A/N: SPOILER ALERT: No relationship is perfect. Just saying.

Jocelyn

Nero looked around the stone entryway. We had barely enough light to see by. "Do you have a witchlight?" He asked me. I pulled one out of my pocket and handed it to him. He lit it and held it up.

"Renwick was a medieval fan." I said and set off down the stone corridor. Nero walked close behind me. We almost ran up the winding staircase. Clary and Luke were looking into rooms one by one.

Clary let out a little squeal and Luke grabbed her. "Be careful." Nero and I walked up to them. Clary's mom lay in a four poster bed with one arm hanging off the edge of the bed. At closer inspection I noticed the silver chains linked to each of her pale limbs and the array of chemical flasks on the table next to her.

"Oh shit." I said. Luke and Clary both looked pained. Clary dashed to her mother's side and Luke followed slowly. Nero touched my shoulder and raised an eyebrow. I frowned softly and headed further down the hallway.

A small noise caught my attention and I spun around. Sammra, with surprise in her cat eyes, stood there. I noticed the soft blue glow of a portal behind her. "How did you manage to portal to us?" I asked.

Nero held up his phone. He had taken a picture of the hall and sent it to her. "Come on you two." We quietly walked on down the hall. My shoe squeaked and I flinched. I dropped to my knees and carved a silence rune into my ankle and then into Nero's. I pulled a bracelet out of my bag and drew the rune on it too.

"Here." I handed it to Sammra. "Put it around your ankle." She did and we were all silent.

Nero nodded. "Ingenious." I smiled and we continued on. After a moment Nero pushed us both against the wall and we all stilled. Two men were headed our way. "Do something." Nero sounded panicked.

Sammra cast a quick spell and said, "Stay as still as possible." We obeyed and the men walked right passed us. It was Pangborn and Blackwell.

I gasped and followed them. I was a little ways back so I couldn't hear what they said to Clary and Luke but I did see Blackwell fall into the hall with a scalpel skittering across the floor. His throat was cut. "Go, Uncle Luke." I muttered. It seemed like they were fine so I hurried back to Nero and Sammra.

Sammra had her face buried in his chest and he held her tightly. My emotions spiked and I stalked past them. Neither one seemed to see me which made it worse. I scaled a softly curved staircase and came into another long hallway. These doors were actually open.

The first one had the person I was looking for in it. He stood looking down at the battle. I made a strangled noise and he turned. "Amy?"

"Jace…" I stepped into the room. He wore new clothes and was all cleaned up. I had a bad feeling about this.

He came up to me. "What are you doing here?" He asked. "How did you get here?"

I pointed at the empty doorway behind me. "I…" I blanked. How had I got there? The sight of my brother had made me completely forget. "I came with my uncle."

Jace arched his eyebrows. I must not have ever told him because he said. "Who are you related to?"

"Luke." I said. "Clary's mom's friend." He nodded slowly.

A noise sounded behind me and I spun to see Clary. She pushed past me and stopped in front of Jace. Nero and Sammra were behind her. My eyes narrowed and I turned back to my brother.

Jace looked upset. "Clary, you have to get out of here. There's been a mistake."

"What you kidnapped yourself?" She asked. He gave her a heartbroken look. "Your clothes." She seemed to just now realize what I already had. "They're clean and you're all bandaged up. Valentine seems to be taking good care of you."

I didn't want to hear what the reason was so I turned and walked back into the hall. A man was headed our way so I grabbed Sammra's hand and took off back down the stairs. Nero was close behind us.

A wail filled the hall and I knew what had happened. I felt it in my bones and froze in place. "My poor brother…" He thought he was Valentine's son. I hit my knees on the stairs and sat there through Sammra and Nero trying to get me up and out of the way.

Luke bound up the stairs. "Amy!" He exclaimed. "What happened?"

I turned toward him. "That monster brain washed my brother…" Was all I said. Luke hurried up the stairs and into the room with Jace and Clary and that man, which I assumed was Valentine.

It took me a minute to get up and follow my uncle. He lay crumpled on the ground with Clary curled around him. Jace had a kindjal in his hand and was watching the blade in Valentine's come down at Clary.

"Throw it!" I hissed. I must have shocked him into action because he threw the blade and struck the black sword out of Valentine's hands.

"Father, I…" Jace began.

Valentine was looking at the blood running from his hand. "That was a nice throw, Jace."

"But your hand. I just thought…"

"I would never have hurt your sister." He said with a smile.

I stepped into the room. "Yes you would." I growled. "You just wouldn't hurt your own daughter." Clary was glaring up at Valentine.

"I need a bandage." She said. "Some cloth, anything."

Valentine's glare on me didn't miss Jace's movement. "Don't move, Jonathan." His voice was steely. "Clarissa, this man is an enemy of our family, an enemy of the Clave. We are hunters, and that means sometimes we are killers."

I snapped and threw myself at Valentine. Nero and Sammra rushed to Luke. I hit Valentine with full force and knocked him over. "Luke is not a murder. You are." I hissed and promptly broke his nose.

Clary was at my side in an instant. "You murdered your wife's parents, not in battle but in cold blood," She said, "And I bet you murdered Michael Wayland and his little boy, too. Threw their bones in with my grandparents' so that my mother would think that you and Jace were dead. Put your necklace around Michael Wayland's neck before you burned him so everyone would think those bones were yours. After all your talk about the untainted blood of the Clave—you don't care at all about their blood or their innocence when you killed them, did you? Slaughtering old people and children in cold blood, that's monstrous."

Valentine shoved me off and my head bounced off the wall. The world went dark after that. When I woke back up Sammra and Nero were sitting next to the hospital bed I was in. I blinked. "What happened?"

Sammra smiled tiredly. "Valentine tried to kill Luke and Jace saved him and made Valentine leave."

"They had an interesting you-prefer-demons-to-family discussion." Nero remarked. "Jace sided with Luke over Valentine. Then Luke requested to be taken to Idris for the Cup."

"Alaric showed up and saved Luke from a butterfly knife to the chest and then Valentine shattered the Portal." Sammra said with a shrug.

I sat up and rubbed my head. "Valentine is strong." I said. "I bet only the Angel could kill him." Nero snorted and tried to touch my hand. I let him trail his fingers across my skin before pulling away. "Where's Clary?"

"Right here." She said from the door. Luke stood behind her. "I have one question for you."

I nodded. I knew what she was going to ask about. "Okay." She sat in Nero's chair as he offered it to her.

Nero and Sammra waved. "We're going to go check on Alec." I nodded and they left.

Clary looked at Luke. He sat on the edge of my bed. A woman with bluish skin looked in on us. I smiled at her and she smiled back. "What did you mean when you said he would hurt Jace's sister but not his own daughter?"

Luke squeezed my leg and nodded. "She needs to know before she does something to hurt herself."

I looked directly at Clary. "You can't tell Jace." She nodded. "Jace is my half-brother."

"How?"

Luke smirked. "My sister, Amatis, is Amy's mother but she and Jace share a father." He told her. "He was a good man and I regret that he died." I nodded slowly.

A/N: I'm so, so sorry! I didn't mean to take this long to update but here you go. Shorter than I would have hoped but it ends City of Bones.