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JACEs POV

I'll admit, Clary is being wild, spontaneous, and a helluva lot of fun, much to my surprise. Although after seeing her brother heading our way, she made herself scarce causing me to lose sight of her for awhile. Well it may have only been a few minutes, but it feels much longer when your panicking; I did however find her, back at the shots table, cheering on along with the crowd as the body shots were being taken. In her hands she held another two shots.

"Need some help?" I offer.

"Hold this!" She hands me one and takes the other, using her lime slice to chase it down. Before I can stop her she snatches the second one taking it right away.

"What is all this?" I gesture to the next two she grabs from the guys playing bartender.

"Loosening up, partying hard, or as everyone so gradually states-gettin trashed! Isn't this what you're suppose to do?" She says sarcastically as ever.

"No. I think you should be doing what YOU want to do. Not what everyone else is!" I shout over the music. I'm suddenly confused with her change of character and right when I'm about to ask her about it she begins walking past me.

"That's funny, you must be the only one then!" She pounds another shot but hands the second off to a passerby.

We head in the direction opposite of the dancing when she suddenly freezes. I take her hand in mine in case it's Jon and she attempts to evade him again, although following her gaze, I spot Izzy and Sebastian. Izzys looking to her left listening to a Barbie doll looking chick, talk away animatedly. Sebastian who is on her right, has his arm thrown over her shoulder, but staring directly at Clary with an evil ass smile painted on his face. He gestures to Izzy and mouths 'look who found me' to clary, who I can see is steaming with anger.

She narrows her eyes at him, and heads us back towards where everyone is dancing. I take one last look towards Sebastian and he's now looking right at me giving me a thumbs up. What the hell has gone on between these two, I wonder as clary yanks on my hand pulling me further onto the dance floor. Holding her hand felt so comforting natural that I almost forgot we were even doing it.

She lets go a second too soon and the next thing I know she's atop the dining table dancing by herself. And if this were any other person, in any other place, I'd be very intrigued. But this is clary, and yes it's a very attractive sight, but it's just not her or who she is; something's amiss and I want to know what that could be. The crowd starts to surround the show she's giving and a few other girls join her on the table.

"Goddammit clary!" I say at the same time as someone next to me. None other than Jonathan morgenstern, is standing to my right fuming at the sight in front of him before turning his hard stare to me.

"Who are you?" He eyes me skeptically.

"Jace Herondale, clarys date, you?!" I decide to go for the 'playing it dumb' card. Everyone knows clary not only had a brother, but a twin at that.

"Her brother." We give eacother a once over, and turn back toward Clary just in time to watch her sway dizzily and begin to fall. I rush over to her, catching her just as she drops off the edge, and the crowd roars drunkenly, probably assuming it's part of the show. I give a couple short bows as I carry her out the front door with her brother hot on my heels.

"Where the hell do you think you're going?"

"Some fresh air will probably do her good, maybe even some water, and I do believe it's time for her to go home."

"And what, I'm supposed to just trust you? To take care of all of that? To take care of her? I don't even know you!"

"Hey, I'm the one who's kept an eye on her the entire night!"

"And you did so well!" He yells pointing at her sleeping figure.

"I can't control her actions! Hell, I wouldn't want to! She's not some mindless robot, she's a human being! And she's not some helpless child, and should be able to make the decisions she wants to make. Yeah so she drank a bit too much, but she was smiling and laughing almost all night! And I made sure that she's kept her clothes on as opposed to half the drunken bastards in there and most importantly I kept her safe! While you lost her in the crowd and didn't even catch up to her until she was wasted dancing on a table top above everyone's head! And how long did that take u?! How long did it take for you to wonder around not being able to find where she's at when all along, she's being the life of the party!"

He stared at me for what felt like an eternity before finally breaking eye contact and clearing his throat.

"Thank you."

"For?"

"Reminding me that she's a person, who I shouldn't be trying to control," he rubs his neck nervously before continuing. "Look, I know you're going out with her so Izzy can have fun too, but-"

"What?"

"Magnus."

"Oh." How much did he know?

"I was complaining about how out of hand this pact alec and I had. Alec is really just taking advantage of my sisters anti social personality to keep Izzy locked up. Magz said he was friends with you and that you've somewhat shown a slight interest in clary. He asked if I'd be okay with you possibly asking her out, you know, this way Izzy could get a little bit of freedom too. I thought it was absurd because even if you showed interest, that didn't mean you'd want to ask her out. Plus I didn't think she'd ACTUALLY go on a date with you even if I paid her!" That last part stung a little, knowing, on my part, that that's what initially started this whole thing.

"She's just full of surprises, isn't she?"

"Just, get her home safely okay?"

"I need to find Izzy too, 12 am curfew. They came together, they leave together," I stated. He looks at me, apparently impressed that I'm not some irresponsible rebellious no good about to take off with his sister, and nods appreciatively. He glances at his watch and suddenly we hear sirens in the distance, and watch as red and blue lights make their way up he street, a couple miles away.

"Shit! Look. Just take her home, park in the driveway and wait until Izzy walks up to the car. I'll make sure she knows to do that, this way they walk in together. Got it?"

I just nod, trying to process what's happening and very thankful I parked, not only in the opposite direction, but on a side street. The music is suddenly cut and I hear someone, probably Jon, shout five-oh as Im turning the corner, with clary who's still passed out, in my arms. I pull up to her house no less than ten minutes later making sure I'd only taken the back roads. I made sure I had the head lights off and kill the engine. She stirs slightly behind me, but stays asleep.