Clary had pulled Lily and Maia away from the crowds to talk.

"Please make sure that your people keep to themselves. We don't need anyone starting an all out war over this."

"Vampires won't do anything but defend themselves if needed. If we had killed a werewolf we wouldn't have left the body in our territory." Lily held her head up high.

"I'll speak to my pack. But try and make it fast Clary, they won't keep to themselves long when it's one of our own."

"I know Maia. What can you tell me?"

"Kevin Foster. He was 17 and a loner. I don't think he has a family and he was bitten in a dark alley. Christy found him and brought him to Luke."

"Ok thanks. I'll keep you posted as I learn things."

She spotted Magnus and Jace talking together. Walking over she aught the end of a conversation, " Doesn't it seem familiar?" Jace was asking.

"Do you know how many dead bodies I've seem over the years? I can't be expected to recall all of them at any moment."

"You think this is familiar Jace? Where is Alec? Wouldn't he have been with you?"

"The babysitter called and he had to go." Jace replied. "He might remember but it might be easier to go to the institute and look at the database."

" Should we go then?"

" Yeah. See you later magnus."

They spent the next several hours in the library looking for similar deaths and doing research on Kevin Foster. Clary was glad she had smuggled a computer into the institute. Simon had learned how to hack into several databases, so they were able to look through New York's legal papers on Kevin. He was an orphan, his parents were killed in a robbery gone bad a year ago. He'd run away from a foster home 2 months in and didn't have any records since then. Clary had even called her dad, Luke, to ask him about Kevin. He only could tell her was that he'd been brought to him in bad shape never spoke much.

Clary left Jace in the library and went to her office to finish the requisition paperwork she had tried to do ours before. By the time she was done her eyes were confusing number with letters. Leaving it on her desk to double check in the morning she left the office seeking a nice warm bath. It had been a long day. Clary had gotten up at 7am to train, had her morning meeting with Jace at 9, the next several hours had been running around making sure everyone was working on something and that the ballroom redecoration was on schedule. It took her a half an hour to inventory the weapons room and thats when the call had come in about the body.

As soon as she shut the door to her room, she started taking her gear off. Turning on the water to almost scolding she put some lavender epsom salts into the water. Crawling in she sighed. She could feel the tension leave her body. This was her 'me' time. All too soon the water began to cool and she used the remaining warmth to wash. When she got to her right inner thigh she paused. The birth control rune was gone.

To be continued

Thank you soo much for the review reppinda5o3! Thank you all for your patience. It's been an interesting few months. But I promise I'm always thinking of new things for the story and am trying to sit down and write when i can.