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CHAPTER 9

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Clary slammed her hand down on the Lightwoods kitchen table, in front of Magnus who was eating breakfast.

Magnus looked up at her with a bored expression, "Can I help you?"

Clary was all ready for the day, her bag was swung over her shoulder, her hair up in a ponytail and her sneakers tied tight.

"Yes, You can actually. We need to go to the Clave." She said sternly, as Sam walked into the room, still in his plaid pajama pants and a t-shirt that had the name of some obscure band.

"Good morning." He said, yawning and went to sit beside Magnus. He was still half asleep. He sat down and laid his head against the table.

Magnus looked back up at Clary. "We cant go now, I haven't even finished my breakfast!" He pouted.

"We're going as soon as possible, and then we are going to find Jace after I have gotten all my answers." She huffed and pulled out the chair across the table.

"I don't think the Clave can give you all your answers Clary," Magnus said kindly, beside him Sam groaned loudly and raised his head.

"Ughphmph….." He groaned. "…for a second I truley believed I had just dreamt all of this"

Magnus snorted, "Too bad."

Just then Isabelle walked into the kitchen, wearing a pink silk nightgown and fluffy black slippers.

"Good morning!" She smiled to Clary and Magnus as she entered and walked straight for the fridge.

Sam, who was watching Isabelle the whole time, sighed "Hm, maybe this is better then a dream,"

Clary punched him in his arm and Isabelle murmured something about 'another mundane.'

"So what are you doing today?" Isabelle asked walking towards the table with her coffee in one hand.

"We are going to see the Clave today." Magnus said as Alec walked in.

"The Clave?" Alec asked as he grabbed an apple from a dish on the table.

"Yes, the Clave." Magnus said without looking up to meet his eyes. "They would like to meet Clary,"

"Oh." Alec said taking a bite of his apple.

Clary turned towards Isabelle, picking one of the many questions out of her mind to ask her friend.

"Isabelle?" Clary hesitated, Isabelle looked up from her coffee

"Yeah?"

"Where was the last place you saw Jace?"

Isabelle was taken aback by the question, and she nearly chocked on the coffee that had been in her mouth at the time.

"Why do you ask?" she said, everyone had gone quiet.

"I want to find him." Clary replied determined, if there was one thing she was going to do it was find her brother.

"Clary," Isabelle said calmly, her eyes infinitely sad. "I support your decision behind finding him, of course I do but… he's changed Clary." She sighed, "If you found him, I don't know how he'd react."

Clary was silent as Magnus stood up from his chair, "You want to go? Lets go to see the Clave."

Clary gasped, "Now?"

"Well, yes now."

Clary stood up and Sam ran to get changed. 10 minutes later they were out the door without a single word from Isabelle or Alec.

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"You ready?" Magnus asked Clary, she was distracted by the many thoughts passing through her mind at 100 miles per hour.

She only nodded.

They were walking down the long endless hall of one of the tall buildings downtown. Clary couldn't remember which one because she couldn't pay enough attention to care.

She was extremely nervous.

A man with dark black hair and not so friendly expression was leading them to the court of the Clave. He was walking further ahead of them, his long black cape flying behind him as he walked. Sam was hesitantly walking behind Clary and Magnus.

Their feet clacked against the hard marble floor as they turned the corner to a big door and the dark haired man turned to meet her anxious gaze.

"You can enter here," He mumbled, and walked away from them as they stood outside the door.

"Open it Clary," Sam said softly behind her and she put one hand on the door and pushed.

The room on the other side of the door was large and circular. It had a long table that stretch around the room, with sets of chairs. Clary just noticed the people in those chairs.

"Come in," One of the people called. Clary gulped and stepped forward, Magnus trailing behind her.

"You must be Clarissa Fairchild." A man with grey hair said, he was sitting right in front of her.

"Yes," Magnus spoke from behind Clary, "This is Clarissa, daughter of Jocelyn Fairchild."

The man nodded. "Valentine is your father?"

