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So, not a lot happens in this chapter, but I hope you like it :)
Skylar still felt the pull inside her, but she wasn't sure to where. She had gone all the way to Brooklyn, and she didn't know why. She was just wandering around now, unsure of her destination.
She bumped into someone. "Sorry," she said, not bothering to turn.
"Clary?"
Skylar turned to see Isabelle's boyfriend.
He smacked his forehead. "No, right, Skylar."
"Yeah," she said. "Simon, right?"
He nodded. "Yeah. What brings you to Brooklyn?"
"Um," Skylar wasn't completely sure herself, but the odd pull was gone now. "Just... needed to get away, I guess."
"Does this have anything to do with the mascara on your cheeks?"
Her eyes widened slightly. "What?" she felt at her cheeks. She hadn't even thought about how her makeup would be ruined by her tears. "Oh..."
"Are you okay?" asked Simon.
"Um... I just..." she looked down and tucked her hair behind her ear.
"Um... I don't have anything to do if you want to talk."
He looked kind, she thought, like someone you depend on. Something inside her made her want to talk to him, too, and told her she could trust him. "That'd be great, actually. Thanks."
"Ready?" asked Jace.
Alec nodded, and swiped his sword at Jace. He deflected easily, then came at him.
Brooke ran into the room. Alec was momentarily distracted, and Jace took advantage of it. He swiped his foot under Alec's legs, and he fell to the ground. Jace put his training sword to Alec's chest, then looked at Brooke. She looked concerned.
"What's up?"
"I can't find Sky."
Jace turned away from Alec and tried to ignore the twinge he felt inside. "What do you mean?"
"I mean she's gone," Brooke looked worried, and panicked. "And she left her phone in her room."
Jace set down the training sword. "Then let's look for her."
They walked into a coffee shop called 'Java Jones'. The place smelled like freshly ground coffee- a comforting smell to Skylar. It smelled like home, where she used to go to the coffee shop down the road with Adrian.
Her smile faded at the thought of Adrian. He'd broken up with her this morning because she liked her sister's boyfriend. So much for all the time she'd spent clearing her mind.
"You okay?" said Simon.
Skylar took a deep breath, and nodded.
"One black coffee, and a latte for me," said Simon.
Skylar glanced up at him. "How did you know my coffee order?"
"Lucky guess," said Simon, not looking at her.
Skylar frowned.
Simon walked over to a booth, and Sky sat across from him.
He looked up at her. He looked nervous.
Skylar tried to raise an eyebrow, but couldn't. She hated not being able to do that. "I thought vampires couldn't have coffee."
Simon shrugged. "They also can't go in the sun... Are you Clary?"
Skylar furrowed her brow. "Excuse me?"
"Are. You. Clary?" Simon asked slowly.
Skylar raised her eyebrows. "You're... No, I'm not. Why would you ask me that?"
"Because," he said. "You look like Clary, you sound like Clary, you have the same coffee order as Clary, you're in love with Jace... You're just like Clary."
Skylar blushed scarlet. "I'm not in love with Jace!"
Simon raised an eyebrow.
Skylar looked down at her lap. Was she?
"So... Can you just answer the question please?"
Skylar sighed, then looked him straight in the eye. "No. I'm not Clary Fray."
"Clary Fairchild?"
Sky shook her head. "No."
"Clary Morgenstern?"
Skylar's eyes widened. "Clary Morgenstern? Clary Fray is Clarissa Morgenstern?!"
"I guess not," said Simon.
One of the workers came over to their table. "One black coffee, and a latte," she said as she set them down.
Simon nodded at her. "Thanks."
She walked away, and Simon took a great big gulp of his steaming coffee. He winced.
"Am I really that much like Clary?" said Skylar.
Simon nodded, clearly trying to conceal the fact that he burnt his tongue.
Sky expelled a puff of air. "No wonder he..." she trailed off.
"Hm?" Simon tilted his head slightly to the side.
