My mind has been consumed with worry over the Mortal Cup ever since we got out of the tunnels; Clary keeps fiddling around, taking it in and out of the tarot card. Ever time she put it in a piece of my heart feels like it's being ripped out, she won't let me anywhere near it.

I go watch the monitors with Alec, reassuring him that none of the Downworlders can get in to the Institute without an invite from a Shadowhunter.

Alec suggests the Cup should go to the Clave, Izzy agrees with him. However Jace and Clary think it should stay here. They all look at me.

"Well, what do you think?" Alec asks.

I shake my head. "I don't know and I don't honestly care, but wherever it goes, I go." I step towards Clary. "Could I see it? Out of the card?"

Clary pulls the Cup out and hands it too me. A sense of extreme happiness washes over me and I hear Clary gasp as a beautiful white glow surrounds me. "I think it stays here. At least for now." I murmur, handing it back to Clary.

"I promise you, that monster will not get his hands on it." Clary says stoically.

Jace looks at Alec and then to me. "There you go, you have her word."

Alec takes Clary away to put it somewhere safe and I go lean on Jace. I push away from him when I get a phone call, from Raphael?

"Hello?"

"Elliot, I'm coming to the Institute."

"What? Why?" I'm suddenly very worried. "What happened?"

"The mundane came back to the hotel."

My eyes open wide and I hang up, watching a red circle on the monitor come closer to the Institute. Alarms start blaring and I race outside. The others calling for me to slow down. I don't even bother bringing a weapon with me. As we get to the perimeter lines, I run straight through.

"Elliot! Get back here now!" I hear Alec yell, not bothering to pay attention.

"What the hell is wrong with her now?" Jace mutters to the team.

I run right to Raphael and take Simon from him, "Thank you for bringing him here."

I bring Simon over to Clary. "What do you want to do with him?"

"We'll take him to the basement." Alec suggests. Clary can only nod in agreement.

-/-

"Clary, you can't let him turn. His whole life will be changed. Forever." I try to deter her from changing him.

"He has to be buried tonight, or a stake through the heart." Raphael tells her.

"And if I do neither?"

"His soul will be trapped in his body for eternity." I tell her solemnly.

She looks down at Simon and begins to cry. Trying to imagine her friend as a vampire.

-/-

Alec, Izzy and I walk into Robert's office. We all sit down on the couch in front of the desk. Perfect posture with our blank faces on.

"No surprise Jace isn't here." Robert breaks the silence.

"He got held up, said to start without him." Izzy defends her brother.

Robert looks at each one of us individually. "Your mother and I," Maryse gives him an upset look. "Okay, I requested a meeting with the Clave to inform them that the seelies are siding with Valentine."

"And the Clave denied it." Maryse says, her head held high.

"What'd you mean? They don't want you coming to Idris?" Alec asks them.

"There are rumours about the Shadowhunters interfering in Downworld affairs. But you three wouldn't know anything about that, right?" Maryse asks, already knowing the answer.

I look at my feet, breaking my stony look. We all shake our heads. "No." We say simultaneously.

Maryse isn't done yet. "Since all this happened here, they're concerned with our devotion to the job and our cause."

Iz looks confused. "But we're the Lightwoods."

"Remember, the honour isn't in the name, it's in the deed." Robert points out. "The Clave is sending an envoy."

"They're coming to observe us."

"And gather information about Valentine to report back." Robert continues.

Maryse interrupts him. "But really to scrutinize our leadership, so I beg of the three of you, don't do anything that would cause the Clave to lose all trust in us."

The three of us look at each other but stay silent. "Oh, and Elliot?"

"Yes?" I ask Maryse and Robert.

They look at each other. "We need a word. Alone." They motion for Alec and Isabelle to leave, both of them giving me supportive looks before walking out.

"What's this about?" I wonder.

Robert glances at his desk. "The Clave has finally had enough of wondering about your birth family. They are sending a medic in an hour to take a blood and DNA test from you."

I give him a steely gaze. "What if I refuse?" I ask. Knowing that they won't be able to find out as my blood is of so many races.

"We are to lock you in here, or use whatever force is necessary."
Maryse says coldly.

I stand up quickly and race to the door. Maryse gets there first and hold me in my place until Robert and her are out of the door. "You will stay in here. I will not let you embarrass our name." She says closing the door and locking it behind her.

I pace around the room before pulling out my phone. I scroll through my contacts and find Alec's name. It rings for a second until he picks up.

"Elliot? What happened? Where are you?"

My breathing quickens. "Alec, Robert and Maryse locked me in your office until a medic from Idris gets here to test my blood."

I hear him fiddling with the doorknob. "I can't get this open Elliot, it's a very powerful locking rune."

"I don't know what to do Alec. They're going to find about me being the Keeper."

"Break the window, Izzy will climb in and glamour as you, then she'll repair the window when you're out. It will be okay." I hear him find Izzy and tell her the plan.

I walk to the window. "My test results will show that I'm a Lightwood then."

"Is that a bad thing?" I hear him ask as the glass shatters around me.

I step outside, and switch places with Iz. "No I suppose not." I hang up on Alec and use Isabelle's stele to glamour myself as her.

"Be careful." We say to each other.

-/-

Max, Alec and I, still glamoured as Izzy walk towards the entrance to the Institute, suddenly Valentine walks through the elevator doors and I push Max behind me while pulling a throwing knife out of my thigh holster and throwing it at Valentine, Alec shoots an arrow directly at his heart. He catches both my knife and his arrow and reveals himself to be a woman.

