Sorry its a really short chapter but there is a lot of explaining. Please review!
What?!"I all but scream, "How is that possible? They consider me an abomination!"
"It makes perfect sense, Xandria. I can tell you, because I was there for all of it." answers Will, "You were a project, an experiment."
"Why? I just don't understand. You are a shadowhunter and you were deprived of you know...death?! Why would they do that to a "brother"?"
"The clave is strange, but I think they wanted to make a 'super weapon'. After seeing what Mortmain did with the demon souls, the Clave began to wonder if they could do it with Shadowhunter souls, make shadowhunters essentially immortal."
The park begins to shake, "So I'm a failed experiment?!" I feel anger bubbling up inside me.
"Not failed. You were very good at your job, however you developed the concept of 'free will' and escaped. In other words, they lost you." Will says.
"They controlled me, made me do their work and erased my memories?"
Buildings around us are starting to crumble as I get angrier.
"You are programmed to reset every few years, your last one was seven years ago. They give you preset false memories of your childhood."
"Why would they do that?"
"Keep you suggestible, like inserting a clave member as a friend or family member."
"And now that they've found me?" I ask, afraid of the answer.
"You will be reset entirely, I will be kept in a nice little jar on a shelf, miserable of course. And you will be a slave again."
"I have to leave." I say as it dawns on me.
"I and all the other souls within you agree. Leave tomorrow, get food, clothes and money, but only what you need."
I wake up with a start. I'm in a bed, with a seriously stiff neck. The light in the room is blinding me, as if I haven't seen light in days.
How long was I out? I ask myself.
Ehh, about four days, we had a long complicated conversation. Now get going. Will replies unexpectedly.
I go to get out of bed to hit a hand, firmly locking me in place. I begin to panic, thinking the Clave has already found me, but in reality its Jace.
"So who wouldn't go away?" he asks, and he actually seems sincere.
"No one, maybe it was you?" I say in a chilling voice, "Now let me up."
"Not until you answer."
"Mickey Mouse, that bastard is really annoying."
Just tell him. You make my head want to explode.
Jace gives me a strange look as I react to what Will said.
"William Herondale." I say quickly.
"Don't lie to me, Will Herondale is long dead."
"Will?" I plea with Will to prove it. He doesn't come.
"Do you know the story of the Infernal Devices?" I ask.
"Yeah, its basically a truthful legend."
"I'm on of those. And they run on souls, I just so happen to be the accumulation of several, one of which being Will Herondale."
The pattern of conversation goes like the first one with Will, him denying and me explaining. But eventually we get on the same page.
"So the clave is hunting you? And you need to leave?"
"Yes, so if you would let me go?" I ask.
"yeah sure, If you need anything, let me know."
I run to my room grabbing what few clothes I have and all the cash I have, shove them in a back pack and head downstairs. In the kitchen I grab all the canned food I can, and packs of chips, generally things that will last. I grab my coat and say my final goodbye to the Institute and... I run straight into Tessa.
"Is Will really in there?" she asks with tears in her eyes.
"Yeah, he says...hi?"