"Valentine is now destroyed, your honour. Clarissa had nothing to do with her father until his death."

"Who was it, who helped you destroy Valentine Clarissa?" The man asked, his glass eyes staring into Clarys nervous ones.

"It was-"Magnus began to say before the grey haired man raised one hand to him and said "I asked Clarissa."

Clary tried to remember, "It was… uh… Me, Magnus… Alec Isabelle and…..Simon? And Uh……" She couldn't remember.

"Why so hesitant Clarissa?" She knew he doubted the fact she killed valentine, but she couldn't remember.

Clary looked at Magnus, who had his mouth shut tight and shook his head.

"Well, Sir. I actually cannot remember…" She said quietly, a women sitting on the other side of Clary snorted, but she didn't have time to turn around to see who it was.

The man's eyebrows shot up. "Is that so?"

"Yes, Sir, well… There's a reason I can't remember, and that's because after I defeated Valentine my mother awakened…." Clary tried to remember the story Magnus and Alec had explained to her. "…And she…didn't want me to be apart of this world, and so she got Magnus to erase my memory, and she took me back to New York."

The man said nothing, but looked at the other man with dark hair sitting beside him and whispered something.

Clary looked back at Magnus who smiled, Sam was looking rather unexcited.

"Well I see Clarissa, but may I ask if you recall a Lucian Greymark occupying you on destroying Valentine?"

Clary froze for a second; something made her heart accelerate "Uh…"

"Yes," Magnus cut in. "Lucian was present at that time."

The man nodded. "And how about Jonathon Christopher Morgenstern?"

Clarys heart skipped a beat. "Yes,"

The man nodded once again and whispered something to the man beside him.

"Thank you very much Clarissa Fairchild for coming. You have given us all the information we needed to know, and you may exit the court."

Clary was surprised; she thought they were going to have a lot more answers for her.

She was silent as she walked passed Magnus and Sam towards the large door before exiting the room.

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This time, they didn't have an escort out of the large building. And Magnus, Clary and Sam were standing in front of 4 long quite hallways.

"How do we get out of here?" Clary asked looking at Magnus.

"I'm not sure," He replied looking at the choices of direction.

Behind them Sam muttered, "Well can't you just snap your fingers and fly us out of here?"

Magnus snorted, "My powers are limited in Idris, Mundane."

"Well, what do we have to lose? Let's go this way." Clary pointed to one, and Magnus sighed as they began to walk forward.

As they walked Clary picked some more question out of her mind to ask Magnus.

She asked Magnus about her mother and how they knew each other, she asked about her old life, and she asked about her memories.

And in the end every question seemed to revolve around Jace.

"How did we act around each other?" Clary asked smiling.

"He loved you."

Clary was silent. She had ruined everything for everyone when she left.

Clary was caught up in her own thoughts and didn't realize that they had reached the end of the hallway.

"Great," Magnus mumbled, Clary looked around and spotted a door.

"What about that?"

"I don't know where that goes." Magnus said, Clary walked forward and turned the doorknob, which revealed total blackness and a set of rickety stairs that went down.

Clary couldn't help but let her curiosity get the most of her and she found herself walking down the dark stairs.

"Clary !" Sam called behind her, she stopped and turned around.

"Come with me you chicken!" She laughed and Sam sighed and walked towards the stairs, Magnus following.

Sam searched in his pocket and found a pack of unused matches and set one for light.

At the bottom of the stairs, the floor was dirty. Clary believed that they were no longer inside the building. It was too damp and too cold, And somewhere in the distance she could here something.

"Where are we?" Sam asked, holding the match up revealing the long tunnel that had bars on either side.

"We're under ground, I think."

Just then, in the distance a sound echoed through the walls. It was a bloodcurdling scream, which sounded as if someone was dying.

"I think we are in the prison."

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Sorry guys, i do not know what the Clave is like and i know I'm rushing through it abit but youll like the next chapter i promise. REVIEW!