Skylar shook her head, and took a sip of her coffee. It was exactly how she liked it.
"I'm all ears," he said. "I can keep a secret."
Skylar gave him a small smile. "Are you sure? Mine's kind of... complicated."
"Of course," Simon took another sip of his coffee.
Skylar sighed. What the hell, she thought? "I kissed Jace."
Simon choked on his coffee, then coughed for several seconds. "Isn't Jace... Your sister's boyfriend?"
Skylar bit her bottom lip and nodded. "That's what my problem is. Brooke isn't just my sister. She's also my best friend, and parabatai. The way I've betrayed her..."
"Parabatai," said Simon. "Is that what Jace and Alec are?"
Skylar nodded. "I also had a boyfriend at the time."
Simon's eyes widened.
"Not to mention we were all in the same building when I did so."
Simon's eyes widened a little more. "... And you told your boyfriend, and he broke up with you?"
"... No," she looked at her hands clasped together in her lap. "He broke up with me because he knew I wanted to be with Jace."
"Oh..."
Sky looked up at Simon. His eyebrows were furrowed. "So let me get this straight, you had a boyfriend, then cheated on him with your sister slash parabatai slash best friend's boyfriend, then he broke up with you, but he didn't know about you kissing Jace?"
Skylar blinked. It sounded strange being said out loud like that. "... Yes, and I feel really terrible, too."
Simon nodded. "... I think I know what'll make you feel better."
"... What?"
Simon stood up. "Follow me."
"She's in Brooklyn." said Magnus, looking at the map spread out on the table.
Brooke, Jace and Alec were all putting weapons into the sheaths of their Shadowhunter gear.
"Brooklyn?" asked Brooke. "What is she doing in Brooklyn?"
Magnus shrugged. "Well, we can find her. It looks like she's fine from here, though."
Brooke nodded. "Good. Let's just make sure of that."
Skylar followed Simon into his apartment.
"My roommates are at work, so... Do you want a coffee?"
"No thanks," Skylar still wasn't sure what they were doing there. "Why exactly are we-"
"Simon, is that you?" a girl called from the other room.
"Yeah," Simone called back. "I guess they're not at work."
"What are we doing here?" Sky asked.
"Well... Do you like nightclubs?"
Simon's roommate, Maia, helped Clary get ready. She'd borrowed a black dress and ankle boots from her, and was now walking into Pandemonium with Simon.
"Clary used to love it here," he yelled over the music. "It's where she went to let loose. Wanna dance?"
Skylar shrugged. "Sure."
Simon wasn't the dancer Jace was. She remembered her first night there, when she danced with Jace. Simon, on the other hand, was kind of an awkward dancer. He bobbed around in place, and did the occasional swoop to the floor.
Skylar laughed. She felt surprisingly comfortable with Simon- like she could trust him with her life. She had no idea why, she'd never been able to trust anyone that quickly before.
They danced for hours. Simon had been right. She did feel better. The dancing made her feel free, and careless.
"Sky!"
Skylar turned to see Brooke, Isabelle, Alec and Jace all standing there in Shadowhunter gear. She stopped dancing.
"What the hell?!" said Brooke. "We've been looking for you! I was worried sick!" she didn't sound mad, just relived. Brooke was usually never mad.
"And why are you here with my boyfriend?" said Isabelle, who did look mad.
"It isn't what it looks like," said Simon. "We were just hanging out, honest."
"Maybe that was your intention," said Isabelle. "But maybe not hers."
"What?" said Sky. "I don't-"
"Isabelle," Brooke looked at her. "Sky wouldn't do that. She has a boyfriend."
Skylar exchanged a brief look with Jace, then looked away.
Brooke turned back to Sky. "But what were you doing here without your phone? We were all-"
"I just needed to get away for a while, okay?! I needed some space!"
"Needed space with Simon?!" Isabelle said accusingly.
"Isabelle-" Simon began.