"That reaction time was abysmal." She walks forwards. "Except for you two. I'm Lydia Branwell, envoy from the Clave."

-/-

Iz and I have switched back into us. We stand in a broom cupboard. "Thanks Izzy, I don't know what they would have done if they found out."

She smiles. "No problem, anything for my newly found sister."

We wink at each other and walk alongside Maryse into the ops room. I left Alec to deal with introducing Lydia.

"Maryse. The Clave has ordered me to take temporary control of this Institute. Lydia says as we walk down the stairs.

"Wait a minute, nobody informed us," Maryse starts.

Lydia turns to face her. "The Clave doesn't have too. And to repeat myself, it's temporary." She touches her stele to a monitor. "Nothing's been decided yet. But, I do need full clearance in order to assess how this Institute is running." She gets access to the system. "Where is Clary Fairchild?" None of us say anything. "I would hope someone here knows."

Alec steps in. "She's in the field, training."

"You're telling me she's just, out and about on the streets of New York? Valentine's daughter?" Lydia asks angrily.

I stand in front of her. "Isn't she also your cousin?"

"Distant cousin." She looks me up and down. "Elliot Black. Heard about your DNA test. I bet you're excited."

I smirk sarcastically. "Ecstatic."

"She's with Jace." Alec says, returning to the topic of Clary.

Lydia walks over to another monitor. "The same Jace Wayland who decided to lead an unsanctioned raid against the vampires?" She walks away from us. "Rad reports."

"Jace might be unconventional, but he's out best soldier, and he if he's with Clary she's in good hands." Maryse follows Lydia.

Lydia turns around. "I hope so. And for your sake, all of New York."

Maryse gets a notification on her phone. She looks at me with wide eyes. "You're a Lightwood."

Alec, Izzy and I all act surprised. "Really? How's that possible?"

Maryse's face darkens. "It's not."

-/-

"It was Izzy wasn't it." Robert states, more than asks me.

I shrug. "Did it look like me?"

"A perfect copy of you." He leans back in his chair. "I hope you have a good reason."

"I do."

He puts on a happier look. "Well, you can tell me when you're ready. For now, we will say it was a false result."

"Thank you." I pause. "Father."

I see him smile as I walk out of the room.

-/-

The graveyard is cold and silent, we find an empty plot of land and Jace places Simon down next to where Clary will bury him. We hear a slight rustling and we all pull out our weapons. Camille comes to a stop a couple of tombstones away from us.

"What do you want?" Clary asks angrily.

"I want my property back."

Clary looks down at Simon. "Simon is not your property."

"If you'll just hand him over, I'll be on my way." She says stepping forward.

"You heard Clary, you're not laying a hand on him." Jace says.

"Fine, I tried to do this the nice way." She snaps her fingers and a dozen vampires come running over.

Raphael steps forward. "Glad you brought everyone here to witness your demise." He says addressing Camille. "Camille killed this mundane, and I have all the proof." He says to the clan. "She's been breaking the Accords for too long now. He's the evidence we need to show the Clave what Camille has been doing."

She laughs. "Are you trying to over throw me?"

"No, I already have."

My fangs suddenly come out and I bear them at Camille. "So it is true. You are the Keeper."

The clan surrounds her. "Don't listen to him. Raphael doesn't know the first thing about leading." She starts to get worried. "You need me, I've given you everything you could want. All the riches, all the pleasures you could desire."

"By breaking the law. Which will only destroy us."

I walk up to Raphael and stand next to him. He smiles at me. The vampires notice that I've chosen Raphael's leadership and they close in on Camille.

"We can fix this, if we just get rid of the body this mundane means nothing."

Clary stands in front of Camille. "Means nothing? Over my dead body." She punches the vampire in the jaw and walks back over to Jace and Simon.

The vampires swarm around Camille, immobilizing her, and dragging her back to the Hotel DuMort. Raphael offers Clary a stake, or a shovel. After brief deliberation she chooses the shovel and digs Simons grave.

-/-

While she makes a heartfelt speech to Simon I walk over to Raphael. He wraps an arm around my shoulders and gives me a slight kiss on the cheek.

"You chose my leadership, Keeper."

I smile, "Well, I do have vampire blood."

"You are the most important person to the Downworld, aside from the Seelie Queen. The fact that you chose me instead of Camille helped tonight." He says seriously.

"I'm not important Raphael, but I would rather follow you than that murderer." I tell him.

He pulls me into a hug. "Thank you mi amor."

Clary steps away from Simon and I stand away from everyone while Raphael moves Simon's body into the grave. Clary begins to cover Simon, but Jace takes over when it's too much for her.

We all wait until the moment when Simon comes out of the ground, stay away from the others and walk over to the Jewish memorial. The ground Simon is buried under begins to shake and Raphael steps forward with a duffel bag.

"It's happening." He says.

Simon's hand breaks the ground and he pulls himself out of the grave. Raphael pulls a few blood bags our of the duffel bag and throw them at Simon. Clary tried to talk to him and instead he lunges at her.

Simon stands up and asks what's happening, Clary explains but he runs off, Raphael promises to help him and smiles at me before running after Simon. I want to walk back to the Institute, but instead I walk towards the Brooklyn Bridge. Wanting to be alone with my thoughts.