smile and went through the door.

The second Sean reached Sarah's house, he knew something was wrong. The door was unlocked, slightly ajar.

Sean slowly pushed the door open.

"Sarah? Maggie?" he called out, dread creeping up on him.

The lights were off, and when Sean tried to turn them off, they just sparked a bit and went dead again.

Using a light from his phone he passed the hall and came up to the living room.

His phone fell to the floor.

Blood - blood was everywhere. The table, the floor, even the curtains. In the middle of the room laid a lifeless body.

"Sarah..?" Sean whispered. "Maggie!" he once again called out, but he was walking towards Sarah. She was slashed with what seemed like knife or a blade, her blond hair drenched in blood.

Sean broke out with a cry. He knew that Maggie wasn't here, he felt it. He gently turned Sarah to himself.

Sean sobbed, helplessly trying to hold her body like a lifeline. On the wall, like a taunting sign, was written in blood... VENI.

I have come.

No one heard from Maggie the following day. When the police arrived, they started asking questions, and Sean answered all of them, even though he knew where his daughter was.

He just felt helpless and numb.

Sarah's funeral was late in the evening, so all Doppelgangers, including Nora, came. They were all glamoured.

They said nothing to Sean. No 'Sorry for your loss'. They were just there, knowing how he felt, there for him.

When finally they were all in the cemetery, the chorus started, and Sean stood still, tears on his face.

There are loved ones in the glory,
Whose dear forms you often miss;
When you close your earthly story,
Will you join them in their bliss?

Nora and Caroline both took Sean's hands.

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Is a better home awaiting
In the sky, in the sky?

The casket was led to the ground.

In the joyous days of childhood,
Oft they told of wondrous love,
Pointed to the dying Saviour;
Now they dwell with Him above.

Mercer put his hand on Sean's shoulder.

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Is a better home awaiting
In the sky, in the sky?

Sean finally broke down and was embraced by Caroline.

You remember songs of heaven
Which you sang with childish voice,
Do you love the hymns they taught you,
Or are songs of earth your choice?

Nora took Mercer's hand.

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, by and by?
Is a better home awaiting
In the sky, in the sky?

They were just there.