"No," said Brooke. "Once again, Skylar's dating Adrian, and no offence to Simon, but I don't think he's worth cheating on Adrian."
"None taken," said Simon.
"Then why were you dancing with him?!" Isabelle was quite obviously mad.
Sky lost her cool. "ADRIAN DUMPED ME, OKAY?!"
Brooke's eyes went wide, and she took a step back. She obviously wasn't expecting this.
"And I wasn't on some rebound, I just needed a friend!" Skylar felt tear sting the back of her eyes.
Brooke still looked shocked. "Adrian... dumped you?"
Sky felt the tears spill over. She turned and ran.
"Skylar!" Brooke called from behind her. Skylar just kept running. She wanted desperately to get away- somewhere far away where none of her troubles could bother her.
She ran out the back door into the alley and froze when she saw a demon finishing off a mundane girl. He dropped her, then turned towards Sky. He had a second jaw coming out of his human one, and long claws, with blood dripping from both. Skylar gasped. She had no weapons.
The demon ran at her. She turned, and picked up a slightly bent metal broom, swung it around, and hit in in the face. It shrieked, and stumbled back, holding its face.
It looked back at her. There was a slash on its left cheek where black ichor spilled down its face. It growled, and came at her again.
She swung at it again, and it hit its second jaw. It shrieked once more, and tried to claw her. She shoved the end against its chest, and shoved it back. She stepped forward, and hit it as hard as she could against the side of its head, and it fell over.
She dropped the broom, and ran out of the alley.
Brooke burst through the back door. A demon turned away from a body on the ground. It was a girl in a black dress with long, dark blonde hair. "SKYLAR!" She screamed.
The demon came at her. She pulled out her seraph blade, and instantly sliced it in half. It fell to the ground, and coiled into itself.
Brooke ran to the body, and turned her over. It wasn't Skylar. Guilty relief flooded through her as she noticed it was a mundane.
Jace came up behind her.
"It isn't her," Brooke said, standing up. "But she's dead."
Alec came out next. "Isabelle's talking to Simon..." he trailed off when he saw the body.
"We need to find her," said Brooke.
"You two go," said Alec. "I'll... I'll take care of the body."
Brooke nodded at him, then began running down the alley.
Skylar wandered down the sidewalk. She was completely lost now, but didn't care much. All she wanted was space at this point. And to top it all off, it started to rain. Pour.
She may have been overreacting, she thought. She got dumped, big deal. She'd gotten dumped before, by her second boyfriend- she'd dumped her first and third. This was different. She loved Adrian, she never loved those other boys, and what made it worse was that Adrian broke up with her because she liked Jace.
"Found you," she heard from behind her.
She gasped and turned around. Jace was standing behind her, alone.
"You're surprisingly easy to find," he said. Something in his eyes changed, but Skylar couldn't tell what.
"Where is everyone else?" she sounded emotionless.
"We split up," he said. "Thought it'd be easier to find you that way."
Skylar sighed, and shivered. "I never asked you guys to come after me, you know. I would've come home eventually."
Jace raised an eyebrow. "You just said home."
Sky looked away.
"Look," Jace took her chin, and turned her back to face him. "If you ever need someone to talk to, than I'll listen," he released her chin.
Sky felt tears at the back of her eyes. "How was I supposed to tell you about this?" he voice broke.
"That your boyfriend broke up with you?" Skylar tried not to notice how the pouring rain made him look almost angelic.
"Jace..." tears started to roll down her face. She hoped the rain was concealing them. "Adrian broke up with me because I like you."
Jace looked taken aback by this.
Skylar looked away again. She crossed her arms and shivered.
There were a few seconds of silence, then Jace out his leather jacket around her. She probably would've refused it if she wasn't freezing and crying, but she was, so she pulled it around herself. "Thanks."
"Come on," he put his arm around her shoulders. "Let's bring you home."
Just a little fluff :)
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